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If Democrats take back control of the House of Representatives next month, they could become the dynamic wedge that starts to revitalize national politics. How? By legislating aggressively on ignored issues that people care about. By opening up the frank debate Republican leaders have suppressed for the last decade. By dragging reluctant Democratic senators and presidential candidates toward embracing a more progressive agenda for 2008.
That is not a prediction, because "if" remains the operative unknown. But the ingredients are present for a much bigger deal than conventional wisdom in Washington assumes. The Wall Street Journal editorial page recognizes the threat to conservative hegemony. While George W. Bush would still be President and armed with the veto, the Journal warned, "the national debate would nonetheless shift notably left."
If Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader, becomes Speaker of the House, that is a big deal in itself. She will have reached the highest position of power (third in the line of presidential succession) ever achieved by a woman. The right demonizes her and the media occasionally make light of her skills, but Pelosi is stronger and tougher than her reputation. "Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me," Pelosi told Time magazine. She has consolidated her power where it counts, within the Democratic caucus.
Even if Republicans hold on to the Senate, a House majority for Democrats will gain voice and leverage, plus the clear power to block what remains of Bush's right-wing agenda: tearing up Medicare or repealing the estate tax and other tax relief for capital. The Democratic House caucus would be freed to set its own agenda and act on it. That dynamic will change the national conversation in the run-up to the next presidential election.
If this happens, expect a flurry of long-stalled but popular legislation to be passed promptly in the House, with likely votes from nervous Republican moderates. Freewheeling debate will be revived. The interplay between House and Senate will suddenly require compromises with liberal Democrats instead of the lockstep conformity imposed by the Bush White House.
Similar circumstances arose three times during the twentieth century when the landscape was altered decisively by off-year Congressional elections–in 1910, 1930 and 1958. Each time, Democrats gained working majorities in the House and began acting on progressive or liberal ideas, even though a Republican President remained in office to block them. Most of those measures did not become law, but never mind. The action re-energized the opposition party and jump-started momentum that led to major reform eras–the presidencies of Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson.
This time a national consensus for fundamental change has not yet formed, and the House Democrats look timid by comparison. But they have chosen a reality-based strategy that offers practical promises over big ideas. Their campaign theme, "A New Direction for America," does not embrace big-spending goals like universal healthcare (the votes aren't there yet). But it does promise action on bread-and-butter liberal legislation Democrats feel certain they can pass, at least in the House, and these issues speak to the everyday concerns of ordinary people.

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Wednesday 8 August / Day 10
215 books given away in ten days.
Sally Watkins
I continue to be overwhelmed by the ways in which the project has grown while I'm here. Sally Watkins, my b-side commissioner, actually created new work in response to Weymouths—a musical interpretation/expression coming out of a methodology she has been developing in her own work. Sally generated a score for music box by writing out the names of the voices that appear in volume one (Jane, Jim, Jack, Geoffrey, Barbara). The graphic score is a beautiful artifact, both a visualization of her process and the tool required to play the work (the score is the work). She performed the 60-second piece at my talk in the Phoenix Bakery by cranking the score through a music box, and I am just blown away by her sensitivity to the project, her creative generosity and her spirit.
The form of the piece (150 notes) comes from the 1:150 slope of the River Wey from its source at Upwey as it travels to the sea. The 60-second duration is derived from the 60 ft. drop in elevation from Upwey to the sea.
Later, Frances Scott gave a dinner talk about her b-side film commission, The Miracle Methods Series.


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The first fire was reported about 1:30 a.m. in the 2500 block of Mersington Avenue.
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The second house fire happened less than an hour later in the 4200 block of Spruce Avenue.
A person who lives in the home woke up after hearing glass break.
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This text is a summary paragraph taken from the Wikipedia entry entitled mir-10_microRNA_precursor_family. miRBase and Rfam are facilitating community annotation of microRNA families and entries in Wikipedia. Read more ...
The miR-10 microRNA precursor is a short non-coding RNA gene involved in gene regulation. It is part of an RNA gene family which contains miR-10, miR-51, miR-57, miR-99 and miR-100. miR-10, miR-99 and miR-100 have now been predicted or experimentally confirmed in a wide range of species. (MIPF0000033, MIPF0000025) mir-51 and mir-57 have currently only been identified in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (MIPF0000268, MIPF0000271). microRNAs are transcribed as ~70 nucleotide precursors and subsequently processed by the Dicer enzyme to give a ~22 nucleotide product. In this case the mature sequence comes from the 5' arm of the precursor. The mature products are thought to have regulatory roles through complementarity to mRNA.
The miR-10 microRNA precursor is a short non-coding RNA gene involved in gene regulation. It is part of an RNA gene family which contains miR-10, miR-51, miR-57, miR-99 and miR-100. miR-10, miR-99 and miR-100 have now been predicted or experimentally confirmed in a wide range of species.[1][2] (MIPF0000033, MIPF0000025) mir-51 and mir-57 have currently only been identified in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (MIPF0000268, MIPF0000271). microRNAs are transcribed as ~70 nucleotide precursors and subsequently processed by the Dicer enzyme to give a ~22 nucleotide product. In this case the mature sequence comes from the 5' arm of the precursor. The mature products are thought to have regulatory roles through complementarity to mRNA.
Species distribution
The presence of miR-10 has been detected in a diverse range of bilaterian animals. It is one of the most widely distributed microRNAs in animals, it has been identified in numerous species including human, dog, cat, horse, cow, guinea pig, mouse, rat, common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), northern greater galago (Otolemur garnettii), grey short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica), northern treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri), European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi), zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), chicken, platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), Western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis), Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis), zebrafish (Danio rerio), Japanese pufferfish (Fugu rubripes), green spotted pufferfish (Tetraodon nigroviridis), Japanese killifish (Oryzias latipes), three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), Florida lancelet (Branchiostoma floridae), California purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), 12 different species of fruit fly (Drosophila), Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), mosquito (Anopheles gambiae), red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, owl limpet (Lottia gigantea), starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) and the blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum.[3][4][5][6][7][8] In some of these species the presence of miR-10 has been shown experimentally, in others the genes encoding miR-10 have been predicted computationally.
