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The Davos agenda turned to war over the weekend. Colin Powell had scheduled his big speech for noon on Sunday, and despite the scheduled half-day off and the lure of the slopes, people started arriving as much as an hour early to get a seat. Given the influence of the audience here and the growing tide of anti-Americanism in Europe, this was a hugely important—and potentially risky—address. Powell had been briefed on the tough crowd (anybody connected to American politics, from senators to lesser administration officials, was drawing hostile questioning), and his speech was rewritten to be more direct. But the cost of getting it wrong was high, and I could only imagine the pressure he must have been feeling.
To see if the stress was showing, the day before I had waited with a gang of photographers to see the secretary leaving after a private meeting with the Turkish prime minister, Abdullah Gul. That, too, must have been tense. Turkey, as an Islamic country hoping to enter the EU, is torn between two worlds, but the United States needs to move its troops through the country now. Pausing on his exit, Powell made some mild remarks that suggested something less than a total win from the talks (news reports later said that the military had agreed to limited pass-throughs), and he looked a bit paler than I remembered. But other than that, his famous calm seemed intact.
So far the Bush administration hadn't done much to answer its European critics here. Davos, as a gathering of business globalists (Lance Knobel, a former Davos organizer and keen observer of the place, describes them more precisely as "Atlanticists"), tends to be more moderate than, say, the average Parisian cafe on the subjects of American unilateralism, corporatism, and globalization, to say nothing of genetically modified food, the Kyoto global-warming treaty, and McDonald's. But this year even the normally supportive Brits were sounding exasperated with the United States. When John Ashcroft spoke on Friday, his panel turned into a debate over racial profiling, and the attorney general's somewhat semantic line—"The mere fact that a person who is interviewed [by U.S. authorities] happens to be a person of color does not mean that it's profiling"—didn't win many converts.
It was up to Powell to do what he could to change the mood. He is the right man for the job: admired and trusted by many Europeans, who see him as a voice of intellectual and moral credibility in an otherwise doctrinaire administration. But the audience also knew that whatever his personal views might be, he was here to explain and defend the administration's policy. And the kindest thing that many could say about that is that they were keen to understand. If Powell could take the debate from emotional antipathy to intellectual disagreement, that would count as a win.
Two small moments of humanity, before and after his speech, may have held as much sway with the crowd as anything in his prepared remarks. As he was being introduced, he spotted his son, FCC Commissioner Michael Powell, in the audience and blew him a kiss. And answering a final question, he talked about what Sept. 11 had been like for him as he flew back from a meeting in Peru, getting fragmented information in the air: the escalating and conflicting reports, the dawning realization of how bad it was, and the realization of what it would mean for the country and himself.
As for the speech itself, you've no doubt already read the highlights: America's willingness to go it alone if necessary, Powell's waning confidence in the inspection process, and a somewhat thin list of known weapons-related materials that Iraq has yet to account for. ("What happened—please, what happened—to the three metric tons of growth material that Iraq imported, which can be used for producing early, in a very rapid fashion, deadly biological agents," Powell asked. A scientist later told me that this "growth material" is probably just agar, something stocked in any high-school biology lab.)
The address didn't seem to change many minds—that would have required smoking-gun evidence, which Powell didn't provide—but people in the audience seemed to find it clear and Powell personally credible, which counts as progress in the current climate.
But I was intrigued to hear the second reference in as many days to "soft and hard power," Joseph Nye's famous formulation of the difference between inspiring change and forcing it. Powell invoked this theme, defining soft power as "democracy, the value of the free economic system, the value of making sure that each citizen is free and free to pursue their own God-given ambitions." Hard power, needless to say, is war.
"There is nothing in American experience or in American political life or in our culture that suggests we want to use hard power," Powell said. "But what we have found over the decades is that unless you do have hard power—and here I think you're referring to military power—then sometimes you are faced with situations that you can't deal with.
"I mean, it was not soft power that freed Europe. It was hard power. And what followed immediately after hard power? Did the United States ask for dominion over a single nation in Europe? No. Soft power came in the Marshall Plan. Soft power came with American GIs who put their weapons down once the war was over and helped all those nations rebuild. We did the same thing in Japan."
True enough. But the discussion made me wonder if the meaning of soft power has changed since World War II, or even since Sept. 11. The question that prompted Powell's response came from George Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, who defined soft power not as democracy and free markets but as "something to do with human values."
These days—and particularly here in Davos— "values" is something of a loaded word, hinting, in sessions on corporate responsibility and a tolerance for political alternatives, at the differences between the American and European views on everything from social welfare to prescribing Western-style democracy around the world.
If there's a subtext here, it is that over the past two years, as much due to the stock market bust as war, the set of "shared values" across the Atlantic may have shrunk. And that changes the hard-soft equation.
If America and Europe agree on the right soft power model for Iraq and by extension for other Islamic states, then the debate is simply one of process: invading without sufficient evidence, or invading alone. But what if they don't? What if Europe sees this not as the United States pushing the soft power of shared Western values but of distinctly American ones? It would take more than Powell's personal credibility to close a divide that wide.


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Be safe everyone ! The much anticipated snow storm Jonas is hitting the DC metro area amongst several other states ( northeastern region) . Stay warm, be safe and have fun playing out in the snow. Hopefully we will not lose power.
My kids are excited for making a snowman ( well A is ) . I am looking forward to hopefully baking some sugary goodness. Wanted to make an effort to post a blog before the snow storm .
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They're some of the most trusted voices in the defense of vaccine safety: the American Academy of Pediatrics, Every Child By Two, and pediatrician Dr. Paul Offit. But CBS News has found these three have something more in common - strong financial ties to the industry whose products they promote and defend. The vaccine industry gives millions to the Academy of Pediatrics for conferences, grants, medical education classes and even helped build their headquarters. The totals are kept secret, but public documents reveal bits and pieces. A $342,000 payment from Wyeth, maker of the pneumococcal vaccine - which makes $2 billion a year in sales. A $433,000 contribution from Merck, the same year the academy endorsed Merck's HPV vaccine - which made $1.5 billion a year in sales. Every Child By Two, a group that promotes early immunization for all children, admits the group takes money from the vaccine industry, too - but wouldn't tell us how much. Then there's Paul Offit, perhaps the most widely-quoted defender of vaccine safety. He's gone so far as to say babies can tolerate "10,000 vaccines at once." In fact, he's a vaccine industry insider. Offit holds in a $1.5 million dollar research chair at Children's Hospital, funded by Merck. He holds the patent on an anti-diarrhea vaccine he developed with Merck. And future royalties for the vaccine were just sold for $182 million cash.
Note: An excellent report endorsed by dozens of respected doctors and nurses reveals the serious risks of vaccines. Read an incisive list of questions on the usefulness of vaccines that are rarely raised by the media. This US government webpage states, "Since 1988, over 20,428 petitions have been filed with the VICP [Vaccine Injury Compensation Program] ... with 6,430 of those determined to be compensable. Total compensation paid over the life of the program is approximately $4.0 billion." Why isn't that $4 billion price tag for vaccine injuries being talked about?
Where are the autistic Amish? In Lancaster County, heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, there should be well over 100 with some form of the disorder. There is evidence of only three. Julia is one of them. She ... is adopted from China. She had most of her vaccines given to her in the United States. [Of the other, one definitely had a vaccine, and the other's vaccine status is unknown.] Thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism. "We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines," said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director. Eisenstein, in fact, is author of the book "Don't Vaccinate Before You Educate!" Earlier this year Florida pediatrician Dr. Jeff Bradstreet said there is virtually no autism in home-schooling families who decline to vaccinate for religious reasons – lending credence to Eisenstein's observations. "It's largely non-existent," said Bradstreet, who treats children with autism from around the country. Thimerosal, which is 49.6 percent ethyl mercury by weight, was phased out of most U.S. childhood immunizations beginning in 1999, but the CDC recommends flu shots for pregnant women and last year began recommending them for children 6 to 23 months old. Most of those shots contain thimerosal.
