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The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is very concerned with the disclosure of mental health information, such as suicide attempts and apprehensions under various provincial Mental Health Acts, to law enforcement officials and third parties through police information or background checks. Disclosing otherwise private (medical or treatment seeking) information undermines people's ability to seek appropriate care.
"Every child and youth living in Canada deserve to grow up in supportive and nurturing environments, and develop the social and emotional skills they need to work with others cooperatively, resolve conflict and cope with challenges they face in life.
"Every child and youth living in Canada should have access to a range of relevant mental health services, treatment and supports as soon as the need for these services arises."i
Income security is a key determinant of health related to the mental health of communities. Canadian and international studies support the role income security plays in defining the socio-economic status and its relation to health outcomes. Those representing higher social and economic strata are more likely to experience more positive states of (mental) health and well being than those in lower strata. Additionally, evidence indicates that as the gap between rich and poor increases, the health of the population suffers.
Mental illness is a major health issue for society and for government. Discrimination persists in the organization and provision of hospital care and community health care for people with mental illness. The Canadian Mental Health Association is working actively to maintain and to improve a health care system in which the principles of universal access, uniform terms and conditions, comprehensiveness, portability and public administration are upheld.
Mental health professionals require better training to respond to women's mental health needs. Most training programs presently do not require coverage of gender issues nor do they even attempt to address how women's experiences are different from men's. Women's biological, psychological and social needs are not part of the curriculum in professional schools, and most therapy and research are premised on male experience. Mental health research by women receives only 6.05% of all mental health research funds in Canada and only 0.42% of all health research funds.
The Canadian Mental Health Association, through research and experience, has proved that people who experience mental illness can be employed successfully. Persons with mental illness can and do hold responsible jobs and make significant contributions in their work, home and leisure lives. However, not all persons who could be employed are working because they, potential employers, professional caregivers, and the public emphasize their disabilities, not their capabilities.
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is a strong supporter of the need for a strong consumer voice in all aspects of mental illness/mental health policy, planning, and delivery – from participation to decision-making to choice.
For some time now, the CMHA has struggled with the issue of community committal or compulsory community treatment. Proposed as an alternative or a supplement to involuntary hospitalization, community committal has strong support from family groups and the psychiatric profession. Many consumer groups are as strongly opposed. Views on community committal are influenced by personal experiences. Family members see their loved ones rejecting treatment and support, especially medication, and are naturally distressed by the suffering which is the usual result. Many consumers, on the other hand, have had very negative experiences with involuntary treatment. Ironically, both consumers and family members have experienced great frustration with obtaining adequate services, including hospitalization, on a voluntary basis.
The Canadian Mental Health Association recognizes that sexual exploitation and abuse by mental health service providers takes place. The Association also recognizes that without fail such exploitation and abuse are harmful to mental health consumers. Evidence has come from anecdotal reports, complaints to professional associations, and more recently from surveys of the general public and professional groups.
In 1993 CMHA conducted a cross-Canada study of violence towards people with mental health problems. The study focused on people who had experienced violence after becoming consumers of mental health services. It identified that the homes, public places and hospitals are the places where violence is most often experienced by people with mental health problems, and that family members, mental health service consumers and service providers are those most likely to be violent towards them.


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Writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez has set Carla Gugino to star in "Elektra Luxx."
Pic is a sequel to "Women in Trouble," an ensemble comedy about one day in the lives of 10 Los Angeles women that has yet to find distribution.
"Elektra Luxx" picks up the travails of the characters a month later, again covering a full day. The original starred Gugino, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrianne Palicki, Marley Shelton, Connie Britton, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Simon Baker.
Tim Olyphant, Alicia Silverstone and Justin Kirk have been tapped to play characters in "Elektra Luxx," and many of the actors from the first film are reprising their roles.
Elektra Luxx (Gugino) is a porn star whose life is turned upside down when she discovers she's pregnant.
Gutierrez is planning a third installment tentatively titled "Women in Ecstasy." Filming of the first sequel is under way, and all three pics are financed independently and produced by Gutierrez's Gato Negro Films.
Gugino will next be seen in "Watchmen" for Warner Bros. and "Race to Witch Mountain" for Disney. She just wrapped "Every Day" alongside Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt.

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Multichannel Panning in ChucK
ChucK has two chugins for panning, reflecting two different common strategies. PanN provides 4, 8, and 16 channel panners for equal power 2D panning between speaker arrays. AmbPan provides a 3rd order ambisonics encoder, allowing panning in 3D space. However, you need to route the audio to a proper ambisonics decoder, such as in the CCRMA Listening Room.
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Using the Listening Room
The Listening Room allows you to use either strategy; however PanN/Pan8 only works in 2D, and therefore you will be limited to using the middle speakers, and not the speakers on the ceiling or underneath the floor.
Basic Equal-Power Panning (PanN/Pan8)
To use Pan8, first configure the mixer. Assuming you are running chuck from the Listening Room Linux computer, hit the "Linux" button on the left mixer controller, and make sure that "Ambisonics Decoder Mode" is "Off" on the right mixer controller. Hit the "-15dB" preset on the left mixer controller to set volume levels for each channel to -15dB.
Log in to the Linux computer, and start of course by opening qjackctl and hitting "Start". Open a terminal window and download the panning chugins + examples like so:
$ wget https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/220b/lectures/ck/220b-panning.tgz
Decompress the resulting file:
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To run the Pan8 example, run chuck like this:
$ chuck -c16 -g./PanN.chug Pan8.ck
Ambisonics (AmbPan/AmbPan3)
To configure the mixer for ambisonics mode, hit the "On/Off" switch in the "Ambisonics Decoder Mode" so that it lights up, and make sure that the "3D" button is also on. Now, in your Linux terminal, assuming you have already started jack and downloaded the chugins and examples, run chuck like this to play the example:
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BP Plc appeared in federal court in New Orleans to answer U.S. charges brought over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, entering a not guilty plea that won't affect its $4 billion criminal settlement with the U.S.
BP's deal with the Justice Department announced Nov. 15 requires it to plead guilty and pay $4 billion to end all criminal charges related to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Under the plea deal, BP will enter a formal guilty plea at a later hearing.
"At this time all I can do is take a not guilty plea," U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle in New Orleans said at a court hearing today. Lemelle said he conferred with Chief Judge Sarah Vance, who has been assigned the case. "Anything else will be done before her" at a later date, Lemelle said.
BP's settlement with the U.S. includes a record $1.256 billion criminal fine, which would be paid over five years. BP agreed to five years' probation and extensive monitoring of its drilling operations, according to court papers.
Along with the criminal fine, the resolution with the Justice Department includes a total of $2.4 billion that will be paid to the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation over five years. Another $350 million will be paid to the National Academy of Sciences over that same period.
"This is a very substantial criminal penalty," said Ed Sherman, a law professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. "This is much more than a slap on the wrist," he said.
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"They are going to be more highly regulated than any other oil company in history," Sherman said, pointing to requirements in the agreement for monitoring BP's oil and gas operations. "The monitoring is particularly focused on safety."
Beyond the $4 billion criminal settlement, BP will pay an additional $525 million to resolve claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the London-based company underestimated the size of the spill to bolster stock prices.
BP agreed to plead guilty to 14 criminal counts including 11 for felony manslaughter for the 11 people who died when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sank, according to the Justice Department.
