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Prejudice 'not just football issue'
Everton manager Roberto Martinez insists it is not just individuals connected to football who feel it is difficult to be open about their sexuality after former Toffees player Thomas Hitzlsperger publicly came out as gay on Wednesday.
The German midfielder, who also played for Aston Villa and West Ham in the English top flight, became the most high-profile footballer to date to announce he was gay, but waited until the end of his playing career before going public with the news.
In a statement on his website, the 31-year-old argued that homosexuality is "simply ignored in football" and claimed that active players fear revealing they are gay because of the sport's environment.
While Martinez acknowledges it would be a courageous step for any current player to come out as gay, he thinks that is due to today's society, rather than football in general.
"It's not just football," he said.
"When you are competing in your daily work sometimes there is the professional, then there is the human being. Sometimes, in some workplaces, it is harder than others for the human side to be itself when you work as a professional.
"Ideally, you would love to be yourself and have the human being at the same level as the professional. (But) it's not just in football - there are many walks of life where that's not the case."
Hitzlsperger last played for Everton back in March 2013 and Martinez, who was in charge of Wigan during the German's career at Goodison Park, hopes he will feel happier following his announcement.
The Spaniard added: "You always feel as a footballer and as a human being you need to be able to be happy and that's what I would support. As a manager you want your players to be free and honest.
"We back Thomas' decision to be happy as a person and coming out and making the statement he made. That's important in any walk of life, not just sport. You need to be yourself and be able to express what your sexuality is."


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The 99% Spring: A Skeptic Speaks
By Brandon Lacy Campos
April 11, 2012
You know, I am just learning about the 99% Spring ... and I am having some mixed feelings. I know a number of the letter signers, and I trust them (for example, Sarita Gupta -- Jobs with Justice -- and I were student organizers involved with USSA together in the mid-90s, and Rashad Robinson and I go way back). I do, however, have some issues with how organized labor centric the push is considered how few folks are actually part of organized labor at this point. Now, I believe that organized labor should be a central component of any organizing related to economic justice, but immediately, on looking at the signers and the labor focus, my first instinct was to say ... this isn't about me ... which is deep on a number of levels, right ... both on the level of why don't I see myself as an inheritor of the right to organized labor but also it has clearly to do with the racism, homophobia, and lack of ability of organized labor to speak to me and my experience as a nonprofit worker. Aka ... those of us that have spent the bulk of our lives agitating for change have largely done so within the non-profit industrial complex, which organized labor has ignored or been unable to crack (I am being clear that there have been widely divergent reasons and what is true on the national stage regarding energy and willingness does not often match up with local labor organizing).
Now ... the prominent role of organized labor in calling for the 99% Spring is NOT why I am skeptical. I want to be clear. I am a lover of organized labor ... but I do feel it necessary to call out that it did make me feel uncomfortable and made me question who was calling this week long event and if/did/didn't they do their work to make sure that the signers/callers were broad and deep enough to not elicit such a reaction. If I am having this reaction and I KNOW some of the folks calling for the action, I am clear that folks that have no direct connection to the list of folks behind the call will have even less impetus to connect this work to their own lives.
But on another level ... my gut ... after thoroughly reading the 99% Spring website has an even bigger, more troublesome question: SO WHAT?
So what we have a week of actions/trainings/teach-ins ... that will, if successful, raise visibility ... but to what end? What happens on April 16th? What will the 100,000 folks be doing on April 17th? How will the energy be sustained? What are the next step goals? What are m the outcomes that this is helping to push forward? What's the next strategy to reach an end goal or benchmark and how does this push us there? How does this build infrastructure? How does this build movement instead of continuing our silo-ed, largely uncoordinated/and sometimes at odds work? How does this create a broader and deeper more unified political understanding of the moment and the long term politic in effect? How does this change the dialogue? Who gets to participate in these direct actions? Who does this leave out? Specifically what does this mean for the formally incarcerated? Immigrants, documented or otherwise, and those that can't afford to miss work to participate in actions that could have them facing jail time? What else is there that can be done that is more sustainable, achieves the same visibility goals, and allows disenfranchised folks to continue to advocate on their own behalf without putting themselves at undue risk of incarceration, deportation, or further economic marginalization?
I actually believe that folks in their communities already KNOW the tactics that are going to lead to their own victories in narrow ways. Farm workers organizing in the Upper Midwest have the example of farm workers in the Southwest to draw on. What I want is to know and strategize with those farm workers and connect their liberation directly to mine as I do economic justice work with queer/trans/elderly/HIV positive/people of color/homeless folks in New York City. I want to build a coherent framework that connects our liberation struggles into a real movement and not a bifurcated exercise that still fails to address the inherent oppressions at play in the Occupy movement that this 99% Spring, as imagined, seems to be on the verge of replicating.
I am not saying don't do it. Nor will I stand in the way of it. But as it stands, as a co-executive director, I would not push for the involvement of my organization in the 99% Spring (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION AND IS LIKELY TO NOT BE SHARED BY ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES OR MOST OF MY FRIENDS FOR THAT MATTER). It is beyond time that we grow up as social justice movement(s), and understand the difference between tactics and strategies, and it is super beyond time that we figure out how to define successes and start setting benchmarks that we can reach, together ... distinctly and directly investing in each others liberation across the silos in which we find ourselves. My liberation is directly connected to all of yours. It's time to create real strategies that get us to that liberated space ... which ... we will find ... is only a starting point.
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Brandon Lacy Campos
Brandon Lacy Campos is a 32-year-old queer, poz, African-American, Afro-Puerto Rican, Ojibwe and Euro (smorgasbord) poet, playwright, blogger, journalist and novelist (that last one is slowly coming along). In 2009, MyLatinoVoice.com named him the #2 queer, Latino blogger to watch. In 2006, the Star Tribune named him a young policy wonk for his political shenanigans. His writing and poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies including, most recently, Mariposas, edited by Emanuel Xavier and published by Floricanto Press. This fall, his work will appear in the academic text Queer Twin Cities, published by the University of Minnesota Press. And, one of these days, Summerfolk Press will be publishing his first solo book of poetry: It Ain't Truth If It Doesn't Hurt. Brandon is hard at work on his first novel, Eden Lost, and he lives in New York City with his partner, artist David Berube, and his boss, Mimzy Lacy Berube de Campos (their dog).
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Bedford Blues v Connacht Eagles
Bedford Blues did their bit for the fans to ensure that everyone has a very Merry Christmas by running in seven tries during a 50-12 rout over Connacht Eagles in the British & Irish Cup. James Short and Nick Fenton-Wells both crossed the line twice while Corey Hircock, Charlie Clare and Patrick Tapley all scored with James Pritchard and Jake Sharp sharing kicking duties hitting eight and seven points respectively.
The performance was far different from last weekend when the Blues were guilty of leaving too many points out on the field but they opened the scoring in the second minute and had the bonus point in the bag just after the half hour mark.
Short was the man at the end of the opening try which came about following a rapid start by the home side. Running from deep and throwing themselves into everything, the forwards got the ball to the backs and it was played through Sharp, Brendan Burke and Pritchard before Short was played in to score with Pritchard converting.
