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Darden Restaurants, Inc. is the world's largest company-owned and operated full service restaurant company1, and served over 404 million meals in fiscal 2009. As of May 31, 2009, we operated through subsidiaries 1,773 restaurants in the United States and Canada. In the United States, we operated... More
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- Wednesday, June 19, 10:03 AM "Either management's initiatives begin to gain traction [or] pressure builds for more significant change," Deutsche Bank's Greg Poole says of Darden Restaurants (DRI +0.5%), adding that either way the "risk-reward seems skewed to the upside." Poole doesn't necessarily like the valuation though (PT $54) and says it would be preferable to get in at a lower price. Comment!
- Wednesday, April 17, 1:03 PM Red Lobster will reverse a policy instituted last year which saw new servers hired at a lower pay scale and increased the number of tables each server handled at a time in order to cut costs for Darden Restaurants (DRI -1.5%). The company admits customer service complaints rose to a level that it couldn't ignore any longer. 6 Comments [Consumer]
- Friday, April 12, 9:51 AM Restaurant sales trends improved in March but remain "fragile," according to a new report from Black Box Intelligence. The sector saw a same-store sales increase of 0.5% during the month compared to February's decline of 5% - while traffic decreased 2% compared to a 4.2% drop in February. Comment! [Consumer]
- Wednesday, April 10, 2:17 PM Restaurant visits by parties of adults grew by 1% last year to end four consecutive declines in the category but visits with children in tow showed flat growth once again, according to tracking from the NPD Group. A tripping point for the sector has been the lack of growth in visits by parties with kids. What to watch: Analysts see increased promotional activity sneaking in on the industry's margins. 5 Comments [Consumer]
- Monday, March 25, 2:30 PM Restaurant blues: The consensus estimate of economists for consumer spending growth in February is for a 0.6% gain after the measure rose 0.2% in January but don't expect restaurants to report strong numbers for Q1. Inside tracking and guidance warnings from key companies indicate that the sector is feeling the pressure of higher payroll taxes. Major chains also face a tough period of comparable with last year's winter much milder on average in the U.S. 4 Comments [Consumer]
- Monday, March 25, 9:58 AM Stephens raises its rating on Darden Restaurants (DRI +2%) to Overweight from Equal Weight in the wake of a FQ3 report from the restaurant operator that left some room for optimism. The company also received a boost from Barron's with a weekend article concluding that the Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains have a "workable recipe" to improve profitability. Comment! [Consumer]
- Friday, March 22, 9:23 AM Darden Restaurants (DRI) declares $0.50/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 4.08%. For shareholders of record Apr. 10. Payable May 01. Ex-div date Apr. 08. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
- Friday, March 22, 9:22 AM Heard during Darden Restaurants' (DRI) earnings call: 1) Promotional activity kept the average check price flat during the past quarter at chains. Execs says checks dynamics should change with traffic improving at all three chains. 2) The company admits they have no visibility on the impact of delayed refund checks during Q1, but says a definite impact from weather was felt in certain regions. 3) Investors can expect a minor dividend increase from the company. 4) Beyond affordability measures, the company may look to move push fresher and lighter fare to draw traffic. DRI -2.0% premarket. (webcast) Comment! [Consumer]
- Friday, March 22, 7:10 AM More on Darden Restaurants' (DRI) FQ3: Same-restaurant sales fell at LongHorn Steakhouse (-1.6%), Olive Garden (-4.1%), and Red Lobster (-6.6%) as winter weather took its toll on store traffic. The addition of 105 new restaurants and the acquisition of Yardhouse is expected to help total sales grow at a 6% to 7% clip for the full fiscal year. (PR) 1 Comment [Consumer, Earnings]
- Friday, March 22, 7:03 AM Darden Restaurants (DRI): FQ3 EPS of $1.02 beats by $0.01. Revenue of $2.26B (+4.6% Y/Y) in-line. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Consumer]
- Friday, March 22, 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Friday's open: DRI, TIF Comment! [Earnings]
- Thursday, March 21, 5:30 PM Notable earnings before Friday's open: DRI, TIF Comment! [Earnings]
- Thursday, March 7, 2:25 PM S&P revises its outlook on Darden Restaurants (DRI +0.1%) to Negative from Stable. Comment! [Consumer]
- Thursday, March 7, 8:37 AM Retail analyst Howard Penney has his eye on the increasing promotional activity from Darden Restaurants (DRI) with its Olive Garden chain (2 for $25 coupon) as the restaurant operator looks for ways to boost visitors. The catch? If the company gives up margins so easily without boosting traffic nicely it will be spinning its wheels. (Previous: DRI warns on promotions) Comment! [Consumer]
- Friday, February 22, 9:50 AM An unusual step from Darden Restaurants (DRI +1.3%): The company released a video message from CEO Clarence Otis. Mainly a rally-the-troops message, the key lines are on the threat of promotional activity in the sector. "While we can't control what competitors do, we can change our approach to get one step ahead. Look for us to do more of that in the future." 1 Comment [Consumer]
- Friday, February 22, 8:50 AM The restaurant sector is on watch after a pre-earnings warning from Darden Restaurants (DRI) and a harsh downgrade on Wendy's (WEN) sets a negative tone. The picture being painted for 2013 is starting to get pretty consistent - margin pain and soft traffic trends. Other things to watch in 2013 for the sector: 1) The impact of higher payroll taxes. 2) The coming costs of the Affordable Care Act. 3) The push to raise the minimum wage. 4) Which chains can succeed in China and India? 5 Comments [Consumer]


text: Richard Stallman wrote:The source code of LAME is licensed under the LGPL; however, the mp3 format itself is patented and restricted. Further reading: http://www.mp3-tech.org/patents.html http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developers.html In short, the patents don't affect what you can do with the source code, they affect what you can do with the program after you compile it. So, you can modify, compile and distribute the program all you want, but if you actually execute the program you need a patent license. I suppose that could be considered Free Software, with a very narrow definition of Free. Unfortuately, several of the sites linked from the FSF page require viewing using their self-signed SSL cert for some reason. From license.txt in the unrar source archive: ----- The UnRAR sources may be used in any software to handle RAR archives without limitations free of charge, but cannot be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary. ----- That seems to run completely counter to the ideals of the GPL, but I suppose you're the expert. I'm not sure I see how this is an issue. With gNewSense, I can point to the Debian/Ubuntu repositories and install unfree software binaries. With OpenBSD, to run unfree software I need to check out the Ports tree, find the package I want to run, compile it, and install it. (Note the distinction between Ports, which contains all the third-party software, and Packages, which contains only Free software.) So, it would seem that (barring human error) the primary philosophical difference between the packaging systems of OpenBSD and gNewSense is that gNewSense tries to prevent you from seeing any packages they consider non-Free, while OpenBSD directly provides only Free software (Packages) but gives the user a choice of installing any software (Ports). So, from my point of view, OpenBSD provides the user with more freedom by not imposing artificial restrictions. After all, this removes "the overhead of considering who owns the system software and what one is or is not entitled to do with it"[1]. Do you disagree? [1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html, "Why All Computer Users Will Benefit"

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Camp is accused of being the driver in a May 2 crash that killed Winston Zachary Lewis Crenshaw and Matthew Ryan Miller, both 20. He faces four counts of vehicular homicide.
