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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Al Jazeera
Africa's digital election trackers
"Harry Kargbo barely slept the night before Sierra Leone's recent election for president. "I was so excited," he said. "I was up until 1 AM the night before. I was thinking, 'What will happen tomorrow? What will tomorrow look like?'"
Four hours later, Kargbo was up and out the door. Armed with nothing more than a mobile phone, he spent the next 10 hours navigating his way through a vehicle ban and police checkpoints, observing voting at polling stations around this West African country's capital, Freetown, and reporting on what he saw using the basic text messaging function on his phone." READ MORE
International Journal of Press/Politics
The Media's Role in Fighting Corruption : Media Effects on Governmental Accountability
"This study measures the relationship between media freedom and corruption, accounting for elements of vertical accountability (electoral competitiveness, civil society, and voter turnout) and horizontal accountability (judicial independence and political system). Results suggest a strong association between media freedom and corruption that runs from high levels of media freedom to low levels of corruption. This study also implies that media freedom might have a stronger indirect effect on corruption when coupled with powerful institutions of horizontal accountability. The data suggest that the association between media freedom and corruption is strongest in countries with parliamentary systems than in those with presidential systems, and that this impact amplifies as the judiciary independence increases." READ MORE
Living Cities
Field Scan of Civic Technology
"Civic technology – the use of digital technologies and social media for service provision, civic engagement, and data analysis – has the potential to transform cities and the lives of their low- income residents. Under commission from Living Cities, a consortium of 22 of the world's largest foundations and financial services companies working to make cities places of economic opportunity for low-income people, we interviewed 25 people with expertise in cities, issues facing low income people, and technology in June and July of 2012. This Field Scan presents our synthesis of these interviews – in effect, a snapshot of the civic tech field." READ MORE
IDS Povertics
Failed ICT development projects: Sweeping it under the carpet and moving on?
"The use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) has become increasingly widespread. Even in remote villages in developing countries there are more and more people who have access to a mobile phone. ICTs have the potential to make development projects more efficient, lower costs and improve the quality of service delivery. Therefore, it does not come as a surprise that the development community and national governments have enthusiastically embarked on ever more ICT projects in health, agriculture, e-governance, education and many more. There are certainly a number of very successful projects (see for examplem-pesa). However, when I speak to development practitioners, I get the impression that there is an equal (or perhaps considerable higher?) number of failed projects. Unfortunately, only very few share their experiences of a failed ICT project publicly." READ MORE
Global Voices
Threatened Voices
"A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them." READ MORE
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Following the grand slam of LED safety accessory Halo Belt, product creator Vincent Ng and is back on Kickstarter and hoping for another success story. This time, he's incorporated the LED strip onto a messenger bag so you can remove the light when it's not needed – or if you prefer to wear the actual light as a clothing accessory.
The Halo Zero LED Messenger bag bare similar concept as the original Kickstarter project; Ng's idea still revolves around helping commuters be seen when traveling at night by utilizing LED illuminations instead of those unsightly yellow day-glow jackets. The bag, a collaboration between Halo Belt and San Francisco-based Rickshaw Bagworks, can hold up to a 15″ laptop and contains two front pockets for your miscellaneous necessities. The light strip itself, much like the original Halo Belt, lasts 20 consecutive hours on solid mode, and runs on inexpensive CR2025 batteries. The combination of a lightweight backpack plus LED lighting is sure to fend off road ragers (but just to be safe, you should still ride carefully!).
It's a modest upgrade to a project we've fell in love with once before – if not for the practicality but also the possibilities. We already said the Halo Belt would be a great accessory to take into a night at the club or decorating a party with, so perhaps it's only a matter of time before we see a whole line of Halo Belt infused products designed to keep you rocking that philosophy of form, function, and footprint. What next, Mr. Ng? A motorcycle jacket with LED trims? Halo earrings and headbands for the ladies?
Halo Zero LED Messenger Bag is currently accepting backers until March 8, and you can own a piece of the action at $128 apiece. Not bad, considering an average Rickshaw bag can run you anywhere between $60 to $90, while Halo Belt itself is $85. See below for a promotional video of Halo Zero on Kickstarter. Oh, and if you look closely, Digital Trends pops up twice in the introduction. They must really love us.


