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May 01, 2013 10:00 ET
The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the University of Wisconsin Announce a Non-Exclusive Consortium Developing Innovative Therapeutics Aimed at Improvement of Human and Animal Health
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - May 1, 2013) - The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Biopharmaceutical cluster "Northern" (BPCN@MIPT), the Wisconsin Technology Innovation Initiative, Inc. (Wi2) (formed to support the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health), and ChemDiv Research Institute announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a non-exclusive consortium developing innovative therapeutics aimed at improvement of human and animal health. The official signing ceremony was held at the U.S.-Russia Innovation Working Group Meeting with the participation of Vladislav Surkov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation; Robert D. Hormats, Under-Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment of the USA; Oleg Fomichev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; and others.
The overall aim of this Research and Development consortium is to jointly develop and market molecules, biological materials, medical devices, diagnostics, and other technologies and data resulting from Wi2, BPCN@MIPT and ChemDiv technologies. These platforms may include specialized training of research and clinical personnel, software programs and databases for digital healthcare.
Wi2 is a one of a kind non-profit organization formed to facilitate the translation of innovations into applied uses. The work of Wi2 is done in collaboration with the private sector, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and other institutions nationally and internationally.
In accordance with the agreement terms, Wi2 will provide access to technologies in the fields of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic diseases, and will facilitate the transition of innovative technology developed at the University of Wisconsin into the marketplace. Wi2 will organize and finance a Translational Development Team (TDT) for each research platform through contributions by the other parties, grants obtained by Wi2, and, in the longer term, royalties derived from licensing of technologies resulting for the pre-commercialization efforts.
BPCN@MIPT provides access to technologies in the fields of biomed engineering and biophysics and innovative pharmaceuticals development. BPCN@MIPT also provides technological platforms and access to a highly diverse group of researchers of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and other cluster members including biophysicists, chemists, biochemists as well as computational scientists, advancing the interdisciplinary field of physics and the biophysics of excitable and self-organizing systems.
ChemDiv Research Institute, as a global CRO with 20 years experience in the life science industry, is a leading provider of integrated services to major pharmaceutical and biotech companies. ChemDiv grants access to its proprietary technologies such as protein engineering, production, structural biology and structure-based drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, scale-up, biochemical and cellular assay development, analytical/bioanalytical platforms, ADME/tox, DMPK and multiple in vivo efficacy/toxicology models.
BPCN@MIPT and ChemDiv will jointly promote the collaborative platforms to a pre-approved set of global partners (including major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies).
"We are very enthusiastic about this partnership. It is important to us to build and leverage international networks in order to be on the frontier of research, education, and innovation," said Oleg Korzinov, Executive Director of BPCN@MIPT. "Now, building this subsequent three way relationship with ChemDiv and Wi2 is of exceptional value due to their unique expertise and high profile. We are confident that this is the start of a strong and synergistic collaboration that will yield novel technologies and treatments for diseases with unmet medical needs."
Richard L Moss, PhD, U.W. Professor and Chief Scientific Officer of Wi2: "We are delighted with the new partnership for the opportunities it provides in the commercialization of innovative platform technologies originating from the School of Medicine and Public Health (University of Wisconsin), from our consortium partners, and elsewhere. Global outreach and public-private partnerships have the potential to promote the translation of discoveries from the laboratory to clinical care. This agreement promises to accelerate translation and address the needs of rapidly growing markets. The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology is a world-class research institution in Russia and a strong ally in commercialization, with advanced capabilities in infrastructure, fundamental expertise, and essential human resources in research and development. We are also very excited about our private partner, ChemDiv, which is leading CRO focused on developing pharmaceutical in Russia."
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No spoiler here: Chewbacca is back in the season finale of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars."
As I reported several few weeks ago, the Wookie will return to the franchise in "Padawan Lost/Wookiee Hunt" (7 p.m. April 1, Cartoon Network; *** out of four) when Ahsoka Tano is kidnapped by the Trandoshan, who drop their captives on a remote planet and make them "prey" in a sadistic hunting game.
Ahsoka must draw on her Jedi training to keep herself and the other prisoners alive. Eventually, the get help from our old friend Chewie in an exciting wrap-up to the season.
Below is a story from Lucasfilms about the return of Chewbacca, and of the actor who played him in the films, Peter Mayhew.
By now, it's no secret that a familiar face will join Ahsoka's private guerilla battle against the Trandoshans. After all, it's hard to keep a seven-foot Wookiee under wraps, and Chewbacca's certainly not one to hide in the shadows when his friends are in danger. Making his "Clone Wars" debut, loyal and lovable Chewie teams up with the desperate Padawan to wreak havoc on the vicious hunters' plans--proving once and for all that it's not wise to upset a Wookiee.
"Everybody loves Chewie," says Dave Filoni, supervising director of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." "He's like a big teddy bear, except that he's got a temper. You want him on your side, because if he's on your side, he's the best friend you could ever have—and who wouldn't want a Wookiee for a best friend? But we didn't include him lightly. He's such a special part of the films, and we knew that we had to do right by him. The story had to do him justice."
Both literally and figuratively, the finale's guest star is a big one for "The Clone Wars"--but even bigger than a towering Wookiee was the challenge of bringing the gentle giant to life. But the "Clone Wars" crew had the blessing--and the expert counsel--of actor Peter Mayhew, the man who has played the iconic role since the "Star Wars" debut in 1977.
