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If you're not afraid of clowns or robots, though, then this next specimen has you covered.
Everybody knows nothing draws in the crowds quite like big-time Hollywood celebrities, though. So hey, why not feature Patrick Swayze, Michael Jackson, and Heath Ledger all in the same cake?
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Bakers, just remember: the important thing with display cakes is to show potential customers what you're made of. Show them your raw talent, your years of experience, your impeccable sense of form and style, your...uh...
Eric D., Monique R., Amy N., Vic., & Jill B., with time and effort you, too, might one day master the pipe cleaner arch.
UPDATE: Hey, would you believe that today is actually HAL 9000's birthday? Finally, my knack for unintentionally posting news-relevant entries results in something good!
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What a week it's been for giant pandas. We know because for the past seven days, we have been Google Frecking for pandas.
Google Frecking is an info-gathering game we devised — at the suggestion of our creative editor — for drilling a little deeper into a subject that intrigues us. In this case: pandas.
Last weekend we set up a Google Alert for pandas. We directed Google to send us news about pandas "when it happens" and we asked for "all results."
We call it frecking because it's a hunt-and-peck extraction process — a little like fracking — that helps us find untapped resources for stories. Plus we like this line from a James Russell Lowell poem about a cathedral: Painted windows, frecking gloom with glow.
Google Frecking teaches us that pandas can be:
1) Sad: On Orange Jasmine Purple Yam we read the story of Sijia — a giant panda living in a Yunnan wildlife park — who was distraught and stopped eating when her panda pal Meiqian was shipped away. Zookeepers set up a monitor that shows videos of Sijia and Meiqian playing together in happier times.
2) Inspirational: Through Google Frecking, we stumble on the Hungry Panda Club, a New York City group that shares interests in food and networking. Co-founder Alicia Dai of IAC / InterActive tells NPR: "Apart from a majority of our constituents being Asian, the name had a nice ring to it and pandas are just lovable, innocuous creatures."
3) Sweet Of Tooth: Researchers recently reported that pandas — whose diet consists mostly of bamboo — have a "sweet receptor" in their DNA, similar to humans. This suggests that ancestral pandas were able to eat fruits before they were shooed away from the lowlands to the mountains by human expansion. Do pandas in captivity come to prefer sugary foods to bamboo? NPR asked lead researcher Danielle Reed of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. "Our data would suggest that liking for sweet food is a function of inborn biology and not the effects of captivity," she said. "Pandas in the wild would immediately accept sweet foods if they were available."
4) Symbolic: In the aftershocks of Flight 370's disappearance on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, relations between Malaysia and China have been frayed. Tensions could affect the delivery of a panda to Kuala Lumpur scheduled for May 31, an important diplomatic anniversary for the two countries. "Delays beyond this date would make the event less meaningful," reports Sin Chew Daily, a large Chinese-language newspaper in Malaysia.
5) Artsy: People put pandas on everything. Via Google Frecking we find pandas on fingernails; in a David Mamet play; in a bronze sculpture and adorning a panda-themed hotel.
6) Bashful: At the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland, panda couple Tian Tian and Yang Guang have been having trouble making a baby panda. So Tian Tian was artificially inseminated. Apparently, we won't know if the procedure worked until Tian Tian has a cub — or not.
7) Cute, Cute, Cute: Pinterest people post panda pictures aplenty. Particularly Panda Party; Panda Nursery and <3 <3 Pandas.
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Stereotypes never felt right on you and they still don't. So it's no surprise that a report found that "internet users over the age of 55 are driving the growth of social networking through the mobile internet." People who engage in social networking are also 75 percent more likely to buy music online than their "general user" counterparts (which probably explains what's eating up your computer memory).
It's hard to bypass the ease of online music shopping. If you remember (and loved) mail-order music clubs, searching for albums at Rick's Records or the thrill of waiting in line for a newly released title, then the immediate nature of today's digital download is nirvana. However, don't forget the human labor aspect of transferring your life's soundtrack. After all, you had a complete collection way before MP3s came along.
Perhaps you still spend hours loading countless CDs on to your computer, or you've invested in products that convert your albums to digital files. If you take the time and care to transfer your analog collection to a digital one (in addition to the new tunes you've downloaded), why not back everything up?
If you don't know how to backup music files on a regular basis, you're not a maverick (sorry if that comes as a surprise). Although 90 percent of internet users would be "greatly inconvenienced" if they lost beloved computer files, only 6 percent do anything about it. Your computer is not invincible. Whether you lose data from hardware failure, human error or software corruption (the top three risk factors), the day will come when you have a hankering for bootleg Led Zeppelin and it's up in smoke, never to be retrieved again.
Daily backup is what we're talking about. Each decade of your life has a musical imprint that makes up the "original iTunes." Here are some ways to safeguard the songs that evoke an era in an instant.
Beep beep beep: Back it up!
There's more than one way to backup music files. Here are some popular options:
1. External hard drives: This portable storage device gives you the freedom to back up more than one computer. It's user-friendly and you can get 1 Terabyte (about 250,000 or more songs) for way less than you paid for your 8-track collection. However, external hard drives, like the hard drive on your computer, can crash; you may also lose the device as it's quite sleek and inconspicuous these days.
2. CDs/DVDs: This is another convenient and popular backup option for digital files. If you have time to burn – literally – you can burn your entire collection to discs and keep them in a safe place. The challenge with this method is that they can get scratched easily, and it's kind of like taking a step back, frankly. A major advantage to owning digital files is that they create less disorder, backing them up on CDs defeats this move toward a clutter-free existence.
