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IDB Annual Meeting Concludes with Institutional Strategy Update
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 17:54
• IDB estimates annual gap in development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean is US$650 billion. • Region's private sector, crisis in Venezuela and macroeconomic challenges among topics of discussion. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – The 60th Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest concluded today in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with the approval of an updated institutional strategy for 2020-2023 that is intended to increase resource mobilization.
IDB launches dual tranche $1 billion 2-Yr and $1.5 billion 7-Year fixed rate global bonds
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 17:38
The Inter-American Development Bank ("IADB" or "IDB"), rated Aaa/AAA (Moody's/S&P), today priced a new dual tranche $1 billion 1.875% 2-year and $1.5 billion 2.000% 7-year fixed rate global bond. The 2-year note pays a semi-annual coupon of 1.875%, matures on 23 July 2021 and priced with a spread of 3bps over mid-swaps and 5.75bps over the UST 1.625% due June 2021, which represents a yield of 1.924% s.a.
IDB announces the finalists for the Superheroes of Development Award
Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 18:59
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today announced the eight finalists for the second edition of its Superheroes of Development Award, which recognizes the innovative solutions devised and valuable lessons learned by executing agencies while implementing development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
IDB Issues New Education, Youth, and Employment (EYE) Uridashi Bonds for Naito Securities
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 16:33
The Inter-American Development Bank ("IDB" or "IADB"), rated Aaa/AAA, has priced two Uridashi zero coupon notes for Naito Securities under its Education, Youth and Employment (EYE) Bond Program.
First quarter exports from Latin American and Caribbean fall: IDB report
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 - 17:31
The value of exports from Latin American and the Caribbean fell by 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018. The decrease was caused by lower export volumes and falling commodity prices.
MDB climate finance hit record high of $43.1 billion in 2018
Thursday, June 13, 2019 - 11:26
An increase of over 22 percent on the previous year, boosting projects that help developing countries and emerging economies cut emissions and address climate risks – joint report.
IDB launches US$2.1 billion 2.250% 10-year Fixed Rate Global
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 16:54
The Inter-American Development Bank ("IDB" or "IADB"), rated Aaa/AAA (Moody's/S&P),priced a new US$2.1 billion 10-year global bond. The transaction pays a semi-annual coupon of 2.250% and matures on 18 June 2029. Priced with a spread of 12.25 basis points over the UST 2.375% May-29, this represents a yield of 2.270%.
Latin America could expand annual trade to India by 42 percent, report finds
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - 15:18
Trade between Latin America and India has been growing rapidly in recent years but has the potential to expand much more, a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of India shows.
60th Annual Meeting of IDB Group to Convene Economic Leaders
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - 14:58
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group will hold its Annual Meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador from July 16 to 17. The economic and financial leaders of its 48 member countries will discuss current challenges and opportunities for development in the region. The Annual Meeting is the 60th annual gathering of the Board of Governors of the IDB Group, the institution's main decision-making body. The Board is primarily composed of finance ministers, economics ministers, and central bank presidents.
The IDB honors Peruvian chef Gastón Acurio
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 17:47
The ambassador of Peruvian cuisine will deliver the Cátedra Enrique Iglesias of Culture and Development on May 21, 2019. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced today that the chef Gastón Acurio was recognized with the Cátedra Enrique V. Iglesias of Culture and Development. This award was created by the organization to distinguish those who have excelled in their work of promoting the progress of Latin America and the Caribbean through the arts and culture.


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LA Fitness, Irvine, CA, is being sued by a VIP guest of a member in Florida on the grounds of racial discrimination.
The case, Marie Dessalines vs. LA Fitness International, was filed on Oct. 14 in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida.
According to the lawsuit, Dessalines entered an LA Fitness club in Sunrise, FL, as a VIP guest of member Erin Waller on April 26, 2011. Upon entering the club, Dessalines says she inadvertently provided an old membership card that had been deactivated instead of the VIP guest membership key that Waller had given her. She also says that she quickly corrected the matter and began her workout.
As Dessalines and Waller were leaving the club, the club's manager and other members of the club's staff began saying racially derogatory and discriminatory comments toward Dessalines, who is black, according to the lawsuit. One of the comments that the lawsuit claims was made was, "You n------ all think your (sic) slick," referring to Dessalines' attempt to use her old membership.
After Dessalines and Waller responded to the alleged comments, the club's manager, who is referred to as Denise in the lawsuit, allegedly called police to escort the two women out of the club.
When Dessalines and Waller called the LA Fitness corporate office the next day, LA Fitness said it was aware of the incident, according to the lawsuit. The company said that Waller, who is not black, could maintain her membership status but that Dessalines was no longer permitted to come back to the club, either as a paid member or a VIP guest, Dessalines claims.
Dessalines seeks all damages, including punitive damages, litigation expenses and costs, attorneys' fees and other relief deemed proper by the court.
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September 10, 2013
Psychiatric illness is brain disease. Decades of neuroimaging, molecular biology, and other research have given us a picture of what seems to go wrong—overactive circuits in anxiety, missed connections in schizophrenia, dysregulated neurotransmitters in depression—but gaps in our knowledge remain frustrating.
The gap between brain biology and psychiatric treatment is even wider. Drugs produce sledgehammer alterations in brain chemistry that relieve symptoms in some people, sometimes, often at a heavy cost of adverse effects. Brain stimulation can be effective, but we don't yet know why. Psychotherapy apparently changes brain function, when it works, but just how also is veiled in mystery.
If the science to support psychiatry isn't there yet, it's not for lack of trying, as researchers struggle to penetrate the brain's secrets to design better treatments for its dysfunctions.
One of the most promising paths toward this end combines a powerful tool of basic research, functional MRI, with a traditional method for altering behavior, operant conditioning.
Real-time fMRI (rtfMRI) neurofeedback shows people in an imaging scanner a continuous readout of their metabolic activity (reflected by blood oxygenation) in a specified brain area and trains them to modify it, much as conventional biofeedback trains people to control high blood pressure or relieve headaches by altering physiological variables like respiration rate and muscle tension.
"The neurofeedback idea is intrinsically based on the findings of neurobiology," says Nikolaus Weiskopf of University College London who was part of the research team that showed its feasibility just over a decade ago. "It ties in nicely with the general trend toward biologically-based psychiatry."
Interest in the field is building rapidly: almost as many rtfMRI neurofeedback papers (73) were published in 2011-2012 as in the prior 10 years, and it had its first international conference in 2012.
In part, Weiskopt suggests, this is simply the expected growth curve of an exciting new technology, as word gets out and such practical barriers as funding and buying equipment are overcome. "But it also reflects the generation of new ideas; as more people come into the field, there are more kinds of thinking."
RtfMRI was developed as a tool for basic brain research, but "clinically-related applications came up rather quickly, which is different from other technologies," Weiskopf says. "That's why we went into the field in 2000: with a long-term view of applying it to patients."
While he and other researchers emphasize the distance between encouraging findings in the lab and real help for real people, there's no question that recent work is indeed encouraging.
In a study reported in the April 2013 Translational Psychiatry, Michelle Hampson and colleagues at Yale used neurofeedback to train participants—people who reported high levels of contamination anxiety— to modify activity in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a brain area believed to play a key role in emotional regulation and to function abnormally in psychiatric symptoms like anxiety.
