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Christian and Muslim leaders condemned two bomb blasts in Jakarta on July 17 as "uncivilized acts" and urged the police to immediately apprehend the culprits. Father Yohanes Dwi Harsanto, executive secretary of the Indonesian bishops' Commission for Youth, said he was deeply distressed over the tragedy that killed at least nine people and injured more than 60 others. "We pray for the dead and those who are injured. Let us also pray for our nation. May God move the heart of this nation to uphold and maintain peace," he said. Father Harsanto expressed hope that all religious leaders would call on their respective followers to maintain national unity.
Amidhan, head of the Indonesian Ulema Council, Indonesia's top Muslim clerical body, said "I am deeply concerned and strongly condemn the uncivilized act," adding that the council "does not tolerate such violence against innocent people." The Rev. Richard Daulay, general secretary of the Communion of Churches in Indonesia, a Protestant association, also condemned the attacks and said Protestants were praying for the victims.
Shortly before 8 a.m. July 17, bombs exploded at the J.W. Marriott Hotel's restaurant and on the second floor of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The Marriott hotel in Jakarta has been bombed before, with 12 people killed in a 2003 car-bomb attack. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has a history of terrorist attacks, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, most of them foreigners. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but suspicion immediately fell on the al-Qaida-linked Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, which was responsible for the Bali bombings.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the attack was carried out by a "terrorist group" and vowed to arrest the perpetrators. "Those who carried out this attack and those who planned it will be arrested and tried according to the law," he told a news conference.

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text: Dairy Co-ops, Processors Differ Sharply on Averting Dairy Fiscal Cliff January 2, 2013 05:09 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jim Dickrell Dairy Herd Management Dairy Editor Email The National Milk Producers Federation, representing most but not all dairy U.S. dairy co-ops were sharply critical of the Senate's extension of the 2008 farm bill for another year. The International Dairy Foods Association, the lobbying arm of many U.S. dairy processors, was supportive. In a statement released New Year's morning regarding the Senate's vote, Jerry Kozak, NMPF President and CEO, said: "These stop-gap efforts don't even qualify as kicking the can down the road. It's little more than a New Year's Day, hair-of-the-dog stab at temporarily putting off decisions that should have been made in 2012 about how to move farm policy forward, not offer more of the same…. "Despite the progress made in 2012 on the farm bill, we're starting 2013 on a bad note. We oppose any farm bill extension of any duration that does not contain the Dairy Security Act and resolve to work this year on achieving that as a long-term goal." Connie Tipton, IDFA President and CEO, released the following statement this morning: "The International Dairy Foods Association congratulates Congress and President Obama for reaching an agreement on how to address the important 'fiscal cliff' legislation. We appreciate that the bill includes provisions that will avoid the resurrection of dairy policies from more than 50 years ago. This agreement allows Congress time to fully and openly consider future reforms to our nation's dairy policies." "Dairy manufacturers are an important segment of our nation's economy, and we are committed to working with Congress this year as formulation of the 2013 Farm Bill begins. The interdependence of this industry from farmer to consumer is critical, and our nation's dairy policies deserve to be updated and supported. We commend the bipartisan effort of Representatives Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and David Scott (D-GA) in proposing a margin insurance program – a safety net – for dairy farmers that does not impose new government rules and conditions on milk production. This approach has broad support from consumer and taxpayer groups, from farm organizations and from across the food manufacturing and retail industry." Back to news


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The end of the selling season is quickly approaching and soon I will be in my apartment every single day as opposed to every two weeks or every other week if I'm lucky. I knew I was getting burnt out on traveling in March so I scheduled myself two quiet weeks at home and I'm in the second week. I realized that I'll actually have to cook my own meals over the summer and I don't want to continue my quick, frozen food trend. I like to cook and I like to eat even more, but my schedule doesn't always allow for it. During the selling season I'm not here often enough to really stock up on good, fresh, healthy foods. I buy a lot of ready made healthy foods because I'm usually blowing in and out of the apartment without much time to cook. So to prepare for the summer, and to make it something to look forward to, I've begun clipping recipes from my many magazines and storing them in a basket.
I'm making it a goal to try two or three new healthy recipes a week. I started today by making
Balsamic Kale Salad with Apple and Pear
from Emily at the Daily Garnish (even if you don't like kale I encourage you to visit her site for adorable pictures of her new baby boy. Soooo cute!!!).
I discovered my love of kale in November when I made Cara's Craving's Sweet Potato, Black Bean, and Kale
Breakfast Pizza (sounds crazy, but I am telling you it is so, so, so good!) and my love just hasn't stopped. I made my first kale salad for Christmas Eve and I have to say, I loved it but my family did not. It makes me sad that the people I have the most opportunity to make food for don't like kale, but that doesn't stop me!
How do you keep cooking and eating new and exciting? Any foods you've discovered lately that you now love? I had never really eaten pears before and this recipe calls for sliced pear. I was nervous about buying it because I wasn't sure if I would like it but it is the perfect pair to the apple's tartness!! I might have another love.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Atlanta receiver Julio Jones and linebacker Sean Weatherspoon are active for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay after being limited in practice because of ankle injuries.
Jones has been bothered by a sore right ankle for the past two weeks. Weatherspoon returns for the first time since spraining his right ankle four weeks ago at Philadelphia.
Quarterback Dominique Davis, receiver Tim Toone, safety Charles Mitchell, guards Phillipkeith Manley and Harlan Gunn and defensive linemen Lawrence Sidbury and Peria Jerry are inactive for the Falcons.
Cornerback Eric Wright, running back Michael Smith, safety Cody Grimm, linebacker Najee Goode, center/guard Cody Wallace, receiver David Douglas and defensive tackle Matthew Masifilo are inactive for the Bucs.
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Summary: Elves! Elves! Elves! All nekkid, all the time.\r\n\r\nMore accurately, these are one-shots that deal with elves and their connection to nature . . . and in their natural state. Each story is constructed around one or more of the classical elements. The final story is dedicated to the fifth element, variously given as metal, wood, spirit or suprise.\r\n\r\nThe stories were inspired by Syril Silverleaf\'s \"Disrobed\" challenge, which decrees that each \"must include a naked elf. The ficlet should be about how the elf got naked and why he was gotten naked. This must include a horse, and some form of water.\"
Categories: Book-verse
Characters: Arwen, Balrog, Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf / Olorin, Gimli, Glorfindel, Legolas
Genres: Humor
Warnings: None
Challenges: None
Open: Closed
Series - E
Other Results: 4 Challenges
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The use of a breast pump that helps moms express comfortably ensures infants are still being nourished with breast milk."
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Citation: Philips Mother and Child Care report - global outlook on breastfeeding 2011
In between feeding times, the use of a breast pump can stimulate the breasts to produce more milk, which can result in stronger feeds. The pump also helps women to continue breastfeeding when they go back to work. Thanks to its compact design, pumping is more discreet making expressing in the workplace or in public spaces easier.
