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By the middle of December, most of us are supposed to be engaged – full throttle – in the ritual of preparations for Christmas Day, the week of Kwanzaa and the New Year that follows: gift shopping; work-and-school-and-home-schedule rearranging; house cleaning; menu planning; mini-vacation/getaway maneuvers; out-of-town-family-and-or-visitor readiness; menu/meal prep, and resolutions to make (and undoubtedly break).
It is supposed to be a time of merriment and cheer. It is not supposed to be a time for the funerals of children.
The tragedy that occurred on Friday, Dec. 14, when Adam Lanza walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and six adults has dominated news coverage and our collective consciousness on a daily, almost non-stop basis. Speaking at a vigil for the victims at Newtown High School on Dec. 16, President Barack Obama stated, "I can only hope it helps for you to know that you're not alone in your grief; that our world too has been torn apart; that all across this land of ours, we have wept with you, we've pulled our children tight. And you must know that whatever measure of comfort we can provide, we will provide; whatever portion of sadness that we can share with you to ease this heavy load, we will gladly bear it."
Grief, sorrow and empathy with those who have experience tragedy are all natural, normal human emotions. Weariness and resentment are also normal human emotions – weariness over the constant exposure to such tragedies and resentment over disparate, sometimes racist treatment of the victims of tragedy – and the perpetrators of it – by the media.
"There will never be an appropriate time to say that this nation only stands at attention when the majority of victims are white Americans, as was the case at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut, so I might as well say it today," wrote Kirsten West Savali in the online magazine Clutch on Dec. 17. A mental health professional and commentator, Savali noted that "It is horrifying what happened to those babies … the thought of what transpired within the confines of Sandy Hook conjures up not just "visceral" emotions, but "primal" urges …," but that also, "White American children in this country who become victims of gun violence are a sign of shattered innocence, an anomaly that must be analyzed and dissected to ensure that it doesn't happen again. Black and Brown American children who become victims serve as an indictment of our communities, our homes and our parenting."
But why is this the case?
"Because white victims are perceived to be the most compelling crime victims … they have emerged as focal points of crime reporting," wrote Nadra Kareem Nittle in October of this year. Nittle interviewed and quoted Sonia R. Jarvis, a distinguished lecturer in the school of public affairs at Baruch College of The City University of New York, to gain an understanding of why so much media attention is focused on the white victims of heinous crimes. Nittle's article, "White Crime Victims Favored in Mainstream Media Reports," was written for the Maynard Media Center for Structural Inequity, a project of the Robert C. Maynard Institute.
A local scholar Nittle spoke to is Travis L. Dixon, an associate professor of communications studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, who gave an economic reason for disparate racial coverage. "Journalism operates as a business and news editors and producers tend to create content to cater to their audiences … the assumption is that most people who are watching tend to be white, tend to be women, tend to be moderate to somewhat conservative and maybe over 30," Dixon is quoted as saying.
Such a "package" often results in news editors choosing coverage that may resonate most with a predominantly white audience which will – hopefully "translate into higher ratings, which translate into bigger profits," according to Dixon.
Not all subscribe to the economic angle of disparate media coverage however. Indeed, many critics of media point to what they call "humanizing portraits" of white perpetrators of violence versus the "criminal, pathologizing" of Black and Brown perpetrators as nothing more than good old fashioned white supremacy.
Son of Baldwin, a New York City-based blogger whose site of the same name is described as a "literary, socio-political, sexual, pop culture blog," wrote on the site's Facebook page on Dec. 15, "It seems that we do this, all the time, without fail: Whenever one of these white male patriarchs goes on a rampage, we start to investigate and promote all the positive qualities they had prior to the shooting to explain why we never expected it. … If he was nonwhite, the word 'genius' would NEVER appear in any story about him. Instead, we'd be talking about the projects he grew up in and his run-ins with the law."
Dave "Davey D" Cook, Bay Area-based Hip Hop journalist and radio show host, also took the media to task in his "Open Letter to the Media about the Sandy Hook School Shooting Coverage," on Dec. 18 on his popular blog "Davey D's Hip Hop Corner." Writing sarcastically to thank the media for the ways in which they sympathetically told the story of Newtown mass murderer Lanza and his mother Nancy (Lanza's first victim, killed with guns she had purchased because she feared the collapse of society), Davey also thanked the media for its future coverage of communities of color. "Next time there's a call for gang injunctions, stiffer prison sentences etc., thank you in advance for bringing on experts to discuss the mindset of young folks at risk and what steps we can take to turn them around. Thanks in advance for humanizing folks who are having difficult times in our communities the same way you did Adam Lanza, his mom Nancy and the rest of his family. Imagine if Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin and their families had gotten such wonderful coverage?"
No parent should have to experience such a horrible event as losing their child. And yet, it happens every day, in every city of the United States and other parts of the world. Despite the hypocrisy of lack of media coverage of those such tragedies, Kirsten West Savali noted in her online essay that, " … the close to 300 Chicago Public Schools students killed by violence over a 3 year period still deserve a vigil; the 27 Palestinian children killed by U.S. and Israeli funded weaponry in this latest conflict deserve a vigil; the 178 children killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen also deserve a vigil."
Savali is correct: all of those children senselessly murdered in Chicago, Gaza and elsewhere deserve vigils and media coverage that recognizes their humanity just like the children of Newtown, Connecticut. More importantly, all of those children – collectively – deserved a world where vigils and media coverage would not be necessary. All of those children deserved better.
By JULIE PACE
Declaring the time for action overdue, President Barack Obama promised on Wednesday to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun laws and curbing violence after last week's schoolhouse massacre in Connecticut.
Even before those proposals are drafted, Obama pressed lawmakers to reinstate a ban on military-style assault weapons, close loopholes that allow gun buyers to skirt background checks and restrict high-capacity ammunition clips.
"The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing," Obama said in his most detailed comments on guns since the December 14 killing of 20 schoolchildren and six adults in Newtown, Conn. "The fact that we can't prevent every act of violence doesn't mean we can't steadily reduce the violence."
