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I thought I would share some photos I have taken over the past five days. They range from Peach Bottom Falls in Independence, to The Cascade Falls just east of Boone, NC (mile marker #272 on the Blue Ridge Parkway), The Blowing Rock in Blowing Rock, NC... to all sorts of other critters, animals and flora along the way as well. It still amazes me all the different views along the same stretch of road depending on the time of the day you visit.
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What's the best way to judge a concert, asks Nick Shave, after going to the Orchestre National de France's Prom
'Disappointing. B-.' Can I write this about the Orchestre National de France's performance of Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune under Daniele Gatti?
Or how about 'Better. B+' for their performance of Debussy's La mer, and 'Well Done. B++' for Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, but with a heavy ring around its 'Dance of the Earth': 'greater attention to rhythmic detail needed here!' Or does this all sound just a touch too didactic?
I only ask because after this concert on Tuesday a friend – not normally prone to autism – set about rating his experience with 'three… no, three and a half out of five' stars. How remarkable, I thought, that the human brain is capable of translating an experience of hearing three era-defining pieces of Modernist music into just three and a half symbols. But surely there are better ways to critique concerts?
Given Debussy's Prelude is a Symbolist creation, perhaps reviewers should be exploring sensory associations – smells or colours to evoke the concert experience. So that would be beige for the faune. Where was the magical hush, the sensuousness, the feeling that this evocation of dreamy correspondences had kick-started Modernism with its daringly unanchored chromaticism? The players seemed to be experiencing déjà vu.
Or perhaps weather symbols could offer a more accurate metaphor: sun with light cloud for La mer, for example, which discovered that sense of fluidity and colour that the faune's slow-tempo afternoon lacked, and more sparkle when required. And sunshine with the occasional shower for an exciting Rite. That Daniele Gatti conducted without a score surely merits an additional ray of sunshine, even if it brought on a front of low pressure towards the end of the first Section.
In fact, where's the technology when you need it? Scratch and sniff this screen, and it should come up smelling of roses.
Prom 71: Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; La mer; Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Orchestre National de France/Daniele Gatti
Nick Shave is a freelance music writer, critic, and contributing editor to BBC Music Magazine. He has spent many happy summers reviewing the Proms, but is still prone to a loss of bearings when choosing the quickest way round the Royal Albert Hall.
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Art museums always come in handy during the holidays, when so many people are looking for enjoyable ways to while away the hours with friends and family — or to escape from friends and family.
This weekend, consider checking out the Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum. Both esteemed venues have much to offer first-time and veteran visitors alike.
The big draw at the BMA this season is the newly restored Contemporary Wing, which provides more than enough diversion and elucidation to compensate for those portions of the museum that have recently been closed off for their turn at restoration.
The attractions of the Contemporary Wing start with the installations that Sarah Oppenheimer designed specifically for the site. When you peer into these fascinating pieces of aluminum and reflective glass, inserted right into the walls, you get glimpses of the galleries ahead and above you, along with anyone passing through them.
You also see yourself, a cool way of beckoning you into the spaces. And those spaces, greatly enhanced during the renovation, yield room after room of rewards from the BMA's substantive collection of modern art.
That collection looks terrific here. Huge Andy Warhol works seem to vibrate on the walls. Robert Rauschenberg's "Honorarium (Spread)" provokes delectably, with its jutting pillow in a vise conjuring up sly and not-so-sly meanings.
Alison Saar's "Strange Fruit" provokes in a totally different, stop-in-your-tracks manner — the sculpture, created from rusted tin ceilings, is of a black woman bound and hanging upside down. Everything about the confrontational work is worth a close look.
Lighter pieces include large, fun sculptures by Franz West that break the do-not-touch rule; the massive Olafur Eliasson "Flower observatory" that invites you in; and the great beaded curtain by Felix Gonzalez-Torres that provides a tactile experience traveling between galleries.
Things are lively and rewarding upstairs in the Contemporary Wing, thanks especially to a group of 1950s abstract paintings by Mark Rothko, William DeKooning, Frank Stella and others. The pieces seem to talk to each other in this intimate space, and that "conversation" is electric, especially from the proximity of Grace Hartigan's "Interior: The Creeks" and Clyfford Still's "1957-G," each in dark, deep colors.
Also upstairs is a new, light-controlled gallery, which provides a setting where more of the museum's vast holdings of works on paper can be displayed. Currently on view are fascinating items by Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and others.
All in all, a great deal of diversion at an unbeatable price — free.
At the Walters Art Museum, there is also much to savor at no cost, but it is well worth paying for the admission fee for the current special exhibit, "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe." This gem of a show, which includes about 75 works from the Walters' collections and those of other American and European museums, has understandably generated buzz beyond Baltimore.
Thoughtfully organized and displayed, the show provides a rare glimpse into an era we think we already know very well from all the rich art created during it. Here, we get a chance to see what we've been missing — black faces among the white. And not just slaves.
Identified only as a Moor (the common term from that era for anyone of African descent), the man who stares out from a portrait from around 1600 by Tintoretto exudes social significance and economic success. There is pride and security in this handsome face.
The painting of a Lisbon waterfront reveals many Africans very much a part of the scene, engaged in trade or discourse. There's something reassuring about the sight of the races mingling in such an ordinary fashion, just as there is in the images of the Adoration of the Kings in the exhibit — the inclusion of an African king in Nativity scenes emerged in the Renaissance.
In the early Flemish painting of the Adoration that begins the exhibit, two Africans are included: a king and, most strikingly, his attendant, who gazes at the viewer with a gaze that seems at once wise and worried.
If the black king is an expected image, the black man among the apostles in a depiction of the Supper at Emmaus — not a servant, but someone dining alongside them — surprises and fascinates.
The works in the exhibit that raise the subject of slavery pack considerable emotional power, starting with a 1620 scene of a slave market where both blacks and whites are for sale.
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Visitors are likely to linger long over that portrait and many of the other works here, including those by such notable artists as Durer, Veronese and Rubens. Each has a powerful story to tell.
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Both museums are open Wednesday through Sundays. The Baltimore Museum of Art is at 10 Art Museum Drive. Free admission. Call 443-573-1700 or go to artbma.org. The Walters Art Museum is at 600 N. Charles St. "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe" runs through Jan. 21. Admission is $6 to $10 (the rest of the museum is free). Call 410-547-9000 or go to the walters.org.


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Faking out a carnivore's sweet tooth: The research group that found out why cats are indifferent to sugar (they've got a mutation in one of the taste receptors) has extended their research by trying to sort out which carnivores have a sweet tooth. The researchers exposed a panel of six species to a different natural sugars and artificial sweeteners. No surprise that the lion was indifferent to them all, but there was an unexpected result: the red panda turned out to be the first mammal outside of the primates to actually sense aspartame. In fact, it seemed to enjoy half of the artificial sweeteners developed for human use, suggesting that it has a similar taste receptor.
