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PLEASANTON, CA, US, - NeoTract, Inc., today announced that the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued an Interventional Procedure Guidance (IPG) approving the UroLift prostatic urethral lift implant for use by UK doctors. The NICE guidance was made following consultations with independent clinical experts and a literature review.
NICE says: "The specialist advisers listed key efficacy outcomes as symptom improvement, improvement in quality of life, reducing or stopping medical therapy [drug therapy], flow improvement, reduction in residual volume and maintenance of sexual and ejaculatory function".
The NICE IPG means that UK urologists will be able to routinely offer the novel UroLift system to their patients for the first time outside of a clinical trial. The implants are used to treat BPH – a condition caused by an enlarged prostate that begins to obstruct the urinary system. The condition is common, affecting over 40% of men over 50 years of age. BPH symptoms can include urgency, hesitation, straining, dribbling, incomplete emptying (the sensation that the bladder is not empty after urinating), weak urine flow, increased frequency of urination, nocturia, dysuria, and depression resulting in a decreased quality of life.
Patients receiving the UroLift implants report rapid symptomatic improvement, increased urinary flow rates, and preserved sexual function. A significant improvement in Quality of Life for patients was also observed. Unlike the traditional treatment options for enlarged prostates that require administration of a spinal or a general anesthetic, the minimally invasive procedure to insert the UroLift implants typically lasts no more than an hour, can be carried out using local anesthesia and the patient is able to go home shortly afterwards; the procedure provides rapid, significant relief with lower risk.
Mr Neil Barber, Consultant Urologist at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey says: "Up to now, men with BPH have had two pretty unattractive options - either lifelong drug treatment which is less effective than surgery and has possible side effects including sexual dysfunction, dizziness and headaches, or cutting away parts of the prostate - known as TURP - that is really good at relieving BPH symptoms but has a significant chance of causing permanent dry orgasms and erection problems, and a small chance of developing urinary incontinence. That's not much of a choice. Many men I see in clinic are, understandably, very nervous of having TURP - they may be older but they are men - so whatever their age, they don't want to have an operation which may make them feel less of a man. [The] UroLift [implant] involves retracting and holding back the enlarged prostate so it's gentler than TURP with minimal side effects and it's more effective than drugs. I think it's a really exciting, game changing treatment for men. UroLift [implants] add another option in the armamentarium for some men and is particularly useful in those who want to quickly return to their normal activities and preserve sexual function."
Urologist Professor Tom McNicholas, who works at the London Clinic and Spire Hospital, Harpenden, as well as in the NHS, has been involved since the start of the project. He says: "Several leading UK surgeons have been using UroLift [implants] for a while now. But there are always difficulties in introducing a new idea and it's reassuring and encouraging that NICE have rigorously assessed [the] UroLift [system treatment] and regard it as both safe and effective. We now hope to use UroLift more widely in the NHS and in the private sector now that
NICE has supported it. I have been involved in an NHS pilot research study on the UroLift device because we saw that, aside from the clinical value of the procedure, there were savings and efficiencies that could be achieved by reduced bed stays for this day case procedure- compared to the other, more invasive surgical procedures that are available. I am looking forward to offering it to my NHS patients because UroLift [implants] improve symptoms whilst preserving men's sexual function and these are worthwhile and important outcomes."
Mr Mark Speakman, Consultant Urologist at Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital, says: "The UroLift [prostatic implant] procedure is a middle ground option for men sitting between drug treatment and surgical transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). The problem of drug treatment is compliance - men aren't good at taking drugs - and the problem with TURP is the potential side effects, including ejaculatory problems. UroLift [implantation] beats drugs on efficacy and TURP on side effects. Many men have contacted us wanting UroLift, and the
announcement will make life easier for British surgeons who want to offer it."
"Receiving NICE interventional procedure guidance is another huge milestone for UroLift® and NeoTract." commented Dave Amerson, president and CEO of NeoTract. "We are extremely pleased to bring our innovative UroLift System to more physicians and patients in the U.K. as we believe it will make a significant difference in the lives of aging men."
About BPH and the UroLift Implant Treatment
BPH is a common condition afflicting more than 500 million ageing men worldwide. Chronic lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) associated with BPH can cause loss of productivity and sleep, depression and decreased quality of life. Medication is often the first line therapy but relief can be inadequate and temporary. Side-effects can include sexual dysfunction, dizziness and headaches, prompting many patients to quit using the drugs. For these patients, the classic alternative is surgery that cuts or heats prostate tissue to open the blocked urethra. Although effective, patients have to 'earn' their symptom relief after a difficult period of irritative voiding symptoms and catheterization. Even the 'gold standard' surgery, TURP (Transurethral Resection of the Prostate), can leave patients with permanent side effects such as urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction and retrograde ejaculation (dry orgasm).
The UroLift System is designed to open the urethra directly without applying incisions, surgical resection or thermal injury to the prostate. Obstructive prostate lobes are transurethrally pushed aside and small permanent UroLift implants hold the lobes in the retracted position, thus opening the urethra while leaving the prostate intact. Learn more at www.UroLift.com.
The UroLift System is currently available for patients in Europe, Australia and Canada and was FDA approved in 2013.
About NeoTract
NeoTract, Inc. is dedicated to developing innovative, minimally invasive and clinically effective devices that address unmet needs in the field of urology. Our initial focus is on improving the standard of care for patients with BPH using the UroLift System, a minimally invasive permanent device designed to treat lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Learn more at www.NeoTract.com.
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WASHINGTON – Production of pure cocaine in Colombia declined by 25 percent in the last year, according to a U.S. government survey of drug production.
Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said Monday that potential cocaine production in the South American country has dropped by 72 percent since 2001. Colombia now ranks third, behind Peru and Bolivia, in production of pure cocaine, he said.
"Potential production of pure cocaine in Colombia is down to 195 metric tons (in 2011) from 700 metric tons in 2001, the lowest production potential level since 1994 and the first time since 1995 that Colombia is producing less cocaine than either Peru of Bolivia," Kerlikowske said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime released an estimate last week that Colombia could produce 345 metric tons of cocaine in 2011.
Kerlikowske' s office said the drop in Colombia cocaine production has coincided with a decline in U.S. cocaine overdose deaths, positive workplace drug tests, the purity of cocaine available for street purchase and domestic cocaine seizures.
"Let me add some context to these results. They didn't happen overnight, there was a sustained effort requiring nearly a decade of steady, strategic pressure across more than one administration in both the United States and Colombia.
Kerlikowske said the decline in production is largely the result of Plan Colombia, a $7.5 billion U.S.-backed effort launched in 1999 to help the Colombian government crack down on a left-wing insurgency and drug organizations.
"The results are historic and have tremendous implications, not just for the United States and the Western Hemisphere, really globally," Kerlikowske said.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos said the decline is part of his country's overall strategy of cutting off funding sources for drug traffickers. Speaking in the town of Rio Negro, north of Bogota, Colombia, he said it was good news that Colombia is now third in cocaine production.
Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said the government is also making strides in seizing cocaine, pointing to the confiscation of about 300 tons of the drug in the last two years.
U.S. Ambassador Michael McKinley told El Tiempo newspaper that "the numbers demonstrate historic advances in ending the fight against drugs in Colombia."
Speaking Monday, Kerlikowske said while the decline in Colombian production is a positive development, it is not a sign that powerful and deadly drug cartels are going out of business. Instead, he said, these groups, including those waging a drug war against each other and the government in Mexico, will "turn to anything illegal that makes money."
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You know those packages that say, "Do not open until Christmas"? If you tend to avoid resolutions until the actual first of the year, then eat, drink and be merry tonight, and save this column for tomorrow.
It's New Year's resolution time again, and I'm making the same one I make every year (sigh), to lose those extra pounds. And how I would love to implement my resolve at, say, the world-renowned Golden Door spa, pampered in the epitome of luxury with world-class chefs lavishing me with nutritious, satisfying, and glorious meals.
Ain't gonna happen.
With the tight economy affecting travel plans, more and more Americans are choosing a staycation instead of a vacation – you know, donning bathing suit, sunglasses, and a wide-brimmed hat for a luxurious loll in the backyard.
I'm spending my staycation at home with the help of the new "Golden Door Cooks at Home" cookbook (Clarkson Potter, $40) by executive chef Dean Rucker with food writer Marah Stets.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Golden Door with resort spas in Escondido, California, as well as throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
"It used to be that the term 'spa food' evoked images of unadorned dishes without flavor or flair, created to contain as few calories and as little fat as possible without regard for how enjoyable it was to actually eat them," writes chef Rucker.
No longer. The emphasis now is on a healthy diet and portion control. "And this is made far easier when the food is both delicious and filling," he says.
Chicken and Scallion Potstickers with Chili Lime Sauce. Pan Roasted Lobster with Basil Potato Puree. Moroccan Spice-Rubbed Lamb Loin with Chickpeas, Feta, and Olives. Warm Flourless Chocolate Cake with Orange Sauce.
Spa food? Hardly.
In addition to these appetite-pleasing dishes, chef Rucker offers tips throughout for enhancing flavor, plus sidebars on mindful eating, meditation and fitness as well as nutritional information for every dish. And did I mention the gorgeous photos?
With cooler days upon us (oh, will our California winters never cease), soup is a wonderful choice – so filling and satisfying.
Thai Coconut Vegetable Soup calls for light coconut milk, red curry paste, sweet potato and pineapple. Talk about flavor. Truffled Mushroom Soup with Popped Wild Rice caught my eye. I've never thought of popping wild rice, but why not? Heat a tablespoon of grapeseed or canola oil in a small skillet, add two tablespoons of uncooked wild rice and shake the uncovered pan until most of the rice has puffed up and split open. Drain on paper towels. Add chives, salt and pepper when cool for a crunchy garnish for any soup.
I love roasted peppers, and the Roasted Poblano, Corn and Potato Soup sounds irresistible. "Spicy, smoky and creamy, this soup is boldly flavored yet comfortingly smooth and rich," says chef Rucker.
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From "Golden Door Cooks at Home" by Dean Rucker
Grapeseed or canola oil spray
1 large onion, diced (1 1/2 cups)
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon dried oregano
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
1 pound russet or Yukon Gold Potatoes, peeled and sliced
4 to 5 cups homemade chicken or vegetable stock or store-bought low sodium broth
1 1/2 cups corn kernels
2 poblano chiles, roasted, peeled, seeded and diced or 1 can (4 ounces) green chiles, drained and diced
1/2 cup light sour cream
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
1. Spray a large saucepan; heat over medium-low heat. Add onion and cook, stirring, until translucent but not brown, 4 to 5 minutes. Stir in chili powder, cumin, oregano, and salt, and cook, stirring, for 20 seconds. Add potatoes and stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, partially covered, until potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
2. Spray a medium skillet and heat over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking. Add corn and cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, about 3 minutes.
3. Transfer potato mixture to blender and process until smooth, in batches if necessary. Return soup to saucepan, stir in chiles and corn, bring back to simmer, and remove pan from heat. Whisk in sour cream and chopped cilantro. Serve hot. Serves 6