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SANTA BARBARA — It is really an unexplainable statistic.
The Newport Harbor High girls' water polo team has never won the Santa Barbara Tournament of Champions title.
Newport assistant coach Brian Melstrom questioned Santa Barbara Coach Mark Walsh about it, so the two men looked at the tournament program. And indeed, they discovered that the Sailors had finished in second place seven times since 2003.
"I said, 'I think [Coach Bill] Barnett likes to lose the last game and maybe make the girls hungry for the rest of the way,' " Walsh said. "And [Melstrom] is like, 'No, I don't think that's it.' "
The Sailors did not come to Santa Barbara this weekend to get to the championship match and lose. But Walsh and his host Dons made sure Newport again got second billing.
Make it eight times as runner-up. Santa Barbara separated itself in the third quarter and won the championship match, 7-5, on Saturday afternoon at Santa Barbara High.
Cal-bound goalie Maddie Trabucco of Santa Barbara was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player and was joined on the all-tournament team by her UCLA-bound teammate Kelsey O'Brien. Newport Harbor had both of its co-captains, UCLA-bound center Elissia Schilling and UC Santa Barbara-bound Carly Christian, make the all-tournament team.
So how can the Sailors (11-4) explain finishing second so many times in Santa Barbara, including three of the past four years? Perhaps there is no explanation.
"We didn't try to lose," said Schilling, an all-tournament team selection for the second straight year. "I don't know. All the time [we're playing to win]. I don't really know how that all works out. I'd rather be winning in the second part of our season. I mean, this is a huge tournament. A lot of people say that this is the hardest tournament out of the three.
"Getting second in this really will boost our confidence going into the Irvine tournament, which leads right into CIF. That's when our team, as a whole, wants to be playing our best water polo."
The Sailors were up, 3-2, at halftime in the title match. All three goals were scored by Christian, two on six-on-five advantages.
But the third quarter was Newport Harbor's undoing. The Sailors were outscored, 5-2, in the quarter.
"We had a hard time communicating, whether to stay [in a] drop [defense], or go press," Schilling said. "That led to about three or four goals, I think, on outside shots. We just can't let that happen next time."
Neither team scored in the final quarter. That was OK with the Dons, who captured their first TOC title since 2004. Kami Craig, who went on to star at USC and is a two-time Olympian, was a junior on that Santa Barbara team.
UCSB-bound Sophie Trabucco and Betsy Hendrix each scored twice for Santa Barbara, while Anna Brummett and Rocio Fesembeck led the defensive effort with four steals each. Maddie Trabucco made nine saves.
Santa Barbara, which struggled at the start of the season but has placed second and first in the season's first two tournaments, has perhaps staked its case for the top ranking in CIF Southern Section Division 1.
"This group of seniors, when they came in as freshmen, they were pretty big pieces of our varsity then," Walsh said. "They've kind of taken their lumps and put in their time, and we've got a little better each year … For us to beat Foothill and Newport in one day is a huge accomplishment. I'm really proud of the girls; they played really well all weekend."
Christian had the three goals and sophomore Rachel Whitelegge scored twice for the Sailors. Carolyn Smith had a pair of steals, and goalie Cleo Harrington had another strong match with 12 saves.
The Sailors can find inspiration from what happened last year, when the Sailors also finished second in the TOC. They didn't lose again, ending the year on a 16-match winning streak that culminated in the program's fifth CIF Division 1 title.
"This is just another stepping stone toward CIF, and I think we're just slowly building as a team," Harrington said. "It's only going to go up from here."
Schilling led the team with three goals in a 7-5 victory over Santa Margarita in a Tournament of Champions semifinal earlier Saturday. Christina O'Beck scored twice and Christian and Avery Peterson added goals.
Harrington made 10 saves for Newport Harbor, which rallied after Cal-bound Santa Margarita senior Emily Loughlin scored twice in the first quarter.
The match was tied at 4 heading into the fourth quarter, but the Sailors got a Schilling backhand goal to take a 5-4 lead.