Nocturnal animals use their DNA as a lens: Finally moving away from food, we get to a story that isn't especially weird so much as seriously cool. Most eukaryotic cells organize the DNA within their nucleus in a stereotypical manner: the inactive, condensed DNA occurs along the periphery of the nucleus, while the areas that are being actively made into RNA copies are typically in the middle. That same configuration occurs in the rods of most mammals, which are used for seeing in low-light conditions.
But, as the rods of nocturnal mammals begin to mature, a striking thing happens: that pattern is completely reversed, as the inactive DNA gets shuffled into the center of the nucleus, while the biologically active material gets spread around the periphery. Computer simulations show that this reversal has a remarkable impact on how light moves through the rods, as it converts the nucleus into a converging lens, improving the sensitivity of the rod. Cell, where the paper is published, made it a featured article, so you don't need a subscription if you want to read it.
Scientific citations track downloads: The Journal of Vision apparently tracks downloads of its articles, and its editor decided to figure out whether the frequency of downloads has any relationship with the prominence of the paper. Using citations as a measure of prominence, the answer is yes: there was a correlation between the two of 0.74, with citations tracking downloads after a lag of about two years. Money quote: "While we cannot equate download of an article with actually reading it, these are nonetheless remarkable numbers."
Yes, inbreeding really is bad for you: An open access study tracks the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, which has become infamous for marriages within the lineage, by looking at the degree of inbreeding in over 3,000 individuals. The authors calculate that the founder of the lineage, Philip I, was already somewhat unusual, but the coefficient of inbreeding rose ten-fold over the 200 years the family was in power, leaving the last of the lineage physically and mentally disabled, possibly as a result of two separate recessive genetic diseases.
Picking a mate by checking its hormones: Sexual selection was recognized back in Darwin's day as a way that random preferences for the appearance of mates could produce ostentatious displays like the peacock's tail. To an extent, the ability to develop ostentatious coloration and avoid being eaten by predators suggests a robust and healthy mate, but a new paper suggests that, in at least one species of seabird, the male's plumed crest tells the female something quite specific. It turns out the development of the crest is tied to corticosterone, a hormone that registers the male's social status and dietary state. So, in this case, a big crest directly indicates a happy and healthy mate.


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British men are much more willing to pirate online music and video content than women, according to the results of a new survey. UK-based IT services company Telindus has released a report that examines the attitudes of adults in the UK when it comes to music and film rights online, noting that many users are confused over intellectual property rights and believe that once content is posted online, it's essentially a "free for all."
According to Telindus' survey of 2,000 UK adults, a full 50 percent of men who download various media said that they never paid for content online, compared to 38 percent of women. Don't get too worked up over this battle of the sexes, though—neither number is particularly good for content owners. Three out of five (60 percent, for those keeping track) adults said they didn't believe musicians should profit from their music and videos being downloaded online, and more than two-thirds said the same of TV and filmmakers.
The firm says that the threat of legal action isn't doing a good job of deterring people from illegal downloads, either. Fifty-nine percent were aware of piracy laws and half knew the consequences, but that didn't stop a fifth of adults from saying they knew exactly where to find illegal material. That number, unsurprisingly, goes up when you look at the teen and young adult demographics—57 percent of the the 16-24 year old group said they were aware of where to find illicit digital goods.
Others appear to be confused about IP rights in general—only a quarter of those surveyed said they believe they still own the rights to content they post online, while a "majority" said that content posted online basically translated to a "free for all." If they believe this about their own content, certainly they believe this about content created by others.
According to Telindus, piracy and file sharing is on the rise, but that claim seems to contradict another report released earlier this month that said file sharing was down across the UK, even among teens. The Leading Question found that music fans are increasingly getting their music fix from legal streaming services and single-track downloads, leaving P2P in the dust. Of course, Telindus provides "network solutions" as its main business, meaning the company depends on organizations that want traffic management to help control unauthorized use, so it's in the company's interests to report piracy is on the rise.
Anecdotally, however, we here at Ars agree that the ease with which legal music can be obtained these days has practically eliminated our old pirate-flag-flying ways. When you can watch a music video for free on YouTube and grab a stream of your favorite band on Last.fm, why bother trying to find something on BitTorrent?


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Coal ash spill costs at $15M for Duke Energy
The Feb. 2 spill of coal ash into North Carolina's Dan River has cost Duke Energy $15 million so far, the company reported Thursday.
The figure, reported in a securities filing, reflects costs through March 31.
Duke said total costs of the spill, which dumped up to 39,000 tons of ash into the river near Eden, are not expected to be "material" to the company.
"Material" refers to costs that are expected to have a significant impact on Duke's earnings. Duke earned $2.7 billion in 2013.
CEO Lynn Good has said Duke will bear the costs of cleaning up the Dan, where a 70-mile trail of ash reaches Kerr Reservoir on the North Carolina-Virginia line.
But Duke has said it will ask the N.C. Utilities Commission to pass costs to customers for closing its 33 ash basins across the state.
Duke said in Thursday's filing that the Dan response and other expenses, including the costs of new laws and regulations, lawsuits, environmental damage and operating changes, "cannot be reasonably estimated at this time."
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Duke and N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources employees as part of a criminal probe. The Environmental Protection Agency has joined state officials in investigating the spill. DENR's four lawsuits against Duke over ash contamination are before a judge.
Legislators, meanwhile, will convene next month and are mulling new ash measures. Gov. Pat McCrory unveiled proposed legislation this week that would tighten some standards but would not make Duke remove all its ash ponds.


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Late Remy strike helps Magpies stop the rot
Alan Pardew's side had gone over seven hours without a goal in the Premier League, but the France international struck in the 92nd-minute to lift the gloom hanging over Tyneside.
Remy had been Newcastle's biggest threat in the match, forcing Brad Guzan into several saves and hitting the post in the closing stages, before he had the final say.
Pardew had urged his players to prove Paul Lambert wrong after the Villa boss suggested Newcastle were there for the taking on the back of a sorry run that had seen them take just four points from the previous 24 available.
However, though Tim Krul was made to earn his clean sheet, Villa were ultimately undone.
Newcastle recalled Remy, Fabricio Coloccini and Cheick Tiote as they sought to avoid a defeat that would have consigned them to their worst home run since 1953, while Villa brought in fit-again forward Andreas Weimann and midfielder Karim El Ahmadi.
