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- Mark Bittman's op-ed in the New York Times last week discusses a potential change in the McDonald's pork supply chain. The company is requiring that by May, all of its pork suppliers present plans for phasing out gestation crates for female pigs. These crates are very small and prohibit the movement of the animals. While there is no guarantee that suppliers will actually change their confinement conditions, Bittman believes this could push the whole pork industry to reconsider gestation crates.
- Mars, one of the largest chocolate companies in the world, has announced that all of its candy bars will contain 250 calories or fewer by the end of 2013. The company says it seeks to help its customers enjoy "responsible snacking" and portion control. King-size bars will be replaced with packages of two to four smaller bars, to encourage consumers to save some of the candy for later. Mars will also decrease the size of some of its staple snacks; the Snickers bar, for instance, will shrink by 11%.
- The FDA is reviewing an application from AquaBounty Technologies to allow genetically-engineered salmon to be sold, unlabeled, in American supermarkets. The AquAdvantage salmon grow "to market size" twice as fast as normal salmon. Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, and Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, have created a petition to push the FDA to mandate labeling of genetically-engineered salmon. So far the petition has nearly 230,000 signatures.
- NPR's food blog The Salt reports that the U.S. and the European Union have signed an agreement to treat each other's organic standards as equivalent. That means that any food labeled "organic" in the U.S. can be sold as organic in Europe, and vice versa. Organic farmers on both shores are happy for the opportunity to expand their markets overseas. The only exception is for meat that has been treated with antibiotics—in the E.U., this meat is organic, but it will not be labeled as such in the U.S.
- On Thursday, the Street Vendors Project sponsored a rally at City Hall to protest "excessive fines" and "ticket blitzes" by the New York Police Department. Street vendors are often charged with $1,000 fines for parking too far from the curb and for other infractions. The rally promoted legislation to ease fines and reduce the number of tickets doled out to vendors. The SVP works to organize street vendors and help them advocate for for their rights and businesses.
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Everyone is offering his Christopher Hitchens memories today. I had only one face-to-face encounter, after he gave a lecture at the Greek embassy about the Elgin Marbles (he argued passionately for their return to Greece). Some of us retired to a restaurant afterward, and the proprietors must have known him well because an enormous tumbler of Scotch, filled to the brim, arrived as if by magic, before the menus, water and the bread basket. It disappeared almost as quickly and was replaced at least once more and probably twice (I don't remember very well). He spoke of the novels of Mary Renault, which I said I loved, and he said deserved a better reputation and wider audience. At one point he was trying to remember the name of a critical battle between Ancient Greece and Persia and I tentatively offered an answer, Salamis, which unfortunately I pronounced a bit too much like the Italian meat product. He raised his hand, and said impatiently, "No, no, no." He thought for a moment, and then said, "sal-uh-MEES." He was right, of course.
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The Merchant Navy played a crucial part in the nation's survival during the Second World War, crossing dangerous seas to bring food and raw materials into Britain. Cruel Sea is an exhibition bringing together the extraordinary, moving recollections of the brave men and women who undertook this perilous work.
Where did they get all their food from during the war? Where did they get their ammunition and their planes and the tanks? Who brought them? People tend to forget, in the first place Merchant Seamen were volunteers.
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During the Second World War, 3194 merchant ships were sunk with the loss of 30,000 merchant seafarers from across the Commonwealth and Empire. In the past, veterans have understated their achievements and individual acts of heroism.
This exhibition concentrated entirely on the personal memories of veterans and their experiences of the war at sea. It aimed to bring recognition to the Merchant Navy during the Year of the Sea in 2005, for the important contribution it made to the war effort.
"Many gallant actions and incredible feats of endurance are recorded, but the deeds of those who perished will never be known. Our merchant seamen displayed their highest qualities, and the brotherhood of the sea was never more strikingly shown than in their determination to defeat the U-boat."
Wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill
Leonard Dibb-Western and Ray Pearce - old shipmates at the Merchant Navy Memorial in Bristol, July 2003 © Age Exchange
In the first project of its kind, the charity Age Exchange carried out more than 50 interviews with veterans. They collected 1800 pages of transcribed interviews and nearly 100 hours of filmed interviews.
The exhibition featured personal photographs, sound and film from the veterans' interviews and a series of large-scale Time-Slice photographic portraits by award winning photographic artist Tim Macmillan.
Many of the recollections in the exhibition had never been shared or documented before. The material from the project will form a permanent archive that will be given to major museums to hold for public use and for the education of future generations.
Cruel Sea was a touring exhibition, facilitated by Age Exchange, a reminiscence arts charity committed to raising the profile of older people in society. The project was funded by Arts Council England.