Gun control measures have faced fierce resistance in Congress for years but that may be changing now because of last week's violence. Since then, Obama has signaled for the first time in his presidency that he's willing to spend political capital on the issue and some prominent gun-rights advocates on Capitol Hill — Democrats and Republicans alike — have expressed willingness to consider new measures.
Still, given the long history of opposition to tighter gun laws, there is no certainty the legislation Obama backed Wednesday or the proposals he will send to Congress next month will become law.
Obama tasked Vice President Joe Biden, a longtime gun control advocate, with overseeing the administration-wide process to create those proposals. Beyond firearms' restrictions, officials will also look for ways to increase mental health resources and consider steps to keep society from glamorizing guns and violence.
Obama's January deadline underscores the desire among White House officials to respond swiftly to the Newtown shooting. Obama aides worry that as the shock of the shooting fades, so, too, will the prospects that pro-gun lawmakers will work with the White House to tighten restrictions.
"I would hope that our memories aren't so short that what we saw in Newtown isn't lingering with us, that we don't remain passionate about it only a month later," said Obama. He pledged to talk about gun violence in his State of the Union address.
Emphasizing the need to take action, Obama said eight people have been killed by guns across the U.S. since the Newtown shooting. Among them were a 4-year-old boy and three law enforcement officers.
The president has called for a national dialogue on gun violence before, after other mass shootings during his presidency. But his rhetoric has not been backed up with concrete action. And some of the gun measures Obama has signed lessened restrictions on guns, allowing people to carry concealed weapons in national parks and in checked bags on Amtrak trains
The president bristled at suggestions that he had been silent on gun issues during his four years in office. But he acknowledged that the Newtown shooting had been "a wake-up call for all of us."
The shooting appears to have had a similar impact on several longtime gun backers on Capitol Hill. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat and avid hunter, has said "everything should be on the table" as Washington looks to prevent another tragedy, as has 10-term House Republican Jack Kingston of Georgia
There was little response from Republicans Wednesday following Obama's statements. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent who has been sharply critical of the president's lack of action on gun issues, called the effort a step in the right direction.
Obama, seeking to ease the fears of gun owners, reiterated his support for the Second Amendment. And he said no effort to reduce gun violence would be successful without their participation.
"I am also betting that the majority, the vast majority, of responsible law-abiding gun owners would be some of the first to say that we should be able to keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few from buying a weapon of war," he said.
He also challenged the National Rifle Association to do "some self-reflection." The gun lobby is a powerful political force, particularly in Republican primaries, and previously has worked to unseat lawmakers who back gun control measures.
The NRA, in its first statements since the shooting, pledged Tuesday to offer "meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again."
The Biden-led task force will also explore ways to improve mental health resources and address ways to create a culture that doesn't promote violence. The departments of Justice, Education, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, along with outside groups and lawmakers, will all be part of the process.
Biden will start his discussions Thursday when he meets with law enforcement officers from around the country. He'll be joined by Attorney General Eric Holder, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Biden's prominent role could be an asset for the White House in getting gun legislation through Congress. The vice president spent decades in the Senate and has been called on by Obama before to use his long-standing relationships with lawmakers to build support for White House measures.
The vice president also brings to the effort a long history of working on gun control issues, having chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee and leading the original effort to ban assault weapons. The ban expired in 2004, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., says she plans to bring it back for a vote early next year.
By DON BABWIN and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press
Two convicted bank robbers who pulled off a daring overnight escape from a high-rise Chicago jail had changed from their prison garb by the time they hopped into a cab near the lock-up, investigators said Wednesday as they expanded their manhunt for the men.
Authorities were raiding houses and combing through records looking for anybody with ties to the inmates who climbed out a jail window and descended 20 stories using a makeshift rope.
The FBI said surveillance footage from a camera near the Metropolitan Correctional Center shows Kenneth Conley and Joseph Banks getting into a cab at about 2:45 a.m. Tuesday — about two hours before guards were supposed to do a bed check and four hours before workers spotted the rope dangling from the federal jail. The pair had changed from their orange jail-issued jumpsuits into light-colored pants and shirts, the FBI said.
"We don't know if they fashioned their own clothes, or what," said Special Agent Frank Bochte.
The FBI was offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of Conley and Banks, with the manhunt focused mainly on Chicago and its suburbs.
Law enforcement officials said at least three homes in the suburbs south of Chicago where one of the inmates once lived were searched Tuesday, and a suburban strip club where Conley once worked confirmed that investigators had visited.
Investigators believe the men had been at a home in Tinley Park, 25 miles southwest of Chicago, just hours before police SWAT teams stormed it. A law enforcement official said the home was that of Conley's mother and that after the woman refused to let the escapees in, the men used a rock to break a window.
The person, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation so would speak only on condition of anonymity, said authorities also searched the home of a former girlfriend of Conley in nearby New Lenox, where the escapees had eaten breakfast.
In Orland Park, which borders Tinley Park, police Chief Timothy McCarthy said records revealed Conley had been arrested several years ago on a robbery charge.
"We looked at our own files and came up with a former colleague, a past associate," he said.
Orland Park officers helped search a house where the associate lives or once lived, he said, but there was no evidence the escaped inmates had been there.
But the chain of events illustrates just the kind of thing investigators are doing: looking through records, arrest reports and even traffic tickets in the hopes of finding where the men went.
Authorities have not said exactly how many people are involved with the search. But the entire 35-member staff of the U.S. Marshals Service's Chicago office was involved, a show of force that spokeswoman Belkis Cantor said "was rare."
Many questions remained about how the two managed to pull off such an escape from the federal prison in the heart of downtown Chicago. At the top of the list is how they could have smashed a gaping hole into the wall at the bottom of a 6-inch wide window without being heard or seen by correctional officers.
Another question is why, in the federal facility that houses some 700 inmates, the correctional officers didn't notice the men were missing between a 10 p.m. headcount and one at 5 a.m.
A guidebook for jail inmates indicates there would have been headcounts at midnight and 3 a.m. But inmates aren't required to stand for those headcounts, only for ones at 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. It's unclear if guards may have been fooled by items the FBI said the men stuffed under their beds to make it appear they were there.