Pardew's message looked to have resonated with the team in the opening five minutes as the hosts managed to fashion a couple of decent chances.
First Remy struck a low drive straight at Guzan, before Cisse forced the American to parry a dipping curled shot from the edge of the box five minutes later.
The visitors gave the home crowd a scare four minutes later when Agbonlahor fired narrowly over from distance, before Bacuna stung the hands of Krul with a well-hit free-kick.
France striker Remy, who returned for the hosts after suspension, nearly found some luck with a set-piece of his own several minutes before the break, curling just wide of Guzan's left-hand post.
Cisse had not found the net at home since the Boxing Day win over Stoke City, but was handed a golden opportunity just before the break, courtesy of some great work from Remy.
The Frenchman dashed towards the byline before squaring to Cisse, who inexplicably fired over from six yards.
Substitute Yoan Gouffran wasted another decent opportunity by dragging a shot wide just after the break, before young full-back Paul Dummett sent a shot just over the bar from outside the area around 10 minutes later.
Newcastle threw on Luuk de Jong for the last 20 minutes, but it was Remy who looked the most likely source of a goal, bursting through the defence before forcing a great save from Guzan.
The hosts had a penalty shout late on when the ball appeared to strike Bacuna's arm, with referee Martin Atkinson waving away appeals as Newcastle grew frustrated.
De Jong nearly helped break the deadlock two minutes from time, squaring to Remy inside the six-yard box, only for the Frenchman to rattle an effort off the post.
But Remy made amends with a minute to play, lashing home from inside the area to hand the hosts a vital win and move them into eighth place in the table.


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August 28th, 1963 will forever be tied to Martin Luther King Jr.'s hallowed "I Have a Dream Speech." This historic moment would probably have never come to fruition if it weren't for a man standing in King's shadow, Mr. Bayard Rustin. Bayard Rustin was a man with a number of seemingly incompatible labels: black, gay, Quaker . . . identifications that served to earn him as many detractors as admirers. Although he had numerous passions and pursuits, his most transformative act, one that certainly changed the course of American history, was to counsel MLK on the use of non-violent resistance.
Rustin also helped to engineer the March on Washington and frame the Montgomery bus boycott. With such lofty achievements, why isn't Rustin considered an icon of both Civil Rights and humanity? Why is Rustin not synonymous with Civil Rights? How could a person who changed the course of American history not be a household name? Was he purposely kept out of the history books? On State of the Re:Union, host Al Letson normally sets out to take listeners to a specific place, but for this special, the program takes the audience to a specific time in history that shapes the way we live now. More than just a Black History Month special, we found his complex story one for all seasons.
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Ask the Half M. D.: Why are medical students such assholes?
A reader asks, "Why are medical students such assholes? The same people are in charge of EVERYTING. It seems like they're all licking each other's asses."
At my own university, we have about 20 students in my class who run every organization from student government to most of the interest groups to even the choir. These people got elected into positions of power as freshmen while most people were trying to study and then spent the next four years appointing each other to positions so they could pad their resumes in attempts to land an elusive residency spot. Watching them work is like visiting the zoo and watching the monkeys pick nits out of each other's hair. At the end of each year, they hold self-congratulatory parties in which they circle jerk to let the rest of the student body know how awesome they are for organizing the spring formal and judiciously dispensing student government funds to the registered groups on campus.
While I have no problem with someone wanting to become involved with extracurricular activities on campus, there is certainly a line that people cross when they join organizations for the sake of holding leadership positions. I'm the president of one of my campus' interest groups. I have a vice president who has never been to a meeting, a secretary who has not returned an e-mail since last July, and a treasurer who has no idea how much money is in our budget. In a sense, I've had to run every officer position in the club over the past year and frankly, I'm quite annoyed that other students would run for positions without any intention of following through on their leadership responsibilities.
The other line people cross is mistaking leadership for dictatorship. I know quite a few people who believe that barking orders to others is the only necessary component to leadership. Our last class president was completely ineffective at his job and needed the secretary to plan and organize every event from social functions to the teacher of the year award. He would then gladly take credit for all of the effort put forth by others. While I would like to claim that he is an idiot, his move was actually very smart. If a residency committee were to acknowledge the accomplishments of our student government, he would automatically gain credit simply from his position.
There really is no other way around the situation. You can try to ignore it during your four years in medical school. Some people just need to be in charge and there is nothing you can do to stop them, unless you plan on running against them in the next election.
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Robert said,
bitterness + arrogance = assholism
arguably, it is a survival instinct, or isn't it?
Miami_med said,
It's sort of like the people in regular politics.
Best of luck man
Tim said,
Man this is awesome. I so feel you. I start medical school this August, but it's really the same way in undergrad and pretty much everywhere. Sickening, really.
Chris said,
Nice. I like your style.
TJ said,
Lead, follow or get out of the way. As it is, as it was and as it always will be.
LaLa said,
I thought perhaps I was alone in this! I have been president of a student organization all year with a "co-president" and a "vice-president," neither of whom have done a damn thing. Now that the year's nearly over the "co-president" is kissing our advisor's ass and running his trap like he's been doing it all. It's been obnoxious enough that I won't have anything to do with the damn club for the rest of my education, and I refuse to take on any more leadership positions! It's a joke! And I would not be surprised if, in fact, they do get together for circle jerks – perhaps after their fantastic spring fling!
sonia elaine said,
Dear Half Md
Recently I learnt that GPA scale is not always on scale of 4 but also on the 100 scale. The college Board web site even has a template for conversion from 1 scale to the next.
I would also like to respond to comment about leaving from high school to med school in other countries. I would like to clarify that these are students who graduate high school with A in chemistry, physics, biology and math after 4 years of doing same. These students with such grades would return to high school for another 2 years and study in those same subjects at the advance level , and are usually expected to pass each subjects with an A, not a B before being accepted into medical school. The great thing is that you get two years of college in high school and what a great saving. This to me is way harder a process to get into medical school for those who may think otherwise. Just to add to the disgruntled writer about people who take on positions to pad their resume, i would just like to say it is an issue of integrity.
Caroline said,
Things like this make me happy I went to nursing school. Sure we won't get paid as much, but we're not paying as much either. We learn the fundamentals of medicine, and we get to spend more than 8 minutes with each patient. Yeah we don't prescribe medications, but we know what every one of them does, why it's prescribed, and we see the effects (negative and positive) before our eyes. The life lessons you learn holding the hand of a dying client are more readily available than those from signing the death certificate after the body is cold and in the basement. The work is grueling, but there is still time to go for a walk and raise your children. There are tons of jobs available, and the opportunities to excel are plentiful. For example, my path is as follows-> RN, BSN, MSN, CRNA. CRNA= nurse anesthetist. A new graduate CRNA starts out at around 130,000/year. With years of experience and becoming an independent practitioner- a CRNA can make from 190,000-400,000 dollars a year. If all goes as planned, I will be a CRNA when I am 23. I admire doctors and am grateful for their guidance- but as for me and my life, I'll stick with advance practice nursing.