Officials say that a Volkswagen Jetta driven by Camp after a night of drinking collided with a BMW driven by Crenshaw at about 2 a.m. on Post Road near Ephesus Church Road.
Camp's original bond hearing was held before Douglas County Superior Court before Judge Robert J. James, but the case has since been assigned to Judge William "Beau" McClain.
Douglas County Chief Assistant District Attorney Brian Fortner said at the original bond hearing that the investigation found that Camp had been to a Braves game on May 1, then had at least one drink at one restaurant and then had drinks at another that night.
"Mr. Camp was involved in an altercation with a manager at Taco Mac and had a drink taken away from him before being told to leave," Fortner said during the bond hearing. "We understand that he sat in the parking lot for a time before leaving. A short time later, he was traveling south on Post Road – unable to maintain lane. He came almost entirely into the northbound lane and caused the crash that killed these two young men."
Fortner indicated that records show that Camp drank beer and shots of alcohol on that night and had refused to submit to blood alcohol testing. The state is in the process of obtaining the right to use other means to obtain his blood alcohol level, Fortner said. It is unclear if Camp was still serving probation from his prior conviction at the time of the accident.
During Monday's hearing, Fortner said Douglas County jail staff may be able to care for Camp during the rest of his recovery. Camp appeared in a wheelchair during his bond hearing, but walked with the aid of crutches at the status update.
"There were representations made at the bond hearing that the sheriff's department may not be prepared to deal with the defendant and his medical conditions, (but) we have looked into that matter and found that to be not true," said Fortner. "Jamie Harrell is here on behalf of the sheriff's department."
Camp's attorney, Frank Winn, told the court his client was recovering as scheduled and asked that McClain uphold the previous agreement that Camp turn himself in no later than August 9, 90 days after his bond hearing.
McClain agreed.
"It is not Aug. 9, it's June 25," said McClain. "The court's view of this matter would be that, unless the state wants to move to revoke bond for violations in some manner, for example, the state may contend Mr. Camp isn't undergoing medical care and therefore bond is subject to revoke on that basis, the law is crystal clear that the defendant is entitled to notice and the opportunity to be heard.
"So, if the state wants to do something other than allow Mr. Camp to remain on bond until Aug. 9, that's the state's position and the state has a clear-cut duty to file a motion to revoke bail, setting the reasons thereof, and present its case."
However, Fortner stated that he was not attempting to have the bond agreement revoked, but rather that the state wanted to help the assigned judge become more familiar with this particular case due to the serious nature that is outlined in the charges brought against the defendant.
Camp's family members appeared by his side during the hearing. He is serving a 90-day bond in order to recover from inuries sustained in the crash. Camp's treatment includes blood-thinning injections and a medical regimen that may be difficult to follow in a correctional setting.
Fortner had asked James to deny bond during the original hearing, saying Camp has a record with extensive traffic violations, and other arrests in his history.
"The state is opposed to bond in this case," Fortner said at the time, outlining speeding tickets, seatbelt violations and a failure-to-appear charge. "We are not dealing with a person who has been completely out of trouble."
James cited the medical attention that is required in a re-constructive leg and hip surgery in making a decision to go along with Winn's request.
Camp's bond was set at $50,000. In granting bond, he noted that blood thinners are required for the type of surgery Camp had. He also ordered house arrest except to seek medical attention and ordered that Camp not consume any alcohol while on bond. The man must report back to jail no later than noon on Aug. 9 and must turn himself in sooner should he be released from doctor's care prior to that date.
Camp is listed as a senior at the University of West Georgia and records show that he served as president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity for a few months.


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[Note -- because of some difficulty figuring out this site, I originally put what amounted to a bio into a "Share Your Ryde" post. So I'm copying it here.
Also, the choice of shark as a totem was pretty arbitrary, because I couldn't find anything that really sounded like me. My main skill, as an xNTx on the Myers-Briggs typology, is noticing and correlating trends, and creating a theoretical framework or model around a limited number of data points.]
I've followed a fairly crooked path to get where I am. Back in the early '90s I'd have been what Rod Dreher calls a "crunchy conservative," heavily influenced by the Nashville agrarians and the Catholic distributists, and so forth. My affinity for decentralization, localism, and a petty bourgeois society of small ownership, self-management and direct democracy, all caused me to drift leftward. At the same time, I tended to take neoliberal self-identifications with the "free market" at face value, and consequently to identify all talk of markets, entrepreneurship, the Internet, and network society as loathsome doctrines associated with Newt Gingrich and Jack Kemp (much as Thomas Frank and Andrew Keen do today).
Kirkpatrick Sale's Human Scale was a sort of catalyst for me. He first drew my attention to just how dependent corporate capitalism is on the interventionist state, with information on such things as the effect of the railroad land grants on the structure of robber baron capitalism, figures on corporate welfare almost equalling corporate profits, and so forth. Just mining his endnotes for further reading was a grand adventure. It led me to a lot of reading on false economies of scale and the superior efficiency of most small-scale production, and the role of the state in cartelizing the economy.
In the course of my reading, I came across references to individualist anarchism and particularly Benjamin Tucker's work. Tucker argued that the best way to authentic socialism was a genuinely free market in which all state subsidies, state-enforced artificial scarcities, entry barriers, regulatory cartels and artificial property rights were abolished. In such a free market, unfettered competition would drive artificial scarcity rents down to zero -- drive rent down to the value of buildings and improvements, and interest to the bare cost of administration -- so that "the natural wage of labor in a free market is its product." I also stumbled across Silverman's anthology on the "American libertarian tradition," with work by individualist anarchists, libertarian socialists, and libertarian capitalists. It was this that brought my attention to Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess, whose analysis influenced me heavily (despite the fact that I integrated it into my Tuckerite libertarian socialist framework).
I continued to read work by the New Left historian Gabriel Kolko and Ron Radosh, the Power Elite sociologist G. William Domhoff, and Frances Piven on the essentially corporatist nature of the "progressive" regulatory/welfare state. I also read the Anarchist FAQ, of which Iain McKay is the primary author, and studied in depth the histories of other anarchist traditions. As with Rothbard & Co., I had a great deal of affinity with anarcho-communist and syndicalist thinkers, and considered them anarchist comrades, while only selectively and skeptically incorporating their ideas into my framework.
So by the time I emerged from this process, I was firmly on the Left and had settled into a fairly stable individualist anarchist or left-wing free market ideological framework. I considered myself on the marginal fringes of both the libertarian socialist and free market libertarian movements, and tended to think of more mainstream thinkers in both traditions as comrades who were misguided in some particulars but who I could work with in many others.
As you can imagine, I saw the Seattle demo and subsequent AG movement, which emerged about this time, as a very exciting time.
