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19 Action News Reporter Ed Gallek has obtained jail logs showing what's been happening with Ariel Castro every ten minutes since he's been in the Cuyahoga County Jail.
Castro is on a suicide watch, so jail guards are monitoring him at least every ten minutes and writing down what he is doing.
The records show most of the time he is simply resting, but 19 Action News also noticed a couple of entries where he was walking around naked in his cell.
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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were rescued from Castro's Seymour Avenue home last Monday. The women had been held against their will and sexually assaulted for years.
Berry went missing in 2003 a day shy of her 17th birthday. DeJesus disappeared as she walked home from school in 2004 at the age of 14. Knight went missing in 2002 at the age of 21.
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Natural Science Center closing tiger exhibit for renovations
The popular tiger exhibit at the Natural Science Center will be closed for a few weeks for renovations.
The closure will start Dec. 10 and will last through Jan. 1, science center officials said. The tigers will be off exhibit during the renovations.
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BOR Confers on Helen Jacobsen Lee Rank of Professor Emeritus
Upon the occasion of the retirement of Helen Jacobsen Lee from the faculty of Montana State University, the Board of Regents wishes to express its appreciation for her service to the University, the Montana University System, and the people of the State of Montana.
Helen Jacobsen Lee has had a long and distinguished career as a MSU-Bozeman College of Nursing faculty member, faculty/student mentor, and scholar. She earned a Bachelor's (1957) and a Master's (1960) degree from MSU-Bozeman and a Ph.D. (1986) from The University of Texas at Austin. In 1992, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in care of aging persons at Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland. She began her appointment as Assistant Professor at MSU-Bozeman College of Nursing in 1976, was awarded tenure in 1980, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1991.
Throughout her 28 years with MSU-Bozeman, she has made significant contributions to the College of Nursing in the areas of teaching, research/creative activities, and service. She taught countless undergraduate and graduate courses in her areas of specialty and is well known for her excellence in teaching, particularly in the graduate program. The graduate students who have been expertly mentored by Dr. Lee in their theses work are too numerous to count. Dr. Lee has also been very effective and generous with her time in serving as mentor to faculty members who were less experienced in their teaching, research, and service roles. In terms of service, Dr. Lee has served as chair or member of nearly all College of Nursing committees over her career. She also effectively served as Missoula Campus Director from 1997 to 2001.
In the area of research and scholarship, in particular, Dr. Lee's contributions have created a legacy that will undoubtedly benefit the University, College, faculty, and students into the foreseeable future. Dr. Lee has been and is very instrumental in the rural nursing theory development work, for which the College of Nursing is well known, nationally and internationally. She is currently co-investigator on two research projects, has one manuscript in press, and another manuscript in review. She was also the lead author and moderator of a symposium on rural nursing theory presented at the Western Institute of Nursing research conference in April 2004.
Dr. Lee served as editor of Conceptual Basis for Rural Nursing which was published in 1998. This monograph contained original manuscripts as well as a compilation of twenty years of rural theory development work. Dr. Lee established an endowment from the royalties received from the sale of the monograph which funds annual grants for investigators conducting rural nursing research projects.
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Donna Coker has a J.D. (1991) from Stanford Law School, an M.S.W. (1982) from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a B.S.W. from Harding University (1978). Before joining the University of Miami faculty in 1995, Professor Coker practiced law with a major west coast law firm and taught domestic violence law at Stanford Law School and Santa Clara School of Law. She served as Academic Associate Dean from 2005–2009. She has taught criminal law, evidence, domestic violence, family law, wrongful convictions and other advanced criminal justice courses.
Professor Coker's scholarship focuses on criminal law, gender and inequality. She is a nationally recognized expert in domestic violence law and policy. Her research concerns three major areas: the connection between economic vulnerability and domestic violence; restorative justice and other alternative criminal justice interventions; and gender and criminal law doctrine. She is a leading critic of the disproportionate focus on criminal justice responses that characterizes U.S. domestic violence policy. Her widely cited research illustrates the negative impact of this focus on battered women marginalized as a function of poverty, race, or immigration status.
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Before attending law school, Professor Coker worked in the domestic violence field for 10 years. This work began in 1978 when she was became the sole staff person for a newly opened battered women's shelter in Little Rock, Arkansas. In subsequent years she was the Coordinator of a community based battered women's project in Honolulu, Hawaii, overseeing advocacy and support for more than 100 women a year. She trained religious professionals, military police, shelter staff, attorneys and judges in responding to domestic violence; co-authored an influential article on child custody and domestic violence; and served as an expert witness in custody cases involving allegations of spouse abuse.
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As the Flyers' fourth starting goalie this season, Backlund was forced to leave his NHL debut against the Penguins after the second period with a re-aggravated groin injury. Backlund was seen stretching through numerous stoppages at Mellon Arena.
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They ultimately fell, 4-1, to the Penguins – and thanks to a Bruins 5-0 win over Calgary – dropped into 8th place in the Eastern Conference.
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Dairy farmers and cheese makers, who have long tussled over state-regulated milk prices, may be close to an agreement on a short-term price increase to help producers offset staggeringly high feed prices.
Dairy farmers and cheese makers, who have long tussled over state-regulated milk prices, may be close to an agreement on a short-term price increase to help producers offset staggeringly high feed prices.
And in seeking a longer-term solution, the state Senate Agriculture Committee approved legislation Thursday that would fund an industry task force and give it a July 1 deadline to recommend reforms to California's antiquated and byzantine milk pricing system.
Milk pricing could affect as much as one-third of San Joaquin County's $2 billion-a-year agriculture industry.
Milk is the county's most valuable farm commodity, worth an estimated $453 million, and other leading cash crops - hay, $89.6 million; cattle and calves, $72.5 million; grain corn, $67.6 million; and silage corn, $62.7 million - all depend on an active, healthy dairy sector.
Gary Conover, government relations director for Western United Dairymen, a farmer interest group, said an agreement has been reached that would raise the price on milk used for cheese.
"The cheese processing industry understands the dire situation the producers are in and has agreed to help them out to the tune of $110 million over a 12-month period," he said Friday.
Close, but not quite, said Rachel Kaldor, executive director of the Dairy Institute of California, representing milk processors.
Cheese makers would agree to support the higher price but would ask the state secretary of agriculture to impose the change if it is warranted by economic conditions.
"If we can't agree that the secretary has that authority and that economic fact has to be the basis on which these decisions are made, than I'd say we still have some distance between us," she said Friday.
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Such reforms are sorely needed, Conover said.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2003--Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq:ARTI), a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP), today announced that it has opened a new product development center, Artisan Components Software Pvt. Ltd., located in Bangalore, India. The new India center is the latest in a series of growth initiatives Artisan has implemented that includes doubling its headcount since mid-2002. This expansion is a result of an increase in Artisan's user community as well as in the number of key manufacturers licensing its products.