Marie said,
@caroline: Why are all nurses obese and mean?
Johnny said,
It sickens me that nurse practioners make as much as some anesthesiologists. Thank You AMA, you excuse of an organization for doctor's interests.
american said,
Premeds are douchebags who grow up to be Douchebag, MD


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Registration is open for the inaugural City of Lights 10K (6.2 miles) road running race to be held July 4, 2013 beginning in Phillips Park, Aurora.
The event begins at 7:00 am. The route will encompass city streets and part of the Virgil L. Gilman Trail. Online registration is available until July 2 at http://www.yourhealthvision.com/roadtrail-races.html
Race day registration will be from 5:45 AM to 6:45 a.m. in Philips Park, 1000 Ray Moses Dr., Aurora, IL A short sleeve technical shirt is available for the first 200 registered runners. Shirts are available for race day registrants while supplies last.
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There will be awards for the overall Male and Female winners, and the top three Male and Female in the following age groups: 19 & under, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70 and up.
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As tears drop and the studio empties after the final show of PBS SoCal's "Real Orange," I walk down a hallway and stumble on a behind-the-scenes moment.
News anchor, make thatformernews anchor, Ed Arnold giggles and grins for a smartphone double-selfie snapped by one of the show's makeup artists.
The pair's mugging for the camera provides an upbeat spark during a decidedly downbeat evening Wednesday night. Hugs and tears only hint at the connections among cameramen, reporters, anchors, editors. Not only has "Real Orange" aired the story of Orange County for more than 16 years, this team has supported one another behind the lens.
Understand, some of the tears aren't about the show. Mike Taylor, the show's award-winning director, this week was forced to downsize from a house to a condo because of his wife's cancer.
Yes, there's a reality behind your screen that dwarfs so-called reality shows like "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo."
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During the "Real Orange" tour of duty, I've had the honor and pleasure of working with such professionals as Arnold, Taylor, co-anchor Ann Pulice, reporter Maria Hall-Brown and studio supervisor Roger Genereux.
I did a weekly outdoor segment for several years. Later, I appeared occasionally to discuss adventure and county issues. I've profiled Arnold and visited Pulice's home for another column. But along the way, I learned less about television than I did about sincerity, honesty, punctuality – OK, from Genereux I also learned about being quiet on the set.
When the seconds tick down to showtime, Genereux's barks make strong people weak and weak people tremble. But when he's not herding kittens on extreme deadline, Genereux can be a kitten himself.
On this night, the taped show is slipping behind schedule, and even Genereux can't bring himself to bark. His voice is more like a purr as he quietly asks people to hit their cues.
I run into Pulice and think back to the early days of the show, how much it has covered, how far it has come. Along the way, "Real Orange" has earned a barrelful of awards, including two dozen Golden Mikes and two Emmys.
Choked up, I hug Pulice – carefully. High-def makeup is not to be messed with, and the last show must go on.
Arnold strides into the studio in Costa Mesa wearing his trademark suit and tie. As always, he carries himself with a style reminiscent of the days when news anchors were, well, news anchors and not opinionated bubbleheads. Arnold's also been around long enough to see shows come and go, and with "Real Orange" 30 minutes from gone, the veteran newsman is determinedly upbeat.
"One more time and out the door again," Arnold sings. He looks toward a collection of chairs filling. His wife, Dixie; son, Dean; and grandson, Jake, 16, arrive. With his "Real Orange" family, the anchor shares a silver lining. Instead of working on Wednesdays, Arnold says he'll spend time with his grandchildren.
Someone shouts "3,217" – the number of "Real Orange" shows.
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The show's last schedule includes a visit with Sandy Segerstrom Daniels to discuss her Festival of Children Foundation; the weekly business report from Pete Weitzner, associate professor at Chapman University; photography of Africa; and farewell.
Understandably, the final segment permeates the show.
After a camera's red light blinks on, Pulice wistfully tells Weitzner, "This is usually the time we say, 'We'll see you next week.'"
Arnold ad-libs that Weitzner, like some others, works for free and emphasizes, "We'll miss you."
Weitzner tosses back the feeling, mentioning the 200 years of professionalism in the studio.
Even Genereux gets sentimental. When Hall-Brown's segment comes up, the studio general laments, "It's been 16 years and I still haven't cut her bangs off."
The end of the half-hour show approaches. Pulice looks into the lens and says: "We want our audience to know what a pleasure it's been. We judge our success on the impact we've made."
Taylor makes a rare on-camera appearance saying his children were born during the course of "Real Orange." "This is a family, and it feels like a family."
Arnold concludes. "It's been a long run, and we're proud of the work we've done."
Despite all the pressures, Arnold tells viewers the "Real Orange" team has never had a cross word. His final on-air statement is simple but packed with meaning.
"Thank you for watching."
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The death of "Real Orange" was slow in coming. It started as a daily show and four years ago was reduced to two nights a week. Two years ago, KCET became the main PBS outlet in Southern California, and change was on the horizon.
I called PBS SoCal President Mel Rogers but didn't hear back. Taylor is gracious and agrees to expand a little, "They want to turn their attention to a larger market."
Going after a larger market makes sense. What business – and let's agree that even a nonprofit is a business – doesn't want a larger market? Still, the move leaves Orange County without a televised news show.
I'll add that "Real Orange" is the third local show I've regularly appeared on. The first was OCN, an all-news channel founded by the Register's owners in the early 1990s and later run by Adelphia. The second was "DayBreak OC," a morning news and features program.
Despite a market in our county that includes more than 3 million people, all those shows are gone. Perhaps that says something about my television talents. But more likely it speaks to the exceptionally difficult challenges an Orange County news and information show faces.
Yes, the shadow of Los Angeles-based stations looms large.
But forget about television. Let's focus on people. As he's done since 1970, Arnold will continue serving as the voice for the Robert Schuller-inspired "Hour of Power" worldwide broadcast. Some others on the team will work reduced hours. Others, such as Taylor, will look for work. But with his daughter getting ready for college and a 14-year-old son, Taylor has other concerns.
A decade ago, Taylor's wife, Shannon, had a double mastectomy. Last year, cancer returned and required brain surgery. Shannon suffered a stroke and lost some physical and cognitive abilities.
