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By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JULIE BYKOWICZ and CHAD DAY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Hacked emails show that Hillary Clinton's campaign was slow to grasp the seriousness of the controversy over her use of a homebrew email server and believed it might blow over after one weekend.
Two days after The Associated Press was first to report in March 2015 that Clinton had been running a private server in her home in New York to send and receive messages when she was secretary of state, her advisers were shaping their strategy to respond to the revelation.
Among the emails made public Tuesday by WikiLeaks was one from Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill, who optimistically suggested that the issue might quickly blow over.
"Goal would be to cauterize this just enough so it plays out over the weekend and dies in the short term," Merrill wrote on March 6, 2015.
It did not, and became the leading example of Clinton's penchant for secrecy, which has persisted as a theme among her campaign critics and rivals throughout her election season. Clinton did not publicly confirm or discuss her use of the email server until March 10 in a speech at the United Nations, nearly one week after AP revealed the server's existence.
WikiLeaks began releasing on Friday what it said were years of messages from accounts used by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. He has acknowledged his emails were hacked. Podesta warned that messages may have been altered or edited to inflict political damage but has not pointed to any specific case of this.
Months after Merrill's message, the campaign was still preoccupied with emails. In May 2015, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon alerted other staffers that the Justice Department was proposing to publish Clinton's work-related emails by January in response to requests by news organizations. Fallon, a former Justice Department spokesman, wrote that unspecified "DOJ folks" told him there was a court hearing planned soon in the case. The name and email address of the person who shared the information with Fallon had been deleted.
Donald Trump on Tuesday called Fallon's email "unbelievable," and his supporters said it showed collusion between the Obama administration and Clinton's campaign.
The dates of court hearings would have been publicly posted in advance on the court's docket. Fallon did not respond to a request for comment from AP. The Justice Department declined to discuss Fallon's email.
It wasn't immediately clear who hacked Podesta's emails, though U.S. intelligence officials last week blamed the Russian government for a series of breaches intended to influence the presidential election.
On Tuesday, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak dismissed the accusations as untrue.
"We are watching very carefully the election campaign in this country," Kislyak said at a discussion of bilateral affairs at Johns Hopkins University's campus in Washington. "We don't interfere (in) the internal affairs of the United States, neither by my statements nor by electronic or other means."
The messages stolen from Podesta's account describe how Clinton's closest advisers considered responding to key events during the campaign, including the discovery of her email server and her congressional testimony over the deadly 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
In emails from March 2015, Merrill suggested a strategy — ultimately nixed by Clinton herself — of having comedian Larry Wilmore and Bill Clinton joke during an event for the Clinton Global Initiative charity in Coral Gables, Florida, before having Clinton join them on stage.
Merrill laid out the scenario in emails to Podesta and other aides: "Wilmore could sit down with WJC and Chelsea and say something like 'Thanks for having me here, it's a pleasure. And I should tell you, I just emailed HRC (I hear she's a big emailer), and asked if she'd join as well. (Laughter).'" He added that Hillary Clinton could then walk out "to applause."
"It would be just light-hearted enough while giving her the opportunity to address this seriously, be a little conciliatory as discussed, and then get back to a discussion about CGI etc.," Merrill wrote in the email.
In the end, Hillary Clinton's team drafted talking points Clinton used at the news conference at the United Nations.
Clinton said she "fully complied with every rule that I was governed by" and that "there is no classified material" among her work-related emails.
Both of those statements were later proved false.
The State Department's internal watchdog concluded in an audit released that Clinton ignored clear written guidance that her email setup broke federal record-keeping rules and could leave sensitive material vulnerable to hackers. The FBI's recently closed investigation concluded that more than 100 emails exchanged through Clinton's private server contained information that was later determined to be classified.
As the email controversy escalated in the summer of 2015, Clinton herself seemed slow to grasp the continuing political damage. Communications director Jennifer Palmieri in August expressed concerns that Clinton "wasn't in the same place" on the issue as some on her campaign staff.
At the time, the political aides were working out details of revealing that Clinton had directed her staff to hand over her server and a thumb drive with copies of her emails to the Justice Department. Palmieri was writing other campaign aides to arrange for a Univision reporter to ask "a few questions on emails" during an interview that would otherwise focus on college affordability.
"As you all know, I had hoped that we could use the 'server moment' as an opportunity for her to be viewed as having take a big step to deal with the email problem that would best position us for what is ahead," Palmieri wrote. "It is clear that she is not in same place."
Clinton's email practices were not the only controversy her campaign's brain trust was addressing.
On October 2015, speechwriter Dan Schwerin circulated among top Clinton advisers a draft of her opening statement to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, to be delivered the following week.
The draft itself wasn't attached in the emails published Tuesday, but other messages showed how it was shaped, including a section referring to Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack.
"We might consider softening the 'Chris did not believe retreat was an option — and neither do I' line," wrote Katherine Turner, a law partner of Clinton's personal attorney David Kendall. "I don't think we want to suggest that there was a commitment to be there at any and all costs."
Following Clinton's tense Oct. 22 testimony, Podesta proposed in an email that she could publicly joke, "I used to be obsessed with Donald Trump's hair, that was until I got to spend 11 hours staring at the top of Trey Gowdy's head," a reference to the slicked-back white coif of the South Carolina Republican who chairs the committee.
Other Clinton aides shot down the idea.
"I love the joke too but I think HRC should stay above the committee," adviser Jake Sullivan replied, "and especially above personal insults about it. She's got every inch of the high ground right now."
Palmieri replied: "Wow. You people are a bunch of ninnies."
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Bruce Weber knows that Kansas State fans may not accept him right away. That much became clear when a small rally for another coaching candidate turned into a protest of his hiring.
The former Illinois coach doesn't have a problem with that, though.
Weber is up for any challenge that's presented to him.
The former Illinois coach was hired by Kansas State on Saturday to replace Frank Martin, whose departure for South Carolina earlier in the week sent shockwaves through the program. The school moved quickly on the hiring, reaching out to Weber in the last few days and finalizing a deal late Friday.
Weber agreed to a five-year, $8.5 million contract that will pay him $1.5 million next season and an additional $100,000 each remaining year. There are also several benefits.
"It's been a whirlwind, to be honest. Just a few hours ago I was in New Orleans thinking I was going to have gumbo," said Weber, who was attending the Final Four before hopping on a plane with Kansas State athletic director John Currie and heading to Kansas on Saturday.
"We wanted a coach who recognized the tremendous opportunity that exists here at Kansas State," Currie said. "Bruce Weber's name repeatedly rose to the top of the list, whose personal values and integrity matched those of K-State."
Weber was greeted at Bramlage Coliseum by a small group of fans who had been planning to support another candidate, and who were displeased with the hiring of a coach recently fired by Illinois.
Weber was let go after compiling 210-101 record over nine seasons, which included six trips to the NCAA tournament and a national runner-up finish in 2005. The Illini went 17-15 and 6-12 in the Big Ten this season, prompting the administration let Weber go with three years left on his contract.
"I'll be honest: We had a young team, six freshmen, one returning starter," Weber said. "The disappointment of a lot of close losses took a toll. It happens."