Two sessions in the scanner reduced their anxiety response to provocative images, and produced alterations in brain function that went well beyond the target area.
"The OFC is part of a big network," Hampson said. "We looked at resting state connectivity, which reflects functional brain organization." Their findings included reduced connectivity to regions associated with emotional processing, and increased connectivity with prefrontal regions tied to cognitive control.
Both brain and behavior changes persisted when tested after the training period (an average of three days later)—one of the few fMRI neurofeedback studies to show lasting effects.
While the study involved non-patients, "potential therapeutic applications are broad," Hampson said. "The data suggests [neurofeedback] might work for obsessive compulsive patients [where contamination anxiety is a frequent symptom], and for anxiety in general." It has implications for other psychiatric disorders as well, she says, insofar as OFC circuits often appear to be involved when people have trouble with emotional control.
Another recent study found an effect of neurofeedback in actual patients who suffered from depression.
Here, the idea was to increase activity in brain areas associated with positive emotions: i.e. where, for each subject, the contrast was strongest between activity when viewing positive (e.g. erotic), versus neutral or negative (threatening or disgusting) images. These target areas varied among individuals (and from session to session), but by and large, "were in keeping with areas described in previous work on emotional regulation," says David E. J. Linden of Cardiff University, first author of the paper that reported the work in the June 4, 2012, PLoS ONE.
The patients were instructed to increase activity in designated areas by raising the dial of a thermometer representing the fMRI signal there. "They were not given any instructions on strategy," Linden said. Most participants accomplished the increase progressively over the course of four sessions, for the most part using personal images such as pleasant memories.
Their depression symptoms improved significantly, too; enough, in two of eight patients, to constitute remission. Similar improvements were not seen in controls who were instructed to use the same mood-elevating strategies as the test group, but without neurofeedback.
"The most important finding of this initial study was that neurofeedback is feasible in patients with depression, who often have motivational deficits," Linden said. "It was acceptable to them. In fact they were happy to come back for repeated sessions in the scanner; they seemed to enjoy the process, which can't be said for many activities they do."
The improvement in symptoms was heartening too, "but it wasn't a real efficacy trial, so we have to be cautious," he said.
RtfMRI neurofeedback has even shown some promise for a notoriously severe and complex disorder—schizophrenia. The symptoms of this illness are extremely broad, including hallucinations, blunted emotions, and thinking distortions, and so are the brain abnormalities suggested by neuroimaging. In fact, many believe that behind schizophrenia is generalized failure of connectivity among widespread brain regions.
"Because schizophrenia is so complex, attacking it all at once to test a hypothesis in a scientific study is not possible," says Ranganatha Sitaram, of University of Florida. In an experiment reported in Human Brain Mapping in January 2013, Sitaram and colleagues focused on the ability to recognize facial expressions, which is impaired in schizophrenia, and targeted the insula, a brain region associated with this faculty, particularly for negative emotions. After four training sessions, patients were able to increase insula activity, and improve their ability to identify faces expressing disgust.
Imaging at the end of the period also suggested that training had enhanced connections between the insula and other brain areas; beyond that, the density of overall connectivity across a broad emotion-processing network increased. "If rtfMRI can be used to 'repair' neural disconnection, this could have important therapeutic implications for schizophrenia," the researchers wrote.
Before such implications for this or other disorders can be realized , studies will need "to make sure [self-regulation skills] can be generalized in real-world experience," says Nikolas Weiskopf. "Lying in a scanner is very different from everyday life." Effects must be shown to endure for months, rather than days, and practical questions, such as treatment length, must be clarified.
At best, "neurofeedback shouldn't be seen as a silver bullet.... [but] integrated into a wider setting of clinical support," he says. "It might act synergistically with parallel treatments, like cognitive behavior therapy or medication."
Movement toward a therapeutic reality is perceptible, however, in the fact of registered clinical trials now in progress: David Linden is applying neurofeedback for depression to a larger group of patients; and Michelle Hampson and colleagues are testing rtfMRI for people with Tourette's syndrome, a disorder of life-disrupting tics, following basic research (supported by a Dana Foundation grant) that showed the technique could modify connectivity to a relevant brain area in healthy subjects.
If his research goes well, Linden predicts, large multicenter trials could follow in a year or two, and [if that succeeds] within five years, "clinics offering neurofeedback as a component of an integrated biopsychosocial approach to depression might be a realistic proposition."
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Marcus Smart didn't expect his transition to the next level to happen overnight.
So after a second straight bumpy offensive outing for the Celtics' rookie point guard at the Orlando Pro Summer League on Monday, the No. 6 overall pick in last month's draft is trying not to stress.
Smart started strong, before cooling to a 3-for-15, 11-point performance in the Celtics' 96-77 loss to Indiana on Monday. The effort came just two days after an equally disappointing 2-for-8, 10-point effort in his rookie debut on Saturday.
"Shots didn't go down, that's just all it is," said Smart, who also had four assists and two turnovers. "We're not really worried about that. We've got a lot of talented players on the offensive end and defensive end. Shots are going to fall. Some nights shots aren't going to fall, and tonight was one of those nights."
There was also an incident in the second half Monday when Smart and Indiana's Dee Bost were told by a referee to stop some brief verbal back-and-forth.
No fouls were called, but Smart said the incident was a reminder that players may try to test him mentally this year following his suspension last season at Oklahoma State for shoving a fan.
"As a player, definitely that's going to stick with me for a long time, the rest of my life," Smart said. "Wherever I go, whoever I play, that's what they're going to know me as. But that was just an incident that happened, that's not who I really am.
"Of course they're going to try me. I expect that. I'm a good player and I expect people to try to get me out of the game so it can help them. It's a great tactic, but like I said, that doesn't really faze me."
As far how Smart's game is evolving on the floor right now, Celtics summer league coach Jay Larranaga said he hopes there is frustration from all the players after Monday's poor outing.
Asked if he thinks Smart might be trying a little harder right now coming from Oklahoma State where he had to carry the offense at times, Larranaga said it's part of the adjustment process for any player.
"Very few players can do that at this level," he said. "I think everybody has to learn that at some point."
On the other end of the spectrum, both of the Orlando Magic's lottery pickups had solid second games.
Forward Aaron Gordon, selected No. 4, rebounded from an uneven debut to finish with nine points on 4-for-7 shooting with seven rebounds in Orlando's 87-69 win over Houston.
"The jitters weren't really there," Gordon said. "I guess at the beginning of the game, before the game starts, the jitters are there a little bit. But once the game starts, it's just playing basketball. I'm having fun out there. Now I'm just adjusting and trying to make the right reads."
Also, Elfrid Payton, taken at No. 10, followed up his jittery first game Saturday with 12 points on Monday, connecting on all five of his field-goal attempts. He also added nine assists and eight points.
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Litigation Release No. 17270 / December 13, 2001
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Andrew S. Fastow, Case No. 1:01MS00456 (ESH) (D.D.C. December 12, 2001)
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that on December 12, 2001, it filed a subpoena enforcement action in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Andrew S. Fastow, the former Chief Financial Office, of Enron Corp. Pursuant to a subpoena issued on October 31, 2001, Mr. Fastow was obligated to appear for testimony before the Commission staff at 9:30 a.m. on December 12, 2001. Mr. Fastow, instead, chose not to appear, and instead informed the Commission staff, through counsel, that he would not appear as required by the subpoena. Accordingly, the Commission filed its Application For An Order To Show Cause And For An Order Requiring Obedience To Subpoena, along with a supporting Memorandum and Declaration.
