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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The consumer bureau said on Thursday it wants information on college and university-affiliated banking products as it seeks to better understand the types of financial services that are marketed to students.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said it is interested in what information schools give financial firms as part of agreements to offer identification cards that double as debit cards. These cards are also used to access loans and scholarship funds, and school-sponsored bank accounts.
The bureau wants to know more about students' experiences with such services, how products are marketed and what fees are associated.
"The bureau wants to find out whether students using college-endorsed banking products are getting a good deal," Director Richard Cordray said in a statement.
Congress created the consumer bureau as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank oversight law to help protect Americans from financial scams. The CFPB enforces a 2009 law that cracked down on the way firms market products on college campuses and made agreements between credit card companies and schools public.
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It released a report earlier this year with the U.S. Department of Education on the safety of the student loan market. After another regulator fined two firms for overcharging students for debit card accounts, the bureau released an advisory for college students on potential pitfalls of financial products.
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My business partners and I have been spending time lately thinking about what works well and what doesn't work well in IT recruiting we have a few ideas on how we might be able to create a better mousetrap. I think the process of how people look for jobs and how companies recruit is more broken than not. Interviews are one area that is mostly broken in my opinion. I think most companies are pretty OK in figuring out of the person they are speaking with has the base level of technical skills they need to get the job done. But it's my experience that most people and companies don't do a great job beyond that. I was reading an old Seth Godin blog recently that resonated with me.
He listed a few questions that he thinks are important to explore in interviews. I've recapped them here.
· How long are you willing to keep pushing on a good project until you give up?
· How hard is it to get you to change your mind when you're wrong?
· How much do you learn from failing?
· How long does it take you to learn something new?
· How hard is it for you to let someone else take the lead?
· How much do you care?
I love those questions especially when thinking about what makes a great IT pro or developer and intend to add them to my tool box. I encourage you to reflect on your personal answers to these questions even if you're not in in the market for a job today. You might learn something about yourself that proves useful.

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Authorities raided the compound of a breakaway Amish group in eastern Ohio on Wednesday morning and arrested seven men on federal hate crime charges in hair-cutting attacks against Amish men and women.
Among those arrested were the group's leader, Sam Mullet, and three of his sons, said Mike Tobin, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Cleveland.
Several members of the group carried out the attacks in September and October by forcefully cutting the beards and hair of Amish men and women, authorities have said. Cutting the hair is a highly offensive act to the Amish, who believe the Bible instructs women to let their hair grow long and men to grow beards and stop shaving once they marry.
The attacks struck at the core of the Amish identity and tested their principles. They strongly believe that they must be forgiving in order for God to forgive them, which often means handing out their own punishment and not reporting crimes to law enforcement.
Mullet told The Associated Press in October that he didn't order the hair-cutting but didn't stop his sons and others from carrying it out. He said the goal of the hair-cutting was to send a message to Amish in Holmes County that they should be ashamed of themselves for the way they were treating Mullet and his community.
"They changed the rulings of our church here, and they're trying to force their way down our throat, make us do like they want us to do, and we're not going to do that," Mullet said.
At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach said religious differences should be a matter of theological debate, not disputes "resolved by late night visits to people's homes with weapons and violent attacks."
He said he does not know how often hate crimes involve intradenominational disputes.
Seven men were in custody and expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown. They include Mullet; his sons Johnny, Lester and Daniel; Levi Miller; Eli Miller; and Emanuel Schrock. The charges carry a penalty of up 10 years in prison.
The men were sleeping when the FBI and local police showed up at their homes before dawn Wednesday, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said. Three men initially refused to come out of their rooms, but all seven were arrested without incident, he said.
The attacks came amid long-simmering tension between Mullet's group, which he established in 1995, and Amish bishops. Arlene Miller, the wife of one victim, said several bishops hadn't condoned Mullet's decision to excommunicate several members who previously left his community, saying there was no spiritual justification for his action.
One of Mullet's daughters-in-law and a former brother-in-law told investigators that Mullet controls everything that happens within the community outside Bergholz and that he allowed others to beat members of the group who disobeyed him, according to an affidavit filed in federal court Wednesday.
Mullet punished some by making them sleep in a chicken coop for days and was sexually intimate with married women in the community so that he could "cleanse them of the devil," the two said in the affidavit.
Both said they left the community because they did not want to live under Mullet's control.
Five men, including Johnny Mullet, Lester Mullet and Levi Miller, were charged in state court last month in Holmes County, the heart of Ohio's Amish country, in an attack on an Amish bishop and his son. They allegedly were held down while men used scissors and a clipper to cut their beards. Similar alleged attacks were under investigation in Amish communities in Carroll, Jefferson and Trumbull counties in eastern and northeastern Ohio.
Authorities have said some Amish refused to press charges, following their practice of avoiding involvement the courts.
One couple refused to press charges even after acknowledging that their two sons and another man came into their house, held them down, and cut the father's beard and the mother's hair. But others have said they decided to press charges to prevent anyone else from getting hurt.
Ohio has an estimated Amish population of just under 61,000 -- second only to Pennsylvania -- with most living in rural counties south and east of Cleveland.
They have a modest lifestyle and are deeply religious. Their traditions of traveling by horse and buggy and forgoing most modern conveniences distance themselves from the outside world and symbolize a yielding to a collective order.


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Wherever Justin Theroux is right now, we bet he's smiling. During Jennifer Aniston's June 27 appearance on ABC's Good Morning America, she was asked point-blank about the state of her personal life — and she gave a great answer. The Horrible Bosses star, 42, said, "I'm extremely lucky and I'm extremely happy."
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Catholic Medical Center IRS filings make no mention of Arsenault contractBy MARK HAYWARD
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May 07. 2013 8:02PM
MANCHESTER - Annual reports that Catholic Medical Center files with the IRS make no mention of a consulting contract between the hospital and the Rev. Msgr. Edward Arsenault, the Catholic priest under investigation for possible financial improprieties and an improper relationship with an adult.
The financial reports appear to contradict a statement released Monday, when the Manchester hospital acknowledged it signed a contract for consulting services with Arsenault in 2009, after he resigned from the hospital board of directors.
A hospital spokesman on Tuesday said he could not comment, citing an investigation by the New Hampshire Attorney General into Arsenault, who sat on the hospital board for 11 years.
"We covered what we needed to in the statement," said Alex Walker, general counsel for CMC. "Because of the pending investigation, we can't discuss it further."
However, two former high-ranking associates of CMC - former outside general counsel Ovide Lamontagne and former executive vice president Raymond Bonito - said they had no knowledge of the Arsenault contract.
"I did not know about the contract when it was entered into," said Lamontagne, who served a general counsel for the hospital before resigning earlier this year to accept a position as General Counsel for Americans United for Life in Washington, D.C. He said no such contract was reviewed by his firm, as was the practice for all but the smallest of hospital contracts.
"It doesn't ring a bell," said Bonito from his Florida home. "If there was a contract, it couldn't have been of any significance."
The IRS requires non-profit organizations to report their finances every year on Form 990 - Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. The disclosure includes salary and other compensation paid to top hospital officials, as well as trustees and members of the board of directors.