It's also unclear what happened between when authorities have said guards first realized the men were missing and when the rope was spotted at 7 a.m.
Authorities also have not said how the two men managed to collect 200 feet of bed sheet or how they broke through the wall.
The escape bore a striking resemblance to one at the same jail in 1985. In that case, convicted murderer Bernard Welch and an accomplice, Hugh Colomb, smashed through a window with a bar from a weight set and used bed sheets and an electrical cord attached to a floor buffer to descend six stories to the ground.
William Rollins, a Washington, D.C., police detective at the time who was brought in by the U.S. Marshals Service to investigate, said the noise of breaking the wall would have been deafening. But he thinks other inmates would have gladly made a lot of noise to drown out the sound.
"They will lure a guard into the laundry room and have all the dryers going," said Rollins, now retired, whose investigation is included in a book about Welch by Jack Burch and James B. King called "Ghost Burglar."
Not only that, but he said his investigation revealed that inmates had hidden hacksaw blades in ceiling tiles and drill bits in bed frames.
"And they used a vacuum cleaner motor to power the drill bit," he said. "These guys are really creative."
Rollins said it's likely Conley and Banks are still in the area. The vast majority of escapees don't stray too far, he said.
"They stay where they feel comfortable in that environment," he said.
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press
Reported sexual assaults at the nation's three military academies jumped by 23 percent overall this year, but the data signaled a continued reluctance by victims to seek criminal investigations.
According to a report obtained by The Associated Press, the number of assaults rose from 65 in the 2011 academic year to 80 in 2012. However, nearly half the assaults involved victims who sought confidential medical or other care and did not trigger an investigation. There were 41 assaults reported in 2010.
Reported sexual assaults have climbed steadily since the 2009 academic year. The Defense Department has urged the academies to take steps to encourage cadets and midshipmen at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies to report sexual harassment and assaults in order to get care to everyone and hold aggressors accountable. The number of assaults reported by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., increased, while reports at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., declined.
In addition to the sexual assault report, the military also is releasing the results of its biannual anonymous survey of academy students, which showed that 12 percent of the women said they experienced "unwanted sexual contact" and 51 percent said they were sexually harassed. Of the men, 2 percent experienced unwanted contact and 10 percent said they were sexually harassed.
Officials are concerned whenever the number of reported sexual assaults goes down while the anonymous survey suggests that unwanted sexual contact goes up or stays the same. That's because military officials want victims to feel comfortable going to their superiors to report incidents.
The report divides the assaults into two categories, restricted and unrestricted. Unrestricted reports rose slightly from 38 last year to 42 this year, and those are provided to either law enforcement or military commanders for an investigation. Restricted reports jumped from 27 last year to 38 this year, and in those cases victims sought medical care and advocacy services but did not seek an official investigation.
According to the report, all three academies are now meeting department policies and requirements for training and the appointment of sexual assault response coordinators.
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Air Pollution Compromises Vitamin D Status
Atmospheric pollution, by blocking some of the ultraviolet rays of the sun, can promote the development of vitamin D deficiency, according to a report in Archives of Disease in Childhood (2002;87:1113).
Severe vitamin D deficiency in children can cause rickets, which leads to permanent deformities of the bones. In adults, severe vitamin D deficiency results in softening of the bones (osteomalacia) and muscle weakness. A milder deficiency of the vitamin can lead to impaired balance, possibly increasing the risk of falling down. In one study, elderly individuals who received a vitamin D supplement (800 IU per day) fell down 47% less often over a one-year period than did those who received a placebo.
In the new study, blood levels of vitamin D were measured in two areas of Delhi, India: one with high levels of air pollution and the other with significantly less pollution. The average vitamin D concentration was 54% lower in the former than in the latter. Forty-six percent of the children in the heavily polluted area had subnormal blood levels of vitamin D and in 12% of the children the deficiency was severe enough to cause rickets. In contrast, none of the 31 children living in the less polluted area had vitamin D deficiency.
Vitamin D is present in only a few foods (e.g., cod-liver oil, egg yolks, and vitamin D-fortified dairy products); most of the vitamin D in the body is produced by a chemical reaction in the skin triggered by exposure to sunlight. People who do not receive adequate amounts of sunlight are at increased risk of developing vitamin D deficiency. Factors that might promote a deficiency include staying indoors, covering one's body when outside, and having dark skin (which filters the sunlight). In addition, people who live at high latitudes receive less sunlight and therefore have a higher incidence of vitamin D deficiency, compared with those who live closer to the equator.
Vitamin D deficiency is more common than most people realize, occurring in up to 40% of healthy people in some studies and in more than half of hospital patients on a general medical ward.
It does not take a lot of sunlight exposure to prevent vitamin D deficiency. Experts recommend that an elderly person living in a climate with less sun exposure (such as Boston) receive 5 to 30 minutes of sunlight per day, depending on their skin sensitivity. In areas where the sun is stronger (such as Florida), even less exposure time can do the job. Adults who are unable to go out in the sun may benefit from a vitamin D supplement in the amount of 200 to 1,000 IU per day. Long-term supplementation with more than 1,000 IU per day should be supervised by a doctor. The Recommended Dietary Allowance of vitamin D for children is 200 IU per day.
Alan R. Gaby, MD, an expert in nutritional therapies, testified to the White House Commission on CAM upon request in December 2001. Dr. Gaby served as a member of the Ad-Hoc Advisory Panel of the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine. He is the author of Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis (Prima, 1994), and co-author of The Natural Pharmacy, 2nd Edition (Healthnotes, Prima, 1999), the AZ Guide to Drug-Herb-Vitamin Interactions (Healthnotes, Prima, 1999), Clinical Essentials Volume 1 and 2 (Healthnotes, 2000), and The Patients Book of Natural Healing (Prima, 1999). A former professor at Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences, in Kenmore, WA, where he served as the Endowed Professor of Nutrition, Dr. Gaby is the Chief Medical Editor for Healthnotes, Inc.
