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JOHANNESBURG – Oscar Pistorius' agent says the double-amputee athlete has indicated to his management team that he wants to train again.
Peet van Zyl told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Pistorius met with him and coach Ampie Louw on Tuesday to discuss a return to running. The Olympian is charged with murder for the Feb. 14 shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Van Zyl says Pistorius told them at the meeting that he now was eager to train. The agent says Louw also wanted to get his athlete into "some kind of routine."
Van Zyl says the decision on when exactly he gets back on track still rests with Pistorius, who hasn't trained for over two months.
Pistorius has been released on bail. His next court appearance is June 4.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Elad I. Levy, MD, professor and chair of neurosurgery at the University at Buffalo, has been named editor of the endovascular section for Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
Levy will start his three-year term on the editorial review board this summer, serving as primary chairperson for the journal's new endovascular section, overseeing manuscript review. He also will contribute an editorial to the journal during his term.
Nelson Oyesiku, MD, Neurosurgery's editor-in-chief, chose Levy for his "obvious dedication" to the field of endovascular surgery and for distinguishing himself as a "highly valuable and worthy" ad hoc reviewer for the journal.
Levy joined UB's faculty in 2004 and was named chair of neurosurgery in 2013.
His clinical research focuses on quality outcomes following stroke intervention, and the effectiveness of stroke imaging in predicting endovascular outcomes following treatment.
Levy's broad research interests include drug-coated stents, treatment of acute stroke, stenting of aneurysms and the molecular biology of stent-induced restenosis. He has served and currently serves in roles as principal investigator in national and international stroke trials.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Levy received his MD from George Washington University. He completed a surgical internship and his neurosurgical residency at the University of Pittsburgh.
At UB, Levy completed a fellowship in endovascular surgery, then served as an associate professor and professor in the Department of Neurosurgery; he also is professor of radiology. He earned an MBA from Northeastern University while at UB.
Levy is co-director for the Kaleida Health Stroke Center and director of the Toshiba Neuroendovascular Catheterization Laboratory.
He has won numerous awards including UB's George Thorn Young Investigator Award, given by the UB medical school to faculty of exceptional talent who are less than 45 years of age and the MDx Medical Inc. Patients' Choice Recognition. He also was named one of the Business First Top 50 Doctors in Western New York. A Fellow of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association and the American College of Surgeons, Levy serves as board member and co-founder of the Endovascular Neurosurgery Research Group and vice chair of the Scientific Planning Committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Levy is a founder of PUCCS, the Program for the Understanding of Childhood Concussions and Stroke, a national organization established to boost research into youth concussions.
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The mounting holes in the seat belt anchor plates may be too small. If the hole diameter is too small, the anchor cannot rotate around the fastening bolt as designed. If this were to occur, the seat belt may not be routed optimally around the seat occupant, or it may loosen at some point, increasing the risk of injury during a crash. Dealers will inspect the anchor plates and fastening screws and, if necessary, replace the seat belt. The Porsche recall number is AB02.
Our Quick Take
The seat belt anchors may not be able to properly rotate. As a result, the seat belts may not fit properly around the occupant, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
What Should You Do?
Porsche will notify owners of affected vehicles, but scheduling of the notification is not known at this time. If you are experiencing problems with the seat belts and don't receive notification, please contact your dealer. It's helpful to have your vehicle identification number (VIN) when you call.


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Andrews University's faculty, staff, and Board of Trustees enjoyed their annual banquet on Sunday, March 4. The evening opened with a reception and student art exhibition in the lobby of the Howard Performing Arts Center, then continued with the entertainment/awards presentation in the concert hall. The program, "The Golden Cardinal Awards," was styled after the Oscars, with spoof categories like "Best in Shoes," "Best Golf Cart Driver," and "Best Milker" mixed-in with the more serious Excellence in Service, Excellence in Teaching, and Years of Service awards. Attendees closed off the evening with a dinner catered by the campus cafeteria.
Almost 90 faculty and staff members were honored for anywhere from five to thirty-five years of service at Andrews. Three were honored for 30 years of service: Gary Marsh, professor of aviation technology; Daniel Bidwell, senior systems administrator; and Tom Baker, teacher of English and German at Andrews Academy.
The two 35-year honorees were: Barbara Friesen, assistant to administration, and Patricia Mutch, professor of nutrition.
Three staff members were honored for Excellence in Service. Recipients of this award are hourly or salaried full- or part-time staff who have served for at least three consecutive years, and have not previously received the award. The award is given "in recognition of outstanding service to the university, the church, and the community, and for demonstrating, by precept and example, a Christ-centered life." This year's awardees included: Ildiko Gyeresi, asst. to financial records director; Sandra White, interlibrary loans associate for the James White Library; and Barbara Friesen, assistant in administration.
