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Emerging tobacco products gaining popularity among youth
Increases in e-cigarette and hookah use show need for increased monitoring and prevention
Emerging tobacco products such as e-cigarettes and hookahs are quickly gaining popularity among middle- and high-school students, according to a report in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
While use of these newer products increased, there was no significant decline in students' cigarette smoking or overall tobacco use. Data from the 2012 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) show that recent electronic cigarette use rose among middle school students from 0.6 percent in 2011 to 1.1 percent in 2012 and among high school students from 1.5 percent to 2.8 percent. Hookah use among high school students rose from 4.1 percent to 5.4 percent from 2011 to 2012.Â
The report notes that the increase in the use of electronic cigarettes and hookahs could be due to an increase in marketing, availability, and visibility of these tobacco products and the perception that they may be safer alternatives to cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes, hookahs, cigars and certain other new types of tobacco products are not currently subject to FDA regulation. Â FDA has stated it intends to issue a proposed rule that would deem products meeting the statutory definition of a "tobacco product" to be subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Another area of concern in the report is the increase in cigar use among certain groups of middle and high school students. During 2011-2012, cigar use increased dramatically among non-Hispanic black high school students from 11.7 percent to 16.7 percent, and has more than doubled since 2009. Further, cigar use among high school males in 2012 was 16.7 percent, similar to cigarette use among high school males (16.3 percent).
"This report raises a red flag about newer tobacco products," said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. "Cigars and hookah tobacco are smoked tobacco – addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from addiction to nicotine."
It is important to note that the cigars category includes little cigars, many of which look almost exactly like cigarettes but are more affordable to teens because they are taxed at lower rates and can be sold individually, rather than by the pack. Little cigars also can be made with fruit and candy flavors that are banned from cigarettes. A CDC study published last month showed more than one in three (35.9 percent) middle and high school students who smoke cigars use flavored little cigars.
"A large portion of kids who use tobacco are smoking products other than cigarettes, including cigars and hookahs, which are similarly dangerous," said Tim McAfee, M.D., M.P.H., director of the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. "As we close in on the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General's report on the dangers of smoking, we need to apply the same strategies that work to prevent and reduce cigarette use among our youth to these new and emerging products."
Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States, killing more than 1,200 Americans every day. More than 8 million Americans live with a smoking-related disease. Â Each day, more than 2,000 youth and young adults become daily smokers. Â Smoking-related diseases cost Americans $96 billion a year in direct health care expenses, much of which come in taxpayer-supported payments.Â
Through the Affordable Care Act, more Americans will qualify to get health care coverage that fits their needs and budget, including important preventive services such as tobacco use screenings and tobacco cessation services that are covered with no additional costs. Visit Healthcare.gov or call 1-800-318-2596 (TTY/TDD 1-855-889-4325) to learn more. Open enrollment in the Marketplace began Oct. 1 and ends March 31, 2014. For those enrolled by Dec. 15, 2013, coverage starts as early as Jan. 1, 2014.


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Every spring, cherry trees bloom in a symphony of lacy, fragrant flowers. I love the contrast of the millions of delicate pale pink flowers contrasted by the sturdy, darker branches that provide support. This infinity scarf gives a nod to this springtime marvel with each stripe color paying homage to the strikingly beautiful blooms and branches. Crocheted lengthwise in chunky granny stripes, it is a perfect piece for those who are having springy thoughts while still needing to bundle up.
Cherries In Bloom Infinity Scarf
By Jennifer Dickerson
- N (9.0 mm) Crochet Hook
- 1 Skein Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick and Quick in Color A (Fig)
- 1 Skein Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick and Quick in Color B (Blossom)
- 1 Skein Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick and Quick in Color C (Fisherman)
- Tapestry Needle (for weaving in ends)
Note: You'll have some yarn leftovers from each skein, unless you make yours wider than shown.
- Width-Scarf shown is 7 inches wide, but you can easily make your scarf wider by working more rows.
- Circumference-Scarf pictured is 66 inches long.
Scarf is worked in one color per row beginning with the light pink.
Ch 105 loosely (Note: multiples of three if you desire a different length).
Foundation Row: In the 2nd chain from hook, work one sc. Then work one sc in each ch all the way across.
Row 1: Chain 3 and turn. Make one dc into the first stitch and chain 1. *Skip 2 stitches, then work 3 dc and ch 1 into next stitch. Repeat from * to end of row, but in the very last stitch, only work 2 dc.
Row 2: Chain 3 and turn. Work 3 dc, ch 1 in the first space (in between the 3 dc clusters from the previous row). Then work 3 dc, ch 1 in each space across row. In the last (turning chain) space, work 1 dc.
Row 3: Chain 3 and turn. In the first space, work 1 dc, ch 1. Work 3 dc, ch 1 in each space across row. In the very last (turning chain) space, work 2 dc.
Row 4: Chain 3 and turn. Work 3 dc, ch 1 in each space across row. In the last (turning chain), work 1 dc in that top stitch. (Note: The last dc is worked in the top stitch (loop, not space) this is because if is worked in the space it would "split" the cluster in half. Working it in the stitch instead keeps the cluster intact, the rest of the pattern is worked in the spaces).
Repeat rows 3 and 4 until scarf is desired width.
Before you seam your scarf, if you wish, you can add a twist or a "mobius" to your infinity scarf:
Click here for mobius photo tutorial
Whip stitch the two ends together. Weave in all ends and you're finished!
© Jennifer Dickerson 2013
Please note: Patterns are for personal and charity use only. In addition, if you enjoy the pattern, please link to it, but do not copy the pattern to your own website or blog (including other languages). Thank you!

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Selena Gomez just dropped a bombshell.
The young singer broke her silence on her lupus diagnosis during an interview with Billboard magazine for their Oct. 17 issue, and also revealed that she's been keeping an even bigger secret—she went through chemotherapy.
"I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy. That's what my break was really about. I could've had a stroke," Gomez tells the magazine of her time spent out of the spotlight, which caused a flurry of speculation as to what was keeping her away.
"I wanted so badly to say, 'You guys have no idea. I'm in chemotherapy. You're assholes.' I locked myself away until I was confident and comfortable again," she recalled.
Gomez is now back and better than ever, with her highly anticipated album Revival coming out in just a few days. Her breakout single "Good For You" and recent track "Same Old Love" quickly drew fans and suggested that the singer is venturing into a new sound.
The 23-year-old explains to Billboard that she's been channeling her frustrations and anger into the music, and is ready to make this all about her.
"I'm so f--king nice to everybody, and everyone is so vile to me. I've been working since I was 7. I've been a UNICEF ambassador since I was 17. It's so disappointing that I've become a tabloid story," Gomez said. But she credits her critics as a driving force for this album: "The hate motivated me."
And, no, this has nothing to do with her famous ex Justin Bieber. "No. This is my time. I've deserved this. I earned it. This is all me."
The celeb also just recently revealed that she's going on a Revival tour! In a video posted to Instagram, Gomez said that the the tour will begin in May with stops throughout the United States and Canada and then later in the year, they will pick the show up and move it abroad. The specific tour dates are set to release to soon.
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A quick look at the inside and outside mirrors, perhaps even a fleeting glance over the left shoulder – and then a major fright when there is loud hooting from your left as you pull out to overtake. Failing to see the car approaching rapidly from behind in the left-hand lane or in the blind spot next to your own car easily happens, especially in heavy traffic on multi-lane freeways or highways and in urban traffic as well.
The Blind Spot Detection (BSD) system can monitor this area and take much of the strain off the driver and avoid hazardous situations. Sensors monitor the road area behind and next to your own vehicle and warn if you try to pull out despite there being no gap.
Blind Spot Detection – Technical Details
SRR monitors the blind spot as well as the area behind the vehicle and can therefore help to prevent accidents when changing lanes or when reversing out of a parking space.


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This year it was section 106 of the Staples Center. My brother and I swapped seats in that section's sixteenth row and Arizona outscored Xavier en route to their second consecutive Elite Eight. It was our second annual (but really billionth) seat swap instigating a Sweet Sixteen comeback. Previously I'd called it sorcery. We even tried it again on Saturday but the only sorcery inside the Staples Center that night was exacted by Sam Dekker. The Sheboygan Sorcerer.
And isn't it all silly?


