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I love Mad Men, and my favorite character — possibly my favorite fictional female of all time — has to be Joan Harris, nee Holloway. My own character on Drop Dead Diva, Teri Lee, enjoys parallel attributes to Joan, even though ostensibly we are, through the magic of time travel and television, existing some 40-plus years apart.
We are both office mavens, ever at the helm of our own gorgeous womanly heft, wielding it handily in between desks and hard chairs, holding all of the world hostage with our controlling yet gentle condescension and simmering sex appeal. One of the few differences between us is that I don't wear that astonishingly flattering pen on a chain, functioning like an arrow pointed down to where all the good stuff is, hanging gleefully between Joan's breasts. In my opinion, it's truly the luckiest writing implement on earth. Ahhh — to be a pen and live in the deliciously appointed rooms of Joan Harris nee Holloway!
Also, I don't get to wear any of those ferocious and divine undergarments, which act like a secretary for her own curves and give Joan her glorious shape and magnitude. The girdles and garters and conical bras encompass her spherical perfection, and her stinging wit and fearsome intelligence act alongside accordingly so that whatever she is saying or doing, you are paying close attention.
My fantasy night with Joan would include gin cocktails and clams casino, possibly in Monte Carlo or the isle of Capri — far from the milieu of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. If I took her away, I could have her all to myself. We would gamble and win always, celebrating our jackpots in a decadently appointed European hotel/pension, and at the piano or maybe on the floor, you would find us daintily dipping salty potato chips into champagne and offering them up to each other with a cheer, just like Marilyn Monroe did in The Seven Year Itch because we are women and we are beautiful and proud, and we bask in our own glory, as all women everywhere always should.


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Implementation of EHR/EPR in England: a model for developing countries
This article reviews the electronic health record and electronic patient record in England, which is being implemented at present. This is one of the biggest projects of its kind and facing many different issues at various levels. There are many lessons to be learnt from this experience for countries and organisations that plan to follow in their footsteps.
Electronic health record; EHR; Electronic patient record; EPR; England; National Health Service; NHS; developing countries

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Established in July 2000 by the Federal Communications Commission, 511 is the nationally designated three-digit number for traveler information. Referred to as an N11 number, 511 was created to provide an easy-to-remember, three-digit number travelers could use to access road and traffic information from within the jurisdiction they were traveling.
The Arizona Department of Transportation deployed the statewide 511 telephone system in March of 2002 and has continued to enhance the system ever since. What started out as a system that only covered freeways and airports in Phoenix and Tucson now provides information for all ADOT roadways, special event travel and parking information, travel times on highly used certain corridors, transfers to some 20 transit agencies, information and transfer options for 50+ State and National Parks, and border wait times. The system also provides the most recent available information for specific AMBER ALERTS.
Arizona travelers can access the 511 traveler information line simply by dialing 511 from any landline and most mobile phones anywhere in the state. The Arizona 511 traveler information line can be accessed from outside the state by dialing 1-888-411-ROAD (7623) or 602-523-0244. Most of the information is also available on the Web at www.AZ511.gov.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Keith Law doesn't think so highly of Jason Castro
Jordan Lyles: #60
With the potential for him to add velocity, given his 6-foot-4 frame as he approaches the legal drinking age, Lyles could become a No. 2 starter or more for a team that hasn't developed anything close to that since Roy Oswalt.
Jason Castro: #65
His defense is probably adequate now to play in the big leagues, especially with nothing blocking him in Houston, and with some improvement he could be an average regular for an organization that hasn't had that behind the plate in a decade.
Jiovanni Mier: #94
True shortstops who can hit are incredibly valuable at the big league level -- look at how all-glove-no-bat shortstops are getting paid in the majors right now -- and Mier has the ceiling of a top offensive producer for his position.
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- tpack said...
1) This seems to be a make or break year for a lot of Astros prospects. Some of the biggest questions and exciting players are hitting AA this year (Clemens, Gaston, hopefully Lyles etc) and I think we'll know a lot more then. We also see the first full year of Mier, and hopefully Castro at AAA
2)I like how we're developing up the middle here. Organizationally we seem pretty strong from CF (Bourn, Austin, Shuck, etc) to SS (Manzella, Mier) to C (Castro). Makes me think we'll see a lot of pitching drafted in those first few rounds of 2010.
- January 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM
- AstroAndy said...
Sounds like Law doesn't think too highly of Wandy Rodriguez either if he thinks the Astros haven't "developed anything close to" a No. 2 starter.
- January 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- The Constable. said...
I'm not sure Keith Law thinks much of the Astros. But it doesn't seem like too many people think much of Ed Wade. Except those of us who blog while their wife is making dinner.
- January 28, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- Steve Duer said...
Based on what he said about catcher "and with some improvement he could be an average regular for an organization that hasn't had that behind the plate in a decade."
He doesn't know that much about baseball. Ausmus was one of the best catchers in the game. He wasn't an offensive threat but was an amazing defensive catcher.
- January 29, 2010 at 6:43 AM


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A press release from Apple shows just how dedicated they are to keeping their iPods in good supply throughout the 2005 holiday season and into 2006. We reported last week that Apple was in deals to secure additional suppliers for their burgeoning flash memory but there was not indication how wide-spread their influence was going to reach..
It turns out that Apple has secured even more suppliers, for a total of 5, and they're willing to pay through the nose for it:
Apple® today announced that it has reached long-term supply agreements with Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba to secure the supply of NAND flash memory through 2010. As part of these agreements, Apple intends to prepay a total of $1.25 billion for flash memory components during the next three months.
$1.25B for flash components seems to indicate that Apple has high hopes for iPods this holiday season. Hopefully this will keep Apple's supply lines well fed for the forseeable future.


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by George Zamora
SOCORRO – New Mexico Tech senior Elizabeth Ball racked up a third-place finish in the women's nine-ball competition at the recently held Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Region 13 Recreation Tournament in Laramie, Wyoming. She is now shooting for the next level of competition at the upcoming ACUI international tournaments in Colorado Springs.
Ball beat out nine other competitors in a select group of Region 13's best women pool shooters at the ACUI regional tournament to earn third-place honors and the right to advance to the international competition. Region 13 includes colleges and universities in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah.
"Pool has been my 'addiction' for several years," Ball says. "It's a great game."
Ball began seriously competing in pool tournaments about three years ago, while still a sophomore at New Mexico Tech.
"Playing in tournaments is rather different than just playing for fun—it's taken me three years to overcome the intense intimidation I first felt during tournament play," Ball relates. "Now I play in tournaments as often as possible, attempting to solidify the appropriate mental state required to win."
Ball, a member of New Mexico Tech's Billy Aardds Club, has been practicing as often as possible in preparation for the upcoming international nine-ball tournament. She also has been getting extra coaching to improve her technique from longtime Billy Aardds Club advisor Ray Piworunas, a services coordinator at the Tech Computer Center who is also a semi-professional billiards player.
When she isn't playing pool or studying for classes, Ball says her preferred pastimes include painting and writing philosophical prose on various aspects of life.
"I also enjoy reading fictional novels about either twisted murders or the Mafia," she concedes.
Ball's trip to the ACUI International Recreation and College Bowl Tournaments is being sponsored by the New Mexico Tech Auxiliary Services Office.
"With regards to academia, New Mexico Tech is an extraordinary school offering personalized instruction from professors who genuinely care about the education of each individual student," Ball says.
"New Mexico Tech has definitely provided me with an excellent education," she continues. "Although I've learned quite a bit here, perhaps the most valuable tool I've gained is discipline: This school has essentially forced me to become a good student, as it is almost impossible to graduate from Tech if you are not a good student."
Ball expects to graduate from New Mexico Tech this coming May with a bachelor of science in biology, but intends to continue her graduate work at the state-supported research university.