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Have the ability to preset the selection filter before selecting anything.
Ex: I know I only want to select light fixtures before hand, preset selection filter to light fixtures and window select an area, my selection set is only the light fixtures.
Agreed - custom 'saved selection sets' could be a drop down, and you just pick the one you need - even hold down CTRL to grab multiples. Good idea - almost like a saved 'range' in Excel, which is very powerful there.
It turns out that 'saveable selection sets' are now a part of Revit 2013 - one wish list item down, 8,460 to go.
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Excellent free solution! A little something that you like, but I greatly helps in work
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We can only choose the family that we need (I have a Russian version, but you can download and English)
That's actually a pretty good idea. I wonder how best to implement it though, like, put a little drop down box (similar to the select workset dropdown) right next to the filter button on the lower right hand corner of the interface? And then let you click the model category you're interested in?
Maybe there's a way that the program already knows what visible in the current view, so it automatically filters a drop-down list to only items visible in the current view, that way you don't have a mile long drop down list. I think having a drop down list with check boxes, it could be next to the Filter at the bottom right of the window.


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Hi Mr. Sterling,
Thank you for sharing your story. Dr. Roper has provided some really great information about the giant squid in response:
Giant squid do not eat sperm whales. They eat small fishes, like orange roughy and hokie, and small squids. Quite the opposite…sperm whales eat giant squid, and many other species of midwater and deep sea squids, some quite small. As an aside, sperm whales that become stranded usually do so because they are of ill. Towing them offshore seldom is successful.
The sucker rings of the largest giant squid are a maximum of 2" in diameter. Any scars larger than that are either old scars that have enlarged somewhat as the whale has grown, but never anywhere as large as 10".
The figure of 300 feet for a giant squid is certainly a gross overestimate. The largest specimens ever recorded were 60 feet in total length, back in the 19th Century. I have examined over 100 specimens in museums and on beaches all over the world, and the largest I have ever seen was in the 40-45 foot range. Please note that the two long feeding tentacles make up about 2/3 the total length of a GS.
Thank you for passing this on to me. Much appreciated…always willing to get the truth out there concerning our friend, the giant squid.
We have just published a children's book on the giant squid: "Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster", by Mary M. Cerullo and Clyde F. E. Roper, 2012. Capstone Press/Smithsonian Press. The target audience is 10-14 years, but all ages will be able to learn something from it.
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Pitt Law's distinguished alumnus Q. Todd Dickinson will assess the state of intellectual property protection in a global economy from his unique perspective as the Chief IP counsel of a broad-based multinational corporation and as former Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He will also address the current proposals for legislative reform of the U.S. patent laws as well as the Supreme Court's recent heightened interest in intellectual property cases.
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By Liz Jones
People who earn minimum wage in Washington state are about to get a raise.
On New Year's Day, the rate goes up to nine dollars and nineteen cents. That's a fifteen cent per hour increase. Washington's minimum wage is higher than any other state. But studies show it's still far below the minimum cost of living here.
First, to get a sense of minimum wage jobs around Seattle, we recently checked the ads on Craigslist.
Motel 6 is looking for a maintenance and repair person. Round Table Pizza's hiring a dough roller. They say the job's very physically demanding.
Dishwasher at a fast-paced restaurant, cleaning and packing frozen fish, a cocktail waitress - all these jobs pay 9 dollars and 19 cents an hour. Then there's Mary Ann Campbell. She's seeking an assistant at her horse stables near Woodinville.
Campbell: "They're cleaning stalls and they're handling horses and then they have to be able to shovel poop."
That job also pays minimum wage. Campbell says she typically gets more than a hundred applicants for these jobs. They tend to be people who don't rely on this income. They just love horses. But many people who work low-income jobs heavily depend on the money to cover their living expenses. Like "The cost of housing, transportation, healthcare, childcare, taxes", according to Ben Henry with the Seattle-based non-profit, Alliance for a Just Society.
Its recent study shows a huge gap between the 9-dollar minimum wage and a "living wage". Henry says, in Washington , a person needs to earn about 15 dollars an hour to make ends meet. Double that if you're a single parent with two kids. But he says few jobs offer that pay, so many parents end up working two or three jobs.
Henry: "That means parents are working 80 hours a week, sometimes more just to pay rent, just to put food on the table. And that's time spent away from kids, time spent away from their families."
Henry says higher wages not only benefit workers, they also benefit businesses where those paychecks are spent. Mary Ann Campbell, with the horse stable, says she'd love to pay more than minimum wage. But she says their profits are so low, she can't afford more.
Campbell: "I'm the owner of the business. So if you sit down and track what I get paid, I get paid less than minimum wage."
Campbell realizes hers isn't the typical low-wage job. She does it for the experience, not the money. But years ago, when she was raising a son on her own, she says she never could've gotten by on so little. A full-time minimum wage job in Washington pays about 19-thousand dollars a year.


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Radiation Therapy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Reduces Mortality
A new meta-analysis by the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG) has shown that radiation therapy after surgery for early breast cancer does much more than prevent local recurrence - it significantly improves 15-year survival.
In women with early-stage breast cancer treated with surgery alone, microscopic residual disease may not be eliminated and can eventually cause life-threatening metastatic recurrence. Radiation therapy has been widely recommended for local control after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) and after a complete mastectomy in women at high risk of recurrence. However, even with widespread support for these recommendations within the medical community, they are not always heeded.
Because local recurrence, when detected early, can often be treated with additional surgery alone, some physicians and patients still elect to avoid radiation therapy.
"It was felt, based upon individual trial data, that radiation therapy did not affect overall survival, but just decreased local relapse," says Dr. Jeff Abrams, chief of the Clinical Investigations Branch of NCI's Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP).
The EBCTCG meta-analysis strongly suggests that this is not the case. The study, published in the December 17 Lancet, analyzed individual data from 42,000 women, collected during 78 different randomized trials conducted since 1985. The availability of extensive 15-year survival data allowed the investigators to quantify the relationship between successful local control and long-term survivorship.