Note: The above article was removed from the Washington Times website, so the link above uses an archived copy of the article at archive.org. You can also find it on the UPI website at this link. Page two is available here. If these links fail, click here. And watch an excellent video of Emmy award winning reporter Sharyl Attkisson exposing how the government fired an vaccine expert who found links to autism.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, Host: Six out of every 1,000 kids get it, and nobody knows exactly why. But my next guest says ... part of the blame ... needs to fall on government. And it has to do with a drug called thimerosal. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense [Council]. Let's talk tonight about thimerosal. There are a lot of people out there ... very concerned about the impact of this drug, which is found in vaccines, and how it causes autism. Talk about that. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: That's right. Thimerosal is a preservative that was put in vaccines back in the 1930s. Almost immediately after it was put in, autism cases began to appear. Autism had never been known before. It was unknown to science. Then the vaccines were increased in 1989 by the CDC and by a couple of other government agencies. What happened was the vaccine schedule was increased. We went up from receiving about 10 vaccines in our generation to these kids receive 24 vaccines. And they all had this thimerosal in them, this mercury. And nobody bothered to do an analysis of what the cumulative impact of all that mercury was doing to kids. As it turns out, we are injecting our children with 400 times the amount of mercury that FDA or EPA considers safe. A child on his first day that he is born is injected with a hepatitis B shot. Under EPA guidelines, he would have to be 275 pounds to safely absorb that shot. What happened was that, in 1988, one in every 2,500 American children had autism. Today, one in every 166 children have autism.
Note: For an excellent article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. revealing the severe manipulations around vaccines, click here. For a seven-minute video clip of the above interview, click here. Watch a great video raising serious questions on the efficacy of vaccines and legality of mandatory vaccines. Full text of this great talk is included. For lots more on autism and vaccines from reliable, verifiable sources, click here
In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center ... to ensure complete secrecy. The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. A mercury-based preservative in the vaccines -- thimerosal -- appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism. But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry's bottom line. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to "rule out" the chemical's link to autism. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism. The disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed among 11 children born in the months after thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931. Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage -- and even death -- in both animals and humans.
Note: A good, though somewhat watered down version of the above article was published in the Boston Globe on July 1, 2005. To see this article on the Globe website, click here. For an excellent report endorsed by dozens of respected doctors and nurses on the serious risks and dangers of vaccines, click here. Watch an excellent video of Emmy award winning reporter Sharyl Attkisson exposing how the government fired an vaccine expert who found links to autism.
A monkey virus found in early versions of a vaccine against polio may be linked to a common type of cancer, suggest scientists. Batches of polio vaccine tainted with "simian virus 40" (SV40) were given between 1955 and 1963. This was because monkey kidney cells were used in the [vaccine's] production process. It is [now] conceded that SV40 was present in the early vaccine - and the latest research, published in the Lancet journal, has linked it to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This is a cancer of the lymphatic system, which has a role in the body's fight against infection, and affects mainly the over 40s. The researchers looked at hundreds of tumours taken from various cancer patients, and compared them with 68 samples taken from non-Hodgkin's patients. They found genetic "footprints" of the virus in 43% of the non-Hodgkin's tumour cells.
Note: This information was uncovered years ago by Merck's top vaccine expert, Maurice Hilleman, who acknowledged that he unintentionally imported the AIDS virus to the US. See the shocking video of his testimony available here. For lots of reliable information raising serious questions about the dangers of vaccines, click here and here.
Children who get the annual flu vaccine, especially those who have asthma, may be more likely to be hospitalized than children who don't get the shot, a new study shows. But the researcher noted ... "This may not be a reflection of the vaccine but that these patients are the sickest, and their doctors insist they get a vaccination," said study author Dr. Avni Y. Joshi, a fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "I would be very cautious about interpreting this," said Dr. Gurjit Khurana Hershey, director of asthma research and professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. "The bottom line is that kids with asthma who get the flu vaccine are probably a different population anyway. They may be the more severely ill children, so it may have very little to do with the vaccine." The study has too many unknowns and covers too wide an age range over too many flu seasons to indicate any change in recommendations, said Dr. Hank Bernstein, a member of the committee on infectious diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The authors looked back at 263 children aged 6 months to 18 years who had visited the Mayo Clinic between 1999 and 2006 with laboratory-confirmed influenza. Children -- including children who had asthma -- who received the annual inactivated flu vaccine were almost three times more likely to be hospitalized than those who were not inoculated.
Note: With hospitalization rates nearly three times that of children who did not get vaccinated, why are these doctors downplaying this study so much? Why the focus on asthma, when the study covered a wide range of children? Why isn't anyone calling for more research on these striking results? For lots of articles raising serious questions about the safety of vaccines, click here.
When Caron Ryalls was asked to sign consent forms so that her then 13-year-old daughter, Emily, could be vaccinated against cervical cancer, she assumed it was the best way to protect Emily's long-term health. Emily soon suffered side effects. "The symptoms grew increasingly worse after the second and third injections," Emily, now 17, said. "One time I couldn't move anything on one side of my body. I didn't know what was happening." Emily is one of the thousands of teenage girls who have endured debilitating illnesses following the routine immunisation. She is yet to recover. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) [has] received almost 22,000 "spontaneous suspected" adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports [over the last 10 years] in 13 routine immunisation categories. In the HPV category alone, ADRs numbered 8,228, of which 2,587 were classified as "serious". The agency estimates it receives [only] about 10 per cent of all reports. Last year, Japan withdrew its recommendation for the HPV vaccine because of reported side effects. In an article published last week in the Springer journal Clinical Rheumatology, Dr Manuel Martinez-Lavin ... said these illnesses are "more frequent after HPV vaccination". He wrote: "Seemingly inexplicit adverse reactions have been described after the injection of the newer vaccines vs human papillomavirus (HPV). Adverse reactions appear to be more frequent after HPV vaccination when compared to other type of immunisations."
Note: Read powerful evidence that some vaccines are not safe nor effective. Remember that big Pharma makes billions in profit from vaccines.
Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing. Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Dr. Harper helped design and carry out the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved, and authored many of the published, scholarly papers about it. She has been a paid speaker and consultant to Merck. It's highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved. Dr. Harper joins a number of consumer watchdogs, vaccine safety advocates, and parents who question the vaccine's risk-versus-benefit profile. She says data available for Gardasil shows that ... there is no data showing that it remains effective beyond five years. This raises questions about the CDC's recommendation that the series of shots be given to girls as young as 11-years old. "If we vaccinate 11 year olds and the protection doesn't last... we've put them at harm from side effects, small but real, for no benefit," says Dr. Harper. "The benefit to public health is nothing, there is no reduction in cervical cancers, they are just postponed, unless the protection lasts for at least 15 years, and over 70% of all sexually active females of all ages are vaccinated." She also says that enough serious side effects have been reported after Gardasil use that the vaccine could prove riskier than the cervical cancer it purports to prevent. Cervical cancer is usually entirely curable when detected early through normal Pap screenings.
Note: For more on the dangers of vaccines, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
The Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD) exposes communications between Centers for Disease Control (CDC) personnel and vaccine researchers revealing U.S. officials apparently colluded in covering-up the decline in Denmark's autism rates following the removal of mercury from vaccines. Documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that CDC officials were aware of Danish data indicating a connection between removing Thimerosal (49.55% mercury) and a decline in autism rates. Despite this knowledge, these officials allowed a 2003 article to be published in Pediatrics that excluded this information, misrepresented the decline as an increase, and led to the mistaken conclusion that Thimerosal in vaccines does not cause autism. In Denmark, Thimerosal, a controversial mercury compound used as a preservative in certain vaccines, was removed from all Danish vaccines in 1992. The well-publicized Danish study published in Pediatrics 2003 claimed that autism rates actually increased after Thimerosal was phased out. This study subsequently became a cornerstone for the notion that mercury does not cause autism. However, one of the FOIA documents obtained from CDC clearly indicates that this study omitted large amounts of data showing autism rates actually dropping after mercury was removed from Danish vaccines.
Note: For the complete text of the article, which has been taken down from the Sacramento Bee website, click here. Read about a key scientific study which showed that monkeys given standard human vaccines developed autism symptoms, at this link. And an MSNBC/Associated Press report shows that the FDA rejected limits on thimerosal and that "most doses of flu vaccine still contain thimerosal."