The Daniel A. Augsburger Excellence in Teaching award was given to seven faculty members. This award is intended to recognize faculty whose teaching reflects the high standards of excellence modeled by Dr. Augsburger in his 60 years of teaching at Andrews University. Dr. Augsburger's leadership, academic rigor, breadth of knowledge, teacher-scholar role, along with care and concern for students, exemplify the best of faculty endeavors. Faculty from each school nominate and choose their individual candidates. Formerly known as the Excellence in Teaching Award, the name changed in the 2002-2003 school year. Those recipients included: Jacques Doukhan, professor of Hebrew & Old Testament exegesis; Stan Beikmann, assistant professor of agriculture; Arlene Saliba, assistant professor of nursing; Janice Wrenn, associate professor of social work; Shirley Freed, professor of teacher education; Leonard Gashugi, associate professor of economics and finance; and Rhonda Root, professor of art.
Glenn Russell, assistant professor of religion, received this year's Spiritual Life Award, which is awarded to any employee, faculty or staff member, who has made a significant contribution to the spiritual life of campus. Names are considered and voted by the Spiritual Life Committee. This award was instituted in 2005.
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Instead of changing pension benefits for state and school employees, legislators must focus on tax fairness, spending reforms and maximizing revenue, public sector pension advocates said Wednesday.
In an editorial board meeting with The Times-Tribune, the advocates from the Pennsylvania State Education Association and Keystone Research Center also said the state must let pension reforms enacted in 2010 have time to work.
Under a plan unveiled by Gov. Tom Corbett earlier this year, new employees would be moved to a defined contribution plan and the formula would be changed for future benefits for current employees' plans. The plan would address the state's $41 billion in unfunded liability.
"We're not big fans of the governor's proposal," said Jerry Oleksiak, vice president of PSEA. "We're ready to challenge any changes for current employees."
PSEA claims any changes to current employees' plans would be unconstitutional.
The governor's plan, starting in 2015, would enroll new employees in a 401(a) defined contribution plan, similar to a 401(k) plan for employees in the State Employees' Retirement System, or SERS, and Public School Employees' Retirement System, or PSERS. Employees are now in a defined benefit plan.
Current employees would see the multiplier used to determine future pension benefits reduced by 0.5 percentage points, if the multiplier is above 2 percent. Those employees could keep the higher multiplier by paying a higher contribution rate. The amount employer contributions can be increased would also be limited.
The projected increase in contribution rates, coupled with cuts in state funding, has districts looking for relief, This year, districts are paying 12.36 percent of total salary to PSERS. By 2015-16, the projected rate is expected to be more than 25 percent, and for the next two decades, contribution rates are projected to remain in the mid-20 percent range.
Instead of making changes now, the state needs to give reform enacted in 2010 time to work, said Stephen Herzenberg, Ph.D., executive director of the Keystone Research Center, based in Harrisburg. The reform spread the pension cost spike to 2040 and changed benefits for new district employees. Along with increasing the retirement age to 65, it changes the 7.5 percent contribution rate for most employees to a shared-risk program for many new employees. For example, when investment funds are performing poorly, the employee contribution rate could increase to 9.5 percent. Current investment losses are made up by school districts.
Along with allowing time for the 2010 reform to work, the state must impose a natural gas excise tax, close the Delaware corporate tax loophole and reform cyber charter school spending and corporate tax breaks, the advocates said.
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It seems as though the recent news of Steve Jobs taking another period of medical leave was dominated by how the announcement would affect Apple's stock. This always angers me a little, as it's a blatant example of people caring more about their money than the wellbeing of another person.
Of course shareholders have a right to be informed of the situation – possibly more so than Apple makes clear from time to time – but ultimately, we should be happy to take a step back and accept that prying into the situation isn't going to make life easier for Apple's CEO.
Shareholders who value and believe in Apple as a company will be investing for the long-term, and appreciate that Steve has created a culture that goes far beyond what any one person contributes. In the short term, Apple will cope just fine (as they have done twice before). And even if Steve decides to step down as CEO permanently, everything we know and love about Apple will continue onwards.
The debate raging around Apple's share price does raise an interesting question – how many AppStorm readers are financially invested in Apple as a company? I'd love to know if you are, and whether you have any thoughts on this whole issue.
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International law
regulations governing international relations
International law or the law of nations refers to laws that govern the conduct of independent nations in their relationships with one another. It differs from other legal systems in that it primarily concerns provinces rather than private citizens. In other words it is that body of law which is composed for its greater part of the principles and rules of conduct which States feel themselves bound to observe, and therefore, do commonly observe in their relations with each other and with international institutions or organizations, and certain foreign nationals.
- The law of nations is founded upon reason and justice, and the rules of conduct governing individual relations between citizens or subjects of a civilized state are equally applicable as between enlightened nations. The considerations that international law is without a court for its enforcement and that obedience to its commands practically depends upon good faith instead of upon the mandate of a superior tribunal only give additional sanction to the law itself and brand any deliberate infraction of it not merely as a wrong but as a disgrace. A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.
- Grover Cleveland, Message to Congress withdrawing a treaty for the annexation of Hawaii from consideration. (18 December 1893); A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897 (1896 - 1899) edited by James D. Richardson, Vol. IX, pp. 460-472.
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- Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe's The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 105-106.
- Writers on international law . . . cannot make the law … it must have received the assent of the nations who are to be bound by it. This assent may be express … or may be implied from established usage.
- Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet, C.J., The Queen v. Keyn; "The Franconia" (1876), 2 L. R. Ex. D. 202.
- International law is part of the common law.
- Pigott, B., Attorney General v. Sillem and others, " The Alexandra" (1864), 12 W. R. 258.
- International law, like the moral law, is part of the law of England, but only to the extent that the Courts will not help those that break it.
- Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, Attorney-General v. Sillem and others, "The Alexandra " (1864), 12 W. R. 258.
- In questions of international law we should not depart from any settled decisions, nor lay down any doctrine inconsistent with them.
- William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, L.C., Udny v. Udny (1869), L. R. 1 Sc. & Div. Ap. Ca. 454.
- A great part of the law of nations stands upon the usage and practice of nations. It is introduced, indeed, by general principles: but it travels with those general principles only to a certain extent: and, if it stops there, you are not at liberty to go further, and to say, that mere general speculations would bear you out in a further progress— thus, for instance, on mere general principles it is lawful to destroy your enemy; and mere general principles make no great difference as to the manner by which this is to be effected; but the conventional law of mankind, which is evidenced in their practice, does make a distinction, and allows some, and prohibits other, modes of destruction.
- Sir W. Scott, "The Flad Oyen" (1799), 1 C. Rob. 140.
- The voluntary law of nations derives its force from the presumed consent of nations, the conventional from their express consent; the consuetudinary from their tacit consent.
- Wolfus, "Jus Gentium" (Prolegomena), § 25.


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Michigan Tech Hires 7 Multi-disciplinary Computational Innovators
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In its second Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative (SFHI), Michigan Technological University has hired seven new faculty members to conduct research in computational discovery and innovation. They come from some of the best research universities across the country and the world. They will join six different departments at Michigan Tech.
The new hires include
• Laura Brown, Vanderbilt University, computer science.
Brown's research focuses on computational causal discovery algorithms, specifically algorithms for learning the structure of Bayesian networks, which are graphical models of random variables and their interconnections.
• Zhou Feng, Texas A&M University, electrical and computer engineering.
Feng's technical area is modeling and simulation of large-scale systems on graphical processing units. He will explore the emerging computing platforms and methodologies that are becoming increasingly important in large-scale integrated circuit computer-aided design.
• Saeid Nooshabadi, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Korea), electrical and computer engineering.
Nooshabadi's expertise is in high-performance computer architecture, embedded systems and VLSI signal processing, enabling him to work effectively across the disciplines of electrical engineering and computer science.
• Mark Rouleau, George Mason University, social sciences
As the first PhD graduate of the only computational social science program in the US, Rouleau is helping define the cutting edge of computational research within the social sciences. He will collaborate with researchers across campus.
• Chaoli Wang, University of California at Davis, computer science.
Chaoli Wang is an expert in scientific visualization. His research involves large-scale data from a wide variety of scientific disciplines such as combustion, climate, and astrophysics.
• Chien Wang, MIT, geological and mining engineering and sciences/physics
Chien Wang develops computer models to simulate atmospheric processes. He will start his joint appointment in geological and mining engineering and sciences and in physics in fall 2010 and plans to continue his collaborative efforts in computational simulations of the earth's climate.
• Yu Wang, Virginia Tech, materials science and engineering.
Yu Wang's research focuses on modeling and simulation of phase transformation in ferroic or magnetizable materials, nanoparticle self-assembly, nanodomain diffracting phenomena and multifunctional composites.
The SFHI is an innovative faculty hiring concept pioneered by Michigan Tech in 2007, when the University's Board of Trustees made a commitment to enlarge the faculty by up to 10 outstanding new teacher-scholars each year, cutting across academic disciplines to focus on a research theme.
"The Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiatives are helping Michigan Tech position itself as a world-class technological research university," said President Glenn D. Mroz.
Interim Provost Max Seel welcomed the new SFHI faculty, saying: "These new faculty will not only add to our computing and computer modeling capacity, but also bring additional strength and synergy to many other research endeavors, for example in atmospheric sciences."
The new faculty, some of whom are already on campus, expressed excitement about the opportunities at Michigan Tech. "I love Michigan Tech's natural and human environment," said Chaoli Wang. "I am excited to begin contributing to the teaching and research excellence of the Michigan Tech," Laura Brown commented. "I plan to bring my enthusiasm and knowledge to the courses I will be teaching and to continue researching new algorithms and methods in the area of causal discovery and feature selection and collaborating with existing research programs to use these techniques."
In its first SFHI—on the theme of sustainability—Michigan Tech hired six new faculty members and named three professors to endowed chairs in 2008.
For the second SFHI—in computational discovery and innovation—the University received 329 applications. A committee of faculty representatives from departments, institutes and centers across campus reviewed the applications and narrowed the pool down to 125.
These applications then were screened by more than 162 University faculty members who were familiar with the candidates' fields of research and scholarship. The top 50 candidates' applications were reviewed by an SFHI subcommittee, and 17 were invited to Michigan Tech for interviews.
A third and fourth SFHI focusing on health and energy will launch this fall. They will use $2 million dollars to hire new faculty members in those areas over the next two years.