"Having Peter's involvement was essential, and it was a major coup for the crew," Filoni says. "We'd done some preliminary designs and some rough animation tests, but we were coming from a place of observation. He's lived with the character for more than three decades. He is Chewie. He helped us focus in on the qualities that make Chewie live and breathe. His input helped make our version of the character that much more authentic--his mannerisms, details of his walk, facial expressions, that sort of thing. We couldn't have done it without him; it just wouldn't have been Chewie."
Beyond capturing the iconic mannerisms and distinctive idiosyncrasies of everyone's favorite "walking carpet," the "Clone Wars" crew pushed the visual envelope in other areas, as well—most notably with the finale's lush locations and impossibly rich environments. But setting the bar for TV animation is no easy task. It's a constant uphill battle, especially considering production constraints and the level of fan expectations for the series. Helping Filoni lead the team effort is CG supervisor Joel Aron—a visual effects veteran whose credits include two of the live-action "Star Wars" prequels.
"I can't make it happen; I can only envision it. Joel is the guy who makes it come alive. He's my right hand, my hit-man, my Vader. He's revolutionized the show, no doubt in my mind," Filoni says. "I really push him, and so does George [Lucas]. I'll draw a picture and say--This is what I imagined'--and he makes it happen. It's a challenge, it's what he wants--it's food for him and the team. We're taking that knowledge, applying it forward. Just look at the backgrounds in these episodes; we've got our characters, and now the background environment has also become a character."
Bringing with him lessons learned at Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, Aron inspires enthusiastic innovation, just as he struggles to strike the delicate balance between creating something completely unique and quintessentially familiar.
"My goal is always to capture the essence of "Star Wars," the key elements that stick with you," says Aron. "It's a very specific feeling, and it's not always completely literal. We're in a different medium than the films, working on a different timeline with different tools. That's a unique challenge; we have to find stylistic ways to reflect those familiar ideals--using shapes and colors, adding textures to backgrounds. But everyone on the crew is up for it, and we love it when it pays off."
Impressive though it may be, the Season 3 finale is still just a stepping stone in the show's ongoing evolution--a jumping off point as "The Clone Wars" kicks into hyperdrive.
"These finale episodes are among the best we've produced, and it's only going to keep getting better," Filoni says. "This is what audiences can expect to see in Season 4. There's still a big galaxy out there."
"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" Season 4 will launch on Cartoon Network this fall.


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Patrons of the South Georgia Regional Library System will have direct access to a deposit collection of materials at their local library and other services that were formerly available at Valdosta Subregional Library will be available at SWGLAS.
The Southwest Georgia Library for Accessible Services continues to provide the same excellent service, but now serves a larger area. Books and magazines on cassette tapes and digital format, reference, readers' advisory and other services are available at the Southwest Georgia Library for Accessible Services for those who cannot hold, handle, or see well enough to read materials printed by conventional methods due to a temporary or permanent handicap.
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Competition in Markets for Credence Goods
This paper investigates the functioning of markets for credence goods. These are markets in which the information asymmetries are of the form that sellers are also experts who determine customers' needs. It examines the role of customers' search for multiple opinions in disciplining experts. It characterizes the equilibrium amount of fraud in such markets and shows that, despite intense competition, the information asymmetry will be translated into a mark-up over cost embodied in the prices of the less expensive services. It points out that the equilbrium does not maximize the expected customers' surplus, even subject to the informational constraints regarding the experts' superior information.
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- Asher Wolinsky, 1991. "Competition in a Market for Informed Experts' Services," Discussion Papers 959, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science.
- Pitchik, Carolyn & Schotter, Andrew, 1987. "Honesty in a Model of Strategic Information Transmission," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 77(5), pages 1032-1036, December.
- Asher Wolinsky, 1983. "Prices as Signals of Product Quality," Review of Economic Studies, Oxford University Press, vol. 50(4), pages 647-658.
- Darby, Michael R & Karni, Edi, 1973. "Free Competition and the Optimal Amount of Fraud," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 16(1), pages 67-88, April.
- Klein, Benjamin & Leffler, Keith B, 1981. "The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 89(4), pages 615-641, August.
- Jacob Glazer & Thomas G. McGuire, 1991. "The Economics of Referrals," Papers 0020, Boston University - Industry Studies Programme.
- Diamond, Peter A., 1971. "A model of price adjustment," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 3(2), pages 156-168, June.
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Announcing the Metaphilm Movie Mapper!
We are pleased to announce the beta release of the Metaphilm Movie Mapper, the companion website to the newly released Manhattan on Film by Chuck Katz, self-described geographreak and expert, surprisingly enough, on all things relating to film in Manhattan and surrounds.
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Posted on 17 Jan 2011 by Debbie Baratz.
In his first official apology since his Dec. 27 drug arrest and ensuing dismissal from the team on Jan. 3, Iowa running back Adam Robinson spoke to the media on Sunday. Robinson said that while he's received other offers from schools, he wants to return to Iowa and ultimately return to football. In a Des Moines Register article, Robinson said, "I've always wanted to be a Hawkeye. I ...
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While Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz never said why top running back Adam Robinson was suspended for the Insight Bowl, he insinuated it could have been academic problems. Now, you have to wonder if there was more to the story or Robinson had dodged a bullet. Late Monday evening, Robinson was arrested by the Iowa State Patrol for the citation of marijuana in Des Moines, Iowa. According to a...
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Posted on 27 Dec 2010 by Debbie Baratz.