For more information about Cruel Sea, veterans' stories and the tour programme for the exhibition, visit the Age Exchange website
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- Place: 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Tom Killian, Rice University
- Abstract: The divalent electronic structure of alkaline-earth metal atoms such as strontium gives rise to metastable, excited triplet levels and narrow intercombination transitions. These have been exploited for optical clocks, powerful laser cooling techniques that are critical for achieving quantum degeneracy in strontium, and proposals for quantum information architectures and studies of novel magnetism. Metastable excited electronic states also give rise to narrow photoassociation (PA) transitions that differ in many ways from traditional PA with broad, electric-dipole-allowed transitions. In this talk, we will describe narrow-line PA near the ^1S_0-^3P_1 intercombination transition in an ^88Sr Bose-Einstein condensate. This results in coherent PA and Rabi oscillations between atomic and molecular condensates. Transient shifts and broadenings of the excitation spectrum are clearly seen at short times, and they create an asymmetric excitation profile that only displays Rabi oscillations for blue detuning from resonance. Coherent PA is analogous to molecule formation with a magnetic Feshbach resonance.
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Rates strategists at Barclays today became the latest in a long line of bond-market pundits to raise their Treasury yield forecasts to catch up with the reality that rising Treasury yields have already surpassed all their earlier forecasts. Barclays upped its 10-year Treasury yield forecast to 3.1% by the end of this year and 3.75% by the third quarter of 2014, from its earlier forecast of 2.9% by mid-2014. (The 10-year Treasury yield topped 2.9% earlier this week and stood at 2.82% Friday afternoon.) Quoth Barclays:
In essence, we are maintaining the view that rates will continue move higher, but now believe that the drift will be faster than the market expects as we get closer to normalization of monetary policy. As we have been arguing over the past few months, we believe that the Fed's reaction function has changed and monetary policy is now more closely linked to the labor market, especially the unemployment rate outlook, rather than overall GDP growth. So far, the Fed has done little to reverse that perception. In our view, this is significant because the unemployment rate has continued to decline faster than expectations, even in the absence of a significant pick-up in activity....
We think the risks to rates are symmetric around these forecasts. In Q4, we expect 10s to trade in a 2.75-3.25% range, depending on the evolution of data, Washington negotiations around the debt ceiling, and importantly, the choice of Fed chairperson. Overall, as has been the case since early June, we would use any large rallies as an opportunity to shed duration.


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Financial services firms are experiencing an astounding number of cybersecurity breaches, according to Accenture's High Performance Security Report 2016. A typical organization faces an average of 85 attacks every year, and an estimated one third will succeed.
It's not that firms have been remiss in their efforts. It's more about the nature of the perpetrators and their tactics. Cybercrime is a dynamic and challenging undertaking. And these bad guys have been targeting the financial turf, or rather cyber-turf.
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Many people have doubt about how effective it is to lose weight with the help of diet plan. Dieting is one of the best tricks to lose weight ever. However, it requires one to be very mindful to think over and decide whose advice one should take or not. You must be hearing your colleague advising you to cut your carbs, gym trainer asking you to not eat post 7 pm and at the same time one of your friend commits that she will be getting a zero figure by next month. Your husband may ask you to fit into your wedding dress and you may think that could be possible by eating once a day.
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On May 2, Harvard's president-elect, Drew Gilpin Faust, gathered four current and former women presidents of Ivy League schools to participate in a coffee-table panel on the position of women in academia. Gilpin Faust's historic appointment means that half of the Ivy League�s eight universities will be led by women beginning in July. However, the panel cautioned that despite this landmark, women continue to face obstacles to equity in higher education. Their statements squared with findings reported in the Spring 2007 issue of Ms. magazine: that women represent a considerable minority of tenured faculty at major universities, that they advance more slowly and earn lower salaries than men, and that those with young children are 29 percent less likely to earn tenure. funny pictures funny images funny photos funny animal pictures funny dog pictures funny cat pictures funny gifs
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutman was present for the discussion, as were Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman, and former Penn president Judith Rodin, who is now president of the Rockefeller Institute. The women all agreed that their success required a great deal of ambition, determination and a certain blindness to the obstacles women face, especially in academia. Ruth Simmons described having to overcome discrimination as a graduate student at Harvard before rising through the ranks of the Ivy League. Said Tilghman, "There may be signals out there that tell me I can't do this, but I'm not going to recognize them." Rodin added, "I... am proud to be fiercely ambitious."
The panel members had convened at Harvard two years ago in response to comments made by Harvard�s former president, Lawrence Summers, who came under criticism for saying at an academic conference that women have less innate ability to perform in science and mathematics than men.
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I had been flirting with the idea of climbing Mount Rainier in July and tried goading a dozen friends into joining me for a trek to the top of the 14,410-foot peak southeast of Seattle. It's a relatively technical trek, involving ice climbing, ropes, axes and a fair bit of nerve that seemed like a worthy adventure.
But none of my friends bit, so the trip became a 30-mile backpack through Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which will happen later this summer.
Then, at the end of May, came harrowing news: Six climbers attempting an ambitious and less-common route up Mount Rainier — four visitors and two guides — fell more than 3,000 feet to their deaths in what is believed to have been either an avalanche or a fall.