The IRS requires non-profits to report "the organization's former directors or trustees that received, in the capacity as a former director or trustee of the organization, more than $10,000 of reportable compensation from the organization and of any related organizations."
The forms are signed under penalty of perjury, and penalties for false reporting include loss of tax-exempt status, said IRS spokesman Peggy Riley.
The IRS 990 forms for Catholic Medical Center, accessed via the website Guidestar.org, cover three fiscal years of reports, from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2011.
In its statement released Monday, CMC said it entered into the contract with Arsenault after he resigned from the board in 2009. The contract ended in 2010, and the statement gives no dollar amount.
Lamontagne said Arsenault was the bishop's delegate to the hospital board.
"To the extent the bishop's office had things that need to be approved or weighed in on, Father Ed conveyed the bishop's decision on that matter," Lamontagne said. Lamontagne praised Arsenault's work in the restoration of CMC as a viable hospital in the early 2000s.
According to previous Diocesan statements, Arsenault was also active in the Diocese's response to the priest-sex crisis later in the decade. He established a review board, developed a sexual misconduct policy and wrote code of priestly conduct.
Arsenault held top administrative positions in the Diocese from 1991 to February 2009, when he resigned to take a sabbatical, according to Diocesan spokesman Kevin Donovan. On October 2009, he took a job as president and chief-executive at St. Luke Institute (see related story, Page A1). In August 2010, the Vatican elevated him to monsignor.


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Orbitz Worldwide (NASDAQ: OWW) is a travel booking service that connects customers to discounted airline tickets, hotels, car rentals, cruises and total vacation packages.
Only Three years after the websites' launch in 2004, Orbitz was acquired by Cendant in their travel division known as Travelport. Travelport is the world's largest travel companies in the industry. In 2006, Cendant agreed to sell Travelport to The Blackstone Group which included Orbitz. Travelport then restructured into three divisions with Orbitz Worldwide being one of them along with Galileo and GTA. Orbitz Worldwide began publicly trading on the NYSE under the ticker OWW in July 2007.[1]
Orbitz Worldwide enhances the ability to ease travel plans all within one website. In order to have the best online functions, Orbitz Worldwide has acquired several online market companies to create an industry leading company portfolio which includes:
All of the companies relate to the online market and are affiliated with Orbitz.
- OrbitzTLC™: OrbitzTLC uses its innovative technology to help travelers stay one "Step Ahead™." OrbitzTLC alerts their customers of flight delays for departures and arrivals, unexpected changes in gates, and flight cancellations. These alerts are sent using OrbitzTLC Mobile Access, Orbitz Insider Podcasts, RSS Feeds and OrbitzTLC Alert system, which alerts you by phone call and text messages.
- Dynamic packaging: Customers are provided with complete customization of their travel plans with packages for air, hotel and other products and are given at one bundled price.
- Flex Search™: Flex Search enables the customer with flexibility in plans to search alternate travel dates, times and airports to be able to find the lowest rate possible.
Insurancebookers™: Orbitz provides affordable travel insurance for all customers.
- Activities Tab: Orbitz and CheapTickets offers travelers the ability to purchase transportation, tickets to concerts, sporting events, theme parks and museums at the same time as their trip.
- Merchant Hotel Program: Orbitz Worldwide negotiates with hotels to make hotel rooms available at the lowest rates possible. Transactions completed using the merchant model result in higher net revenue for Orbitz Worldwide than bookings made via the traditional retail model.
In November 2010 American Airlines (AA) terminated their contract with Orbitz and no longer participates on Orbitz.com and other affiliated websites. In January 2011, American Airlines also ended their contracts with competitors Expedia.com and Hotwire.com and is now pursuing a direct agreement contract with Orbitz biggest competitor, Priceline. American Airlines represented 5% of the total net revenue in 2010, including the revenue generated from associated hotel, travel insurance and car rental purchases along with a base airline ticket purchase. [2] These types of contract terminations for Orbitz and their competitors have significant impacts on the travel industry as a whole. A change in Orbitz business model may be necessary if other airlines are looking to make direct connections to their consumers using competitors booking websites.
The travel industry experiences seasonal fluctuations in the demand for travel bookings. [3] Leisure travel, which is the majority of Orbitz customers preference, is booked the most frequently during the first half of the year when customers are beginning to plan future vacations and trips for the rest of the year. The global economy's prolonged recession has also impacted the travel industry as well and many customers are not spending their disposable income on pricey vacations. The uncertainty in the global economy and no visible proof that it is on track to recovery leaves Orbitz Worldwide in a weak financial position with an unpredictable future.
Orbitz Worldwide has markets in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific and is looking specifically to further its growth in the Asia Pacific market. Both Europe and Asia have increased their internet usage in the recent years and are becoming more involved in online website activity including vacation planning and using booking services to do so. Orbitz Worldwide has an incredibly diverse portfolio that was recently expanded to include two websites marketed for international bookings: [3]
- ebookers®: European version of Orbitz Worldwide. The website provides cheap flights, hotels and cars for travel within Europe.
- HotelClub™: The main focus of this website is on international hotel reservations and even provides customers with language preferences and the ability to select currency denominations relative to their country of presence.
The hotel industry's loss is Orbitz Worldwide's gain. A hotel's inventory is the number of rooms available for that day and night and is considered perishable inventory. The relationships Orbitz has with suppliers are based on offering customers, which become their own customers, the lowest rates possible. Orbitz aims to provide the most reliable service that leads to loyal customers. Orbitzs' loyal customer base is expanding to include older generation shoppers that are becoming more trusting of the internet technology and on-line shopping. The "Baby Boomer" generation bookings have a strong importance on being cheap and convenient. Three of Orbitz Worldwide websites are opportunities for increased revenues from this specific generation:
- CheapTickets®: This website emphasizes "cheap" not only for flights, hotels, cars and cruises but also for vacation activities once you have arrived to your destination. CheapTickets provides access to concert, theatre, sports, and other tickets once your vacation has been booked.
- RatesToGo™: A website catered to the last minute planner looking to travel and book a hotel within 28 days or less.
- the Away Network™: Whereas other partnered websites help to book the flights, hotels and cars, this website allows users to explore and plan using travel guides.
Company Risks[4]
Travelport and the investment funds that control Cendant own 56% of the outstanding common stock and indirectly have control of Orbitz Worlwide. This leaves Orbitz at incredible risks as they are limited in the ability to have complete control of the company. Orbitz relies on Travelport to issue letters of credit on behalf of their own credit facility and as of December 31, 2010 Orbitz had $492 million of outstanding borrowings. This greatly limits business operations because such a large amount of debt owed restricts the amount of liquidity and leverage the company has. Orbitz has also granted Travelport a perpetual license which legally allows them to use the innovative intellectual property used by each Orbitz Worldwide website, which poses an enormous threat as they can quickly become a competitor.
Orbitz revenue is entirely dependable on the travel industry as a whole, which is incredibly volatile due to the many risks within it. A decrease in travel bookings can result from factors including:
Hotel Booking
Orbitz uses its hotel booking service to provide customers thousands of hotel choices at competitive prices. Recently Orbitz has introduced Price Assurance to their hotel booking process. This initiative is looking to make the consumer more comfortable with booking online by offering a guarantee that if the price of the hotel goes down from the time you book they will refund your money.