On Tuesday, Dec. 28, the Iowa Hawkeyes (7-5, 4-4) will play the Missouri Tigers (10-2, 6-2) in the Tempe, Ariz Insight Bowl. The game is at 9:00 p.m. CT and will be televised on ESPN. After losing senior wide receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos and sophomore running back Adam Robinson, Iowa will need to pull together for its final game with some changes in the line-up. Last Friday, Iowa ...
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In a press conference this morning with the Iowa Hawkeye athletic director Gary Barta and Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz, any Internet and Twitter rumors of an Iowa football drug scandal were put to rest by the two. After yesterday's announced suspension of sophomore running back Adam Robinson and the requested transfer by junior running back Jewel Hampton, the press conference did not annou...
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It's been a tough week for the Iowa Hawkeye's offense. Last Tuesday evening, senior wide receiver Derrell Johnson-Koulianos was arrested on drug charges and for running a drug house. Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz said he was suspended by the team and on Thursday, he then stated the team's all-time leading receiver would not play at the upcoming Insight Bowl on Dec. 28. On Friday evening, ...
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Former Iowa Football Coach Hayden Fry to be Inducted Into Rose Bowl Hall of Fame
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Before the Kirk Ferentz era, there was the Hayden Fry era at the University of Iowa. From 1979 to 1998, Fry was the Hawkeye's successful and beloved football coach; he is Iowa's winningest coach in school history with a 143-89-6 record. On Dec. 30, Fry will be inducted into the 2010 Rose Bowl Hall of Fame class in Pasadena, Calif. He will be joined by Purdue's running back/safety Leroy K...


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The Economist recently published an interesting opinion article on the impact of innovation on the economy -- specifically the negative impact of patent backlogs on business (particularly small entrepreneurial business).
INNOVATION and jobs have become a modern version of motherhood and apple pie in Washington, DC. Everyone in America's capital wants lots more of both, or so they say. So how come Congress and the White House have decided not merely to underfund a crucial cog in American's innovation machine but actually to take away revenue it earns? And that at a time when that cog, the Patent and Trademark Office, is already struggling to keep up with the growing demands upon it? The recent budget deal for fiscal 2011 (the year to September 30th) allows the Patent Office to spend only $2.1 billion. That is less than it expects to collect in fees from applicants—$100m or so will disappear instead into Treasury coffers—and far less than it needs to do its job properly.
Ever since Thomas Jefferson became the first head of what became the Patent Office in 1790 and decided to grant patents only to innovations that were useful and genuinely novel, America's system of intellectual property has played a crucial role in generating economic growth, encouraging inventors and entrepreneurs by ensuring that they can make money from their good ideas. Last year the Patent Office granted 244,358 patents out of the applications it examined. Although you can debate how many jobs are created on average per patent, there is no doubt that, collectively, they are a useful contribution to an economy that is still struggling to grow.
Imagine, though, how much bigger that contribution might be had the Patent Office been able to process the applications that it has still not even looked at. There are more than 700,000 of these. On average, hopeful inventors wait for two years until their applications are even considered. Ten months more may go by before they learn whether they have been successful. While they wait for a decision, the American economy is losing out.
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The backlog extends the uncertainty that the process causes to businesses, applicants and competitors alike, slowing investment and constraining the economy. It may also push back the launch of the new product for which a patent is sought, depriving customers of the benefits. Entrepreneurial small businesses, which are increasingly recognised as an important source of new jobs and often need a patent to raise the capital they need to grow, tend to be hit particularly hard. The delay may also cause firms to seek alternative methods of protecting their intellectual property, especially through trade secrets. That may in turn impose further costs on the economy by slowing the dissemination of knowledge which the patent system helps to bring about.
On April 26th a scheme to process applications more quickly for an additional fee was put on ice by David Kappos, the head of the Patent Office, who blamed this on its new spending cap. Even in today's difficult fiscal circumstances, it should not be beyond Congress to find the money to allow the Patent Office to introduce this reform. Simply letting it keep all its fees would do the trick—even if this comes at the expense of some other programme that contributes less to the economy.
Congress should also hurry up and pass the patent reforms that it has been considering, mostly favourably. Certainly, there are things to quibble about in the proposed legislation. Not everyone is convinced by its bias towards the first applicant to file for a patent rather than (as now) the first applicant to have the idea, nor by its lack of an easier way to challenge patent awards. Yet, overall, it makes sense. Most sensible of all is the part that would let the Patent Office determine its own fees and keep all the money that it collects. That would presumably enable it to reduce the backlog of applications. The sooner Congress passes this legislation, the easier it will be to take seriously the claims of America's politicians to be doing all they can to foster innovation.


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I asked this on the other haunt forum a week or so ago, but this forum feels more like home for me. So I will ask here as well :D
Ok guys, when you are either attending or operating a haunt...which do you prefer to see or use? Masks or Prosthetics?
This is a question that I find both interresting, and is also sort of like a poll for me to use as a tool to see which would be better for me to use at my future haunt.
The pro's that I have noticed, just working at a haunt last year was that most of the people coming through enjoy the special FX prosthetics moreso than the masks. I wore a prosthetic for my scene last year, and I stood completely still in my scene, so people always thought I was just a prop, when all actuality I was right there! lol I think the prosthetic was realistic/fake (however you want to look at it) enough to trick people.
I cant really figure out which would come cheaper overall. People say make-up teams and prosthetics and such are expensive, but I would figure that quality masks would start racking up in prices as well.
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Experiment Eleven: Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis, by Peter Pringle, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99, 288 pages
Surrounded by Petri dishes in a crude basement laboratory at an obscure New Jersey agricultural college, a young scientist worked single-mindedly throughout the summer of 1943.
