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The Latest: Rams-Patriots will be the 8th Super Bowl rematch
ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on the Super Bowl (all times EST):
12:50 a.m.
The New England Patriots added even more luster to the franchise's rich championship history on Sunday.
Their victory over the Los Angeles Rams put a stamp on a season that started 1-2, but ended with New England becoming the first team since the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins to win the Super Bowl after losing it the previous season.
New England is now tied with Pittsburgh at six Super Bowl titles apiece. The Patriots also improved to 41-1 in the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady era after shutting out an opponent in the first half, including the postseason. Brady is also the oldest quarterback to win a Super Bowl at age 41. Belichick is the oldest coach to hoist the Lombardi Trophy at age 66.
With his sixth ring, Brady has broken a tie with Hall of Famer Charles Haley for the most all-time by a player.
The low-scoring manner the Patriots won on Sunday also produced records.
The 13 points scored by New England matched the lowest total the team has scored in any of Brady's 40 postseason starts. This was the first of Brady's nine Super Bowl appearances in which he did not throw a touchdown.
It was his fifth postseason game without a TD pass. The Patriots are now 5-0 in those games.
12:30 a.m.
Rob Gronkowski isn't interested in addressing his plan for the future right now. He just wants to enjoy his third Super Bowl ring.
After answering questions leading up to Sunday's Super Bowl about whether it would be his final NFL game, the 29-year-old tight end said after the Patriots' victory that he still plans to give it some time and thought.
"Tonight, it's about celebrating with my teammates," he said after the game. "And that decision will be made a week or two down the future. . That's what it's about, celebrating with my teammates. That's what I'm worried about tonight. We're going to have a good time. Bill (Belichick) me he's partying tonight. So you know it's going to be good."
There's been reports that Patriots star tight end could be playing his final NFL game. The four-time All-Pro has been plagued by injuries for much of his career, and only in his first two pro seasons did he play a full 16-game schedule. In 2018, he made it into 13 games.
Gronkowski has battled through back, knee, ankle and arm injuries throughout his nine pro seasons, and thought about retirement after last year's Super Bowl loss to the Eagles.
Gronkowski says he hasn't thought about that decision at all."
10:04 p.m.
For those who may have dozed off … the Patriots have won the Super Bowl.
New England topped the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 in a game that dragged the high-def NFL back to the days of black-and-white TV. It was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl in the 53-year history of the game.
Tom Brady captured his record sixth NFL title by throwing for 262 yards, without a touchdown. The Patriots matched the Steelers for most Super Bowl wins, with six.
Julian Edelman caught 10 passes for 141 yards; he was the day's only consistent offensive threat.
Brady engineered the game's lone touchdown drive —a five-play, 69-yard march punctuated by an over-the-shoulder, 29-yard throw into the hands of tight end Rob Gronkowski. On the next play, Sony Michel scored on a 2-yard plunge with 7 minutes to play for a 10-3 lead.
But the real stars of this game were the New England defenders, who smothered Rams quarterback Jared Goff, holding him to 229 yards that felt like less.
After New England's score, Goff moved the Rams down to the New England 28 with 4:30 left. But the third-year quarterback threw one up for grabs near the end zone and cornerback Stephon Gilmore stepped in front for the interception.
The Rams, who averaged 32.9 points a game this season, joined the Miami Dolphins —from Super Bowl 6 in 1972— as the only the second team not to muster a touchdown in the title game.
10 p.m.
The New England Patriots have padded their Super Bowl lead over the Los Angeles Rams with a 41-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski. The field goal gave the Patriots a 13-3 lead.
The Patriots worked the clock on a drive covering nine plays and 72 yards, including 26-yard runs by Sony Michel and Rex Burkhead.
9:35 p.m.
Tom Brady and the Patriots finally turned up the offense to end the Super Bowl's longest touchdown drought.
Sony Michel scored on a 2-yard run with 7 minutes remaining to give the Patriots a 10-3 lead over the Rams.
The first Super Bowl without a touchdown through three quarters was in dire need of a boost. Then Brady completed four consecutive passes to set up Michel's touchdown plunge. The drive opened with an 18-yard catch by Rob Gronkowski, who added a 29-yard diving catch at the 2.
Brady also completed passes to Julian Edelman and Rex Burkhead during the drive.
9:10 p.m.
The Rams finally have scored, but the longest touchdown drought in Super Bowl history continues.
Greg Zuerlein kicked a 53-yard field goal late in the third quarter to allow the Rams to pull even with the Patriots at 3-3.
The big play of the Rams' scoring drive was Jared Goff's 18-yard pass to Robert Woods on a third-and-7 play. The Rams had been stopped on their first eight third-down plays of the game.
The third quarter ended with the 3-3 tie, the first time no touchdowns had been scored through three quarters in Super Bowl history. The previous longest touchdown drought came in the 1989 Super Bowl between the Bengals and 49ers when the first touchdown was scored with 50 seconds remaining in the third quarter. San Francisco won the game 20-16.
8:40 p.m.
Patriots safety Patrick Chung has suffered a right arm injury that knocked him out of the Super Bowl early in the third quarter.
Chung suffered the injury when his right arm was caught between teammate Jonathan Jones' helmet and Rams running back Todd Gurley's helmet on a tackle.
While still on his back, Chung pounded the turf in frustration. His arm was placed in a black air cast. The Patriots announced Chung will not return to the game.
A cart came out, but Chung walked off the field for the Patriots locker room with the cart trailing behind.
8:30 p.m.
Maroon 5 closed out its glitzy halftime show with frontman Adam Levine going shirtless for "Moves Like Jagger," and a controversy-free performance was complete.
Rappers Travis Scott and Big Boi each performed one truncated song. A marching band and a gospel choir joined in, but there was no apparent reference onstage to supporting former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, a focal point following his kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice.
8 p.m.
The expected Super Bowl slugfest is a snoozer at halftime.
New England leads Los Angeles 3-0 on a 42-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski, making for the second-lowest scoring first half in the game's history. Only Pittsburgh's 2-0 halftime lead over Minnesota in the 1975 Super Bowl — won by the Steelers, 16-6 had fewer points.
Denver was the previous team to go scoreless during the Super Bowl in 2014 against Seattle.
New England dominated in time of possession, holding the football for 19 minutes, 52 seconds, while Los Angeles had it for 10:08. The Patriots also outgained the Rams in total yardage 195-57.
Tom Brady, seeking his sixth Super Bowl win, was 15 of 25 for 160 yards and an interception. Julian Edelman was his main target, catching seven passes for 93 yards.
Jared Goff was 5 of 12 for just 52 yards as the Rams were 0 for 6 on third downs. Star running back Todd Gurley had only 10 yards rushing on three attempts.
7:25 p.m.
Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 42-yard field goal to give New England a 3-0 lead over the Los Angeles Rams with 10:29 left in the first half of the Super Bowl.
The Patriots kicker missed a 46-yard attempt late in the opening quarter, but made up for it by capping New England's seven-play, 39-yard drive with the first points of the game.
Julian Edelman, who had two catches for 31 yards on the drive, passed Dallas' Michael Irvin for the second-most receiving yards in NFL postseason history. Only Jerry Rice has more than Edelman.
7:10 p.m.
Down goes Brady!
New England's Tom Brady was sacked for the first time this postseason, going down when Los Angeles' John-Franklin Myers knocked the ball out of the quarterback's hands late in the first quarter of the Super Bowl.
Patriots center David Andrews recovered the fumble and New England maintained possession.