Genomic location
The mir-10 genes are found within the Hox gene clusters. In mammals there are four Hox gene clusters, these contain five genes encoding miRNAs (mir-10a, mir-10b, mir-196a-1, mir-196a-2 and mir-196b). The mir-10a gene is located upstream of Hoxb4 and the mir-10b gene is located upstream of Hoxd4.[9] Zebrafish have seven Hox gene clusters, genes encoding miR-10 (mir-10a, mir-10b-1, mir-10b-2 and mir-10c) are found in the Hox Ba, Bb, Ca and Da clusters. A fourth miR-10 gene (mir-10d) is found elsewhere in the genome, at a location homologous to the pufferfish HoxDd cluster.[10]
A miRNA can be derived from the each arm of the pre-miRNA hairpin. The least common of these two miRNA products is denoted by the addition of * to the miRNA name.[11] Both miR-10 and miR-10* have been detected in Drosophila. There are many potential targets for miR-10* in Drosophila, including several Hox genes, indicating that miR-10* may also be functional.[12][13] In Drosophila most mature miR-10 sequences are produced from the 3' arm of the precursor while in the beetle Tribolium castaneum most production comes from the 5' arm.[14] These changes of arm preference during evolution are termed arm switching events, and they are relatively frequent during the evolution of microRNAs.[14][15]
Pattern of expression
In adult animals, expression of miR-10 is limited to specific organs. The highest levels of miR-10a and miR-10b have been found in the kidneys of mice. Lower levels of miR-10a are seen in small intestine, lung and spleen, and lower levels of miR-10b are seen in skeletal muscle. Expression of miR-10b has also been detected in the ovaries.[7][8][16] Adult zebrafish express miR-10a in heart, testis and ovary, and miR-10b in muscle and liver.[17]
In developing embryos, miR-10 is detected at specific stages. Zebrafish embryos show miR-10a expression from 48 to 120 hours post-fertilisation, and miR-10b expression from 12 to 120 hours post-fertilisation.[17] In Drosophila expression of miR-10-3p is highest in 12 to 24 hour old embryos and in 1st and 3rd instar larvae. Levels of miR-10-5p are highest in 12 to 24 hour old embryos and much lower in larvae.[12]
In stage 5 Drosophila embryos (130–180 minutes post-fertilisation), miR-10 is distributed throughout 50-80% of the length of the egg. Later in development miRNA-10 becomes localised into bands, and levels decrease by stage 7 (195–200 minutes post-fertilisation). miR10 reappears by stage 11 (320–440 minutes post-fertilisation), where it is found in the ventral nerve cord, posterior midgut and hindgut. At stage 14 (620–680 hours post-fertilisation), miRNA-10 is localised to the posterior midgut and the anal pad.[18] In Drosophila larvae, miR-10-3p is found in the imaginal discs (groups of cells which are destined to become adult structures upon metamorphosis).[12] Expression of miR-10ba in mouse embryos shows a similar pattern to that of the Hoxb4 gene. Highest levels are found in the posterior trunk of the embryo, surrounding the hindlimb buds. Similarly, expression is restricted to the posterior trunk of chicken embryos.[6] In Zebrafish embryos expression of miR-10 is also restricted to the posterior trunk, later in development it is further restricted to the spinal cord.[17]
Targets of miR-10
A number of Hox genes have been shown to be regulated by miR-10. These genes encode transcription factors which are important in embryonic development. In zebrafish embryos, miR-10 binds to sites in the three prime untranslated region (3'UTR) of the HoxB1a and HoxB3a genes, which are important in anterior-posterior patterning during embryonic development. Binding of miR-10 leads to the repression of these genes. It also acts synergistically with HoxB4 to repress these genes. The mir-10 gene is located near to the HoxB1a and HoxB3a genes within the zebrafish genome, Hox-1 and Hox-3 paralogues located on different Hox clusters are not targets of miR-10.[19] Human HOXD10 gene has also been shown experimentally to be repressed by miR-10a and miR-10b.[9][20][21]
It has also been experimentally verified that miR-10a downregulates the human HOXA1 and HOXA3 genes.[21][22] Control of the Hox genes by miR-10 suggests that this microRNA may play an important role in development.[9]
In addition to the Hox genes, miR-10a represses the transcription factor USF2 and the Ran and Pbp1 genes.[23][24] The cell-surface proteoglycan Syndecan-1 is a target of miR-10b.[25]
miR-10a binds to the five prime untranslated region (5'UTR) of mRNAs encoding ribosomal proteins, and increases their translation. It binds immediately downstream of the 5' oligopyrimidine tract (5'TOP) motif, a region important in the regulation of ribosomal protein synthesis.[23]
Association with cancer
Recently there has been much interest in abnormal levels of expression of microRNAs in cancers. Upregulation of miR-10 has been found in a number of cancers. Increased levels of miR-10a have been found in glioblastoma, anaplastic astrocytomas, primary hepatocellular carcinomas and colon cancer. Increased levels of miR-10b have been found in glioblastoma, anaplastic astrocytomas, pancreatic cancer, and metastatic breast cancer.[9][20] Although high expression of miR-10b is found in metastatic breast cancers, it does not appear to be present at high levels in early breast cancers.[20][26]
Downregulation of miR-10a has been found in chronic myeloid leukemia. USF2, a target gene of miR-10a, has been found to be overexpressed in these leukemias.[24] Downregulation of miR-10a has also been found in acute myeloid leukemia, the most common acute leukemia affecting adults.[27] Conversely, miR-10a and miR-10b have found to be upregulated in acute myeloid leukemia with NPM1 mutations; these account for approximately a third of adult acute myeloid leukemia cases and contain mutations in the NPM1 gene which result in the relocation of NPM1 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm.[28] Upregulation of miR-10b has also been found in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the most common type of leukemia.[29]
Genomic copy number abnormalities involving microRNA genes (both increases and decreases in copy number) have been found in cancers. A gain in copy number of the mir-10a gene has been found in melanoma and breast cancer.[30]
Upstream of the mir-10b gene is a promoter region containing a binding site for the Twist transcription factor (Twist). Binding of Twist to this promoter region induces miR-10b expression, leading to a reduced translation of the tumour suppressor HOXD10. This results in upregulation of RhoA/RhoC, Rho kinase activation and tumour cell invasion.[20][31]
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The sequence of mouse miR-10b, as reported by Lagos-Quintana et al. [1], is offset by 2 nt in the 3' direction with respect to sequences cloned from human (MI0000267) and zebrafish (MI0001364). The mature sequence shown here represents the most commonly cloned form from large-scale cloning studies [2]. The 5' end of the miRNA may be offset with respect to previous annotations.
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PMID:12554859 "New microRNAs from mouse and human" RNA. 9:175-179(2003).
PMID:17604727 "A mammalian microRNA expression atlas based on small RNA library sequencing" Cell. 129:1401-1414(2007).
PMID:20215419 "MicroRNA transcriptome in the newborn mouse ovaries determined by massive parallel sequencing" Mol Hum Reprod. 16:463-471(2010).
PMID:20413612 "Mammalian microRNAs: experimental evaluation of novel and previously annotated genes" Genes Dev. 24:992-1009(2010).


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That's when the Bulls, after aggressively pursuing eventual Heat-bound LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, instead signed Carlos Boozer, Kyle Korver, Ronnie Brewer and C.J. Watson and rode that depth to the NBA's best record and an Eastern Conference finals berth.
Despite myriad bumps and bruises and illnesses, the Bulls currently sit fourth in the Eastern Conference after Thursday's 103-97 victory over the Anthony-less Knicks. And a big reason why is the play of Jimmy Butler and Pau Gasol.
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Eight Squeaky-Clean Stars Who Got Wild at Sundance
Sundance is where former child stars and clean-cut performers go to dirty up their image in provocative indies.
Though she plays virginal Cosette in Les Misérables, Amanda Seyfried got to have her Fantine moment last night at Sundance with the premiere of Lovelace, a sexually charged porn -star biopic. For some, it may be a little startling to see Seyfried ply her good-girl looks in such an explicit role, but that sort of thing is nothing new at Sundance, where former child stars and clean-cut performers go to dirty up their image in provocative indies. Here are eight of this year's actors who left their PG pasts behind in Park City.
Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings
Plays: Poet Allen Ginsberg, who's just a college freshman struggling with his sexuality when we meet him in 1944.
Sex: Ginsberg makes out with the blond, charismatic Lucien (Dane DeHaan), though he eventually loses his virginity to a man he picks up at a bar. Their sex scene is notable for just how bendy Radcliffe proves to be.
Drugs: Once he gets over his goody-goody reluctance to indulge, Ginsberg becomes a particular fan of Benzedrine and nitrous oxide.
Dakota Fanning in Very Good Girls
Plays: A college-bound teenager who finds herself falling for the mysterious hottie (Boyd Holbrook) who is also being pursued by her best friend (Elizabeth Olsen).
Sex: Fanning takes off her clothes and streaks across the beach as the film begins, then later loses her virginity to Holbrook.
Drugs: None.
Amanda Seyfried in Lovelace
Plays: Linda Lovelace, who became the first porn star with her work in Deep Throat, though she was coerced into the industry by her abusive husband (Peter Sarsgaard).
