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On Tuesday June 4, 2013 the History and Archives group will be presenting the paper "Digital Activism and the Digital Humanities" at Congress in Victoria, Canada
At the close of every year TIME magazine awards a person or group of persons the honourific 'Person of the Year'. In 2011 this title was awarded to The Protestor. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement activists worked to gather support, to connect to each other, and to bring about change. In addition to massive mobilizations The Protestor had an arsenal of digital technologies at their disposal and terms such as Twitter Revolution, Revolution 2.0 and #__________ became ubiquitous.
Shortly before the unrest of 2011 a collective of digital humanities scholars and practitioners in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia came together to found 4Humanities. In response to alarming funding cuts to many universities and education programs these advocates believe it is their responsibility to act in defense of the humanities; "The humanities are in trouble today, and digital methods have an important role to play in effectively showing the public why the humanities need to be part of any vision of a future society."[1]
This paper will discuss the potential for digital activism in humanities advocacy from within the walls of academia:
• First we will define the term digital activism discuss its history and some tactics.
• Next we will describe the international 4Humanities Initiative, its goals and activities.
• Finally we will outline one activity undertaken at the University of Alberta to assist in this grassroots endeavour - the creation of an Advocacy Guide for digital humanists.
The Advocacy Guide is composed of five sections:
1. What's at Stake - describes the funding and support issues prevalent in the Humanities.
2. Brief History of the Humanities - describes the historical 'splitting' of the Arts of Sciences.
3. Arguments FOR and AGAINST - covers the arguments both in support of the Humanities as well as those with a negative view.
4. Preparing for Advocacy - describes the important factors to consider when developing an advocacy campaign for the Humanities.
5. Tactics - discusses appropriate digital advocacy tactics drawn from the literature on digital activism.
Alan Liu writes that:
"Truly to contribute, I believe, the digital humanities will need to show that it can also take a leadership role. The obvious leadership role at present is service for the cause of the humanities. Now that the humanities are being systematically or catastrophically defunded by nations, states, and universities, the digital humanities can best serve the humanities by helping it communicate in the new arena of networked and social public knowledge, helping it showcase its unique value, and helping it partner across disciplines with the STEM sciences in "grand challenge" projects deemed valuable by the public and its leaders." [2]
The digital humanities have an advantage and even a responsibility to make use of the improved analytical and communicative methods afforded to us today. This paper will show some of the ways we can.
In 2011 TIME magazine awarded the honourific 'Person of the Year' to The Protestor. "No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. In 2011, protesters didn't just voice their complaints; they changed the world." Indeed from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement activists worked to gather support, to connect to each other, and to bring about change. In addition to massive mobilizations The Protestor had an arsenal of digital technologies at their disposal and terms such as Twitter Revolution, Revolution 2.0 and hashtag 'insert slogan here' became ubiquitous.
The role of digital technologies in activist causes is both widely championed and contested but our purpose here isn't to focus on this debate. Rather our point in this paper is to show how we, as digital humanists, can use these technologies in defense of the humanities. In this paper we will:
- Define digital activism;
- Outline the current 'Crisis of the Humanities' and the need for our community to act in defense of the humanities; and
- Introduce the 4Humanities initiative, "a platform and resource for advocacy of the humanities, drawing on the technologies, new-media expertise, and ideas of the international digital humanities community."
Introduction to Digital Activism
Digital activism is one of many possible appellations referring to the the use of digital technology towards the advancement of political and social goals. Others include but are not limited to: cyberactivism, internet activism, networked activism, liberation technologies, or electronic civil disobedience. Following in the steps of Mary Joyce in Digital Activism Decoded: the New Mechanics of Change the term digital activism is chosen because of its exhaustiveness and exclusivity: "Exhaustive in that it encompasses all social and political campaigning practices that use digital network infrastructure; exclusive in that it excludes practices that are not examples of this type of practice." For example, electronic civil disobedience is not exclusive as it could refer to any use of electronics and such activities have long been in practice. The cassette tape was integral to the 1979 Iranian Revolution by allowing the Ayatollah Khomeini to distribute his taped speeches in opposition to the American backed Shah (Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, "The Digital Disruption", Foreign affairs, November/December 2010). On the other hand the terms cyber- and internet activism are not exhaustive. They omit Short Message Service (SMS) one of the most commonly used features on mobile phones. In 2001 when corrupt Philippine President Joseph Estrada was on trial and it appeared that Congress was going to dismiss evidence against him and allow him to remain in power, thousands of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila armed with cell phones. Coordination by text messaging allowed for rapid mobilization and ultimately helped to force Estrada out of office (Clay Shirkey, "The Political Power of Social Media". Foreign Affairs, January/February 2011). The term digital activism encompasses all actions that make use of the digital network.By using 0s and 1s to store and process information, and to exchange this information using the standardized language ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange), computers around the world are able to communicate with each other. This universality of binary code, 0s and 1s, is the strength of the digital network.
Examples of digital activism include organizing campaigns through email, SMS, or social media, spreading information via list-serves, blogs, micro-blogs and websites, uploading and posting targeted multimedia content to a website or web platform, participating in an on-line e-petition campaign, or even hosting webinars to teach less tech-savvy activists how achieve their goals using digital technology. Hacktivism is another way participants can engage in digital activism. One of the most well known international hacktivist groups is Anonymous whose activities range from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and website defacement to publicizing personal information about accused persons.
In Defense of the Humanities
===The History of the Humanities===
According to Dr. Mike Lippman, University of Arizona, Department of Classics, the Humanities originate in 5th century BC, Greece, where we find the first concentrated development of tragedy or drama, comedy, philosophy, and history, all the major disciplines included in the Humanities today.
The online dictionary defines the Humanities as one part of what is commonly referred to as the Liberal Arts. Also included under the umbrella of Liberal Arts are the natural sciences, arts, and social sciences. The Liberal Arts include those topics that are not professional or technical subjects. The term 'liberal arts' originates from the mid-eighteenth century, translated from the Latin artēs līberālēs, meaning 'works befitting a freeman'.
Referring to the core skills employed in the civic life and public debate of classical antiquity, the later termed 'liberal arts' were skills that were thought to foster virtue, knowledge, and articulation. Such skills included grammar, rhetoric, and logic, known in medieval times as the Trivium, three of the foundations that would form the basis for the Humanities. During the era of the medieval church, the Trivium was expanded to include the natural sciences, incorporating arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. This new synthesis of the disciplines was referred to as the Quadrivium. The term Humanities comes from the Latin humanus, meaning human, cultured and refined, and originates with the Renaissance 'humanists' who redefined the traditional subjects of the Trivium as the Studia Humanitatis, removing logic and then adding to their newly defined corpus such disciplines as Greek studies, (to complement the Latin grammar), history, poetry, and ethics. As such, the Humanities were born.
===Two Cultures? - The Historical Splitting of the Arts and Sciences===
The Yale Report of 1828 rallied against a gradual depart in universities from the classical liberal arts education of the core subjects contained in the trivium and quadrivium towards the ever encroaching elective based curriculum. The report was significant in two ways, first, that it was seen by many as a decades long setback in the advancement of education options, and second, that is stands as a historical landmark in the conversation surrounding the dissolution of the classical liberal arts education.
One of the original and often quoted discourses pertaining to the split in education is Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University. Newman wrote and lectured extensively in the 1850's on the nature of the university, focusing on the value of the liberal education. His belief was that knowledge was universal and that truth was anything but relative. Newman claimed that truth was specific and attainable through reason and intellect. He is often cited as the original proponent of a generalist education as opposed to a vocational education.