The Bangalore center is Artisan's third major development center and complements its existing centers in San Diego and Sunnyvale, California. The facility provides added product research, development and customer support capabilities and allows Artisan to provide 24x7 support to its growing, global user community.
Artisan has appointed Guru Ganesan, a twenty-year veteran in the EDA/ASIC design industry, as managing director of its Bangalore Development Center. Ganesan joined Artisan when it acquired Synopsys' Physical Library Business, where he was director of engineering. Prior to Synopsys, Ganesan held management positions with Texas Instruments, Cadence Design Systems and Valid Logic Systems. Ganesan holds a MSEE degree from Madras Institute of Technology, India.
"India is a strategic location for Artisan," said Mark Templeton, president and CEO of Artisan Components. "In addition to the region's strong technology infrastructure and growing semiconductor design community, there are a wealth of well trained, talented engineers. We welcome our Bangalore staff and are confident that they will contribute to Artisan's success."
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October 22, 2015
Tommy arrived at my office for his psychotherapy appointment looking puzzled. He had just come from his physician's office, where he was told he should immediately start HIV medications. Tommy had tested positive for HIV just three weeks earlier and had reluctantly sought psychotherapy at the recommendation of friends. At 27 years old, he was the picture of perfect health, which was reflected in his lab results. Although he had a high viral load, his T-cell count was also very high. When asked if he had any feelings about seroconverting, his response was nonchalant. He reported no concern and stated that he had always felt that becoming HIV-positive was inevitable based on his sexual practices.
In the past, testing positive for HIV meant a dramatically altered life, and a foreshortened one. In the early years of the epidemic, most people died from complications of HIV. Over three decades, various classes of antiretroviral medications have slowly become available that successfully suppress the virus. Despite their effectiveness and easier administration (most newly diagnosed people have a once-a-day regimen), these medications still represent a lifetime commitment to major chemotherapy. While I understand the carefree attitude of people like Tommy and the relative ease of taking a single pill each day, I am concerned that the life-saving benefits we have experienced from the tremendous developments in HIV research cloud the ongoing, significant impact of HIV and antiretroviral medications on the body.
My personal experience with HIV medications was entirely different. I received the devastating news by telephone in 1988 after getting tested by a physician friend. I was stunned after hanging up from the brief call. A year earlier I had experienced a terrible case of shingles, which had been a mysterious illness for someone in their late twenties. I discovered that my T-cell count was in the single digits, and I knew starting medication was essential. The only drug available at that time was Retrovir (zidovudine, AZT). Proper dosing was basically guesswork, resulting in administration every six hours, including during the night. Most people, including me, quickly became anemic due to AZT toxicity, which killed many (including my physician) and put me in the hospital for transfusions.
Times have changed, but not entirely. Then, as now, not starting HIV medications was ultimately not an option, although the unknowns were far greater at that time. Then, as now, stigma impacted anyone living with HIV and pills were often taken in secret, laden with shame. Then, as now, the financial burden of medications and various health care disparities resulted in widely variable rates of disease progression and mortality. And then, as now, side effects of the meds created great concern, although the toxicity that kept people close to a bathroom for days on end, or hospitalized them for pancreatitis, or caused them permanent, lifelong conditions such as neuropathy has lessened. HIV medications today are far easier to take and tolerate, but they are not benign.
Today, we struggle with mixed messages in our decades-long HIV "crisis." We certainly want to discourage the devastating fear surrounding HIV, hoping to reduce its potent stigma while conveying that, with early detection and medical intervention, it no longer needs to be a death sentence. On the other hand, we have softened the notion of HIV to the point where people like my client Tommy are overly complacent, resulting in a prolonged epidemic that is fueled by a lack of awareness. Data show that nearly one in five persons with HIV (who are responsible for the majority of transmissions) do not know and probably don't want to know their status. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that one in four Americans still think sharing household objects can transmit HIV. And people are still dying from both the HIV virus and HIV medications in the form of cardiac, liver or metabolic complications.
I am grateful that I had access to life-saving medications and proud, despite the lifelong conditions that resulted, that I (and many others) lent my body to drug trials so that more lives could be saved. My wish for those who are newly diagnosed is most certainly that they have an easier path, but also an ability to remain vigilant about the virus that remains cloaked and "undetectable" in their bodies.
Taking HIV medications, for now at least, remains a lifelong commitment. Like any significant relationship there are ups and downs, easier times and more difficult ones, and benefits as well as complications. In the following slideshow I walk through seven factors that are useful to consider when starting treatment.
David Fawcett, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is a substance abuse expert, certified sex therapist and clinical hypnotherapist in private practice in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He is the author of Lust, Men, and Meth: A Gay Man's Guide to Sex and Recovery.
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PAULSBORO, N.J. (AP) — A freight train derailed Friday on a railroad bridge that has had problems before, toppling tanker cars partially into a creek and causing a leak of hazardous gas that was blamed for sickening dozens of people, authorities said.
After hours of not registering at all on sensors, the level of the dangerous chemical spiked Friday evening, prompting authorities to evacuate people from several blocks around the site of the derailment and causing investigators to conduct interviews and record checks away from the accident site.
Members of the National Transportation Safety Board arrived in New Jersey on Friday afternoon to investigate. They will try to determine whether the derailment was caused by a problem with the bridge or if the derailment was to blame for the bridge's partial collapse.
A delicate operation lies ahead, as a huge crane was being brought from New York Harbor to pick up the dangling tanker cars.
The accident happened just after 7 a.m. when a train with two locomotives, 83 freight cars and a caboose made its way from Camden to the industrial town of Paulsboro, just across the river from Philadelphia International Airport.
Cars from a train operated by CSX went off the rails on a swing-style bridge, owned by Conrail, over Mantua Creek.
Seven cars derailed, including two box cars on stable ground and five on the bridge. NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman said four tankers were partially in the creek.
One tanker containing 25,000 gallons of vinyl chloride was sliced open in the accident and some of the gas spewed into the air, while the rest turned into a solid and settled into the bottom of the tanker.
People who live nearby said the air was smoky in the morning. Doug Ricotta was working in his bakery when he heard a loud sound. "Next came a smell, kind of sweet — not a healthy smell," he said. He stayed in his business and kept baking, though one catering order had to be canceled because roads into and out of town were closed for a few hours.
Breathing vinyl chloride, which is used to make the common plastic PVC, can make people dizzy or sleepy. Breathing very high levels can cause someone to pass out, and breathing extremely high levels can cause death. Most of the vinyl chloride is gone from the body one day after being breathed in.
More than 70 people were treated at Underwood-Memorial Hospital, most complaining of breathing problems, burning eyes or scratchy throats, said spokeswoman Karen Urbaniak. She said 11 arrived by ambulance, and the rest walked in. More than 60 were discharged by late afternoon, and the handful that remained were in stable condition.
Residents of Paulsboro, West Deptford and East Greenwich Township were told to remain indoors early Friday before an all-clear was given. One resident walked through town Friday morning wearing a gas mask.