Pritchard and Jack Carty then exchanged missed penalties before there was concern for the Blues in the 18th minute when Mike Howard was forced off with injury and the second row will be assessed to see how long he will be out of action.
A second try was on the cards and it was Short who crossed the whitewash again. The backs put in a great break, but the Saracens man spotted a gap and found a way past three defenders to score and give Pritchard the easy extras to make it 14-0.
From the restart it was 21-0 as the ball was collected, played to the backs and then Hircock stepped on the gas to score next to the posts and Pritchard again converted.
The bonus point came in the 32nd minute with Sharp orchestrating the attack which resulted with Fenton-Wells dotting down and Pritchard making it four from four.
It may sound as if Connacht were being bowled over but it really wasn't the case. They played a fast moving style of rugby and a superb cross field kick from Carty found centre Brian Murphy in acres of space to score with Carty adding the extras on the half time whistle.
Going down the slope, Bedford were keen to increase the score line but Connacht were stubborn to break down and maintained possession. Bedford dug in deep though and forced their way into the Eagles 22 before Clare picked up and drove over from close range in the 47th minute for an unconverted try.
Connacht rallied though and following a series of penalties, they sent the ball deep into the Blues 22. The lineout did its job well before the forwards piled into the maul and drove over the line with flanker Aaron Conneely coming up with the ball but the conversion went wide.
Bedford continued to press and after Sharp added a 59th minute penalty he was called into action again to convert Fenton-Wells try nine minutes later. The Blues had broke from their own half with some nice link up play but with Connacht covering well the ball came out to Nico Steenkamp who did his best to show a clean pair of heels to the covering defender. Despite being brought down in the Eagles 22, Bedford got the ball out to Sharp who played in Fenton-Wells who sold his man with a dummy and scored.
The icing on the cake came with the last play of the game and Tapley was the man to benefit from the odd-shaped ball. A Connacht pass hit the floor and Tapley instinctively kicked it on the half-volley before sprinting ahead and latching onto the ball to score with Sharp converting and making it 50-12.
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Dr. William Davis: Undoctored, Why Health Care Stinks & Playing Xbox on a Bicycle
Health care is a weird scene at best, and a misnomer at worst. Another good excuse to eat your vegetables ladies and gentlemen. But never fear, today's guest, mega-bestselling author and cardiologist, Dr. William Davis, is here to help us figure it all out.


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LONG BEACH — The beach volleyball community is still abuzz about the recent announcement that April Ross would replace Misty May-Treanor as the next partner for three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings.
But though Ross played a Federation International de Volleyball Grand Slam event with Walsh-Jennings earlier this month in Switzerland (they were eliminated in the round of 16), Ross remains linked with Jennifer Kessy until later this season, when she will team with Walsh Jennings for the final two Assn. of Volleyball Professionals events, as well as the last two FIVB Grand Slam events.
But the 2012 Olympic silver medalists, seeded No. 1 in the World Series of Beach Volleyball FIVB Grand Slam event at Marina Green Park, created some buzz of their own by losing their second pool-play match on Tuesday.
"It was surprising, but after the way we played, it's not surprising," Ross said of the 21-19, 21-15 loss to No. 11-seeded Swiss team of Isabelle Forrer and Anouk Verge-Depre.
Ross and Kessy, who won their pool-play opener, 21-10, 21-12, over a team from Poland, remain alive in the double-elimination format that continues with pool play Wednesday morning. The championship draw also begins Wednesday and the women's semifinals and final are scheduled for Friday.
Ross, a Costa Mesa resident and former Newport Harbor High indoor standout, said the hard sand, the strong play by the Swiss duo, and a month since she last played in a tournament with Kessy contributed to Tuesday's upset.
"Just taking two tournaments off can affect things for sure, " Ross said, who came in as the leading server in FIVB events, but missed five serves without an ace in Tuesday's setback. "It's not like Jen did anything wrong, but I felt a little out of sync, like not normal. She was getting in my way and I was getting in her way. It did not feel good."
Ross said the impending change in partners has been a distraction, but the layoff was more of a factor in her sub-par play with Kessy.
"It's a constant thing," Ross said of the on-court dynamic that partners share. "It's a monster. You've got to keep working on it and keep it working for you, or else. I've been playing volleyball since I was 13 years old and I'm 31 now. But I still feel the need to get out and practice every day, because volleyball is such a skill-based sport. You've got to keep it sharp or else you are going to lose.
"I don't think it shook our confidence, but it showed us we are not playing at the level we need to play here," Ross said. "I think we are just disappointed in ourselves."
Ross said she was further irked that the loss came so close to home.
"It feels weird to lose [it was the first pool-play defeat this season for Ross and Kessy], because I wanted to come in and just dominate," Ross said. "I was really excited to have this [event] here. I think [playing locally] is awesome, but it would suck if we don't do well.
"It's gotten to the point where I don't get really sad when I lose," Ross said. "It's just that I get disappointed in myself and I just know that I'm better than that. So, it's a personal thing for me. I'm probably going to dwell on it a little bit tonight and just make sure I'm better prepared for [Wednesday] and I bring a little bit more fire, for sure."
Also in women's pool play, UC Irvine product Whitney Pavlik split a pair of matches with emergency partner Annett Davis. Pavlik and Davis, seeded No. 27, upset No. 6-seeded Liliana Fernandez and Else Basquerizo of Spain, 21-12, 21-17, in their first pool-play match.
In the afternoon, Pavlik and Davis, who is about two months away from her 40th birthday, flirted with another upset before falling, 19-21, 21-18, 15-13, to No. 11-seeded Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy from Australia.
Pavlik had been scheduled to play with Walsh Jennings in the Grand Slam event, but Walsh Jennings is limited by an abdominal strain. Pavlik and Walsh Jennings are scheduled to play together in the World Series Cup event to be contested Saturday and Sunday.
In the only round of men's pool play, the top-seeded team of Costa Mesa resident Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson of Huntington Beach swept the Italian pair of Andrea Tomatis and Alex Ranghieri, 21-17, 21-15.
In addition, the No. 7-seeded duo of Corona del Mar resident Sean Rosenthal and Phil Dalhausser got past the Swiss pairing of Andreas and Roman Sutter, 24-22, 21-18.
Men's pool play continues Wednesday, heading toward the semifinals and final on Saturday.


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Water experts are keeping a cautious eye toward the snow pack that has been building up in the mountains this winter. With above average snow conditions, there is the very real possibility that a couple warm days in the spring could trigger a sudden runoff that could evolve into a flash flood occurrence for a community still recovering from last September's floods. This hasn't gone unnoticed by town officials. "We've been doing a lot of public outreach to prepare the community for runoff," said Estes Park Town Administrator Frank Lancaster. "While 2014 may or may not end up being a significant runoff year, our floodplains have changed, and so runoff will certainly have different effects this year. "The town is preparing for runoff, as it does every year, by identifying hazards on public river property that could restrict or change the flow of water, and cleaning culverts to facilitate drainage. But most river property is privately owned, so the town is making significant efforts to bring property owners together to plan ahead for runoff." Lancaster said those efforts include: - Facilitating river restoration coalition meetings to bring private property owners together with their neighbors, and provide resources for restoration. - Working with the Natural Resources Conservation Service to sponsor the preparation of high-risk or "exigent" sites needing immediate attention prior to spring runoff.