C. P. Snow's famous 1959 lecture and subsequent book entitled Two Cultures stands as the quintessential expression of the split between the Humanities and the Sciences, and is often quoted as the first modern critique of the split between the disciplines, positing the divide as a regrettable loss to humanity and knowledge. Snow's work became a major catalyst towards the 'Science Wars' of the 1990's, an epistemological debate between postmodernist thinking and science that polarized knowledge into objectivist and subjectivist corners, extolling the values of one epistemological view over the other. The debate has resurfaced in recent years as a struggle to unite the so-called 'two cultures', though differing views on the value of such an endeavour surface in both the academy and society in general.
===Digital Humanities and the Cuts===
The Humanist Listserve is likely well known to many in this room today. In operation since 1987 it is described as "an international online seminar devoted to all aspects of the digital humanities." On October 23rd, 2010 Andrew Prescott, Director of Research at the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow posted a message to the discussion group with the subject heading 'Digital Humanities and the Cuts'. He begins his communique:
"Dear Willard,
I am surprised that we have not so far had any discussions on Humanist of the devastating effect that the current financial crisis will have on the study of the arts and humanities internationally."
Prescott goes on to describe the situation in Britain where dramatic cuts to higher education were resulting in the slashing of state funding for the teaching of arts, humanities and social sciences. Without a measurable economic value the humanities were under attack; not only universities but service providers such as the national museums and libraries as well. He suggests a silver lining may be the survival of the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as in spite of the cuts, funding for scientific research was to be protected. This council, he states, would likely prioritize the digital humanities which could act as a go-between for arts and humanities faculty and their scientific colleagues. He then calls this hopeful prospect into question:
"But what will be the value of this if the wider study of arts and humanities has been devastated?... Digital humanities cannot thrive if the study of humanities more widely is under attack."
Also citing the recent closure of the Italian, French, Russian, Classics and Theatre Programmes at SUNY Albany in the USA Prescott than posits two possible responses to this international crisis:
(1) demonstrate a financial value of the humanities; or
(2) follow the argument of Stanley Fish writing in the New York Times "drop the deferential pose"
As fish writes:
"Leave off being a petitioner and ask some pointed questions: Do you know what a university is, and if you don't. don't you think you should, since you're making its funding decisions? Do you want a university "an institution that takes its place in a tradition dating back centuries" or do you want something else, a trade school perhaps? (Nothing wrong with that.) And if you do want a university, are you willing to pay for it, which means not confusing it with a profit center? And if you don't want a university, will you fess up and tell the citizens of the state that you're abandoning the academic enterprise, or will you keep on mouthing the pieties while withholding the funds?"
Prescott finishes his piece with a call to arms for digital humanists - researchers holding a diversity of skill sets and perhaps at an advantage to support such an endeavour. And the responses came quickly and passionately. Researchers from the US, UK and Italy wrote about the peril of their own funding experiences. Some wrote to assert the value of humanities study and the resulting skills not "easily quantifiable" (James Rovira, October 29, 2010). Some took the opportunity to vent their frustrations and worries; one respondent wrote: "academia as a whole is pretty thoroughly sold out to the bean counters" another "I fear the worst case scenario will be the most likely one: Most people will go to university to do a vocational degree in the vain hope this is how they get a job, whilst the Humanities and Social Sciences wither on the vine until they become something only rich, privileged people do." Some offered suggestions such as taking on the expertise of marketing departments.
(insert slide of suggested advertisement):
"Modern Science brought us:
Mustard Gas - death toll
Zylon-B - death toll
Atomic Weapons - death toll
Weapons Production - death toll (possibly with an image of an AK-47)
Cut to 3 part screen, teaching of the Koran, the Torah, and the Bible
Teaching people not to kill - Priceless
Support the humanities."
Mostly respondents agreed with the call to arms. On Monday October 25th Alan Liu of University of California Santa Barbara wrote the first post alluding to what would become an international, interdisciplinary grass roots organization of digital humanists working in defense of the humanities. This post first outlined the reasons to act:
1. If the humanities are in trouble,
2. If the digital humanities now have a special potential and responsibility to represent the humanities
a. because the digital humanities are affecting an ever larger arc of the humanities,
b. because the (modest) ability of the digital humanities to gain funding shows that they have the potential to seem relevant to administrators, government agencies, and possibly even legislators who otherwise have already dismissed the humanities as yesterday's news,
c. because the digital humanities contribute to the advancement and deployment of technologies that link the humanities with other disciplines (including some STEM fields that need the participation of humanists to pursue interdisciplinary grants) [i.e., the digital humanities have true interdisciplinary potential],
d. and because the digital humanities have the means to communicate quickly and directly to the public in ways that short-circuit the traditional, ponderous levers of university and governmental action,
He then listed opportunities for action:
3. The the natural course of action for interested members of the Humanist list at this extraordinary time is to start a site that, without necessarily engaging in direct political advocacy,... [does] the following:
a. Advocates for the public value of humanities discoveries and projects... We could also likely recruit advocacy statements for the humanities,
b. Provides tools, templates, media expertise, social-network methods, examples, etc., for the local or national networks of humanities educators to make their case before the public.
From this rather exploratory posting behind the scenes scholars from the U.S., Canada, and U.K. collaborated and rose to the call originally presented by Prescott - on Friday November 19, 2010 the launch of the 4Humanities initiative, advocating the humanities, powered by digital humanists, was announced.
The 4Humanities Initiative
4Humanities is a collaboration of scholars in the field of digital humanities, the goal of which is towards an advocacy of the future of humanities in a society where the importance of the humanities is increasingly neglected. Recognizing the advantageous position of digital technologies in the humanities, 4Humanities capitalizes on the opportunity to further the cause for humanities through popular and widely distributed information streams. The initiative focuses on the use of Digital Humanities technologies and experience, comprising an international-wide collective. Using multi-media and scholarly experience, 4Humanities advocates on numerous levels, both through the 4Humanities online platform and through the collection of networked initiatives of similar design such as blogs, newsletters, audio-visual formats, and more. Resources utilized include digital technologies founded in best-practices.
Due to the failing support of government and private funding for the traditional humanities as well as a general societal attitude of apathy towards the humanities, those concerned with the survival and understanding of its value to society have recognized a need for active intervention. As the humanities plays an important role in all sectors of society, including those portions of society that would see its demise, those concerned have began to collaborate in an effort to spread an understanding of its importance, whether for business initiatives, scientific endeavors, or just a basic understanding of human nature as represented through culture and history. 4Humanities understands that society will be better equipped with a humanities background, and likewise, worse off without it.
The 4Humanities initiative employs multiple mediums in order to reach the widest possible audience, using every means, from newspaper to social media. As stated in their Mission, found on the website http://4Humanities.org, 4Humanities:
"is both a platform and a resource for humanities advocacy. As a platform 4Humanities stages the efforts of humanities advocates to reach out to the public. We are a combination newspaper, magazine, channel, blog, wiki, and social network. We solicit well-reasoned or creative demonstrations, examples, testimonials, arguments, opinion pieces, open letters, press releases, print posters, video "advertisements," write-in campaigns, social-media campaigns, short films, and other innovative forms of humanities advocacy, along with accessibly-written scholarly works grounding the whole in research or reflection about the state of the humanities."