In the meantime, I began reading Chomsky's analysis of world politics and American foreign policy -- the first book of his I read was Deterring Democracy, and I read most of the others in the year 2000. I played hunt-the-footnote with him as I did with Kirk Sale, reading William Blum's Killing Hope and a lot of other material on the continuity between Washington's role and Nazi Germany's as the chief anti-insurgent superpower, assorted coups and death squads, and the oceans of blood that were spilled to keep the world safe for corporate power.
In Summer 2001, having discovered the Internet the previous year, I began to gravitate toward Proudhonian mutualist groups like Larry Gambone's Voluntary Cooperation Movement, as well as participating in debates in more mainstream anarchist venues like Iain McKay's anarchy list and the A-Infos news list. My first real work in print, "The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand," was published by Gambone's Red Lion Press about the time of the 9/11 attacks.
In 2002, becoming increasingly tired of smug assertions in the Austrian economics discussion venues I frequented that Bohm-Bawerk and Mises had "disproved" the labor theory of value, I began the intensive reading in classical political economy, Marx and the Marxians, and the Austrians and marginalists, that led to Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. My purpose was to rehabilitate the labor theory of value and the associated socialist theory of exploitation, but to do so within a Tuckerite market framework and in a way that responded to marginalist critiques by Bohm-Bawerk, Jeavons and Marshall.
Around this time, I began to discover that "free market anticapitalism," of the state as the friend of big business and the enabler of exploitation, was a meme whose time had come. It was "steam engine time." I encountered a number of thinkers like Roderick Long whose analysis was very similar to my own. We began to coalesce into a conscious movement, eventually culminating in Center for a Stateless Society (about which more below).
Mutualist Political Economy, in developing the thesis of state-enforced monopoly as the source of exploitation, included a lengthy section on historic capitalism (with heavy reliance on Marxist analysis of primitive accumulation) and the crisis tendencies of developed capitalism (with heavy reliance on vol. 3 of Capital and the neo-Marxists at Monthly Review). As I said tongue-in-cheek in the Preface, it was intended as an analysis of the laws of motion of corporate capitalism, past, present and future.
Reading analysis of the Seattle movement and earlier networked movements of the '90s initially sparked my interest in network culture and organization as a tool of resistance. I did a lot of reading in the work of David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla at Rand on swarming attacks, netwar, etc., and Rheingold on flash mobs, as a new form of resistance made possible by the Internet.
In the process of writing the parts of Mutualist Political Economy on crisis tendencies of late capitalism, I read intensively from Ivan Illich and Paul Goodman, and R.A. Wilson. This inspired my next writing project, Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective. I won't describe it in any detail here beyond saying the original picture on the tin -- that virally popular "head up ass" picture of a guy with necktie and briefcase inserting his head into his own rectum, which I had to replace when a copyright troll claimed "ownership" of it -- was a fair indication of the contents.
About the time I finished Organization Theory, at the end of 2008, I was hired as a research associate and commentator at Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), a left-wing market anarchist think tank. Starting on 2007 I also made some progress as a freelance writer, selling articles to The Freeman (edited by my good friend Sheldon Richman) and other periodicals. Writing hasn't been enough to live on without my work as a hospital orderly, but it's been enough to pay off my debts and accumulate a nice little pile of F.U. money.
In the process of writing Organization Theory, in turn, I developed even more of an interest in networked culture, and particularly in the open-source/free culture movement. I became aware for the first time of the micromanufacturing and open-source hardware movements, and the kind of stuff going on in places like Factor e Farm. It was in this period that I made the acquaintance of Michel Bauwens and began hanging around e-lists like the P2P Foundation's email discussion list and the Open Manufacturing Google Group. It brought me into contact with a lot of people whose work influenced me heavily like Sam Rose, Eric Hunting, Vinay Gupta, Athina Karatzogianni and Andy Robinson.
It was this new complex of ideas that became the subject of my next book, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto. It started with an analysis of the old mass-production economy as a historical dead-end, a state-subsidized dinosaur, and proceeded to describe the forces that would supplant it: relocalized micromanufacturing with cheap open-source CNC machine tools, and household microenterprises producing for the informal and barter economy.
As with my previous books, ideas I touched on in Homebrew inspired my next writing project. That would be my next book, The Desktop Regulatory State. In writing Homebrew, I presupposed -- and mentioned in passing -- the effect of the desktop revolution on immaterial production, and destroying the material basis of corporate power in the information and cultural realms. I decided to develop that idea in depth as a book in its own right.
A second contributing current to the Desktop Regulatory State originally came to my attention when "Doocing," or the firing of bloggers for negative comments about employers. I synthesized this with my earlier reading of Ronfeldt and Arquilla on netwar, along with Naomi Klein on culture jamming, the Wobblies on open-mouth sabotage, Frank Kernaghan's "culture jamming" against Kathie Lee Gifford, and networked labor models like the Coalition of Imolakee Workers. The result of this line of thought appears, in roughly similar form, in several places: "The Ethics of Labor Struggle: A Free Market Perspective," "Open-Mouth Sabotage, Networked Resistance, and Asymmetric Warfare on the Job," "Chapter Nine -- Special Agency Problems of Labor" in Organization Theory, and "Labor Struggle -- A Libertarian Model" (Center for a Stateless Society, 2010).
My next book involves putting these two strands together and generalizing them. The wage-factory system was originally justified by the shift from individually affordable craft tools to enormously expensive, specialized, capital-intensive machinery. The latter could only be afforded by enormously rich people pooling their resources to buy it and then hiring others to work it. Administering the costly machinery and the large workforce required large, hierarchical institutions run by professional managers. In Galbraith's model of countervailing power, only other large, hierarchical institutions, run by professional managers, could restrain the power of business corporations. The problem was that these regulatory bodies tended to cluster, in practice, in complexes of allied institutions.
As I pointed out in Homebrew, the desktop revolution had destroyed the rationale for the factory system (for the music studios, giant publishing houses, etc.) in the realms of desktop publishing, garage recording and sound editing, open-source software, etc. And the micromanufacturing revolution, by lowering the cost of a "factory" by two orders of magnitude, is doing the same for physical production. We're going back to individually affordable, general purpose craft tools. As Tom Coates remarked, in the immaterial realm, the desktop computer has destroyed the gap between what can be produced at work and what can be produced at home. So there's no need for "work" any more.
My argument in The Desktop Regulatory State is that the desktop revolution has done the same thing to regulatory state functions. The desktop computer, network organization with near-zero coordination costs, stigmergic cooperation on the Wikipedia/Al Qaeda/file-sharing model, streaming video, and the possibilities opened up by Web 2.0 for "open-mouth sabotage" against all kinds of corporate malefactors, enable what John Robb calls "superempowered individuals" to take on giant authoritarian institutions on an equal basis. The desktop revolution has eliminated the barrier between the kinds of "regulation" that can be carried out from an office in a government agency, and what we can do at home.
