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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Coach Inc. retreated Wednesday on an analyst downgrade while FuelCell Energy Inc. skidded after reporting a wider quarterly loss.
Coach US:COH shares fell 2.4%. The stock was downgraded to neutral at Sterne Agee on Wednesday. "While the company's strategies to kick-start the business may bear fruit over the long term, we believe fundamentals will remain challenged in the near term, which continues to put both earnings and the multiple at risk," analyst Ike Boruchow said in a note.
Shares of FuelCell FCEL, +0.07% declined 7.4%. The fuel-cell maker late Tuesday said its second-quarter loss widened to $16.6 million, or 7 cents a share, from $7.6 million, or 4 cents a share, a year earlier. On an adjusted basis, the company would have lost 4 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected the company to post a loss of 3 cents a share.
Other fuel cell companies were also in the negative territory with Plug Power Inc. PLUG, -2.67% down 0.9% and Ballard Power Systems Inc. BLDP, +2.99% slumping 8.1%.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. BMY, +1.93% shares dropped 3%. The biopharmaceutical company on Tuesday said it extended a drug discovery and development agreement with Syngene International, a contract research organization based in India, for five years.
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. DO, +1.43% shares slid 3.4%. The contract company said Wednesday that a drilling contract was terminated by Statoil ASA, "The contract provides for a day rate of approximately $454,000 and was estimated to conclude in accordance with its terms in late February 2015," said the company in a statement. Diamond Offshore said it disputes Statoil's basis for terminating the contract.
Tibco Software Inc. US:TIBX shares slumped 6.5%. The company late Tuesday said it expects per-share adjusted earnings of between 12 cents and 13 cents in the second quarter on revenue of $250 million to $252 million, adding that revenue was dragged down by disappointing sales of its analytics platform Spotfire. Analysts had expected adjusted earnings of 21 cents a share. Tibco is scheduled to report earnings on June 19.
Under Armour Inc. UA, -8.91% shares advanced 4.8%. The stock's rating was raised to buy from hold and its target price hiked to $65 from $50 at Jefferies, according to 24/7 Wall St.
Newell Rubbermaid Inc. NWL, +0.64% shares climbed 4.4%. The stock was upgraded to overweight from equal weight at Morgan Stanley on expectations of a rebound in sales and earnings growth.
Protective Life Corp. PL, +0.00% shares surged 18%. The Japanese life insurer Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. said Wednesday it agreed to buy Protective Life for $70 a share in cash, for a total deal value of about $5.7 billion.
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NQ: U.S.-listed shares of NQ Mobile Inc. US:NQ surged 36% after the Chinese mobile Internet services provider said an independent investigation didn't find evidence that the company had engaged in fraud, as alleged by Muddy Waters Research last year. Muddy Waters in October accused NQ Mobile of being "a massive fraud" that overstated its revenue and market share. The investigation did say, however, the company "had some lax internal controls and informal business practices; to a limited degree, these informal business practices persist." Read: Carson Block sticks by China short calls as buyers circle
LM: Legg Mason Inc. LM, +0.65% shares rose 1.9%. Stifel Financial Corp. SF, +1.47% said it agreed to buy Legg Mason Investment Counsel and Trust Co. for an undisclosed sum in a deal expected to close this fall.
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Word meanings across languages support efficient communication
Terry Regier
University of California at Berkeley
Languages vary widely in their semantic categories—the ideas they encode in single words or morphemes. Figure 1 illustrates cross-language variation in the semantic domains of color, kinship, and space.
Figure 1. The semantic domains of color (left), kinship (middle), and space (right). For each domain, the top panel illustrates (part of) the domain, and the bottom panel shows the category systems of two languages partitioning that domain. Categories are shown as color-coded regions, sets, or outlines. The research reviewed here seeks to explain why languages vary as they do in their category systems.
Such cross-language variation is found in other semantic domains as well (e.g. Malt & Majid, 2013). Yet at the same time, many logically possible category systems are not found in any known language, and similar category systems appear in unrelated languages. What explains this pattern of wide but constrained variation, and what does this pattern reveal about the relation of language and cognition?
A recent line of research has suggested an answer: this pattern of cross-language variation may reflect the functional principle that language supports efficient communication (e.g. Piantadosi et al., 2011; Fedzechkina et al., 2012; Kemp & Regier, 2012; Kirby et al., 2015), and should therefore show the imprint of selective pressure for that function. On this view, the different category systems that we see across languages represent different language-specific solutions to this shared communicative challenge. At the same time, on this view, certain category systems recur across unrelated languages because they represent good solutions to this functional problem, and are for that reason arrived at independently. In what follows, I first flesh out these ideas and illustrate them in the semantic domain of spatial relations, with pointers to analogous work in other domains. I then sketch a recent challenge to this line of research, and a response to that challenge.
Efficient communication and cross-language variation: The case of space
The idea of efficient communication involves a tradeoff between two competing forces: informativeness and simplicity. A communicative system is informative to the extent that it supports precise communication; this can be formalized as the extent to which a system minimizes expected information loss in communication between a speaker and a listener (Kemp & Regier, 2012; Regier et al., 2015). A communicative system is simple if its cognitive representation is compact—for example, if it has a small number of semantic categories. Finally, a system is efficient to the extent that it provides high informativeness (low expected information loss) for its level of complexity.
These ideas were originally shown to account for patterns of cross-language semantic variation in the domains of color (Regier et al., 2007; 2015) and kinship (Kemp & Regier, 2012), and more recently number (Xu & Regier, 2014) and household artifacts (Xu et al., 2015; in press). Khetarpal et al. (2013) wished to determine whether the same ideas would account for systems of spatial categories across languages, which are known to vary widely. To that end, they analyzed the spatial systems of 11 diverse languages: Basque, Dutch, English, Ewe, Lao, Lavukaleve, Maijɨki, Tiriyó, Trumai, Yélî-Dnye, and Yukatek. The cross-language data for this study were drawn primarily from Levinson et al. (2003), supplemented by other sources. The spatial systems of these languages cross-cut extensively, as illustrated in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Ten spatial scenes, as categorized in two languages: Tiriyó and Yélî-Dnye. Source: Levinson et al. (2003).
For each of these languages, Khetarpal et al. computationally assessed the informativeness of its spatial system, and compared it to the informativeness of a wide range of hypothetical systems of the same complexity. In all cases, the informativeness of a system—actual or hypothetical—was based on the similarity of the items it categorized together, as determined empirically through pile-sorting by speakers of English and Dutch. Thus, informativeness in communication was taken to be the extent to which a spoken word elicits, in the listener's mind, notions that are similar to the one that the speaker intended.
Figure 3 shows results for one language, Basque. The red vertical line shows the informativeness of the Basque spatial adpositional system, and the blue histogram shows the informativeness of a wide range of hypothetical systems of complexity comparable to Basque. The Basque system is more informative than 99.95% of the hypothetical systems.
