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Friedrich K. Kubler, leading scholar on corporations, banking and mass media, dies at age 81
Friedrich K. Kubler, emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a preeminent German scholar in the fields of communications, First Amendment, and corporate law, died October 22 at his home in Germany after a long illness. He was 81.
Kubler was an internationally recognized expert on corporations, banking, and mass media. A prolific scholar, he wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books and monographs, as well as more than 100 articles, in contract and property law; corporations, banking and securities regulation; and mass media and legal theory, many of them comparing American with European legal structures.
Kubler's textbook on German corporate law went through six editions and was translated into Spanish. He also published a textbook on German mass media law.
"Fritz was one of the kindest, most gracious and beloved colleagues and teachers I have ever known," said Law School Dean Michael A. Fitts. "He was adored by everyone who knew him and will be greatly missed."
Robert Mundheim, who was Law School Dean when Kubler joined the faculty in 1985, added: "Fritz possessed the open mind, the intense intellectual interest, instinctive fondness of others, and sense and sensibility which won the admiration and affection of colleagues and students around the world. He was the Law School's most effective bridge to foreign academic communities."
"Fritz was a scholar of great range and depth and had a remarkably cosmopolitan, balanced perspective on all issues," said Richard J. Herring, Jacob Safra Professor International Banking at Wharton, who jointly taught a course with Kubler for MBA and Law School students and collaborated with him on other projects. "Understandably, he was frequently asked to serve on many commissions of wise men. I could always rely on him for sound advice, always delivered with his customary good humor. He will be missed by all who knew him."
Kubler was member of the American Law Institute and served on the boards of the Deutscher Juristentag (the German equivalent of the American Law Institute) and the German Association of Comparative Law.
He was a Commissioner of the German Interstate Commission for the Regulation of Media Concentration and served on the board of the Hessian Public Service Broadcasting Entity. He was also a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and of the Frankfurt Academy of Sciences.
Born in Reutlingen, Germany, in 1932, Kubler studied law at the Universities of Tubingen, Lausanne, Reading/Berkshire and Bonn. Early in his career he was a law clerk for several courts, administrative agencies, law and accounting firms in and near Stuttgart.
Kubler began his teaching career as a lecturer at the University of Tubingen, where he received his Dr. iur.
In 1976, he was appointed Professor of Law at the University of Frankfurt/Main, where for two decades he directed the Institute for Banking Law and where he founded and co-directed the Institute for Domestic and Foreign Mass Media Law, also serving as Dean of its Law School in 1988-89.
Kubler was a member of the Penn Law faculty from 1985 to his retirement in 2011. He taught courses in international finance, European Union law, corporations, comparative corporate and capital market law, and comparative mass media law. For more than a quarter century, generations of Penn Law students looked to him as a mentor and model of international legal engagement.


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|Ottone (Bradley Travis)
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music
Ottavia – Fiona Mackenzie
Drusilla – Hanna Sandison
Seneca – David Hansford
Arnalta – Matthew Ward
Ottone, First Kinsman – Bradley Travis
Lucano, Second Kinsman – Peter Kirk
Nutrice – Angela Simkin
Liberto, Littore, Third Kinsman – Luke Williams
Fortune – Filipa Van Eck
Virtù – Soraya Mafi
Amore – Joanna Songi
First Soldier – Vasili Karpiak
Second Soldier – Michael Butchard
Samal Blak (designs)
Ace McCarron (lighting)
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Royal College of Music Opera Orchestra
Michael Rosewell (conductor)
James Conway's new production of what is surely one of the three greatest operas of the seventeenth century, and perhaps the greatest of all, L'incoronazione di Poppea, is a splendid affair: intelligent conceived , tightly directed, and resourcefully designed by Samal Blak. Conway's words in the programme should be drilled into anyone who opines on staging, whether in print, on the Internet, or in the theatre: 'The question of what "period" to set it all in is not the beginning or the end of the process, but an historically informed decision somewhere in the middle. Sadly, this is certainly the decision that seems to exercise people most.' There is no reasoning with those who scream 'why is not set in x at the time y?' as soon as anything is depicted that does not conform to their unimaginative, unhistorical and generally quite vulgar sense of hyper-realism. If only we had pictures, or other evidence, of the costumes and backdrops employed in Venice's Teatro SS Giovanni e Paulo, I am sure they would find themselves in an irresolvable quandary. Should those be replicated, or should we have something recognisably of Rome in AD 65? I doubt very much that any set of designs would be able to accomplish both. Conway's setting was imaginative and worked in theatrical terms. Apologising 'to those who anticipated togas, or 17th century Venice,' and we should note the operative or, he says that he considered 'Tudor Terror, but too much reading about the revolutionary ego and Stalin's bruising reign convinced me that this was a place ... from which Ottone, Dusilla, Ottavia and Seneca might suddenly disappear, and in which all might live cheek by jowl in a sort of family nightmare, persisting in belief in family (or some related ideal) even as it devours them.' And so it came to pass, a fine young cast conveying its conviction in the concept.
|Katherine Crompton (Poppea) and Annie
Frederiksson (Nerone)
|Hannah Sandison (Drusilla)
|Matthew Ward (Arnalta)

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The Anatomy of Revolution
Vintage Books, 1965 - History - 310 pages
An analysis of the English, American, French, and Russian revolutions as they exhibit universally applicable patterns of revolutionary thought and action
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Oracle Team USA completed one of the greatest comebacks in sports history Wednesday, winning the 34th America's Cup in a thrilling neck-and-neck race on the San Francisco Bay.
