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Maybe it's just me, but the last few years are getting tough to tell apart. Imagine a quiz question:
Name that year where we threw obstacles in the recovery's way, but kept growing slowly; where Europe avoided both a disaster and a solution to its mess; and where China kept growing over 7 percent, but didn't rebalance its economy like it said it wants.
You'd be right to guess 2013. You'd also be right to guess 2012, 2011, or 2010.
So, to remind ourselves what did change in the last 12 months, we asked our favorite economists, journalists, and think-tankers for their favorite charts of the year. The stock market went on a tear, the labor market didn't, and Wall Street and Main Street came to terms with a New Normal. Without further ado, here are 37,000 words worth of charts to tell the most important stories of 2013.
The Year in Wages and Wealth: Stocks Up, Paychecks Flat
Ryan Avent, The Economist: The economic debate in 2013 was dominated by discussions of when the Federal Reserve should begin pulling back on support to the economy. Some economists focused on the unemployment side of the Fed's mandate, which sent mixed signals: the unemployment rate remained high, but the labour-force participation rate kept falling, suggesting to some that the economy was approaching full employment. Inflation, by contrast, was too low throughout the year.
I preferred to look at a measure that combined the two factors: growth in average hourly wages. If the economy were actually close to putting all willing and productive laborers to work, we would expect wage growth to rise steadily, indicating that employers were having to jack up pay to compete for scarce labor (and pointing to growing inflationary pressure). Instead, average wage growth has been flat and well below rates associated with full employment. While wage growth remains dormant, talk of tapering or tightening strikes me as premature.
Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times: Wage stagnation may be our most important economic problem. Wages are supposed to rise with productivity. As workers produce more, it stands to reason that they will be paid more. But as you can see above, wages have lagged productivity since the 1970s.
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic: The story of the year was the labor market vs. the stock market. It was a meh year for the former. It was a banner year for the latter. And that made it a banner year for the top 10 percent of the country, which holds about 80 percent of all stock market wealth.
Ben White, Politico: Household net worth surpassed its nominal all-time high this year. It's "probably already taken," White told us via Twitter, "but as far as hope for stronger 2014 this one on household net worth hitting record is my favorite."
Heather Boushey, economist, Center for Equitable Growth: Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty's data charting the fall and rise of income shares of top earners are well known at this point. The past thirty years have seen the incomes of those at the top explode and the top 1 percent received 95 percent of the income gains from 2009 to 2012. With top earners now receiving as much as that group did during the Roaring Twenties, this chart is a reminder of just how inequitable our income distribution has become.
Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic: You have to admit, there is something a bit crazed about America's minimum wage policy. Every so many moons, Congress battles over whether it's time for a hike. Eventually, Democrats win out. Then we let inflation eat away at its dollar value until liberals decide to pick up the issue again, as they have this year. And so you get the blue line below, the real value of the minimum wage zig-zagging, mostly downward, since 1968. Whether or not we end up raising the minimum wage, wouldn't it make sense to at least index it to the cost of living? After all, if we're going to have a minimum wage at all, shouldn't it remain the minimum?
Heidi Moore, The Guardian: Here's why I love this chart: it nails the issue with the inequality at the center of our economy right now. Corporate profits are our only consistently rising metric of economic success. Everything else that matters is bumping along the bottom. Job openings have only modest gains, and nowhere near what we had before the crash. Personal income is stagnant. Unemployment is still absurdly high. That leads to the policy question: is it our goal as a country to fuel only corporate profits? Or do we have some other responsibility to the citizenry?
The Year in (Un-)Employment: A Big Scoop of Meh
Cardiff Garcia, FT Alphaville: Although the data end in 2009, I found this graph powerfully descriptive given the prominence of inequality as an economic theme this year. The occupations along the bottom run left to right from the least-paid to the highest-paid. What the graph shows is that middle class employment is much smaller as a share of the employed labor force than it was three decades ago.
The top four occupations and three of the bottom four have increased their share of employment at the relative expense of the middle three. Numerous potential reasons have been offered for this change in the employment landscape—the particular nature and pace of recent technological advancement, globalization, the global savings glut and corresponding investment dearth, the incentive structure of corporations, policy deficiencies, or "merely" cyclical causes—but there is no consensus on this hugely important issue.
Jim Tankersley, Washington Post: As I wrote back in November, job insecurities have always been higher among low-income Americans, but they typically rose and fell across all levels of the income ladder. Today, workers at the bottom have drifted away, occupying their own island of insecurity.
Adam Ozimek, Modeled Behavior: This is a useful reminder that there really is a remarkably strong consensus among economists that high-skilled immigration is beneficial to the average U.S. citizen, and the recent attempts to disprove a skills shortage are really beside the point. Of course a quota induces a shortage relative to what the market demands; what matters is that economists overwhelmingly agree this particular shortage is reducing welfare for the average U.S. citizen.
Brad DeLong, Center for Equitable Growth and professor at the University of California-Berkeley: As Jared Bernstein has written, "I've always thought the key test of the claim that lots of people were abusing the DI rolls when they could be working is the extent to which the DI rolls are countercyclical, meaning they go up when the economy goes down. What Kathy finds is applications [do line] up roughly with unemployment. But awards less so [unless you] squint."
Matt O'Brien, The Atlantic: It's been over four years since the recovery officially began, but there are still just under three unemployed people for every job opening today. That's a big improvement from where we were after Lehmangeddon, but it's still about as bad as things were after the tech crash.
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Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association
Executive Board Meeting
Present: Janice Bacino, Edean Berglund, Barbara Crain, Kim Granath, Kathy Nelson, Carolyn Olson, Bob Pringle
Kim Granath called the meeting to order at 10:16 a.m. at the Doubletree Hotel Seattle Airport Olympic Room 2.
Minutes of the October 24, 1999 PNC/MLA Board Meeting were approved after motion by Carolyn Olson and second by Barbara Crain.