A major focus for Orbitz has been to market and invest in their Hotel Club Company which offers the ease of booking hotels in over 140 different countries. This proxy company along with Asia Hotels is helping Orbitz broaden their market reach to these emerging markets of Asia and Europe.
Flight Booking
Orbitz offers a comprehensive flight planning service with a vast array of different airline companies to choose from. Orbitz TLC is a new process in which Orbitz shows the customer the price of a flight after their first search. This new booking technology makes Orbitz the only online travel company to achieve this transparency. Orbitz has also eliminated many of the fees associated with online flight booking.
A couple of proxy companies that also participate in airline booking are Cheaptickets and Orbitz for Business. Cheaptickets offers airline and hotel booking for the price conscious consumer. Orbitz for Business focuses on the business travelers and their needs for airline booking and hotel booking.
Vacation Packages
With Orbitz vacation packages you get the best of both Orbitz Hotel Booking and Orbitz Flight Booking with added savings. By booking the flight and hotel together Orbitz offers great discounts only available with the package. Orbitz offers these vacations packages in many places worldwide that include the U.S., South America, Asia, and Europe.
Car Rental
Orbitz offers car rental services in which you pick the date and return of the car and they supply the company. Orbitz offers rental cars from top companies such as Alamo, Avis, Budget, Hertz, and National. You can also package in car rental in your vacation package for additional savings on your trip.
Cruise Booking
Orbitz offers a cruise booking service in which you choose destination and date and Orbitz finds cruises that match your search. Orbitz offers cruises on over 20 different cruise lines and to over eight different parts of the world including Europe, Caribbean, and Alaska.
Orbitz track record of net income is surprisingly poor, considering they have not had a positive net income in any year listed in their recent 10-K filing, which includes as far back as 2006. The years 2008 and 2009 are the worst, posting $299 million and $337 million losses respectively. In 2010 things have turned in the right direction as Orbitz had a net loss of $58 million, an 83% change in one year. For the year 2010, the net loss per share is $0.58. Revenues have also increased in 2010 to $757 million from $738 million in 2009, an increase of 3%. Another measure to look at is gross bookings, to evaluate the amount of business is being done and to measure the amount of additional business. In this area Orbitz has shown an increase of 14% from 2009 to 2010. Total gross bookings for 2010 were approximately $11.37 billion.
As we can see Orbitz is far behind competitors in operating metrics. Orbitz has been working towards a higher working capital and also decreasing their long term debt over the past year.
Orbitz, Inc. competes with a variety of firms that can be classified into various groups. A large amount of their competitors fall into the online and offline travel company category. In addition to travel companies, Orbitz competes with individual airline, hotel, and other travel service companies that consumers can book through directly.[3] Orbitz also competes with companies such as TripAdvisor LLC and other similar travel research companies, as well as search engines and meta-search companies such as Google.[3] A more extensive listing of some of Orbitz top competitors in the online and offline travel company segments are listed below.
Online Travel Companies: expedia.com, hotels.com, hotwire.com, venere.com, Travelocity.com, lastminute.com, bookings.com, agoda.com, priceline.com, opodo.com, rakuten.com, wotif.com, asiawebdirect.com.[3]
Offline Travel Companies: Liberty Travel, American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., Thomas Cook Group PLC, TUI Travel PLC.[3]
Threat of New Entrants: High – In this online travel industry there are virtually no barriers to entry as it is relatively inexpensive to create a website.
Bargaining Power of Suppliers: Medium - Orbitz Worldwide's suppliers are using the websites' services to reduce their inventory but have many outlets to do so considering the level of competition within this industry. Suppliers can bargain payment terms and access to inventory with each online travel outlet and has to ability to withdraw from contacts if they do not see a positive result on their end.
Threat of Substitutes: Low – Orbitz Worldwide is the substitute for a direct connection to airline and hotels for travel bookings.
Competitive Rivalry within the Industry: High – Orbitz Worldwide competes with online and offline travel companies and agencies, suppliers and their own direct connections to customers, search engines and meta-search companies.
Bargaining Power of Buyers: High – Customers using Orbitz Worldwide are using the service for bargaining purposes only. Orbitz customers are trying to put a travel package together for the least expensive price possible. Orbitz has a policy that if the price drops for an airline ticket or hotel that a customer booked on Orbitz, and another customer purchases the same ticket or hotel for a lower price a refund is sent for the difference. Customers can receive up to $250 for airline tickets and $500 for hotel bookings. [6] This policy attracts more customers who are bargain shoppers to the website services because even though they might have ended their bargaining with a purchase through Orbitz, another customer may even help further the bargaining process.


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http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/3137-college-algebra-factor-a-polynomials-given-a-zero Taught by Professor Edward Burger, this lesson was selected from a broader, comprehensive course, College Algebra. This course and others are available from Thinkwell, Inc. The full course can be found athttp://www.thinkwell.com/student/product/collegealgebra. The full course covers equations and inequalities, relations and functions, polynomial and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, systems of equations, conic sections and a variety of other AP algebra, advanced algebra and Algebra II topics. Edward Burger, Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, having graduated summa cum laude with distinction in mathematics from Connecticut College. He has also taught at UT-Austin and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and he served as a fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada and at Macquarie University in Australia. Prof. Burger has won many awards, including the 2001 Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics, the 2004 Chauvenet Prize, and the 2006 Lester R. Ford Award, all from the Mathematical Association of America. In 2006, Reader's Digest named him in the "100 Best of America". Prof. Burger is the author of over 50 articles, videos, and books, including the trade book, Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas and of the textbook The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking. He also speaks frequently to professional and public audiences, referees professional journals, and publishes articles in leading math journals, including The Journal of Number Theory and American Mathematical Monthly. His areas of specialty include number theory, Diophantine approximation, p-adic analysis, the geometry of numbers, and the theory of continued fractions. Prof. Burger's unique sense of humor and his teaching expertise combine to make him the ideal presenter of Thinkwell's entertaining and informative video lectures.
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Being a police officer with the Decatur Police Department is challenging and rewarding. Working in a town of approximately 60,000, our officers have two distinct advantages. Officers are able to get to know the people in the communities they serve; the ratio of officers to civilians is about 1 to 454. With approximately 130 officers and more than 10 specialty areas, the Decatur Police Department is a great size to provide officers with excellent opportunities for growth and career advancement.
Our philosophy is to make Decatur a safe place to live and as a result, Decatur's crime rate is remarkably low. Our officers work hard to develop relationships in the neighborhoods and schools so that we can prevent crimes before they happen. Our officers individually are involved in many ways throughout the community. In addition, the department participates in statewide sponsorship programs for the Special Olympics, including the COPS on Top fund-raising event and Torch Run.
The Decatur PD believes strongly in using technological advancements for better and safer policing. The Chief and his team continually evaluate and implement programs, tools, and training that make our officers more efficient and keep both citizens and officers safer.
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Rather than build a 700-mile long fence along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep illegal immigrants out, a Texas ranch owner may have come up with another idea; breed herds of emus to protect the border.