4Humanities is an ongoing and evolving project, originally founded in 2010 by scholars from Canada, the United States, Australia, and the U.K. With increasing interest in the initiative and an ever-growing partnership of digital humanities communities from around the world, 4Humanities is establishing itself as a critical and authoritative center in digital activism for the value of traditional humanities. Already partnered with groups such as the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, centerNet, HASTAC, and SDH/SEMI, 4Humanities is quickly rising to prominence on a global scale.
For More information about 4Humanities, contact any of the 4Humanities coordinators: Christine Henseler, Alan Liu, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, Melissa Terras. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is in the rare position to be able to do just about whatever he wants and say whatever he feels. So the man whose game is tearing up the charts on Xbox Live Arcade (more than three million copies sold)... the man who has said publicly that he "loves" working with Microsoft on the Xbox... is the same man who can say...
...and what's Microsoft going to do about it?
I've asked Notch to elaborate on his concerns about Windows 8, but the gist of his complaint, as seen in these tweets, is that Windows 8 makes Microsoft's PC operating system feel more closed and therefore less friendly to enterprising indie developers. These complaints pile on to Stardock CEO Brad Wardell's criticisms of the operating system's usability, leveled here on Kotaku in March and Valve chief Gabe Newell's remark that the new operating system could be "a catastrophe" for PC gaming. Diablo studio Blizzard isn't afraid of Windows 8. (One of our PC-minded reporters had a poor experience with the "professional" version of the operating system on it; our sister site, Gizmodo, however does think the OS is good for gaming.)
If a game is certified for Windows 8, it's able to be listed in the operating system's "Metro" interface. If it's not, it won't appear in the OS' Windows game store, but, as far as I can tell, it will still be playable on Windows 8. This doesn't seem to be a case of Notch being able to pull Minecraft from Windows 8 so much as it's a case of him not wanting to push his game into their listings and shop. It's not clear if Minecraft could be blocked from running on Windows 8, but that seems unlikely, given the OS' support for legacy applications.
Microsoft has been stubbornly silent about the heat Windows 8 is taking. They've repeatedly declined our requests for comment about Newell's remarks and other Windows 8 critiques. An external rep replied to my request for comment today, but only to walk me through the functionality of Windows 8. Any comment from Microsoft about Notch's and others' complaints is, at best, forthcoming. Should Microsoft decide to finally defend their new operating system and share their view of how it benefits PC gaming, we'll let you know.

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The habitats of many common plants and animals will shrink dramatically this century unless governments act quickly to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Sunday after studying 50,000 species around the world.
The scientists from Britain, Australia and Colombia said plants, amphibians and reptiles were most vulnerable as global temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change.
About 57 per cent of plants and 34 per cent of animal species were likely to lose more than half the area with a climate suited to them by the 2080s if nothing was done to limit emissions from power plants, factories and vehicles, they wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Hardest hit would be species in sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, the Amazon and Central America.
"Climate change will greatly reduce biodiversity, even for many common animals and plants," lead author Rachel Warren of the University of East Anglia in England said. The decline would damage natural services for humans such as water purification and pollination, she said.
But the scientists said governments could reduce the projected habitat loss by 60 per cent if global greenhouse gas emissions peaked by 2016 and then fell. A peak by 2030 would cut losses by 40 per cent.
Only 4 per cent of animals, and no plants, were likely to benefit from rising temperatures and gain at least 50 per cent extra territory, the study said.
However, some experts said while it was clear that global temperatures were rising, forecasting the effect on plants and animals was often unreliable as species range was difficult to check.
Difficult balance
Some past studies have indicated that creatures such as bats, hares or opossums may be more able to adapt to new climates than believed. Yet many species of frogs and toads are suffering worse declines in numbers than projected by computer models, apparently because a fungal skin disease is aggravating the effects of global warming.
"It's very difficult to get the right balance between crying wolf and examining the facts," said Carsten Dormann, professor at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany, who was not involved in the study. "We simply don't know if these assessments are correct."
The scientists said: "Over half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change." They said their findings were "probably conservative" as they did not take account of factors that could exacerbate declines, such as pests or diseases.
Almost 200 governments have agreed to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times. They plan to agree, by the end of 2015, a deal to curb emissions.
Global average surface temperatures have risen by 0.8 degree C (1.4F) since the Industrial Revolution.
The amount of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere topped 400 parts per million for the first time since measurements began in 1958, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Friday.
A U.N. panel of climate scientists says it is at least 90 per cent likely that human activities, rather than natural variations, are the main cause of warming since about 1950.


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NASA will launch its newest solar observatory tonight (June 27), kicking off a two-year mission to study how energy moves around the active sun.
A rocket carrying the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph satellite, or IRIS, is scheduled to take off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:27 p.m. EDT tonight (6:27 p.m. local time; 0127 GMT Friday) underneath a carrier aircraft. The plane will release its payload high above the Pacific Ocean one hour later, at which point the rocket will kick on and blast IRIS into orbit.
You can watch NASA's IRIS solar obseratory launch live on SPACE.com courtesy of a NASA webcast. The webcast will begin at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT) and be beamed out live via the space agency's NASA TV channels.
Scientists hope IRIS helps them solve some puzzling solar mysteries, such as why the sun's surface is so much cooler than its outer atmosphere, or corona. [NASA's IRIS Solar Observatory Mission in Pictures]
"What we want to discover is what the basic physical processes are that transfer energy and material from the surface of the sun out to the outer atmosphere, to the corona," IRIS principal investigator Alan Title, a physicist at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif., told reporters earlier this month.
"And remember, the corona extends throughout the heliosphere," Title added, referring to the huge bubble of charged particles the sun puffs out around itself. "We live in the sun's outer atmosphere."
A new view of the sun
IRIS is part of NASA's Small Explorer program, which mounts missions for $120 million or less. The spacecraft is small, measuring just 7 feet long by 12 feet wide (2.1 by 3.7 meters) with its solar panels deployed.
IRIS will launch to Earth orbit tonight aboard a Pegasus XL rocket, which is made by Virginia-based aerospace firm Orbital Sciences. A L-1011 carrier aircraft will drop the Pegasus at 10:27 p.m. EDT (7:27 p.m. local time; 0227 GMT). At that point, the rocket and spacecraft will be 39,000 feet (11,900 m) above the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Vandenberg, NASA officials said.
Once in orbit, IRIS will peer in ultraviolet light at a sliver of the sun between the solar surface and corona. A better knowledge of this interface region, which is just 3,000 to 6,000 miles (4,800 to 9,600 km) wide, could shed light on why temperatures jump from 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius) at the sun's surface to several million degrees in the corona, researchers said.
While other NASA spacecraft such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) look at the entire solar disk, IRIS will focus on just 1 percent of the sun at a time, mission team members said.
"IRIS almost acts as a microscope to SDO's telescope," Jim Hall, IRIS mission manager for the Launch Services Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,said in a statement. "It's going to look in closely, and it's going to look at that specific [interface] region to see how the changes in matter and energy occur in this region. It's going to collectively bring us a more complete view of the sun."
Launch delay
IRIS was originally slated to launch Wednesday (June 26), but a power outage across much of California's central coast Sunday night (June 23) knocked out some key components of Vandenberg's tracking and telemetry systems, causing a one-day delay.
While IRIS team members would have preferred to get off the ground on time, they said the delay was oddly appropriate in a way.