Weber takes over for Martin, who returned a once-proud program to national prominence after Bob Huggins' departure for West Virginia five years ago. Weber will be the fourth coach to lead Kansas State in the past eight seasons — and the third to cause some consternation among fans.
Huggins was hired still carrying baggage from his messy divorce with Cincinnati, while Martin was a nondescript assistant who had never been a college head coach.
Weber certainly has experience running a program. It's just that not all of it has been good.
He was considered one of the rising stars of the profession after taking Southern Illinois to a pair of NCAA tournament appearances, one of which ended in the regional semifinals. He then took over a program at Illinois that had been built into a perennial contender under Bill Self — now the coach at Kansas, just down the Interstate from Manhattan, Kan., and the Wildcats' biggest rival.
The Jayhawks were scheduled to play Ohio State in the Final Four on Saturday, just hours after officials at Kansas State were to announce Weber's hiring.
Weber had immediate success at Illinois with players largely recruited by Self, returning to the NCAA tournament his first four seasons. That included a 37-2 record during the 2004-05 season, which ended with a 75-70 loss to North Carolina in the national championship game.
The program began to slip soon after, though, and fans who had grown accustomed to winning began to sour. The Illini had a losing record by Weber's fifth season in charge, and despite winning 20 or more games the next three seasons, the program had faded from the national spotlight.
Weber never seemed entirely comfortable following Self at Illinois, and now he'll be matching wits with the Jayhawks' coach at least twice a year.
In fact, Weber had grown so tired of the comparisons to the uber-successful Self that he walked into the locker room before a game in 2003 dressed entirely in black. The quirky coach told the Illini that he was "going to throw a funeral. It's the end of Bill Self."
The idea was to somehow get across the message that the program had moved on.
That's exactly what Kansas State fans are being forced to do.
Martin's intense style and own quirks endeared him to many Kansas State fans. Of course, the winning helped — at least 20 wins each of the past five seasons, four of them ending in NCAA tournament berths, with a trip to the regional finals with Jacob Pullen in 2010.
The school's career scoring leader, Pullen grew up in Chicago and now plays overseas. He offered his assessment of the hiring via Twitter, even misspelling Weber's name: "Bruce Webber didn't think I was good enough to play at Illinois and I don't think he is good enough to coach at Kansas State."
Others have praised the hiring of Weber, whose strong recruiting ties to Chicago will no doubt come in handy at a school that's forced to recruit nationally. Weber is also energetic and personable, two traits that will help as he attempts to quell a fan base wary of more change.
"Give me a chance," Weber said. "It doesn't matter where you go or which coach you hired, there was always going to be a question mark. There's no doubt about that. That's part of college sports."
Bruce Weber knows that Kansas State fans may not accept him right away. That much became clear when a small rally for another coaching candidate turned into a protest of his hiring.
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Who counts and who doesn't count? We hear so much about the "middle class" but rarely about the plight of the poor. And of course we hear again and again that the wealthy are "successful" and the "job-creators" who shouldn't be "punished" by being asked to give something back to the country that enabled their wealth. Conservative "market" thinking and Ayn Randian "the poor are losers" dehumanizing ideology* has become pervasive and dominant as we transition from one-person-one-vote democracy to one-dollar-one-vote plutocracy. In this plutocratic environment the national discussion of tax cuts for the wealthy saturates the corporate media, while the 44 million of us in poverty now are barely mentioned and count for little.
Yesterday the Census Bureau reported (NYT) that another four million people fell below the poverty line just last year, with trends showing it will probably grow. 44 million Americans — one in seven of us — are now trying to make it on $10,830; $22,050 for a family of four.
"We're seeing more younger people coming in that not only don't have any food, but nowhere to stay," said Marla Goodwin, director of Jeremiah's Food Pantry in East St. Louis, Ill. The pantry was open one day a month when it opened in 2008 but expanded this year to five days a month.
This chart (from the Census report) shows the trends.
On top of this, the level of "severe poverty" has hit an all-time record level. At Angry Bear, All Time Record Level of Severe Poverty,
Coverage focused on the headline poverty rate which is horrible enough. Much worse, 6.3% of people in the USA suffered severe poverty, that is lived in households with income less than half the poverty line. This is the highest severe poverty rate on record. That means that over 19 million people in the USA live in households with income less than half the poverty line (severe poverty implies income significantly less than $ 11,000 yr for a family of four) [emphasis added]
The Lifesaver Net Is Under Attack: Unemployment Benefits, Food Stamps, Welfare, Social Security
Even as poverty rises (because of conservative policies) the conservatives are attacking and weakening the safety net that keeps this disaster from getting even worse. They denigrate the idea of our government assisting citizens — taking care of and watching out for each other — as "spending" and "handouts." They say that unemployment and poverty assistance "undermine the work ethic." They say that helping the poor is "reaching into other people's pockets." Click through to read an example of what the Koch/Scaife/Walton (WalMart)/Tobacco/Oil/Corpation-funded Heartland Institute on "handouts". Or click through to read a sample of what the Koch/ Scaife/Tobacco/Corpation-funded Freedomworks (one of the astroturf organizations behind the Tea Party) on "handouts." Here is the Koch-founded/tobacco/oil/corporate-funded Cato Institute saying, about helping the people of New Orleans after Katrina, that government helping people is"coercion" (taxes are theft) and "it is important to remember that you can't be compassionate with other people's money."
This is dehumanizing and degrading and listening to it at all dehumanizes and degrades all of us. And the result is right in front of our faces: poverty grows, poverty becomes more extreme, wealth concentrates at the top, society becomes more cruel, the country falls further and further backwards. We have lived through a decade of conservative policies, and from the NYTimes story on the increasing poverty rate,
"This is the first time in memory that an entire decade has produced essentially no economic growth for the typical American household," Mr. Katz said.
The Money Is Going To The Top
The Census report notes that the highest "quintile" or fifth of income-earners received 50.3 percent of all income last year, the bottom fifth receive only 3.4%..
In 2009, the share of aggregate income received by the bottom quintile was 3.4 percent; the second quintile, 8.6 percent; the third, 14.6 percent; the fourth, 23.2 percent; and the highest quintile, 50.3 percent.
Unemployment Benefits Running Out
Conservatives in the Congress are blocking emergency extensions of unemployment benefits, jobs programs and other critical parts of the safety net that helps people in emergencies such as the conservative-caused financial collapse. So another indicator of human suffering is about to get even worse. Unemployment for the "99ers" is running out, many of them older, with no jobs in sight.
Only unemployment benefits are keeping another 3.3 million from the same fate. (Chart from Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
Health Insurance, Too
According to the Census Bureau report, the number of United States residents without health insurance climbed to 51 million in 2009, from 46 million in 2008. Additionally in 2010 millions of unemployed workers who were covered by the stimulus' COBRA subsidies are losing their coverage. There is no relief in site for years.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Expiring
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Fund from the "stimulus" expires at the end of this month. Steve Benen at Washington Monthly writes that the TANF program, "subsidizes jobs with private companies, nonprofits, and government agencies and has single handedly put more than 240,000 unemployed people back to work."