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Juniors Alaina Jacobson, Christen Campbell and Christy Grisham will be joined by freshman Whitney Kiihnl.
Jacobson is back for a second year after earning All-Atlantic Sun Conference Second Team honors in 2008. She made an immediate impact on the pitching staff last season after transferring from Missouri. She posted an 11-6 record, a 2.93 earned run average and also had three saves.
In Atlantic Sun Conference games only she was 9-0 during the regular season, but lost her perfect record with a loss in the A-Sun Tournament.
"Early last season Alaina had to regain some confidence she had lost while at Missouri," said Lady Bisons coach Kristin Peck. "It took awhile for that to come about."
Jacobson started out as a reliever for the Lady Bisons, but was able to move successfully into a starting role as the season progressed. She made 29 appearances, starting 19 games. She pitched 10 complete games.
"She was used to be used more in relief-type roles, but in the second half of the year she really established herself more as a starter. The more innings she pitched, the better she did."
Despite having to adjust to a new program, Jacobson quickly became a leader for the Lady Bisons. With no seniors on the team Peck is expecting the junior class to become more of factor in terms of leading the team.
"Last year she showed a lot of leadership, but her teammates are more confident behind her," Peck said. 'They know what to expect out of pitching. She proved herself last year. Her teammates play well behind her."
Peck expects Jacobson to be used more in a starting role early in the season as the Lady Bisons face a series of tournaments.
"Alaina is not going to wow you with her speed," said Peck. "Like last year, she is going to provide versatility in our pitching staff. She is someone we are going to count on for a lot of big innings."
Campbell is a competitive pitcher, but she is also a solid defensive third baseman with the ability to hit for some power.
Campbell finished the season with a 9-10 worksheet and one save. She posted a 3.97 earned run average. She made 24 appearances with 13 starts.
"She is somebody who is hard to take off of the field because she is such an athlete," said Peck. "We would really like more innings out of her this year.
"Last year she got into a little bit of rut. She would be throwing great and then she would give up that one big hit. We have to get back to form with her a little bit. She worked really hard this fall on being more consistent with her pitches. She is learning more about how to pitch."
Campbell is known for her durability on the mound. As a freshman she often pitched both games of a doubleheader.
"Christen can throw and throw and throw," said Peck. "She doesn't need long to warm up. She is a gamer.
"She is smart. She is very competitive. I have no doubt she is going give us more innings this season."
Grisham's first goal is to remain healthy this season. A full season of work from her would be a tremendous boost to the young staff.
"Christy has worked tremendously hard to just get back to being healthy again," said Peck. "It has been a long and frustrating road for her. I think anything positive we get out of her this year is going to be huge.
"She is looking more composed and much more confident on the mound. Those are two things that are hard to get back when you haven't been on the mound in a game situation in a long time."
Peck stresses the key for Grisham will be to string together some strong performances early in the season.
"Christy brings so much to the table," said Peck. "She has to build her confidence and have composure on the mound early on."
Kiihnl, like most freshman, is learning more about the game of softball with each practice, though Peck ranks her as the most talented freshman pitcher he program has attracted. Peck also likes Kiihnl's eagerness in wanting to improve.
"She brings a great attitude to the table," Peck said. "She is ready to learn.
"She was very, very highly regarded coming out of high school. She was heavily recruited. I have no doubt she is going to do some awesome things here before she is done."
Peck expects Kiihnl to immediately contribute. She was a two-time Gatordade Player of the Year and a First Team All-State selection in the state of Mississippi.
"We are going to throw her into the fire early, let her get that experience and see what happens," said Peck. "We have high expectations for her as a freshman. That's not said to make her nervous. She has the talent to do it."
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Wabash Students Raised $3,316 for Katrina Reliefby Howard W, Hewitt • October 5, 2005 Share:
Wabash College students, faculty, and staff have raised $3,316.93 for Hurricane Katrina relief. Sphinx Club president Doug Berry '06, MXI's Nikeland Cooper '06, and Professor Stephen Morillo presented the check Wednesday to the local Red Cross.
Students rallied to the relief cause after the Aug. 29 hurricane. The Sphinx Club arranged to have New Orleans native Morillo give a chapel talk Sept. 8 where more than $2,700 was raised.
Additionally, member of the College's Malcolm X Institute, which has several members from the stricken area, have been selling wrist bands for hurricane relief. Cooper said the MXI had sold more than 1,000 of the bands but still has about 900 for sale.
Mark Franklin, Montgomery County's Red Cross Executive Director, accepted the check from Berry and called the effort marvelous and awesome. The Red Cross has been in the process of forming a closer relationship with the College.
"I approached the College through (Assistant Dean of Students) Mike Raters last year," Franklin said. "We wanted to seek out two students to be on our board of directors."
Homer Twigg '08 and Larryjoe Brown '08 joined the board in the spring to serve a three-year term. "We had not had a lot of connection with the College before," Franklin said. "We needed to interface. There are a lot of things the Chapter and the College need to do together."
Franklin said disaster preparedness is an area where the College and Red Cross need to understand each other better. "The Chapter and the school need to be working hand-in-hand on many issues. What are the processes of evacuating the College if there is a derailment or hazardous spill?"
The local Red Cross leader would like to believe the support for Hurricane Katrina was a result of the improved communication.
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Join us on November 16, 2013 at 1:00 pm Pacific Time.
The Zodiac can be thought of as a circle of twelve archetypes from Aries on the Ascendant to Pisces on the twelfth house cusp. And if you understand the nature of these archetypes, you can understand the nature of all aspects. Mark Jones will show how, from that understanding, you can discover that the core aspects are also in phase relationships - so the separating conjunction for example is like an Aries quality conjunction whereas the applying conjunction is like a Pisces quality.
Mark Jones is an Astrologer, Psychosynthesis Therapist and Hypnotherapist working in private practice in Bristol, England. Mark is a regular speaker and workshop leader in Europe and North America. Mark's book explains his approach; 'Healing the Soul: Pluto, Uranus and the Lunar Nodes' and he has chapters in
Astrology: the New Generation, Transpersonal Astrology and Insights into Evolutionary Astrology. Mark's second book,'Therapeutic Astrology' is out at the end of the year.
Mark is available for readings, Astrology tuition and Astrological Counseling and has many resources for students on his website: www.plutoschool.com
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William Jerry Sutton, 82, North Manchester, died at 2:45 a.m. Saturday, May 25, at Timbercrest Healthcare Center. He was born Oct. 24, 1930 in Peru, to William M. and Florence (Poser) Sutton.
Bill married Madonna M. Irelan at the Paw Paw United Methodist Church in Miami County on March 17, 1957. He was a farmer, a truck driver, and worked at Bendix Abrasive. He was a member of the North Manchester Missionary Church, and the Paw Paw United Methodist Church. He enjoyed fishing and crafts.
He is survived by his wife, Madonna M. Sutton, North Manchester, and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his son Jerry and his sister.
Funeral services will be held at Timbercrest Chapel, 2201 East St., North Manchester, on Wednesday, May 29, at 2 p.m., with Pastor Gene Eckerley officiating. Burial will be in Paw Paw Cemetery, Miami County. Friends and family may call from 1-2 p.m. on Wednesday, at Timbercrest.
Arrangements by Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service.
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By 2015, Minnesota's proposed health insurance exchange is expected to cost $54 million to operate — a tab that the state might cover through user fees, a "sin tax" or maybe even the sale of naming rights for the new marketplace.
Those details came from a state submission Friday, Nov. 16, to the federal government that spells out how Minnesota plans to operate the health exchange, which will change the way many individuals and small groups buy coverage beginning in October 2013.
The so-called "blueprint" for Minnesota's health exchange helps set the terms of debate over how the new marketplace might be funded and governed. But Jim Schowalter, commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget, cautioned that the cost projections are not set in stone.
"I would take those figures with a grain of salt," Schowalter said. "Depending on the implementation choices, and as we know more about the cost, I think we will create new estimates and try to drive that cost down."
Republicans, who will be in the minority when the Legislature returns in January, said the state's exchange plans are too expensive.
"This is going to cost a lot of money," said Rep. Steve Gottwalt of St. Cloud. "Now that the DFL is in charge of both houses of the Legislature and the governor's office, and now that President Obama has won … can't we slow down a little bit and be thoughtful?"
Democrats, however, argued that the state is in a good position to move forward.
The health exchanges are meant to make it easier for consumers to comparison shop for health plans — a structure that proponents say could drive down the cost of coverage. The exchanges will be launched with a series of insurance market changes that will prevent insurance companies from denying policies to people with pre-existing health conditions; many shopping on the exchange will do so with subsidies from the federal government.
"We're going to be able to make significant strides on health care reform," said Sen. Tony Lourey, DFL-Kerrick. "Minnesota is ahead of the pack."
The federal Affordable Care Act of 2010 calls for the creation of state-level health insurance exchanges where individuals and small groups can start purchasing coverage in late 2013. The exchanges are supposed to include user-friendly websites that let consumers buy health insurance much as they purchase airline tickets through websites such as Travelocity and Orbitz.
Beyond a website, Minnesota's exchange will include a call center for consumers to get information over the phone. Insurance brokers and a new group of advisers known as "navigators" will help people, although questions remain about the roles played by both groups.
Friday was supposed to be the deadline for states to announce whether they planned to develop their own exchanges rather than adopt a model designed by the federal government. Federal officials opted to push back the deadline, but Minnesota officials went ahead with their submission.
"Our state-based exchange will give over 1.2 million Minnesotans — both individuals and small businesses — more affordable options for choosing high-quality health insurance," wrote Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, in a letter to federal officials released Friday.
He said some elements of the exchange blueprint application will be finalized by the Legislature in early 2013.
In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker sent a letter to federal officials Friday saying his state would not develop a health exchange. Instead, Wisconsin will use an exchange developed by the federal government.
"If the state option is chosen … Wisconsinites face risk from a federal mandate lacking long-term guaranteed funding," wrote Walker, who is a Republican.
Minnesota is receiving about $71 million in federal grants to fund work on the exchange through 2014. After that, Minnesota's exchange must be self-sustaining.
"The governor has asked legislators to work with him to create a public/private partnership as a governance structure that would include a board comprised of members from the public and private sectors," the blueprint states.
Of the estimated $54 million in projected operating costs during 2015, about $13 million would come from the state-federal Medicaid program. Medicaid would provide a comparable sum in 2016, when projected costs grow to $64 million.
State officials expect that Medicaid beneficiaries will make up a big chunk of those who obtain health benefits through the exchange. The exchange is projected to employ 81 people.
The operating costs would work out to about 2 percent to 3 percent of annual premiums sold on the exchange, said John Pollard, a Minnesota Management and Budget spokesman.
Pollard said the figures are comparable to operating costs for the Massachusetts Connector, the health insurance exchange that was created in that state a few years ago that's served as the model for the federal health law.
"The exchange will be useful for people that are used to using the Internet to make decisions — to order airplane tickets or whatever," said Rep. Tom Huntley, DFL-Duluth. "But for some people, it's going to be too complicated, so they'll have to do a personal contact with a broker or navigator.
"The overall attempt is to make this a much simpler process, so people can easily compare one health plan to another health plan."
The blueprint suggests that individuals and groups buying policies on the exchange might be required to pay a user fee. There might also be an assessment paid by insurance companies that sell policies on the exchange.
A so-called "sin tax" on risky health behaviors such as smoking might be in the revenue mix. The sale of naming rights and advertisement on the exchange website might raise money, too, although there could be questions about who could be a sponsor because of conflict-of-interest concerns.
Some of the funding scenarios have business groups worried.
"Imposing a premium tax on consumers to pay for that expense will likely increase the cost of health insurance for small businesses and their employees at a time when many are already struggling to maintain coverage," said Kate Johansen, manager of health policy for the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.
Lourey, the DFL legislator from Kerrick, said Friday that it's too early to say which options might make the best sense for funding the exchange. Huntley, the Duluth DFLer, said revenue from a current tax on health care providers might be a funding source.
With DFL victories in the November elections, Lourey and Huntley are scheduled to chair key health committees next year in the state Senate and House. The current timeline would have the Legislature answer questions about the governance and funding of the marketplace by March.
Christopher Snowbeck can be reached at 651-228-5479. Follow him at twitter.com/ chrissnowbeck.