Sex: Linda's famous sex act is portrayed, though mostly obscured with clever angles and Seyfried's long brown locks as cover. Still, the actress is topless throughout the film.
Drugs: Just a little grass now and then.
Rupert Grint in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
Plays: A sweaty, drug-dispensing tourist who meets our title character (Shia LaBeouf) in a Bucharest youth hostel.
Sex: Grint and a friend drag LaBeouf to a Romanian "titty bar," where the former Ron Weasley gets a lap dance to completion. "I came in my pants," says a morose Grint afterward.
Drugs: The reason they went to the strip bar in the first place is because Grint had popped five Viagra.
Kristen Bell in The Lifeguard
Plays: A New York–based reporter who decides to regress by moving back to her hometown and resuming her high-school job as a lifeguard.
Sex: It's not long before Bell is banging the 16-year-old son of her co-worker ...
Drugs: … who she asked to score her some pot after their first meeting. As one does.
Shailene Woodley in The Spectacular Now
Plays: A timid teenager who opens up when her high school's resident party guy (Miles Teller) shows romantic interest in her.
Sex: Woodley goes topless in a naturalistic, sensitive loss-of-virginity scene.
Drugs: Teller's character is a functioning lush, and Woodley starts to imbibe just to keep up.
Michael Cera in Crystal Fairy
Plays: An irritating American tourist in Chile who's determined to find a cactus instilled with psychedelic properties.
Sex: None.
Drugs: Lots. When we meet Cera at a house party, he's snorting copious lines, and his entire quest in the film is to locate this special cactus and get high on mescaline, with the help of …
Gaby Hoffman in Crystal Fairy
Plays: … Crystal Fairy, a wild-haired hippie who accompanies Cera on his cactus-hunting trip.
Sex: Former child star Hoffman is full-frontal nude in several scenes, and there's a late twist about her sexuality that we won't reveal here, but it comes with some further explicit images.
Drugs: Though she's more inclined toward "natural highs," she's willing to do mescaline too. Right on!


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Author Notes: Tongue, when well prepared, is a most delicious and moist meat. It's a muscle covered by a thick skin that is easily removed after blanching. Then you cook it slowly with vegetables until it's very, very soft. This dish is braised. I like to serve it with a slight modern twist - I purée half of the braising vegetables, and serve the tongue with this purée, whole braising vegetables and blanched string beans. —Maria Teresa Jorge
Serves: 6
pounds veal tongue
tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
medium sweet onions chopped finely
garlic cloves chopped finely (remove inner green part)
sprigs fresh parsley with stalk
small carrots, peeled and sliced medium thick
celery stalks
leeks – white part only
tablespoon tomato paste
cup white wine
string beans blanched to serve
- Clean the tongue under cold running water - scrub the skin of the tongue thoroughly, then with a knife scrape any residues.
- In a pot of boiling water, cook the tongue for 3/4 hour, covered.
- Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables: Slice the leeks and wash very well. Drain and set aside. Peel the carrots and cut in medium thick slices. Set aside. Wash the celery stalks and cut in thin slices. Set aside. Remove the inner green part of the garlic and mince finely.
- After 1 hour of blanching the tongue, discard the water, allow the tongue to cool and remove the skin – you just peel it off easily (see photo uploaded).
- In a large pot with a tight fitting lid, add the olive oil, the onion and garlic and fry until translucent. Add the carrots, celery, leek, parsley and stir well.
- Stir in the tomato paste and white wine, allow the alcohol to evaporate and add the blanched tongue. Add boiling water to come to ¾ of the height of the meat. When boiling again, reduce heat to minimum, season lightly with salt, and cover with lid. Let simmer for 1 hour or until the meat is very tender. Turn the tongue over every 15 minutes and stir the pan so the vegetables don't stick to the bottom.
- When the meat is cooked, remove and cut in medium thick slices. Cover and keep warm.
- Discard the parsley, divide the vegetables in half. Put half in a blender and process with 173 cup of cooking liquid, until you have a smooth purée. Adjust the cooking liquid if the purée is too thick, it should be a creamy consistency. Check seasoning.
- Put the purée on a warm serving dish, put the slices of tongue over the purée and add the remaining whole vegetables around.
- Serve immediately with blanched string beans.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Nose to Tail Recipe
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New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who had hip surgery this month, could miss the entire 2013 season, GM Brian Cashman said in a radio interview Friday.
"I think because (of) the serious nature of the surgery and the condition that he's trying to recover from, you know, there is that chance," Cashman told WFAN.
Rodriguez's Jan. 16 operation repaired a torn labrum and impingement. It was arthroscopic and was similar to the surgery he had on his right hip in 2009.
After the surgery, the Yankees said A-Rod's recovery time was projected to be six months, meaning he likely would be sidelined until after the All-Star break. But "there's no guarantees in this stuff," Cashman said Friday.
In 122 games in 2012, Rodriguez hit .272/.353/.430 with 18 homers and 57 RBIs. During the postseason, he went 3-for-25 and was benched or pinch-hit for on multiple occasions. Recently, Dr. Bryan Kelly, who performed Rodriguez's surgery, opined that A-Rod's poor playoff performance could be blamed on his hip injury.
Rodriguez, 37, is owed $108 million over the next five seasons.
To help compensate for the loss of Rodriguez, the Yankees signed free-agent third baseman Kevin Youkilis to a one-year, $12 million contract in December.


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Edwin Encarnacion hit his fifth career grand slam, J.P. Arencibia homered and drove in four runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 12-6 on Thursday night, spoiling the debut of Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman.
Brandon Morrow (2-3) allowed six runs and a season-high 10 hits in seven-plus innings. He walked one and struck out five.
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My wife and I just returned from a long driving trip through the center of our nation. We drove quite a bit on non-interstates and passed through many small towns until reaching central Texas, where we stayed for a few weeks. Then on the return trip, we drove along the Gulf Coast until swinging back north from Florida to return to this special place we call home.
As we drove through many mainly rural areas, it was quite clear our fellow citizens are feeling much economic pain. Abandoned businesses dotted the downtown landscape of most small towns. Homes seemed to be in general disrepair, and few new cars or trucks were evident.
Every person I engaged during this trip expressed similar feelings of anger and disappointment in the failed national leadership of both political parties. These Americans understand that our nation is in deep financial trouble. They also recognize that our leaders are either unable or unwilling to unite. Like most of you, they know how much worse their lives will become without drastic actions.
Along the way, with time to kill, I listened too much to politicians and TV news shows on satellite radio. The more I listened to their ridiculous rhetoric, the angrier I became.
Shame on so many TV opinion/news "shows" for failing to ferret out the whole truth! I'm even coining a new word — "op-news" — to describe them. These shows pander to their preferred audience to make money for their owners by doing everything possible to pit the parties against each other, instead of demanding they unite for the benefit of all Americans.
Most national op-news shows seem so desperate for ratings and ad revenue that they have forgotten what objective journalism and news reporting used to be about. Freedom of the press was founded on the principle of pursuing the truth — no matter the consequences. Most of these types of national op-news shows choose to ignore what these freedoms imply, and none of us should ever be deluded into thinking of them as "news" programs.
How dare our elected leaders from both parties fail to serve all Americans? How dare they instead allow themselves to be prostituted by the special interests? How dare they place power and party loyalty over the very survival of the American Dream of freedom and opportunity for all? How dare they not unite to solve the obvious problems we face?
It doesn't take much genius to recognize that we cannot continue to borrow and spend our future generations' money to live the life we prefer but can no longer afford. All of our elected know this inescapable truth — yet continuously turn their faces away in order to maintain power and control.
How dare the special interests and ultra-wealthy, who control every law, care so little about the rest of their fellow citizens or our nation's survival?