People who receive flu vaccines year after year can sometimes show reduced protection, an effect that Canadian infectious disease specialists say muddies public health messages for annual flu vaccine campaigns. During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, researchers at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control originally thought seasonal flu shots from 2008 might offer extra protection. They were puzzled to find instead, seasonal flu vaccination almost doubled the risk of infection with pandemic flu. Dr. Danuta Skowronski and her colleagues went on to do five more studies during the summer that showed the same effect in people and in ferrets, which are considered the best animal model of flu. What was originally called "the Canadian problem" has since been found in a randomized control trial by researchers in Hong Kong ... Japan and the U.S. Researchers in several countries have found a blunting or "interference" effect between previous seasonal vaccines and reduced levels of vaccine protection in later years. "People do not have a good explanation for why," said Dr. Michael Gardam, director of infection prevention and control at Toronto's University Health Network. "We have kind of hyped this vaccine so much for so long we are starting to believe our own hype. Really, what we should be doing is looking for better vaccines," Gardam said. In the meantime, public health officials who aim to protect people from flu complications need to grapple with the imperfections of a vaccine given every year to a moving target of strains.
Note: Healthcare workers in New York protested the government mandate that they be given this vaccine, from which drug companies made billions of dollars. For more, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about the mysterious and profitable avian and swine flu panics and questioning the effectiveness of many other vaccines.
The CDC pledges "To base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data." In the case of influenza vaccinations and their marketing, this is not so. Promotion of influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public health policies today. Although proponents employ the rhetoric of science, the studies underlying the policy are often of low quality, and do not substantiate officials' claims. The vaccine might be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and the threat of influenza appears overstated. Twenty years ago, in 1990, 32 million doses of influenza vaccine were available in the United States. Today [the number is] around 135 million doses. This enormous growth has not been fueled by popular demand but instead by a public health campaign. Drug companies have long known that to sell some products, you would have to first sell people on the disease. In the 1950s and 1960s, Merck launched an extensive campaign to lower the diagnostic threshold for hypertension, and in doing so enlarging the market for its diuretic drug, Diuril. Could influenza ... be yet one more case of disease mongering? Marketing influenza vaccines ... involves marketing influenza as a threat of great proportions. The CDC's website explains that "Flu seasons ... can be severe," citing a death toll of "3000 to a high of about 49000 people." However, a far less volatile and more reassuring picture of influenza seems likely if one considers that recorded deaths from influenza declined sharply over the middle of the 20th century ... all before the great expansion of vaccination campaigns in the 2000s. Yet across the country, mandatory influenza vaccination policies have cropped up ... precisely because not everyone wants the vaccination, and compulsion appears the only way to achieve high vaccination rates.
Note: Read the entire revealing article at this link. The author clearly shows how fear and profit are the driving force behind flu vaccines and not good science and health. And this US government webpage states, "Since 1988, over 18,897 petitions have been filed with the VICP. Over that 29-year time period, 16,857 petitions have been adjudicated, with 5,782 of those determined to be compensable. Total compensation paid over the life of the program is approximately $3.7 billion." For other verifiable information on health corruption, see the excellent, reliable resources provided in our Health Information Center.
Measles cases have surged in parts of Canada and the United States this year. A still smoldering outbreak of measles in Quebec is the largest in the Americas in over a decade. An investigation into an outbreak in a high school in a town that was heavily hit by the virus found that about half of the cases were in teens who had received the recommended two doses of vaccine in childhood — in other words, teens whom authorities would have expected to have been protected from the measles virus. It's generally assumed that the measles vaccine ... should protect against measles infection about 99 per cent of the time. So the discovery that 52 of the 98 teens who caught measles were fully vaccinated came as a shock to the researchers who conducted the investigation.
Note: For an excellent report endorsed by dozens of respected doctors and nurses on the serious risks and dangers of vaccines, click here. For key reports from reliable sources on the dangers and questionable science surrounding vaccines, click here.
For all those who've declared the autism-vaccine debate over – a new scientific review begs to differ. It considers a host of peer-reviewed, published theories that show possible connections between vaccines and autism. The article in the Journal of Immunotoxicology is entitled "Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes--A review." The author is Helen Ratajczak, surprisingly herself a former senior scientist at a pharmaceutical firm. Ratajczak did what nobody else apparently has bothered to do: she reviewed the body of published science since autism was first described in 1943. Not just one theory suggested by research such as the role of MMR shots, or the mercury preservative thimerosal; but all of them. Ratajczak's article states, in part, that "Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis following vaccination. Therefore, autism is the result of genetic defects and/or inflammation of the brain." The article goes on to discuss many potential vaccine-related culprits, including the increasing number of vaccines given in a short period of time. Ratajczak also looks at a factor that hasn't been widely discussed: human DNA contained in vaccines. Ratajczak reports that about the same time vaccine makers took most thimerosal out of most vaccines (with the exception of flu shots which still widely contain thimerosal), they began making some vaccines using human tissue.
Note: For an excellent report endorsed by dozens of respected doctors and nurses on the serious risks and dangers of vaccines, click here. For other major media articles presenting evidence on the risks and dangers of vaccines, click here.
Jordan King was a typical baby. His parents called him vocal and vivacious. Then just before age 2, after a large battery of vaccinations, he simply withdrew from the world. "The real scary thing was when I noticed he wasn't looking at us any more in the eyes," Mylinda King, Jordan's mother, said. William Mead was a Pottery Barn baby model and met all the typical milestones. Then, also at age 2, after a set of vaccinations, William became very ill and he, too, changed forever. In both children, batteries of tests revealed dangerous levels of the brain toxin mercury in their systems. Their only known exposure: the mercury preservative once widely used in childhood shots. Dr. Bernadine Healy is the former head of the National Institutes of Health, and the most well-known medical voice yet to break with her colleagues on the vaccine-autism question. In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Healy said the question is still open. "I think that the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as irrational," Healy said. Healy goes on to say public health officials have intentionally avoided researching whether subsets of children are "susceptible" to vaccine side effects - afraid the answer will scare the public. CBS News has learned the government has paid more than 1,300 brain injury claims in vaccine court since 1988, but is not studying those cases or tracking how many of them resulted in autism."
Note: For a powerfully revealing article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. showing a major cover-up of this issue, click here. For another suppressed article on a published University of Pittsburgh study with strong evidence of an autism-vaccine link, click here.
A Lafayette couple, certain that chelation therapy has helped their autistic son, stepped squarely into the controversy surrounding the causes of autism and its treatment Tuesday as they joined 150 other parents in launching an international support group that will aggressively promote the treatment. The Handleys are now among a small minority of parents -- who, believing that the autism was caused by the mercury in thimerosal, a preservative that was routinely used in vaccines until recently -- are treating their children with chelation therapy, a lotion or pill that strips the body of heavy metals. It has been used for decades to detoxify people contaminated in industrial accidents, but no studies have proved whether it is an effective treatment for autism. For Jamie's parents, the proof they need is in front of them: Jamie, now 3 years old and several months into treatment, is plump and playing baseball. His smile has returned. The Handleys said the new support group, Generation Rescue, www.generationrescue.org, will offer information on chelation therapy and connect parents with those who can help.
Note: For why the some powerful people may be covering up this important information, click here. And remember how tobacco companies, fully aware of the dangers of smoking, for decades flooded the media with information and industry-sponsored studies claiming smoking caused no harm.
Don't want to get a vaccine for yourself or your child? Prepare to face the consequences. In the last month, a Detroit mother went to jail because she refused to vaccinate her child. Fifty people lost their jobs at a group of Midwestern hospitals and clinics because they declined a flu shot. And an Oregon university has blocked students from registering for classes unless they have a meningitis shot. All states have some vaccine requirements for public education—no shots, no school. All but three states - Mississippi, West Virginia and California - allow parents to send their child to school without vaccines based on some kind of non-medical exemption. In 2013, more than 90 percent of American children had been vaccinated for chicken pox, hepatitis B, measles, mumps and rubella, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, a significant number of people ... hesitate when a doctor offers them a vaccine. A new study released on Monday found that 27 percent of the parents surveyed could be classified as moderately or highly hesitant around vaccines. That same study found these people may be particularly concerned with the purity of vaccines. Increasingly, parents who choose not to vaccinate are warned of harsh penalties. People who choose not to vaccinate themselves may also face serious consequences. Some states have laws guiding which vaccinations people working at hospitals or other health care facilities must have; more often, requirements may be enshrined in a facility's policy, not in law.