It was the first time Brady was sacked in a postseason game since last year's Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Brandon Graham ripped the ball out of Brady's hands for a fumble that was recovered by Derek Barnett — sending the Eagles to their first Super Bowl title in franchise history with a 41-33 victory.
The game remained scoreless through the first quarter.
New England, which had the ball for 11 minutes and 47 seconds, still hasn't scored a touchdown in the opening quarter in its past nine Super Bowls. The Patriots have been outscored 24-3 in those games — with the only points coming on a field goal by Stephen Gostkowski last year against Philadelphia.
7 p.m.
Stephen Gostkowski was wide left on a 46-yard field goal attempt that would have given New England the early lead in the Super Bowl against the Los Angeles Rams.
It also marked the first missed kick by any NFL kicker this season in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the home of the Atlanta Falcons.
After the Patriots' first offensive possession ended in an interception by Tom Brady — just the second on the opening drive of a playoff game in the quarterback's career— the Rams went three-and-out.
New England got the ball at its 12, and questionable officiating quickly became an issue when Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman was penalized for hitting a defenseless receiver after Brady's pass to Rex Burkhead on second-and-14 went for a 4-yard loss.
Instead of third-and-18 from the Patriots 16, New England got a first down at the 35. Brady then marched the offense down the field — only to see the usually reliable Gostkowski miss.
Robey-Coleman was involved in the now-infamous play during which he was not penalized for his hit on Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis. No flag was thrown for pass interference for the helmet-to-helmet nature of the hit — for which Robey-Coleman was fined $26,739 by the NFL — possibly altering the outcome of Los Angeles' 26-23 overtime victory.
6:30 p.m.
Los Angeles has won the coin toss — but will start the Super Bowl on defense.
New England special teams standout and captain Matthew Slater called heads and the coin turned up tails — but the Rams deferred, giving Tom Brady and the Patriots the ball first.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s youngest daughter Bernice King and civil rights pioneers John Lewis and Andrew Young stood at midfield with the players for the toss.
5:55 p.m.
Dave Grohl was still floating from the Foo Fighters' star-studded show the night before as he walked toward Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
"An amazing night," the Foo Fighters frontman told The Associated Press. "Great show. An absolute blast."
Asked if he was planning a surprise appearance at the halftime show, Grohl smiled. "I can't do any press. Sorry about that, but we're lucky enough to be able to come to the game today. It's a beautiful day. I love this city and I'm looking forward to it."
Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi are the featured acts at halftime, but the Super Bowl show is renowned for last-minute, surprise guests.
The Foo Fighters played a sold-out show Saturday night before 8,500 in Atlantic Station. Queen drummer Roger Taylor sat in for a cover of "Under Pressure." Tom Morello and Zac Brown came out for Black Sabbath's "War Pigs," and stayed onstage when Perry Farrell, the frontman of Jane's Addiction, played "Mountain Song."
Grohl, walking to the game with Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, was looking forward to a fun night.
"Hopefully somewhere where there's cold beer and jalapeno peppers," he said with a grin.
5:25 p.m.
The Super Bowl teams had no surprises on their lists of inactive players.
Defensive tackle Danny Shelton and defensive end Deatrich Wise Jr. both returned to the Patriots' active roster after missing the AFC championship game. Also active were linebacker Dont'a Hightower, who missed a practice this week with an illness, and defensive lineman Malcom Brown, who was limited with a calf injury.
The Rams had no roster decisions to make with no significant injuries. Running back Todd Gurley, kicker Greg Zuerlein and defensive back Blake Countess were all ready to go after being cautious in recent practices.
New England's seven inactive players: tight end Stephen Anderson, offensive lineman James Ferentz, safety Obi Melifonwu, defensive linemen Ufomba Kamalu and Keionta Davis, defensive end Derek Rivers and defensive back Duke Dawson.
Los Angeles' inactives: defensive back Darious Williams, running back Justin Davis, linebackers Ogbo Okoronkwo and Trevon Young, offensive lineman Jamil Demby and defensive tackles Sebastian Joseph-Day and Tanzel Smart.
3:50 p.m.
Is Gladys Knight going to hit some long notes today? If so, there could be money to be made.
The over-under for Knight's rendition of the national anthem is set at 110 seconds by Bovada — one of many side-action wagers available for today's Super Bowl, the most heavily bet event of the year.
The color of the first bag of Doritos featured during a Super Bowl commercial? The favorite is red at 3-2.
If you believe President Trump's tweet count will be higher than the number of Tom Brady touchdown passes, then you can wager $140 to win $100.
Oh, also: New England is a 2 1/2-point pick to beat Los Angeles.
3:15 p.m.
Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke got off to a losing start to Super Bowl Sunday.
Arsenal, the London soccer team owned by Kroenke since 2011, lost 3-1 at Manchester City in the Premier League.
The defeat could prove costly for Kroenke, with Arsenal down to sixth in the standings and three points adrift of the four spots to qualify for the lucrative Champions League European competition.
Arsenal has 13 games of the 38-match Premier League season remaining. Kroenke has faced criticism from Arsenal fans about the lack of investment in the team.
2:45 p.m.
The NFL has announced plans for Mercedes-Benz Stadium's retractable roof to be open for the pregame show, including a flyover by the Air Force Thunderbirds, and then closed for the game.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy says the plan is to have the roof closed for the teams' pregame warmups on the field. The retractable roof then will open for the pregame ceremony.
McCarthy says the plan could be affected by a change in weather.
The Thunderbirds practiced the flyover with the roof open on Saturday night as close as possible to the planned time for Sunday's pregame show.
There was scattered rain in Atlanta on Sunday morning. The forecast called temperatures in the 50s for the start of the game at 6:30 p.m.
2 p.m.
The city of Atlanta had to wait 19 years and build a $1.5 billion stadium to get its third Super Bowl.
Falcons President and CEO Rich McKay is confident it won't take nearly that long for the big game to return to the A-T-L for the fourth time.
McKay says the city and team made it clear that Mercedes-Benz Stadium was constructed with the idea of hosting multiple Super Bowls, not just a single title game.
He expects Atlanta to become a regular part of the Super Bowl rotation with cities that are warmer in the winter, such as Miami, New Orleans, Phoenix and perhaps Los Angeles. He points to all the downtown facilities that are within walking distance of each other, including the stadium, numerous hotels, the Georgia World Congress Center, State Farm Arena and Centennial Olympic Park. All played major roles in this week's Super Bowl activities.
Atlanta hosted the college football championship game last year, and the NCAA men's Final Four will be at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2020. The city is also expected to have a major role in soccer's 2026 World Cup.
McKay says: "On the big-event scale, we can be as good a host as anybody, because we have the airport and we have the footprint to really deliver. I hope that's what this week shows."
12:40 p.m.
No matter what happens in today's Super Bowl, Patriots coach Bill Belichick will be on top of the record book.
He has already coached in more Super Bowls than any other coach (nine going on 10) and already has more wins than any other coach (five with a chance for six).
If the Patriots lose, Belichick will also find himself sharing space the top of the 'L' column with his fourth loss. There are some pretty good names there, though: Don Shula, Bud Grant, Marv Levy and Dan Reeves.
12:10 p.m.
The Los Angeles Rams will attempt to cap their remarkable two-year turnaround under coach Sean McVay with their franchise's first Super Bowl championship in 19 years.
Just three seasons after returning to LA from St. Louis, the Rams are heading into Mercedes-Benz Stadium led by quarterback Jared Goff, running back Todd Gurley, two-time AP Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald and McVay.