As you can guess, the emergence or newfound prominence of Wikileaks, the Arab Spring, Occupy and Anonymous, in the middle of my work in writing this book, has been enormously encouraging to me. I'm beginning to think I may have understated my thesis. Streaming video, as I argued here, is more effective than a police commission in exposing and punishing evildoers. And "doxing" operations, like those LulzSec and AntiSec have carried out against HBGary, the BART police and Stratfor, are achieving what the lapdog regulatory state never could.
As I'm fond of saying, the twentieth century was the era of the giant organization. By the end of the twenty-first, there won't be enough of them left to bury. We'll display their bleeding heads on our battlements.
Besides the sense of hope from living in a time like this, when authoritarian institutions are getting curb-stomped every time I turn on the news, I can't get over the sense of undeserved grace I have from my writing career. Before the Internet, I would have been one of millions of (if you'll pardon the phrase) mute, inglorious Miltons, piling up manuscripts that would moulder away in someone's attic, and never seeing print except via the occasional cranky letter to the editor. I'm sure some people like Andrew Keen would consider that a good thing. A few centuries earlier, I'd have been an illiterate jug-eared Lowland Scots peasant hoeing turnips to pay rent to some lord.
So I'm amazed at my good fortune in being able to "own my own printing press," and write stuff that's read by thousands of people. I've been able to contact activists and scholars all over the world, just by Googling their email to comment on something I read. I'm very lucky to be living in these times.


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What is Postpartum Depression?
Postpartum Depression is an intense, invasive sadness with severe mood swings.
Causes of Postpartum Depression:
Just as in all types of depression, there is no single reason to point to as the definitive cause of postpartum depression. A variable combination of lifestyle, physical, and emotional factors can all play a part.
After childbirth, a severe drop in estrogen, progesterone, and other hormones can cause irritability and feelings of sluggishness. Coupled with a disordered sleep cycle due to an infant's schedule, this can lead to depression. Being sleep deprived can contribute to a mother feeling overwhelmed. Concern over one's ability to handle a newborn, feeling a loss of self, of your identity, can also lead to depression. Having a baby can be isolating for many mothers, and feeling alone while overwhelmed and tired oftentimes develops into depression.
Symptoms of Postpartum Depression:
The symptoms of postpartum mood disorders don't differ from the non-postpartum mood disorders except that the feelings of guilt and inadequacy about being an incompetent mother feed a woman's worries about being less than an adequate mother.
Women with postpartum depression feel guilty about being depressed at a time when they are supposed to be happiest and may be reluctant to discuss their feelings.
Women with postpartum depression often experience a loss of appetite, leading to extreme weight loss.
Women with postpartum depression often report an increased yearning for sleep, sleeping heavily, but awakening (and unable to get back to sleep) the moment their baby makes a noise.
The distinguishing feature in postpartum depression is irritability. Episodes of irritability may be unprovoked or provoked by the slightest infraction. These episodes of irritability are often directed at the significant other or baby and may escalate to violent outbursts or uncontrollable sobbing.
Women with severe postpartum depression often have terrible panic attacks, severe anxiety, and spontaneous crying, long after the duration of the "baby blues."
These women with PPD may feel jealous of their infant and have difficulties bonding with their babies.
If you're a new mother, don't hesitate to bring up these feelings with your doctor. Don't let your doctor brush it off. If s/he does, find another doctor.
There is real help out there for women with postpartum mood disorders.
Risk Factors for Developing Postpartum Depression:
- Prenatal anxiety
- Stress of child care
- Lack of social support
- Being younger than 20
- Family history of depression
Types of Postpartum Mood Disorders:
- The Baby Blues - The Baby Blues affect 30-80% of new moms, normally within the first 4 weeks after delivery. Symptoms include anxiety, exhaustion, sadness, crying spells, and moodiness.
- Postpartum Depression - A woman may feel anger, irritability, guilt, lack of interest in the baby, trouble concentrating, and possibly even thoughts of harming herself or the baby.
- Postpartum Anxiety - A woman may feel anxiety, nervousness, panicked, worried, and fearful for the baby's safety. Panic attacks may be experienced along with chest pains, shortness of breath, and profuse sweating.
- Postpartum Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Women with PP-OCD can have disturbing and repetitive mental images related to harm coming to their child and feel the need to do certain things over and over to relieve the anxiety associated with these images. Most moms find the images scary and unusual but never act on them.
- Postpartum Psychosis (PPP) - Women suffering from PPP may hear things or see things (hallucinations) and believe things are true that are not. They will not trust anyone around them and may become manic and confused. This form of PPD is very dangerous and help should be sought immediately. There is a 5% chance of a mother committing infanticide or suicide while suffering from PPP. It is temporary and treatable with medical help.
Treatment of Postpartum Depression:
Psychotherapy may help a woman manage her fears and worries about being a new mother.
Medication is often needed for effective treatment of postpartum depression.
Related Resource Pages on Band Back Together:
Postpartum Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Prenatal (antenatal) Depression
How to Help Someone Who is Depressed
Additional Resources For Postpartum Depression:
Postpartum Progress: the most widely read blog about postpartum depression and other postpartum mood disorders on the internet. Postpartum Progress offers the latest research and an unflinching look at what it is truly like to experience postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum OCD, postpartum psychosis, and antenatal depression & anxiety.
It features daily news and stigma-busting commentary, as well as a continuously-updated list of support groups around the country, personal stories from moms, photos of survivors, and links to major support organizations and top treatment programs.
Postpartum Education and Support: offers support for mothers and their families; provide resources for health care providers; and heighten public awareness of perinatal mood disorders.
Postpartum Depression International: source of great information about all types of Postpartum Mood Disorders and also offers women resources for where to go for local help.
The Postpartum Stress Center: offers wonderful connections to online resources and recommended reading.


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JoAnn "Jody" Colliver Falk, 76, Chanute, died Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 at the Heritage Health Care Center in Chanute, where she had been a resident for one year.
Jody was born in Springfield, Ohio on Oct. 15, 1934, the daughter of Emmett and Martha Earnhart Colliver. She graduated from Field Kindley High School.
She was united in marriage to Jerry Falk on Jan. 29, 1980 in Topeka.
She was a homemaker.
Jody was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church in Chanute.
Jody is survived by her husband of 30 years, Jerry; a son, Van Stewart, Hutchinson; a brother, Richard "Dick" Colliver, Long Beach, Calif.; a sister, Linda Colliver, Parkville, Mo.; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Martha and Benny, and a brother Charlie.
The family would like to express their appreciation to the staff of Heritage Health Care Center, Southern Care Hospice, Neosho County Memorial Hospital, and the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church and Pastor Shelly Holle. Your love and support will never be forgotten.
Funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 23 at the First Presbyterian Church in Chanute. Interment will be at 1 p.m. at Restlawn Cemetery in Coffeyville.
The family will receive friends today from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Penwell-Gabel Gibson Chapel in Chanute.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Brazil's well-heeled socialites swear by them. Legions of slum-dwellers from the country's hillside "favelas" don them almost every day. Minimum wage earners behind juice bar counters use them, as do newly minted millionaires and, alarmingly, construction workers.