The company also pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count under the Clean Water Act, one misdemeanor count under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and one felony count of obstruction of Congress, the U.S. said.
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Fans interested in finding tickets to this weekend's AFC Championship in Foxboro can find some as long as they are not looking for the cheap seats.
Dan McCarthy, owner of Tickets Unlimited in Westbrook, said he has made a number of sales for the sold-out game between the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens. Ticket prices have ranged from $200 to $2,000.
McCarthy said the more affordable playoff tickets sold out early. Super Bowl tickets can start at $2,100.
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YOUNG driver education group Southern Cross LADS has reached another milestone in its mission to improve young driver safety.
The first phase of the education facility envisioned by the group has just been given the thumbs up by Lismore City Council.
Born amid the grief of a 2006 accident which cost the lives of four Lismore teenage boys, Southern Cross LADS (Learn About Driving Skills) is dedicated to educating young drivers.
The facility is envisioned to become a regional centre for this goal, providing courses for drivers from Tweed Heads to Coffs Harbour and as far west as Tenterfield.
LADS chairman Paul Rippon said the facility will aim to transform young people's understanding of safe driving via on-track and classroom training.
"Our view is that parents and driving instructors provide excellent on-road training but there are some things that you need a safer environment to teach the kids," Mr Rippon said.
"When they're out with their Mum or Dad or driving instructor they're in a pretty safe environment... all of a sudden they get their Ps, and haven't really been exposed to having people in the car with them while they're the ones in charge."
"It's all about getting them to take responsibility for their decisions."
"You also need the classroom to talk to the kids and get them talking among themselves about behavioural change - for example how they deal with peer pressure while they're driving."
The facility will be the only one of its kind between Newcastle and Brisbane, providing a valuable service to the region's schools.
"We also see it as a community facility. It will be there primarily to educate young people, but other courses will be accessible by everyone in the Northern Rivers," Mr Rippon said.
The group is in discussions with a major driver education site in Melbourne to bring courses to the facility to be supervised locally by qualified driver educators.
Cash or in-kind support to fund the estimated $600,000 community project is now being sought.
"Any businesses who might be able to provide civil works such as landscaping supplies or road construction, we hope will come on board," Mr Rippon said.
For more information go to the Southern Cross LADS website.


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Men's Hockey: UNH bounces back to beat BCBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 12. 2013 10:47PM
DURHAM - Casey DeSmith and the University of New Hampshire hockey team bounced back big-time on Saturday to knock off Boston College, 2-1, in a wild one in front of 6,501 at the Whittemore Center.
The No. 4-ranked Wildcats snapped a six-game losing streak to the No. 3-ranked Eagles that included a 5-2 loss at Conte Forum on Friday night.
"We were a little angry last night," said senior forward John Henrion, who scored the game-winning goal with less than five minutes to play. "This was like a must win for us to least get two points out of the weekend. We were extremely disappointed with our performance last night."
Boston College had been 5-0-2 in its last seven games at the Whit and the Wildcats had last beaten the Eagles here on Feb. 20, 2009.
UNH improved to 14-4-2 overall with the win and BC dropped to 13-4-2.
The Wildcats climbed back into second place in Hockey East behind idle Boston University. UNH is 9-3-1 in the league and trails first-place BC by two points.
After squandering major chances on the power play in the second period, Henrion and the Wildcats took quick advantage of their final power play chance of the night to get the game-winner.
"There was a lot of urgency," Henrion said. "We knew it was a big chance and could be a huge turning point, which it was."
BC's Kevin Hayes was called for tripping with 5:01 left to play.
Thirteen seconds later, Henrion got his stick on a rebound of a Justin Agosta shot from the point and knocked it past Parker Milner (37 saves) to put UNH back on top. Kevin Goumas also assisted.
It was Henrion's seventh goal of the season and his second game-winner.
DeSmith, the sophomore out of Rochester, and the Wildcats held off the Eagles the rest of the way to seal the win.
With 1:55 left, the puck got behind DeSmith and sat in the crease. The Wildcats converged on it and moved it out and at first a penalty shot was called. After conferring, the referees and linesmen decided there was no cause for a penalty shot and play resumed.
DeSmith finished with 22 saves for the win.
On Friday night, he stopped 12 of the 17 shots he faced and was pulled in favor of junior Jeff Wyer for the third period.
UNH coach Dick Umile said the decision to start DeSmith again was made by the coaching staff after the team returned from Boston on Friday night.
"Casey has bounced back before like that," Umile said. "I thought he played terrific tonight. He stood tall in there."
BC senior Brooks Dyroff jumped on a bad UNH turnover and fired a shot past DeSmith from in close to tie the game at 1-1 at the 7:57 mark of the third period. Dan Correale, who had set up UNH's first goal, coughed up the turnover.
The Wildcats grabbed a 1-0 lead in the last minute of an action-packed second period.
UNH was on the power play for much of the period and had a whopping edge 21-3 edge in shots in the frame but had nothing to show for the advantage until the very end.
In fact, it looked like the Wildcats had given up all the momentum.
But then Correale went deep into the right corner and got the puck in front to Matt Willows. Willows waited patiently for Milner to make a move and then fired the puck behind him with 47 seconds left in the period.
It was the first career goal for Willows and the sixth goal his third line has helped produce in the past four games.
Just before the goal, UNH pressured the Eagles, but had been unable to score on a five-minute power play after Michael Matheson had been called for contact to the head on a hit on Goumas.
The power play included a full two minutes of a two-man advantage after Hayes was called for crosschecking during the five-minute penalty.
Within a minute of the end of their extended power play, Willows and the Wildcats finally had their goal.


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A Leavenworth restaurant was damaged in a fire Thursday night, a Fire Department official said.
A Leavenworth restaurant was damaged in a fire Thursday night, a Fire Department official said.
The fire was reported at 11:23 p.m. Thursday at Metropolitan Steak House, 1501 Metropolitan Ave.
Capt. Shawn Kell with the Leavenworth Fire Department said the fire began in the back deck area of the restaurant. He said the fire breached through a portion of an exterior wall into the building.
"So we had some fire extension in there," Kell said of the interior of the structure.
Members of the Fort Leavenworth Fire Department and Leavenworth County Fire District No. 1 were called to assist Leavenworth Fire Department crews at the scene.
Kell said firefighters "knocked down" the fire within 30 or 40 minutes
"They got it knocked down pretty quickly," he said.
But firefighters then looked for what Kell called hot spots. He said there were a couple of areas of the building where firefighters had to pull down ceiling to get to hot spots.
The restaurant already had closed for the night and no one was in the building when the fire was reported. No injuries were reported.
Kell said an alarm system initially alerted dispatchers about the fire. Several passersby also called 911.
He said the blaze is estimated to have caused at least $50,000 worth of damage to the building and $20,000 to the contents.
The Kansas State Fire Marshal's Office was called to help with the investigation.
Kell said the fire may have been caused by smoking materials.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Air Force said on Thursday it has restructured a troubled air-to-air missile program run by Raytheon Co, freeing $104 million in immediate funding for the company and putting the program on track to return to its original schedule by mid-2014.
Lieutenant General Charles Davis, the top Air Force official in charge of acquisition issues, said the two sides reached agreement last week on new contract terms that will pay Raytheon for delivery of actual missile rounds rather than the "performance-based" milestones used in the past.