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5 Achievements Of The 113th Congress (So Far)
The 113th Congress, which just ended its first year, has come to be defined more by what it hasn't done than what it has. With two warring and ideologically polarized parties controlling either end of Capitol Hill, Congress has more or less become a quagmire for policy.
Still, one of the least productive Congresses of the modern era was able to accomplish a few things in 2013. Here are five of them:
1. Going Nuclear
After reaching the limits of frustration with Republican use of the filibuster, Senate Democrats ended the minority party's ability to use the tactic to block most nominations. For nearly a decade, whichever party held the majority threatened to change Senate rules so that most presidential nominations could move forward to an up-or-down floor vote with just a simple majority vote, rather than a supermajority. The warring parties always managed to reach an agreement and avoid the so-called nuclear option before. But not this year. The minority can still filibuster on Supreme Court nominations and legislation, but not most nominations.
2. Nation's Second-Most Powerful Court Expands
The filibuster crackdown gave Senate Democrats the chance to put four of President Obama's judicial nominees on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Because that court often considers challenges to federal regulatory agencies, it's considered second only to the Supreme Court in power. The addition of Obama's appointees to the appellate court brought to six the number of judges picked by Democratic presidents, versus four chosen by presidents named Bush.
3. A Budget Deal Was Spawned
In December, Congress passed a budget resolution. In an earlier era, that wouldn't have been such a big deal. But the decades of increasing political polarization resulted in this being the first time since 1986 that Congress has been able to agree on a budget resolution. The two-year deal put off another government shutdown for at least that long, no small accomplishment in present-day Washington. The pact also narrowed some across-the-board sequester spending cuts in coming years.
4. Congress Didn't Stop Completely
Almost, but not quite. Despite its dysfunction, Congress managed to pass 58 pieces of legislation through Dec. 25, 57 requiring President Obama's signature (the budget resolution doesn't need his approval). On the downside, that number made it the least productive first session for a Congress since 1973, the first year we have comparable data for, writes Josh Tauberer on Govtrack.us. Some legislation was monumental, like the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act and Hurricane Sandy relief. Then there was a piece of legislation that renamed an IRS code section after a former senator.
5. More Famous People In Stone
OK, so it was a stretch to come up with five achievements for this Congress, given its notorious lack of productivity. More Capitol Hill statues doesn't really rank up there with major legislation, but immigration and new gun control laws didn't happen and the statuary accomplishments did. There were unveilings of statues of civil rights icon Rosa Parks and noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass; and a bust of Winston Churchill, the British bulldog of a statesman. At least they gave Congress a rare opportunity for bipartisanship in an otherwise stressful year. The hope has to be that the current unproductive climate and toxic partisanship doesn't last as long as those statues.
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While our group was struggling to get down the bunny slope without falling, there was a skier who was kicking up rooster tails of powder on every turn. Upon further inspection, we noticed he was seated in a chair mounted on a single ski. In last month's column I was in Canada, more specifically Banff and the nearby ski resort, where I was enjoying some tele-marking with friends.
During our time at the resort we ran into a lot of chair skiers and noticed how the lift operators ever so slightly slowed down the lifts and allowed them to ride the mountain without assistance. It felt to me as if these handicapped people, although not considering themselves as such, were living their lives and were able to express themselves like everyone else.
Does the same hold true for deaf people whose appearance doesn't easily reveal the fact they can't hear? Canada is a nation of immigrants, and large cities are filled with Japanese. Most Canadians seem accustomed interacting with foreigners and, while in Japan it is common to associate body language with someone who is deaf, in Canada where people express themselves more animatedly, it's not as easy to get your point across with just your hands.
Upon entering a store, it's usually necessary to write out plainly, "I'm deaf" on a piece of paper. This smoothly transitions into a written conversation, and everyone acts very friendly upon hearing the word "deaf."
There are some who can communicate through a bit of ASL (American Sign Language) and still others who seem to have their own "personal" style of expressing themselves. After having one written conversation, everyone remembers you. When you next meet, things go much smoother and gestures are delivered with a smile.
If you forget to write out, "I am deaf," be prepared to get some dubious looks. Trouble also occurs when Canada's mercury drops to 20 degrees below zero and the ink in your ballpoint pen freezes. Canadian ballpoint pens hold up well in the cold but, when it really gets chilly, your best option is a pencil.
I was also surprised to find that paper is ridiculously expensive in Canada. A slightly thick notebook can run as high as $10 (approximately ¥1,000). Therefore, it's not uncommon to have kind Canadians giving you paper as a present to use for your "memos."


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Chemical process development is generally not taught as part of degree courses in higher education; the conversion of a synthetic route used for making milligram or gram quantities of a chemical into a process for manufacturing multi-kilogram and tonne quantities is typically learnt "on the job" by chemists in industry.
For many years, little chemical development work was published in the literature, until the establishment of the Organic Process R & D journal by Dr Trevor Laird (Founder of Scientific Update). Even now, "tricks of the trade" are handed down within individual company organisations, and it can be difficult to gain an awareness of what is involved in chemical development, and of the skills and techniques required to efficiently scale up chemical processes.
This three-day course, written and presented by highly experienced process chemists from the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry, provides a comprehensive overview of this fascinating and important element of the chemical industry. A logical investigative approach to all aspects of chemical development is described, with an abundance of case studies from literature, conferences and private communications. The multi-disciplinary nature of chemical development is emphasised, from the initial interaction with laboratory research scientists to the vital partnership with chemical engineers in the pilot plant and in the production environment. The lectures are interspersed with interactive problem sessions, enabling participants to share in the problem solving and troubleshooting typically experienced during chemical development.


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Miss America is out to prove that it's a force for positivity in girls' lives...by introducing a line of children's clothes, "Little Miss America." Talk about a "vision of femininity":
The line of girls' clothing, which ranges in size from 4 to 7 and will be unveiled today at the International Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, will hit stores next spring. This marks new territory for Miss America Brands, the Ohio-based subsidiary of Air Waves Inc. According to WWD, the line will include "French terry hoodies, purses, rugby-striped polo dresses, bathrobes, ballet slippers and other styles retailing for less than $25." Pictured shirts feature what appear to be princesses (or maybe just aspiring pageant royalty) and slogans like "Dream Big." The palette "ranges from girl-approved hot pink and purple to patriotic hues of red, white and blue."
And as opposed to all the other cheap, Lisa Frank-hued garb for the elementary-school set, the line, in the words of spokesmodel (and Miss America 2009) Katie Stam, is "providing inspiration as well." In a video, she adds, "The idea is to help girls be proud of who they are and to celebrate their individuality." (What this has to do with the highly conventional clothing in question is not clear - although a portion of proceeds will go towards the Miss America Organization Scholarship Fund.) Adds the company's president, rather grandiosely, "The Miss America brand is iconic. Our clothing will live up to the strong values displayed by crown recipients throughout the years, especially empowerment, inner-beauty, integrity, goodwill and pride."
Despite these claims, the clothes pictured look innocuous enough: pink and ruffled certainly, but a shade too demure for the sophisticated Noah Cyruses of the playground. But given that it seems to be a fairly craven ploy to attract the sort of mothers who haunt Toddlers in Tiaras loudly proclaiming their toddlers' love of the spotlight, it hardly needs saying that these are some big dreams with a lot of baggage.
On the bright side, at least this endeavor doesn't involve the Donald. Or swimsuits. Yet.
Dressing Up Miss America...[WWD]
Miss America - 2009 Katie Stam Talks Fashion with MAB [Miss America Brands]
Miss America Brands Announces Launch Of Branded Apparel Line [Benziga]


