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Edith Abbott (1876–1957) was a social worker and educator. She was Dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago from 1924 to 1942 and she helped in drafting the Social Security Act of 1935.
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Abbott, Edith
Jean K. Quam
Abbott, Grace
Jean K. Quam
Grace Abbott (1878–1939) was a teacher who went on to become Director of the Immigrants Protective League of Chicago and Director of the U.S. Children's Bureau. In 1934 she became professor of public welfare at the University of Chicago.
Abernathy, Ralph David
Lou M. Beasley
Ralph David Abernathy (1926–1990) was a pastor who became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of Martin Luther King. He was director of personnel, dean of men, and professor of social studies at Alabama State University.
Abolitionist Social Work
Noor Toraif and Justin C. Mueller
Abolitionist social work is a theoretical framework and political project within the field of social work and an extension of the project of carceral abolitionism more broadly. Abolitionists seek to abolish punishment, prisons, police, and other carceral systems because they view these as being inherently destructive systems. Abolitionists argue that these carceral systems cause physiological, cognitive, economic, and political harms for incarcerated people, their families, and their communities; reinforce White supremacy; disproportionately burden the poor and marginalized; and fail to produce justice and healing after social harms have occurred. In their place, abolitionists want to create material conditions, institutions, and forms of community that facilitate emancipation and human flourishing and consequently render prisons, police, and other carceral systems obsolete. Abolitionist social workers advance this project in multiple ways, including critiquing the ways that social work and social workers are complicit in supporting or reinforcing carceral systems, challenging the expansion of carceral systems and carceral logics into social service domains, dismantling punitive and carceral institutions and methods of responding to social harms, implementing nonpunitive and noncarceral institutions and methods of responding to social harms, and strengthening the ability of communities to design and implement their own responses to social conflict and harm in the place of carceral institutions. As a theoretical framework, abolitionist social work draws from and extends the work of other critical frameworks and discourses, including anticarceral social work, feminist social work, dis/ability critical race studies, and transformative justice.
D. Lynn Jackson
Until the 19th century, abortion law in the United States was nonexistent, and abortion was not seen as a moral issue. However, by the turn of the 20th century, abortion was legally defined and controlled in most of the United States. The landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade (1973) marked the legalization of abortion but did not end the controversy that existed. Legislation at both the federal and state levels between 1989 and 2022, added restrictions on abortion, making it difficult for women to exercise their reproductive rights. In June 2022, the Supreme Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), overturned Roe v. Wade (1973), which had guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion. Social work's commitment to promoting the human rights of women compels social workers to be aware of and involved in this issue.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Claudia J. Dewane
Clinical social work is a derivative profession, drawing its knowledge and practice base from several theoretical schools. The four primary theoretical schools contributing to social-work philosophy are psychodynamic, humanist, cognitive–behavioral, and postmodern. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), although considered one of the third-wave behavioral approaches, draws from all four theoretical schools of clinical intervention. This entry gives an overview of ACT development, its essential features, empirical base, tenets and techniques, and relevance to the social-work profession.
Accommodating Students with Physical Disabilities in Higher Education
Anna Escamilla
Students with disabilities are becoming more and more common in higher education classrooms, including social work classrooms. The challenges that come with accommodating students so as to allow equal access to the educational experience are surmountable with the assistance of student disability offices. New technology is being developed to assist students with learning both in and out of the classroom. Supportive attitudes from faculty in including students with disabilities allow all students to benefit from the experience. As compliance with laws such as the ADA becomes commonplace for new construction, the concept of universal design makes inclusion a norm.
Action Research
David P. Moxley
Through cycles of systematic and purposeful iterative engagement with problems they face in specific practice settings, social workers engaging in action research build knowledge that is useful in advancing practice for the purposes of social betterment. This entry situates action research in the development of social-work knowledge and then examines variants of action research formed when degrees of participation and control vary among members of vulnerable populations, particularly within community situations involving coping with a degraded quality of life. The author identifies the importance of methodological pluralism and addresses how sound action research results in knowledge dissemination and utilization for the purposes of social betterment, often through alternative methods of inquiry. The entry concludes with caveats social workers engaged in action research should heed, and the author emphasizes the pivotal role social work can serve in local efforts to engage in knowledge development for social betterment.
Adams, Frankie Victoria
Lou M. Beasley
Frankie Victoria Adams (1902–1979) was a social worker who influenced the development of social work education and of professional social work in the American South. She developed the Group Work and Community Organization concentrations at Atlanta University.
Addams, Jane
Jean K. Quam
Jane Addams (1860–1935) was a settlement house leader and peace activist. She was the founder of Hull-House and became president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Addictions: Gambling
Lia Nower and Kyle Caler
Gambling disorder is a significant public health concern. The recent and continued proliferation of land-based and interactive gambling opportunities has increased both accessibility and acceptability of gambling in the United States and abroad, resulting in greater and more varied participation. However, there is currently no designated federal funding for prevention, intervention, treatment, or research, and states are left to adopt varying standards on an ad hoc basis. Social workers receive little or no training in screening or treating problem gamblers, though research suggests that a significant proportion of those with mental health and other addictive disorders also gamble excessively. Raising awareness about the nature and scope of gambling disorder and its devastating implications for families and children is a first-step toward integrating gambling into prevention, assessment and treatment education in social work. This, in turn, will increase the chances of early identification and intervention across settings and insure that social workers can lend a knowledgeable and credible voice to addressing this hidden addiction.
Addictions: Tobacco
Mansoo Yu and Rachel Fischer
Tobacco use is a major public-health concern in the United States. Intervention and prevention strategies for tobacco use are an urgent public-health priority because tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death. To help social workers better understand tobacco use problems, this entry presents an overview, including definitions of terms, the scope and impact of tobacco use problems in terms of different segments of the population (that is, age, gender, race or ethnicity, geographic location, and education level or socioeconomic status), etiology of tobacco use (for example, biological or genetic; psychiatric; psychosocial; or environmental or sociocultural factors), policy history, tobacco prevention, clinical issues (such as cessation desire, treatment and success, or screening tools for tobacco use disorder and tobacco withdrawal), and practice interventions for tobacco use problems. Based on the information, the roles of social workers will be addressed.
Adolescent Brain Development
Jessica M. Black
Although it was once widely held that development through toddlerhood was the only significant time of tremendous brain growth, findings from neuroscience have identified adolescence as a second significant period of brain-based changes. Profound modification of brain structure, function, and connectivity, paired with heightened sensitivity to environment, places adolescence both as a heightened period of risk and importantly as a time of tremendous opportunity. These findings are of key relevance for social-work policy and practice, for they speak to the ways in which the adolescent brain both is vulnerable to adverse conditions and remains responsive to positive environmental input such as interventions that support recovery and resilience.
Adolescent Populations: An Overview of Issues and Social Problems
Todd Michael Franke and Diane de Anda
This entry begins with a presentation of demographic data from the U.S. Census 2010 on the adolescent population 12 to 19 years by age, gender, and ethnicity. A summary of the information available on major issues and problems affecting adolescent populations is presented from numerous governmental and empirical research sources on the following topics: education, runaway and homeless youth, sexual behavior, substance abuse, suicide, victimization and criminal behavior, and texting while driving.
Adolescents: Practice Interventions
David L. Hussey
This chapter summarizes literature and research related to advances in direct practice work with adolescents. Social workers are on the forefront of developing and utilizing a variety of evidence-based practices to address complex client and community needs.