Committee Reports:
Carolyn Olson, as past chair, is updating the responsibility manual. She will include such items as "the chair will send a written thank you note on chapter letterhead with dates of service on committees to members to serve as documentation for personal portfolios" this should help members meet AHIP documentation needs. "The letter will be written after they annual chapter meeting, no later than November 15th". She is preparing, in calendar format, items that need to be completed along with deadlines for the PNC board members. Another item for the responsibility manual is the Membership Secretary will notify Committee Chairs of members who select a committee on the PNC membership form.
Membership, Barbara Crain
The electronic web based chapter renewal was not as successful as hoped for in 1999, so a paper form of renewal was sent in December with good returns. The notices were sent in early December, rather than in November (a change from the responsibility manual). Barbara asked for volunteers to follow up in each state or province why former members did not renew. There were various reasons for not renewing such as retirement or no longer working in the field. Barbara sends Kudo's to Anne Girling for her helpful communications with the membership chair.
Barbara shared a survey from the Northern California/Nevada Chapter. They were trying to get some benchmarking information on dues and board meetings. She will use the treasurer's report that Nola prepared to answer the questions and will ask the chapter to share with us a summary of the results they obtain.
The PNC membership list on the web is probably a duplicate of information that is already available on the RML pages. We will ask the webmaster to provide a link to the RML membership pages with current data, rather than trying to update as each membership renewal appears. Discussed changing format to just name, state and renewal date for members to verify they have paid their dues with an email link to Barbara Crain if there is a question, rather than to Nola, the treasurer.
Treasurer, Nola Higley (written report)
Nola sent a written treasurer's report. Our annual meeting last fall made a windfall profit by sharing costs with the RML. We are no longer in immediate danger of bankruptcy. However, the meetings after Alaska and Oregon will need to make a profit to keep expenses and income current.
Carolyn suggested taking a longer view of our financial status as an organization. We need to evaluate expenses, dues and revenue for the PNC. Treasurers balance the yearly budget, but with a three-year term of office we are not looking long range enough. In the 1990's our reserves were being used to support expenses and the revenue was inadequate. Our membership is stable with about 120 paid members, but dues alone do not meet our expenses.
The bylaws call for an audit with change of treasurer. We may not need a paid auditor, but a review by someone familiar with finances and not on the board. This person should look at trends as well as balances. Carolyn will work with Nola to schedule an audit on the calendar for the end of her term in three years.
Chapter Council, Bob Pringle - written report, March 24, 2000
Once again, most activity is communicating chapter responsibility information to MLA's Chapter Council officers and other committee folks. There is great interest at MLA in the date and location of our annual meetings. Our web site has proven invaluable in keeping MLA and me up to date (kudos to our Web editor, Emily Hull!). Edean Berglund is working on Chapter Council elections committee this year. The Chapter History is on the web site. I'll be editing it for submission to MLA News.
Bob Pringle, Head Librarian
1999 Annual Meeting (Seattle), Sarah Safranek
Sarah and Chris Beahler, conference chairs are sending report to Kim. They were able to send the PNC $9331.77 after paying meeting costs, a remarkable sum for our small conference. The RML support of shared speakers made this possible.
2000 Annual Meeting (Alaska), Kim Granath (for Kathy Murray)
Kim has invited Michael Homan from Mayo Clinic to attend the PNC annual meeting in Alaska. If he is unable to attend, Carol Jenkins the MLA president-elect or M.J. Tooey were suggested as possible MLA representatives. The MLA breakfast is scheduled for Tuesday, September 19, 2000. The duty to send an invitation for MLA speaker needs to be added to the PNC board calendar.
Kathy Murray has reported to Kim via email that things are in hand for Alaska meeting. The vendor letters are ready to send out. The first clinical speaker that was approached is not able to present, so another speaker is being approached. Kathy is in Australia on vacation until the end of April; so further information will not be available until May.
2001 Annual Meeting (Oregon), Beverly Schriver
Beverly is working at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, her meeting report is not yet available.
Old Business:
Thank you from MLA for donation to McClure Education Fund was shared. Kim will send the original letter to chapter Archivist Janet Schnall.
2000/2001 Map Goals were reviewed.
Goal 1, Objective 1.A: Provide quality continuing education courses and programs to the membership. Our indicator: by 2000 foster development of one new course or workshop. The statistics class that was offered in Boise by Lisa Oberg, Janet Schnall and Bill Gembala, the genetics class that Suzy Holt presented and the document delivery class that Jean Shipman presented all met this objective.
Goal 2, Objective 2.A: To advocate the use of new methods of health information delivery and support the dissemination of information on library innovations and trends. Our indicator: by 2001, offer at least three classes or formal sessions that stretch the technological limits of members. The technology fair in Seattle, as well as End Note class met this objective. Discussion on need for further educational support in this objective included fire walls, licensing and copyright, electronic document delivery. Oregon has librarians with lots of experience in contracts and licensing and Kim described the position at the University of Montana that reviews all of the library contracts. Janice expressed interest in electronic document delivery classes.
For Goal 3, Objective 3.A.2: Explore members' need for collective and/or individual vendor contracts. A checklist of relevant resources and contract options might be of interest, maybe even some selected vendor links on our web page. The indicator: by 2000, survey members as to their needs for collective vendor contracts for products and services. State Library projects have probably met this need in the states that have licenses for all residents. The PNC board is not pursing collective vendor contracts. By 2000, offer a program on negotiating vendor contracts. A checklist on items that might be problematic could be developed, such as avoiding "indemnity clause". Edean shared that her hospital's compliance officer provided feedback that the library always kept them honest on copyright issues; now they need to be seen as the in house authority on licensing issues.