Race 19 started with a clean, dead-even start, and an early error by Team USA, but neither team gave up and battled for the lead in the early stages of the race on another windy day on the Bay.
By leg 3 of 5, Team USA stretched its lead to 300 meters. In the end, the win over challenger Emirates Team New Zealand looked easy stretching 44-seconds.
The boat representing the Red, White, and Blue crossed the finish line to the cheers of several thousand racing fans who had gathered at America's Cup Village.
Oracle Team USA owner Larry Ellison jumped on board the boat within minutes of the win just in time for the champagne shower.
After the race Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill said he wouldn't have had it any other way, adding, "This is one hell of a day."
"We came from behind, the guys showed so much heart. On your own you're nothing, but a team like this can make you look great. We were facing the barrel of a gun at 8-1 and the guys didn't even flinch," Spithill said.
Watch Replay Highlights Courtesy America's Cup Here
Wednesday was the final race of the first-to-nine series in a competition many are calling the best ever America's Cup. It was the third time in the history of the America's Cup with a winner-take-all final race. In 1920 the defender won. In 1983 the cup went to the challenger. Both times the winner rallied from a multi-race deficit, but never anything amounting to eight straight wins.
Regatta Director Iain Murray, who's been involved with the America's Cup since 1983, said "In the end we had great competition between two great teams, evenly matched, battling it out to the end."
While the chants of "USA, USA" could be heard along the Embarcadero, groans were more likely than chanting down in New Zealand.
VICTORY!! @OracleTeamUSA has won the 34th @Americas Cup in San Francisco! #comeback#makinghistory
— ORACLE TEAM USA (@OracleTeamUSA) September 25, 2013
The cup took a record 19 races with a final winner-take-all contest for the 162-year-old trophy.
The backdrop for the high drama was a five-leg course framed by the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge and infamous Alcatraz Island.
The grand finale for the oldest trophy in international sports was set up Tuesday when Oracle came through a wild start with two collisions to win Race 17, and then sped past the Kiwis after they made a tactical error to give up the lead in Race 18 in strong wind.
All but defeated a week ago, Oracle Team USA tied the faltering Kiwis 8-8 on the scoreboard by winning its 10th race overall. Oracle was docked two points for illegally modifying boats in warmup regattas and Dirk de Ridder, who trimmed the 131-foot wing sail, was disqualified.
If it hadn't been hit with the harshest penalties in the 162-year history of the America's Cup, Oracle Team USA's sailors would be hoisting the Auld Mug in victory and spraying each other with champagne.
Oracle has gotten faster as it's made changes to its black cat every night in its big boatshed on Pier 80 and has steadily learned to sail it better under the watchful eye of team CEO Russell Coutts, a four-time America's Cup winner.
But there's a bigger reason Oracle won it all. "Never giving up," Spithill said.


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Burger King and Fox have apologized for sponsoring an animated short on Fox NFL Sunday that mocked pop princess Jessica Simpson's weight.
In statements to Usmagazine.com, reps for both companies insisted Burger King was not aware of the content of the ad.
"Burger King Corp. did not have any editorial input in the creation of the animation that ran last Sunday, and no one from Burger King Corp. approved it before it aired," a rep for Fox said. "Upon reflection, our poor attempt at humor was insensitive and we deeply apologize to anyone who might have been offended."
In case that wasn't clear, a statement from the fast food behemoth added: "Burger King Corp. has a long-standing relationship with FOX Sports, as well as an extensive media partnership with the network. The specific content for this sketch involving Jessica Simpson was not developed or aired by BKC or any of its agencies."
In the clip that aired Oct. 10, Dallas Cowboys players Jason Witten and Marion Barber are shown sitting in the team's locker room in the cartoon short.
"Man, I still can't believe Tony dated Jessica Simpson, even after she blew up bigger than Flozell Adams!" the animated Marion Barber says.
"Unlike Tony, at least Jessica comes up big when it counts!" Jason Whitten's cartoon says.
Jess' former beau and Dallas' quarterback Tony Romo says, "Guys, I'm standing right here."
"Sorry Tony," says coach Wade Phillips. "Say Tony, is Jessica around? We could use a defensive tackle!"
The 5-foot-3 singer whose weight typically hovered around 110-lbs when she was able to shimmy into her Daisy Dukes for her role in the 2005 "Dukes of Hazard" beefed up significantly in January.
She has since lost a lot of weight but has had to fend off criticism for months.


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Located in the heart of Washington DC, close to the downtown area, District Hotel offers clean and affordable accommodation in a convenient location. We are just 5 blocks from the White House, 8 Blocks from the Washington Monument and 4 blocks away from three subway lines. Numerous restaurants and pubs can be found close by.
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If you saw the Grand Designs episode featuring Otter Farm, you'll already know something about the beautiful rural retreat and cookery school crowdfunded and built by award winning food writer Mark Diacono and his wife Candida. I know something about the joy and pain of building your own house, but to attempt something on the scale of a cookery school is either madness or genius! Mark has a delightful mix of both, an enthusiastic springer spaniel of a chap, who will definitely get you enthused about pretty much anything you can think of. He is also a grower of forgotten food, exotic fruit and makes wine from vines that stretch away from the cookery school towards the horizon. There are kiwis, sweet cicely, chocolate vines, Japanese wineberries and Vietnamese coriander, orchards of pecans, quince, almonds, Szechuan pepper and apricots, as well as a forest garden, a vineyard and a perennial garden.