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Morgan Tsvangirai
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Morgan Tsvangirai, (born March 10, 1952, Gutu, Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]—died February 14, 2018, Johannesburg, South Africa), Zimbabwean opposition leader and trade union activist known for his dissent against the policies of Zimbabwe's longtime president Robert Mugabe. He formed a power-sharing government with Mugabe and served as prime minister (2009–13). Tsvangirai failed in his attempt to unseat Mugabe in the 2013 presidential election.
Early life and involvement with trade unions
The eldest of nine children, Tsvangirai left school at a young age to seek employment to assist his family. He began working at Trojan Nickel Mine in 1974 and was an active member of the Associated Mineworkers Union. In 1988, after working his way through the ranks of the labour organization, he became secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the national federation of trade unions. In 1997–98 Tsvangirai successfully led a series of strikes against President Mugabe's taxation policy. He also served as a chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly, a nongovernmental organization formed in 1997 to support the creation of a new constitution for Zimbabwe.
Beginning of political career
Tsvangirai resigned from this position in 1999 to form an opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), to challenge President Mugabe and his ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF); this was done with the support of the ZCTU—formerly an ally of ZANU-PF. The nascent MDC soon demonstrated its influence: in a February 2000 nationwide referendum, the party helped garner the necessary support to defeat the government's constitutional reform bill, which included clauses to extend President Mugabe's rule and expropriate farms from white landowners. In the June 2000 parliamentary elections, Tsvangirai's MDC provided one of the most serious opposition challenges in the country's history, winning almost as many seats as ZANU-PF.
Shortly before the presidential election of 2002, in which Tsvangirai was a candidate, he was charged with treason for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe. Tsvangirai was acquitted after enduring a long trial but was again charged with treason in 2003 after calling for mass protests to overthrow the president. Soon after, he was acquitted once more. On October 12, 2005, differences in opinion regarding the participation of the MDC in the national Senate elections led to a split in the party, one faction being led by Tsvangirai and the other by Arthur Mutambara, a former student protest leader, professor, and consultant. Subsequent attempts to solve the conflicts within the party met with only limited success.
On March 11, 2007, Tsvangirai was the centre of international attention after he was the victim of a brutal attack by the Zimbabwean police. While on his way to attend a prayer meeting arranged by local churches, Tsvangirai was seized, arrested, and beaten by the police; other MDC officials were also beaten and imprisoned. Police officials claimed that the confrontation was instigated by MDC activists, but their version of events was not widely accepted, and the Mugabe administration was subject to much international criticism after images of the injured parties circulated throughout the world. After recovering from the attack, Tsvangirai tried to maintain popularity with his supporters while sorting out rivaling interests among MDC party members, with limited success. He also defended himself against state-controlled media propaganda and an increase in intimidation tactics while preparing for the 2008 elections, in which he was again a candidate for president.
2008 elections
Zimbabwe's presidential, parliamentary, and local elections were held on March 29, 2008. Unofficial preliminary results indicated a favourable outcome for Tsvangirai and his faction of the MDC, but, as days passed with only a slow, partial release of parliamentary results (and the complete absence of presidential results), many feared that Mugabe and ZANU-PF were manipulating the outcome of the elections in their favour. Tsvangirai's MDC released its own accounting of the presidential election results on April 2, which indicated that Tsvangirai had captured slightly more than half the votes; the MDC's claims were dismissed by ZANU-PF. Later that day, official results indicated that Tsvangirai's MDC had won the most seats in the House of Assembly. Senate results announced several days later revealed a split between the MDC and ZANU-PF, with the latter receiving an only slightly larger share of the votes. When the presidential election results were officially released on May 2, they showed that Tsvangirai had won 47.9 percent of the vote compared with Mugabe's 43.2 percent. However, since he had not secured a majority of the votes, a runoff election would be necessary, which was later scheduled for June 27.
In the weeks leading up to the runoff election, MDC supporters were harassed and attacked; some were murdered. Tsvangirai was repeatedly detained by the police, as were several other MDC officials and supporters, and the party's secretary-general, Tendai Biti, was arrested and charged with treason. Wary of the increasing levels of violence and intimidation, on June 22 Tsvangirai announced that he would withdraw from the election, citing the impossibility of it being free and fair in the county's current political climate. Nevertheless, the election was still held, and Mugabe was declared the winner despite assertions from independent observers that the election was neither free nor fair.
The fact that the election was even held—as well as the outcome—prompted widespread international condemnation, most notably from the governments of African countries that had previously supported Mugabe, and there were calls for the MDC and ZANU-PF to form a power-sharing government. To that end, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) sponsored negotiations, led by South African President Thabo Mbeki, between Tsvangirai, Mugabe, and Mutambara. After several weeks of negotiations, the three Zimbabwean leaders signed a comprehensive power-sharing agreement—referred to as the Global Political Agreement (GPA)—on September 15, 2008. As part of the agreement, Mugabe would remain president but would cede some power to Tsvangirai, who would serve as prime minister; Mutambara would serve as a deputy prime minister.