So of course it needs to be renewed. But conservatives are blocking this. Benen writes,
The irony is, when those Americans lose their jobs, Republicans will say it was the failure of the stimulus. Their pathetic rhetoric will have it backwards — the stimulus created those jobs, and the GOP's filibuster of an effective jobs program will throw these men and women out of work. In a sane political world, this would be a pretty big scandal…
Food Stamps Cut
Last month we saw this tragedy happen, Food Stamps Slashed to Pay for Teacher Jobs Bill. Conservatives forced cuts to food stamps before they would allow a bill providing $26 billion to help states cover Medicaid expenses and teacher salaries to pass.
Social Security
It has been covered here extensively that the President's "Deficit Commission" is talking about cuts to Social Security, which by law cannot borrow so it cannot contribute to the deficit, instead of looking at the tax cuts for the rich and military spending increases which caused the deficits. At the very time older Americans have had their retirement savings wiped out and many cannot find jobs and are taking early retirement, the commission is talking about reducing instead of increasing this vital program!
This is really all about jobs and wages. The best antidote to poverty is more employment and better wages. Just yesterday 300 economists issued a statement saying so. But conservatives continue to block all efforts to provide jobs and lift wages. Isaiah Pool wrote here yesterday, in Latest Senate Jobs Bill Tests The Limits Of Right-Wing Obstruction,
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus has introduced a bill today that is a frankly unadventurous mix of jobs initiatives and tax incentives, with a healthy dose of loophole-closings to make sure that it can be presented as revenue-neutral.
. . . Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued his "hell no, you can't" edict … telling reporters that he'd lead a filibuster to make sure billionaires and millionaires paid not one dime more in earned income tax.
Such is the political environment in which Baucus drops his latest effort to move the jobs debate forward.
So every indicator of a society in terrible trouble — unemployment, poverty, severe poverty, balance of trade, concentration of wealth, foreclosures, health insurance coverage, you name it — is going in the wrong direction. And conservatives are proudly doing what they can to make it even worse! Why do we even listen to them at all?
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Scientists have found that the sleep disorder narcolepsy can sometimes be triggered by a scientific phenomenon known as "molecular mimicry", offering a possible explanation for its link to a GlaxoSmithKline H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine.
Results from U.S. researchers showed the debilitating disorder, characterized by sudden sleepiness and muscle weakness, can be set off by an immune response to a portion of a protein from the H1N1 virus that is very similar to a region of a protein called hypocretin, which is key to narcolepsy.
This can happen in genetically susceptible people, the researchers said, adding that around 20 percent of the European population have the genetic profile making them vulnerable.
Previous studies in countries where GSK's Pandemrix vaccine was used in the 2009/2010 flu pandemic have found its use was linked to a significant rise in cases of narcolepsy in children.
Studies in Britain, Finland, Sweden and Ireland found such a link, and GSK says at least 900 narcolepsy cases associated with the vaccine have so far been reported in Europe.
Narcolepsy is thought to be brought about by loss of function in "wakefulness" cells called hypocretin cells in one of the brain's sleep centers.
Emmanuel Mignot, a narcolepsy researcher and director of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine who has been funded by GSK to look deeper into the link, said the relationship between H1N1 infection, vaccination and narcolepsy gave his team "some very interesting insight into possible causes of the condition".
In particular, he said, it strongly suggested that the defenses, or T cells, of the immune system primed to attack H1N1 can occasionally also cross-react with hypocretin and somehow cause the destruction of brain cells that produce hypocretin.
"When we saw that the portion of the hypocretin that seemed to be recognized by the immune system in narcolepsy patients was similar to a part of the pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza hemagglutinin molecule, we were very hopeful that we were on the right track," said Mignot's co-researcher Elizabeth Mellins, also at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The Pandemrix vaccine mixed portions of viral proteins with a non-viral "adjuvant", or booster, designed to induce a stronger immune response. The shot was never used in the United States and has been withdrawn from use in Europe since the links to narcolepsy emerged.
The researchers said their study provided compelling evidence of "molecular mimicry" - the idea that because of a similarity between a pathogen protein and a human protein, the normal immune response to a pathogen, such as H1N1 flu, could in some people go awry, triggering the immune system to mistakenly attack healthy components of the body.
Mignot said the findings, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, could pave the way to a new blood test to diagnose narcolepsy.
They also point towards potential new ways to try to intervene in narcolepsy before the specialized brain cells have been destroyed and led to the worst level of symptoms.
"This study will shape the next decade of research into narcolepsy," Mellins said.
Mignot, Mellins and their team now plan to study how T cell cross-reactivity to hypocretin can destroy the hypocretin cells in the brain, and whether this process could potentially be blocked to potentially prevent narcolepsy.


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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's three-hour press conference at the close of the National People's Congress, China's annual Communist Party-controlled parliament, was his last before he is expected to step down next year. The content was similar to that of the past nine times Wen has addressed the media at the end of the NPC, but this time the tone was sharper. He warned, for instance, that further delays in political reform increased the risk of Cultural Revolution-type upheavals. It was the rhetoric of a man who knows his days in the bully pulpit are numbered.
Speaking at the languid pace of a teacher addressing a class of kindergartners, Wen welcomed public criticism of the government, slammed the Dalai Lama and expressed hope for the eventual reunification of China and Taiwan. He called for a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Syria. And he expressed hope that the rewards of China's economic growth could be more evenly spread to poorer regions in the country's interior, a goal he and President Hu Jintao have advocated since they came to power a decade ago.
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Wen is the Chinese government's point man for responding to disaster. He consoles victims of earthquakes, droughts, floods and last year's high-speed rail crash in Wenzhou. And he offers a soothing face to the outside world as well, offering assurances on everything from the rate of China's economic growth to the rate of political change. He warned Wednesday that without political reform, China's economic development will stagnate, social divisions won't be resolved "and the historical tragedy of the Cultural Revolution may re-occur." When Chinese leaders speak of political reform they don't mean full democratization but rather "democratic supervision" — giving citizens a voice, and sometimes a vote at local levels, but always within the confines of a system run by the Communist Party. Even within such restrictions Wen is the leading — and some observers would say only — advocate of democratic reforms among China's top decision makers. He said he paid attention to this out of "a sense of duty."
Wen's comments on the Cultural Revolution were interpreted by some observers as veiled criticism of Bo Xilai, the embattled party boss of the southwestern megacity of Chongqing. Bo, who has promoted a revival of Mao-era socialist songs and similar "red culture," has been under fire since one of his deputies, former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun, appeared suddenly last month at the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, a city about 200 miles from Chongqing. After leaving the consulate Wang was detained by state security officers and is now under investigation. Wen offered more explicit criticism when he was asked whether Wang's case would affect public trust in either the Chongqing or national governments. The premier responded that the Chongqing government must "reflect and earnestly draw lessons from the Wang Lijun incident."
When asked about the ongoing self-immolations in Tibetan regions, Wen said "we feel extreme sorrow," and the government "doesn't approve of using these extreme methods to destroy social harmony." Wen didn't explicitly link the immolations to the Dalai Lama, but he blamed the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader of attempting to divide Tibet from China. Wen repeated the long-held view that China needs to further encourage economic development in Tibet. Such pro-growth policies have similarly been followed in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where some members of the Uighur minority group oppose Chinese control. The authorities' hope is that development will eventually undermine resistance in those regions.