"That gets us back to where we would have been ... roughly in the middle of 2014," Davis told Reuters in an interview at his Pentagon office.
He said the Air Force would continue to keep close tabs on Raytheon's AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), which is used by Air Force fighter jets and Navy planes that fly off carriers.
"At this point right now the only thing that's important ... is the delivery of the missiles," Davis said, describing the Air Force's decision to withhold funds from Raytheon "very prudent" after repeated failures of the missile's rocket motors.
After years of delays in missile deliveries to the United States and foreign militaries, the Air Force announced in March that it was withholding $621 million in payments from Raytheon until the company accelerated deliveries of the advanced missiles.
On Thursday, the Air Force said it was resuming payments to Raytheon after a 10-month pause from February to December 2012. Spokesman Ed Gulick said no additional funding was being withheld from Raytheon at this point.
The delays were caused by problems with solid rocket motors supplied by Alliant Techsystems Inc (ATK) that power the missiles, prompting Raytheon to switch to Norwegian ammunition supplier, Nammo.
Raytheon welcomed the restructuring and said the program was "a top priority" for the company, noting that its investments in developing a second source of rocket motors were paying off.
"This fall, Raytheon delivered more than 120 AMRAAM missiles, and this month we are delivering the first missiles with rocket motors produced by our second source along with rocket motor cases provided to them by our U.S. source," said Raytheon spokesman Jonathan Kasle.
Raytheon Chief Executive William Swanson told an investor conference at the end of November that the program should return to "business as usual" and recover its production schedule by mid-2013. He said the company had already received 125 rocket motors from Nammo and production was expected to reach 100 motors per month in the first quarter.
Davis said Nammo's rocket motors had performed well in tests, and the Norwegian company was now working to increase its production rate to the level needed for the program.
He said ATK's future role on the program was unclear, given that it could take the company around 18 months to reformulate its rocket fuel and get it certified. The issue had developed over time due to changes in the formulation of the fuel.
He said the problems with the AMRAAM contract underscored the danger of relying on a sole producer of critical equipment, and the Air Force viewed it as important to maintain more than one supplier in the future.
But he said the projected purchase rates could raise concerns in the future.
"It'll be something that we'll have to pay attention to in the future," Davis said. "It's important that we try to keep more than one (supplier), but sometimes at the rate we're buying or the rate we're building it's not viable for two companies to stay actively involved. It'll be something that we'll have to pay attention to in the future."
Gulick said the revamped contract also called for Raytheon to compensate the U.S. government and foreign militaries between $27 million to $33 million for late rocket motor deliveries.
That compensation included no-cost labor to install a variety of software upgrades for foreign countries harmed by the late deliveries, warranty coverage and free repairs, Gulick said.
He said the Air Force also got warranty coverage for 325 AIM-120D missiles, and 40 no-cost repairs.
(Reporting By Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)


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University of Colorado leaders are proposing that two dorms in the Kittredge Complex be named after highly respected Arapaho Indian chiefs.
Officials from the Boulder campus are planning to name the remodeled Kittredge West dorm to honor Chief Niwot, a Southern Arapaho leader who was dedicated to nonviolence, university leaders say. Chief Niwot and his people lived along the Front Range, and historians say they spent many winters in the Boulder Valley.
CU leaders also want to name a new dorm opening this fall in the Kittredge Complex after Chief Little Raven, also a highly respected leader of the Southern Arapaho. Little Raven was respected for his mindful negotiations between tribes and settlers and was offered a peace medal by President Ulysses S. Grant.
"We suggested Chief Niwot and Chief Little Raven because they were locals living in this area, and they were known for being peacemakers and supporting the beauty of the valley," said Kambiz Khalili, executive director of Housing and Dining Services at CU.
Simply having directional names on buildings, like "Kittredge West," Khalili said, doesn't leave students "with a sense of belonging or interest in the buildings." Eventually, the Williams Village North dorm could get a new name as well, he said.
The Boulder Campus Planning Commission has approved the naming of the dorms. Before it's final, though, the names will need to be approved by the Board of Regents. The proposal is set to go before the board at its meeting in September, and the university is planning a building dedication later in the fall.
"Dedicating a Kittredge area residence hall to the highly esteemed, yet humble Chief Little Raven will not only honor Little Raven, his family and tribe, but will also honor Boulder's history," says a document proposing the dedication. "The students who would live and learn within 'Little Raven Hall' would have a daily reminder of the diverse history of the Boulder community."
Throughout the building dedication process, university leaders have consulted with local Native Americans, including Ava Hamilton, a descendant of Chief Little Raven.
Hamilton, a Boulder filmmaker, is working on the building dedication and is inviting ancestors of the chiefs.
"I would like people to know that we don't just exist in the past," she said. "We are living people today."
She estimates there are 6,000 Arapahos today, with many living in Wyoming and Oklahoma.
"The naming of dorms may not seem like a huge thing," she said. "But, to me, it's recognition of our people in this area."
Construction crews last year demolished the Kittredge Commons and have built a new dorm on the site. The $37.25 million project, funded by auxiliary revenue generated by Housing and Dining Services, will house about 265 students and include classrooms.
The proposed Little Raven Hall will house some residential academic programs, which blend living and learning. They are the chancellor's leadership studies program, the ethnic living and learning community leadership studies program and the global engineering program.
Kittredge West will reopen this fall and be home to a new health professions residential academic program, suited for students studying in fields such as pharmacy, nursing, public health and integrative physiology.
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As Winter Arrives, DNR Urges Snowmobile Safety
ST. PAUL (AP) - The recent snow is bringing out Minnesota snowmobilers, and safety officials are urging them to be careful.
Capt. Mike Hammer of the Department of Natural Resources says speed kills with snowmobiles.
Hammer points out that snowmobiles can travel as fast, or faster, than automobiles. And he says they require every bit as much or more experience to operate. While modern sleds easily can reach 70 miles an hour and even push 100, they don't stop like cars or offer the same protection.
Minnesota's speed limit for all snowmobile trails, public lands and waters is 50 mph.
The usual causes of snowmobile accidents are operator inexperience, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and high speeds.
The DNR suggests its giving safety courses on CDs as holiday stocking stuffers.
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I finally sat for 70-431 on Thursday. I know, I am at least a year behind everyone else. There is not as much emphasis placed on keeping certs current at my law firm job. It would be a different story if I worked in consulting.
Anyway, it seems I am always busy working on articles and presentations. The other thing is that my first enterprise system was upgraded to SQL Server 2005 in August. I really felt that I should have some substantial on the job experience with the product before taking the test. Finally, I received a free voucher in mid-November that would expire on Dec. 31st. So, after completing some other commitments, I concentrated on studying for the exam.
The thing that bothers me about the certifications is that I think most people have to study in order to pass. I can't imagine that anyone really has job related experience in everything that the exam covers. It seems to me that you should be able to work with the product for a period of time and then just be able to pass the exam based on your experience. Maybe some people can do it – not sure I can, though.
On the drive to the exam, I remembered there was talk of exams that would ask questions based on how well you asked the last one. I had this scary thought of being asked a question about XQUERY syntax and, of course, getting it wrong. Then the exam engine just giving me 30 or 40 XML related questions in a row. Luckily, my worst fears were unfounded.