Santa Margarita's Haley Wan again tied the score, but a Christian penalty shot (earned by Whitelegge) and O'Beck's score on Christian's cross pass helped Newport Harbor pull away.
"I think our conditioning really paid off in that game," Schilling said.
Top-seeded Foothill beat Santa Margarita, 9-5, in the third-place match.
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Top-selling, prolific author Neil Gaiman to joins faculty at NY's Bard College
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – Neil Gaiman (GAY'-muhn) is joining the faculty of Bard College as an arts professor.
His latest novel, "The Ocean at the End of the Lane," was at the top of The New York Times best seller list earlier this year. He also created "The Sandman" series of award-winning graphic novels.
Gaiman starts teaching in the spring 2014 semester. He'll offer an advanced writing workshop exploring fantasy fiction, including its history and meaning today.
At 52, he's a prolific writer spanning prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics and song lyrics. He has nearly 2 million Twitter followers.
Other works include "Neverwhere," ''Stardust" and "Anansi Boys."
Gaiman was born in Britain. He lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wife, singer Amanda Palmer.
Bard College is about 100 miles north of New York City.


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Pacifica Pier is a popular fishing pier in Pacifica, California. The L shaped pier spans the pacific ocean for about a quarter mile from the City of Pacifica. On any given day, you will find an eclectic array of fisherman and crabbers on this pier.
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MIDDLEBURY — Late in the third period of Saturday's NESCAC quarterfinal, the Middlebury College men's hockey team had a couple monkeys on its back despite the Panthers' much-improved play of late.
The Panthers (now 13-9-3 overall) had shrugged off a midseason slump with a 5-1-1 surge to seize the No. 3 seed in the NESCAC playoffs with an 11-6-1 league mark. That seed earned them the right to host No. 6 Wesleyan on Saturday.
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SHOREHAM — Shoreham residents at their March 5 town meeting will be asked to finally resolve a longstanding debate on how to improve their municipal offices. Specifically, residents will vote on whether to spend $450,000 for a new, larger office building that would be located near the current one on the town common.
LEICESTER/SALISBURY — When the last ice melts off, the annual battle for Lake Dunmore will begin again. On one side: an army of volunteers, paid divers and milfoil specialists. On the other: an underwater invasive plant called Eurasian watermilfoil.
The population of milfoil in Lake Dunmore and Fern Lake has grown tenfold since 2009, and is expected to double again this season, according to Jay Michaels, a trustee of the Lake Dunmore and Fern Lake Association (LDFLA)
VERGENNES — City leaders are inching closer to identifying a site for a new Vergennes police station. At their Feb. 21 meeting, aldermen sliced five of 13 potential sites from a working list they had been eyeing.
City Manager Mel Hawley said on Thursday the five sites that did not make the cut met the original criteria set by the council — they fronted on a Class 1 or 2 road, offered at least 1 usable acre, and were not in a residential area — but were the lowest ranked by aldermen on the single basis of location.
VERGENNES — After making a couple of tweaks they discussed in January, Vergennes aldermen on Feb. 21 adopted their first official conflict of interest policy, one that largely follows a Vermont League of Cities and Towns template.
In their discussions in recent meetings, aldermen said they have never known an instance where a member of the council has acted in a manner that would violate such a policy.
But they have also agreed it would clarify for members of the public what guidelines they follow and make public what rules future councils will follow.
MIDDLEBURY — While lawmakers and visitors at the Feb. 20 Legislative Breakfast at Middlebury's American Legion Hall principally talked about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, other discussion at the breakfast focused on:
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The following criteria shall be used in judging the qualifications of each firm:
The District shall list three highly qualified firms and select the firm considered best qualified and capable of performing the desired work and contract for the project with the firm desired. Negotiations will be based upon a written description of the scope of proposed services. If a satisfactory contract cannot be negotiated with the first firm selected, negotiations with the second and third best-qualified firm shall be undertaken. If the District cannot negotiate a contract with any of the three firms selected, another list of qualified firms shall be selected and interviewed until a satisfactory contract is agreed to.
As an alternate, bids for professional services including architectural, engineering, land surveying, or construction management services may be bid on a flat fee basis, either individually or as a design-built project. However, in all such bids the qualifications of such forms to provide necessary services as specified above shall be considered paramount.