On Syria, Wen said that the Chinese government recognized the aspirations for democracy in the Arab world, and he called for an end to the bloodshed. His words were reminiscent of his first NPC press conference as premier in 2003, when he held out hopes for a peaceful settlement in Iraq. But there was a notable difference. Nine years ago China went along with U.N. resolutions against Saddam Hussein's regime. Last month China joined Russia in vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution criticizing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It's a sign that like Premier Wen himself, China will be a little more forceful in making its positions known.
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text: Italy's largest private broadcaster Thursday welcomed the decision of a Rome civil court to restore its right to use the mediaset.com international Internet domain after failing in a bid to recover it from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in February.The ninth section of Rome's civil court Wednesday accepted Mediaset's argument that the Delaware company Fenicius, and its owner, Didier Madiba, had acquired the domain in bad faith. The court ordered Fenicius to cease using the domain name or pay a a!1,000 (US$1,300) fine for every day's delay in respecting the order.The order did not appear to have been observed Thursday, with a beta version of the site still online under the warning: "This store is under construction. Any orders placed will not be honored." Madiba said he intended to use the website to sell "media sets" in his earlier response to Mediaset's WIPO appeal."Mediaset is our exclusive brand. We are glad that a judge has recognized that. We can't comment on the efficacy of the ruling, which is something that our legal offices will be following," Mediaset spokesman Angelo Santoro said Thursday.Mediaset uses the Italian .it suffix for all its online activities but is concerned that it, and other major corporations, will have to devote significant resources to protecting brands from cybersquatters who take advantage of the introduction of new Internet suffixes to register deliberately confusing domain names."There are hundreds and hundreds of fake domains that the original copyright holders may have to register and protect," Mediaset said in a written statement released Wednesday. In a few cases, the disputes concerned genuine homonyms, but in the vast majority, the confusing domains were registered by professional speculators with the aim of reselling them to their legitimate owners at an exorbitant price, the company said.The problem of cybersquatting has become "an authentic jungle that needs clearing out", Mediaset said. "The judicial road cannot be the answer: it requires financial and intellectual investments on the part of companies and contributes to the flooding of the civil justice system," the statement said. "The problem is urgent and we want to draw the attention of the relevant authorities to it."The Italian media corporation, owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, appears to have been slack in protecting its potentially important. com domain. Madiba reportedly bought the domain for just $10 at a Snapnames.com auction a year ago after Mediaset did not renew its registration.The company had been through a similar experience in 2008, when Mediaset wrested back control of the domain from a Taiwanese company called Mustneed.com. On that occasion, Mediaset's "bad faith" argument was accepted by WIPO.


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Writing with Markdown for Better Content & HTML: Why & How To
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Content creation is hard enough without adding bad HTML into the mix. Echoing his recent talk at MozCon, we're excited to welcome Ian Lurie from Portent, Inc. on this episode of Whiteboard Friday. Learn how to cut out the cruddy code produced from writing in word processors by adopting Markup and text editors as your go-to writing solution.
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Hey, Moz fans. My name's Ian Lurie. I am the CEO and founder of Portent Inc. I am also the Chief Content Badger there. I'm here today to talk to you about Markdown and how you can use Markdown to avoid all sorts of content and HTML tragedies.
1. The tragedy of content creationSo first thing you've got to understand: The one great tragedy of content creation is HTML. If you're a writer or producer or someone like that and you're creating content, you always run into the problem of trying to get that blog post live or trying to get that page live or whatever else, and you end up with one of four possibilities.
- You get bad HTML, because you're trying to write it yourself and you don't know how. I'm one of those people, at least I was until recently.
- You have no HTML at all because you can't do it, and there's no one else to do it, so you end up pasting plain text directly into your word processor.
- You get really slow HTML, because it takes you a long time to punch in all of those tags, or you can find a producer, but it's going to take a long time to find that producer.
- You get really bad HTML, because you write in a word processor, like Word or OpenText or something like that, and you save as HTML, which delivers something that would make any decent HTML programmer pretty much weep tears of blood because it looks so horrible. It adds all this extra stuff. It doesn't render correctly in most browsers, so you don't want to do that either.
So the problem is: How do you create HTML as a writer, without having it interfere with your writing process, right? You don't want to be typing stuff in and all of a sudden you have to stop to write in tags. Without slowing things down because you don't want to have to go back and edit all the HTML either. How do you do that?
2. Yay, markdown!
Well, yay for us, there's this thing called Markdown, and Markdown was created by a developer who runs a blog called Daring Fireball, and I will link to the Markdown Syntax Guide on that site so you can very easily look at it and see it. It is designed to be a really simple way to write in plain text and, with a few simple characters, tag it so that it will turn into really clean, really good HTML.
The great things about Markdown:
- You do write in plain text, so any text editor. You can use one on your phone. You can use one on your laptop. It can be TextEdit, Notepad, anything. I'm going to name a specific text editor in a minute that I think is the best one for you to use. But it could be anything, and you can edit it in anything. It's fully portable.
- That means it's really fast, right? Text editors don't bog down with updates, generally. They don't run into those kinds of problems, so they run really, really fast.
- Text is future-proof. When the day comes that we're no longer reading stuff in text and opening text files, we'll all be communicating directly head-to-head, and we won't worry about all this stuff anyway because you won't need HTML. I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself, but it is future-proof, because 50 years from now you will still be able to open a plain text file.
- It's relatively crash-free. I've always said I've never had a text editor crash. It's true. I've never had one, but as soon as I say that, everybody starts raising their hands and saying, "I had my text editor crash." Maybe it's because you're on Windows. I don't know. I shouldn't say that. But it's relatively crash-free, all right? So it's much more stable than using a word processor.
So you've got all these big advantages. You've still got the problem of how are you going to turn it into what you want it to be?
- Well, Markdown converts to just about anything. If you're willing to go out and study the tools and learn more advanced things like Pandoc, which I'm not going to really talk about today, you can convert Markdown into Word documents. You can convert them into HTML. You can convert them into slides. I've turned them directly into PDFs. You can even do this really fancy typesetting with a piece of software called LaTeX. So there is nothing you can't do with Markdown.
3. Tools & process
How do you do it? Well, the first thing is you need certain tools to fit a process. Like almost any writing process, you write, you preview, and then you convert. If you do that in Microsoft Word, you use Microsoft Word to do your writing, you use Word to do your preview, and then you convert by either saving the file and giving it to someone else, or converting it to PDF or, and please don't do this, converting it to HTML.
If you're doing Markdown...
- You do your writing in any text editor. I will strongly recommend Atom.io, and you'll see why in a minute. And I'll include a link in the text. But just understand Atom.io has many, many advantages. It's really lightweight. It's fast. It's built to handle Markdown, so everything you need is built into it. There's tons of advantages.
- Then you preview it. Well, you can use a website called Dillinger.io. You can use a piece of software on the Mac called Marked 2. But the best way is to just use Atom.io, because it has preview built into it.
- Then you convert it to HTML, and again you can use Atom.io.
I should point out just five to seven days ago, I talked about using a tool called Sublime Text. Sublime Text is excellent for this. I hadn't fully tested Atom.io yet. I have now, and I'm actually switching. I've been using Sublime Text for probably five years now. I'm very sorry Sublime folks, but I'm actually switching to Atom.io, because as a primarily Markdown writer and a very basic text writer, it's very good for me.