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Risk Management
The Penn State Smeal College of Business Risk Management Department offers educational opportunities for students interested in exploring risk analysis in a variety of business environments, as well as faculty research and expertise in a wide range of topics.
Degree Programs
At the undergraduate level, the Risk Management major includes offerings in Actuarial Science, Enterprise Risk Management, and Real Estate. The Department also offers one of the two most popular minors at the College, the Legal Environment of Business (LEBUS) minor. Opportunities to explore risk and decisions are available through the full-time Smeal MBA Program and Executive MBA Program, and the Smeal Ph.D. Program offers an emphasis in Real Estate.
The Risk Management Department would like to announce the creation of a new certificate program. The Real Estate Analysis & Development (READ) Certificate has recently been created for Smeal majors.
Faculty and Research
The research and disciplinary focus of the department is on risk assessment, mitigation, and management, connecting disciplines such as actuarial science, business law, decision analysis, insurance, international business, and real estate. Our expert faculty members teach in all of these areas enabling students to be exposed to a variety of approaches and disciplines as they prepare for careers in many private and public sector fields.
The department also works closely with the Institute for Real Estate Studies to promote education, scholarship, and outreach in the area of real estate. The Institute serves as a vital conduit for leading edge research and serves as the physical presence for real estate education at Penn State.