In utilizing construction management or design build services, the construction manager and/or design build team shall competitively bid all aspects of construction with as many subcontractors as possible, utilizing public notices, and shall utilize the District's waiver of sales tax in all applicable areas.
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Monday, March 10, 2008 – A press conference staged by the Department of Transportation in defense of the cross-border trucking program with Mexico drew immediate criticism from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
In a press conference today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters contended that now is not the time to halt efforts to implement trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Peters said a group of more than 69 U.S. companies and agricultural and business organizations support the program because of the benefits it provides to U.S. exporters who every year ship billions of dollars worth of products and produce into Mexico.
In a press release following the press conference, Peters hinted toward retaliation by Mexico if the program is stopped.
If the program is stopped by Congress, Mexico has the right under the rules of NAFTA to impose fees and tariffs on U.S. goods that would surely result in lost business and lost jobs, she stated in the written release.
"It's a sad attempt at economic fear mongering," said OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer in a press release. "Despite their lip service, they well know the pilot program is outside of the law."
The Association contends the economic interests of a few have been placed above the safety and security of many.
"The Secretary seems to be encouraging Mexico to step in and help the Bush administration force this down the throats of Americans," Spencer said in the release. "Where does she get off encouraging Mexico to impose fees and tariffs on U.S. goods?"
Spencer finds humor in the Secretary's contention that the cross-border pilot program presents U.S.-based truckers with a "promise of prosperity."
"Safety standards in Mexico simply are not on par with those here, and few U.S. trucking companies even appear interested in going south," Spencer said. "The program is being spun as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
"The program is supposed to work both ways across the border, and yet there are few signing up on either side. Big businesses want the cheap labor, but for a number of reasons trucking companies on both sides of the border don't want to get involved.
"Reality is, the program goes against U.S. law and is not required by NAFTA."
The regulations require the U.S. to allow Mexican trucks into the country under the same rules that apply to their American counterparts.
"The DOT is accepting Mexican licenses, drug testing and medical certification laws in place of U.S. laws governing those subjects. These exemptions from domestic laws are not required by NAFTA and clearly violate U.S. law," Spencer said.
The program is challenged by a lawsuit filed by OOIDA. The industry is now waiting on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to rule on that and other lawsuits challenging the legality of the cross-border program. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association filed its suit shortly after the program began Sept. 6, 2007.
Oral arguments in the case – along with arguments in separate suits filed against the program by the Sierra Club and the Teamsters – were heard by the appeals court on Feb. 12. The cases are on an expedited schedule and a ruling is expected in the near future.
In the meantime, the cross-border program will be under the microscope at a Senate Commerce hearing scheduled for Tuesday, March 11. OOIDA will be among other groups presenting testimony at the hearing.


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Now Mitt Romney is using another selectively edited video to make it sound like President Obama is a communist who wants to seize all the wealth of the rich and hand it out to … negroes and communist party members?
This week the Romney campaign dragged out a 1998 video of then-State Senator Barack Obama, doctored it to make it seem to sound bad, and used clips from the doctored video to drive a point that Obama is "foreign" and antin-American.
ABC: Republicans Hit Obama for 'Redistribution' Remark in 1998 Recording,
The audio, posted to YouTube by an unidentified user and dated Oct. 19, 1998, appears to be of remarks by then-Illinois State Sen. Obama at a conference at Loyola University in Chicago.
… I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution," he said, "because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure everybody's got a shot."
Obama actually said more right after that. ABC again, Obama 'Redistribution' Audio Clip Cited by GOP Was Truncated,
In the full recording, obtained by NBC News, Obama continues to explain in the next sentence that he is speaking broadly about making city and state government more efficient in their use of resources — and endorses "competition" in the "marketplace."