My first thought, of course, was profound sadness for the climbers and their families; the terror those six people faced is gut-wrenching. My second thought was, "I'm glad I'm going to the Smokies this summer." It was my third thought that surprised me: I still want to climb Rainier.
Granted, I would take one of the "less risky" routes. But even so, a handful of people die on Rainier each year, be it by fall, hypothermia or another cause. And, as the recent tragedy reminds us, sometimes it can be more than a handful of people. So why would someone feel compelled to climb it?
Mike Gauthier, author of "Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide," wondered the same thing after two of his climbing partners, one of them his roommate, died on a Rainier rescue mission in 1995.
"It was heartbreaking," Gauthier said. "I swore it off. I thought, 'This is a silly, silly waste of time and not worth this.' But it didn't take long to circle back and realize it was part of my identity."
Gauthier, who was the National Park Service's lead climbing ranger at Rainier for 19 years, kept climbing. By his estimate, he has summited Rainier nearly 200 times.
The reason I called Gauthier, now chief of staff at Yosemite National Park, is because I couldn't quite identify the desire for uncomfortable and potentially dangerous adventures. Neither could he, exactly. But he understood what I was saying.
"That motivation for many people is deeply personal," Gauthier said. "It's unique to them, and it can be challenging to articulate with those who don't share that pursuit."
The bottom line, I think, comes down to what we want out of travel, which arguably, is a microcosm of what we want out of life. I enjoy five-star luxury as much as anyone, but I also long for novelty, adventure and challenge.
I don't always get those things at home, which makes travel the ideal time to find them. Climbing a mountain isn't always completely safe, and nothing is guaranteed, but that is part of the journey and the adventure. I don't say that lightly; the desire to live to a fine old age makes safety paramount — and the reason that, with a reputable guide, turning back before the summit is far, far more likely than dying. But not knowing what's ahead, and what exactly the adventure holds, can be the draw.
"When you're in these environments, the quality and richness of life is tangible," Gauthier said. "It doesn't mean throwing yourself into a raging river. But it's being engaged in the world and present in these landscapes. And it keeps calling you back."


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He was an entertaining candidate, to say the least, and the race will be less unnerving without him. But fear not, puny mortals, for you haven't yet seen the last of Howard Dean! And, if you're in the mood for a bit of reminiscing for the days when the process of finding a Democrat nominee looked to tear off America's head and shit down it's neck, here is a remix of the Howard Dean campaign. So ride off into the sunset, Howard Dean, with your head held high. You made America proud. And pretty weirded out.
But we must soldier on! This is, after all, an election year, and while John Kerry looks to ride away with the Democratic nomination, with a Kennedy driving him over the final bridge to the convention, and George Bush is already busy siphoning social security into his massive ad campaign to get Americans to let him spend more money on his ad campaign to get Americans to let him spend more money, there is plenty more political punditry to be propagated. This is just the beginning! The pregnancy for the general election is only in its first trimester, and we can't abort now, America!
Why, we have yet to get the full story on a young George Walker Bush, drunk out of his ever-lovin' mind, sneaking onto Maxwell Air Force Base, stealing a T-38 Talon, and flying it to Canada, snorting coke through shredded bits of the Bill of Rights all the way. Or his impending political strategy, "Contract With the Devil For America".
Nor have we heard the last about John Kerry's youthful exploits, such as the story, not yet picked up by the wires but all over internet rumor sites, of Kerry at a rally with Hanoi Jane Fonda, his intern at the time, in which, with a hail of pyrotechnics behind them, he tears off her brassiere as a protest to the Vietnam War, or feminism, or some damn thing.
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Methamphetamine (METH) use has increased in the US and worldwide in the past years. Although associated with profound medical, psychiatric, legal, and social problems, no effective medicines for METH abuse have been identified or approved for human use. It is vitally important to identify compounds that alter METH effects without increasing the risk of METH toxicity. While the brain chemical transmitter dopamine plays a major role in the pleasurable reinforcing and psychomotor stimulant effects of amphetamines, the transmitters norepinephrine and serotonin also contribute substantially to these effects. Recent evidence suggests that the functional links that exist between norepinephrine and serotonin systems may be profoundly important in METH effects and dependence. However, these neurotransmitter systems have not been tested as extensively as targets of pharmacologic interventions. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine whether the alpha-1-b antagonist prazosin blocks the self-reported effects, cognitive performance and cardiovascular effects of METH in a dose-related manner. Subsequent protocols will test the effect of the serotonin antagonist, cyproheptadine, and the combined norepinephrine/serotonin antagonist, quetiapine. Healthy, non-treatment-seeking METH users will be recruited. They will undergo extensive prestudy medical and psychiatric screening. Twelve volunteers (ages 18-50 years; 50% female; 10% Minority) who sign the informed consent will be recruited to complete the study on prazosin.