Figure 3. Informativeness of communication supported by the Basque spatial adpositional system (red line), compared with that of comparable hypothetical systems (blue histogram).
For each of the 11 languages analyzed, the attested system was similarly found to lie within the upper tail of the distribution of hypothetical systems (> 95%). These findings suggest that the spatial systems of these genetically and semantically diverse languages are all nearly as informative as it is possible to be, given that level of complexity—consistent with the suggestion that these systems may reflect a functional drive to support efficient, informative communication. Although not detailed here, the same findings also suggest that this account of semantic diversity provides a better explanation of these data than does a major competing theoretical alternative, namely semantic maps (Croft, 2003:134; Haspelmath, 2003; Regier et al., 2013). Finally, as we have seen, the same notion of efficient communication also explains cross-language variation in other qualitatively different domains (color, kinship, number, household artifacts), suggesting that it may provide a domain-general foundation for semantic categories across languages.
A challenge: The origins of semantic diversity
In a commentary on Kemp and Regier's (2012) kinship study, Levinson (2012) pointed out—correctly—that although that research explains cross-language semantic variation in communicative terms, it does not tell us "where our categories come from" (p. 989); that is, it does not explore the historical or cultural processes that have produced these diverse yet informative category systems. Levinson suggested that this work might be usefully supplemented by experimental studies of cultural transmission in the lab. Carstensen et al. (2015) pursued that idea. They explored iterated learning (e.g. Kirby et al., 2008) of spatial semantic category systems through a chain of human learners. The first learner in the chain was taught a random category system, in which spatial scenes were arbitrarily assigned to categories, and then attempted to reproduce that assignment of scenes to categories. The first learner's output was then provided as input to the second learner in the chain, and so on. It was found that this process of iterated learning resulted in systems of categories that gradually converged toward greater informativeness, in a variety of ways. These findings, taken together with those above, suggest that larger-scale cultural transmission over historical time could have produced the diverse yet informative category systems found in the world's languages.
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Brazil take on Colombia, Germany up against France for semi-final berths
One thing for certain on Friday is that a South American team and a European team will secure their spots in the World Cup semifinals as Brazil face Colombia, and Germany take on France.india Updated: Jul 04, 2014 17:44 IST
One thing for certain on Friday is that a South American team and a European team will secure their spots in the World Cup semifinals.
A pair of 22-year-old forwards who have been among the stand-out players of the tournament go head-to-head when Neymar's Brazil takes on a James Rodriguez-inspired
Colombia team that has won all four of its games so far. The host nation is relying on Neymar to deliver again, and keep Brazil on course for a sixth World Cup
Germany and France have had some memorable meetings in World Cup matches, and both are former champions. The current French team is vastly less experienced than
Germany, which has reached at least the semifinals of each major competition since the 2008 European Championships. France is rebuilding and has not reached any semifinal since its run to the 2006 World Cup final, but is showing glimpses of great promise in Brazil.
What to watch on Friday:
GERMANY vs. FRANCE
The Maracana is where both teams hope to shake off uninspiring second-round wins that exposed some frailties.
Contesting a quarterfinal for the ninth straight World Cup, the Germans will start as slight favorites because of their experience but with doubts surrounding a slow, porous defense that was breached repeatedly in the 2-1 extra-time victory over Algeria on Monday.
Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was forced to play a sweeper role to ensure Joachim Loew's lineup avoided a shocking defeat to the Algerians.
The French left it late against Nigeria, scoring twice in the last 11 minutes to win 2-0 in a gritty performance that didn't live up to the attacking exhibitions they put on in the group stage.
Germany opened with a 4-0 victory over Portugal that immediately put them near the top of contenders for the title, but hasn't reproduced anything close to being that clinical since.
Defense undoubtedly is Loew's chief concern, although the probable return of Mats Hummels at center back after illness will make up for the loss of Shkodran Mustafi for the rest of the tournament with a left hamstring injury. On the eve of the match, Loew said seven of his players had been struggling with sore throats and illness, but he predicted all would be available for selection.
Veteran Germany striker Miroslav Klose may get another chance to break the World Cup scoring record of 15 goals that he shares with Brazil great Ronaldo. Klose is likely to start on the bench behind Thomas Mueller.
Read: Seasoned campaigners face reformed warriors
There may be a change in the center of France's defense, with Mamadou Sakho available again after a hamstring problem. There's also speculation over who will partner with Karim Benzema in attack, with Olivier Giroud and Antoine Griezmann in consideration.
Any time France and Germany meet, memories are revived of their famous clash in the World Cup semifinals in 1982 when West Germany came from 3-1 down to draw 3-3 and win the shootout. In that game, West Germany goalkeeper Toni Schumacher rushed out of his area and broke the jaw of Patrick Battiston with a feet-first tackle that was not punished.
West Germany also beat France 2-0 in the 1986 World Cup semifinals, but France has won four of its six matches since German reunification in 1990.
Venue: Rio de Janeiro
Kickoff: 9.30pm IST
BRAZIL vs. COLOMBIA
Brazil has had an unexpectedly difficult start to the tournament, while Colombia has been a convincing winner in its first four matches and has tallied 11 goals so far - second only to the Netherlands.
Brazil narrowly avoided elimination in the second round, edging Chile in a penalty shootout. Colombia beat Uruguay 2-0 to reach the quarterfinals for the first time. The Brazilians have reached the quarterfinals in six consecutive World Cups, but were eliminated at this stage in the last two and only go into this game as slight favorites due to home-ground advantage.
"It's normal to have people demanding that we play better," Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said. "But it's also normal what we have been seeing in this World Cup so far."
Colombia playmaker James Rodriguez has played an important role in the attack, scoring a tournament-leading five goals and creating many opportunities.
"We're very happy because we are making history," he said. "We want to do even more because this is a team that really wants to win."
Colombia has beaten Brazil only twice - the last time in the 1991 Copa America - but the teams have drawn the last four matches they played.
Neymar has scored half of Brazil's eight goals so far and is the key player for the host nation. He hurt is right knee in the Chile match, but team medical staff say he'll be fit to play.
Colombia coach Jose Pekerman has all of his players available, but Scolari will be forced to make changes due to the suspension of defensive midfielder Luiz Gustavo. Veteran striker Fred has been struggling so far in the tournament and may lose his place in the starting lineup.
Read: Five reasons why Colombia can overcome Brazil's 'Joga Bonito'
Scolari said the attacking style Colombia will bring to the match should suit his Brazilian lineup, and expects it to unlock more opportunities. Colombia fullback Camilo Zuniga, who will have an important job in trying to contain Neymar, said Pekerman had "helped us believe in ourselves ... He drilled into our heads that a Colombian with the ball should have fun, that he shouldn't have to play with pressure."