In the latest issue of Texas Monthly, South Texas rancher Tonnyre Thomas Joe talks about the impact of heightened border security on her family's ranch 65 miles north of the Mexican border. Recently a frightened and injured illegal immigrant told Border Patrol of being attached by a "un pollo gigante." The rancher is not sure, but suspects the illegal was attacked by one of the emus they keep on the ranch to protect calves from coyotes.
No, I am not serious about breeding emus to keep illegal immigrants out. This was only an admittedly humorous part of the article Tonnyre wrote about the impact heightened border security has had on her family's ranch.
Being so close to the border and major highways leading north from the border, illegal immigrants crossing her family ranch have been part of their lives for decades. Until recently, it has been little more than nuisance problems with trash and an occasional water hydrant left on.
With heightened border security, however, has come a dangerous criminal element, specifically coyotes who charge illegal immigrants $1,500 to cross into the U.S.
An Associated Press article about recent surveys of illegals caught and deported said about half those caught had hired a smuggler to get them into the U.S. The percentage may be even higher because people may hesitate to admit they hired someone to commit a crime. In 2004, one in three hired a smuggler and just one in six in 2000.
The reason is most illegal immigrants believe using a smuggler lessens their chance of getting caught.
Trafficking in illegal immigrants has become big business. Typically at least single workers cross the border several times a year to visit their families in Mexico.
The South Texas rancher is more introspective than most of those who e-mail me about my comments on immigration reform:
"I'm not qualified to post a solution, nor am I so ignorant as to think there's a simple one," she writes. She continues with the thoughts of many who live with the immigration dilemma on a daily basis; "we need new legal channels for those who want to work and positively contribute to our society."
She points out that illegal immigrants are now willing to pay $1,500 to be smuggled into the U.S. Why not ask them to pay the money to get documented as guest workers?
Makes sense.
She adds that opening a legal pathway for workers to work where they are needed in the U.S. would allow the Border Patrol to focus on the drug traffickers, people smugglers and other negative elements that cross daily.
You can breed emus, build a 700-mile fence or hire and equip thousands of new Border Patrolmen, and still illegal immigrants will find ways to cross the U.S/Mexico border to take the jobs Americans do not want.
It should not be made necessarily easier, but at least a guest worker program take the criminal element out of it. At the same time, the U.S. would be documenting most who are crossing the border.
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The team at Liberty HealthCare Systems Adolescent Behavioral Hospital is working to improve and grow the therapeutic environment for both patients and their families.
The team at Liberty HealthCare Systems Adolescent Behavioral Hospital is working to improve and grow the therapeutic environment for both patients and their families.
"We're very excited about the changes we've made so far," said Dawne Walsworth, one of four partners with West Monroe-based TDPK LLC, which took over operations of the hospital in March.
The Liberty campus, on Eugene Ware Boulevard in Bastrop, is a 60-bed facility that provides in-patient psychiatric care, counseling and other services for children and teenagers who suffer from mental illnesses or addictive disorders. The hospital currently has 20-25 admissions per week, with patients coming from throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
The changing of hands represents an approximately $7.5 million investment in Morehouse Parish. The partnership has changed the hospital's staffing matrix, hiring 15 new employees, and opened the facility's second dorm so that all 60 licensed beds can be used, reducing the number of young people on the waiting list.
"We've also done some extensive landscaping outside," said Walsworth. "We'd love to put a soccer field or something [on the grounds]."
Walsworth said the hospital is partnering with Grambling State University and the University of Louisiana at Monroe counseling and nursing departments, to enable students to work as paid interns at Liberty. They're also working with the First Baptist Church of West Monroe Counseling Center toward providing aftercare services in the future.
The hospital campus includes outpatient services for senior citizens and adults who need assistance with life issues, behavioral or mental health concerns. The outpatient program includes counseling, group therapy, and other services for adults who may be referred by their doctors or families.
"This is a wonderful program for senior citizens, and for people who just need to get out and be with other people," said Nurse Director Becky Parks.
Walsworth said the hospital's new medical director and psychiatrist, Dr. Horatio Millin MD, is "probably our biggest change. [The hospital] didn't have a full-time psychiatrist on staff, and that's something we really wanted."
Walsworth said they would like to add a substance abuse clinic or program to the facility in the future to treat adolescent patients whose behavioral problems stem from, or have been exacerbated by, substance abuse.
"We are looking at growing," she said. "Dr. Millin will help us to assess the needs in the area."
Millin said his role as the new medical director includes working to improving the hospital's efficiency and consistency.
"There is some patient care involved, to be sure," he said. "Overall, [the medical director] oversees the efficient operation of the facility. We're looking at how we can change the infrastructure, to provide a more wholesome environment not only for adolescents, but for their families – by default, we are also treating families."
Millin said the recruitment of young staff is important, as is looking for ways to streamline services and interfacing with other mental health agencies. The mental health care of young people is vital, he said, because problems in adolescence can become larger in adulthood.
"We're looking to improve the quality of the services we provide, to improve the therapeutic environment, and to recruit young talent to provide clinical services to this age group," he said.
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Ortiz remains hot as Red Sox win againBy The Sports Xchange
April 27. 2013 11:21PM
BOSTON - David Ortiz continued his torrid return to Boston's lineup with two hits and three RBIs and Felix Dubront rallied after a shaky start to pick up his third win of the season as the Red Sox beat the Houston Astros 8-4 on Saturday.
Ortiz singled in the first, doubled with the bases loaded in the second and added a sacrifice fly for another RBI in the fourth. He has a 19-game hitting streak dating back to last season, tying his career best, and is hitting .519 with nine RBI in seven games since he was activated last weekend.
All but one Boston starter finished with at least one hit as the Red Sox knocked around Houston's pitching for the third straight game, finishing with 12 hits. Boston has 40 hits through the first three games of the series, which concludes Sunday with the Red Sox trying to complete their second sweep in the opening month.
The Red Sox (17-7) can also tie the club record for wins in April with one more victory.
Jacoby Ellsbury drove in a pair of runs with a bases-loaded double off Brad Peacock (1-3) as Boston scored four in the second, quickly reversing a 2-0 deficit. Ortiz also doubled with the bases loaded later in the inning for Boston, which padded its lead with a three-run seventh.
One night after going 0-for-12 with runners in scoring position, the Astros were 1-for-12 in the same category.
Marwin Gonzalez was the only Houston player with more than one hit, finishing 2-for-4.
Dubront (3-0) pitched 6 2/3 innings, allowing three runs on four hits while striking out eight. He also walked four, hit a batter and threw a wild pitch, but most of his struggles came in the first when the Astros capitalized on his erratic start and took a 2-0 lead.
Mike Carp was the only Boston starter who failed to get a hit. He was 0-for-3 before Jonny Gomes pinch-hit for him.
Dubront was pulled with two outs in the seventh after allowing Brandon Barnes' infield single. It was just the fourth hit allowed by Dubront in the game but the second of the inning as the Astros cut Boston's lead to 5-3. Gonzalez led off the seventh with a single, went to second on a wild pitch and stole third. He scored when Jose Altuve grounded out to short.