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Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)
On 29 June 1988, in Bowen v. Kendrick, the US Supreme Court ruled in a five-to-four decision that the 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA, was constitutional. Under AFLA, the US government could distribute federal funding for abstinence-only sexual education programs, oftentimes given to groups with religious affiliations. As a federal taxpayer, Chan Kendrick challenged the constitutionality of AFLA, claiming it violated the separation of church and state.
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Harry Clay Sharp (1870-1940)
Harry Clay Sharp was a surgeon who performed one of the first recorded vasectomies with the purpose of sterilizing a patient. Sterilization is the practice that makes a person unable to reproduce, and vasectomy accomplishes that by severing the vasa deferentia, the sperm-carrying tubes in the male reproductive system. Historically, sterilization procedures have varied in techniques, goals, and risks, but Sharp's method of vasectomy allowed restriction of a patient's reproductive functions without significantly affecting other bodily functions.
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The Baby Doe Rules (1984)
The Baby Doe Rules represent the first attempt by the US government to directly intervene in treatment options for neonates born with congenital defects. The name of the rule comes from the controversial 1982 case of a Bloomington, Indiana infant Baby Doe, a name coined by the media. The Baby Doe Rules mandate that, as a requirement for federal funding, hospitals and physicians must provide maximal care to any impaired infant, unless select exceptions are met. If a physician or parent chooses to withhold full treatment when the exceptions are not met, they are liable for medical neglect.
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Adolescent Family Life Act (1981)
The 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA, is a US federal law that provides federal funding to public and nonprofit private organizations to counsel adolescents to abstain from sex until marriage. AFLA was included under the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981, which the US Congress signed into law that same year. Through the AFLA, the US Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, funded a variety of sex education programs for adolescents to address the social and economic ramifications associated with pregnancy and childbirth among unmarried adolescents.
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"Abstinence Education: Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs" (2008), by Government Accountability Office
On 23 April 2008, the US Government Accountability Office, or GAO, released a report titled, "Abstinence Education: Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs," hereafter "Abstinence Education," in which it investigated the scientific accuracy and effectiveness of abstinence-only education programs sanctioned by individual states and the US Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS. GAO is a government agency whose role is to examine the use of public funds, evaluate federal programs and activities, and provide nonpartisan support to the US Congress.
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Stump v. Sparkman (1978)
On March 28, 1978, in Stump v. Sparkman, hereafter Stump, the United States Supreme Court held, in a five-to-three decision, that judges have absolute immunity from lawsuits involving any harm their judicial decisions cause. Linda Sparkman, who was unknowingly sterilized when she was fifteen years old in 1971, sued Harold Stump, the county circuit court judge who signed the petition to allow Sparkman's mother to have her sterilized. Sparkman's mother stated to Stump that she wanted her daughter sterilized because of Sparkman's alleged mental deficiencies and sexual promiscuity.
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Social Implications of Non-Invasive Blood Tests to Determine the Sex of Fetuses
By 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven weeks after fertilization. Experts predicted that this ability may encourage the use of prenatal sex screening tests by women interested to know the gender of their fetuses. As more people begin to use non-invasive blood tests that accurately determine the sex of the fetus at 7 weeks, many ethical questions pertaining to regulation, the consequences of gender-imbalanced societies, and altered meanings of the parent-child relationship.
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Paretta v. Medical Offices for Human Reproduction [Brief] (2003)
The court decided a child of in vitro fertilization born with cystic fibrosis does not have the right to sue for wrongful life even in the presence of demonstrable acts of medical negligence because to allow such a case would grant the IVF child rights not possessed by naturally born children. The decision in Paretta has not been publicly tested in other jurisdictions.
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (1990)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 established the legal framework that governs infertility treatment, medical services ancillary to infertility treatment such as embryo storage, and all human embryological research performed in the UK. The law also defines a legal concept of the parent of a child conceived with assisted reproductive technologies.
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Golden Rice
Golden Rice was engineered from normal rice by Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in the 1990s to help improve human health. Golden Rice has an engineered multi-gene biochemical pathway in its genome. This pathway produces beta-carotene, a molecule that becomes vitamin A when metabolized by humans. Ingo Potrykus worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and Peter Beyer worked at University of Freiburg, in Freiburg, Germany. The US Rockefeller Foundation supported their collaboration.
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California Proposition 71 (2004)
The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, also called Proposition 71, was a ballot
initiative proposed by California voters in 2004 to allocate three billion dollars of state
funds for stem cell research over ten years. Endorsed by California scientists and
patient-advocates, Prop 71 passed on 2 November 2004, amending the state constitution to make
stem cell research a constitutional right. In addition, Prop 71 led to the creation of the
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), in San Francisco, California to allocate
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Buck v. Bell (1927)
In 1927, the US Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell set the legal precedent that states may sterilize inmates of public institutions because the court argued that imbecility, epilepsy, and feeblemindedness are hereditary, and that the inmates should be prevented from passing these defects to the next generation. On 2 May 1927, in an eight to one decision, the US Supreme Court ordered that Carrie Buck, feebleminded daughter of a feebleminded mother and herself the mother of a feebleminded child, be sterilized under the 1924 Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act. Buck v.
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President George W. Bush's Announcement on Stem Cells, 9 August 2001
On 9 August 2001, US President George W. Bush gave an eleven-minute speech from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on the ethics and fate of federal funding for stem cell research. Bush also announced the creation of a special council to oversee stem cell research. In the speech President Bush acknowledged the importance of issues surrounding stem cell research to many Americans, presented different arguments in favor of and opposing embryonic stem cell research, and explained his decision to limit but not completely eliminate potential federal funding for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research.
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Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2004)
The Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act) is a piece of federal legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada. The Act came into force on 29 March 2004. Many sections of the Act were struck down following a 2010 Supreme Court of Canada ruling on its constitutionality. The AHR Act sets a legislative and regulatory framework for the use of reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization and related services including surrogacy and gamete donation. The Act also regulates research in Canada involving in vitro embryos.
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Subject: Legal, Reproduction, Ethics
The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)
The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W. Bush on ethical issues related to biomedical science and technology. In November 2001, US President George W. Bush created the President's Council on Bioethics (PCB). Convened during a nationwide cloning and embryonic stem cell research debate, the Council stated that it worked to address arguments about ethics from many different perspectives.
Format: Articles
Subject: Organizations, Legal, Ethics
"Hybrids and Chimeras: A report on the findings of the consultation" by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in October, 2007
In 2007, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in London, UK, published Hybrids and Chimeras: A Report on the Findings of the Consultation, which summarized a public debate about research on, and suggested policy for, human animal chimeras. The HFEA formulated the report after conducting a series of surveys and debates from earlier in 2007. The HFEA issued a statement in September 2007, followed by an official report published on 1 October 2007. Their report on human-animal chimeras set a worldwide precedent for discussions of the ethical use of those embryos in labs.
Format: Articles
Subject: Publications, Legal, Outreach
ABO Blood Type Identification and Forensic Science (1900-1960)
The use of blood in forensic analysis is a method for identifying individuals suspected of committing some kinds of crimes. Paul Uhlenhuth and Karl Landsteiner, two scientists working separately in Germany in the early twentieth century, showed that there are differences in blood between individuals. Uhlenhuth developed a technique to identify the existence of antibodies, and Landsteiner and his students showed that humans had distinctly different blood types called A, B, AB, and O.
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Subject: Theories, Legal, Technologies
Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association's suit against Monsanto, 2012 and 2013
In March 2011 the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and around sixty agricultural organizations (OSGATA et al.) filed a suit against Monsanto Company and Monsanto Technology L.L.C., collectively called Monsanto. The hearings for Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) et al. v. Monsanto (2012) took place at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, New York. The district court's Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald dismissed OSGATA's suit.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Hwang Woo-suk's Use of Human Eggs for Research 2002-2005
Hwang Woo-suk, a geneticist in South Korea, claimed in Science magazine in 2004 and 2005 that he and a team of researchers had for the first time cloned a human embryo and that they had derived eleven stem cell lines from it. Hwang was a professor at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. In the Science articles, Hwang stated that all of the women who donated eggs to his laboratory were volunteers who donated their eggs (oocytes) without receiving any compensation in return. In 2006, Hwang admitted that many of the results were fabricated.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Ethics, Reproduction
Summerfield v. Superior Court [Brief] (1985)
Arizona joined the majority of states that recognized wrongful death claims on behalf of a viable fetus, regardless of whether the child was born alive or died in the womb by expanding the definition of "person" to include a viable fetus.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
Olmstead v. L.C. (1999)
In the 1999 case Olmstead v. L.C., hereafter Olmstead, the United States Supreme Court held in a six to three decision that the forced segregation of people based on disability violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Two women with mental and intellectual disabilities, Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson, referred to as L.C. and E.W. in case documents, sued the state of Georgia and Tommy Olmstead, the Commissioner of Georgia who headed the Department of Human Resources, for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Format: Articles
Beal v. Doe (1977)
In the case of Beal v. Doe, tried in 1977, the US Supreme Court ruled that states could constitutionally restrict money from Medicaid from funding elective abortions. After the 1973 case Roe v. Wade, in which the US Supreme Court had ruled women have the rights to terminate pregnancies within the first trimester, the state of Pennsylvania passed legislation that restricted the use of Medicaid funds for abortion procedures. In 1977, several Medicaid eligible women who were unable to receive coverage for a non-therapeutic abortion brought a case against Frank S.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Doolan v. IVF America [Brief] (2000)
The implication of the court's decision was that Thomas Doolan's identity or personhood existed at the embryo stage in vitro, thus the fact that he was born with cystic fibrosis was not attributable to the decision of the in vitro fertilization providers to implant one embryo instead of another. The other unused embryo may not have carried the cystic fibrosis genes, but that other embryo was not Thomas Doolan. The decision in Doolan has not been publicly tested in other jurisdictions.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (1922), by Harry H. Laughlin
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States is a 1922 book in which author Harry H. Laughlin argues for the necessity of compulsory sterilization in the United States based on the principles of eugenics. The eugenics movement of the early twentieth century in the US focused on altering the genetic makeup of the US population by regulating immigration and sterilization, and by discouraging interracial procreation, then called miscegenation.
Format: Articles
Subject: Outreach, Legal, Ethics, Publications
Bailey v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Virginia (1994)
In 1994, the Eastern Virginia District court case Bailey v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Virginia established that insurance companies could not deny coverage for experimental stem cell therapy treatments. The plaintiff, Mary Bailey, was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer and sought treatment involving high-dose chemotherapy and an advanced stem cell treatment, which was a novelty at the time. Stem cells are cells that have the potential to develop into several different types of cells in the body.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal


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This week's rhetoric over the budget — or lack thereof, yet — showcases a messaging war over the blame game between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
First, Speaker John A. Boehner repeatedly tried to pin the automatic sequester cuts on President Barack Obama in a Monday floor speech. Now, Obama's Democratic allies in the House are trying to pin rampant deficits on Congress.
The back-and-forth underscores that in the House this week, it's all about messaging, with Republicans bringing a bill to the House floor to force Obama to submit a balanced budget that by all indications is destined never to become law.
An amendment introduced by freshman Rep. Mark Takano to the GOP's budget bill would subtly alter the legislation's findings section, which currently says, "Since taking office, the President has allowed the Federal debt to grow by nearly $6 trillion and total debt now exceeds the size of the entire economy of the United States."
The amendment by the California Democrat would change that text to read that "Since the President took office, Congress has allowed" the deficit to rise.
The House Rules Committee allowed Takano's amendment to be considered but not one submitted by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, ranking member on the Budget Committee and a top strategist for Democrats on spending battles.
The Maryland Democrat's amendment would temporarily replace the sequester cuts with a combination of spending cuts and tax increases.
Specifically, the amendment eliminates certain "direct payment" farm subsidies, increases taxes on the oil and gas sector, and implements the "Buffett rule" proposal to ensure high-income individuals pay a minimum tax rate.
Van Hollen estimated the replacement provisions were about one-third cuts and two-thirds new revenues.