4. Making it work
So now it's time to actually get to work, right? So you need to go and download Atom.io. Install it. It's free, by the way. It costs nothing. Did I mention free? Like zero dollars.
- You start writing. Usually, as soon as I start writing, I...
- Save my file and then I save it a lot. And again, because it's a text editor, saving only takes a couple seconds, so it's much, much easier. You save it whatever you want your file name to be with a .md on the end. The .md tells Atom.io and, by the way, almost any other Markdown-literate tool out there, that this is a Markdown file so that when you open it, it will highlight your syntax correctly. I'm going to get to syntax in a minute, but it will highlight and differentiate between the markup and the actual words and sentences that you're writing. So it's very easy to spot that you formatted something as a heading, for example.
- You do more writing. You keep saving. Always save it. They don't crash. I've never had them crash, but apparently other people have.
- Then you go to Packages in the menu, click Markdown Preview and you click TogglePreview. Now, you can do that at the very start, and then what you'll have is two parallel panes where in one pane you're doing your writing, and in the other one it's showing you exactly how the page is going to look. Or you can just do it at the end. I do it at the end because it's distracting. I don't like seeing how it's going to look at the same time.
- You right-click in that preview. You click Copy HTML, and you'll have flawless HTML. I mean flawless. It even converts little single quotes and double quotes to the correct smart quote, so double left-hand, double right-hand curly quotes, whatever.
5. Syntax
Syntax is really simple. Again, I'm going to link to the syntax. I'm not going to give you the complete course on the syntax. The truth is this is 50% of what you'll probably need right here.
But just as an example, if you want to do a level one heading, you do a single pound sign or a hash, a space, and then whatever your text is. When you convert it to HTML, it will automatically become H1, heading one, closing H1. Same thing with H2. You just do two hashes. You can imagine what you do for H3. It's three hashes.
Paragraphs are created automatically. So if you write some text and you hit Enter or return twice, you'll get a clean paragraph. If you want, by the way, for this to be a hard break instead, then you just do two spaces and then return, and it'll put a BR there instead of a paragraph.
Lists become lists, and this is one of the toughest things for writers. It was always the thing that slows me down the most is lists are pretty complicated in HTML. Well, here, you just go one, two, three, just normally your text, and when you save it and convert it, it's going to become order list, list item, list item, list item, closing order list. It's that easy. If you want to do a bulleted list, you just use asterisks instead. It'll do the same thing.
Links, I got really excited so I had to add this up here. Links are also really simple and in fact, again, super simplified in Markdown. What you've got here is you put your text in brackets, then in parentheses you put your web address. It will convert to a full link with the text as your proper link text. You can do the same thing with images. All you do is add an exclamation mark at the start.
So Markdown really lets you take your skills as a writer, focus on those skills, write really well, and convert it to equally good HTML. Then you've got HTML that's ready to be pasted into WordPress or whatever other system you want, or just to be used as a separate page.
That's it. I hope you have fun working with Markdown, and please leave any questions you have in the comments and I will get to them and answer them as quickly as I can. Thanks.


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Anadarko To Pay BP $4 Billion, Settle Claims Related To Gulf Oil Spill
This morning's announcement from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. that it is paying BP $4 billion "to settle all of BP's current and future claims" against it related to the April 2010 Gulf oil spill, "ends a long dispute between BP, which operated the well in the gulf, and Anadarko, which owned a 25 percent stake, about accepting responsibility for compensating those affected by one of the worst oil spills ever in the United States," The New York Timeswrites.
As the Houston Chronicle's Fuel Fix blog adds, "BP will release its claims against Anadarko for about $6.1 billion of spill related costs to date, as well as to forgo reimbursement for any future costs."
The Associated Press says that the $4 billion will be part of BP's "$20 billion trust fund, which has paid out $7 billion so far to settle claims from individuals and businesses. Eleven workers were killed when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off Louisiana on April 20, 2010."
And the AP adds that "BP is still embroiled in suits and countersuits with Transocean Ltd., operator of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, and Halliburton Co., which was responsible for cementing the well. The suits are scheduled to go to trial in New Orleans in February."
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"I'm sorry. Please forgive me! I don't mean to hold you up," he said as he struggled to get off the escalator.
I'll admit to it. There have been times when walking or driving behind an older person I've gotten impatient and upset. I've huffed and zoomed around them because I was in a hurry to get nowhere. Perhaps I'm more aware of it now because I see myself there one day soon. Today I saw myself in this old man's shoes and it caused me to slow down, stop and ask for his forgiveness.
He was about five or six people ahead of me. I was in a hurry and saw him as an obstacle. I've seen people get off the end of an escalator and stop dead in their tracks, gather their things and suddenly there's a pile up of angry people behind them. You can't stop an escalator full of people behind you. Like the Energizer bunny, they keep on goin'.
This man was well aware of the challenge. He tried desperately to step aside. Fumbling with his small packages, struggling to gain his footing, you could see how troubling this was for him. "I'm sorry. Please forgive me! I don't mean to hold you up," he said as he struggled to get off the escalator.
I suddenly saw this in a whole new light. It was like I was watching my future. I felt sorry for him. I felt sick to my stomach because this man was apologizing to everyone, when we should have been helping him and calming his fears.
One by one, people zipped around him. I heard a few angry comments whispered as one lady passed by him.
I saw me.
By the time I got to him he was just about steady on his feet.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know there was more," he said.
"No, sir. No more with me," I said. This really hit me hard. I realized right then how sad it was that the world was in such a hurry. That, of course, included me. But…no more with me. Count me out.
This wonderful man paid his dues. For whatever time he had spent on this earth, he most likely walked many rough roads and too many important miles. Now he should be apologizing for moving slower?
My heart ached as I looked into his eyes. I wished that I could see what he had seen all those years. His face weathered from life itself, was creased and wrinkled. The small soft pockets under his eyes and the gentle lines that curved up and around them told me he had many happy moments, too. Those were traces left behind from laughter and a smiling, happy man.
"My friend, can I help you with those things?" I asked.
Hesitant at first, he finally said, "Well, yes, thank you!"
I placed my hand under his left arm and walked with him a safe distance away from the rush of people.
"So what are you shopping for, sir?"
"Oh, just a little something for my neighbor. She's a young mother raising kids on her own. She's always so nice to me. I thought a box of candy for Mother's Day…" he said, stopping suddenly as he searched his inside pocket of his sport coat.
"Do you need something?" I asked.
"Oh, no. Here. I think I have it right here. I always carry them with me," he said. Then pulling out a hand full of papers he shuffled through them and handed me a business card that read:
"John A. Pomicter
Friend to all…enemy to no one!
I said a prayer today and you were the answer. Thank you!"
"That's for you," he said. "Thanks for stopping to help an old man."
"My friend, you helped me. I discovered that I was unhappy with the world and I was part of the problem. Now I'll be part of the solution. No more with me!"
"Then this was meant to be," he said smiling.
"You know God sends me gifts every day and always at least one special person. You were my gift for today! Let's go get some chocolates, my friend."