Venue: Fortaleza
Kickoff: 1.30am IST (5th July)
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Selenium is an essential trace mineral. This means your body must get this mineral in the food you eat. Small amounts of selenium are good for your health.
Selenium is a trace mineral. The body only needs it in small amounts.
Selenium helps the body with:
- Making special proteins, called antioxidant enzymes, which play a role in preventing cell damage
- Helping your body protect you after a vaccination
Some medical studies suggest that selenium may help with the following conditions, but more studies are needed:
- Prevent certain cancers
- Prevent cardiovascular disease
- Help protect the body from the poisonous effects of heavy metals and other harmful substances
Food Sources
Plant foods, such as vegetables, are the most common dietary sources of selenium. How much selenium is in the vegetables you eat depends on how much of the mineral was in the soil where the plants grew.
Brewers yeast, wheat germ, and enriched breads are also good sources of selenium.
Side Effects
Selenium deficiency is rare in people in the United States. However, selenium deficiency may occur when a person is fed through a vein (IV line) for long periods of time.
Keshan disease is caused by a lack of selenium. This leads to an abnormality of the heart muscle. Keshan disease caused many childhood deaths in China until the link to selenium was discovered and selenium supplements were provided.
Two other diseases have been linked to selenium deficiency:
- Kashin-Beck disease, which results in joint and bone disease
- Myxedematous endemic cretinism, which results in
intellectual disability
Severe gastrointestinal disorders may also affect the bodys ability to absorb selenium. Such disorders include Crohns disease.
Too much selenium in the blood can cause a condition called selenosis. Selenosis can cause hair loss, nail problems, nausea, irritability, fatigue, and mild nerve damage. However, selenium toxicity is rare in the United States.
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamins reflects how much of each vitamin most people should get each day. The RDA for vitamins may be used as goals for each person.
How much of each vitamin you need depends on your age and gender. Other factors, such as pregnancy and illnesses, are also important. Women who are pregnant or breast-feeding need higher amounts. Ask your health care provider which amount is best for you.
Dietary Reference Intakes for selenium:
- 0 - 6 months: 15 micrograms per day (mcg/day)
- 7 - 12 months: 20 mcg/day
- 1 - 3 years: 20 mcg/day
- 4 - 8 years: 30 mcg/day
- 9 - 13 years: 40 mcg/day
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- Males age 14 and older: 55 mcg/day
- Females age 14 and older: 55 mcg/day
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Sarubin Fragaakis A, Thomson C. The Health Professionals Guide to Popular Dietary Supplements. 3rd ed. Chicago, Il: American Dietetic Association; 2007.
Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes: Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and Carotenoids. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2000.
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Baltimore Police have made an arrest in the death of a woman in the 300 block of E. North Avenue late Friday night. On Sunday afternoon, police said Darren Ruffin, 47, has been arrested and charged with homicide in the incident.
Police said they responded at about 11:49 on Jan. 18 for a reported aggravated assault.
Police allege that Ruffin had been involved in an argument with the victim, Melissa Davis, 44, and during the course of incident Davis was stabbed, police said. She later succumbed to her injuries, and Ruffin was subsequently arrested.
Sergeant J. Eric Kowalczyk of the city police department said no further information was available as of Sunday afternoon.
Baltimore District Court records indicate that Ruffin was arrested for second-degree assault the day before the alleged homicide, then released.
According to a cousin, Tanika Williams of Boston, Ruffin and Davis were married in Massachusetts last June and moved to Baltimore last November.
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that we should not confuse the problems with neo-feminism in first world countries, with the problems women face in the third world, or other parts of the world.
The problems women face in third world countries are real. They need rights, and they need them enforced.
They need real opportunities and cultural change.
I don't necessarily agree that "feminism" in the sense of women's rights should not be spread in other countries.
I do agree that the misandrist feminism in the modern west is troubling, and anti-men. It has gone from promoting women, to degrading men.
Which is not helpful either. But the problems of women in places like India, and Bangladesh are real, and need to be addressed.
If anyone here has Netflix, I would suggest watching the film "Whores' Glory" which is a documentary that includes very real unbiased accounts of brothel girls in the slums of Bangladesh, as well as girl's in Thailand, and Mexico.
It shows the differences in the situations are quite stark. While the girl's in Thailand seem to be quite happy, the girl's in Bangladesh are literally living in garbage with the young children sleeping in the hallway while men walk around the brothel to the girl's seeking services.
It's pretty bad. When they get too old to bring in clients they have no where else to go because of cultural prejudices.
There's a lot of problems that women rights need to address, these are human rights, and human decency issues.
But that doesn't change the fact that feminism in the west has become redundant and indulgent and a bit vicious and bitter towards men.
There needs to be a middle ground here.
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The Tolstoy of the Internet Era
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom is an epic map of our imprisonment.
A person who read only the first chapter of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom might be tempted to dismiss it as a pretty callow piece of writing. That chapter freeze-dries the novel's protagonists, the Berglunds, at a moment in history, the 1980s, when they and their kind were still relatively unselfconscious and thus shrink-wrappable. "Walter and Patty were the young pioneers of Ramsey Hill—the first college grads to buy a house on Barrier Street since the old heart of St. Paul had fallen on hard times three decades earlier." They drive a Volvo 240, listen to public radio, cook from The Silver Palate cookbook, worry about lead in their Fiestaware, use cloth diapers, fret about maximizing their children's brilliance.
The voice that checks off the items in this yuppie's handbook seems giddy and smug, amused by its own sociological precision. I kept thinking of it as a hectoring presence: that voice. Patty Berglund, says that voice, was "a sunny carrier of sociocultural pollen, an affable bee." "There were people," says that voice, "with whom her style of self-deprecation didn't sit well … as if Patty, in exaggerating her own minor defects, were too obviously trying to spare the feelings of less accomplished homemakers." The reader might be forgiven for feeling plunged into a faintly mean-spirited sendup of gentrifiers and overparenters. Franzen himself has called this sort of relentless cataloguing of bourgeois delusions "fault-finding fiction."
The reader of just that first chapter, however, would be wrong about Freedom. The novel aspires to be a portrait of America on a Tolstoyan scale—at least that's one way to interpret the many references to War and Peace in it—and Franzen has indeed absorbed some of Tolstoy's astonishing capacity for empathy. Gentrification and the fetishizing of parenthood occupy the foreground of Franzen's panoramic canvas but have not been reduced to caricature, except in that curious first chapter, which I'll get to later. Rather, they are made to seem like aspects of an urge to nurture that has run amok, two of the many ironies of life under late capitalism chronicled by this exuberant but keenly critical novel.