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Over the next 20 years, one third of our nation's existing building stock (over 82 billion square feet) will be demolished in order to replace seemingly inefficient buildings with energy efficient "green" buildings. Is demolition on this scale really the best use of natural, social, and economic resources? Or, like urban renewal programs of the 1960's, is it part of a well-intentioned planning strategy with devastating environmental and cultural consequences?" This program provides a compelling argument for conservation, rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of our existing building stock as the single most effective strategy for reducing, reusing and recycling one of our most important consumer products - our buildings.


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Amongst Brazilian tobacco farmers, suicide rates are seven times higher then the average suicide rate reported for the rest of the country. These deaths coincide with the seeding and harvesting of tobacco plants. Many of the suicides were suffering from acute neurological imbalances. Organophosphate pesticides can result in psychological depression. Tobacco farmers use this pestercide. Any connection?
The Brazilian Ministry of Health made changes to the pesticide labelling. The new labels for highly dangerous chemicals now resemble those of less toxic products. These changes took place after the agrochemical industry applied pressure on the government. However, most farmers are illiterate and protective clothing and storage facilities are expensive. Chemicals are often stored in a house or dwelling exposing children, pregnant women and the elderly to pesticide poisoning.
The tobacco industry have investigated and patented many technologies that reduce substances in cigarette smoke that cause cancer, heart disease and emphysema. These include 'Eclipse', 'Premier' – FDA regulated devise could be used to smoke crack, and 'Accord' – a specially constructed cigarette and lighter. Most of these devices have been withdrawn or never implemented.
Using advanced biotechnology, tobacco crops have now been engineered and grown to contain higher levels of nicotine. These crops fit the legal definition of a drug. In 1968 Dr David Owen tried to introduce nicotine to the Medicines Act (Pharmaceutical regulations) and proposed that tobacco as such a substance the act should control cigarettes. However the plans were dropped after ministerial reshuffles within the UK government.
This consequently sees cigarettes being exempt from regulations that apply to pharmaceutical nicotine products. There by, tobacco products have a nicotine maintenance monopoly for nicotine addiction.
Death Rates
The death rate to cigarette related diseases in the UK is 120,000 p.a. That is a town the size of Norwich or Chester. In the past 40 years over 5 million people have died from smoking related diseases. That is 12 times more than in World War II.
Smoking related deaths are 6 times higher in the UK than road accidents, murder/manslaughter, poisoning, suicide, overdoses and HIV put together.
To put it into context, cocaine is an illegal class 'A' drug and is attributed to 140 deaths in the UK per year. Meanwhile the use of mobile telephones while driving was made illegal in the UK in 2004, 20 deaths in the last 5 years are linked to this practise. You have to ask yourself why can anyone from sixteen year old legally buy cigarettes?
China now has the largest death rate from smoking of any country overtaking the USA. A third of all men will die if current habits persist.
1 million smoking related deaths in China in 2000
2 million smoking related deaths in China forecast by 2025
3 million smoking related deaths in China forecast by 2050 (8000 per day)
Cigarette consumption in China has risen from 100 billion cigarettes in the early 50's to over 1,800 billion today.
Find more information about smoking in China here.
Worldwide deaths from smoking –
4 million in 2000 – 50/50 between developed and developing countries.
10 million by 2030 – 70% in developing countries.
As litigation and laws surrounding the tobacco industry tighten up in USA and the EU the tobacco industry are shifting production and sales to the new markets of Russia, Poland, Cuba, Mexico, Egypt, India, South America and South Africa. There are little or no laws governing the sale of tobacco in these countries. Pressure on these governments to legislate against tobacco consumption now could save millions of deaths in the future.
If worldwide consumption of cigarettes decreased by half by 2020 25 million premature deaths in the first quarter of the century and 150 million in the second quarter of the century would be avoided.
People who stop smoking live longer, contribute to society for longer, experience improved health, lower the demand on the NHS, reduce the cost to employers in days lost to smoking related illnesses, have more money to spend and create more jobs.
Cigarettes are exempt from most forms of consumer protection because products were already in the market before consumer laws were developed. The extent of harm to consumers by cigarettes cannot reach safety standard requirements as imposed on other products.
Image if you will if you just invented a cigarette and took it onto the popular television show 'Dragon Den' How would you present it to the Dragons and what sort of reaction would you think you would get? Watch Dragons Den – Duncan Bannatyne in this Quit video.
Although there have been moves to restrict advertising cigarette brands, introducing health warnings and lowering tar rates in cigarettes, nicotine regulations serve the tobacco industry over public health. Tobacco companies make voluntary concessions rather than legislate. This gives an air of perceived respectability to the industry, although agreements are difficult to monitor, controls are easily evaded and there are no penalties for violations. Health warnings also work in favor of manufacturers in litigation defense cases.
Tobacco companies make a big noise of how most of their litigation cases are overthrown at appeal. The tobacco companies are at a distinct advantage over individuals, companies or evens States, because of their huge cash reserves they can tie the courts up for decades.
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A Gathering Place For Graduates, Former Residents and Staff
Many of us have different feelings and opinions about Elan or our time there. If you discuss it with people who were at Elan together you may find that their feelings about or opinions of the time they shared there are often quite different. When you ask alumni of Elan who were there many years apart about their time at Elan you may get the feeling they are talking about different places. They might well be, in a way.
Elan, Elan School has been many places to many people over many years.
Elan One of course was very briefly in Harrison, then Naples, then Sebago which burned to the ground one cold January morning in 1973. Elan two, in Waterford had been opened a few months earlier which allowed a haven for the residents of Elan One.
After a few months in Waterford, the residents of Elan One moved to a former hunting lodge in Poland, Maine which eventually became Elan Three.
Elan expanded the Poland "campus" to four houses at one time, two in Waterford and one in Parsonsfield. Very few of us remember, or even know that both Elan five and six began in a house in Auburn that is now Central Maine State College or that there was once (for about a day) a house in Mattawamkeg.
It might be a story about a Therapeutic Community, a Drug Rehabilitation Center, an Adolescent Treatment Facility or a school. But it isn't.
This site and the story here aren't about Elan at all. The story is about us. The people who were there. Not us then, but us right now.
It's a long story, lot of feelings and opinions for a lot of people. Often very different and sometimes conflicting feelings and opinions.
This site isn't about those feelings or opinions. This never has been and never will be a debate site. Debate can be useful, just not here. This site is far more about unity. It is certainly about history. But it is about a few other more important things also.
Someone once summed it up better than the owners/developers of ElanAlum.com ever could. This site is about "Keeping in touch and helping each other out." Really that simple. That is the point of Elanalum.com. The main point anyway.