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Sentara Heart® now enrolling heart failure patients
Researchers at Sentara Cardiovascular Research Institute are among the first in Virginia to enroll patients in the PARACHUTE IV trial of an investigational device to treat heart failure.
Sentara Heart Hospital is one of the current 40 active U.S. sites studying the effectiveness of the device to treat congestive heart failure in people who have suffered a heart attack. Seven patients in Hampton Roads have been enrolled.
How it Works
The Parachute® ventricular partitioning device resembles a parachute and is placed inside the heart during a minimally invasive heart catheterization. Once in place, the device blocks a portion of the heart muscle damaged by a heart attack and reshapes the interior of the heart. Heart failure is a progressive disease affecting about 5.1 million Americans.
"The Parachute device, if proven effective, would offer a new non-surgical, minimally invasive means of helping a damaged heart recover more quickly and fully," says Sentara Heart® cardiologist Allen Ciuffo, M.D., principal investigator of the study.
"We are involved in this study to find out if we can improve the quality of life and long-term outcomes of our patients," says Ciuffo.
The study is randomized which means participants have an equal chance to either receive the test device or the current standard of care for heart failure. This allows researchers to compare results for both groups throughout the 5-year-long study.
Patient Story
On March 26, 2012, Tim Malone, 55, had a heart attack in a Virginia Beach urgent care center. He was transferred to Sentara Leigh Hospital where he received three stents that same day.
"After that procedure, I thought my heart should be functioning better than ever," says Malone. The heart attack damaged his heart and even after the stents, his heart function continued to decline. On May 29, 2013, Malone became one of the first recipients of the parachute device in Hampton Roads as part of the study. "I'm feeling drastically better with the parachute," says Malone, and a measure of how well his heart is pumping with every beat suggests he's doing better too.
Common symptoms of heart failure include:
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- Trouble breathing when lying down
- Weight gain with swelling in feet, ankles, legs or stomach
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For 40 years, Sojourners has been fighting the good fight. Where do we go from here?
The 10-year pop culture love affair with Harry Potter leaves questions at the crux.
Ten books on the shelf of one of our most respected biblical scholars.
Largest U.S. climate action says no to pipeline.
An evangelical scholar looks at Sojourners' role in evangelical social justice.
How to deepen our spirituality, one step at a time.
Seminaries train pastors on how to read the Bible. But those tools often don't reach people in the pews.
When spurred on by God and conscience, there's no telling what trouble you might get into.
Doomsday threats and Wall Street influence erode U.S. government for the people.
Glenn Beck's exploitative event in Israel ignored justice and U.S. public opinion.
The Housing First approach to homelessness is more humane -- and cheaper -- than older models.
Fortunately, 40 is the new 34, or in my case, 38.
The Oslo shooter took inspiration from America's own anti-Muslim rightists.
People of faith, at our best, are the ultimate independents.
Culture Watch
Why are we still sinking in health-care induced debt?
Re: "Men Behaving Badly" (by Jim Wallis, August 2011): I recall the story of King David and Bathsheba.
Reflections on the Common Lectionary.
As a teacher for the Chicago Public Schools, I found your decision to run an advertisement from StudentsFirst.org (September-October 2011) troubling.
Thank you for the interview with Rep. Walter Jones, "A Convert to Peace" (September-October 2011). Our government is truly disappointing in these past years and cynicism is rampant.
Gene Luen Yang's otherwise enjoyable "Telling the Old, Old Story" (September-October 2011) inaccurately states that Moses was set on a river in a reed basket "to escape a besieged city." Exodus clearly indicates that Moses' family was trying to save him from Pharaoh's decree that all male Hebrew
1. What led you to start an intentional community ministering to gang members? Gangs have a really strong sense of community: They fight and die for their homies and they support each other. Other programs offer job skills or anger management, but don't offer community.
Claire Lorentzen's article against the ROTC ("Studying War More?" September-October 2011) is intolerant. Not needing a military at all is a pipe dream. Nobody is forced to join ROTC. I have been in combat under various types of officers.
We all knew it would come. Someday. Always later.Mañana. It comes for us all. Sure. Of course. We know that. Someday.Mañana.


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WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials
released new documents on Wednesday showing that the National
Security Agency may have unintentionally collected as many as
56,000 emailed communications of Americans per year between 2008
and 2011.
The officials revealed the documents as part of an effort to
explain how the NSA spotted, and then fixed, technical problems
which led to the inadvertent collection of emails of American
citizens without warrants.
The move is the Obama administration's latest response to
continuing controversy over alleged electronic eavesdropping
excesses by the NSA.
The documents included a formerly "top-secret," but
newly-declassified ruling by the ultra-secretive Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court in which the court itself, in an
obscure footnote, estimates, based on data supplied by NSA, that
between 2008 and 2011, the agency might have unintentionally
collected as many as 56,000 emailed communications of Americans
in each of those three years.
U.S. intelligence officials who agreed to answer questions
about the documents' contents told reporters the domestic emails
were collected in the execution of a program designed to target
the emails of foreign terrorism suspects.
According to the officials and a court document which the
administration released, the NSA decided to "purge" the material
after discovering it was inadvertently collected.
Details about the secretive surveillance programs have been
brought to light in recent months by fugitive U.S. intelligence
contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified documents to
media outlets.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) -- About 7.5 million American children under the age of 18 live with a parent who's struggled with alcohol abuse over the past year, a new government report finds.
That's equal to 10.5 percent of children across the country, say researchers at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which issued the report.
"The enormity of this public health problem goes well beyond these tragic numbers as studies have shown that the children of parents with untreated alcohol disorders are at far greater risk for developing alcohol and other problems later in their lives," SAMHSA Administrator Pamela Hyde said in an agency news release.
According to the report, 6.1 million of children living with an alcohol-abusing parent live in two-parent households, while the remaining 1.4 million reside in single-parent homes where that parent has struggled with alcohol over the past 12 months. About 1.1 million children living in a single-parent home live with a mother; the remainder live with a father, the SAMHSA report said.
The report is based on data from SAMHSA's 2005-2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an annual survey involving 65,000 people nationwide aged 12 and older.
Hyde said that help is available for people with drinking problems, and her agency and other groups "are promoting programs that can help those with alcohol disorders find recovery not only for themselves, but for the sake of their children."
More information
There's more on this issue at the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.


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Today, not so much. Here's a Turkish report from January 20, 2012 on some of what lately brings pride to the Turkish breast.
Note that, although we reduced the length of the Hurriyet Daily News article below, we have not modified the original headline. Nor did we add or change a word of the text in the article.
Turkish missiles over Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Rome (and others)
The Ottoman siege of Vienna may have failed in 1683. But the Turks will soon be back at the gates (well, this time, the skies) of Europe. Much to the pride of millions of Turks, the state scientific research institute, TÜBITAK, recently reported that its scientists this year would finish an all-Turkish missile with a range of 1,500 km, and, in 2014, another with a range of 2,500 km (no typo here).TIME Magazine said of Turkish prime minister in December 2011 that
The head of TÜBITAK said the order for the missile program had come from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. I read daily Hürriyet quoting TÜBITAK's president, Professor Yücel Altınbaşak, as saying that "this is a most realistic project." And I watched an engineer from TÜBITAK's missile project group, telling state television channel TRT that "the Turkish missiles were more advanced than the U.S. or German missiles." I felt proud.
Yet I was curious and checked the world map. Put the country which claims to maintain zero problems with its neighbors and others at the epicenter of a circle with a diameter of 2,500 km, and here are some of the cities which may in the future see Turkish missiles over their skies: Athens, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Beirut, Brussels, Geneva, Algiers, Jeddah, Cairo, Copenhagen, Kiev, London, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Damascus, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Warsaw, Vienna, Zurich and Amman.
... The move is just another indication that Turkey does not see its future within the largely inter-operable NATO and European security structures... The big question here is why should Turkey, which boasts a modern air force with highly deterrent firepower, need ballistic or cruise missiles? With which countries within a diameter of 2,500 km does Turkey think it may, in the future, have to battle? Which targets within a range of 2,500 kilometers may it hope to hit which it cannot with a 1,000-km missile?
What justifies the earmarking of – possibly – hundreds of millions of dollars worth of taxpayer money for the Turkish missiles? Are biological, chemical or nuclear weapons in Turkey's various contingency plans for future warfare? What's the point of NATO membership, then? Does Turkey intend to leave the alliance? More importantly, what are the political deliberations behind this ambitious plan?
...For the moment, New York, Beijing, Seoul, Brasilia, Ottawa and Tokyo look safe and immune to future Turkish anger. But give Mr. Erdoğan another 10 years in power and Turkey might have another one with a range of 15,000 km by then...
"No leader better personifies the dramatic changes in the Middle East over the past year than [he does]... He was hailed as a role model by ascendant Islamists in post-dictatorship Tunisia and Egypt, where he urged the building of secular democracies... Erdogan is likely to become even more central to events in the coming year with the unfolding of the Arab rebellion, the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and mounting international tension over Iran."
|Source: NPR
In the wake of the Arab Spring, some Muslims in North Africa are looking across the Mediterranean to Turkey as a potential model of a state that can be modern, Islamic and democratic. But some analysts in the region say that model is flawed, and they are questioning Turkey's human-rights record and its dealings with the press. Critics say the government is using Turkey's slow-moving and sometimes opaque justice system to stifle dissent. Turkish media advocates are frustrated both with the government and international media groups who in their view understate the number of imprisoned journalists. Among them are Ahmet Sik and longtime investigative journalist Nedim Sener. Their arrests nearly a year ago provoked a large public outcry, but since then detentions of journalists have continued apace."Journalists in fear of being arrested? Turkish missiles that can reach every European city today? And beyond them tomorrow? Erdogan's way a model for the region?