In Brazil, literally everyone wears Havaianas, the now world-famous brand of rubber and plastic flip-flops that's celebrating its 50th birthday this year.
Since their 1962 introduction, Havaianas have joined soccer and samba as one of the great social equalizers in this country, among the world's most stratified societies.
Initially the workaday staples of the Brazilian poor, Havaianas have transcended both their modest origins and the country's borders to become an object of desire the world over, sold at Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus and coveted by Hollywood A-listers, European royals and suburban princesses from Seattle to Seoul.
Not only have they become all but de rigeur in poolside Miami and beachfront Cancun, Havaianas now have a way of cropping up where you least expect them, from Paris' rarified haute couture catwalks to the red carpet at the Oscars.
The iconic flip-flops now rival uber-model Gisele Bundchen for the title of Brazil's most famous export. And though the word "havaianas" means Hawaiian in Portuguese, the flip-flops have come to be something of a symbol for Brazil itself.
"They're cool, colorful, laid back and chic," said Brazilian-born fashion consultant Abraao Ferreira. "They're the quintessence of everything that people find appealing about Brazil."
The numbers speak to that enduring popularity.
Last year, 210 million pairs of Havaianas were sold worldwide. Even with 15 percent of total production exported to some 80 countries, enough of the sandals were sold in 2011 for nearly every man, woman and child in Brazil.
Legend has it that Havaianas' simple wishbone between-the-toe design was inspired by Japanese "zori" sandals, the traditional straw-bottomed footwear worn by geishas.
"It's true that some executives from (parent company) Alpargatas took a trip to Japan before the launch," in 1962, said Rui Porto, a longtime company executive who now works as a media consultant for the brand. "But the origins of this style of sandal date back to the dawn of time, to roughly the same era as the invention of the wheel.
"In fact, that's why there's no patent on them," Porto said.
Still, patent or not, Havaianas has kept the formula behind its squishy rubber soles a tightly guarded secret. Since most of its direct competitors make cheaper, plastic-soled flip-flops, Havaianas' aerated rubber soles are seen as key to the brand's success and their manufacturing process is kept under strict wraps.
Beyond acknowledging they're made from a mixture of domestic and imported rubber that shrinks and hardens with extended wear, Porto declined to provide any details about the secret soles.
In the beginning, Havaianas came in a Spartan palette, their white soles paired with either sky blue, black or yellow straps. Sold in popular street markets, they quickly became such a basic for the poor here that they were included on the list of basic necessities such as rice and beans that the government used to calculate cost-of-living increases.


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Billy Hamilton is getting a chance to speed up his career by doing more than just stealing bases.
The 22-year-old outfielder with record-setting speed is in spring training with the Cincinnati Reds for the first time. He's projected to start the season at Triple-A Louisville, where he can continue learning to play center field and becoming a switch-hitter.
If he has a solid spring with the Reds, he'll boost his standing with the front office and manager Dusty Baker, who has seen very little of him. Baker wants to see how he does things other than just stealing.
"To play winning baseball, there are things you have to do other than just steal," Baker said on Thursday. "Switch-hitting is new for him. Playing a new position is new for him. Those are things that you need to work on and to be able to do them, you've got to play. If you have an honor student as a freshman, are you going to graduate him right away?"
Hamilton set a professional record by stealing 155 bases last season at Single-A and Double-A. He's on track to start in center field for Cincinnati during the 2014 season, if he can become comfortable with his new position and his new batting style. The Reds think he can reach base more frequently if he's a switch-hitter who can bunt.
"It is tough to learn to switch-hit," said Hamilton, who is a natural right-handed hitter. "I've been doing a good job with it. I need more work at it. The more I keep working at it, the better I'm going to get. I am looking forward to what happens because it could be a big plus for my game."
He's also learning a new position as well. Zack Cozart established himself as Cincinnati's starting shortstop with a solid rookie season. Hamilton, who played shortstop throughout his career, was moved to center field at the end of last season, getting acquainted with the job during the Arizona Fall League.
The Reds sent center fielder Drew Stubbs to Cleveland and got Shin-Soo Choo to play the position for this season, leaving an opening for Hamilton in the future. His first experience in center last fall went as expected.
"I made some mistakes, which was good," Hamilton said. "I have a lot of things to work on, so I need to learn from mistakes. They just threw me out there. The angles to the ball are different from playing shortstop. The key is getting the angles right, getting to the ball or playing the wall to prevent triples. That's the main thing I've learned."
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Votes are expected on at least two high-profile amendments, according to an agreement reached by Senate leaders from both parties yesterday. The big amendment is from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), S.A. 13, which would repeal last year's healthcare law. Democrats are expected to raise a point of order against that amendment, and that point of order is likely to be sustained.
Another healthcare-related amendment is S.A. 9, from Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.). Her amendment would repeal the 1099 tax reporting requirement in the healthcare law. As we noted late yesterday, this amendment has a chance, as both parties want to kill the 1099 requirement, and Democrats seem to be putting forward 1099 repeal as an alternative to McConnell's bill.
But there are several other amendments that will have to be decided; 16 amendments have been put forward so far. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) has his own 1099 repeal amendment that he will fight to include, although it is very similar to Stabenow's. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) also has a 1099 repeal amendment.
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Students, graduates and lecturers from the University's Bradford School of Optometry stopped on campus for a break yesterday as they neared the end of a charity bike ride of almost 1000 miles.
The bike ride, which is raising money for World Sight Day, stops at all eight university optometry departments in the UK, and is due to be completed today when they arrive at Glasgow Caledonian.
Cyclists from departments around the country have joined the team for parts of the journey, but Bradford graduate Fares Hatoum and Bradford student Maadhav Kothari - president of the Bradford Cycling Club - have cycled the entire journey.
Fares, a pre-registration optometrist, co-founded the ride, which began as a journey from Bradford to Cardiff, later taking in Plymouth, London City, Cambridge, Aston, Manchester and Glasgow.
They will be joined by Bradford optometry lecturers David Keeble and Ed Malham for the final leg of the journey, as well as organiser Gemma Hill, who sustained a leg injury on the ride and has been following them in a support vehicle.
Blinky the horse also joined Fares on his bike when he was picked up at a charity shop on the way, and he has been attracting a lot of attention from passers by, along with Maadhav's Cher renditions.
Gemma, an optometry student from Glasgow Caledonian, said: "Bradford University have been amazing and we couldn't have done it without them. They've really supported us and made us feel welcome."
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Several hundred "veg heads" united in Venice on April 26 for LA's first VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE! The record crowd made veg history (estimated at 850 people by the owner of Culver Events, which hosted the event).