Note: Watch an excellent video of Emmy award winning reporter Sharyl Attkisson exposing how the government fired an vaccine expert who found links to autism. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing vaccine controversy news articles from reliable major media sources.
Since HPV vaccines were introduced seven years ago, it has been assumed that they would prevent cervical cancer. But the vaccines have never been shown to prevent any cancer. It has also been assumed for seven years that the vaccine is safe. Yet there have been thousands of adverse event reports. The CDC itself admits there are three times as many adverse events for the HPV vaccine Gardasil as there are for all other vaccines combined. Compared to all other vaccines in the U.S. schedule, Gardasil alone is associated with 61 percent of all serious adverse events, including 63.8 percent of all deaths and 81.2 percent of all permanent disabilities in females under 30 years of age. Japan, India and France have removed HPV vaccines from their recommended list due to safety and efficacy concerns. The Health, Welfare and Labor Ministry of Japan also conducted a national investigation regarding post HPV vaccine injuries, [which] concluded that the harm experienced by women taking the vaccine is overwhelmingly greater than any expected benefits. Prompted by medical reports of post-HPV vaccination arrhythmia and motor neuron disabilities in children in Denmark, the European Medicines Agency is conducting an investigation of HPV injection adverse events. Lawsuits for HPV injuries and deaths have also been filed in Spain, France and Columbia.
Note: Read an article showing that several countries have filed lawsuits claiming damage from the HPV vaccine. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing vaccine controversy news articles from reliable major media sources.
Physicians and public health officials know that recently vaccinated individuals can spread disease. "The public health community is blaming unvaccinated children for the outbreak of measles at Disneyland, but the illnesses could just as easily have occurred due to contact with a recently vaccinated individual," says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals are at risk from exposure to those recently vaccinated. Vaccine failure is widespread; vaccine-induced immunity is not permanent and recent outbreaks of diseases such as whooping cough, mumps and measles have occurred in fully vaccinated populations. Flu vaccine recipients become more susceptible to future infection after repeated vaccination. "Vaccine failure and failure to acknowledge that live virus vaccines can spread disease have resulted in an increase in outbreaks of infectious disease in both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals," says Leslie Manookian, producer of The Greater Good. "CDC should instruct physicians who administer vaccinations to inform their patients about the risks posed to others by those who've been recently vaccinated." The number of measles deaths declined from 7575 in 1920 (10,000 per year in many years in the 1910s) to an average of 432 each year from 1958-1962. The vaccine was introduced in 1963. Between 2005 and 2014, there have been no deaths from measles in the U.S. and 108 deaths reported after the MMR vaccine.
Note: The above article provides an extensive list or references. For more, read this informative webpage on the excellent alternative health website Mercola.com. And this US government webpage states, "Since 1988, over 18,897 petitions have been filed with the VICP. Over that 29-year time period, 16,857 petitions have been adjudicated, with 5,782 of those determined to be compensable. Total compensation paid over the life of the program is approximately $3.7 billion."
A system intended to speed help to vaccine-injured Americans has instead heaped additional suffering on thousands of families. To investigate vaccine court in depth, the AP read hundreds of decisions, conducted more than 100 interviews, and analyzed a database of more than 14,500 cases. Among the AP's findings: * Prominent attorneys have enlisted expert witnesses whose own work has been widely discredited, including one who treated autism with a potent drug used to chemically castrate serial rapists. Some of the most prominent experts set up nonprofits questioning vaccine safety. Many doctors hired by the government to defend vaccine safety in court have ties to the pharmaceutical industry. * The government fights legitimate claims ... worried that if they concede a vaccine caused harm, the public will react by skipping shots. If government doctors had their way ... 1,600 families would not have gotten more than $1.1 billion in cash and future medical care between the court's opening in 1988 and then end of 2012. * Cases are supposed to be resolved within 240 days. Less than 7 percent of 7,876 claims not involving autism met the 240-day target. Most non-autism cases take at least two and a half years. Hundreds have surpassed the decade mark. Several people died before getting any money. "The system is not working," said Richard Topping, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who handled vaccine injury claims but resigned after concluding his bosses had no desire to fix the major flaws he saw.
Note: Read the entire article to see how the vaccine court is deeply flawed in may ways. Then read an article showing how the government removed data from it's website which showed an increase in court victories by those claiming harm from vaccines. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing vaccine news articles from reliable major media sources. See also the excellent, reliable resources provided in our Health Information Center.
Did Merck use false pretenses to monopolize the market for mumps vaccines? A pair of lawsuits – one of which is filed by former employees and the other by doctors – make this allegation and a federal judge is allowing both claims to proceed. The former employees – virologists who filed a whistleblower lawsuit four years ago – charge Merck knew its vaccine was less effective than the purported 95% efficacy level. And they alleged that senior management was aware, complicit and in charge of testing that concealed the actual effectiveness. They claim to have witnessed fIrsthand what they describe as "improper testing and data falsification in which Merck engaged in order to conceal what the drug maker knew about the vaccine's diminished efficacy. In fact, their Merck superiors and senior management pressured them to participate in the fraud and subsequent cover up when they objected to and tried to stop it," according to their lawsuit. The feds declined to join the lawsuit, which was unsealed two years ago. Shortly afterwards, the physicians subsequently filed the other lawsuit charge the vaccine was mislabeled and was not the product for which the government or other purchasers paid, which meant that Merck violated the False Claims Act. Both lawsuits note that Merck held an exclusive license to sell a mumps vaccine and its actions discouraged competition. "The ultimate victims here are the millions of children who, every year, are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection," the lawsuit filed by the virologists states. Meanwhile, the mumps vaccine was ringing the register at Merck, which reported that sales reached $621 million last year.
Note: Read a CBS News article which shows how Merck literally created a hit list for doctors who opposed use of the deadly drug Vioxx, which was responsible for thousands of deaths. A second CBS article shows how Merck created a fake medical journal to support Vioxx and harassed reporters revealing the truth. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing health corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.
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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
September 2016
Capturing those Beguiling BVOCs
Detecting biogenic organic compounds in the atmosphere using land data and chemistry models helps describe atmospheric particle formation and air quality
Biogenic emissions from trees, vegetation, and grasses are volatile compounds that mix with other compounds in the atmosphere to form particles that can influence the formation of clouds. They also can block, reflect or absorb sunlight energy, affecting the overall energy budget of the planet. Understanding how BVOCs interact with other atmospheric components is one of the biggest challenges to unlocking the mysteries of our climate. Image courtesy of Jerome Fast, PNNL. Enlarge Image.
Results: Our atmosphere—and our climate—are challenged by chemistry. Biogenic organic compounds, or BVOCs, are part of the chemical atmospheric soup that confronts scientists.
Tackling this mystery, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their collaborators used a "mash-up" of several models to simulate BVOCs and compare them to real-life observations. The coupled system reasonably simulated the BVOCs, and using sensitivity experiments, they showed that land-surface formulas in the models do influence how BVOCs are simulated, but the impact is much smaller than the influence of vegetation distribution. (See sidebar, What are BVOCs?)
"Inappropriate vegetation distribution data in climate models may result in large uncertainties when estimating BVOCs," said Dr. Chun Zhao, atmospheric scientist at PNNL. "This can significantly affect our understanding of the atmospheric chemistry and secondary aerosol formation that ultimately influences how these particles affect clouds and Earth's energy budget."
Why It Matters: Current climate models are still struggling to estimate BVOCs. These wily molecular compounds can significantly affect the chemistry in the atmosphere and the consequences are likely significant. Researchers lack complete information about what happens to these compounds when they meet up with human-caused emissions and other natural particles (like dust or ash) and form new particles called secondary organic aerosols (SOAs). The formation of these new, "third-party" particles ultimately influences air quality and the particles' light-reflective talents. The study provides a coupled modeling system with a solid step toward capturing the impact of these cagey compounds.