"We believe that some — maybe a lot — of power outages actually have a lot to do with solar activity. So the better we can understand the physics going on, the better we can understand the activity, the better that we can potentially predict and mitigate some of these problems," said Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., which is responsible for IRIS mission operations and ground data systems.
"So it was sort of, in some sense, unfortunate to delay the launch, but it's also fortuitous to highlight the importance of this mission," Worden told reporters Tuesday (June 24).
Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on SPACE.com.


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OTTAWA – A key piece of evidence in the robocalls legal saga is deeply flawed and should be tossed out, says a lawyer representing Conservative MPs whose election wins last year are being challenged in court.
An Ekos Research survey that suggests voter-suppression tactics were widespread in the last election cannot be trusted, lawyer Ted Frankel said Friday.
"I think common sense ought to tell us, when the stakes are this high, we can't trust a survey of anonymous people 11 months later," Frankel said.
People's memories of the calls almost certainly faded during the 11 months between the time when the poll was done and when the harassing and misleading calls allegedly occurred, Frankel said.
Given the flurry of telephone polls that occur during an election campaign, he added, it's entirely likely people might mistake one survey for another.
"To distinguish those details of whether I was called by Ipsos Reid or by a party asking me if I was going to vote, or two parties, it's a lot to expect from someone," Frankel said.
"And it's a lot to ask this court to rely on the responses. … It's impossible, I would suggest."
The Conservative legal team has spent much of the week trying to discredit the survey — which points to signs of a far-reaching, targeted voter-suppression campaign aimed at non-Conservative voters during the May 2011 election — as well as pollster Frank Graves of Ekos Research.
They have questioned Graves' donations to the federal Liberals and inconsistencies in prior court affidavits submitted as part of the case.
There was also a kerfuffle this week after it was revealed Graves — asked to leave the courtroom during his cross-examination so lawyers could confer with the judge — had examined the Twitter feeds of journalists who were tweeting from inside.
On Friday, Steven Shrybman, who represents eight Canadians who are challenging the election results, conveyed Graves's apology for snooping on the courtroom chat.
On the fifth day of scheduled hearings, Frankel took aim at the Ekos survey itself. The poll is being held up by the eight as a sure sign of a targeted and widespread campaign of dirty tricks that marred the election results.
Those who participated in the telephone survey could easily have rushed through it, pressing the number 1 repeatedly on their keypads, in order to qualify for the polling firm's draw for a $500 cash prize, Frankel said.
That means they could easily have mistakenly told pollsters they received a call telling them their polling station had changed and that they did not vote as a result, he continued.
Frankel also noted that several people who told Ekos they were prevented from voting also indicated they voted for a particular party — a contradiction the lawyer held up as further proof the survey was flawed.
He urged Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley not to allow the survey as evidence, saying it could create an unwanted precedent.
"This case would … open up floodgates to this kind of tactic when people are unhappy with the outcome of the election," Frankel said.
Eight Canadians — bankrolled by the left-leaning Council of Canadians — are challenging the results in six ridings in Federal Court, alleging the calls prevented some people from voting, affecting the outcomes.
None of the eight were actually prevented from voting.
The six ridings in question are Vancouver Island North; Yukon; Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar; Elmwood-Transcona and Winnipeg South Centre in Manitoba; and Nipissing-Timiskaming in Ontario.
The case is parallel to — and unsupported by — a continuing Elections Canada investigation into fraudulent robocalls, stemming from complaints that have surfaced in 56 ridings across the country.
The hearing is scheduled to conclude Monday.


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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
netflix has two good documentaries that you must watch: first position & the queen of versailles
i may or may not have eaten half of this cake by myself (what would you do in a house full of sick people??)
and i just found this song this AM and i can't stop playing it....
alright i'm off to go grab my blanket and a box of tissues....see you on the flip side.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
my week's been stressful and i'm ready to CHILL OUT..... this seems quite fitting right now :)
tonight, we are hanging out w/ good friends and i think this guy would be fun to take over to their house...i love a good cheese plate!!
another thing i want to do this weekend is go buy cheap beauty products....i have pinned all of these "great lipsticks" and everytime i'm in target or a drug store, i cannot find them.....any pointers? anyone found these?
while i'm buying cheap beauty products, i think i need to make my bathroom cabinet look like this...seems simple enough. if i could only keep it like this!
and i wish i could do my hair like this...they call it an ombre bun...but that's just fancy for "letting your roots grow out", right (mission accomplished here)!!
as for the rest of the weekend, i plan on haning out w/ my fam....b/c i love those people.
i hope y'all have a nice, chill weekend!! xo- pink wallpaper
*all images are on my pinterest
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Meet Deanna Maio from The Sensational Sixties in this short "Q&A with the Cast" video.
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Portland Musical Theater Company and Chehalem Players Repertory partner to open a world premiere, The Sensational Sixties on January 14, 2017 at the Chehalem Cultural Center Black Box Theatre.
Tickets for The Sensational Sixties are now available and can be purchased at http://chehalemplayersrep.org or by calling the box office at (971) 264-9409.
Featuring songs from Broadway's biggest hits of the 1960s there's a little something for everyone in this revue. Set in the theater after their performance ended a cast of singers passionately debate what was their favorite musical and show tunes of the 60s.
As each cast member puts their candidate forward, the entire group breaks into song to celebrate the hits from their favorite show. With 4 part harmonies, laughs, and tender moments The Sensational Sixties will recall the decade that started with the "Camelot" of a Kennedy presidency and ended with change, hippies, and the hope of peace.
More concert than traditional musical, The Sensational Sixties brings together over 35 Broadway hits from Hello Dolly, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, Man of La Mancha, Hair, Oliver, Bye Bye Birdie, Fiddler on the Roof, and more.
Audience members are encouraged to dress in their favorite 60s fashion.
The show includes a 15 minute intermission and concessions will be available for purchase. All performance will be at the Black Box Theatre at the Chehalem Cultural Center located at 415 E Sheridan St, Newberg, OR 97132.
The performances will take places on the following dates:
January 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, February 3, and 4.
Friday and Saturday performances start at 7:30pm. Sundays start at 2:00pm.
The Sensational Sixties features Ashley Moore, Deanna Maio, Kate Cummings, Andy Mangles, Troy Sawyer, Zachary Gaumond and Rebecca Raccanelli.
The Sensational Sixties was created and directed by Deanna Maio, Founder and Artistic Director of Portland Musical Theater Company.
Tickets for The Sensational Sixties are now available and can be purchased at http://chehalemplayersrep.org or by calling the box office at (971) 264-9409.
General admission $20
Seniors $15
Under 21 $10
Groups of 10 or more can save with our group savings option by calling the box office.
The show is recommended for ages 8 and up.
The Sensational Sixties is one of three productions offered by Portland Musical Theater Company during their 2016-2017 season. The company is offering internship opportunities to help students and recent graduates gain valuable work experience and sponsorship opportunities to organizations and individuals who want to support the arts in Portland. To learn more about Portland Musical Theater Company, please visit their website or contact them at firstname.lastname@example.com or 971-225-7469.


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The Justice Department Awards $6.8 Million To Northern Ohio For Crime Enforcement And Prevention
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio
The U.S. Department of Justice gave more than $6.8 million to fight crime in Northern Ohio this month, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
Today, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), Dettelbach announced funding awards for the Northern District of Ohio, to be used to hire additional police officers and school resource officers.
The grantees, the additional officers to be hired and the grant amount, which includes salary and benefits for officers to three years, are as follows:
Akron, 10 officers, $1.25 million.