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As coronavirus cases spike, governors rely on sometimes misleading hospital data
Published 10:21 pm Friday, June 26, 2020
Governors in places seeing huge spikes in coronavirus infections often cite statewide data to assure the public they have plenty of hospital capacity to survive the onslaught, even as the states routinely miss the critical benchmarks to guide their pandemic response.
Public health officials and experts say the heavy reliance on statewide hospital data is a misleading and sometimes irresponsible metric to justify keeping a state open or holding back on imposing new limits.
That is because statewide statistics can be deceiving, especially in large states where individual hospitals can be in crisis mode even while the overall capacity numbers look OK.
Thomas LaVeist, dean of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, said basing pandemic and reopening policy on statewide hospital bed capacity ''is incredibly irresponsible."
"To cherry-pick hospital capacity and to use that one metric without the context of number of cases, number of deaths, is shocking," LaVeist said.
The issue of hospital capacity has gained urgency across the nation this week as Florida, Texas, California, Arizona and other states reported skyrocketing case numbers. Governors have repeatedly invoked hospital capacity in arguing against new business restrictions, though the dynamic began to shift Friday when Texas and Florida clamped down on bars amid an increasingly dire situation with COVID-19.
At the first White House coronavirus briefing nearly two months Friday, Vice President Mike Pence also cited hospitalizations in discussing the outlook for the pandemic.
Two months ago, Pence said 15% of patients were being hospitalized. Now it's about 5%. That means the health care system is better positioned to cope with a resurgence in cases, he says.
In Texas, the state health department's website on Thursday showed 12,951 available beds, 1,320 available ICU beds, and 5,850 available ventilators. What it doesn't break down is how bleak the situation is in some particular places, including Houston, the nation's fourth largest city. Hospital beds in Houston are filling so fast that Texas Children's Hospital is starting to treat adult patients, and 97% of ICU beds at Texas Medical Center were in use.
In Miami, Homestead Hospital confirmed Tuesday it was at capacity. The hospital was transferring patients to other hospitals and preparing to convert regular beds to beds for ICU and acute care patients, if needed.
In Arizona, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has declined to impose new restrictions on business activity or a stay-at-home order, repeatedly citing ample capacity in the state's hospitals as the reason he is comfortable staying open.
"That's what's most important when there's a rise in cases," Ducey said earlier this month.
Ducey has condemned as "misinformation" the notion that hospital space is running short, even as state data shows that 85% of Arizona's hospital beds are occupied. Arizona has about 2,500 hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
At the same time, the state is badly missing the mark on the benchmarks established by the White House task force to guide the reopening of the economy, with 23 percent of COVID-19 tests coming back positive in the past week in Arizona.
The task force does not include statewide hospitalizations as part of its criteria that states are supposed to meet before reopening. Those criteria include a downward trajectory of cases within a two-week period. They also specify that hospitals should have enough intensive care unit capacity to treat a surge in patients and should have a robust testing program in place for at-risk healthcare workers, including virus antibody testing.
Dr. Joseph Gerald, associate professor of public health policy and management at the University of Arizona, said that if the trend continues, cases will likely exceed statewide hospital bed capacity within the next several weeks.
California has broken several of its own daily records for the number of positive tests and hospitalizations have risen by more than 30 percent in the past two weeks. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has sounded an upbeat tone in recent days about hospital capacity but changed his tune somewhat on Friday, saying he wants a Southern California county that borders Mexico to consider a stay-home order again.
Dr. Colleen Kraft, associate chief medical officer at Emory Hospital in Atlanta and a member of Georgia's coronavirus task force, said regional hospital bed capacity would be a better metric than statewide capacity. She lamented that the pandemic has seemingly devolved into a "political situation."
"As someone who came into medicine to serve people, it's difficult to watch," Kraft said.
Robyn Gershon, a professor and public health expert at New York University, called using statewide hospital bed capacity to guide policy "completely unethical."
''It's unethical to say let's just go about our business and by the way, we can handle the overflow," Gershon said. "A better measure is the 14-day and seven-day case infection rate. That's what's telling us what's going on right now.''


