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Mass Protests for Workers Rights Needed
Worker's Rights and Social Justice
The lack of employment and economic opportunities, the lack of access to healthcare and higher education, plus extreme economic inequality due to a high concentration of American wealth being in the hands of far too few people has turned the USA into a powder-keg. Like the Middle East, America too has become a ticking time bomb of inequality and lack of opportunity. I have written a book on this topic (more about that at the end) whose main premise is that the rights of US workers have been trampled underfoot by the rich multinational corporations and the top 1% who are outsourcing all our jobs overseas as they leave us high and dry. The least common denominator of middle class loss of income due to mass layoffs, the loss of housing due to foreclosure and eviction and the excess of economic inequality due to a disproportional concentration of wealth, is that all three of these comprise the human rights of workers throughout the world, beginning here in America since our country is supposed to be the standard-bearer of freedom and opportunity. If the American worker does not get what he or she is legally and rightfully entitled to, we will organize strikes and other forms of peaceful protest and civil disobedience until we get what we want, up to and including the complete shutdown of the entire country for at least one day. And we will do all of this without firing a single shot, just as the protesters and public demonstrations overseas did before us.
There are also a growing number of employed people who, despite having a job, are still living in poverty. There are at least 15 million workers who now fall into this rapidly growing category. The median US income of $32,390 a year is not going to get you far in today's economy, and half of the country is making less than that. The reason we struggle with these things is because the Economic Elite have robbed us all through the systematic confiscation of middle class wealth and prosperity. This tremendous suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity, and it is the result of the largest single transfer of wealth in all of human history from the middle class to the rich. And so I came up with what I call in my book The 8 Fundamental Rights of Mankind. The first and foremost right is that of all workers.
The basic rights of all workers can be broken down into seven parts; the right to a livelihood and a living wage wage, rights of unemployed persons, right to free vocational re-training for life, right to choice of career path, right to organize, right to a flexible work week, and right to family and maternity leave. I will elaborate on these in order to better explain this new Occupy Movement (which I predicted would happen in my book months before it occurred), what it stands for, and what we want from those in positions of leadership, as well as ways of acquiring these rights in a peaceful and orderly fashion.
The first thing on the list of worker's rights is also the highest priority, that of a fair and realistic minimum wage, and more fundamentally, the basic human right to a livelihood. Unemployment as we have known it must now come to an end forever. What gives wealthy corporate CEO's the right to tell any given man or woman, Sorry, you are not needed around here anymore. Your skills, experience, and your work ethic no longer matter here. Who do they think they are? They outsourced many of our jobs overseas so that corporate America could enrich themselves at the expense of their former employees, leaving middle and working class Americans with no way to earn a respectable living and be self-sufficient. The jobs that could not be outsourced were downsized out of existence. Then this same bunch of corporate leaders turned around and, with the cooperation of American academia, raised costs for higher education so high that many of us who wish to go back to school and train for a new career are unable to do so for mainly economic reasons. In the end, numerous persons who urgently wish to improve themselves through education are held back from doing so, and that is a social injustice and a civil rights violation worthy of the loudest protests in numerous places throughout our country. The days when aspiring students have to pay for their higher education must come to an end, with corporate America picking up the tab via an all-new tax system that I discussed in a previous posting. For more info, click here.
There is too much imbalance and inequity in the distribution of wealth in the US today. Over 90% of all available liquid cash and assets are in the hands of a maximum of 10% of the US population. And so every day it's steak for them and beans for the rest of us. How much longer are we going to allow this to go on? And so it looks to me like our country is in dire need of some peaceful and orderly wealth redistribution. One very good way to accomplish this would be to send everybody back to school who wants to go free of charge. Who would pick up the tab for the tuition for all those millions of people? Would it be the government? Absolutely not! The bill should instead be presented to corporate America, since it is corporate America who outsourced or downsized all of our jobs in the first place. If they won't let us work for their companies anymore, then they owe it to us to train us to work somewhere else. Anything less is a social injustice and a civil rights issue worthy of a national chorus of protests.
This brings me to the point that I wish to make. In today's world, if the net take-home pay of any given individual does not meet, or just barely meets, that same individuals daily cost of living, then that is tantamount to economic slavery. Let me say that again because this point simply cannot be overemphasized. If your take home pay won't even take you home, your are a slave. Oh, you are free to move around and to come and go as you choose and take care of business, that is true. But if after you stop at the grocery store, pay the light bill (assuming you are fortunate enough to be able to do that), put gas in your tank (assuming you are lucky enough to still own a car) and set some money aside for next month's rent or mortgage (if you're not already on the street or living with relatives),
and then after all that you peek into your wallet and realize that you have $7.00 left to live on for the whole stinkin' week, that's when you know you are a slave. What happens to the people whose incomes are at or below minimum wage? They go hungry and are often homeless. Many of these newly homeless, formerly middle class people also have kids who have fallen into poverty along with their parents. And this is happening in the United States of America. This is a moral outrage, a social injustice, and it is economic discrimination of the worst kind. Since it is an issue of discrimination, by extension it also becomes a 21st century civil rights issue. This too then is cause for protests, demonstrations, boycotts, general strikes and other forms of peaceful civil disobedience.