Adolescents: Pregnancy
Kathleen A. Rounds and Traci L. Wike
Although rates of adolescent pregnancy have exhibited a downward trend since 1991, the United States continues to have a significantly higher rate than other industrialized nations. Adolescent pregnancy, especially in early and middle adolescence, has long-term developmental and economic impact on the teen and her child, in addition to high social costs. This entry describes the current trends in adolescent pregnancy in the United States, and examines factors reported in the research literature as associated with adolescent pregnancy, discusses federal policy directed toward adolescent pregnancy prevention, and identifies various intervention programs.
Adolescents: A Historical Overview of Developmental Theories
Diane de Anda
This article begins with an overview of biological development based upon empirical research. The main focus of the article is the presentation of the major theoretical frameworks that have been employed to explain the processes involved in the psychological, cognitive, moral, social, and sexual development of the adolescent and empirical research findings where appropriate.
Adoption: Overview
Richard P. Barth
Adoption of children from foster care and international adoptions have accelerated since 1987. Federal policy changes have markedly increased the termination of parental rights and adoption of children in foster care. Adoption by relatives and single parents has also grown markedly. Open adoption is increasingly normative. Adoption outcomes are generally positive although there is substantial call for post-adoption support for children adopted from foster care. These services are emerging but their efficacy is still untested. More work is needed on post-adoption services because there are now more former foster children in post-adoption status than there are children in foster care.
Adoption: Intercountry
Karen Smith Rotabi
The practice of intercountry adoption is first considered from a historical framework, beginning with World War II, to other conflicts throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. In this historical overview, factors that contributed to the rise of the global circulation of children for adoption in the 20th century are discussed, as well as efforts for reform in the 21st century in response to problems of abuse, fraud, and exploitation and the development of policies to regulate intercountry adoption and ultimately protect children. Specifically, The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption is presented from a social justice perspective, using Guatemala as a case example, as well as relevant U.S. policies regulating intercountry adoption practices. Finally, direct practice considerations for social workers are discussed. These include pre- and post-adoption issues to support families and children through the intercountry adoption process and across the child's lifespan with considerations for trans-racial adoptions and the unique child-family support issues. In conclusion, the significant decline in the practice is reflected upon pragmatically; the need for true reform in the practice is necessary to preserve intercountry adoption for orphaned and vulnerable children.
Adoption: Transracial and Intercountry
Rowena Fong, Ruth G. McRoy, Amy Griffin, and Catherine LaBrenz
A history of transracial and intercountry adoptions in the United States is briefly provided as well as highlights trends, demographics, practices, and policies that have evolved as families have become more diverse. The current prevalence of intercountry and transracial adoptions in the United States is examined as well as the impact of policy changes in the United States and abroad on rates of intercountry adoption. Additionally, the challenges that have emerged for children adopted transracially and from abroad, as well as for their adoptive families, are reviewed. These include navigating ethnic and racial identity formation, cultural sensitivity, and challenging behaviors. Finally, future directions for social work practice, research, and policy are explored, and implications are provided for social workers intervening with families who have adopted children transracially or internationally. Specifically, adoption-competent professionals should also integrate cultural humility and competence into their therapeutic work with adoptive children and families. Implications for research in the conclusion focus on expanding prior studies on intercountry and transracial adoptions to incorporate racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the literature. Policy implications include increasing access and funding for post-adoption services for all adoptive families.

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text: Do you know where to repair your bike nearby? Or which stores are next to bike racks or lots?Not sure what style of bike you want and where to buy it? Where is your city cycling club and how to meet cyclists in your area?The city map Foucherans displays bicycle racks and lots, bike-rental services, repair centers, sporting goods stores, and cycling clubs, as well as other places useful to both beginner and professional riders.


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parkrun on Saturday, 15 September 2018 is a weekly free timed 5km run/walk on Saturday mornings, at multiple locations across Australia. See the event website for the full list of locations.
Note that although parkrun is free, you must register online in advance. You only have to register once and can then participate in any other parkrun anywhere else in the world.


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My gal pal, Jaime from Raising up Rubies, is back again with some darn darling spice storage. I once featured her incredible craft room here which was also just featured in the recent issue of Better Homes & Gardens! Yeah, this pretty lady has major skills and I couldn't be more excited for her!
Back to the adorable spice storage. They weren't always that way. She started out with a few buckets of spices, which would cause digging and searching when it came time to cook.
So, she grabbed a few supplies to whip those spices into shape!
- 4 oz sized mason jars
- Krylon chalkboard spray paint {for the lids}
- Rustoleum Aqua spray paint {for the lid rings}
- Polka dot wrapping paper
Before adding the spices to the drawer, she popped in some brightly patterned paper inside.
After a few coats of chalkboard paint on the lids, she used a chalk marker to label each spice jar.
Before I show you the delightful "after" photos, I had to find out more, so I asked...
"By far, using the wrapping paper! With such an affordable way to make your kitchen pretty, how could anyone resist? Plus, it's glossy finish makes for easy minor cleanup... and for major clean up, just cut a new piece!"
How has it impacted your life for the better?
What a difference a little project makes right? I love that the jars can be used in a versatile way and switched up, since the labels are all just temporary with a chalk pen. I adore that she added spoons in the drawer to avoid opening another drawer just to measure spices. To me, that is thinking smarter, not harder.
And how do you not swoon over the cheerful colors? I would accidentally on purpose leave the drawer open each day....
I can hear your hearts pitter pattering from here. It's a lovely, happy sound!
Next month is kitchen month at iHeart Organizing, so a special thank you to Jaime for giving us amazing inspiration to "spice" things up in the busiest room of the home! You can find all of the details in her original post here.


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The bidding hasn't closed yet, but a charity auction of a cup of coffee shared with Apple CEO Tim Cook has already attracted offers of more than $600,000 — more than 10 times its estimated value of $50,000. Cook is one of several celebrities taking part in the auction, which benefits the .
The coffee klatch, currently valued at $605,000, will take place at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. And the price may rise even higher — the auction closes on Tues., May 14.
According to the auction's terms, the bidder who wins the chance to meet Cook for coffee will have one year to align schedules with the man who was on Time magazine's short list for Person of the Year in 2012. The winner may bring a guest to the meeting, which will last between 30 minutes and one hour.
We do not know what kind of coffee the Apple cafeteria serves. Perhaps they use the famously expensive "poop" coffees, in which the beans are collected after they've passed through the digestive systems of an animal — such as a civet (as we've reported on NPR), or an elephant. There is no word on whether refills are free.
The high price of a one-hour coffee session with Cook made us curious about how that compares to what the Apple CEO makes as an hourly rate. So we embarked on an exercise of (notoriously unreliable, we warn you) journalism math.
In 2012, Cook reportedly received a total compensation of $4.17 million, according to Bloomberg. That means that if he worked 40 hours a week — something that's far from a guarantee, but we need a ballpark figure — Cook made $2,004.81 an hour.
To calculate that figure, we used the widely accepted standard of 2,080 work-hours per year. Which means that if every one of Cook's hours were valued as highly as this coffee chat, he would earn more than $1,258,400,000 — yes, more than $1.25 billion — in a year.
As of Saturday morning, having coffee with Cook is the only experience in the RFK Center auction at the Charity Buzz website that's priced at more than $10,000. Other offerings include a week's stay at a California resort, and a chance to share screen time with actor Chris Hemsworth in a Michael Mann film.