— by Bob Perks (firstname.lastname@example.com Visit his web site at: http://www.BobPerks.com


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Friday, January 8, 2010
Hello Sandwich Tokyo Guide in Megan Morton's New Book 'Home Love'
We all know and love the clever Miss Megan Morton but did you know she has just received advanced copies of her gorgeous new book 'Home Love' (on sale later this year). Oh yes, it's very exciting indeed!
Tucked into the back of the book is a little 'Interiors Shopping Guide' and guess who got to share a few of her favourite Tokyo Shops? Hello Sandwich did! eeeep! Thank you Megan! And congratulations on your book - it's so gorgeous! And I LOVE your own handwriting font!
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That's awesome, well done!!! I'll def be using your Tokyo-savvy tips when I finally get there.ReplyDelete
And how sweet is Megan?
that's so coooooool!ReplyDelete
Hello Lee Tran Lam! Oh you have to go to Tokyo soon! And visit little Gracie! Megan is the best! xxxReplyDelete
Lightning Heart! Hello sweetheart! xxx
exciting!!! this sneak peak looks fantastic. thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
how wonderful!!!!!! that's so great!ReplyDelete
i got your gift in the mail!!!!ReplyDelete
hontou domo arigatou ebonychan!!!
i love them! i hung them on my tree in my living room. youre so great! i will send you something back in the near future <3
oh this is so exciting ebony chan!ReplyDelete
i'm also VERY excited about meeting you in tokyo :)
Handmade romance! Hello love! Thanks so much! xxxReplyDelete
Bree-san! Hello! How are you? あけまして おめでとう ございます!
Make it easy-san! Hello Sando! How are you? how was your holiday? Looked so lovely! my pleasure - I am so happy you like them! xxx
Hiki-san! Oh thank you so much for your help with this too! You are amazing! And I can't WAIT to meet you in Tokyo too! eeeep! When shall we meet? xxx
On first pay cheque, i'll be sure to have a look at your suggestions EB. Tokyo is your second home...I hope one day it will be your first....ReplyDelete
congrats love!
silly me,ReplyDelete
i forgot to congratulate you on being featured in this pretty book!!!! thats so awesome!!!
i cant believe youre going to tokyo to meet hikisan! SUGOI!!!!!!!!!
ohhh such a beautiful book! and congratulations on your tokyo guide!ReplyDelete
Gracie! You little cutie pie! Can't wait to see you in Tokyo in next month! eeeep! Two teams must compete... stop pushing me out of the shinkansen...hey who filled in the gap? xxxReplyDelete
Make it Easy-san! You are so lovely! Thank you dear! I know! I wish you were coming too! I saw a boy in a shop today who reminded me of you!
See Hear Say, Yes Megan's book is too lovely! and thank you very much for your comment about my tokyo listing!
Love Love
Hello Sando
Oh I need this book! I want to go to Tokyo next year!ReplyDelete
I was going to say..."the internet is great but it's definitely something else entirely to see some work of yours in real live print." Then I read your interview and realised that you see your work in print every month...but still! Exciting!ReplyDelete


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Notes from the field: The 2012 World Ag Expo in Tulare, CAFebruary 15, 2012
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Peter Perez is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing within the International Trade Administration's Manufacturing and Services division.
When we think of manufacturing, we often think of what we make in factories as the end product. But when it comes to manufacturing farming equipment, the tractor is just the start – the harvest is the end product.
This week I got to see firsthand how U.S. farming equipment is being put to work while taking part in the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. Located in California's Central Valley, the event hosts U.S. manufacturers and attracts foreign buyers from more than 70 different countries.
While there, I had the pleasure of touring the agriculture showcase with delegates from Mexico, Bulgaria, and Romania, and enjoyed introducing them to U.S. suppliers and spurring new trade partnerships.
It is clear that U.S. farmers aren't the only ones clamoring to use American manufactured farming equipment to improve harvests, efficiency and quality; U.S. farm equipment sets the international standard, and is an important part of our nation's export portfolio.
Expanding manufacturing exports is crucial to the continued success of the burgeoning manufacturing industry. Through the use of foreign markets, U.S. businesses have increased their customer bases, boosting production and their ability to support new jobs at home.
In January alone, the U.S. manufacturing sector added 50,000 jobs, which means in the last two years the industry added a resounding 404,000 jobs in the U.S. And many of these manufacturing jobs are supported by profits made through international trade.
The momentum we are seeing in U.S. manufacturing was also the topic of a White House Business Council roundtable I convened in conjunction with the Expo, where we brought together leading agriculture stakeholders to discuss ways to further support U.S. exports. It was a great opportunity to hear directly about the ways in which U.S. suppliers are investing in research and development, and creating new products to make individual farmers all around the world more productive.
Innovation is the hallmark of the U.S. manufacturing sector, and the key to its comeback. I can tell you with confidence that after seeing the products displayed at the Expo, advanced manufacturing will continue to be a driver for the U.S. economy in the months and years to come.
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama reiterated his commitment to rebuilding our manufacturing sector as we ensure our country is built to last. This Administration is committed to supporting U.S. manufacturers all across the country, and to help realize the fruits of their labor.


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Crowded at the Top of Senior Men Leaderboard
This morning's draw at the 2012 Canadian Senior Men's Curling Championship ended with three teams now tied for first place and another team on their heels. In the feature game, Ontario's Brian Lewis of the Ottawa CC ended Alberta's Rob Armitage's winning streak at six with a convincing 7-3 triumph. Lewis stole a pair in the 2nd end, then followed with another steal of one in the 4th to jump in front 3-0. After a single point to Alberta in the 5th, Lewis executed a nice double takeout to score three in the 6th cruising to a concession by Armitage after the 9th end. Lewis' record is 5-2 chasing the leaders but one game ahead. Alberta now sits at 6-1, tied with Dennis Graber of the host province and Glenn Goss of Newfoundland & Labrador. The BC foursome had the morning off while Goss tangled with Nova Scotia's Dave McCusker. The team from St. John's stole singles in five consecutive ends from the second to the sixth coasting to an 8-2 decision. NS drops to 2-5. In the other men's match-up, Yukon's George Hilderman, looking for his first win, tangled with New Brunswick's Mark Armstrong. Hilderman stole a single in the 9th to tie the score at 5 heading to the final end. Hilderman made a nice hit and roll half buried behind a pile of guards. Armstrong saved the game for his team with a nice out turn tap back for 6-5 win. NB sits at 2-5 while the Whitehorse squad remains winless. Scores & Standings Host Committee Web SiteSaskatchewan's Darlene Gillies was aiming to improve her record and a tie for the lead with Alberta's Cathy King when she squared off against Northern Ontario's Darla Esch. The North Bay skip, with only a pair of wins to date, led 3-0 and 6-3 after six ends. The Unity CC's Gillies, scored a deuce in the 7th and stole singles in the 8th and 9th ends to be one up coming home. In the 10th end, Gillies' first shot drew to the back four foot and Esch followed it to sit one. Gillies attempted to follow her and freeze on top of shot stone but was a bit heavy and slid to the back four foot for second shot. Esch calmly drew to the button for her deuce and an 8-7 upset. Saskatchewan is now 5-2 in a three way tie for second place with NL's Cathy Cunningham and NS' Nancy Delahunt, both with morning byes. Ann McKellar-Gillis won her first game for the NWT as the team from Yellowknife stormed out to an 8-2 lead hanging for an 8-7 win over PEI's Shirley Berry. NWT is 1-6 and PEI not sits at 2-5. In the final women's game of the morning. Manitoba's Laurie Deprez kept her playoff hopes alive and pushed BC's Penny Shantz to the brink with a 12-3 trouncing. Manitoba is 4-3 while BC is 3-4. The round robin continues until Friday, March 23 with semi-finals for both genders then scheduled for Saturday followed by both championship finals, Sunday, March 25 at 2:00pm EST.