Walter and Patty reproduce and renovate out of laudable, natural impulses. They love each other, and love breeds babies, and babies need homes. Besides, they want better childhoods for their children than they had, and since Patty felt neglected by her mother, a politician, she wants to be a stay-at-home mom. Walter and Patty prefer the sociability of a city block and want to be environmentally correct to a degree unattainable in the suburbs, at least back then. They try to lead moral and responsible, as well as aesthetically appealing, lives. It is part of the cruelty of the age that their picture-perfect co-existence should not only break apart but come to seem, in retrospect, like willful selfishness.
Reviewers often describe Franzen as an ex-postmodernist who cast off the paranoia and apocalyptic tenor off his earlier more experimental novels— The Twenty-Seventh City (1988) and Strong Motion(1992) and embraced realism in The Corrections(2001). But Franzen's so-called experimental novels had plenty of traditional storytelling in them, and The Corrections bristled with Pynchonesque subplots that hilariously anatomized extreme social malfunction. It was Franzen's uncommon range—plus an atomically precise eye and ear for how we talk and dress and do stuff today—that allowed him to register, in that novel, better than anyone had done before him, a shift in American life.
The Corrections, the story of two generations of a Midwestern family, the Lamberts, tracked our transition from an industrial economy (the Lambert parents) to a postindustrial, service-oriented, information-based economy (the Lambert children). Franzen mapped the shift from a moral order defined by the scarcity of the depression to a new order—or disorder—defined by the excesses of the postwar years and particularly by the technology bubble of the '90s. The once-coherent universe of the upright patriarch, Alfred Lambert, and that of his wife, Enid, disintegrates in a way that is seismic, not evolutionary. Their children cannot cushion the dismantling of everything that once made sense to them—not that the younger Lamberts, each derailed in his or her own way, would even want to try.
In short, The Corrections brought us the news about our moral sensibility, about our values, and hugely enjoyable as the story was, funny and scintillating and up-to-the-minute, the news was appalling. The Corrections was a novel of warning. Freedom, which is equally enjoyable, is equally dire. The Corrections, set in the 1990s,measured the gap between Franzen's parents' generation and his. Freedom closes it. The generation that was young and adrift in The Corrections has grown up and has grown-up kids of its own. The Berglunds are not at all like the younger Lamberts—they're neo-traditionalists, for one thing—but they, too, have shaped their lives in refutation of the way they grew up, and now, terrifyingly, they're on their own, and have to deal with the consequences.
Patty has carefully constructed her life to be as unlike as possible that of her artsy Westchester family, which is distantly implicated in corrupt New York State Democratic politics. Her parents never took any interest in her career as a basketball star, though they fulsomely overpraised their other children's minor successes in theater and painting. So, to her mother's dismay, Patty chose the University of Minnesota and a Title Nine basketball scholarship over a fancy private school. Moving to the nonironic Midwest also gave her the means to escape the family tone set by her father, a snarky East Coast wit; all she had to do was become relentlessly pleasant, like everyone around her. Walter, a mild-mannered lawyer, has been equally deliberate in his effort to become an intensely nice person, a dialectical refutation of his father, an alcoholic roadside-motel owner who favors his lazier, dumber sons over Walter.
There's an oedipal theory of history, and of America, at work in The Corrections and Freedom. Characters believe they can throw out the past and create a new reality, as if that reality won't prove as restricting as the previous one and as if the next generation won't turn around and do the same thing. Walter's legal career is thwarted by his ferocious politeness, his way of choking everything down. So is his marriage. "Walter's beautiful rage going wasted," Patty laments, about Walter's inability to end a good spat with rough sex. Patty's and his life together unravels when their son, Joey, rejects it, leaving their house even before he finishes high school and moving in with the daughter of Patty's least-loved neighbor, a working-class woman whose redneck boyfriend has unacceptable redneck tastes.
What passes for freedom in America, Franzen seems to be implying, is a refusal to accept limits, to acknowledge and shoulder the burdens of one's inheritance. Certainly everyone in the novel comes to rue freedom, their own and others'. Patty notes that "all her choices and all her freedom" bring her nothing but misery and self-pity. Richard, the punk-rocker who was Walter's college roommate and becomes Patty's lover, belatedly attains the freedom that comes with stardom and nearly commits suicide; later, he achieves YouTube notoriety for a rant in which he taunts a generation that associates freedom with iPods: "We're about choosing what WE want to listen to and ignoring everything else," he tells the video camera. "Me me me, buy buy buy, party party party. Sit in your own little world, rocking, with your eyes closed." Walter, whose core political message is that we need limits to growth, sees the discourse on freedom as little more than the Republican insistence on "personal liberties":
"People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."
Brilliant as it is, Freedom has flaws. At a certain point in its second half, it explodes into, well, Franzenism. Subplots proliferate maniacally. Joey is taken up by the Zionist, Republican father of a Jewish college roommate and winds up working for a defense contractor buying up rusty Soviet-era tanks and reselling them to the U.S. military in Iraq. Walter and Patty sell the house and Walter takes a job in Washington working for an environmental trust funded by a Bush and Cheney crony that is meant to save a single bird, the cerulean warbler, from extinction. His quest to create a large bird preserve in West Virginia leads him into a perilous alliance with coal miners employing mountaintop removal techniques. And so on.
What propels Freedom from the ranks of good novels into that of great ones has nothing to do with plot or political acumen. It has to do with Franzen's writing and his ability to evoke character. The greatness lies in the section of the first half that is "written" by Patty—the "Autobiography of Patty Berglund by Patty Berglund (Composed at Her Therapist's Suggestion)." It is there that Patty, one of Franzen's two best characters (the other is Alfred in The Corrections), roars to life. Patty is utterly vibrant, sharply sarcastic, unforgettably funny, a mother tigress who can be impossible and can't help being self-involved but who is always fierce. Once we hear her voice, we realize that Patty—her adolescent outrage at the unfairness of everything, her breathless disbelief that people can be like that, her inability not to ridicule everything ever so slightly, and yet, at the same time, her burgeoning self-awareness and kindness and sharp regret—is the force that gives life to the novel. You might even say that it comes to life to the extent that her voice is audible in it.
With the exception of Enid Lambert, a devouring, pitiable, but powerful monster, Franzen has never before created a truly believable female character. Nor has he let his novels be so dominated by a single voice. Franzen's weakness for the flashy aperçu has sometimes smothered the inner lives of his characters. But there is nothing showy about Patty's voice, and he inhabits her fully.
To be clear: Patty's no saint. She's just remarkably layered. Consider, for instance, how she describes her rape at the age of 17, an event that her parents don't seem to care much about and whose full awfulness she only realizes the next day, while crying in the shower, and that even in her 40s, she can't quite wrap her mind around:
This was, without exaggeration, the most wretched hour of her life. Even today, when she thinks of people who are oppressed around the world and victims of injustice, and how they must feel, her mind goes back to that hour. Things that had never occurred to her before, such as the injustice of an oldest daughter having to share a room and not being given [the nanny's] old room in the basement because it was now filled floor to ceiling with outdated campaign paraphernalia, also the injustice of her mother being so enthralled about the middle daughter's thespian performances but never going to any of Patty's games, occurred to her now.