Innovation strategies at Philips are focused on the customer – what they want, how a device can fit in and improve their lives. The Philips Avent breast pump is the kind of useful technology that can help moms to nurse better. It is an innovation that has been designed to support breastfeeding mothers and provide them with the tools they need to give their babies the best start in life.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Play New 'Pawn Stars' Theme
Lynyrd Skynyrd played their new theme song for the TV show 'Pawn Stars' at an event held for the program in Las Vegas last month. The song, 'Winning Isn't Everything,' has been available on iTunes since April 30. You can see a video of the live performance above.
'Pawn Stars' returns to the History Channel on May 30 with 'Winning Isn't Everything' as its new theme song. Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote the tune specifically for the reality show, which documents the happenings at a Las Vegas pawn shop.
The live video was shot on April 26 at the network's free Party Like the Pawn Stars blowout that took place in Las Vegas. The show's stars Rick Harrison, Corey Harrison and Chumlee were on hand and make appearances in the video.
In other Lynyrd Skynyrd news, the veteran southern-rock band will hit the road next month with Bad Company for a month-long tour. You can check out a list of tour dates below.
Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company Tour
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6/21 – Ridgefield, Wash.
6/23 – Mountain View, Calif.
7/11 – Houston, Texas
7/13 – Charlotte, N.C.
7/14 – Bristow, Va.
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Data supporting the chapter "Modeling the Great Depression: Finland in the 1990s."
Data supporting chapter "Recent Great Depressions: Aggregate Growth in New Zealand and Switzerland."
Data supporting the chapter "What Can We Learn from the 1998-2002 Depression in Argentina?"
Data supporting the chapter "A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s."
Data supporting the chapter "Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century."
Each chapter of the book is accompanied by a data file that contains all of the data used in the analysis. This collection also provides links to computer programs for applying the methodology.
The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was a watershed for both economic thought and economic policymaking. It led to the belief that market economies are inherently unstable and to the revolutionary work of John Maynard Keynes. Its impact on popular economic wisdom is still apparent today.
This book, which uses a common framework to study sixteen depressions, from the interwar period in Europe and America as well as from more recent times in Japan and Latin America, challenges the Keynesian theory of depressions. It develops and uses a methodology for studying depressions that relies on growth accounting and the general equilibrium growth model.
In 2008, Peter Temin wrote a review of the book that appeared in the Journal of Economic Literature. This staff report and accompanying data file are in response to the review.
Citation for review: Temin, Peter. 2008. "Real Business Cycle Views of the Great Depression and Recent Events: A Review of Timothy J. Kehoe and Edward C. Prescott's Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century." Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (3): 669-84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.46.3.669


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Seattle, Washington – June 6, 2011 –CAPiTA Snowboarding is pleased to announce the addition of Sean Tedore to it's professional team of desk jockeys.
The former NEOPROTO films standout and Transworld message board sensation had a seven year pro shred career riding for companies such as Nitro, Electric, Ambiguous, and others. Based out of Truckee, California, Tedore was known for his skill and stylistic approach to the changing dynamic of snowboarding in that era and was on top of his game in 2002.
In 2003 at Breckenridge, Colorado with a bright snowboarding career on the horizon, Tedore washed out on a freshly salted take off and did a switch frontside 90 over a 100-foot SUPERPARK jump. He came up short and in a scary moment, tore his ACL, MCL, PCL, Patella Tendon, both Meniscus, and smashed the outside corner of his Femur.
Tedore recovered, only to have a second knee injury a year later which ended his pro snowboard career. Luckily for Sean, he had a back up plan.
In 2003, Tedore graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada-Reno and in 2005 was hired as the Snowboard Product Development Engineer at K2. During his near six year run at K2 Snowboards Tedore worked with a great team and personally designed over 20 Transworld Snowboarding Good Wood Board Test award winning boards establishing him as one of the premiere board designers in the industry.
At CAPiTA, Tedore takes on a multifaceted role of Product Development and US Marketing Manager. He will employ his design knowledge and engineering background on the snowboard development process and also utilize his network of marketing contacts and media and rider relationships to strategize new ventures for CAPiTA marketing.
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For San Joaquin River revival, drought becomes way of life
In the shallow, gently flowing San Joaquin River, three tiny chinook salmon swim into a trap that saves their lives.
Federal biologists Don Portz and Charles Hueth wade across river cobble at Scout Island to fetch the trio and carefully move them into a tank of water for a truck ride more than 100 miles downstream.
Over the last few weeks, the biologists have trucked nearly 900 young fall-run salmon to where the Merced River empties into the San Joaquin and reconnects this long river to the Pacific Ocean.
The San Joaquin flow goes dry 38 miles beyond Friant Dam -- more than 200 miles short of the ocean where these young salmon need to go. Then, dozens of miles downstream, the connection to the Pacific appears at the Merced River, the first major tributary flowing into the mainstream.
That's the snapshot of the hard-fought and still-debated San Joaquin River restoration project after the driest winter in decades. Forget about releasing water from Millerton Lake and filling dried sections of the river.
As much as controversy swirls around this river, drought is becoming a dominant factor here. The drought is now three years long, meaning the project has spent most of its five years facing dry times.
But it's no time to slow down studies, biologists say. They scrambled to get a close look at how the river and the fish react to this extreme dry time.
"This is an important year to learn about the river," said Portz of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. "We need to see how this looks in a critically dry time."
Portz and Hueth, who is also with the bureau, are studying survival numbers, water temperature and flow, habitat condition, diet of the young fish and other factors involved in the restoration program.
But during the driest period in decades, the restoration won't get water from Millerton Lake. Neither will farmers. Is there a chance any of that will change this spring?
Alicia Forsythe, restoration program manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, said: "We have a long way to go in terms of improved hydrology to start releasing water for the program again."
Two or three large storms in Northern California and the San Joaquin watershed would help, says the Friant Water Authority, representing 15,000 east Valley growers who buy Millerton Lake water.
Leaders also say they would need authorities to pump more river water to west Valley farmers through the sensitive and protected ecosystem of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Some west-siders have rights to Millerton Lake water, and they may be forced to take the supply this year, leaving none for east-siders.
"It's a long shot to get any supply, but we are still working on it," said Friant general manager Ron Jacobsma.
The east-side farmers have been coping with water losses since the restoration began in 2009 as part of a settlement to an 18-year lawsuit. Farmers reluctantly agreed to the settlement as environmentalists and fishing groups gained the legal upper hand.
The history of restoration goes back to the 1940s when Friant Dam was finished and about 60 miles of the state's second-longest river dried. At the time, the river's water resuscitated a faltering east Valley farm industry spanning 1 million acres. A lot of people depend on the river.
Farmers continue to be critical of the restoration, including west-side growers who have historic rights to the San Joaquin.
One such grower, Cannon Michael, said bypass projects to reconnect the river with the ocean remain underfunded and far behind schedule.