3. USB device: Although these little babies have smaller storage capacity than external hard drives, they're still a decent solution for backing up media files. If your collection is modest, 2GB should be just fine. However, don't lose track of where you put the device itself. Common problems with this option are software corruption, driver issues, limited capacity and perhaps your dog snapping it in two with his teeth.
4. The Cloud: Using online remote backup is the best and most progressive way to protect your music library. It's an "anywhere," tether-free system that does most of the work for you. You can get the storage capacity to fit your needs and there are many other benefits with this option:
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- You can access the files from any computer.
- It enables you to send file-sharing links (instead of hefty e-mail attachments).
- It frees up memory on your hard drive for other files.
- Your music library's capacity potential increases exponentially.
About 10GB should work well for the average collection. Look for the following specs in an online storage service:
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Longtime comedian Paul Rodriguez has been making audiences laugh all over the world (in Spanish and English) for nearly three decades with his unique brand of humor that is a perfect blend of his Latin heritage the American dream and his undeniable universal appeal. As an actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez's multi-faceted career includes starring roles and featured appearances in over 45 films and countless television series and comedy specials.
Voted one of the most influential Hispanics in America and awarded the Ruben Salazar Award by The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States Rodriguez has remained a constant force in his community and the world of comedy throughout his career.
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Rodriguez has hosted several hit series including the entertainment talk show "El Show de Paul Rodriguez " an entertainment talk show for Univision which reached over 50 markets throughout the United States and an international audience in over 17 countries in Central and South America. His additional hosting credits include the The NCLR ALMA Awards The Tejano Music Awards Showtime's Latino Laugh Festival and his own television specials "Back to School" and "Behind Bars." He recently hosted "Mis Videos Locos with Paul Rodriguez" on Tr3s: MTV Música y Más.
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Among his many credits Rodriguez has also made guest appearances on several Late Night shows including "The Wanda Sykes Show " "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno " "Last Call with Carson Daly " and "Politically Incorrect." Additionally he has guest starred in several television series including "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition " "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List " "Shaken Not Stirred " DIRECTV's "Supreme Court of Comedy " Showtime's original series "Resurrection Boulevard" and "American Family." He has also lent his voice to popular animated series including "King of the Hill " "Dora the Explorer" and "The Proud Family."
Rodriguez's first big break came while doing comedy warm-ups for Norman Lear's show "Gloria." Lear ultimately wrote and developed a weekly series for Rodriguez entitled "a.k.a. Pablo " which is enshrined at the Smithsonian and holds the distinct honor for being the first television show about a Mexican American family on mainstream American television.
In addition to being a revolutionary and enduring force in the world of comedy throughout his career Rodriguez has remained involved with various charitable civic and educational organizations including the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and The Leukemia Society to name a few. He also is a member of the advisory board of the California Film Commission. Additionally as part owner of the world famous Laugh Factory Rodriguez has participated in the club's annual free Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for the underprivileged for over 30 years.
Rodriguez was honored with the Humanitarian of the Year Award by the City of Fresno for his tireless work on behalf of water conservation. As Chairman of the California Latino Water Coalition Rodriguez was one of the driving forces behind the California Water Bond Measure coming into fruition.
Always willing to seize an opportunity to educate and entertain Rodriguez can currently be seen in the nine-episode web series "Fixing Paco " which is produced by The Mendez National Institute of Transplantation (MNIT). The innovative series launched in Spanish and English in November 2012 to help raise awareness on the importance of organ transplantation within the Latino Community.
In addition to writing directing producing and performing across the country Rodriguez enjoys spending time with his granddaughter Heaven and his two sons Paul Rodriguez Jr. aka as professional skateboarder and gold medal winner P-Rod; and his younger son Lukas. He also enjoys spending time with his three eccentric Chihuahuas – Mooska Chica and Luna (formerly known as Lady Gaga) who Rodriguez adopted from an animal rescue shelter.
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Letters: Do We Pet Horses or Eat Them?
Dear Editor:
Last week, food safety officials in United Kingdom, France, and Sweden found traces of horse meat in ground beef sold across Europe. Massive recalls and lawsuits are ensuing.
Can it happen here? Horse slaughter for human consumption was banned in the U.S. between 2007 and 2011. But now, a New Mexico slaughterhouse is getting approved by U.S. authorities to slaughter horses for human consumption, and a Philadelphia restaurant has already announced plans to serve horse meat.
I marvel at our hypocrisy of rejecting the notion of horse or dog meat on our dinner plates, while condemning cows, pigs, and chickens to the same fate. Obviously, we have established special relationships with horses and dogs as our companions, protectors, and sports protagonists, rather than as food. But where is the ethical and logical distinction, given that all these animals are endowed by individuality, sentience, and an ability to experience the same feelings of joy, affection, sadness, and fear that we do?
Fortunately, our health food industry has spared us from having to choose which animals to pet and which ones to eat. Their delicious soy and grain-based meat alternatives are available in every supermarket.
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WASHINGTON – Members of the United States Helsinki Commission today issued statements on the most recent developments in the case of Slobodan Milosevic.
"I am pleased to hear reports that Slobodan Milosevic is being put in the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, located in The Hague," said Chairman Campbell. "The Helsinki Commission has, from the beginning of the Yugoslav conflict of the 1990s, supported the creation and operation of the Tribunal in response to the war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide associated with that conflict."
"While many factors and players were involved in the former Yugoslavia's violent demise, without doubt Milosevic was primarily responsible for turning the situation into an ethnic cleansing campaign in which hundreds of thousands were killed, tens of thousands raped or subjected to other forms of torture and millions displaced," Campbell added.