Austintown, 2 officers, $250,000.
Canton, 7 officers. $851,949.
Cleveland, 10 officers. $1.25 million.
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, 4 officers, $499,000.
Lima, 1 officer, $125,000.
Mansfield, 4 officers, $849,844.
Toledo, 10 officers, $1.25 million.
Warren, 2 officers, $250,000.
Additionally, the Northern Ohio Violent Crime Consortium was awarded $500,000, which will be used for data analysts and improved technology. NOVCC is made up of the eight largest departments in Northern Ohio – Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Elyria, Lorain, Mansfield, Toledo and Youngstown – and are engaged in intelligence-led policing efforts.
Earlier this month, the Department also awarded $1 million to fund crime prevention and enforcement efforts in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood on Cleveland's southeast side. The money will be used over three years to pay for crime prevention programs, training for felons returning for prison, as well as the continuation V-GRIP gun suppression initiative, in which federal agents work with Cleveland police to arrest people who illegally possess firearms.
"Today, the Justice Department is proud to support the brave and innovative men and women fighting and preventing crime in Northern Ohio," Dettelbach said. "For people listening to those who would indiscriminately shrink or simply shut down the federal government, today's grants, which support cops on the street and crucial crime prevention, is a reminder of the valuable role the federal government plays."
"In the wake of past tragedies, it's clear that we need to be willing to take all possible steps to ensure that our kids are safe when they go to school," said Attorney General Eric Holder. "These critical investments represent the Justice Department's latest effort to strengthen key law enforcement capabilities, and to provide communities with the resources they need to protect our young people. Especially in a time of increased challenges and limited budgets, our top priority must always be the safety and well-being of our children."
Overall the COPS Office funded awards to 263 cities and counties, aimed at creating 937 law enforcement positions. More than $125 million will be awarded nationally, including nearly $45 million to fund 356 new school resource officer positions.
The COPS Hiring Program offers grants to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to hire or rehire community policing officers. The program provides the salary and benefits for officer and deputy hires for three years.
Grantees for the 2013 hiring program were selected based on their fiscal needs, local crime rates, and their community policing plans. There was an additional focus this year on agencies requesting assistance in developing school safety programs that would include the hiring of a school resource officer. School resource officer positions funded by the COPS Office are sworn law enforcement positions that work within a school district or facility, interacting directly with school administrators and students.
The COPS Office is a federal agency responsible for advancing community policing nationwide. Since 1995, COPS has awarded over $14 billion to advance community policing, including grants awarded to more than 13,000 state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of approximately 125,000 officers and provide a variety of knowledge resource products including publications, training, and technical assistance.
For the entire list of grantees and additional information about the 2013 COPS Hiring Program, visit the COPS website at www.cops.usdoj.gov.
Updated March 12, 2015


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My San Ramon Observer website came out of my original "Stop the Sewer" website, in which I tried to get support to relocate the 10 million gallon Dougherty Valley sewer from my neighborhood to Dougherty Valley where it belonged. We got the sewer, the 20 million gallon-a-day pumping station, and two sewage spills over the last eight years. This is why I don't trust Contra Costa County to do what is right for San Ramon.
I felt the local newspapers didn't cover this fairly, and the newly elected Council members, Donna Dickey and Jerry Cambra, who ran against the sewer, changed their positions right after being elected. So I started the San Ramon Observer on January 18, 2002.
In a commentary I wrote a year later, I described the Observer as, ". . . a one-stop place for all information about the City, what's happening in local government, issues, community groups, and events."
Steve O'Brien wrote in his initial blog entry in October 27, 2010, "With 'San Ramon Watch' I plan to continue to investigate and expose issues that I think are worthy of concern from residents. Some of my initial postings will pick up the trail of stories I started on Save Tassajara Valley."
O'Brien and I have very different takes on the City Council, but we both agree they need watching. After the "Gang of Three," left office at the end of 2003, I continued the Observer.
I explained "Why I'm still here," in January, 2006. "I started the Observer to inform residents, and especially voters, about what City Government is up to. Residents of my neighborhood were upset that they were not informed about plans for the Dougherty Valley sewer until it was too late to prevent it. These are the kind of things residents should be aware of."
I'm not anti-growth, and I am in favor of property rights, but I believe impacts of growth should be understood by residents and mitigated or prevented when possible.
O'Brien believes growth should be controlled or limited and he has stated that he is a conservationist and environmentalist. It's good to know where someone's opinions are coming from when you read them.
I have never kept my positions a secret, and I wonder why Mr. O'Brien criticized me in my own blog about having opinions.
"Roz- sorry, but you really are too cozy with this council to call yourself a reporter. The stories you do are really meeting notes. That said, I do appreciate getting at least that level of 'what happened at the meeting' information from you."
I didn't call myself a reporter. The Editor of the Express at that time had me reporting on meetings, but I called myself an Opinion writer or in the newer parlance, a blogger.
Mr. O'Brien was just recently criticized in that other online paper named after a pirate's eyewear (It's our competition), for lacking "balanced and objectivity," in his blog announcing Phil O'Loane's candidacy for City Council. Hey we are both doing the same thing, Steve.
Mr. O'Brien's prior commentary on Phil O'Loane's backbone for writing a letter to the County opposing the New Farm development criticizes the City Council as "invertebrates." I like clever verbiage, and O'Brien writes well. However, it doesn't take any backbone to write a letter to the County on a development project that hasn't progressed very far, and the City Council will have an opportunity to comment on New Farm once the Draft EIR is completed and the official comment period opens.
That could take a year or more and the Council makeup could change, especially now that Mr. O'Loane has announced he's running for City Council. I suspect, that O'Loane's courageous letter, and Mr. O'Brien's praise of it, are more for political showmanship than stopping a development that isn't anywhere near being approved yet.
We may be coming at it from opposite sides of the mountain, but we are both expressing our observations on what's happening in San Ramon. I hope readers will read both blogs and make decisions based on perceptions of what is best for San Ramon.


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The following exit values are returned:
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What is happening to me?
I woke up this morning and as 300,000,000 other Americans or so do, I brushed my teeth. Big difference though on this particular morning; I turned the water off while I moved the Johnson & Johnson, soft bristle, blue handled Flintstone toothbrush from side to side. For 30 or 40 seconds I didn't waste water.
I'm not usually a breakfast person, but on this day I felt like eggs and maybe a slice of watermelon. I look into the bowels of my refrigerator and no eggs or watermelon or anything else that wasn't in a beer can. I need to go to my local grocer and restock. I gather my car keys and some currency. I start the car and have no gas. Leaning against the wall in front of the car is my bike. "Why not", I say to myself. I peddle to the City Market, purchase what fits it my back pack and proceed home for what is now a well deserved breakfast. Didn't have to buy gas, drive the car, use those plastic grocery bags and I got some excersise.
When I'm at work here at the Antlers, I move around the building quite a bit. I also wait alot for an elevator. Today I decide to take the steps rather than stare at the floor looking stupid while I waste precious minutes of my life wondering if the cable car will ever come to my floor. "Walk the steps" I tell myself. "I'll get there faster, help preserve my girlish figure and I can save the Antlers a dime". Those elevators use a lot of energy.
I get home from work and want to eat again. The few dishes I have are dirty. I wash them by hand. Everything tastes better on the BBQ grill. No reason to use 4 stove tops and an oven. I need music when I eat (blues for BBQ, Sinatra for Italian sausage, etc), but the light bulb burned out over the stereo, so I replace it with a flourescent. I check my e-mails before I go to bed and then turn my computer off. Now it's time to brush my teeth again.