Divisive op-news TV shows, lobbyists for every special interest imaginable and corrupted politicians form the deadly trifecta that has led our country to the brink of ruin.
As much as I blame this trifecta, the majority of blame belongs to the vast majority of us — we the people. Nearly half of all eligible voters in last year's election didn't even bother to vote. Those who did seemed more concerned about party loyalty than our nation's survival. The vast majority of us know something is terribly wrong. We also know we can't rely on our elected to fix the problems. Then our seniors provide our elected with another reason for frozen actions by screaming, "Don't touch my entitlements."
Most American adults needs to ask themselves if they want to continue to be part of the problem or become part of the solution. If you are satisfied with the status quo, or simply too lazy to get involved, perhaps you should begin immediately to write letters/emails to your loved ones in future generations, apologizing for your unwillingness to get off your butt and fight for our nation's and their future. If preceding generations had acted as ours is today, the nation would have failed long ago.
For the rest of us — tea partyers, pro- or anti-gun, the 99 percent, pro- or anti-abortion, Democrats, Republicans, independents, environmentalists, etc. — we all need to stop pointing the finger of blame at each other. It's time to join together and refocus our anger against both failing parties, divisive segments of media and special interests. If we don't find solutions to our pending economic collapse, none of the other specific issues we might be passionate about will matter a single whit.
Stand up again as American patriots and protest loudly and often — we aren't going to take it any more! It's simply not effective to blame and complain. It's time for we the people to get mad and act before it's too late.
These are my opinions. What do you think?
Mike Tower lives in Hendersonville. Reach him at mike41tower @gmail.com or visit capau.org.
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Source: Phoenix Rising, May 27, 2013
By Mark Berry
The CFS Advisory Committee (CFSAC) provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secretary for Health, on issues related to myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The committee meets twice a year, and the Spring 2013 committee met on May 22-23 in Washington D.C. As usual, the meeting was streamed live over the internet, and video will be available on the CFSAC website in due course. The agenda for this meeting can be viewed here, and the roster of committee members is here.
This article describes Day One of the meeting. A packed program featured the brief return of former CFSAC Chair Wanda Jones, the welcome of three new 'liaison representatives' from patient organizations, agency updates from the CDC, CMS, HRSA and SSA, an hour of public comment, discussion of the committee's controversial new 'Prioritized Recommendations', a valuable presentation on the forthcoming changes to Medicare, public and panel question and answer sessions, and a discussion of the new requirements for the committee to provide evidence in support of its recommendations.
Those new requirements for supporting documentation, which have come down to all the health committees from the Secretary of Health, were introduced right from the start of the day, and provoked discussion throughout the meeting as the committee members absorbed the implications of what seems like a significant change. In the end, the reality seems to be that these changes are coming, like it or not, and the challenge to the committee is clear: in order to be effective in getting its recommendations through it is going to have to raise its game. Read on to find out how CFSAC began its response to this new challenge…
Wanda Returns
The meeting began on a positive note, with the welcome return of the popular former CFSAC chair Wanda Jones, now Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Wanda told the committee that she sees real change happening within the DHHS, and thinks the work of CFSAC has been key in driving that change. She admitted that change is never fast in government, and it is particularly difficult in today's tough economic climate, but nevertheless she thinks things are moving forward.
She welcomed the new organizational representatives to CFSAC, and described a departmental overhaul of processes relating to the health advisory committees: there are more than 270 of them, which gives some indication of how much time the Secretary can spend reviewing the outputs of each one. Committees are now being asked to provide supporting evidence for their recommendations, and some committees are now meeting for 3-4 days and preparing white papers. Wanda said that this new model – which is coming down direct from the Secretary of Health – represents an 'inflection point' and a 'new paradigm', and offers an opportunity for recommendations to be taken up and acted upon. All these changes, she said, "give us the opportunity to improve collaboration and co-operation across the department".
Reflecting on recent initiatives relating to ME/CFS across the department, Wanda was upbeat. The FDA Workshop had been "very positive and productive" and she "could not be more excited" about what the FDA can do. She saw other "extraordinarily exciting" developments too, particularly in the vast amount of information being developed from the CDC multi-site study: "The promise of those early findings is just phenomenal". She feels the department is now moving forwards towards a research-based case definition and evidence-based methodology, and sees a tremendous opportunity here, which CFSAC's work in the last 5-7 years has been key in creating.
Regrettably, Wanda then had to leave: her car was waiting. Although many of us miss Wanda's presence and leadership at CFSAC, it's good to know that she is in a position of influence within the DHHS and is able to represent the interests of ME/CFS patients in that new role. The trust and respect that Wanda has built up within the patient community should give us all hope when she tells us that from where she's now sitting, she sees so many signs of exciting and positive changes and opportunities. Nevertheless, quite clearly that sense of optimism is not shared by all…
Welcome to the Jungle
CFSAC Chair Gailen Marshall began his opening remarks by welcoming the new committee members. Rebecca Collier, an 'incredibly experienced case manager', was introduced, but (unless I missed it) she did not speak for the remainder of the meeting – perhaps she's wise to take some time to 'get the lay of the land'! The new 'liaison representatives' of patient organizations were more active, and briefly introduced their organizations.
Kim McCleary, representing the CFIDS Association of America (CAA) noted that she had attended every committee meeting except one since September 1993 (when it was known as the 'CFS co-ordinating committee'); the CAA, she said, had been "at the leading edge of ME/CFS research for more than 25 years". Fred Friedberg, President of the International Association for CFS/ME (IACFS/ME), said that the 3 organizations represent a broad array of concerns and will help enlarge the recommendations of the committee. "It's all to the good to have the three of us here today". The New Jersey CFS Association (NJCFSA) were represented by Ken Friedman, who introduced the NJCFSA as a state-wide, all-volunteer organization, supporting patients and families, disseminating reliable information, and promoting research. He told the committee that they offer support groups, a helpline, website, facebook page, journal, research funding, advocacy, and much more besides, serving as a model for programs in other states.
Marshall then went on to set out how he wanted the committee to function. His email address, he said, is 'widely available', and he hopes that the committee – with its diverse perspectives – will go about its business in a 'collegial and cordial' manner, and be 'efficient and effective'. He added that, 'wherever we can, we want to seek a consensus', and 'when we don't get that, we have to learn to agree to disagree'. That doesn't mean 6-5 majority verdicts, he explained: it means that further information and discussion may be necessary. The aim, he explained, is to make recommendations that improve the lot of patients. And he added that he was going to try harder to keep the committee to time, emphasizing the importance of letting people speak, letting them finish (within the 3-minute timeframe for comment that he laid down), and 'staying on task'.
In response to a question from Kim McCleary, Marshall clarified that the liaison representatives and ex-officios were also free to participate in CFSAC's sub-committees.
Agency Updates
The agency updates section was relatively brief, with further questions to the ex-officio representatives addressed later in the meeting.
For the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Ermias Belay presented the results of the first MedScape Roundtable Spotlight CFS CME/CE, a Continuing Medical Education program. Over 25,000 learners including 7,803 primary care phycisians and 8,082 nurses had viewed the 30-minute video roundtable discussion on "CFS: Challenges in Primary Care". The new Medscape Roundtable, featuring Drs Anthony Komaroff, Lisa Corbin, Benjamin Natelson and Peter Rowe, was launched May 4, 2013, targeting primary care physicians using MedScape subscribers. Additional educational initiatives listed were a Medscape CDC 'Expert Commentary' – "Back to School and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"; a Spanish translation of the CDC's main CFS web page; a new pediatric/adolescent CFS section; and a medical student educational initiative, planned for MedEd Portal, with videos, slides and curriculum now ready for CDC clearance and MedEd Portal Peer Review.