I currently teach four day courses at Otter Farm and they are a fantastic opportunity to share what I know with smaller groups than I usually teach. I love the intimacy of a small group that gives everyone the chance for a little spontaneity and some personal interaction. The Otter Farm course programme features luminaries such as Diana Henry, Rachel Roddy, Gill Meller and Catherine Phipps - so say that I am thrilled to be included is a massive understatement. If you're interested in the courses outlined below, head over to Otter Farm to book - if you become a member there's money off and you can also do the courses as two dayers, for a full Naomi immersion.
Gluten Free Everyday focuses on the wholesome, delicious bakes that make week day meals a joy. The stuff you miss when you're gluten free. We make sourdough bread (gluten free of course), shortcrust pastry, buckwheat pasta for our lunch of homemade lasagne, moreish linseed crackers a a couple of little savoury tarts that you can take home for supper (they won't last the journey). Through the day I explain the flours that we use and answer questions about being gluten free. dairy free and egg free options are available if they are necessary for health reasons.
Gluten Free Celebration is all about party food! we'll make some light and tender olive or walnut bread, I'll demonstrate a genoise sponge and make it into a delicious cream filled, ganache topped gateau that we can slice into later. For lunch we'll make our own thin, crispy pizzas and eat them with some delicious salads from Mark's kitchen. After lunch, we will make a Yorkshire pudding batter and turn it into toad in the hole, (or roast veg in the hole) and make gyoza dumplings using our own handmade dumpling wrappers, which we will cook into some delicious pot stickers for you to taste before you head home with your fresh baked bread and toad in the hole. Dishes can be made dairy free if necessary for health reasons, but not all dishes can be made egg free.
Food for a Happy Gut (Calm) is a day based on my forthcoming book of the same name (check it out and pre-order here!). This is a day to soothe troubled digestion and learn about how your gut works and why it can be sensitive. Although Rome wasn't built in a day, I will give you tips and pointers so that you can start eating in a way that calms, heals and restores comfortable digestion. We start the day by tasting some digestive bitters, that stimulate the liver to work better before making a jar to take home and mature. I'll demonstrate some delicious jelly sweets that are a medicinal treat for soothing inflamed tums. We'll make our own ramen bowl for lunch with bone broth, noodles, fermented pickles and other anti-inflammatory delights. After lunch we'll make a simple gluten free oat pastry and turn it into a delicious savoury tart using seasonal ingredients. Our tea break is an opportunity to taste some anti-inflammatory herb teas (not the kind that promise a fruit bowl and taste of dishwater) and our jelly sweets. For our last session of the day we look at some fermented food that is easily digested and a few probiotic drinks. Finally, we'll make a jar of fermented vegetables for you to take home and allow to gently bubble for a few days before adding to meals.
Food for a Happy Gut (Nourish) is the second day based on my book (check it out and pre-order here!). It's a day for feeding up your microbes and growing a thriving microbiome. We'll start the day by making a quick pickle to eat with our lunch and we'll find out all about what your gut loves and what it doesn't. Next we'll make a jar of spicy, nutty, anti-inflammatory dukkah to sprinkle over our lunch (and take home). We make our own fibre packed prebiotic, probiotic, anti-inflammatory lunch, with wholegrains, pulses, pickles, creamy labneh, bitter leaves, roast roots and gut soothing spices. It's a feast for the eyes as well as the tum! I'll demonstrate a wickedly luscious dessert that contains beans and then we'll finish up by making a making a fermented pickle that is full of prebiotics (food for your microbes) and probiotics (good microbes) for you to take home and allow to bubble gently until it is tangy and marvellous.


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RATIONALE: Chemoprevention is the use of certain drugs to keep cancer from forming, growing,
or coming back. The use of fenretinide may prevent ovarian cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well fenretinide works in preventing
ovarian cancer in participants who are at high risk of developing ovarian cancer and
planning to undergo surgery to remove the ovaries.
- Compare the induction of apoptosis (as determined by TUNEL) in the ovarian epithelial
and stromal cells of participants at high risk for ovarian cancer treated with
fenretinide vs placebo.
- Compare modulation of several intermediate markers (TGFβ, BAX, Ki-67, ER, PR, RARβ,
TGFβRI, TGFβRII, p21, p53, FAS, and FASL) in participants treated with these regimens.
- Compare early microvascular changes, using contrast-enhanced ultrasound, in
participants treated with these drugs.
- Determine whether the use of contrast agents could indicate changes in ovarian size and
architecture that may be assessed as potential surrogates for preventive effect in
these participants.
- Determine the feasibility of future chemoprevention trials for ovarian cancer.
- Determine the toxicity of fenretinide in these participants.
- Compare the microvascularity index and ovarian volume of participants treated with
these drugs.
- Correlate areas of increased microvascularity and other abnormalities with pathology
findings obtained at oophorectomy in participants treated with these drugs.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study.
Participants are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Participants receive oral fenretinide once daily.