"The projects were supposed to be completed last December, and they haven't broken ground on one of them," he said.
The drought is the focus now. This year, the river goes dry at Gravelly Ford, about 25 river miles from the Mendota Pool. A trickle of water comes from Millerton to supply land owners along the river for a few dozen miles below Friant Dam.
Portz said the young fall-run salmon are the offspring of 367 salmon that were planted in the river at Camp Pashayan last year. The 3- to-4-inch-long fish are caught in V-shaped structures called weirs that allow water to pass but not the fish. The weirs guide the fish to collection boxes.
Portz and Hueth have gathered 1,081 so far and transported 879 to the confluence of the Merced River. (Some fish don't survive the capture and transport process, and some already have died before they are gathered.)
Beyond the Merced, there are many dangerous predator fish and other obstacles, such as pollution. And after the fish mature in the ocean, they must return to the San Joaquin to spawn. It's a perilous journey.
"We hope they come back," Portz said. "How many will make it? Out of 1,000, probably one."
Salmon need cold water to survive, but the river will be warming up, stopping migration for the season. What about the fish that don't make it out in time?
Biologists have learned that some salmon planted in the river in a previous year are surviving around deep, cool pools of water near Friant Dam. Portz said it's an interesting tidbit, especially during a three-year drought.
"This is a resilient fish," he said. "As they grow larger, they become less of a target for predators. It's encouraging to see some of them remain and survive in the river."


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Local Teachers Featured Ed Talk Speakers for the Better Together: CA Teacher Summit July 31
Posted byon July 24, 2015 4:12 PM
The Better Together: CA Teachers Summit is only one week away. More than 14,000 educators across California will gather next Friday, July 31 to learn, share ideas, dive deep into discussions and work to build and strengthen their professional networks just in time for back to school season.
Sonoma State University is one of the 33 host universities for this inaugural event, which will include keynote speakers, an Edcamp conference and more. One exciting feature of the day are Ed Talks at each site, in which three local teachers will offer inspiring and thought provoking perspectives about their successes and challenges as teachers, offering personal narratives related to their work with implementation of the California Standards. We are pleased to announce the three featured Ed Talk speakers who will be on stage at Sonoma State next week:
Catlin Tucker: Connect Students to an Authentic Audience
Catlin Tucker is a Google Certified Teacher currently teaching at Windsor High School in Sonoma County, where she was named Teacher of the Year in 2010. She is the bestselling author of Blended Learning for Grades 4-12 and Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology (Corwin) She authored a blended learning course for ASCD and writes a monthly column for Educational Leadership. Catlin is an experienced professional development facilitator, trainer, speaker, and blogger (CatlinTucker.com)
Ruth Moore: Making Every Voice Matter
Ruth Moore has taught middle school English and history for 26 years to a full spectrum of learners, and has served as a BTSA mentor, department chairs and Teacher on Special Assignment. Ruth chairs as a district-wide committee of Board of Education members, district personnel and teacher representatives from K-12 to support constructive dialogue about issues of concern. She is also currently serving on the newly formed Instructional Leadership Corps, a joint venture of Stanford University and CTA to provide quality professional development around CCSS implementation.
Glenn Corey: How I Get My Students to Not Listen to the Teacher
After being a toy designer, documentary film-maker, engineer, executive and researcher, Glenn Corey followed his life-long dream to become a teacher. He teaches design and physics at Novato High School where he helps students pursue their curiosity to create value in the world. Corey is one of the first recipients of a new award presented by the Allen Foundation designed to recognize and support K-12 teachers who promote innovation and entrepreneurialism in the classroom.
The Better Together: CA Teachers Summit, is a collaborative event organized by New Teacher Center, and California State University (CSU) and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU) with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. To learn more, visit the event website at www.cateacherssummit.com and follow it all in real time on Twitter: www.twitter.com/@CAteachersummit, #cateacherssummit
Education Groups to Sponsor Unprecedented Convening of California Teachers
Posted byon June 8, 2015 3:17 PM
On July 31, California teachers at 33 locations across the state, including Sonoma State University, will come together to share innovative strategies that empower our PreK-12 teachers and build powerful teacher communities to positively impact our students. New Teacher Center (NTC), in partnership with California State University (CSU), the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU) and its member institutions, will co-host Better Together: California Teachers Summit, which is designed to help teachers learn from each other, share best practices in implementing the new California Standards and celebrate their work. The events are supported by $3.5 million in grants to NTC, CSU Fullerton and Loyola Marymount University from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"California teachers know that the time to impact the lives of students is always going to be now," said Ellen Moir, Founder and CEO of New Teacher Center. "This event will allow 20,000 teachers to celebrate in classroom successes while building a powerful and lasting support network."
As teachers prepare for the upcoming school year, Better Together: California Teachers Summit provides a unique opportunity to hear from nationally renowned speakers and give teachers a forum to share cutting-edge strategies and proven best practices led by teachers and for teachers. Teachers will come away with concrete tools and strategies for navigating recent changes in implementing the new California Standards, and a network of colleagues from their home region to support future collaboration.
"California's teachers work tirelessly every day to make sure our students thrive," said Kristen Soares, President of AICCU. "This gathering celebrates their achievements and brings them back to their AICCU campus community to equip them with research based practices to ensure their continued success in a changing environment."
"With roots extending back a century to its teacher college origins, the CSU is honored to host this special day of professional collaboration," said CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White. "Through peer learning and exchange, California teachers continue to be at the forefront of classroom innovation - further igniting the spark of learning in their students."
All California teachers, teacher candidates and school administrators are invited to participate in this summit. Events will be held at 33 locations throughout California and registration is free. For more information or to register online, please visit www.cateacherssummit.com, and follow #CATeachersSummit for up-to-date information.
ieSonoma annual event to feature Emily Pilloton, Dan Pallotta, and Adam Braun: June 7-8
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A young woman whose first crush, MacGyver, sparked her love of constrained problem-solving and tinkering and led her to found Project H Design, a nonprofit teaching youth to design and build their future with heart, hands, and hammers.
A Harvard graduate who invented the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days, events that altered the landscape of options for ordinary individuals seeking to make an extraordinary difference.
A college student backpacking across the globe who asked a small boy begging on the streets of India what he wanted most in the world and whose answer would lead him to found an organization that has built over 300 schools serving over 30,000 students around the world.
What do these three remarkable individuals have in common? Aside from being called to action through their personal life experiences, these innovative leaders will be the featured speakers at an important community event taking place in Sonoma County on June 7 and 8, 2015. The third annual ieSonoma: innovate | educate event is scheduled for Sunday, June 7 at Sonoma Country Day School in Santa Rosa and on Monday, June 8 in Weill Hall at Sonoma State University's Green Music Center in Rohnert Park. Participants may choose to attend one or both days.