Of course I can't talk about any of the questions, even if I could remember them. I do think that they were very well written and less confusing than any of the previous MS tests I have taken. During the test, I had no doubt that I was doing well. Many things about SQL Server haven't changed from 2000 to 2005. For example, the steps to restore a database to a point in time are the same. So, it is possible that this test was really testing my experience, not just how well I could try to learn about all the features I haven't used yet like Database Mirroring and Service Broker.
This exam actually gave me a numeric score at the end. For quite awhile, we were only getting back a pass or fail. After seeing my score and that it was much higher than the required score, I realized that you don't have to know everything to pass the exam. Just like real life at work, you will not become proficient in every aspect of SQL Server. The important thing is that I know I don't know everything. I know that I can look at BOL, or do a search at SSC or Google to find answers. I can experiment. Things will go wrong; I will learn even more when they do.


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russellkanning wrote:I decided to join up here after I listened to him for a month.
Him, the podcast?
russellkanning wrote:My college degree was in accounting and along with economic theory that is my area of expertise [...] I am working on my Doctorate in Theoretical Astro-physics.
So you went straight from an accounting major to a PhD course in astrophysics, which you are taking while driving trucks with your wife?
russellkanning wrote:(russellkanning) forum name and most social media or forums [...] I guess I will have trouble proving my astrophysician skills to the clueforum crowd.
How about a captcha test for starters?


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Was Phoebe Prince Once a Bully?
Did her school in Ireland turn a blind eye to early warnings of her troubles?
Read the rest of Emily Bazelon's series on cyberbullying.
In January, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince killed herself after being bullied at South Hadley High School in Massachusetts. Six students have been criminally charged in connection with her death; their cases go to court in September. Last month, I wrote a long article explaining why the story of Phoebe's death is more complicated than the narrative that had taken hold in the media—that Phoebe had been tortured for months by a pack of mean girls. I argued that the serious and unusual felony charges brought against the six teens represent prosecutorial overreach, given that Phoebe had mental health troubles before the bullying began, that she was caught up in conflicts that other South Hadley kids saw as "normal girl drama," and that the bullying, while wrong, was not the "relentless" three-month campaign the district attorney described.
Before Phoebe moved to South Hadley last fall, she lived with her family in Ireland. After my story was published, I heard from parents in Ireland whose kids attended seventh and eighth grade with Phoebe at a private school called Villiers. They helped me fill in the chapter of Phoebe's life that preceded her move to the United States with her mother and sister. The Irish parents talked to me because they saw a connection between the problems Phoebe had in South Hadley and ones she had at Villiers. They feel that Phoebe didn't get the help she needed from adults at that school—help that might have made a difference for her. It's a feeling Phoebe's parents have said they share.
But Phoebe played a different role at Villiers than the one she played at South Hadley High. In seventh grade in Ireland, she acted like a bully, not a victim. This doesn't change the fact that Phoebe was later bullied herself, or that this bullying was wrong. But it does add yet another layer of complexity to her story, one that speaks to the universality and fluidity of kids' bad behavior. At the wrong moment, a generally well-meaning kid can slip into treating another child badly.
Phoebe started at Villiers as a seventh grader when she was 12. Founded in 1821, the school is located a mile from the center of Limerick. Girls wear a vest and tie. Some students are boarders and others are day students. Villiers wasn't a comfortable fit for Phoebe. In the beginning of eighth grade, she started cutting herself. According to her mother, Anne O'Brien, the cutting was the result of trouble she was having with other girls over a boy. "Phoebe called me hysterical a few times," O'Brien told the South Hadley police when they interviewed her after Phoebe's suicide. "The school did very little."
When I called Villiers headmaster Thomas Hardy to ask about O'Brien's account, he responded in a statement that the school "would have been completely unaware of any such actions." But I spoke to another mother, whose daughter was a classmate of Phoebe's and who found that hard to believe. She said Phoebe left the school shortly after a cutting incident. "The whole class was brought in a day or two later and informed Phoebe wasn't coming back," the mother said by phone from Ireland. "The school didn't discuss the whole dynamic. But the kids knew about the cutting, without a shadow of a doubt." Phoebe continued cutting herself the following fall in South Hadley. If Villiers had addressed this early incident differently, would it have changed what happened to her next?
There's no way to know. But the mother of another of Phoebe's classmates shares the sentiment that Villiers did not do enough to help Phoebe. Her story goes back to Phoebe's seventh-grade year, when her daughter, Gwen, was first a friend of Phoebe's and then a target of bullying by a group that included Phoebe. (To protect the privacy of the other girls in this piece, I am using pseudonyms.)
Gwen and her mother talked to me by phone and Gwen's mother sent me a file of letters she wrote and received from Villiers and the Irish Department of Education between June and November 2008. Attached were printouts of pages from Bebo, a social networking site similar to MySpace that's popular among kids in Europe. On Bebo and in school, Gwen and her mother said, Phoebe was part of a group of former friends who turned on Gwen, ostracizing and bullying her over the course of a painful spring. The other Villiers mother I spoke to about Phoebe's departure from the school corroborated their account.
Phoebe and Gwen were friends during their first semester of school together. Over a school holiday, Gwen's mother took both girls on a hiking holiday. "I immediately engaged with her," Gwen's mother remembers. "She was very clever and really lovely."
But in the spring, the relationship between Phoebe and Gwen soured. They clashed over a boy; Gwen went out with him briefly, she says, and Phoebe got angry. About four other girls joined in and made Gwen miserable between about March 2008 and the end of school in June. "I'd come to school and they'd all be there, making up horrid songs about me, going around singing them to everyone. It just never stopped," Gwen remembers. "They all kind of like followed each other. Phoebe and Heather [not her real name] made up most of the stuff, laughing about it, making jokes. One time, we were in English class and we had to write an essay. Phoebe wrote about a girl and called her a slut who stole her boyfriend. She said in front of the whole class that it was me. I hadn't even kissed a boy yet."
In a letter to the board of governors of Villiers, Gwen's mother described how her daughter cried at school and cried at home and how she asked not to go back to school. The other mother of a classmate said of the bullying, "Phoebe was involved. Having said that, she would have been the least offender. She kind of tagged along."
In June, a friend called Gwen to tell her about a page on Bebo called "[Gwen] Pakistan—Paki girl 08." (Gwen's father is from a country in the Middle East.) Gwen didn't want to look at it, so her mother did. She found sexual language and slurs. On Bebo, when Heather was asked if she'd made the page, she responded, "Ma an Phoebe hahahahahah." ("Ma" stands for "me.") Gwen's mother showed the page to the Villiers headmaster, Hardy, and he contacted the parents of three girls, including Phoebe.
Phoebe's father, Jeremy Prince, says that when the school called in June 2008, he "interrogated Phoebe and learned what had happened." Phoebe said that Heather set up the page and e-mailed her the password. She had the e-mail to prove it, and sent it to Villiers. Phoebe admitted she had posted on the page a photo of chicken fillets. That seems to have been a joke at Gwen's expense: In one of her letters to Hardy, her mother reported that a boy had stopped Gwen in the hall to ask "if it's true that she has chicken fillets down her bra." Phoebe's father said that the picture was the only content Phoebe posted on the fake page. "Phoebe had nothing to do with it," he told me. "She was totally exonerated by the school."
In his statement to me, Hardy indicated otherwise: "Phoebe was part of a group of three or four girls involved in a racial slur on a Bebo site. The school did intervene and deal with it. The site was closed."