The amazing veggie day began at noon, when participants gathered at Culver Events to begin a 5K walk through Venice, adorned in eye-catching costumes and thought provoking signs to educate people about the health, environmental, and animal welfare benefits of a vegetarian diet. Lorri Houston, Founder of Animal Acres, which organized the VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE, kicked off the march with the "Ten Top Reasons to Go Veg", and then led parade participants through the streets of Venice. The parade stretched for several city blocks, often stopping traffic as cars honked in support (along with the occasional "Eat Beef" jeer), to which marchers enthusiastically responded; "Your Mamma was right, eat your veggies!" Everyone was in high spirits, carrying signs and chanting for the entire parade – clearly feeling proud and happy to be a "Veg Head!"
After the march, participants gathered for a post-parade rally to celebrate the vegetarian lifestyle, with special guest presentations, music & entertainment, costume contest, and of course, a smorgasbord of vegan food from our area's top veg restaurants. Participants sampled an array of veg foods – from raw vegan to Indian samosas to Thai curry and Tofurkey brats. Participating restaurants and food vendors included: One World Vegetarian Cuisine, Vegan Factory, Tofurkey, Perfected Foods, Samosa House, Leaf, and C'est LaV's Bakery.
In between veg meals, participants enjoyed the rocking tunes of Crazy Aunt Mary, Monogroove, and Truth on Earth, an all girl, all vegan band who brought the message home with tunes about protecting the animals and the planet. Special guest speakers included Rory Freedman, author of the New York Times best seller Skinny Bitch, which has sold over two million copies worldwide, and Karen Dawn, author of Thanking the Monkey, Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals, declared one of 2008's top new books by the Washington Post.
The Los Angeles VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE received extensive coverage on the internet, with several videos and blogs posted the day after the event. One blogger, the Vegan Shoe Lady, summed up what everyone seemed to feel about the event…
I have to say, the LA Veggie Pride Parade on Sunday was a GREAT event. I've commented before on some of the PR issues veg*nism gets – mainly the widespread belief that we're sickly, whiny, boring, no fun at all, and don't get to eat anything good. The VP Parade was proof that the opposite is true. It was fun, it was a healthy outdoor activity, lots of cute costumes were involved, and good food was readily available (C'est LaV's chocolate crinkle cookies are AWESOME). Definitely my kind of day.
Ah, if only every day could be VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE DAY. 'Til next year…


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We are entering an era where our interaction with technology becomes more like a conversation, effortless and ordinary, and less like a chore, clunky and difficult.
Despite skyrocketing demand for increasingly elaborate illusions, the business of creating visual effects for motion pictures is getting less profitable.
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin speaks with Journal editors about his role at the company, his portrayal in the film "The Social Network" and the spirit of entrepreneurship.
Plenty of teenage entrepreneurs have built companies that later have success, but very few strike it rich as quickly as 17-year-old Nick D'Alosio.
Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, is succeeding where other technology companies have tried and failed: closing the coolness gap with Apple.
For most Americans today, surveillance of our everyday activities is a fact of life.
Teenagers would like to know how and to whom their information is presented, so that they can make smarter choices in managing their personal information.
Websites are adopting techniques to glean information about visitors to their sites, in real time, and then deliver different versions of the Web to different people. Prices change, products get swapped out, and wording is modified.
The era of social networks creates a challenge for individuals navigating the personal-data economy: how to keep anything private when it is difficult to predict where your information will end up.
"Today we're looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow's reality."
The best advice for buying a laptop is to wait until summer or fall, as there are changes ahead in Mac and PC laptops.
EBay is exploring ways to harness an untapped class of buyers: Kids. It may allow consumers who are under 18 years old to set up accounts and access the eBay.com website to buy vintage T-shirts, jewelry, school supplies or other products.
The next iPhone could do something the White House, Congress and Federal Reserve have struggled to do: boost the U.S. economy.
Nokia developed early smartphone prototypes that anticipated features of Apple's iPhone but never produced the gadgets, amid a culture that lavished funds on research but squandered opportunities to bring its innovations to market.
Facebook went public last month on its prospects for growth. But in some areas, the social network's growth rates are already maturing.
The rise of Internet-connected smartphones and advances in display-projection technology are accelerating the development of devices that overlay digital images atop a person's view of the physical world.
Microsoft is pledging $605 million to help bolster Barnes & Noble's Nook digital-book business.
A number of marketers have turned to characters to sell their products, as personifications do better on social media.
High-school coaches have been breaking down film and convincing students to track stats for decades, but Krossover's business represents a giant step in a new direction.
Hollywood is warming to Apple's iCloud effort, but deals disclosed last week show how complicated it is to build alliances in the digital-media business.
Google is giving its tried-and-true Web-search formula a makeover as it tries to fix the shortcomings of today's technology and maintain its dominant market share.
Facebook's dominance of the social media market need not rule out smaller competitors. Venture capitalists have their eye on a new generation of tech companies that are not looking to compete with Mark Zuckerberg, but to use his platform to compete with one another.
Apple unveiled an iPad tablet with a sharper display and the ability to connect to the Internet over 4G broadband wireless networks. Prices will start at $499, the same as the previous model. The tablet will be available March 16.
A group of Silicon Valley leaders is funding efforts to help undocumented youths attend college, find jobs and stay in the country.
A truly auto-mobile is coming if liability laws don't stop it.
AT&T pulled the plug on its all-you-can-eat plan for smartphone customers, telling subscribers they will see much slower speeds if they exceed a new monthly usage cap.
Google has registered 90 million users for its new social network, but it is a virtual ghost town compared with rival Facebook. Users are spending on average just minutes at Google+ each month even as they log hours on Facebook.
Apple chief Tim Cook said the next version of the company's Macintosh OS, due in late summer, would incorporate features from the software that powers its hit mobile devices.
Barnes & Noble is reported to be readying a Nook Tablet with 8 gigabytes of memory, a move that cuold enable it to match the price on Amazon's Kindle Fire.
Technology pioneer Elon Musk is dreaming bigger and further into the future than anyone else out there, and he's putting his money where his mouth is.
In a world of iPads, iTouches and iDistractions, how can a parent get a 9-year-old son to read more? A visit to an event held by Newbery-winning author Rebecca Stead yields some ideas.
Two groups could find more to like on Twitter than Facebook. Could teens and journalists have something in common?
The extraordinary career of a business icon, as chronicled by The Wall Street Journal
A look back at Steve Jobs's career in business, as it was chronicled by The Wall Street Journal. Also featured are excerpts from the new book "Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different," by Karen Blumenthal.
What Steve Jobs created and the legacy he left behind. Excerpted from "STEVE JOBS: The Man Who Thought Different" by Karen Blumenthal. Copyright © 2012 by Karen Blumenthal. Reprinted by arrangement with Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan.