Romney Accusations
Romney took off on this word "redistribution, going full Joe McCarthy on it. HuffPuff: Mitt Romney Offers Full-Throated Attack On Obama's 'Redistribution',
"This idea of redistribution follows from the idea that if you have a business, you didn't build it, someone else did that. It's the same concept. That, see, government is responsible for everything that's gone on here. And therefore government can take and give as it chooses. It's an entirely foreign concept that will not work, that has not worked. That has never worked anywhere in the world. And what we have to do in America is not to make us more like Europe, but to make America more like America…"
Romney here is echoing the Ayn Randian anti-government idea that "taxes are theft" and decision-making by We, the People is evil "collectivism." The idea is that if regular people get to jointly make decisions they will tax the wealthy and use the money to do things like build schools and roads (and, God forbid, Medicare). This anti-government attitude is also the basis of the Romney campaign's derision for the idea that We, the People built the schools and roads that make businesses successful — "We built that."
But the language he chooses, "entirely foreign concept," "has never worked anywhere in the world," "make us more like Europe" evokes 1950s anti-communist rhetoric. He is accusing Obama of being a communist.
Here are some ways the government redistributes the wealth:
Sidewalks: taxes pay for sidewalks that anyone can walk on. Redistribution.
Medicare: taxes pay for health care for old people. Redistribution.
Highways: Known communists President Dwight D. Eisenhower used tax money (taxed at a top rate of 90%) to build the Interstate highway system. Communist redistribution.
Every tax is redistribution. Every government redistributes. Paying for schools is redistribution. Paying for roads is redistribution.
Mitt Romney has mocked the idea of We, the People getting together and building things. He has mocked the idea of taxes used for schools and Medicare. In his "47%" remarks he denigrated half the country as moochers and takers. What is next?


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Doak Walker, the 1948 Heisman Trophy winner and one of college football's legendary heroes, died yesterday at Routt Hospital in Steamboat Springs, Colo. He was 71.
The cause was complications from the paralysis he suffered in a skiing accident last Jan. 30 in Steamboat Springs, where he lived, the hospital said. After hitting a change in terrain, Walker traveled 20 to 30 feet in the air and tumbled 75 feet, and he was paralyzed from the neck down.
In the years immediately following World War II, when Texas was feeling big about itself in so many ways, the state's biggest sports figure was Doak Walker, a handsome, humble hero who could do so much with a football. He played for Southern Methodist University in his home city of Dallas, and twice the Cotton Bowl there was enlarged to accommodate the crowds that came to watch him.
When the Heisman Trophy, voted annually to the best college player, went to Walker following the 1948 season, Ewell and Emma Walker, his parents, who were teachers, accompanied him to New York to receive the award at a banquet in the Downtown Athletic Club. In those days, that was a big trip. On the flight home, Emma Walker said, ''All of this because one little blue-eyed boy could run with the football.''
Walker was small for big-time football at 5 feet 11 inches and 170 pounds. He played four seasons for Southern Methodist between 1945 and 1949 and six more for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He quit after the 1955 season, saying, ''I want to get out while I have all my teeth and both my knees.''Continue reading the main story
He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986. When the Pro Football Hall of Fame admitted him, a Lions teammate, Gil Mains, said: ''At last. Now we can relax.''
Mains and other old Lions had lobbied hard and long for Walker's inclusion, which had been delayed perhaps because he played so briefly as a pro. However, he left his mark.
He led the N.F.L. in scoring his first season, when he was named the league's rookie of the year, and he was chosen for the Pro Bowl five times. With Walker as their running back, the Lions won the N.F.L. championship in 1952 and 1953. They were the league's dominant team of the 1950's.
The leader of that team was the quarterback, Bobby Layne, Walker's teammate at Highland Park High School in Dallas and an opponent in two epic college games between Southern Methodist and Texas. They became lifelong friends.
Walker was installed as the first-string tailback in Coach Matty Bell's double-wing offense upon entering S.M.U., and in his first game he played the full 60 minutes against Texas. Walker scored his team's only touchdown and kicked the extra point, but a late touchdown pass by Layne won the game for Texas, 12-7.
After Army service in 1946, Walker returned to Southern Methodist for glorious seasons in 1947 and 1948, when the team lost only once, and for a lesser season in 1949 because of injuries.
Late in the 1947 season, unbeaten Southern Methodist trailed Texas Christian, 12-0, when Walker scored a touchdown on a 65-yard run and set up another for a 13-12 lead. But Texas Christian scored with 90 seconds left for a 19-13 lead, and a Texas Christian tackle, Harold Kilman, said, ''Now what are you going to do, Doak?''