METH-abusing volunteers will undergo 6 sessions spaced 2-3 days apart. A single oral dose of prazosin (placebo, 1 mg, or 2 mg po) will be given in a randomized, double-blind design before METH or METH placebo administration in each session. METH will be given po in a dose (20 mg) that is well-tolerated by humans but that results in easily measurable effects by itself (Cruickshank and Dyer, 2009; Sevak et al, 2009; Parrot et al, 2011). Prior to and at several time points after prazosin/placebo,METH/placebo, or prazosin/METH administrations, self-report, cognitive performance and physiologic measures will be obtained.
The studies we propose are significant as they have the potential to identify treatment medications and elucidate new mechanisms of action and desirable characteristics for future medications development. Understanding the effects of treatment drugs in the context of concomitant METH use is an essential component of identifying potential pharmacotherapies for METH dependence that 1) alters the self-reported/performance effects 2) alters the cardiovascular effects and 3) alters the concentration-effect (pharmacodynamic) relationships of METH in human METH users. Using this broad pharmacologic approach to these human laboratory studies will provide insight into the appropriate combination of positive treatment effects with minimal side effects for the ultimate development of a successful treatment for METH abuse. The results should be generalizable to METH abusers and to the development of new treatments for METH abuse that will benefit all members of society. Understanding pharmacologic interactions will lessen complications of drug abuse and provide more rapid introduction of effective new treatments into medical practice.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|24 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Health Services Research
|Official Title:
|Monoamine Antagonist Therapies for Methamphetamine Abuse Prazosin
|Study Start Date :
|December 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2013
Prazosin effects on methamphetamine
Randomized placebo controlled trial of prazosin effects on methamphetamine
Drug: Prazosin
Prazosin or oral placebo given before methamphetamine or iv placebo to determine effects of prazosin on methamphetamine.
Other Name: Minipress
- Self-report Effects of High. [ Time Frame: 0 hr time point after prazosin and 1 hr time point after methamphetamine ]
Visual analog scales measuring effects prazosin on methamphetamine; change in methamphetamine high. Visual analog scales allow the subject to give a rating of methamphetamine effects. For instance, how high the dose makes you . The study tested how much prazosin changed the effects of methamphetamine as measured by these visual analog scales.
Visual analog scale is a 100 mm scale, ranging from 0 (no effect) to 100 (maximum effect).
In each session, each subject received prazosin (1 or 2 mg) or prazosin placebo. The visual analog scale was measured. Then, one hour later, methamphetamine placebo or methamphetamine (20mg) was given and the visual analog scale was measured again.
- Heart Effects of Prazosin on Methamphetamine [ Time Frame: 0 hr time point after prazosin and 1 hr time point after methamphetamine ]
Heart effects of prazosin on methamphetamine;
In each session, each subject received prazosin (1 or 2 mg) or prazosin placebo. The heart rate was measured. Then, one hour later, methamphetamine placebo or methamphetamine (20mg) was given and the heart rate was measured again.
- Blood Pressure Effects of Prazosin on Methamphetamine [ Time Frame: 0 hr time point after prazosin and 1 hr time point after methamphetamine ]
Blood pressure effects of prazosin on methamphetamine;
In each session, each subject received prazosin (1 or 2 mg) or prazosin placebo. The blood pressure was measured. Then, one hour later, methamphetamine placebo or methamphetamine (20mg) was given and the blood pressure was measured again.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 50 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must be between the ages of 18-50 years (inclusive).
- Must be a current methamphetamine user, with self-reported amount of IV use being greater than the total administered in the study.
- Must have recent use confirmed by a urine toxicology screen positive for amphetamines.
- Must not be seeking treatment for methamphetamine abuse/dependence.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Ill health (major cardiovascular, renal, endocrine, hepatic disorder, to be determined by history provided by the prospective subject or laboratory evaluation as outlined below).
- Current diagnosis of other drug or alcohol physical dependence (other than nicotine or caffeine).
- History of major organic psychiatric disorder (psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar, mania) or significant psychiatric symptoms at the time of evaluation for study participation, including suicidal ideation.
- Pregnancy, plans to become pregnant, or fertile women without adequate means of contraception.
- Present or recent use of over-the-counter or prescription psychoactive drug or drug that would have major interaction with drugs to be tested.
- Liver function tests greater than three times normal, blood urea nitrogen and creatinine outside of normal range, or thyroid function tests outside of normal range.
- EKG abnormalities including but not limited to: bradycardia (<60 bpm); prolonged corrected QT interval interval (>450 msec); Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome; wide complex tachycardia; 2nd degree, Mobitz type II heart block; 3rd degree heart block; left or right bundle branch block.
- Medical contraindication to or prior serious adverse effects from METH or stimulants (i.e., seizures, cardiac arrest) or medical contraindication to test agents (see risks section). Significant physical or psychiatric illness which might impair the ability to safely complete the study or that might be complicated by the study drugs, including prior seizures (after age 8) or other active neurological disease or clinically significant abnormalities on physical examination or screening laboratory values.