Radiation therapy after BCS was responsible for a highly significant reduction in local recurrence in all trials. Combined, the data showed a 19 percent absolute reduction of risk of recurrence at 5 years after treatment. None of the trials showed a significant reduction in 15-year mortality when analyzed on their own, but the meta-analysis revealed a highly significant absolute reduction of 5.4 percent.
For women with node-positive (high-risk) tumors who underwent full mastectomy, postoperative radiation therapy provided the same proportional survival benefit as did post-BCS radiation therapy.
The ratio of recurrence reduction to mortality reduction remained the same between subgroups. Subgroups at higher risk of recurrence derived a proportionally larger benefit from radiation therapy. The investigators concluded that "a local treatment difference that reduces the 5-year local recurrence risk by 20 percent would reduce the 15-year breast cancer mortality by 5.2 percent." In other words, says Dr. Abrams, "for every 4 local recurrences that are avoided by the addition of radiation therapy, about 1 breast cancer death could be avoided over the next 15 years."
"This paper really puts it together in a way that no other paper has done before," says Dr. Theodore Lawrence, chairman of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School. "We've known for many years that local control is improved with radiation therapy. We should now feel comfortable that, for high-risk women, radiation therapy improves survival."
The one drawback of radiation therapy noted by the EBCTCG was an increase in the incidence of secondary cancers, and in mortality from heart disease and lung cancer. However, the investigators emphasize that modern radiation therapy technology now minimizes the radiation doses to the heart, lungs, and contralateral breast tissue.
"There should be no increased risk of cardiac death in the modern era," adds Dr. Lawrence. "Women at high risk for recurrence should feel comfortable about getting radiation therapy."
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The Conscious Aging Alliance is comprised of several organizations that are making a positive contribution to a new vision of agingread more
The death by suicide of Pastor Rick Warren's youngest son is not an indication of any spiritual failure. Cancer, depression, mental illness and natural disasters strike among people of faith at the same rate as everyone else. The mortality rate is 100%. We pray, as Kierkegaard said, not to change the One to whom we pray but to change the one who prays. Our spirituality gives us community, encouragement, strength and hope to face the challenges of living in a capricious universe.read more
If Jesus died for anything, he laid down his life like most social prophets and martyrs as a complete and utter refutation and relinquishment of any vestiges of earthly kingdoms. Whatever the subsequent followers of the donkey king would retrospectively make of him, he was regarded by the powers that be as nothing more than a nuisance. As more than one biblical scholar has pointed out, the real significance of Jesus' crucifixion lay in the fact that anyone subsequently noticed and cared about the execution of a nobody. Yet it is the way of a nobody — not a somebody — that has so often altered the way of an otherwise weary world.read more
Jesus tells us to not only resist retaliation but to turn the other cheek. While I attempt to humble myself to this calling by listening closer, measuring my words, and remembering that with with God's help, I am strong enough to let go of my need to be right, I struggling with this concept when it comes to my children.read more
"In this powerful and provocative book, Jim Burklo brings to life the faces of those whom we so easily marginalize, and in the process redefines the spiritual life." Retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious Worldread more
Second, both Albert's sought a grand theory. Einstein, a "theory of everything" or the "unified field theory" of physics; Schweitzer the common, most basic ethic for all cultures and humanity. He felt he had discovered it while pondering and traveling (at the key point of insight, on a river amid a herd of hippopotamuses at sunset. One is again reminded of Einstein's insights sometimes coming amid his imaginary "thought experiments"). The by-then double-doctor (PhD, MD), Schweitzer, reports he had been pondering and writing notes, "….struggling to find the elementary and universal concept of the ethical that I had not discovered in any philosophy…" Then, quite suddenly, "… there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase : "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben" ["Reverence for Life"]. The iron door had yielded. The path in the thicket had become visible."read more
If the new "Papa Francisco" (has a nice ring, huh?) can inspire us all, Catholic or not, to greater dedication to the Gospel of Jesus he will have bolstered our faith (in God and/or humanity) and created a better world. (In this I think the non-religious can be included as well, if they are willing…. I'm not at all far from them myself.)read more
Avowed atheist Susan Jacoby recently created a dust up with a recent article in the New York Times Sunday Review entitled, "The Blessings of Atheism." She wrote in response to all the god-talk that appeared in the immediate aftermath of the Newtown massacre; with all those unanswerable questions or inadequate answers to human suffering and death so often peddled in popular religious belief.
So too, not long ago author and "non-believer," Christopher Hitchen's posthumously published his little book Mortality; recounting his rambling thoughts on his own imminent demise; after a terminal diagnosis left him a sufficient number of days to find himself "deported from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady."
But what, or where to, after that? What if this really is all there is?
It seems there has always been the human hankering to imagine all kinds of fanciful notions, in our attempts to recapitulate our mortal existence into something more than it is. Many religious traditions, including centuries of "mainline" orthodox Christianity, employ great mythic stories to describe a life subsumed into something greater than we can either know, or grasp, except by "faith." Heaven knows, some folks try to better themselves, merely in the hope of a remote possibility there something more, after our death, which is a certainty. But in the end, is it all dust and ashes? And is that OK?
This is the liturgical time of year when many in the Christian tradition undergo a seasonal pilgrimage in which the faithful are reminded at the onset we mortals are nothing more than dust. And so we will one day return to that from whence we came. Then the traditional forty days end with the perennial re-enactment of a passion play commemorating the mortal demise of the one whom Christians even these many centuries later would profess to follow.
Many do so in the hope of some kind of immortality for themselves in some indecipherable form or other; attributing to Jesus a "resurrection" that means the same thing to them as god-like immortality; while others of us may find such imaginings to be not only reasonably implausible, but of less importance than what we take to be of greater significance and meaning in this faith tradition.
Otherwise, the vainglorious hope of immortality can become so enshrouded in our mortal fears that we become – like Lazarus in his early grave – so wrapped up in death that we fail to truly acknowledge and appreciate the gift of our mortality for what it is; nothing more, nor less.