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In its Application, the Commission alleges that on October 31, 2001, the Commission staff issued and served a subpoena to Mr. Fastow requiring him to produce certain documents by November 7, and to appear for testimony on November 14, 2001. On November 7, Mr. Fastow produced certain documents that he previously had given to the Enron Special Committee. Since then he has not produced any other documents requested by the subpoena. Moreover, in a series of meetings and telephone calls in the two weeks following issuance of the subpoena, Mr. Fastow's attorneys requested a postponement of Mr. Fastow's testimony. The Commission staff granted this request, and on November 18, counsel for Mr. Fastow agreed that he would appear for testimony on December 12 and 13. Thereafter, Mr. Fastow's counsel sought a further postponement of Mr. Fastow's testimony scheduled for December 12, so that he could provide an interview on the 12th to a federal criminal authority. The Commission staff granted this further postponement, with the understanding that the Commission staff would participate in this interview in lieu of Mr. Fastow's testimony obligation set for the same date and that his testimony before the Commission would be required on the 12th should the interview not take place. On December 6, the federal criminal authority cancelled Mr. Fastow's interview, and the following day, the Commission staff reminded Mr. Fastow's counsel that cancellation of the interview did not relieve Mr. Fastow of his obligation to appear for testimony on December 12. In fact, Mr. Fastow did not appear for testimony as required on the 12th.
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Winner: ICE— IntercontinenalExchange may have cracked the code to get a big exchange merger done with its plan to buy NYSE Euronext, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange. The deal will transform the Atlanta-based company, which specializes in commodities trading, into the owner of 200-year-old symbol of American capitalism. If regulators and shareholders approve, the combined company would own 14 stock and futures exchanges and five clearing operations, doing more things in more places than any other rival. But it better get pass regulators, $750 million break-up fee would sting.
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(Reuters) - U.S. train, truck and logistics companies were among the first to get rolling in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy thanks to many lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and other storms, according to industry analysts and executives.
That quick rebound is why the shipping business is expected to be a key driver for the Northeast economy as the region rebuilds.
Customers slammed by Sandy - many still without power and fuel - need deliveries of everything from relief supplies to lumber, machinery and replacement cars.
The need for speed represents an opportunity for trucking and express delivery companies such as United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) and FedEx Corp (FDX.N), which began making some deliveries the day after the storm.
"That business in the Northeast is really getting a lift because supply chains have been disrupted and expedited (service) is what you call on when you need to get something somewhere," said Kevin Sterling, BB&T Capital Markets analyst in Richmond, Virginia.
The expedited shipping services that UPS and FedEx specialize in are premium services that are among the most profitable for the package delivery companies.
Sandy represents a revenue opportunity close to $14 billion for truckers, which will haul in a host of products, including food, batteries, generators and building materials, said Noel Perry, principal of Transport Fundamentals in Cornwall, Pennsylvania.
Perry's estimate has spiked seven-fold since the end of October as forecasts of the devastation swelled.
"I'd like to be a flatbed guy right now," Perry said.
Rental trucks are also in high demand, with customers in Sandy's path replacing damaged vehicles and needing larger fleets to help catch up on business lost during the storm.
Miami-based Ryder System Inc (R.N) was sending up to 500 rental trucks to supplement the 1,200 rentals it typically has in the storm zone.
Transport company shares have outperformed the broader market in the days after the storm hit.
The Dow Jones Transportation average .DJT closed at 5018.28 on Friday, down 0.7 percent from the close on October 26, just before Sandy hit. The broader Dow Jones Industrial average .DJI has fallen 2.2 percent in that time.
To be sure, delivery companies and railroads took a short-term earnings hit from Sandy. Intermodal volume - the supply of goods moved in containers that can be shifted from train to truck or from ship to train, fell 3.8 percent in the latest week due to East Coast port disruptions, said analyst Fadi Chamoun of BMO Capital Markets.
"We expect volumes to begin to pick up over the next several weeks as major ports such as New York-New Jersey are now back in full swing and are working through the backlogs," he said.
In addition to backlogs and rebuilding volume, UPS and Fedex the largest package delivery companies, are gearing up for expected double-digit increases in holiday deliveries driven by e-commerce.
Moody's Investor Service said East Coast freight railroads CSX Corp CSX.N and Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC.N) could have lower cash flows and higher costs in the current quarter, but Sandy will not likely affect long-term operating performance, liquidity or credit ratings.
Freight transportation company triage playbooks have been evolving with a series of disasters, including Hurricane Katrina.
By the time Sandy hit, trucking and logistics companies had topped off gas tanks, bought or rented back-up generators to power distribution and fueling centers, and shipped relief and manufacturing supplies to the Northeast that customers would need after the storm. During the storm and in the days after, these companies and East Coast railroads diverted shipments away from the hardest-hit areas and found alternative delivery options for customers
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N), which owns most of its trucking fleet, is among the discount retailers that Moody's said will benefit from storm recovery and rebuilding efforts.
Walmart has shipped more than 1,900 truckloads into the storm zone, of which 600 were full of emergency products such as gas cans, flashlights, batteries, water and chainsaws.
Plenty of trucks were ready to move the added supplies due to Walmart's crisis preparation and Sandy's pre-holiday timing.
Walmart had rented and pre-positioned five generators and had ready access to fuel at its Sam's Club warehouse locations.
"We really started to formalize our processes after Hurricane Katrina," Bryan Boudreaux, senior vice president of Walmart Supply Chain, Eastern Business Unit. "Unfortunately, because of the wide area that I support and that Walmart has across the United States, we've had plenty of opportunity to update the processes all the time."
Despite all the emergency planning, Sandy unearthed some problems that transport companies will address in crisis planner updates.
Ryder had filled all of the gas tanks that serve lease customers at its locations impacted by Sandy. But next time, Ryder wants to get its generators, needed at some locations to power fueling stations, to the crisis area sooner, said Robert Sanchez, president and chief operating officer.
Ryder, which counts Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN.O) and Staples Inc SPLS.O among its customers, said it bought generators after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in the Southeast. Ryder this time shipped the generators after Sandy hit, when it evaluated where they would be most needed.
"One of the things we learned for the next time is that we want to get those generators much closer to where the point of impact is going to be, so that after the storm we can get them hooked up and running and maybe buy ourselves another 24 hours that we probably lost in transporting them," Sanchez said.
A downed cell-phone tower in New Jersey caused a half-day communications failure that slightly deferred some UPS business. As a result, UPS plans to more widely deploy high priority call systems managed by the National Communication System, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
"That is an area that we need to look through, work through and try to create a fallback if communications goes down on a larger scale for a longer period of time," said Dan Gross, vice president of UPS transportation network planning, North America.
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This article originally appeared in Bloomberg View on December 3rd, 2012.
I know we're just settling in with our popcorn for the scene where the lawyers and PR handlers transform disgrace into opportunity for the players in the David Petraeus story.
Already Petraeus is on the contrition circuit, saying last week he "screwed up royally." Why next thing you know, he will be nominated to replace Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
But before we move on to "Act II: The Image Rehab," could we clear up this business about how women get depicted when the stuff hits the fan in a scandal?