- Current enrollment in a methamphetamine, alcohol, or other drug treatment program or current legal problems relating to METH, alcohol, or other drug use, including awaiting trial or supervision by a parole or probation officer.
- Left ventricular ejection fraction < 40% as determined in the screening echocardiogram.
- Body Mass Index >35 or <18.
- Currently trying to quit METH use.
- History of serious adverse event or hypersensitivity to methamphetamine or other study drugs
- Currently taking any medication (including highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV) other than over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, topical medications, inhaled asthma therapy, and over-the-counter nonsedating antihistamines.
- Any other condition the PI or staff feels will put the subject at risk for entering the study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01178138
|United States, Arkansas
|University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
|Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72205
|Principal Investigator:
|William B Gentry, MD
|University of Arkansas
|Responsible Party:
|University of Arkansas
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01178138 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1R01DA026916-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|August 9, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|September 8, 2014
|Last Update Posted:
|December 30, 2016
|Last Verified:
|November 2016
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Collective Shout wrote this response to a man who described us as 'feminazis' who lacked a sense of humour, and chose to 'take offense', on our Facebook page. He has since deleted his comments – because he's now ashamed of them, we can only hope.
Feminazi: 'A deeply offensive misogynstic slur'
Do the men who use these terms again us think about the meaning? Is the mass slaughter of Jews (and others) to be reduced to a swear-word against feminist activists? (in a similar way 'lynch mob' is bandied around by certain men who get called out by women, as powerfully highlighted here by Dr Helen Pringle). My Collective Shout colleague Caitlin Roper– who has received more than her fair share of slurs – emailed this to me this afternoon on the use of the term 'Feminazi'.
The fact is it is men as a class who oppress women as a class and we can see manifestations of this everywhere we look, ranging from sexual harassment and sexist jokes to rape and femicide. To suggest that women are the oppressors and the oppressors our victims is just horrible. And while we are drawing comparisons, it's not men who are being exterminated by women. I always feel the need to point out that it is a deeply offensive misogynistic slur, and men who use this language to silence women who speak against the oppression and abuse they endure are absolutely part of the problem.
American activist Ed Drain also expressed his contempt for the term, on my (personal) Facebook page.
Ed Drain The ONLY connections to Nazis are the wanton destruction of a huge group of people — with Hitler's Germany, it was Jews and homosexuals, today, it is women of all kinds and colors. The comparison is apt only for the ones supporting rape culture.
Stand-up Comedian Jim Jefferies misogynist jokes fall flat
In his opening sequence he claimed that when a man put his fingers inside the vagina of an unconscious woman it was not really rape. He said women should be flattered to have their drinks spiked and be sexually violated. He criticised the women who challenge his misogyny, callingthem "uptight (insert expletive word for female genitalia here) who can't take a joke".
Jefferies then joked about fat women, lying women, ugly women, beautiful but boring women, dumb women, and made plenty of references to the different types of women he had had sex with. He also admitted that he'd like to have sex with a 16-year-old.
During his misogynistic sermon, he asked the audience if anyone knew the opposite of misogyny, and took delight that only one person responded. This lone voice supported his argument that misandry is generally unknown because men have no qualms with being sexually objectified by women. According to Jefferies, men are totally open to the idea of being drugged and sexually violated, and if only women could mirror this relaxed attitude and regard the prospect of being raped as a form of flattery.
Violence against women exists on a spectrum: at one end there are misogynist attitudes, which Jefferies champions. His jokes against women were delivered with passion and conviction, and sections of the crowd consumed them like hungry wolves. These jokes made me feel uncomfortable and angry because they are being told against the backdrop of a society that systematically denigrates women.
Misogynistic attitudes are the building blocks for more extreme forms of violence against women that are endemic in Australia, including: forced sex, emotional, psychological and financial abuse, revenge porn, physical violence, stalking, rape, and murder. Read full article
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Caller: No, I'm outdoors.
•911: In your yard?
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•911: Oh, yes, that's right. Sorry. So this is Governor Christie?
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Corbett: Never mind. I can guess what he said. Something about forming a committee?
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Corbett: Okay, okay, I get the drift. One little mistake and the media chew you up. Let's see, why don't you try somebody in Congress. They all love me in Washington.
•911: Governor, I've got someone on the line who says Congress is closed, as usual, and nobody is around but a former Congressman who will be glad to help.
Corbett: Great! Who is it?
•911: It's a former Congressman Weiner. He said he's working out in the Congressional gym but will be glad to…
Corbett: No, no, no, no, no. Hang up now. Now! You didn't send him a picture of me, did you?
•911: No picture. Okay, I've hung up. Now who? How about your wife?
Corbett: To rescue me from a fracking hole I've gotten myself into? Not a chance. The other day I made a harmless joke about our Mexican housekeeper, and my wife gave me a squinty look and said, "Go ahead. Make my day, Arnold." You can forget calling her.