Coffee has been on our minds here at NPR lately — see our stories from Coffee Week.
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TL;DR: Minor unnoticeable tweaks for BFS.
Incremental for 3.0.x-ck1:
Full patch for 3.0.x:
Alas there isn't anything earth shattering here. The skiplist implementation experiment failed to be of any benefit despite my best intentions, so I've abandoned the idea for the time being. Meanwhile, there were a number of minor improvements that I had considered for BFS (and I mean really really minor) and a few cleanups that had been waiting. So here's the changelog for the new BFS for 3.0:
Improve the preempt call by explicitly setting a task that will be used on lookup in earliest_deadline_task to avoid iterating over all tasks. Set the effective runqueue priority for further calls to try_preempt based on the preempting task's priority. Thus on the small chance that something else tries to preempt the runqueue before the new tasks gets the CPU, it will compare to the previously successful preempting task. This should avoid a preempting task from rescheduling a runqueue and then the CPU deciding to take a different task instead of the preempting one. Clean up a number of variables from unnecessary longs to ints and ints to bools. Microoptimise around try preempt by settings highest_prio to that of the task that's trying to preempt to avoid unnecessary comparisons. Break sole affinity on cpu offline -after- the cpu has been set to be offline.
I'd be surprised if anyone noticed anything different with these changes, but then, there have been some surprises from apparently innocuous changes in the past, so I'm keen to get feedback from testers. There is a small chance that the preempt changes can improve throughput by avoiding unnecessary rescheduling, and that the cpu offline changes might help rare scenarios where a machine will fail to suspend to ram.
Meanwhile, graysky who has been maintaining the unofficial ck repos for archlinux has very kindly put together a number of throughput benchmarks comparing BFS to mainline on machines from 2x up to 16x in a very nicely put together PDF which you can download and read here:
On the cksort front, it's clear to me that sorting algorithms are pretty boring to most people, despite me finding transient interest in them and developing my own. Nevertheless, the cksort algorithm has been further improved. After playing with it some more, and learning from the legendary work of the past, I modified the merge sort that cksort "tips" to to include an insertion sort as well, making the algorithm now a blended insertion+merge sort once it tips away from the presort+nodemerge algorithm which is basically the only unique part of cksort. This capitalises on the fact that insertion sort is pretty much the fastest way to sort up to 32 different entries by splitting up the merge into up-to-32 entry sized groups and doing insertion sort on all of them, followed by using a non-recursive merge sort on each group.
This has further improved cksort to now be faster than qsort for up to 1500 entries, and now equally fast with library qsort() up to 10000 (uniquely random)entries. Beyond that it is still slower than qsort, but it has -no- corner cases where it will ever become O(n^2) and will always be O(n log n) bound, unlike qsort.
Version 0.44 of cksort is here:
And in response to requests for the benchmarking code vs qsort it is here:
Now Aldo Cortesi has a very interesting static view of comparison sort algorithms here:
After contacting him, he was kind enough to modify his code such that it would take output from something like the cksort to generate a graph from any sorting algorithm. Alas cksort uses a separate array for its work and looking at the array of the final data does not tell the entire story of what's going on, but it does help further to visualise how cksort works.
Here is a view of 20 random variables being sorted and you can see the 2 phases of cksort where it builds up the nodes first, and the 2nd phase where it merges the nodes (click to enlarge):
It's important to note that the 2nd stage graph is fairly arbitrary since the data from the unmerged nodes is not actually written back to the original array until it's merged, but you should be able to make out the final sorted data appearing from the outside in.
Sorting non-random entries is really what makes cksort interesting and here is a (rather complex) visualisation of the 50 mostly-sorted example in the animated form I showed on my blog previously:
Anyway it's been a lot of fun playing with this stuff, and maybe one day I'll come up with something more useful from the algorithm. I played with an in-place version of the code which didn't need a second array and the amount of memory moving required made the algorithm slower and more complex so I soon lost interest in developing that for the time being. I'd like to find a way to make the presort+node merging aspect scale to any size instead of tipping to a different algorithm but the lack of any pattern in large random data sets means you can't really find a pattern in it. I still think there may be something like a heap structure that would help it but haven't found anything that works in practice. Maybe I'll come back to this in the future. Meanwhile it works extremely well for the smaller data sets, partially ordered data, reverse ordered data, and few unique data sets. Interestingly it coincidentally shares a lot in its ideas with Timsort. All I can say after all this is that the work of the legends of the past, and coming up with something like Smoothsort is truly amazing.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make "60 Minutes" the most distinctive news show on television have died.
First it was Andy Rooney, the cantankerous commentator who died last November, a month after delivering the last of his show-closing essays. Late Saturday night, it was Mike Wallace, the hard-charging interviewer who frequently led "60 Minutes" and gave it journalistic heft with a showman's flair.
Rooney made it to age 92. Wallace beat him by a year, although he spent the latter stage of his life in the New Canaan, Conn., care facility where he died.
"More than anyone else he was responsible for the continuing success of '60 Minutes,' "veteran correspondent Morley Safer, a longtime colleague and frequent competitor of Wallace's in chasing after big stories, said on Sunday's show. "We are all in his debt."
"60 Minutes" plans an extended tribute to Wallace next Sunday.
Wallace had such a fearsome reputation as an interviewer that "Mike Wallace is here to see you" were among the most dreaded words a newsmaker could hear.
Wallace didn't just interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them pitilessly. His weapons were many: thorough research, a cocked eyebrow, a skeptical "Come on" and a question so direct it took your breath away.
He was well aware that his reputation arrived at an interview before he did, said Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman and Wallace's long-time producer at "60 Minutes."
"He loved it," Fager said Sunday. "He loved that part of Mike Wallace. He loved being Mike Wallace. He loved the fact that if he showed up for an interview, it made people nervous. ... He knew, and he knew that everybody else knew, that he was going to get to the truth. And that's what motivated him."
Wallace made "60 Minutes" compulsively watchable, television's first newsmagazine that became appointment viewing on Sunday nights. His last interview, in January 2008, was with Roger Clemens on his alleged steroid use. Slowed by a triple bypass later that month and the ravages of time on a once-sharp mind, he retired from public life.
During the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, Wallace asked Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini — then a feared figure — what he thought about being called "a lunatic" by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Khomeini answered by predicting Sadat's assassination.
Late in his career, he interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin, and challenged him: "This isn't a real democracy, come on!" Putin's aides tried fruitlessly to halt the interview.
In 1973, with the Watergate scandal growing, he sat with top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman and read a long list of alleged crimes, from money laundering to obstructing justice. "All of this," Wallace noted, "by the law-and-order administration of Richard Nixon."
The surly Ehrlichman could only respond: "Is there a question in there somewhere?"
In the early 1990s, Wallace reduced Barbra Streisand to tears as he scolded her for being "totally self-absorbed" when she was young and mocked her decades of psychoanalysis. "What is it she is trying to find out that takes 20 years?" Wallace wondered.
"He was hands down the best television interviewer ever," said Steve Kroft, his former "60 Minutes" colleague. "I can't think of anyone, besides (CBS legend Edward R.) Murrow, who had a greater influence in shaping television journalism."
"60 Minutes" pioneered the use of "ambush interviews," with reporter and camera crew corralling alleged wrongdoers in parking lots, hallways, wherever a comment — or at least a stricken expression — might be harvested from someone dodging reporters' phone calls. Wallace once went after a medical laboratory offering Medicaid kickbacks to doctors in this fashion.