- Securing materials like downed trees and rock from CDOT's blasting on US 36 to assist with stabilization of these high-risk river banks. - Securing grants for master planning the long-term restoration of Fish Creek and Fall River (Community Development). Lancaster also said that the Colorado Department of Transportation has been busy preparing U.S. Highway 34 and U.S. Highway 36 for the possibility of a high runoff season. "Of course, visitor access is critical to Estes Park," Lancaster said. "We're grateful that CDOT has made repairs to the U.S. 34 and U.S. 36. temporary highways a high priority to ensure they are safe and can withstand the runoff season. This is very reassuring to the community." Will Birchfield, the town's floodplain manager, is another official who is keenly aware of what the spring runoff could mean. He attended the 2013 Colorado Flood Forum hosted by the Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers and Colorado State University on Feb. 27. This forum included presentations by experts and discussions among public agencies of the 2013 flood and preparation for spring runoff. "At this time, it's too early to predict what runoff will bring, so we will constantly monitor, reevaluate conditions, and keep the community informed," Birchfield said. "If current weather patterns persist, it's possible we could see an event equal to at least a 25-year event. "Variables include how much snowfall comes in March and April, how quickly temperatures rise in the spring, how much rain falls during snow melt, and how the new floodplains in the Estes Valley handle the melt. "Many floodplain improvement efforts are underway throughout the valley, and we hope that all residents along rivers and streams start planning ahead, just in case." Ultimate, officials agree, it is every citizen's responsibility to protect their own private property and to consider how risks on his or her property affect neighbors up and downstream. Estes Park officials are encouraging residents to reach out to their neighbors and work together to address potential problems. Some actions private property owners can take to protect property are: - Remove debris (sediment) from the river to increase channel capacity. Permits are required. - Protect buildings by purchasing and keeping sandbags/water bags on hand. Bags can be placed adjacent to buildings to divert water around buildings and to stabilize banks, NOT in the river channels. - Stabilize banks at risk for erosion such as those undercut and unstable. Mitigate now and remove unstable trees. Permits are required. Permits for all work in the floodplain are required and available to residents within the town limits by calling the town's Building Safety Division at 970-577-3726. Floodplain manager Will Birchfield is available to provide mitigation advice during the permit process. Town officials warn that during runoff, residents and guests should stay a safe distance from stream and river banks, which in some areas have eroded and are less stable as a result of the 2013 flood. Residents should report any overflow of rivers or streams 24 hours-a-day to 586-4000. If significant property damage is imminent or if the conditions present a life safety hazard, call 911. Approximately 12 properties within the Estes Valley have been identified by the Natural Resource Conservation Services as needing immediate work to protect life and structures from the spring runoff. These properties are eligible to participate in the NRCS Emergency Watershed Protection Program. Eligible property owners have been contacted by town and/or county representatives. Fall River and Fish Creek Restoration Coalition meetings for property owners are on-going and include information on both emergency repairs for runoff mitigation as well as long-term planning for watershed restoration. Coalitions create a forum for residents to get to know their neighbors to work cooperative to restore the rivers. For more information please contact the Town of Estes Park's Community Development Department at 970-577-3721 or email email@example.com. For more information on how to prepare visit online at www.ready.gov.


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GREEN LANTERN Fights & Flies to Stop RISE OF THE MANHUNTERS
While Marvel Entertainment has spread the wealth a bit this summer with new movies and games in the X-Men, Thor, and Captain America franchises, Warner Bros. has their hopes for multi-media resting solely in the ring-wielding hand of Green Lantern (though Batman will lend his help later in the year with Arkham City). With the first feature film in the space-bound franchise coming in June 2011, Warner Interactive will also be releasing a video game featuring familiar sites, faces, and voices, though it won't be directly based off the film.
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters takes the movie's look and feel and adds the mythology of the android enforcers known as the Manhunters. The Guardians of Oa once thought emotionless machines were the best force to police the universe, but the lack of empathy proved a hinderance to, well, life. Now the Manhunters are launching a full-scale assault on Oa and the little blue men, and it's up to the Green Lantern Corps to save the day.
We got to sit down with the game and play an example level of two of the gameplay modes - ground-based melee combat and a more "dogfight" style flight-based combat.
The melee on the ground is fun and exciting from the start. It's similar to many other third-person action games, with combinations of quick, heavy, grab, and air strikes. Of course, you have that will-powered ring on your finger, so just punching and kicking would be silly. With the holding of R2 or L2 on the PlayStation 3 controller (RT or LT on Xbox 360), you pull up a menu of four constructs each, corresponding to the four face buttons on the controller. We saw Missile Pack, Mace storm (a twirling melee attack), Gatling Gun, and Baseball bat to start, and later unlocked Ring blast after just one level-up. There are 12 constructs total that can be unlocked throughout the game, so eventually you'll have to pick your eight favorites for the quick-access presses. Many of these were chargeable as well, and all of them provided big, fun hits. Hitting a Manhunter robot with the big green energy baseball bat isn't just another melee attack, it sends them flying across the screen.
Where some games suffer from giving you these powerful attacks then not enough energy to perform them, that's not the case here. While it can't be every attack, there is plenty of recharging opportunity, from defeating enemies to supercharging at lantern points. That means you actually get to use your superpowers and feel like the hero you're controlling on a regular basis, not just on certain occasions. The big green hand grab helps fill in the slower spots, and becomes useful at not just defeating enemies, but solving some basic puzzles, too.
The game is co-op, with one player controlling a Ryan Reynolds-voiced Green Lantern Hal Jordan, and the other controlling his GL mentor Sinestro. Both characters play the same way, but have their own unique one-liners and quips to change things up ever so slightly. Teamwork becomes key in both puzzle-solving and some of the massive blitzes of enemies you'll face. Overall, melee was easy-to-control, with fun to use powers and a good variety of enemies, even at this early level. The one downside is the complete lack of the ability to fly in these stages. you can't hover, you can't do much in the air at all besides juggle melee combos. However, to sate that a bit, there are the flying levels.
The flight levels are more like controlling a jet than a human, as you soar through space and shoot down enemies. If you max out your overcharge meter and activate it, you'll in fact create a green jet construct around your character for a limited time, giving you much heavier firepower. Controls here are just as easy to handle; if you've played a flight game, you can play this with ease. The level I tried was short, with a typical "gain boss with hot spots to shoot at" toward the end, but if all the game's controls are this tight, this should provide a nice respite between the running, jumping beat-em-up that will serve as the bulk of the game.
When the game premiers next month, it looks like Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters looks like it has the willpower to defeat the "movie game" curse, but whether that means it will be the greatest Green lantern or just another rookie poozer remains to be seen.You can wield the green light starting June 7, 2011 on all major gaming platforms


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What are you doing at the conference? What's your work in HIV?