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"As usual, Nielsen doesn't share how it arrives at its numbers,..."
If I can't review their methodology I will assume their numbers came out off a lottery wheel.
More people visit social networking sites or blogs than use web-based email, according to a new study by Nielsen Online. The media bean counter claims over two-thirds of the world's population frequent what it calls "member communities," which includes both social network and blogging sites. Member communities make up the …
No they don't. I doubt it's even close. I know of precisely zero people who aren't teenagers that use social networking sites, which is after all their target audience. And even if they only polled teenagers to get their numbers, I'd still say they're lying, because almost no one under the age of 21 uses anything other than webmail as an email client. And a fair amount of the rest of us are the same.
The only adults that use social networking sites are probably going through some sort of tech midlife crisis. They can't accept they are no longer thought of as the tech generation and are simply doing the online version of buying a cheap sports car.
Thing is Webmail is the ultimate spam filter. Generally you keep your work and isp email accounts to your friends, coworkers and family. Online shopping, stalking, etc is all done via webmail accounts, which you can ditch as soon as your inbox starts receiving porn and pill spam..
...to know that this is completely flawed.
As someone already pointed out, this does not track non-web based email for a start.
Secondly, all "member communities" are lumped together. So it is not just social networking sites, but also blogging sites. Lump enough categories together and you could also claim that religious interest, knitting, motor racing, poetry and gun fetish sites etc *could* be bigger than webmail as well.
About as useful as a chocolate teapot.
No disrespect! Tis is a cool gimmick if nothing else!
OK Soo....El Reg commenteers...anti M$, anti Apple, Pro nix but anti Facebook....
I would like to stand and be counted as an @AC and say...I like El Reg..makes me cry laughing sometimes, I work an M$ environment and apart from the really annoying oversight in AD (server 2003) where you can't do peeps out of office for them it seems to work pretty damn fine. I have an iPod it's a 20gb 2G one...very old but battery is still going strong.
I have a number of test comps....I put Ubuntu LAMP on one, for about literally half an hour....went back to Centos! Much better IMHO
I like facebook! OK much spam, I choose to ignore it. I know I'm not gonna turn the El Reg demographic with one post, but if like me you have friends all over the world then it's a damn fine place to share what you're doing!
AC cos I'm scared!
So when I open up Firefox and log on to Gmail, facebook, amazon, and eBay simultaneously and leave them open and logged in all day whilst browsing various sites in other tabs and doing stuff in other applications whilst they sit there in the background, does that all count as part of the "viewing time" for these sites? I can only really look at one tab at any one moment, and for the majority of time that I'm logged into a site, I'm not actually looking at it..
I echo Robert Brockway's comments, above, regarding transparency of methodology.
Having said that, it's vaguely interesting to observe the migration away from webmail toward the messenging functions of facebook et al. I find it particularly annoying insofar as formatting text and adding links and attachments is concerned. But hey, for those folk who haven't experienced Gmail's spam filtering, forgoing a few formatting features when using facebook's mail function will seem like heaven compared to the hellish experience that is Hotmail.
There is a world of difference between "email" and "web based email", with the greater number of people that I know using "real" email - a client and a mail server - rather than a web version.
Design of a study is paramount in getting meaningful results. This looks like a case of taking a metric because it is "easy to measure" rather than trying to capture the full spectrum of online activity.
Useful definitions are crucial. The amount of time spent writing and reading email is hard to measure because the client typically connect to the server only to check for or transmit mail. Thus,.in my case, there is a connection for a few milliseconds every ten minutes, interspersed with email uploads and downloads. I, however, am continuously engaged in reading and writing.
If you are trying to measure user involvement in an online process, I am continuously engaged, though it is not as easy to measure as time spent on a web site.
A more useful comparative measure might be the number of words posted on blogs and on web sites, compared to the number of words emailed. That, however, would emphasize sending over receiving. Counting messages is only relevant if the approximate message size is similar.
And someone clicking on a web page does not actually mean that they read anything... being "logged in" to a web site is equally meaningless. I am often "logged in" to a social site, but the window is buried on my desk top for several hours. Does that mean I get credited with several hours of social networking, rather than the 10 minutes it actually took?
These "high level" reports without methodology, design, and anything but statistical reductions of data are too often meaningless or misleading. Without the survey design, sampling scheme, questions, statistical criteria and analytical methods, and survey methodology there is really no way to judge whether anything in the report is valid.
My BS meter sprang into life immediately - for starters it is impossible to sign up for any blog or social network without an email address. Then you have to factor in the fact that all social networks and blogs etc. use email to reach the people (most people in the world) who DON'T spend every minute of every day reading blogs or their Facebook page.
As many people have pointed out the Nielson research:
- does NOT claim that Member communities are more popular than email
- does not define active reach
- does not define email
- does not equate active reach with unique users
- shows that email use is growing faster than search
Here is the sanity check - forget email - even if "active reach" was a measure of popularity does anyone truly believe software manufacturers sites are more popular than all social networking sites and blogs put together?
Apart from that, what I find most irritating is how lazy commentators become when they see something that panders to their emotional beliefs; especially when it comes to the flavour of the month!
To quote Warren Buffet "it's wonderful to promote new industries because they are very promotable. It's hard to promote investment in a mundane product. It's much easier to promote an esoteric product, even particularly one [that doesn't make money], because there is no quantitative guideline."
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Classes in Spanish are conducted in conventional teacher-fronted settings that include opportunities for small-group learning. Maximum enrollment in Spanish classes is 25 students. Courses in less commonly taught and critical languages typically have smaller sections and are sometimes scheduled by arrangement.
The philosophy of the Lewis University Language Program stresses immediate practical language skills and communication. Emphasis is on how to use the language in culturally appropriate ways rather than simply learning facts about the language. Very little English is used. Each foreign language course carries 3 semester hours of credit.
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As further proof that the dream of the 90s is alive in Portland, I'm breaking down and putting an infused vodka drink on the Metrovino cocktail menu:
1 1/2 oz Dolin blanc vermouth
3/4 oz cumin-infused vodka
1/2 oz Galliano
2 dashes Berg and Hauck's celery bitters
Stir with ice and serve up with a lemon twist.
I rarely create cocktails with vodka. I don't often drink vodka. And I never, ever buy vodka. As a cocktail blogger I get more free samples of the spirit than I can possibly consume. But when a package arrived carrying not just one bottle but more than four liters of the stuff, I decided I might as well play around with it.
Inspired by Kummel, an herbal liqueur, I set aside some of the vodka to infuse with cumin seeds. The next morning it came out powerfully aromatic with a yellow-orange hue. I was intrigued enough to build a cocktail around it, using Galliano to play up the golden color. The drink is light and savory-sweet, an infused vodka cocktail for the mixology nerds. I thought it might be a bit too weird for Metrovino's wine-drinking clientele, but in testing it's played well enough that we're putting it on the menu. If you want to give it a try at home, here are the specs for the vodka:
1 cup vodka
2 teaspoons cumin seeds
Let steep overnight and strain.
Speaking of vodka, I have to give thanks to Vesica vodka for sending the product that prompted me to try this out. They sent much more vodka than I needed but there are a few things I like about the brand. One, the vodka is perfectly good and the bottles are attractive. Two, it's reasonably priced and not hyped up with meaningless marketing. Three, the name. From Wikipedia:
The vesica piscis is a shape that is the intersection of two circles with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each circle lies on the circumference of the other. The name literally means the "bladder of a fish" in Latin. The shape is also called mandorla ("almond" in Italian).
Did you know that? I didn't know that and I took four years of Latin. I have to appreciate a vodka brand that actually teaches me something. The 750 ml and 1 L bottles themselves are shaped to form a vesica when placed next to each other, which is a neat idea. Recommended.