Albert Schatz, honourably discharged from the US army because of a spinal deformity, now channelled his energies into finding a treatment for the infections that were killing many of his fellow soldiers. None was worse than tuberculosis, against which the new wonder-drug penicillin was useless.
Schatz slept in a greenhouse, living off little more than eggs and milk, indifferent to the fact that thanks to wartime austerity he had been re-employed by Rutgers College at a fraction of his former pay.
Within three months, he had concluded what he described in his notebooks as "Experiment 11", the basis for streptomycin, a treatment that would soon be saving thousands of lives. It was a breakthrough that should have kick-started his scientific career. Instead, it festered into a source of life-long frustration and bitterness that led to a lawsuit and public relations battles.
In Experiment Eleven, journalist Peter Pringle describes how, in an office above Schatz's lab, sat Professor Selman Waksman, a man who gave "the impression of an eccentric academic absorbed in lofty scientific principles". But Waksman, true to his belief in rigid academic hierarchy and his status as a member of a Russian immigrant family that was socially superior to Schatz's, rarely descended to the laboratory below. While acting as a fatherly figure, he bullied his junior into signing away all rights, while secretly cutting a deal with drug company Merck. Waksman – and Rutgers College – became rich and renowned.
The story of Experiment 11 and its repercussions contains much that sounds uncannily contemporary in medical research and pharmaceuticals. It begins with the serendipity of random experimentation with naturally occurring microbes in the soil until one showed the potential to kill tuberculosis. It embraces the academic rivalries fought out in the positioning of the two men's names in esoteric research journals. While Waksman was generous in initially crediting Schatz, he went on to rewrite the drug's history, downplaying the role of his assistant, falsely claiming personal credit for the context, methodology and creation of the very word "antibiotic". He even wrote out a copy of Experiment 11 in his own hand to exaggerate his centrality.
Meanwhile, Merck's hold on the drug's intellectual property rights secured it millions of dollars in revenues, triggering a debate still familiar today over how far patents help or impede research and hand control to vested interests. Journalists – most all too willing to swallow Waksman's reworking of the tale – do not emerge well. Nor does Rutgers College, which "spun" the story of its professor and refused to acknowledge his co-discoverer.
The Smithsonian in Washington ignored Schatz's pleas to present a more balanced version of events. And the Nobel committee was dogmatic, awarding Waksman alone its medicine prize in 1952. Rather than revising its nomination to jointly credit his co-discoverer, it tweaked the citation to fudge the issue.
All of this is well told, but Pringle hardly "unravels the intrigues ... for the first time" as the book blurb claims. At least two previous publications have given Schatz his due in recent years, prompting begrudging acknowledgments from the Smithsonian and Rutgers.
When British microbiologist Milton Wainwright exposed the history and tracked down Schatz in 1989, Schatz broke down, saying: "You are the first individual in science in 45 years who has ever expressed a serious interest in finding out what happened from my point of view."
The two main characters are now dead, their rival views drawn from letters and legal briefs. But Pringle could have quoted more directly from Schatz's widow, Waksman's son and others still alive today. He might even have made more of his own "eureka moment": the chance unearthing of Schatz's missing notebook – a fact that he buries away in the acknowledgments. He should also have said more on Merck's clinical trials and the impact of streptomycin. Nevertheless, he has made a useful popular addition to a necessary rebalancing of history.
Andrew Jack is the FT's pharmaceuticals correspondent


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Australia, I am just DYING to visit you one day. Not only do I imagine that you are as pretty as can be – but the talent you produce is just be-YOND. Case and point the two lovelies we are welcoming to our SMP Australia family today – ngg studios and Make-up by Megan. If I could just be around these types of talents on a daily basis their prettiness would just have to rub off right? So that's what I'll do today – virtually become BFF with these beauties, and I highly recommend you doing the same!
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israeli officials are becoming increasingly frustrated by the international community's foot-dragging regarding Iran's defiant nuclear program. Sanctions are having almost no impact, and there is no credible threat of force. For most Israelis, it seems the world has accepted a nuclear-armed Iran as a foregone conclusion.
Speaking at a counter-terrorism conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on Sunday, former Mossad chief Danny Yatom said that if NATO or some other coalition of air forces would attack even just some of Iran's nuclear facilities, it could buy plenty of time to ultimately prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining atomic weapons.
"If the modern air forces led by the United States mobilize their capabilities it is possible, if not to completely remove the threat, at least to delay it for years to come," said Yatom.
But Europe and the Obama Administration have signaled they have absolutely no intention of using force to stop Iran, and so Israel must retain the right to self-defense. "Figure out for yourselves what that means," Yatom told his audience.
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned US President Barack Obama that history will judge his administration largely on whether or not Iran went nuclear on his watch.
Barak said that it would be no more than a year or two before Iran fields a nuclear weapon, and depending on what is in all those secret underground facilities Iran is building, it could be much sooner.
Israel has a long history of watching its Muslim neighbors make good on their dangerous promises. Barak cautioned that the posturing and declarations of Iran's leaders must not be taken lightly, no matter how outlandish they may appear.
And that admonition applies not only to Israel, but to every other nation as well. "I believe that the whole world has to take it seriously," said Barak. "A nuclear Iran…will start an arms race towards nuclear capacity among several members of the Middle Eastern community. It will give a tailwind to (global jihad)."
Barak was in the US to meet with administration officials regarding, among other things, the severity of the Iranian threat and the rapidly narrowing window of opportunity to act.