I'm here mainly as a person living with HIV. Again, because of the military lifestyle, you move from place to place and it's hard to make friends. I didn't meet anyone who had HIV until I was 17. I had it since I was six weeks old. I was diagnosed when I was eight and a half [years old]. But even at eight and a half I was asymptomatic. I never met anybody with HIV until I was 17 and at a different high school conference. Then the next group of people with HIV I met were the people with Hope's Voice. I'm a speaker with Hope's Voice now. It's a young bureau of twenty-somethings living with HIV. When they came to my college campus it was just something that increased my net of HIV contacts by 500 percent because I had been so isolated for so long.
Being that isolated, were you extremely open about your status or did you prefer to keep it to yourself?
I think part of it was that when I was diagnosed, it was 1991, the same year as Magic Johnson's announcement and my parent's found out about my diagnosis before I did. The doctor was the one to tell me I had HIV. He said to me, "You have the human immunodeficiency virus. Do you know what that is?" Now, I don't know what eight-year-old knows what HIV is, but I knew the month prior I had heard the Magic Johnson announcement, and I thought, "This is great," because I was related to Magic Johnson in some way. So I started to tell that to my elementary school classmates. They would say, "That's so cool. How?" And I would tell them I have HIV. They don't know what HIV is either, but they go and tell their parents, "This girl in my school is related to Magic Johnson!" [Laughing.] The parents would ask, "How?" And the parents would be really worried. But because I associated it with Magic Johnson and because I was a kid -- How do you ask your child to keep a secret? My parents never did that. So I've been open about it since I was a young child.
I think it's much different to be diagnosed at such a young age, versus now. I can't imagine being a young adult and being hit with that diagnosis with all that I know now and all the years of stigma that have been built up. I think the more people that speak up about it, and normalize it -- I think it will be good for the epidemic. That's why I'm here.
Could you explain a little more about your worst experience with that stigma or discrimination?
The only one I can point out is when I was younger, after I was diagnosed, I needed to go in and tell the school nurse, I guess about medications, just so the school district would know. I knew, because I was open with my schoolmates and I would tell them the Magic Johnson story, there were some parents who were worried. There was a PTA [Parent Teacher Association] meeting involved where there were some parents who just weren't comfortable having me at school with their children. At the time of my diagnosis, the principal of my school was on sabbatical. He was under the impression that children with HIV shouldn't be in the public school system. Now, I don't know why, but he kind of had the acting principal keep an eye on me, to make sure I wasn't a threat.
But that's the only story that I know of where I have been discriminated against. I guess because I come across so naturally and so normally now people don't say anything after I tell the story. I guess I'm so comfortable with it, so it makes it easier for other people to be comfortable with it.
What advice would you give for someone who was newly tested positive?
I would tell them to find someone that they can turn to. That's probably the hardest part. It's them and their fears, blocking themselves and isolating themselves. They needed to find someone to talk to because to hold that inside for so long, and to keep that a secret is so detrimental to your mental health. I'm under the conviction that mental health severely impacts physical health. I don't know how to speak from that perspective, because I was diagnosed at a young age, but I knew that because when I turned 17 I harbored those feelings of shame and [asked myself,] "Why won't anyone talk about this with me?"
When I went and met someone who had HIV. It was just such a relief -- or at least someone who was willing to talk about it -- because my family was not as willing to talk about it. I didn't look sick, and that's what everyone expects to see. They expect to see you look sick before they want to talk about it with you.
So who was really the first person you really spoke to about your HIV?
I think the first time I spoke to a group I was at a high school conference for high schoolers who wanted to be doctors and someone said, "Blood transfusion cases are so rare we just don't have to worry about them anymore." This was on a day that had focused on HIV and AIDS and a speaker was coming in. I turned to her and said, "I really wish I didn't have to worry about blood transfusion cases, but 17 years ago that happened to me." Those people really were interested in my story. She blushed bright, bright red.
I just talk about [HIV] with anyone who's willing to listen. Usually if I'm living with people that's one of the first things I talk about, and if people ask me what I do I also talk about HIV as well, because it's kind of like my hair color. It's just a part of me. It's not all of me, but it is a part of me. I just don't see why I should hide it.
Is HIV the reason you decided you wanted to become a doctor? Or was that something you had thought about before you were diagnosed?
I'm no longer on the doctor route. I'm more into public health, prevention. I had wanted to become a doctor because of the HIV, sure. I had wanted to do research and pharmaceuticals, but I'm much more of a mathematics person. I'm combining my love of mathematics and my love of political science and government in epidemiology, which is the study of disease and populations. Here at the AIDS Conference all of these epidemiological studies are being presented, and this is how we know what we know in medicine -- because we study groups of people. I don't know if eventually I want to go into HIV research in medicine, because I certainly can pick something else.
Have you seen an epidemiological study presented at the conference that you think is really going to affect the future of HIV?
I saw a presentation on harm reduction and HIV, and it talks about the clean needle exchange. This is in countries other than the U.S., where I live, and it's always interesting to see the evidence for harm reduction, yet live in a country where harm reduction is not even spoken about. They make it so clear and evidence based, it's opened my eyes.
This conference has opened my eyes to the international epidemic. I knew mostly about HIV domestically, in the U.S. I'm taking it all in and I hope it will make me a better public health professional for it.
For those listeners in the U.S., could you describe harm reduction, since it really isn't spoken about much?
I think harm reduction is a comprehensive approach to make smarter choices towards drug use, or they had the large sex workers exhibit here. I think it's better to use examples. So, harm reduction in terms of drug use would be clean needle exchange, substitute drug programs, more drug counseling, more drug rehabilitation, as opposed to the U.S. [policy] where any amount of drug you use you're penalized for it, and it's either all or nothing. They're asking you to abstain from drugs just like they ask you to abstain from sex. Using condoms is another example of harm reduction. There's something else. Yesterday they said, "Eighty percent of something is better than 100 percent of nothing." And the U.S. has never acknowledged free needle exchange programs. That's the biggest one here, the harm reduction.
Other than that, what other myths or misinformation do you think is prevalent in the United States?
Certainly, the abstinence one. Abstinence works for a short amount time. The war on sex is the same thing as the war on drugs in the United States, where abstinence is mostly talked about in schools. I think the biggest myth is that condom dispersion in schools promotes promiscuity. I'm not really sure how a piece of rubber can tell someone, "Go have more sex." I don't know anyone who is saying, "I have a condom. Let's go have more sex." The fact that HIV and AIDS is a moral issue instead of a health issue, I think that's kind of backwards. That's a lot of what perpetuates this epidemic.
So would you like to see change?
After 25 years? I'm not sure what we're doing wrong. I hope we get on the right track -- that we stop talking about the things we want to do and just go do them. I'd like to see more youths involved with this epidemic, especially since a lot of the older generation involved with this issue, the scientists, they're the last generation to have grown up without HIV and AIDS.
I've grown up, all my life, HIV and AIDS has been around, and I think the next generation is really essential. We need to internalize the reality that HIV can happen to me. We haven't really done that with the youth. I know when I go to talk colleges and universities, they're under the impression that HIV/AIDS can't happen to them because they are more educated, as if the college bubble provides them with immunity against HIV and AIDS. I like to go there, and say, "Hey, I was an undergraduate at a prestigious university. I have my diploma. HIV can happen to you. You wouldn't even know it by looking twice at me, because it doesn't look like anything."