Get tickets from www.iesonoma.org
ieSonoma events are intended to provoke attendees' thinking and challenge previously held beliefs about teaching and learning in the 21st century. Over the past two years, some of the best thinkers in the world have shared their ideas for innovation in education at ieSonoma: Sir Ken Robinson and Dale Dougherty in 2013, followed by Sugata Mitra and Nirvan Mullick in 2014.
This year, three dynamic speakers will take the stage: Emily Pilloton, Dan Pallotta, and Adam Braun. Each brings a unique story about how they have made a difference in their respective industry sectors by embracing innovation and challenging the status quo:
Emily Pilloton is an educator, architect, and humanitarian activist who believes that design and building can excite learning and citizenship. She developed and is now teaching a design-build curriculum called Studio H that engages the minds and bodies of high school students through real-world, built projects. Originally launched in rural Bertie County, North Carolina, Studio H is now based at REALM Charter School in Berkeley, California. Emily will be one of the keynotes for the Monday morning event.
With the three speakers' stories in mind, ieSonoma is adopting "A Call to Action" as its theme this year. ieSonoma 2015 promises to be an important public gathering of education and community leaders who are interested in transforming education and rethinking the way we view the institutions and organizations that play a role in preparing students for success in the 21st century.
Additional details on the speakers can be found at www.iesonoma.org. A sell-out crowd of 750 on Sunday and 1000 people on Monday is expected for the event.
About ieSonoma
ieSonoma is a partnership of educational institutions and the larger community dedicated to exploring the research, theory, and practice of preparing young people for success in a rapidly changing world. In 2013, the Sonoma County Office of Education joined with Sonoma Country Day School and Sonoma State University to spark innovation and collaboration in the local education community. More than 25 other organizations are also supporting ieSonoma through sponsorship of this year's annual event, including:
Silver:Alexander Valley Vineyards, Community First Credit Union, Lake County Office of Education, Petaluma City Schools, Piner-Olivet Union School District, Quattrocchi Kwok Architects Inc., Santa Rosa City Schools, Santa Rosa Junior College, Sonoma Academy
Bellwether Farms, Bergin Glass Impressions, CalStateTEACH, Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County, Community Foundation Sonoma County, First 5 Sonoma County, Girard & Edwards, Jardesca, Mendocino County Office of Education, North Bay Leadership Council, North Coast Beginning Teacher Program, Sonoma County Department of Health Services, Sonoma County Human Services Department, Whole Foods
Additional support from:
The Press Democrat, Vintners Inn, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts


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Doug Woodring is a environmentalist with Project Kaisei. Here he expresses his opinion on ocean conservation for CNN and Expedition Plastiki, the trans-Pacific voyage undertaken on a boat made from recycled plastic bottles.
(CNN) -- The state of our ocean today is a perfect example of tragedy of the commons. We all use and take from the sea, but the majority of it is not "owned" or governed by any one country, much like the air we breathe, having no borders.
As groups like Plastiki and Project Kaisei draw attention to the plight of the ocean, and the amount of waste in the North Pacific Gyre, the world is becoming shocked to know that this has all happened under our watch, and that it snuck under the radar to get to the scale it is today.
This is because of the size, scale and relative underuse of the sea by the general population. Without using something, there is little appreciation for it, frame of reference to know what to compare to, and therefore, thought or knowledge of how to fix it.
The Plastiki expedition has done a great job to inspire, challenge and prove. They allow people to learn more about the sea, what it has to offer, why it is crying, and how materials we use in our daily lives can be re-purposed into something truly remarkable.
This drives creativity, knowledge and opportunities around a "waste resource" that most people buy, consume, and dispose of in a matter of minutes - plastic bottles.
National Geographic estimates that we use 85,000,000 bottles on this planet every three minutes, and this number is growing by the month. The increase in consumption, unfortunately, has outstripped our ability to capture all of this material back into the waste stream for recycling or other uses.
Bottles are not the only material presenting us with challenges and new opportunities as they rapidly proliferate, but they are often the most widely seen.
The challenge we face today is how to create a "bounty", or a value to the many types of waste that are being created from our consuming, disposing society. Most of this material has value to it, if aggregated in the proper way so that economies of scale can kick in and provide cost effective re-processing potential. As soon as there is value to something that now is worth nothing, people will find ways to collect and capture it for economic gain.
How can we speed up this process on a global scale?
Many times the recycling technology may exist, but too often governments do not support or assist with the infrastructure needed for this new feedstock. The environment never gets improved upon in the scale it needs with purely volunteer efforts.
Governments and companies will need to give incentives, and penalties, in order to shift the goal posts so that people can begin to treat waste materials in new ways. This will bring about a myriad of new technologies, innovations, jobs and the creativity that much of the world's countries strive for, yet they simply are not putting the basic frameworks in place to allow this to happen.
Our economy is a 100 percent subsidiary of the ecology, yet until now, we have been raping and pillaging the environment as if there is an endless supply to go around. This is particularly the case with the oceans, with the lack of an ability to fully govern what gets taken from its waters.
We can now see that this "freedom to exploit" is not endless, as our atmosphere is choking on our growing outputs, and our sea is suffocating due to the long lasting materials we are depositing to its shores, and vice versa.
It is time that we really look at the materials we use in our daily lives, particularly the disposable ones, and ask if we really need something to last for hundreds of years when we just use it for 30 seconds to stir a drink?
The state of the ocean today should be the tipping point that wakes us up from the trance of consumption that we haven lulled into complacency with, and which sends us into a new era of material science, bio and ocean degradability, and new re-use technologies.
We all need to help, as there is no easy single solution.
Governments can grab the opportunity for the benefit of growth and job creation, and companies can lead the way with their consumers and employees, really showing that they care about their surroundings and the markets they serve to.
Brand loyalty from truly getting engaged, on complex issues, is what will set leading companies apart from those who continue to try to cut corners. Plastiki has been an excellent focal point for the world's audience to learn more about the ocean and its plights.
Their expedition is a great compliment to the work we are doing to bring together a collaborative team of science, technology, innovation, policy and education. We are already studying and testing ways in which we can begin to clean some of what we have put into the water over the years, while at the same time driving inspiration for prevention and opportunities that can be sustainable for the long run.
We all have heard of Gen X and Gen Y, now we need to all work together to make sure there is no Generation Zero.


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Rhonda Vincent
To another artist at a similar point in their career, the idea of self-producing a new album, recording it in their own studio, and then releasing it on their own label, would be an unthinkable gamble, fraught with loose ends, complications, and a distracting degree of responsibility. For Rhonda Vincent, however, it is simply the next logical step. Among the most complete and accomplished artists of her generation – in any genre – Vincent was born into a performing family, and from an early age has dedicated herself to understanding and excelling at every element of her craft. She is quick to point out that she is not infallible: in fact, her willingness to take chances and then diligently assess the results afterwards has insured her continuing artistic and professional growth.