''Score again,'' Walker said. Whereupon he returned the ensuing kickoff 65 yards to the Texas Christian 35-yard line.
S.M.U. scored on a pass play as time ran out but Walker missed the extra-point kick and the game ended in a 19-19 tie.
Walker, who had accounted for 475 yards in the game, often said later, ''All I remember is, I missed the kick.''
By then, Southern Methodist had moved its games from a 17,700-seat campus stadium to the Cotton Bowl on the grounds of the Texas State Fair. Over the next two years, upper decks were built on both sides and the capacity of 45,507 was increased to 67,431. A plaque went up that read, ''The House That Doak Built.''
In 1947, when Walker made both conversion kicks, Southern Methodist defeated Texas and Layne there, 14-13. That gave Southern Methodist the conference championship and a berth in the Cotton Bowl game there on New Year's Day, Walker's 21st birthday. That game against Penn State ended in a 13-13 tie.
Walker ran with the football, passed it, caught it and kicked it. In 30 regular-season college games, he scored 288 points.
After football, Walker was a sales executive with an electrical construction company and then founded Walker Chemicals in Denver, a company he sold upon retirement. He had married a college classmate, Norma Peterson, in 1950. He is survived by their four children, Laurie, Kris, Russell Doak and Scot Alexander, and four grandchildren. The marriage ended in divorce.
Later, Walker moved to Steamboat Springs, Colo., and in 1969 he married Skeeter Werner, who had been an Olympic skier and New York model. They ran a ski shop in Steamboat Springs.
Werner's brother, Buddy Werner, was the United States' best Alpine skier at the 1964 Winter Olympic Games. He was killed shortly after by an avalanche while skiing in Italy.
The mountain in Steamboat Springs was then renamed Mount Werner. It was there that Walker, at age 71, fell and was paralyzed.Continue reading the main story


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Alumni50 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
SP Alumni or http://www.spalumni.org
We are a social network of pharmaceutical executives that will be using the website http://www.spalumni.org to stay in touch with our colleagues. Our interest is in the areas of innovations in medicines and research, as well as, general healthcare and business. We will use the website for high level corporate networking, management of events, job searches, best practice sharing and to display educational content.
Pharmaceutical Executives who are working for Schering Plough or are alumni of Schering Plough. The main company website is http://www.schering-plough.com
We need a logo for the website using the letters SP or the full word SP Alumni and any other related jpeg files to help us build a brand identity. Please be creative and give us some good logos or images we could use in different formats, the site is a bit harsh at the moment http://www.spalumni.org
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Letter from the Director
The abuse of methamphetamine—a potent and highly addictive stimulant—remains an extremely serious problem in the United States. According to data from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), over 12 million people (4.7 percent of the population) have tried methamphetamine at least once. NSDUH also reports that approximately 1.2 million people used methamphetamine in the year leading up to the survey.
The consequences of methamphetamine abuse are terrible for the individual––psychologically, medically, and socially. Abusing the drug can cause memory loss, aggression, psychotic behavior, damage to the cardiovascular system, malnutrition, and severe dental problems. Methamphetamine abuse has also been shown to contribute to increased transmission of infectious diseases, such as hepatitis and HIV/AIDS.
Beyond its devastating effects on individual health, methamphetamine abuse threatens whole communities, causing new waves of crime, unemployment, child neglect or abuse, and other social ills. A 2009 report from the RAND Corporation noted that methamphetamine abuse cost the Nation approximately $23.4 billion in 2005.
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Edgemoor Road in Claxton was closed for almost five hours Wednesday afternoon and evening after a Powell man was killed in a four-vehicle accident.
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Google has blocked it after the Madras High Court verdict on VideoMaking App #TikTok. Now users will not be able to download this app from Playstore. After the order of the court, the government had instructed that this app be removed. Earlier on Monday, the Supreme Court had refused to ban the Madras High Court's decision.