You mentioned that you were a student. What are you doing now?
I'm a second-year epidemiology student at Emory University.
Is your status disclosed at Emory?
It is. I had participated with Hope's Voice, in their 2006 Road to Hope Tour, and Emory was one of the stops on the tour. So after I had done that presentation, the next two days I was on the front page of the school paper.
Since the presentation has your life changed at the campus?
I think it's a little different because it was mostly undergraduates and some Emory graduate researchers. The graduates don't know really who I am, but the undergraduates [do]. I've had some people come up to and say, "Hey, you were at that presentation and I think it's really great because you are not that much older than me, and yet you're still doing what you're doing".
Have you had a chance to be a mentor for those students? What kind of questions do they ask you?
I get a lot of questions about my relationship and my sex life. They love to ask about that sort of thing. I answer it as honestly as I can, because I'm kind of out there like that. I'm not ashamed of anything I do, or don't do. But I tell them: I can still have a relationship. I can still fall in love. I can still be just like you.
Are you currently in a relationship with anyone?
My school work. [Laughing.] No, my life is very hectic right now, and I think once I get settled someone will come along. But for now I'm just doing what makes me happy and if someone's along for the ride, that's great.
Once you get into a relationship, when do you decide to disclose to that person? Is it right away or later?
I disclose pretty much right away because I think it's harder if you get attached to somebody and you later on disclose. There's two things that could go wrong there. One, they might actually have some prejudice against HIV, or two, they might not have a prejudice against it, but it feels dishonest that you kept that from them, and you will never know which one of that two it is, when they decide to up and leave. So I just go ahead tell and if someone has a problem with it right out front I applaud that, because it's the covert prejudice I can't do anything about. But if you tell me right away that that's going to be an issue, I appreciate that. You're being honest and it allows me to not get hurt in the process.
In relationships, which has happened more often?
Neither one, the men in my life were my friends. My friends know pretty much right off the bat about my status and I don't think HIV played a major role [in those relationships], but in the end they couldn't really understand what I was going through. And that would be something that came between he and I.
Do you think it would be easier to have an HIV-positive person for a partner?
It would be easier, I think. But my twin sister, she said, "People aren't magnets. There are no positives and negatives, It's whoever you happen to fall in love with."
What advice do you have for the youth at the conference?
I can't really say anything regarding the youth since I haven't really been going to those sessions. I've mostly been going to the scientific sessions, but I think that would be a great, great thing to tell them, to go to the more scientific sessions, because it seems like we have the youth conference and the everybody-else conference. And really this is supposed to be the most comprehensive conference. So if they could go to the science sessions, that would be really great.
You think that would make their issues heard?
I think with all the youth talking about evidenced-based prevention, if they could get some of the hard facts and figures from these scientists working on these studies and go to press with them, I think that would be great.
What's been the highlight of this conference for you?
Meeting people from other countries because I've been in the United States for so long. Being in Canada [is great because] this is my first time out of the States. It's not very far, but being able to meet people from Kenya and Suriname and South Africa and the United Kingdom, I've just never had that kind of exposure before.
What has it been like for you to meet people for the first time from so many different countries?
I think everyone I've come in contact with at the conference has just been inspiring to me. Here at AIDS 2006, you have everyone gathered together working toward a common goal: the end of AIDS. Anyone who works with us on that ought to be commended -- I know that there are many more individuals who could not attend AIDS 2006 [that fall into that category]. And the people I've talked with have come to me in a variety of ways: Some I've met in the PWA [people with AIDS] lounges, others by just sitting next to them in a session. One person in particular I met through that vast network known as MySpace [a social networking Web site]. I've met still more in helping my organization, Hope's Voice, build new international partnerships and increase the awareness of our campaign "Does HIV Look Like Me?".
The PWA lounge has been a welcome retreat from the massive human trafficking that is the conference. I have problems with fatigue, so it's really nice to have somewhere to go to take a nap. I also am enjoying the free snacks they have there. Having paid my own way to the conference was no small expense, so every little bit has helped. I think they had other services in the lounges, but I haven't partaken. I've only taken what I needed, and nothing more.
The conference is just so so big -- I am unsure of what to take from it [and all the amazing people I've met]. I think the largest component is that it has reduced my skepticism. I didn't think that people cared about AIDS anymore. Watching these 30,000 people has changed my mind. I'm excited to see where I go in the next two years before Mexico City in 2008.
Do you think you are going to want to travel more after this conference?
Certainly, certainly I want to find out what it's like on the other side of the world now.
Anywhere in particular you are thinking about going?
Madagascar. [Laughing] It's a nice tropical climate, and I'm a particular fan of lemurs.
All right, anything you want to add, any last thoughts?
I just wish everyone was here. I just wish all the listeners could be here, but, hopefully, I did a great job of relaying the excitement that is being here. It is quite a zoo.
Thanks so much.
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Taylor Swift welcomed guest Carly Simon on stage to sing the latter's 1973 hit "You're So Vain" to a stadium of concertgoers in Massachusetts.
So does this count as her giving Generation Y a healthy dose of the 1970s and the original breakup anthem?
On Saturday, clas in red shorts and a striped top, Swift treated her fans to a duet during the Foxborough, Mass., stop of her Red Tour.
"Before I bring out my special guest, I have this question that I've always, always had," Swift announced. "I think a lot of you have probably had this question too, always wondered what the answer is. Who is this song, 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon, written about?"
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The crowd just about lost it when Simon emerged onstage. And so the pair sang the vengeful song, to their delight.
"Ladies and gentleman, give it up for one of your own, Carly Simon!" Swift shouted when they were done.
While neither Swift nor Simon addressed Swift's original question (who it's about), the audience didn't seem to mind. Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, James Taylor, Warren Beatty and the former Cat Stevens are among some of the potential subjects Simon, 68, could have written the song about.
The 23-year-old singer-songwriter later took to Twitter to share her squeal-worthy news.
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"Got to sing 'You're So Vain' with Carly Simon at Gillette Stadium tonight!!!!!" she wrote. "Unreal. I could not possibly look up to her more."
Swift later said that a backstage interview with herself and Simon would air Monday on "Good Morning America," calling the performance "one of the most special nights of the tour."
"Once we get out there and we have 55,000 people in a sing-along it's just going to be like karaoke night in the stadium. Every girl out there will be thinking of someone when we're singing," Swift said.
"When I heard 'You're So Vain' I just thought that is the best song that has ever been written," she added. "That is the most direct way anyone has ever addressed a breakup. It's amazing."
For some reason, that reminds us of a specific pop star who sings about her famous ex-boyfriends...
"It's a song that really sort of developed that style of mine," Simon said. "A lot of it was not knowing that I developing that style because lot of things happen by accident.
"It was just so wonderful that I just want to do it again," Simon said of the performance. "[Taylor] was so great, and she really led me through my own song, and she was just so loving of the whole thing, and we loved each other and we moved together in a part. It was dramatic, it was great."
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell could rule as soon as Monday against Saints general manager Mickey Loomis, coach Sean Payton and former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams -- now with the St. Louis Rams. All have acknowledged the pay-for-performance "bounty" program in statements after the league announced the scathing findings of its months-long investigation March 2.