On this point alone, there are enough issues on the collective dinner plate of the American people to foster open revolt throughout the land. Never mind everything else that I have written about. Think about it for a minute. How does it feel to be a slave? Makes you feel kind of angry, doesn't it? It make us all feel violated because we have all been slaves, often without realizing it. The time to rise up and say, No more! has arrived. It's time for all of us to get out from in front of out TV's and our computers and to get our in the street and start protesting. And that's just for this issue alone. Now allow me to mention the rest of these rights.
The second right under worker's rights is the right to better and more comprehensive unemployment insurance, and to also allow independent contractors to draw unemployment provided certain conditions are met (subject to future legislation). Any worker who has lost his or her job through no fault of their own will be entitled to up to 50 weeks of unemployment compensation instead of the current maximum of 26 weeks. At any time during the worker's period of unemployment he or she will have two other options besides their job search available to them to assist in the development of their careers. The first will be the ability to sign up for a public works project to obtain immediate employment. The worker's second option will be reeducation, and I will touch on that in a minute so please bear with me.
We need a massive public works project to repair America's crumbling infrastructure. I would conservatively estimate that anywhere from 1-3 million people could be employed this way as day laborers, direct employees or subcontractors depending on the need. The fact of the matter is that we need jobs, we need lots of them, and we need them right now! Since our government has failed to act in this regard in spite of an obvious need, we will have to do this ourselves. Let's get this on the ballot for the next general election, and let's also strike and protest for action on this matter until then.
The third human right listed is the right to free vocational retraining for life. Anybody can go back to school and get retrained at will, up to and including a 2 year degree, and under this new system it will all be free of charge. Large, wealthy corporations with robust cash flows, as well as millionaires and the super-rich, will supply the necessary funding through what I call in my book the excess wealth tax (you can buy the book to find out the details which include repealing the federal income tax). Since corporate America made the decision to send their factories and all the jobs those factories provided overseas to lower their labor costs, and since this action has caused the reaction of the obliteration of millions of American careers, it will be corporate America who will shoulder the responsibility of retraining these people whose careers evaporated through no fault of their own. If they take your job away, or if they export or downsize your career out of existence like I experienced myself, then it is those same corporate henchmen who must pay for your reeducation. Higher education is a basic, fundamental human right. The day has come when higher education is no longer only for those who can afford the tuition. As of today, higher education, and the fundamental right to improve and enrich ourselves, is an American civil right that will be had by all without qualification.
Let me add one more tasty ingredient into this mix. Students in these reeducation programs, or public works project workers who have children, will be given taxpayer-funded day care free of charge so they can get their education without having to worry about their kids. Now I know what some of you are thinking right now who's gonna pay for that? Let me put this into perspective for you. If your US government took all the money that is spent in a single day on the twin wars (or more accurately occupations) in Iraq and Afghanistan plus the clandestine and illegal wars and black ops in Pakistan, Libya and Yemen and set it aside in an enormous savings account, there would be enough money to send every American school age kid from the first grade through high school to any college, public or private, or any state university or vocational school to earn their degree of choice with the tuition fully paid for, plus the cost of all their books and supplies, their meals, internet access, and access to public transportation covered as well. So anyone who says we can't afford to send everyone to college with their expenses fully paid, or that the money to accomplish this just isn't there, either doesn't know what they are talking about, or they are elitists and bigots who can't stand to see middle and working class and minority students getting ahead. Access to higher education, and looking after the children of those who are retraining, is an American civil right that should be equally available to all without qualification, not just to those who can afford it.
The fourth human right under worker's rights that I have written about is the choice of career path without penalty. Anyone can be reeducated or obtain higher education choosing any vocation they want. Do you want to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist or an astronaut (yes, many astronauts and other space workers will be needed within a decade or two at the most)? Never again will any aspiring high school student be turned away from obtaining an advanced degree for purely financial reasons. Every able-bodied homeless person, newly released prisoners, and the long-term unemployed will be able to be placed in the public works program or the reeducation program that I have just explained without qualification. It should be a crime for somebody to be homeless or jobless just because he or she wants to work but can't find employment.