•911: I'm afraid I'm out of suggestions, Governor.
Corbett: You know, there seem to be some noxious fumes arising from the pure and potable fracking juices below me. They're enveloping me. They're being absorbed into my brain. My God, I can feel IQ point after IQ point atrophying even as this poisonous miasma eats away at my brain.
•911: Sir, I think that suggests a solution. If we wait just a few months, you'll be approximately at the moron level, which will qualify you for Philadelphia City Council and the fat DROP cash cow. Can you still hear me?
Corbett: Moron. Philadelphia politics. Cash cow. Moo.
•911: And by then, Senator Fumo will be out of prison. He's already looking for a project like salvaging some hopeless loser who will serve as his mindless mouthpiece in Council and also allow him to start up two or three non-profits that he can rifle. Governor, are you with me?
Corbett: Moo.
Ed.note: Robert Fles is a retired English teacher and administrator at Chestnut Hill Academy who is proud that his fracking tax dollars enable so many local politicians and their relatives to live like royalty.


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Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., questioned Napolitano about the reports from Forbes magazine and other stories linked on the Drudge Report.
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Fiscal 'cliff'? Dems say 'slope'
If some Democrats had their way, the country wouldn't be facing the "fiscal cliff" — but a "fiscal slope," "fiscal curve" or even an "austerity crisis."
Debating Republicans about how to solve the fiscal cliff is a fight on the wrong turf, they argue, since it doesn't explain the origins of the problem or what will actually happen — George W. Bush-era tax breaks expire and across-the-board spending cuts go into effect.
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It's an old adage in Washington: Words matter in a fight, so pick the best ones you can.
In this case, the fiscal cliff has become embedded in the lexicon after almost a year of presidential campaigning and an obsessive media that's counting down the days — 36! as of Monday — until the country makes the proverbial plunge.
"The impression has already been created," said Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.). "And if it's unfavorable, we've got it now, and I think we're saddled with it."
Here's the thinking from the left for why what's coming up at the beginning of next year isn't really a cliff: President Barack Obama's fiscal problems were created by his predecessor, from the tattered economy to expensive tax cuts and more than $1 trillion spent on two wars. If there's no deal in the next six weeks, Obama still has authority to stall in implementing the big tax and spending changes. And despite some big dips already on Wall Street, some Democrats say the markets can easily recover if the stare down between the White House and House Republicans gets resolved early next year.
"This is not like the debt ceiling debate where in fact, if you don't pay your bills on a certain date, there are very dramatic repercussions," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told POLITICO. "The truth of the matter is we could go into the next year, and if we can reach an agreement in the new Congress, in the first weeks or months or two, I don't think a whole lot of people will know the difference. So it's not like something cataclysmic happens on Dec. 31."
Reporters covering the fiscal cliff debate often hear from sources on the left pleading for them to stop calling it a "cliff." Use something gentler that really reflects the situation, they say, like "slope" or "curve." In The Washington Post earlier this month, liberal columnist Ezra Klein lamented the term and floated "austerity crisis" as an alternate because it's a more "precise description of what we're facing: A crisis of too much austerity too quickly."
"This is a media creation. It totally misrepresents what happens if no deal is reached," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He noted that the Congressional Budget Office projected earlier this month that the economy would slip back into recession without an agreement at any point in 2013, not just by the start of the new year. "This is incredibly irresponsible."
Lawmakers say they are also being reminded to watch what they say.
"Everybody's told me I should not be using that term," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). "It's been people on my staff and others who just feel like it's confusing. It's not an ideological thing. It's more how can we help people understand the challenge we're facing."


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and plan to step down as Britain's Prime Minister in the coming months. So sorry, Gordon Brown. The world only loves you as your alter ego: Sting. What? Gordon Brown isn't Sting's real name? It's Gordon Something Else? Well, that explains why this fellow is stepping down then. LET'S GO!
AMERICAN IDOL – 9:00PM (FOX) Tonight, Bon Jovi comes in to perform as some loser contestant is given the boot. I have a great fear of Bon Jovi. I fear they have spent the past decade sticking around the music biz in hopes of landing a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I sense it. I feel like they're lobbying for that induction every time they make a public appearance now. "We're Bon Jovi! We're pleasant! Make us official legends!" Well, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is dopey, but it would be even dopier if Bon Jovi made it while freakin' Husker Du looks on from the sidelines. Don't you dare induct them, Jann Wenner. I don't want "Born To Be My Baby" stuck in my head again. ANTICIPATION: TRIUMPH SAYS PEOPLE HAVE COME FROM AS FAR AS EXIT 12 TO SEE THEM!