Peacock pitched a scoreless first in his first start at Fenway Park, then was tagged in the second. He walked four and allowed three doubles in the inning, two of which came with the bases loaded.
Ellsbury's double to center drove in a pair of runs and tied it at 2-all, then with the bases loaded once again, after a walk to Dustin Pedroia, Ortiz hit a line drive down the left-field line to drive in two more.
Dubront's control was off in the first as the Astros took a 2-0 lead. The only hit he allowed was Altuve's leadoff single, but he hit the next batter and walked two straight to send in the first run. Houston added a sacrifice fly and led 2-0. Dubront also had a wild pitch in addition to the three walks.


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Boris the First
The Struggle for Russia
"When I was chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet I got into a very stupid accident in the center of town….That particular morning traffic was very heavy—eight lanes—so there wasn't even a lane or a slot for us. A GAI [state traffic police] officer halted traffic but since we were without our escort car, not all the drivers ahead of us noted immediately that the officer had raised his stick, a sign for them to stop. We should have braked and waited for everyone else to stop. But the driver looked at me, and I automatically gave him a hand signal to go forward. He stepped on the gas and we passed a large van heading toward where there seemed to be a clearing ahead. Suddenly there was a terrible crash! And then a ferocious pain in my head."
This episode from Boris Yeltsin's new memoirs is a good illustration of what power means in Russia. The chauffeur, instead of doing his job, turns to his boss for instructions, and the boss automatically waves his hand—onward!—never doubting his supreme rightness.
It was thus—with a wave of the hand—that Yeltsin demolished a huge country in December 1991, for, as he himself now informs us, "I felt in my heart that such major decisions had to be taken easily." Two years later, the frightful consequences of this demolition led him, the legally elected president, to order tanks to fire on the legally elected Parliament in the center of Moscow. Why did this happen? According to Yeltsin, it's quite simple: because "I was undergoing an agonizing process of decision making, and that is why our vehicle of state did not roll along the highway in a straight line, but knocked down telephone poles and ran into a ditch."
Somehow, there are far too many automotive metaphors in this hastily written autobiography. An automobile often equals power in Russia and often power actually depends on cars. On the eve of one November 7 in the 1970s, when Yeltsin was still Party boss in Sverdlovsk, his chauffeur drove off a country road and got stuck in a ditch. But Yeltsin was scheduled to appear on the platform at ten o'clock the next morning to wave to the masses who would be demonstrating their joy at the anniversary of the October Revolution. And "if I, the chief city official, did not appear at the November 7 celebration, the main national holiday, if I was not seen on the dais viewing the parade, it would be a catastrophe. This simply couldn't happen. People would think that either I had died or had been removed from office."
In order to remain in power, Yeltsin walked all night, crossing plowed fields and stumbling in the snow in 15-degree weather, repeating to himself: "The main thing [is] never to sit down, then you don't get tired…just never sit down." By…
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In the early 1990s the trustees of the Boston Aquarium belatedly awoke to the realization that almost everyone at the museum–staff, volunteers and visitors alike–was white. The museum needed to reflect the diversity of the city, the trustees decided, and it was especially important to attract the black community.
But those good intentions didn't readily translate into practice. While free "Terrific Thursdays" were supposed to boost the aquarium's appeal, the message never got out, and the only people to benefit from the deal were the regulars. Most of the museum's energy went into recruiting black teenagers as paid interns, but for a host of reasons that scheme failed. The museum had no training program for its new recruits. The staff wasn't prepared to mentor them; staff members mostly bit their tongues when the new recruits messed up. For their part, the interns had no special passion for aquatic life. They had been recruited at the last minute by a government summer job program and assigned, willy-nilly, to the aquarium. They weren't prepared to fold T-shirts or answer over and over, with infinite patience and plastered smiles, the same questions about the shark tank. These adolescents might have been pulled in by real work, but in the name of diversity the museum put a black face on a social problem.
These days, diversity belongs on the motherhood-and-apple-pie list of things everyone favors–or at least pays lip service to. Beyond the precincts of the kooky right, there is none of the ethnocentric rhetoric so common during the debate over the 1965 Immigration Act, which changed the demographics of America, and no interest in returning to a "Europeans first" immigration regime. From the rhetoric of the party platforms, it would be hard to tell the Democrats from the GOP in the 2000 election. Only Pat Buchanan's wing of the Reform Party made a direct appeal to xenophobia, and he received just 0.5 percent of the vote. When President Bush announced that his Administration would file a brief opposing the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policy in the lawsuit now before the Supreme Court, the President insisted that while he opposed racial "quotas," he embraced diversity. For its part, the university could claim the support of a veritable Who's Who of the American Establishment, with sixty-four briefs in support of affirmative action signed by more than 300 parties, including many Fortune 500 companies as well as twenty-one retired generals and admirals.
Rhetoric is one thing, though, and reality something quite different. Even as the idea of diversity is publicly celebrated, affirmative action is in trouble with the voters as well as the judges, as a number of states (led by California, the most Democratic state in the Union) have adopted anti-affirmative action ballot measures. The right-wing research centers and law firms whose well-coordinated efforts are meticulously documented in Lee Cokorinos's The Assault on Diversity are part of the explanation. These outfits know their market. Instead of attacking affirmative action directly, they spin the issue, coming out against "reverse discrimination" or "liberal bias." And rather than putting a white face up front, they turn to minority spokespersons like Ward Connerly and Linda Chavez, who present themselves as the true champions of civil rights–advocates for what Chavez, cynically borrowing a famous Supreme Court dictum that helped keep segregation alive for a generation, calls the "Project for All Deliberate Speed."


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A reference for practitioners dealing with athletes and anger; sport
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and administrators working to decrease violence among athletes in their
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study of the subject.
Mitch Abrams, PsyD, is a clinician administrator for University
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of mental health services for 6 of the state's 13 state prisons. Dr.
Abrams co-coordinates the forensic track of UMDNJ's predoctoral
psychology internship and has been involved with several aspects of
advancing the quality of mental health services in prison systems. He is
a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at
UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and has held adjunct faculty
positions at Brooklyn College, C.W. Post, and Fairleigh Dickinson
University. Since 2000, he has been in private practice providing sport,
clinical, and forensic psychology services.
Dr. Abrams began consulting with athletes in 1997 while developing the
only comprehensive anger management program for athletes. He has created
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Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Abrams received a bachelor of science
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psychology from C.W. Post/Long Island University. He also received
specialized training in family violence and anger management. He is a
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In life, timing is everything. This is certainly true for the Critically Endangered pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) of north eastern India. Each December for the past 6 years, project director Goutam Narayan and project manager Parag Deka make the 200 kilometre journey from breeding facilities in Basistha to the pre-release facility in Potasali in Nameri Tiger Reserve in Assam to make a special delivery.
In convoy is a batch of captive bred young pygmy hogs en route to large pre-release enclosures with simulated grassland habitat where they will learn the necessary skills for life in the wild at the beginning of the rainy season in May. He explains, "We have to release them at the beginning of the rainy season to give them opportunities to establish themselves with soft soil underfoot".