Methods: In this study, PNNL researchers and their collaborators from the University of California, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Utah State University, NOAA and University of Colorado linked several models to tackle questions around BVOCs. They used the latest version of Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN v2.1) and coupled it with the land-surface model called Community Land Model, or CLM4, in the Weather Research and Forecasting model with chemistry (WRF-Chem). In this implementation, it was helpful that MEGAN v2.1 shares a consistent vegetation map with CLM4 for estimating BVOC emissions. They used this improved modeling framework to investigate the impact of two land-surface models, CLM4 and Noah, on BVOCs and studied how BVOCs reacted to vegetation distributions in California. The measurements collected during the Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study (CARES) and the California Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Experiment (CalNex) conducted in June of 2010 provided observational sets used to evaluate the simulations of BVOCs.
Uncertainties arose from many factors, including uncertainties in land-surface processes and specification of vegetation types, both of which can affect the simulated near-surface fluxes of BVOCs. However, the results quantified the impacts from land-surface processes and vegetation distributions on the estimated BVOCs in the atmosphere. This study indicates that more effort is needed to obtain appropriate land-cover datasets for climate models rather than improve details on land processes in terms of simulating BVOCs and consequently SOA formation.
"The new modeling framework accounting for the sub-grid variability of vegetation distributions can better capture the BVOC distributions in cities, which is important in studying air pollutants," said Zhao.
The study shows there is more work to do. They need to obtain the most appropriate and accurate land-cover datasets for climate and air quality models that impact BVOCs, pick apart the way chemicals age in the atmosphere, and identify the consequent new particles produced by atmospheric mixing.
What's Next? The newly developed modeling system will be used to investigate the BVOCs impact on SOA formation and radiative forcing. The system will also be applied over other regions such as the Amazon to investigate land processes and the vegetation distribution impact on BVOCs, and consequently, SOA formation.
Sponsors: This was work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Atmospheric Systems Research (ASR) Program and Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. A portion of this research was supported by the US NOAA's Atmospheric Composition and Climate Program.
Research Team: Chun Zhao, Maoyi Huang, Jerome D. Fast, Larry K. Berg, Yun Qian, Manish Shrivastava, Ying Liu, and John E. Shilling, PNNL; Alex Guenther, and Dasa Gu, University of California, Irvine; Stacy Walters, and Gabriel Pfister, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Jiming Jin, Utah State University; and Carsten Warneke, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and CIRES at University of Colorado.
Research Area: Climate and Earth Systems Science
User Facility: ARM Climate Research Facility. The simulations required for this work were performed on the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Reference: Zhao C, M Huang, JD Fast, LK Berg, Y Qian, A Guenther, D Gu, M Shrivastava, Y Liu, S Walters, G Pfister, J Jin, JE Shilling, and C Warneke. 2016. "Sensitivity of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) to Land Surface Parameterizations and Vegetation Distributions in California." Geoscientific Model Development 9: 1959-1976. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-1959-2016


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JSI produces a variety of technical videos highlighting trainings, project approaches, and successes in public health program implementation worldwide. Intended for educators, in-country officials, and service providers, these technical videos enable programs to learn from JSI projects in different countries and contexts, and apply new methods to existing strategies.
Find more videos from JSI on our YouTube channel.
Building the Capacity of PEPFAR New Partners
Find out how the TA-NPI project built the capacity of several organizations to grow and thrive and provide more people in need with essential HIV and AIDS-related services.
This video, from the CAPACITY and TUMAR projects, demonstrates the negative impact of stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV in Central Asia and and advocates for their equal treatment.
The Chlorhexidine Navi Care Program Saves Newborn Lives in Nepal
JSI has piloted and will scale up this effective program, which brings life-saving antiseptic ointment and counseling to pregnant mothers in order to prevent fatal infection of the umbilical stump after birth.
Comparte Tu Historia: Capturing the Stories of Cancer Survivors to Address Stigma (Mexico)
Comparte Tu Historia, implemented by JSI and funded by LIVESTRONG, has been working to reduce the stigma associated with cancer through culturally-relevant information campaigns while raising awareness of the global cancer burden. As part of Comparte tu Historia, people in Mexico have made video testimonials about their experience with cancer. In these videos, four Mexicans share their stories of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and healing.
Delivering HIV Rapid Test Results: Experiences from the Field (US)
Developed by the U.S. Region I Federal Training Centers Collaborative (FTCC), this video provides advice on delivering HIV test results, as well as reflections from providers who have given results and the patients who have received them.
Early Initiation of Breastfeeding - Indonesia
Indonesia's National Clinical Training Network (JNPK) has released a clinical training video for midwives on the protocols for early initiation of breastfeeding.
Facing AIDS 2011. Write. Snap. Share.
JSI manages the AIDS.gov project to increase HIV testing and care among people most at-risk for, or living with, HIV, by using emerging communication strategies to provide access to the U.S. Government's HIV information, policies, programs, and resources. This AIDS.gov video explains the Facing AIDS photo initiative to help reduce stigma and promote HIV testing.
Getting Products to People: How integration can transform public health supply chains
This animated video features JSI's approach to integrated supply chains.
Integrated Family Health Program: The Cold Chain and Immunization Services
Watch this video about how the Integrated Family Health Program is managing logistics and service delivery to improve health outcomes in Ethiopia's most remote regions.
Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH)-2011 New Hampshire Videos
JSI's Community Health Institute (JSI/CHI) and the New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services collaborated in the production of a series of videos describing successful public health initiatives tackling obesity, tobacco use, and under-age substance use in the Granite State, using data from the NH County Health Rankings Report and NH State Health Profile.
This video was created by a Georgian TV magazine program on one aspect of JSI's Healthy Women in Georgia Program.
RMNCH+A India A Strategic Approach for a Healthy Mother and Child
The MCHIP program is supporting the Government of India to implement the RMNCH+A Strategy, which aims to improve health at five key stages of life: Newborn, Child, Adolescent, Reproductive, and Maternal.
Romania Avian Flu Awareness Puppet Show
Part of the rural health promotion campaign in Romania, this video is a puppet theater performance on avian flu information and prevention.
Saving the lives of children under five through supply chain innovation
Learn about JSI project SC4CCM's experience testing simple and affordable innovations to overcome supply chain bottlenecks at the community level.
Six Years of Success with MCHIP
USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) has worked in over thirty countries and contributed to significant advances in maternal and child health.
Supporting Community Health Workers in Madagascar
Find out how the Community-Based Integrated Health Program is improving health outcomes in rural Madagascar by empowering community health workers with training, tools, and resources.
Together for Health End of Project Results
JSI's Together for Health project reflects on the enormous impact made by the five-year initiative on the lives of Ukrainian women and families.
Working Together with Communities: Complimentary Feeding in Gursum
Beza Derje, a Community Health Worker in Rural Ethiopia, demonstrates her work teaching mothers in remote villages how to prepare nutritious food for their families, how to use bed nets to prevent malaria, and other preventive health skills.


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Pregnancy is generally a affable surprise. Of course, there are times that abundance can appear as a shock. Although best adventitious pregnancies are still affable surprises, it doesn't accomplish the bearings abundant easier. There are accomplish you can booty to accomplish an adventitious abundance a affable experience.
First, allege with a acquaintance or ancestors affiliate you can trust. You'll charge addition who will be admiring and not condescending. It's already an affecting time for you. The aftermost affair you charge is the added accent of arresting the pregnancy.
Second, already you're accomplished the antecedent stages of award out about your pregnancy, adapt yourself for the capricious responses of added people. You may get receptions that are congratulatory, and you may get some who are judgmental. Be able for both. Also bethink that what's done is done. It's not effective to attending aback in regret, anger, or despair. It is bigger to attending advanced and to accomplish the best of the abruptness situation.