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Last update on December 30
Following the devastation from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, we reached out to our family of Field Partners, borrowers, Fellows and field staff to check on their safety and well-being. We wanted to share those updates -- including additional ways you can help -- as we receive them here.
We've also received a lot of interest in forgiving loans for those affected by Typhoon Haiyan, and our Field Partners are currently going through the process of assessing the situation with each of their clients. Since those Field Partners are in the best position to determine which borrowers were directly affected by the storm, and how that might affect their ability to make repayments on their loans, they'll be making the call on which loans to restructure or write off if necessary. We appreciate the generosity of those who have written in with their interest in helping borrowers in this way, and know that together with our Field Partners we will continue to do whatever we can to help those affected by Typhoon Haiyan.
Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, Inc. (Field Partner)
NWTF is managing a round-the-clock call center and gathering data at all of their branches to make sure all staff members and clients are accounted for. They're also using this info to direct their relief efforts and help the 49,918 borrowers (and counting) that have been affected. They wrote with the following update:
Since our last update, we received confirmation that one of our loan officers from Tacloban died when her family home was swept in the storm surge. Her parents also perished in the storm. Her brother was the only survivor from the storm, but he is devastated as he also lost his child while they were hanging on against the wind and the waves.
- C1 and C2 branches, which were the least affected were allowed to declare 1 week repayment (November 6-15) in their affected centers;
- C3 branches were allowed to declare up to 2 weeks (Nov 6-22) moratorium;
- C4A branches were allowed to declare 2 weeks moratorium and may extend it if the branch and area managers determine that it is necessary;
- C4B branches were allowed to declare moratorium for the whole of November, and up to December – based on feedback from the field we may even have to extend this to January.
- Restructuring of outstanding loans. We will allow repayment up to 36 months – we are still studying if we could afford to make this principal payments only with zero-interest.
- Bridge Loans to restart their business. $23-$115 for a maximum period of 12 months (we will offer this to clients with PPI scores of <34).
- Special Loans for house repair/rebuilding and/or to restart business activities. $23-$675 for a maximum period of 12 months.
- Green Loans to support client's business activities (amount to be determined by client's capacity to pay).
For additional updates from the Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, please also visit their Facebook page.
Community Economic Ventures, Inc. (Field Partner)
CEVI is part of the World Vision network, which has launched a large scale relief and recovery operation. Several members of the staff from CEVI have volunteered to assist in these efforts and are now deployed on the ground in Leyte -- one of the most severely hit areas.
We also heard from CEVI directly:
Center for Community Transformation Credit Cooperative (Field Partner)
November 18th update provided by CCT:
Kiva Fellows update
Mike has since moved on to Indonesia prior to Typhoon Haiyan's arrival, but was previously working in the areas now affected by the storm. Ron Beaton is currently in the northern parts of the Philippines and confirmed safe. We also have another fellow in the region, Huyen Bui, who is safe in Vietnam.
Other ways to help
TIME World has also assembled an excellent collection of NGOs and charities that are mobilizing relief efforts in the Philippines:
As the affected countries and communities begins to rebuild themselves, we will be sure to keep you updated with news from our Southeast Asian family of Kiva borrowers and Field Partners in the coming weeks.


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Another Pastena project: Restaurateur Chris Pastena of Oakland's Chop Bar and Lungomare has announced the name and concept behind his newest project, Calavera.
The Mexican restaurant will open in the uptown Oakland Hive project in early 2015 with an emphasis on handmade ingredients and traditional cooking methods. Pastena is partnering with Michael Iglesias and Jessica Sackler (both formerly of Coqueta; Iglesias also ran the dining room at Bottega). Their goal? To have the most comprehensive selections of tequilas and mezcals in the Bay Area.
In the meantime, Pastena has named Iglesias and Sackler to the new management team at Lungomare in Jack London Square to help improve the overall customer experience (who knew it was a problem?) and develop a wine and cocktail program that better complements chef Craig DiFonzo's coastal-inspired Italian cooking. Hello, Tuscan Sun ($10): Germain Robin Brandy, Cocchi Torino, housemade Pineapple Gum and Orange-Cocchi Granita. Grazie, Pastena. Details: www.lungomareoakland.com.
Watch out, Tender Greens: Construction of a casual vegetarian eatery is underway on Locust Street in downtown Walnut Creek between ya'll and Anthropologie.
Veggie Grill, based in Santa Monica, specializes in entree salads such as Quinoa Power (fresh fennel, cannellini beans, carrots, almonds, currants, mint, citrus vinaigrette, hemp seeds), snacks such as Cauli-Mashed Potatoes (fresh cauliflower blended with mashed potatoes and porcini mushroom gravy with fresh rosemary) and tempeh-based sandwiches (B.T.L.A., or smoky tempeh bacon, sliced tomatoes, avocado, cilantro pesto tossed arugula and aioli mayo on grilled sourdough). Veggie Grill has already launched two locations in Mountain View and San Jose's Santana Row. This will be its first location in the East Bay. No word on when it will open, but you can follow the progress at www.veggiegrill.com. Details: 1320 Locust St.
Heads up, home cooks: Again this year, the Connoisseurs' Marketplace art and wine festival in Menlo Park will feature noted Peninsula chefs sharing their culinary tips.
On July 19 and 20, the chef demonstration tent with seating for 70 will be set up at Santa Cruz Avenue and Doyle Street, next to Left Bank restaurant. Presentations are scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. both days.
The lineup, with five chefs each day:
On Saturday, you can watch LB Steak's Kelsey Casavan, followed by Menlo Grill's Erik Romme, Left Bank's Brendy Monsada, Mayfield's William Roberts and, at 3 p.m., Patrick Kelly of one of the Peninsula's newest restaurants, Lure + Till.
On Sunday, catch the Palo Alto Grill's Ryan Shelton at noon, then Calafia's Charlie Ayers, The Sea by Alexander's Yu Min Lin, Martins West's Michael Dotson, and capping off the weekend, Margo True, food editor of Sunset Magazine, starting at 3 p.m. Details: http://marketplace.miramarevents.com.
More Mediterranean: If you can't find a good kebab, gyro or Greek salad in the South Bay, you're just not trying hard enough. Eateries offering Mediterranean and Middle Eastern fare are popping up all over. In Sunnyvale, Obed Mediterranean Cuisine offers entrees (kebabs and zereshk polo, a rice dish with barberries) in a classic dinner-house setting. Details: 911 E. Duane Ave., Sunnyvale; 408-685-2269. Near San Jose State University is Ayola, a casual spot that specializes in pita sandwiches (chicken shawarma with sumac, or roasted eggplant) and salads (Greek with calamari, tuna or gyro meat). Details: 457 E. San Carlos St., San Jose; 408-216-9046. And SAJJ, a build-your-own wrap, bowl or salad concept, has moved its San Jose location from Willow Glen to the North San Jose high-tech corridor. It's now at 4140 N. First St., San Jose.
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Lady Antebellum Announce 'Wanted You More' as New Single, Prepare for 'The Voice' Debut
Tonight (May 8 ) is the night that fans of 'The Voice' have been waiting for — the Season 2 finale! But even if you haven't followed every second of this season's competition, country fans will want to tune in to catch the television debut of Lady Antebellum's newest single, 'Wanted You More.'
'Wanted You More' is the fourth single from the trio's Grammy award-winning album, 'Own the Night.' The famous vocal group released the song for country radio airplay on Monday, and judging by the success of the album, this third single is sure to take over the airwaves in no time. 'Wanted You More' was actually written while the band lived on the road during a tour, and the melody contains the influence of dozens of pit stops and sound checks.
"One of the added benefits of being out on the road so much is the time it gives us during the day to write," said Lady A's Dave Haywood in a press release. "The three of us love writing together, but it's always special when something starts organically with the guys in our band."
Lady Antebellum will join a star-studded line-up — including Justin Bieber, Daryl Hall and John Oates, and Flo Rida — during the season's final episode. The finale will also reveal the winner of the entire season. Although Blake Shelton has done all that he can to stress that he thinks his singer, Jermaine Paul, will take home the crown, fellow coaches Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine are hoping for a win with their contestants, too.
Last night, Shelton took the stage beside Paul to perform 'Soul Man,' while his hopeful also delivered a copy of the country hit 'God Gave Me You.' Tonight, tune in to 'The Voice' at 9PM ET catch Lady A's new single — and find out who will win the grand prize on the show.