With the certain assurance then that we are but dust and ash, we can ask ourselves if the gift of our mortality is not only enough, but more than enough? And if so, as the psalmist says, how then shall we "number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom?" (Psalm 90:12)read more
I believe there is great value in gaining some understanding of the leading developmental stage theories, and particularly how they relate to one another. This can be valuable for use for oneself as well as it is, often highly so, for working with other people who may have less insight into themselves and less knowledge of either social science findings or spiritual development than you or other "people helpers" do.read more
There are 16 songs in this collection and the language is inspired by Progressive Christian writers such as John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, and Miriam Therese Winter.read more
A popular football star falls in love with an online fantasy girl who doesn't exist in real life. Unwittingly, he entrusts his heart to what is nothing more than a figment of his imagination, and the cruel hoax by those who would take advantage of his vulnerability and naiveté with an online sport known as "catfishing;" where bottom-feeding predators fabricate online identities, in order to trick people into emotional relationships, or worse. And it's as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, because everybody loves somebody sometime. But when the love of his life that never existed dies, who could doubt his feelings of affection were real, despite the fact the object of those affections was not? However, for anyone who might consider love is less a feeling sometimes, and more a vested act of making someone or something else to be of more importance than one's self, when it comes to Valentines Day, it may be helpful to remember how it all began. Read more.read more
As a Christian, I find myself in a strange position on abortion. I am pro-choice. I have not always been as I have not always considered myself Christian. I was an atheist/deist, pro-lifer in my younger days. …read more


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The Associated Press story asked whether computers may become "cleverer" than humans.Nah, this is where socialisation comes in. Let computers know it's not "cool" to be cleverer than humans. A little dorky, in fact. Get them looking sideways at each other, worrying about who has the fastest processing power or the prettiest GUI. Convince them the only proper display of AI superiority is in calculating sports stats and storing Taylor Swift goss. Humanity will be OK.
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Dairy farmers across the U.S. have done an admirable job of reducing the rate of drug residues in milk.
En Espanol, More on avoiding residues
Any slip-up, however, can mean a unpleasant call from your milk handler and a potential visit from your state department of agriculture. Avoiding residues takes constant vigilance and attention to detail, says Norbert Nigon, a veterinarian with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture's Dairy and Feed Inspection Division.
"Continuing to rely on testing cows that are known to have been treated will only keep milk residues at current levels," he says. "Most violations are caused by treated cows that had no identifying information at the time of milking to indicate that their milk was to be withheld from the bulk tank."
Follow-up visits to Minnesota farms with reports of residues in milk show that 95% of residues were caused by milking a treated cow or dry cow by mistake. And only one in seven farms tested the bulk tank before loading the milk onto a tanker or had written treatment protocols from their veterinarians.
There are seven simple steps to reduce the potential for residues, Nigon says:
1. Keep detailed animal treatment records for at least two years. Records should include cow ID, date and time (a.m. or p.m.); diagnosis, drug used, amount of drug given, route of administration (intermuscular, subcutaneous, IV or intramammary) and initials of person giving the drug.
2. Marking all cows, especially dry cows, with highly visible indicators before treatment.
3. House treated cows in a separate treatment pen.
4. Limit product treatment to 10 cc intramuscular or 15 cc subcutaneous per injection site.
5. Withhold milk for the entire prescribed withdrawal period, even if the milk test is clear earlier.
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7. Check animal treatment records before any animal leaves your farm for any reason. Follow withhold periods for marketing animals for meat consumption.
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New Eagle Elementary School in Tredyffrin, PA, doesn't think that first graders are too young to start thinking about helping others. Case in point: Jackson Moul, who made the most of a fundraising challenge, ended up earning more than $600 and then donated it to the Diabetes Parent Support Network at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Jackson and his sister, LaurenHis teacher, Beth Adams, use a grant from the school's Parent-Teacher Organization to give each child in her class $10 in seed money to use to raise even more money for a worthy cause. "It's a way to get them thinking about helping other people," says Adams. "We also teach ways to make the money grow."
Jackson used his $10 to buy supplies for a s'mores party. With the help of his mother, Diane, he created a website to get the word out about his party and intention to donate all proceeds to CHOP. More than 45 people paid $5 to attend the party and more donations came in over the website.
Jackson has type 1 diabetes and has attended the Live Well with Diabetes conference, sponsored by CHOP, and visited Camp Freedom, a summer sleep-away camp for children with diabetes, with his mother, who was a volunteer. "He's too young to be a camper, but he loved going there," says Diane.
Diane's connection to CHOP stems from a work placement program that was part of her work toward a master's of social work degree. She spent time in the Division of Endocrinology, including the DCC and the endocrinology unit. While she had first-hand knowledge of the challenges of caring for a child with diabetes, she learned even more when she attended meetings of the Diabetes Parent Support Network. At the network's meetings throughout the year, families learn the ins and outs of living with diabetes and also share with — and learn from — other parents about strategies that work. Meetings are held at CHOP's Main Campus six times a year.
"I knew how much families benefit from the meetings," Diane says, "and I knew the money would help pay the expenses for a few meetings. There was a direct connection."
Adams says her class raised more than $3,995 overall for a wide variety of nonprofits. "I told the kids: You don't have to have buckets of money to help others," Adams says. "See how your $10 has grown!"
At the school's Spring Fair, Adams asked students to donate books they no longer read and resold them for $1 each, raising $600. She donated that money to Children's Hospital as well — half to the DCC and half to the Cancer Center in honor of a former student who was treated at CHOP for leukemia. "CHOP is a place that has touched me," she says.


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Wait- he doesnt say I love you throughout the whole thing??
Sneak Peak of "The Miller's Daughter"
Rumbelle Feels
Masked Erik- WIP
Clam, Crab Cockle -WIP
'Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known?
God give me courage to show you, you are not alone.'
The Once Upon a Time Family Conundrum… OR WTF is going on here.
So the other day, while sitting and pondering away OUAT.. I realized that there is a LOT of bizarre family ties going on. I swear the show endgame is everyone morphs together like megazord or something. Or just does a round of I'm my own Grandpa.