According to Narayan, pre-release habituation to their wild surroundings through life in holding pens that mimic the wild is crucial to their survival. Each pen, measuring about 3200 square metres is home to a group of 4-5 animals for five months. Pygmy hog natural habitat consists of relatively flat terrain covered in densely packed 2 metre high 'elephant grass' and the hogs need to learn to become independent in as natural a setting as possible before being released. The process takes place in a gradual, phased approach allowing the hogs opportunities to learn to feed and forage, to defend themselves from predators and acquire general survival skills while socialising with other members of the group.
Over the course of the months, for example, the pygmy hogs' nutrition ration is reduced step by step from 90% to 30% or 20% while they also practice techniques such as hiding to avoid predators and become accustomed to less and less human interaction.
Even though the thick grass cover makes it virtually impossible for conservationists to visually track released animals, predators such as hawks and snakes are specially adapted for a hunting life in such landscape. Consequently, novel techniques - such as offering some delicacies in a small corralled area visible from a hide - allow Deka and his team to discreetly inspect the animals and monitor their development toward self-sufficiency over the learning period.
Found only in tall dense grasses among the of the foothill plains in the Brahmaputra valley, pygmy hogs are incredibly shy and are almost never seen. Indeed, this monitoring period is one of the rare opportunities to watch the animals' behaviours. When the animals are released in the wild, scientists track individuals normally by monitoring their nests, droppings, footprints and foraging marks. At times camera traps are deployed carefully to capture their images and identify marked individuals and Narayan's team has implemented radio telemetry tracking on a number of individuals released in 2011 and 2012, albeit with limited success.
Apart from being an amazing species in its own right the pygmy hog is also a very important species for the rich grasslands of this region acting as an indicator for the health of the ecosystem. The tall alluvial wet grassland belt just south of the Himalayan foothills also happens to be home to a number of other highly threatened species, such as the Bengal florican, hispid hare, barasingha, and wild buffalo. The grassland is also used extensively by rhino, elephant, tiger, hog deer and a number of small animals such as endangered turtles.
The project to save the pygmy hog also gives conservationists an opportunity to address the larger question about conservation and management of one of India's most biodiversity rich habitat. Furthermore, these wet grasslands also help in maintaining long term ecological and economic well being of the region because they serve as a buffer against floods in the rainy season while maintaining high groundwater levels during the dry season, indirectly benefiting farming communities living in the fringe areas as well.
With the wet season approaching, the project is also preparing for the media coverage surrounding the planned releases. The event draws attention from local press and television channels, representing an ideal opportunity to promote the diminutive pygmy hog as a small but crucial cog in the intricate grasslands of Assam.
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Although scant progress has been made toward averting deep automatic budget cuts that begin Friday, President Barack Obama can welcome some forward motion elsewhere — on Cabinet nominations and on the economy.
After contentious confirmation hearings, the nominations of former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska to be defense secretary and former White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew as Treasury secretary both advanced Tuesday.
The Senate overcame Republican delaying tactics, voting 71 to 27 to move ahead on Hagel. Sixty votes had been required. The Senate was expected to confirm Hagel as early as later Tuesday.
And the Senate Finance Committee approved Lew's nomination, 19-5, to succeed Timothy Geithner, sending it to the full Senate for a confirmation vote in the days ahead.
Also, new private economic forecasts suggest the U.S. economy was stronger at the close 2012 than first reported.
The Commerce Department had said the economy shrank at a 0.1 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter, but it is expected to revise that upward on Thursday to show a slight gain. That would follow upgrades by private forecasters.
That suggests the economy, while sluggish, isn't in recession territory.
Also, home prices rose at a healthy pace in December compared with a year ago, and strong earnings reports came from Home Depot and Macy's.
Obama continued attempting end runs around Congress to rally public support in locales and before audiences that would be hardest hit by the looming "sequester" spending cuts. He spoke Tuesday at Newport News Shipbuilding on the impact of the cuts on defense industries and the Virginia economy.
Republicans accuse him of failing to help negotiate ways to soften the blows while insisting on new tax increases. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., calls him a "road show president."
Democrats counter that Republicans are foot dragging. "It is critical that Republicans and Democrats come together to find a balanced way to avert these drastic cuts," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
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The first year head coach of the Auburn Tigers, Gus Malzahn, is one of the eight finalists for the 2013 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award.
The Football Writers Association of America, in conjunction with the Fiesta Bowl, released its list of finalists Monday. It will announce a winner on Dec. 16.
The finalists are (in alphabetical order):
None of the finalists has captured the FWAA coaching award previously. And, of the schools represented, only Auburn (Terry Bowden), Baylor (Grant Teaff) and Michigan State (Duffy Daugherty) have had a previous FWAA head-coaching award winner.
The FWAA has honored a major college coach with its coach of the Year award since the 1957 season when Ohio State's Woody Hayes claimed the honor. Robinson, a coaching legend at Grambling State University, has been the FWAA's coaching namesake since the 1997 season. The Fiesta Bowl joined with the FWAA a year later as the sponsor of the award.
Robinson, who passed away on April 3, 2007, won 70.7 percent of his games during his illustrious career. Robinson's teams won or tied for 17 Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) championships after joining the league in 1959. His Tigers claimed nine Black College Football Championships during his career spent all at the same school.
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Community Blood Drive Set For August 31 At GES
In conjunction with the Indiana Blood Center and the Indianapolis Colts, Gosport Elementary School will host a blood drive on Tuesday, August 31 from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the elementary school gym.
Giving blood is one of the most important, rewarding and compassionate things a person can do. You never know when you or a family member might need blood and by donating blood you might be saving someone's life.
Individuals who want to make a whole blood donation must be at least 16 years of age, weigh at least 110 pounds, pass a brief miniphysical and medical history review, follow normal eating patterns before donating, and bring a picture ID.
GES is currently in competition with five other schools in the state to win a visit from the Colts' mascot, "Blue." The school registering the most blood donors based on the student enrollment at the school wins. All blood donors will receive a free Colts' t-shirt.
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TAOS, N.M. (AP) — Skiers and snowboarders looking to the hit the slopes during the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend now have some options in northern New Mexico.
Ski New Mexico says Taos Ski Valley and Red River opened Thursday. They join Sipapu, which was the first New Mexico resort to open last weekend.
Angel Fire Resort, Sandia Peak, Ski Apache and Pajarito are among those planning December opening dates.
With the exception of one storm that brought rain and some snow to western New Mexico earlier this month, the beginning of the snow season hasn't been promising.
Hydrologists say New Mexico is already starting off with half of the average snowpack for this time of year.


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Don't Place Limits on Your Optical
Take advantage of all the opportunities to make an impression on patients.
Jim Thomas
Whether you plan to redesign your optical dispensary, restructure your frame inventories or simply introduce a few cosmetic changes to optical displays, don't limit yourself. That's a theme running through much of the content in this month's issue of OM, which is dedicated to excellence in your optical dispensary.
Pushing the limits
How can your optical push beyond the limits? In "No Passion for Fashion" (page 22), Milena Cavicchioli, of Luxottica, makes several recommendations, including becoming brand conscious and presenting eyewear as both vision correction and a fashion accessory. Fashion then, becomes part of your business.