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Another day, another soapy Dove ad aiming to make women become more "body-positive." This time they're trying to convince women that their armpits are beautiful, because everything is beautiful, even your sweaty pits, and Dove is here to tell you about it because they're you're best friend! And they make deodorant.
Just watch this video of women reading a letter to their armpits.
"You can be a softer, smoother, more beautiful little armpit — you deserve our best care ever, and don't you ever forget that." Take out "armpit" and replace it with "woman," and you get Dove's basic philosophy.
Now imagine the waiting room advertising casting call: "You, sir, will be buying a new car! You, miss, will be reading a letter to your armpit."
The worst part is the billboard, scheduled to appear in July, that will tell New Jersey residents they should be flattered that their state is often compared to an armpit. The billboards feature a confident blonde women giving innocent drivers a faceful of her super-groomed armpit. "Dear New Jersey," the ad says, "When people call you 'the Armpit of America,' take it as a compliment. Sincerely, Dove."
First of all, Dove just went from friend to frenemy. What kind of toxic passive-aggressive blather is that? That's like saying "Dear Charlotte, When Sara from Bio called you a horse-faced bitch, take it as a compliment. Sincerely, Marissa K."
Secondly, as a native of the Garden State, I would rather suffer that particular slur with the quiet dignity of a besieged martyr. Please don't make us storm the streets, Les Miserables style, raising our arms against the injustice of armpit-slander.
That armpits are gross is one of the only remaining basic human truths: love is good, death is sad, chocolate is delicious and armpits are disgusting. Don't take that away in the name of deodorant sales. Besides, I don't want to "cherish" my armpits, I just want them to not smell horrible. Not having to think about how they look is one of the only good things about armpits. What's next, armpit concealer?
I shudder to think what might happen if Dove moves to the lower half of our bodies in its quest to make us beautify each and every one of our parts. [h/t NYT]
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Oracle isn't done releasing patches for Java SE this month, as another batch will arrive Feb. 19, according to a company blog post.
On Feb. 1, Oracle pulled the trigger early on the February release, which had originally been scheduled for Feb. 19, due to a serious vulnerability that affected Java at the browser level.
As a result of the sped-up release, Oracle didn't manage to include a "small number" of fixes that had been planned for inclusion, according to the blog.
Critical patch releases for Java SE are cumulative in nature, meaning that any user who didn't apply the group released on Feb. 1 will get everything at once in the Feb. 19 batch, according to the post.
The patch set released Feb. 1 https://blogs.oracle.com/security/entry/february_2013_critical_patch_update">contained 50 fixes, including 44 for vulnerabilities at the browser level. It wasn't clear Friday how many more will be added to the set later this month.
Oracle has come under fire lately over Java, not only regarding vulnerabilities but also the fact that Java updates include third-party software, or as some critics call it, "crapware," such as the Ask.com toolbar.
An online petition asking Oracle to stop the practice had garnered more than 10,000 signatures as of Friday.
Users can opt out of installing the software, however.
Oracle's head of Java security also recently made a public pledge that Oracle will "fix" Java as well as be more open and regular with its communications around the language.
Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris' email address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Sit nearly anywhere in Palo Alto these days and one is bound to encounter that latest branch of human evolution, Homo mobilis -- Mobile- electronics Man -- hunched over digital devices.
Seemingly oblivious to their surroundings and hopelessly engrossed in what an outsider might observe as trivial pursuits, they may in reality be true artists in the midst of creating works. Fingers are their brushes, laying down colors with broad swipes across the digital screen; photographs become montages of mixed media in pencil, pen or pastel.
This is the new artistic mobile age, where technology stretches the boundaries of art -- and art is literally at everyone's fingertips. A three-day event at the Pacific Art League, the mDAC -- Mobile Digital Art Exhibition and Mobile Digital Arts & Creativity Summit -- will give viewers and participants a chance to experience how far the boundaries between art and technology are expanding. The 80-artist, juried exhibition opens Aug. 1, and the two-day technology and creativity workshop begins on Aug. 2 with something for everyone from beginner to master.
"Our key vision is to teach art, no matter what the platform is," Seth Schalet, Pacific Art League's executive director, said. "We want to teach people to discover their creativity. Traditional art forms and digital art are both part of the same lineage in our view.
"We're here in the (Silicon) Valley. Our goal is to leverage this technology. We want to teach corporate classes and workshops and to take art into the community and make it easier to engage."
The two-pronged approach of exhibit and workshops aims to spark creativity in everyone, regardless of their level technical or artistic ability. The exhibition, now in its second year, runs throughout the month. It is free to the general public. The Digital Arts and Creativity Summit, the first event of its kind globally, offers two days of workshops and lectures by renowned speakers in their fields from around the world. It is a paid event.
The summit offers 17 classes ranging from basic digital mobile drawing skills to art applications for oil and acrylic painters, making comics, caricatures, portraits, creative art collage, photo manipulation, printing and publishing mobile art and 3-D modeling and 3-D printing using programs and applications such as SketchBook Pro, Paper 53, ArtRage, Art Apps, Procreate, iPad Animation and iColorama.
If it all sounds daunting, the subject matter is divided into two tracks: a mobile digital-art track that focuses on creation of digital artwork using key mobile art applications (apps), and a mobile creativity track that focuses on the creative aspect of mobile devices, including basic digital art creation, animation and 3-D printing. People can attend any session from either track based on their interest, said Sumit Vishwakarma, founder of iPadtoArt.com and Mobile Art Academy, who is partnering with the Pacific Art League to put on the exhibition and summit.
With prices coming down for digital applications over time, the ability to make digital art available to everyone, Schalet said. And digital art can expand the horizons not only of people who consider themselves artistically talented but also of those who don't. Many people in technology use their creativity every day to write programs or develop computer products, but they don't necessarily consider themselves the "creative types." But mobile digital arts allow tech types to expand their definition of creativity in unexplored ways. Such exposure could also encourage people who thought they had no artistic ability to gain confidence and further explore the more traditional arts, said Schalet, who has a background in manufacturing data center equipment.
Vishwakarma has tapped into his own artistic talents through mobile devices. His inspiration can come at a moment's notice, he said. He creates art on an iPad and tablets using different applications; his fingers or a stylus are his brushes and pencils.
"If I want to draw in the train station, I can just take out my iPhone and sketch. You have a full studio in your hand," he said.
Vishwakarma's love of mobile digital art sparked him to found the Mobile Art Academy with Education Director Caroline Mustard. The academy offers digital art classes for all ages and levels of ability, from toddlers to seniors, and offers free tablet-art workshops in public libraries and to local organizations.
Mobile digital art can especially benefit children, Schalet and Vishwakarma said.
"Kids can draw free from fear. In digital art, you can erase. It gives people the chance to experiment," Schalet said.
Digital art can inspire kids because it removes much of the frustration.
"Digital art allows you to draw in layers. If something goes wrong in that layer, you can delete it," he added.
And, Vishwakarma added, many apps "are less than the price of a coffee cup."
The exhibition offers a sampling of the range of techniques one can now use through applications, from watercolor to pastel, oil to pencil. The show attracted 720 submissions from 300 artists and from a dozen countries, including Canada and Singapore, Schalet said.
Because it is immediately transportable, digital art enables local venues such as the Pacific Art League to have a truly global exhibition that is representative of different cultures and socioeconomic levels -- one that mirrors Silicon Valley's cultural diversity, he said.
Jurists were also surprised by the overall quality of the work, he added.
"The bar was very high. It was a tough call," Schalet said.
The jury panel included traditional and digital artists, a mix perhaps reflective of a growing acceptance of digital art as a "true art."
Schalet said digital art can be measured in some of the same ways as any art form: composition, level of detail, texture, for example. But there is something deeper that makes any work of art great art whether it comes off a microchip or a canvas, he said.
"In the end you ask, 'Does it speak to me?'"
What: Mobile Digital Art Exhibition and Mobile Digital Arts & Creativity Summit
Where: Pacific Art League, 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto
When: The Mobile Digital Art Exhibition opens Aug. 1 at 5:30 p.m. and runs through Aug. 31. Hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Mobile Digital Arts & Creativity Summit takes place Aug. 2 and 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Cost: Art exhibition admission is free; the mDAC Summit costs range from a one-day pass for $129 in advance ($149 at the door) to $159 for both days ($199 at the door).
Info: Go to mdacsummit.org or email email@example.com.


text: Visitors to Wikipedia who see advertisements on the site have most likely fallen victim to a browser-based malware infection, Wikimedia Foundation, the organization operating the website, said on Monday."We never run ads on Wikipedia," said Philippe Beaudette, director of community advocacy for the Wikimedia Foundation, in a blog post. "If you're seeing advertisements for a for-profit industry ... or anything but our fundraiser, then your web browser has likely been infected with malware."One example of such malware is a rogue Google Chrome extension called "I want this," Beaudette said. However, similar malicious add-ons might also exist for Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and other browsers, he said.This type of malicious software is known as click fraud malware and can target multiple websites at once. In addition to injecting ads into Web pages, such rogue extensions are also known to hijack search queries in order to earn their creators affiliate revenue, said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, in a blog post Tuesday. Spotting this type of rogue behavior on Wikipedia is easier than on other websites because the site doesn't run any commercial advertisements. "We're here to distribute the sum of human knowledge to everyone on the planet -- ad-free, forever," Beaudette said.Wikipedia's operating costs are covered by donations. An online fundraiser is organized every year, and that's usually the only time a banner is displayed on the site's pages.Users who are seeing commercial ads on Wikipedia should disable all their browser add-ons to determine if they are the source of the problem, Beaudette said.Even if this makes the ads disappear, however, it is not necessarily a permanent solution and does not fix the underlying issue. The malware might have other components running on the system that could reinfect the browser."Run an up-to-date anti-virus to make sure that whatever might have introduced the unwanted ads isn't also up to other malicious behavior behind the scenes," Cluley wrote.If disabling the browser add-ons and running an antivirus scan does not solve the issue, it's likely that the ads are automatically being injected into Web sessions at the network level. Some Internet cafA(c)s and free Wi-Fi providers are in the habit of doing this, Beaudette said.Visiting the affected website over HTTPS (HTTP Secure) might sometimes remove the rogue ads, because HTTPS sessions are encrypted. There are browser extensions like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's HTTPS Everywhere that enable HTTPS by default on websites that support it.