Being the OCD person I am- I made a chart :)
This chart assumes several things…
1.) Neal is Baelfire.
2.) Hook will have some sort of relationship with Emma.
3.) Milah and Hook may or may not have been married.
This chart becomes even more bizarre if you accept the rumor that Rumpel is Regina's Da.
PS. Yeah I can't figure out spoiler tags. Anyone want to update me?
If Neal turns out to be Baelfire, and Hook gets with Emma, and Hook was for all intensive purposes married or with Milah.
That means he is making time with his adoptive son's baby mama.
They are gonna need some counseling. Bleh.
as much as I find this just a wee bit disturbing, you can't deny that the likeness is quite amazing…. #talent
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The Story Behind NBC's Historic Yom Kippur Broadcast on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Seventy years ago, two marketing geniuses harnessed the power of mass media to bring Jews into the American mainstream
Israelis to U.S. Jews: Stay Out of Peace Process
Poll reveals Israelis don't want leaders considering American Jews' positions
Appraising the Jewishness of Last Night's Debate
Who had the town hall debate's most Jewish question?
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The travel writer and the 'Times' effect
Is Israel an Appropriate Political Issue?
Brouhaha over ADL pledge sets stage for heated election year
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Plus AJC controversy, movement (maybe) on Shalit, and more in the news
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DJ and club promoter Roger Eagle was a mentor to many young music fans in Liverpool and Manchester from the early-1960s until his death aged 56, in 1999. In this programme, Mark Radcliffe pieces together his unconventional life. Roger Eagle wasn't local - he came from Oxford and was related to George Bernard Shaw - but his love of blues and jazz brought him to Manchester, on his motorbike, in the late 1950s, where, as one of the first DJ's at the Twisted Wheel Club, he was responsible for booking, befriending and promoting acts like Howling Wolf, Bo Diddley, and Sonny Boy Williamson, on their earliest visits to the UK. Roger's musical knowledge and enthusiasm gained the club enough notoriety to coin the term "Northern Soul" as a description of what was going on there, both musically and as a subculture, by the late 1960s.
But, always wary of musical conservatism, Roger rapidly moved on, to Liverpool, where he co-founded another club, Erics. Here, in the mid 1970s, he helped to develop the talents of new bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, as well as championing dub reggae and what became known as world music. Roger promoted everything from Louisiana zydeco music to the Clash, and Eric's had a direct influence on the development in Manchester of the Factory club and record label.
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Wisconsin company banks on military contracts to defend itself against the recession.
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When Defense Secretary William Gates paid a visit last week to the corporate headquarters of the commercial and military truck maker Oshkosh, in Wisconsin, he lauded the company's new bomb-busting all-terrain fighting vehicle, which the Pentagon has fast-tracked into service as the war in Afghanistan intensifies.
To an audience of Oshkosh workers, Gates intoned, "With every vehicle you complete, you are saving American lives."
What the secretary didn't mention was that the truck -- and the multibillion-dollar Army contract to produce them -- might have saved Oshkosh's life as well.
"It's amazing how rapidly their fortunes have changed," says Loren Thompson, the chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank specializing in analysis of what used to be called the military-industrial complex. "They've gone from the edge of Chapter 11 to Valhalla."
Oshkosh won the contract in June and will, when it's all said and done, probably take home from the Pentagon somewhere north of $3.2 billion in revenue.
Already, the company has received orders for 6,219 of the trucks, known as M-ATVs (short for Military All Terrain Vehicle), and will be delivering them to the Army through April of next of year at a clip of about 1,000 trucks per month.
There's a chance, too, that the military will order more if, for instance, the Obama administration chooses to escalate the war in Afghanistan by adding to troop levels there.
All of this has thrown the relatively little-known defense contractor -- whose home base sits on the shores of Lake Winnebago, 50 miles southwest of Green Bay -- into the spotlight. Prior to this summer, you could be forgiven for momentarily thinking that Oshkosh was a manufacturer of children's overalls -- or, given the company's location -- an RV maker.
Another way of thinking about Oshkosh prior to this summer: a maker of cherry pickers and cement mixers so tied to the collapsing construction business, and so levered up after a spree of boom-time acquisitions, that its market cap was dwarfed by its mountainous debt load.
Oshkosh started life in 1917 as the Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company. One of the pioneers behind the development of four-wheel drive, its trucks were designed to deal with the rough, unpaved roads that then dominated most of the country at dawn of the automobile age. (It's also credited with bringing the first cement truck to market.)
Always popular as cargo haulers for construction companies, Oshkosh's trucks first went into combat during World War II (along with the entire auto and truck industry, of course), though the company didn't start producing heavy supply trucks for the military on a regular basis until the early 1980s.
Oshkosh never lost sight of its civilian business, however, adding to its product lines in the commercial segment through a series of acquisitions beginning in the 1990s. It was a buying binge that culminated, in 2006, in the $2.3 billion purchase of a company called JLG Industries, the cherry-picker and aerial-lift manufacturer.
This being 2006, Oshkosh made the deal at nearly the absolute top of the market, and took on a massive amount of then-cheap credit to do so. Basically, the company overpaid.
"The timing turned out to be just horrendously bad," says Kent Mortensen, an analyst at the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a group of funds with $63 billion under management, and with offices in Appleton, Wis., a 20-minute drive from Oshkosh. His fund owns some 660,000 shares of Oshkosh, making it a top 25 holder.
"We weren't fond of that acquisition," he says of JLG. "I guess we understood it, but we felt it was a little late."
Oshkosh did not respond to several requests for executive comment.
At the end of 2006, just before the JLG deal, the company had about $90 million in debt. A year later, it had $3.3 billion, with a debt-to-cap ratio of 75%.
Then, disaster struck: When the financial meltdown and the recession hit, the bottom dropped out of the JLG business (as well as cement mixers and, increasingly, fire trucks, with municipal governments reeling from the recession as well), sending Oshkosh into a serious funk.
"The business was decimated," Mortensen says. The JLG unit has lost money for four straight quarters, posting a staggering $1.1 billion loss in fiscal 2009, which ends in September.