"I hope that Milosevic's delivery to The Hague will lead to the apprehension and surrender of others indicted by the Tribunal, many known or believed still to be in Serbia," said Co-Chairman Smith. "This process will give victims the satisfaction of justice served. It will also give the people of Serbia, who have recently learned with revulsion of the atrocities for which the Milosevic regime was responsible, a chance to put the legacy of hate behind them. For tyrants around the world, it will be a deterring example that there is accountability for the massive and criminal violation of human rights."
"The United States Congress can be proud of the role it has played in this ongoing struggle for justice in the Balkans," said Ranking Member Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD). "Often against the advice of the foreign policy establishment, there has been bipartisan support for creating an international tribunal which would hold those guilty of egregious crimes accountable for their acts, and for ensuring that cooperation with the tribunal remained a central part of U.S. policy toward the region."
"We must keep in mind that several other indicted persons remain at large, including Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic for the Srebrenica massacre and those responsible for the Vukovar massacre," said Helsinki Commission Member Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD). "They played a direct role in atrocities, and the delivery of Milosovic will hopefully build momentum for their apprehension as well."
Milosevic was indicted in May 1999 on charges of "crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war."


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In 1985 (see references below), Stewart et al. published a study for which American subjects had been asked to rate the social status of people with standard American or standard British accents. They found that:
speakers of British English were assigned higher social status than speakers of the respondents' own (American) accent, even though British speech was considered less intelligible and aroused more discomfort. For American listeners, this finding contrasts with their reactions to other ethnic accents (p. 103)But that was more than 25 years ago. And just 10 years ago, Bayard et al. (2001) found that American accents were more positively evaluated in New Zealand and Australia, and America. Here's their graph showing the reactions to accents in their sample of Cleveland University students:
You might not be able to read the graph, but that dotted line at the top represents the North American accent, as spoken by a woman. Below that is North American male. Leaving third place to....Australian men! Yes, the English accent (as spoken by a man) is way down in 4th place now.
But my favo(u)rite graph of the ones I've come across is this one, from the undergraduate research journal at Brigham Young University. It shows the results of asking Brigham Young students to rate the intelligence of people with different accents.
The main significant effect found in this study was that people who'd lived at least three months outside the US rated the English accent significantly lower than people who'd only lived in the US. In fact, Americans who had not lived abroad considered the English-accented person to be much more intelligent than themselves, but the people who had lived abroad rated the standard American accent more intelligent than the standard English one. My preferred way of interpreting this (a bit tongue-in-cheek) is that Americans are happy to rate the English as more intelligent than themselves up until they actually start meeting and talking to the English.
Better Half often complains that while he was treated like a god (the god of what, I don't know) when he first went to live and work in the US in the early 1990s, nowadays he's "nothing special" when we go to the States. He attributed this to New York City being overrun by the British, particularly when the pound was much, much stronger than the dollar. But I think he also finds it to be true when we're away from the big city where British people tend to travel. So, perhaps this is a symptom of a general trend for (standard-AmE-speaking) Americans to have more dialectal self-esteem than they used to. You're welcome to speculate on the reasons for this in the comments--provided that you aren't too rude.
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- Thanks and more thanks to all of you who voted for SbaCL and my @lynneguist Twitter feed in the Lexiophiles/bab.la Top Language Lovers for 2011. I'm grateful/flabbergasted/proud to see Separated by a Common Language ranked 5th among Language Professional Blogs (and 37th overall) and @lynneguist ranked 2nd in the Twitter category and 4th overall. Big, big thank-yous to all who had a hand in that!
- Thanks again for your help in locating instances of Dialect Fail and Dialect Success in transatlantic novel-writing. The Brighton Book Festival talk ('Whose Language is it Anyway?') was a success, in no small part because of your helpful suggestions.
- Before you ask, that talk is not available on video--but I'm very happy to give it in other venues. Please email me if you're interested! Talks (with audio publisher/video producer Better Half) are underway to recreate parts of my Lynneguist talks in snazzy podcast form. No release dates have been imagined yet, but you know I'll tell you when they're available.
- I had some interesting comments from English teachers (both school teachers and language-school ESL teachers) after the talk--they'd learn{ed/t} that some of their closely held beliefs about English were fictions, and thought that their colleagues would have benefited from the talk as well. So, that got me thinking that it might be good to do some workshops with teachers on American/British differences, standards and prejudices. (It might also be useful to do them with publishers/editors, perhaps.) If there are any schools out there who might like to be guinea pigs for such a thing, please get in touch!
Anderson, S. et al. (2007) How accents affect perception of intelligence. Intuition 3:5–11.
Bayard, D., A. Weatherall, C. Gallois, and J. Pittam (2001) Pax Americana? Accent attitudinal evaluations in New Zealand, Australia, and America. Journal of Sociolinguistics 5:22–49.
Stewart, MA, EB Ryan, and H Giles (1985) Accent and social class effects on status and solidarity evaluations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 11:98–105.


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Inspit of these deficiencies, we may still make some useful observations. For example, IE-speaking Iranians have largely the same haplogroups as Arabs, but a much higher representation of haplogroup J2 compared to J1. The converse is true for all Arabs except the Lebanese. But, we do know, that even in Lebanon itself, Muslims have a higher J1/J2 ratio than Christians, and Islam was the main vehicle of Arabization in the region. The Christians are descended from the pre-Arab Byzantine Greco-Aramaic populations (with an addition of Western European Y-chromosomes in some Christian communities, which would not have substantially upset the J1/J2 balance).