The Rams had been through 13 consecutive non-winning seasons and hadn't won a playoff game in 12 years before they hired McVay, who was 30 at the time. The youngest head coach in modern NFL history immediately engineered a seven-game improvement last season.
He followed it up by taking them to the Super Bowl for the first time in 17 years. Now 33, McVay would be the youngest coach ever to win a Super Bowl.
11:30 a.m.
Today's game between the Rams and Patriots marks the eighth rematch in Super Bowl history.
Good news for the Patriots: The team that won the previous matchup is 4-3. New England defeated the Rams, then in St. Louis, 20-17 back in 2002.
Pittsburgh and Dallas have met three times. Pittsburgh won the first rematch, a 35-31 thriller in Super Bowl 13. Then, 17 years later, Dallas defeated the Steelers 27-17.
Other rematches:
—Redskins 27, Dolphins 17 in Super Bowl 17; a rematch of Miami's perfection-capping victory in Super Bowl 7.
—Giants 21, Patriots 17 in Super Bowl 46; a rematch of New York's win, which spoiled New England's run at an undefeated season, four years earlier.
—Cowboys 30, Bills 13 in Super Bowl 38; a rematch of Dallas' crushing of the Bills the previous year.
—Eagles 41, Patriots 33 in Super Bowl 52; a rematch of New England's win in Super Bowl 39.
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Even if you are an intelligent man, reading Andrew Sullivan can make you stupid. It happened to President Obama this week. At his 100-day press conference, President Obama invoked Churchill rejecting the use of torture for interrogation in the days of the Blitz during World War II. Obama instructed the assembled multitude:
I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British during World War II, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees. And Churchill said, 'We don't torture,' when the entire British–all of the British people–were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat….the reason was that Churchill understood — you start taking shortcuts, over time, that corrodes what's best in a people. It corrodes the character of a country.
Now if you've ever read much Churchill or any competent history of World War II, you would have a pretty good idea that one thing Churchill never said in the course of a long life is: "We don't torture." As it happens, Churchill scholar Richard Langworth has now attested to the absence of the words from Churchill's vast corpus.
Churchill was not a liberal sentimentalist on the subject of means and ends in war. Is there anything he would not have done to advance Britain's survival and victory in World War II? Not bloody likely. "If Hitler invaded Hell," Churchill remarked with respect to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, "I would at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
When the Allies first deliberated over the fate of the highest ranking members of the Nazis and German military who were ultimately tried at Nuremberg after the war, Churchill supported their summary execution. He didn't think to send over Hartley Shawcross to represent Hermann Goering or give Goering his day in court. He preferred the "shortcut" (to use Obama's word) between Goering and the gallows.
What on earth would lead an intelligent man like Barack Obama to stand before the world and pronounce that Churchill ever said: "We don't torture"? Now we know. Obama's "knowledge" on this point derived from the recent "Churchill vs. Cheney" post by Andrew Sullivan on his Daily Dish blog calling for the prosecution of Dick Cheney. (I have long held that Sullivan's blog would more aptly be called the Daily Ditch.)
Why call for Cheney's prosecution? Sullivan seems as foggy on the authority of the vice president as he is on British history. Nevertheless, despite the exposure of the fraudulence of his post, Sullivan reposted it after Obama's press conference. A correction would have been more appropriate.
Sullivan is such a crude and hysterical polemicist on matters related to the Bush administration that he has long since become unreadable. His tirades regarding the Bush administration's responsibility for "torture" are a torture unto themselves.
In his post, Sullivan asserts: "Churchill nonetheless knew that embracing torture was the equivalent of surrender to the barbarism he was fighting…" As Langworth notes, Sullivan's "Churchill nonetheless knew" appears suddenly and with no evidence to back it up. Sullivan makes no other reference to Churchill, or to how he divined Churchill's views on torture. The thought of Cheney in the dock appears to have inspired Sullivan's fancy.
Sullivan derives Churchill's purported disdain of torture from a 2006 London Times column by Ben Macintyre on the interrogation of captured German spies in London during the war at the interrogation center codenamed Camp 020. Yesterday Macintyre crowed over his contribution to Obama's learning.
Even Macintyre's original column belies Sullivan's use of it. Sullivan and Macintyre hail the interrogation techniques of Colonel Robin "Tin Eye" Stephens, the commander of Camp 020. According to Macintyre, Stephens eschewed "torture" in favor of psychological duress:
Stephens had ways of making anyone talk. In a top secret report, recently declassified by MI5 and now in the Public Records Office, he listed the tactics needed to break down a suspect: "A breaker is born and not made . . . pressure is attained by personality, tone, and rapidity of questions, a driving attack in the nature of a blast which will scare a man out of his wits."
The terrifying commandant of Camp 020 refined psychological intimidation to an art form. Suspects often left the interrogation cells legless with fear after an all-night grilling. An inspired amateur psychologist, Stephens used every trick, lie and bullying tactic to get what he needed; he deployed threats, drugs, drink and deceit. But he never once resorted to violence. "Figuratively," he said, "a spy in war should be at the point of a bayonet." But only ever figuratively. As one colleague wrote: "The Commandant obtained results without recourse to assault and battery. It was the very basis of Camp 020 procedure that nobody raised a hand against a prisoner."
Drugs and drink go well beyond purely psychological duress, and Stephens's "terrifying intimidation" exceeds the "name, rank and serial number" limitations prescribed for prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. Neither in his original nor in his follow-up column does Macintyre quote Churchill for the proposition that "we don't torture" or cite some rule of conduct supporting the statement. Macintyre purports to derive some high standard of conduct from the story of Col. Stephens's interrogation of German spies, but the true story supports quite the contrary point of view.
How do I know? I know it from Ben Macintyre's most recent book. Macintyre's most recent book is Agent Zigzag, the story of British double agent Eddie Chapman. Macintyre's book is essentially a chapter in the larger story of the famous British Double Cross system developed during the war to befuddle the Germans.
Sullivan and Macintyre praise the interrogation methods of Col. Stephens. Sullivan omits to mention that Stephens's interrogations were only the entry point for the Double Cross system.
The interrogation techniques used by Stephens were instrumental to the Double Cross system of which they were a part. The interrogations were part of a system intended to turn German spies into British double agents. The British did not treat the German spies as prisoners of war and the object of the interrogations was not simply to produce actionable intelligence.
J.C. Masterman was the presiding genius of the Double Cross system. In his book, Macintyre also credits Thomas Argyll ("Tar") Robertson, explaining that "Masterman and Robertson formed the linchpins of the double-cross operation." Masterman coordinated the operation with the military brass and Robertson ran it. If the captured spies interrogated by Stephens were found suitable double agents, they were then handed over to Tar Robertson and his case officers for the operation.
On the other hand, if the captured German spies refused to collaborate, they were either imprisoned or executed. Macintyre quotes Masterman, who was unsentimental on this score: "Some had to perish, both to satisfy the country that the security of the country was being maintained and to convince the Germans that the others were working properly and not under control."
Like Sullivan, Obama somehow left that out in his invocation of Churchill as a model for the United States at war. Properly understood, Churchill provides a great model. Sullivan, however, is an obstacle to understanding, as vividly demonstrated this week by President Obama following him.

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BRONX, N.Y. (WOMENSENEWS)–Welfare rolls in New York State fell by more than 60 percent from 1997 to 2008, according to the New York City-based Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies.
But those numbers do nothing to cheer up Kenneth Stevens Stephens, a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, N.Y.