But the Israeli's warnings appeared to do little good. In his own interview on CNBC after meeting with Barak, Obama acknowledged that nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran are "a real problem," but insisted that military intervention is not the "ideal way" to deal with it.
"We continue to be open to diplomatic solutions to resolve this," said Obama, sidestepping the fact that diplomatic efforts to talk Iran down have been going on for nearly a decade with absolutely no positive results. In fact, as many Israelis see it, the situation has worsened since Obama took office and effectively took the military option off the table. Iran is now more convinced than ever that international sanctions and threats have no teeth.
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It's been difficult for me to express how I've been feeling this past week, until I read this diary which began:
"I am a slut.
"Before this week, I didn't know I was a slut. But Rush Limbaugh set me straight"
I'm a slut, too. But I've known this for decades. I knew it since I first enlisted in the Active Duty Air Force in 1984, and I was never allowed to forget it.
I'm also a whore, hysterical, and completely incapable of working on communications equipment.
I shouldn't have even been in the military.
Because I'm a woman.
I read the words written by Kaili Joy Gray and I understood. I felt the pain. And yet another part of me celebrated. I wanted to say, welcome to the world of the Military Woman, because now, I have hope that what women in the military have been experiencing for so long will finally receive the attention it deserves, and together, civilians and military personnel can work together to set right the horrible wrongs being perpetrated on our women in the military, as well as our women veterans.
The Issue: The Republican War on Women has now severely pissed off the Civilian Sector, and rightly so! It's about time the Republicans did something so supremely stupid that the majority of our country is now galvanized behind the Rights of Women!
But a serious problem remains!
The Problem:
It's huge. It's vast. And it's been hidden for a very long time. Decades, in fact. Those who refuse to believe in conspiracies should believe in this one. The DOD doesn't want you to know.
SWAN, Service Women's Action Network is still having difficulty gaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act from the DOD which reflect complete statistics regarding their response to sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence in the military.
From "Exposing the Ugly Details of the Military Sexual Violence Epidemic" it's the government's view:
...the public needn't concern itself with the ugly details of the epidemic of sexual violence in the military. After all, it duly releases annual statistics on the prevalence of sexual assault within each branch, encapsulating in a tidy number how many thousands of episodes have been reported and what percentage of those cases result in courts-martial, nonjudicial punishment, and other corrective measures.
Without allowing the public to take account of the role that variables like race, gender, rank, and unit play in the disposition of the individual cases behind the statistics, the military can only enlighten the public as to what the problem is, not why it continues to flourish.
The information the government does make available to the public simply does not zero in on what we need to know. For example, despite a federal law that requires the government to track what action is taken by command on each domestic violence incident and the number of incidents that command determined should not lead to disciplinary action, the DoD still does not systematically collect and share this information.
Moreover, the government's reports on sexual assault completely fail to take account of sexual harassment, which is even more prevalent than assault among military personnel. In fact, in one recent VA study, 90 percent of respondents reported sexual harassment while in the military. VA research also reveals sexual harassment while in military service to be as strong a predictor of PTSD among women veterans as in-service sexual assault; this correlation mirrors the strong link between combat exposure and PTSD among male veterans. Moreover, Defense Manpower Data Center surveys have found an alarmingly high correlation between incidents of assault and prior incidents of harassment.
If you could, please read that last paragraph again. Soak it in. Now, think of Rush Limbaugh and the fact that even military members are calling for his removal from what we used to call, Armed Forces Radio Network! Rush sexually harasses a civilian woman and all hell breaks loose. However, military women are sexually harassed, and severely, on a daily basis, and we do nothing to assist them. The DOD won't even release the statistics.
Is this okay in your opinion? Just curious. There's more:
There is the issue of Question 21 on security clearance forms. As SWAN points out in their February 29, 2012 press release, the question covers psychological and emotional health, and asks anyone applying for or renewing a security clearance to provide specific details on any therapy for a mental or emotional health condition in the previous seven years. Exemptions include counseling related to combat, marital or family issues, or grief counseling that does not involve any violence by the applicant.
Senator Jon Tester is also pushing for Question 21 to be changed because counseling for rape, sexual assault, and extreme sexual harassment is NOT exempt. This shows clear bias against women (although men are subjected to sexual abuse in the military at increasingly high numbers.)
The DOD stated they would change the wording on the question but has yet to do so, or provide clear guidance on how to answer this question in the interim.
It is 2012 and sexual discrimination is alive and well in our Armed Forces.
And there's more:
I suppose most people believe the military has an effective way of dealing with rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. But it doesn't. A huge problem is that when someone like me is raped (and I was; 4 times, and sexually assaulted once in the presence of Security Police during a "sting" operation), we can't simply trot off base and contact the nearest police station. We must stay within our Chain of Command and/or report what happened to our Security personnel.
Here's the problem with our Chain of Command...
Part of the military's intransigence on meaningful change lies in its insistence that it already has the tools to effectively prosecute offenders and administer justice to survivors. And yet, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) has been the Pentagon's primary answer to stopping sexual assault in the ranks. To be clear, SAPRO has no law enforcement authority. It has no authority to prosecute or punish. Its messaging is questionable, as it is rife with rape mythology and victim-blaming, including the infamous poster that says, "Ask Her When She's Sober." In other words, SAPRO cannot administer justice to anyone. Moreover, the SAPRO Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database, a centralized database for the collection of information regarding sexual assaults, required by law in 2009, has yet to appear. Military and Congressional leaders need to stop expecting solutions from SAPRO, and start working together to ensure victims get access to real justice. - National Press Club Statement by Anu Bhagwati Executive Director, Service Women's Action Network, March 6, 2012
And keep in mind, many of the laws discussed within this post which enacted things like SAPRO, Restricted, and Unrestricted Reporting didn't occur until after the years 2001 through 2003 and later. Rape and Sexual Assault in the military has been occurring at epidemic proportions with no way to report without reprisals for decades; since before I enlisted in the 1980's.