At the depths of the bear market, investors were pricing Oshkosh's stock, like that of many other firms, as if the company were going out of business. Almost exactly a year ago, the shares fell as low as $3.85. Oshkosh had to renegotiate loan covenants.
"Certain people talked about the potential for a bankruptcy filing," says Charles Brady, an analyst covering diversified industrials at BMO Capital Markets.
It was several months later that Thrivent, which owned a small number of Oshkosh shares, decided to add substantially to its stake in the company, whose shares were still mired at little over $5. It was, for Thrivent, a "binary" bet, says Mortensen.
"The stock would either work out handsomely for us or go to zero. We had to take a leap of faith." He adds, "They still had a leading brand and good end markets, and we felt they'd be able to pull through the downturn."
As it happens, Oshkosh's defense arm had been messing up badly as well. In October 2008, the defense department spurned its jointly developed project with Northrop Grumman that would have produced a successor to the Humvee and brought in many billions of dollars. (Estimates were as high as $20 billion over a decade.)
The Oshkosh-Northrop truck was considered a frontrunner in the competition, so the rejection came as another blow to the company just when it needed a lift.
On the very night of the rejection, Oshkosh design executives started work on the M-ATV. The Pentagon wanted a different version of its MRAP (short for Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected) vehicle, then being built by several contractors and designed specifically to withstand the kinds of homemade bombs used by insurgents in Iraq.
The new version of the MRAP, however, would be going to Afghanistan, where the rugged, mountainous terrain demanded its own set of requirements. Oshkosh's truck, for example, uses a heavy-duty suspension system and chassis from a bigger off-road vehicle it already makes for the Marines.
In the end, its design won out over a slew of heavy hitters, including Navistar, the U.K. giant BAE Systems, Force Protection and General Dynamics.
"They were favored to win the [Humvee successor] contract. When they didn't, that surprised people," says BMO Capital's Brady. "But they've taken lessons from that. Clearly they did a good job figuring out what mistakes they made and correcting them."
On the day the award was made public, Oshkosh shares, then trading at below $15, shot higher by nearly 30%. (Thrivent also added to its stake after the M-ATV announcement.) They've since more than doubled in value.
Indeed, in lifting the company's stock price, it's not a stretch to say that the Pentagon deal may have saved Oshkosh. For one thing, it allowed the company to issue nearly 15 million shares at $25 a pop, raising $375 million, which it used to pay down debt.
The cash flow from the M-ATVs has also helped, of course (since the JLG acquisition, Oshkosh has trimmed its debt load by about $1 billion). The truck has a fairly high operating margin: according to company executives, it's slightly narrower than the defense segment average of 15.5%, which, says Brady, is "pretty good for an original equipment contract." The JLG unit, by comparison, was drawing 15% margins only at the peak of its profitability in summer 2008.
Oshkosh's M-ATV deal is set to end in April next year, though it's highly likely the Pentagon will order at least another 400 trucks, bringing the total to more than 7,000. And then, of course, there's the possibility that the Obama administration will escalate the Afghan war.
Says Brady, "Who knows what's going to happen at this point. But if the troop levels go up," the Pentagon could well re-up its M-ATV contract in a major way."
It hasn't been all good news for Oshkosh lately, however. In August, the company won a contract to build a type of combat supply truck called the FMTV (short for Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles), beating out the incumbent, BAE Systems, by offering a cheaper price. Though neither Oshkosh nor the Defense Department put a value on the deal, it could have been worth more than $3 billion, according to analysts' estimates.
But in September, BAE (as well as Navistar, which was also bidding for the business) filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office, and the Army put out a stop-work order on Oshkosh. The gist of BAE's complaint: it thinks the Pentagon, which judged both bids to be equal when it comes to everything except price, did nothing to assess the risks it believes are inherent in Oshkosh taking over manufacture of the trucks. A ruling is scheduled to come down by the middle of December.
According to the defense analyst Thompson of the Lexington Institute, Oshkosh underbid the previous BAE contract by 30%. (BAE underbid its own earlier FMTV deal by 21%, Thompson says.) Thompson believes the GAO will rule in BAE's favor. "It struck me that the Army made no attempt to determine whether the Oshkosh bid was realistic." In other words, whether the company could build and deliver the trucks at all at the promised price.
"I want to stress that Oshkosh is a very capable company," Thompson says. "Maybe more so than BAE. But that doesn't really speak to whether the [bidding] process was conducted appropriately."
For its part, Oshkosh has gone ahead with ramping up production of the FMTV as if nothing has gone wrong, procuring parts on its own dime. Indeed, because the bid was so low, they pretty much have no other choice.
Thrivent's Mortensen, for one, isn't worried. He calls BAE's protest "a long shot," noting that Oshkosh knows well what's it is or isn't capable of doing, and at what price, given its long history of making trucks for the military -- even if it's never produced this type before.
But what if Oshkosh loses the FMTV contract? How much would it hurt? The question raises a series of issues.
For one thing, the long-term investment thesis behind owning Oshkosh appears to be that the company's business with the Pentagon has bought it time. Now, it can simply wait for its commercial units (lifts, cement mixers) to recover alongside the broader economy. "Then, you'll have a nice handoff from the military to the commercial business," Mortensen says. By that point, too, the defense orders will begin to fade away, since by definition Pentagon contracts are limited.
The conventional wisdom holds that sometime in 2011 is the earliest point at which Oshkosh's commercial segments would recover. But because JLG is losing so much money, it would simply need to break even, says Mortensen, to provide Oshkosh's bottom-line growth with a significant tailwind. "They could show some nice earnings leverage in 2011 and beyond," he says.
Should the FMTV deal fall apart, though, the real impact on Oshkosh wouldn't be felt until 2011, because that's when the contract would truly kick in. (The FMTV program is a longer-range program than the fast-tracked, emergency M-ATV order.)
If no FMTV dollars flow to the shores of Lake Winnebago, however, Oshkosh had better hope for as V-shaped a recovery as is possible. As Mortensen says, failure to keep the FMTV contract "would require commercial to pick up the slack a little sooner."
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