Third, don't feel as if you're alone. Adventitious pregnancies appear to abounding people. There are abutment groups both online and offline accessible to advice you through this ambagious time in your life. Seek their counsel. Don't be abashed to articulation your own fears and concerns. You may acquisition the sessions actual therapeutic.
Fourth, adapt to acquaint the baby's father. Obviously it won't be easy, and you'll get a capricious ambit of responses from action to denial. Hopefully, the ancestor will be admiring and can advice you through the pregnancy.
Fifth, be acquainted that your anatomy is in a altered state. Because you're now pregnant, your anatomy is abounding with hormones and is transforming every day. Booty this into annual back talking with bodies and prioritizing your life.
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List Of All Railway Recruitment Board In India
RRB Railway Recruitment Board is a commission which is responsible to recruit the applicants for the various vacancies in Indian Railway. RRB is conducting a written exam for the recruitment process. Eligible and interested candidates must grab this chance to get a job in Indian Railway. Here on this page, you will find List Of All Railway Recruitment Board In India along with their Official Website.
Candidates may apply for the vacancies which are available on the state wise Railway recruitment Board. There are many RRB divisions to recruit the candidates by conducting the Exam in different states of India.
Job hunters may check the entire details about RRB sectors, latest recruitment and other details by take a look on the official web site of the Board. All the Indian Railway Recruitment Board List is provided below by the team of recruitmentlauncher.com
List Of All Railway Recruitment Board In India
Here we are providing List Of All Railway Recruitment Board In India with their official website. Please have a look….
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|Official Website
|RRB Ahmedabad
|1st Floor, Meter Gauge Building, Railway Station, Kalupur, Ahmadabad – 380 002, Gujarat
|RRB Ajmer
|Nehru Marg, Near Ambedkar Circle, Ajmer – 305001, Rajasthan
|RRB Allahabad
|Opposite to G.M./NCR Building, Near Subedarganj Railway Hospital, Subedarganj, Allahabad – 211 033, Uttar Pradesh
|RRB Bangalore
|18, Millers Road, Bangalore – 560046, Karnataka
|RRB Bhopal
|East Railway Colony, [Near Bhopal Railway Station], Bhopal – 462010, Madhya Pradesh
|RRB Bhubaneswar
|D-79/80, Rail Vihar , B.D.A. Rental Colony, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar -751023, Orissa
|RRB Bilaspur
|General Manager/SECR's Office Complex Bilaspur (C.G) Pin: 495 004, Chhattisgarh
|RRB Chandigarh
|SCO 34, IInd Floor, Madhya Marg, Sector – 7-C, Chandigarh, Punjab
|RRB Chennai
|5, Dr. P.V. Cherian Crescent Road, Edmore, Chennai – 600 008, Tamil Nadu
|RRB Gorakhpur
|Railway Station Road, Gorakhpur – 273012, Uttar Pradesh
|RRB Guwahati
|Station Road, Guwahati, Assam
|RRB Jammu Srinagar
|Railway Colony (West), Jammu-180012
|RRB Kolkata
|Metro Railway A.V.Complex, Chitpur, Opp. To R. G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, R. G. Kar Road, Kolkata-700 037, West Bengal
|RRB Malda
|Kalibari Railway Colony, P.O Jhaljhalia, Malda – 732102, West Bengal
|RRB Mumbai
|Railway Divisional office compound, Mumbai Central, (E), Mumbai – 400 202, Maharashtra
|RRB Muzaffarpur
|Lichi Bagan, Maripur, Muzaffarpur-842001, Bihar
|RRB Patna
|Mahendrughat, Patna – 800 004, Bihar
|RRB Ranchi
|Railway Offices Complex, Chutia, Ranchi-834027, Jharkhand
|RRB Secunderabad
|South Lallaguda, Secunderabad– 500017, Andhra Pradesh
|RRB Silliguri
|Subhashpally, Siliguri, District-Darjeeling-734001, West Bengal
|RRB Thiruvananthapuram
|Thampanoor, Thiruvananthapuram – 695 001, Kerala
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Flor de Campo Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara County
Sanford's two Santa Rita vineyards, which include some of the oldest Pinot Noir vines in the region, provide fruit for this cherry and berry scented wine which shows a touch of savoury-spice on the richly flavoured, bright fruit palate. The grapes are hand-harvested and fermented in open-topped tanks prior to a brief period ageing in French oak barrels.
- Type: Red
- Country: USA
- Region: California
- Vintage: 2014/2016
- Producer: Sanford
- Primary grape: Pinot Noir
- Bottle size: 75cl
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Watch Austin Mahone Perform 'Shadow,' 'Mmm Yeah' & 'What About Love' on 'Today Show' [VIDEO]
Superstar Austin Mahone took over Rockefeller Plaza this morning on NBC's 'The Today Show' in front of a crowd of screaming fans. Mahone performed three songs including the live debut of the track 'Shadow' off his EP 'The Secret,' which drops tomorrow, May 27. The pop star also performed his hits 'What About Love' and 'Mmm Yeah.'
Where 'What About Love' and 'Mmm Yeah' are upbeat pop-dance tunes, 'Shadow' is a more intimate slow ballad in comparison. Wearing a white t-shirt and black vest, Mahone sang 'Shadow' acoustic style, leaving many fans swooning in the New York City morning heat. Mahone chatted with 'Today' hosts in between his songs and revealed that he hopes to work with Drake someday and that he considers Justin Timberlake his role model.
Watch the videos below if you missed Austin's performances this morning.
Watch Austin Mahone Perform 'Shadow' on 'The Today Show'
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According to this article in the Daily Telegraph, the 21st of March will apparently be the date of a "Super Tide". There will be an unusually strong spring tide caused by the sun and moon aligning while the latter is at its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit.
The high tides produced could potentially raise risks of flooding if they occur during a storm surge. However, the enhanced tidal forces will also result in very low tides. This can grant opportunities to see many ship wrecks and other interesting features off the coast of Llyn that are normally hidden by the waves. One such wreck is the Stewart off Porth Ty Mawr near Llangwnnadl. Better known locally as "the Whiskey Ship", the Stewart ran aground on Easter Sunday 1901. The cargo of whiskey bound for Australia was rapidly rescued from the sea by some of the local residents, who then proceeded to move it for "safe keeping" in farm buildings, haystacks and down rabbit holes, much to the chagrin of H.M. Customs and Excise. The remaining timbers are only 6 - 10 feet below the water and are sometimes exposed at extreme low tide.


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Breckenridge 2 Door-TLF
Breckenridge 2 Door-TLF
- Shown: 2-Door 20"d x 42"w x 80"h
- Hardware: D52-BL, D523-BL
- Wood: QSWO
- Stain: Michaels Cherry
- Flush doors with light guard
- Bevel glass doors & sides
- Touch lighting
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- Full extension soft close undermount slides
- Fixed shelf in base
- Plain back
- Dovetail drawer boxes
- Solid shiplap back
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- Extra glass shelf
- Solid wood sides
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- Adjustable shelf in base
- Custom hardware
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- 3-Door 20"d x 60"w x 80"h
- 4-Door 20"d x 78"w x 80"h
- The following hardwoods are generally available: Oak, Brown Maple, Cherry, Rustic Cherry, Maple, Quarter Sawn White Oak, Hickory, Rustic Hickory, Elm and Walnut; additionally we have also used Ash, Beech, Clear Alder, Knotty Alder, Sap Cherry and other wood species in the creation of our fine furniture.
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Halo: Reach video shows seven minutes of Firefight mode
Want to see seven minutes of Halo: Reach footage showing off the Firefight mode?
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The footage comes to you courtesy of Halo Waypoint (via Joystiq).
Halo: Reach is out on September 14, and will have scaleable difficulty.


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1. Identify the Fabric. Couches come in lots of shapes and materials, with some even having removable and washable cushions. If you are lucky enough to have a cotton-blend or linen couch, you can easily clean it with natural ingredients. Before getting started, give your couch a good once-over to figure out what it's made from. Most have a tag that identifies it as:
- W: OK to use water for cleaning.
- S: Only use a solvent-based cleaner on fabric.
- SW: Either water or a solvent cleaner is safe to use.
- X: Only use a vacuum for cleaning.