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Geographical Structure of the Y-chromosomal Genetic Landscape of the Levant: A coastal-inland contrast
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We have examined the male-specific phylogeography of the Levant and its surroundings by analyzing Y-chromosomal haplogroup distributions using 5874 samples (885 new) from 23 countries. The diversity within some of these haplogroups was also examined. The Levantine populations showed clustering in SNP and STR analyses when considered against a broad Middle-East and North African background. However, we also found a coastal-inland, east-west pattern of diversity and frequency distribution in several haplogroups within the small region of the Levant. Since estimates of effective population size are similar in the two regions, this strong pattern is likely to have arisen mainly from differential migrations, with different lineages introduced from the east and west.


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CBS just ended the longest-running joke in TV history by naming Stephen Colbert to succeed retiring late-night host David Letterman
That's because Colbert, who has won all kinds of acclaim playing fictional right-wing cable TV news host "Stephen Colbert" on The Colbert Report, will now play a new character when he takes over Letterman's Late Show:
New York Times reporter Bill Carter tweeted a quote from Colbert confirming that: "I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it."
Colbert's former boss, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, seemed to presage the news, telling New York magazine's Vulture blog on Wednesday that Colbert would be "amazing" as Letterman's successor.
"He's done an amazing job with just that very narrow cast of character, but he's got a lot more he can show," Stewart said at an after party for Nicolas Cage's new movie, Joe. "He's got some skill sets that are really applicable, interviewing-wise, but also he's a really, really good actor and also an excellent improvisational comedian. He's also got great writing skills. He's got a lot of the different capacities. Being able to expand upon [those] would be exciting."
Letterman's reaction, in a statement released by his Worldwide Pants production company, was predictably brief and droll: "Stephen has always been a real friend to me. I'm very excited for him, and I'm flattered that CBS chose him. I also happen to know they wanted another guy with glasses."
Media writers have speculated for days on who could take Letterman's mantle. The best successor had to be established enough to hold onto longtime Letterman fans but forward-thinking enough to compete with the two Jimmys — Fallon and Kimmel — for younger viewers prized by advertisers.
Colbert's name jumped to the top of the list following news reports that the Comedy Central star had structured his own contracts to sync up with Letterman's deals. As a host already popular with the cable channel's younger audience and backed by a long history of attention-getting stunts, he is indeed a perfect choice.
In 2006, Colbert stunned attendees with a searing satire of George W. Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner; six years and one president later, he formed his own superPAC during the 2012 election campaign. He's also sung onstage with Neil Patrick Harris in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company, written books and released his own Christmas album in character.
Those who hoped CBS might change the late-night landscape by picking a woman or person of color to succeed Letterman may be the most disappointed. Names like Aisha Tyler, Tina Fey and Jane Lynch were always unrealistic, if interesting, possibilities for the job.
But CBS may have another chance to elevate an unorthodox host, depending on the reaction of Craig Ferguson, host of the program airing after Letterman, The Late Late Show. Reportedly, Ferguson had language in his contracts enacting a penalty if CBS didn't give him the job or at least the right to turn it down; if Ferguson winds up leaving the network, 12:35 a.m. would again be an open time slot.
Regardless, one of TV's most agile comedy minds has now been handed the keys to CBS's late-night comedy store. Fans who worry he might be tamed by the conventions of the network should remember one thing: This is a guy who turned a parody of Bill O'Reilly into one of television's most surprising and impactful shows.
I can't wait to see how he reinvents CBS late night next year.
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We are getting more details about that preliminary agreement to settle an "Agent Orange" related class-action lawsuit filed against the Monsanto Company. We reported yesterday that Monsanto agreed to settle a case over pollution claims made on behalf of current and former residents of the small town of Nitro, West Virginia.
In a written statement today Monsanto says it's agreeing to pay up to $93 million dollars. $84 million of that would go toward medical monitoring for residents ($21 million up front and up to $63 million over 30 years). The company also is agreeing to spend up to $9 million to professionally clean homes in the affected area, which includes an estimated 4500 houses.
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People around the world want the same thing from their doctors. First, do no harm. Second, take a look at this weird bump and tell me if I should get worried.
The job is basically the same in many countries around the world. But the pay is wildly different. The median salary for U.S. doctors is about $250,000 a year. In Western Europe, it's less than half that. In developing countries, the salaries are even lower.
Through insurance and out of our own pockets, we pay for doctors' services, just like we pay for all other kinds of goods and services.And yet, with lots of other things we buy, we often turn to imports to save money.
"We should think of doctors the same way we think of shirts," says the economist Dean Baker. "If we can get doctors at a lower cost from elsewhere in the world then we could save enormous amounts of money."
The big difference, of course, is that a bad t-shirt won't kill you.
So, in the name of protecting patients, we put a lot of barriers up to make it harder for foreign doctors to work in the U.S. Even for fully qualified doctors practicing in countries very similar to ours, it can take years of extra training to get licensed to practice in the U.S.
Many U.S. states recognize Canadian medical schools, and have tried to streamline the process for Canadian doctors to work here. But it can be complicated. Every state has its own bureaucracy and license application and requirements.
A Canadian critical care doctor I talked to moved with his wife to California, where he planned to practice. After nine months of paperwork and bureaucracy, he gave up and went back to Canada.
For doctors from other parts of the world, the process is guaranteed to take even longer. Foreign-trained doctors — even those with advanced skills, who have been practicing medicine for years — are required to repeat years of the basic residency training that doctors go through right after medical school.