Printouts Gwen's mother sent to me show nasty messages mocking her daughter on the Bebo site . The messages are between Heather and an account called "Sex On The Beach <Queen-Phoebe-Prince>," which has a picture of Phoebe. When I first talked to Jeremy Prince about the posts, he said he had doubts about whether Phoebe wrote them. But the printouts show other kids referring to Phoebe by name when they replied to Sex On The Beach. Still, to be sure she wasn't being impersonated, I called Heather. She confirmed that at Villiers, Phoebe used the name Sex On The Beach for her Bebo account. A Bebo account with the identical member ID number as Sex On The Beach now features the name Wonder Wabbit, along with a picture of Phoebe. Jeremy Prince recognized that account as his daughter's. A spokesman for Bebo told me the site does not recycle member ID numbers.
Given all of this, it seems clear that the Sex On The Beach posts were Phoebe's. When I called Mr. Prince back, he said he still had some doubt about whether Phoebe was the author. But he also said, "I'm split. I think they get a freedom on the Internet that being so young they sometimes abuse." The posts that upset Gwen and her mother are an example of exactly that. One post from Sex On The Beach reads
haha GUESS WHAT [GWEN] PAKITHINGY BLOCKED ME ON BEBO!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! HOW FUNI IS DAT!!!
The Bebo pages also include the following exchange:
Sex On The Beach: and our uniform is sxual just not on [insulting play on Gwen's real name]!!! hahaha bt I rather she wear it to cover up da flab lyk oooooooooooh I hate her !!
Heather: haha ewww—why are we talking about her on my bebo that's ick!!!!!!! gawd ye wud all hate her all de lads dat commented on dis!!!!
Sex On The Beach: ew ew ew ew yah you wud hate her the paki whore!!!!!!!!!
Kids are sometimes more extreme version of themselves online, as Katie Roiphe has pointed out in the New York Times. Still, Phoebe's use of "paki whore" is striking because it's essentially the same insult that would be hurled at her by some of the six South Hadley teenagers indicted in connection with her death—they called Phoebe an "Irish whore." For those kids, the slur is a basis for the criminal charge that they violated Phoebe's civil rights—a charge with a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
Rather than making accusations, Gwen's mother was upset by the exchange on Bebo, but it didn't change her belief that Phoebe was a good kid. "I don't think Phoebe was racist," she says. "She was a really lovely girl who made the same mistakes a lot of kids do. It's that mob mentality—they do something horrid to another girl because they can." Jeremy Prince says, "One thing Phoebe would never be accused of is being racist."
The combination of Phoebe's treatment of Gwen and her problems in South Hadley appear to put her in a group of kids who are both bullies and victims. According to a 2005 study from the Netherlands, about half of bullies actually fall into this category. "The findings suggest that bully/victims demonstrate high levels of both aggression and depression," the authors write. Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin, directors of the Cyberbullying Research Center and authors of Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard, report similar findings from their 2007 survey of cyberbullying among about 2,000 middle schoolers. Again, about half the kids who self-identified as bullies said they were also victims. And the bully/victims reported significantly higher levels of anger and frustration than kids who thought of themselves as just bullies, just victims, or neither.
To Alan E. Kazdin, a Yale professor of psychology and child psychiatry (and a Slate contributor), Phoebe's involvement on both sides of the bully/victim divide is an example of "the complexity of human behavior. Some bullies are picked on and some victims are not only victims." Kazdin says bully/victims may display both aggression and anxiety or withdrawal. Most kids with disorders, or just problems, tend to exhibit either one or the other type of behavior. But there's a third group who exhibit both. "They have anxiety but they're also lashing out," Kazdin says.
To Gwen's mother, Phoebe's Bebo posts, which also included sexually provocative language, were a warning sign. She first wrote to Villiers about the bullying in June 2008, after meeting with Hardy and a teacher. In August, Hardy had not replied. Gwen's mother had to decide whether to withdraw her daughter from Villiers for the coming school year. She wrote to Hardy again. "We are concerned to know whether you do have an action plan to deal with this matter," she said. "The bullying at school has caused huge disruption to our family." At the end of August, Hardy wrote back to say he'd spoken to the parents of the students involved and that the fake Bebo page had been taken down. "We feel we have dealt with the matter as best as possible," he said. It appears that no disciplinary action was taken.
Dissatisfied, Gwen's mother wrote to the Irish Department of Education and Science, which sent an inquiry to Villiers. In response, the school finally called a meeting in November with Gwen's mother. But by then, she and her husband had enrolled their daughter in a different school. Phoebe had also left Villiers. When Phoebe's mother explained to the South Hadley police the cutting that precipitated Phoebe's exit from the school, she named two girls who Phoebe had told her "were at her every night." One of them was her former ally, Heather—another reminder of how quickly teenage roles and allegiances can shift.
Though her daughter was no longer a student, Gwen's mother attended the November meeting at Villiers out of concern about the school's handling of the bullying and its policies. At the meeting, she said a school official read aloud a copy of a letter Phoebe had written, in which she apologized for bringing Villiers into disrepute. "The only kid whose parents told her to apologize was Phoebe Prince," Gwen's mother said. "That's really important. She was the kid who stood up and said, I did something wrong." Gwen's mother says she expressed concern about Phoebe at the meeting. "I sat in front of the board of governors at Villiers and the principal and vice principal and I said, This child has mental health difficulties. She is at risk. I'm not just trying to make a noise about this because my child is a victim of her bullying. I'm saying this because we won't eradicate bullying until we support the bullies and the witnesses." In his statement to me, Hardy said, "the mother never brought anything to the attention of the school about real mental health problems for Phoebe."
When she looks back on all of this, Gwen feels a terrible sense of loss over Phoebe's death. "Every time I think about her being gone, it makes me sad and I'm not angry at her at all," she said, her voice breaking. "When I found out, I was expecting to be really angry and to think, I don't care. But I do care. Because I was really close to her. That's the bit that hurt most, when it all happened. We would have said we were best friends."
For Gwen's mother, the grief is mixed with a sense of missed opportunity. "I utterly empathize with Phoebe's parents," she says. "My whole reason for saying what I've said is not to come down on Phoebe. The point is that Phoebe needed support, and the people who were there at Villiers to give it to her didn't do that. They are culpable, not the kids who are facing criminal charges in South Hadley."
Hardy responded, "Villiers school is entirely satisfied with its efforts, work, and approach to both girls when they were students with us." Perhaps that helps explain the problems Phoebe and Gwen had there.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Larkin District and its development and planning team, including the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, won an honorable mention at the prestigious National Award for Smart Growth Achievement ceremony Dec. 5 in Washington, D.C.
The Larkin District was one of seven projects across the U.S. -- and one of only two in the Main Street or Corridor Revitalization category -- that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) award program recognized this year. The EPA recognition highlights the project's creative approach to building strong, sustainable communities while protecting human health and the environment.
Over the past decade, the Larkin District, located about a mile east of downtown Buffalo, has evolved from a largely abandoned industrial district with decaying infrastructure and contaminated sites into a thriving urban village and live/work/play community.
Anchored by the Larkin at Exchange Building -- a former Larkin Soap Co. warehouse that the Larkin Development Group restored in 2002 into one of Buffalo's most sought-after commercial addresses -- the district today includes several other mixed-used projects in renovated historic buildings, green space, improved streetscapes, brownfield restoration and now residential development.