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Sanjeev Khanna said that he is keeping the matter open for consideration later on and the next hearing will be on April 22. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi appeared in behalf of Bite Dance, a proprietary company owned by Tiktok in this case. He said that this app has been downloaded more than a billion times. Madurai Bench of the #MadrasHighCourt has ruled one-way in this case in the absence of the other party.
He said that the court did not issue any notice in this regard and issued the order without hearing his arguments. The bench said that this matter is currently under consideration of the High Court and order of ban is merely an interim order.
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Visions of that Major League Soccer stadium in Queens
On February 1, the architect tapped to design a soccer stadium for Flushing Meadows Corona Park gave a talk to some architecture students at Columbia.
The architect, SHoP principal Gregg Pasquarelli, devoted most of his presentation to the facade his firm designed for Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn.
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But, as Capital reported back in October, SHoP has also been tapped to build a proposed arena for Major League Soccer in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and Pasquarelli included some renderings of what that arena might look like in his presentation.
Yesterday, those renderings appeared on netsdaily.com, along with a video of the presentation that has since been taken down. The renderings were also posted on Empire of Soccer, which has some screenshots of that presentation.
"It's all about making a new kind of stadium that has no walls, that's completely open at all times," Pasquarelli is quoted as saying.
Also: "The project I'm not supposed to show (you) so I am not going to tell you where it is or what it is but it's a new stadium that should be announced in the next couple of months."
In a statement, M.L.S. spokeswoman Risa Heller said, ""This is not what the stadium is going to look like. This was an early architectural design study that was developed to help us understand height, mass, and other issues pertaining to the land use process. When we have an owner, they will propose what the stadium will look like."
UPDATE: M.L.S. sends over the following statement from league president Mark Abbott: "These drawings do not represent what they stadium will look like. In fact, we haven't selected an architect yet and will not start the design process until we have an owner for the club. This was simply a concept drawing that was done only to help determine the potential height and footprint. Any assertion that these drawings represent what a stadium will look like in Queens is wrong."


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CT Shooting Victims Honored By Empire State Building Lights [VIDEO]
The Empire State Building was lit up in blue & gold on Saturday night in honor of the victims of Friday's school shooting in Connecticut.
The names of all the victims of 20 year old Adam Lanza were released by Connecticut state police medical examiner H. Wayne Carver II. late Saturday afternoon, all first graders.
"I've been at this for a third of a century and my sensibility may not be the average man's, but this is probably the worst I've seen," said Carver.
President Obama will travel to Newtown on Sunday night for a memorial service.
The father of the gunman in the Connecticut school rampage says his family is saddened and struggling to make sense of what happened.
Peter Lanza says in a statement released late Saturday that "our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy."
Peter Lanza says "no words can truly express how heartbroken we are" and that relatives are "in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can."
State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance still need to "peel the onion" of the crime scene both inside and outside the Sandy Hook Elementary School, a process which could take several more days.
Vance said investigators have found "very good evidence" about a motive and confirmed that gunman Adam Lanza forced his way into the school. Another law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that investigators have found no note or manifesto of the sort they have come to expect after murderous rampages.
Lanza had Asperger's syndrome, but experts say there's no connection between the disorder and violent behavior. Asperger's is a mild form of autism often characterized by social awkwardness.
Columbus, Ohio, psychologist Eric Butter says research suggests people with autism have a higher rate of aggressive behavior than the general population. He says this includes outbursts, shoving or angry shouting, but typically does not include planned, intentional violence.
High school classmates say Lanza was bright but painfully shy, anxious and a loner. Butter says those characteristics are consistent with Asperger's.
Police worked through the night to identify all the bodies inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
President Obama used his weekly internet address to offer more condolences about the shooting. "Our hearts are broken today," the president said. "We grieve for the families of those we lost. And we keep in our prayers the parents of those who survived. Because as blessed as they are to have their children home, they know that their child's innocence has been torn away far too early."
Pope Benedict XVI expressed "his heartfelt grief and the assurance of his closeness in prayer to the victims and their families and all to affected" by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, in a letter to the Diocese of Bridgeport Administrator Monsignor Jerald A. Doyle reports CNN.