Suspensions, fines and the loss of draft picks are all possibilities -- if not probabilities.
The league could hold off on announcing punishment for the 22 to 27 players, possibly because of the sheer volume of players involved. The NFL Players Association asked the NFL not to discipline players before it conducted its own investigation, but that request isn't believed to factor heavily into the possible delay in the punishment toward players.
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By Laurel Whitney • Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 11:08
Chances are, if you're already concerned about being off'ed by climate change, it's probably because you imagine being swept away by a super-charged hurricane, drowned by rising sea levels, starved because of drought-induced crop failure, or set aflame by roaring wildfires. But as it turns out, your risk of perishing by the titans of extreme weather may be a ways off - because the heat may get to you first.
If you didn't already know, heat is actually the number one killer amongst its weather-related brethren, causing more fatalities than floods, lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes combined, according to NOAA.
A new report released this week by the NRDC, "Killer Summer Heat: Projected Death Toll from Rising Temperatures in America Due to Climate Change" [PDF], estimates that 150,000 people could die because of heat-related deaths, with numbers increasing over the century as climate change continues to crank up the temperatures. And, predictably so, communities' ability to cope with the ordeal will depend on our efforts to reduce carbon pollution and employ life-saving adaptive measures.
Cities harbor the majority of the population and are more prone to heat-related problems. The concrete jungles absorb and retain more heat than rural areas (not to mention the concentration of millions of sweaty people in a small area) can also contribute to local temperatures. Furthermore, other factors such as green space and urban structuring (eg row housing vs. high rises) can have an impact as well.
Taking all these factors into account, many cities in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast have higher risks of steam-cooking their populations. Cities in these areas have variable summer climates - it's not uncommon for a hot streak of consecutive 100-degree days to pop up amidst averages of 80s. To the most vulnerable of the population- including the elderly, obese, and children - these 20-degree rises can prove deadly.
More temperature-stabilized regions, like Miami or Arizona, don't experience the same risk because people living there are accustomed to sweltering environments and generally have access to protection (such as air-conditioning).
However, cities can vastly reduce the number of deaths if they take preventative measures. The studies show that access to cooling centers, checking in on vulnerable citizens, and increasing the capacity of emergency room and ambulance medical technicians are highly effective.
Even so, the authors of the report call the predictions "conservative." They didn't take into account growing population, especially baby boomers, who would likely fall under the "most vulnerable" category.
Additionally, statistics on heat-related deaths in the past may also be conservative because medical examiners generally only label a death as "heat-related" if the body temperature is over 104 degrees. They can't necessarily label respiratory ailments or heart attacks as heat-related, despite the fact that more people die of those conditions during extreme heat events, leaving the threat of heat understated.
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I have an air conditioner...
But it doesn't make me happy to have run it last month… I usually only run my furnace.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
As time goes by
you will be running the AC more and the furnace less.
Consider better insulation.
Its on the todo list...
I'm in a standard 50s bungalow… paper insulation.
I'm the opposite here. I'm in
I'm the opposite here. I'm in the sub tropics. Summers have not got much hotter, but there is always high humidity. The southern states get much higher summer temps and often heat waves, as they have different air flow. Our winters have got progressively warmer though.
The air con gets about 8 weeks of usage in summer, but in winter, its around 3-4 weeks of usage. Lows are about 9 degrees C (48F). My place is very well insulated.
chas rasper replied on Permalink
Do you remember??
Do you all remember the claims that there would be "50 million Climate refugees by 2010"??
Oh, yeah……
There have been to many radical statements such as these which causes them to go in one ear and out the other of the general public.
No I don't.
I never heard it before in my life.
Where did you hear that. Please provide a link. (Or we'll just assume you're lying again.)
chas rasper replied on Permalink
Here you go....
"In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme predicted that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010. These people, it was said, would flee a range of disasters including sea level rise, increases in the numbers and severity of hurricanes, and disruption to food production."
Links below; the 'map' and text they published has since been removed because of the (obviously) outrageous claims never became a reality.
I've provided a link to the original map that was saved, for posterity, by Climate realists.
And you wonder why Climate Communication has failed!
Here's some more saps for you to go after….
That's right… The Pentagon… Must be Green Freaks… Right Chas? That's what you're trying to imply, right? This as you demand religeous levels of accuracy from anyone working with climate science while at the same time accepting total fraud, lies, and outright theft from your own.
That's what you're trying to convince me to do, right?
I would remind you that my experience with climate science comes from the military. And they weren't studying climate.
Far be it from me to disuade you from trusting your high school graduate, Anthony Watts.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Charles didn't read the actual report
Well, well, who could have guessed that Rasper cites misinformation. Why don't you go and read the actual paper and you will see that your quote, taken from a denier site I bet, misrepresents what Norman Myres actually said?
Here is a link to the actual report, I bet you wont read it and report back what Myres actually said in the report because that will show up your sloppy reporting. Typical of deniers however.
I'm sure honest and intelligent readers of this thread will quickly see your misrepresentation of Myres' work.
The real report is a much more sober document and discusses facts about what the refugees are, and likely where they are going. Many are simply being driven into cities.
The stuff Chas quotes inflates the problem to the point that you wonder what rock 50,000,000 people are suddenly hid under. Meanwhile the report says that in Mexico environmental refugees in Mexico are driven to cities which are in turn driving more immigrants to the US. This is exactly what the report says. (I know Chas… you think the economist a bunch of left wing greens.)
I thought the topic of soil erosion was also interesting…
Look what happened in Pakistan alone. (I know Chas.. you think Nasa is less reputable than your high school graduate. Anthony Watts)
"Massive flooding has occurred in the Indus River basin, leaving millions of people homeless and dependent on aid shipments for sustenance."
Oh yes.. and as the report says governments will act to tighten immigration from these people. Just like Canada is doing right now. More workers, less refugees.
Throwing the dogs a bone… I have to agree that its hard to tell the difference from one refugee and another. More importantly, 'why' may be pretty blurry.


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Michigan's new crowdfunding law has its first customer: a Lenawee County business.
The Tecumseh Brewing Co. is the first business to seek investors under the Michigan Invests Locally Exemption (MILE), the official name of the legislation. The crowdfunding legislation matches local investors with local companies.
The announcement was made Thursday at "Imagining Crowdfunding's Future in Lenawee," an event hosted by Lenawee Now at the Christian Family Centre.
Kyle DeWitt and Tim Schmidt have been working for almost three years to buy and now renovate the former Cowboy's Grill at 128 W. Chicago Blvd. into a brewpub and become part of the growing craft brewing industry in Michigan. The funding mechanism is coming along at a time the business needs it.
"Crowdfunding has opened many doors. We got our first investor," Schmidt said.
The pair had raised about $125,000 from family and friends and are seeking another $150,000 to $175,000 to finish the project. Once the funding is received, they hope to have the business running by October.
"We'd like to be up in time for Appleumpkin, and the next week, we'd like to host a golf tournament," Schmidt said. "That is a very busy month and we would love to be up and running."