"The 2012 winners of the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement are taking innovative steps to realize a vision of American communities that are clean, healthy, environmentally responsible and economically resilient," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.
More information on the Larkin District's recognition is available at http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/awards/sg_awards_publication_2012.htm.
"What started out as an improbable vision has turned into the reality of a revitalized and reborn urban neighborhood," said Howard Zemsky, managing partner of the Larkin Development Group (LDG), which had no tenants lined up when it started the Larkin at Exchange project. "Our confidence rested largely on the principles of smart growth and a commitment to restore the district's historic building infrastructure, celebrate its legacy as a center of industrial innovation and extend the economic, social and environmental vibrancy of these developments into the surrounding neighborhood and city."
Zemsky adds that the Larkin District's success is closely tied to the project's diverse partnerships across the public, private and nonprofit sectors, from First Niagara Bank to the New York State Brownfields Cleanup Program to the Old First Ward Community Association. Laying out the master plan for the Larkin District was the UB School of Architecture and Planning's Urban Design Project.
UB's involvement began in 2004, when Zemsky approached the Urban Design Project, a research center devoted to the critical practice of urban design, to develop a master plan for an urban neighborhood that would build on the success of the Larkin at Exchange project with historically sensitive development, vibrant streets and public spaces, integration with the surrounding neighborhood and accessibility via multi-modal public transportation.
The resulting "Larkin District Plan" set the foundation for a series of investments, including two mixed-use developments -- the Schaefer Building and the U Building -- that have added commercial, retail and residential space to the district, mostly through the adaptive reuse of historic buildings.
"Our goal was to create a historically context-sensitive plan at the neighborhood, corridor and city-wide scales," says Robert G. Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and director of the Urban Design Project, which partnered with the architectural firm Kevin Connors Associates and led a team of planners and students in carrying out the project. UDP team members included project manager Elizabeth Cheteny, with graduate students in architecture and planning Sean Brodfuehrer, Jajean Rose-Burney, William Smith and Steven Watchorn.
Adds Shibley: "With smart growth principles at the core of his vision, Howard Zemsky and his community partners have gradually fit together this place-making puzzle in a way that preserves and celebrates the district's history and creates new spaces and amenities for a thriving commercial center and urban neighborhood."
LDG has also acquired 30 properties for future residential development based on the master plan's recommendations for multi-use buildings along Seneca and Emslie streets. Such developments will include the expansion of first-floor retail and rental housing units on upper floors. Vacant properties in the central district are under design for a concentration of new cottage houses.
Recent investments in the Larkin District also include improvements to deteriorated streetscapes in the surrounding area to increase accessibility and establish critical gateways, a core tenet of the Larkin District Plan. These include $2 million in new sidewalks, street furniture, lighting, trees and plantings, crosswalks, bike lanes, signage and bus shelters, a project largely funded by Larkin at Exchange anchor tenant First Niagara Bank.
Additional elements of the plan that are being put into place include a network of green spaces in support of a pedestrian-friendly environment and stronger connections to the surrounding neighborhood.
This past summer, Larkin Square -- a 34,000-square-foot gathering space for workers, residents and visitors -- opened in the heart of the Larkin District. The multi-purpose public space features indoor and outdoor dining, seating areas, retail market stalls, public sculpture and a free concert series. Envisioned in the master plan, the project was developed by LDG working with The Neighborhood Workshop LLC and its principal, Tim Tielman.
"Our design challenge was to transform a railroad-era industrial superblock into humanized, smaller, multi-use blocks that were knit together by pedestrian-priority circulation paths," says Tielman. "The paths and future development sites were placed according to principles of human geography and wayfinding. All paths lead to Larkin Square, which itself connects into the city grid. The space was designed to attract office workers, visitors and local residents by evoking mystery, adventure and pleasure. The concept is 'Take space. Attract people. Stir.'"
Zemsky will continue to implement key elements of the master plan as the boundaries of the district expand. For instance, LDG has begun pushing for a traffic circle that would complement Buffalo's designed (but never fully completed) Frederick Law Olmsted Parkway System.
A land use and transportation planning solution, the traffic circle at Seneca, Fillmore and Smith Streets would link the northern and southern sections of the park/parkway system, calm traffic and establish a historic, interpretive gateway into the revitalized Larkin District.
LDG has now commissioned the Urban Design Project and its recently aligned research center, the UB Regional Institute, as well as Kevin Connors of Eco Logic Studio, to carry out a second phase to the master plan. This effort will consider the edge of the district and its connections to the neighborhood, enhance the district's transportation planning, and offer recommendations for additional mixed-use neighborhood and commercial development.


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Chrysler has recalled certain 2010 Dodge Nitro, Dodge Ram, Jeep Liberty, and Jeep Wrangler models because they may have been built with an improperly formed master cylinder to hydraulic control unit (HCU) brake tube assembly end flare. This can lead to a loss of brake fluid and reduced braking performance, increasing the risk of a crash. Dealers will replace the brake tubes free of charge.


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Pfizer Animal Health And The Resource Foundation Expand Initiative To Increase Productivity Of Small Family Farms In Latin America And India
Results of Ten-Year Partnership Show Increased Standard of Living in Poor, Rural Communities
NEW YORK, N.Y., October 18 - Pfizer Animal Health and The Resource Foundation announced today the expansion of a comprehensive education and training program to increase the capacity, productivity and quality of life of rural farmers in eight Latin American countries. Plans call for tailoring the program to the needs of rural communities in India. The agreement was guided by results of a decade-long collaboration also announced today.
Pfizer Animal Health and the Pfizer Foundation have committed $460,000 in 2011 to this program, which will involve more than 3,000 farmers and their families in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru as well as 7,250 farmers and their families through the program's expansion to India's Madhya Pradesh, Mathura, Orissa, Uttar Pratesh, and Rajasthan states.
Improving animal health is crucial in rural communities where farming is the economic engine. For small family farms with only a few animals, the loss of just one animal to disease can threaten the well-being of the entire family. Through this integrated educational initiative, farmers at the base of the economic pyramid acquire advanced animal husbandry skills while each family member also learns basic personal health and hygiene skills. To implement the program, Pfizer Animal Health and The Resource Foundation partner with local economic and agricultural development organizations, local universities, and local government agencies.
"A significant reason why small rural livestock farmers do not improve their economic status is that they lack training to efficiently produce, administer and sell their milk, beef, and eggs," said MarcelaLopez-Macedonio, executive director, The Resource Foundation, which is based in New York. She said persistent poverty can lead to a cascade of hardships, namely malnutrition and limited, if any, access to basic health services or education. "Pfizer Animal Health is the natural partner for this collaboration due to the company's tremendous knowledge base and experience in animal health and the relationship between animal health and human well-being. Pfizer's significant Animal Health presence in Latin America and in Asia improves our capacity to transfer best practices from countries such as Chile and Peru to India and bring a positive impact to thousands more farm families."
"Animal health and human health are closely connected," said Joyce Lee, area president –Canadaand Latin America Region, Pfizer Animal Health. Lee noted that a safe, nutritious supply of protein from milk, eggs, and meat begins with healthy livestock animals. Moreover, approximately 70 percent of the diseases known to affect humans are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and humans. "As a world leader in animal health, we believe we have a responsibility to help elevate the capacity of all livestock producers, whether they are subsistence livestock farmers or larger professional livestock producers. Healthy animals help to improve the health, nutrition and well-being of people in developing communities. Our collaboration with The Resource Foundation allows us to act on that responsibility, amplify our impact, and demonstrate our commitment as a trusted partner to livestock farmers worldwide."