They were phased out after founding executive producer Don Hewitt termed them "showbiz baloney." ''Finally I said, 'Hey, kid, maybe it's time to retire that trenchcoat,'" Hewitt recalled.
Wallace's late colleague Harry Reasoner once said, "There is one thing that Mike can do better than anybody else: With an angelic smile, he can ask a question that would get anyone else smashed in the face."
Fager's first contact with Wallace — as a young producer he had to shorten one of Wallace's stories for another broadcast — left him more frightened than anything he had to do professionally to that point. Eventually, Fager became one of Wallace's producers and, as the top producer at "60 Minutes," the one who had to delicately convince a man who never wanted to retire that it was time to hang it up.
"I was scared of him and intimidated by him," he said. "He knew it and he would just make you more miserable. That was Mike. He always had a twinkle in his eye, and even if you were intimidated by him, it was hard not to love him."
ABC's Diane Sawyer, a former "60 Minutes" colleague, said Wallace's energy and nerve set the show's pace. "He bounded through the halls with joy at the prospect of the new, the true, the unexpected," she said.
His prosecutorial style was admired, imitated, condemned and lampooned. In a 1984 skit on "Saturday Night Live," Harry Shearer impersonated Wallace, and Martin Short played weaselly, chain-smoking attorney Nathan Thurm, who becomes comically evasive, shifty-eyed and nervous under questioning.
Wallace was hired when Hewitt put together the staff of "60 Minutes" at its inception in 1968. The show wasn't a hit at first, but worked its way up to the top 10 in the 1977-78 season and remained there year after year. Among other things, it proved there could be big profits in TV journalism. It remains the most popular newsmagazine on TV.
Wallace said he didn't think he had an unfair advantage over his interview subjects: "The person I'm interviewing has not been subpoenaed. He's in charge of himself, and he lives with his subject matter every day. All I'm armed with is research."
Wallace himself became a dramatic character in several projects, from the stage version of "Frost/Nixon," when he was played by Stephen Rowe, to the 1999 film "The Insider," based in part on a 1995 "60 Minutes" story about tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, who accused Brown & Williamson of intentionally adding nicotine to cigarettes. CBS News initially cut Wigand's interview for fear of being sued.
In all, his television career spanned six decades, much of it at CBS. In 1949, he appeared as Myron Wallace in a show called "Majority Rules." In the early 1950s he was an announcer and game show host. In the mid-1950s he hosted "Night Beat," a series of one-on-one interviews that first won Wallace fame for his tough style.
After holding a variety of other news and entertainment jobs, including serving as advertising pitchman for a cigarette brand, Wallace became a full-time newsman for CBS in 1963.
He said it was the death of his 19-year-old son Peter in an accident in 1962 that made him decide to stick to serious journalism from then on. (Another son, Chris, followed his father and became a broadcast journalist. He anchors "Fox News Sunday" on the Fox network.)
Wallace had a short stint reporting from Vietnam and took a sock in the jaw while covering the tumultuous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. But he didn't fit the stereotype of the Eastern liberal journalist. He was a close friend of the Reagans and was once offered the job of Richard Nixon's press secretary. He called his politics moderate.
The most publicized lawsuit against him was by retired Gen. William C. Westmoreland, who sought $120 million for a 1982 "CBS Reports" documentary, "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception," that accused Westmoreland and others of deliberately underestimating enemy troop strength during the Vietnam War.
Westmoreland dropped the libel suit in 1985 after a long trial. Lawyers for each side later said legal costs of the suit totaled $12 million, of which $9 million was paid by CBS. Wallace said the case plunged him into a depression that put him in the hospital for a week.
In 1996, he appeared before the Senate's Special Committee on Aging to urge more federal funds for depression research, saying that he had felt "lower, lower, lower than a snake's belly" but had recovered through psychiatry and antidepressants. He later disclosed that he once tried to commit suicide during that dark period.
Wallace was born Myron Wallace on May 9, 1918, in Brookline, Mass. He began his news career in Chicago in the 1940s, first as a radio news writer for the Chicago Sun and then as a reporter for WMAQ. He started at CBS in 1951.
He was married four times. In 1986, he wed Mary Yates Wallace, the widow of his close friend and colleague Ted Yates, who had died in 1967. Besides his wife, Wallace is survived by his son, a stepdaughter, Pauline Dora and stepsons Eames and Angus Yates.
Associated Press Television Writer Frazier Moore, Deepti Hajela, former Associated Press writer Polly Anderson and National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this report.


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Nexus 7 Android Tablets for Christmas At DoubleDutch
Why did the founder of Mobile CRM company DoubleDutch give his employees Android Nexus 7 Tablets for XMas? He wanted to inspire them to develop for the platform — not just for the iPad — and explained how enterprise app development is fundamentally changing the way enterprise business is done.
Defying all stereotypes of handing out cool mini iPads, Lawrence Coburn, founder and CEO of enterprise mobile app company DoubleDutch, decided to give all 27 of his employees the latest Android tablets as a holiday treat. He figured if his team is building mobile, cloud-based apps for events and enterprise companies, they had better be inspired to build for the Android platform as well as iOS.
Startups don't have bonuses, so this is their gift, Coburn said.
After personally spending some time with his new Android Nexus 7 from Google, Coburn said he appreciates Android since it can do cooler, more native stuff and developers have access to more leavers to build into app.
Coburn thinks people are spending more time on their phones and tablets than desktops, so it's a good way to enter the enterprise market.
"I think the big things going forward are apps with context. Apps that serve up pages at the right time based on different things. Integrations will be big for mobile and being able to pull information from apps that people use every day and deliver that content at the right time," Coburn said. "Delivering that at the right time will be a big deal."
For an enterprise company, the software system has to be better than the desktop system currently in place, or it has to embrace the current system and integrate with it. "There's no way people would rip out Salesforce for our CRM app, so we need to integrate with those services," he said.
DoubleDutch's current customer base includes UBM (publisher of BYTE), Cisco, Adobe, and Macworld.
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Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians by Harriet Sherwood and Matthew Kalman
Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
Hawking, 71, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, had accepted an invitation to headline the fifth annual president's conference, Facing Tomorrow, in June, which features major international personalities, attracts thousands of participants and this year will celebrate Peres's 90th birthday.
Hawking is in very poor health, but last week he wrote a brief letter to the Israeli president to say he had changed his mind. He has not announced his decision publicly, but a statement published by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine with Hawking's approval described it as "his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there".
Hawking's decision marks another victory in the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions targeting Israeli academic institutions.
In April the Teachers' Union of Ireland became the first lecturers' association in Europe to call for an academic boycott of Israel, and in the United States members of the Association for Asian American Studies voted to support a boycott, the first national academic group to do so.
In the four weeks since Hawking's participation in the Jerusalem event was announced, he has been bombarded with messages from Britain and abroad as part of an intense campaign by boycott supporters trying to persuade him to change his mind. In the end, Hawking told friends, he decided to follow the advice of Palestinian colleagues who unanimously agreed that he should not attend.
Hawking's decision met with abusive responses on Facebook, with many commentators focusing on his physical condition, and some accusing him of antisemitism.
By participating in the boycott, Hawking joins a small but growing list of British personalities who have turned down invitations to visit Israel, including Elvis Costello, Roger Waters, Brian Eno, Annie Lennox and Mike Leigh.