Michigan Technological University is a leading public research university, conducting research, developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 130 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering, forestry and environmental sciences, computing, technology, business and economics, natural and physical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the name of a group of viruses that infect the skin. There are over 100 different strains or types. More than 30 of these viruses are sexually transmitted, and they can infect the genital area of men and women, including the skin of the penis, vulva (area outside the vagina), or anus, and the linings of the vagina, cervix, or rectum. Most people who become infected with HPV will not have any symptoms and will clear the infection on their own.
Some of these viruses are called "high-risk" types, and may cause abnormal Pap tests. They may also lead to cancer of the cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, or penis. Others are called "low-risk" types, and they may cause mild Pap test abnormalities or genital warts. Genital warts are single or multiple growths or bumps that appear in the genital area, and sometimes are cauliflower shaped.
The types of HPV that infect the genital area are spread primarily through genital contact. Most HPV infections have no signs or symptoms; therefore, most infected persons are unaware they are infected, yet they can transmit the virus to a sex partner.
HPV infection can occur in both men and women who've engaged in genital contact with another individual.
Most women are diagnosed with HPV on the basis of abnormal Pap tests. A Pap test is the primary cancer-screening tool for cervical cancer or pre-cancerous changes in the cervix, many of which are related to HPV. Also, a specific test is available to detect HPV DNA in women. The test may be used in women with mild Pap test abnormalities, or in women >30 years of age at the time of Pap testing. The results of HPV DNA testing can help health care providers decide if further tests or treatment are necessary.
No HPV tests are available for men.
Most people who have a genital HPV infection do not know they are infected. The virus lives in the skin or mucous membranes and usually causes no symptoms. Some people get visible genital warts, or have pre-cancerous changes in the cervix, vulva, anus, or penis. Very rarely, HPV infection results in anal or genital cancers.
Genital warts usually appear as soft, moist, pink, or flesh-colored swellings, usually in the genital area. They can be raised or flat, single or multiple, small or large, and sometimes cauliflower shaped. They can appear on the vulva, in or around the vagina or anus, on the cervix, and on the penis, scrotum, groin, or thigh. After sexual contact with an infected person, warts may appear within weeks or months, or not at all.
Genital warts are diagnosed by visual inspection. Visible genital warts can be removed by medications the patient applies, or by treatments performed by a health care provider. Some individuals choose to forego treatment to see if the warts will disappear on their own. No treatment regimen for genital warts is better than another, and no one treatment regimen is ideal for all cases.
The surest way to eliminate risk for genital HPV infection is to refrain from any genital contact with another individual. Sexually active adults can reduce their risk by being in a mutually faithful relationship with someone who has had no other or few sex partners, or by limiting their number of sex partners. But even persons with only one lifetime sex partner can get HPV, if their partner has had previous partners.
It is not known how much protection condoms provide against HPV, since areas that are not covered by a condom can be exposed to the virus. However, condoms may reduce the risk of genital warts and cervical cancer.
At least, do not have sexual contact if you have visible genital warts. See a health care provider. And have an open, honest discussion with your partner about HPV.
The HPV vaccine protects against four major types of HPV that can lead to precancers of the cervix, vulva and vagina, and genital warts.
Studies have found the vaccine to be almost 100% effective in preventing diseases caused by the four HPV types covered by the vaccine. The vaccine has mainly been studied in young women who had not been exposed to any of the four HPV types in the vaccine.
The vaccine was less effective in young women who had already been exposed to one of the HPV types covered by the vaccine.
This vaccine does not treat existing HPV infections, genital warts, precancers or cancers.
Because the vaccine does not protect against all types of HPV, it will not prevent all cases of cervical cancer or genital warts. About 30% of cervical cancers will not be prevented by the vaccine, so it will be important for women to continue getting screened for cervical cancer (regular Pap tests). Also, the vaccine does not prevent about 10% of genital warts—nor will it prevent other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
The HPV vaccine is recommended for 11-12 year-old girls, and can be given to girls as young as 9. The vaccine is also recommended for 13-26 year-old girls/women who have not yet received or completed the vaccine series.
Ideally, females should get the vaccine before they are sexually active. This is because the vaccine is most effective in girls/women who have not yet acquired any of the four HPV types covered by the vaccine. Girls/women who have not been infected with any of those four HPV types will get the full benefits of the vaccine
The vaccine has been widely tested in 9-to-26 year-old girls/women. But research on the vaccine's safety and efficacy has only recently begun with women older than 26 years of age. The FDA will consider licensing the vaccine for these women when there is research to show that it is safe and effective for them.
Yes! The HPV vaccine "Gardasil" is now recommended for men age 26 or younger. It will protect against the 2 most common strains that cause genital warts. (It is also thought that it may help prevent anal cancer as well as cancer of the penis and oropharynx but there are no studies that support this as yet.) Just as in women, it is most effective when given before a person's first sexual contact, starting at age 11.
Sources: "Genital HPV Infection - CDC Fact Sheet" (2006) and "HPV Vaccine Questions and Answers" (2006).