"The process may be seen as perhaps cumbersome to practicing physicians," says Dr, Humayan Chaudhry, President of the Federation of State Medical Boards. "But... the goal at the end of the day is to protect the public."
Chaudhry says there simply isn't a way to evaluate the quality of medical training in every country around the world. And clearly, he says, it doesn't deter doctors from coming. Chaudhry says that 22 percent of all the licensed doctors in the United States went to medical school outside the country.
But, Dean Baker argues, there should be even more foreign-trained doctors than there already are. A lot of poor and rural areas in the U.S. don't have enough doctors. And foreign-trained physicians are much more likely to specialize in primary care and go to work in such places.
Baker says that rather than have professionals spend years redoing their training, the U.S. should try to make the process more simple and transparent. He says we should tell young, aspiring doctors:
Here's what you have to do. Here are the courses you have to take. Here's is the test you have to pass. If you pass those tests you get to come to the United States and be a doctor just like anyone who was trained in the United States.
And the benefit, he argues, isn't just for foreign doctors, or rural areas where they might work. More doctors means more competition. That means lower health-care prices.
As they say about t-shirts: if you can make sure the quality is the same, why pay more?
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Today, Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and Co-Chairman Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), made the following statements at a U.S. Helsinki Commission hearing entitled "Energy and Democracy: Oil and Water?" The hearing examined whether the development of democracy is incompatible with the development of a country's energy resources. The hearing further addressed the issue of how energy kleptocracy impacts U.S. energy security. Six of the top ten oil-exporting countries to the United States are ranked by Transparency International as some of the world's most corrupt countries. Corruption and kleptocracy often lead to political instability and subsequently higher oil prices, which have the potential to impact the economic and national security interests of the United States.
Congressman Alcee L. Hastings Statement:
"Today's hearing is the second of three hearings the Commission is holding on the topic of energy security, an issue that spans the security, economic and environmental, and human dimensions of the Helsinki process. This hearing series is designed to give the Commission a comprehensive picture of this complex issue and highlight areas where the Commission, the U.S. Government and the OSCE can take effective action.
"At today's hearing we are going to hear from our distinguished panelists about the development of democracy and civil society in countries with abundant energy resources—and why that matters to U.S. energy security. I mentioned at the last hearing the remarkable fact that only two of the world's top 10 oil exporters are established democracies—Norway and Mexico. What is wrong with this picture?
Top World Oil Net Exporters 2006
1 Saudi Arabia
2 Russia
3 Norway
4 Iran
5 United Arab Emirates
6 Venezuela
7 Kuwait
8 Nigeria
9 Algeria
10 Mexico
Source: EIA: International Energy Annual (2000-2004), International Petroleum Monthly (2005-2006).
"When we look at countries that are situated on oil and natural gas reserves, we think these countries have won the global version of the economic lottery. They have a built-in revenue stream that can fuel not only their own economy but also be an export commodity. But what economists have found by studying these resource-rich countries is that they often do worse than their resource-poor neighbors, both economically and politically. This problem is often referred to as the "resource curse."
"Each of the countries we are focusing on today—Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan—face some aspect of this resource curse. And while the situation in each country is unique, we can generalize and say that the lack of transparency in politics, and in oil and gas deals, is at the root of the problem.
"It's a well-known, and well-bemoaned, fact that the United States is becoming more and more reliant on imported energy to fuel our economy. We are the world's largest consumer of oil—we account for an astounding 25 percent of global daily oil demand—despite having less than 3 percent of the world's proven reserves. And we source that oil from some unstable and unfriendly places in the world such as Nigeria and Venezuela.
"In the context of today's hearing some of you may wonder why the United States should care what is happening in Turkmenistan or Kazakhstan, when we actually don't rely on these countries for a significant portion of our energy supplies. Russia is only number nine on our list of oil suppliers and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan don't event make it into the top twenty.
"The answer is that unlike natural gas, oil is a commodity, so regardless of where we source our oil, what happens in other oil-rich countries impacts the stability of our price and our supply as well. As the National Petroleum Council reported last week, "There can be no U.S. energy security without global energy security."
"Oil is the tie that binds us all and threatens to choke us at the same time.
"So take a minute to think about how drastically different our interactions with these countries would be if we did not rely so heavily on these countries' resources. I think it goes without saying that we would have more leverage to promote democracy and civil society. Clearly oil constrains, if not drives, our foreign policy.
"So while it is imperative that we work to limit our dependence on foreign oil and change the dynamic of supply and demand, it is just as important to create more stable and reliable sources of energy. One of the key ways the international community has sought to counteract the political and economic instability inherent in the resource curse is through programs that seek to instill transparency and accountability into the resource payment system," said Hastings.
Senator Benjamin L. Cardin's Statement:
"I am pleased that the Commission is now turning its focus to the nexus of energy and democracy. As the States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) pursue energy security, we must address why it is that so many of the resource-rich countries in the world are not democratic and whether development of both democracy and energy resources is an incompatible goal.
"In the search for energy security in the OSCE region and beyond, democracy is an important contributing factor. Endemic corruption is an impediment to democracy. Last year the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution I authored on limiting immunity for parliamentarians in order to strengthen good governance, public integrity and the rule of law in the OSCE region. Just recently Chairman Hastings and I met with the President of Ukraine who told us that this was one of the first things he would like to see accomplished once a new parliament is elected this September. This is an important step forward for Ukraine.
"Broad immunity for parliamentarians can serve as a cover for corruption. I believe that good governance is the key to a properly functioning democracy. In many of the oil-exporting states, corruption and kleptocracy have become the norm and prevent democratic ideals from flourishing. The United States must consider the impact of its dependence on these types of states for energy security.