The fifth right I wrote about is simply the right for all workers to organize. Any American worker who wants to join a union must be allowed to do so, and any group of workers who decide to organize themselves for the purposes of collective bargaining and solidarity must be allowed to do so without interference or fear of retribution. This will include a provision making it illegal for states to outlaw labor unions and prohibiting companies and corporations from preventing unionization. If our country's leadership is unwilling or unable to pass this and other basic rights of all workers that I have mentioned, then we as united American citizens must unite to get this issue on the next ballot by way of popular referendum. American workers will get worse working conditions, not better, if they do not organize. In the meantime, the short-term solution is to take this matter and all others like it into the streets as the Occupy Movement has done. You know, if you haven't joined us yet you really should, it's for your own good and for the future of your country.
The sixth human right that I mentioned is the right to a fair workweek. All workers who work more than 40 hours in a week, and all salaried managers who work more than 50 hours per week, will be entitled to compensation at time and a half. All companies with more than 100 employees will be required to offer either a four day workweek with a ten hour workday, or a five day workweek with an eight hour workday to all its workers. This will save a lot of energy and provide workers with more leisure time.
The right to family leave, which will include maternity leave for women, is the final right for all workers and independent contractors. Every other country in the developed world from Europe to Canada to Japan has paid family leave for its workers all except for the US. It's time for Congress and the President to bring our country up to speed with the rest of the world in this regard. Furthermore, family and maternity leave should be allowed for up to 3 months per calendar year, and it must be illegal to fire someone from his or her job because that employee has taken family leave.
The right of all individuals to have family or maternity leave must be had by all, without interference or fear of retribution, for the strengthening of our families and the nurturing of our children.
The fundamental rights of workers must be honored and acknowledged by rule of law, and by a culture change that puts people before profits. The days of funneling the company's profits to its shareholders instead of its employees must come to an end forever as corporations gradually become replaced with employee-owned cooperatives. We the people, the workers who are the ones who keep things running for the rest of us, are the new business model for the 21st century. This is the new reality we must all embrace if we are to thrive in the 21st century.
This posting is composed of excerpts from my book, The Middle and Working Class Manifesto (6x9 softback, 472 pages). For more info and ordering information visit the Second American Revolution website at www.2ndar.org.
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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:36 AM
Vic Vinegar (80 posts)
1. Workers must demand a NEW DEAL
Good article. I would say a general strike would be the most effective tool but you would really have to get people involved. Don't stop at workers' rights though! We need to demand a NEW DEAL!
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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 12:15 AM
Vic Vinegar (80 posts)
2. Workers' Rights starts with no austerity
I agree to free college loans among everything else here--we could also include easier immigration process for immigrants from Mexico so they can attain legal UNION jobs.
On paying for college; Corporate tax hikes would be crippling to our already disintegrating economy. What we need to tax is not profits but financial transactions between most of these large corporations that have non-bank banking and that of commercial banks partaking in flash trading (trading at millions transactions per second.) These transactions equate to about 4 Quadrillion a year going through the Chicago Exchange and Wall Street. We can get out of the deficit and fund these kinds of no interest loans via a 1% Wall Street Sales Tax!


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A little while back I read a post on Tim Ferriss' blog about Michel de Montaigne. I got interested, as philosophy keeps being an interesting thing. Michel de Montaigne is the inventor of essays and has become famous of the essays he wrote.
Reading through the story I got to the most interesting question (although the commonplace book is also a great idea): 'Que sais-je?' or 'What do I know?'
What do we know?
I am in my second year of medical school. The past 13 years of my 19 years counting life I've been going to school, I've been educated. Now, what do I know after that lifetime of education?
Everyday subjects
In elementary school we've been learning about things in everyday life. How does a bird fly. Why is the grass green. How do we write peanut butter.
Then we went to high school. From everyday subjects we went to a 'higher understanding' of things. Birds don't just fly because their bones are hollow, there is a lot of physics behind it. All those laws of nature makes the bird fly. Grass isn't just green to catch sunlight but they contain chloroplasts which are taking all the colors of the sun except green, so green will be the only reflected color.
Now, we are in college. Physics is taken to another level and we learn how chloroplast are formed. College is where we get an even more specific understanding of everyday life. We are becoming specialists, everybody in its own field.
So what do we know?
If you look in time, we start to know more, but about less subjects. For instance with geography, we start with the world and we know a lot of countries. But then you are going to learn all the cities in your own country and you start to know more, in a more specific way. You learn all the cities of your country, but not the country on the other side of the world. If you show me a map I can show you all the big cities in Europe, but if you ask me the big cities in Australia, it will be way harder.
We learn more, we start to know more, but not about more. We start to know less actually in comparison of what we know in our field of interest. And with every change of school, we make a jump in the specifity of our field of interest. After making the jump to college I didn't learned anything anymore about economics, so I know something about it, but in comparison of what I know about the human body I know close to nothing about economics.
If you want to answer the question 'What do I know?' about everyday subjects you can only say something like: 'I know something about everything and everything about something.'