Under the crowdfunding legislation, individuals, local foundations and others can join community banks in investing in a local business. The Michigan plan allows people to invest money and be repaid with a dividend. With the legislation, Michigan has become the leading state in the nation for intrastate crowdfunding investment, said Chris Miller, Adrian Downtown Development Authority and economic development coordinator.
Amy Cortese, whose book, "Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investment and How to Profit From It," got the attention of local economic development officials and started the process of getting the legislation in place, and Kevin Hitchen, founder of Localstake, a business helping businesses find investors, spoke to about 30 people at Thursday's event. Cortese said Michigan is a leader in this type of investing.
"I'm a big admirer of what you are doing. Michigan is truly the birthplace of crowdfunding," Cortese said. "You can't look for government to solve your problems."
She said Georgia and Kansas have crowdfunding measures in place, but it has not been marketed very well. Michigan is marketing this type of investment more aggressively and is showing a great deal of potential success. Several other states have crowdfunding measures in various stages of readiness.
The measure, signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder in December, was introduced in September by 57th District State Rep. Nancy Jenkins, R-Clayton. Hitchen said crowdfunding is building a local economy at the local level.
"Before, it was easier to invest halfway around the world than it was locally," he said. "This is the most exciting, transformative development in a long time. It's not just about the financing. It's also about marketing and local ties."
Crowdfunding can be done by start-up businesses, an existing business seeking to expand, or small businesses looking for investors. Hitchen said with this ability now available in Michigan, his company meets with the businesses, goes over their business plan and helps put together a total package that investors can view. Investors then decide how much they want to put into a company.
Miller said he is passionate about crowdfunding.
"The thing about the Michigan law is, it's not so burdensome that you have to hire a team of lawyers to guide you," he said.
Miller and Lenawee Now, the county's economic development organization, can provide information on crowdfunding.
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Basic IPv6 Training Course Outline
NOTE: If you have already deployed IPv6 on your network, this course may not be appropriate for you. Please read the outline below before registering.
After completing this course, you will:
- Be able to create a deployment plan for IPv6 in your organisation
- Understand the differences and similarities between IPv4 and IPv6
- Know that deploying IPv6 will enable continued IP networking growth
- Understand the implications of running out of available IPv4 address space
Who should attend:
You should attend this training course if you are part of the staff of a Local Internet Registry (LIR) and if you:
- Are thinking about deploying IPv6 in your organisation
- Have been told you need to deploy IPv6
- Need to convince your manager that IPv6 must be deployed
- Looked at an IPv6 address and thought it was too complicated to deploy in your network
Course contents:
- IPv4
- IPv6 Address Basics
- Getting it
- Exercise: Making Assignments
- IPv6 Protocol Basics
- Exercise: Addressing Plan
- Deploying
- Transition Mechanisms
- Exercise: Configuring IPv6
- Real Life IPv6 Deployment
- Tips
This course does NOT cover:
- Technical details of IPv6
- How to configure routers, servers or other devices for IPv6
- How to operate a Local Internet Registry (LIR)
It is assumed you are familiar with common IP terminology and have practical knowledge of running an IP network.
- The Basic IPv6 training course is based on examples and practical exercises to help remove some of the fear related to IPv6 deployment and to enable you to think about your organisation's IPv6 deployment plan.
- At the course, we hand out a USB stick containing the course material.
- You can also download the material.
You can register for this course by completing the application form.
If you have any questions about registration, please contact us.
All RIPE NCC training courses are conducted in English.
We ask everyone to arrive to the course location at 09:00 for coffee. The course starts at 09:30 and finishes at 17:30.
To give as many LIRs as possible the chance to attend RIPE NCC training courses, we can only accept two people from the same LIR per training course. If more than two attendees from an LIR apply, they will be placed on a waiting list and only be admitted to the course once free places become available and on a first come, first served basis.
The cost of this course is covered by each LIR's membership fee. The course includes lunch and training materials. Travel expenses and accommodation costs during the training course are not included.
More Information
More details on the training course policies are available from the RIPE NCC Training Registration Guidelines.


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For over 17 years, Kristy has worked in the field of arts and education as a teaching artist, classroom teacher, camp director, administrator and professor. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Theatre from New York University, a M.A. in Theatre from California State University Los Angeles, and a B.F.A. in Theatre from Texas State University. Kristy has served as a drama and film instructor at Inner-City Arts since 2004, where she has created and taught original curricula for a variety of in-school, after-school and summer camp programs. In the past two years at ICA, she created a documentary film program for high school students and also partnered with classroom teachers to help them bring drama into their classrooms. She has taught "Dramatic Activities in the Elementary Classroom" at NYU and California State University. She has served as the Assistant Director for professional theatrical productions at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and [Inside] the Ford. Kristy's prior teaching experience also includes The Accelerated School, Mirman School for Gifted Children, Zachary Scott Theatre Performing Arts School, and Seattle Children's Theatre. Most recently, Kristy was a contributor for Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action, and Therapy.
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Sioux Falls Man Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Woman, Good Samaritan Who Stopped to Help
Police say two people who were asked to leave a bar in western Sioux Falls Monday night continued fighting in the car, and the fighting ended with a man's arrest.
Lieutenant Matt Burns says police were called to Breck's Bar, in the 8400 block of West 12th Street, shortly before 11:00 pm. But the two people involved had left the bar, and were located in a lot in the 4200 block of West 12th:
Burns says 38-year-old Timothy James Fink of Sioux Falls was arrested for simple assault, simple assault-domestic, false imprisonment, open container and DWI-second offense. He says Fink allegedly punched the 45-year-old woman and pulled her hair.
In addition, Fink struck a 24-year-old man in another vehicle, who didn't know them, but stopped and helped the woman out of Fink's car.


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Tuition for online courses is charged at the North Dakota resident tuition rate per credit, regardless of the total credits in which you are enrolled or your actual residency status.
This means that you will receive the same rate of tuition as a North Dakota student for this online, semester-based course no matter where you live!
Tuition and fees will be due the first day of the semester.
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1Online course tuition is not covered under UND's tuition cap for full-time students. Regardless of how many credits you take per term, you will pay tuition for each online course credit.
2Tuition rate includes mandatory fees. Mandatory student fees are assessed for the first 12 credits you take per Fall or Spring Semester or for the first 9 credits you take per Summer Semester. If you take more credits per term at UND, you will not be assessed for any additional student fees above the mandatory fee cap. Refer to Student Account Services for a full description of mandatory fees.
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There is much more to pain than physical discomfort, especially for children and teens. When a child hurts, everything suffers — from relationships with friends and family, to learning and behavior at school. At Nemours, our pediatric pain management team uses a family-centered approach to develop a balanced outpatient and/or inpatient plan that's focused on physical and emotional rehabilitation and whole-child wellness.
Our goal is to use the least amount of medicine possible to relieve your child's pain, and to bring your child hope for brighter days ahead.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke strongly defended the U.S. central bank's monetary stimulus before Congress on Tuesday, easing financial market worries over a possible early retreat from bond buys.
The Fed chairman also urged lawmakers to avoid sharp spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday, which he warned could combine with earlier tax increases to create a "significant headwind" for the modest economic recovery.