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"You are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me. I, even I, am the LORD, and there is no savior besides Me. It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, and there was no strange god among you; so you are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "and I am God. Even from eternity I am He, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"
We are in a living relationship with the only God there is!
"Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me," He says. "There is no savior besides Me." Have you ever let that soak into your consciousness? There is only one God, who is above everything, and you know Him personally! He has "chosen" you to know Him. He acts and no one can reverse it, and you know Him!
Not only do you know Him on a casual basis, but He has adopted you. He is your Father. He wants you to live on that basis—to love Him with all your heart and to depend on His love for you. There is nothing else worth living for.
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Reclaiming Antimonopoly for Racial and Economic Justice
The burgeoning movement to rein in Amazon shows how antimonopoly can democratize power.
All those millions that CEOs and hedge fund managers have grabbed over recent decades? Our current tax code won't let us grab them back.
By Sam Pizzigati
Can a democracy survive if the richest of the rich within it can pass on to their heirs, generation after generation, the vast bulk of their fortunes?
In the United States, that question first became a top-tier topic of political debate back over a century ago. Fortunes of almost unimaginable size were then towering over the nation's economic landscape. These huge fortunes, Americans feared, could easily become the building blocks for a new aristocracy, for financial dynasties that could leave America's democracy a dead letter.
How could average Americans prevent that ruin? The nation needed, more and more Americans came to agree, to tax — and tax heavily — the fortunes the super rich bequeathed to their heirs.
America, President Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1906, must place "a constantly increasing burden on the inheritance of those swollen fortunes which it is certainly of no benefit to this country to perpetuate."
A decade later, Congress began to put that burden in place. Lawmakers enacted a federal tax on the grand estates the rich left behind at death, and this new estate tax would eventually have steady support in the White House, from Republicans and Democrats alike.
Vast "inherited economic power," as Franklin D. Roosevelt opined in 1935, "is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our Government."[pullquote]A dozen years ago, America's political leaders took it upon themselves to start hacking away at the federal estate tax.[/pullquote]
Any society that tolerates a "fabulously wealthy" class, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower would add a generation later in 1960, is asking for trouble.
"Since time began," Ike reminded America, "opulence has too often paved for a nation the way to depravity and ultimate destruction."
Depravity here we come. A dozen years ago, America's political leaders took it upon themselves to start hacking away at the federal estate tax. The last-minute budget deal struck at the end of 2010 extended — and deepened — that hacking.
Our latest last-minute federal budget deal — the "fiscal cliff" bargain reached right on the eve of 2013 — has now locked all that hacking in place. Our rich today can now do exactly what Republican Teddy Roosevelt warned us against. They can easily "perpetuate" their "swollen fortunes."
The ease of this perpetuating hasn't come across in most news accounts of the fiscal cliff deal. These accounts typically note that the deal allows a wealthy person to leave behind, tax-free, the same $5 million that the 2010 tax deal wrote into the tax code. But this $5 million figure only hints at the huge free pass America's lawmakers have handed America's most awesomely affluent.
That $5 million, for starters, gets adjusted annually for inflation. In 2013, this adjustment will up the exemption to $5.25 million. This $5.25 million, in turn, only applies per spouse. A couple will this year be able to totally exempt from estate taxation $10.5 million. [pullquote]The rich can 'gift' their way to ever greater estate tax exemptions.[/pullquote]
Even this arithmetic doesn't tell the full story.
Decades ago, Congress realized that dynastic fortunes would flourish if the rich could avoid estate tax liability at death by giving away, while they were still living, the bulk of their fortunes to heirs. The solution: the gift tax, a federal levy on substantial transfers of cash and other assets.
The gift tax and the estate tax have worked in tandem. The substantial gifts the wealthy give to their heirs during their lifetimes get subtracted from the total allowable estate tax exemption. In 2013, a wealthy couple that has bestowed $2 million in gifts will only get to exempt, at death, another $8.5 million.
Or so the tax theory goes. In reality, the rich can "gift" their way to a much greater estate tax exemption. In 2013, the gift tax will only kick in when a single wealthy person gives a single individual more than $14,000 within a single year.
A wealthy couple, under this lucrative loophole, can together give $28,000 a year to as many individuals the two spouses choose, for as many years as they want, and face not one penny of gift tax.
Consider, for instance, a Wall Street exec with two grown children and four grandchildren. This exec and spouse can gift $168,000 a year to their six nearest and dearest without paying any taxes at all on the gift.
And those six nearest and dearest? They don't have to pay a penny of personal income tax on any of that $168,000. They don't even have to report the $168,000 on their tax returns. Nor will these six heirs face any taxes on — or even have to report — the additional mega millions they'll eventually inherit.
We're letting, in other words, our grandest fortunes swell without any reasonable limit. Our progressive forbears didn't accept that swelling. Neither should we.
Veteran labor journalist Sam Pizzigati, an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, writes widely about inequality. His latest book, The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, has just been published.