The Big Questions of life
Was Montaigne looking for the answer on his question in everyday subjects? Probably not. Montaigne was trying to figure out what he knew about the big questions in life. Where do we come from? Where do we go? And the most important: Why are we here?
If you read back just a little you will see some sort of chronology of what we know about what if you look at everyday subjects, but is there anything like it if you look at the Big Questions? Do we get to know more about these subjects while our age increases? I dare to say no. I even dare to say we know less than before.
When I was six years old, when I just started to go to school I knew where we came from. God made us. I also knew where we were going: To heaven. I probably didn't knew why we were here, but I had almost all the questions figured out. At least, I had answers. That all changed. If I am trying to answer these questions now there will be pages of text and if you read good enough you will read there are no answers on those pages.
So maybe we know less about the Big Questions while time is passing by. Or maybe we define the word 'answer' differently when we grow older. We can state for sure that nobody has the actual answer.
Answering the question 'What do I know' is harsh. Because the answer is 'Approximatly nothing'. In everyday subjects I don't know a lot. And I am afraid to answer the Big Questions. I don't know anything.
What meant Montaigne with this question?
If I now look back at the last couple of sentences, there is a lot of reason to get depressive. I don't know anything and I probably won't learn it in the near future, so my existence consists of knowing nothing. But Montaigne wasn't trying to get us depressive. In contrary, he was trying to make us laugh about ourselves.
If I look at my fellow med students, I see a lot of people showing off their knowledge. Walking around like they are doctors already, talking in fancy words. But still, they don't know anything. Because we all don't know anything. We don't have to take us this serious, let's take ourselves not serious at all. Of course we should cherish our knowledge, but on the other hand we should always keep in mind that there is a world left to discover, that we can only have all the knowledge if we work together. Because everybody knows something about everything. And a lot of people know everything about something. Let us work together and we will know almost everything about everything combined.
We can't take ourselves seriously, but we can take our partnerships serious.
What do I know? I don't know anything. But what I do know is that if we all work together, there is a great potential in the knowledge we can gather.
Ask yourself the question what you know every once in a while, think about this question. Don't take yourself so serious all the time. We are all just human.
If you want to read more about Montaigne, check out these books:
- How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- Montaigne – The Essays: A Selection
- Montaigne (Past Masters Series)
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Japan-bashing has long been favored by Chinese leaders as a way to unify public opinion and rally support for the Communist Party. Now a Chinese company appears to have decided that it's good for business too.
Baojian, a maker of cosmetics and consumer healthcare products, says it has cancelled a planned visit to Japan by 10,000 of its employees and others, in what the company says is a protest at the detention of a Chinese fishing vessel near disputed islands in the East China Sea.
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The Taxation Institute of Australia, while supporting the introduction of a GST as part of overall tax reform, has concerns that a number of transitional measures in the Governments A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Bill 1998, will create serious compliance issues for a number of businesses.
In addition, these compliance issues lead to a much broader issue of whether business be allowed sufficient lead time in the transitional period to budget forthe cost of implementing the GST.
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Over the past few years the price of tin has had a wild ride. Between April 2011 and July 2012 the vital industrial metal fell by 51%. However, with economic growth in China now gathering pace, the price of tin is rising once again. This article looks at how to profit from the rebound in tin.
Why is tin rising
Tin is used to coat lead, zinc and steel to prevent corrosion. It is also commonly used to coat steel containers in order to preserve food, however by far the biggest use of tin (around 52% of it) is used to make solder for use in electronics.
The increase in demand for electronics (such as iPads and smartphones) has run up against declining output from leading tin producers. In 2012, for example, it is estimated that worldwide production declined between 6% and 7% 2012.
In recent months this supply/ demand dynamic has began to have an effect on the price.
As the chart below shows, tin made a significant top in April 2011 before establishing a powerful downtrend. However, it made a bottom in July 2012 and in mid-September it broke above the blue downtrend line (circled). In November last year the price then dipped back to test the broken downtrend line which acted as support, and since then tin ETN (JJT) has advanced more than 25%.
A 2 year daily chart of the iPath Dow Jones-AIG Tin Total Return Sub-Index (JJT) (Click on the chart for a larger version)
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Note: The iPath Dow Jones-AIG Tin Total Return Sub-Index is an Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) which is based on the Dow Jones-AIG Tin Total Return Sub-Index. The ETN is designed to provide returns that generally correspond to a single-commodity investment of a futures contract in Tin and is listed on the U.S. NYSE exchange under the ticker symbol JJT.
Leading investment research provider Trading Central SA, has a short-term price target for tin of $27,300 a metric ton. The target is calculated using technical analysis and represents a 61.8 percent Fibonacci retracement of the decline from the April 2011 high to the July 2012 low (blue horizontal lines on the chart.)
What are Fibonacci retracements?