Some of you are feeling sad that Petraeus, the retired four-star U.S. Army general who had an affair with the author of his biography "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," had to quit his job as Central Intelligence Agency director last month after admitting to an extramarital affair. "They threw this poor fellow to the wolves," celebrity divorce lawyer Raoul Felder told the Daily Beast's "Beast TV."
Poor fellow, indeed, getting his reputation tarnished for engaging in indiscretions with Paula Broadwell, a married woman who surely must be responsible for the fall of our military hero, considering media commentary that dubbed her a slut and a cunning seductress.
How could this bad result have come to such a good guy?
"From what we know now, he wasn't an alcoholic or a drug addict — something that might impair his thinking," wrote columnist Susan Reimer in the Baltimore Sun. In fact, "he did nothing truly weird, like Rep. Anthony Weiner, who sent those cell-phone pictures of his crotch to random women."
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He probably wasn't a bank robber or an animal abuser or an inside trader, either, and from what I can tell, the only things he is guilty of are cheating on his wife and a surfeit of professional preening.
But there is something a little bit off when one party to a sex scandal is congratulated for the sins he managed not to commit while the other gets attacked as "a shameless, self promoting prom queen," which is the way Broadwell was described by an unidentified military officer in the blog Business Insider. (Memo to Mr. Unidentified Military Officer: Next time you get on the phone for a media interview, show a little military-style courage and attach your name to those smears.)
Petraeus is no stranger to self-promotion himself, and several writers have called him out both for his assiduous courting of the reporters who covered him and for his tacky decision to adorn his civilian clothes with military medals for a recent speech in Washington.
But that self-promotion hasn't led to any portrayals of Petraeus as "a shameless self promoting prom king."
I have, though, seen a lot of stories that referred to Broadwell as Petraeus's mistress. And so has J. Nathan Matias, a research assistant at the MIT Center for Civic Media who studies gender representation in the media. Matias used a news database called Media Cloud to get an idea of how Petraeus and Broadwell were being depicted in mainstream media and in blogs, and noticed that the word "mistress" was being used in such varied places as USA Today, Newsweek and Slate.com. Bloomberg View and Bloomberg Businessweek have also referred to Broadwell as his mistress.
"If I were trying to write a piece, I wouldn't refer to her in that kind of possessive way," Matias told me. "I'd try to find language where I'd say they were having an affair, and identify her in terms of who she is in society, just as they are identifying Petraeus."
Readers coming across the word "mistress" tend to visualize a woman who provides sex in exchange for cushy, rent-free living and a lot of high-end shopping, Matias said. That label is "kind of demeaning" in any event, he said, but doesn't even apply in the case of Broadwell, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, a West Point graduate and recipient of two master's degrees.
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"She is getting the typical response to the scarlet letter woman — he is a man, so he's weak, but she is crazy, demonic and a threat to national security," said Victoria Pynchon, a blogger on negotiation and women's issues at Forbes.com. "He's mostly getting a pass, and the women in this story are getting no pass." Equal treatment in the media would at least make Petraeus the sugar daddy to Broadwell's mistress, wouldn't you think?
In a blog post that managed to squeeze in the word "slut" four times, the conservative commentator Robert McCain noted that Broadwell had conducted interviews with Petraeus while the two were jogging, which apparently is reason to conclude "the slut was very cunning in her seduction." Even the Washington Post found a way to present her as conniving, noting that she was "willing to take full advantage of her special access" to Petraeus while researching her book.
Petraeus, meanwhile, was described by an unnamed friend (does anyone talk for the record on this story?) as being "vulnerable" after leaving the camaraderie of the military to take the CIA post.
In the Baltimore Sun story, the author suggested "we need to learn to get past these bimbo eruptions." Bimbo, from dictionary.com, is "an attractive but stupid young woman, especially one with loose morals." What we really need to work on is getting journalism schools to teach students the apparently lost art of looking up words in the dictionary.


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Internationally celebrated as the man who essentially picked up where Chano Pozo left off, Candido Camero became one of the most ubiquitous of the Cuban and Caribbean percussionists who enlivened and enriched the musical landscape of North America during the second half of the 20th century. Among the first to popularize the use of multiple conga drums and one of the inadvertent instigators of the bongo craze of the 1950s, he outlived most of his contemporaries and was still performing with extraordinary passion and precision well after attaining the status of an octogenarian.
Candido de Guerra Camero was born in the El Cerro barrio of San Antonio de los Baños in Havana, Cuba, on April 22, 1921. As a young boy he played the string bass. After operating a tres guitar with Conjunto Gloria Habanera at the age of 14, he began to concentrate on the bongos, and had soon graduated to the conga. In addition to the Pan African combination of Yoruba, Portuguese, and Spanish folk influences, Candido named U.S. jazz drummers Max Roach and Kenny Clarke as primary inspirations. He recorded with various Cuban bandleaders including Machito, worked for six years in the house band at radio station CMQ in Havana, and performed at the Tropicana club there as a member of Armando Romeu's orquesta from 1947 to 1952.
The North American chapter of his career began in October of 1952 and was inaugurated with a six-week engagement at the Clover Club in Miami, followed by a move to New York suggested by his new friend, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who personally took him to the Downbeat Club to sit in with pianist Billy Taylor. During 1953 and 1954 he recorded with Taylor's trio as well as with Erroll Garner, assisted Gillespie in the realization of "Manteca Suite" (the first of many recorded collaborations with Diz), and toured with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. He then formed his own group (including saxophonist Al Cohn); made his first recordings as a leader in 1956; and toured extensively through Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Miami, and New York.
During the late '50s, throughout the '60s, and well into the '70s, Candido became the most active Latin American percussionist in both jazz and pop music, appearing on television to an unusual extent and recording with saxophonists Charlie Parker, Gene Ammons, Stan Getz, Phil Woods, Sonny Rollins, Illinois Jacquet, and Coleman Hawkins; guitarists Kenny Burrell and Wes Montgomery; pianists George Shearing and Marian McPartland; and vocalists Dinah Washington, Lena Horne, Patti Page, Tony Bennett, Charo, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. He appeared with bandleaders Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, Doc Severinsen, Chico O'Farrill, Lalo Schifrin; drummer/bandleaders Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Mongo Santamaria, and Tito Puente; and fellow conga masters Giovanni Hidalgo and Carlos "Patato" Valdes.
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Miscues costly as O's fall to Red Sox in ninth
BOSTON -- The Orioles lost shortstop J.J. Hardy after the sixth inning. And he took the game's outcome with him.
It's impossible to tell if Baltimore's fate would have been different had Hardy not suffered a right hamstring injury running the bases in his fifth-inning at-bat. But the Orioles, who had a five-run lead and starter Ubaldo Jimenez carrying a shutout into the sixth, watched things unravel in ugly fashion after the anchor of their infield departed.View Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- The Orioles lost shortstop J.J. Hardy after the sixth inning. And he took the game's outcome with him.
It's impossible to tell if Baltimore's fate would have been different had Hardy not suffered a right hamstring injury running the bases in his fifth-inning at-bat. But the Orioles, who had a five-run lead and starter Ubaldo Jimenez carrying a shutout into the sixth, watched things unravel in ugly fashion after the anchor of their infield departed.View Full Game Coverage
Baltimore committed three errors, the last charged to David Lough on his throw in from left field that allowed the Red Sox to complete the comeback and walk off to a 6-5 win that leaves the O's looking to earn a series split heading into Monday's finale of the four-game set in Boston.