What is worse is that Commanders are the judge and jury in these cases. The very Commander within the Chain of Command of the individual who has been raped, as well, in the vast majority of cases, the rapist.
What do you think is going to happen? There is great pressure not to report. And if one does report, reprisals can be extreme. In many cases, the individual who reported is re-victimized by the system, harassed, and may eventually be kicked out, branded with a "personality disorder" rather than PTSD (which is usually what one has after being raped) so that they cannot even claim benefits from the Veteran's Administration.
She disputed the diagnosis, but it was not until months later that she found what seemed powerful ammunition buried in her medical file, portions of which she provided to The New York Times. "Her command specifically asks for a diagnosis of a personality disorder," a document signed by the psychiatrist said.
Veterans' advocates say Captain Carlson stumbled upon evidence of something they had long suspected but had struggled to prove: that military commanders pressure clinicians to issue unwarranted psychiatric diagnoses to get rid of troops.
In addition, the reports of those who do report the crimes perpetrated against them are not always saved so that they can file for benefits later. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.,discusses a new bill, which would help make it easier and safer for soldiers to file reports of sexual assault, preserving those reports, making filing for claims easier.
Again, more information of which many are unaware, is that the laws for PTSD claims were recently eased for those seeking benefits for PTSD due to combat. However, for those seeking benefits for PTSD due to MST, the hurdles to prove those claims remain incredibly high. The hoops one has to jump through are simply enormous. Even if one has all proof outlined in the Veteran's Administration's manual covering these claims, M21-1MR, these claims are routinely denied, repeatedly.
In my case, I had to obtain a lawyer. When my attorney saw my claim file, he was a bit shocked. I was told I had an open a shut case. I simply shrugged and told him I was aware of that, but the VA didn't care and neither did either of my two prior Veteran Service Officers. My attorney finally won my claim. And that's the saddest part of all... the fact that many who really need the benefits others are so easily able to obtain are repeatedly denied them, even with ample proof.
But, there's more:
On March 6, 2012, much activity ensued pushing the issue of Military Sexual Trauma a bit further into the limelight; in part due to Rush Limbaugh's comments, I'm sure, but mostly due to the nation-wide screenings and impending release of the ground breaking documentary film "The Invisible War". In addition, a second lawsuit was filed on behalf of eight service members by SWAN, two of those service members appeared in the documentary.
Panetta, Gates, Rumsfeld Face New Suit Over U.S. Military Rape 'Epidemic' - The Daily Beast
8 current, former service members to sue military, alleging rape, sexual assault and harassment - Fox News
And most importantly, on March 6, 2012, a press conference was held regarding the Military Sexual Assault Litigation in Washington D.C. and shown on CSpan. The list of speakers includes:
Bhagwati, Anu
Executive Director
Service Women's Action Network
Burke, Susan
Hallman, Linda
Executive Director
American Association of University Women
Helmer, Elle
Parrish, Nancy
Protect Our Defenders
Smeal, Eleanor
Feminist Majority->Political Action Committee
Wright, Ann
Official (Former)
Department of State
The Headquarters of the Marine Corps released this statement, apparently in an attempt to create some damage control. Two of the women who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit and who were also profiled in "The Invisible War" were stationed at the Marine Corps Barracks, Washington, D.C.
However, any MST Survivor knows this is too little too late.
For my own story, as a communications maintenance specialist, I was selected as one of the "elite" to be interviewed for White House Comm (what is known as White House Communications Command). This was around 1992, about 4 years after the worst was over for me. However, by that time I had entered therapy with a private therapist. I had a clearance and didn't want to lose it. As a result, I was pulled aside and asked if my "sexual assaults" would affect my job.
I laughed, because by that time, I was also running a Priority 1, 24/7, Maintenance Control Facility in our Logistics center. It wasn't affecting my job there. They knew it; I knew it. But I'm not dumb. They knew that, too.
White House Comm sets up and maintains communications for the President. When assigned there, for four years, you don't wear a uniform. You wear civilian clothes.
And only the top 1% make it there. It is most definitely a male dominated environment in the middle of a politically charged environment; and I would be one of a very few women there... not protected by a uniform (which let's face it... usually does afford one some respect, at least from civilians).
I knew it would affect my job, and I wasn't going to place myself in that situation. Not after all I had endured. No, I was far from stupid.
I certainly do not wish to dishonor any of my fellow veterans or current active duty servicemen and servicewomen. But as for the Marine Corps Barracks, Washington, D.C., well...
I don't buy your statement. Not one bit.
I'm proud of my service, and I'm proud of our military! I always have been and I always will be.
And though I'm sure I may feel the backlash from those who've continued to remain silent, I no longer care. I remained silent for far too long and it caused me a breakdown for doing so. I want my life back.
I also want all of us, as a caring, empathetic, compassionate collective, to make sure this travesty ends and no further pain is allowed to occur (if at all possible) and if it does, those perpetrating that pain are properly punished for their crimes.
This is the right thing to do and it's time to do it.
Help support Military Sexual Assault Survivors by signing the petition initiated by Kori Cioca, one of the women profiled in "The Invisible War".