Here you will find a community dedicated to keeping a very old promise. The promise that you will always have friends, someone to talk to and a helping hand if you need one. ElanAlum.com is about keeping that promise. Just like we have been since 1999. We intend to keep keeping it.
There is no agenda here. ElanAlum.com isn't pro or anti Elan. It isn't anti-anyone. It is pro Elan Alumni. Just "Keeping in touch and helping each other out." This site is for the many graduates and other alumni of Elan and their families. There is absolutely nothing here for anyone else.
If you are a graduate, former resident or former staff member of The Elan School, you are welcome here. To all others, please respect our privacy. There is nothing for you here.
Please enjoy your stay here. This site is being redeveloped, so keep checking back for new features!


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NASHVILLE, Tenn., (December 5, 2012) – Care Technology Systems, Inc., a company that helps seniors age in place, today announced the addition of an Active-PERS (personal emergency response system) device to its Fall Detection By Logic System.
The new pendant will help caregivers more quickly respond to a fall, even if the senior fails to -- or can't – press the pendant's alert button.
The Active-PERS pendant will be offered both stand-alone and as a part of Care Tech's signature product, QuietResponse™. The company will demonstrate the Active-PERS on Wednesday at the mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C.
"While standard PERS requires the user to push a button to notify caregivers of a fall, we know that in 83% of the times a senior who uses PERS isn't wearing their pendant, and can't alert others when they've fallen," said Jim Anderson, founder and president of Care Technology Systems. "So, we've integrated an accelerometer that actively monitors senior activity as a part of a larger alert system and can tell us whether a fall has occurred and automatically summon help.
"Additionally, our system will receive activity information from the device on a regular basis. We call this Motion Scoring, and it will ultimately enable us to see patterns that will predict a fall before it occurs."
This advancement can mean significant healthcare cost savings, as recent statistics indicate hospitalization costs for falls average around $17,500. It has been estimated that one out of every three seniors will fall this year.
Care Technology Systems uses monitoring technology that helps seniors maintain their independence and lifestyle as they age, checking their safety in a way that is non-invasive and requires no interaction from the senior. The company's technology is integrated into the background of the senior's daily life, alerting caregivers and/or a call center when there is an issue or threat to the senior's health or safety.
Similar to home security systems, QuietResponse™ consists of sensors (motion, door, fluid, pads) placed throughout the home (in beds and chairs, on doors and refrigerator, on the toilet water tank) to gauge "normal" life patterns, so when a condition is outside of normal, or signals a potential medical issue, notifications can be sent by text, email, page or phone so caregivers -- both near and far -- can respond. The system uses a wireless hub that communicates with a cloud-based server.
Reports/statistics are generated for caregivers via a web interface. Optional reminder notices can also remind seniors to take medications or perform important tasks. The system additionally supports biometric instruments (weight scales, blood pressure cuff, glucometer, oximeter, etc). Once in place, seniors can live safely on their own, with peace of mind for themselves and their family.
Care Technology Systems will show the new product at their kiosk within partner Qualcomm's booth #501. The Summit is being held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
About Care Technology Systems (CTS)
Care Technology Systems uses technology to help seniors maintain their independence and lifestyle as they age… giving caregivers peace of mind as they do so. The company's technology is seamlessly integrated into the senior's lifestyle – no one must master new skills – and works quietly in the background, alerting caregivers so they can respond appropriately if there is an issue/threat to the senior's health or safety. CTS's aging-in-place system is not only a value-driven solution for individual seniors living on their own or with family, but for senior living and home health institutions, as well. www.caretechsys.com


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If you or someone you know needs help paying for medicines or adult vaccines, the Merck Patient Assistance Program, Inc., may be able to help.


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Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Santiago, Valparaiso, Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
This tour incorporates two of South America's most magical UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Machu Picchu in Peru and Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a territory of Chile.
Begin with a night in Lima before transferring to Cusco, Peru for a stay at the city's most historic and distinguished hotel. During private touring, learn about the fascinating Incan and Spanish history in the city as you explore the narrow cobblestone streets, markets, galleries, boutiques and the best artisan workshops. If desired, also visit important archaeological sites just outside of the city. Alternatively, take a full-day excursion to the Sacred Valley of the Incas (Urubamba Valley), a beautiful region dotted with indigenous markets, villages, and Inca and pre-Inca sites.
Continue to Machu Picchu and spend one night near the ruins. Your private guide will teach you about the fascinating history of the site and ensure that you have the opportunity to explore the grounds after most tourists have left. Spend the following day exploring the ruins with the option to hike trails to stunning viewpoints around the site before continuing to Cusco on the luxury Hiram Bingham train.
Return to Lima for an overnight stay. This cosmopolitan city is well worth a visit for the opportunity to experience its history as well as Peru's best museums, shopping and restaurants. Enjoy personalized touring of the city's highlights, including the old colonial quarter and colorful food markets.
Next, fly to Santiago, Chile, one of our favorite cities in South America with its breathtaking location framed by the Andes mountains. The city offers wonderful museums, colorful colonial architecture, appealing day trips, and delicious food and wine. Tour the city's highlights with your own private guide, and take an excursion to Valparaiso, one of the most unique cities in South America and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Explore the steep, labyrinthine streets of the most interesting and colorful cerros (hills), visit one of Valparaiso's notable museums, and perhaps take one of the many funicular elevators that the city is famous for. If desired, also enjoy wine tasting at a top winery in the Casablanca Valley, one of Chile's leading wine-growing regions.
Finally, venture to beautiful Easter Island (Rapa Nui), an isolated volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean that's a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site. While there, enjoy spectacular landscapes and the opportunity to experience the remains of the island's ancient culture, including the mysterious moai (stone heads) as well as rock art dedicated to the indigenous Tangata Manu (Bird Man) cult. Participate in tours with local expert guides, such as visits to the most interesting moai and ahu (ceremonial platform) sites, a tour of the moai quarry, walks along cliffs high above the ocean, biking along the coast, and a visit to a ceremonial village perched between the stunning volcanic crater and the Pacific. Conclude the tour with an overnight stay in Santiago.
Throughout the tour, sightseeing is flexible and tailored to your interests, and accommodation is at the best luxury hotels in each destination.
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Panasonic Works with Bluebeam Software to Preview Cutting-Edge Tablet Application for Architects at
Panasonic Works with Bluebeam Software to Preview Cutting-Edge Tablet Application for Architects at CES 2013
Panasonic and Bluebeam Software Collaborate to Develop and Introduce the 4K Tablet and Software to the Design and Construction Industry
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today during the opening keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, Panasonic®Corporation announced the development of a new "4K Tablet" with a 20-inch 4K IPS Alpha LCD and a high precision pen. It is expected to significantly enhance the way Architects, Engineers and Construction (AEC) professionals view and interact with digital drawings. Targeted to become available later this year, the tablet's 20-inch IPS Alpha LCD panel contains more than four times the resolution of Full High Definition. It leverages the touch capabilities of Windows 8 and includes a high precision digital pen for making notes on the panel's screen. This lightweight and less than an half inch thick tablet is incredibly slim, portable and represents the future of design review, bid, estimation, RFI response, and plan room access to drawing sets.