By late morning, state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Larry Hajna said sensors were not detecting the chemical at the site.
But by Friday evening, Hersman said, the chemical was detected again, leading to a new evacuation order for areas close to the accident.
Coast Guard Lt. Drew Madjeska, a spokesman for agencies responding to the derailment, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that residents were told they might not be allowed to return for several days, depending on the results of further air tests. Officials said about 500 residents were affected by the evacuation.
The higher readings also complicated things for investigators. Hersman said railroad officials, their contractors and other environmental experts were trying to determine the best way to get the rest of the vinyl chloride out of the ruptured tanker before further inspections could be done or the train cars could be moved.
She said her team of investigators would be focused first on reviewing records and interviewing witnesses — things that can be done away from the accident site.
Tom Butts, the chief of emergency management for Gloucester County, said it would take at least a day to get the large crane to the site to pick up the damaged cars. The recovery work was expected to take place only during daylight hours and it was not clear how long it would take.
The bridge usually supports at least three major trains each day serving refineries and other customers in an industrial area along the Delaware River. It was rebuilt after it buckled in August 2009 and when nine cars on a coal train detailed. Officials attributed that accident to bridge misalignment.
State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, whose district includes Paulsboro, said he had been told that complaints had been made in recent weeks about noise coming from the bridge and that Conrail was looking into it. But he said he didn't have any details.
At a news conference, Conrail spokesman John Enright said that the company is concerned with safety and cooperating with authorities, but he would not take any questions.
Early in the day, State Assemblyman John Burzichelli, a former mayor of Paulsboro who was serving as spokesman for the town, said he believed that it was a problem with the bridge that caused the accident. But he later backed off that, saying he did not know the cause.
The Federal Railroad Administration doesn't routinely inspect the structural safety of bridges owned by freight railroads, although it does inspect the tracks and can do an inspection if it receives a complaint or if track inspectors notice a problem. The agency last inspected the Paulsboro bridge in January 2010 and found no defects.
The railroads themselves are responsible by law for inspecting their own bridges. The FRA does not know when Conrail last did one.
The NTSB's Hersman says her agency will review bridge safety records and other details, including the mechanical systems on the train and the structural integrity of the bridge. She said inspectors will seek to interview crew on the train and to give them drug and alcohol tests.
Burzichelli said that as long as the bridge is out, factories and refineries in the area will have to rely on shipping materials by barge and truck.
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LOS ANGELES, March 7 (Reuters) - For 33-year-old video editor and hemophilia patient Travis Roop, being able to get life-saving infusions of a blood clotting agent every two weeks, instead of rushing to treat a bleeding episode, meant he could jog for the first time.
Roop was enrolled in a clinical trial testing a long-acting treatment for hemophilia B from Denmark's Novo Nordisk . The therapy is one of several new blood clotting agents in development that will help hemophilia patients cut by half, or more, the number of regular intravenous infusions they need to prevent traumatic bleeding in their daily lives.
"It was amazing actually. It was a life-changing experience," said Roop, who lives in the Los Angeles area. "I always avoided trauma to my left ankle ... With this, I knew it would take care of itself."
People with hemophilia have a fault in a gene that regulates the body's production of proteins called clotting factors. This can cause spontaneous bleeding as well as severe bleeding following injuries or surgery.
To avoid joint damage and other complications, patients with severe forms of the disease need regular infusions, lasting 30 minutes or more, of relatively short acting and very expensive clotting factors. The number of infusions and their volume depends on the medical status of each patient and their body weight.
Since the gene is carried on the X chromosome, hemophilia is almost entirely a disease of men. But women can pass the gene to their offspring. Hemophilia has often been called the "Royal Disease" since it was carried by Britain's Queen Victoria and affected many of the ruling families of Europe.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is due to decide by mid-year whether to approve Aprolix, a new long-lasting hemophilia B clotting factor from Biogen Idec and partner Swedish Orphan Biovitrum. Novo Nordisk expects to file next year for regulatory approval of its long-acting hemophilia B drug, N9-GP.
Some industry experts say these and other new treatments could help drive down the price of existing hemophilia products, which can total $300,000 or more a year for a single patient.
That's because Biogen does not yet market any hemophilia therapies. In the United States, Novo Nordisk sells a drug used only by patients who have developed antibodies to currently-used factors.
If new entrants to the hemophilia market decide to price their longer-lasting factors in line with the overall price of the existing shorter-acting products, the decision for patients to try out the new factors will be relatively easy, said Dr Guy Young, director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
"If they come in at a similar annual price, then companies that are making recombinant drugs will be forced to drop their price," said Dr Young, who has been involved in clinical trials of long-acting factors.
Worldwide, about one in 5,000 men is born with hemophilia A and one in 25,000 men is born with hemophilia B each year.
The global market for hemophilia drugs, led by hemophilia A products such as Baxter International's Advate and Pfizer's Xyntha, totaled $8.5 billion in 2011 and will grow to $11.4 billion by 2016, according to Morningstar.
Deutsche Bank estimates that Biogen's hemophilia products can reach annual sales of $1.2 billion by 2017.
Biogen Chief Executive Officer George Scangos said at an industry conference in January that if insurance companies and other payors view the long-lasting products as simply more convenient, they will be priced in line with existing therapies. If they are viewed as more beneficial, prices will be higher, he said.
Blood factor concentrates were not developed until the mid-20th century, and up until that time people with hemophilia had a life expectancy of less than 30 years. The last major advance in treatment of the rare disease came in the early 1990s when bioengineered clotting factors replaced factors derived from blood plasma.
Factors are numbered using Roman numerals. Hemophilia A is caused by a lack of clotting factor VIII, while hemophilia B is caused by a lack of clotting factor IX.
The new longer-lasting hemophilia B products can be given every 10 days or two weeks, offering significant advantages for patients, especially young children, who now need infusions every two or three days, said Dr Marion Koerper, medical director of the National Hemophilia Foundation and professor of hematology at the University of California at San Francisco Children's Hospital. Koerper has not been involved in clinical trails of longer-acting factors.
"Patients don't always get the doses they are supposed to get," she said, noting that mornings can be hectic and parents may wait to infuse a child at night even though factor levels should be highest when they are running around or at school.
Biogen's Aprolix extends the duration of the factor three-fold, while Novo Nordisk's version offers a five-fold increase, Dr Young said. That raises the stakes for Biogen to be first to market its product.
"There is no question that when these drugs get on the market there will be pretty massive and quick uptake," Young said. "I predict most (hemophilia B) patients will end up on one of these new drugs."
Roop, the video editor, said he will seek out Biogen's therapy if it is the first to become available, but has heard that Novo Nordisk's, which he has already tried, works better.
For hemophilia A, the advantages of the new products are less dramatic and uptake will be slower, Dr Young said.