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Thirty grand prix points were up for grabs at the Spring Viking Deluxe held last weekend at the Dean Chess Academy held in Branchburg, NJ. IMs Bryan Smith, Justin Sarkar and Dean Ippolito tied for first with 3.5/4 each. Twenty-six players attended the top-heavy event, which included seven 2200+ players. The event was run by Ken Thomas.
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"A university lecturer, huh? So, how much do you make?"
I almost choked on my wine, narrowly avoiding showering my shirt with red droplets . In the UK, where I lived at the time, this was a question you would never, ever ask – even your best friend. And yet, the cute girl from abroad had no qualms about it, although we had only just met. I managed to slip away at the first chance I got, rattled by what I perceived as a regrettable lack of manners.
A Confident Friend
I was reminded of this when I recently fell out with a good friend. She is the kind of person who enjoys announcing her worth to the world. She will tweet about her book daily, and promote it to everyone who'll listen.
I, on the other hand, immediately shy away from anything remotely seen as blowing my own trumpet. Indeed, in my mind, doing so only reveals one's insecurities. Naturally, her behavior made me shake my head, and one day I told her as much.
"That's a terrible thing to say," she said, obviously shocked. "I am a strong, confident woman. I believe in me and my work, and have worked hard to get where I am today. Why shouldn't I be proud of my achievements?"
There's no real answer to that, I realized, and I could see that she meant every word. It also dawned on me just how much my cultural references have to do with my reaction to her boisterous nature. My upbringing can be summed up nicely in the words of Lord Chesterfield, 4th Earl of Stanhope, as written to his son back in 1748:
Above all things, and upon all occasions, avoid speaking of yourself, if it be possible… Never imagine that anything you can say yourself will varnish your defects, or add lustre to your perfections. But, on the contrary, it may—and nine times in ten will—make the former more glaring and the latter obscure. If you are silent upon your own subject, neither envy, indignation, nor ridicule will obstruct or allay the applause, which you may really deserve. But if you publish your own panegyric upon any occasion, or in any shape whatsoever, and however artfully dressed or disguised, they will all conspire against you, and you will be disappointed.
Texas Vs. Europe
So, was Lord Chesterfield wrong and my friend right? Or was it the other way around?
Neither is the case. We are both the product of our upbringing, and we mirror the values of the societies in which we have been brought up. My very European outlook towards things seemed to her, a fiery Texan, incomprehensible. How could I market my books if I didn't believe in them or in myself? She could not understand why I would never speak of my achievements, being instead happy to let others steal the spotlight.
Likewise, her own behavior signified insecurity to me. I could not understand her constant need to promote herself; to shout to the world, "I'm worthy." Having no interest in doing so myself, I frowned mentally whenever she did that. From my point of view, someone who is truly confident in their own worth, feels no need to prove it.
Ironically enough, this attitude of mine was a sign of insecurity to her, whereas to me it was one of self-confidence.
Just Ask the Chinese
A major influence in my life – cultural reference if you wish – has been the Tao Te Ching (you may remember how I've even translated it into Greek and give away my translation for free, just so that more people can benefit from reading it).
Anyway, Taoists have this lovely concept called Wei Wu Wei. Translated literally, it means, do without doing. It signifies that people should go with the flow instead of forcing a situation, and advises against going against the nature of things.
My own nature is one of helping others rather than blowing my own trumpet. If I try to promote myself, it comes across as awkward; unlike my friend, who is able to effortlessly combine confident self-promotion with helping others. Therefore, my marketing is focused on three simple principles:
- Be real,
- be fun,
- be helpful.
If you do that, people will buy your books simply because they will like you and will want to support you. In other words, "if people like what you're saying, they'll buy what you're selling."
More importantly, though, if you're like me, you'll be able to market your work and your brand without mentally cringing every time you send a tweet or hit "post." And that is something even more important than making a sale!
And your friend?
As for my friend and me, after a series of long conversations we came to realize just how much our cultural references define us, and what an impact they had in our relationships. And I'm glad that we finally managed to overcome this misunderstanding and understand how we each see the world, respecting each other's outlook.
So, if you're comfortable promoting yourself, do so. As for me, I'll keep following my marketing strategy, as I'm still uncomfortable blowing my own trumpet. Or discussing my income with strangers, for that matter…
While making up your mind as to the strategy that appeals to you, why not read my children's book, Runaway Smile, for free?


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UnBooks:The Sun
Whoops! Perhaps you look for The Sun or The Sun (comic)?
UnBooks:The Sun written by Ug about sun. Sun good. Oook. Sun make light for day.
Chapter 1: An introduction to the Sun[edit]
Sun good. Sun big ball of fire in sky. Fire baaad. But sun good. Sun not close like fire. Sun warms. Sun no kill unless you stupid. Sun burn like fire. Sun burn slowly, fire burn fastly. Sun older than me. Sun older than you. Oooook. Sun discovered by Ug's great-grandfather Grug 42 years ago. Grug great astronomer. He also discover night sun. But enough about Ug's family. More about sun.Sun have baby head inside of it that smiles at you.
Chapter 2: What the sun does[edit]
Sun make light and warm. Make Ug happy. Sun can burn. Make you red. Oook. Wear sunscreen. Sunscreen make you no burn. Sun help make fire with magnifying glass. Sun make energy. Used with solar cells. Solar cells good. Make Ug able to watch cable TV. TV good to Ug. Ug like Jerry Springer. But Ug digest. Sun lots of inside nuclear reactions all the time. Nuclear reactions make sun work. Working sun good. Unworking sun very bad. That mean no light for day. No light for day mean plants die. No plants mean no herbal viagra. Ug cannot get it up without herbal viagra. So sun work, and everything good.
Chapter 3: Harmful effects of the sun[edit]
Sun can burn and make red. Sunscreen helps. Sun also make heat. Too much heat bad. Ook. Heat kill me father. Heat make water go away. Makes drought. Ug need water to live. Sun hates water. Sun bad. Sun give Uglina unhealthy tan. Oprah says unhealthy tans bad. Uglina should listen to Oprah. Sun have magnetic problem. Magnets mess up Ug's Tivo. Ug no able record CSI: Miami. Ug like CSI. Ug sad he no able watch CSI. Uh oh. Ug digress again. Too much sun give you skin cancer. Skin cancer very bad. CDC newsletter say skin cancer bad. But Ug no plagiarize from CDC newsletter. Plagiarism bad. Oook. Sun also burn out in many years. But that not for long time. Lucky Ug, Ug no be around when sun dies. But you might. Oook.
Chapter 4: Beneficial effects of the sun[edit]
Sun give Ug's cousin Chug good tan. Tan give vitamins to skin. Skin good. Oook. Sun give tans. Chicks dig tans. If Ug not married, Ug get sexy tan for ladies to ogle. Ug wish for annulment. Ug no like bitch of a wife who nags Ug to stop watching Wrestlemania and come to bed. Nag woman bad. But sun good. Oook. Sun also make Ug be able to call hole in roof of car a sunroof. That save Ug a lot of bitching from Uglina. Ug no like bitching and nagging. Bitching and nagging very bad. Ook.
Closing Remarks[edit]
Ug happy to write book for make knowledge. Ug like to thank Chug for idea, and Uglina for sticking along with Ug throughout. Ug congratulate editor for fixing grammar errors. Book no have more errors. No errors good. Ug also thank God for showing Ug light. But not sun's light, metaphorical light. Metaphorical light good for soul.
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Lurie has in DAG XI a definition (given below) of a Nisnevich cover for arbitrary commutative rings, which reduces to the usual one for Noetherian rings. It boils down to being a etale covering family admitting local sections over a different, finite, cover of a particular sort. In particular, we can assume wlog it is a finite etale family. The usual definition of a Nisnevich cover of schemes uses the (locally) Noetherian assumption and I would like to translate this into the Lurie style definition, but my algebraic geometry-foo is not up to scratch. This possibly is a simple question, but bear with me.
We will work initially in $Ring$, so that what we are describing is really a cocovering family, but the translation to $Aff = Ring^{op}$ is of course trivial. Consider the following definition:
Definition (Lurie) Let $R$ be a commutative ring. A (finite) etale covering family $\{\phi_\alpha : R \to R_\alpha\}$ is a Nisnevich covering if there is a finite sequence $a_1,\ldots,a_n\in R$ such that
- $(a_1,\ldots,a_n)$ is the unit ideal in $R$
- For each $1 \leq i \leq n$ there is an index $\alpha$ and a ring homomorphism $$\psi_i : R_\alpha \to R[a_i^{-1}]/(a_1,\ldots,a_{i-1})$$ such that $\psi_i\circ \phi_\alpha:R \to R[a_i^{-1}]/(a_1,\ldots,a_{i-1})$ is the canonical map to the quotient of the localisation.
When interpreted in $Aff$ the maps $\psi_i$ are just local sections of the etale maps $Spec R_\alpha \to Spec R$, for a given notion of 'local'.
What should the extension to non-affine schemes be?
My guess is that we just ask for an affine cover an then a Nisnevich cover of each affine, but I'm not sure of the subtleties.
I suspect we should be able to combine the maps $\psi_i$ into a single map
$$\coprod_i Spec R[a_i^{-1}]/(a_1,\ldots,a_{i-1}) \to \coprod_\alpha Spec R_\alpha,$$
which is a 'local' section of $\coprod_\alpha Spec R_\alpha \to Spec R$.
Can we describe the Nisnevich topology on schemes as being just etale covers which admit local sections over another sort of cover?