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Hyatt Place Corpus Christi Celebrates Official Opening
Hyatt Place Corpus Christi Celebrates Official Opening
The 103-room hotel is located in the heart of Corpus Christ, Texas
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYS: H) and American Resort Management, LLC today announce the opening of Hyatt Place Corpus Christi, the newest hotel in Corpus Christi and the first Hyatt Place hotel in the area. Located in the heart of Corpus Christi, the hotel is minutes away from Padre Island National Seashore, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, and Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.
"We are very excited to introduce Hyatt Place to the South Texas market," said Linda Clark, general manager, Hyatt Place Corpus Christi. "Hyatt Place Corpus Christi brings a unique blend of south Texas hospitality with an upscale service flare that is sure to please leisure and business travelers alike."
Hyatt Place Corpus Christi is close to all major attractions in Corpus Christi, Texas, including the Texas State Aquarium, The USS Lexington Museum, South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center, Hurricane Alley Waterpark, and Whataburger Field. Downtown Corpus Christi's many restaurants, sights, entertainment venues, shopping and Bayfront are just a short drive away.
Hyatt Place Corpus Christi offers:
103 spacious guestrooms, all of which feature a 42" HDTV, plush Hyatt Grand Bed® and sectional sofa sleeper
Free Wi-Fi access throughout the hotel
Complimentary a.m. Kitchen Skillet TM, featuring freshly prepared breakfast sandwiches, a variety of fresh fruits, hot and cold cereal, yogurt, breads, premium coffee and an assortment of juices
More than 1,200 square feet of flexible, high-tech meeting and function space
24/7 Guest Kitchen serving made-to-order snacks and entrees
Intimate Bakery Café featuring Starbucks® specialty coffees, premium beers and wines and cocktails
Complimentary 24-hour Stay Fit® fitness center with Life Fitness® cardio equipment
Indoor pool
Free parking
"In today's age, we are focused on going beyond just providing excellent guest service, but rather providing a positive guest experience," said Richard Coleman, senior vice president, operations & business development, American Resort Management. "We believe the Hyatt Place guest experience is a perfect fit with this philosophy, and Hyatt Place Corpus Christi is dedicated to providing the ultimate guest experience to every guest during every visit."
Hyatt Place Corpus Christi is under the leadership of General Manager Linda Clark and Director of Sales Denise Arnold. In her role, Linda Clark is directly responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the hotel, including overseeing the hotel's 21 associates and ensuring guests encounter the purposeful service for which Hyatt Place is known. Arnold is responsible for providing sales service and support to travelers and meeting planners frequenting the Corpus Christi and South Texas area.
Launched in 2006, Hyatt Place brings to the upscale select service hotel category the authentic hospitality for which Hyatt is known. Inspired by multitasking travelers' 24/7 lifestyle, Hyatt Place combines stylish design and practical amenities with forward-thinking technology and purposeful service. Spacious guestrooms feature multiple areas to work and relax, and include the Cozy Corner, an eight-foot sectional sofa sleeper; plush Hyatt Grand Bed; and ergonomic work center. Every guestroom is also equipped with a state-of-the-art media center that allows electronic devices to plug directly into the 42-inch, high-definition television, giving guests instant access to the technological amenities they're accustomed to accessing at home or in the office. Hyatt Place hotels also feature complimentary Wi-Fi access, a StayFit@Hyatt fitness center, a coffee and wine bar serving specialty coffees and premium wine and beer, and a Grab 'n Go case stocked with freshly made sandwiches and salads. The Guest Kitchen offers made-to-order breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées around the clock, in addition to the a.m. Kitchen SkilletTM, a complimentary hot breakfast served daily. Specially trained Hosts are on hand to offer assistance with everything from directions to check-in to a freshly made meal.
Hyatt Place, a brand of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, offers more than 170 locations in United States, Costa Rica and India. For Hyatt Place information or to make a reservation, call 1-888-HYATT-HP (888-492-8847) or visit www.HyattPlace.com.
About American Resort Management LLC
American Resort Management, LLC is a rapidly growing full service hospitality management & hotel development company with several new hotels under development. American Resort Management, LLC's concentration is on the development and the long-term management of; select and full service hotels, indoor water park resorts, outdoor water parks, family entertainment centers and franchised & independent restaurant concepts. American Resort Management, LLC achieves positive results from a "hands-on" management style that focuses on the guest experience. Driven by success, our focus is to provide excellence resulting in measurably higher returns. We operate our projects to the highest standards in the hospitality industry. Our aim is clear: to establish strong, profitable operations by providing well-maintained facilities staffed by friendly, well-trained individuals who embrace our commitment to exceeding our guests' expectations each stay.
American Resort Management, LLC is an approved operator of facilities featuring brands from industry leaders such as; Hyatt Place, Starwood, Hampton Inn, IHG and various other flags. Visit American Resort Management at: www.americanresortmanagement.com.
About Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, headquartered in Chicago, is a leading global hospitality company with a proud heritage of making guests feel more than welcome. Thousands of members of the Hyatt family strive to make a difference in the lives of the guests they encounter every day by providing authentic hospitality. The Company's subsidiaries manage, franchise, own and develop hotels and resorts under the Hyatt®, Park Hyatt®, Andaz®, Grand Hyatt®, Hyatt Regency®, Hyatt Place® and Hyatt HouseTM brand names and have locations on six continents. Hyatt Residential Group, Inc., a Hyatt Hotels Corporation subsidiary, develops, operates, markets or licenses Hyatt ResidencesTMand Hyatt Residence ClubTM. As of September 30, 2012, the Company's worldwide portfolio consisted of 496 properties in 45 countries. For more information, please visit www.hyatt.com.
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Story highlights
Some furloughed workers say they can't feed their families without help
"These folks (furloughed employees) don't know how to be poor," said head of one food pantry
"It's a damn shame," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, told CNN.
Getting out of her car, the wife of a furloughed government worker walked toward a small building full of free food.
She approached the door with her head down. An attendant asked for her name, she looked up and began to sob.
"It's ok, it's not your fault," the volunteer said as she wrapped her arms around the crying woman.
Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry, located 30 miles from the political impasse in Washington that resulted in the shutdown, put together a food giveaway tailored to affected workers not at their jobs and not being paid.
Roughly 200 people received bags of frozen meat, canned vegetables and other staples on Monday morning.
"These folks (furloughed government employees) don't know how to be poor," said Rev. Robert Hahn, the head End Hunger in Calvert County, a consortium of food pantries in the area. "These folks are fish out of water and they feel humiliated, like they have lost their dignity."
This is the second offering Hahn's group has made to federal employees. Last week, the group passed out 2,700 pounds of food to 71 different families. And if the government shutdown continues, Hahn said he anticipates his group will continue this sort of offering.
The shutdown that began on October 1 has impacted hundreds of thousands of federal workers and contractors in the Washington region, including people at the epicenter of the partisan shutdown showdown in Congress.
Washington-area food banks have responded to an unexpected need this fall created by the shutdown, their efforts already tested by a continued, uneven economic recovery and tough job market.
Men and women were on both sides of the help on Monday in Calvert County – those receiving and those distributing food.
Those helping out included one person who works for the Department of Justice and another employed by the Navy.
CNN agreed not to identify furloughed workers receiving food due to a combination of their embarrassment and not wanting to hurt their employer.
"Getting paid helps, but it doesn't help right now," said one, who acknowledged she'll probably get paid once the shutdown ends.
Still, the woman said she is struggling to put food on the table.
Some told CNN they were living paycheck to paycheck.
"The biggest thing (people are feeling) is fear," said Hahn. "Even a lot of federal employees who know that they're going to get their checks made up, they're still going to be shy" if they miss a couple of pay periods.
President Barack Obama visited a food pantry in downtown Washington on Monday where he helped make peanut butter sandwiches.
He told reporters that he stopped by Martha's Table because many of volunteers there had been furloughed.
"They're here contributing and giving back to the community and I think that shows the kind of spirit that we have among all kinds of federal workers all across the country, people who dedicate their lives to public service," Obama said.
Hahn, who has worked for Chesapeake Church for 20 years, said many of the men and women he saw collect food on Monday were new faces who had never sought their help in the past.
While a study by Main Street showed that Calvert County was the 13th wealthiest county in the United States in 2012, Hahn said that ranking doesn't show how many "working poor" live in the area.
"It's a damn shame," Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley told CNN. "It's no fault of their own, but they find themselves now in a position of, of having to come here for help."
O'Malley, who attended the event, said he would recommend that "those who for ideological reasons feel shutting down our government is a good idea" should "come here and see the families that are showing up for help to feed their families for the first time in their lives."
As volunteers passed out food, there was obvious frustration with political leaders in Washington.
Those in line lamented the fact they were expected to just go without pay.
Hahn said he had more important things to do than worry about how things will shake out on Capitol Hill.
"I would say this to the president and Congress, your job is to solve problems, not to create problems," Hahn said. "We are here solving problems."
CNN's Jim Acosta contributed to this report.