An FDA decision on Biogen's longer-acting hemophilia A therapy, Eloctate, is expected mid-year.
Baxter expects to file by the end of this year for U.S. approval of its long-lasting hemophilia A treatment. Bayer , and CSL Behring also have long-lasting factors in advanced stages of development. Pfizer Inc's work in the field is still in the "discovery" stage.
Meanwhile, biotechnology companies like Sangamo BioSciences and BioMarin Pharmaceutical are working on methods to replace defective hemophilia genes, allowing patients to begin producing their own clotting factor.
Biogen's Scangos acknowledged that new progress is being made in gene therapy, particularly for hemophilia B, but believes that a safe, effective treatment based on this method is still at least five years away.
Roop, who has severe hemophilia B, said he was offered the option of participating in a gene therapy trial, but decided not to take a chance on "unproven science."
"If I can get some longer-lasting factor, maybe get down to just once a month or once every three weeks - I would be happy with that," he said.
Jackson Corral did not benefit during trials of the longer-lasting treatments. The five-year-old Los Angeles area resident, who has hemophilia A, took part in a clinical trial of Biogen's Eloctate.
His mother, Jackie Corral, cannot wait for something to work. She prepares and infuses Jackson and his 3-year-old brother Jameson with a factor VIII product every other morning and always stays within a 20 minute radius of both boys.
"If we did go to twice-a-week infusions that would be amazing," she said. "That would give me so much more peace."


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Strasburg fell apart after one of third baseman Ryan Zimmerman's two errors and wound up dropping his fifth consecutive decision as the Chicago Cubs beat the Washington Nationals 8-2 Saturday.
Edwin Jackson (1-5) worked into the sixth inning and hit a two-run double for good measure. He earned his first win under a $52 million, four-year contract he signed after leaving Washington as a free agent, and ended the Nationals' five-game winning streak.
Strasburg (1-5) set down Chicago's first 11 hitters, six via strikeout. But with two outs in the fifth, third baseman Zimmerman's off-target throw put a runner on. Turned out to be Strasburg's last inning, making for his shortest outing of 2013.
The NL All-Star's only win this season came April 1 on opening day against the lowly Miami Marlins.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Adam Wainwright took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning and wound up with a two-hitter, leading the St. Louis Cardinals over Colorado.
The Rockies had been hitless in 49 consecutive at-bats before Nolan Arenado lined a clean hit to center field with one out in the eighth. Eric Young led off Friday night's game with a broken-bat single against rookie Shelby Miller, then failed to put a runner on until Todd Helton walked with one out in the fifth inning a day later.
The 49 at-bats is the longest hitless stretch since Sept. 25-27, 1981, when the Los Angeles Dodgers went 50 at-bats without a knock, according to STATS.
Wainwright (5-2) struck out seven for his second shutout of the season and sixth of his career. The Cardinals won for the ninth time in 10 games, defeating Jhoulys Chacin (3-2).
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andre Ethier had a pair of doubles among his season-high four hits, Dee Gordon hit a rare home run and Los Angeles broke an eight-game losing streak with a victory over Miami.
Hyun-Jin Ryu (4-2) allowed one run and five hits in 6 2-3 innings. The left-hander took a three-hit shutout into the seventh before Miguel Olivo homered.
Ethier's four-hit game was first since last Aug. 24-25, when he had back-to-back four-hit efforts against the Marlins at Dodger Stadium — each of which included a home run. The two-time All-Star is batting .403 against the Marlins in during his eight-year career.
Kevin Slowey (1-3) gave up five runs, 11 hits and three walks in 4 2-3 innings.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jay Bruce homered his first time up, then doubled twice during a seven-run burst as the Cincinnati Reds delighted a sellout crowd, battering the Milwaukee Brewers.
Six different Reds players drove in two runs each, including starting pitcher Mat Latos (4-0). The defending NL Central champions moved five games over .500 for the first time this season.
Bruce led off a five-run second that was helped by a pair of fielding mistakes by left fielder Ryan Braun. Bruce opened the seven-run third with a double off Hiram Burgos (1-1) and capped it with an RBI double that made it 12-4.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Madison Bumgarner struck out a season-high 11 over seven innings, Gregor Blanco entered in the fifth as a pinch hitter and drove in four runs, and the San Francisco Giants routed the Atlanta Braves.
Bumgarner (4-1) gave up just four hits and walked two, snapping a string of four starts without a victory.
Blanco had a three-run double and triple in setting a career high for RBIs.
Paul Maholm (4-4) lasted just 4 1-3 innings and was charged with six runs on eight hits.
PHOENIX (AP) — Cliff Lee pitched seven scoreless innings and Jimmy Rollins drove in a pair of runs and Philadelphia ended Arizona's five-game winning streak.
Domonic Brown added an RBI single in the seventh for the Phillies, who snapped a three-game losing streak.
Lee (4-2) gave up six hits, struck out three and walked two in winning consecutive road starts for the first time since August 2011.
Down 2-0, Arizona loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh before pinch-hitter Will Nieves grounded out.
Jonathan Papelbon pitched the final 1 2-3 innings for his sixth save.
NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Liriano struck out nine and pitched into the sixth inning to win his debut with Pittsburgh and help the Pirates beat the New York Mets.
Jordy Mercer homered twice and Jose Tabata had four hits, including a two-run shot for the Pirates.
Liriano (1-0), returning from a broken non-throwing arm, allowed one run in 5 1-3 innings. He gave up six hits and two walks.
Jonathon Niese (2-4) tied a career high by allowing eight runs in 4 1-3 innings.


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In commodities news today, sugar has broken down through its key 19¢ support level. Sugar futures are currently down around 1.8%, trading at 18.54¢. Gold and silver are slightly up today in anticipation of more QE from the Fed, with silver leading the way in the precious metals complex, trading 0.73% higher. Orange Juice is the biggest gainer in softs today, up over 5%. Forecasters recently cut their estimate for Florida's citrus crop by 5.2%.
After finding a base in April, Natural gas has been in a multi-month rally, all the way to above the $4 level. Since recent forecasts for warmer winter weather, natural gas has sold off quite a bit, with the January contract dropping below $3.40 this morning. The next major support level is $3.20. Fundamentally, there seems to be a lot of talk about moving energy consumption towards natural gas. We think overall this market is still more bullish than bearish, and could be approaching oversold territory.
As President Barack Obama lowered his demand for tax increases in the budget to $1.4 trillion from $1.6 trillion yesterday and the Federal Reserve releases their economic forecasts and monetary policy statement today, the financial markets have a lot to digest today. U.S. equity futures have seen their longest rally since March and the bond market started to head lower, although nothing spectacular in terms of size. The December E-mini S&P had a powerful rally yesterday in anticipation of a Federal Reserve announcement of more QE. If Bernanke does indeed make an announcement to send risk markets flying up, it will be very interesting to see how the SP reacts to being near 2012 highs. We could hear chatter of the 1500 level before long.