- Arm II: Participants receive oral placebo once daily. In both arms, treatment continues
for 6-8 weeks in the absence of unacceptable toxicity.
Within 5 days after completion of fenretinide or placebo, participants undergo bilateral
Participants are followed at 6 weeks.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 participants (20 per treatment arm) will be accrued for
this study within 4 years.
- At high risk for developing ovarian cancer, meeting 1 of the following criteria:
- Family history of ovarian cancer, defined as ≥ 1 first-degree relative diagnosed
with ovarian cancer before 50 years of age
- Family history of ovarian cancer, defined as ≥ 1 first-degree relative diagnosed
with ovarian cancer at any age AND ≥ 1 first- or second-degree relative
diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer at any age
- Positive BRCA1/BRCA2 test
- Planning to undergo prophylactic bilateral oophorectomy
- 30 and over
Performance status
- Zubrod 0-1
Life expectancy
- At least 12 months
- Not specified
- Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- SGOT ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- No history of liver disease*
- No cholestatic jaundice
- No hepatic adenomas NOTE: *For patients undergoing contrast enhanced ultrasound
- BUN normal
- Creatinine normal
- No history of a congenital heart defect creating a bi-directional or right-to-left
- No history of congestive heart failure*
- No thrombophlebitis
- No thromboembolic disease
- No cerebral vascular disease
- No coronary artery disease NOTE: *For patients undergoing contrast enhanced
- No history of pulmonary hypertension*
- No history of pulmonary emboli*
- No history of severe emphysema* NOTE: *For patients undergoing contrast enhanced
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective barrier contraception
- Thyroid stimulating hormone normal
- T4 normal
- Triglycerides ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- No malignancy within the past 5 years except breast cancer or basal cell or squamous
cell skin cancer
- No evidence of recurrent disease
- No known or suspected hypersensitivity to blood, blood products, or albumin
- No undiagnosed genital bleeding
- No history of pancreatitis
- No uncontrolled diabetes
- No other severe underlying chronic disease
- No concurrent alcohol use (> 3 drinks/day or equivalent)
Biologic therapy
- Not specified
- At least 3 months since prior chemotherapy for breast cancer
Endocrine therapy
- No concurrent selective estrogen-receptor modulators, including raloxifene
- No concurrent aromatase inhibitors
- Not specified
- See Disease Characteristics
- More than 3 months since prior therapeutic oral or topical vitamin A derivatives
(e.g., isotretinoin)
- No other concurrent investigational agents
- No concurrent cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors
- No concurrent oral vitamin A or ascorbic acid (vitamin C) supplements > recommended
daily requirement (10,000 IU for vitamin A and 75 mg for vitamin C)
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Dactylitis is severe pain that affects the bones of the
hands, the feet, or both. It's often the first symptom of
sickle cell disease in babies.
Dactylitis is caused by blocked blood
circulation. Symptoms include extreme pain and tenderness, usually with
swelling. An episode may last 1 to 4 weeks.
Your child's doctor will likely suggest pain relievers and ask you to make sure your child is getting plenty of fluids. Although it is painful, dactylitis does not damage your child's body.
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Bristling with anger, US President Barack Obama on Wednesday branded the defeat of his gun reform drive in the US Senate as "shameful," and accused lawmakers of caving in to the powerful firearms lobby.
A deeply emotional Obama lashed out after a bid to expand background checks for gun buyers — the last meaningful piece of his trimmed effort to retool gun laws after the Newtown school massacre — failed to pass.
Ringed by dazed and grief-stricken relatives of some of the 20 children gunned down in Connecticut in December, Obama accused the firearms lobby of lying to thwart change, but vowed he would not give up the fight.
"Families that know unspeakable grief summoned the courage to petition their elected leaders not just to honor the memory of their children, but to protect the lives of all of our children," he said in the White House Rose Garden.
"A minority in the United States Senate decided it wasn't worth it," he said.
As he absorbed the first significant political defeat of his second term, the president said "the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill.
"All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington," he said.
Obama was clearly furious about the vote, months after vowing to use all his power to enact gun reform in the tearful aftermath of the Newtown tragedy.
Obama complained that Republicans and some Democrats had simply been scared of the well-financed gun lobby.
"They caved to the pressure, and they started looking for an excuse, any excuse, to vote no," he said.
However, the president hinted that he would campaign on the issue in next year's mid-term elections.
"I believe we're going to be able to get this done. Sooner or later we're going to get this right. The memories of these children demand it," Obama later said in an e-mail to supporters.
Republicans argued that the bill infringed on the constitutional right to bear arms, but Obama said it did no such thing and merely tried to stop criminals and the mentally ill from getting firearms.
Some conservative Democrats, fearing a backlash as they run for re-election, also opposed the bill.
Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, the top pro-gun pressure group, said the bill was "misguided" and would have criminalized arms transfers between law-abiding citizens and friends.
"Expanding background checks, at gun shows or elsewhere, will not reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools," Cox said.
Obama's calls for a reinstated ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazine clips also crashed in the Senate, as expected.
The background checks bill did attract a majority vote — 54 to 46 — but 60 senators were needed for passage.
After the measure went down, one gun violence survivor, Patricia Maisch, shouted "Shame on you!" from the Senate gallery.
Maisch was at the 2011 shooting that left six people dead and then-congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded in Arizona.