"Countries that are mired in corruption are not reliable sources of energy. According to Transparency International, six of the top ten oil-exporting countries to the United States are among the most corrupt countries in the world. A lack of transparency within governments and the energy sector poses both a threat to energy exports and the ability of governments to properly manage revenue for their citizens. These governments are not accountable to their citizens and have taken advantage of the resources of the nation in pursuit of the self-interest of a few corrupt leaders. The result has been increasing political instability, and in some cases violent attacks on pipelines and refineries.
"Not only does political instability threaten the physical ability to export oil and gas, but it also has created a poor investment climate. If we are to support development of energy resources, U.S. policy should certainly take into account the investment incentives in these countries. Corruption not only weakens those incentives, but also prevents those investments from producing real results in terms of security of supply. There is clearly a positive link between development of democracy and development of energy resources, which can be seen in some of the recent improvements to both in countries such as Azerbaijan. Additional steps are absolutely necessary to increase transparency in oil-exporting governments, but initiatives such as the "Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative," and "Publish What You Pay," are moves in the right direction and need U.S. support.
"In order to achieve energy security, not only must we work towards our own energy independence, for which I have introduced legislation, but we must also ensure that the countries from which we import oil and gas are reliable sources. Combating corruption and increasing transparency are part of the process of democratic development and must be supported by U.S. policy if we are to attain long term energy security," said Cardin.
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, is a U.S. Government agency that monitors progress in the implementation of the provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Accords. The Commission consists of nine members from the United States Senate, nine from the House of Representatives, and one member each from the Departments of State, Defense and Commerce.


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Gluten-Free Peach Cobbler
Better From Scratch ...
I started out with a different approach to this peach cobbler recipe, you see. I thought I'd try out the new Betty Crocker Gluten-Free Bisquick mix I bought this week. I imagined a golden topped biscuity crust you could sink your teeth into, a melt-in-your-mouth forkful of shortcake, dripping with warm and sticky-sweet juice.
But what I got was a bone white mound of anemic dough (scarily reminiscent of Play Dough baked into what can only be described as yesterday's mashed potatoes. It didn't even try to turn golden. And it didn't melt in your mouth like a biscuit.
It just sat there on your tongue.
Expecting to be admired without effort.
Like those fame junkies who are famous for simply being famous. They haven't actually accomplished anything to garner their celebrity status. They just nurture a deeper narcissistic ambition than your average high school beauty queen. They expect adulation because they exist.
Like an awful lot of the gluten-free foods churned out by corporate entities.
They expect we'll fall to our knees with gratitude just because it sports two little words on its label. As if the virtue of being gluten-free is enough. Enough to get us to shell out almost seven hard earned dollars for two and a half cups of cheap refined starch and the privilege of convenience.
And don't get me wrong. I get the allure. I do.
I mean, you're standing there in the supermarket. It's late. You're hungry. And it's right there in front of you. Right next to the 40 acres of shiny wheat laden stuff you can't have. Ever. And those magic words: Gluten-Free! They sparkle. Someone up there in the land of corporate giants has heard of us! They validate you and your odd little disease.
We exist!
And hence, we may consume.
They are recognizing us now, Sweetpea, because we constitute a billion dollar windfall. The food industry has awakened to the perky reality TV version of celiac disease. And sure, I know. The argument is, It's all good. Any awareness is positive (even though the gluten-free diet may be in danger of losing street cred because of its faddish status with actresses who subscribe to its hyped promise of weight loss).
Can the drive for GF profit lead to better eating, though?
I'm not so sure. If the tepid taste of Betty Crocker's Bisquick is any indication, we have not come a long way, baby. Big companies use the cheapest ingredients they can to conjure stuff for the growing gluten-free demand. That means there's an awful lot of "old school gluten-free" going on (based on Bette Hagman's twenty-year old white rice flour and starch blend, perhaps?). G-free mixes and packaged foods use predominately refined white rice flour and inexpensive starches. A glut of empty calories.
Like @AutumnMakes tweeted yesterday, "...funny how it seems the big corps are years behind the everyday gluten-free bakers..."
Indeed. We humble home cooks have discovered the soft, lovely crumb of sorghum and almond flour. Gluten-free cornmeal and buckwheat. Our baking isn't dull or crumbly, dry, or without pizazz. Our flour choices reflect a preference for taste, texture and higher nutrition. And I think we're smarter than the average consumer.
So for now I'm going to continue to eschew the walk down the center food aisles (as Michael Pollan advises). I'll focus on my own gluten-free flour blends and eating whole foods daily.
And in a pinch, when some wild craving hits and I'm too tired to deal with three separate flour bags, I'll use a GF pancake mix (both small family companies who have been in our celiac corner from the beginning).
And I'll create my own cobbler topping, thank you.
Gluten-Free Peach Cobbler Recipe
Recipe originally published August 2010 by Karina Allrich.
I recognize that some of you may not use almond meal due to nut allergies. Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Cornmeal or certified gluten-free oat flour would also work quite well.
First: Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Lightly grease an 8x8-inch baking dish or two large/four small individual gratin dishes.
About 4 cups of peeled, sliced ripe peaches
2 tablespoons organic light brown sugar
2 teaspoons tapioca starch
Begin with the peaches:
Pour the sliced peaches into a pot and stir in the light brown sugar and tapioca starch till coated. Heat over medium heat until the peaches start to bubble a little around the edges. Turn the heat to low and cook for eight to ten minutes. This gives the peaches a head start in the baking department.