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Panel orders Morgan Stanley to pay $1.5 million to two brokers
An arbitration panel denied Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's request to claw back compensation from two brokers and, instead, awarded the brokers about $1.5 million.
Morgan Stanley's wealth management unit had asked the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel to make Jorge Antonia Carreras and Carlos Javier Molina repay funds paid to them under a promissory note agreement.
The brokers filed a counterclaim alleging the firm breached contracts related to commissions and bonuses and for negligent misrepresentation.
When the brokers were recruited to Morgan Stanley from Merrill Lynch, a significant part of the pitch was that they would be able to manage assets from their high-net-worth Latin and South American clients on Morgan Stanley's Swiss platform, said the brokers' lawyer Jacob Buchdahl, partner with Susman Godfrey LLP in New York.
The bank later decided to stop its New York brokers from using the Swiss platform, which caused "tremendous problems" for the brokers, Buchdahl said.
The panel concurred with the brokers and said that Morgan Stanley changed the work environment surrounding the Swiss platform and caused the brokers a significant loss in commissions.
The panel awarded Carreras $655,786 in compensatory damages. Molina was awarded $834,637.
The two brokers have since then moved to Barclays .
A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman declined to comment.
(Reporting by Jochelle Mendonca; Editing by Anil D'Silva)


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Catalyst 2009
- Catalyst Day One Getting Things Started and Andy Stanley
- Catalyst 2009 – Labs
- Catalyst Day One – Malcolm Gladwell
- Catalyst Day One – Rob Bell
- Catalyst Day One – Francis Chan
- Catalyst Day Two – Dave Ramsey, "The Momentum Theorem"
- Catalyst Day Two – Chuck Swindoll
- Catalyst Day Two wrapup – Andy Stanley
- Catalyst 2009 – Fun Stuff
One of the cool things of my Catalyst Experience was all the "fringe" stuff that went on during the two days of the main event. Everything from a helicopter dropping parachute men, to a live band at the doors, giveaways, some llamas (did I really see llamas?), a chalk artist outside, break-dancers, kids doing some mj moves, white football mayhem, party poppers, free books, twitter on the bigscreen, lanny donoho on leno experiment, "that'll leave a mark" video shorts, and of course…
Dr. Splash here
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Oh, and how could I forget Dude Perfect. They are using their platform to do great things! These are a group of college guys who do awesome shots with a basketball – witness below:


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There are a number of color palette generators out there, all with their own perks and special features. These are my top ones to go to because to me they're the simplest ones to experiment with and I get what I want the quickest.
When I need a good palette quickly, I mainly use Kuler to browse through ones created by others. I choose a few color palettes that stand out to me or fit my needs and then I just change them around a bit until I get what I want. You can also create your own color palette by selecting a color off the color wheel, and then choose from a list of categories to select what type of palette you want, like monochromatic or complementary. And if you want to mess with the colors, you can use the color sliders to adjust them.
I like Color Scheme Designer because I feel like it gives you more flexibility. You can choose a color, it will give you colors that go well with the one you've chosen based on how many you want in your palette, and then you can adjust the hue, saturation, lightness, and darkness of all the colors at once or just pick one to adjust that specific one. It will give you more variations of color too within that palette. And plus, it'll give you an example of how the color palette would appear on a light or dark website.
Color Blender is probably the simplest of the three. You choose one color such as maybe one from your logo and it will give you a six color palette that you can tweak to your liking. You get some flexibility with color sliders, and hue, saturation, and value options. They also have blends you can browse through too. It provides a quick and easy color generating experience.
All these color generators provide great usable palettes and they allow you to customize them in their own way. You can play around with them to see which one allows you to have the amount of freedom that you need.


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Cameron Bonde aka Vectrex has found an update on the Unity GNU/Linux Exporter that was posted earlier on LGN.
"Hey, remember the Unity news I sent a while ago? Well I found an update.
They had said before that yes they are working on a native Linux web plugin exporter, but they said there was no timeline and it was low priority.
However a recent blog post shows two pieces of good news.
First Unity is going to be exporting to the Flash 11 plugin at almost native speeds and it's shown here working (since Flash 11 exposes low level GPU).
If flash work on the exporter it should mean Unity in browsers on Linux.
But the more interesting bit was I noticed a little addition to the export options :
Looks like they've added Linux standalone to the their internal
version. Of course they didn't mention this at all in the video, but
it looks promising."
Thanks Cameron Bonde aka Vectrex for keeping us up to date with the Unity GNU/Linux support.
Unity GNU/Linux Exporter In Development !
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I've been thinking pretty sentimentally about dogs recently, but I suppose I have that luxury because I've never had one of my dogs eat my Aston Martin. I don't actually own a dog-eaten Aston Martin, but Royston Grimstead of Somerset, UK can't say that, unfortunately.
Yes, Mr.Grimstead's border collie/spaniel mix Luce decided that the black Aston Martin DB9 Volante looked just too damn delicious and ate an alarming amount of the fiberglass fender around the wheelarch. When Mr.Grinstead came home, he noticed the dog had an unusual amount of "white stuff" all over it, and initially assumed the dog had caught a bird.
Until he saw his car.
The dog didn't appear to be affected by all the fiberglass she ate, but she's no longer going to be living with Mr.Grimstead. Claims that the dog didn't get on well with his 10 year old border collie were suggested for the dog-firing, but I don't think the Aston-eating helped any.
For actual images of the dog and the car and the chewing damage, click here, since we don't have the rights to those photos and I had to make that highly-accurate artist's conception.
Luce has a new home in the same city, and insurance will cover the car repairs, so everything turned out basically okay.
Aston Martin has been unusually quiet about the incident, and has not issued any statements or instituted any recalls for their car fenders being too delicious for dogs to resist.
We at Jalopnik will look into a taste-test with some press cars to get to the bottom of this.


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Gelre (Netherlands/Germany)
Gelre (Gelder, Geldern), a former duchy consisting of Lower Gelre, now the Dutch province of Gelderland, and Upper Gelre, now part of the Dutch provinces of Limburg and North Brabant and the adjacent part of Germany. In the German part of old Gelre is found the city of Geldern, the home of the dynasty of the dukes of Gelre. In Lower Gelre only a few traces of Anabaptism are to be found in the 16th century (see Gelderland). In Upper Gelre Anabaptism-Mennonitism was rather widespread. The "Wassenberger Predikanten" were active here, and Menno Simons preached in this region.
See Illikhoven and Visschersweert
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Gelre (Netherlands/Germany)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 24 Sep 2023. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gelre_(Netherlands/Germany)&oldid=107737.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Gelre (Netherlands/Germany). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 September 2023, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gelre_(Netherlands/Germany)&oldid=107737.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 452. All rights reserved.
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Tlazoltéotl, (Nahuatl: "Filth Deity") also called Ixcuina or Tlaelquani, Aztec goddess who represented sexual impurity and sinful behaviour. She was probably introduced to the Aztecs from the gulf lowlands of Huaxteca. Tlazoltéotl was an important and complex earth-mother goddess. She was known in four guises, associated with different stages of life. As a young woman, she was a carefree temptress. In her second form she was the destructive goddess of gambling and uncertainty. In her middle age she was the great goddess able to absorb human sin. In her final manifestation she was a destructive and terrifying hag preying upon youths. Tlazoltéotl was thought to provoke both lust and lustful behaviour, but she could also grant absolution to those who had so sinned. She became best known for her capacity to cleanse such sins during confessionals conducted by her priests. Thus, although she could, in one form, inspire debauched behaviour, she could also forgive sinners and remove corruption from the world. She was portrayed in an elaborate headdress of raw cotton and in some representations wearing the skin of a sacrificial victim or in a costume that featured symbols of the moon.


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Proof (2005)
Directed by John Madden / James D. Stern
Genres - Drama | Sub-Genres - Psychological Drama, Family Drama, Romantic Drama | Release Date - Sep 16, 2005 (USA - Limited), Sep 30, 2005 (USA) | Run Time - 99 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - PG13
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A woman struggles to come to terms with the potentially dangerous legacy of her late father in this drama based on the award-winning stage play by David Auburn. Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant and well-known mathematician. While Robert's skill in the world of numbers still appears to be strong, his grip on reality begins to slip away, and as Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius. After Robert's passing, Catherine is confronted by Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal), a gifted but zealous student of Robert's who wants to look through the late man's notes in hopes of finding his last great work. While Catherine is hesitant to look too deeply into her father's work for fear of what it might suggest about her own future, she allows Hal to do so, and when one notebook reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one. Proof also stars Hope Davis as Catherine's well-meaning but shallow sister, who doubts Catherine's ability to take care of herself. Paltrow had previously played Catherine to stellar reviews during the original play's run in London's West End.
mathematics, genius, mental-illness, student