U.S. 30-year bond futures have been in a down trend since November, and we believe this market will head lower if the S&P keeps rising. With the possibility of more QE being announced today, the bond players might be more concerned about inflation, and thus continue to sell bonds. For the March 2013 30-year bond contract, we have the next major downside target/support level at 145. If the non-farm payrolls numbers keep beating expectations, we could easily see this level. The counterpoint to this idea is that the bonds are the flight to quality asset of choice, so any unexpected Eurozone difficulties could cause a rally in bonds.


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I encourage those of our readers with a philosophical bent to take the time this weekend (it will require about an hour) to read Peter Berkowitz's excellent essay "Obama and the State of Progressivism, 2011." Peter links the political difficulties President Obama has encountered to the "paradox of American progressivism, old and new," a paradox "rooted in the gap between its professed devotion to democracy. . .and its belief that democracy consists in a set of policies independent of what the people want."
The original progressives, exemplified by Herbert Croly, acknowledged the paradox. Thus, Croly wrote that "any increase in centralized power and responsibility. . .is injurious to certain aspects of traditional American democracy." But "the fault," Croly stated, "lies with the democratic tradition" and the fact that "the average American individual is morally and intellectually inadquate to serious and consistent conception of his responsibilities as a democrat." Thus, the "erroneous and misleading" democratic tradition "must yield before the march of a constructive national democracy."
The new progressives, exemplified by Obama, refuse publicly to speak this way. It seems clear, though, that Obama shares Croly's view, which he expressed behind closed doors in his famous characterization of working-class voters (to a wealthy San Francisco audience) as "cling[ing] to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them. . .as a way to explain their frustrations."
Peter also connects Obama's "determined effort to push dramatic transformation under the cover of moderation, and pragmatism, and post-partisanship, and his claim to speak on behalf of the people while aggresively promoting programs at odds with majority wishes" to three schools of academic thought. They are John Rawls' "deliberative democracy" theory, Richard Rorty's perversion (as I see it) of pragmatism, and "empathy." All were, or have become, intellectually dishonest attempts to equate progressivism with justice and, as Peter explains, to override, in the people's name, their expressed perferences.
The academic concept of "empathy," which is so shallow that it's shocking to think of it as a school of thought with any traction, featured prominently in Obama's statement of why he nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Although Sotomayor had famously touted the virtues of the special empathy possessed by "the wise Latina," she repudiated this line of thought during her confirmation hearing, as did Elean Kagan later on.
There is no doubt, however, that Sotomayor's brand of empathy lies at the heart of much progressive thinking about the law. That Sotomayor and Kagan backed away from such views when they were "on stage," and that Obama himself did not use the word "empathy" in touting Kagan, is further evidence of the paradox of progressivism.
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So, Google has "unleashed Ice Cream Sandwich" – or Android 4.0 – and it's ready to take on iOS5 in the battle for smartphone supremecy. But how do they fare in the ring? Ding ding… Round one.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich vs iOS 5 – user Interface
Ice Cream Sandwich: ICS plays nice with both smartphones and tablets, combining the very best of Gingerbread and Honeycomb.
Its comically-named Roboto typeface keeps it fresh, while Apple-inspired UI tweaks like app folders, instant photo uploads to the cloud and an action bar to replace the physical keys keep everything flowing smoothly. Then there's the webOS-inspired flick-to-dismiss gesture while multitasking. Gingerbread icons have also been swapped for resizable Honeycomb-style widgets and notifications are accessible from the lock screen.
Multitasking is the real improvement, though, utilising the Recent Apps button in Honeycomb to pull up a list of open apps used in thumbnail form.
iOS 5: Unlike ICS, iOS 5 hasn't been overhauled, and on face value it appears almost identical to previous versions. Start prodding and sliding your way around, though, and you'll find new icons and apps for Videos, Music, Newsstand, iMessage and Reminders, a customisable Android-style Notifications Centre feature and integrated Twitter functionality. Notifications and camera can now be accessed from the lock screen, too, but multitasking remains exactly the same as before.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich vs iOS 5 – hardware
Ice Cream Sandwich: The Galaxy Nexus is going to be the only phone this side of 2012 to sport the new OS. So if you're not particularly fond of Google's new toy, next year is when everything else gets a look in, including the newly announced Motorola RAZR.
The good news? Google has confirmed it's working on an ICS update for the Samsung Nexus S and other Gingerbread-flavoured devices. Unlike Apple, Ice Cream Sandwich fans have the luxury of choice, with a myriad of handsets available next year sporting the new OS.
iOS: As ever, Apple's new OS spans the majority of its ecosystem – and of course comes as standard on the new iPhone 4S. So whether you've got an iPhone 3GS or 4, iPod or iPad, you can upgrade to the latest version via iTunes. The only caveat? No Apple products = no iOS 5.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich vs iOS 5 – tools
Ice Cream Sandwich: Android offers more data control by charting and even curbing usage. Bumped up Gmail previews and offline mail search are a bonus, as is 16-tab browsing with live previews and Google Chrome bookmark sync.
A whole host of improvements have been baked into the photo-taking department, too. We're talking about reduced shutter lag, panorama mode, time-lapse functionality and a basic image editor. Unlocking your phone with your face and its NFC-equipped Beam feature for sharing stuff are pretty nifty additions, too.
There may be no Siri onboard, but Android's improved voice command system is on hand awaiting instructions. It's certainly not as clever as Apple's "virtual assistant," but Siri might encourage Google to raise its game for the next installment.
iOS 5: Siri is undoubtedly the star of the show and has taken voice recognition to the next level. iOS 5 also debuts iCloud – so it's playing catch up with Android, much like its over-the-air system updates – automatically pushing all multimedia, documents, calendars and mail to your iOS devices.
Apple also chucks in grid lines, face detection and image stabilisation to its camera capabilities, alongside viewfinder pinch to zoom functionality and (finally) the ability to use the volume + key as a shutter button.