"With every album that I make," she reflects, "I learn something. Sometimes it's something I could or should be doing, sometimes it's something not to do. I've done this all of my life, and I've come to realize that if the experience is not pleasant, you need to find something you can take away from it…" She applies those lessons exquisitely to Taken, her first album on her own Upper Management imprint, available in stores on September 21, 2010.
Famously crowned as "the new queen of bluegrass" by the Wall Street Journal, and indeed the most decorated musician in that field, Vincent's music is actually much more inclusive and accessible than that banner would suggest, incorporating savvy contemporary touches while drawing deeply from the haunting mountain soul of classic Monroe-styled bluegrass. The presence on Taken of special guests ranging from Dolly Parton to Richard Marx to Little Roy Lewis affirms Vincent's wide-ranging vision.
One of the defining aspects of bluegrass – and a prominent thread running through Taken – is that it is, first and foremost, a communal music. While famously self-reliant, Vincent is also proud to acknowledge and incorporate the contributions of the Rage, her longtime backing band, which consists of Hunter Berry (fiddle), Mickey Harris (bass), Ben Helson (guitar), and Aaron McDaris (banjo, guitar). Bucking the trend of recording with overly-familiar session musicians, then taking to the road with a different group of players, Vincent not only uses the Rage throughout Taken – she credits them as her co-producers, giving each member the opportunity to contribute to the final product.
"It's a collective venture," she says with pride. "Everyone brings something. I'm open to listening to them and asking, 'What do you hear on this?' They are free to use their imagination. It's so nice to let everyone individually critique their own work. We're coming together for a common goal…"
While Vincent's new label arrangement introduces a bold new degree of accountability, she has never let business scenarios affect her artistic decisions. "I don't think that changes anything," she says. "I'm passionate about the music, no matter what. With every project, I just want to create the best album that I can. When you make a change like this, people assume there's going to be this big difference in everything you do – but the only difference is the label. It was recorded in my studio, where I've been working since 2005, and I recorded it with Bil VornDick engineering, who I've worked closely with before."
Indeed, Rhonda Vincent has earned and benefited from a lifetime's worth of experience, gathered in a remarkably short time. The fifth generation of musicians in her family, Vincent was quite literally born into the business. Her parents Johnny and Carolyn helmed the popular bluegrass outfit the Sally Mountain show, with whom Rhonda made her stage debut at age five, singing and tapping a snare drum. She began playing mandolin onstage at age eight, and quickly mastered an array of stringed instruments, from guitar to fiddle. As she grew as a vocalist and musician, she augmented her love of traditional bluegrass with a growing appreciation for such contemporary mavericks as the New Grass Revival and Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. She made the transition from being a member of the Sally Mountain Show to a being a solo artist, cutting her first solo album in 1986.
After a series of well-received solo recordings for venerable bluegrass label Rebel Records, Vincent signed to Giant Records for a pair of major-label country projects – an invaluable experience that greatly furthered her understanding of the music business. Her triumphant return to bluegrass began with her 1999 signing to Rounder Records, and continued through a series of acclaimed releases which grew her audience exponentially and made her the recipient of vast critical acclaim, commercial success, radio airplay (with several long-term, chart-topping appearances on the Bluegrass Unlimited survey), and heightened visibility in the media, including a top-five video on CMT for "You Can't Take It With You When You Go." Her eight Rounder albums (including a beloved Christmas collection Beautiful Star and the powerful, in-concert career survey Ragin' Live, also released on DVD) established her as an inventive, intuitively ingenious recording artist, blending the very best of the classic and modern.
With over seventy awards to their name, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage are the most celebrated band in bluegrass, with honors including a coveted Entertainer of the Year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and a staggering seven consecutive IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year awards. In 2001, Vincent signed a high-profile endorsement contract with Martha White baking products, the company who first sponsored bluegrass icons Flatt and Scruggs in 1953. Like Flatt and Scruggs before her, Vincent now rolls into every show on the Martha White Bluegrass Express tour bus, and she has even composed a new Martha White theme song.
Despite all that she has achieved, Vincent is still seeking new challenges. For Taken, she reasserts herself as an instrumentalist, playing all of the mandolin on the album. "It became a personal goal for me," she explains. "That's one of the liberating things: it's on my label, it's in my studio. Before, I had budget restraints that limited the amount of time I could spend. I'd be so busy that I couldn't prepare, and I'd just send in Hunter and he'd do it in one or two takes. This time, I mentally prepared myself, and as I get into it, it got so much easier. I'm thrilled that I've done it." Her playing on Taken is a handy reminder that she is a notable, underrated stylist on the instrument, capable of everything from funky, driving Monroe-styled breaks on "Court of Love" to the ringing, intricate cross-picking on "Tonight My Baby's Coming Home."
Her playing, and that of the Rage, is unfailingly crisp, tasteful, and in full service of the song at hand. Taken is refreshingly free of unnecessary ornamentation (vocal or instrumental), with all elements focusing on the spirit of the song at hand. Vincent took special care to consider as many songs as possible for Taken, auditioning material from established songwriters and newcomers alike, with quality being the only deciding factor. "Sweet Summertime," the breezy first single, comes from the pen of new discovery Donna Webster, and is a fond, wistful remembrance that is already becoming a favorite of fans who have heard it in concert. Billy Sherrill's "Tonight My Baby's Coming Home," previously recorded by both Tammy Wynette and Barbara Mandrell, is a clever reverse-trucker song, sung from the woman at home's point of view and boasting a witty guitar solo from Ben Helson that combines low, country-style twang with nimble bluegrass flat picking.
While the Rage provides the core instrumental and vocal support on Taken, a small group of carefully considered guests were invited to contribute. "I don't bring in guests just to bring in guests," Rhonda explains. "It has to be something that makes sense musically. Like, when were doing vocals for 'In the Garden by the Fountain,' I could just hear Dolly Parton singing the high harmony in my head, so I called her, and luckily her schedule worked out." Dolly's pristine mountain harmony brings out both the sadness and the joy of the bittersweet track, which features a poignant lyrical twist at the song's conclusion. Most surprising among the guests is pop hit maker Richard Marx, a longtime friend of Vincent's, who contributes a devastatingly subtle harmony to the title track, raising the emotional level of the song substantially. Most thrilling to Vincent, however, is the presence of her daughters Sally and Tensel Sandker, who perform in their own band Next Best Thing, and contribute lead and harmony vocals on "When the Bloom is Off the Rose." "That is one of my proudest moments," Vincent says of the recording. "Just to hear that played back and say, 'These are my daughters.' And you know how family harmonies are. That song has a buzz that you just can't get any other way. I can't wait for folks to hear that."
Taken concludes on a profoundly optimistic note, with Vincent joined by pre-teen vocalists Isaac Moore and Hannah Harper to perform "You Must Have a Dream." The song's uplifting message is deepened profoundly by the young vocalists' astonishingly mature performances, backed by a choir of other young singers. "That song," Vincent says, smiling, "is different from anything I've done." With a career spanning so many decades, albums, and session, that is no small feat.