The overprivileged kid's homework-assignment-like phrase "victims of injustice, and how they must feel" is a masterly touch; so is her petty resentment of her room assignment. Her own and her family's childish pettiness is exactly what Patty has been trying for years to leave behind, and her unconvincing jocularity signals her continuing inability to find words commensurate to her rage.
If Patty's sensibility dominates the novel, what are we to make of that first chapter? Thatvoice is very familiar, yet too harsh toward Patty to be Patty's own, self-critical though she is. It took me a long time—a lot of underlining, a lot of note-scribbling—to recognize it. This fascinatingly distasteful brew of sneering and sniping and witticisms is the voice of the Internet, of bloggers, of YouTubers. It's the voice of the public sphere. Franzen has always aspired to write novels of his time, and this is a novel infused with the tone of contemporary political discourse, whose basic unit is the rant that goes viral.
The rant even shows up as a plot device. One climax in the novel occurs when Richard's rant gets e-mailed all over the country; another comes when Walter delivers a rant that does, too. Standing before television cameras and an audience of reporters and corporate funders of his bird preserve, as well as people displaced from his mountaintop who have just been given jobs making body armor for soldiers in Iraq, Walter veers wildly off script:
"I want to welcome you all to working for one of the most corrupt and savage corporations in the world! Do you hear me? LBI doesn't give a shit about your sons and daughters bleeding in Iraq as long as they get their thousand-percent profit! ... And MEANWHILE … WE ARE ADDING THIRTEEN MILLION HUMAN BEINGS TO THE POPULATION EVERY MONTH! THIRTEEN MILLION MORE PEOPLE TO KILL EACH OTHER IN COMPETITION OVER FINITE RESOURCES! AND WIPE OUT EVERY OTHER LIVING THING ALONG THE WAY!"
This outburst is so intense it breaks through the fourth wall of the fiction, as if Walter had walked to the edge of the stage and addressed the audience directly. It becomes impossible not to ask oneself at this point: Whose opinion is this, Walter's or Franzen's? But that's not quite the right question. It's pretty obvious that Franzen holds these views, even if the story line loads poor Walter down with other good reasons to go berserk. (His son has just confessed to awful deeds while in the employ of LBI; Walter has just learned that his wife was cheating on him and kicked her out; he just really needed to explode.) The questions I think Franzen asks in this novel, and wisely refrains from answering, are these: "Is Walter right? If so, what should he do? And how are we supposed to live?"
Walter's and Richard's rants will be sliced out of context and passed around the Internet until they melt into the general cacophony, the faceless outpouring of furious or cynical remarks that disfigures the first chapter. Walter and Richard will be left behind, stuck with the burden of being the people who uttered those words and the task of figuring out how to endure their rage and despair. Another of the accomplishments of Franzen's novel is that he lets Walter and Richard—and Patty and Joey—do just that, with tenderness and a compassion that, as he documents better than anyone, are becoming increasingly rare.


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They're the color of bruises... and also, it turns out, the color of beautiful interiors. Blue can be a little intense: somber black is its perfect counterpart. Whether the blue you're drawn to is aqua, or turquoise, or cobalt, consider giving this combo a try.
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3. Home of Abigail Ahern, seen on The Selby.
4. A turquoise sofa stands out against dark walls and a dark floor. Image from Lonny.
5. Just a little bit of black and blue, from Lonny.
6. A blue lamp looks deliciously crisp against a black wall. Designer Isabel Lopez-Queseda via Eclec Chic.
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Forkish Overnight Country Brown
Santa gave me Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish. I had studied it in a bookstore, having been alerted by Breadsong's nice post about his overnight 75% WW. On my Christmas list it went. No regrets: I've very much enjoyed learning Mr. Forkish's story and approach and watching his laid-back online videos. He lands somewhere at the intersection of Chad Robertson and Jim Lahey: Liquid(y) levains with a fairly low percentage of total flour and long full fermentations. I strongly recommend the book (over Tartine) to any novice eager to learn to make true artisan-style breads. Narrower in scope than JH's BREAD, but decidedly for the home baker only. Very nice photography by Alan Weiner: Every bread pictured in the book looks delicious.
I made his Overnight Country Brown as a 1.8 kg miche over the weekend (above) and it is spectacular in every respect. Fabulous flavor. 30% WW flour, 78% hydration, 80% starter (12% of total flour) and a total of 18 hours of 70˚F fermentation (13 overnight bulk + 5 morning proof). I wouldn't have thought a dough would have a nanogram of spring left after such a workout (before [left] and after [right] bulk, below),
but was so pleased with the outcome and workflow that this (or something close, with this approach) is likely to bump JH's Pain au Levain as the basis for our table breads. What a deliciously crave-able loaf of bread. Perfect with stew from (freshly pick-axe dug!) carrots and parsnips last night.
Mr. Forkish's pitch is his personal mix of "fundamental" (the book's subtitle) and "professional", at least equipment-wise. He suggests the home baker buy small (for levain) and large (for doughs) Cambro buckets -- hardly mass market consumer products (only restaurant suppliers sell them). Then somewhat disappointingly (at least for novices, imho) he writes all the processes to climax with baking in 5+ qt DOs. With so many perfectly effective ways to steam the home oven, and the dangers and loaf limitations of baking in DOs, I was sorry to see this. The one non-DO bake he describes involves soaking a second pizza stone in water and putting it into a hot oven, under the baking stone, to steam the oven. In my all too personal experience, that's a very good way to break the stone.
But the book's positives far outweigh those negatives. Mr. Forkish describes all the familiar essentials to this style of baking, plus some nice detail regarding acetic versus lactic flavors and how to achieve/avoid, as well as other informative sidebars. The baking timelines are long, often including overnight room temperature fermentation and/or cold retardation. But he stresses flexibility and experimentation, giving attractive sample timelines for each bake. I can't wait to try some more, especially those with levain + CY -- an approach I've not explored as much as I've wanted to. Finally, I'm pleased to say that Mr. Forkish succeeded where others have not, in convincing this stingy toad to maintain levain in a volume large enough to start a bake directly from the refreshed stock and not from a separate, to-the-formula measured volume seeded by a separate (jelly-jar) 'mother' living on the fridge door. Volume matters.
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Good idea Ziili, you have a lot of great work there that probably wouldn't have been used, even if the Imperium hadn't been stalled. Everyone should give his stuff a listen, whether or not you plan to use it in a FM. Thanks for sharing it.