Giffords was at Obama's side in the White House Rose Garden, along with US Vice President Joe Biden and traumatized parents of several Newtown children.
"They have no souls, they have no compassion for the experiences that people have lived through [with] gun violence, who have had a child or a loved one murdered by a gun," Maisch said.


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An All-Ages Music Manifesto
I grew up in a cultural sinkhole in the backwoods of central Maine. There were no all-ages music venues. The closest place that held shows was a dilapidated church an hour and a half away, and believe me, you could feel the distance. Those shows smelled like the apathy and itchy feet of every teenager with nowhere to go and energy to burn. It didn't belong to us, and I longed for the skills to bring people together and have it mean something. I wanted a voice.
All-ages venues aren't just escape routes for kids with nothing better to do. They create a synergistic relationship between youth and the community that will keep the arts vital, and they enable young people to gain experience in organizing. No one understands that better than Shannon Stewart, whose efforts to establish youth space in Seattle culminated in The Vera Project, an all-ages venue with a model for power-sharing that garners international acclaim. As co-founder of the All-ages Movement Project (AMP), Stewart has since created a nationwide online network for all-ages music and arts venues to share information, resources and best practices.
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VERA Project took on Seattle's youth music wasteland to create lasting opportunities for young artists.
Stewart compiled accounts from all-ages venues across the nation for In Every Town to illustrate the ins and outs of business licenses, zoning permits, and how to publicize events cheaply in ways that capture people's attention. The examples make this process accessible, whether you hope to operate all-ages events out of a basement or a $2 million hall, legally or without official sanction, on government property or in a squat.
For everyone who hated being a teenager in a place with nowhere to do anything that felt important, or for anyone still there, this is the way out, beyond, and through the wild woods. There really is potential for communities to recognize, support, and cherish a strong and innovative youth culture in every town. This book will give you the tools to make it happen.
Music can tell truths that otherwise go unheard, inspiring action, and sustaining resistance.
Though he's climbed to the top ten of the indie music charts and won accolades from Rolling Stone, 30-year-old musician Brett Dennen says his most important work to date has been with children at The Mosaic Project, a small outdoor school in the Napa Hills of California.
How a community art program in Haiti is empowering young people to express their hope for a better future.


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Together, you and your partner can connect emotionally and physically
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Talk with your partner about your feelings, concerns, and
expectations. Let your partner know that as you recover from childbirth, you
need extra support. Ask your partner to tell you about any needs and concerns too.
Try to set up times when you can be alone, unrushed, and
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NEW YORK — Three weeks after losing much of his left arm, science correspondent Miles O'Brien appeared on the "PBS NewsHour" to declare "I'll be OK" and to announce he had tied his necktie Friday morning.
"It's good to be here," he told "NewsHour" co-host Judy Woodruff. "It's good to be anywhere. It's good to be alive."
O'Brien has continued to work on stories for the "NewsHour," including reports on Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, since a seemingly minor injury put his life in sudden jeopardy. His short "NewsHour" interview allowed him to follow up on the ordeal he first disclosed on his blog on Feb. 25.
Looking healthy, even cheerful, in a dark suit and black tie, O'Brien noted that the life of a globe-trotting correspondent is risky in many obvious ways.
"But sometimes, it's the heavy case filled with gear that you need to be careful of," he said, referring to the Feb. 12 blow to his arm by a falling suitcase as he was wrapping up a solo reporting trip to the Philippines after being in Japan.
What began as a bruise became increasingly discolored and painful, he said. When he began to feel numbness in his hand, he sought medical attention on Feb. 14.
He was diagnosed with "acute compartment syndrome," a condition where blocked blood flow in an enclosed space in the body can have life-threatening consequences.
Before his emergency surgery to relieve the pressure, O'Brien said he was warned that amputation was a possible outcome.
"When I woke up," he recalled, "I thought I felt my arm. But unfortunately, things did not go for the best." His arm had been amputated above the elbow.
Phantom limb pain continues to plague him three weeks later.
It's "incredibly painful," he said. "I feel my hand, in a way, more acutely than I ever did when I had it."
His most successful coping device has been a renewed focus on work, he said, which "got me through a very tough time."
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Now, as he begins rehabilitation, he has singled out three priorities: to get back to riding his bike, piloting planes and shooting his own video, as before. He said his doctors told him, "No problem. We have attachments for all of that."
Asked to respond to the concern expressed by his many well-wishers, O'Brien voiced thanks, but assured them, "I'll be OK. I can figure this out. It's surmountable."
The former CNN science and space correspondent covers science for "NewsHour" and is a correspondent for public TV's documentary series "Frontline" and the National Science Foundation's Science Nation online magazine.
His concluding report on the Fukushima plant is scheduled to air on Tuesday's "NewsHour."


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The overwhelmed employee
Simplify the work environmentMarch 7, 2014
Too much access to information has turned us into "overwhelmed" employees. Nearly every company sees this phenomenon as a challenge to productivity and overall performance, but struggles to handle it.