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Looking for the most popular and best wordpress plugins used by professional bloggers? After problogging on WordPress for over 2 years, and after developing some wordpress plugins myself, I present you my top favorite 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging.
Top WordPress Plugins and Widgets
The wordpress plugins are arranged broadly by category of usage. As far as I know, all these plugins are compatible with the latest WordPress 2.5 version. Please feel free to suggest great plugins in comments that I can add to this list.
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Manage WordPress Comments
- Subscribe To Comments – Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
- WP AJAX Edit Comments – Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX.
- Close Old Posts – Closes comments on old posts without any DB queries.
- WP Grins – allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
- Live Comment Preview – the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
- Show Top Commentators – Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
- MyAvatars – shows MyBlogLogs avatars in your comments
- Comment Relish – Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
- Favatars – displays the favicon associated with the commenters website.
- Dofollow – lets you remove the attribute from your comments.
- OpenID Comments for WordPress – allows users to leave comments using their OpenID.
- Extended Comment Options – allows you to switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts.
- Get Recent Comments – displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog.
Stop WordPress Spam
- Akismet – intelligently blocks spam comments. Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not.
- Bad Behavior – is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots.
- WP-Contact Form with Spam Protection – creates a contact form on your blog, through which your readers can contact you easily.
- Defensio is a spam filtering web service to block comment spam.
- Digital Fingerprint – useful for detecting content theft.
Expert WordPress SEO
- Google XML Sitemaps Generator – creates a sitemap of all articles on your WordPress blog. Helps Google and other search engines index every article you write.
- Permalink Redirect – replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry's (or archives) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.
- All in One SEO Pack – Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
- Head META Description – Insert HTML META description tags using post excerpts.
- Enforce www. Preference – will help preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference and will strip off index.php from the ends of URIs.
- Broken Link Checker – monitors and notifies you for broken links on your blog.
- Quick META Keywords – will automatically add META Keywords tags to every single post based on categories under which the article is categorized.
Easy WordPress Navigation
- Related Entries – Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. Increase pageviews by providing targeted related content.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) – gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry.
- WP-PageNavi – Adds a more advanced page navigation to WordPress, which is very useful for navigation on index and category pages.
- Evermore – Abbreviate all posts when viewed on multiple post pages. Helpful to create expandable posts summaries in WordPress. Combine with Less that changes the (more) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the "more".
- Random Redirect – Allows you to create a link to a random post on your blog. Lets readers browse in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.
- WP-Cumulus – displays your tags and/or categories in 3D by placing them on a rotating sphere
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- Homepage Excerpts – Gives flexibility to use both full posts and excerpts on the homepage.
- WordPress Mobile Edition – shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device.
- Popularity Contest – keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.
- Extended Live Archive – implements a dynamic, AJAXified way of digging into the archives of a blog.
- Clean Archives – designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion. It lists the Month / Year, the day of the month the article was published, the title of the article, and the number of comments that have been made on each article.
- Custom Query String – set the number of posts (custom queries) for every single page on your website like categories, archives, or search results pages.
- KB Advanced RSS Widget – a wordpress widget that gives you complete control over how RSS feeds are parsed for your sidebar.
- Permalinks Migration Plugin – safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website or affecting your search engine rankings.
Interactive WordPress Posts
- Share This – lets your visitors to add your post to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail to a friend.
- Sociable – automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.
- WP-Email – Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog's post/page to a friend.
- WP-PostRatings – Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog's post/page.
- Viper's Video QuickTags – easy posting of videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo etc.
WordPress Twiter Plugins
- TweetSuite – integrates Twitter with your blog with server-side TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts etc.
- WP Twitip ID – Lets users add their twitter username to the comment form
- Check out more top Twitter plugins
WordPress Database tools
- WordPress Database Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Back up your blog today.
- WP-Supercache – A modification of WP-Cache that produces static html files.
- DB-cache – another caching plugin which claims your site will work much faster and will use less disk space for cached files.
- WP-DBManager – Lets you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries.
WordPress Admin Management Tools
- PodPress – adds lots of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.
- TinyMCE Advanced – adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, the WordPress wysiwyg editor. Adds over 40 new buttons to the toolbar, which is now two rows plus one hidden row.
- Exec-PHP – allows php tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files.
- Photo Dropper – lets you add free photos (Flickr / Creative Commons) to your blog posts without leaving WordPress.
- WordPress.com Stats – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
- Admin Drop Down Menu – eliminates the need for this double clicking on the Admin screens by allowing you to see the second level menu just by placing your mouse over a main menu.
- Maintenance Mode Plugin – Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.
- Theme Test Drive – allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as an administrator, while visitors continue to see the default one.
WordPress Advertising
- Ad Rotator – Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file.
- AdSense-Deluxe – is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. More Google Adsense WP plugins.
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WordPress Blog Translation
- Global Translator – Translate your blog into multiple languages in a search engine friendly way.
- Translator Plugin Pro – provides automatic machine translation of your blog in 13+1 languages. Costs $30.
Enhance WordPress RSS Feeds
- FD Feedburner – Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com
- Simple Feed Copyright – adds a simple copyright notice to full text wordpress feeds.
Random WordPress Stuff
- Democracy – adds AJAX polling functionality to your WordPress blog.
- flickrRSS – allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your weblog.
I know there are many great wordpress plugins out there I might have missed, please suggest them in comments.


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UC Davis Lung Center
Among the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in the United States are diseases of the respiratory system, specifically, asthma, lung cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The faculty participating in the UC Davis Lung Center work to resolve the disease problems associated with the respiratory system, using a strong interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary approach which integrates basic cellular biology with animal models and clinical applications of therapeutic strategies. The Lung Center serves as the focal point for the large and diverse research community at UC Davis whose interests focus on the respiratory system.
Biomedical Research Program
The respiratory system serves as the interface for an organism with its gaseous environment. As a consequence, the respiratory system is the target for airborne pathogens, especially viruses and bacteria and inhaled toxic gases, including air pollutants such as ozone and environmental tobacco smoke. Because the respiratory system also receives the entire output from the right side of the heart, the respiratory system is a target for blood-borne toxicants and pathogens and a site of sequestration for metastasizing tumors. Defining the pathobiology of disease processes in the respiratory system and establishing effective therapeutic approaches is complicated by the high degree of cellular and architectural complexity of the system. UC Davis Lung Center serves as the focal point for development of integrated research programs to address major disease issues associated with the respiratory system. Because of the complexity of the respiratory system and the need to understand the basic mechanisms regulating the respiratory system's response to disease processes, UC Davis Lung Center promotes highly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary integrated research programs.
There are over 30 faculty on the UC Davis campus whose research focuses on some aspect of respiratory disease. The faculty is drawn from the School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the Division of Biological Sciences. The faculty come from 12 different departments within these schools and have a wide range of research capability and interests, including the fields of: cell biology, epidemiology, molecular biology, immunology, infectious diseases, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, toxicology, pediatrics, surgery, and pulmonary and critical care medicine. UC Davis Lung Center sponsors and organizes a weekly seminar series which attracts 40 to 60 individuals per week and serves as a forum for multidisciplinary presentations of research activities. Facilities maintained by the group include one of the premier air pollution exposure facilities in the country at the California Primate Research Center, the largest exposure facility for environmental tobacco smoke on the West Coast at the Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health, and an extensive multidisciplinary Cellular Imaging and Quantitation Facility.
A major component of the UC Davis Lung Center is the training of graduate students and fellows as pulmonary research scientists. This training depends on a strong, in-depth program in a conventional discipline (i.e., biochemistry, molecular biology, cell and developmental biology, pathology, physiology, toxicology, epidemiology, etc.) coupled with a broad base in the other disciplines. Because the respiratory system is one of the most complex organ systems in the body, regardless of the perspective, all training is organized to ensure a broad, multidisciplinary base which will promote an understanding of the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease and the physiological and pathobiologic basis of disease processes and the translation of research findings into applicable therapeutic approaches.
UC Davis Lung Center's research activity is currently organized around ten groups which include,
- Immunology/Infectious Disease
- Epithelial Cell Biology/Cystic Fibrosis
- Interstitial Matrix Biology/Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Inflammations/Airways Hyperreactivity
- Lung Growth and Development/Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
- Environmental Toxicology/Biomolecular (Metabolic) Mechanisms of Lung Injury
- Carcinogenesis
- Occupational Environmental Medicine/Epidemiology
- Lung Neurobiology/Dyspnea/Asthma
- Pulmonary Circulation
Faculty join one or more of these interest groups based on their own research problems with the intent that future integrated research activities will grow out of these groups and interactions between the groups. This grouping activity also facilitates the identity of research programs in which graduate students and fellows may participate.