Belay also outlined the CDC's major multi-site study. Its objectives: to capitalize on the clinical expertise of physicians experienced in care and treatment of CFS patients, collect standardized data on major illness domains of CFS from patients in their practices, describe the heterogeneity of CFS patients between the practices, and use evidence-based data to address the problem of case definition and CFS subgroups. The clinics of Drs Natelson, Klimas, Bateman, Lapp, Kogelnik, Podell and Peterson are participating in the study. Results of the interim analysis were presented at the FDA Drug Development Workshop, indicating the heterogeneity of the CFS population both as a whole and between clinics. Stage 2 of the study will feature follow-up of the patients enrolled in Stage 1, with measurement of saliva for morning cortisol profile and blood for DNA and RNA, as well as additional studies at some clinics including cognition and exercise testing. IRB approval for the follow-up protocol was received May 2013; the protocols for pediatric, cognition and exercise testing are in development. (Read about the FDA workshops Day One here and Day Two here and here.)
Finally, Belay presented the Advocacy Group Collaboration work: the CFS Patient Centered Outreach and Communication Activity (PCOCA), a one-hour conference call, with a second call Jan 14, 2013 including Nancy Klimas and Connie Sol: "Redefining Exercise in CFS through Reconstruction of Aerobic Capacity". Consultation about the content for the Pediatric/Adolescent CFS section was ongoing.
In a very short period of questioning, Kim McCleary asked whether the CDC intended to make the raw data from the multi-site study available to the public through RCDC. That would be a long process, said Belay, and the CDC would have to analyse it themselves first, but "eventually in future we'll consider that". Ken Friedman said that he personally believed the 'trained trainer' approach is more effective than online training, and asked whether the CDC had any evidence of increased effectiveness of diagnosis or treatment due to the program. Belay answered that such evidence would be extremely difficult to collect, but it was possible to measure how much the participants had understood through comprehension tests.
Speaking for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Alaine Perry was very brief because the agency had two speakers later on in the meeting. CMS, she explained, runs Medicare and federal Medicaid, and now has a new role with the Affordable Care Act to implement the new health insurance marketplace, regulate the private insurance market, and inform consumers about their new rights, options and protections. More information is available on healthcare.gov. Perry highlighted a major new funding opportunity in Healthcare Innovations Awards Round 2: up to $1bn is being spent on testing new payment delivery models, and in particular, on new models that improve care for populations with specialized needs. For more information, see cms.gov and click on 'CMS Innovation Center'.
For the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Deborah Willis-Fillinger explained that the HRSA is responsible for access to healthcare activities, with an $8.5m budget. Its healthcare program has been expanding, supporting 8500 health centers across the country, targeted at under-served communities. She highlighted two new funding programs for integrative medicine. Asked whether the HRSA was still teaming up with the CDC to send out 17,000 paper copies of the toolkit, she replied that they were not, and were looking at ways to become more efficient .
For the Social Security Administration (SSA), Amanda Wulf had nothing to add to her comprehensive update at the previous CFSAC meeting; their current CFS/ME policy is on their site at socialsecurity.govand if there are any updates they will inform the committee.
To read the rest of this article go HERE.
Note: Videos of the 2013 CFSAC Meeting Day One public comments can be viewed on YouTube here, here, and here.


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PHOENIX (AP) -- A Gilbert man and his two sons have pleaded guilty to operating an elaborate money order scheme from a Chandler grocery store.
Federal prosecutors say 60-year-old Gjergj Kol Mihilli (Me-HILL-ee), 35-year-old Nikolas Mihilli and 31-year-old Nino Mihilli allegedly issued more than 10,000 fake money orders totaling about $10 million from the Mama Mia Panaderia & Market.
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The Honorable John Winston Howard, OM, AC25th Prime Minister of Australia, 1996-2007Collection of the Parliament House of Australia
Jiawei Shen is one of Australia's leading portrait artists. The Weekend Australian of April 16, 2005 placed him first out of ten Chinese Australians to have made great contributions to the nation's culture, academe and business. The newspaper further commented: "JiaweiShen has painted some of Australia's most prominent citizens, but the commission that will add lustre to his name is the portrait of Denmark's Crown Princess Mary destined for the National Portrait Gallery."
Born in Shanghai in 1948, Shen came to prominence as a celebrated realist history painter in the mid-1970s. His milestone work, Standing Guard for our Great Motherland (1974), was praised by Madame Mao, ultimately resulting - because of the subsequent dramatic political changes in China - in half a million copies being made in the late 1970s and then in the painting nearly being destroyed in 1981. The painting was finally recovered and restored by the artist and exhibited in the famous 'China: 5000 years' exhibition, at both the New York and Bilbao branches of the Guggenheim Museum in 1998, and again in New York, in the exhibition 'Art and China Revolution' at the Asia Society Museum in 2008. In 2009 this painting was sold for $1,000,000 by China Guardian Auctions in Beijing.
Another important work from this period, Climbing over the Great Snow Mountain (1977), is now in the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, USA. The 1980s saw production of several important works which are all now in the National Art Museum of China and the National Museum of China, both in Beijing. These include the eleven metre canvas Red Star over China (1987) which portrays more than a hundred figures of historic importance, and his great liberalist painting Tolerance (1988).
Shen started painting in childhood. He is self-taught - thanks to Chairman Mao's closure of all universities from 1966 till Mao's death in 1976. Shen volunteered to be a soldier farmer in Manchuria near the Russian border in 1970 and began his artistic career in this region. It was only from1982 to 1984 that the artist was able to receive a formal polishing of his already formidable talent at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Afterwards he worked as a professional artist in the Liaoning Art Studio. During this time he won first place and several other prizes at the National Art Exhibitions, as well as countless provincial art awards. He is still regarded as China's leading history painter, although he emigrated to Australia in 1989.
Commissions from China continue: in 2000 from the National Military Museum and in 2003 from the City Museum in his hometown of Jiaxing. He was also an invited participant in the Beijing International Art Biennale in 2003 and 2005.
In 1989, with 45 dollars in his pocket, Jiawei Shen arrived in Australia to study English. To survive he drew sketch portraits of the tourists at Darling Harbour. Unlike his fellow street artists, he was determined to study portraiture for its own sake rather than just as a source of income. To this end he completed at least 5,000 life-size portrait sketches of people from all races and walks of life. He credits this experience with giving him the skills needed to be a professional portraitist.
Since 1992 Shen has regularly entered Australia's most prestigious art competition, the annual Archibald Prize for Portraiture. Notorious for its controversial choice of winner, this competition has seen the final accolade go to every style of portraiture from abstract to post-modern styles. Despite the relatively low profile of realist portraiture, Shen has been among the thirty-odd finalists thirteen times, including being runner-up. John Macdonald, a leading critic, remarked that his 1993 and 1994entries were "tremendously subtle… the play of light and shadow is skillfully orchestrated." Of his 1998 entry Macdonald wrote: "it is a brilliant likeness, capturing the subject's nuggety figure and his piercing blue-eyed gaze. It is Shen's best Archibald entry to date, showing an ability to blend academic painterly skills with a highly innovative approach to composition." When Shen was runner-up in 1997, Macdonald commented: "Shen is a whole-hearted painter who has come through a tough artistic training in China. He has all the technical ability, the courage to take on ambitious compositions and a hint of self-deprecating wit."