However, many artists, writers and academics have defied and even denounced the boycott, calling it ineffective and selective. Ian McEwan, who was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011, responded to critics by saying: "If I only went to countries that I approve of, I probably would never get out of bed … It's not great if everyone stops talking."
Noam Chomsky, a prominent supporter of the Palestinian cause, has said that he supports the "boycott and divestment of firms that are carrying out operations in the occupied territories" but that a general boycott of Israel is "a gift to Israeli hardliners and their American supporters".
Hawking has visited Israel four times in the past. Most recently, in 2006, he delivered public lectures at Israeli and Palestinian universities as the guest of the British embassy in Tel Aviv. At the time, he said he was "looking forward to coming out to Israel and the Palestinian territories and excited about meeting both Israeli and Palestinian scientists".
Since then, his attitude to Israel appears to have hardened. In 2009, Hawking denounced Israel's three-week attack on Gaza, telling Riz Khan on Al-Jazeera that Israel's response to rocket fire from Gaza was "plain out of proportion … The situation is like that of South Africa before 1990 and cannot continue."
Israel Maimon, chairman of the presidential conference said: "This decision is outrageous and wrong.
"The use of an academic boycott against Israel is outrageous and improper, particularly for those to whom the spirit of liberty is the basis of the human and academic mission. Israel is a democracy in which everyone can express their opinion, whatever it may be. A boycott decision is incompatible with open democratic discourse."
In 2011, the Israeli parliament passed a law making a boycott call by an individual or organisation a civil offence which can result in compensation liable to be paid regardless of actual damage caused. It defined a boycott as "deliberately avoiding economic, cultural or academic ties with another person or another factor only because of his ties with the State of Israel, one of its institutions or an area under its control, in such a way that may cause economic, cultural or academic damage".


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NEW YORK (AP) -- In case Americans want to scarf down their fast-food even faster, KFC is stripping the bones out of its chicken.
The fast-food chain says it's introducing deep-fried boneless chicken pieces on April 14 as an alternative to its traditional breast, thigh and drumstick pieces.
The new offering reflects the growing popularity of nuggets and strips that are easier to eat on the go, as well as Americans' seemingly endless desire for more convenient foods. KFC says nearly four out of five servings of chicken sold in the U.S. are now boneless.
Based on customer trends, the chain says bones could eventually disappear from its menu.
"Younger people don't tend to be fans of bones — they've grown up with nuggets," said KFC spokesman Rick Maynard, referring to people in their 20s and 30s.
Although KFC has more than 18,000 locations worldwide, the boneless chicken will only be offered in its 4,500 U.S. locations.
The new chicken, which is skinless and comes in white or dark meat, are whole muscle pieces fileted off the bone and are about twice the size of KFC's crispy strips. Customers will be able to order them for the chain's meal deals, which include two pieces of chicken, a side, a biscuit and a drink for $4.99.
They also come in buckets, which include four pieces of boneless chicken and six pieces of breasts, thighs and drumsticks for $14.99. The boneless chicken option costs the same as the regular fried chicken.
A piece of the boneless white meat has 200 calories and 8 grams of fat. A dark meat piece has 250 calories.
Even before the latest launch, KFC had already been shifting its menu to more boneless offerings. It rolled out smaller chicken "Bites" last year, as well as "Dip'ems," which are strips of chicken with a variety of sauces.
The chain had also been offering the chicken filets used in its sandwiches as a stand-alone, handheld option. The chain says those will be phased out and that the new boneless pieces will be used in sandwiches.
KFC says it took two to three years to develop its version of boneless chicken, which performed strongly in test markets including Oklahoma City and Omaha last year.
Like McDonald's and Burger King, chicken chain Chick-Fil-A offers nuggets, strips and sandwiches but doesn't list any chicken pieces with bones on its menu. Although McDonald's recently tested chicken wings at select locations, the world's biggest hamburger chain has also focused on convenient options such as its new chicken McWraps and chicken McBites that come in portable cartons.
Howard Penney, a food industry analyst for Hedgeye Risk Management, noted that KFC has been struggling in the U.S. and that it has nothing to lose with the latest move. Even in the wings category, Penney noted that boneless varieties have been growing in popularity.
"People don't want to have to deal with the bones," Penney said.
KFC is owned by Yum Brands Inc., which also operates Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.
Despite its choppy performance in the U.S., Yum has enjoyed a streak of growth for the past several years as a result of its growing presence in China. Yum is the largest Western fast-food operator in the country with about 5,300 locations, most of them KFC restaurants.
But since late last year, Yum has been working to overcome a scare over its chicken supply that has hammered sales in China. Yum, based in Louisville, Ky., has warned that it expects its profit in 2013 to decline, snapping an 11-year streak of double-digit growth.
Shares of Yum Brands fell $2.17, or 3.2 percent, to $65.58 in morning trading as broad market indicators sagged on weaker than expected U.S. job growth in March.
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The sport of swimming is back in the news, with new questions being raised about whether swimming has effectively confronted a sexual abuse problem, a problem that's been revealed in recent years. USA Swimming - the sport's governing body in this country - announced an independent review of Safe Sport, their organization's program to protect athletes from sexual abuse. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.
TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: In the spring of 2010, swimming's secrets emerged in a flurry of media reports.
GOLDMAN: ABC News was just one of the outlets that detailed the situation, prompting comparisons to the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal: coaches molesting underage female swimmers, some of the abuse continuing for years without punishment. After the revelations, USA Swimming unveiled new rules and regulations in a program called Safe Sport. The program's website details, among other things, abuse training and education, the importance of reporting sexual misconduct. Within the Olympic movement, Safe Sport is considered the flagship athlete protection program. But three years in, there are concerns it's not doing the job. Stories have trickled in from people reporting violations of the new rules.
BOB ALLARD: USA Swimming manifested a complete disinterest in helping these people.
GOLDMAN: That's California attorney Bob Allard. He represents a number of sex abuse victims. And then this: Last week, USA Swimming announced a prominent expert on the prevention of child abuse, a man named Victor Vieth, will conduct an independent examination of Safe Sport. Chuck Wielgus, in his 17th year as USA Swimming executive director, insists nothing is amiss. He says we're just trying to improve.
CHUCK WIELGUS: We have a little bit more time on our hands, and it just seemed like a good point to pause and take a hard look.
GOLDMAN: But it comes at a time when Congress is taking a look, as well. Two months ago, U.S. Representative George Miller of California - the senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee - asked the GAO to investigate how swimming and other youth sports organizations handle child abuse allegations. In his letter to the GAO, Miller wrote: recent reports about the abuse of student athletes participating in public and private swim clubs have raised a number of new concerns about whether we have adequate laws and policies in place to prevent and address such abuse. Tomorrow morning, members of Miller's staff are meeting with Safe Sport's director and U.S. Olympic Committee officials. Is there a connection between this new scrutiny and the announcement of a Safe Sport review? Chuck Wielgus.
WIELGUS: We're not doing this in response to that.
GOLDMAN: Yes, they are, says attorney Bob Allard.
ALLARD: USA Swimming is about to meet with Congress, and it's desperately trying to portray itself as an organization that cares.
GOLDMAN: It's been Allard's contention since 2010 that USA Swimming doesn't care, and it's why his client list is filled with former swimmers and why he has four active lawsuits against the governing body. One of his clients, Kelley Currin, was 13 when top coach Rick Curl started abusing her in the 1980s. Curl pleaded guilty in February, and was sentenced in May to seven years in prison.