"That's why [baseball is] so tough," said Jimenez, who exited after allowing three runs over 5 1/3 innings. "Sometimes you feel you have the game in your hand, and then everything disappears."
With the score knotted at 5, lefty Brian Matusz came on to work the ninth inning, and Boston came close to ending it on Dustin Pedroia's one-out double off the Green Monster. The ball, which appeared to deflect off a fan's hands, was nearly a home run. The umpires reviewed it and ruled that the play would stand as called, meaning the video was inconclusive. Pedroia moved to third on Matusz's wild pitch to David Ortiz, whom he then intentionally walked before being replaced by righty Darren O'Day.
O'Day hit Mike Napoli in the left knee to load the bases, and pinch-hitter Mike Carp sent a ball into left field that Lough caught on the run and fired toward home to try to get Pedroia -- who wasn't tagging on the play. Instead, the errant throw -- which Jonathan Schoop appeared to have a chance to cut off near third -- skipped by catcher Matt Wieters, allowing Pedroia to come home with the winning run as the Red Sox dugout piled out in celebration of yet another play gone haywire for the Orioles.
"I should have caught the throw," said Schoop, who moved from second base to third in Hardy's absence. "When the line drive went, I went to the base. As soon as he hit it, everybody was thinking it was a hit, and then I ran to the base, because I thought maybe we could catch him [off the bag] and get a double play there. And when he made the catch, I saw Pedroia make the tag. I wasn't able to react to the cutoff."
Manager Buck Showalter, who met with the umpires briefly on the field immediately postgame to ensure every Red Sox runner had tagged properly, said Lough's throw was a little off, and the manager wasn't sure what was going through Schoop's mind on the final play.
Unfortunately for the Orioles, it wasn't the only head-scratching play of the game.
Hardy's injury, which has the shortstop considered day to day, took full effect in lefty reliever Zach Britton's second inning. Britton replaced Jimenez after Jonny Gomes' three-run homer, and recorded the final two outs of the sixth before Boston tied it up in a sloppy seventh with a pair of unearned runs.
Britton, who has not allowed an earned run in 12 1/3 innings, gave up a one-out single to Brock Holt, and the Orioles committed their fifth error of the season on Ryan Flaherty's transfer miscue. Flaherty, who shifted to shortstop to start the inning due to Hardy's injury, caught the ball from Britton at second base, but dropped it while making the transfer, a newly enforced rule that allowed the Red Sox to have men safe on first and second.
"That's the way the rule is," Flaherty said of the hotly debated transfer play. "I didn't turn the double play like I should have."
Boston capitalized, with Pedroia singling and Ortiz knocking in a run to close the gap to one and prompt Showalter to insert Evan Meek. Meek got a grounder from Napoli, and Schoop fielded it cleanly, but his throw to home was off line, allowing the Red Sox to tie it up.
Showalter, who like many others around baseball has been confounded by the new interpretation of the transfer rule, said he never thought about challenging the play.
"It's a waste of time," he said. "That hasn't been overturned all year. I've got a young pitcher out there, a cold pitcher, it's 40 degrees. They would look at it for about thirty seconds, that's the good news. They haven't overturned one of those all year. Wasn't even worth challenging. Maybe in two weeks it will be. Which is what I'm hearing."
Meek struck out Daniel Nava to leave the bases loaded, and retired the side in order in the eighth.
The Orioles had a chance to go ahead in the ninth but squandered their second consecutive leadoff opportunity. Adam Jones doubled for his fourth hit of the night, off Red Sox reliever Andrew Miller and moved to third on Wieters' groundout, but Steve Lombardozzi -- who entered the game in the seventh due to Hardy's injury -- hit a dribbler back to the mound. Edward Mujica, on because Red Sox manager John Farrell thought the O's had called on Delmon Young to pinch-hit, struck out Lough to keep the game tied.
"The much-talked-about transfer play comes into our favor tonight," Farrell said of the play. "We're able to chip away two runs to tie things up. just a heads-up play by Pedey to get back and tag, and an errant throw is a difference in the end."
For five innings, it looked like this was the Ubaldo the Orioles had been waiting for. The right-hander dominated Boston early, not allowing a hit until Gomes' two-out double in the fourth. But it was Gomes who doomed Jimenez in his next at-bat, sending a 2-2 slider just on the right side of the foul pole down the left-field line for a three-run homer to bring Boston within two. The dinger, preceded by a long single from Ortiz and a walk to Napoli, chased Jimenez from the game.
"I felt my mechanics were working," said Jimenez who showed some encouraging signs in Sunday's start. "I was able to throw a fastball a lot, locating the fastball and the breaking ball for a strike, too."
The Orioles' offense worked Boston starter Jake Peavy for three runs in a 25-pitch first inning and chased him after 5 2/3 innings, marking the first time in four games the righty had failed to complete six. The O's scored five runs off Peavy, who had allowed four earned runs combined in 18 2/3 innings coming in.
Nelson Cruz got things started one out into the game, sending Peavy's first pitch of the at-bat into the Green Monster seats in left field. Wieters followed with an RBI single, scoring Chris Davis, to push it to two, with Hardy plating Jones on a deep sacrifice fly.
Lough, who was 4-for-34, extended the O's lead with a two-out ground-rule double in the fifth inning to score Wieters. Schoop doubled to open the following frame, scoring on Jones' third hit -- an RBI single that chased Peavy from the game. But it wasn't enough as the O's left 11 men on base and couldn't add on to their early lead, exposing a defense that was less than optimal.
"That was the difference in the game," Showalter said of his club throwing the ball around.
"That [transfer play] was one of them. There was something we could have done to not make it matter."
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter @britt_ghiroli.


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School: Savannah Country Day
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Coaches: Bobbi Mock and Patricia Parker
News: The Lady Hornets recently defeated rival Calvary Day, 25-21, 25-16, 25-14, to claim their second consecutive Area 2 AA/A tournament championship and were ranked ninth in the state heading into first-round state tournament play.
They topped the Lovett School from Atlanta in four out of five sets to advance to the second round, where they fell to Wesleyan.
The Lady Hornets finished 38-7 record and won several tournaments, including the 20-team Ampest Spikefest tournament in Conyers. Senior standout Cara Considine, the 2010-11 Savannah Morning News Player of the Year, was named tournament most valuable player.
Players: Cara Considine, Maddie Clifton, Abby Johnson, Caroline Holden, Caroline Groover, Ashton Young, Ellen Skeadas, Kelli Kirkland, Graham Kemp, Schyler Wardlaw and Ellie Darbyshire.
Next up: The Lady Hornets have begun their basketball season, and already have won a tournament. The Lady Hornets recently defeated St. Vincent's, 35-33, on a game-winning shot by Abby Johnson with 6 seconds left in the annual SCPS Preseason Thanksgiving Tip-Off Tournament.
Quote: "Led by an outstanding group of eight seniors and three juniors, our team has been a great example of how we want our volleyball program to be recognized in the future here at Savannah Country Day School," Mock said. "This team displayed all the qualities a coach would want in a group of athletes: character, dedication, hard work and a fierce fight to compete and win, which we have done on many occasions. The entire SCDS community is very proud of the entire volleyball program, especially of the graduating seniors and their many accomplishments. Many thanks to our 'Hornet Nation' that filled our gymnasiums during the Area 2 AA/A and state playoff games. It was wonderful to see so much support for a great group of standout student-athletes. Many fond memories were shared with these eight girls, both on and off the court. They will be missed but not forgotten."