2. Prep Your Couch. Get your couch ready for grooming by using a clean and dry white hand towel or washcloth to brush the entire piece of furniture, breaking up any dried-on spots and removing any bits that have made homes of nooks and crannies. You can also use a stiff brush for this step. Avoid using any colored towels or sponges, as the dye may alter the color of your couch.


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Wonder Workshop, maker of robots Dash and Dot that use coding skills to make them move, light up, dance and speak, is launching its second national ad campaign to coincide with the holiday season.
Developed with agency Hub Strategy and Communications, the creative centers on the concept of the Tiger Mom, a parent who pushes her child to excel academically above all else. In one spot, an ambitious mom brags about her child's coding skills learned in Switzerland while her friend looks on with amusement and suggests instead she use the robot to teach coding skills. The spot ends with the girl saying "mom, that looks fun" with the mom responding, "That is what makes it wrong honey."
"There are a whole bunch of parents out there that want their kids to be the best at everything—they're called tiger parents. So we created a 'tiger parent interventionist' as our spokesperson," says DJ O'Neil, co-creative director, Hub. "In our TV and radio, the tiger parent interventionist approaches the tiger parents and offers Dash the robot as a nice solution. Dash teaches the kids to code while they are actually playing and having fun. So, you get a win for the tiger parent, and a win for the kid."
The integrated campaign - consisting of television, streaming radio, and digital components - will run nationally with a particular focus in San Francisco, Austin, Minneapolis, Nashville, Seattle and Boston. The digital portion of the campaign launched on September 19, 2016 and included a custom partnership with Ellen DeGeneres, She Knows Media, and ABC Freeform. TV and streaming radio debuted on October 31, 2016 and includes women-friendly stations such as ABC Family, HGTV, Bravo, USA, and Lifetime. The campaign will finish its run on December 25, 2016.
The Hub first started working with Wonder Workshop in June. In late July, the San Mateo, CA-based start-up raised a Series B round of $20 million. Introduced in 2014, Dash & Dot robots are used in more than 8,000 elementary school classrooms, and are sold in six major retailers in the U.S. and Canada including Apple stores, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Target, Toys R Us and Amazon, in addition to the Wonde
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Basically leaving the Economy and society with a tremendous debt load even as net energy dwindles.
As the net energy (available\ exergy) supplied to the economy declines the economy slows, and its ability to service its existing debt declines. When it reached the point (around 2012) where it could no longer cover those debt service costs with its organic growth the central banks stepped in, and created the additional currency. If they hadn't there would have been massive defaults. Depending upon whom you read that was at least $16 trillion, or 28% of all currency in circulation. Since the 28% of additional currency created wasn't in conjunction with the production of goods and services it deformed the system's true pricing mechanism.
Since consumption was inadequate to absorb the 28% of additional currency (the goods and services were never created to be consumed) the additional currency created poured into assets. Land, the stock/ bond market, and commodities absorbed the inflation created, and did it outside the CPI. It is hardly surprising to find that the points on the oil/ GDP curve are floating away from their historical correlation.
Because the net energy supplied to the economy from petroleum is not going to be improving (it will only continue to decline) the central banks will have to keep creating money from nothing for there to be enough currency in circulation for the existing debt to be serviced. True price discovery will be further eroded until the system no longer functions. The present currency expansion method selectively transfers the newly created funds which leaves the majority of the economy out of the process. The poor get poorer faster than the rich get richer, which subsequently results in a contracting economy. With no other options available to the central banks, QE4 and additional rate reductions are now baked into the process.
We are watching the failure of the monetary system as it attempts to compensate for fossil fuels decline. Because the monetary system operates on references relative to each other, an energy approach is the only way to project the outcome.


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Actress Nia Long is engaged to Ime Udoka, her boyfriend of five years! Long, known for her role in Boyz n the Hood, stirred up engagement rumors when she was spotted wearing an engagement ring on her left ring finger recently.
She's been mum about the exciting news, but a source close to her cleared up any confusion yesterday, confirming to Us Weekly that Long is engaged to the former NBA player and San Antonio Spurs assistant coach. Though she hasn't shown off a close-up look at her rock, it looks like an emerald-cut diamond on a pave band.
See more: Which Celebrity Couple Is Getting Married Next?
Long has spent most of her life building up her career in Hollywood, something she told Rolling Out in 2013 got in the way of her personal life. "I think that women who are extremely driven to success, ambitious, I think they get to a point in their lives where they're like, 'Uh oh. I am 30-something years old, and I don't have a husband and I don't have children yet and what does that mean?'" she told the magazine.
Though she has a three-year-old with Udoka named Kez and another son from a previous relationship, this will be her first marriage. "I think what it means is stay in your course because it's going to happen when it's supposed to happen," she told Rolling Out. "It doesn't happen for everyone at the same time, so you can't compare your life to someone else's."


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Discussion in 'News' started by suxxer, Jan 18, 2012.
Interesting report, but......copyright??
Ah, yes, sorry.
Copyright: Goldman Sachs
Source: Goldman Sachs
Found it online - so credits fly out to the supplier
Thanks suxxer hadn't seen it before.
Thank you for posting this GS analysis. As it is now year end 2012, targets look to have been pretty accurate.
52wk Range: 22.64 - 39.95
looks like more questioning Tesla's financial viability: Why Tesla will need more loans to make it through 2013 - Autoblog
It's just an ABG article using the MarketWatch article in the WSJ. It uses old data to make false conclusions. Actually quite silly if you think about it.
can not agree more:biggrin:
Year old data. The stock will go through the roof when Tesla unveils the Gen III prototype. I would love to see Tesla's plan for production targets and revenue forecasts. With a base price around $35K and the average equipped price at $50K, they could see 60,000 reservations in the first year alone. I just hope they will have the ability to produce and deliver 60,000 to 100,000 of those puppies each year. I don't think the current distribution model will accommodate that volume.


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Excerpt from Kindfulness by Ajahn Brahm.
In this section, I'm going to introduce you in detail to the first part of kindfulness, present-moment awareness and breath meditation.
This kind of meditation unfolds in stages. You may wish to go briskly through the practices described in this little book, but be very careful if you do. If you pass too quickly through the initial steps of learning to meditate, you may find that the preparatory work has not been completed. It's like trying to build a house on a makeshift foundation—the structure goes up very quickly, but it may come down too soon! You would be wise to spend a lot of time making the groundwork and foundations solid. Then, if you decide proceed to the higher stories of the House of the Buddha, they will be stable.
After you've spent enough time with the kindfulness practices in this book that these become stable, solid, and deeply a part of yourself, you may wish to explore the teachings of the jhanas. My book Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond is a great place to start that exploration. But there's no need to hurry—the practices of kindfulness in this book can be thoroughly transformative in themselves.
Kindfulness is good in the beginning,
good in the middle,
good in the end.
stage one
Come to the Present
When I teach meditation, I like to begin at the simple stage of giving up the baggage of past and future. You may think that this is an easy thing to do, but it is not. Abandoning the past means not thinking about your work, your family, your commitments, your responsibilities, your good or bad times in childhood, and so on. You abandon all past experiences by showing no interest in them at all.
During meditation you become
someone who has no history.
It becomes unimportant whether you are
an old hand at meditation
or just a beginner.
As a person of no-history, you do not think about where you live, where you were born, who your parents were, or what your upbringing was like. All of that history you renounce. In this way, if you are meditating with others, everyone becomes equal—just a meditator.
If we abandon all that history, we are equal and free. We free ourselves of some of the concerns, perceptions, and thoughts that limit us, that stop us from developing the peace born of letting go. Every part of our history is finally released, even the memory of what happened just a moment ago. Whatever has happened no longer interests us, and we let it go.
Mind Like a Padded Cell
I describe meditation as developing a mind like a padded cell. When any experience, perception, or thought hits the wall of this cell, it does not bounce back. It no longer reverberates in our mind. It just sinks into the padding and stops. The past does not echo in our consciousness. Some people think that if they contemplate the past, they can somehow learn from it and solve their problems. But when we gaze at the past we invariably look through a distorted lens. Whatever we think it was like, in truth it was not quite like that at all! This is why people argue about what happened even a few moments ago.