An explosion of information is overwhelming workers, while smartphones, tablets, and other devices keep employees tethered to their jobs 24/7/365. The Atlantic recently termed this trend "hyper-employment," noting that even the unemployed can suffer from it.1
Studies show that people check their mobile devices up to 150 times every day.2 Yet despite employees being always on and constantly connected, most companies have not figured out how to make information easy to find. In fact, nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of employees have told us they still cannot find the information they need within their company's information systems.3
This constant and frenetic level of activity also costs money, perhaps $10 million a year for mid-size companies.4 According to one study, 57 percent of interruptions at work resulted from either social media tools or switching among disparate stand-alone applications.5
The true downside of this information overload is harder to measure. With everyone hyper-connected, the reality may be that employees have few opportunities to get away from their devices and spend time thinking and solving problems. And the problem is getting worse. The sun never sets on a global company, so someone is always working, awaiting a response to an email or phone call. The weekend as a time away from work is also becoming a thing of the past.
More than half of the respondents to our Human Capital Trends survey believe that their organizations are not doing a good job helping workers address information overload and today's demanding work environment. Nearly six in ten respondents (57 percent) say their organizations are "weak" when it comes to helping leaders manage difficult schedules and helping employees manage information flow (figure 1).
According to our global survey, executives around the world are sounding the alarm, with respondents in most countries recognizing the urgent need to address this challenge. But, with the exception of Spain and Kenya, executives in few countries report their capabilities are equal to the sense of urgency (figure 2).
Creating more time to think and produce
How serious is the problem? Julian Birkenshaw and Jordan Cohen studies the productivity of knowledge workers and found that people waste as much as 41 percent of their time on things that offer little personal satisfaction and do not help them get work done.6
One reason employees are so busy is they may be afraid to delegate tasks, while more and more employees, particularly men, view "being busy" as a badge of honor. In fact, new research shows that 29 percent of men with children work more than 50 hours per week—a "workaholic" lifestyle that increases with income and seniority.7
Many have suggested that, as organizational leaders and as individuals, we need to learn new skills to manage time. While Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer made headlines when she asked employees to stop working at home, what she was really saying was that "we want to know what you're working on so we can make sure you prioritize well."8
The value of smaller, agile teams
Organizations are beginning to acknowledge their share of responsibility for the problem of the overwhelmed employee and take steps to help solve it.
Historically, managing time and information was viewed as an employee's personal concern. If employees were overwhelmed, the thinking went, they were expected to fix it themselves—by taking a course in time management, for instance. Now, some employers are treating overload as a shared problem requiring a company response. In short, the overwhelmed employee is being viewed as a business and productivity challenge, as well as a personal one.
One strategy companies are following to help employees become more productive with their time is creating smaller, more agile teams.
The software industry, which is widely known for experimenting with innovative management practices, has been revolutionized by the "agile" model.9 Under this system, teams are broken up into small groups that regularly hold short, face-to-face meetings. Each day, these teams have daily "scrums" and "stand up meetings." These events last no longer than 15 minutes, forcing people to rapidly discuss issues, resolve problems, and get back to work.
This practice is backed up by research from Richard Hackman, a former professor at Harvard University and Yale University, which found that small teams outperform big ones.10 Hackman also demonstrated that teams where members know each other well communicate more quickly, with far fewer words and emails.
To make meetings shorter and more efficient, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, hit on a novel approach he calls the "two pizza" rule. Every meeting at Amazon should be small enough to feed everyone with two pizzas—limiting attendance to around five to seven employees.
Simplifying HR practices and employee systems
It's likely that many organizations will look to their HR leaders to help figure out how to address worker overload. Some HR organizations are already stepping up to the challenge.
Best Buy, for example, adjusted its "flexible working" policies to encourage employees to take time off and recharge. Adobe eliminated steps in its performance appraisal process, helping managers and employees save several weeks each year.
Simplifying business and HR systems and making them easier to use can also make employees more productive. People no longer want more features in their enterprise software; they want "one click" or "one swipe" transactions. We call this the "consumerization" of corporate systems—which really amounts to valuing the time of a company's employees as much as it respects the time of its customers.
In our most recent research on HR systems adoption, ease of use and user interface integration were rated as the most important factors in driving user adoption.11
This finding raises many important questions: How many steps does it take at your company to appraise an employee? To fill in an expense report? To register for a corporate course? How easy is it to find information, people, and resources in your company? If the HR and IT departments are not working together to make things easier, they are taking away valuable employee time.
Outsourcing or insourcing non-core tasks
Companies are also looking at ways to outsource or insource repetitive, non-core tasks to free up employee time and energy.
Pfizer developed a program called PfizerWorks that allows employees to off-load technical and administrative non-core tasks, such as statistical analysis, writing, and publishing. Scientists claim it saves months of time per year, allowing them to dedicate more time to strategic work and their scientific skills.12
Changing work expectations
Does everyone need to be online all day and night? Some executives now deliberately avoid sending emails at night or on weekends, sending a signal to the team that it is OK to disconnect and unwind.
Professional services organizations are increasingly asking teams to travel less and offering the option to work at home, enabling them to save time and energy on commuting and travel.
More and more companies are experimenting with "email free" times and the use of collaborative web tools that slow down massive email distribution and focus communications directly to the smaller working team.
Lessons from the front lines
A global health care company initiated a major program to address the issues of information overload, meeting ineffectiveness, and unnecessary travel. The project produced four recommendations:
- Enforceable guidelines on sending emails, holding meetings, and traveling—and educating staff in these areas. Meetings were limited to 30 minutes, while the use of "cc" and "reply all" in emails was curtailed.