He says a burdensome process for securing and maintaining benefits has simply discouraged applicants, most of whom are single women with children. Anyone who can possibly get by without welfare, in other words, does.
After the heavy exodus, the bulk of people left on welfare, he said, are either able-bodied people who are ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits or those who face serious barriers of some sort–physical, psychiatric or language–to employment.
The disabled women who depend on TANF–Temporary Assistance for Needy Families–are a particular concern because of the problems they face in fulfilling the work requirements imposed in 1996 when the system was overhauled.
Petra Rodriquez knows all about that.
Rodriguez has for many years lived in the Bronx, the New York borough where the 2008 poverty rate of more than 27 percent was more than double the citywide average.
She was a full-time homemaker until 1995, when the father of her four children, who had been the sole source of income, left the family.
How would she support their children ages 4, 10, 12 and 14, with another on the way?
Where would she get the money for food, utilities and rent in her subsidized apartment?
"I was getting $250 in food stamps once a month, plus Medicaid. I was struggling," she said in a recent phone interview.
A supervisor with a local office of the Human Resources Administration helped the family get more assistance, but even the increase left some of her basic costs uncovered.
"I was surviving because they increased the food stamps to $325 a month with $42 dollars in cash for my electricity," she said. "My rent was behind."
An Unusual Injury
But somehow she kept the family going until 2003, when she suffered an unusual injury.
Her daughter, then 18, was taking care of a relative's disabled son who inadvertently kicked Rodriguez. The accident left her with bladder dysfunction and a pinched nerve in her back that made sitting painful and difficult.
Rodriguez had a job under TANF's job-training Work Experience Program, or WEP, filing paper work in a Human Resources Administration office not far from her home. But the injury made the desk job unbearable.
Rodriquez did not return to her work assignment and the next month she knew something was wrong when her benefits didn't arrive.
Her social worker told her that she was sanctioned for not showing up for work and recommended that Rodriquez apply for federal Social Security disability benefits. Rodriquez was denied.
As a result of the accident and not being able to work, welfare authorities suggested her daughter take over her job as a way of restoring the family's benefits. Her daughter declined. That was the end of the benefits.
Each month 15,000 U.S. families lose welfare benefits due to this type of so-called family sanctions, Legal Momentum, a New York-based advocacy group, found in its 2009 report, "The Bitter Fruit of Welfare Reform: A Sharp Drop in the Percentage of Eligible Women and Children Receiving Welfare."
Rodriguez was still eligible to receive food stamps because her youngest son was only 8 years old. She could still babysit and her older son worked odd jobs and helped her when he could. So she was still able to cope.
But fast forward to 2005, when her daughter at age 20 had a baby and applied for public assistance. The similarity of names and addresses caused a mix up between the two cases. Rodriguez's case was closed and her daughter's established. Benefits came to the household, but only enough for her daughter and a new granddaughter.
Rodriguez said worsening health hindered her ability to straighten things out. She had developed a heart condition by then and a few months later suffered a stroke.
She has been hospitalized nine times between last year and this report. Unable to keep the appointments for recertifying the food stamps and cash assistance for which she and her youngest son, now 15, were eligible, she lost both. Missed appointments mean closed cases.
Awaiting a Decision
Now she is waiting for a decision from a recent hearing with the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, where she represented herself and handed in her hospital documents to be reviewed by an administrative law judge. Rodriquez is hoping to be seen as qualifying for Social Security income, as she has not been able to hold a job for more than a year.
"I've been through a lot," said Rodriguez. "I'm paranoid about going to the welfare office."
Stevens Stephens, the Legal Aid Society lawyer, said his group is pushing the state to be flexible in identifying participants as exempt or temporarily exempt from welfare work requirements so they may instead qualify for disability benefits under the Social Security Administration.
Stevens Stephens also said that people with disabilities such as Rodriguez face further hardships under a plan by the New York City Human Resources Administration to centralize job centers where applicants can meet with case workers.
Under the plan, only three of the 31 centers in New York City would service clients with disabilities; these centers are in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. For disabled participants in other parts of the city, the plan would create new travel and scheduling hardships, which are being fought through pending litigation in New York State. In practical terms, that means a welfare applicant would need to spend up to two hours on public transportation and a minimum of $4.50 in fares to reach the center. In addition, many subways stations are not accessible to the physically handicapped, meaning many would have to rely on relatively slower and less frequent bus transport.
Lovely H. v. Eggleston, a federal class action lawsuit brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act, seeks to stop the city from discriminating against people with disabilities by transferring their cases to separate job center sites, without giving them an opportunity to decide to use those centers voluntarily. Presently, the Legal Aid Society is pushing the city to settle the case. The case has gone on for more than four years.
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- High energy efficiency – low operating cost
- Flexible configuration – heat transfer area can be modified
- Easy to install – compact design
- High serviceability – easy to open for inspection and cleaning and easy to clean by CIP
- Access to Alfa Laval's global service network
Alfa Laval BaseLine is a range of gasketed plate-and-frame heat exchangers used in dairy, food, beverage and other hygienic applications requiring thermally efficient performance. A large range of plate and gasket types is available. The relatively tall plate makes this model suitable for duties with long temperature programs and when high heat recovery is appreciated. A large range of plate and gasket types is available.
Technical details
Flow rate primary side (hl/h)700 hl/h
Temp primary side (°C)98 → 8 °C
Pressure drop primarySide (kPa)234 kPa
Cooling mediaIce water
Flow rate secondary side (kg/h)76530 kg/h
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Pressure drop secondary side Dairy And Beverage (kPa)238 kPa
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Low-cost, high-functionality warehouse management software system provides end-to-end tracking/tracing, compliance with all industry regulatory requirements
San Jose, Calif. (PRWEB) January 02, 2013
MSA's Qstock WMS Wins QuickBooks Certification; Provides End-to-End Tracking/Tracing, Compliance with all Industry Regulatory Requirements
Qstock Inventory, the low-cost, high-functionality warehouse management software system developed and marketed by San Jose-headquartered MSA Systems, Inc. has been named an Intuit/QuickBooks Certified Silver solution after undergoing Intuit's independent technical review process, it was announced by Intuit.
The review/certification assures potential users of the QuickBooks/Qstock ERP/inventory management software combination that the MSA inventory management system has met all of Intuit's requirements for seamless integration and functionality. MSA will display and demonstrate the software at the MDM show in February in Anaheim.
"Besides the software's broad general applicability, Qstock offers specialized functionality that can be particularly important for nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, beauty/cosmetics or other fields in which sensitive ingredients must be under positive end-to-end control," said MSA's Marketing Representative Kim Wilson. "And with its very favorable price-performance trade-offs, the system represents an ideal solution for the range of companies that attend MDM West Pack Show in Anahiem in February.
Powerful Warehousing, Ingredient Tracking
QStock combines state of the art management of physical warehouse processes with a real-time wireless communications environment that uses handheld scanners and printers to update inventory records and to coordinate purchase orders, sales orders, receiving, putaway, picking and shipping. Its fast, detailed ingredient tracking and tracing capabilities can provide valuable support in containing problems in event of a recall or simply in accommodating customer and compliance standards.
As an example, Wilson points to MSA's quick and easy response to a situation faced by Qstock user East & West Gourmet Afghan Food (DBA "Bolani"), which manufactures highly perishable ethnic food products. CostCo representatives had approached Bolani management about featuring their products but there was a condition: CostCo policy mandated that vendors maintain a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Audit (HAACP) capability -- a rigid protocol for tracking every ingredient of every product throughout its production/distribution cycle so that trouble spots can be identified in the event of a recall.