Police say two handguns were found inside the school and a rifle in the back of a car. Authorities also recovered two rifles and a shotgun, but it's not clear where. A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some of the guns may have belonged to Adam Lanza's family.
Police sources say Lanza brought Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols, and a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle were found in the school after the massacre Friday.
The official says that a fourth weapon was found outside the school and that investigators have been going to shooting ranges and gun stores to see if Lanza had frequented them.
His mother had legally registered four weapons, his father two.
Adam Lanza's rampage is said to have started at his Newtown home where he lived with his mother. He is believed to have shot his mother Nancy in the face before heading to the Sandy Hook Elementary School where his mother was a substitute teacher.
Adam Lanza smashed the glass of the front door according to a police lieutenant and was not buzzed in through the front door.
The school's well-liked principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was believed to be among the dead.. Town officials said she died while lunging at the gunman in an attempt to overtake him. A woman who worked at the school was wounded.
Jeff Capeci is chairman of the town's Legislative Council. Asked whether Hochsprung is a hero, he says, "From what we know, it's hard to classify her as anything else."
Hochsprung had worked at the school for two years. Capeci says she immediately became a beloved figure. "It's so sad to lose somebody like her" and that residents are feeling "a deep sense of loss" over her death.
Marsha Lanza, of Crystal Lake, Ill., said she was close with Adam Lanza's mother and sent her a message on Facebook on Friday morning asking how she was doing. Nancy Lanza never responded.
Marsha Lanza described Nancy Lanza as a good mother and kind-hearted.
If her son had needed counseling, "Nancy wasn't one to deny reality," she told The Associated Press late Friday.
Marsha Lanza said her husband saw Adam as recently as June and recalled nothing out of the ordinary about him.
Lanza's parents filed for divorce in 2008, according to court records. His father, Peter Lanza, lives in Stamford, Conn., and works as a tax director for General Electric.
Hundreds of people stood outside Friday night at the St. Rose of Lima church in Newtown, some of them holding hands in circles and saying prayers. Others lit candles and sang "Silent Night."
"Many of us today and in the coming days will rely on what we have been taught and what we believe, that there is faith for a reason," Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said at the vigil Mass.
Even though there were 26 candles on the altar, Monsignor Robert Weiss said it was important to remember everyone who died, including Lanza and his mother.
"Ours is not to judge or to question," he told reporters after the service. "But we are really holding in our hearts especially the children and the staff of the school."
"These 20 children were just beautiful, beautiful children," Weiss said. "These 20 children lit up this community better than all these Christmas lights we have. ... There are a lot brighter stars up there tonight because of these kids."
Weiss said he spent much of the day trying to console those who had lost a child or other family member, adding that he had no answers for their questions of how something so horrible could happen.
But through their sorrow, some parents found solace in remembering their loved ones, he said. One father whose son was killed recalled how his boy had made his first soccer goal this year.


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Three Dogs Slain by Wolves West of Missoula
A report of a dog and two pups slain by wolves west of Missoula is being taken seriously by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks.
The attack took place in the Josephine Creek area of the Nine Mile drainage not far from Missoula. The dogs were in the process of tracking a mountain lion and were found slain after signalling their hounds-men that they had treed a mountain lion.
Some have speculated from the photographs that the dogs do not appear to show the signs of a wolf kill. "Typically what happens in an attack of wolves on dogs is it's kind of a two step encounter and in this case this is what the photos reflects," explains Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Public Information Officer Vivica Crowser. "Dogs are killed and oftentimes the wolves will come back in and cause more damage to the animals they killed at that point, but I think at that point in this case, that when the houndsmen responded to their dogs they scared the wolves out of the site."
Crowser says that the dogs of lion hunters are at a greater risk of wolf attack because they travel so far away from their owners. Because of this, Crowser says lion hunters are advised to look out for wolf sign in the area they are hunting. However, in this case, those precautions were taken and the houndsmen had not seen any sign of wolves until their dogs were taken.
Crowser says that FWP will likely not perform an autopsy on the bodies.
When wolves are around, dogs are at high risk of attack whether they are hunting mountain lions or not because their barking is an attractant to predators. Crowser advises those headed out into the woods and wilderness areas with their pets to try to keep them close to prevent an attack.
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