Objective 3.C.3: To provide members with information on legislative issues and support lobbying efforts where appropriate. By 2000, investigate the practicality and legality of inclusion of a budget item for lobbyist. The board feels MLA is better suited for this objective as most issues are national or deal with federal law. By 2001, develop generic tools for letter-writing campaign. Marcia Batchelor has been forwarding to HLIB-NW the ALAWON messages having to do with governmental relations. These email alerts include information on what to write and how to contact your government officials. Edean suggested that it might be helpful for those members who are quick with the delete key to include in the subject line when issue is especially important to the Medical Library community or Kim might send a follow up message asking HLIBBERS to be sure to respond on issues that are particularly of interest to PNC.
Goal 4, Objective 4.A: to support research in health information. By 2000, have at least one research paper presented at PNC/MLA annual meeting. Robin Braun and Bob Pringle are doing some Benchmarking research and have planned a poster session. Kim did a research study on actual use of computers by library patrons. She could come up with a poster on this interesting study. By 2002, consider funding research by PNC/MLA members. The board is willing to look at proposals, but of course this will depend on the state of the treasury at the time of the request. We need an application process for this.
Goal 5, Objective 5.A: To ensure the continuity of governance of PNC/MLA. In 2001, have a 2 day retreat for board members to revise the PNC map. Discussion centered on when the revised MAP needs to be completed. Beginning with the next annual meeting and next spring meeting the MAP should be reviewed. The revised MAP needs to be presented to PNC members at the annual meeting 2002 for approval in 2003. The board decided that at Salishan meeting in 2001, we would have a transition board meeting with time for MAP revision planned in the 2002 Spring board meeting agenda. Interested parties will be encouraged to meet by email (maybe using instant messenger) to review MAP. If reports can be submitted electronically prior to our transition meeting with new officers, it could help set stage for MAP revisions to be considered. Having the current MAP as a template will also speed this process. Our look at the goals and objectives today enforced that these don't really change, but the measurement indicators selected widely vary over time, so a 2 day retreat may not be necessary.
Goal 6, Objective A: To foster excellence and leadership though communication. By 2001, hold a joint meeting with another chapter or association. We did share lots of our 1999 annual meeting with another group (the RML); arranging shared speakers and programs. It allowed the technology fair to be held and kept our meeting costs very low. A joint meeting was considered for 2001, however selecting Alaska for our site discouraged others due to travel costs. By 2001, PNC/MLA will consider itself an electronic-based rather than paper-based organization. The web master Emily Hull has really made the PNC web site useful. We need all the committee chairs and members to submit items to web as well as contribute to Northwest Notes. Objective B: To promote and increase membership in PNC/MLA. By 2000, survey MLA members who are not PNC/MLA members to ascertain why. Barbara sends MLA members a welcome letter and invites them to join PNC, the membership committee members contacted former PNC members who had not renewed. In April, she will get report from MLA on members who reside in our region. By 2001, increase Canadian membership by 10%. This has been difficult, but we only need one new member to join from Canada to meet this objective. With the Canadian members working so hard on the Vancouver MLA meeting in May the board agreed not to pursue this until after MLA.
Web Site Discussioncentered on how well the PNC web site is maintained. Emily has been so gracious to accept changes and corrections at any time from anyone. The link to Northwest Notes is housed on a server in Alaska, Kathy Murray is responsible for changes or correction in this publication. The planned changes on the membership list were again discussed. The Treasurer forwards the application to the Membership Secretary. Barbara has been waiting until she has several names (about once a quarter) and submits the names to the web master Emily. This will be included in the responsibility manual, that changes are sent to web master for publication. The timing should be up to the web master.
The recording secretary is responsible for sending the minutes after board checks and approves to the web master and Northwest Notes. The 1999 PNC business meeting and board minutes need to go to Emily. Carolyn will follow up on this. The board requests every committee chair send a copy of committee goals and the committee members names to Emily for posting on the PNC web site.
Discussion on appropriate thank you to Emily for all her work on PNC's behalf. Edean moved PNC send her flowers acknowledging her excellence in service. Carolyn seconded and motion was carried.
Membership in committees
Lisa Oberg is continuing as CE chair. We did not elect anyone for the MLA nominating committee as a candidate from our Chapter. It is not covered in the responsibility manual how to deal with this omission, so Carolyn will add to past chair responsibilities nominations including membership secretary, chair elect, recording secretary, MLA nominating committee candidate, as well as other rotating elections. Suggestions were made for possible candidates and Edean moved the Chair selects a nominating committee candidate, contacts them by email and forwards the name to MLA as soon as possible (Monday, March 27th?). Janice seconded the motion, which was then voted on and carried.
There have been problems getting committee positions filled. The Conference Planning Chair is a huge job, and needs help from experienced people. The local meeting past chair is a good resource and the PNC needs to articulate that a commitment of three years is expected when chairing this committee for continuity. The first year can be spent learning what you can from current chair, the next year you lead the planning, and the third year is spent being a resource to the incoming chair. Because this has not been asked before, we can't expect Beverly Schriver to do this, but it should be considered for 2002. Leilani St. Anna does not want to chair this committee any longer, but will stay on for continuity. The manual has lots of good information but still needs updating. Maryanne Blake had volunteered to get this updated, Kim will follow up with her on expected time frame to complete. We need seasoned meeting planners in this role as resources to local planners. The original board vision was the annual meeting could be more standardized with fewer pressures placed on local planners, but it is difficult to plan a meeting at a distance. The committee has evolved to take on details that can be done off site such as registration and mentoring the local committee.
Spring meeting time
Board travel is a large expense for this meeting with members in several different states and airfares were very high for this meeting. However, we as a chapter have stated that we want a geographically diverse board. Our region has too much winter weather to arrange a February meeting; early to late March seems to be workable for the board to meet. The one time a year expense is needed to keep the PNC board focused and accomplish the work of the chapter.