Bolani had no feasible answer, estimating that it would take three or four people to manage the audit and tracking details. In fact, its QStock software routinely recorded the data and because it tracked each ingredient of from receipt through product shipment, it already had the data to support such an audit. Bolani turned to MSA Systems, providing the details on a simulated shipment of nuts..MSA tracked the nuts across a full product recall sequence, tracing their receipt into inventory through their use in a finished product and its shipment to retailers.
Fast, Comprehensive
MSA provided Bolani with the successful HAACP audit in less than two days and instead of the projected days-long, personnel-intensive manual ingredient tracing, the procedure now takes only about five minutes. Qstock Inventory similarly accommodates other commonly applied regulatory requirements, among them the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and various international agencies. Besides QuickBooks, Qstock can also be integrated with other ERP systems or used as a free-standing application.
About MSA Systems, Inc.
Headquartered in San Jose, California, MSA Systems, Inc. also maintains offices in Portland, Oregon, Anaheim, California, Phoenix/Sierra Vista, and Arizona. An authorized partner and reseller of key mobile and data capture technology; the company provides turn-key field mobility solutions, warehouse management solutions, barcoding, and RFID software, hardware and infrastructure from leading technology companies. For more information visit http://www.Qstockinventory.com contact Kim Wilson at 408-252-9000 or email kim(at)msasys(dot)com.
For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/1/prweb10264236.htm
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AVM Embolization
Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the brain or spine refer to abnormal connections between arteries and veins. AVMs can be difficult or dangerous to treat and may cause bleeding into or around the brain, most commonly in young adults. Although AVMs can cause headaches or other symptoms, they are often discovered on CT or MRI scans performed for other reasons. Left untreated, there is a 4 percent risk that they may start to bleed, causing severe neurologic damage and even death. Safe, surgical removal of AVMs or treatment with radiation may require partial or complete closure of the AVM through embolization (blocking) techniques. This preparation improves the safety, effectiveness and outcome of surgery.
What Causes Arteriovenous Malformations?
People are born with AVMs, although they do not appear to inherit them from their parents, nor do they give them to their children. It appears that AVMs may be caused by a rupture or clotting of a blood vessel that happens during development before one is born. It is usually not associated with other maldevelopments or with other AVMs.
What Are the Symptoms of Arteriovenous Malformations?
Seizures and headaches are the most generalized symptoms of AVMs, but no particular type of seizure or headache pattern has been identified. Seizures can be partial or total, involving a loss of control over movement, convulsions or a change in a person's level of consciousness. Headaches can vary greatly in frequency, duration and intensity, sometimes becoming as severe as migraines. Sometimes a headache consistently affecting one side of the head may be closely linked to the site of an AVM. More frequently, however, the location of the pain is not specific to the lesion and may encompass most of the head.
AVMs also can cause a wide range of more specific neurological symptoms that vary from person to person, depending primarily upon the location of the AVM. Such symptoms may include muscle weakness or paralysis in one part of the body; a loss of coordination (ataxia) that can lead to such problems as gait disturbances; apraxia, or difficulties carrying out tasks that require planning; dizziness; visual disturbances such as a loss of part of the visual field; an inability to control eye movement; papilledema (swelling of a part of the optic nerve known as the optic disk); problems using or understanding language (aphasia); abnormal sensations such as numbness, tingling or spontaneous pain (paresthesia or dysesthesia); memory deficits; and mental confusion, hallucinations or dementia.
What Is Embolization?
Embolization is a method of plugging the blood vessels of the AVM. Under X-ray guidance, a small tube called a catheter is guided from the femoral artery in the leg up into the area to be treated.
A neurological exam is performed before and after a small amount of medicine is injected. This can help tell if the vessel that feeds the AVM also feeds normal and important portions of the brain. After this, a permanent agent is injected into the AVM and the catheter removed. This is repeated for each vessel that feed the AVM.
During the embolization, the patient is awake but is made comfortable with the help of the anesthesia team that monitors them and gives them medicines by an intravenous line. After the embolization the patients usually spend the night in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit where they can be monitored closely. Patients are usually hospitalized for three nights for each embolization and usually require two or three embolizations at intervals of two to six weeks. Patients resume their normal full activity immediately upon each discharge. There may be some mild headache after the embolization related to the blood vessels of the AVM clotting, or some nausea related to some of the medicines that are given.
Why choose the S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center for interventional neuroradiology procedures?
The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center provides a full range of advanced imaging, both radiology and cardiology, as well as interventional radiology and interventional tumor (oncology) treatments to the greater Los Angeles area, including Beverly Hills, Encino, Mid-Cities, Sherman Oaks, Silver Lake, Studio City, Toluca Lake and West Hollywood.


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Disney will introduce a little girl princess to its celebrated legacy of princess fairytales in an animated television movie and series, "Sofia the First," premiering in fall 2012 and spring 2013 respectively, on Disney Channel and Disney Junior channels around the world.
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Disney will introduce a little girl princess to its celebrated legacy of princess fairytales in an animated television movie and series, "Sofia the First," premiering in fall 2012 and spring 2013 respectively, on Disney Channel and Disney Junior channels around the world. While Disney princess fairytales have been enchanting audiences for more than 70 years, this is the first time a series has centered on a princess as a little girl. The stories are designed to communicate positive messages and life lessons that are applicable to preschool-aged children. The series and movie are productions of Disney Television Animation.
"Sofia the First" stories are set in the storybook world of young Sofia who starts out life as a regular girl. But when her mom marries the king, she is whisked off to a glamorous, but sometimes confusing, castle world of royalty, pomp and new step-siblings, Amber and James. "Sofia the First" will include appearances by Fauna, Flora and Merryweather (fairies seen in Disney's classic "Sleeping Beauty") as the headmistresses of Royal Prep, the academy that Sofia, along with other princes and princesses, attends. Special event appearances will be made by classic characters including Cinderella and other Disney Princesses.
In announcing the series, Nancy Kanter, Senior Vice President, Original Programming and General Manager, Disney Junior Worldwide, said, "In Sofia, we have a 'peer to peer princess,' a relatable girl experiencing the same social issues as our young viewers – learning how to fit in, making new friends, conquering new skills and building sibling relationships." She continued, "Although Sofia will have plenty of pretty dresses and sparkly shoes, our stories will show Sofia, and our viewers, that what makes a real princess is what's inside, not what's outside. That the inner character of kindness, generosity, loyalty, honesty and grace make you special, not the dress you wear."
Providing the voice of Sofia is Ariel Winter (ABC's "Modern Family"). Also highlighting the voice cast is Sara Ramirez (ABC's "Grey's Anatomy") as Queen Miranda; Wayne Brady ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?) as Clover, a wise-talking Rabbit; and Tim Gunn (ABC's "The Revolution," "Project Runway") as Baileywick, the family's Royal Steward. The actors providing the voices of King Roland, Amber and James will be announced soon.
The series was developed by Craig Gerber ("Pixie Hollow Games") who also wrote the movie. Jamie Mitchell ("Special Agent Oso") serves as both Executive Producer and Director on the series. Gerber is Co-Executive Producer and serves as the Story Editor.