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Animal Angles: Frogs' Friends
by Ruth Tenzer Feldman
Frogs have amphibian classmates—Eastern red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus)—whose eating habits help them, and perhaps us too, to survive.
The bad news is that Eastern red-backed salamanders are also threatened, like frogs, by acid rain and global warming. Like all Plethodons, they live on land, have no lungs, and breathe through moist skin. Acid rain lowers the sodium content of soil, making it harder for the red-backed salamanders to get the amount of sodium they need to survive. With less sodium, these salamanders excrete water so that they can maintain the right sodium-to-water ratio in their bodies. That dries their skin and makes it harder for oxygen to pass through. Global warming also dries out the soil, making it still harder for them to breathe.
The good news is that Eastern red-backed salamanders eat leaf-fragmenting animals, such as beetles. Leaf fragmenters break leaves into smaller bits, making it easier—with the help of fungi and bacteria—for the leaves to decompose and release carbon into the air as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Leaf fragmenters also eat the nitrogen-rich parts of leaves. By eating leaf fragmenters, Eastern red-backed salamanders slow the leaf decomposition process and help to keep nitrogen on the forest floor, too.
More good news: Eastern red-backed salamanders are still the most abundant terrestrial vertebrates in the northeastern United States. They thrive in forests over 80 years old. According to Richard Wyman, who studies them at the E.N. Huyck Preserve in Rensselaerville, NY, there are 18 billion red-backed salamanders in New York State alone. Dr. Wyman estimates that they keep 400 million tons of carbon on New York's forest floors every year!
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- terrestrial:
- Living or growing on land.
- What effect does acid rain have on the pH of soil? How does this change affect the red-backed salamander?
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- If the amount of acid rain falling in an area cannot be changed, would it make sense to add salt to the soil in certain areas? What might be the benefit of doing this? What might be the drawbacks? What else might be affected by the addition of salt to soil? Write a short paragraph describing the benefits and drawbacks of adding salt to the soil in areas where acid rain falls.
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Spitzer to Empire State Development Corp.: Hold on a Minute
Democratic Gubernatorial frontrunner and state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who has avoided the subject of Atlantic Yards like a truck full of toxic waste for most of the campaign, has come down on the side of project opponents on at least one front: he wants more time for public comment and hearings. Norman Oder reported this afternoon in his Atlantic Yards Report that Spitzer has sent a letter to Empire State Development Corp. Chair Charles Gargano asking that the public hearing scheduled for August 23 be delayed for at least 30 days. That would allow 90 days for community organizations and others to digest the 1,400 page Atlantic Yards Environmental Impact Statement. A wide variety of local officials have also requested a delay.
AYR quotes the letter as saying:
While I strongly support development at the Atlantic Yards site, I believe it is vital that there be adequate opportunity for public review of this project. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), which was released on July 18, 2006, is approximately 1400 pages long and deserves the careful review that is essential for a project of this magnitude. In addition, the three community boards that represent the immediate neighborhood of the project are in recess until September. For these reasons, I believe it is appropriate that the public hearing associated with the DEIS, that is now scheduled for August 23, 2006, be postponed for at least 30 days, leaving a total of not less than 90 days for review.A cynical analyst might say that it is calculated move on Spitzer's part to throw a bone to the South Brooklyn voters that are against Atlantic Yards in its current form, without taking any stand on the project itself. (It is after all hard to ignore forever a major public project driven by state government when you're running for governor.) From Spitzer's point of view there is no political cost in asking for another 30 days of public comment and for a public hearing after summer vacation is over.
The less cynical observer might conclude that he's genuinely offended by the rush job of the hearings and the image problem created by scheduling a major hearing when all the concerned community boards are not in session. Whatever the motivation, the fact is that Brooklynites and Community Boards desperately need as much time as possible to honesty assess Atlantic Yards' impact, and the community needs a healthy debate, both pro and con.
It doesn't take a political or planning genius to understand why Mr. Gargano and Company are so anxious to take a page from the playbook of the man they should make their Patron Saint--recently departed Newark Mayor Sharpe James--and get Atlantic Yards done ASAP. Mr. James, who was one of the more wiley public officials to hold local office in recent decades, worked hard to ensure that his downtown sports arena for the New Jersey Devils was rising from the ground before he even thought about leaving office. As long as construction crews aren't digging holes, pouring foundation and covering up the rail yards on the day Gov. Pataki leaves office, there's always the chance that the deal could come undone. If the Governor had attended to World Trade Center redevelopment with the same sense of urgency and can-do spirit, we'd be looking at more than a hole in the ground today.
Public debate can upset even the best laid plans. It can slow things down and introduce uncertainty. It can allow for the airing of uncomfortable questions, and give a public forum to those with other ideas.
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How is her other obedience?
jmann4 wrote:Moderator note: Thanks Michelle (MNP13) for sharing this lesson.
(I typed all this out a while ago for another list I'm on, so here you go with a few updates and revisions...)