Apple's also added a Reading List feature to Safari, allowing users to view pages offline. Much like Android 4.0, iCloud keeps this reading list synced across Apple devices, while the free iMessage service, Wi-Fi syncing and PC-free setup are the icing atop this Apple shaped cake.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich vs iOS 5 – in use
Ice Cream Sandwich: Android's core user experience has never been as polished as iOS. But the times are 'a changing and improved multi-tasking means you can flit between apps and features at a satisfyingly fast pace. Like Honeycomb, widgets now have their own tab in the apps screen, too. Throw in Flash and you're looking at an all-round smartphone experience.
iOS 5: Leave a child alone with your iPhone and they'll master it in minutes. iOS 5 is that intuitive. Now that it's borrowed a few tricks from Android, its intuitiveness has gone up a notch. Chuck iCloud, Wi-Fi Sync and features like Newsstand into the equation and you're looking at an extremely clever UI and a continued hassle-free user experience.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich vs iOS 5 – staying social
Ice Cream Sandwich: Rebranding all your contacts as 'People' is very Windows Phone 7, but it does mean your favourite and most contacted pals are easily accessible from one place. Contact Cards take care of ICS's social side by pulling in photos and contact details from all your social networks and letting you have a nose through aggregated posts and updates.
iOS 5: Apple has finally caught up with the competition by throwing in Twitter integration – so sharing info from multiple platforms with strangers is even easier. Unlike Ice Cream Sandwich, social network contacts aren't integrated into the phone's contacts, so social networking information is only accessible via the dedicated apps. Not great if you're a social butterfly, but an absolute godsend if you like to keep social shenanigans, aggregated feeds and linked contacts as far away from your user experience as possible.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich vs iOS 5 – verdict
Google has tried time and time again to beat Apple at its own game, and iOS has remained victorious. But times are a-changing. Both operating systems have a vast number of identical features that make them equally appealing, but it feels like Android just has the edge when it comes to notifications, multitasking and web browsing.
A combination of iOS-inspired-instalments, complimented by its own non-Apple tweaks means Google has rolled out its most aggressive and advanced Android update yet, delivering something completely fresh to the forefront of Android smartphones.
Apple may rule the roost in the app department, but its user experience is starting to feel slightly hackneyed, even with a fresh injection of UI tweaks. With greater customisation options, more control and a complete overhaul Ice Cream Sandwich is, on paper, putting its feet more firmly forward than its iOS counterpart. If Android apps could up their game, too, we feel that even hardened Apple aficionados might find their loyalty wavering.
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Based on the jolly, jazzy score that keeps "From Up on Poppy Hill" lively, the latest from Studio Ghibli ("Howl's Moving Castle") appears to have missed its calling as a Broadway musical. Every 10 minutes, it seems like one of the actors (Anton Yelchin, Aubrey Plaza and Christina Hendricks) tasked with dubbing the Japanese-animated film into English will bust out into song.
Lame, hypothetical lyrics (to the tune of any generic musical theater number): "I'm up! On Poppy Hill. I'm up! And ain't it a thrill ..."
It ain't a thrill, but the film, co-adapted by legend Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away") from a Japanese comic and directed by Miyazaki's son Goro, gets by for a while on a story with more humor and engagement than recent Ghibli disappointments ("The Secret World of Arriety," "Ponyo"). In 1963 Yokohama, Japan, teenage Umi (Sarah Bolger of "In America") cooks and does laundry for the family members and boarders living at her grandma's house, barely finding time to go to school. She's one of many who has eyes for Shun (Yelchin) after he jumps off the roof to protest the potential closing of the building that houses many extra-curricular clubs. Seriously, the guy can't change a light bulb without a crowd of girls giggling, and when he notes he cut his hand shaving—who does that?—some young ladies coo, "He shaves!"
Then "Poppy Hill" takes an unfortunate turn when elaborate secrets throw the main characters' family histories into question. (Hint: It's a time-worn dilemma, recently seen in "Incendies" and "People Like Us"). "It's like a cheap melodrama," Shun says, and he's right. Plus, the ultimate resolution ignores the previous awkwardness of the situation and serves as a convenient solution to a major issue regarding how teenagers handle their feelings.
The Miyazakis, at least in Karey Kirkpatrick's ("The Spiderwick Chronicles") adaptation of the script, fail to connect the approaching Tokyo Olympics with the local push to dispose of anything old. It's also the latest film to paraphrase the quote, lodged in my mind tied to "Magnolia," about people unprepared to let go of a past that's not ready to let go of them either.
It doesn't make the statement less true, but when a film's occasional charms eventually slide away, its frustrations tend to linger longer than its highlights.
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5 Common Excuses for Not Budgeting Your Money
Budgeting can seem like math minus the fun – and we all know how fun math is. What's exciting about adding up all your expenses and seeing that you spend way too much each month and need to cut back? Or maybe you put everything on your check card so you won't overspend. Genius, right? Except you're not building credit then, and unless you've also set up an automated transfer into a savings account, you're probably not retaining any money either. But many people don't want to hear that. Let's examine five common myths that keep people from budgeting.


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I have written extensively about Twitter in the past. I still find that many people don't understand the basics. If you consider yourself a newbie, please check out a group of posts that I've done in the past that might make you feel more comfortable with what is unique about Twitter.
In this post I want to talk about a Twitter that I see beyond what is visible to most Twitter users today. Call it "Strategic Twitter."
LA? Seattle? Chicago?
Before elaborating I'd like to make one small side-note to say that if you want to talk in person about "Strategic Twitter" I will helping to host an event on November 10th in Los Angeles called "teatime" what will feature Ryan Sarver (Twitter's head of platform) and Jason Costa (works on developer relations) that was organized by my good friend & colleague Adam Lilling (what? you're not following him? go on, I'll wait …) and sponsored by Nitu Gulati Pauly (who is VP at the best tech-focused recruiting firm in LA).
The sign up page for the event is here & there is limited availability. It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. It's at the Zanuck Theater (Fox Studios) and will be a great event to learn about the direction of the Twitter platform and how people are using it.
I'll be there the whole night hanging out and trying to meet with cool companies planning to do interesting stuff with the Twitter API.
Oh, and if you're in Chicago or Seattle you have your home town events, too. Here's yours: Chicago (Nov 7) Seattle (Nov 9)
Ok, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Here's three important things to know about Twitter's future that are more nuanced than "what am I eating for lunch?"
1. Identity
Who are you on the web? Historically you are your email address. You meet somebody and they want to get in touch with you, you have always given out firstname.lastname@example.com. That's one form of identity. But for many public figures that's not practical. Think about your local news anchor saying, "if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx." Sure.
And yet Facebook also hasn't filled the identity space. The reason it didn't was that the follower model of Facebook started out as symmetrical, which basically means that if somebody friends you, you needed to friend them back. So again your local news anchor doesn't exactly want to follow back all of her viewers. Not practical. Let alone for Oprah Winfrey.
One of the biggest innovations of Twitter was asymmetrical follower model in which many people can follow your updates and you don't have to follow theirs. I wrote about this a couple of years ago here.
So it is now very common for news organizations to announce on the air, "to follow my updates please follow me on Twitter at @myname. Twitter has become one of our major online identities and that is becoming mainstream in ways that people aren't really talking about. Nearly every day now I see public figures telling people their Twitter identity in stead of Facebook, email or other forms of identity.
But this really went mainstream with Apple's iOS5 integration. This is A REALLY BIG DEAL. Why?
Well think of it this way. It's almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. On the web each website wants you to log in to their website using a proprietary user name and password. But most users don't want this.
So Facebook Connect was a great way for publishers to get you to log in using Facebook's system so that they could at least know who you were when you visited and they could try to build features that incorporated your friend graph such as sharing content or knowing the most popular stuff your friends are also reading.