Here is what you're signing:
We, as a society, can no longer allow this criminal epidemic to continue unabated. We are losing too many good soldiers to an unjust system.
Bills have now been introduced that would provide justice for sexual assault survivors currently serving in the U.S. Military, and would help alleviate the suffering of veterans who were sexually assaulted. In order for these bills to become law, they must pass a vote by specific committees prior to going to the full House or Senate for a final vote. Unfortunately most bills never get out of committee. Please join us in asking the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Howard "Buck" McKeon and the Chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee, Carl Levin to support H.R. 3435, The STOP Act, and H.R. 1517, The Holley Lynn James Act.
We also ask Representative Jeff Miller and Senator Patty Murray who chair the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs respectively, to support H.R. 930, a bill that would make getting disability for military sexual assault-related condition from the Veterans Administration much easier.
Your overwhelming support of this legislature will send a clear message to the Department of Defense that it needs to take immediate measures to take the decision to investigate and prosecute rape crimes out of the hands of commanders, and provide access to disability for military sexual-assault survivors.
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Monday, March 18, and Thursday, March 28 - Posted 3/6/2013
The Respiratory Therapist program at County College of Morris (CCM) has scheduled two open houses for those interested in learning more about this healthcare profession and related employment opportunities.
The open houses take place Monday, March 18, from 3 - 4:30 p.m., in Sheffield Hall, Room 200 and Thursday, March 28, from 5 - 6:30 p.m., in Cohen Hall, Room 256, on CCM's Randolph campus, 214 Center Grove Road. Interested individuals need to attend only one of the open houses.
The Respiratory Therapist program provides students with the knowledge, skills and professional attitudes and behaviors needed to attain state licensing and national credentialing for a career in respiratory therapy. Graduates of the CCM program have obtained positions in a variety of settings including hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, pulmonary rehabilitation centers and physician offices.
The program has two components: a pre-professional phase that includes all the general education and science prerequisites and a professional phase that includes respiratory therapy specific course work and clinical education. Courses in the pre-professional phase of the program may be taken on a full-time or part-time basis during day or evening hours. Full-time day attendance is preferred for the professional phase of the program. Part-time attendance must be approved by the program coordinator.
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The Philadelphia Police Department's Northeast Detectives Division is seeking the public's help in locating the following most-wanted suspects in connection with crimes in the Northeast:
• Marcelles Hobbs, 23, of the 5900 block of Shisler St., is wanted for burglary, theft and related offenses.
On May 16 at about 6 p.m., a resident of the 5900 block of Belden St. discovered that someone had broken into his home and stolen several items including an M1 semiautomatic rifle, an iPad, a MacBook Pro, an Xbox and a Sony PSP Go.
Police investigating the crime learned that Hobbs allegedly had the stolen iPad at his residence. Detectives executed a search warrant of Hobbs' residence and allegedly found the stolen Xbox and PSP Go in the bedroom.
Hobbs remains at large. He is black, 6 feet tall and weighs 185 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.
• Yolanda Murchison, 43, of the 2700 block of Rhawn St., is wanted for aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and related offenses.
On April 4 at about 7 p.m., Murchison was visiting the home of another woman when an argument occurred. Murchison allegedly struck the other woman several times, grabbed scissors and cut the victim's hair. When the victim tried to resist, Murchison cut her fingers, police said. The victim suffered facial bruises and cuts and head pain.
Murchison, who is also known as Yolanda Fife, is black, 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 145 pounds. She has brown eyes. Her hair may be dyed blond.
• Carlos Seigo, 33, of the 3100 block of N. Front St., is wanted for escaping prison custody.
Seigo was incarcerated at a city prison at 8001 State Road on April 4 and enrolled in a work release program when he left for work but failed to return to prison after his shift.
Seigo is white, 6 feet tall and weighs 135 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.
• Orlando Vargas, 44, of the 1400 block of Wakeling St., is wanted for aggravated assault and related offenses.
On April 9 at about 5:30 p.m., Vargas and a woman were inside Vargas' residence when an argument occurred between the two. Vargas allegedly attacked the woman physically, punching and kicking her, then choking her with both hands, casing unspecified injuries.
Vargas is white, 6 feet tall and weighs 245 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.
• Porres Wallace, 54, of the 1300 block of Ridge Ave., is wanted for aggravated assault, robbery, burglary and related offenses.
On April 11 at about 5:15 a.m., police were called to Aria Hospital-Frankford to speak with a patient who said she had been beaten inside her residence on the 4900 block of Hawthorne St.
The victim said that Wallace had broken into her home through a bathroom window, grabbed her by the throat and demanded that she give him "all you got." Wallace allegedly struck the victim with a wine bottle, dragged her into a bedroom, slammed her head on a bed rail and stole $150 cash before fleeing.
Wallace is black, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.
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Richard S. wrote:Confused yet? Shall i dig out some more quotes from the good doctor that you have used as a source?
No, Richard, here's what you should do, IMO. You should do some research of your own on people who have deeper knowledge of Islam than any of us here, not to support your preconceived notions of what's right, but to learn; you should keep an open mind, and you should, above all, recognize that we'll NEVER militarily defeat a multi-billion person world-wide religious movement.
So, either we get smarter and figure out a better way, or keep escalating until WWIII starts, if that makes you happier.


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LONDON (Reuters) - A coffin bearing the body of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was placed in a chapel in Britain's parliament before her funeral on Wednesday as a debate about the ceremony's scale and guest list deepened.