The Disney Junior programming block on Disney Channel reflects the emotional connection generations of consumers have to Disney storytelling and Disney characters, both classic and contemporary. It invites mom and dad to join their child in the Disney experience of magical, musical and heartfelt stories and characters, while incorporating specific learning and development themes designed for kids age 2-7. Disney Junior's animated and live action series blend Disney's unparalleled storytelling and characters kids love deeply with learning, including early math, language skills, healthy eating and lifestyles, and social skills. Disney Junior is available on basic cable in more than 99 million U.S. homes (via a daily block on Disney Channel) and to millions of other viewers on 28 Disney Junior channels and free-to-air broadcast partners around the world. It is also seen via subscription video-on-demand and a broadband website, DisneyJunior.com. In 2012 Disney Junior will add a basic cable and satellite channel in the U.S.
Disney Television Animation is an industry leader in the production of quality animated properties for television. Disney Television Animation is part of the Disney/ABC Television Group at The Walt Disney Company.


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Johan Barthold Jongkind
A View of the Harbour, Rotterdam
The Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind spent most of his life in France, first as a protégé of the Prince of Orange and later as an independent artist. In 1855, disillusioned by the scant appreciation of his work at the Paris Salon and harassed by creditors, he abandoned the French capital and returned to his country of birth for a five-year period. Taking up residence in the port city of Rotterdam, where he remained in contact with his Parisian friends — particularly Corot, Rousseau and Daubigny, the members of the Barbizon School — and his Paris dealer, Firmin Martin, he concentrated almost solely on producing views of the surrounding landscape with its characteristic Dutch windmills and scenes of nearby harbours.
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza View of the Harbour, Rotterdam, dated 1856, was executed shortly after Jongkind's return to the Netherlands. By then Rotterdam was the most important port in northern Europe, located in a privileged enclave that could be reached both from the North Sea and from inland via the deep waters of the river Meuse. As in many other similar works, the artist depicts the quays of the bustling Dutch port with numerous moored boats in the process of unloading their cargoes.
The arrangement of the picture space bears the mark of seventeenth-century Dutch seascape painting, with which Jongkind had been very familiar since his formative years with Andreas Schelfhout. Faithful to this tradition, the artist builds a balanced composition based on contrasts: the geometrised verticality of the masts raised to varying heights offsets the fluidity of the clouds; the dark tones of the vessels stand out against the luminosity of the sky and the gleam of the water; and the loose technique of the sky contrasts with the precise draughtsmanship of the boats. The present oil painting was most likely executed in the painter's studio using earlier watercolour sketches taken from life, in which the painter hastily jotted down his impressions. Indeed, this was his usual procedure, as he wrote to his friend Smits on 22 November 1856: "I painted them from life, meaning that I made the watercolours from which I painted my pictures."
Although this is a relatively early work, Jongkind, who, like Boudin, is considered a forerunner of Impressionism, already displays a keen interest in depicting atmospheric changes and in capturing the effects of light on water and the sky. As Edmond de Goncourt pointed out in 1882, Jongkind exerted considerable influence on the development of modern landscape art and Édouard Manet dubbed him the "father of the school of landscape painting." For his part, Claude Monet stated that "Jongkind was my true master. I owe the education of my sight to him."
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The Baylor Second Year Retreat
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|The Baylor Second Year Retreat, Nov. 9-11, 2012, is an annual retreat designed specifically for Sophomores. The focus of this time away is to help YOU find BALANCE during your second year at Baylor.
During the retreat, teaching will be led by Ryan Richardson, Director of Worship and Chapel, as well as some of your peers. Worship will be led by Amy Boykin of O, Loveland. You will be introduced to relevant and useful spiritual practices such as The Jesus Prayer, Lectio Divina, and Rope Prayers. Free time activities will include hiking, yoga, and times of personal reflection. The Retreat is laid back and a great time to just relax! Daily naps are even encouraged!
Space is limited! All meals, transportation, and lodging included. Cost: $75
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Our Love Whisper bouquet which is made up of pink spray roses, pinkish white roses, pink carnations, white carnations, pink santini chrysanthemums, eucalyptus, pistacia and greenery. Vase included.
This arrangement contains the following flowers:
- Pink spray roses
- Pinkish white roses
- Pink carnations
- White carnations
- Pink santini chrysanthemums
- Eucalyptus
- Pistacia
- Red greenery
Next day delivery is available for orders placed before 4pm.
Original size bouquet pictured.
Substitution policy:
As flowers may be seasonal, we reserve the right to substitute any flowers not currently in stock. To ensure customer satisfaction, flowers will be substituted with a flower similar size and color of the same or superior style, quality and value.
Many thanks to all employees for the well-coordinated work! You know how to make the day! The bouquet is charming, and the celebration was a success! Now I am your regular customer!
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I selected a rather creative, artistic and innovative design for my flat. The flowers were delivered next day, as promised.


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Jerusalem: City of Passion — Dr. Ron Tappy
The American Church in Paris is proud to present its 2014 Lenten Lecture series on Jerusalem: City of Passion, with Dr. Ron Tappy, world-renowned archaeologist and professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Please join us for these three fascinating talks at the ACP:
- The Way to Jerusalem - Tuesday 8 April at 19h30 in the Thurber Room (dinner at 18h30)
- The Truth at the Temple - Thursday 10 April at 19h30 in the Thurber Room (dinner at 18h30)
- The Life from the Tomb - Tuesday 15 April at 19h30
The talks will combine biblical narratives with archaeology and geography. The first talk begins in Galilee, but moves quickly to Jerusalem, with a brief history of the city and its explorers. The second talk focuses on the magnificent Temple that resulted from the renovations by Herod and how Jesus related to both the actual building itself and the institution, or the idea of a Temple. The final talk (during Holy Week) moves to the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of the arrest and then follows Jesus down the Kidron Valley and up the hill to the House of Caiaphas.
Rather than architecture, geography will provide the background here, as the Kidron will become the ultimate "valley of the shadow of death"–death for us all. Near the site that Dr. Tappy have been excavating in Israel for the last 15 years, there is a true first-century tomb that very few tourists ever see. It has the chambers, the niches, the benches, the rolling stone, etc. It will provide the perfect illustration of the type of tomb that was Jesus's burial place.
Dr. Ron Tappy began excavating at various sites in Israel more than 30 years ago, and his current field research at Tel Zayit involves a full-scale field exploration of a Late Bronze–Iron Age town in the Shephelah ("lowlands") region of biblical Judah. During the 2005 season of excavation, his team discovered an inscription incised in stone of the earliest known, securely datable Hebrew alphabet.
Dr. Tappy is a leading authority on the archaeology of Israelite Samaria and has written two books on that subject. His articles have covered biblical archaeology, ancient Israelite burial customs and beliefs about the afterlife, the 23rd Psalm, and the Ten Commandments. His teaching focuses on the life and literature of the Old Testament period, biblical archaeology, and the history of Israel. It examines ways in which the broader cultural context of biblical Israel shaped both the world of the biblical writers and, by extension, their theological outlook.
These lectures are free and open to all. Please feel free to invite friends and associates!
The Way to Jerusalem - Tuesday 8 April
The Truth at the Temple - Thursday 10 April
The Life from the Tomb - Tuesday 15 April


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If you've found this page, you use haskell, and live in Australia, then you're in the right place! We're looking into organising a a Haskell hackathon some time during the middle of 2010, and this were it shall be organised.
If you're interested in coming, please put your name down on the list below, along with your IRC nickname if you're on #haskell, and possibly your email (We'll use this to let you know of any progress we've made, but it's not mandatory). Also, if you've got something to discuss, feel free to ass it you the bottom of the page in the Discussion section (just to keep the rest of the page clean and helpful).