Meanwhile whisk together:
1 cup sorghum flour or GF oat flour
1/2 cup almond meal (also known as almond flour)
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 cup organic cane sugar
1/2 teaspoon bourbon vanilla extract
Beat in:
6 tablespoons of your favorite baking oil or melted vegan butter spread
1 egg or 1 egg replacer such as Ener-G Egg Replacer, mixed
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups milk or unsweetened non-dairy milk (start with less)
The biscuit dough will come together quickly- don't beat it to death. Just till smooth. It should be a wee bit sticky (not too wet and not too dry) like a biscuit dough/batter.
Spoon the hot peaches into the prepared baking dish.
Plop spoonfuls of the biscuit dough on top of the peaches.
Sprinkle with a little dusting of organic cane sugar.
Bake in the center of a preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, until the juices are bubbling, and the biscuit topping is golden brown and baked through. Cool for five to ten minutes before serving.
Serve warm.
Makes four servings.
I ate this warm for breakfast. It was fabulous. It would also be wonderful for dessert with a scoop of coconut ice cream or frozen yogurt.
While you might be tempted to use the topping recipe for biscuits, I think the recipe would need tweaking for a true biscuit texture. Stay tuned, as I'm working on a gluten-free biscuit recipe, as well as a pot pie crust.
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Six weeks ago, there was this:
Which, despite its incompleteness, it still a vast improvement over buckets, and so not to be disdained:
Still, it is not enough to prevent us from moving into this for a nine-day (ahem) holiday:
We leave tomorrow, and will set off across southern Ontario and on into New York state, where we will comport ourselves like retirees and hang out in Wal-Mart parking lots and play mah-jongg at picnic tables and drink wine out of boxes. Am packing the knee-length shorts with elasticized waistbands and Tilley hats as we speak.
I'll be checking in every couple of days with the sordid details of RV livin', but in the meantime there'll be some squatters here to keep the place looking lived in. So long as they don't need full lavatory facilities, they'll be fine. And there may, in fact, be a party or two.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An aspiring rapper who was arrested during a search of Justin Bieber's mansion pleaded no contest Wednesday to felony possession of ecstasy and was sentenced to probation and community service.
Xavier Domonique Smith, who goes by the name Lil Za, was also ordered into a drug treatment program and fined $1,000 for breaking a jail telephone while in custody, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office spokesman Ricardo Santiago said.
Smith was sentenced to three years of probation, but the felony conviction can be reduced to a misdemeanor if he successfully completes his sentence, which also requires him to pay the Sheriff's Department $600 in restitution for the broken phone.
Smith, 20, was arrested in January after deputies said they found him with drugs while searching Bieber's mansion for evidence in an egg-tossing vandalism case. Prosecutors are still considering whether to charge Bieber with vandalism.
Detectives found three to four rocks of ecstasy and 16 pills apiece of Xanax and oxycodone in Smith's bedroom at Bieber's house, according to a probation report that describes his arrest.
Smith told officers he did not use the ecstasy but "he gives it to girls because they 'love it,'" according to the probation report filed Wednesday.
Smith was not interviewed by probation officials, who wrote in a report, "It appears he keeps drugs to satisfy young girls that he is around."
Smith is identified as Bieber's personal assistant in the probation report. He was originally charged with possession of oxycodone, but that charge was dropped Wednesday.
In addition to searching the mansion in Calabasas, detectives also have served a search warrant on the photo-sharing site Instagram to try to match images of the pop singer's clothing with surveillance footage of the egg attack.
Authorities said images showing a man who matched Bieber's appearance running from his neighbor's house and high-fiving his friends were seized from the pop singer's home during the Jan. 14 search.


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Changing distro/machine
- is it safe to change distro on the same oe tree? or mixed staged packages my produce unpredictible results?
It is not recommended as results can be disaster. Each distro can define other versions of each of libraries so in the end resulting packages are not what distro wants.
- on angstrom build guide you can read that changing machine/libs is safe for *Angstrom*, is it safe for other distro too?
It is safe for any distro.
About The building time needed
- I have several tries on building the very basic targets (bitbake nano/helloworld/task-base), every time it cannot complete in almost a whole night, on a Intel-3.2G-CPU/512M-Memory machine, so who can tell an approximate building time needed? On Day or one week? Thank you.
It depends on machine speed and amount of memory. On quad core Intel 2.4GHz with 4GB ram I am able to do console-image in 2-3 hours. But that can be also result of ccache being used with quite big storage used for caching. Build time can be longer for first build due to time required to fetch all sources so keep your DL_DIR outside of TMPDIR so next builds will use already fetched sources. You can also enable parallel make and use more BitBake threads to speed up build time (info how to do it ).
Bitbake GIT
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W. Mark Lanier, the plaintiffs attorney who won a $253 million judgment against pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. over the fatal effects of its painkiller Vioxx, spoke to Professor Jon Hanson's Torts class on November 19 at the law school.
Lanier is the founder of the Lanier Law Firm and serves as the Houston firm's lead litigation counsel. He has won multi-million dollar awards for plaintiffs against such powerful corporations as Merck, Amoco and Becton Dickinson. The New York Times has called him "one of the top civil trial lawyers in America."
Professor Hanson's Torts 6 class studies the various aspects of tort law, including the psychological, which was the focus of Lanier's talk. Recounting his trial "war stories" for Hanson's students, Lanier displayed the "theatrical flair" noted by The Wall Street Journal, which is key to his success in communicating with juries. He changed voices, accents and postures for different characters, and even removed his glasses to reenact the deposition of a witness by another lawyer.