Mary MacKillop was a teacher and Catholic nun who established the Sisters of St Joseph in the 19th century, and is Australia's first saint. Her beatification was celebrated in 1995 with an art award sponsored by the Australian government and the church. Shen's entry Mary MacKillop of Australia (1994) won the $25,000 prize, and he was invited to meet the Pope the day after the award ceremony. Pope John Paul II talked with Shen and presented him with a commemorative medal on January 19, 1995. The last decade has seen Shen combining portraiture with history painting, including such works as Seven Self portraits (runner-up in the Archibald Prize of 1997), and Self-portrait: Suddenly back to 1900 (2000), which was selected for the exhibition "Federation: Art and Society 1901- 2001" at the National Art Gallery of Australia. His "new history" paintings combine apocalyptic metaphor with references to great paintings of the past. Two series of these works: Post-Millennium Testament and Century on Wheels were combined with works from the 1970s to form a powerful solo exhibition: Zai-jian Revolution in 2002. This attracted five reviews from Australia's top critics, and one of the works, The Third World (2002), was chosen by six leading critics as the best artwork of the year. It depicted 94 historically important Third World figures of the last fifty years. Another large history painting, At the Turn of Century (1998), containing more than 100 important historic and contemporary Australians is on permanent display in the Queen Victoria building in Sydney's centre.
Since 1991, Shen has also executed private portrait commissions in Australia and Hong Kong, but since 1998 no longer accepts these with any regularity as they take him away from what he feels is his life's most important task - that of history painting in its various forms. Now he undertakes at the most six to eight portrait commissions a year, which since 2003 have included Australian government commissions. These official portraits include the Hon Tom Hughes AO, QC (2003), and official portraits of Melbourne's then Lord Mayor John So (2003) and Lucy Turnbull, Lord Mayor of Sydney (2004).
On May 14, 2004, Shen and his wife and daughter watched, with millions of others, the broadcast of the royal wedding in Copenhagen of Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson to Crown Prince Frederik. Little did Shen know that ten months later he would be commissioned to paint the star of this latter-day fairy tale: the Crown Princess herself. In February 2005, Shen received a phone call from the director of the National Portrait Gallery and was told he had been chosen to paint Princess Mary. There was a catch however: he would only have three hours with her. Fortunately, Shen's years of honing his technical skills made him equal to the task.
From that time until 2012, Shen completed official portraits for many public figures, including the then Australian Prime Minister John Howard (for Parliament House), the Governor of NSW and Chancellor of the University of Sydney, HE Marie Bashir (for that University). In 2008, he was privately commissioned to create an epic mural-size painting Mederka which depicted the history of Malaysia's independence, containing 261 individual portraits. It is now housed in the Capital of that country.
'Goodbye Revolution, a 52 minute long documentary on Shen's career made by film maker Esben Storm, was screened on Australian TV channel SBS in 2008. In 2010, Shen's retrospective Shen Jiawei: From Mao to Now 1961 - 2010 was held in the Hazlehurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW.
2011 was the 'Australia-China Cultural Year,' with an exhibition 'New Horizon' showing at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra for four months. The exhibition comprised works chosen from the collection of the National Art Museum of China, and included Shen's huge painting Red Star over China (1987). Since then, Shen has been working on a new epic mural-size work 'Brothers and Sisters, comprising up to 300 individual portraits from Chinese history. The first part of this work, an 8 metre long painting Revolution (2009-2012), was exhibited at the University of Sydney in December 2012.
Jiawei Shen lives and works with his family in Bundeena, a beautiful village located on the coast south of Sydney surrounded by the Royal National Park and the sea. Since 2002 a group oflocal artists, organized under the name the Art Trail, open their studios to the publiconthe first Sunday of every month. Shen and his artist wife are two of the first members of the Art Trail. Shen doesn't need to sell his works but he likes to keep touch with people viewing his paintings. He talks with them, listens to them, explains his work and receives ideas from them. For him this is another kind of solo exhibition.
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Course work in fundamental techniques of acting. The students will do intensive personal and social investigation through exercises in movement, voice training and improvisation as methods of making contact with themselves and others as they explore an actor's training and ensemble work.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee has already scheduled a hearing for mid-July on the Smithfield transaction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. | U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., has called for a House Agriculture Committee hearing on the proposed acquisition of Smithfield Foods by a Chinese company.
Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. in May agreed to buy Virginia-based Smithfield Foods for $4.7 billion. The deal would be the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese company.
In a letter to House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., Jones cited concerns about the potential impact on American jobs, "as well as our national security, food safety and food supply and intellectual property rights."
The Senate Agriculture Committee has already scheduled a hearing for mid-July on the Smithfield transaction.
– Wayne Faulkner
Hampstead | Lowes Foods is celebrating the opening of its newest supermarket in the Carolinas by giving shoppers a break on gas prices.
Customers who spend $75 at the Lowes at 17230 U.S. 17 in Hampstead will receive 25 cents off each gallon of gas purchased at any participating Wilco-Hess or Trade Wilco station in North or South Carolina.
Usually customers receive 5 cents off for every $100 of groceries they purchase.
The special runs through July 30, and there's no limit to the amount of rewards that may be earned, so customers can save more per gallon depending on how much they spend on food.
Shoppers must present their Fresh Rewards loyalty card at check out to participate in the program.
– Gareth McGrath
NEW ORLEANS | A federal judge has appointed former FBI Director Louis Freeh to conduct an independent investigation of alleged misconduct by a lawyer who worked for the court-supervised administrator of BP's multibillion-dollar settlement along with a team of private attorneys.
Freeh, who served as FBI director from 1993 to 2001, is a private consultant and recently led a university-sanctioned investigation of the Penn State University sex abuse scandal.
Claims administrator Patrick Juneau announced last month that his office is investigating allegations that an attorney on his staff received a portion of settlement proceeds for claims he had referred to a law firm before he started working on the settlement program.
BP had called for a review of the allegations.
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It's Labor Day, the day we pay homage to the folks who brought us the weekend (among many other things). It's a fitting moment to show some love for the labor movement, which has seen union membership decline from a high of nearly 33% of the U.S. workforce in the 1950s to a mere 12.5% in 2004. Yes, I know, our nation is very different now than it was then; traditionally unionized sectors (e.g. manufacturing) have moved abroad, while sectors that are generally not unionized (e.g. high tech) have grabbed a big chunk of our economic base.
Despite all that, I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the health of our nation's unions may be linked just as strongly now as ever to the health of our economy and– of particular interest to Ethicurean readers– to the health of our food system. The fact that union membership is declining rapidly is a big, fat warning flag. Why? Let's take a look.
(No) fun with bargaining theory
Basic game theory says that bargaining takes place when two parties want to cooperate ultimately, but would each prefer an outcome that meets their needs (and their needs are generally not the same). The strength of each side's bargaining power will be affected by its ability to leverage resources or threats. An employer's threat of job termination may be enough to cow an individual worker, but the opposing threat of collective action by organized workers balances out the power of the company that employs them. Because in the end workers need jobs and companies need workers, an agreement can ideally be reached that meets each party's need halfway.
Things begin to get sticky when the balance of power tips toward one party or the other– and that happens when, for example, highly mobile firms operate in a community where the bulk of workers are not mobile (usually because they cannot afford to be) and where there are few other employers. That creates a kind of skewed desperation: the workers have to take what they can get.
Which brings us, conveniently, to the food system. You're probably aware of the newest statistics on market control in food and agriculture: four companies produce 58% of the broiler chickens in the U.S., slaughter 66% of the pork, and process 83% of the beef. The number of firms raising pork just got even smaller thanks to #1 producer Smithfield's recent acquisition of #2 Premium Standard Farms. As the number of companies involved in producing, processing, and selling food declines, we can expect one of two outcomes for their workers. Either unions grow in size as well and continue to provide a counterbalance, or they lose power as the companies grow and workers' rights start eroding. The data on union membership suggests it's the latter. And since workers are generally the ones who pick, process and package the food we eat, I'd venture to say that we all have a stake in ensuring that they receive fair treatment and respect.