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And so it begins, the tedious slog that has become the fortnight between the end of the conference championship games and the Super Bowl. The good news: the Patriots are one of the two teams remaining, their fifth trip to the finals this century. The bad news: we're going to be inundated with every conceivable storyline starting with the most obvious: New England will finally be able to avenge their Super Bowl XLII loss to the then-upstart Giants.
But four years have passed and these are two completely different teams. The Patriots have just five players from the 2007 squad, and only one defender (Vince Wilfork). The Giants, meanwhile, have 16 players and quarterback Eli Manning is playing the best football of his career.
And while Bill Belichick is a master motivator, nobody on the Patriots is thinking about what happened in Arizona in February 2008. Mostly because it still stings.
"I still can't watch highlights of that game," quarterback Tom Brady said on WEEI's "Dennis & Callahan" Monday (via the Boston Herald). "I think that's just the way it is. You get to the end, and we had a great opportunity there and really squandered it because we didn't play our very best."
Owner Robert Kraft echoed similar sentiments:
"I've never been able to watch it," Kraft said. "I do remember the end of the game, a ball going through our cornerback's (Samuel) hands that if he had caught that ball and it hadn't gone through his hands, we would have been able to take a knee and we would have won the game. And, you know, that Eli doing a great job escaping from that pile of guys that we had on him, and whether the whistle blows, and the great catch and all these things."
"In the end, there are a lot of little things. That was a great game, that was a great team and we're looking forward to having the privilege of going to Indianapolis."
Kicker Stephen Gostkowski, who was part of the '07 team that fell one game short of perfection, put everything in perspective.
"It's completely different people," he said according to the Herald. "A lot of those guys on our team and their team weren't part of that game, so there's no blood for them. We don't care who we play, we just want to win."
Back in the present, Pats' wideout Matthew Slater provided a glimpse of Belchick's talking points this week.
"Coach told us this would be a different ballgame all together," he said via ESPN.com's Jackie Macmullen. "He said the Giants only have eight of their guys left from that game, and we have only five guys."
The numbers may be slightly off but it doesn't change the underlying point: Belichick lives in the present. Not the past, not the future, but the here and now. To quote Gostowkski: "It was what it was."


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2014 Botanical Calendar
I'm so excited to announce that my 2014 Botanical Calendar is now available for sale on Nightingale Handmade's website. I got behind getting each month out during the year, but made a big effort to finish out the few remaining months in November. The result includes all the months I've already posted, plus the never-before seen Summer months. I really enjoyed putting this together and I hope you do too :) Also check out all of the other lovely work on the Nightingale website! Hope everyones enjoying their Holidays!
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WWE To Release "Top 25 Rivalries" DVD/Blu-ray Set
WWEDVDNews.com is reporting that WWE will release a "Top 25 Rivalries" DVD and Blu-ray set on May 28th. Here's the official synopsis:
"WWE Superstars clash year-round with championships, glory, and personal pride on the line. But only 25 rivalries can be considered the greatest in sports entertainment history. Now for the first time ever, WWE counts down the most intense rivalries of all time. With each segment narrated by a different WWE or mainstream personality, each rivalry takes on a life of its own as WWE fans get an inside, never-before-seen perspective on their favorite showdowns. From the grudges born from equal pursuit of a common goal to those where the animosity crosses personal boundaries, all the timeless conflicts in the history of WWE, WCW, NWA, ECW and more are presented. Featuring Cena vs Edge, Stone Cold vs Mr McMahon, Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat and many more, this controversial countdown is sure to be dissected and debated by fans of all eras. Plus, special features include over 5 hours of bonus matches highlighting the rivalries presented in the countdown."
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Orange County hostesses Valarie Van Cleave and Eve Kornyei pulled out all the stops Saturday evening, as Hollywood and Washington, D.C. glitterati converged on the Laguna Beach estate of Karen and Bruce Cahill for the 4th annual SeaChange dinner and fundraiser.
It was a smashing success attracting some 400 guests. The al fresco gathering on the spectacular hillside of the Cahill villa, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean, raised more than $900,000 for Oceana, the world's largest ocean conservation society. It's headquartered in the nation's capital.
This was an evening of great passion centered on a cause that effects every creature on the planet, both on land and under the sea. Oceana is both a watchdog and an instrument of leadership working with multiple layers of worldwide government, business and culture.
In spite of criticism of such efforts from voices advocating no restriction on the pursuit of free enterprise as they harvest the bounty of the world's oceans, Oceana works through legislative action to ensure that enterprise unchecked and imbalanced does not decimate such finite resources.
Surely, responsible world citizens have learned via example over the last century that the Earth's resources are not a free-for-all grab in a climate of laissez-faire entrepreneurship, or one that's open to the first to take.
In decades past when the world population was much smaller and the planet seemed more vast and indestructible, one well-known example illustrates the effect of unchecked entrepreneurship: Whalers nearly wiped out the population of nature's giant waterborne mammals for their oil. Closer to home, the Pacific along the Orange Coast was once the habitat for one of the world's largest schools of sardine and abalone, though it was overfished to elimination some half-century ago.
Today, Oceana fights to ensure the survival of many ocean habitats not just off American shores, but wherever the need for conservation exists. One such effort focuses on the protection of the ocean's shark population being overfished in a horrific manner to satisfy the desire for shark fin soup, an east Asian delicacy. Shark fishermen have for some time been catching the fish, cutting off the fins and throwing the creatures back in the ocean to drown rather than harvesting the entire shark for food.
The task is great. Not only is achieving international legislation against such behavior extremely difficult to create and then enforce, but teaching the moral and ethical imperative to cultures that have considered such fishing acceptable for generations is tantamount to a world shift, a revolution of thought and ideology.
The big question centers on how business and free enterprise can coexist with conservation. To take a stand that such coexistence is not only possible but imperative, major O.C. leaders of business, government and society came forward Saturday evening in Laguna Beach to support Kornyei and Van Cleave.
Major support came from underwriters David C. Copley, Tricia and Michael Berns, Deborah and Larry Bridges, Cynthia and Steve Fry, Eve Kornyei and beau Michael J. Ruffato, Harriet and Sandy Sandhu, Sandi and Ron Simon, and Valarie Wahler. Significant financial underwriting also came from the Harriet E. Pfleger Foundation, South Coast Plaza, Wells Fargo, Mutual of America, Burgess, Lady LUX, Neiman Marcus and Surterre Properties, to list a few.
As in years past, the event was sprinkled with glamour as a contingent of seriously dedicated Hollywood celebrities lended their formidable names, faces and talent to the evening.
This season's party starred Academy Award nominees Josh Brolin and his wife Diane Lane, who fronted the affair. The super-talented couple joined the likes of Ted Danson, Aimee Teegarden, Angela Kinsey, Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Q'orianka Kilcher, Oscar Nuñez and Austin Stowell mingling in the crowd, sharing dinner and conversation.