On the iPhone this is Twitter, not Facebook. If you log into Twitter on your iOS device you can suddenly use any app that has integrated with this Apple feature. And any app that doesn't is myopic. Think about it – if you have all of your customers already signed into Twitter then you have a much better chance that they'll use your app to publish into their Twitter stream and drive more traffic back to your app.
And as a result of Twitter being your identity on the iPhone it will drive a lot more people to sign up and use Twitter. If you want to see how this works come check out our Nov 10th event in LA and you can see TextPlus demo their iOS5 integration and how they think about the importance of working hand-in-hand with Twitter for their free text messaging apps.
2. Object Communications
The other major thing that will become the most powerful impact Twitter will have on society is "object communications." 15 years ago when many of us first started discussing the future of the web, the smartest future thinkers about where this would all go would say that people interacting with websites would just scratch the surface of the power of the Internet.
When machines can talk with others machines you will have a truly powerful Internet. Of course we know that this is already happening as web services are now driving significant portions of the Internet and people are driving toward a future Semantic Web.
And while networks of computers now regularly interact with each other, so too is the future of Twitter. Consider some simple examples.
- Today we find out when commuter trains are late or roads are closed because our friends or local news agencies Tweet them to us. In the future trains will auto tweet and potentially update displays in train stations or airplanes can tell us when they will arrive at the gate in stead of us talking with the uninformed gate representative.
- DropBox could send out Tweets to users when new documents have been added to a folder they are following if they have subscribed to updates
- We already know that some bakeries send Tweets when they have fresh cookies.
- New tickets about to go on sale for your favorite band – Tweet. Stock you're tracking goes below your purchase price? Tweet. Major congestion on your normal route to work? Tweet.
Yes, I know that many of these things can be Tweeted today but many are manual or done by friends we follow. The future will see more of this automated. Yes, I know a lot of this could just come from existing IT systems and email. But the real-time nature and public availability of the data tells me that Twitter has a better chance than anybody else of being the source of open object-people and open object-object communications.
If you want to come see how Factual is integrating with Twitter APIs make sure to come to our event in LA.
[Update: Stephen Medawar wrote in the comments:
"I would expand your object communication to "two-way object communication". There could be a causality to content-specific or location-specific tweets (much in the same way some are integrating Twilio).
Example: Maybe I can programmatically change my reservation at a restaurant who's POS is integrated with the Twitter API. I'm late and on the road…I tweet that I'm late and the reservation is changed by the amount of time the computer thinks it will take for me to get from my tweet location to the restaurant (plus parking)."
Done. Thanks for helping me expand!]
3. Predictive Data
The other thing that isn't talked about enough in the mainstream media about Twitter is the predictive nature of open Twitter data in and of itself. It should be no surprise why I invested alongside IA Ventures in the big data company DataSift.
I believe that Twitter is becoming the most interesting and predictive dataset in the world and that every large company (and many small ones) will consume the Twitter stream in order to gain insights, determine actions to take and gain competitive advantage.
I know this sounds like hyperbole, but consider:
- Police forces around the world are now starting to use Twitter to track potential riots and crowd movements
- Major litigators are now tracking Twitter data to determine likely jury sentiment
- Hedge fund traders are now consuming real-time Twitter data to figure out trading strategies or determine major news events micro-seconds before other traders
- Movie studios are evaluating audience reactions to films and adjusting marketing spend based on early customer reactions to films
- Corporations are monitoring service outages based on user Tweets
- Companies are monitoring competitor movements
- VC Delta is scraping websites of VCs and Tweeting when they add new portfolio companies to their websites making it easier to track when other VCs are doing.
- News organizations are monitoring Twitter to make sure they're on top of breaking news before their competitors
Know what I call a company in the future who's not ingesting real-time data feeds to gain competitive advantage? Toast.
Come to our November 10th event and hear awe.sm talk about their Twitter integration and how you can use Twitter analytics to better monitor social media conversion on marketing campaigns.
4. Augmented Data
Finally, while significant value will be delivered to companies who can interpret real-time data, some people are over-looking an important facet of the data that Datasift calls "Augmented Data."
Let me explain it with a current metaphor – the 2012 US presidential campaign.
Let's say you're a political operative who is trying to win a swing state like Florida in the general election. You've been tasked with winning South Florida for President Obama against the Republican nominee.
You obviously have your databases of email addresses, phone numbers and Twitter handles of those that have registered for the cause. But of course not everybody has.
So you start monitoring the Twitter stream for people who have geo-location turned on, are currently in South Florida and who are Tweeting things that are considered by a semantic engine to be positive Tweets about Obama. You would obviously consider them friendly and want to engage with them over Twitter.
But what about those not sending Tweets saying, "Yes We Can?"
Well, for starters you could interpret much about users by whom they follow. If a user is following Sean Hannity, Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh and is not also following Rachel Maddow, Al Gore and Barack Obama then you can probabilistically surmise they are likely a Republican supporter. But there are equal patterns in which you could infer that they are either a Democrat or are likely to be an independent.
There are other factors you could use to figure out whether they are male or female, old or young, passionate about the war in Afghanistan or likely to vote based on Cuban-American issues. You could figure out whether they are Hispanic based on language analysis or whether they follow Spanish-speaking Twitter handles.
The future of data interpretations will be augmented. We will look at both the steam and the "meta stream." We will want to augment with: location, demographics, affiliations, authority by subject area, gender, topical interests and a whole lot more.
The most dynamic businesses will use all of this for positive effect. And you can guess where we'll be talking about this on November 10th with Twitter's platform team and with some great LA companies that are using the Twitter API to power their businesses.
(Cross-posted @ Both Sides of the Table)


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Presidential Candidate James Carney, one of seven students running for the position of YUSU President, has been criticised by current YUSU Part-time Officers following his controversial addition to the University of York Memes Facebook page.
Carney posted an image of a female with the caption: "I'm fighting for women everywhere… by trolling internet memes." Below the image, Carney had added: "Wom.Com. Fighting the good fight."
The caption referred to three different images that had been taken down from the site, upon requests from the Women's Officers and other students. Gillian Love, Women's Committee Press and Publicity Officer, has said the images that had been removed made jokes involving rape. A total of 112 comments were exchanged below the image on Facebook. Many of the contributors criticised Carney for the reference he had made.
Love commented on Facebook: "Trolling equals telling people rape isn't a great basis for a joke? No, mate."
Cat Wayland, YUSU Women's Officer, added: "Don't assume that anything WomCom does is petty or worthless just because it happens to lie outside of what you see as a worthwhile cause."
Carney responded to the criticisms on Facebook, stating: "Feminism equals getting excited over internet memes? No, mate." He added later: "My issue with WomCom, whilst I appreciate its existence and support, is that it claims to be representing women, hence the name, however what it truly represents is the opinions of a small fraction of the female population."
Carney explained he had seen messages exchanged on the Women's Committee Facebook page following the removal of the photos.