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BAJA, MEXICO – Police officials in Baja have made a huge bust in their ongoing war against underground Chupacabra wrestling.
Authorities raided a rural farmhouse at roughly 2am where nearly one hundred people had gathered to watch and gamble on wrestling matches between the small reptilian creatures. The main event was a grudge match between Diablo Verde and three time champion El Santo Bajo.
For decades local farmers have defended their livestock from the legendary "goat-suckers." Only recently have people begun capturing them for the purposes of underground wrestling tournaments.
"The hardest part is getting the costumes on them." one man said of his bantam-weight prize winner Sangriador. "Now he loves his cape, won't leave home without it."
Many in the human wrestling community are concerned that if the trend grows, they may be out of a job. One source said "I'm a pretty tough guy, but I can't bite my own arm off and beat somebody with it. They just grow it back and keep fighting."
Interest in the sport has risen drastically despite being illegal. Next month, El Santo Bajo is scheduled to defend his title against Matadoriño. Weekly World News investigators are working to discover the secret location to bring you the details.


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Public Storage Canadian Properties released operating results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009 and distributions to be paid on Dec. 31, 2009. Some highlights:
- Net income of the Partnership was $1.5 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, 2009 compared to $2.1 million for the same period in 2008.
- Net income of the Partnership was $4.7 million for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2009 compared to $5.7 million for the same period in 2008.
The Partnership owns and derives substantially all its income from 27 self-storage facilities in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. The Partnership also owns parcels of land in Oakville, Ontario; Orleans, Ontario; and Richmond Hill, Ontario, for future self-storage development.
Source: Earth Times, Public Storage Canadian Properties Announces Third Quarter 2009 Operating Results and Distributions
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Canadian Self-Storage Partnership Opens Quebec Facility
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Last week's crash of a half-million-dollar Ferrari F40 in Houston was more than just an unfortunate accident, it was, according to exclusive details Jalopnik gathered over the weekend, the result of a mechanic's test drive gone horribly wrong.
The photo shows the aftermath: a rare and expensive Ferrari F40 worth at least $500,000 crushed by a fence. The wheels bent, the front-end destroyed, and a man in the background being treated by EMTs. What the photo doesn't show is how the car wound up in its condition.
We've learned from numerous sources that the Ferrari F40 wasn't being driven by the car's owner, but by a mechanic responsible for the vehicle. In fact, the owner was in Europe on business and didn't even know the vehicle was wrecked until this weekend.
Eyewitnesses report the car was traveling down Hempstead Road and turned onto 34th Street in Northwest Houston traveling at a speed above 60 MPH, despite a posted speed of 35 MPH along the busy thoroughfare. Some say he was going between 70-to-90 MPH.
"I don't know how fast he was going, but he had to be going 60+ because I could hear the turbos spooling on the car," said Travis Brown, an employee at a nearby store who witnessed the crash. "Next I know I heard tire squealing, then he jumped the curb and hit the fence."
Whether the crash occurred because of a driver error or a mechanical failure is unclear, but the distance of the crash from where the F40's driver lost control shows he was definitely traveling at a great deal of speed.
"He had to go airborne," said Brown.
Though slightly injured, the driver was alert and standing when EMTs arrived to treat him.
The owner, who purchased the car new and has been driving it ever since, was shocked when he heard about the vehicle. Because the F40s frame is damaged the car is being treated as a total loss.
"It's just a real screwy deal," said a source familiar with the accident.
We're not releasing the name of the owner, but we can tell you he's not one of Houston's famous Ferrari F40 owners — a list that includes Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale and former heavyweight champion George Foreman.
I repeat: George Foreman's grille is still intact.
(Thanks to Josh N. for the photos!)


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Friday is pay day for many of the 2 million federal workers affected by the shutdown.
For most employees, their paycheck is 40% lighter.
Federal workers get paid every two weeks. Friday was officially payday for work completed from Sept. 22 through Oct. 5., according to the General Services Administration. This paycheck was the first to reflect furloughs due to the federal shutdown.
Paychecks normally cover 10 working days. But for those affected by the shutdown, the paycheck only reflected six days of pay. And even some of those workers who remained on the job this week are seeing lighter paychecks until a budget on some sort is approved.
Related: Unemployment claims surge, partly due to shutdown
"This pain is much more significant than during the furlough days (that were part of this year's sequester)," said Pete Randazzo, an information technologist at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., where 1,500 workers were on furlough last week. "There was just no time to prepare."
Randazzo, who is also the local National Federation of Federal Employees president, said he had a tough time figuring out the total he lost. But he noticed the amount he sets aside to go to his mortgage was $900 less than usual.
Some workers will get paid Tuesday, the 15th, because the date the paycheck or electronic transfer is released depends on the payroll provider each federal agency uses, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
That's the case for Jeanne Gerardi, an IRS worker from Patchogue, N.Y. who expects her trimmed paycheck to post electronically to her bank account Monday. And despite news that House Republicans appear willing to eventually pay back furloughed workers stuck at home, Gerardi said she has her doubts.
"The country hates the IRS right now, and they don't realize it's mostly a bunch of peons like me," said Gerardi, whose husband continues to work. "And we're all unemployed right now with looming rent, medical payments, other monthly bills."
Luiza Jewitt said the biweekly paycheck from her husband's civilian defense job in Evans, Ga., posted to their bank account on Thursday. The pay cut was about $1,000, she said.
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"This is really hurting us," Jewitt said. "I think Congress is disgusting doing this to us and all of the other people who work so hard keeping the country safe, while they are getting their paychecks the whole time."
Thanks to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, all 400,000 civilian defense employees who had been on furlough -- including Randazzo and Jewitt -- should return to a full paycheck in two weeks.
But Jewitt said the damage has been done. She knows colleagues who've had to call landlords and car loan providers and ask for more time to make bills.
"We have savings, but a lot of friends live paycheck-to-paycheck," she said.


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Republican Vice Presidential Pick Paul Ryan sold shares in a number of financial companies including Citigroup, General Electric, Wachovia, and JP Morgan Chase on the same day as then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke held a closed meeting with congressional leaders during the financial crisis.
At issue are the sale of troubled banks like Wachovia and Citi, as well as General Electric's struggling capital unit, dated on September 18, 2008 — the same day as the meeting with Bernanke and Paulson according to the Associated Press.
However, according to The New York Times, the meeting was held in the evening, which raises significant doubt if any member in attendance would have been able to act on the conversation.
Ryan's 2008 financial disclosures, which are publicly available on OpenSecrets.org, were analyzed by Business Insider (Via The Richmonder).
The sales total as much as $60,000 — although they could be considerably less. The House disclosure forms do not require specific values from members.
OpenSecrets.org estimates Ryan has a net worth between $927,100 to $3,207,000.
Ryan's disclosure also shows the purchase of shares in Goldman Sachs, which was considered a relatively safer bank at the time.
Wachovia was later purchased by Wells Fargo after it neared failure at the end of 2008.
Attendance at closed door meetings are not tracked by the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, which keeps records of voting by members.
We've reached out to Paul Ryan's Congressional office to see if he was also at the meeting.
Other representatives have come under scrutiny for trading on non-public information during the crisis.
Earlier this year, Spencer Bachus of Alabama, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was cleared of insider trading by the Office of Congressional Ethics after it had opened an investigation of his dealings in financial securities.
Below, Ryan's schedule 4 financial disclosure forms showing financial movements (arrows added to point out transactions in question). S's on the document represent sales by Ryan, while P's indicate purchases.
The following slides detail other transactions made by Ryan, although they do not show any dealings on September 18.
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JOHN SHIRK – From Isaiah 53:10.
Speaking of Jesus, "Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand."
The death of Jesus at the cross was the will of the LORD. His suffering was for a purpose. That purpose is revealed in verse 5 of the same chapter. "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed."
The reasons for our suffering in this life may not always be clearly understood, but through the death and resurrection of Jesus, we see that suffering within God's plan is never wasted. Jesus said we would have trouble, but He also said, "take heart, I have overcome the world." Through Jesus, we have grace to overcome the trials of this life.
Living with hope through adversity is a vital sign of a changed life in the Year of Transformation.
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We are just about 5 months away from The Hunger Games movie in March. So far it's been one step forward, one step back, particularly as it relates to casting.
Lionsgate has released 8 character posters to start building momentum. There's a lot of photoshopping and skin doctoring happening here. And still, I don't hate it. In fact, I think it's a very, very encouraging leap forward. Jennifer Lawrence looks young as Katniss. And when I see her profile, I am not thinking of the girl in the Baywatch dress at the Oscars. Good job.
Lenny Kravitz as Cinna - YES. The blue shirt, the gold chain, and the gold eyelid that looks, upon closer inspection, that it has been cut and lifted and Nicole Kidman-ed ...if this is the kind of attention to detail that we can expect in the film, I'm now a lot more excited.
Gale might have something to do with that too. As previously mentioned, I have always been down with Liam Hemsworth as Gale. Look at his expression. That works for me as a Gale expression. And it's only a picture. Or maybe I just can't see past my erection for this kid. He's hot, ok?
So of the 8 images available, I feel solidly enthusiastic about 6 of them. The 2 that are medium, for me anyway, are Peeta and Effie. Why is Effie (Elizabeth Banks) so... weirdly glamourous instead of straight up tacky? Was I reading that wrong? Why does she look like Rachel McAdams in Sherlock Holmes?
As for Josh Hutcherson's Peeta - well, ever since I started telling myself he's a Pity F-ck, I guess this is what the Pity F-ck should look like. Which...could explain why I'm not that hard about it?
Click here to see all the other posters including Woody Harrelson as Haymitch.
The Hunger Games posters: cause for optimism
We are just about 5 months away from The Hunger Games movie in March. So far it's been one step forward, one step back, particularly as it relates to casting.