New Business:
Bylaws require budget approval by February 1st but this is not feasible. The budget could be shared with board by email and approved at the Spring board meeting in the future. Instant messenger email might be easiest way to approve this budget with revisions suggested by board. Kathy N. will send members an invitation to join the AOL instant messenger service. The board will sign on as a list of co-workers and then can arrange a virtual board meeting on the system. Kim will follow up with Jan Schuller to make sure bylaws match budget requirements in the responsibility manual. The manual suggests the annual budget needs to be approved by March 30th. After approval, the final budget needs to go to Northwest Notes and web.
Nola will add some money to CD's and has put the checking into an interest bearing account. Our expenses will exceed revenue when our annual meeting is only expected to break even. We need to be aware of long term impact of not covering all expenses. It is not fair to ask the Alaska or Salishan resort meetings to cover more than the seed monies, but for in the future we need annual meeting revenues of over $2,500 to keep the organization financially sound.
Kathy Murray will be asked to submit the Alaska meeting budget by June 1 to Nola. We will review it by email and see what money may need to be moved from CD's. Nola had proposed adding the $9000 from Seattle meeting to CD's, discussion was on looking at Money Market accounts or other higher yield investments. Kim will ask Nola to check with MLA on what common chapter practice is. The board suggestion is that only $8000 go to CD keep $1000 in checking for expected expenses.
After the Salishan meeting we need to be clear with program committee that we need a profit of at least $2500 to meet usual PNC expenditures. We can't just repay the seed money and keep the PNC solvent. The interest from CD's will not meet the budget. Again discussion was if PNC can find a financial advisor to look at our long range trends. We can't really afford to hire a consultant, but we will be back in serious financial trouble if our meetings do not make us money to operate. Discussed how strategy of getting big name for CE will bring in revenue, but using big name as the key note speaker is really an expense. Board is responsible to keep control of budget, but our largest expense is board travel and our region is geographically distant.
Again revisited question of audit. Nola needs to check with Pam to see if this was done at change of treasurers as bylaws suggest. If not, we may want to ask some savvy members as a task force to go over books and look at our financial status objectively. Nola could be chair of this group. Kim and Carolyn will follow up on some suggested names. The board formally adopted the draft budget with a few suggested changes. Board members were reminded by Kim to save receipts for any expenses over $10 except mileage. Edean will be requesting funds as next vice council chair for MLA in Vancouver in May, this item was included in the budget.
MLA Benchmarking Initiative
Bob Pringle and Robin Braun are following up with this. Robin's name was submitted to MLA. She will be at the annual meeting in Vancouver in May, but there may be a conflict over the meeting time for Benchmarking Initiative. Either Robin or Bob will attend training meeting. Robin will probably report on this in Alaska.
MLA Membership Committee
Barbara Crain is our liaison to the MLA Chapter Council for membership matters; M. J. Tooey chairs the Chapter Council. Barbara has subscribed to the Chapter Council Listserv.
MLA Mentor Task Force
We haven't done any formal mentoring activities, but various members are mentoring each other informally. We haven't had that much change in our
membership to see the need for a formal program. We have few potential Mentees. Mailing List Purchase
One consideration for revenue is selling our mailing list. One vendor (Rittenhouse) has asked about this, some chapters sell mailing label sets or spreadsheets for about $50 for one time use. On our next years dues mailing, we will add a box to mark if you do not want your name shared with selected sponsors. We will also encourage our vendors to consider ads in Northwest Notes to reach members. We need a standard rate for ads available to interested sponsors. Barbara will check if MLA has any direction on this.
2002 Chapter meeting and beyond
Conference planning is for a city location for 2002 PNC meeting. Vancouver or Tacoma were suggested as possible spots. Local arrangements are very time consuming, Kim asked Lea Starr for suggestions and sent an email to Diane Helmer but no reply yet. Northern California/Nevada Chapter is considering including us in a joint meeting. We would prefer a joint meeting be held in their area.
If we do not hold joint meeting, a resort possibility for 2003 is Chico Hot Springs in Montana. If could be a simpler conference. But members would have to fly to Bozeman and drive from there. Another suggestion was Spokane or Silver Falls, Oregon.
Action Items:
Kim reviewed the list of action items. She has invited a MLA Officer to the Alaska meeting. She reported we had no mentoring activities in the chapter to MLA on 3/25/00. Lisa Oberg will chair professional development committee, Kim will email her to follow up on identifying successful grant writers within PNC membership. Carolyn Olson will have a draft of updated responsibility manual by July 1. Cheryl Goodwin has agreed to chair the Electronic Resources Committee. Kim will notify Emily Hull about message to chairs to update web pages. Robin Braun will serve as MLA Benchmarking Chapter Educator. Kim will send a very special thank you to Chris and Sarah for the 1999 annual conference success, on PNC Chapter letterhead. The only active link on the PNC web site for Alaska is the Alyseka resort at this time. Online registration information should be coming soon. The 2002 site selection is in process. Kim and Janice will follow up with Diane Helmer. Future joint conferences will not be actively sought, but board is open to investigating any offers from other chapters.
Meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathy Nelson


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I'm a mother, but being a mom doesn't mean I have some magical skills non-mothers lack. Yet the "motherhood debate" rages on—especially during the election cycle.
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'Foods that change the world' is the slogan behind Slow Food's biggest international event - Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre taking place in Turin over October 25-29 - in recognition of the collective power of the hundreds of responsible small-scale food producers, chefs and experts who will gather for these five days. Arriving with their stories, products and passion from around the world, they will present a one-of-a-kind experience of the world of food and wine, allowing visitors to discover different cultures and the knowledge and skills behind food production that offers a better future.
For the first time, visitors have full access to all parts of the event, which was previously closed partly to official delegates. Here is a run-down on what is happening, with Slow Food members able to take advantage of the 50% discount on entrance fees (30 euros for a five-day pass instead of 60), 20% discounts on the bookable events and 30% discount on books.