What we've got so far
Why: Because we miss out on all the fun they have up north, and we've got something to offer. It's also a great chance to meet all these people you talk to on IRC, or read their blogs, and just have a good time, while getting some useful work done!
When: A few dates have been discussed, mainly taking into account when the university holidays are for various universities:
- ANU: 7 June -> 18 July
- UNSW: 29 June -> 18 July
So so far we need a weekend between the 28th of June and the 18th of July.
We're looking at organising it over a weekend, and I (Axman6) would quite like to have it start on a Friday, ending on Sunday. This does not at all mean that those who can't make the Friday will miss out, the more people we have, the better. But I think that having more time will mean that we can get more done (which is the point right?).
Where: Manuel Chakravarty and Ben Lippmeier have said there should be no problem finding a room at UNSW, with the only possible problem being Internet access for everyone, but hopefully something can be arranged by that time.
Who: If you're interested in coming, please show your interest by adding your details to the list below (if you don't have an account, please email me (Axman6) your details and I'll add you).
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CRS: U.S. Citizenship of Persons Born in the United States to Alien Parents, March 1, 2007
From WikiLeaks
About this CRS report
This document was obtained by Wikileaks from the United States Congressional Research Service.
The CRS is a Congressional "think tank" with a staff of around 700. Reports are commissioned by members of Congress on topics relevant to current political events. Despite CRS costs to the tax payer of over $100M a year, its electronic archives are, as a matter of policy, not made available to the public.
Individual members of Congress will release specific CRS reports if they believe it to assist them politically, but CRS archives as a whole are firewalled from public access.
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Wikileaks release: February 2, 2009
Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service
Title: U.S. Citizenship of Persons Born in the United States to Alien Parents
CRS report number: RL33079
Author(s): Margaret Mikyung Lee, American Law Division
Date: March 1, 2007
- Abstract
- Over the last decade or so, concern about illegal immigration has sporadically led to a re-examination of a long-established tenet of U.S. citizenship, codified in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and �301(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. �1401(a)), that a person who is born in the United States, subject to its jurisdiction, is a citizen of the United States regardless of the race, ethnicity, or alienage of the parents. The war on terror and the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S.-Saudi dual national captured in Afghanistan fighting with Taliban forces, further heightened attention and interest in restricting automatic birthright citizenship, after the revelation that Hamdi was a U.S. citizen by birth in Louisiana to parents who were Saudi nationals in the United States on non-immigrant work visas and arguably entitled to rights not available to foreign enemy combatants. This report traces the history of this principle under U.S. law and discusses some of the legislation in recent Congresses intended to alter it.
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What am I?
I can have any and all colors that exist, and yet I show none. My size and strength are immeasurably immense, and yet I am invisible to the naked eye. What am I?
A Blackhole
What bank has no money?
Lauren lived in a light house. He was so tired that he turn off all the lights and fell asleep. The next morning the realized that he killed 6,000,000 people. How?
There were no lights, so there was no light to guide the ships


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The internet was shocked and astonished a couple weeks ago, when we all learned that a woman ate some parboiled squid — which managed to inseminate her mouth, because its spermataphores were still functioning. How could this happen? Danna Staaf from Squid a Day, who first brought this cringe-making phenomenon to light, explains the science of squid sperm... and human mouths.
Top image: National Geographic/Brian Skerry.
Have you heard the one about the squid sperm that stung a woman in the mouth?
A quick recap: while eating a parboiled squid, a Korean woman felt pain in her mouth. She went to the hospital, where the doctors extracted twelve squid spermatophores-packages of sperm-from her tongue, cheek, and gums. Ew! Also, ouch!
But this poor woman was not the first victim of "oral stinging by squid spermatophores." No fewer than sixteen such cases have been documented in medical literature. However, this was the first case in which the squid was not consumed raw, but parboiled. Are squid spermatophores really so indestructible as to survive cooking?
Probably not. As squid spermatophore researcher José Eduardo Marian of the University of São Paulo points out, the whole squid spent just a few seconds in boiling water. Spermatophores reside in a sac inside the squid's body cavity, or mantle-which might have been open to the water, or might have been tightly closed by the animal's muscles. '"Certainly the temperature was high," he tells us, "but we do not know if there was enough time for the spermatophores to contact the water."
Of course, squid spermatophores aren't meant to be parboiled and eaten. Their purpose is to inseminate a female squid and make baby squid. But as bizarre as these cases of oral stinging are, Marian has actually been able to use one of them to gain a better understanding of the normal functioning of the world's most complicated sperm delivery vehicle.
In a paper just published in the journal Zoomorphology on an earlier case of oral stinging, Marian explains that spermatophores-of which a male squid can produce hundreds-function "autonomously and extra-corporeally." That means they're totally self-contained machines. They don't need any input from a male squid, and, because they work normally in human mouths, apparently they don't need any input from a female squid either.
The sperm mass is home of millions of little swimmers. The rest of that fancy gadgetry allows each spermatophore to independently ejaculate (true!) and attach itself to a female squid.
Scientists once thought that spermatophores just glued themselves to skin with the cement body. A few exceptional species, such as the giant squid, were found to have "deep implantation" — sperm masses injected far into the skin and muscle. It was easy to assume that in these cases, the spermatophores had been dropped into a wound that had already been creating by biting or scratching — or even forced under the skin by a hydraulic penis (yes, that was a real scientific hypothesis). But in 2007, researchers Henk-Jan Hoving and Vladimir Laptikhovsky proved that spermatophores can actually implant themselves.
And then Marian made an even more sweeping claim. In a 2012 article in the Journal of Morphology, he suggested that "tissue scarification" is intrinsic to the action of all squid spermatophores. In other words, they will all cut you. The only variable is the depth of the wound.
But how do they cut you? Observe this vivid film of Marian's:
Okay, that's freaky as all get out! Let's break it down into a tidy four-step process:
First the spermatophore cap must be pulled off. In the video, it's done with tweezers; in a diner's mouth, it could be done by chewing. During natural mating, the male squid might rupture the cap himself as he passes spermatophores to his beloved. Once the cap is broken, the ejaculatory apparatus pops right out.
In the second step, the apparatus everts itself, pulling the sperm mass along with it. When it contacts a female squid (or human mouth), tiny caltrop-like accessories called stellate particles help it to grab on and dig in. Implantation occurs as the apparatus continues to evert, pulling away old particles and the skin cells to which they're attached.
Third, the cement body gets in on the action with a veritable arsenal of weaponry: a sharp tip, more stellate particles, and a super-sticky adhesive. The spermatophore is well and truly attached.
The fourth and final step completes the transformation of a spermatophore into a spermatangium, a sperm mass attached to a female squid (or human mouth). The empty case floats away and some sperm begin to swim around freely. Others may remain in the spermatangium for days, awaiting the female's pleasure.
Now the real question: Why? Are male squid sadistic punks? Of course not! Spermatophores are evolution's answer to the problem of turbulent ocean sex. When waves and currents buffet you and your sweetheart, how can you keep your sperm from being whisked away, before it can do its job? Not to mention the fact that competing male squid might be enhancing the turbulence, using jets of water to try to flush your sperm out of the picture.
The incredibly fancy spermatophore is simply a necessary tool for male squid to ensure the propagation of their genes. Unfortunately for at least sixteen hopeful suitors, human mouths are an evolutionary dead end.


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Pennsylvania's Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) released its revenue estimate this week, offering a more upbeat view of the economy moving forward. The official revenue estimate predicts a smaller revenue shortfall for the current year and more robust revenue collections for 2012-13.