Fibonacci numbers are most commonly used in technical analysis to determine potential areas of support and resistance. For example after a stock (or index) makes a reversal, technicians will use the Fibonacci sequence to plot various levels at which the stock might find support.
Known as Fibonacci retracements these levels are mathematical relationships, expressed as ratios, derived from the Fibonacci sequence. Fibonacci retracements are based on the idea that markets will retrace a predictable portion of a move, after which they will continue to move in the original direction.
A Fibonacci retracement level is created by taking two extreme points on a chart (high to low) and dividing the vertical distance by the key Fibonacci ratios. The retracement begins at 0.0% and extends to 100.0%, which represents a complete reversal of the original move.
The key Fibonacci ratios are 0%, 23.6%, 38.2%, 61.8% and 100%.
How to play the rise in tin
There is an ETF (TINM) that is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), there is even a leveraged ETF (LTIM), also listed on the LSE, that is designed "to change daily by 200% the daily percentage change in the DJ-UBS Tin Sub-Index". However, perhaps the best way to capitalize on the rising price of tin is via a spread bet.
Spread betting company IG Index lists tin among the six base metals they have available to trade.
Looking at the shorter-term chart below we can see that since mid-November the 20-day moving average has acted as support (circled). As a result it provides a sensible level for a rising stop loss.
A 9 month daily chart of the iPath Dow Jones-AIG Tin Total Return Sub-Index (JJT) (Click on the chart for a larger version)
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Open doors! Immigrants who pray ask God to help them in finding open doors at their destination when they arrive there. Those who do not have a visa that officially authorizes their entry understand that they will find a closed door. Nevertheless, they hope where there is no hope, believing that God will make a paths where there is none, a raft where there is no bridge, a shortcut that will allow them to avoid long and impassable roads.
The unauthorized immigrant, just like the one who receives the warmest welcome, depends on open doors–to work, to education, to the provision of basic needs. Not everyone has the courage and faith to risk everything to seek a future in an unknown country, in the spaces behind closed doors.
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In the latest fatality, Constable Luntu Nkabe, 38, was shot twice in the head in an apparent ambush on Friday night in Delft.
Yesterday, a 40-year-old warrant officer from Milnerton was shot and wounded in the early hours of the morning while attending a robbery in Joe Slovo.
Police spokesperson Noloyiso Rwexana says the officer was shot in the neck and is in a stable condition in hospital. A suspect in his late twenties was arrested."
Last week Constable Lindekile Sikade, 39, was shot and killed outside his home in Philippi East, and three days later Constable Baxolele Tshatsha, 32, was shot in the face while sitting outside a house in KTC, Gugulethu, shortly after midnight.
Chairperson of the Mitchell's Plain Community Policing Forum, Hanif Loonat, believes the shootings are "well-planned attacks".
"I hope this is not politically motivated or from within the ranks of cops, the corrupt ones trying to get out the honest officers," he says.
"But something is happening, we never had our officers shot within seven days, usually it's one a month or something."
But provincial police spokesperson, Brigadier Novela Potelwa, says they cannot speculate and will wait to be guided by investigations.
"The recent spate of attacks on police officials is a major concern for the management of the police in the Western Cape," she says.
"It is on that basis that a task team to probe the root causes of these attacks has been set up. Our detectives are working around the clock to bring the perpetrators to book."
Yesterday Constable Nkabe's brother, Welcome, 40, says he was sleeping when a friend came to tell him about the shooting.
"The first thing I saw was a pool of blood and I knew it was bad," he says.
"[Officers] opened him and I could see he had been shot in the head, twice, the one bullet went in the side of the head and travelled to the other end but didn't exit and the other one either entered or exited on his chin.
"From what I understand he was driving someone's bakkie and when he came to an intersection two cars were blocking the road so he drove on the pavement to pass them.
"That's when the window on the canopy of the van was broken and when he got out asking what was happening, a gun was pointed at him, he raised his hands [in surrender] but they shot him anyway."
Nkabe's firearm, cellphone and wallet were still on him.
Welcome says thugs have lost respect for police. "It's like the people doing this don't even acknowledge that they are shooting an actual person, that behind the uniform there is an individual," he says.
"We have lost respect for the very people who are meant to protect us, how can they protect us when they themselves are behind hunted?"
Western Cape Safety and Security MEC Dan Plato agrees with Welcome and says: "We don't know what gives rise to the attacks on police but I urge them to be very vigilant and not let these attacks deter them from doing their jobs.