Due to lack of a scripter, the grand Hammerite Imperium is basically stalled until further notice. And for fear of losing an audience, all the music I've created for this project wants to be published, thus I'm not going to stand in the way. One way or another, you would have heard it, because if the 1st mission of HI is released, this music (with atolonen's too, of course; he's another composer and 'head of sound' at HI) will be featured in it. You'll just get it quicker. So, as they say 'have a burrick on the house', sit back, relax.. and listen. Also, for the sake of tears and sweat that went into creating all this, I ask you not to.. you know.. not to use any of this under your name or do anything evil with this. You can of course reference, but you know, please don't do anything disrespectful, 'cause it was what it was - HARD WORK. And if HI really dies, all of this will be available for use in future FMs. For free, but ask permission just so I'd know what's happening.
- soothing, more calm pieces -
Awakening 1
Awakening 2
The Beginning
The Majestic Forest
- dark backgrounds -
Blackening [loop]
De Profundis
- cutscenes [probably] -
Death of a Brother
Standoff 1
Standoff 2
Passage of the East
Striation Over Calaeneth
Earth And Fire
Ante Bellum
- one instrument-
Piano 1 [not good]
Piano 2
- songs with vocal-
The Prophecy
My Vocal [used in some songs here]
- other/various -
Beset With Danger
Just A Little Violin Effect
- gathered from around the world -
Aspiciens Alonge [from the oratorium 'Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher' I sang with my choir]
Lamento [a song with my choir]
Neosymphony [contribution by friend Xan the guitarist of Singapore]
Paradisi Gloria [song with my choir from a contest]
Rutam & ziili - Sayonee [contribution by friend Rutam Rane of Bombay, India | I added chords only]
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Good idea Ziili, you have a lot of great work there that probably wouldn't have been used, even if the Imperium hadn't been stalled. Everyone should give his stuff a listen, whether or not you plan to use it in a FM. Thanks for sharing it.
If/when Hammerite Imperium does come out, please redo this to remove that shrill whistle noise. It's almost literally painful to listen to.Originally Posted by zil
EDIT: "Beset With Danger" and "Earth and Fire" are missing.
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ZylonBane, both of those missing songs should work now, Earth And Fire had a little renaming problem, Beset With Danger uploading as I speak.
About Blackening though, I've to say those screeching noises were intended like that, high pitched and sudden noises to freak the player out while down in a cold cellar, nearing a Hammerite waiting for a chance to blackjack him. They freaked you out, eh? Job well done then
Zylonbane's right. It doesn't freak us out, it hurts our eardrums. I liked the song until the feedback cut in, then I had to take off my headphones.
Wow, good work there. I especially like Cold and De Profundis. Only thing that itched me was the cello (sample?), that sounded a bit rubber-ish.
May I ask a technical question? Would the tracks have been packed to the missions as mp3s or converted to ADPCM? I ask because, that's easily 1 GB of WAV data you got there
No, I wasn't freaked out. That noise is not "freaky"-- it's loud, high-pitched, and annoying. It's the auditory equivalent of stabbing an icepick into your eardrums.Originally Posted by zil
It's a shame, because otherwise that's a really good loop.
wow, very nice. "Cold" is awesome and the others are just incredible.
Oh well, thanks for the comments. About 'Blackening' again, I must own up and tell you that it's kind of my own fault too. My composition process starts from playing the song in on my synthesizer, then recording it onto my PC and postprocessing/editing it there as a wave. Unfortunately, my synth only has 3 free song slots (with 6 tracks each), so inevitably something gets deleted when I move on to creating new stuff. Especially when in my mind a song is considered 'finished'. It just gets deleted. Blackening's highpitched tones were kind of an experiment of some sorts. Recorded they are now, and a pain in the ass to remove. Of course, you might like 'Cellar' which is quite similar to Blackening, and without those high tones. Then again, I might try 'replaying' the whole song, I have no notes though ('cause no musical education = no skills to write songs down). But I might try creating something similar. Who knows. Nothing to lose eh?
About those waves being over 1 GB.. well, lol. I've never actually thought about that, but you must bear in mind that one mission would only feature a few of them, not all, so it might be all good in the end. Again, thanks for the comments!
Is that a hard synth? Even then it should be able to export the data as midis or something... or record the individual tracks. I can't imagine loosing everything when creating new stuff, what a bother.Originally Posted by zil
True. Only a problem if you'd install the campaign as a whole. I mostly asked because I had terrible problems looping ADPCM files (besides the quality loss).About those waves being over 1 GB.. well, lol. I've never actually thought about that, but you must bear in mind that one mission would only feature a few of them, not all, so it might be all good in the end.
yea, smooth the whistle out a bit
a slightly softer sound
it hurts the ear as is
nice eerie clip apart from the physical hurt
Whoa, good stuff. Don't remember you posting this over at the Imperium forums...
The idea is good, but the placing is off. I suggest that you synchronize the sound the the appearance of an well placed opponent, overhead (and not immediately reachable), for instance, to give a sense of foreboding. Remember to use the "shriek" sound ONCE. It does get annoying after the first time.Originally Posted by zil
The problem (other than it physically hurts the ears) is that it's not a shriek, it's microphone feedback. It doesn't bring to mind an eerie scream of an unknown being, but rather someone holding their microphone too close to the speakers. It's not only painful to hear but a real immersion killer.
Well, it would be relatively easy to filter those high notes out, since there's nothing else happening at those frequencies.
That's true. You could use an FFT filter to split the song and screechy notes into separate files, drop the notes down a few octaves, and then combine both files back together.
With apologies to zil.
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Hmm. Well as much as I might frown upon my stuff being edited, I actually like what you did with this. Perhaps I could've edited this out myself too, but just didn't have the time. I never expected to receive such amount of feedback to just one song, so that's well appreciated. Those screeches I had might sound very different on other headphones/speakers - however, I can't discuss that matter since I've not heard what you have, on my headphones, the screech sounded okay to me. Anyway. The thing is I liked the edit and it sounds very ominous, even more so than before. Wanna be credited among song authors now, ZylonBane?
WOW this music is fantastic really good stuff shame about the project on hold cant wait to play it if it get released lol but really good music
You actually had a few songs that I bothered keeping for my Media Liberary. Thats no mean feat, lemme tell you.
And I'm totally addicted to Awakening 2, so kudos to you.
Good zil.
Unfortunately, Im back on dial-up and have even less time. But the tracks I do have are just like Darth said, on constant repeat.
It's good to finally hear some real and decent sounds coming from the Thief page.
Glad you like it, but no, I'd feel ridiculous taking a song credit for just running a filter over someone else's work.Originally Posted by zil
All the other songs are great, by the way. I suppose this one track got so much attention because, well... it's the nail that sticks up that gets the hammer.
And also, the track Zylon brought up happened to be the first track I downloaded. I had to choose carefully (dialup) and that one sounded the darkest!
My initial thoughts were identical to his, and was about to post the same thing until I saw his.
Since you mentioned that you listen to the track in headphones, I assume you mixed in the phones as well. Sometimes, the odd sound or two may pop out that sounds quiet in headphones but jumps out on speakers.