Looking back on the sessions, which took place between the tireless band's incredibly busy performance schedule, Vincent immediately credits those around her. "Every person in my band rose to a new level of playing on this project. Hunter blew me away with his fiddle part on 'Taken' – I've never heard him play with such grace. Aaron's banjo playing is so tasteful, yet surprising. Ben is only 23 years old and his guitar work has grown so much in one year – and it started out great! Mickey is the rock of the band, a great songwriter and singer in addition to a bassist. These guys can play a tender ballad just as easily as high-powered bluegrass. That's rare. The abilities and the connections we have amaze me, but you have to do what's best for the song. In the end, it's very humbling…"


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Home Prices Tick Up in November
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices barely rose in November from the previous month and year-over-year gains slowed, reflecting declines in sales in the fall.
Real estate data provider CoreLogic says prices increased just 0.1 percent in November from October. That's down slightly from October and far below August's 0.9 percent gain.
The figures aren't adjusted for seasonal patterns, such as cold winter weather that typically slows sales. Home prices have risen at a healthy 11.8 percent from a year ago, CoreLogic says. But that's the smallest yearly gain since March.
Rising home prices and higher mortgage rates held back sales at the end of last year. Existing home sales have fallen from September through November.
Most economists expect sales and prices to rise in 2014, but more slowly than last year.
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Conservatives have a clear objective: Debt limit legislation should drive down federal spending on the way to a balanced budget, while preserving the ability to protect America, and without raising taxes. The plan suggested by Speaker of the House John Boehner fails to meet that objective — indeed, it sets America up for tax hikes.
The Boehner plan has two steps. The first step cuts spending by $1.2 trillion — but over ten years, and, as usual with these plans, the deep cuts come in the later years, which makes it less likely that they will ever occur. Moreover, the cuts do not get under control the ever-growing spending in the entitlement programs that continuously drive up America's debt. In the first step, the American people get only a little bit of spending cuts now, but President Obama gets authority to borrow $1 trillion. He gets $325 billion immediately and $675 billion upon making a later request, a request that automatically takes effect as long as the President keeps the support of the one-third of a House of Congress necessary to sustain a veto of a disapproval resolution, support he would have. So, the first step of the plan has iffy cuts in spending, but guarantees big increases in borrowing.
The second step in the plan is a set of recommendations from a new dozen-member joint select committee of Congress. The committee's recommendations to Congress would not be subject to amendments and would get a straight up-or-down vote. The plan directs the committee to propose reductions in the deficit by at least $1.8 trillion over 10 years. The government runs a deficit when it spends more than it takes in from Americans as taxes, and the government has run deficits in most years for decades. As always, there are two ways to reduce a bloated government's deficit — the right way of cutting spending and the wrong way of hiking taxes. While the second step of the Boehner plan may produce some useful spending cuts, the second step also allows the Committee to propose raising taxes as part of its unamendable, fast-track legislative package. Thus, the second step greases the way for tax hikes.
Tax hikes in a weak economy slow economic growth and kill jobs. As students of American history (or the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") know, enactment of the tax hike known as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act during the Great Depression hurt the already weak economy and made unemployment worse. Job-killing tax hikes in the current weak economy, as millions of Americans go without jobs and the unemployment hovers above 9 percent, will have a similar effect. However good the intentions of the drafters of the Boehner plan may have been, the plan sets up America for higher taxes and fewer jobs. Conservatives should continue to fight plans that either hike taxes now or set America up for tax hikes in the future.
For decades, Congress has promised on vote after vote we will really get spending under control "next time," and, as all those "next times" went by with that same empty congressional promise, the public debt mounted. The message of the 2010 election was clear — cut the size and spending of government now — and the voters who sent that message deserve better treatment from their government.
The House of Representatives took a step in the right direction last week when it passed the Cut, Cap and Balance Act by a vote of 234 to 190. But the Boehner plan to retreat from the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act is a long step in the wrong direction. The House Leadership should step back and recover its focus on the objective. The time to put America on the path to getting control of federal spending and borrowing on the way to a balanced budget, while preserving our ability to protect America, and without raising taxes, is now.


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Nicki Minaj To Endorse Adidas Originals X Brand (Photos)
The money keeps rolling in for Nicki Minaj.
You can tell the market was thirsty for a crossover African American female rapper, because she has been getting big time opportunities and endorsements left and right.
I am not mad at her, you have to cash in while you are hot, before you get replaced by the next big act.
Necole Bitchie has the details.
Nicki Minaj brought her blonde Barbie wig and colorful playful style to the streets of Brooklyn last night for yet another endorsement opp. She has teamed up with designer Jeremy Scott for the new Adidas Original Fall/Winter 2012 Collection
Jeremy was spotted on the streets yelling 'WERK!!!' as Nicki did her meanest cat walk while showing off an Adidas Original Puffer coat and Jeremy Scott designed sneakers.


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StalkerBlueDog wrote:You may or may not care about my thoughts because I have a very different breed then most of you. So this is my opinion based on the sheltie world.
Duh, of course we care about your thoughts.
I can say that your evil fluffy blue dog had the balls to go after Riggs for walking over her. Stupid? Well, yes, but I don't think she was planning on backing down! (of course he just went )


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The Dock+ has just arrived on Kickstarter and it is looking to fill the void left by Apple's failure to release an official dock for the iPhone 5. Dock+ is more than just a dock for the iPhone 5 too, it also will support the soon to be released iPad mini as well as the latest generation of iPod touch.
Dock+ is machined from a single block of steel, a material 3.6x more dense than aluminum. That means it doesn't tip or wobble as you use or dock your iPhone. And with non-slip rubber bottom, it doesn't slide. Your iPhone 5 just feels safe and secure. iPhone 5 is particularly easy to scratch and scuff on its back surface. With Dock+, your iPhone only touches the soft rubber pad, so you can be sure it won't damage or scuff.
Office. Coffee table. Nightstand. Kitchen. Place Dock+ around your home and office, everywhere you place your iPhone. Free yourself from the charging cable.
The dock+ is currently looking for pledges before it can be made a reality. It currently has just under half of its goal of $75,000 but still has 43 days to go. If you fancy being one of the first to get your hands on one should they make it to production, you can pledge a minimum of $59. This will secure you a dock and charging cable but you will have to provide your own wall power adaptor. The dock will be made available in black, white or raw steel and each dock can be used with an iPhone 5, iPad mini or iPod touch with or without a case.
What do you think of the Dock+? Would you be interested in getting hold of one?
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General Motors Co (NYSE:GM) will wait until its next round of labor talks in 2015 before negotiating with the United Auto Workers about the automaker's U.S. blue-collar pension obligation, GM's vice chairman said on Friday.
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GM's pension obligation to UAW-represented workers in the United States was $71 billion at the end of 2011, the last time the Detroit company detailed its blue-collar pension obligation. That exceeds GM's current market value by about $20 billion.