For further details, please visit: www.panasonic.com. For more information about the show and Mr. Tsuga's keynote, please visit: 2013 International CES Opening Keynote.
To help introduce this new technology to the AEC industry and demonstrate its endless possibilities, Panasonic is collaborating with Bluebeam® Software, a leading developer of PDF-based collaboration solutions for the design and construction industry, for R&D, product testing, and promotion.
"The upcoming 4K Panasonic tablet emulates the way design and construction professionals interact with printed drawings while giving users an incredibly high resolution view, making it simple to migrate from paper-based to digital workflows," said Bob Dobbins, Vice President, Corporate Planning & Strategic Initiatives at Panasonic Corporation of North America. "The potential of this technology is magnified when combined with the power of Bluebeam's PDF-based markup and collaboration solutions for the design and construction industry."
"When we first saw the prototype for the 4K tablet, we were blown away by the opportunities this device will offer project teams in the office and at the jobsite," said Richard Lee, CEO and President at Bluebeam Software. "We are excited to work with Panasonic and lend our knowledge and expertise of the AEC industry to bring this must-have technology to AEC professionals everywhere."
Bluebeam Software's flagship product, Revu®,is an award-winning PDF creation, markup and collaboration solution used by the world's top architecture, engineering and construction firms to digitally share and review project information. Revu enables users to electronically redline 2D and 3D PDFs with industry-standard markups and measurements, track all comments in an integrated Markups list, compare drawing revisions, store project files in the cloud and collaborate with others in real time.
The Panasonic 4K tablet is on display today through January 11th at CES in Panasonic booth C9806. Bluebeam Software representatives are also available to explain how Revu can be used to easily review and redline PDF drawings on the tablet.
About Panasonic Corporation of North America
Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic Corporation of North America provides a broad line of digital and other electronics products and solutions to meet consumer, business and industrial needs. The company is the principal North American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Panasonic Corporation (NYS: PC) , and the hub of Panasonic's U.S. branding, marketing, sales, service and R&D operations. Panasonic is committed to becoming the electronics industry's leader in green innovation by its one-hundredth anniversary in 2018. In the 2012 Interbrand Annual Best Global Green Brands ranking, the Panasonic brand jumped four spots to number six: http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/Best-Global-Green-Brands/2012-Report.aspx
As part of its continuing efforts to achieve sustainability, Panasonic Corporation of North America will relocate its operations to a new eco-efficient office tower adjacent to the Newark Penn Station mass transit hub in Newark, NJ in 2013. Information about Panasonic Eco Ideas initiatives is available at http://panasonic.net/eco/ecoideas/. Information about Panasonic and its products is available at www.panasonic.com. Additional company information for journalists is also available at www.panasonic.com/pressroom.
About Bluebeam Software, Inc.
Not your typical software company, Bluebeam Software makes smart, simple collaboration solutions for paperless workflows based on the PDF format. Founded in 2002 in Pasadena, California, Bluebeam's award-winning PDF creation, markup and collaboration solutions are used today by the world's top architectural, engineering and construction firms, oil and gas companies, as well as government agencies, accountants and even attorneys, as an intuitive, easy-to-use, PDF-based software solution for dramatically improved workflow and more sustainable, paperless operations. Bluebeam supports customers in more than 65 countries directly through its Account Services team in addition to an extensive reseller network. For more information, visit www.bluebeam.com.
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It looks like attacking Mitt Romney's Bain resume has become the bane of Newt Gingrich's campaign. In his latest flip-flop, Newt wants a do-over on his 28-minute Romney attack ad.
Newt Gingrich has called on a pro-Gingrich super PAC to edit a 28-minute film attacking Mitt Romney to "remove inaccuracies" and asked Romney to make the same public appeal to a super PAC supporting his presidential bid.
"This week, fact check organizations like The Washington Post and Politifact have ranked advertisements produced by Super-PACs supporting Governor Romney and myself as containing enormous inaccuracies," said Gingrich in a statement sent out by his campaign on Friday.
"I am calling for the Winning Our Future Super-PAC supporting me to either edit its 'King of Bain' advertisement and movie to remove its inaccuracies, or to pull it off the air and off the internet entirely," Gingrich said.
"Furthermore, I am once again calling on Governor Romney to issue a similar call for the Super-PAC supporting him to edit or remove its ads which have been shown to contain gross inaccuracies, something the Governor has thus far refused to do," Gingrich added.
Does that mean Newt is going to re-cut ads like this one?
Or this one?
Probably not. After all, attacking a guy for speaking French is perfectly acceptable. But you just can't attack a guy for making buck, even if Warren Buffet doesn't like it.
When I ask whether Mitt Romney is a job creator or destroyer, Buffett says that while businesses shouldnt keep people they dont need, I dont like what private-equity firms do in terms of taking out every dime they can and leveraging [companies] up so that they really arent equipped, in some cases, for the future.
Even if it costs thousands of people to lose their jobs, you can't go there.
But an examination of the Dade deal, which Mr. Romney approved and presided over, shows the unintended human costs and messy financial consequences behind the brand of capitalism that he practiced for 15 years.
At Bain Capitals direction, Dade quadrupled the money it owed creditors and vendors. It took steps that propelled the business toward bankruptcy. And in waves of layoffs, it cut loose 1,700 workers in the United States, including Brian and Christine Shoemaker, who lost their jobs at a plant in Westwood, Mass. Staggered, Mr. Shoemaker wondered, How can the bean counters just come in here and say, Hey, its over?
Even if it creates no real wealth for society, you can't touch it.
Even Ayn Rand herself would probably get it.p>
In effect, an important aspect of Rands philosophy supports the central tenet of a functioning capitalist economy: Those who create the greatest societal wealth should be the most highly compensated.
…From this perspective, Rands philosophy points out that real capitalism is no longer enforced in America; not because of welfare programs, taxes, the social safety net, or government regulations, but for a very different reason: The highest paid people in America today create no real wealth for the society.
The financial industry, comprised of traders, hedge funds who exploit arbitrage opportunities, and quants who develop mathematical models to take advantage of minute inefficiencies in trading markets (for stocks, derivative securities of all types, commodities, and more) are now earning seemingly inestimable sums. Hedge fund owners earn billions of dollars annually while traders who earn less than several million dollars a year are not, by Wall Street standards, real successes. Yet they are all gambling in a heads I win, tails you lose game. The outcome of all their efforts are high profits, but little, if any, new societal wealth.