Pennsylvania's Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) released its revenue estimate this week, offering a more upbeat view of the economy moving forward. The official revenue estimate predicts a smaller revenue shortfall for the current year and more robust revenue collections for 2012-13.
The IFO estimate leaves the General Assembly with as much as $800 million available to restore cuts proposed by the Governor. This is clearly good news, but both the Corbett administration and legislative leaders are already dampening expectations about the scale of funding restorations.
A Look at the Numbers
In the current 2011-12 fiscal year, the Corbett budget pegged revenue at $27.1 billion, with a revenue shortfall of $719 million. The IFO estimates revenue collections will be $419 million higher, at $27.5 billion and a shortfall of $300 million for the fiscal year. With $700 million in current-year reserves, this leaves an actual year-end surplus of around $400 million.
In the 2012-13 fiscal year, the IFO predicts revenue at $28.7 billion. This is approximately $404 million higher than the Corbett budget (the IFO excludes $142 million in new revenue sources proposed by the Governor in his budget plan, since those measures have not yet been enacted). See a table with more details.
State lawmakers have been careful so far not to set a hard "spend number" for 2012-13, leaving some wiggle room to increase total spending. This is a welcome departure from the past few years when the Senate or the Governor set a target spending number and stubbornly held to it throughout budget negotiations. With revenues improving in the second half of the fiscal year, lawmakers want to see if they can make the 2012-13 budget less damaging.
Just what will $800 million in additional revenue get us in the budget?
- $168 million for the Human Services Development Fund
- $238 million for Higher Education
- $159 million for General Assistance Grants
- $100 million for Accountability Block Grants (which funds full-day kindergarten and other early childhood programs)
- $135 million for the Basic Education Subsidy or Long-Term Care (to help restore research funding out of the Tobacco Settlement fund)
Too Good to Be True?
There are a few obstacles to be overcome. The Legislature is required by law to send 25% of any year-end surplus to the state's Rainy Day fund. Although lawmakers ignored this rule last year, we are likely to see some amount go into the bank this year — and that's a good thing for Pennsylvania over the long term.
Revenue Secretary Dan Meuser, in responding to the revenue news, urged caution in light of economic uncertainty and fiscal pressures. Senate President Joe Scarnati pointed out the need to think in terms of longer-term fiscal pressures, and House Appropriations Chairman Bill Adolph said through a spokesman that the House would not support spending that is "unsustainable."
There is much competition for the additional revenue. Hospitals and nursing homes have sustained cuts, and there is pressure to restore some of the Tobacco Settlement research funding that has been shifted into the Long-term Care program.
The IFO estimate did not consider the Governor's proposals to cap the sales tax vendor discount or transfer money from the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund to the General Fund. This is good news and bad news: adopting the vendor discount cap will raise $41 million more to restore service cuts, but the Keystone Fund transfer is a big concern for environmentalists.
The Bottom Line
Improving revenues means there is a real opportunity to see a restoration of some of the Governor's most controversial and draconian cuts. It will take a lot of work to push the Governor and Legislature to set a spending number that allows for significant restoration. We have our work cut out for us.


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An award-winning psychology professor and the central Illinois university where he works said Thursday that he will continue to teach there despite a news report that he was institutionalized as a teenager after killing three family members in Texas.
A story last week in a Texas newspaper, the Georgetown Advocate, identified Millikin University professor James St. James as the person who in 1967 fatally shot his father, mother and teenage sister in the family's home.
According to court records cited by the newspaper, the 15-year-old, then named James Wolcott, sniffed airplane glue before the shooting and had paranoid schizophrenia. Jurors found the boy not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered him held in a state hospital until he became sane. Six years later, he was released.
St. James went on to earn a doctorate in psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to his biography on the Millikin website. He joined the faculty in 1986 and later became a department chair at the private college with about 2,380 students.
A quest by the suburban Austin, Texas, newspaper to find Wolcott led reporters to a man with a different name living in Decatur, where he'd built a career as a respected teacher and researcher.
A statement released Thursday by Millikin defended the chair of its Behavioral Sciences Department. Only recently, the statement said, did Millikin learn of the past of the man who once won a Teaching Excellence and Leadership Award.
"Given the traumatic experiences of his childhood, Dr. St. James' efforts to rebuild his life and obtain a successful professional career have been remarkable," the statement said. "The university expects Dr. St. James to teach at Millikin this fall."
St. James answered the phone at his home Thursday afternoon but declined to comment beyond saying that he planned to return to work.


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Pill boy
Sunday, 6 December 2009
From c0stume's Flickr stream.
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2 Comments:
- At 8 December 2009 at 18:25, Raya said...
This Pill Boy is very cute.
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While speaking to PEOPLE about his latest charitable efforts, Yankees star Alex Rodriguez commented for the first time on his relationship with Madonna.
"We're friends," Rodriguez, 33, says.
Asked if there is any romance between them at all, Rodriguez reiterates, "We're friends — that's it."
While rumors have swirled that the slugger and the singer, 50, have been carrying on a romantic relationship and flying around the country in order to spend time together, "I can tell you this," Rodriguez says, "I have never been on a plane with her."
He also finds much of what's been written about them laughable: "I've been to two [of her] concerts, yet I've read that I went to 20. I've also read that we were buying an apartment together. That is absolutely ridiculous and not true."
"You have to have a sense of humor when it comes to this stuff," Rodriguez adds.
When pressed on how much time they have spent together, and whether he had ever stayed the night at Madonna's home, Rodriguez laughed: "If I answered every rumor we'd be here for three weeks."
(A source close to Rodriguez tells PEOPLE that reports of his spending the night with Madonna are "completely, unequivocably false.")
Focused on charityWhile Rodriguez and Madonna were both in Mexico City last weekend, Rodriguez says his time was focused on running a baseball clinic for kids.
"When you're among 200 kids and teaching the game of baseball it gives you an amazing feeling," he says, "just that you may inspire kids to reach their goals, whether it's baseball or whatever their goals might be."
The desire to help children is something he and Madonna have in common — and one reason he has become a supporter of Madonna's Raising Malawi charity.
"I initially knew nothing about her charity," Rodriguez says. But after being invited to one of Madonna's fundraisers, he found that "we shared a lot of the same commitments toward helping children. I was very moved by the whole thing. I saw the documentary and it was very inspiring and informative. I saw an opportunity to help and I jumped at that."
Rodriguez jumped into three other philanthropic efforts on his own recently as well: He's funding the completion of a Pediatric Outpatient Unit at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York City; funding a Community DentCare Network at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine (to provide preventative dental services for kids); and completing a new learning center at the Boys and Girls Club in Miami that A-Rod himself frequented as a child.
"If it wasn't for the Boys and Girls Club, I wouldn't be where I am today," Rodriguez says. "So I feel a great responsibility to not only give money, but to be there, and to be seen by the kids. I still hang out at the Boys and Girls Club."
Dealing with his divorceRodriguez, who amicably settled his divorce with wife Cynthia, 35, in September, also addressed rumors that he and Cynthia had been arguing.
"I have a wonderful relationship with Cynthia," says Rodriguez, who shared Thanksgiving dinner with his ex and their two children, Natasha, 4, and Ella, 7 months, last week. "We try to be the best parents we can."
As for the amount of time he spends with his children, "I see my children, honestly, seven days a week, which has been great. We both have a lot of respect for each other and she's a great lady."
As for Madonna: "I have a lot of respect for her," he says. "She's very committed to making the world a better place. She's had an amazing career, and we're friends. That's it."