Draped in the red, white and blue British flag, Thatcher's casket was driven through London's Whitehall government district in a black hearse as tourists and parliament workers looked on in bright sunshine.
Four undertakers then carried it on their shoulders before placing it inside the crypt of the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, a cavernous vaulted place of worship first completed by King Edward 1 of England in 1297.
Aged 87, Thatcher, who ruled Britain from 1979 to 1990, died after suffering a stroke on April 8.
Security was tight, with armed police on hand as lawmakers attended a private memorial service commemorating her career as Britain's longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century.
Her children, Mark and Carol, also attended.
The proceedings were low key, unlike her planned ceremonial funeral on Wednesday which some left-wing lawmakers have called an expensive political advert for her ruling Conservative party, which is trailing the opposition Labour party by 10 percent in the polls.
The guest list has prompted talk of diplomatic snubbing.
On Tuesday, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron denied the United States had snubbed Britain by not sending anyone senior from the administration of President Barack Obama.
"Absolutely not," the spokesman said.
Obama is sending George Shultz, a secretary of state for Republican President Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, who had a number of senior roles in both the Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidencies. No senior serving politicians are attending.
The spokesman also said the Argentine ambassador had refused an invitation to attend, a decision colored by worsening diplomatic tensions over the contested Falkland Islands.
Relations between the two countries remain strained after a 1982 war over the islands during which Thatcher ordered a task force to retake the contested South Atlantic archipelago after Argentine troops seized it by force.
But in Britain it is the estimated 10-million-pound ($15 million) bill for the funeral and its grandiose nature which has drawn criticism from some lawmakers.
Thatcher was admired by many but despised by other Britons and her death has - at least temporarily - resurrected the tribal left-right politics of the 1980s with her most extreme opponents "celebrating" her death and her most ardent supporters hailing her as the country's greatest peacetime prime minister.
Some are angry that she is being given such a lavish funeral at public expense, with Queen Elizabeth attending along with more than 700 armed forces personnel, some of whose units played a pivotal role in the Falklands conflict.
"This is a state funeral in all but name without the consent of parliament for funding and without the consent of the people. Churchill, who was the only PM over the past 100 years to have a state funeral, unified the country, while Margaret Thatcher divided it," Labour lawmaker John Healey told the Guardian newspaper.
In a ceremony that will be covered live by Britain's biggest broadcasters, her coffin will be carried on a horse-drawn gun carriage through central London to St Paul's Cathedral where more than 2,000 guests will hear her favorite hymns and bid her farewell.


text: Amazon Built 42nd Fastest Computer in the World Without TryingSam Biddle12/27/11 10:58amFiled to: Amazonsupercomputerscloud computingEC260EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink For the past several years, Amazon has been quietly building one of the fastest cloud networks in the history of computers. Except it doesn't exist in any room—it's spread across the entire world. Virtual computers are now supercomputers. Advertisement The system, which Amazon calls EC2, allows customers to hop in, rent out a small sliver of Amazon's processing behemoth, and then duck out—all without having to invest in hardware of their own. Amazon takes care of everything, and you just run your data through its mill. While it's been cranking up EC2, Amazon's done a lot more than create a convenience: its cloud is now the 42nd fastest "computer" in the entire world, clocking in at 24 teraflops of total processing power.It's a hell of a lot easier than the alternative, Wired reports, quoting one of EC2's clients: Advertisement "It's just absurd," he says. "If you created a 30,000-core cluster in a data center, that would cost you $5 million, $10 million, and you'd have to pick a vendor, buy all the hardware, wait for it to come, rack it, stack it, cable it, and actually get it working. You'd have to wait six months, 12 months before you go it running."Instead, one can rent the same amount of processing punch for a little over a thousand dollars an hour—dirt cheap in the mega-computing world. The availability of tens of thousands of cores on demand is not only good business and an impressive achievement for Amazon, it means good things for science. When I spent the day at the American Museum of Natural History, an oft-cited roadblock was getting hands-on time with these supercomputers, which are a hot commodity in the research world. But with the availability of a supercomputer that, as Wired puts it, doesn't actually exist, plugging in is easier than ever. Rather than having to compete over so-and-so university's hardware, Amazon has ample space and the capacity to run tons of virtual servers at the same time. This is good news for anyone who needs to crunch big numbers.This does make one wonder, however, why the Kindle Fire's Silk browser (which is powered in part by EC2) has been getting such mixed feedback. [Wired] Reply60 repliesLeave a reply


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Monday, September 6, 2010
Dear Annie
I am borrowing this picture from Dwight's collection. The watermelon are gigantic compared with the seedless variety we buy today. But the charming picture of Ann, which I can be confident is not her favorite, none the less, tells of her endeavors to be creative. Ann is cute no matter what!
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- Steve Blood said...
Nice do!!!
This is perfect for the Labor day picnic. - September 7, 2010 at 7:00 AM
- Ann said...
This is realllllly painful. Who said anything about an awkward stage?
- September 7, 2010 at 11:31 AM
- Ann said...
And just who do you suppose cut my bangs?
- September 7, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- Elizabeth said...
Was it you, Ann, who cut the bangs? There are more pictures from this picnic in the mountains, but I haven't found them yet. I'll keep looking.
- September 7, 2010 at 12:25 PM
- Ann said...
Yes, Elizabeth, it was me. Can you imagine how difficult it must have been for Mother to see what I was doing? The flipped up ends - I haven't a clue where that came from. I must have seen some movie or something that gave me the idea. At least this was summer time. By the time school started again, Mother probably rescued me.
- September 8, 2010 at 9:43 AM
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