Nothing is really happening to me. It just all seems to make sense.


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Let's start with the language of "invasion" and "roiling" the local market that is already "challenging." Sounds like a nefarious threat to the proper status quo, right? But Tim's an established free marketeer, and isn't that what competition always does: invade and roil? Or does it matter whose ox is being (b)roiled?
Later, the text speaks of having to "cope" with "the demands of ObamaCare." What demands, you might ask? Apparently, there is a belief that the Great Evil (a/k/a the ACA) "will reduce reimbursements to hospitals." Except that the government does not reimburse hospitals under the ACA, insurance companies do. ObamaCare is distinctly Not a single-payor system, like Medicare is it simply drives more customers in the direction of insurers by requiring access. Make no mistake the dominant party in the carnal dance of medical economics is the hospitals as the insurers accommodate and enable their opaque pricing. And I don't think I have to tell you who's really been getting, ahem, scrod in the process.
Further, let's assume the ACA does mystically exert downward pressure on health care costs how (oh, How!) would that be that a bad thing? The phenomenon that is Actually moderating such increases, and may eventually bring down medical costs, is price transparency that facilitates comparison shopping. ObamaCare is not intended to address that problem directly, but others notably large benefits providers like CalPERS and big companies are just now starting to find and flex their free market buying power. And efficient health care providers are beginning to recognize their competitive advantage and go along. THAT's the competition that will help this mammoth market work the way it's supposed-to, to the benefit of consumers.
The blog then launches into an extended promotion of all things ValleyCare, including its recently deposed CEO. I guess that would be okay, if equal time was given to the new entrant in these 'stakes, but it's not. It's in the nature of a commercial possibly useful to newcomers, but hardly fair-and-balanced. If the point is that we don't need new providers here well, that's a decision that capitalism leaves to the free market to decide. Unless health care is somehow different?
The final paragraph is notable for two things. First, the language slant continues, as everyone "strives" to "adjust to the 'demands' of ObamaCare." Again, if true how would that be bad or unusual? And don't consumers all of us gain from such striving in every market setting? Does the blog really want to side with hospitals here, and against users that every market is built to serve? Does it want to choose that side when the evidence is so clear that the market has been rigged to serve the hospitals' remarkably profitable interests? Does it mean nothing that Americans spend double Double -- for the same health outcomes as the rest of the First World?
Second, the blog calls for completely unspecified "solutions" based on "changes" in DC. Solutions for whom (as above)? If you want to serve consumers, the obvious change is single payor. Otherwise, much greater regulation of business practices and mergers would be required to rein-in the current market abuses by big hospitals, especially as regards pricing. On the other hand, if you want to serve those hospitals' interests, then frankly, ObamaCare helps-out by smoothing and rationalizing the payment stream from several million new or formerly free users. Again, it's not clear whose side the blog takes, but there is a conflict of the respective interests -- it can't serve them all.
Moreover, I am tired of serial miss-characterizations of the ACA to be a whipping-boy for Everything That's Bad. It may end-up being more costly than the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has projected (as is off-point here, but will surely be pointed-out anyway). Or it may not be we'll see eventually. But you cannot responsibly just trot-it-out to explain every perceived tribulation of your favorite hospital, as if that was so obvious as to not require either logic or explanation. Its repeal may be the continuing nocturnal fantasy of the Right, but efforts in that direction are bound to be about as productive. You may not like it but let's at least bring a modicum of accuracy to the objections.
As to the Tri-Valley specifically, come on in, Muir the water, what there is of it, is fine.


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What works fashion wise for that trek down the aisle?
"1. Feeling comfortable in your appearance is incredibly important. If you feel comfortable with the way you look, you will radiate the most confidence."
|Brittany Baldwin married Mitchell Clough
at the Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast.
Their Real Wedding features in The Bride's Gown Look Book.
She radiates confidence on her special day!
"2. Determine what kind of wedding you are having. The volume, silhouette, proportions, amount of adornment, tailoring and other elements of the dress should have a lot to do with not only where you have your wedding, but what time of day it is being held and what the temperature is. The dress is not only about how it looks on your body."
|Lou Fitzhardinge & Paul McDougall
A Real Wedding in The Brides Gown
Lou is dressed beautifully for a wonderful cold Autumn wedding.
"3. It's really important to see the whole look - the dress, the headpiece, the size of the bouquet and the shoes. I would go so far as to include the makeup. A lot of girls put a tremendous amount of effort into the dress, but they don't give a lot of thought to the headpiece, tiara, barrettes or other accessories. Very often they are an afterthought."
|Kimberley & Daniel Tuillo featured as a Real Wedding
in our Autumn 2012 Issue 20 digital magazine.
Great hair do, tiara, matching earrings and complimentary makeup!
"4. Go easy on the bouquet. Bouquets that are too large or too loud will detract from the dress."
|Katie and Matt - The Secret Garden
Such an intricate dress of beauty subtly complimented by the bouquet!
"5. Hem lengths are very key. You have to make sure you don't see the shoes. The dress should definitely be floating above in the front. If it is too long in front, it's treacherous. In order to make a wedding a success, the bride should not have to lift the dress. Someone tripped in my most recent show. It can be a particularly long walk down the aisle."
|Natasha and Paul Cooper featured
as a Real Wedding in our The Brides Gown Look Book.
Natasha negotiated the stairs out of the church with no trouble at all !
"6. Makeup is another thing to think about. I'm not crazy about strong red lipstick with a white dress. If you never wear blue eyeshadow or purple eyeshadow or glitter, why wear it on your wedding day? You want to avoid any makeup that makes you look disguised or that makes you no longer look like yourself. That is huge. It should be the same with the hair. Sometimes stylists can get too elaborate with hair styles and colours. Wearing hair accessories and bobby pins are very much about editing."
|Hannah and Rhys Clark featured as a Real Wedding
in The Brides Gown Look Book
Her makeup is professionally applied and accentuates her natural beauty!
"7. I have to say I prefer a shoe on the quieter side whether it is a fashion shoe (though it doesn't have to be) or something with a bit of a wedding feeling. I like a shoe with a tapered toe box. I'm not someone who is into a full-on Swarovski-covered glittery shoe. I don't think you want that much attention. A little kitten heel is nice if you are marrying someone shorter than you, or a platform if you are marrying someone taller."
|Amy and James Tracy-Inglis are featured
in our Autumn 2012, Issue 20 digital magazine
Amy's shoes are from Kurt Geiger
"8. It is just as important to have black-and-white photography done as it is to have colour. Black and white is chic and timeless."
|Leonie and Chris Davenport featured as a
Real Wedding in our Autumn 2012 Issue 20 digital magazine
Black and white is chic and timeless!
"9. Step into your dress whether it is large or narrow. There are things no one can compensate for. I once had a bride get red lipstick on the front of her dress when she pulled it on over her head. Keep anyone with colourful drinks, beverages or makeup away from you."
|May and Adrian Wong featured as a Real Wedding in our
Autumn 2012 Issue 20 digital magazine
May is carefully helped into her gown by her bridesmaid so as to not
disturb the gorgeous hair do.
"10. Savour the moment. There's a tendency when people get married to rush down the aisle as soon as the ceremony has ended. I'm not sure if it's relief or what. But you have to remember the guests have spent most of the time looking at your back during the service. So much work goes into planning. Take your time when walking back down the aisle. Let them see the dress."
|Amy and James Tracy-Inglis are featured
in our Autumn 2012, Issue 20 digital magazine
Gradually and happily walking down the aisle after a beautiful ceremony!