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A patent dispute between Apple and Samsung Electronics in a California court is headed for a retrial next year, after an appeals court vacated and sent back to the lower court for further proceedings a part of the damages award by a jury.
The retrial with eight jurors is now scheduled for March or April next year, Judge Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division proposed Tuesday.
The judge indicated that she was acting on the mandate just received from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The lawsuit has dragged in the district court since 2011 alongside another suit also for patent infringement.
"The instant retrial on damages will be the parties' fourth jury trial before this Court, third jury trial in the instant case, and second damages retrial in the instant case," Koh wrote in a case management order.
The court had awarded Apple damages of US$930 million after a jury found that Samsung infringed Apple's design and utility patents and diluted its trade dresses, which refer to the overall look and packaging of a product.
But on appeal, the Federal Circuit reversed the jury's findings that the asserted trade dresses are protectable, and vacated the damages relating to trade dress dilution on certain products.
The appeals court decision impacted $382 million in damages and the new trial will now reassess the damages payable by Samsung for the patent infringements by five of its earlier products: the Fascinate, Galaxy S4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Mesmerize and Vibrant.
Judge Koh is trying to ensure that the trial does not deviate from its focus, stating that she will not allow substitution of damages experts unless in extraordinary circumstances, permit supplemental fact discovery, or let the parties expand the scope of the damages retrial. Koh has set aside seven days for the retrial, giving each side fixed time slots for opening statements, closing arguments and evidence.
The judge has, however, indicated that she may hear a separate motion from Apple which wants the court to order Samsung to pay $548 million in damages. These are damages relating to infringement of design and utility patents that were not vacated by the appeals court, which instead asked the district court to go ahead with a final judgment on this part of the damages.
Samsung is asking the court to declare invalid the claim of an Apple patent also known as the pinch-to-zoom patent, which figured in the lawsuit, or to stay proceedings.
The South Korean company points to a decision in December by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that found claims of the Apple patent invalid, according to Samsung's filing. Judge Koh has allowed one filing from each company on the matter.
She also seems to be encouraging the companies to come to a settlement in the long-standing case. Referring to a case management conference this month, Judge Koh wrote that "the parties shall also address whether they are willing to engage in alternative dispute resolution, and if so, what form, with whom, and when."


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.In this truly homemade shot-on-video feature in honor of truly homemade shot-on-video features, a teenager gets more than bargained for when he pops in a stolen tape of a crappy horror anthology into his VCR. Let's just say he should have heeded the words of the bathtub ghost...
In the realm of Horror Film theory (a field I just made up), there resides two extremes of the genre. On one frayed end rests enigmatic, yet exceptionally well-crafted "mindfucks" that might have an overall meaning totally outside of the cinematic category they're pegged into out of convenience. Then there's the opposite end that certainly belong to the genre, but are of such humble means that most casual fans and undoubtedly "outsiders" are guaranteed to quickly cast off as nearly unwatchable. Both are acquired tastes usually aided greatly by a deeper knowledge and understanding of horror films in order to dig out qualities to appreciate.
Johnny Dickie's debut feature, Slaughter Tales, certainly belongs in the latter. Despite being friends on Facebook with Dickie for some time now, when judged by most standards his horror anthology about a boy and his VCR is awful in almost every aspect. That's to say if someone blindly walked into this, it would be hard to imagine an experience without squirming with lingering disinterest while checking the time. It's as cheap and one-man-band as SOV horror flicks can possibly get.
As for Slaughter Tales itself, it's best viewed as a sandbox of ideas that tick off all the usual gory obsessions of a young fan. There's some Raimi-eqse shots, sly nods to slasher icons, and an armor-masked killer that invades reality resembling Karl the Butcher from Andreas Schnaas' Violent Shit series. All wrapped in DIY claymation and repeated runs to the grocery store for bottles of Karo syrup and food coloring. The most vital aspect this effort nails is narrative coherency. It seems almost a staple for shot-on-video horrors to have passages that make next to no sense at all, but the anthology structure is held up and, even with some dragging, at no time is there any muddling confusion. Dickie also injects a welcoming self-deprecating sense of humor in little reminders that he's aware how truly bad the movie is.
So while it might be more of an experiment than something to recommend, it's just hard to pan this one outright when there's so much obvious passion and creativity on display. Especially from a member of an age group you'd more expect to be wasting the hours in front of a game console than employing his love of horror to create his very own piece of it. For that, Johnny Dickie's Slaughter Tales deserves recognition simply for the mere fact of its existence when considering its maker and the resources behind it. The movie is available in both DVD and special DVD/VHS combo forms direct from Briarwood Entertainment right here.


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Remains discovered last summer during roadwork in downtown Kamloops were those of an arthritic mother in her 50s, dating to before Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas.
Tk'emlups language and culture manager Ted Gottfriedson said the band has learned the bones date back 545 years and belonged to a woman between the ages of 50 and 59 who stood about five feet tall, gave birth to at least one child, was right-handed and had osteoarthritis. No cause of death was determined.
Tk'emlups Chief Rosanne Casimir said no other artifacts were found around the remains when they were unearthed on June 26 below West Victoria Street.
The remains — including rib bones, a femur and shoulder blade — will be reburied in the Tk'emlups te Secwépemc reserve cemetery on Nov. 1.
"The first Europeans to move in here was like 1810, 1811," Gottfriedson said. "This was about 300 years earlier that she had passed away. When she had passed away, this would have been a time when we were at our peak for population, for our culture, for everything. This would have been high times for our people."
He said the discovery reiterates the prevalence of the Secwepemc people throughout the Nicola Valley, a reminder that previous to living on reserves, First Nations were "everywhere."
A proper reburial is important, he added.
"She's been driven over," Gottfriedson said. "For me, personally, I just think of all the times I've driven over her and how awful that is for me to have done that."
T'kemlups praised the City of Kamloops for how it handled the discovery. He cited the city's contractor for stopping work immediately, the hiring of security to protect the remains, and the provision of access for a ceremony during afternoon rush hour.
"It's really terrible for us to step over a grave, well, never mind digging them up," he said. "It's one of the worst things we can do, so we have to have a ceremony to help her in our way.
"It was so cool, the excavator operator asked to be involved. It was very powerful."
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Ratha Chau, the owner and chef of Kampuchea (the old name for Cambodia) told me that it has no relationship to the communist organization that was formed in 1970.
Chau initially immigrated to America to study psychology but found himself being drawn to food. He wanted to create something unique and enjoyable for New Yorkers as a tribute to the street food of his native country.
The menu is based on traditional flavors and classic Cambodian cooking techniques, and then takes it a step further with respect to culture and flavors. Chau explained that everything must be fresh because Kampuchea's food is a combination of cooked and raw ingredients. The menu is not fusion; it is novella. This reflects what Chau experienced and tasted growing up in Cambodia.
Menu items reflect the tastes of southern Cambodia combined with other regional influences.
Although Kampuchea is small and cozy, the atmosphere is lively and upbeat. It is rustic yet modern with Asian oak communal tables, stools-only seating, tin ceilings, and steel fans—all of which serve to create a comfortable atmosphere for your dining experience.
Cambodia is one of the few countries in South East Asia that is underpopulated. It is a peninsula surrounded by Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and the South China Sea. About half of the country is a tropical forest. The country overall is rich with produce and seafood which is portrayed in the country's cuisine.
Chef Chau (ex Blue Water Grill, Asia de Cuba, and Fleur de Sel) decided to take the plunge to open this Cambodian restaurant without realizing that he would create an incredible interest for diverse diners, who would travel distances to experience Kampuchea. The menu is original and creative. It was originally developed by Chef Chau and Scott Burnett, Chau's partner and executive chef. The menu is comprised of five sections—from small Cambodian plates, crepes, Num Pang (Cambodian sandwiches), grilled items, and Katieve or noodle dishes. This diverse, eclectic menu is a delight to the epicure, as it awakens every taste bud of the palate.
The grilled sweet corn is a recommended starter—grilled corn smothered with chili mayo and coconut flakes. It's very light. It could have a South America touch, but the bottom line is that it's delicious.
The Lyche martini is another excellent way to start out. It is very subtle, and not too sweet or boozy, making it a nice compliment to the flavorful and spicy food.
New Yorkers are so lucky to have the world cook for them in their backyards. All of the proteins are made from naturally raised animals. Kampuchea does not serve desserts, but with such a wonderful variety of eclectic foods who needs dessert?
The oxtail stew with tamarind, green papaya, and raw vegetables was my friend's favorite. The sandwiches were also up there as they made for a very nice close to the dinner, leaving one feeling warm, happy, and healthy. Not too heavy with a pleasant aftertaste reminding you that you just had a stellar meal.
The Verdict: I quote my friend who said, "A brilliant little find that should be kept a secret. I would come here alone or with friends again and again."
Price per plate ranges from $9.00 to $ 17.00
Kampuchea Restaurant 78 Rivington Street (corner Allen Street), New York, NY 10002, (212) 529-3901
Lunch: Friday through Sunday 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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