"There's a lot of education that needs to go on to execute something like that," Steve Girsky told Reuters in an interview. "For the UAW to pull the trigger on that, it would seem to be something that big and visible would probably have to occur around bargaining."
A GM spokesman said there were no ongoing talks with the UAW over the pension obligation.
During the last round of labor talks in 2011, GM and the UAW agreed to discuss ways the No. 1 U.S. automaker could reduce the risk of its pension shortfall, viewed by credit ratings agencies as debt and a concern to GM investors.
The agreement, outlined in a letter, did not detail specific steps. Analysts said options likely include allowing UAW-represented retirees to voluntarily take lump-sum cash payments in exchange for giving up pension claims.
Another solution would be to spin off GM's blue-collar pension obligation to a third party. GM took that approach last year when it hived off its U.S. pension obligation to 118,000 white-collar retirees to a unit of Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU).
GM cut $28 billion, or about a quarter, of its U.S. pension liability through last year's move.
Girsky has talked in the past about taking the pension risk "off the table" for investors.
GM was the first of the U.S. automakers to establish a pension plan in 1950 as part of the "Treaty of Detroit," a contract negotiated by legendary UAW leader Walter Reuther. Ford and Chrysler followed suit.
But by the mid-2000s, pensions and other retiree benefits became an ever-increasing liability that automakers said added as much as $2,000 to the cost of a vehicle and put them at a disadvantage against foreign rivals.
Since then, GM and Ford have both taken steps to "de-risk" their pension plans by closing off their plans to new participants, offering lump-sum buyouts and shifting to more conservative investments.
(By Ben Klayman; Additional reporting by Deepa Seetharaman in Detroit; Editing by David Gregorio)


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While the vast majority of people are home opening presents and cooking turkey dinners on Christmas, a skeleton crew of police officers, firefighters, restaurant workers, gas station attendants and medical professionals spend at least part of the holiday working to keep the world running.
Decked out in a necklace of blinking Christmas lights, a red Santa hat head band and a T-shirt that read "Do not open until Xmas," Kim Rose was cheerfully cleaning the bar at Cathay Center around noon Christmas Day while chatting with few a regulars who had come in.
The Weymouth restaurant was quiet, but Rose, who has worked the last five Christmases there, knew it wouldn't last.
"Later on, this room will be full," she said. "Everybody will be standing."
While the vast majority of people are home opening presents and cooking turkey dinners on Christmas, a skeleton crew of police officers, firefighters, restaurant workers, gas station attendants and medical professionals spend at least part of the holiday working to keep the world running. Many find ways to make the workday special, but most are just trying to spend as much of the day as possible with their loved ones.
"We all try to help each other out," said Sgt. Steven Dearth, a Hingham police officer who was able to spend an extra hour opening presents with his daughters because an officer on the overnight shift offered to stay late on Christmas Day.
While 95 percent of U.S. employers designate Christmas as a paid day off for their workers this year, more than a third said they'd still require some employees to report to work on Christmas Day, according to a Bloomberg BNA survey. Hospitals, municipalities and other non-business organizations were the mostly like to have people on the clock.
In Weymouth, roughly 40 employees were working in South Shore Hospital's cafeteria on Wednesday to prepare a special Christmas meal for patients and hospital workers. According to hospital tradition, all employees and volunteers and their families would eat for free that night.
"We all work holidays – we're never closed," said Patti Sweet, a nutrition coordinator for the hospital. "We try to make it special."
A hearty meal was also in store for five firefighters in Norwell who had started their 24-hour shift at 6 a.m. Christmas morning. They hadn't had to respond to any calls by the time they were preparing to sit down for a meal of tenderloin and mashed potatoes around 1:30 p.m., but they knew the alarm could go off at any moment.
"Don't say the 'Q' word, but so far, yes," said Capt. Shane McMahan, anticipating a question about whether it had been a quiet morning. "We're ready to eat, so it should go off any time now."
Back at Cathay Center in Weymouth, Kim Rose said that Christmas Day is a lot like any other day for her, except that she often finds herself receiving gifts from her regulars. Most of her outfit came from customers, including one who gives her a new holiday headband every year.
"I've gone through a lot of antlers," she said with a smile.
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Cities around the world have identified the economic benefits from tackling the effects of climate change, according to a new report released today by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
The CDP study found 82% of cities are tapping into the potential for growth as a result of climate change adaptation and more than half of cities are looking to create green jobs and new business initiatives.
However, despite the substantial prospects for green growth, just under a third of the cities that participated in the global survey expect new sources of funding for tackling climate change.
The report, published today, presents a global snapshot of the activities, challenges and opportunities facing cities as a result of climate change.
It is based on the carbon and water strategies and actions disclosed to CDP by 73 cities spanning every inhabited continent. The report also contains a special focus on the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), a network of the world's largest cities working to reduce urban carbon emissions and accelerate climate change adaptation.
Measurement for Management: CDP Cities 2012 Global Report shows that reporting cities cite a wide variety of financial drivers for climate change action, with nearly a third of cities expecting improved energy efficiency of their operations and a fifth recognising the increased energy security that action on climate change affords.
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December 7, 2009
Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells -- a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases.
The study, published Dec. 7 in the-peer reviewed online journal PLoS ONE, provides proof-of-principle -- that is, a demonstration of feasibility -- that human stem cells can be engineered into the equivalent of a genetic vaccine.
"We have demonstrated in this proof-of-principle study that this type of approach can be used to engineer the human immune system, particularly the T-cell response, to specifically target HIV-infected cells," said lead investigator Scott G. Kitchen, assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute. "These studies lay the foundation for further therapeutic development that involves restoring damaged or defective immune responses toward a variety of viruses that cause chronic disease, or even different types of tumors."
The engineered stem cells developed into a large population of mature, multifunctional HIV-specific CD8 cells that could specifically target cells containing HIV proteins. The researchers also found that HIV-specific T-cell receptors have to be matched to an individual in much the same way that an organ is matched to a transplant patient.
The next step is to test this strategy in a more advanced model to determine if it would work in the human body, said co-author Jerome A. Zack, UCLA professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology and associate director of the UCLA AIDS Institute. The researchers also hope to expand the range of viruses against which this approach could be used.
But the results of the study suggest that this strategy could be an effective weapon in the fight against AIDS and other viral diseases.
"This approach could be used to combat a variety of chronic viral diseases," said Zack, who is also a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics. "It's like a genetic vaccine."
In addition to Kitchen and Zack, investigators included Michael Bennett, Zoran Galic, Joanne Kim, Qing Xu, Alan Young, Alexis Lieberman, Hwee Ng and Otto Yang, all of UCLA, and Aviva Joseph and Harris Goldstein of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the UCLA Center for AIDS Research funded this study.