KELLEY CURRIN: There are people that knew about this abuse.
GOLDMAN: Currin spoke after the sentencing.
CURRIN: People that are in USA Swimming positions of authority right now, and those people need to be held accountable for the fact that they knew and did nothing.
GOLDMAN: USA Swimming officials deny any cover-ups and say it was their investigation - started in 2011, after they say they first learned about the abuse - that helped bring Curl to justice. But the governing body, at least privately, acknowledges weaknesses in what it trumpets as Safe Sport's ramped-up efforts at sexual abuse prevention. A recent USA Swimming internal memo obtained by NPR mentions loopholes such as this: If a member committed sexual misconduct against a minor before the member joined USA Swimming, but no charges were pressed, we do not have a way to remove that member. I asked Chuck Wielgus about this.
Safe Sport talks about protecting young athletes, but if there is sexual misconduct that is known, can't you go simply from A to B and say that person does not belong in this program?
WIELGUS: That's what we're saying now. And I think had those things been brought to our attention, or had we realized those things three years ago when we began the Safe Sport program, I'm sure we would have initiated action at that time.
GOLDMAN: Jeff Renwick isn't so sure. He says his experience with USA Swimming and Safe Sport is one of inaction.
JEFF RENWICK: I'm from Monument, Colorado, and a parent of two great kids.
GOLDMAN: Who were eight and 10 when their swim club - one of nearly 3,000 under the USA Swimming umbrella - hired a new coach. It was 2010, just after Safe Sport started. Renwick and his wife did a Google search on the coach. They discovered he didn't have any swimming background, and he had a MySpace page filled with sexual images and words.
RENWICK: Our immediate reaction was oh, my.
GOLDMAN: It wasn't pornography, but still inappropriate for kids. The Renwicks took their concerns to the local club first, and then Jeff Renwick met with USA Swimming's Safe Sport director Susan Woessner. Renwick says she told him he was right to report the situation, but after that meeting, the local club kicked the kids off the team. Renwick says he called Woessner.
RENWICK: My first question to her was: Does USA Swimming have any whistleblower protection? And her answer to me was no.
GOLDMAN: In fact, a rule enacted just weeks before Renwick says he called Woessner in late 2010 states no member shall retaliate against any individual who has made a good-faith report. Woessner says she no recollection of the conversation with Renwick. She does remember in spring of 2011 making several offers to Renwick to move forward with a retaliation complaint. But Renwick says that was months after his kids got kicked out, months after he says USA Swimming should have contacted the local swim club and enforced the rules with a simple message.
RENWICK: This family made a good-faith report, and you can't retaliate against them. These people need to be reinstated onto your team, and the entire issue could have been resolved with one five-minute phone call.
GOLDMAN: A spokesperson for USA Swimming says the organization is very responsive, and since Safe Sport's inception, has had a dramatic increase in communication with members and reports of misconduct. Those range from non-physical sexual harassment to criminal abuse. Thirty-four individuals have been banned by USA Swimming for sexual misconduct in the past three years alone. Forty-five were banned in the 19 years prior. How will Safe Sport hold up under the coming scrutiny? No word on what Congress may do. Child protection expert Victor Vieth says he'll have unencumbered access during his Safe Sport review. He's expecting to release his findings to the public in January of next year. Tom Goldman, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission (CSCE), lauded approval Wednesday of a package of loan guarantees for the new Ukraine government and economic sanctions on those responsible for the invasion of Crimea and massive corruption in Ukraine. Shortly after the SFRC vote, Senator Cardin joined other members of the Committee for a meeting with Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
"Ukraine is an incredibly important country. It is a priority to move swiftly on a bill that would support the new government in Kyiv, hold those who committed atrocities against the people of Ukraine accountable, and increase the effectiveness of the International Monetary Fund, which is the main vehicle for economic assistance to Ukraine," said Senator Cardin. "The recent events are tragic, and they illustrate the consequences of pervasive government corruption. It is imperative that the United States and the international community stand united and mobilize to support Ukraine during this period of transition and instability. We need to help Prime Minister Yatsenyuk and the new leadership in Kyiv succeed without being beholden to Russia. We must also ensure that Russia understands that their attempt to take Crimea through brute force will have consequences. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is one of the most serious breaches of OSCE principles since the signing of Helsinki Final Act in 1975. These principles include the territorial integrity of states, inviolability of borders, and refraining from the threat or use of force.
"Once again, Russia has proved the necessity of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, and the situation in Ukraine illustrates the value of expanding the bill to apply globally before another crisis arises. I look forward to working with Chairman Menendez and the full committee as we consider the Global Human Rights Accountability Act in the near future. In addition to the national security benefits, when enacted, this law will provide a consistent process for economic and travel sanctions that will be a deterrent to those individuals would consider committing gross violations of human rights in the future. Passage will make it clear to all countries that they must hold accountable those who would violate universal human rights."


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POPLARVILLE – Pearl River Community College today received a $10,000 gift from Coast Electric Power Association and CoBank.
Coast EPA, a long-time supporter of PRCC, gave the college $5,000 which was matched by CoBank through its Sharing Success program.
"I don't know what to say … we don't often get folks coming in with $10,000," said Dr. William Lewis, PRCC president. "We'll decide how best to use this gift."
Robert J. Occhi, president and chief executive officer of Coast EPA, and Doran Dennis, a CoBank vice president, presented the gifts. CoBank, headquartered near Denver, Colo., provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states.
"They said they'll match whatever the co-operative gives to a charity of its choice," Occhi said. "We feel very close to this institution."
Coast EPA is one of the founders of the PRCC utility lineman technology program advisory board and employs a number of graduates of the program.
"It has been a good partnership with Coast Electric," Lewis said. "We've done some special things with Coast Electric and the other electric power companies who helped develop the utility lineman program."
CoBank established a $3 million charitable fund, called Sharing Success, to match contributions by its cooperative customers to non-profit organizations in 2012.
"It really was a pleasure for us to be able to partner with folks," Dennis said. "Our mission is to serve rural America. We were excited when Coast decided to take advantage of the program."
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Dr. William Lewis, president of Pearl River Community College, fifth from left, accepts $5,000 gifts from Coast Electric Power Association and CoBank on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Pictured are, from left, Ernie Lovell, executive director of the PRCC Foundation; Doug Mooney, Coast Electric board member; Robert J. Occhi, president and CEO of Coast Electric; Doran Dennis, CoBank vice president; Richard Dossett and Frank McLendon, Coast Electric board members; and John Holston, comptroller for Coast Electric.
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Noxen, Pennsylvania, July 29: A helicopter crash in a rugged, wooded area of Pennsylvania claimed the lives of five people, including one child, officials said Sunday.
The crash happened Saturday night after the pilot told air traffic controllers he was losing altitude, according to the county coroner.
Wyoming County coroner Thomas Kukuchka said the pilot contacted a nearby tower around 10:30 p.m. local time saying he would attempt to return to another airfield nearby.
Although the names of those on board have not been released, Kukuchka said three men, a woman and a child were on board.
"It appears to be a father and son, a father and daughter and the pilot," he said.
Kukuchka did not release the ages of the victims. He said his office was trying to reach family members of the deceased in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the helicopter took off from Greater Binghamton Airport in New York but officials there said it had actually originated at a smaller airfield nearby, Tri Cities Airport in Endicott. A phone message left at Tri Cities Airport was not immediately returned Sunday night.