If you are looking for advice on the right design elements for your optical, take the advice of Jay Binkowitz, president of business management company GPN, and visit the top retailers, hotels and restaurants in your area to see how they have recreated the customer experience (see "What Image Are You Presenting in Your Optical?" beginning on page 18).
With this exercise, be certain to cater to your specific patients. For example, if you plan to emphasize sunwear to target those patients who enjoy fishing and outdoor activities, your first step might be to visit a successful outdoor retailer. Once there, ask yourself: What color schemes are popular? How does the retailer present premium products? What design elements did I like? Granted, a room-sized aquarium would monopolize floor space, but one visit should yield dozens of ideas that inspire you.
After the visit, if you're not sure exactly what the outdoor customer likes, look up the retailer on a review website, such as Yelp, to see what customers have to say.
Join the conversation
To promote your optical, participate in conversations on social media websites. Here, resist the urge to sell. Instead, experts recommend you offer information to your target audience. Using the outdoor example, post information, such as: the largest trout caught in a nearby lake, recipes for local fish, facts about sun protection and vision on the water. After several posts that inform, consider an offer ("stop by this weekend for a 25% discount on all sunwear").
Like most creative business endeavors, there is no one correct way to recreate your optical. Leave it to your imagination, and the possibilities are indeed limitless. OM


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Many of us have made an effort to be greener at home but what about the office where we spend as much, if not more, time? TribU chatted with Laura Meyer, the founder of The Ultimate Green Store (www.theultimategreenstore.com), and she shared the latest green office must-haves.
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Weigel: We talked a lot about eating at the office in our column recently -- is there a product out there to help those who never leave their cubicle for lunch?
Meyer: "Yes! The Power Lunch System is perfect for this. It's a roomier adult size of the popular kids' version and features a Japanese bento-style box with compartments for different foods, a reusable fork and spoon, and a reusable water bottle. The roomy outer carrying case is made from 100 percent recycled content and the kit is free of the chemicals which should never be near the food we eat. The product is lead-free, BPA-free and phthalate-free. It even comes with a recipe book for healthy lunch ideas!"
Weigel: There are still some people that need to print on paper, yet many people are trying to "save a tree" here and there. Any suggestions?
Meyer: "You can save many trees and help to protect our ecosystems by stocking up on recycled paper. Keep in mind that not all recycled paper is created equal. Recycled content on the package can range from 30 to 100 percent. The higher the percentage, the more eco-friendly the paper. You can find 100 percent recycled paper made by Neenah Paper, Boise and Wausau on our site.
"In addition to your typical recycled office paper, there's now tree-free Coffee Paper and Banana Paper with matching envelopes (made out of agricultural waste from coffee beans and bananas). Sales also go towards supporting an orphanage in Costa Rica."
Weigel: What about writing utensils?
Meyer: "I really like Green Apple pens made out of recycled currency or tree-free pencils and Treesmart tree-free recycled newspaper pencils."
Weigel: My briefcase is kind of awkward and I'm sure it's not eco-friendly. What green items are people using to lug things around these days?
Meyer: "The Voltaic Converter Solar Backpack is my favorite. I use it as my everyday bag. Not only does it charge my camera and Blackberry, but I also meet tons of people who stop to talk to me about the bag. Not only does it have integrated solar panels, but the bag material itself (which is highly durable) is made from recycled plastic water bottles. If you don't want a full-size backpack, the daypack makes a great everyday bag.
"Another great bag [called English Retreads] that's made from recycled tires for the hip vegan can be found on the site.And not many people know that conventional laptop sleeves are made using a highly toxic process. Check out [the Greensmart] Neogreene cases in cool colors," also on theultimategreenstore.com.
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Many people don't realize that American Indians are, in general, a highly patriotic group. A higher percentage of Indians serve in the military than any other ethnic group, and Indian pow-wows are patriotic affairs featuring presentation of the American flag and tributes to veterans.
In today's Minneapolis Star Tribune, columnist Nick Coleman reports on the funeral of Sheldon Hawk Eagle, a Lakota soldier in the 101st Airborne who was killed in Iraq. The funeral took place in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Coleman is a liberal Democrat, and his account is filtered through that sensibility, but the patriotism of the Indians attending the funeral comes through nevertheless.
Brig. Gen. David Ralston traveled to Eagle Butte to posthumously award a Bronze Star and Purple Heart to Hawk Eagle. Speaking of Indian soldiers, Gen. Ralston said: "Their dedication and commitment is absolutely overwhelming."
Out of 14,000 enrolled members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, there are more than 500 Vietnam veterans. Ninety members of the tribe are currently under arms, with 30 deployed in Iraq. Coleman quotes the tribal chairman: "We love our country more than any other race, because we were here first." Another Indian says: "We come from a warrior people. As Lakota people, it is an honor to be a warrior and protect one's homeland, one's freedom, one's family. We are deeply sorry that Sheldon has come home to us in a casket. But that does not dismiss the pride we feel in him."
Hawk Eagle was buried in the tribe's national cemtery in the Black Hills.
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The IEEC is pleased to announce the opening of the new Integrated Electronics Engineering Center's (IEEC) Reliability and Failure Analysis Laboratory on May 3, 2012. The ceremony celebrated the opening of the IEEC Reliability and Failure Analysis Laboratory and the Center for Autonomous Solar Power's Solar Laboratory. Both laboratories are housed in the Biotechnology Building at the ITC. This consolidation of resources will enable the IEEC to more efficiently provide packaging research and support to our partner companies which will provide increased economic impact to New York State's economy.
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William "Dusty" Gerrits, of Waupun, Wis., climbed into his stand in southwestern Fond du Lac County on the morning of Nov. 6, 2012, looking for a specific buck — a deer he had named "Tiny."
By Jake Edson
The buck had shown up on Gerrits' trail camera the day before, and Gerrits knew his best chance was to attack the area while the deer was still active.
At first light, a smaller 8-point buck appeared and began to work a scrape near Gerrits' stand. Then he spotted a much larger buck approaching from the south. As the deer neared, Gerrits realized this buck was much bigger than the one he had initially focused on.
While Gerrits watched, the bucks postured and circled before the 8-pointer realized he was out of his league and retreated from the wide 12-pointer. When the smaller buck high-tailed it away, the giant buck presented a 22-yard, broadside shot. Gerrits settled his pin, exhaled and shot. He heard a crash, and then silence.
Gerrits waited 45 minutes before taking up the blood trail. Just 50 yards from his stand, he found a giant that would rewrite the Wisconsin record book.
The buck, which Garrets aptly named Big Surprise, had 12 scoreable points and an inside spread of 20 2/8 inches.
After the required drying period, the Fond du Lac county monster would score 189 3⁄8 inches, breaking the state's typical archery record of 187 5/8 inches.
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If your parents have a history of high blood pressure, you can significantly reduce your risk of developing the disease with moderate exercise and increased cardiovascular fitness, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension.
In a study of more than 6,000 people, those who had a parent with high blood pressure but were highly fit had a 34 percent lower risk of developing high blood pressure themselves, compared to those with a low-fitness level who had the same parental history.