Inside the main exhibition hall, three pavilions (1,2&3) will be dedicated to the Italian Marketplace, with over 200 Slow Food Presidia products and hundreds of exhibitors organized by region. Each region will offer some their specialty dishes in 'osterias', giving you the chance to experience authentic cuisines from across the peninsula in just a few days, and will also present an overarching theme developed by the local Slow Food network, such as olive oil production, food education or traditional winemakers.
Next door, the Oval Olympic Arena will host the International Marketplace, where hundreds more unique products can be sampled and Slow Food's projects and campaigns around the world will be on display. Regional areas will highlight their key focus: a 400 square meter food garden will take center place in the African exhibition area to commemorate the Thousand Gardens in Africa project, while the Balkans area will feature four different biodiversity 'paths' to discover this little-known region's gastronomic treasures. Producers representing six of the Earth Markets (Slow Food's network of good, clean and fair markets) will also be in this area, and the buzzing street food area will serve up specialties from around the world – the original fast food.
Food education is at the core of the whole event, with fun educational experiences for children and adults. The bookable events are translated into Italian and English and are at a 20% discount for Slow Food members. They include the Taste Workshops, Slow Food's iconic guided tastings led by producers, chefs, winemakers, brewers and experts; the Theater of Taste, where you can watch chefs from around the world at work and hear their tips and secrets while tasting their dishes; Master of Food "Horticulture" and "Cooking Without Waste" sessions that will pass on useful advice for sustainable consumption and production; and Meetings with the Makers, ten appointments in an intimate setting with great figures from the international food and wine world.
There is also a series of free Conferences, which bring together experts and practitioners to discuss pressing issues for a healthy food system: from climate change and urban agriculture to animal welfare, biodiversity and Indigenous peoples and local food sovereignty.
At the end of the day, don't forget the Enoteca, a spectacle of more than 1,200 Italian wines, many reviewed in Slow Food Editore's Slow Wine guide, to sample before you head of to one of the Dinner Dates prepared by an international selection of chefs in restaurants in Turin and the surrounding countryside. Alternatively, for a simple dinner visit the Pizza Piazza, where the best Neapolitan-style pizza will showcase Presidia ingredients, washed down with artisanal Italian beers.
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A Place to Write About What You Love.
Hello fellow writers! If you're like us, you're unappreciated, under-paid, and perennially frustrated by a dearth of opportunities. Even when you land steady work, it might often involve covering less-than-inspiring topics.
Our small group is attempting to remedy this.
Pooling our efforts, the result is "Local Write Up" (www.localwriteup.com), a new interactive blog and cultural magazine. Hobbyist and freelance writers can create profiles, log in, and post about varied local cultural events and interests—anything from art to food, theater, film, books / readings, music, local news and beyond.
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While we are all well aware of just how great of an automobile that the JaguarXFR really is, the luxury car builder has announced details about an upcoming alternatively fueled model of the XF sport sedan for 2011 that brings the same high performance attitude and upscale amenities of the top of the line version into a new diesel burning four door dubbed the XF S.
The XF S is powered by a 275 HP diesel mill that promises not to disappoint drivers thanks to the Jag's Adaptive Dynamics system, a unit that is currently featured on the XFR and XK that constantly adjusts the suspension to improve handling without giving up an ounce of comfort. The result improves on the XF's already impressive handling and strikes a clever balance between a luxury ride and sports car agility, which will be an option on the high performance diesel.
The exterior of the new Jaguar XF S can be upgraded with a new aerodynamics package similar to the XFR's which includes black mesh grill inserts, horizontal blades across the lower air intakes and bolder side skirts. Meanwhile the interior features upscale touches like high gloss Piano Black veneer and a Jet Suedecloth headliner that is available as an option on Premium Luxury and Portfolio Diesel S models; ensuring that you don't have to give up style and luxury just to be green.
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The 275 PS high-performance XF Diesel S model is significantly enhanced for MY11, taking the lead from the stunning XFR model to provide drivers with superior driving dynamics, a more striking appearance and an upgraded interior which offers the ultimate in sporting luxury.
The MY11 XF Diesel S now comes with an XFR derived interior as standard while the Adaptive Dynamics system, currently featured on the XFR and XK range, is available as an option on the high-performance diesel.
"We have applied the lessons learned from the XFR to bring more sophisticated, sporting driving dynamics to the Diesel S model," explained Mike Cross, Chief Engineer, Vehicle Integrity. "Fitted with the state-of-the-art Adaptive Dynamics system, the latest Diesel S provides driving enthusiasts with taut handling and superb body control, but without the noise and harshness often associated with 'sports' suspension packages."
Jaguar's Adaptive Dynamics system is featured in one of the two new option packs which are available exclusively on the XF Diesel S in 2010 to further enhance the driver's enjoyment of the performance characteristics of this car – the Dynamics Pack and the Aerodynamic Pack.
Dynamics Pack.The Dynamics Pack incorporates the Adaptive Dynamics system. This high-tech system analyses chassis movement and driver and wheel inputs 500 times every second, continually adjusting the suspension to improve handling without loss of comfort. The result improves on the XF's already impressive handling and strikes a clever balance between a luxury ride and sports car agility. This optional pack also includes Shadow or Silver finish 20-inch Volans five-spoke alloy wheels, and costs from £1250 depending on model.
Aerodynamic Pack. The Aerodynamic Pack is designed to give an even bolder style to the XF Diesel S. The striking new black mesh inserts for the grille and lower air intakes give a fresh look to the front of the car and for even greater visual impact, the sculpted lower air intake blades can be supplied with bright-white LED daytime running lights. The side sills from an XFR complete the package. The cost of this option pack is £1500, or £2000 with the LED lights.