State police and FAA personnel were still on the scene Sunday evening, according to Trooper Adam Reed, a state police spokesman. Additional details will be released as the investigation progresses, he said.
Although it was not clear if weather played a role in the crash, Kukuchka said there were severe thunderstorms in the area Saturday night. The coroner and police said rough weather contributed to the difficulty of the search; the wreckage was located shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday.
The FAA said the helicopter was bound for Jake Arner Memorial Airport in Lehighton.
The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation, the FAA said.


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In my defense, even though I said in that post that I usually observe a "no-spoiler" policy, I've never actually consciously followed such policy--it just seemed like a funny thing to say before including a gratuitous spoiler. Even if I did follow such a policy, many commenters do not, and I've certainly learned the results to many a stage by reading the comment section of my very own blog.
Furthermore, I'm surprised to learn that, in 2012, what with smarting phones and computers and LCD screens everywhere you look, the concept of the "spoiler" is still even relevant. It would seem to me that, if your goal is to avoid learning anything about one of the world's biggest sporting events in our modern-day society what with its Orwellian preponderance of screens, your only recourse would be to go live among the Amish for three weeks. At the very least, it would seem foolhardy to actually visit a bike blog, where it's pretty likely the subject of the Tour is going to come up. (And yes, this is a bike blog--or at least it has the word "bike" in the name.) I'd suggest that maybe you'd be safer sticking to the adult websites during Tour time, but even then who's to say you won't log on to "Wet Hot Bunions" and find a salacious pictorial based on the day's stage results? (I hear Thomas Voeckler has a sexy case of hammer toe.)
Most of all though, I was amused to note that the comment above came in at 11:45pm, something like 14 hours after the race ended. I mean, just how long are we supposed to keep mum about this thing? Not posting spoilers is one thing, but by dinnertime it's just plain censorship.
At any rate, I acknowledge that there are still people who think it's "bad spondee" to post Tour results, in the same way that I acknowledge that there are still people who prefer the tactile experience of faxing to the strange and mysterious forces of email, and I'll try to avoid doing it again, but I can't promise anything. And while I'm certainly not happy that some readers were upset, I also don't feel particularly bad about it, so "sorry" isn't the right word for me to use here. I'm tempted to invent a new word for not being happy that people are upset while simultaneously taking no responsibility for it whatsoever, but unfortunately "spondee" is already taken. Then again, I suppose there's already a word for what I am, and it's probably "asshole."
Speaking of the Tour de France, I won't spoil today's results (Fofonov!), but I will say that I've really started to warm to Bradley Wiggins, the guy who likes to say "cunt:"
At first I thought he was just some guy with funny hair, but as I get to know him better I started to realize just how badly I want a foul-mouthed Englishman with no tact whatsoever to win the Tour--and go pee-pee all over anyone who asks him an annoying question in the process. Wiggins makes Cadel Evans look affable, which is a difficult yet immensely entertaining thing to do. Or, as Wiggins himself puts it, "I'm not some shit rider who comes from nowhere." And as far as the whole "Cuntgate" controversy, Wiggins would like you to know that "I didn't lose my cool. I just said what I mean. If I'd lost my cool, the table here would be on the ground." Indeed. I understand he can also tear fruit machines apart with his eyeballs. In any case, with any luck, at least one table will actually get toppled before this Tour is over, and silverware and cunts will scatter all over the place in a cacophony of British indignance.
I only wish I had Wiggins's gumption when it came to interviews, especially this morning, when I went all the way into the city (sigh) to be on some Canadian TV show. (Though I suppose that's better than having to go all the way to Canada, where if I were to get hurt someone might be liable to give me medical treatment for free.) The show was apparently something called "AM Express" on CTV, and because I had completely let myself go since finishing my BRA tour this spring I decided to do the good people of Canada a favor by first getting a haircut. So I went to a place where they make haircuts happen, and who else should be there having his hair cutted but "A-list" celebrity Sinbad:
That was how I knew I had chosen wisely.
After my Uzbeki barber finished etching the New York City skyline in my hair, I continued up to the studio, where I docked the Scattante with the sort of confidence and swagger that would let any nearby cunts know that, should they attempt to appropriate it, I'd be more than happy to upend a table in their general direction:
Then I went inside to wait:
As I understood it, the subject of the discussion was going to be the sorts of issues raised in this article:
Therefore, I was prepared to take issue with passages like this:
Crashes have ignited controversies in New York, Toronto, and London. In Philadelphia, bicycle/pedestrian collisions killed two pedestrians and left another with a fractured skull in 2009. This spring, a San Francisco biker struck a 71-year old pedestrian as he crossed the street. The man died a few days later.
One fatality is certainly too many, but I can't help reading that and wondering why there's not similar outrage over the thousands of people who are maimed and killed by cars. I guess by now we just take it for granted as a cost of doing business. I was also going to express my irritation with this:
Not just because I think it's ridiculous that cyclists should be held accountable for the behavior of their fellow cyclists like a bunch of third graders, but also because the person who actually gave the quote obviously said "worst," not "worse."
Anyway, eventually I was ushered upstairs and put in front of the camera:
At which point a disembodied voice in my ear asked me a bunch of non-questions to which I could only give a bunch of non-answers, and then I got back on my Scattante and headed home.
Of course, it was only then that I had my "Jerkstore" moment and realized that I should have explained to the interviewer that any cycling-related problems they may be experiencing up there in Torontee (he kept mentioning Torontee) are due entirely to that idiot Rob Ford:
But alas, I choked--or, more accurately, I didn't even get the chance to choke, because I didn't think of it in the first place. Anyway, as I rode along kicking myself I thought about the conversation I had expected to have but didn't, and I observed the usual range of misbehaviors: the pedestrians standing in the middle of bike lanes; the cyclists salmoning and rolling through busy crosswalks; the drivers speeding through red lights... As I contemplated it all it was clear that pretty much everybody had an equal disregard for the "law" (such as it is), but between, say, the doofus salmoning in the bike lane and the UPS truck driver who ran a light at 30mph while clutching a paper bag in his teeth and rummaging around underneath his dashboard somewhere, I'd have to say it was the latter who probably poses a bigger danger to the general public. Oddly though, I have yet to see an article about how UPS drivers flout the law, or read a comment like, "The worst thing for a UPS employee is to see some other UPS employee dangerously blow through a red light. It's just the worse PR." Then, as I headed towards Times Square, I watched as a truck driver turned right onto the separated pedestrian/bike path while bypassing the car lanes entirely:
As we both watched, the guy in the red jumpsuit commented wryly, "The cop is sitting right there, too," and sure enough he was:
Though the cop didn't seem at all concerned, as he was most likely waiting to see if he could ticket me for some imaginary offense, such as adjusting my "pants yabbies" in the summer heat without first donning latex gloves.
Of course, it's true that inattentive or reckless cyclists can be dangerous, but it's also true that it's not always their fault:
Nice tits!- 1st Ave & 6th St. - m4w - 28 (East Village)
Date: 2012-07-12, 1:02AM EDT
Reply to: [deleted]
You were the girl in the see-through shirt and no bra on 1st Ave and 6th St. I was the creep on the bike who almost crashed while staring at your tits. Just wanted to say thank you for making me love this hot summer weather again.
At least he wasn't staring at her bunions.