MODERN FAMILY – 9:00PM (ABC) I owe Watch List readers throughout the universe an apology for assuming last week's episode of "Modern Family" was the Hawaii episode. It wasn't. It was the episode that took place in the airport PRIOR to the Hawaii episode. I assume tonight's episode covers the plane ride, then the next one deals with the baggage claim. We should get to actual Hawaii sometime in Season 4. By the way, everyone on this show is filthy rich. I'm not saying I don't love the show. But man, those are nice houses. Not really fair. ANTICIPATION: VERGARA IN A BIKINI! I CAN FEEL IT!
SECRETS OF THE DEAD – 8:00PM (PBS) Oh, the dead have terrrrible secrets. THEY PICK THEIR TOES! No actually, this PBS series (given its title, it belongs on NatGeo) tonight focuses on Winston Churchill (also not Sting's real name), who decided to have the French naval fleet destroyed rather than risk having the Germans seize it and turn it against them. I like that France had absolutely NO say in the fate of France's naval fleet. ANTICIPATION: CHEESE EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS!
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. – High Fives Non-Profit Foundation and CHARITYSMITH held the 9th Annual Squaw Valley Prom on Saturday, Feb. 23 at Squaw Valley's Olympic House. Nine hundred supporters purchased tickets and had the time of their lives with seven bars, six world-class DJs and sponsor promotions.
The Olympic House venue was packed with people who knew they were raising money and awareness for the High Fives Foundation and its mission of supporting athletes who suffer a life-altering injury while pursuing a winter action sports dream. Squaw Valley Prom raised $35,000 through ticket sales, with $13,000 donated to CHARITYSMITH: National Society of Memorial Funds. Originally a CHARITYSMITH event, the High Fives Foundation has run the Squaw Valley Prom the past four years.
"I've been to almost single Squaw Valley Prom and this year's event was by far the most fun. The music was amazing, the crowd was remarkably in touch with the 1990s theme and everyone was grinning ear-to-ear. I can't wait for next year!" said Kip Phelps, nine-time Squaw Valley Prom attendee.
This year's event was captured with the new GoPro HERO3 Black Edition camera. Check out the re-cap video on the High Fives Foundation's Vimeo Channel at vimeo.com/60537729.
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About the High Fives Non-Profit Foundation
High Fives Foundation is a Tahoe-based 501.c.3 non-profit organization dedicated to raising money and awareness for athletes who have suffered a life-altering injury while pursuing their dream in the winter action sports community. Formed as a way to "pay it forward" by the founder from his own recovery to help injured athletes, the Foundation has helped 40 athletes to date since its inception in 2009. Visit http://www.highfivesfoundation.org.


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I never thought Scott Walker's people would be dumb enough to put me through. It was February 2011—the height of the Wisconsin governor's battle with the public unions, with thousands of protesters filling the streets of downtown Madison—when I called his office posing as Tea Party sugar daddy David Koch.
I told Keith Gilkes, who was then Walker's chief of staff, that the governor couldn't return my call because "my goddamn maid, Maria, put my phone in the washer. I'd have her deported, but she works for next to nothing." (In reality, I was calling with a free Skype number and couldn't receive calls from a land line at the time.)
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In my business, that's called tipping your hand. All ethical liars do it. It's the ridiculous, implausible hints that separate the ethical prankster from the confidence man, the satirist from the unrepentant political hack. But they didn't get the joke, and soon Walker and I were comparing notes on how he could break the backs of those pro-union demonstrators.
On Tuesday, Walker unleashes an epic gag of his own, the book Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge. Aimed at duping future historians and contemporary wonks, the 255 pages of political PR—co-authored by former Dubya speechwriter Marc Thiessen—read at times more like Stalin than Sacha Baron Cohen, given their sheer propaganda quotient. But some passages are pretty funny, like the chapter where he says my prank call—which I recorded and posted on YouTube, much to the governor's dismay and embarrassment at the time—was all part of God's plan to teach him humility.
If anything, the lesson of Unintimidated seems to be that God is terrible at teaching humility.
I had no idea whether Koch and Walker had spoken before, but it was plausible that Koch would call the governor. Americans for Prosperity—the conservative advocacy group Koch founded with his brother Charles—had thrown millions of hard-to-track dollars into pro-Walker advertising and was presently " standing with Walker" via an expensive PR blitz.
I expected Gilkes to question why Koch would personally call the number on their website, suffering through busy signals and endless ringing like a common plebe, and then cavalierly trashing his undocumented maid. "I'm calling from the VOID—with the VOID, or whatever it's called," I said, thinking I'd strained credulity too far. "You know, the Snype!" But Gilkes just laughed and told me to call back at 2.
At the appointed hour, Walker and I enjoyed a friendly chat during which I suggested that he physically intimidate his Democratic opposition with a baseball bat, whip up a good counter-protest by dressing hobos in suits and most disturbing: that he ought to plant troublemakers to discredit the pro-union demonstrators.
"[W]e thought about that," Walker replied, and eventually added, "My only fear would be if there's a ruckus caused is that would scare the public into thinking maybe the governor has to settle to avoid all these problems." So it wasn't morality, but a cynical calculation, that saved the public from that particular ruse.