- Empowering leaders to replace some travel by making greater use of virtual technology—including Live Meeting, WebEx, Skype, and MS Lync—and improving the overall virtual technology experience in the company.
- Dedicating half a day per week to focus on company's leadership initiatives, with an emphasis on connecting with customers.
- Promoting accountability in decision making in these areas by working with HR.
Where companies can start
The point of these and similar efforts is not merely to save employees' time, reduce stress, and foster employee engagement, important as those aims are. Rather, it is also to free up unproductive time to permit more-engaged employees to focus deeply on business imperatives. Here are a few starting points:
- Lead through example: Change is often most powerful when it comes from the top. Leaders should have—and should grant themselves—permission to take these steps, setting an example to help their employees deal with being overwhelmed.
- Get input: Assess employees' current workloads and what issues trouble them most. Rather than ask high-level engagement questions, survey them on their most "frustrating" work practices or systems.
- Simplify HR and talent programs: Reduce the number of steps and make it possible to complete an entire process in a few minutes.
- Simplify information and HR systems: Consolidate HR and employee systems in favor of what we call a "learning architecture"—one integrated place to find information, people, and content.
- Publicize and celebrate flexible work policies: Employees need to understand that it is OK to work at home, take time off during the day, and miss meetings. Clear policies help make it possible for people to disengage from less important tasks when they are busy with other projects or personal needs.
- Make meetings productive: Post guiding principles in every meeting location to encourage effective meetings. Help people reduce the size of meetings, number of emails, and frequency of communication. Schedule meetings for 20 or 50 minutes rather than 30 or 60. "Stand up" meetings are a powerful way to keep people from wasting time.
- Delegate decision making: Is it clear who makes decisions in your workgroup? Can people make their own decisions without involving many others or asking others for help? Push decisions down, and people's lives become easier.
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2002 Benetti Classic 115
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Priced for quick sale
- Year:
- 2002
- Length:
- 115'
- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Twin / diesel
- Located In:
- New Zealand
- Hull Material:
- Fiberglass
- 2385-2289469
- Current Price:
BENETTI CLASSIC 115 built 2002 completely refitted in 2008. This is a stunning example from the Italian Benetti Line of yachts. Well proportioned, large private top deck with Jacuzzi and BBQ. The beautiful sky saloon opens onto a partially covered open deck for alfresco dining and leads aft to an open area where the tender is neatly stowed. Her master cabin is full beam on the main deck and leads aft to a huge dining room and salon. The aft deck is shaded by the bridge deck and has easy steps port side and stbd leading down to the bathing platform and tender garage.
The crew are comfortably accommodated forward with room for 7 crew. The galley is well appointed and her engine room is well kept.
Zero Speed stabilizers were fitted during her 2008 refit and the whole boat was repainted. She needs a new Owner to inject some new life into her.
Her asking price has been reduced from USD6,200,000 to USD4,500,000 for a quick sale.
NB: We are the owner's direct agent appointed to sell the vessel. We have a full inventory and extensive photographs of the vessel which we will be pleased to forward to you upon request. Please email us for further information.
Yachts are offered subject to being unsold. The above information is given in good faith but it's accuracy cannot be guaranteed and, therefore, cannot be used for contractual purposes.
Please contact at +852 2366 2183
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Beam: 25 ft 0 in
Maximum Draft: 6 ft 0 in
Total Power: 3000 HP
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: MTU
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Power: 1500 HP
Engine 2:
Engine Brand: MTU
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Power: 1500 HP
General Specification
Type:Semi displacement
Hull Form:Round bottom
Deck Fitting/ Rails etc:Stainless steel
Colours :White
Length Overall :34.95 meter / 115 feet
Beam :7.26 meter / 25 feet
Draft :1.95 meter / 6.04 feet
Tonnage :190 tons
Fuel Capacity :35,000 Litres (9,250 U S Gal)
Water Capacity :6,500 Litres (1,750 U S Gal)
Max :16.5 knots
Cruising :12.0 knots
Engine :2 x 1500HP MTU 12V 2000 M91
Engine Hours:3800 hours each (12/Nov/2018)
Generator :2 x 65KW Kohler 6800 hrs and 6600 hrs (March 2015)
Power :220V 60 Hz
Stabilizers:Naiad Zero Speed
Air Conditioning :Marine Aircon with 4 Compressors
Heating :Reverse cycle airconditioning
Bilge System :Auto / manual throughout
Waste :Flush into holding tanks
Deck Wash :On each deck
Deck Shower :Hot and cold on bathing platform
Radar :2 x Furuno
Autopilot :Navipilot
Other :See Helm Station
Anchor :2 x Danforth
Bathing Platform :Teak laid
Aft Cockpit :Teak laid
Safety Equipment :2 Life rafts
Fire Extinguisher :Auto / manual in Engine Room and hand held in cabins
Cushion :For all exterior decks
Seating :Ample on all exterior decks
Controls:In Bridge
See attached.
ACCOMMODATION: For 12 guests in 5 cabins + 7 crew
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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STAMFORD, Conn. — Jeb Bush defended his controversial comments about immigration reform, insisting they were nothing new for him and urging "sensitivity to the immigrant experience."
At a Connecticut Republican party dinner Thursday night, the former Republican governor of Florida did not repeat his remarks from last weekend at his father's presidential library, when he said that people who come to the United States illegally in search of a better life for their children "broke the law, but it's not a felony. It's an act of love."