Living high on the hog
The bargaining debacle of the hour involves our good friend Smithfield, the largest pork producer and processor in the world. There's been quite a bit of hubbub over at the company's Tar Heel, NC packing plant, where workers slaughter some 32,000 hogs per day (yep, you heard right– that's 2,000 per hour, or about one hog every 2 seconds). Workers have complained of suffering severe injuries on the job and then being fired; of sexual harassment; and of being threatened or fired for attempting to organize a union. More info is available over at the Justice at Smithfield campaign website. The majority of workers voted against forming a union in 1994 and 1997, but a federal court found that Smithfield had "improperly influenced" the process by threatening and intimidating workers prior to the vote. It forced the company to pay $1.1 million in back pay. Smithfield then hired its own police force, authorized to carry weapons in the factory and arrest workers on-site. A worker-led media campaign forced Smithfield to disband it.
The plant is still without a union, but things seem to be moving in a positive direction: backed by nearly 1,000 supporters from religious and civil rights groups, workers brought their complaints to Smithfield's shareholders meeting in Virginia last Thursday. Smithfield CEO Larry Pope acquiesced to meeting with union reps and promised to schedule a new union vote (of the experience of management in the 12-year battle over the union, he said "We're tired too"… poor guy. At least you're getting paid $10.8 million a year for your pain). Union leaders are demanding that workers be able to vote by handing in signature cards to the union on their own time rather than by participating in a secret ballot, claiming that the latter is more easily influenced by the company. Incidentally, this exact issue was just taken up by California's state legislature, which sided with the union position.
Here's my point. Workers at the Tar Heel plant process a hog every 2 seconds. With line speeds this fast, it's only a matter of time before workers get hurt or aren't able to perform their jobs correctly — especially if they're denied proper medical care, or breaks, or forced to work overtime. A human-rights issue to the core, the erosion of workers' rights also affects things like animal welfare during slaughter, food safety (the majority of e. coli contamination happens at the packing plant), and the economic vitality of the rural communities where the workers live. Put simply, there are lots of reasons to love labor. And today, of all days, is a good time to remind ourselves of that.
Image of farmworkers taken at the 1:25 scale model village Madurodam, in Holland, by Bonnie (aka Dairy Queen).
Thanks for this posting. Your point is right on the money. It would be interesting if unionization at Smithfield forced significant slowing of the production line AND some changes in how they manage waste. One wonders if unionization could begin to force prices up to something that reflects the real cost of Smithfield pork, although the environmental impact of their waste appears to be pretty much incalculable.
It's nice that Smithfield management is "tired" of the union battle now, as if they were dragged into it against their will and didn't have the power to make it go differently over the past 12 years. Any guesses as to whether an anti-union marketing campaign starring Paula is on the way?


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ROSELAND, NJ--(Marketwire - Jan 30, 2013) - Private sector employment increased by 192,000 jobs from December to January, according to the January ADP National Employment Report®, which is produced by ADP®, a leading provider of human capital management services, in collaboration with Moody's Analytics. The report, which is derived from ADP's actual payroll data, measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis. The December 2012 report, which reported job gains of 215,000, was revised downward by 30,000 to 185,000 jobs.
January 2013 Report Highlights*
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Total U.S. Nonfarm Private Employment: 192,000
* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
Goods-producing employment rose by 15,000 jobs in January which was primarily driven by an increase in construction jobs of 15,000. Meanwhile, manufacturers shed 3,000 jobs.
Service-providing jobs increased by 177,000. Among the service industries reported by the ADP National Employment Report, professional/business services registered the largest gain with 40,000 jobs added over the month. Trade/transportation/utilities added 33,000 jobs and financial activities added 12,000 jobs.
"U.S. private sector employment got off to a good start in 2013, as 192,000 jobs were added during the month of January," noted Carlos A. Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of ADP. "According to the ADP National Employment Report, private sector employers created an average of 183,000 new jobs per month during the last three months. This is an encouraging sign of steady improvement in the job market."
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, said, "The job market is slowly, but steadily, improving. Monthly job gains appear to have accelerated from near 150,000 to closer to 175,000. Construction is finally kicking into gear and more than offsetting the weakness in manufacturing. The recent gains may be overstating any improvement, particularly in the context of recent revivals in growth at the start of the past three years, but the gains are encouraging nonetheless."
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Businesses with 49 or fewer employees added 115,000 jobs in January. Employment levels among medium-sized companies with 50-499 employees rose by 79,000, while employment at large companies -- those with 500 or more employees -- fell by 2,000.
The matched sample used to develop the ADP National Employment Report was derived from ADP payroll data, which represents 416,000 U.S. clients employing nearly 24 million workers in the U.S.
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Due to the important contribution that small businesses make to economic growth, employment data that are specific to businesses with 49 or fewer employees is reported in the ADP Small Business Report® each month. The ADP Small Business Report is a subset of the ADP National Employment Report.
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Total Small Business Employment: 115,000
Additional information about small business employment, including charts on monthly job growth and employment levels along with historical data, is available at www.adpemploymentreport.com
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The ADP National Employment Report® is a monthly measure of the change in total U.S. nonfarm private employment derived from actual, anonymous payroll data of client companies served by ADP®, a leading provider of human capital management solutions. The report, which measures nearly 24 million U.S. workers, is produced by the ADP Research Institute, a specialized group within the company that provides insights around employment trends and workforce strategy, in collaboration with Moody's Analytics, Inc.
The ADP Small Business Report is a monthly estimate of private nonfarm employment among companies in the U.S. with 1-49 employees and is a subset of the ADP National Employment Report. The data for both reports is collected for pay periods that can be interpolated to include the week of the 12th of each month, and processed with statistical methodologies similar to those used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to compute employment from its monthly survey of establishments. Due to this processing, this subset is modified to make it indicative of national employment levels; therefore, the resulting employment changes computed for the ADP National Employment Report are not representative of changes in ADP's total base of U.S. business clients.
For a description of the underlying data and the statistical model used to create this report, please see "ADP National Employment Report: Development Methodology" at www.adpemploymentreport.com/docs/ADP-NER-Methodology-Full-Detail.pdf.
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ADP, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP), with more than $10 billion in revenues and approximately 600,000 clients, is one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Leveraging over 60 years of experience, ADP offers a wide range of human resource, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. ADP's easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to companies of all types and sizes. ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine, recreational vehicle, and heavy equipment dealers throughout the world. For more information about ADP or to contact a local ADP sales office, reach us at 1.800.225.5237 or visit the company's website at www.ADP.com.
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Students are splashing out on a mission to fund an exciting trip to Africa.
Thirty pupils from schools in the Bolsover district will be flying out to Namibia this summer to install a playground, trek across the desert and camp outdoors.
This week students and staff from Stubbin Wood School, Shirebrook, are swimming 2,816 lengths or 21 miles, the equivalent of the English Channel, in the school's new hydrotherapy pool.
Nathan Webber, the pool manager, said: "We're giving ourselves just a week to complete the total number of laps. We were going to do it over a longer period of time, but we just want to get it done and accept the challenge."
Five pupils from Stubbin Wood will be participating in July's trip to Africa, as will seven students from Shirebrook Academy and teaching staff.
Academy students have raised money through various events including bag-packing, washing staff cars and hosting tuck shops for fellow pupils.
Eight members of the academy's science department boosted funds for the trip by taking part in the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge at the beginning of this month.
Six pupils from Heritage School, Clowne, are tasked with raising £1,500 each for the trip to Namibia and have been organising events.
Their next big push is a fun day at Clowne Community Centre on Saturday, April 19, running from 10am until 5pm.