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Dodgeball founder quits Google; will Google kill the service?
NICK DOUGLAS — Dennis Crowley announced Sunday night that he's left Google. (His friend Andrew Krucoff scooped him.) The Dodgeball founder said that the company had never given his team the resources they needed to maintain and expand the location-texting service. "The whole experience was incredibly frustrating," he wrote on a group blog. Crowley posted the same story on Flickr, where he also commented that he and co-Dodgeballer Alex Rainert left "regardless" of their Google stock (or options) vesting schedule. "Regardless"? Ha! Google bought Dodgeball 23 months ago. One would assume his contract made him stay two years to collect a stock or options bonus, and Crowley can't be dumb enough to walk away one month before payday. Assume he and Rainert got their money's worth out of these dreary two years — and they sure deserved it, having to sit back and watch startups Twitter and Jaiku take over the group-messaging field. The next question is, will Google shutter Dodgeball? (Photo: Dennis Crowley)


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We are pleased to have awarded 19 internships to CMC students for the summer of 2013. Of these, 11 students are traveling to international destinations and 8 will remain in the U.S. We are proud of and inspired by each and every one of their projects. Click on a student's name below to read more and to follow them over the summer as they "blog" about their experiences, triumphs, and challenges.
Sesa Bakenra '15
OpenMind Projects (OMP), Mae Sot, Thailand
Sesa will work with OMP staff to help create a sustainable, cost-effective language, job-skill, and health/wellness program in Thai secondary schools to benefit, primarily, Burmese refugee populations.
Bojana Bozic '14
National Democratic Institute (NDI), Washington, D.C.
Bojana will work with NDI's Central Eastern Europe project team assisting with their efforts in international development work, with a particular focus on international relations and conflict resolution in the Balkan region.
Kelsey Cherland '14
Women's Voices Now, Los Angeles, CA
Kelsey will be assisting Women's Voices Now with the planning of their spring 2014 film festival focused on gender violence. She will compile a contact database, research the issues presented in the films, view film submissions, and help with the WVoice, an online publication about women's work in Muslim-majority societies.
Mylene "Milly" Fotso '16
Hybrid Social Solutions, Manila, Philippines
Hybrid Social Solutions (HSS) is a public service-oriented company that distributes and services world class, innovative products designed to help rural communities develop by providing them access to basic development-oriented goods and services such as light (via solar lamps). Milly will assist Hybrid Social Solutions with business development and any related tasks that contribute to aiding the rural poor of the Philippines.
Allison Ipsen '14
Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS), New York, NY
GEMS is a NGO specifically designed to serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. GEMS provides emergency housing/shelter, court advocacy, and educational mentoring to the women and girls in its programs. Allison's internship will focus on each of these programs as well as outreach and media relations on behalf of the organization.
Noah Jay '14
RefugeeOne, Chicago, IL
Noah will be working as a summer housing and public policy intern. He will advocate on behalf of the organization as well as assist with external communications such as monthly newsletter and web content. He will also work with RefugeeOne's housing program assisting with client housing arrangements including apartment set-up, ensuring refuges receive safe and affordable housing, as well as ongoing mediation and education services.
Bennett Jones '14
The SCOOP Foundation, Dublin Ireland
SCOOP, Supporting Children Out Of Poverty, is an organization which partners with local (in country) organizations to create educational opportunities for the poorest of children in India and Cambodia through the construction of schools and teacher training. Bennett will intern with SCOOP's executive team on their campaigns in both developing countries.
Lauren Kecskes '14
Child Family Health International (CFHI), Delhi and Mumbai, India
Lauren will intern in two programs with CFHI in India: Public Health and Community Medicine (Delhi) and Confronting Tropical Disease Challenges (Mumbai). In Delhi, Lauren will learn about public health challenges such as immunizations, environmental sanitation, waste management, safe drinking water practices, and social reforms through education, training and awareness campaigns. While in Mumbai, her rotations will teach her about common infectious and tropical diseases such as leprosy, TB, malaria, leishmaniasis, and dengue fever and how these are treated in both urban and rural settings across India.
Huakai "Angelo" Liao '16
Support for International Change (SIC), Arusha, Tanzania
Angelo will work with SIC in their outreach programs aimed at limiting the impact of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. He will be involved in community outreach and education including awareness of HIV and the importance of prevention of transmission, reproductive health education, and life skills.
Lucas Mayer '14
Child Family Health International (CFHI), Quito and Puyo, Ecuador
Luke will shadow and assist doctors in rural Ecuador as a participant in the Amazonian Indigenous Health program. Luke will interact with indigenous communities and their traditional practices. Through observation, he will learn about the intersection between traditional and allopathic medicine in the context of ancestral healing traditions.
Tyler McBrien '14
Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at Council on Foreign Relations, Washington D.C.
Tyler will be interning for the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Tyler's internship will expose him to the ways in which CPA seeks to help prevent, defuse, or resolve deadly conflicts around the world and to expand the body of knowledge on conflict prevention.
Josh Mittler '15
ThinkImpact, Kigali, Rwanda
ThinkImpact was established with the idea of delivering sustainable and scalable solutions to poverty and similar social issues through market-based enterprise solutions. Josh's internship will involve collaborating with local community members in tackling such social challenges as poverty, unemployment, nutrition, and health.
Nora Studholme '14
Human Rights Watch, New York City
Nora will work with the communications department of HRW and will assist with efforts to expose and write about human rights abuses worldwide. She will be involved in planning events, speakers, communications, and administrative duties as needed.
Sarah Swartz '15
Child Family Health International (CFHI), Cape Town and Durban, South Africa
Sarah will be interning with CFHI in two locations in S. Africa. Her programs include Healthcare Challenges (Cape Town) and HIV/AIDS & Healthcare (Durban). Sarah will shadow doctors and observe how the health care system has dealt with a public health crisis that has fundamentally altered the state's social and economic situation. As well, she will work in public health clinics in Durban to better understand the challenges faced by the post-apartheid public healthcare system, including the threats of HIV/AIDS, environmental health issues, and other underlying causes of poor health in the region.
Alexandra Vreeman '16
Free Burma Rangers, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Free Burma Rangers is an organization located on the Thai-Burma border that provides emergency humanitarian/medical assistance to Burmese refugees and as well, documents and reports on human rights abuses to news outlets and the UN. Allie will be working in FBR's reporting office where she will compile reports of military violence and human rights abuses for publication.
Isabel Wade '16
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), Los Angeles, CA
Isabel will be working as an outreach and training program intern with CAST Los Angeles. She will coordinate training and community presentations and outreach requests, help coordinate the outreach subcommittee of the LA Metro Taskforce on Human Trafficking, conduct human trafficking 101 presentations and represent CAST at conferences and events.
Christine Wilkes '16
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C.