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"To be young and dynamic again we have to be young and dynamic again," Bush said, adding that people need to view "immigration reform not as a problem, but as a huge opportunity."
"This past weekend, I made some statements about immigration reform [that] generated a little more news than I anticipated," Bush told the crowd of more than 700 guests at the annual Prescott Bush Award dinner, an event named for his grandfather.
"You know, I've been saying this for the last three or four years, I said the exact same thing that I've said regularly," he said. "And the simple fact is, there is no conflict between enforcing our laws, believing in the rule of law and having some sensitivity to the immigrant experience, which is part of who we are as a country."
"It is not an American value to allow people to stay in the shadows," Bush added, saying he'd just learned of a high school athlete at Miami Beach High School who's been in the U.S. since he was a young boy but who was told to go back "to his native land…[the message the young man received was] you're not worthy of being successful in our country."
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Bush's initial "act of love" comments ignited a firestorm of criticism from conservatives. Bush hasn't campaigned for elected office in 12 years, but is weighing a bid in 2016.
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Excessive photoshopping!
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The NAD specifically noted that the Swift ad had a disclaimer printed on the bottom that clearly stated, "lashes enhanced in post production."
"You can't use a photograph to demonstrate how a cosmetic will look after it is applied to a woman's face and then — in the mice type — have a disclosure that says 'okay, not really,' " NAD director Andrea Levine told Business Insider.
RELATED: Check out Dakota Fanning's BANNED Marc Jacobs ad!
I think it's about time something was done about this. This issue of false advertising has bothered me for YEARS. As a beauty blogger, I'm CONSTANTLY being sent products to try out with the promise of this – and that. We see the ads, we read all the claims of "longer lashes" or "fuller lashes" and 9 times out of 10, nothing ever really lives up to the promise! It has gotten to the point (with me) that I really don't pay much attention to beauty ads at all, because who really believes that stuff anymore? Don't we all just see it as fake?
Maybelline was made to address an similar Photoshop issue earlier this year, when an ad for its anti-aging "Eraser" product used Photoshop instead of the product itself to erase spokesmodel Christy Turlington's dark circles. Britain's ASA banned the ad for misleading consumers.
In fact, Business Insider notes that in banning the Taylor Swift spot, the NAD is specifically trying to follow the ASA's lead. Does that mean we should expect a banned-ad-of-the-week in the US to match Great Britain? Could this be the end of Photoshopping Disasters?
I'm really happy something is finally being done about this trend in advertising. You should not be able to photoshop results. The UK has been banning ads for years, and they take a much more critical stand on false advertising. Hopefully the U.S. will crack down on ads here as strongly!
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Artist's description:
Abstract on canvas.
Ready to hang, no framing required.
Sealed with clear lacquer.
Medium: Acrylic on gallery-wrapped (staples out of sight at the back), stretched, cotton canvas
Colours: Green, Yellow, Red
Size: 15.75" x 11.81" x 0.71" (40cm x 30cm x 1.8cm)
Created: To be painted to order
This is an original abstract acrylic painting on canvas. This abstract painting was created using heavy-body acrylic paints on gallery-wrapped, cotton stretched canvas.
The painting will arrive to you ready to hang and finished in an invisible, protective varnish. The sides are painted so there is no need to frame your painting unless you wish to.
NOTE: The images in context are not to scale and are for display purposes only.
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Parscha Mirghawameddin
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Small is beautiful #1 (2015)
Acrylic painting by Parscha Mirghawameddin
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 15.75 x 11.81 x 0.71 in (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Abstract
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
This artwork is sold by Parscha Mirghawameddin from Germany


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Scribble has been part of the PLT Scheme distribution since version 4.0, which was released in June 2008, and all PLT Scheme documentation is created with Scribble. Developing Scribble, porting old PLT Scheme documentation, and writing new documentation took about a year, but the @ notation evolved earlier through years of experimentation.
The documentation at http://docs.plt-scheme.org/ is built nightly by Scribble from a snapshot of the PLT Scheme source repository. The same documentation is available in PDF form at http://pre.plt-scheme.org/docs/pdf/. At the time of writing, the 70 PDF files of current documentation total 3778 pages in a relatively sparse format, which we estimate would fit in around 1000 pages if compressed into a conference-style, two-column layout. This total includes documentation only for libraries that are bundled with PLT Scheme; additional libraries for download via PLaneT are also documented using Scribble.
PLT Scheme documentation was previously written in LaTeX and converted to HTML via tex2page (Sitaram 2007). Although tex2page was a dramatic improvement over our original use of latex2html, the build process relied on layers of fragile LaTeX macros, HTML hacks, and pre- and post-processing scripts, which made the documentation all but impossible to build except by its authors. Consequently, most library documentation used a plain-text format that was easier to write but inconsistent in style and difficult to index. The documentation index distinguished identifier names from general terms, but it did not attach a source module to each identifier name, so online help relied on textual search.
The Scribble-based documentation system is accessible to all PLT Scheme users, who write their own documentation using Scribble and often supply patches to the main document sources. Scribble produces output that is more consistent and easier to navigate than the old documentation, and the resulting documentation works better with online help. More importantly, the smooth path from API documentation to stand-alone documents has allowed us to produce much more tutorial and overview documentation, so that users can find their way through the volumes of available information.