Describing the theory behind his approach, Lanier told the class that plaintiffs litigation is "a bit like professional wrestling meets ballet. The corporations pay for wonderful ballerinas who execute kicks with great precision. We tend to go in as professional wrestlers executing the Texas Tombstone Piledriver. And wrestling beats ballet." In the Angleton, Texas, trial against Merck, Lanier's "wrestling" included exhorting jurors to find against Merck with the biblical story of the young David defeating Goliath the giant.
After the class, Professor Hanson commented, "It's easy to see why Mark is one of the most successful and feared trial attorneys of his generation. His war stories were both eye-opening and spellbinding."
Lanier is a 1984 graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law and a part-time preacher. In 2006, he was named a Top 10 Trial Attorney as well as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by The National Law Journal.


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NATO Secretary General's report on implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, and related resolutions
The adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000 was an historic event. It marked the first formal recognition by the international community of both the impact of conflict on women, and the contribution women can make to building and consolidating peace. NATO's approach towards the implementation of UNSCR 1325 is founded on the principle of building and maintaining sustainable peace and security.
In November 2010, at the NATO Summit Meeting in Lisbon, Allied Heads of State and Government underscored NATO's commitment to the implementation of UNSCR 1325 by endorsing both a comprehensive report, which had been developed jointly by Allies and Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) partners, and an Action Plan on Mainstreaming UNSCR 1325 into NATO-led missions and operations, developed jointly with ISAF and KFOR contributors. In June 2011, as mandated at Lisbon, a revised NATO/EAPC Policy on the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 and Related Resolutions was approved, together with an Implementation Plan to underpin that Policy. One of the goals of the Implementation Plan is to ensure unabated high-level commitment by NATO and its Allies and partners to the implementation of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and Related Resolutions (UNSCR 1820, UNSCR 1888, UNSCR 1889 and UNSCR 1960). This first annual progress report by the NATO Secretary General reflects that commitment.
NATO's revised Policy on the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 and Related Resolutions is based on a practical, six-track approach: operations; mainstreaming UNSCR 1325 in policies, programmes and documentation; cooperating with International Organisations, NGOs and civil society; education and training; public diplomacy; and national initiatives. Over the past year, there has been progress in each of these areas, as highlighted below.
Mainstreaming in Operations
The NATO Action Plan on Mainstreaming UNSCR 1325 into NATO-led Operations and Missions was endorsed at the Lisbon Summit meeting. It was subsequently revised in August 2011 in order to include an initial set of primarily quantitative indicators. The intention is to update this report regularly and to evolve the initial set of indicators in a way that will allow a more qualitative measurement of success over time.
Both of NATO's Strategic Headquarters (Allied Command Transformation, ACT and Allied Command Operations, ACO) now have deployed Gender Advisers. Within the ISAF command structure, more than ten gender-related positions have been created and filled in various headquarters. Additional gender related positions, or points of contact with similar responsibilities, have been deployed by nations in their Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). One gender adviser has been deployed at KFOR HQ.
A workshop was heldin early November at the NATO Defence College in Rome, with the objective of assessing and enhancing gender perspective training practices, in order to improve implementation of UNSCR 1325 in NATO-led operations and missions.
Mainstreaming UNSCR 1325 in Policies, Programmes and Documentation
The revised NATO/EAPC Policy and related practical activities have been extended to NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative Partners, as well as to the Alliance's partners across the globe, thus multiplying efforts to implement UNSCR 1325 through dialogue and practical cooperation. NATO will continue actively to pursue greater partner involvement in the future.
UNSCR 1325 is fully integrated in the Building Integrity Initiative for Afghanistan under the NATO-Afghanistan Enduring Partnership.
Cooperating with International Organisations, NGOs and Civil Society
Cooperation was further consolidated during the course of 2011, with UNSCR 1325 being included for the first time on the formal agendas of NATO staff talks with the UN and the OSCE. An informal staff-level network has been established of gender experts working within NATO, OSCE, EU, UNDPKO and UN Women. A VTC meeting of these experts took place in February this year. NATO is also currently coordinating a mapping exercise of gender-related education and training activities in these organisations.
Education and Training
Nations and ACT have included gender perspective-related modules in most of their pre-deployment training. Also, a template for gender pre-deployment training has been developed by NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives (NCGP). As a tool for transformation within NATO structures, gender is being included in staff exercises.
NATO is also contributing to a UNDP project aimed at "Supporting Gender Mainstreaming in Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans".
Public Diplomacy – Raising Awareness
Over the past year, NATO has actively continued its dual-approach UNSCR 1325 public diplomacy strategy of communication through internet and engagement. A special NATO TV Channel on Internet (NITV) module was launched on "Empowering Women", with a strong focus on Afghanistan. Also, an international discussion was held, via VTC, on the Role of Women, Peace and Security, connecting NATO Headquarters with universities of Moscow (Russia), Tbilisi (Georgia), and Kabul and Herat (Afghanistan). Furthermore, information programmes have been prepared for female officers, human rights activists, and experts on UNSCR 1325 from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Georgia. Conferences and seminars have been organised on the subject throughout 2011, and on 1st December 2011, NATO's Public Diplomacy Division, in cooperation with the Club of Madrid, will hold a workshop with International Organisations and NGOs at NATO Headquarters on "Lessons Learnt from Implementing UNSCR 1325".
National Initiatives
At national level, implementation of UNSCR 1325 is supported through National Action Plans and other national level strategies. Twenty-oneNATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) nations have such plans or strategies(Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Slovenia,Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, and United Kingdom).