Christine will be working at the USHMM in the University Programs Division of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
Elham "Ellie" Yusuf-Ali '15
Child Family Health International (CFHI), New Delhi, India
Ellie will intern with CFHI's program, Rural/Urban Himalayan Rotation. Her internship will offer the opportunity to study various diseases in clinical environments that represent the rural and urban healthcare systems in India. The program focuses on primary care and public health issues, with an emphasis on the needs of rural communities that lack access to healthcare and how this affects urban areas as well.
Jacquelyn Zehner '15
Child Family Health International (CFHI), Cordoba, Argentina
Jacquelyn will be an intern with CFHI's Primary Care and Social Medicine program in Argentina. She will rotate in a variety of clinics and hospitals and witness government efforts to provide care to a large percentage of the population without health insurance. Jacquelyn will also partake in daily care of patients with family care practitioners and may take part in clinical rotations in other departments such as pediatrics, ophthalmology, dentistry, psychology and social services.


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FRIDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) — Youngsters who do not get enough sleep on a regular basis are more likely to be overweight, a new study has found.
Conversely, when children got more shut-eye, they had a reduction in body mass index (BMI) and a significant drop in their risk of being overweight, the researchers found. The investigators also found lower BMIs resulted from differences in fat mass (not any effect on fat-free mass, such as muscle), indicating that poor sleep has negative effects on body composition.
In conducting the study, Rachael Taylor, a research associate professor in the department of human nutrition at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and colleagues followed 244 children from the age of 3 years to 7 years.
Every six months the children's weight, height, BMI and body composition were measured, and their sleep and dietary habits were recorded. The children also wore accelerometers (devices that monitor body movement) to assess their level of physical activity. Additional factors known to be associated with BMI in kids were also taken into account, such as the children's birth weight and their mother's level of education and income.
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The most astounding finding from the newly discovered lead codices is that Jesus Christ was unambiguously and openly gay. He and his disciples formed a same-sex coterie, bound by feelings of love and mutual support. There are recorded instances of same-sex activity – the "beloved disciple" plays a significant role – and there is affirmation of the joys of friendship and of living and loving together.
A whole new complexion is given to that rather puzzling passage where Jesus exhorts his followers to break family ties: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14, 26). It seems clear now that this is less a negative repudiation of family and more a positive exhortation to join in affirmation of a gay lifestyle and love.
There is at least one new parable, that of the two young men. There are clear echoes of the relationship between David and Jonathan, for Jesus speaks of one young man having his soul "knit with the soul" of the other, and loving him "as his own soul". Intriguing is evidence that the Catholics might be closer to the truth about the status of Mary, the mother of Jesus, than are the Protestants. She has a much bigger role in the life of Jesus than many hitherto expected, with Jesus frequently returning home and making much of her.
Conversely, there is at least one incident when Jesus quarrels violently with Joseph, who shows great hostility and makes wild claims about "manliness". Before, one might have thought that, given Mary's virginity, Joseph's attitude was reflecting the ambiguities of his status in the family; but now it seems more probable that we have here a classic example of the Freudian triangle: over-possessive mother, hostile father, gay son.
Why have we known so little about all of this before? A newly discovered Pauline epistle, appropriately to the Athenians, suggests a major Platonic influence, particularly of the Republic. The classically educated Paul, who was himself gay, saw that same-sex activity was inimical to the success of Christianity in the highly homophobic societies in which he lived. Hence, same-sex affections and activity were concealed, to be known to and practiced by only the leaders in secret – the guardians of Christianity as one might say. Obviously, this is a tradition that has flourished and lasted. It is not by chance that John Henry Newman is being made a saint.
Finally, the most important news is that nothing in the newly discovered codices challenges in any way the essential message of Christianity. Jesus was the messiah; he died on the cross for our sins; and through his death and resurrection made possible our eternal salvation. Our overriding obligation is to love God and we do this by loving our neighbors as ourselves. Christianity will never be the same again. Christianity will go on completely unchanged.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Ok, this is not only down right silly it is irresponsible. Lead Tablets Reveal Jesus was Gay.
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I don't think this captures accurately what the Guardian is doing here (although Jim West seems to have completely misunderstood it).ReplyDelete
The Guardian, believing that people don't yet know what the codices say yet (and as far as I know there has only been a little translation work done which probably shows they are fake), is inviting contributors to write about what they would really like any additions to the NT to be. The question to which this article responds is "The Question: What would you add to the Bible? If you could add one passage or parable to the New Testament, what would it be?". This is the start of a mini-series of articles from different contributors who, if the Guardian is true to form, will provide a wide variety of ideas.
Although the article is written as if it were a "scoop", it's only an attempt at a response to the invited speculation.


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A Los Angeles man who served 13 years of a 27-years-to-life prison sentence for a crime a judge and the California Innocence Project said he didn't commit was released from custody on Tuesday.
Daniel Larsen (pictured below) was convicted in 1999 of possession of a concealed weapon after two police officers testified they saw him toss a knife under a car in the parking lot of a bar, according to the California Innocence Project, a legal aid organization that works to revisit convictions of people believed to be innocent of their crimes.
Larsen was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison under California's Three Strikes Law because he had prior convictions for burglary.
The 45-year-old walked out of court a free man accompanied by his lawyer and the woman he married in September. He said little to reporters standing by after a federal judge ordered him released.
"To see Danny walk out of prison is one of the great moments in our work," said Jan Stiglitz, the co-director of the Innocence Project. "It's been a long time and it feels terrific."
The order for Larsen's release came while appeals in his case are pending.
During his trial, Larsen's now disbarred attorney did not call a single witness to the stand, including up to nine who could testify that they saw someone else — not Larsen — throw the knife, the Innocence Project said.
His conviction was overturned in 2009 when a federal judge ruled that his constitutional rights had been violated.
The court found that Larsen had shown he was "actually innocent," that the police officers at Larsen's trial were not credible, and that his trial attorney was constitutionally ineffective for failing to call witnesses on his behalf.
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But before he was released, California Attorney General Kamala Harris is challenging Larsen's release, saying he hadn't presented proof that he was innocent quickly enough, the Innocence Project said.


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Deal of the Day: Groupon Now Only Worth $12 Billion
What a basketcase: Groupon has slashed its proposed valuation to $12 billion from $30 billion as it ramps up for an initial public offering. So if you're in the market for a technically insolvent online discounter with shady accounting, now is the time to buy! Goldman Sachs is involved, so you just know it's a good deal.
Now is a bad time to go public. Two companies have cancelled their IPOs this week alone. So why is Groupon slashing its valuation and pressing forward anyway? Probably because it owes more than it has in the bank, having paid out a staggering percentage of its venture capital in bonuses, and it's losing money every quarter. New York Times business columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin is asking why lead underwriters like Goldman Sachs—whose CEO personally sought Groupon's business—didn't blow the whistle:
It [is] not fully explain[ed] how Groupon's underwriters, whose endorsement of the company is supposed to be considered the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, originally came up with Groupon's questionable $30 billion valuation... The cynical reason that the banks stood by Groupon and its accounting shenanigans is most likely the expected fees from the offering. Even if Groupon's I.P.O. values the company at $10 billion instead of $30 billion, the banks will probably walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars.
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