My most successful gag before the call to Walker had been covering the grand opening of Ken Ham's Creation "Museum" as a reporter afflicted with "Asperger's Syndrome By Proxy." An associate and I set up a fake news website called the Special Times, wherein my alter ego professed his abiding love for cookies, the Transformers, investigative reporting and Our Lord Jesus Christ—daring Ham's PR hacks to catch on. But the people who believe the universe was pulled from God's magical arse 6,000 years ago never got wise. Go figure. And I ended up in their midst, clad in sweatpants, Velcro sneakers and fanny pack, crudely mocking everything they consider sacred.
I learned the pranksters' code—giving the mark a sporting chance—from Matt Taibbi. Before becoming Rolling Stone's resident scourge of Wall Street, Taibbi founded a biweekly rag in Buffalo, my hometown, called the BEAST. He abandoned the project before I came aboard as a delivery boy. It took me nearly a decade to claw my way to editor-in-chief. Only recently did I step down to spend less time with my family. But the BEAST ethic will always guide me. Its inaugural issue back in 2002 featured a prank involving Buffalo's then-Mayor Anthony Masiello accepting a poetic, gangster-fraternizing cameo in an episode of The Sopranos. The tell came in the form of a purported HBO producer's promise to send Masiello a porcelain unicorn signed by James Spader. A highly amusing plan.
The Koch call, though, was totally on the fly. No plan. No chance of success, I thought. I'd been awake for more than 24 hours, delirious, chasing my coffee with scotch and fairly stoned. My only preparation was to scrawl "Coke" on a scrap of paper. On the infinitesimal chance I got through as David Koch, I figured the guy should correctly pronounce his own name.
In Unintimidated, Walker says he took the call "after a week or more of insistent pleas" from his staff. False. I called three times in less than three hours.
Walker also writes, "we never—never—considered putting 'troublemakers' in the crowd to discredit the protesters." He now says in his book that he fibbed to appease the co-owner of Koch Industries, parent company to Georgia Pacific Corp., which employs more than 2,000 people in its Green Bay mills. Decent yet disturbing spin. But when the news broke, Walker simply told the local media, "As you've heard on the tape, we dismissed that and said that wasn't a good idea." It was the same weak talking point he trotted out on Meet the Press. And David Gregory—renowned vanilla sasquatch of the mythological "objective media"—had zero follow-ups, allowing Walker to pivot unchallenged to the "real issue" of the 14 Democratic state senators who'd fled Wisconsin to avoid a GOP quorum.
In fact, it was one of those senators, Tim Carpenter, who'd provided the inspiration for the prank. "He's just hard-lined—will not talk," he told Amanda Terkel at the Huffington Post, "will not communicate, will not return phone calls." Who would Walker talk to, I wondered? My first idea was to pose as Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who was in the midst of a mass sit-in of his own. I imagined it as a sort of dictator heart-to-heart. But after three hours of practicing the accent, I still sounded like Borat, not Mubarak, so I gave up and posed as Koch instead.
At a press conference after the story broke, Walker said, "The bottom line is the things I've said are the things I've said publicly all along." Much to my astonishment, variations of that blatant lie appeared in headlines without reporters calling bullshit.


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Actor Brad Sherrill will present his new multimedia theatrical experience of Prophets (based on Isaiah, Jeremiah and other prophetic texts) at Emmanuel College on Monday, February 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the Swails Center.
This powerful, free event is open to the public and is sponsored by EC's Cultural Awareness Program (CAP). It features images and sound design where prophets are called in like witnesses in a courtroom as images illustrating judgment, loss, promise and hope pass by on a large video screen.
"These texts for me are not dusty, flattened, closed off in some book," Sherrill says. "Just like the greatest stuff in Shakespeare, there is something there that has kept them alive and relevant."
Prophets had its theatrical debut at the Conant Performing Arts Center in Atlanta during March 2010 and is now on a U.S. tour.
Sherrill, a 22-year member of the Georgia Shakespeare Theater Company, now devotes eight months of the year to his faith-based theater work. His previous visit to EC was in 2006 when he presented The Gospel of John, a show he performed 600 times across the world.


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Consider a class of real symmetric random matrices,$M_{n\times n}=(X_{i,j})_{n\times n},$ whose off-diagonal elements follow an exchangeable distribution, and the diagonal elements follow another exchangeable distribution and the diagonal part and off-diagonal part are independent. My question is what's the eigenvalue density of this type of random matrices? Is the eigenvalue density Universal?
I know that Chatterjee has a paper: http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.aop/1171377437
But my matrices are different from his consideration. I do have a specific example. If we choose the off-diagonal part follow Dirichlet distribution and the diagonal part follow another Dirichlet distribution, then the eigenvalue density is some Gamma distribution. To my opinion, this is actually trivial, for after we rescale the matrix, it's asymptotic matrix is an infinite dimensional identity matrix. What about other cases?


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