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Two editorial writers in the Arab press are critical of Egypt's government following the New Year's Day attack on Coptic Christians in Alexandria in Egypt in which 21 people were killed. That's the focus of the International Press Review for Monday, 3rd January 2011:
Several of the world's papers, including The Guardian in the UK, lead on the New Year's Day bomb explosion outside a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria in northern Egypt. The paper calls it the "midnight massacre" and shows a picture of a blood-stained image of Christ at the al-Qiddissine Church.
Tariq Alhomayed, editor-in-chief of the Saudi paper Asharq Al-Awsat, says in an editorial that "it is not enough for Egyptian government officials to say the attack was a foreign assault". He says "Egyptians need to look at reality in the face and see they have made a fatal mistake in allowing extremism to infiltrate Egyptian society". He argues that a number of Egyptian terrorists are living in various countries worldwide and experience shows that terrorists "always return to their country".
Arab Nationalist militant Abdel al-Bari Atwan, editor in chief of Al-Quds Al-Arabi, says that Egypt's leadership "is forgetting a little quickly that Islamic extremism existed in Egypt long before the emergence of al-Qaida". The editorial writer points out that it grew into an international organisation thanks to certain Egyptian militants such as Ayman al-Zawahri, Abu Fahs al Masri and others.
To Spain, where new anti-smoking rules came into force on Sunday. Restaurants, nightclubs, casinos, airports and even some outdoor spaces are now smoke free. The Spanish Paper El Mundo says Spain's smokers are resigned to the changes. One says: "Now I have to drink the coffee faster and go outside to smoke." The paper quotes the head of the Cantabria region, Miguel Angel Revilla, known for his love of cigars, as saying: "I say it is worse to steal. Smokers are regarded almost as if they are criminals". It quotes him saying he's not going to quit.
El Pais has a piece by smoker Javier Sampedro called: "Un cambio para siempre" ("A change forever"). He says the main change for him so far is in the tapas bar where cigarette butts are no longer being thrown to the floor with the shrimp heads, mussel shells, chicken bones and used napkins.
Lots of the papers are looking at the upcoming new year and also the last. The International Herald Tribune has a piece by Ben Zimmer called the "Word of the Year?" He is off to the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society which will choose the Word for 2010. His choice is "junk". From Greece's junk status to BP's underwater junk shot using rope and golf balls to try and stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, as well as junk food and junk DNA.
And to end, more junk. The UK's Daily Mail reports on the piles of rubbish in streets after the Christmas-New Year festivities. Christmas may have been and gone but have the bin men have skipped homes in certain parts of the country. The paper shows street scenes in Birmingham and Exeter. The paper says hundreds of thousands of people are affected by the rubbish pile-up across the UK.


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ORLANDO – Jared Allen took a couple of extra days to make his next big career decision, and on Wednesday morning he pulled off one of the biggest surprises of the offseason when he agreed to a four-year contract with the Chicago Bears.
Allen, the star defensive end whose contract with the Minnesota Vikings expired after last season, had well-publicized free agents visits with the Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks before winding up with the Bears on Wednesday morning.
"I'm excited," Allen wrote in a text message to USA TODAY Sports. "I have been blessed to (play) for some amazing franchise(s) and the Good Lord has blessed me again."
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Allen's move from Minnesota to Chicago is another major move within the NFC North after former Chicago defensive end Julius Peppers signed with the Green Bay Packers, and a sign the Bears are serious about upgraded their pass rush. The Bears finished 30th in total defense in 2013, with nearly 400 yards and 30 points allowed per game.
Even worse the Bears were tied for last in the league, with Jacksonville, with only 31 sacks.
Allen is the fourth defensive lineman signed by the Bears since free agency began, joining former Raider Lamarr Houston, and former Lions Willie Young and Israel Idonije (who spent nine years with Chicago before going to Detroit) earlier this month, and appear to be trying to put together a deep group of defenders that can each play a variety of roles along the defensive line.
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"We're very happy for Jared, and his wife Amy, and the Bears and we're really excited to have him in Chicago. We're looking forward to it," Bears chairman George McCaskey said after final session of the league's meetings adjourned Wednesday morning in Orlando. "Getting someone of Jared's talents, this is a big move."
The agreement came just minutes after NFC coaches, including Marc Trestman, concluded an hour-long interview session at the NFL's annual meetings in Orlando. Trestman was not available immediately for additional comments on Allen, but released a statement through the team.
"We believe he's going to come in hungry and excited to be part of our football team, and we believe he'll fit right in," Trestman said.
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Kerry eases Indian worry over talks with Taliban
NEW DELHI (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the U.S. sympathizes with India's wariness about talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, whose affiliates have been blamed for attacking Indian reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and the Indian embassy in Kabul.
Kerry made his first trip to India as secretary of state where he worked to enhance a U.S.-India relationship that is deeply rooted despite ongoing disagreements about U.S. support of India's archrival, Pakistan, roadblocks to trade, restrictions on American companies doing business in fast-growing India and uncertainty about the future stability of Afghanistan.
At a wide-ranging news conference with Indian External Minister Salman Khurshid, Kerry announced that Vice President Joe Biden would visit India in late July to underscore the importance of relations. Kerry also said he hoped the two countries could increase trade.
Khurshid said Kerry reassured him that India's concerns about U.S. talks with the Taliban would not be overlooked or undermined. The Taliban have historic ties with Pakistan. India is especially concerned about any negotiations with the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, which is blamed for attacking Indian reconstruction projects and the Indian embassy in Kabul. India also blames Pakistan-based insurgents for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, the worst terror incident in the nation.
The Taliban and U.S. agreed to begin talks last week as a first step toward what is hoped would be talks between the Taliban and Afghan government officials aimed at crafting a political solution in Afghanistan once U.S. and allied troops leave at the end of 2014.
"This is a process — and I think it's an experiment that's being done in order to find an alternative for sustainable peace in Afghanistan. One cannot disagree with that," Khurshid said.
But he didn't express high hopes for successful talks. "I think it's very clear what the objective is. How far the objective is possible, only time will tell."
Kerry said the U.S. was consulting with nations in the region and that James Dobbins, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, who was in Kabul on Monday, would visit India on Wednesday to brief officials.
But Kerry's comments on the issue added confusion to an already chaotic run-up to prospective negotiations.
Kerry said negotiations would only take place if certain conditions were met. He said the Taliban had to respect the Afghanistan constitution, disassociate itself from al-Qaida and violence, and respect the rights of women and minorities. However, the actual U.S. position lists these issues as outcomes of successful negotiations, not preconditions to sit down at the negotiating table. State Department officials said Kerry's remarks did not represent a change in U.S. policy.
The push for negotiations got off to a rocky start after the Taliban opened the new office last week with great fanfare on live television, hoisting the flag it used when it ruled Afghanistan and calling the bureau an office of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." That prompted immediate outrage from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who said the use of the formal name and flag made the office akin to an embassy rather than a political bureau for peace negotiations.
Both the sign and flag have since been taken down. But Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said in a statement that reports his office had agreed to remove them were "baseless and fabricated." Shaheen said the Taliban's stance hadn't changed on the use of both, though he did not say whether the group planned on trying to put them back up.
In Kabul, Dobbins told reporters that the U.S. and Afghanistan were still waiting to hear from the Taliban about opening peace talks, but remain willing to go ahead with negotiations.
On Iran, Kerry said the U.S. appreciated how India had worked to reduce its dependence on Iranian oil. Energy-starved India imports large amounts of oil from Iran to satisfy the country of more than 1 billion people. The U.S. wants India to reduce oil imports from Iran to help put pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
"We also believe that hopefully India could help urge the new Iranian leadership, and also the old leadership and the supreme leader to take advantage of this moment," Kerry said of new Iranian President-Elect Hasan Rouhani, elected last week. "We would hope India would help us so the Iranians do not put the world in a position where it is forced to take additional steps with respect to Iran," a reference to Iran's nuclear ambitions.
India and the US have a myriad of shared interests, including fighting Islamic militancy and managing the rise of China, but American businessmen have complained to U.S. lawmakers about Indian trade protectionism. They contend that tariff and regulatory barriers are shutting out foreign firms despite reforms that were supposed to open markets. They say that among other things, Indian policies favor local producers.
Kerry noted those concerns, albeit briefly.
He said U.S.-India trade had grown fivefold during the Obama administration and nearly topped $100 billion last year.
"It's a good start, but both of us agreed today that we can do more," he said. "We can break down trade barriers."
India is the second stop on Kerry's seven-country trip through Asia and the Mideast. He travels to Saudi Arabia and Jordan on Tuesday after attending an Indian event on higher education.
Associated Press writer David Rising in Kabul, Afghanistan, contributed to this report.