If you want him to stay at your heel correctly when walking there is an EASY way to do it with a prong. It takes about 15 minutes and your dog will teach itself. You can NOT do this with a choke chain. They are useless as soon as the dog is on the wrong side of you or at the wrong angle. This will also not work with a flat collar, because all you do is jerk the dog's neck which is uncomfortable but not much by way of 'correction'.
I wrote this for heeling on the left, but you can do everything on the right if you choose.
Anyway, about the heel. Put a prong collar on the dog and hold the leash in your left hand with the dog on your left. Do not hold the leash with two hands, left only. The collar should be right up behind their ears, and the leash should be slightly slack. There should be a 'J' between you and the dog - i.e. no pressure on the collar at all
Now walk straight ahead, do not give the dog a command, do not look at the dog, just walk at a steady pace. Watch the dog out of the corner of your eye. When he gets ahead of you QUICKLY turn around. As you turn, let your left hand/arm trail behind you and then when you are facing the other direction bring your hand forward quickly. Continue to walk at a steady pace. Go at least 30 steps so that the dog is walking in a straight line, then turn again if necessary.
Do not turn and then take three steps and then turn again. You will just frusterate and confuse your dog. You need at least 10 steps to get both of you going in a straight line, then a bunch more to give your dog a chance to think about things.
You dog will yelp and may fight the first time you do this. The second time he may yelp as well. You are not hurting him, you are surprising him. You are teaching him through his own actions that he must walk in a position where he can see you and respond to your movements. After two or three turns he should turn with you with no trouble. He will teach himself that getting ahead of you makes him unable to see you turn, and if he can't see you turn he gets a correction. By not giving him a command he is not obeying or disobeying you - he is responsible for his actions - he also can't decide to disobey you and that is very important as well.
Try this out without him on the leash a few times. The turn must be smooth and controlled for it to work. You need to be confident as well, you are letting your dog know that you are the one in control of the walk and if he doesn't want to pay attention to you then he corrects himself for it. I'm sorry if this is hard to follow, I just do it automatically and it's hard to describe completely. (I did think of making a movie and posting it, but both Ruby and Connor are completley unwilling to misbehave while wearing prong collars!) If you are not getting a short 'pop' on the collar when you turn you need to work on your timing. The correction should be quick and short. If you do a long slow pull you will not 'get the point across'.
This may sound mean, but if your dog doesn't yelp the first couple times you do it you're not doing it right. Because the correction is short and fast and only comes when you turn around it sends a very clear message to the dog 'stay with me or you won't like the consequences'.
By making him responsible for tracking your movements you get a very willing 'heeler'. When he is where he belongs, say 'good dog, heel'. Then start saying the command when he is next to you walking. When you say 'break' allow him to roam to the end of the leash sort of push him away from you to get the point across that it's now ok to be out of his heel position, then say heel (and if necessary, turn) to get him back where he belongs.
With the dogs I train there are no 'stay' commands, there is only a command that the dog is to obey until another command is given. So he should heel until told to break, or if you have a 'go ahead and sniff every tree you see' command use that.
You may need to start off a few walks with this method before they get it down pat.
Let me know if you need further details on what you're doing or why you're doing it, I am aware that you can't read my mind through your computer screen.
Let me know how it goes!!!!
"We [the AKC] have gotten away from what dogs were originally bred for. In some cases we have paid so much attention to form that we have lost the use of the dog."
--Former AKC President Kenneth Marden
mnp13 wrote:Ok, I'll do my best not to be rude... but I'm not always good at that, so please understand before I start that I am just trying to be helpful...
1. Don't hit your dog with anything. Your hand, a newspaper, a magazine, nothing. Dogs don't always understand what they are being hit for and you will quickly make your dog hand shy and afraid of you. That sometimes leads to fear biting, which is a nightmare to fix and often can't be fixed.
2. Using a newspaper for 'disipline' is dominance. 'Training' using dominance only creates power struggles and you will never gain the trust and respect that you want from your dog.
3. I would strongly recommend you get into an obedience class, and as it seems you are a new and somewhat inexperienced owner (we all were at some point!) you should go to a training club, not a Petsmart type place. See if you can find one that has a class in positive training, as you need to establish a good rappor with your dog. Make sure the club is not positive only because you may need to add in compulsion at some point, and positive only is removing an entire type of training and in my opinion, that sells you and the dog short.
4. your dog is running the house. It's boot camp time. cheeky is right, you need to start NILIF. Do it with both dogs and I'd start right this minute. Be absolutely 100% strict with it, and get everyone in the family on board with it.
5. Put the prong collar away. with the amount of control you have with the dog (none) you can not use compulsion training with her. You will just continue the power struggle and things may (and probably will) get much worse. Good training always starts out positive and motivational and then you add in compulsion after a behavior is learned. It doesn't sound like she has any clue what's expected of her, and even if she does, she doesn't care.
6. Until you get in a training class, I would recommend you walk her alone and probably only enough to go potty. Further power struggle with the dog will only keep making things worse.
arlosgirl wrote:thanks for all the help. ive put away the prong collar and started NILIF. shes not liking getting ignored when she jumps on me or gets in my face, but it works for the most part. shell get down for a while, but she will keep trying to get my attention. im gonna be checking everywhere for an obedience course. maybe ill have enough left of my tax return to pay for it.