I listened to it again in headphones and it was good.
I'm not going listen it for now in a hope that the Imperium eventually will see light of day.
Your headphones must have nonexistent upper-end frequency response.Originally Posted by Goldmoon Dawn
I didn't know you were a fan of headphones. I always thought of you as a desktop speakers fan.


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KALAMAZOO—Jeanne H. Carlson of Novi, Mich., and James F. Hettinger of Fennville, Mich., have been elected to serve for 2013 as chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees.
Their election took place at the board's Feb. 27 meeting, the first meeting of 2013 for the WMU governing body. All officers serve one-year terms. Carlson replaces William D. Johnston of Portage, Mich., who remains on the board. Hettinger replaces Carlson in the vice chair position.
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Carlson was appointed to the board by then-Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm in 2007. She retired from the post of president and chief executive officer of Blue Care Network of Michigan in 2010 after a 33-year career that included positions at both Blue Care Network and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Prior to being appointed to the BCN leadership role in 2006, Carlson was vice president of the General Motors account and of several other key areas with "the Blues." A certified public accountant, she previously was a staff auditor with the accounting firm of Touche Ross & Co. as well as a private financial consultant.
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Rob was spotted having a blast with some friends in a pub in Australia on Jan. 20. See the pic.
When Robert Pattinson left the U.S. for Australia to shoot his new film, The Rover, he proposed a trial separation to girlfriend Kristen Stewart. Now, it appears that Rob is having a good time by his lonesome in OZ, except — he doesn't appear to be too alone. (Insert wink face here.)
While Rob had some fun at the pub, Zhivago, with some friends in Adelaide, Australia on Jan. 20, he also got cozy with a number of females the day before on Jan. 19.
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BOSTON, Mass. – Following a successful weekend at the MIT Winter Invitational, the MIT men's swimming and diving team earned two New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) weekly awards. The 400-yard freestyle relay that was made up of juniors Austin Fathman (Hamilton, Mich.) and Brendon Chiu (Monterey Park, Calif.), sophomore Daryl Neubieser (Saratoga, Calif.) and senior Remy Mock (Victoria, British Columbia), won Relay of the Week, while Fathman was also named Swimmer of the Week for his six first-place finishes. This is the second week in a row that the Engineers swept both swimming awards.
At the two-day, three-session meet, the Engineers earned an impressive 43 NCAA B cuts and broke two school records, winning 12 of the events and ending the weekend over 300 points ahead of second-place Keene State. To end the meet, the 400 free relay touched in first place with a 3:01.47, out-touching Keene State's relay by three-tenths of a second with its time of 3:01.75.
Throughout the weekend, Fathman was part of four winning relays and won two individual events of his own. In addition to the 400 free relay, he swam in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:21.49) that out-touched Keene State's A relay by a tenth of a second, the 400-yard medley relay (3:19.23) and the 200-yard medley relay (1:31.31). Individually, he touched first in the 50-yard freestyle (20.17), third in the 100-yard butterfly (49.67) and first in the 100-yard freestyle (45.07). He is currently first in the nation in the 50 free. He was also named the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Player of the Week for his performances.
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Graded EX+ 70 by SGC. Absolutely stunning, extraordinarily crisp, attractive, clean, ultra high-grade example of 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle. The only reason the card is not graded higher by SGC is because of the left-to-right centering, which is a very common problem with 1952 Topps Mickey Mantles. This card is a BLAZER! This is a magnificent pack-fresh example with brilliant colors. The deep blue background, which is so prone to wear, is exceptionally strong and virtually unimprovable. The white interlocking "NY" on the front of Mickey's cap contrasts sharply against the dark navy blue of his cap. The corners are extremely strong and razor-sharp, each approaching MINT territory. Centered 70/30 left to right and 50/50 top and bottom. If not for the centering, this card would be one of the hobby's highest-graded examples of the card. This is an incredible 1952 Topps Mantle! Not only does the card look beautiful (aside from centering it basically has an approximately MINT appearance), the effect of centering on the technical grade makes this card far more affordable, and a far better value. Collectors would normally not think it was possible to purchase a 1952 Topps Mantle of this quality without spending many times what this card lists for in this grade. Every card is different. This 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle presents a particularly interesting collecting opportunity. One of card collecting's greatest classics, Mantle's Topps rookie card is the key to the 1952 Topps set, one of the most famous of all cards, and the single most popular and valuable postwar baseball card. We believe that this gem is one of the 1952 Topps Mantle cards from the legendary Al Rosen 1952 Topps high-number find of 1985. This is a spectacularly bright, fresh, clean, example of Mickey Mantle's most celebrated card, in an extremely desirable grade. The SMR value for a PSA EX 5 is $15,500 (there is no SMR value for EX+ 5.5 grade). Reserve $5,000. Estimate $10,000/$15,000+. SOLD FOR $23,700
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This Updated 4th Edition revises the casebook to account for the restyling of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The pagination has not changed from the 4th Edition (2005). Students will be alerted to the new numbering and wording of the Rules; but teachers can continue to use their current versions of the 4th edition as originally published. On December 1, 2007, the "restyled" Federal Rules went into effect. The hope is that this restyling will pay dividends for decades, and that beginning law students will be among the first beneficiaries. For them, the restyled rules will be the only rules they will know in their professional careers. We assume that most teachers will have their students read and learn from the restyled rules. But this watershed does not change what's in the decided cases under the rules as they were written before Dec. 1, 2007. So students may find it unnerving for their rule pamphlets to say something different from what they find quoted in the cases in the casebook. The Updated 4th Edition is designed to deal with these issues. It has been changed only to reflect changes in numbering or wording of the rules that resulted from the restyling project. Teachers who have been using the 4th edition as published in 2005 can continue to use it; they need not start working afresh with the updated 4th edition. To facilitate that continued use of the existing book, we will soon circulate a listing of the changes in this revised edition. Teachers will therefore be able simply to annotate their copies of the original 4th edition and have the equivalent of what the students possess in the updated 4th edition. In addition, the authors have added an Appendix including two post-publication decisions that were previously handled by circulating edited versions suitable for class handouts--Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc. The authors have included footnotes on the pages where they recommend substituting these cases to refer readers to them. In 2009, we expect to publish the 5th edition. That will, of course, be based on the restyled rules, but it move far beyond the minimal accounting for small numbering and wording changes resulting from restyling. We are pleased to announce that Professor James Pfander, of Northwestern University Law School, will be a new co-author on the 5th edition.
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The parents of an autistic toddler are suing the Ohio Department of Health and others, accusing them of denying what the parents say is federally mandated treatment for their son in a case that could affect how other autistic children are cared for in the state.
The parents of an autistic toddler are suing the state Department of Health and others, accusing them of denying their son federally mandated treatment in a case that could affect how other autistic children are cared for in the state.