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Usher to Release 'Looking for Myself' on June 12
Seven is a lucky number for R&B superstar Usher. The singer, who enjoyed massive radio success over the past several months singing lead vocals on David Guetta's 'Without You,' will release his seventh studio album 'Looking for Myself' on June 12. Usher is a seven-time Grammy award winner, as well, so that's why the digit is a good one for him!
The hitmaker is currently putting the finishing touches on the album and readying it for release. He worked with the likes of Diplo, Rico Love, Jim Jonsin and more on the platter.
'Looking for Myself' will be available in both standard and deluxe editions and fans can pre-order now at select retailers. Lead single 'Climax' is already out, with the accompanying video already logging nearly 6 million views on VEVO.
In addition to the chart-topping, multi-platinum pop hit 'Without You,' Usher also appeared on Romeo Santos' hit 'Promise,' a No. 1 smash on the Latin charts. Usher really is everywhere, crossing genre boundaries and everything.
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Medina Valley ISD settles prayer suit
Settling a controversial prayer lawsuit, the Medina Valley Independent School District has agreed that its teachers, administrators and other employees will not pray with students, elicit prayer, proselytize or display religious artifacts.
Praising lawyers on both sides but firing back at opponents of his previous rulings who had threatened him or made political hay of the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery signed off on the deal Thursday, a month before it was set to go to trial.
The court will enforce the settlement for 10 years.
Each side claimed a win in the months-long fight, which had reverberated nationally.
The lawsuit alleged school officials frequently mixed religion with school events. It was filed last May by the family of an agnostic student, Corwyn Schultz, who declined to attend his Medina Valley High School graduation a month later when a federal appeals panel said students participating in the ceremony could call on the
audience to pray.
The valedictorian, Angela Hildenbrand, led a large crowd in prayer at the Castroville campus, including some who had driven there from outside the community to show their opposition to the suit. That will still be allowed under the settlement, and the district called the agreement "a huge victory" for its 3,500 students.
School district employees who are sitting in the audience as private citizens can participate in student-led prayer, but not if they're on the clock — and the settlement says commencement programs will need a disclaimer saying the student speaker's message is his or her own and not endorsed by the district.
The settlement "brings an end to several practices we believed were unconstitutional and that violated students' rights," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Washington-based group that provided the Schultz family with lawyers.
The group's lead lawyer on the case, Gregory M. Lipper, praised the Schultzes for "standing up for religious liberty and church-state separation in the face of intense community opposition."
School officials have denied they encouraged prayer in school and said the agreement reinforced their continued effort to strike a balance between free expression and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
"No doubt, this is a great day for Medina Valley," said Roland Ruiz, the district's board president. "Our students stood up for what they believed in and, as a result of this settlement, they will be able to continue to do so, now and in the future."
Biery initially barred organized prayer during the June 4 commencement but said speakers could — individually — invoke their religious beliefs.
But a federal appeals panel disagreed and allowed student-led prayer pending the outcome of the lawsuit.
The case drew a national spotlight in which praise, criticism and even death threats were directed at Biery.
In Texas, many Republican statewide officeholders criticized Biery, including Gov. Rick Perry.
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich worked the dispute into his stump speech, citing it as an example of a "war on religion" by federal judges. He proposed eliminating Biery's judicial post.
The case never was about the right to pray, Biery wrote in his order approving the settlement.
"Any American can pray, silently or verbally, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, in private as Jesus taught or in large public events as Mohammed instructed," Biery wrote.
The real issue, the order stated, is whether the Constitution allows a government entity to support and promote a particular religious viewpoint.
The judge included an 18-page discourse of what the courts have said in previous fights between First Amendment rights of students and freedom from a government endorsement of a specific religion.
In his order, the judge also delivered particular messages:
"To those Christians who have venomously and vomitously cursed the court family and threatened bodily harm and assassination: In His name, I forgive you."
"To those who have prayed for my death: Your prayers will someday be answered, as inevitability trumps probability."
"To those in the executive and legislative branches of government who have demagogued this case for their own political goals: You should be ashamed of yourselves."
"To the lawyers who have advocated professionally and respectfully for their clients' respective positions: Bless you."
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Read the settement agreement appendix
Read Medina Valley ISD's response to the settlement
Read Judge Fred Biery's analysis
Settlement details
• School district personnel will not display crosses, Bibles or other Scripture, or religious images, quotations, icons or artifacts on school walls or hallways.
• The district won't invite speakers, including government officials or community leaders, who it has reason to believe will proselytize.
• The settlement also says graduation programs will have a disclaimer saying the student speaker's message is his or her own and not endorsed or sponsored by the district.
• The Medina Valley High School student handbook will describe religious freedom rights and the importance of respect for students of all backgrounds — and how to file a complaint about violations.
• The district will provide annual training on those rights and on church-state separation to all employees who interact with students or parents or who supervise those who do.


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