"I wanted to raise the point that these individuals were not partaking in any activism with a realistically positive outcome."
He emphasised that: "The meme is not meant to be derogatory, I just used it to highlight the point that I don't believe complaining about certain memes made in order to entertain, could be in any way considered activism on behalf of WomCom."
But Carney did not think this would harm his election bid. "I would like to think the majority of people are mature enough to realise the reasons behind my actions."
However Ophelia Groth, Secretary of the Women's Committee, said: "James Carney is wrong for the fundamental reason that offensive memes and jokes are not harmless: They are a clear manifestation of negative societal attitudes toward certain groups. 'Jokes' about rape are a symptom of a victim-blaming culture that trivialises the experience of rape survivors and play[s] them off as 'jokes'. Further, such 'jokes' are directly hurtful towards survivors of sexual abuse or non-cisgendered people."


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Scott Man Arrested For Admitting To Beating Up Wheelchair Bound Girlfriend
38-year-old Gary R. Squires of Scott has been arrested for allegedly beating up his girlfriend, who's already in a wheelchair.
Scott Police Chief Chad Leger says early Tuesday morning, Gary R. Squires and his girlfriend began arguing at a home on 120 Des Jacques Lot 12, and then it turned violent. After admittedly hitting her numerous times (15-20 strikes), it was discovered that she suffered a broken rib and a fractured eye socket, along with various contusions to her face.
Chief Leger says Squires ran away after the attack and was eventually arrested at his job at Pizza Palace.
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In the southwest of the Tharsis volcanic region on Mars is the large impact crater Magellan, named after the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521). The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), carried by ESA's Mars Express orbiter and operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), acquired images of unusual structures on the southern edge of the crater. The process by which these structures developed is not fully understood.
216 GB of raw image data from HRSC to date
The European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express mission began seven years ago, on 2 June 2003, with the liftoff of a Soyuz launcher from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. Originally, ESA planned its first mission to another planet to last for one martian year, or two Earth years. Because of its enormous scientific yield, ESA has extended the Mars Express mission three times, with the most recent extension lasting until the end of 2012.
Six and a half months after its launch, Mars Express reached its destination and was placed in orbit around the Red Planet, as planned, on 25 December 2003. One of the seven experiments on board is HRSC, which was developed at the DLR facilities in Oberpfaffenhofen and Berlin-Adlershof and built in partnership with German industry. Since its arrival, the orbiter has circled Mars about 8300 times and HRSC has been working flawlessly since the 16 January 2004. It has acquired a total of 216 gigabytes of raw image data, which has been converted by data processing at the DLR Institute of Planetary Research into multiple terabytes of topographic images.
By 2012 – a map of Mars at high resolution, in colour and in 3D
The objective of the HRSC, with Professor Gerhard Neukum of the Free University of Berlin as the Principal Investigator and in which several DLR scientists are involved, is the mapping of Mars. By the end of the mission, the stereo camera will have imaged almost the entire Martian surface – about 150 million square kilometres – allowing the generation of high-resolution topographic maps in colour. At the time of writing, about two-thirds of this has been accomplished.
The scene shown here, from the northern edge of the Magellan Crater, was acquired from an altitude of 500 kilometres on 6 February 2009 during orbit 6547 and has a resolution of about 25 metres per pixel. The images show an area at 34°S and 185°E. Measuring about 190 kilometres by 112 kilometres, the area shown covers about 21,280 square kilometres, which is about the size of Slovenia.
Sign of subrosion and tectonic stresses in the martian crust
In the west of the area (on the upper edge of the topmost image – north is to the right) conspicuous, irregularly shaped light-coloured blocks are visible. These features are up to two kilometres in size and are probably large rock fragments or mounds of rock. However, the mechanism by which they were formed is still being debated. One possibility is that the top layer of rock was shattered by the shockwaves from an impact.
Another possible explanation would be a process known as subrosion, where material is removed from layers beneath the surface. On Mars, subrosion is widely observed when rising magma heats frozen ground water, which melts and removes subsurface material as it flows away. This leads to a honeycomb of cavities that eventually collapse due to the weight of the overlying rock layers, leaving the irregular mounds standing. The bright surface is probably due to the fact that wind has removed the overlying dust and sand and exposed the bare rock surface.
The northern part of the region (to the right) displays linear features with a preferential northwest–southeast orientation. These eventually lead to deep, well-defined valleys and are likely to be faults, formed during either an impact event or the upsurge of the Tharsis region, which created enormous stresses in the planet's crust. Examining the geometry of fault zones offers clues to the level and the direction of the stress exerted on the rock.
A rather smooth, barely fractured plateau is located almost in the centre of the image. It is possible the plateau is made up of the same material as the fractured mounds in the west. Fine trails run from southwest to northeast across here. These could be an indication of erosion by fine dust particles carried on the wind, sandblasting the plateau smooth.
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) experiment on the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission is led by the Principal Investigator (PI) Prof. Dr Gerhard Neukum, who was also responsible for the technical design of the camera. The science team of the experiment consists of 45 Co-Investigators from 32 institutions and 10 nations. The camera was developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) under the leadership of the PI, G. Neukum, and built in cooperation with industrial partners (EADS Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH and Jena-Optronik GmbH). The experiment on Mars Express is operated by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, through ESA/ESOC. The systematic processing of the HRSC image data is carried out at DLR. The scenes shown here were processed by the PI-group at the Institute for Geosciences of the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin.


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- Short name: Build teams to meet set goals and objectives
- Full description: 15237 Build teams to meet set goals and objectives
- Accredited: Yes, Public SETA NQF Accredited
- SETA: Public Education & Training Authority (P Seta) www.pseta.org.za
- Credits: 3
- Duration: 1 Day
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- Recognition: Based on the National Qualifications Framework that is Nationally Accepted in South Africa.
- Success rate of learner: Our success rate for complete assignments and certified learners currently is estimated at 99%.
- Short-cuts: We don't take any short-cuts such as POE building in the class and follow all the guidelines stipulated by SAQA and the SETA.
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BOOKINGS: Book online through our booking site www.coursesdirect.co.za here.
- This course is based on the Unit Standard 15237 – click here to read more
- People credited with this unit standard are able to:
- Demonstrating knowledge of the principles and processes of team building in workplace activities.
- Getting agreement from team members on objectives, timeframes, rules and guidelines for participation.
- Leading team to complete workplace activities.
- Basic communication skills (English = reading and writing skills on a NQF level 4 or equal to Metric Level)
- Able to attend the contact session and any of our workshops offered.
- Access to email and where possible to the internet for research.
Learner preparation for the contact session (Classroom Training)
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- Copy of ID and CV for registration purposes. (Indicating previous workplace experience)
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- The training provider or the institute must be accredited by a SETA. "ETQA" (Their offices, policies and procedures. This can be any SETA = does not matter what type of courses they offer.)
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