Performance Interior. The enhancements to the MY11 Diesel S are completed by the interior, which now features the superior specification from the XFR as standard, providing the 275 PS diesel model with the ultimate sporting luxury interior. The upgraded cabin includes the leather sports seats from the XFR, featuring 18-way adjustment for the driver and 14-way for the passenger. Power-adjusted raised side bolsters will keep driver and passenger firmly in place during cornering, while the rest of the cabin's sporting style is enhanced with the high-gloss Piano Black veneer and Jet Suedecloth headlining available as an option on Premium Luxury and Portfolio Diesel S models.


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Controversial Doll Lets Little Girls Pretend to Breast-Feed
The doll -- called Bebe Gloton, which translates as "gluttonous baby" -- makes sucking noises as it "feeds."
A controversial new doll is leaving some parents wishing for the good old Cabbage Patch days.
A Spanish toymaker known as Berjuan has developed a breast-feeding doll that comes with a special halter top its young "mothers" wear as they pretend to breast-feed their "babies." The halter top has daisies that cover the little girls' nipples and come undone just as easily as the flaps of a nursing bra would.
The doll -- called Bebe Gloton, which translates as "gluttonous baby" -- makes sucking noises as it "feeds."
Like many other dolls, Bebe Gloton can cry, signaling she wants more milk.
Although many health care providers promote the benefits of breast-feeding, parents around the world have criticized Berjuan, saying the idea of breast-feeding is too grown-up for young children -- and may even promote early pregnancy.
"That's not cool," Lori Reynolds, of El Paso, Texas, told KFOXTV.com. "No, I would never get that for my child."
But other moms said they support the product.
"I think that it's great that people want to have a doll that promotes breast-feeding," said Rose Haluschak, also of El Paso. "Most dolls that are purchased come with a bottle. That is the norm in society, an artificial way to feed your baby."
Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FOXNews.com, said although he supports the idea of breast-feeding, he sees how his own daughter plays with dolls and wonders if Bebe Gloton might speed up maternal urges in the little girls who play it.
"Pregnancy has to entail maturity and understanding," Alvarez said. "It's like introducing sex education in first grade instead of seventh or eighth grade. Or, it could inadvertently lead little girls to become traumatized. You never know the effects this could have until she's older."
Alvarez said breast-feeding reduces childhood infections, strengthens maternal bonding and increases the child's immune system. But introducing breast-feeding to girls young enough to play with dolls seems inappropriate, he said.
"What's next?" wrote Eric Ruhalter, a parenting columnist for New Jersey's Star Ledger. "Bebe Sot -- the doll who has a problem with a different kind of bottle, and loses his family, job and feelings of self-worth? Bebe Limp -- the male doll who experiences erectile dysfunction? Bebe Cell Mate -- a weak, unimposing doll that experiences all the indignation and humiliation of life in prison?
"Toy themes should be age appropriate. I think so anyway."
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So? Why is faux news so interested in this? Parents have the right to let their children play with this, or not. What does that pedophile rupert murdock want little girls to do, grow up to be a teenager and marry an 80 year old fart like him? Get a life!
While I can understand people's concerns about how this may encourage early parenthood, I find Mr. Ruhalter's take on it to be inappropriate and insulting. He basically equates breastfeeding to alcoholism, erectile dysfunction and prison sodomy. When did breastfeeding become a socially inappropriate action that we should hide from our children?
It's a boob Mr. Ruhalter, get over it.
If they want to market them and a parent feels comfortable buying one for their child, great. But I do agree that some little girls could be inadvertently be traumatized by a doll like this. Not necessarily because it's about breast feeding, persay, but because of the sexual conotations. I knew in 1st grade about sex; the basic biology of it, and having a doll like that, around MEN, would have freaked me out. I wouldn't have played with it except around my female friends and family. I don't (personally) think it's age appropriate for young girls.
OH Please we can have music lyrics about sex, degrading females, drugs,women in music videos pretty much naked. Men feeling up on them and this seems to be a problem. Please do your math before you have a fit my daughters would nurse their dolls and guess what they are not in jail nor are they drug addicts, prostitutes lets focus on trying to get sex out of the tv shows music and advertisement
This is wonderful, appropriate modelling for motherhood.
Breastfeeding is about babies feeding, it is not a sexual thing.
No matter how you feel about the doll, it is not up to you to make choices for other people. If people want to buy this doll, they should be able to.
As someone who was sexually abused as a child, I find this "toy" totally inappropriate for young girls. While I believe in breastfeeding babies, young girls do not have the maturity to deal with this concept. I know it would have caused me further emotional confusion as a child if I would have had that doll to play with.


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The Moog are a bunch of lads from Hungary who've been around since 2006 and have made a lot of noise over the last few years. With their rich European rock melodies and pin-up good looks, The Moog are creating quite a storm here in America. Under the artistic management of Art Bourasseau who discovered the band, they were able to work with legendary British producer Ken Scott (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Devo) who worked on their latest album titled "Seasons in the Underground." I was recently invited to their LA pad where I had the pleasure to photograph the band in the comfort of their own space. The Photo shoot was very rewarding for me and the outcome (the photos!) was even better.
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Okay, this is how it goes. You get an orangutan. I'm not talking a little monkey or some dancing chimp bullshit, I mean a fucking orangutan.
Don't ask me how you're gonna get a fucking orangutan, because that's not my problem.
So the orangutan's name is Clyde. This is non-negotiable; all orangutans are named Clyde. I don't know why that is, it's just how the world works. So you and Clyde become man (and ape) about town. You're seen everywhere together, you make a scene. You and friends go out in big groups. You talk loud, you laugh louder. Every time you say something witty, you high-five the orangutan. The town begins to buzz. It gets back to her. "Did you know the guy with the orangutan?". "You used to date the guy with the orangutan?". "Why would you break up with a guy with an orangutan?" Next thing you know she's calling.
"I'm hoping we can still be friends. Wanna hang out sometime?"