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EWING TOWNSHIP, N.J. - At the first round of the 2013 NCAA Division III on Saturday afternoon, the Rochester Institute of Technology advanced over the MIT women's soccer team in penalty kicks, 4-3, following a scoreless 110 minutes of play. This was the third consecutive game the Engineers played that went to penalty kicks. The Tigers improved to 12-4-4 and will play host The College of New Jersey tomorrow afternoon, while MIT ended their season with a record of 13-2-6. In the program's 28 year history, the Cardinal and Gray have never had so few losses in a season.
Neither team was able to settle at the start of the game and the ball spent the better part of the first 45 minutes switching possession. A shot by sophomore Amma Okwara (Charlotte, N.C.) at the 33 minute mark was the first one of the game. Freshman keeper Lauren Ullmann (Princeton, N.J.) had her first and only touch of the period with less than three minutes remaining in the half when she saved a shot by Caitlyn Daly, while RIT goalie Amanda Murray saw no action, as both MIT shots went wide of the net.
Ullmann saw a bit more action in the second half, having to save three shots throughout the entire period. MIT took four shots during this period, with two close calls sent by freshman Kathleen Chen (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and junior Ambika Krishnamachar (Darien, Conn.) having to be saved by Murray. With just six shots taken from both teams throughout the 90 minutes and the score still locked at zero, the game went into overtime.
During the first overtime period, neither team was able to take a single shot. With three corner kicks by Daly compared to one for MIT by junior Elena Gianotas (Trabuco, Canyon, Calif.), the first 10 minutes was soon over and the game went to the second overtime period. During that time, the Tigers outshot the Engineers, 4-2, with RIT taking four consecutive shots at the MIT goal, with two of them being saved by Ullmann. Shots by junior Michelle Battipaglia (Katonah, N.Y.) and Krishnamachar went wide and, with the score still tied at 0-0, the game went to penalty kicks, something with which the Engineers are very familiar.
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Tech was outshot, 10-8, in this very defensive game. Ullmann earned the tie and ended her first collegiate season in net with a record of 11-2-6, stopping six shots throughout her 110 minutes, while Murray had to save just two shots.


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BROKEN ARROW — If Arkoma Mustangs Football Coach Mark Weatherton would have handed out a grade to his team in Thursday night's four-way scrimmage against host Summit Christian, Dewar and Welch, he likely would have awarded his squad an "A.""I'm very pleased with the way we played," Weatherton said. "We went down there against three Class B teams, and we competed well. Welch is really good, and we stuck right with them."Each team went 10 minutes on offense and 10 minutes on defense against the other three teams.The scores against Dewar came when Tyler Sweeten caught a 5-yard swing pass from Christian Davis, and later catching a 30-yard pass from Tanner Steward.The Davis-Sweeten tandem hit paydirt against the host team, as they connected on a 35-yard pass play.Talihina Looks Better in Road Scrimmage against HugoOne thing Talihina Coach Kelly Gravitt was wanting to see was how his team's defense would play after working for a week in the old ways of the 4-3 set. He liked what he saw."They were more confortable and more relaxed," Gravitt said. "They looked like it was something they had done before. We flew to the ball a lot better. They tackled a lot better, but we did have some busts and that's what led to their score. But our defense was a lot better than it was last week. We just have to get better. We have to fix our busted assignments, but we're playing with guys who didn't see much action last year. As soon as we get our alignments fixed, we'll be all right."On offense, the Golden Tigers did something they didn't do in last week's home scrimmage against the Quinton Savages at Doc Robinson Stadium — score."We moved the football," Gravitt said. "We were finally rewarded with a score (Austin Lawson's 2-yard touchdown run). We didn't score last week. But we had some busts in our quarterback reading game and we had some busts on our blocking. We need to stay on our blocks a lot longer, but that's what's going to happen because it is so early. They're all correctable mistakes."


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NOTES from the UNDERGROUND No. 165 | December 27, 2008
Christmas to New Year (2009)
'Memoir' Dispatches, #4
Editor's Note: This is the fourth, end-of-the-year/holiday offering in words to date as I consider the various interpretations of December, winter, Christmas, the coming year. Previous postings include: "Down to the Lake", "Carol Ordal" ( www.poetrydispatch.wordpress.com) and a winter haiku by Imakito Oku at www.bashosroad.outlawpoetry.com .
I can't imagine a greater gift to American writing in our time, a writer for all seasons, than Garrison Keillor. There's little I can add to all the well-deserved attention he has received thus far (a writer in his mere 60's), all the work he has already committed to books, articles, radio, stage performances, good old-fashioned storytelling–not to mention one fine (somewhat overlooked) film, "A Prairie Home Companion" (2006) directed by Robert Altman, who never made a film that didn't grab you: "Hey, I'm talking to you, Bub. Straighten up. Watch. Listen." Altman (Kansas City, MO) and Keillor (Anoka, MN)—a perfect Midwestern match. "Prairie…" a film, a radio program, a Way (in the Eastern sense) about time, maybe a little ahead of its time–to be re-viewed years from now because it's all there, everything—the way we like it. All one needs to know and love about the true heart of America.