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Since 1997 Cask Marque has been ensuring that the cask ale you drink in pubs in the UK has been in perfect condition. Their 45 qualified assessors make over 20,000 visits to pubs each year in England, Scotland, Wales, Europe and even America to check the temperature, appearance, aroma and taste of Britain's favourite drink. Visit a Cask Marque accredited pub and you are guaranteed to receive a great pint of cask ale.


text: What is Celiac disease? Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine because of a sensitivity to gluten, which is found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats. This hereditary disorder interferes with the absorption of nutrients from food. When people with celiac disease eat foods containing gluten, their immune system responds by damaging the small intestine. Tiny fingerlike protrusions, called villi, which line the small intestine and enable the absorption of nutrients from food into the bloodstream, are lost. Without these villi, malnutrition occurs, regardless of how much food a person consumes. What causes Celiac disease? Celiac disease is a genetic disease that runs in families. A person can have the disease and not know it until it is triggered by severe stress, pregnancy, surgery, physical injury, infection, or childbirth. What are the symptoms of celiac disease? While the following are common symptoms of celiac disease, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include Chronic diarrhea or constipation Weight loss Recurring abdominal pain and bloating Gas Pale, foul-smelling stool Unexplained anemia Muscle cramps and/or bone pain Pain in the joints Tingling numbness in the legs Delayed growth Fatigue Painful skin rash Missed menstrual periods (which is linked to excessive weight loss) Tooth discoloration or loss of enamel The symptoms of celiac disease may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis. How is celiac disease diagnosed? Since symptoms of celiac disease are similar to those of other digestive diseases such as Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, diverticulosis, and intestinal infections, it can be difficult to diagnose. In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for celiac disease may include the following: Blood work. (To measure the level of antibodies to gluten.) Researchers have found that persons with celiac disease have higher than normal levels of certain antibodies in their blood. These antibodies by the immune system in response to substances (such as gluten) that the body perceives as threatening. Biopsy. To diagnose celiac disease, the doctor may remove a tiny piece of tissue from the small intestine to check for damage to the villi. During the procedure, the doctor eases a long, thin tube, called an endoscope, through the mouth and stomach into the small intestine. A sample of tissue is then taken using instruments passed through the endoscope. This procedure is considered the "gold standard" for diagnosis of celiac disease. What is the treatment for celiac disease? Specific treatment for celiac disease will be determined by your doctor based on: Your age, overall health, and medical history Extent of the disease Your tolerance of specific medicines, procedures, or therapies Expectations for the course of the disease Your opinion or preference A gluten-free diet is the only treatment for persons with celiac disease. Adhering to a gluten-free diet is a lifetime requirement, as eating any gluten will further damage the intestine. For most people, eliminating gluten from their diet will stop symptoms, heal intestinal damage that has already occurred, and prevent further damage. Usually, a person will see an improvement in symptoms within days of starting the diet and, within three to six months, the small intestine is usually completely healed, with villi intact and working. For older persons, complete healing may take up to two years.


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Company Aims to Strike it Rich by Mining Asteroids
A group of high-tech tycoons wants to mine nearby asteroids, hoping to turn science fiction into real profits.
The mega-million-dollar plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to squeeze rocket fuel and valuable minerals like platinum and gold out of the lifeless rocks that routinely whiz by Earth. One of the company founders predicts they could have their version of a space-based gas station up and running by 2020.
The inaugural step, to be achieved in the next 18 to 24 months, would be launching the first in a series of private telescopes that would search for rich asteroid targets.
Several scientists not involved in the project said they were simultaneously thrilled and skeptical, calling the plan daring, difficult — and highly expensive. They struggle to see how it could be cost-effective, even with platinum and gold worth nearly $1,600 an ounce. An upcoming NASA mission to return just two ounces (60 grams) of an asteroid to Earth will cost about $1 billion.
However, the entrepreneurs announcing the project on April 24, 2012, in Seattle have a track record of making big money off ventures into space. Company founders Eric Anderson and Peter Diamandis pioneered the idea of selling rides into space to tourists and, Diamandis' company offers "weightless" airplane flights.
Investors and advisers to the new company, Planetary Resources of Seattle, include Google CEO Larry Page and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and explorer and filmmaker James Cameron.
The mining, fuel processing and later refueling would all be done without humans, Anderson said.
"It is the stuff of science fiction, but like in so many other areas of science fiction, it's possible to begin the process of making them reality," said former astronaut Thomas Jones, an adviser to the company.
The target-hunting telescopes would be tubes only a couple of feet long, weighing only a few dozen pounds and small enough to be held in your hand. They should cost less than $10 million, company officials said.
The idea that asteroids could be mined for resources has been around for years. Asteroids are the leftovers of a failed attempt to form a planet billions of years ago. Most of the remnants became the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but some pieces were pushed out to roam the solar system.
Asteroids are made mostly of rock and metal and range from a couple of dozen feet wide to nearly 10 miles long. The new venture targets the free-flying asteroids, seeking to extract from them the rare Earth platinum metals that are used in batteries, electronics and medical devices, Diamandis said.
Water can be broken down in space to liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for rocket fuel. Water is very expensive to get off the ground. So, the plan is to take it from an asteroid to a spot in space where it can be converted into fuel. From there, it can easily and cheaply be shipped to Earth orbit for refueling commercial satellites or spaceships from NASA and other countries.
In the past couple of years, NASA and other space agencies have shifted their attention from the moon and other planets toward asteroids. Because asteroids don't have any substantial gravity, targeting them costs less fuel and money than going to the moon, Anderson said in a phone interview.
There are probably 1,500 asteroids that pass near Earth that would be good initial targets. They are at least 160 feet (50 meters) wide, and Anderson figures 10 percent of them have water and other valuable minerals.
"A depot within a decade seems incredible. I hope there will be someone to use it," said Andrew Cheng at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab, who was the chief scientist for a NASA mission to an asteroid a decade ago. "And I have high hopes that commercial uses of space will become profitable beyond Earth orbit. Maybe the time has come."
Space experts said such a bold project has huge startup costs. Diamandis and Anderson would not disclose how much the project will cost overall. Diamandis said, by building and launching quickly, the company will operate much cheaper than NASA.
But still, the costs are just too high, said Purdue University planetary geologist Jay Melosh, who called space exploration "a sport that only wealthy nations, and those wishing to demonstrate their technical prowess, can afford to indulge."
Anderson, who co-founded the space tourism business, said he's used to skeptics.
"Before we started launching people into space as private citizens, people thought that was a pie-in-the-sky idea," Anderson said. "We're in this for decades. But, it's not a charity. And we'll make money from the beginning."
Planetary Resources: http://www.planetaryresources.com/
NASA's 2016 asteroid sampling mission: http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu/
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press


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If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation
A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his. If
A Republican reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A Democrat will delete it because he's "offended".


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Carlos Monasterios (3-2, 3.30) vs. Tim Lincecum (10-4, 3.12).
COMMENTS: How did it come to this? The Dodgers, clinging to their NL West lives, starting a crucial series in San Francisco with a fifth starter who's recovering from a foul ball to the head. The bullpen, already stretched thin from last night's disheartening loss in San Diego. The offense, not having scored more than three runs in a win in the last 14 games. Oh, and Lincecum starting for the Giants. Can we rough up Timmeh two games in a row? Will Dusty tell him to wash his hair? The Game Thread will reveal all.