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Gunners hit Coventry for six
Arsenal eased into the fourth round of the Capital One Cup after thrashing Coventry 6-1.
The home side made a slow start to the game but took the lead six minutes before half-time as summer signing Olivier Giroud scored his first goal for the club. The former Montpellier striker endured a mixed evening as he missed a second-half penalty before the game was wrapped up courtesy of a superb strike from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Andrey Arshavin and Ignasi Miquel also struck with a Theo Walcott brace imposing Arsenal's dominance on the scoreline - Callum Ball scored Coventry's consolation with his team 4-0 down.
Giroud opened the scoring as he beat the offside trap to collect a loose ball and kept his composure to chip over the onrushing Joe Murphy.
Coventry started the second half brightly but could have fallen further behind only five minutes after the restart. Reece Brown mistimed his clearance and then challenged Arshavin for the bouncing ball with the Russia international going to ground and referee Michael Jones adjudged that the on-loan Manchester United defender had been fouled.
Giroud stepped up but his low penalty was saved superbly by Murphy, diving low to his right and the resulting corner was headed onto the crossbar by Miquel. Arsenal doubled their lead moments later courtesy of a rasping 25-yard effort from England winger Oxlade-Chamberlain.
The third goal followed soon after as Oxlade-Chamberlain and Giroud combined to set up Arshavin to score on his first start of the season. Only another good save from Murphy denied Arsenal's captain Johan Djourou adding a fourth with a diving header.
Arsenal made it 4-0 moments when Nico Yennaris played a through-ball to the feet of Walcott, who burst clear of the defence to slot home. Substitute Ball and Gary McSheffrey shot just wide before it was third time lucky for the Sky Blues when Ball reacted quicker than the Arsenal defence to Carl Baker's cross to reduce the deficit to 4-1.
However, Arsenal soon regained their four-goal advantage as Miquel climbed at the back post to head home Arshavin's pinpoint cross.
Walcott then had two chances to add a sixth goal but hit the side-netting with one effort before forcing a low save out of Murphy. The England international finally scored his second in the final minute of normal time with a smart finish.


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NORMAN, Okla. – Kansas and Kansas State secured first round wins at the Big 12 Women's Tennis Championship at the Headington Family Tennis Center. The eighth-seeded Jayhawks tallied a 4-1 victory over ninth-seeded Iowa State, while No. 7 seed K-State swept 10th-seeded West Virginia, 4-0.
Women's action continues on Friday with four quarterfinal contests, while men's play opens with two quarterfinal matches. Play for both begins at 9 a.m. CT.
Kansas (11-9) took the doubles point with an 8-3 win from the Victoria Khanevskaya and Anastasia Trubica at the No. 3 spot, and then an 8-4 victory by Dylan Windom and Maria Jose Cardona at the No. 2 position.
In singles play, Anastasia Trubica gave KU a 2-0 lead with a win over ISU's Emma Waites, 6-0, 6-2, at the No. 5. The two squads would then exchange points at the third and sixth positions before KU freshman Maria Jose Cardona clinched the victory for the Jayhawks with her No. 2 singles win over Ksenia Pronina, 7-6, 6-3. Kansas will face top-seeded Baylor Friday at 9 a.m. Iowa State drops to 8-15 for the year.
K-State's tandem of Petra Niedermayerova and Karla Bonacic won at No. 1 doubles 8-1, securing the point for the Wildcats (10-10) after WVU had to forfeit the match at the No. 3 spot. The Mountaineers also had to forfeit at the No. 6 singles position, so K-State held a 2-0 lead after doubles play.
Straight-set victories from Ana Gomez Aleman at No. 5 and Ivana Kubickova at No. 3 singles gave K-State the 4-0 victory. The Wildcats will now face second-seeded and regular season co-champions Texas Tech Friday at 3 p.m., while the Mountaineers fall to 4-17 on the season.
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It's great to have high standards for yourself and for others up to a point. But in the long run, perfectionism is a losing strategy. You will probably already know about the stress, anxiety and possibly depression that it causes, and the strain it can put on relationships.
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Although we may claim that the world has gravitates from authoritarian rulership and that most countries in the world operate under a democratic ambience, but in certain parts of the world and over certain organisations preside some leaders who still lord over their followers without giving them a say at all in the affairs.
Every nation and society has its own leader, but what distinguishes the smart leaders in the world today from the bosses and the not-so-smart leaders? Consider the following traits.
The first trait of the smart leader in the 21st Century is that the leader has to EVOLVE. He should keep up with the times, with the latest techniques and updated information. Knowledge is power and the knowledgeable leader is not one that can be easily deceived or pushed about. The societies that use the most advanced methods in everyday life are the ones that lead the pack in today's world.
In addition, the SMART leader is:
S- Simple/Straightforward: The good leader has to mean what he says, and say what he means. He must not be deceitful. His followers must be able to trust him and take his word for it in every circumstance. What he does not intend to do, he should determine not to say it. Also, the smart leader in this century must be a man of simple ways, words and lifestyle.
Gone are the days when leaders were marked by 100-foot billowy robes, with twenty servants carrying the clothes from behind. This can be tolerated from a bride in a wedding ceremony, but not from the world-class 21st Century leader. He should not live a complicated lifestyle or be unnecessarily extravagant. Simplicity does it these days.
M- Malleable: As mentioned earlier, the smart leader must be malleable, not rigid. He must be able to bend his views when it is necessary. He should be able to lower his standards when it is necessary.
Compromising your views at certain times is not a trait of the weak, but that of the intelligent. He should not insist on the status quo, or cling to ideas just because "that's the norm here!" The norm is usually dumb. He must have a teachable heart that can learn new information at every opportunity. He must be malleable enough to learn from both young and old, rich and poor, male and female-anybody.
A- Accountable: Aha! Did the smart leader expect I won't add this? It is inescapable for the smart leader to be accountable for all the human and other resources committed to his care. He must not be corrupt. Every penny in his administration must be accounted for. He must guard his citizens and his domain with the same intensity as well.
R- Resourceful: The leader must also be one with a limitless river of ideas constantly flowing for the betterment of his organisation. He must be very creative and actually SMART. As in, really intelligent. If a dumb leader is put over a domain, he will mismanage and diminish it. The leader must be able to multiply the little he has been committed with, and multiply it. He must commit to being constantly trained in order to further equip his intellectual arsenal.
T- Technology Literate: Finally, in this Internet Age, many wars are won or lost on social media. The smart leader in the 21st Century must be one who is very much versed in at least some high-tech devices. He must not be an illiterate with the computer or with the internet. He must make it a point of duty to learn the use of one new technological gadget every six months. That will set him apart and make him the man/woman to beat by the other leaders. He will find out pretty soon that he is a trail blazer in leadership. It does not matter whether he is presiding over a family or over an entire nation, such person will be a trail blazer.
Emmanuel Sokefun is a freelance article writer, in addition to being a novelist, poet, hymnist, songwriter and a lover of the academia.