"Understanding the roles that family history and fitness play in chronic diseases is critically important," said Robin P. Shook, M.S., study lead author and a doctoral graduate student in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. "The results of this study send a very practical message, which is that even a very realistic, moderate amount of exercise — which we define as brisk walking for 150 minutes per week — can provide a huge health benefit, particularly to people predisposed to hypertension because of their family history."
Previous research indicates that parental history accounts for about 35 percent to 65 percent of the variability in blood pressure among offspring, with varying levels of risk based on which parent developed it and the age of onset.
Researchers followed a group of 6,278 predominantly Caucasian adults 20- to 80-years-old for an average 4.7 years. The participants were patients of the Cooper Clinic, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventive medicine, research and education in Dallas. Thirty-three percent of participants reported that a parent had hypertension.
When the study began, all participants were healthy, reported no physician diagnosis of hypertension, and achieved an exercise test score of at least 85 percent of their age-predicted maximal heart rate. Researchers determined participants' cardiorespiratory fitness using a maximal treadmill exercise test.
During the study, 1,545 participants reported they had developed hypertension.
Researchers found that:
- Combining those with and without a family history of high blood pressure, high levels of fitness were associated with a 42 percent lower risk of developing hypertension, and moderate levels of fitness with a 26 percent lower risk.
- People with both a low level of fitness and a parent with hypertension had a 70 percent higher risk for developing hypertension compared with highly fit people with no parental history.
- Those with a high level of fitness and a parent with hypertension experienced only a 16 percent higher risk of developing hypertension compared to those who were fit and had no parental history.
"The correlation between fitness levels, parental history and risk are impossible to ignore," Shook said. "This awareness can serve the clinician and the patient, as they work together to find effective and reasonable ways to avoid the diseases that have affected their family members — in some cases, for generations."
The research findings may not apply to all people because the majority of the study participants were relatively fit, well-educated, middle to upper class white men.
The findings support the American Heart Association's recommendations of moderately intense physical activity, such as brisk walking, for 30 minutes or longer at least five days a week.
Co-authors are Duck-chul Lee, Ph.D.; Xumei Sui, M.D., M.P.H.; Vivek Prasad, M.B.B.S.; Steven P. Hooker, Ph.D.; Timothy S. Church, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. and Steven N. Blair, P.E.D. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.
The National Institutes of Health and an unrestricted research grant from The Coca-Cola Company funded the study.


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Sep. 19, 2013
Source: National Science Foundation news release
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $50 million to a multi-institution collaborative headquartered at the University of Arizona's BIO5 Institute to create a national cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences.
The renewal grant for the iPlant Collaborative, with partner sites at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas, Austin; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York, and University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), will allow scientists around the world to use proven computational tools to analyze very large datasets to efficiently address questions of global importance, advancing the understanding of biology beyond which any individual research group is capable.
The original five-year $50 million project, initiated in 2008, was the largest grant ever awarded by the NSF in the biological sciences, and three times larger than any NSF grant received by an institute in the state of Arizona at the time. Today, even in a precarious time for national funding agencies, the NSF renewed the iPlant award for another five years, increasing the total investment in the project to $100 million.
"Today's announcement is proof that our investment in higher education is paying off. Our public universities have adopted aggressive goals to increase externally-funded research and it is evident they are succeeding." Arizona Gov. Janice K. Brewer said.
"For Arizona's economy to remain vibrant in the future, we need to grow the industries, like the biosciences, that benefit from the high quality research that takes place in our universities. We are tremendously proud that our state, and the University of Arizona, was chosen to continue this leading-edge research project."
This type of large, collaborative project is part of the return on investment that the UA promised the state of Arizona when the BIO5 Institute was launched in 2001. BIO5 was created with financial support generated by the Technology and Research Initiative Fund, a special investment in higher education made possible by the passage of Proposition 301 by Arizona voters in November 2000, and a generous donation by UA alumnus Thomas W. Keating.
BIO5 provides the administrative infrastructure for iPlant, bringing together life science researchers and computer scientists to examine complex biological questions.
"This remarkable renewal grant recognizes the great work being done every day by UA researchers and their collaborators and specifically, the solid reputation and success of the iPlant Collaborative," said UA President Ann Weaver Hart.
"The UA has emerged as a leader in the biosciences and computational science research and education, and we appreciate the National Science Foundation's acknowledgement of iPlant's impact. Solving the grand challenges that all of us face: feeding the world, improving the health of people and the planet, and the conservation and use of our natural resources requires projects like iPlant and worldwide collaborations among scientists."
Over the past five years, iPlant's team of 40-plus employees at the UA-working with additional personnel at TACC, CSHL and UNCW-has solicited the national and international plant research community for the computational and data-based challenges they face in research.
Based on this community input, the team created a set of technologies for connecting scientists both to needed computational resources and to collaborators with expertise to accelerate the pace of their research.
The iPlant tools and services are being adopted by a broad range of life science researchers in need of high performance computing for big data analysis and management. These tools and services also are being used in innovative approaches to education, outreach and the study of social networks.
"iPlant has created both a physical center at the UA's BIO5 Institute and a virtual computing space where researchers can communicate and work together as they share, analyze and manipulate data, all while seeking answers to biology's greatest unsolved problems," said Stephen Goff, iPlant's principal investigator and project director based at the UA. "iPlant's mission is to merge ever-evolving computational technology and shared data capabilities with collaborative human brainpower, essentially changing the way we approach life science research.
The iPlant cyberinfrastructure is designed to utilize cutting-edge software applications and storage capabilities that are becoming imperative for life scientists to access, analyze and create knowledge from the large datasets being generated by new technologies."
Advances in biological research technology have enabled scientists to amass unlimited and unprecedented amounts of data. In the past, these scientists were able to meet computational challenges in their labs using workstations and university computer clusters.
Now, they are finding that these resources are unable keep up at the same rate as data is acquired. According to Nirav Merchant, iPlant's cyberinfrastructure faculty advisor at the UA, "We've always had big data, but now we have the usable tools and technology to act on it."
UA participants in the iPlant Collaborative include the BIO5 Institute; the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Department of Plant Sciences; the College of Science's Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; the School of Information: Science, Technology, and Arts; the College of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; the Arizona Research Laboratories' Biotechnology Computing Facility; and University Information Technology Services.
Fernando Martinez, director of the UA BIO5 Institute said, "In the model of BIO5 and the University of Arizona in general, iPlant brings together many different types of scientists, teachers, and students who otherwise might not communicate with one another, and in doing so, creates the kind of multidisciplinary environment that is necessary to crack the toughest problems in modern biology."
THE IPLANT COLLABORATIVE is a virtual organization led from the University of Arizona, the University of Texas at Austin, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, and the University of North Carolina Wilmington, with participants from institutions around the nation and the world. iPlant is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation with a large team located at UA's BIO5 Institute.
Learn more at www.iPlantCollaborative.org.
THE BIO5 INSTITUTE at the University of Arizona mobilizes top researchers in agriculture, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, and science to find creative solutions to humanity's most pressing health and environmental challenges.
Since 2001, this interdisciplinary approach has been an international model of how to conduct collaborative research, and has resulted in improved food crops, innovative diagnostics and devices, and promising new therapies. Learn more at BIO5.org.