Steve Jobs's penchant for showmanship and cultivation of the media goes back to the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984, at a time when the personal-computer market was becoming crowded and intensely competitive. A 1984 Super Bowl ad helped to set the Macintosh apart from the others. (Jan. 23, 1984)
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and was the public face of the company, but he soon found himself sidelined by John Sculley, the CEO whom he had recruited to help guide the company's growth. Frustrated, Mr. Jobs walked out of Apple, when his plans to start a new business angered company management. (June 3, 1985)
Steve Jobs's first post-Apple venture, Next Inc., began with great fanfare and generous funding. But it never even approached success. As Mr. Jobs tried to push his ideas over all others—a personality trait that had been both his strength and undoing at Apple—he continued to lose ground to bigger competitors, first in the hardware market, then in software. (May 25, 1993)
Steve Jobs's comeback began not at his computer company, but at the Pixar movie studio, which he bought in 1986 with the fortune he earned at Apple. (Nov. 30, 1995)
In 1996, as Apple was foundering, it founder was riding the success of Pixar's "Toy Story." Shellie Karabell of the Dow Jones Investor Network interviewed Steve Jobs at a technology conference. Less than a year later, Mr. Jobs was back at Apple. (April 29, 1996)
Steve Jobs who returned to head Apple in 1997 was not so different from the one who was ousted in 1985—just more determined. Workers bristled at his brusque management style. Yet others close to the company felt it was just the kick Apple needed. (April 14, 1998)
Among the challenges Steve Jobs confronted upon his return to Apple were frayed relationships with distributors and retailers. The solution he adopted would become a key to the company's revival. (Sept. 29, 2000)
The iPod started out as a simple player that would allow Mac users to make their music collections more portable. Afterward ... well, you know the rest. (Oct. 24, 2001)
In the early 2000s, CD sales were crippled by the widespread sharing of pirated music online. Steve Jobs saw an opportunity to change the industry's business model and its fortunes by marketing individual songs through an easy-to-use online music store. Within five years, Apple's iTunes Music Store had eclipsed Wal-Mart as the nation's biggest seller of music. (April 14, 2003)
Aside from a brief dalliance with double-breasted suits in the 1980s, Steve Jobs fiercely resisted buttons, especially on the products he helped create. (July 25, 2007)
By 2004, Apple's fortunes were seen as closely tied to Mr. Jobs's presence at the company. So when he received treatment for cancer, the company went to great lengths to reassure investors (Aug. 2, 2004)
After a medical leave for cancer treatment, Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 2010, in time to release the iPad tablet computer. Soon after, he spoke with Wall Street Journal technology writers Walter S. Mossberg and Kara Swisher about the origins of the iPad and its future. (June 7, 2010)
His health failing, Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO in August 2011, turning the company over to his longtime deputy, Tim Cook. Two months later, Mr. Jobs died, leaving a historic legacy of innovation and revolutionary change in technology, media and business. (Aug. 25, 2011)
Walt Mossberg looks at three PCs that attempt to function as both tablets and traditional laptops.
A wave of new mirrors are relying on sensors, cameras, and flat-panel displays to transform the time-tested looking glass.
A representative from Research in Motion gives a sneak peek at RIM's latest smartphone at the BlackBerry Jam Americas conference in San Jose, Calif. Via WSJ's #WorldStream
New Bluetooth speakers make it easy for a smartphone or laptop to fill a room with sound.
The next generation of digital cameras comes into focus
If you're armed with the right photo apps, editing tricks and shooting know-how, it just might be.
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Cranky Consumer tests three online services, and one walk-in service, that takes your old cellphones, laptops and cameras off your hands, and pays you cash.
Google may be making a new contribution to nerd fashion with "Project Glass," or eyeglasses that instantly provide users with visual info including messages from friends and map directions.
We test mobile apps that help people improve their skill in a foreign language beyond the spoken word.
Sony's new portable PlayStation is like a pocket-size console.
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Users of 4G smartphones are discovering their speedy broadband service also zips through battery life.
Our reporter discovers her iPhone movie-watching and music-streaming has unexpectedly pushed her into the top 5% of AT&T's data users.
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The new equation of modern life is simple: Use a mobile phone, give up any expectation of privacy. Cell phone carriers last year responded to some 1.3 million demands for information from law enforcement – and it's a safe bet that plenty of the people caught up in those investigations were just average Joes.
Imagine you're a teacher talking to a parent about his kid's misbehavior in the classroom. To save time, the busy dad uses his mobile phone to discuss ways to discipline the rowdy child.
Now, to make this ordinary teacher-parent conversation more interesting, lets pretend the FBI believes the dad is a drug kingpin. Suddenly, the innocent teacher who is just doing her job becomes a part of a federal investigation. Why? Because the suspect used his cell phone.
That's just one example of the privacy risks average Americans face today as law enforcement demands information on thousands of wireless subscribers each day. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and five other carriers collectively responded last year to 1.3 million demands for information stemming from local investigations into street crimes, financial crimes and intelligence investigations at the state and federal level, according to letters sent in response to a congressional inquiry.
Why So Much Data?
While cell phone surveillance has been used for some time in police work, very few people outside of the carriers knew how much information police were gathering. "I never expected it to be this massive," Rep. Edward J. Markey told The New York Times. The Massachusetts Democratic requested the reports from the carriers, which had never been asked for such an accounting. The reports were released this week.
The carriers did not provide a breakdown of the information handed over to law enforcement - usually without any notification to the customers involved. However, carriers regularly collect and store on each subscriber the phone numbers called and received, the numbers used to send and receive text, how often email is checked or the Internet is accessed, and the subscriber's location.
The Impact on Average Americans
While everyone agrees that the information can be useful in investigating suspected criminals, much of the data collected by law enforcement turns out be on people who are not involved in any criminal activity. That's because police agencies often seek data on subscribers who were near a cell tower during a certain period of time. Such cell tower "dumps" can include hundreds or even thousands of names.
"This is very likely touching the average American," said Jim Dempsey, vice president of public policy for the Center for Democracy and Technology. "Once you cross the million threshold, this is no longer a small possibility that your data is being scooped up."
The assumption is law enforcement will separate drug dealers and terrorists from the dry cleaners, pizza delivery guys and schoolteachers. "But then again [the police might] say, 'Wait a minute, drug dealer, schoolteacher? Maybe the schoolteacher is selling drugs to the kids,' " Dempsey said in painting a possible scenario. " 'Let's check out the schoolteacher. Let's go to the school and ask the principal.' Suddenly, it is impacting innocent people."
Why Privacy Is Threatened
Privacy rights advocates are not opposed to police gathering cell phone data in criminal investigations. What they decry is the lack of checks and balances to protect the innocent.
For one thing, law enforcement does not need court approval to collect mobile phone usage information. A prosecutor, the FBI or Drug Enforcement Administration need only issue a subpoena. And law enforcement can avoid even the subpeona requirement simply by declaring an emergency. The FBI in 2007 was widely criticized for improperly using emergency letters to gather thousands of records on phone numbers in counterterrorism investigations.
In their reports to Congress, carriers complained of muddled laws and said they sometimes refused to hand over data when their own legal departments suspected police were overstepping their bounds. But should it be left up to mobile phone companies to be the gatekeepers of privacy rights?
What Can Be Done?
If we don't think mobile carriers are the right entities to make privacy decisions, Congress needs to update current laws to take into account advances in technology.