Since its inception, the collaboration with The Resource Foundation has benefited more than 13,000 rural, low-income farmers in 100 communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Learning modern farming practices has had a direct effect on improving the quality of life of more than 50,000 individuals, according to results data from the past 10 years of program collaboration.
- The Goat School Project has benefited more than 1,000 goat-farming families from 19 communities inBrazil's aridBahiaregion. The initiative, started in 2001, enables small farms to raise goats and aims to decrease child labor, increase the income of families and combat malnutrition. Since the project began, the child malnutrition rate has decreased 47 percent and families have increased their income by 30 percent. In addition, more than 3,000 children have remained in school because their farm labor was no longer needed.
- Since 2008, nearly 500 farming families in Antioquia,Colombiareceived technical training in beef and dairy production, helping them improve animal health, benefit from genetic-trait-based breeding techniques, and enhance production efficiency. Participants moved from subsistence to income-generation, qualifying them to receive government and bank funding needed to expand their businesses.
- In Peru's Chumbivilcas province, 1,600 farmers of cows, sheep and alpacas succeeded within 18 months in considerably reducing the principal gastrointestinal, pulmonary and liver parasites and have eradicated symptomatic anthrax. This helped improve animal health which, in turn, has increased incomes of families in the province.
- Training for more than 200 dairy farmers in Zarcero,Alajuela Province,Costa Ricaincreased production by 15 percent and improved milk quality from Grade A to Excellent as a result of dairy health and production training and the introduction of pasteurization and bar code labeling equipment. These improvements opened new retail channels for their products and, in turn, helped boost income.
Pfizer Animal Health's collaboration with The Resource Foundation is one element of its global commitment to advance veterinary medicine practice and research, improve animal health, help prevent the spread of emerging zoonotic diseases and, in so doing, help improve human health. To learn more about Pfizer Animal Health, visit www.animalhealth.pfizer.com. For more information about The Resource Foundation and its programs, visit www.resourcefnd.org.
About The Resource Foundation
The Resource Foundation is a U.S. nonprofit organization that helps donors support effective, locally-driven development initiatives. Founded in 1987, The Resource Foundation provides advisory, consulting and grant administration assistance to corporations, individuals and foundations interested in supporting high-impact programs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Donors rely on its experienced, multilingual staff and their knowledge of the region's nonprofits and programs to safely and securely support projects that make a difference. Through partnerships, grants, and technical assistance to carefully vetted organizations in 27 countries, The Resource Foundation fulfills its mission to empower the disadvantaged so that they can have the skills, knowledge and opportunities to improve their lives. For more information about The Resource Foundation, visit www.resourcefnd.org.
About Pfizer Animal Health
Pfizer Animal Health, a business unit of Pfizer Inc., is a world leader in the discovery, development and manufacture of innovative animal health vaccines, medicines, diagnostic, and animal genetic improvement products. Pfizer Animal Health invests more in research and development than any other animal health company. We work to assure a safe, sustainable global food supply from healthy beef and dairy cattle, swine, poultry and fish while helping dogs, cats and horses live healthier longer lives. We strive to be the animal health company that provides full healthcare solutions to veterinarians, livestock producers, and pet owners. To learn more, visit www.animalhealth.pfizer.com.
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The Pfizer Foundation is a charitable organization established by Pfizer Inc. Its mission is to promote access to quality health care, to nurture innovation, and to support the community involvement of Pfizer colleagues. The Pfizer Foundation provides funding and resources to local and international organizations that expand and improve global health strategies. The Pfizer Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests.


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Expansion of Arizona pink bollworm (PBW) eradication into Western Arizona is on hold because there are no federal funds to launch the program there after a successful initial year in central and eastern Arizona last year. "We're ready to expand but the federal dollars are not currently available to start the program in La Paz and Mohave counties this year," said Arizona Cotton Research and Protection Council (ACRPC) Director Larry Antilla.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) funds the sterile moth component of the pink bollworm (PBW) eradication program.
According to Antilla, $1.1 million over '06 funding is needed to continue sterile moth in eastern and central Arizona in '07, plus start releases in western Arizona and southern California's Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties in '07.
Without a funded sterile moth component, the ARCPC will not launch eradication efforts in western Arizona in '07.
A congressional concurrent resolution has prohibited spending increases across all federal programs. The Democratically-controlled body could lift the freeze in late February or wait until September.
With cotton planting just a few months away in western Arizona, growers want to know if eradication is a go. A yes or no ACRPC decision could impact growers' decisions on planting Bt or non-Bt cotton.
At press time, ACRPC Chairman Clyde Sharp of Roll, Ariz., and other Arizona producers were attending the National Cotton Council annual meeting seeking ideas to locate extra funding. If funds from USDA-APHIS or another source are shored up soon, the ACRPC could launch eradication efforts in western Arizona in late April to early May starting with sterile moth releases reared at the USDA lab in Phoenix, Ariz.
Antilla is hopeful that southern California would also kickoff eradication activities in Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties located across the Colorado River from Arizona's western counties.
According to Jim Rudig, pink bollworm project program supervisor with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, "California and Arizona should work together to eradicate pink bollworm throughout a contiguous cotton-growing region in Southern California and Arizona. Pink bollworm is a devastating pest that can migrate easily between our two adjacent cotton-growing states."
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Cotton growers, state agriculture program managers and staff, and the USDA have worked together for several years to develop the Pink Bollworm Bi-national Area-wide Eradication Program, Rudig noted. The eradication strategy includes 'moving in phases' into the various cotton-growing regions infested with the pinkie.
Antilla said the sterile moth release program in California's San Joaquin Valley has prevented pinkie establishment there for 40 years. Eradication efforts in New Mexico and Texas began about six years ago and so far have proven successful.
The Mexican states of Sonora and Baja Norte will start eradication in '07.
Regardless of what happens with funding for Arizona's eradication efforts in '07, the ACRPC is scheduled to launch efforts in Yuma County in '08.
"Since Yuma County's planting season is from early February through early March, the ACRPC didn't think it was fair to guesstimate starting the program in '07 in Yuma without knowing whether federal funds would be allocated in time," Antilla said.
Eradication includes three main components — Bt cotton, sterile moth releases, and pheromones with the option of the limited use of insecticides when necessary ACRPC administers Arizona's PBW eradication program under the auspices of the National Cotton Council's pink bollworm action committee. Growers from California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico comprise the NCC committee.
Growers fund the pinkie program with a $1.25 per bale assessment. This pays for program management, monitoring, traps, lures, plus the supervision of pheromone and insecticide applications. Federal money pays for the sterile moths.
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For pink bollworm control, growers using Bt cotton pay a $32 technology fee per acre to cover season long control including pheromone, insecticides, and application costs. If growers plant non-Bt cotton, a $32 per acre fee must be paid directly to the ACRPC.
In 2005, Arizona cotton growers approved the pink bollworm eradication referendum with a 79 percent approval. Grower participation is mandatory.
During a meeting with growers in Parker, Ariz. (La Paz County) in late January, Antilla suggested growers maintain current seed plans for the '07 crop year.