The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Cincinnati, accuses the state of discriminating against children with autism and their parents by failing to provide them with a type of intensive treatment known as applied behavioral analysis.
The lawsuit was filed by Robert and Holly Young, of Williamsburg, about 25 miles east of Cincinnati. The Youngs� 2-year-old son, Roman, was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism a year and a half ago.
�It�s been a living nightmare,� said Holly Young, a Miami Township police officer. �It�s heart-wrenching to know what you need to give your son and you can�t provide it, and no one will help. And the people who are supposed to help seem to be turning their backs.�
Under the Individuals with Disabilities Act, states are required to provide early intervention services for children with autism, a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties communicating, emotional detachment and excessively rigid or repetitive behavior, among other symptoms. States get federal money to provide the treatment, with the goal of turning children with autism into self-sufficient adults who won�t have to depend on public resources.
The Youngs argue that Roman, who doesn�t speak and has other difficulties, needs 46 hours of applied behavioral analysis a week, including 33 hours of in-home, one-on-one time with a therapist. That�s based on diagnoses and recommendations the Youngs got from various autism experts, including doctors at the Cincinnati Children�s Hospital and Dayton-based Trumpet Behavioral Health.
The Youngs say the state has repeatedly denied their requests for the intensive therapy, offering just two hours of speech therapy a month.
�The state is condemning Roman to a life that will not be self-sufficient, that will not minimize his need for special education, and that will not maximize his potential to live independently,� according to the lawsuit, filed Dec. 18. �The developmental time lost to Roman due to the state�s culpability cannot be regained. Roman is being irreparably harmed for life and the harm mounts daily.�
Department of Health spokesman Robert Jennings said today he could not comment on the Youngs� case because of the pending legal action. But he said federal guidelines don�t specifically require states to provide applied behavioral analysis.
�Therefore it is not provided,� he said, adding that the state provides a number of other treatments.
The Youngs have been using grants to pay for 15 hours of applied behavioral analysis for Roman, but Holly Young said the grants expire next month and she and her husband, a Miami Township firefighter, have taken out loans, used up credit cards and gotten help from friends and family to pay for their son�s treatment.
The lawsuit said the couple is on the brink of bankruptcy.
Jim Ball, executive chair of the national board of the Bethesda, Md.-based Autism Society of America, said lawsuits like the one the Youngs filed are not uncommon in the U.S. He said parents seeking the best treatment for their children are at odds with states and school districts trying to minimize costs while following federal requirements to treat autistic children.
Access to applied behavioral analysis, widely considered the best treatment for many children with autism, is spotty across the country and often comes down to where a child is born, how well off the parents are or how much government agencies are willing to pay, Ball said.
�It�s sad to say, but in a lot of cases it comes down to money,� he said.
The Youngs will be in court on Wednesday arguing for a judge to order the state to immediately begin providing intensive therapy to Roman as the lawsuit proceeds.
Besides the 46 hours of therapy a week for Roman, the lawsuit seeks more than $3 million in compensatory damages for the Young family and a declaration that the state �systemically violates the rights of infants and toddlers with disabilities when it unilaterally and categorically excludes certain intensive early intervention services.�
The lawsuit came just three days before Gov. John Kasich expressed his support of a plan for the state to require health insurance companies to cover therapy and treatment for children with autism starting in 2014.
Most private carriers don�t offer coverage for children with autism. Ohio�s new requirement will allow parents to get coverage through health insurance sold in the private market and in the upcoming federal health insurance exchange and for state employees. The requirement won�t include the self-insured and large group insurers.


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September 2013, Khartoum, Sudan: A boy stands in flood water in Khartoum's Soba Kangour neighbourhood. Tens of families were affected by the floods that struck in August and September. Credit: OCHA Almost 70,000 families were affected by floods that washed across Sudan in August and September. Humanitarian agencies are working with communities to provide much-needed support.
Heavy rains and floods affected tens of thousands of families across Sudan in August and September. In response, humanitarian agencies are working with communities to provide emergency shelter, health care and education, and to contain public-health risks.
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$5.5 million to support these efforts. CERF is a global pooled fund that supports UN agencies and their humanitarian partners to deliver assistance to people affected by natural and man-made disasters.
Extensive floods, unprepared communities
Flooding occurs annually in many parts of Sudan. However, this year the flooding was so extensive that many areas that are normally immune were hit, including the capital, Khartoum.
The CERF funding will support operations in these areas where communities were unprepared and humanitarian agencies have limited capacity to respond. Almost three quarters of the people affected by the floods live in areas that are not normally supported by UN agencies.
In Khartoum, thousands of South Sudanese are among the worst affected. Khartoum is home to about 40,000 South Sudanese, most of them living in informal settlements that were ill-equipped for floods.
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Her husband agreed: ├óÔé¼┼ôWe don├óÔé¼Ôäót have a health centre in our neighbourhood,├óÔé¼┬Ø he said.
Most of the people in this community are waiting to be repatriated to South Sudan as part of a massive relocation project. However, this large-scale plan was suspended in January 2011 due to a lack of funding. Few South Sudanese have the legal documentation that would allow them to regularize their status, and the Government of Sudan has not established procedures that would allow them to apply for residency.
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Access to health care is a major priority for people affected by the floods, says Dr. Imam Shakiti from the World Health Organization.
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Health organizations will receive about $1.4 million from CERF. This will be used to mitigate continued public-health risks by ensuring that temporary and mobile clinics are running and well stocked until flood-damaged primary health-care centres are reopened. Another $2.8 million will go to the UN Children├óÔé¼Ôäós Fund (UNICEF) to provide clean water and sanitation services.
The CERF funding will also support emergency education services. In the capital alone, over 14,000 children have lost access to education due to the floods. The funding will allow UNICEF to establish temporary learning spaces, helping to restore some much-needed normalcy and continuity.
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Two weeks after being dismissed from the UCLA football program, safety Tevin McDonald has transferred to Eastern Washington, the Big Sky university announced Tuesday.
A two-year starter with the Bruins, he was dismissed on March 27 for violating team policy.
He also was suspended from UCLA's Holiday Bowl game in December. The Los Angeles Times reported at the time that McDonald had failed three drug tests.
McDonald is enrolled in classes at EWU and will begin practicing with the team as early as Thursday. He is the son of six-time NFL All-Pro safety Tim McDonald, who is now the defensive back coach for the New York Jets.
"After consultation with many people and having a long discussion with Tevin, we've determined that he deserves the opportunity to continue his collegiate career," EWU head coach Beau Baldwin said. "We have high expectations of him off the field, in the classroom and on the field."
McDonald, a 6-foot-1, 190-pounder from Fresno, Calif., had 135 tackles in 27 career games at UCLA, with four interceptions and 14 pass breakups.