We used to read newspapers because of the writers who talked to us in print every day. Spoke our language. Came out of our own neighborhoods or our neck of the woods. Tickled our funny bone. Made us feel the stories of people. New York had Jimmy Breslin. Chicago had Mike Royko. To mention only two–two of the very best.
We seldom see Breslin in the Midwest anymore. Royko's been gone for years and has never been equaled. If you were lucky enough to grow up in Chicago, there was such wealth of good writing in newsprint you could hardly wait to get up in the morning, run down to the corner newshack, plunk your pennies down and see what they all had to say.
There's a long history of writers with a sense of humor and humanity in American newspapers. Imagine opening your paper and reading Mark Twain in the morning. (Something else the troubled corporate newspaper scene in America today hasn't paid enough attention to in their frenzied search for truth/meaning/salvation through marketing in a day and age gone cyber and too often, too meaningless.)
Imagine waking up in the morning, finding a real newspaper for sale at the local store…and opening the pages to Garrison Keillor–the Mark Twain of our time.
Now there's hope for you. For the newspapers. For all of us.
If you don't appreciate Garrison's gift of words in this or any season—you're probably way too far from home. —Norbert Blei
The Blessings of Childlike Wonder
by Garrison Keillor
It is the blessed Christmas season. But of course you know that. Unless you live 10 miles up a box canyon deep in the Wasatch Range with only your dog Boomer and are demented from drinking bad water, you are inhaling Christmas night and day and "Adeste Fideles" is stuck in your head like a 5-inch nail.
This Christmas I am in New York for the general dazzlement and variety. On Sunday St. Patrick's was packed to the rafters for 4 p.m. mass in Spanish, the name Jesucristo drifting around the battlements, and a few blocks south the Jane Austen Society was meeting to discuss Christmas in Olde England, and in between, I stopped in a men's store and bought six pairs of red socks. For myself.
Down deep I am selfish and don't like to feel obliged to do what other people are doing— dancing, leaping, piping, drumming, welcoming the Christ Child with joyful hearts, etc.—at the times when other people are doing them. This city enables one to leap or pipe pretty much whenever you feel like it, even after 10 p.m. on weekdays.
The other day I took my sandy-haired, bright-faced daughter to dinner at 9 p.m., which is late for a 10-year-old, and introduced her to the idea of Ordering Whatever You Want, No Matter What Others May Think, and she got the chicken Kiev and for dessert an apple tart as big as a Gideon Bible. She is a good eater. She approached her meal with the quiet devotion that a chicken deserves. She loved the candles, the linen, the silver, the formality I enjoyed a tiny quail egg poached in a toasted brioche with a dollop of caviar, though, thanks to my upbringing, I eat my meals surrounded by gaunt Chinese children holding out empty rice bowls. And when the check arrives, I have visions of debtors' prison, dank stone walls, a wooden bunk, a straw mat, water dripping, and so forth.
Here in New York, Mr. Madoff allegedly made off with $50 billion of other people's money in a scheme, which is selfishness raised to a high level indeed, but the selfishness I am indulging is a simpler kind—for example, if I feel like having a mocha, I just step into a Starbucks and get one. A small one, no pastry but it feels luxurious, coming from a utilitarian background as I do. Why mocha? How does it further God's work on Earth? I don't know. I just like it.
A few weeks ago a pundit wrote about what a wonderful thing it would be to appoint Bill Clinton to the Senate to fill his wife's seat, him being a former president and all, and then that idea vanished. Bloop. Bill called up a few people and said, "Whom are you kidding?" When a man can jet around the world and be received as a potentate and knock down a hundred grand every time he feels like giving a speech, he is not going to want to sit in the Senate chamber and hear old men drone on about Arbor Day and the crucial role of the forest products industry.
I feel the same way about Christmas parties. It isn't fun to stand around making small talk with other people's friends as they anesthetize themselves. But slipping into St. Patrick's for mass in Spanish is pretty wonderful. It's like a big family reunion at which I know nobody and so nobody is mad at me. Nothing said in Spanish offends me doctrinally or any other way I squeeze into the crowd, under the placid stone faces of saints, the sweet smell of burning wax and a hundred varieties of cologne, and feel the religious fervor, and tears come to my eyes, and I light a candle, say a wordless prayer, and out into the cold I go.
It brought back memories of Christmas Eve in Copenhagen 20 years ago and how beautiful the sermons were before I started learning Danish.
A man gets a keener sense of the divine in a church that is not your own. Maybe Luther and Calvin and Jan Hus and all of them were dead wrong and literacy is not the key nor an understanding of Scripture, and maybe the essence of Christmas is dumb childlike wonder, and the more you think about it, the less you understand. Which makes me glad I am no smarter than I am. Let's go have lunch.
from The Chicago Tribune, December 25, 2008


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View significant artifacts from 19th-century family life and walk into a fully furnished 1820s bedroom.
Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park
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$3 adult suggested admission; children 16 and under free.
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