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text: Role of Quality Improvement in Prevention of Inappropriate TransfusionsMohandas, Anita MSc; Foley, Kathleen A. PhD; Nash, David B. MD, MBA; Doria, Cataldo MD, PhD, FACSQuality Management in Healthcare: October/December 2011 - Volume 20 - Issue 4 - p 298–310 doi: 10.1097/QMH.0b013e3182315d22 Original Articles Abstract Author Information Purpose: Many different methods are used to manage surgical bleeding and reduce transfusion. Techniques vary by institution, resulting in inconsistent outcomes. We reviewed the current literature on the quality and costs of transfusions, focusing on prevention and management of transfusions during surgery, and provide recommendations on future directions for quality improvement (QI). Data sources: Ovid, PubMed, and Scopus. Study selection: Key words included QI, blood loss, transfusion, hemostasis, and costs. Inclusion criteria were English language, publication between 1999 and 2010, and primary end points of blood loss, transfusion, or hemostasis. Data extraction: A total of 1331 abstracts were reviewed; 43 met the inclusion criteria. Results: A variety of bleeding management (BM) techniques were identified, with multiple studies suggesting that algorithms combining pre-, peri-, and postoperative interventions have the greatest potential to minimize transfusions. Most studies assessing the economic impact of BM interventions excluded resources beyond blood acquisition cost and longer-term complications, which may underestimate transfusion costs and bias estimates of the cost-effectiveness of interventions. Despite consensus on avoiding inappropriate transfusions, little agreement exists on optimal use of interventions. Conclusions: Multifaceted algorithms show promising results. Future QI should focus on reducing practice variation via evidence-based guidelines for effective use of BM interventions. Jefferson School of Population Health (Ms Mohandas and Dr Nash) and Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery (Dr Doria), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Strategic Consulting, Thomson Reuters, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Dr Foley). The authors thank Dr Marcia Rupnow and Dr Sam (Xin) Ye for their valuable feedback on this manuscript. The authors declare no conflict of interest. Correspondence: Anita Mohandas, MSc, Jefferson School of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, 1015 Walnut St, Ste 115, Philadelphia, PA 19107 (email@example.com). ©2011Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Datawind is bringing three similar Ubisoft models to the U.S., priced as low as $38. The low-end model is called the UbiSlate 7Ci and features a 7 inch screen. A single-core 1GHz ARM based processor is under the hood with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of native storage on board. A VGA camera is on the front of the slate and Android 4.0 is installed. This tablet offers Wi-Fi connectivity only and is the commercial version of the Aakash 2.
The next model is the UbiSoft 7C+. Also sporting a 7 inch panel, this device offers the exact same specs as the 7Ci except that besides Wi-Fi, it gives you EDGE conectivity and supports voice calling. This slate is $99.99 with a year's worth of EDGE, or just $79.99 without the cellular service. The UbiSlate 3G7 also allows you to make calls. As you can tell by the name, this tablet offers 3G connectivity (via HSPA connectivity). It also includes GPS service and a bumped up resolution of 1024 x 600. Other upgrades include the dual-core 1.2GHz CPU and the additional 2MP camera on back. The price of this device is $129.99 with a year of browsing for $20 more.
These devices are perfect for the first time tablet or phablet buyer, or for a non techie that you need to buy a gift for. If you're interested in ordering any of these models, click on the sourcelink.
Low priced UbiSlate tablets are now available in the U.S.
Low priced UbiSlate tablets are now available in the U.S.
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A moment of silence for all the people who sold their kidneys yesterday, for Coldplay's concert.
Houston, we don't have a problem anymore. After months of continuous speculations and rumors, the question mark over "Is Coldplay coming to India?" was officially removed by Global Citizen last night.
Source: @GlblCtzn on Twitter
On World Toilet Day, 19th November, they are hosting first-ever Global Citizen festival in India. Just like the annual edition of Global Citizen festival at Central Park, NY, it will have a great line-up of international celebrities including, of course, Coldplay.
In contrary to what Mid-Day viral article seemed to claim yesterday, the tickets are gonna be absolutely FREE.
It's simple, people will have to earn those tickets by contributing to social causes like Education, Equality, Sanitation. Fans will have to contribute by tweeting, sharing links, sharing mails, uploading videos, signing online petitions. Taking those actions will allow you to enter into the draw and you can win free tickets. All in all, you don't have to sell your kidney anymore. (unless you're planning to buy iPhone 7)
In 2014, our very own Prime Minister, Modi ji was called to speak at Global Citizen festival in New York. And only after 2 years, Global Citizen festival is coming to India. Seriously, you still asking about Acche din?
Later at night, Global Citizen Indian handle tweeted this:
source: @glblctznIN on twitter
While the BIG REVEAL stays a mystery, it's clear that starting Monday, tickets to Global Citizen festival in India can be earned by signing up to be a Global Citizen and completing the required action campaigns at GlobalCitizen.IN
And that kids, is how you can see Coldplay live in Mumbai for FREE. Now let's observe a moment of silence for Indian fans who don't live in Mumbai.