"Geez, I dunno, me and Clyde were going to go to a monster truck race tonight (orangutans love monster trucks). In fact, the whole social calendar seems kinds full. I tell you what, I'll make a little note (what was your name again?) and maybe i can squeeze you in." "Oh, well you know my number so don't be a stra-" "Hey, look at the time! I gotta skate, Clyde's making Mojitoes."
At this point the upper hand is yours. You can let her twist in the wind, you can draw her back into your life at the pace you decide. Whatever, it's your life. But if you're a smart man? You slowly phase her back in. You're IM-ing. You're talking on Live. You get invited to family functions. You bring Clyde, he becomes like one of the family. You're one big Brady Bunch.
When his teacher picked him to answer a question.
"Johnny, if there were five birds sitting on a fence and you shit one, how many would be left?" "None," replied Johnny, "because the rest would fly away." "Well, the answer is four," said the teacher, "but i like the way you are thinking."
Little Johnny said "I have a question for you now." "If there were three women eating ice cream cones in a shop… one licking her cone, the second biting her cone, and the third one sucking her cone… which on is married?" "Well," said the teacher nervously, "I guess the one sucking the cone?" "No," said little Johnny. "The one with the wedding ring on her finger, but i like the way you are thinking."


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If you're in London between June 5 to July 26, check it out.
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Thu 5 Jun 2014 - Sat 26 Jul 2014It's the end of everything in contemporary America. A future without power. But what will survive?
Mr Burns asks how the stories we tell make us the people we are, explodes the boundaries between pop and high culture and, when society has crumbled, imagines the future for America's most famous family.
Following the phenomenal success of 1984, Almeida Associate DirectorRobert Icke directs Mr Burns in its European Premiere.
"When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head spin?… Mr Burns has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas… with depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination." The New York Times
This production will include strong language, smoking on stage and some loud gunshot noises.
Mr Burns is approx. 2 hours, 45 minutes including two intervals. Latecomers will not be admitted until the first interval.
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The open-source browser gets a proprietary Adobe software so people can watch video from sites like Netflix over the Web. Supporting it is better than losing Firefox users, Mozilla says.
Next week's Patch Tuesday will see seven security fixes rolled out to fix holes in Internet Explorer, Office 2010, and Microsoft's Silverlight platform.
By default, people who want to use plug-ins with Mozilla's browser will have to manually enable them on each Web page. The reason: better security and performance.
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Embracing the Change
Voices, February 4, 2010
Mary L. Schapiro marked her first anniversary as Securities and Exchange Commission chairman on January 27. These remarks are excerpted from her keynote address on January 20 to the Securities Regulation Institute in Coronado, California.
Since I became Chairman, we have been strongly pushing for legislation that would require advisers to hedge funds and other private funds to be registered with the SEC. And, we are seeking access to information that will enable us to create a comprehensive database so we can monitor activities for systemic risk and investor protection purposes.
To further our missions, we are cooperating with our regulatory counterpart in the United Kingdom as to the sharing of hedge fund related data. And, we are working with international organizations toward gathering consistent and comparable hedge fund data globally.
Pooling the SEC and [U.K.] information will result in a more comprehensive understanding of the overall hedge fund landscape and its impact on our broader securities markets.
We also have been driving for new regulation in the area of over the counter derivatives. These complicated financial instruments were largely excluded from our regulatory framework ten years ago by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. In that time, they have grown exponentially in size and impact.
But rather than serving as merely a hedge against risk, during the crisis, these derivatives may have exacerbated it.
That's because OTC derivatives can facilitate significant leverage, resulting in concentrations of risk and increased, opaque interdependence among parties worldwide. What's more, they can behave unexpectedly in times of crisis — further complicating risk management for financial institutions.
Further, these products are incredibly versatile and can essentially be engineered to achieve almost any financial purpose. This includes enabling market participants to essentially invest in a company without having to purchase any shares.
We are seeking measures that encourage the standardization of products. And we seek to require centralized clearing to reduce counterparty risks.
But our push for increased transparency and regulation doesn't stop there. We are reviewing our regulation of the asset-backed securities market. As we speak, the staff is working on proposals that would align the interests of those selling these products with those investing in them.
Among other things, I envision proposals that would seek to:
• Provide significantly more time for investors to conduct a careful analysis before investing.
• Require that loan-level data is provided in a format and manner that is accessible by investors.
• Revise the eligibility standards for "shelf" offerings and eliminate the use of credit ratings as an eligibility standard for shelf.
• Create a mechanism for ongoing disclosure.
In addition to seeking greater regulation, we are also strengthening existing standards.
For instance, we have already increased the safeguards imposed upon investment advisers who control their customers' assets.
For the first time, advisers who do not keep their client assets with a truly independent third party … will have to undergo a surprise exam to verify the existence of client assets. Since the financial crisis began, there has been some unease that markets are being stacked against retail investors. The roots of any deficiencies in market structure must be addressed head on to ensure that markets are transparent and investors are treated fairly.
Already we have proposed rules that would effectively prohibit broker-dealers from providing customers with "unfiltered" access to an exchange or alternative trading system. We have proposed rules that would strengthen our regulation of dark pools of liquidity.
And we have proposed banning the practice of flashing marketable orders — a practice that provides a momentary head-start in the trading arena that can produce inequities in the markets and create disincentives to display quotes.
I know that change is hard because within our agency we have been engaged in some of the most significant change in decades.
When I arrived at the agency last January, we began a process of assessing our operations and determined we could do better. We determined that we needed to change. And that is the path we have chosen.
In the first few days, I streamlined enforcement procedures by giving our attorneys the authority to serve subpoenas and enter into negotiations with corporate defendants, without first going to the full Commission.
More than anything, I believe it sent a message that our staff has a green light to pursue violations and that we have faith in their judgment to do so. Now, no Commission authorization at all is required to commence formal investigations, take testimony or seek documents.