It is well known to police who investigate traffic accidents that two different eyewitnesses, both completely honest, may give conflicting accounts of the same accident. When we see just how unreliable our memory is, we will not overvalue the past. We can bury it, just as we bury a person who has died. We bury the coffin or cremate the corpse, and it is done with. When we sit down to meditation, we do the same with our history.
Do not linger on the past.
Do not keep carrying around coffins
full of dead moments. If you do,
you weigh yourself down with
heavy burdens that do not really
belong to you. When you let go
of the past, you will be free in the
present moment.


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Stay safe on the river this weekend
With the long weekend almost here, residents are reminded to stay safe when enjoying the Red Deer River.
With the long weekend almost here, residents are reminded to stay safe when enjoying the Red Deer River.
It may have just gotten a bit easier to get to know your neighbours.
Doors are being thrown wide open to residents interested in learning more about local innovation in decentralized energy – energy produced close to where it is used – with the third annual Alberta Green Energy Doors Open, starting this Friday.
Members of the public are invited to attend a Community BBQ and Open House at Red Deer Emergency Services Station 5.
Expect minor delays on Taylor Drive between 19 Street and 22 Street as crews work to upgrade this stretch of roadway to prepare for commercial expansion at Southpointe Junction.
Volunteers will hit the streets October 19 to talk to persons experiencing homelessness, in order to gather important information that will help identify trends and key issues as part of an effort to end homelessness.
Red Deerians are asked to clear out their bookshelves starting on National Literacy Day, September 8, as part of a book drive aimed at continuing to provide free books to everyone riding Red Deer Transit.
Red Deer & District Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) released its 2015 Annual Report, entitled "Stone Soup – A Recipe for Community."
The public is invited to join Red Deer Emergency Services and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for a Memorial March ceremony on Sunday, September 11, 2016.
Galbraith pedestrian bridge, which crosses the Waskasoo Creek close to the Red Deer River in Galbraith Park, will be closed starting Wednesday for replacement.
Commercial building permits showed an increase for August 2016 compared to the same month last year.
If you're looking to try a new sport or learn more about the many sport opportunities in Red Deer, join us at the annual XPlore Sport Day Saturday, September 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Collicutt Centre, 3031 - 30 Avenue.
There will be a special Red Deer City Council meeting on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 in Council Chambers.
If you are interested in shaping our city, we have several opportunities open to sit on one of our boards, committees or commissions which directly contribute to the decisions made by City Council.
The City of Red Deer, Red Deer College (RDC) and the Recycling Council of Alberta (RCA) have teamed up to set food free and will be serving up a free lunch at Feed 500 Red Deer on September 22.
Bike, walk, carpool or take free City transit on Thursday, September 22, as Red Deer celebrates World Car Free Day.
Red Deerians are encouraged to discover, experience and celebrate the arts during Alberta Culture Days, happening September 30 to October 2, 2016.
Mayor Veer is reframing the discussion about the heavily debated energy east pipeline during a senate standing committee meeting for transport and communication in Edmonton today on behalf of Red Deer City Council.
The City of Red Deer wants to know how to transform Centennial Park Plaza into a sustainable space that connects people and places in our community, while ensuring it is a safe and accessible space that people want to visit and use.
In a celebration of collaboration today, the 2019 Canada Winter Games Host Society, The City of Red Deer and Red Deer College signed a Partnership Agreement for the 2019 Canada Winter Games.
More than 800 kilograms of food was rescued and transformed into a delicious feast today at Feed 500 Red Deer.
The City of Red Deer is pleased to announce the launch of the Rising Sport Stars program to recognize the dedication and efforts of local young athletes.
The deadline is fast approaching for interested candidates to submit an application to serve on one of the local boards, committees or commissions which directly contribute to the decisions that shape our community.
Red Deerians and Central Albertans who are deaf, deafened, have hearing loss or speech impairments (communication challenged) can now communicate with 911 using mobile devices through the Text with 911 service.
The 67 Street / 30 Avenue roundabout will fully open to traffic on Wednesday, September 28 by 9 a.m.
Today, City Council considered first reading of the Riverlands Area Redevelopment Plan (ARP) and Land Use Bylaw that will enable The City to create a sustainable, vibrant and authentic mixed use neighbourhood in Red Deer's downtown.
As residents clean up their yards this fall, they're reminded that what goes on their lawns – or spills off them – will end up in the Red Deer River, untreated.
Education, prevention, intervention and enforcement are the focus of a new Community Safety Strategy that was approved by City Council today.


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David Gould loves making pottery and teaching pottery. David is a 1988 graduate of Northwestern University with a B.S.S. in Speech and an area of concentration in Art. He also studied at UNC-CH for two years in the masters program of The Department of Speech Communication, where
he taught Public Speaking. David is the co-owner/director of Good Earth & Pottery in Chapel Hill, NC with his wife Suzanne Gould. He enjoyed making pottery as a child, collecting "Indian Clay" from down the creek behind his parent's house in Cincinnati, Ohio. These days he is experimenting with local orange clay found under your feet from Orange County, NC. His official time started with a classical apprenticeship in Sweden in 1979. After that beginning time, David also worked in Norway, Crete, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seagroves, and finally Calvander, NC. David has been making pottery/ceramics for 30 years now, and teaching for over 20 years. David taught a variety of adult classes for Northwestern, Duke, UNC-CH, The Carrboro ArtsCenter, and The Woods Charter School. He also enjoyed teaching children's ESL classes in Sweden and Crete. David taught second graders as Helen Maxwell's assistant for two years at Carrboro Elementary and fourth graders as Meg Millard's assistant at Frank Porter Graham. For the last twenty years, David has enjoyed teaching over 1,000 children and hundreds of adults through classes at the ArtsCenter, CHCCS Middle School Face Jug Workshops with Hollie Novak & Missy Valentine, Elementary NC Face Jug Workshops with Janet Oldham at McDougle Elementary, and Suzanne Gould at Hillsborough Elementary, and at Kidzu, sponsored by The Chapel Hill Arts Commission. In 2011 David enjoyed teaching 4th graders at Efland-Cheeks mini-pots with Victoria Frisch. David also does NC Face Jug Workshops at his own studio, Good Earth Pottery & Garden. Over the years, David has also done a variety of workshops for a host of organizations including: Duke Classics Department, Doris Duke Gardens, UNC-CH Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs, The Ackland Art Museum, and The Beijing Royal School. We can do one for you!
Suzanne Gould teaches some classes, occasionally. When necessary we do have other substitute teachers fill in who have been trained at the studio for several years. Suzanne is a retired public art teacher with twenty-five years of experience. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, has been Teacher of the Year at Phillips Middle School, and was the Lead Art Teacher for the Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools. She is now offering private art lessons to senior high students interested in an art portfolio building opportunity.
Space is limited, so call 919-918-3848 today to reserve your bag of clay and seat in class. Your place in class is secure only if you have paid. Please pay by check two weeks advance of your class. Current class members receive first choice for the classes only if they pay two weeks in advance of the next session.
Make-ups are scheduled only during current term. Mid-term enrollments are possible. Tuition includes Open Studio, which is an additional 3 hours of studio time for currently enrolled adults on most Sundays from 2-5, or in another adult class, space permitting. Unlike most other studios, our Open Studio time is instructional and you are supported and can improve your skills. Pottery class size is usually 6-7 students. This 6-7-person class size provides for a nice group dynamic while retaining individual attention. You provide the individual initiative and projects, while David provides technical and thoughtful support. Relaxing clay time offers you a chance to unwind and have fun.
"I look forward to helping you realize your unique, delightful goals. I hope you understand ceramics is an organic science, and there is great variability in the process. Some pieces may crack, and sometimes the glazes have unexpected results, but I hope you will enjoy the overall experience. I try to be thoroughly kind and supportive to each individual in the studio, and expect the same enjoyable attitude from all the students. Students who repeatedly engage in teasing, an overly critical attitude, or are otherwise non-respectful will be asked to be more respectful or be asked to discontinue classes. Thank-you!" - David Gould
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