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News Source: Global Citizen


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My wife and I finally caved in to our daughter's relentless marketing campaign for a family dog. On Monday afternoon, Kennedy, a nine-week-old Beagle-something mix from the Golden Valley Animal Humane Society, joined our family. I'm a little concerned about the amount of care a dog needs, and I've never had one before, so I'm a little at a loss as to how to care for one. But that aside, I'm pretty excited about the possibility of having a new geocaching partner.
Yesterday, my daughter and I took him to his first cache, which was an easy letterbox cache about 4 miles from home. We walked about a third of a mile along a paved trail, then dived off the side along a geotrail to make a quick find. Kennedy loves to sniff anything, so all in all he seem pleased with both the walk and the sniffing it entailed at the end.
What I wonder, though, is if it's possible to train a dog to sniff out caches? Could finding hidden plastic containers in the woods be something you could actually train a dog to do, or is the variety of hides, sizes, and heights of the hides make it too difficult for a dog to ever be effective? Anyway, something to work towards as the dog integrates itself into our household.


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Teachers, need some inspiration? This should provide you with some. Enjoy!
Teachers, need some inspiration? This should provide you with some. Enjoy!
Many talented educators also distinguish themselves as successful politicians. A wonderful example of this is Montana's Amanda Morse Curtis, a high school math and physics teacher who has also served in the Montana House of Representatives.
Amanda was born September 10, 1979. Her working-class childhood was anything but idyllic. When she was only four years old, her parents divorced. Amanda watched her mother struggle with mental illness. The family was poor, and at times, they had to live without utilities and rely on food stamps in order to eat. Amanda saw several members of her extended family battle with drugs and alcohol. Two weeks before her high school graduation, Amanda's younger brother killed himself while playing Russian roulette. He was only 16.
Amanda knew that education was her ticket out of poverty. After graduating from Skyview High School, she attended Montana Technology University of the University of Montana, earning her bachelor's of science in biology in 2002. She then attended the University of Montana Western where she earned her teaching credential.
After earning her degree, Amanda taught math and physics at Butte Central Catholic High School from 2004-2006. From 2006-2009, she taught math at Helena Middle School, and since 2009, she has taught math at Butte High School. She also served as an executive board member for the Butte Teachers Union from 2011-2012.
Amanda began her political career when she was elected to the Montana House of Representatives on November 6, 2012. Representing Butte, Montana, in House District 76, the freshman lawmaker succeeded Democrat Jon Sesso, who had been elected to the Montana Senate. While in office, she was assigned to the committees for business and labor, human services, and local government. She sponsored the Hire Montana First Act to create more jobs in her home state, and she fought for increased benefits for volunteer fire fighters and a repeal of state legislation against the gay community. She was also outspoken about gun violence, calling for background checks and better gun-control measures to be enacted. Naturally, Amanda has expressed her belief in the value of a good education. "As a high school teacher, I know the importance of investing in our students," she said at a 2014 rally at the University of Montana. "Education is a path forward for better paying jobs and securing our economic future," said continued.
Amanda met her husband, Kevin Curtis, at a rock-climbing store when he was training to be a speed skater. They live in a miner's cottage in Butte with their cat, Geoff, and their dogs, Billie and Rick. The couple does not have any children.
Many talented educators are also published authors. This is the case with John Taylor Gatto, a veteran English teacher with thirty years of experience in the classroom who is also an accomplished author of highly-regarded books about the field of education.
John was born December 15, 1935, in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, a river town thirty-five miles southeast of Pittsburgh. As a young boy, John attended publish schools in Swissvale, Monongahela, and Uniontown, and the private Catholic boarding school in Latrobe, all towns located in western Pennsylvania.
After graduation from high school, John enrolled at Cornell University, and also completed undergraduate work at the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia. He also served in the U.S. Army medical corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Following his army service, John did graduate work at the City University of New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva, the University of California, and Cornell.
In addition to his career as an educator, John has a varied and unique employment history. After college, he worked as a scriptwriter in the film industry. He was also employed for a time as an advertising writer, a taxi driver, a jewelry designer, an ASCAP songwriter, and a hot dog vendor before becoming a schoolteacher. During his years as a schoolteacher, John also entered the caviar trade, conducted an antique business, and operated a rare book search service. In addition, he worked as a documentary record producer, producing films that presented the dramatized story of H.P. Lovecraft, and another that presented the speeches of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Agnew. One of his productions won several awards for cover design and content.
Following his retirement, he authored several seminal books on modern education which offered a frank critique of current instructional practices. His best known books are "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" and "The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation into the Problem of Modern Schooling."
John was named Teacher of the Year in New York City in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and the Teacher of the Year for New York State in 1991.
Often talented educators also distinguish themselves as public servants. This is true of Duane Pomeroy, a high school social studies teacher and tennis coach who served for a time as the acting mayor of his home town of Topeka in Shawnee County, Kansas. Duane is pictured here on the left, following a tennis match.