Additionally, we have:
• Stepped up training.
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• Restructured the Enforcement Division through the elimination of a layer of middle management and the creation of specialized units.
• Redeployed attorneys back to the front line.
• Begun to revamp our complaint intake and triage system.
• Bolstered our examination program.
It has been a whirlwind year. At the time I started, I pledged to undertake significant change. And, a great deal of change has already occurred.
But more will come.
In the future, we will be tackling issues involving the municipal securities markets, the relationship between retail clients and their brokers and advisers, the mechanics of proxy voting and the role of advisory firms.
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This award-winning tree lodge was built in 1986 and is located in Shimba National Reserve which is the last remaining habitat of the Rare Sable Antelope. The lodge stays refreshingly cool in its forest setting despite being only 45 minutes drive from the hot, humid coastal city of Mombasa (and 30 minutes from the South coast resorts of Diani).The lodge features 28 comforatble rooms, two suites and one restaurant.
The lodge overlooks a waterhole and is bird lovers' paradise. Dramatic black and white Colobus Monkeys, herds of Elephant and graceful Giraffes are often seen at Shimba. For the very fortunate, the Leopard will make a rare appearance. A wooden walkway extending into the forest leads nature lovers to great unobtrusive birdlife viewings. Other adventures await you like a visit to Sheldrick Falls, or an evening game drive followed by a walk through the forest that could end up with drinks and snacks in a glade. All rooms have balconies overlooking the waterhole. The lodge also boasts a restaurant under a veranda. Enjoy the beautiful sunsets and sunrises at the lodge's sundowner site.
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Edge-based Blur Kernel Estimation Using Patch Priors
Libin Sun1
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Blind image deconvolution, i.e., estimating a blur kernel k and a latent image x from an input blurred image y, is a severely ill-posed problem. In this paper we introduce a new patch-based strategy for kernel estimation in blind deconvolution. Our approach estimates a "trusted" subset of x by imposing a patch prior specifically tailored towards modeling the appearance of image edge and corner primitives. To choose proper patch priors we examine both statistical priors learned from a natural image dataset and a simple patch prior from synthetic structures. Based on the patch priors, we iteratively recover the partial latent image x and the blur kernel k. A comprehensive evaluation shows that our approach achieves state-of-the-art results for uniformly blurred images.
Paperpatchdeblur_iccp2013.pdf, 11MB
Supplementary Materials1. Mathematical Derivations
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Libin Sun, Sunghyun Cho, Jue Wang, James Hays. Edge-based Blur Kernel Estimation Using Patch Priors.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2013.
@inproceedings{patchdeblur_iccp2013, author = {Libin Sun and Sunghyun Cho and Jue Wang and James Hays}, title = {Edge-based Blur Kernel Estimation Using Patch Priors}, booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography}, year = {2013}}
MatLab Codeavailable upon request, please contact Libin Sun (lbsun at cs.brown.edu).
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Full Resultsall results [80 images x 8 kernels x 7 methods, with (cropped) ground truth images and kernels, 1.3GB]
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AbstractDespite considerable research, there is little consensus about the impact of Medicaid eligibility expansions for low-income children. In this paper, I reexamine the expansions' impact on Medicaid take-up and private insurance "crowd-out." Focusing on the most influential estimates of the expansions' impact, I show that while many of the critiques leveled at these estimates have little effect on their magnitude, accounting for age-specific trends in coverage produces estimates similar to others in the literature. Estimating the impact of later expansions using additional years of data, I find low rates of take-up and no evidence of crowding out.
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Isn't beer about a $150 a pop in Canada. I think so eh.
Norfolk Admirals: you just won the Calder Cup. What are you going to do?
We're going to run up a huge bar tab! Yaargh!
And deservedly so, as the Norfolk Admirals just capped off a remarkable run that saw them rattle off 43 wins in the team's final 46 games, culminating in a sweep of the Toronto Marlies to win the AHL's Calder Cup. I wonder if the Calder clan and the Stanley clan are like Canada's version of the Hatfields and McCoys. Something to ponder.
Anyhoo, riding high on a wave of good feelings and a hankering for some good-time-having, the Admirals squad, along with friends and family, bellied up to the bar at the Madison Avenue Pub in Toronto and when it was all said and done, had racked up a mighty hefty bar tab of about $10,000, evidence of which follows below in the form of a photos of the lengthy bar tab and receipt.
Not too shabby. Not too shabby at all, save for the 260 bottles of Coors ordered. Blech. Sure, it pales in comparison to the $156,000+ bar tab the Boston Bruins ran up after winning the Stanley Cup last year, but the Admirals are a minor league outfit after all.
Puck Daddy got in contact with Admirals' VP Joe Gregory to discuss the bill — although it's hardly merits much of a fuss — and the only thing Gregory appeared to care about was that the photo of the receipt didn't show that the team left a $400 tip. Ouch. Sadly, it appears the Norfolk Admirals are not the greatest of tippers, as $400 is only a 4% tip, but upon closer inspection, it looks like there is a charge for "service" of $1,173.26, which presumably is an automatic gratuity charge. So, in reality the Admirals went above and beyond by throwing in an extra couple hundred bucks.
Then again, maybe the tips scale is different and that's how they roll up Canada way. The team was doing its celebrating in Toronto, after all. When in Rome, right?
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Isn't beer about a $150 a pop in Canada. I think so eh.
The service fee actually works out to exactly 15% of the amount billed. Considering players, staff, coaches, family and possibly close friends, that could amount to anywhere from 40 to 100 people, that is not that big a bill! In fact if the Bruins bill is true, then the Admirals bill was only about 7% of that. Slow news day in Toronto or just Admiral bashing? A liitle sour grapes or embarrassed because they got swept?
That one bottle of champagne (ace of spades) from the bruins celebration cost 10x more than the whole admirals tab.