Great advice! Thanks Vera!
|Vera Wang
1: Studio Sixty Photography & Todd Hunter McGraw
3: Jennifer Oliphant Photography www.jenniferoliphant.com
4: http://www.styleandbride.com/2012/02/katie-and-matt-the-secret-garden/
5. Ryan Heywood www.ryanheywood.com
6: Ryan Ahern www.ahern.com.au
7 & 10: Popcorn Photography http://www.popcornphotography.com.au
8: Tim Coulson Photography www.timcoulson.com
9: Pobke Photography http://www.pobkephotography.com


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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed in a new research article Thursday what doctors, epidemiologists and people who suffer from valley fever have experienced firsthand: Cases of the fungal disease rose at stunning rates over the last decade, especially in California and Arizona.
The CDC's analysis addresses the findings reported in Just One Breath, a series of news stories on valley fever by the Reporting on Health Collaborative published in various news outlets, including Voice of OC. The series chronicled the rise in valley fever cases and deaths and the lack of attention by state and federal policymakers.
"I do think that the reporting series helped to put [valley fever] at the forefront, especially in California," said Dr. Benjamin Park, medical officer in the CDC's Mycotic Diseases Branch and the study's senior author.
People catch coccidioidomycosis, also known as valley fever, after inhaling fungal spores that are common in the dry parts of the Southwest as well as Mexico and Latin America. Experts say the lack of funding and serious attention to valley fever has stalled efforts to combat the disease.
But valley fever seems to be gaining policy attention. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, and CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden recently met to discuss valley fever's impact in the Southwest.
"We discussed the possibility of developing a vaccine and also developing various strategies to combat this disease through better diagnosis, treatment and prevention, and I commend Dr. Frieden's willingness to accept the invitation I made for CDC officials to come to Bakersfield to improve awareness and meet with our local valley fever experts and our medical community," McCarthy wrote in an email.
Frieden also declared in an email that his agency is "committed to continuing to work together to address this serious and costly disease."
Frieden also wrote that he is looking forward to welcoming McCarthy on a visit to the CDC in April to meet with the agency's valley fever experts and tour facilities.
To better understand valley fever's toll, the CDC analyzed data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System for the years from 1998 to 2011.
"What was surprising to me was that these increases [in valley fever] have been very consistent year over year," Park said. "Overall, the trend, I think, is quite striking, and it clearly shows that there is an increasing burden."
The findings, published Thursday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, mirror much of what the Reporting on Health Collaborative found, including:
- The total number of valley fever cases rose by more than 850 percent in the areas where valley fever is most common — California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. In California, the case counts rose from 719 in 1998 to 5,697 in 2011.
Cases in Arizona increased from 1,474 in 1998 to 16,467 in 2011.The study noted that a change in a major Arizona lab's reporting practices could account for part of Arizona's increase.
In states where the disease is not as common, the number of valley fever cases reported jumped from six in 1998 to 240 in 2011.
- For the entire period, a total of 111,717 coccidioidomycosis cases were reported to the CDC from 28 states and the District of Columbia. The CDC found that 66 percent were reported from Arizona and 31 percent from California.
- Because cases can incease simply as a result of the population increasing, the CDC also tracks the rate of the disease in the population, known as the incidence. The incidence of reported valley fever grew eightfold from 1998 to 2011, rising in the areas where valley fever is common from 5.3 per 100,000 people to 42.6 per 100,000, the article stated.
- The rise of valley fever occurred across all age groups. The rate of the disease was highest among 40- to 59-year-olds in California, but in other states the incidence was higher among people 60 and older.
The study includes several caveats about its findings, noting that artificial increases in cases could be spurred by changes in how states monitor the disease and increases in the number of people being tested for valley fever.
But the study also notes that a 2006 study found only 2 to 13 percent of patients with signs and symptoms were tested for valley fever, indicating that the disease is likely greatly underreported.
"The problem is we don't really know what the underreporting rate is, but it's substantial," said Dr. Royce H. Johnson, professor of medicine at UCLA and chief of infectious disease at Kern Medical Center.
Michael Lancaster, director of laboratory services at the Kern County Public Health Services Department, said the various factors mentioned in the article could add up to a bit of an increase but that "we're probably in reality seeing more valley fever."
The study also notes a lack of data about race and ethnicity. Higher valley fever rates have been shown among blacks and Asians, and blacks are at greater risk for developing the most serious form of the disease, the study says. But the study says that about 70 percent of cases were missing details about race and ethnicity.
Valley fever experts said the numbers prove that the disease is a public health concern worthy of research dollars. Better diagnostics, medications and a vaccine to fight the disease cannot be achieved without more money, they said.
Industry and government funding for valley fever research has dried up, Johnson said. "There are many, many diseases getting more funding that are less important than this one," Johnson said, noting the personal and financial cost of failing to address the growing problem of valley fever.
CDC's Park said the study's findings provide a strong argument for development of better treatments for valley fever so people suffering from the disease can resume their normal lives sooner and stay out of the hospital.
"Clearly more research is warranted and is needed," he said.
Misdiagnosis of valley fever is common. Doctors and public health officials stressed that educating physicians and the public in general to identify valley fever symptoms is crucial because the disease is difficult to prevent.
"Because fungus particles spread through the air, it's nearly impossible to completely avoid exposure to this fungus in these hardest-hit states," Frieden wrote. "It's important that people be aware of valley fever if they live in or have traveled to the southwest United States."
Clarisse Tsang, acting infectious disease epidemiology program manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services and an author of the CDC study, said people should learn valley fever symptoms and ask their doctors to test them for the disease if they are suffering from a cough, fever and fatigue.
Physician awareness matters beyond Arizona and California, experts said. Doctors should examine patients' travel histories to learn whether patients have journeyed through areas where valley fever is endemic.
Valley fever will continue to be a public health issue as more people who have not been exposed to the disease travel to areas where the fungus is common, Lancaster said.
"It's going to become an even worse problem," he said.
The Reporting on Health Collaborative involves The Bakrsfild Californian, the Merced Sun-Star, Radio Bilingue in Fresno, The Record in Stockton, Valley Public Radio in Fresno and Bakersfield, Vida en el Valle in Fresno, the Voice of OC in Orange County and ReportingonHealth.org. The collaborative is an initiative of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Nov. 20,2012— -- As a funeral for a young man was held in Gaza City today, two large swarms of white leaflets fell from Israeli warplanes, flitting to the ground. As the sun set, Gazans came streaming out of several north-eastern neighborhoods, fleeing the deadly onslaught they worried the leaflet forewarned.
"The Israeli forces are not aiming at any of you and don't want to hurt any of your family members. Because of this, you should evacuate from your home immediately and move to Gaza center," the leaflets read. "This will be temporary and in the end, everyone will return home. Listening to our instructions will protect all the civilian people."
The leaflet showed a map and listed five roads to use to get to the center of Gaza.
Palestinians poured out of the neighborhoods with whatever they could grab, some with just the clothes on their backs. Car, trucks, tuk-tuks and donkey carts were piled high with mattresses, blankets and children.
The Israel-Gaza Conflict in Pictures
"Based on what they're saying on this leaflet, there's going to be a ground incursion," a man in a packed car said. "The last war we didn't listen to the leaflet and we suffered a lot. We want to evacuate before the incursion starts to protect ourselves."