For example, wiretapping by police requires court approval because the information gathered is in real time. With cell phone data, the information is stored, so police need only a subpoena. In addition, there are no laws governing what happens to the data once it is in the hands of police, who do not have to reveal what they've collected and what they've done with the information.
"One of the real concerns that we have about electronic communications in general is there's no requirement for any kind of transparency into how many requests were made or how the information is used, stored and shared," said Chris Conley, technology and civil liberties attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
More Information Needed
Not having that information makes it difficult for privacy rights advocates to determine what legal changes to lobby for. "It's very hard for us to have an informed dialogue with our government, with our lawmakers, if we don't know what's going on," Conley said.
Remember, last year's 1.3 million demands for information do not represent the actual number of people affected. Each request could involve a few to even thousands of mobile phone subscribers. With so many innocent people's phone records getting scooped up by police, the privacy implications are huge.
"This is absolutely something that affects everyone," Conley said. "Even if you don't think you have anything to hide, you don't necessarily want [police] to share your religious and political activities, attending a labor rally, going to a clinic for a health concern or playing hooky from work to go to a ballgame."
The bottom line is there are lots of activities that people prefer to keep private, and current law and practice offer little recourse to ensure that they are protected.


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As the ACC's spring practices get under way, we'll be previewing the big storylines for each of the league's 14 (15, in this case) teams. Check back on weekdays for what to look out for during your school's spring practices and spring game.
Team: Florida State Seminoles
Spring Practice Start Date: March 20
Spring Game Date: April 13
Florida State was effectively "back" in 2012, but with the spoils of success comes a lot of change heading into 2013. Seven assistants left for greener pastures during the offseason, and the team only returns 10 starters. So this spring is just as much about getting to know all the new faces around the program, as it is establishing an early depth chart for next season.
Offensively, the top priority is replacing departed senior QB EJ Manuel, who's held down the position for three-plus seasons. While there's certainly some expected drop-off without Manuel, the team has a big decision to make: established backup who will likely jump right in to run the offense, or promote a less established player who may need more time to take the reins. In one corner, you have the former, Clint Trickett, who will be a junior next season. In the other, the 'Noles can choose from rising sophomore Jacob Coker and star 2012 QB recruit Jameis Winston. All have their respective merits, but without a settled option at offensive coordinator right now, it'll be hard to truly get a read on what the assistants are looking for. One would assume head coach Jimbo Fisher will be aiming not to rock the boat, adapting his coaching hire and system to the best quarterback available on the roster. But an all-out quarterback competition looks to be in the offing, and it may not even be settled until well into August.


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This part of the site does what it says on the tin. Here you'll find essential advice on a range of things teaching-related. For starters, we have, well ... some tips on starters! (And plenaries). Also on this page you'll find documents on lesson planning, the ingredients of an effective lesson, Bloom's taxonomy (nope, it's not about flowers or taxation) and assessment.
So, you're ready and raring to go. But what ...? How? When ...? Where ... to start? For tips on all aspects of lesson planning take a look at this document.
Or the educational Swiss Army Knife.
This document is a useful starting point for anyone concerned with starting off and rounding up an English lesson. (For now, we'll forget about the middle bit.) With regard to lesson starter resources, why not take a look at Teachit's 'Lesson starters' scheme?
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Gah! The dreaded word. Don't tear your hair out or start weeping. Instead, simply print off, sit down and read up on the various different types and approaches to assessment, and how to ensure that you are assessing effectively.
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Well, there's "door hinge," but after that it gets tough.
Well, there's "door hinge," but after that it gets tough.
sudo open the pod bay doors, HAL.
I figure if I wait awhile I will not have to listen to Taylor Swift,
Shes such a nice girl......
"You'll find me DOWNTOWN, gracefully face-down just wishin' I could feel alright"
So I got to listen XM's Country Xmas station quite a while over the holiday, and I must say Taylor Swift's version of "White Christmas" is supremely awful. The worst of the worst of the worst. I expected a two syllable countrified pronunciation of white, but it is like she isn't even pronouncing the "t" at all. The whole tempo of the song is screwed up as well.
I heard a couple others by her, "Santa Baby" and something else, that were ok in a plucky sort of way.
My niece told me yesterday she got tickets to a Taylor Swift concert for Christmas. I immediately thought she might take gypsy, but at 17 I think she's a bit young for him.
If you are pissed at a dog for keeping you awake with its barking, it's not because you disagree with what it's saying. -- Rikki
CENTENNIAL, CO—Following her split this week with One Direction singer Harry Styles, sources confirmed today that Taylor Swift has moved on and is now dating mass murder suspect James Holmes. "Taylor and James were first spotted canoodling at a pre-trial hearing, and we were able to confirm today that the two are indeed an item," gossip blogger Perez Hilton wrote of the relationship between the 23-year-old singer-songwriter and the 25-year-old accused Aurora theater gunman, nicknaming the couple "Swolmes." "Just this morning, fans took several photos of the lovebirds leaving the Centennial courthouse hand in hand. They're actually really cute together." At press time, sources reported seeing the couple heading back to Holmes' prison cell at Arapahoe County Jail.
""Don't worry, I brought up the white wine with the fish"
Terry Southern, on being chastised by a society hostess for being sick after drinking
Yeah, um, so this is pretty good. Well crafted, melodically sound. She can write circles around 99% of so-called Nashville hitmaker songwriters, and that makes her pretty okay in my book. (and yes, this is mildly auto-tuned. Can't have it all.)
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""Don't worry, I brought up the white wine with the fish"
Terry Southern, on being chastised by a society hostess for being sick after drinking
You know I mainly agree with his assessment of Taylor Swift. I still kinda like "Never Getting Back Together" even if her Grammy performance of such dally was abysmal. Seriously, could she be more bored about a joyful song? Jeesh. But this nerves me up here...
"But the character of the personal assault obscures a larger cultural issue that was implied in the article (and fleshed out in the comments section later), and that large cultural issue is this: In grim economic times, large entertainment providers become more risk averse, which means that they issue more conservative music. And because there is less innovative music, the masses of listeners themselves become more accustomed to more conservative and less interesting music. And the critics, in turn, begin to review more conservative music, and like the proverbial frog in the saucepan, the critical community sometimes comes to accommodate a musical drift into the formulaic and the mundane."
Oh come on now. Has the guy ever heard of Jamendo or Soundcloud or Youtube or ...ok is he locked up in a monastery cels with only industry shipped cd's and a writing utensils because I could swear this guy never heard of the internet. Their is plenty of risky type music out there, hell some of it's so risky that the poor stuff barely gets out of the home town region, you just gotta dig. A little. Just take a garden shovel, dig a little for half an hour and you'll find something. Honestly why complain about the turds when you toil in the toilets?
... the debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future."
~ Abigail Scott Dunaway
Works on the Creative Commons by me. Go ahead, steal something. Now with pictures!
anybody who describes taylor swift as "predictable" hasn't been listening very carefully.
at least he's not writing about metal this week


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