"We recommend maximum Bt use because that is the best control for pink bollworm. If we receive the needed federal funds in time, an exemption the ACRPC has been granted will allow individual growers to plant up to 100 percent Bt without structured or traditional refuges," Antilla said. He referred to planting requirements for Bt seed products Bollgard and Bollgard II from Monsanto and WideStrike from Dow AgroSciences requiring growers planting Bt to provide a non-Bt cotton-planted refuge area under the EPA's section 24c requirement.
Under a special local need registration granted to the ACRPC on Jan. 27, 2007 by the Arizona Department of Agriculture, Arizona growers can legally plant 100 percent Bt without a refuge through Sept. 30, 2009 in those counties in the ACRPC eradication program.
"The EPA doesn't actually approve something - they just don't disapprove it. The ACRPC has had personal conversations with EPA and was told the agency will not disapprove the registration."
Antilla shared '06 sterile moth release numbers for the southwestern U.S. and Mexico: Arizona - 1,681,725,915; California (San Joaquin Valley) — 275,231,706; New Mexico — 323,660,970; Texas — 1,339,620,221; and Mexico - 213,762,095 - for a total of 3,834,000,907 moths.
"We were concerned about the logistics of getting moths delivered and distributed by air in Arizona. We released seven days a week for the entire season. We never missed a day."
If '07 eradication includes La Paz and Mohave, one to two million more moths would be released daily over moths released in '06.
"The biggest problem will be the logistics of aircraft operations in traveling to the new areas and releasing the moths," Antilla noted.
Moth releases in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas began on May 1 and ended on Oct. 15 in '06. About 22 million moths per day were released daily.
In Arizona in '06, 165,000 cotton acres including 4,626 fields were in the eradication program in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties (central) and Greenlee, Graham, and Cochise counties (eastern). About 154,168 acres were planted in Bt while 6,463 were non-Bt and 5,000 were in Pima. More than 4,500 PBW traps were monitored last season.


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A diverse line up of artists and comedians including Black Keys drummer Pat Carney, members of the Strokes, Ke$ha, Sarah Silverman and Johnny Depp performed at last week's Petty Fest LA. The first-ever West Coast edition of the Tom Petty tribute festival took place November 14 and 15 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. All of the proceeds from the event will go to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts.
As in past Petty Fest's, the various artists were backed by the Cabin Down Below Band, featuring Matt Romano, Alex Levy and Austin Scaggs (the band's name is a reference to a song on Petty's solo record Wildflowers and a New York bar of the same name). The first person they played behind was Har Mar Superstar, who offered a version of "Don't Do Me Like That" while urging the crowd to sing along all night.
Har Mar Superstar was followed by Nicole Atkins, Harper Simon and Jenny O and Jesse Malin, who performed "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "The Waiting" and "You Wreck Me," respectively. Atkins told the crowd about her parents bar, which had been badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
The show also features appearances by Guster's Ryan Miller, Alberta Cross, members of Little Joy and the Eagles of Death Metal. who got together for a rocking version of "Running Down a Dream." In one of the more noteworthy moments of the night, the Black Keys' Patrick Carney and Ke$ha took the stage for a unique take on "Last Dance with Mary Jane."
But the odd collaborations did not end there. Comedian Sarah Silverman joined the superjam for "Don't Come Around Here No More," before Johnny Depp took the stage sporting a blue Duesenberg guitar. The actor stuck around for a six-song run, staying on stage longer than any of the night's other guests (with the exception of the Cabin Down Below Band). Depp even managed to get an impressive solo alongside Common Rotation singer Adam Busch during "It's Good to Be King."
The show wound down with Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr. and Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes joining the Cabin Down Below Band for "I Need To Know" and "Honeybee," with Valensi and Moretti staying on for "American Girl," which was the last song of the set. As expected, the night's entire line up came out for an all-star sing-along encore of "Free Fallin."


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KALAMAZOO—Nominations are due Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, for the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award, the highest honor Western Michigan University bestows on its faculty members.
The award is based on outstanding professional achievements. It recognizes those whose work is widely known beyond campus and constitutes a significant body of achievement, most of which has been accomplished while a WMU faculty member. Wide recognition beyond WMU is essential.
Current, continuing board-appointed full- and part-time employees with faculty rank are eligible if they have at least seven academic years of service to WMU and are not previous winners. Any member of the University community, including retired faculty members, may submit a nomination.
The recipients will be honored during the 2014 Academic Convocation and receive a $2,000 honorarium that becomes part of their base salaries, a plaque, and an opportunity to present a campus lecture, exhibition or performance.
For more information, visit wmich.edu/research and click the Awards link or contact Ernst A. Breisach, professor emeritus in history and chair of the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award Committee, at email@example.com or (269) 344-1734.


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LONDON (AP) — The "plebgate" scandal started with an angry exchange over a bicycle in front of Downing Street. The controversy over what a senior politician did or didn't say to officers guarding the prime minister's official residence has now grown into a full-blown crisis which is raising new questions about the ethics of Britain's largest police force.
Scotland Yard's reputation has already been battered over its failure to curb law-breaking journalists and police corruption exposed in the phone hacking scandal which exploded last year.
The force faces renewed scrutiny after Andrew Mitchell, formerly the Conservative Party's chief whip, said a police report quoting him as abusing officers as "morons" and "plebs" — a term of abuse for working-class people — was based on lies.
"For the next three weeks, these awful phrases were hung round my neck in a concerted attempt to toxify the Conservative party and destroy my political career," Mitchell wrote in The Sunday Times, describing the period which followed the leak of a police report into the incident.
"I never uttered those phrases; they are completely untrue."
Mitchell has long acknowledged losing his temper and swearing as he tried to maneuver his bike into Downing Street on the evening of Sept. 19. He was running late and officers were refusing to open the main gate, he said. But he has long denied using the term "pleb" or telling officers to "learn your place," words which he described on Sunday as "a bad caricature of what an ill-mannered 1930s upper-class lout might say."
In Britain, a country very sensitive to issues of social class, the story dominated the headlines for weeks. Some police constables, or PCs, walked around with T-shirts bearing the words "PC Pleb." Political opponents called for Mitchell to lose his job. When an email from what appeared to be an independent witness emerged to corroborate the police account, Mitchell found himself with little choice but to resign in October.
The police account, however, has now been challenged; the independent witness was allegedly a policeman who wasn't even at the scene. Security camera footage taken from Downing Street and broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 didn't seem to line up with the officers' accounts. Two people have been arrested as Scotland Yard has pledged to get to the bottom of what happened.
"The allegations in relation to this case are extremely serious," Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe said in a statement Sunday. "For the avoidance of doubt, I am determined there will be a ruthless search for the truth — no matter where the truth takes us."
If it turned out that officers conspired to frame Mitchell, it would be another dark chapter for the respected force, which has already seen several high-profile resignations and arrests and a wrenching police corruption probe spawned by the phone hacking scandal. Politicians are already talking of the need for reform.
Britain's former policing minister, Nick Herbert, said journalists and public servants might reflect on whether they jumped to conclusions about Mitchell, but added that "it is the police service which above all must take stock and examine its own culture."
The scandal, meanwhile, has revived Mitchell's political fortunes, with many calling for him to be reinstated to Prime Minister David Cameron's Cabinet.