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text: Artist: Heavy D Album: Peaceful Journey Song: Letter to the Future Intro (spoken): People, The world today is in a very difficult situation, And we all know it, Because we're the ones who created it. Chorus: What's wrong with our future? (4x) Verse One: Bust this How long will this last? A friend to the end, a memory in the past You think you're big, cause you walk with a shotgun I got new for you, your days are numbered, son Why don't you get yourself a job? When your kid grows up, do you want him to rob? Look at your mother, teardrops She just received a phone-call from the cops "Your son will do life, 'cause he wigged a man's wife Shot her with a gun and stabbed her with a knife.", or Take a look at your mother's heart torn She just received a phone-call from the morgue "Your son is dead from three shots to the head. The killer left a note and this is what the note said: "Never be bigger than you are. Never try to pose like you're a superstar Next time you rob somebody, and you give him the death-wish. When you pull the trigger, nigga, don't miss." Is this how you wanna be Dead on the street or locked in a penetentiary? It's cool to be free And it's alright for you to be you and for me to be me Look at you, 15 years old Coolin on the corner with a can of Old Gold Whatever happened to school? Yeah, sure you go to school, but you go to be cool To sport sneakers that you took from somebody To talk about the kid that you bucked at some party Life is a gamble, and you're losin Before it's too late, brother, you better start choosin Left from right, right from wrong Or you'll be singin that old blues song (Yo, you gotta buck em, or else you're soft) Some I knew thought the same, now they're way up North You ain't soft, cause you didn't buck a shot Put the pistol down, throw up your hands, see what ya got Old Johnny Walker from around the block Was livin' rather large 'till he got knocked He had "Livin' Large" on his Jeep plates "Livin' Large" on his real estate He even bought a diamond "Livin' Large" name plate He used to look at cops and smile in their face Drive a BMW and pump the bass One day, he made a move for a friend The f-r-iend, the voice said, "Yo, I need ten.", Johnny said, "When?" Later on that day, Johnny went to play the game he normally plays To do a favour for a chum You see, a friend is a friend, but then, some are none Cause when he got to the spot they were supposed to meet All he found was a police-infested street I guess havin a friend is rough Cause now Johnny's up north, doin push-ups, gettin buffed You see this chain I've got, I've got it, honestly You see the clothes I wear, I've got it, honestly You see the Jeep I drive, I've got it, honestly I work hard, it ain't easy being me Never had an excuse for life Just did what I did, now what I do, I do it right "Jumbo, Jumbo", they cry on the block. 5.0, 5.0, lay low, here comes the cops Man, your lifestyle is petro On your knees again, because Jumbo said so "Free Mandela", you cried But you still sell dope to brothers and sisters outside Martin Luther King had a dream (ooh yeah) That's exactly what turned his dream into a nightmare Malcolm X said, "By any means necessary." He didn't mean just for you, brother, he meant for everybody Maybe if we were still slaves, we'll be closer; however Pickin cotton was bad, but we picked it together I pray for you, and you pray for me Sincerely yours, the overweight lover, Heavy D Repeat chorus to end


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Staying ahead of Microsoft itself, VMware has updated its Workstation desktop computer hypervisor so it can run Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows 8.
VMware Workstation 9, available now, also includes the ability for users to access their desktops, by phones or tablets, through a browser. The software has also been tailored to work with computers running Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors.
Workstation is VMware's virtualization software for desktop computers. It allows users to run multiple OSes, such as Windows and Linux, on the same computer.
The new version, the first major upgrade since last September, can support Windows 8 in a number of ways. The software can recognize multitouch screen gestures, which Windows 8 was built to accommodate. Workstation's Unity, which allows users to run applications in a virtual machine without actually running the virtual machine itself, can handle Windows 8 applications. The software recognizes the USB 3.0 standard, also supported in Windows 8. On the Linux side, this version will be the first to run Linux's OpenGL 2.1 graphics library.
The software also features new capability to access virtual machines from tablets and smartphones, through the use of a browser, without the use of either Adobe Flash or browser plug-ins.
Workstation also comes with some new tools for the administrator as well. Administrators can set up a virtual machine so users cannot copy files between the virtual and physical desktops.
VMware Workstation 9 is priced at US$249, and upgrades of VMware Workstation 7 and 8 cost $119. Those who purchased VMware Workstation 8 this month can upgrade to Workstation 9 at no cost.
In conjunction with this release of Workstation, VMware also updated its Fusion software, which allows users to run Windows on Apple Mac computers. Fusion 5 also can run Windows 8.


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In the case against the Texas TAAS test (see related story), plaintiffs presented research showing that standard test-construction methods built in racial bias. The judge concluded he "cannot quarrel" with that finding. Groups concerned about civil rights should use this argument to oppose the use of tests to make high-stakes decisions, such as school graduation or grade promotion.
According to a declaration by Prof. Martin Shapiro of Emory University, who is both a lawyer and a psychologist, Texas uses "point-biserial correlations" in deciding which items to use and which questions to discard as the test is assembled from field-tested questions. Items with high biserial correlations are those generally answered correctly by test-takers who score high on the test overall. Items which many low-scoring students get right have lower correlations.
To obtain higher consistency (and hence technical reliability) on the test, Texas follows the typical practice of using items with the highest correlation values. This procedure means that on items covering the same materials, the ones with the greatest gaps between high and low scorers will be used. Because minority group students typically perform less well on the test as a whole, the effort to increase reliability also increases bias against minorities.
According to other research, items which facilitate ranking and sorting are often items which, perhaps unintentionally, factor non-school learning and social background into the questions. Such items help create consistency in test results, but they often are based on the experiences of white middle-to-upper class children, who also typically have access to a stronger academic education.
This test assembly approach was developed in large part to help obtain consistency on tests designed to rank and sort students, such as IQ tests, the SAT, or national, norm-referenced achievement tests (NRTs). While procedures which reinforce racial and other biases should not be used in any case, tests such as TAAS now rely on biserial correlations — even though the TAAS supposedly is not intended to sort students but to determine whether they have met specified levels of achievement. By using this method of item selection, the TAAS, like many other state "criterion-referenced" or "standards-based" exams, is actually constructed to resemble an NRT.
This common test development procedure exacerbates the existing inequities of schooling. When used in high-stakes testing, biserial correlation helps ensure that at least some students who know the material and ought to pass the tests do not. Those students are overwhelmingly low-income, of color, with English as a second language, or have special needs.
Alternatives do exist. One is to use different item selection procedures. For example, the "Golden Rule" bias reduction process involves selecting items with the smallest racial gaps (see Examiner, Winter 1991-92) from a content or skill area. Given more than two racial groups to balance, however, this might not be a simple process.
Another alternative would be to reject the underlying assumption of "unidimensionality," on which point-biserial correlations rest. In this approach, test-makers assume that test-taker performance can be described by a single underlying ability. This approach has two major problems. First, it assumes that performance on the many sub-topics in a subject, such as algebra and geometry in math, is due to one, not multiple and possibly different, abilities.
Second, standards in various subjects assume students will learn cognitively complex skills. Unidimensionality in test items, however, assumes test-takers employ only one cognitive process to solve a problem, rather than multiple modes of thinking which can interact in varied ways, and items are rarely written to include multiple aspects of a subject. For example, a math test specification for the National Assessment of Education Progress "portrays a student's performance on any individual mathematics item as the pairing of a single process with a single content category" (Paul Nichols and Brenda Sugrue, "The Lack of Fidelity Between Cognitively Complex Constructs and Conventional Test Development Practice," Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Summer 1999). Thus, typical test-development procedures contradict the standards on which many new tests are intended to be based.
Human development and use of cognitive processes can vary based on social and cultural background. If a test assumes unidimensionality of cognitive processes and the "acceptable" processes include only some culturally-based approaches, then the test becomes culturally biased. Bias review techniques which utilize point-biserial correlations will be unable to detect this flaw. Further, to the extent that tests affect curriculum and instruction, test-development procedures can undermine multi-cultural approaches to teaching and learning.
In sum, Dr. Shapiro's review of the construction of the TAAS test reveals very serious problems in typical test construction methods. These problems can impact teaching and learning for all students but have the most damaging effects on students from low-income and minority-group backgrounds.