Duane was born in Topeka on January 1, 1952, and was raised there. His father, Elwaine Pomeroy, served sixteen years as a Kansas state senator. Duane graduated from Topeka High School in 1970. After his high school graduation, Duane enrolled at Washburn University in Topeka. There he earned his bachelor's degree in political science in 1978 and his teaching certificate in 1979. Interestingly, while he was working on his degrees, he served on the Topeka Unified School District 501 Board of Education for four years, from 1977 to 1981. Interestingly, Duane also served as an alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas in 1972.
Long after his service on the Board of Education, Duane accepted a position at Topeka High School where he taught government and social studies. He also served as the head coach for both the school's tennis team and the bowling team.
Duane became a member of the Topeka City Council in January, 1993, when he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Vic Miller when Miller was elected to the Shawnee County Commission. Duane also served as the Deputy Mayor under Mayor Butch Felker. From November, 2003, to January, 2004, he served as the acting mayor when the mayor became involved in a scandal and was forced to resign. His weeks as the interim mayor were eventful. Besides overseeing the application process for appointing a new mayor, he made approximately 40 appointments and reappointments to city boards and commissions. He also handled recommendations related to streamlining expenses related to the city's fire department.
On a personal note, Duane married Deborah Briggs, and the couple have two grown sons, Shane and Troy.
There are many examples of talented educators who have also logged impressive accomplishments in athletic arenas. Such is certainly the case with Mark Geiger, a former high school math teacher who now serves as a referee for Major League Soccer in both the United States and Canada.
Mark was born on August 25, 1974, in Beachwood, New Jersey. After graduating from Trenton State College, Mark taught advanced placement math at Lacey Townships High School in Lanoka Harbor, Ocean County, New Jersey. In 2009, this remarkable educator was one of 103 teachers who received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. The prestigious award is given annually to the best elementary and secondary science and mathematics teachers from across the country. The winners were selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians, and educators following a state-level selection process.
Mark earned his National Referee badge in 2003 while still teaching. He began his career as a part-time MLS referee a year later. In 2008, Geiger was added to U.S. Soccer's International Panel of Referees, making him eligible for higher-profile international matches and requiring more travel. When he was offered a full-time, salaried position with the Professional Referee Organization, he reluctantly decided to retire from teaching. He wanted to referee international matches, and he was aware of FIFA's preference for officials with full-time referee jobs.
Mark confesses that his experiences as a teacher has made a significant contribution to his success as a soccer referee. He once commented that math is about quantity, structure, space, and change, and that is also true of the dynamics on the soccer field. He also remarked that maintaining order and clarity in a classroom of gifted, confident students is not that different from fairly governing the lightning-fast interplay of 22 of the world's most gifted and talented soccer players. "When I was in the classroom, it was 25 or 30 students each with a different learning style," he has said. "On the soccer field you have 22 different players, each with different personalities. So it's about recognizing what's going to work with a particular player and then implementing that." He added, "The situations that are in the grey areas, preventing players from taking that next step, communicating with them, managing them, working with them" is what a good referee brings to the game. Sounds a lot like great teaching.
Mark is recognized as one of the best professional soccer referees in the business. He has worked the Olympics games in 2012 and four matches during the U-20 World Cup finals in Colombia, which culminated in his officiating the championship game. The U-20 final marked the first time an American official refereed a major FIFA men's tournament championship. Mark has also been to Morocco for FIFA's Club World Cup, and he worked the fifth-place match between the Egyptian and the Mexican club. Later Mark served as the fourth official at the championship game. For his outstanding work as a referee, Mark was selected the Major League Soccer Referee of the Year in both 2011 and 2014.
Mark Geiger: a true chalkboard champion.


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The scope of Valley of the Shadow is going to increase pretty dramatically, and as I've already mentioned, so will the cast of characters. Quite a few people who only received passing mentions in Rise of the Storm will now come to life. One of several countries coming into play is Galladium, my fake version of France and an increasingly influential player in the conflict.
Gauvain Brevard is the young king of Galladium, and is still busy consolidating his rule. Just a few years older than Kendryk, they've been close friends since Kendryk spent several years in Galladium as a child. Naturally, he's pretty upset at Kendryk's fate, but for a variety of reasons, isn't in a good position to oppose Teodora directly, at least not just yet.
Currently betrothed to a foreign princess he's never met, Gauvain is in a good position to make some big diplomatic waves, if he plays his cards right. Deceptively mild-mannered, he's actually pretty strong-willed with a good grasp of what he needs to do to succeed. It's too bad some of his pragmatism didn't rub off on Kendryk.
His closest adviser and confidante is Galladium's religious leader, Natalya Maxima, who you will get to meet in a few weeks. Between the two of them, they have a plan for the country, for the rest of the continent, and for Teodora. I can't wait for them to get to work!by