The leaflet included directions to the nearest school. Outside a Gaza City school run by UNRWA, the United Nations' body in Gaza, a woman holding a young child wept.
"They killed us, destroyed our houses. We're scared they'll kill us," she cried. "We ask you to stand next to us, to help us."
Hundreds milled about the schoolyard, claiming space in the classrooms around the edges. A group of men took turns kicking a locked blue metal door, trying to get into a classroom, an effort that proved futile.
Juda Zaid arrived with his brother and 18 other family members, including an older woman who been a coma in a week and was on medication.
"When there's any explosion, the kids start screaming," said Juda Zaid. Asked if he'll go home soon, he responded, "God willing, this is what we ask from God."


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The St. Louis Rams took turns showering praise on free-agent acquisition Kenny Britt during offseason practices.
It should come as no surprise, then, that former Rams linebacker Will Witherspoon believes Britt will finally produce his long-awaited breakout season in 2014.
"I think the addition of Kenny Britt will be a huge boost for the Rams offense," Witherspoon told SiriusXM NFL Radio on Thursday. "I expect him to blossom into a star."
Witherspoon no longer plays for the Rams. He didn't witness Britt's offseason work. It's worth noting, though, that Witherspoon played with Britt in Tennessee and presumably holds close ties to coach Jeff Fisher after following him from Nashville to St. Louis.
Early in Britt's career, he showed glimpses of All-Pro potential. Since undergoing multiple knee operations, though, his game film has been among the least impressive in the league.
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Per the instructions on the back of your ticket, payment can be made to the Summit County Sheriff's Office. You must pay within 20 days from the date you received the ticket (violation date on your ticket). If not paid within 20 days, it becomes by law a Summons and Complaint and requires an appearance in Court at the date, time and place indicated on the front of the ticket (lower left-hand corner). You can NOT change your court date with the Sheriff's Office; you MUST contact the Summit County Combined Courts at (970) 453-2272.
Colorado State Tickets(issued by the SCSO)
The violations on these tickets fall under the Colorado Revised Statutes traffic code; they usually begin with the number 42-x-xxx. Please refer to the back of the ticket for instructions on payment. All fees are paid directly to the State Department of Revenue, NOT the Sheriff's Office. If not paid within 20 days, it becomes by law a Summons and Complaint and requires an appearance in court at the date, time and place indicated on the front of the ticket (Lower left-hand corner).
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- If you are required to appear in court, you MUST be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
- If the driver is a minor, they MUST notify their parent or legal guardian within 72 hours of the issuance of the summons.
- The parent or guardian and the juvenile MUST sign the citation and mail in the fine within 20 days from the date of the violation or appear in court.
- The parent or guardian's signature MUST be notarized.
- Send in the form without the necessary signatures will NOT constitute proper payment and WILL require a court appearance from the parent or guardian and the minor.
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Friday May 30th to Sunday June 1st Bobby, T and I will be in Philadelphia for Wizard World Philly. Because of this, Subway Sketching is postponed until June 8th.
If you're in the area, come on by. We'd love to say hi!
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Here are some recent subway sketches...rotating my pens and pencils for practice. Hope you like them :)
Here's some killer links that we've wanted to add for quite some time but never got the chance to!
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Breast-Fed Kids May Have Low Iron Levels, Study Finds
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FRIDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Although breast-feeding is generally considered the best way to nourish an infant, new research suggests that in the long term it may lead to lower levels of iron.
"What we found was that over a year of age, the longer the child is breast-fed, the greater the risk of iron deficiency," said the study's lead author, Dr. Jonathon Maguire, pediatrician and scientist at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto in Canada.
The study, released online April 15 in the journal Pediatrics, did not, however, find a statistical relationship between the duration of breast-feeding and iron deficiency anemia. Anemia is a condition in which the body has too few red blood cells.
Iron is an important nutrient, especially in children. It is vital for normal development of the nervous system and brain, according to background information included in the study. Growth spurts increase the body's need for iron, and infancy is a time of rapid growth.
The World Health Organization recommends breast-feeding exclusively for the first six months of life and then introducing complementary foods. The WHO endorses continued breast-feeding up to 2 years of age or longer, according to the study.
Previous studies have found an association between breast-feeding for longer than six months and reduced iron stores in youngsters. The current study sought to confirm that link in young, healthy urban children.
The researchers included data from nearly 1,650 children between 1 and 6 years old, with an average age of about 3 years. None of the children had any chronic conditions.
The odds of iron deficiency increased by about 5 percent for each additional month of breast-feeding.
The researchers also noted an association between greater daily cow's milk consumption and lower iron levels, according to the study.
"There isn't very much iron in breast milk, though breast milk does offer all kinds of advantages, particularly in the first year," Maguire said. "Children who breast-feed longer may not be eating as many complementary foods."
"This is something that parents can consider -- that there's a small but detectable risk of iron deficiency in children breast-fed past one year," he said. "These children may potentially benefit from a diet full of wholesome, iron-containing foods."
Iron-rich foods include those that are fortified with iron, such as cereals; lean beef, lamb and duck; oysters, shrimp, clams and sardines; beans and peas, such as lentils, chickpeas, white beans, kidney beans and lima beans; and spinach and turnip greens, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
One doctor doubts the new study will change clinical practice.
"This was an interesting preliminary study, but from the standpoint of a practicing physician, there's not much I would change in practice," said Dr. Ruby Roy, a pediatrician at LaRabida Children's Hospital in Chicago, who will still recommend breast-feeding to new mothers.
"Mom's iron passes to baby very efficiently until the child is a little older, and the iron needs increase. I think all toddlers are at risk of iron deficiency," she said, adding that parents could encourage their children to eat more iron-rich foods. Pediatricians also should talk to parents about what foods are good sources of iron, she said.
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Ring in 2014 with a full-week of outstanding genealogy education. Places are still open in a few courses at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) but they won't last long. And if you register before the owl hoots at midnight October 31, 2013, you can' get in on the Early-Bird Registration price.
For the first time, Social Historian Gena Philibert-Ortega will coordinate a course at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) that brings together the many facets of using social history for family history. The class instructors bring their own special expertise to the program with sessions on folk music (Jean Wilcox Hibbens), library archives (Luana Darby), female ancestors (Beverly Rice) and Library of Congress, DC research (Pamela Boyer Sayre).
Gena specializes is using ephemera, community cookbooks, diaries, journals, and other personal artifacts to tell the story of our ancestor's lives. More than names, dates, and places, social history helps researchers enrich their family history with details of everyday life. With the added bonus of the Family History Library, attendees are sure to come away with new ideas and stories for their own family history projects.
SLIG January 13-17
The 2014 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy will offer courses in topics from American Research to Social History taught by some of the best genealogical instructors in the nation.
The week-long program offers a chance for in-depth study and extra hours of evening lectures and research at the Family History Library. Classes are held at the Salt Lake City Radisson Hotel, convenient to the FHL.
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American Research and Records: Focus on Families
Coordinator: Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FUGA, FMGS
Credentialing: Accreditation, Certification, or Both?
Coordinators: Apryl Cox, AG and Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, CGL
Researching in Eastern Europe
Instructor: Kory Meyerink, MLS, AG, FUGA
Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum
Instructors:Angela McGhie and Kimberly Powel
Problem Solving
Coordinator: Judith Hansen, AG
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Coordinator: Gena Philibert-Ortega, MA, MAR
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