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Lenexa, KS (PRWEB) March 04, 2014 -- A team of researchers from Université Laval and CHU de Québec identified unusually high levels of a certain protein in the brains of people suffering from essential tremor (ET), a movement disorder that affects 4% of the adult population. The discovery, the details of which were published in the most recent edition of the journal Movement Disorders, could lead to an effective treatment for this neurological condition, which is 10 times more prevalent than Parkinson's disease.
As its name suggests, ET causes tremors in various parts of the body—usually the arms, head, and vocal chords. Although onset most often occurs after age 50, cases of ET in childhood have been documented. Over 10 million Americans reportedly suffer from the condition, whose exact cause remains unknown.
"Even though it's not a lethal degenerative disease, essential tremor still poses a serious problem to sufferers, making it extremely difficult to perform basic everyday activities," explains lead researcher Frédéric Calon, a professor at Université Laval's Faculty of Pharmacy.
Calon and his colleagues had access to a brain bank developed more than 40 years ago by University of Saskatchewan professor Ali Rajput to test their hypothesis that the brains of ET sufferers show an overabundance of certain proteins. The researchers focused on two proteins in particular—LINGO1 and LINGO2—which, according to some genetic studies, may be linked to the movement disorder. They measured the concentrations of these proteins in the cerebellums of nine subjects with essential tremor, 10 Parkinson's subjects, and 16 healthy subjects.
Their analyses revealed a concentration of LINGO1 in the cerebellar cortex of people suffering from essential tremor twice that of healthy subjects. This overexpression was even more pronounced in people who had been living with the condition for over 20 years. These differences were not observed in the subjects with Parkinson's.
"Other studies have shown that LINGO1 slows neuroregeneration following damage to the brain or spinal cord," points out Calon, who is also affiliated with CHU de Québec Research Center. "So we believe that inhibiting this protein could be a promising treatment avenue to explore for essential tremor. The drugs currently prescribed to people suffering from this neurological condition were developed 30 years ago and their effectiveness is limited."
In addition to Calon, the study's coauthors are Charlotte Delay, Cyntia Tremblay, Élodie Brochu, Sarah Paris-Robidas, Vincent Émond et, Ali Rajput, and Alex Rajput.
About The International Essential Tremor Foundation:
Headquartered in Lenexa, KS, and founded in 1988, the International Essential Tremor Foundation is the leading organization in the world dedicated to those affected by essential tremor. The mission of the IETF is to fund research that will find the cause of essential tremor and lead to better treatments and a cure, increase awareness about ET, and provide educational materials, tools and support to healthcare providers, the public, and those directly affected by ET.
The IETF has distributed more than $685,000 in research grants, to fund 27 promising studies, in the search for the cause of ET. The Foundation has hosted numerous community awareness events across the U.S. to provide those affected with the basic knowledge necessary to become their own advocate when seeking treatment. And, the IETF also provides assistance to a vast network of support groups around the world. To learn more about essential tremor and the IETF mission, visit the IETF website at http://www.essentialtremor.org.
Frédéric Calon
Université Laval
CHU de Québec
418-525-4444 ext. 48697
Jean-François Huppé
Media Relations Officer
Université Laval
Josianne Vignola
Information Officer
CHU de Québec
Catherine Rice, Int'l Essential Tremor Foundation, http://www.essentialtremor.org, +1 (888) 387-3667, [email protected]
SOURCE Int'l Essential Tremor Foundation


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A state tally showing more than 53,000 students on charter school waiting lists is overstating demand, according to a Globe review of state data.
The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, in tallying the waiting lists statewide and for many individual communities, including Boston, frequently counts the same students more than once.
That's because the state simply adds up the waiting lists from each charter school without collecting individual names to learn whether a student appears on more than one list or, in fact, may be enrolled at another charter school.
Charter school leaders have been seizing on the large number of students on the waiting lists as evidence of soaring popularity for the schools and the need for more of them.
But critics note that as lawmakers debate legislation this spring to raise a state-imposed cap on the number of charter school seats in Boston and other cities, they will do so without a full picture of demand.
"Raising the cap based on an artificial or exaggerated understanding of the waiting lists doesn't make sense," said Roy Belson, superintendent of the Medford public schools, who has questioned waiting list numbers for several years. "Is the demand truly 50,000, or is it 10,000 students applying to five schools each?"
The Globe review found that waiting list policies can vary tremendously among the state's 81 charter schools, which at minimum under state law must place all unsuccessful applicants in a lottery for admission on a list.
While some schools purge their lists annually and ask those students to reapply, others keep students on lists for many years without knowing whether they are still interested, or add names when parents merely request information about the school.
In Boston, where students on combined waiting lists have nearly tripled to more than 27,000 over the past three years, the rate of duplication could be high, said guidance counselors and advocates who monitor school registrations.
"If a family is applying to charter schools, they are applying to all of them," said Susan Trotz, a guidance counselor at the city-run Curley K-8 School in Jamaica Plain, whose 200 eighth-graders each year often apply to 20 traditional, charter, or private high schools.
Charter school advocates concede that the tallies for the state and communities like Boston include duplication, but doubt it is occurring at a rate that would give a false sense of demand. The total number on the waiting lists has doubled over the past three years, an unprecedented rate.
"It's an argument that doesn't hold water," said Kevin Andrews, headmaster at Neighborhood House Charter School in Dorchester.
Andrews said waiting lists at many Boston charter schools have grown over the last few years, a reliable sign, he said, that more students are seeking out their schools. At Neighborhood House the waiting list, which carries over each year, has spiked to 3,760 students for next fall, after spending years hovering around 2,000, according to state numbers.
"It's a movement that has caught fire," Andrews said.
Charter schools also have stepped up recruitment efforts, gaining access to student addresses from local districts.
The waiting lists have been a political football for years in Massachusetts, which limits the number of charter schools that can open. When charter school leaders and advocates launch a campaign to raise the cap, they frequently cite the growing number of students on the lists as evidence of pent-up demand.
And for families on waiting lists, the predicament can be discouraging.
Karla Walker of Mattapan said she has been trying to get her son into a charter school for more than two years. She initially applied to the Edward Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, but her son landed far down on the waiting list. This year, she tried Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton with no luck.
"It's frustrating to think he might not have that opportunity to attend a charter school," said Walker, who likes the longer days, high expectations, and strict discipline at charter schools.
"We know charter school education is working," she said. "Their students walk away with confidence and self-esteem that will transcend into great citizenship. I hope the cap is lifted so other families have the opportunities."
Created under the 1993 Education Reform Act, charter schools are designed to provide innovative educational alternatives to traditional public schools. They operate with fewer restrictions from the state, most often are independent from local school districts, and almost always employ nonunion teachers.
Many charter schools have among the best state standardized test scores, but state officials have closed some because of poor performance. Their growth is restricted to appease local school districts and teacher unions, which say charter schools unfairly divert funds from traditional public schools, even though they are left with fewer students to educate.
A few years ago, Governor Deval Patrick, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, other elected officials and advocates — motivated by the growing wait lists and charter school results — successfully pushed for a 2010 law that called for the doubling of charter school seats in Boston and other school districts with the lowest state standardized test scores.
That effort helped fuel the opening of 18 new schools, and along with them more waiting lists. But even then, debate swirled around the accuracy of the waiting list tallies.
Consequently, the 2010 law instructed charter schools each year to send to the state education department the names, addresses, and grade levels of the students on their waiting lists. The intent was for the state to weed out duplicates and create an accurate count. But the department never executed that statutory provision.
State education officials said budget and staffing constraints have prevented them from devising a new way of tallying waiting lists. But they hope to have one in place next year.
"It is disappointing and upsetting not having a measure [implemented that] we all agreed to," said Thomas Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, which pushed for a more accurate waiting-list count. "It continues the tension between charter and traditional schools."
Richard Stutman, president of the Boston Teachers Union, chided charter school officials last week in his weekly e-mail bulletin for using waiting list tallies to justify an expansion.
"It does a disservice to public discourse and knowledge to be fed a steady stream of inaccurate numbers to prove their point," he said in an interview.
At least one Boston charter school is seeking a more precise calculation of demand. The Brooke Charter School has opened two additional schools under the 2010 expansion law, and each school must keep separate lists, which range between 1,007 and 2,537 students, according to state figures. Jon Clark, Brooke's codirector, said he knows duplication exists — his two children are on lists for all three campuses — but doubts that it is widespread. "We're just curious about how many duplicates there are," he said.
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