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Students from The Bolsover School and Frederick Gent School, South Normanton, will also be joining the trip to Namibia.


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People from around Southwest Colorado, the Front Range and even other countries continue their concern and volunteer efforts to find missing 13-year-old Dylan Redwine. The teen vanished from his fathers Vallecito home Nov. 19.
A prayer vigil is planned for 6 to 7 p.m. today at Dylans new school, Lewis-Palmer Middle School in Woodmoor, near Colorado Springs. The vigil will take place at the corner of Front and Second Streets in nearby Monument, about 21 miles north of Colorado Springs on Interstate 25.
Just like his friends near Colorado Springs, the communities in Southwest Colorado are keeping the faith.
Im not going to give up hope until we have Dylan, family friend and volunteer search organizer Denise Hess said Saturday.
Hess has turned her video and womens clothing store in a Bayfield strip mall into volunteer headquarters. Saturday, volunteers were making ribbons that sell for $5 to help fund the search efforts and support Dylans family while they wait for news.
I cant even thank the people enough, Hess said.
Since late Nov. 19, community members have been helping search for the teen, feed and house his family and spread the word about Dylans disappearance.
Dylan vanished the morning of Nov. 19 during a court-ordered visit with his father, Mark Redwine. The boys mother, Elaine Redwine, and older brother, Corey, moved to Colorado Springs from Bayfield about four months ago. Mark and Elaine Redwine were divorced in 2007.
The community calls me and wants to help, Hess said while a team of volunteers made more ribbons in the back room of her store.
They have a connection to the Redwines, whether through Dylan, his parents or just as members of the community, she said. Hess said she began her own connection in 2006 or 2007.
While law enforcement and search-and-rescue teams did their work, community volunteers walked house-to-house in both Vallecito and Bayfield with posters of Dylan and combed ditches, trails and buildings.
Hess said that Elaine Redwine is having a difficult time.
Every day that goes by its harder for her, Hess said. I cant even imagine where Elaines at right now.
Hess said that by Friday evening, volunteers had produced 500 ribbons.
The blue ribbons read: Help us bring Dylan Redwine Home!! Missing from Vallecito, CO 11-19-12.
Community members Saturday already were buying some of the ribbons even as more were being made. The money made from these ribbons goes into an account at Wells Fargo.
Hess reiterated that Dylan wouldnt run away.
She said Dylan would never put his mother through that pain. If he was having a bad time at the lake, he would call or text his mother, as he did once before disappearing, she said.
Hess said Dylan and Elaine are close. He even called his mother Mutti, a familiar variant of the more formal German word for mother, Mutter, Hess said. It is like calling ones mother mommy or mummy, according to Collins Collaborative Dictionary. Dylans grandmother is German.
Dylans disappearance has been tough on everyone, Hess said.
Its been an emotional roller coaster, she said.
Hess said this type of thing doesnt happen in a community like Bayfield-Vallecito.
Just as importantly, it is the off-season at Vallecito, so most people around there now are residents or local visitors.
Its always been a very close-knit community, Hess said. I think this even will reinforce that.
I know the community is scared right now, she said, noting that parents are walking their children to school and staying with them at bus stops until the buses pick up the kids.
Even as volunteers continued their efforts, so, too, did the authorities. They are following various tips and leads, said Lt. Ray Shupe with the Durango Police Department.
Shupe, acting spokesman for the Dylan Redwine Task Force investigating Dylans vanishing, said there was no significant news to report Saturday.
Law enforcement is asking that anyone who may have photographs or video of Vallecito Reservoir or Bayfield around the time of Dylans disappearance contact them.
They are looking for video or photos that show vehicles along the typical routes between Vallecito and Durango from 6 p.m. Nov. 18 to noon Nov. 19.
The county dispatch center may be contacted at 385-2900.
The footage already received is being analyzed for clues.
In addition, people with possible information may call a telephone tip line at 382-7511. Calls also can be made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at (800) 843-5678.
The task force includes members of the La Plata County Sheriffs Office, FBI, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Durango Police Department and Bayfield Marshals Office.
The case is receiving both national and international attention, including a time on the Nancy Grace show on the Headline News network, among others.


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The word "fever" is taken from the Latin word favere which means "to warm". In adults, the normal body temperature is considered to be 98.6 F (37C), with young children being slightly higher. While the onset of a fever may be frightening , it is not caused by a breakdown of the body's temperature-regulating mechanism as in heat stroke. Rather, it is the bodies normal self-preserving mechanism of "hyperfunctional repair". In other words, a fever is a normally occurring body process that destroys the infecting agent or toxemia and repairs the damage done by these agents. It acts to preserve the status quo of the healthy body.
Fever may occur for a variety of reasons. It is most often a response to a bacterial or viral infection that has occurred because of the body having a lowered resistance. But fever may also occur when toxic wastes have accumulated in the body, the increased temperature serves to neutralize and eliminate the toxemia. In response to the offending agent's influence, an elevated temperature acts to increase resistance to disease and restore the body to health. Fever has been shown in research to elevate the white blood cell count. White blood cells act to bind toxic materials and engulf microorganisms, aiding in their removal from the body. In addition there occurs an elevation in the heart and respiration rates which aid to spread oxygenated blood to the site of infection. Microorganisms do not tolerate high oxygen environments well and are less likely to multiply. In addition, the body's metabolic rate increases, causing elimination of toxic wastes from the infection site. While enhancing these normal body mechanisms to fight disease, fever also acts to lessen microbe growth. Most microorganisms that cause harm to the body are only able to live within a narrow temperature range. A higher temperature destroys these organisms by restricting their growth and allowing the white blood cells to get the upper hand.
In the wholistic view, an elevated body temperature is the organism's way of correcting an imbalance between its own "vital force" and the external environment. Viruses and bacteria prevalent in the air, soil and water around us cause infections when a persons "vital force" is no longer able to oppose it. When we are in good health, exposure to these infective agents can occur without the person getting sick. This is why some people get a "flu bug" that is going around while others are unaffected.
It is important in therapy to support a fever, allowing it to do its work by eliminating the infective agent or toxin and building the immune system. If not allowed to complete its natural progression, the body will become progressively weaker, unable to mount the reactive power to overcome disease. Administering agents that block the ability to mount a fever is similar to teaching a child to tie their shoes then never allowing them to do so because someone finishes it for them. When the time comes to do it on their own, they are not able to do a good job as they have not been able to practice and are not well prepared.


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Every state except Alaska posted economic growth in 2013, with the fastest-growing states tending to have more manufacturing of soft goods and a real-estate uptick, the Commerce Department said in a report released Wednesday.
The government releases economic-growth data on a quarterly basis, but the Bureau of Economic Analysis also releases an annual look back at growth state-by-state for the prior year. Wednesday's report showed that manufacture of non-durable goods_ items that last for less than three years_ was the biggest contributor to state-level economic growth.
Nondurable-goods manufacture increased 5.3 percent on the state level last year, the BEA said, after a decline of 0.5 percent in 2012. It was the leading contributor to growth in three of the eight regions of the nation BEA studies.
Real estate, rental and leasing also helped power state-level economic growth. The category grew by 1.6 percent across states last year, down from 2.2 percent the year prior. Real estate contributed to growth in all eight BEA regions last year.
Alaska was the only state to post a contraction in growth in 2013, at minus 2.5 percent. The BEA said that was mostly due to a drop off in mining, which resulted in reduced output from the state's oil-rich North Slope.
If there's any doubt that a reduction in government spending weighs against growth, 39 states and the District of Columbia saw lower growth because of reduced contributions from government activity. Two states_ Louisiana and Georgia_ saw nearly half a percentage point, or 0.41 percent, shaved off of their growth rate because of reduced revenue from the government sector.