Fittingly, the message that our oceans are indeed the source of nourishment for a vast majority of the human population was not lost on the crowd. Others sharing the vision of conservation cooperating with enterprise for the protection of future generations included Carolyn Hotchkis, Wendy and Rick Aversano, Julie and Peter Hill, Dwight Manley, Gena and Nick Reed, and Sutton and Christina Stracke.
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While we still can't say for sure when the Nexus 7 refresh will be available, we now have a pretty good idea what it will cost. In this leaked inventory screen, we see listings for both the 16GB version, priced at $229, and the 32GB version, checking in at $269. Those prices aren't bad at all, as the rumored specs for these show a Snapdragon 600 processor, 5MP camera, and possibly a 1080p display.
Both models are simply listed as quad-core, so there is no new information on that front. We also see that zero units of either size are in inventory at this particular ninja's location right now.
With retail locations getting ready for inventory of the new Nexus 7, the wait can't be very much longer. That's a good thing, because we're getting excited for some new Nexus gear, and possibly the launch of Android 4.3 to go with it.
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Janel Holcomb
Career Highlights:
- 1st place - 2011 National Racing Calendar women's overall standings
- 1st place – 2011 Cascade Classic
- 1st place – 2011 Tour de Toona
- 1st place – 2011 Joe Martin Stage Race
- 1st place – 2011 Sunny King Criterium
- 1st place – 2011 Benton Park Classic
- 2nd place – 2011 Stage 6 Cascade Classic
- 3rd place – 2011 Tour of Elk Grove
Points of Interest
- Janel holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and a Masters of Education in teaching and curriculum design.
- As a junior high student, Janel was a few strides ahead of her fellow athletes, having to leave her 7th and 8th grade classes early to train with the varsity long distance running team.
- Janel loves to pour energy into cooking, an activity that helps fuel her training.
PersonalAn athlete her entire life, Janel's background is as a distance runner. She started out very young and competed in cross-country and track throughout her college years while earning a degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. With college graduation came a move to San Diego, a new career as a high school math and science teacher, and a loss of interest in running.
Something had to fill the void, and that something was a bike. Janel's husband, Chad, got her hooked on cycling in 2006 as a member of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training.
As her competitive side resurfaced, the newcomer dove head first into the Southern California race scene. In 2007, the doors of professional cycling were opened to Janel as she got the chance to guest ride for Webcor in the Bermuda Grand Prix where she placed third in the uphill time trial. She had her breakthrough season in 2011 when she won the Cascade Classic and ended the season as the number-one ranked woman on USA Cycling's National Racing Calendar.
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NBC's 'Community' Could Be Resurrected by Hulu For Sixth Season
With the recent cancellation of 'Community,' there was hope that Netflix might swoop in and grant the show a sixth season, fulfilling a long running joke about the series. It turns out that it might be Hulu that picks up the show for an additional year at Greendale.
That's the word from Deadline, who note that the talks are in the preliminary stages though both sides are open to the idea. We have somewhat mixed feelings about this: Of the original Greendale Seven, Chevy Chase quit the show during its fourth season, while Donald Glover left partway through the fifth. Recently Gillian Jacobs signed on for the fourth season of 'Girls,' and though that doesn't necessarily mean she can't do both, if the series loses any more of its core group, it would either be a shadow of its former self, or have to completely reinvent itself (but if that led to more episodes about Koogler, well, we're on board).
Series creator Dan Harmon has said that he's open to doing more (he posted on his blog "I'm not going to be the guy that re-cancels cancelled 'Community'.") though he's previously expressed some reservations about returning. That may be because he's helped write three season finales that were also meant to double as series finales. It seems like the main motivation for the sixth season (besides fulfilling a hashtag) would be to get the series over a hundred episodes, which is considered more syndication friendly than the show's current 97 episodes. Hopefully we'll know 'Community"s ultimate fate shortly, as this seems like the last hope.


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I hinted about some related work at the University of Waterloo earlier this week in my Nov. 26, 2012 posting (Existential risk) about a proposed centre at the University of Cambridge which would be tasked with examining possible risks associated with 'ultra intelligent machines'. Today (Science (magazine) published an article about SPAUN (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network) [behind a paywall])and its ability to solve simple arithmetic and perform other tasks as well.
Ed Yong writing for Nature magazine (Simulated brain scores top test marks, Nov. 29, 2012) offers this description,
Spaun sees a series of digits: 1 2 3; 5 6 7; 3 4 ?. Its neurons fire, and it calculates the next logical number in the sequence. It scrawls out a 5, in legible if messy writing.
This is an unremarkable feat for a human, but Spaun is actually a simulated brain. It contains2.5 millionvirtual neurons — many fewer than the 86 billion in the average human head, but enough to recognize lists of numbers, do simple arithmetic and solve reasoning problems.
Here's a video demonstration, from the University of Waterloo's Nengo Neural Simulator home page,
The University of Waterloo's Nov. 29, 2012 news release offers more technical detail,
… The model captures biological details of each neuron, including which neurotransmitters are used, how voltages are generated in the cell, and how they communicate. Spaun uses this network of neurons to process visual images in order to control an arm that draws Spaun's answers to perceptual, cognitive and motor tasks. …
"This is the first model that begins to get at how our brains can perform a wide variety of tasks in a flexible manner—how the brain coordinates the flow of information between different areas to exhibit complex behaviour," said Professor Chris Eliasmith, Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at Waterloo. He is Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience, and professor in Waterloo's Department of Philosophy and Department of Systems Design Engineering.
Unlike other large brain models, Spaun can perform several tasks. Researchers can show patterns of digits and letters the model's eye, which it then processes, causing it to write its responses to any of eight tasks. And, just like the human brain, it can shift from task to task, recognizing an object one moment and memorizing a list of numbers the next. [emphasis mine] Because of its biological underpinnings, Spaun can also be used to understand how changes to the brain affect changes to behaviour.
"In related work, we have shown how the loss of neurons with aging leads to decreased performance on cognitive tests," said Eliasmith. "More generally, we can test our hypotheses about how the brain works, resulting in a better understanding of the effects of drugs or damage to the brain."
In addition, the model provides new insights into the sorts of algorithms that might be useful for improving machine intelligence. [emphasis mine] For instance, it suggests new methods for controlling the flow of information through a large system attempting to solve challenging cognitive tasks.
Laura Sanders' Nov. 29, 2012 article for ScienceNews suggests that there is some controversy as to whether or not SPAUN does resemble a human brain,
… Henry Markram, who leads a different project to reconstruct the human brain called the Blue Brain, questions whether Spaun really captures human brain behavior. Because Spaun's design ignores some important neural properties, it's unlikely to reveal anything about the brain's mechanics, says Markram, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. "It is not a brain model."
Personally, I have a little difficulty seeing lines of code as ever being able to truly simulate brain activity. I think the notion of moving to something simpler (using fewer neurons as the Eliasmith team does) is a move in the right direction but I'm still more interested in devices such as the memristor and the electrochemical atomic switch and their potential.
Memristor and artificial synapses in my April 19, 2012 posting
Atomic or electrochemical atomic switches and neuromorphic engineering briefly mentioned (scroll 1/2 way down) in my Oct. 17, 2011 posting.
ETA Dec. 19, 2012: There was an AMA (ask me anything) session on Reddit with the SPAUN team in early December, if you're interested, you can still access the questions and answers,
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Amidst all the mudslinging, one issue should legitimately concern voters: Mitt Romney's refusal to disclose more tax returns.