Real societal wealth is anything that enhances the lives of those in our society, starting with basics such as food, shelter and medicine, but also including almost any property a person can own or anything a person can experience, such as entertainment or greater convenience. Real wealth can be eaten, used, shared. or experienced.
Heres a final thought: In Rands Atlas Shrugged, the industrialists who create the real wealth of the society start to disappear as they go into hiding. The trains that make the society work, both literally and metaphorically, stop.
So I have developed what we can call the Ayn Rand test of value: If securities traders and quants at investment firms and hedge funds started to disappear in large numbers tomorrow, would the trains that comprise our economy and society run better or worse?
Conservatives believe that the 99 percent owes the 1 percent. But the reality is that the 1 percent wouldnt have its wealth without the benefit of the social contract that the rest of us support.
Even for Newt, this is something of an accomplishment. Inside of a week, Gingrich managed to expose the truth about what he and fellow Republican contenders have said about Romney, and confirm just about everything his fellow conservatives have said about him. He's the same old erratic, petulant, tantrum-prone Newt that stomped off Airforce One in 1995.
That said, I understand where Newt's coming from. When you've stepped in it up to your armpits, all you want is to back out of it, clean up, pretend it never happened, pretend everyone else forgets, and hope the smell either dissipates quickly or that everyone is too polite to mention it.
If everything I've been reading is even partially true, Newt has really stepped in it this time — maybe over his head, but certainly deeper than he knew or cared to know before he jumped in with both feet. Newt says that "extremely wealthy organizations" have pressured him to back off the Bain bashing. But I suspect that's got him spooked. Conservatives may be torn over defending Romney and opposing Romney, but they are totally freaked out by the Pandora's box Newt opened up.
They're freaked because, like I said earlier, Newt practically steered the whole party into the perfect storm, and they know it. Romney's vulture capitalism is just part a national discussion about economic inequality — and a majority of Americans now see economic inequality as major source of conflict. That's a conversation Republicans just aren't prepared to join. They just can't, and they're mad at Newt for turning the national conversation to a problem they have no plans to solve.
Gingrich, Perry, and others are putting particular focus on the people who lost their jobs as a result of Romneys Bain Capital. Gingrichs Super PAC will be running $3.5 million of ads featuring emotional interviews with some of them.
But what, exactly, are Romneys opponents proposing to do about layoffs that harm so many people? Millions of Americans have lost their jobs over the last four years and as a result have often lost their health insurance, their homes, and their savings.
Are Gingrich, Perry, and others proposing to expand health insurance coverage for jobless Americans and their families? All I hear from the Republicans is their determination to repeal the law that President Obama championed which still leaves millions of Americans uninsured. Do Romneys opponents have plans to keep people in their homes even when theyve lost their jobs and cant pay their mortgages? No. Do they propose expanding unemployment insurance? If memory serves, most of them were opposed to the last extension.
Im all in favor of reforming capitalism, but youll permit me some skepticism when it comes to criticisms of Bain Capital coming from Romneys Republican opponents. None of these Republican candidates has exactly distinguished himself with new ideas for giving Americans more economic security. To the contrary until the assault on Romney and Bain Capital every one of them has been a cheerleader for financial capitalism of the most brutal sort.
They're mad because they've been forced not so much into defending Romney (because, honestly, they still don't like the guy very much) but they've been forced to defend vulture capitalism, a monster they helped create, at the precise moment when the race for the GOP nomination heads for some of the places most ravaged by it.
The battle for the Republican presidential nomination has so far been waged in states relatively untouched by the Great Recession. Now it heads to three states with some of the country's highest rates of unemployment and foreclosures.
In South Carolina, where primary voters hit the polls on Jan. 21, unemployment's flying high at 9.9 percent. After that, elections will be in Florida, with a 10 percent unemployment rate, and Nevada, where it's 13 percent. The jobless rates in Iowa and New Hampshire are 5.7 percent and 5.2 percent, respectively.
Nevada leads the nation in both joblessness and foreclosures. One out of every 16 homes in the state was subject to some type of foreclosure filing in 2011, according to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac, an online marketplace and foreclosure data firm. It's the fifth consecutive year the Silver State has topped RealtyTrac's list. Florida's seventh, with filings on more than 2 percent of homes.
Frontrunner Mitt Romney hasn't pandered to struggling Nevada homeowners. He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in October he supports the government stepping aside: "Dont try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom."
That's not an answer that's likely to play well in these places, but it's the only answer Romney and the rest of the Republicans have, really. Just let it hit bottom. That's got to come of as callous and cavalier to a lot of the people stuck on that ride to the bottom. It seems as though all Republicans are willing to do is wave to them on the way down, cut their unemployment, and then raise their taxes.
Can you blame them for not wanting to talk about that, or for being mad at Newt for almost forcing them to talk about it?


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Donald Trump wished good luck to Bob Belichick on Twitter
Prior to Monday night's much-awaited matchup between the New England Patriots and Houston Texans, Donald Trump sent an encouraging message to his pal, owner Bob Kraft, and some of Kraft's key employees.
Trump tweeted to his 2 million followers:
"Good luck to Bob Kraft, Tom Brady and Coach Bob Belichick tonight."
Bob Belichick? Something doesn't sound right, but I can't put my finger on it.
Followers instantly jumped on Trump for the mistake, as if they're somehow better than him. But, tell me this: Can those folks really lob judgments at Trump when they're the one following him on Twitter? He who lives in a glass house.
I mean, who knows? Maybe Trump had a copy of Belichick's original birth certificate and knows the real truth about his name and Kenyan birth.
Trump was on the field with Kraft before the Pats' October game against the Jets and accompanied him to the locker room after the overtime win.
It took two hours and 1,300 retweets for Trump (or whoever runs his Twitter account) to correct the mistake. The original was erased without comment and replaced with the following:
"Good luck to Bob Kraft, Tom Brady, and Coach Bill Belichick tonight."
So he corrected Belichick's first name and the capitalization of "luck," but added an Oxford comma? That Dan Trump is always up to something.


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Been using CoPilot for the last couple of years. Very good app, hasn't gotten me lost once or directed me to drive in the sea or anything like that. And at the price, this is far cheaper than a dedicated satnav, with the added bonus that i'm not likely to leave it in the car for someone to smash the window and nick.
and to boot, sounds like there's little reason any more for the premium version (although the junction rendering is damn useful at some of the more complicated junctions on our motorways and major roads)