The Internet has done a poor job of facilitating thoughtful discussion, but some people are trying to change that.
The addition of Rep. Paul Ryan to the GOP ticket is meant to balance Romney's lack of ideological purity.
Paul Ryan may be extreme, but he strengthens the GOP ticket in a number of ways.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate actually undermines his credibility on deficit reduction.
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I'm not sure if this question is 'allowed' here, or if it even is a valid question.
I'm a student of Interactive Multimedia Design; I don't learn a lot at school. I learn by reading, by doing, and by asking. I ask a lot of questions on Stack Overflow, and I learn a lot from them. However, lately, all I seem to be doing is asking questions.
I often feel like I don't have enough knowledge to answer someone else's question. If I find a question I can possibly answer, there's always ten people who are quicker than me with their answer.
I'm getting uncomfortable by the fact that I'm asking a lot of questions while not answering a lot of them. Does the community here look down upon this? I'm wondering if I should get my 'answering activity' up.
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It has only been a handful of days since Swapchat, an unofficial Snapchat client for Windows Phone, was released into the wild but the developer has published an update that addresses numerous issues consumers have been experiencing. Swapchat 1.2 also enables users to draw on photos and unblock friends (just in case you both happen kiss and make up).
Here's a list of what is fixed in version 1.2:
- Fixed crashes on Messages page
- Fixed incorrect aspect ratio and image rotations when taking pictures
- Front facing camera is now flipped horizontally
- Minor tweaks and bug fixes
Not a bad update. It's good to see the developer quickly throw out an update to fix issues raised. You can download Swapchat for $1.29 from the Windows Phone Store (both Windows Phone 7 and 8 supported). Thanks, Nikhil, for the tip!


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Common Face Washing Mistakes
Are You Making These Common Face Cleansing Mistakes?
We're happy to present this article from one of our favorite sites, Real Beauty.
You know how important it is to wash your face, but you could be doing it all wrong. Check out the biggest cleansing misconceptions and take a second look at your routine.There's more to a good face wash than you might think! Dr. Macrene Alexiades-Armenakas, Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, points out the biggest mistakes and how to fix them.
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1. Choose The Right Cleanser: Cleansers should help clean skin and prep it for other skincare products, like serums and creams. Opt for a mild, moisturizing cleanser that removes oil and residue without leaving your skin dry, tight, or flaky.
2. Hands First: Wash your hands thoroughly before you begin washing your face. You don't want all the bacteria from your hands to transfer over.
3. Lukewarm Water: Rinsing your face with a cool water to close your pores is a myth—water that is too hot or too cold will only shock and irritate skin, causing broken capillaries.
4. Don't Be So Direct: Never apply cleanser without moistening your face first. Most cleansers are too harsh and need to be diluted with water. Use one pump of product and create a lather with your fingertips, apply using a gentle, circular motion to loosen dirt.
5. Rinse and Repeat: Residual products will dry out your skin and clog pores. Keep rinsing until all the cleanser is removed from your skin. Don't forget to rinse your hairline, neck and the sides of your nose. These are places often missed and can lead to skin irritations.
6. Don't Exfoliate Too Much: Acids and buffing agents are meant to smooth skin by removing dead skin cells, but exfoliating too often can strip and dry out the new layer. Over time this will weaken the skin's natural barrier.
7. Ditch Your Washcloth: Your fingertips are always best. But, if you must use a washcloth, make sure it is clean and never rub. The skin on your face is delicate and rubbing too harshly with a towel can lead to abrasion and wrinkles.
8. Lock in Moisture: Apply a moisturizer while your skin is still damp to seal in the moisture balance.
9. Too Much of a Good Thing: Washing your face a two to three times a day is healthy, but over cleansing will disrupt natural barrier functions and can make conditions like acne and rosacea worse.
10. A Good Night's Rest: Never go to sleep without a proper facial cleanse. Skin pollutants left overnight can cause yeast build up that can result in redness and scaling.
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Attracting business to the city of Lancaster, supporting economic development and changing Lancaster to a college town were hot-button topics on Monday evening.
The four candidates running for mayor of Lancaster discussed those issues and more as they appeared at the Before You Vote 2010 Candidate Forum at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.
Incumbent Joe Shaw, Donnie Birchfield, City Councilwoman Linda Blackmon-Brace and Mary Helen Yarborough are the mayoral candidates.
County Council will consider the creation of two special tax districts at its Tuesday meeting.
As part of its agenda, council will look at resolutions for forming two separate special districts in the Indian Land area.
One resolution calls for creating a tax district for Indian Land's Brookchase neighborhood. Voters in the neighborhood recently approved a referendum in a special election to create the district. Now council has to approve it.
The four candidates for mayor of Lancaster are scheduled to address questions Monday at the Before You Vote 2010 Candidate Forum at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster's Bundy Auditorium.
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the forum begins at 6 p.m.
Mayoral candidates are Joe Shaw (incumbent), Linda Blackmon-Brace, Donnie Birchfield and Mary Helen Yarborough.
Two familiar faces along with two political newcomers create the only four-person race for local voters this election season.
Donnie Birchfield, City Councilwoman Linda Blackmon-Brace, incumbent Joe Shaw and Mary Helen Yarborough are vying for Lancaster's mayor's seat. Shaw has held the post for 28 years.
Election Day is Nov. 2.
As Election Day nears, thousands of dollars in campaign contributions have poured in for candidates in local and state elections.
Candidates in the races for the state House seats in districts 44 and 45, as well as those for the county school board seats for districts 1 and 7, have seen funds contributed from a number of sources. This includes private citizens, businesses, political parties and political action committees. Here are comparisons among candidates in each of these races:
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Cotton Cole said he always felt out of place during Democratic events.
The county councilman contemplated changing his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican for more than a year and said recent events encouraged him to make the change.
Cole, who's serving his first term on council, announced his party change Friday morning at the Lancaster County Republican Party's headquarters on Main Street in Lancaster.
Questions raised about Anthony Elder's residency have at times overshadowed the issues during the City Council District 1 race between he and incumbent Kenny Hood.
Since Elder announced his candidacy, The Lancaster News has received several anonymous calls from people who said Elder does not live at his listed address – 707 Miller St. Extension.
The callers, who wouldn't give their name and go on the record, said Elder has not had utilities set up at the house and lives elsewhere in the city.
KERSHAW – Kershaw Town Councilman Wade Hunter walked into council chambers Monday night and wondered why members of his family were in the audience.
Council had met in closed session, and emerged from behind closed doors to vote on hiring Land Design, a consulting firm, to assist the town.
Councilman Morris Russell asked the council to approve adding a proclamation to the night's agenda. He didn't get specific.
In an effort to put county residents back to work, several county officials recently met with representatives from the state employment department.
Lancaster County Council members Rudy Carter and Jack Estridge, County Administrator Steve Willis and Lancaster County Economic Development Corp. President Keith Tunnell met with officials from the newly reorganized S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
Political newcomer Anthony Elder is challenging incumbent Kenny Hood for the District 1 seat on Lancaster City Council.
Hood won the seat in a special election in 2008 to succeed longtime Councilman Preston Blackmon, who died earlier that year.
District 1 is the southern-most district in the city. It includes areas along South Market Street, South Main Street and Kershaw-Camden Highway.
City Council seats are non-partisan, which means candidates don't run by political party.
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