Bernanke said Fed policymakers are cognizant of potential risks from their extraordinary support for the economy, including the possibility that it might fuel unwanted inflation or stoke asset bubbles.
But, in testimony on the central bank's semi-annual report on monetary policy, he said the risks did not seem material at the moment, adding the central bank has all the tools it needs to retreat from its monetary support in a timely fashion.
"To this point, we do not see the potential costs of the increased risk-taking in some financial markets as outweighing the benefits of promoting a stronger economic recovery and more rapid job creation," Bernanke told the Senate Banking Committee.
In response to the financial crisis and deep recession of 2007-2009, the Fed not only slashed official interest rates to effectively zero but also bought more than $2.5 trillion in mortgage and Treasury debt in an effort to push down long-term interest rates and spur hiring.
The Fed is currently buying $85 billion in bonds each month and has said it plans to keep purchasing assets until it sees a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market.
Minutes of the Fed's January 29-30 policy meeting, released last week, showed a number of officials felt the potential risks posed by the bond purchases could warrant tapering or ending them before hiring picks up. However, several others argued there was a danger in halting them prematurely.
Bernanke appeared to be in the latter camp. "The benefits of asset purchases, and of policy accommodation more generally, are clear," he said, citing improvements in the housing and auto sectors and tracing them in part to the Fed's stimulus.
"There is no risk-free approach to this situation," he said. "The risk of not doing anything is severe as well. So, we are trying to balance these things as best we can."
The testimony helped offset jitters in U.S. stock markets over Europe's debt crisis, with major indexes rising in the afternoon, while bond prices fell.
"What Bernanke is saying, bottom line, indicates that there will not be a reversal anytime soon in the stimulus program," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York.
When asked pointedly by Republican Senator Bob Corker about whether the Fed's easy monetary policy was contributing to competitive currency devaluations globally and laying the groundwork for inflation, Bernanke was unequivocal.
"My inflation record is the best of any Federal Reserve chairman in the post-war period," he retorted. "We are not engaged in a currency war."
Democrats, for their part, seized on Bernanke's remarks to fuel their argument that looming budget cuts could have a dire economic impact, as they sought to gain political advantage over Republicans, who would rather see spending cuts than higher taxes.
Committee newcomer Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, pressed Bernanke on what she said is an implicit subsidy that large banks receive in the form of lower borrowing costs from being perceived as too big to fail.
Bernanke countered that Dodd-Frank financial reform rules had given regulators more power to wind down failing financial institutions, making the issue less of a concern.
"The subsidy is coming because of market expectations that the government would bail out these firms if they fail. Those expectations are incorrect," Bernanke said.
In unusually direct remarks on fiscal policy, Bernanke warned the near-term spending cuts known as the sequester, which are set to take hold later this week, would threaten an already challenged economic expansion.
"The Congress and the administration should consider replacing the sharp, frontloaded spending cuts required by the sequestration, with policies that reduce the federal deficit more gradually in the near term but more substantially in the longer run," Bernanke said.
The U.S. economy braked sharply in the fourth quarter, but is forecast to grow around 2 percent or more this year. The unemployment rate has remained elevated, and registered 7.9 percent in January.
Bernanke, who appears for a second day of testimony before a House of Representatives panel on Wednesday, said persistent joblessness was a scourge with potentially long-lasting effects.
"High unemployment has substantial costs, including not only the hardship faced by the unemployed and their families, but also the harm done to the vitality and productive potential of our economy as a whole," Bernanke said.
The central bank's semi-annual report also downplayed the possibility the Fed's bond-buying might be stoking asset bubbles in certain markets.
"There has been limited evidence so far of excessive buildups of duration, credit risk, or leverage, but the Federal Reserve will continue both its careful oversight and its implementation of financial regulatory reforms designed to reduce systemic risk," it said.
Reporting by Pedro Nicolaci da Costa; Editing by Andrea Ricci


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Suspicious letter investigated in Norwich
Norwich — The Bulletin newspaper and the Norwich Police Department were under lockdown for several hours Wednesday after the newspaper received a suspicious letter and took it to the police station.
Bulletin Publisher Chris Voccio said a reporter Wednesday morning received the letter, which claimed that the writer had MRSA and was not able to get medical treatment.
Voccio said the letter writer also made some threats that made the reporter uncomfortable.
Voccio, who was quarantined at the police station, said he thought the threats were made from a "crackpot," but after conferring within the newspaper, he decided to take the letter to the station. He did so at about 11 a.m.
Police also said the letter writer indicated he planned to spread the infection.
In addition to Voccio, a police officer and a civilian employee were also quarantined in the lobby of the police station, police said.
Voccio said he didn't expect the letter to trigger the response that it did.
"I understand that it is part of their job," he said.
Norwich City Fire Chief Ken Scandariato said the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, American Ambulance, state police, FBI, U.S. postal inspector and the Uncas Health District also responded to the incident.
The Bulletin offices on Franklin Street were closed for about two hours at the request of Scandariato, who said he considered the entire Bulletin property a second "hot zone" because of the fact that the letter was in the building and had potentially circulated inside the building. Employees were not allowed in or out during that time, Scandariato said.
"It was done as a precaution until we had a better understanding of what we were dealing with," Scandariato said.
The letter was not delivered to the Bulletin by mail, the DEEP said.
A DEEP investigator put on a tan hazardous materials suit with an oxygen tank outside the police station before entering the building. Yellow tape closed off access to the main entrance to the station on Thames Street.
About 15 minutes later, the DEEP employee was spotted holding a clear plastic container with what appeared to be a letter.
Police said the letter was covered in a liquid of some sort.
The police department was reopened shortly before 2 p.m., nearly three hours after the letter was brought there.
Scandariato said the city's Emergency Operation Center at Norwich Public Utilities was opened as a precaution in the event that dispatching at the police station would no longer be possible. Dispatching services, however, were not affected during the lockdown.
Scandariato said they know who the letter writer is. He said the letter was taken to a state laboratory for analysis. He said it could take anywhere from 24 hours to five days to determine whether it contained a biological hazard.
Police declined to say whether the incident would lead to an arrest. Outside the lobby, a printout of how to spot and treat MRSA was left on the counter.
According to the Mayo Clinic, MRSA is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that's become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections. Most MRSA infections occur in people who've been in hospitals or other health care settings.
Scandariato said no one was injured.
"This was a well-coordinated response," he said. "We were able to contain the situation in a safe and efficient manner."
Staff writer Greg Smith contributed to this report.
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Life Enrichment Activities
Our Greenville, MI community's life enrichment activities are designed to allow for personal growth for each of our senior living residents.
We focus on encouraging residents to enhance their physical, social, intellectual, and spiritual needs. In addition, we want to celebrate life's milestones with our residents, whether it is an anniversary, birthday or the birth of a new grandchild.
Feel free to send a note to a resident and, at any time, family members and friends are encouraged to participate in the Life Enrichment opportunities that we offer.
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We understand that dining is not just eating a meal, but it is an experience.
Our goal is to enhance dining services by offering a beautiful and comfortable environment for each of our residents, while providing wholesome and nutritious meals. We cater to our assisted living resident's individual needs by offering a variety of diet options. Our menus have a regional flair and we offer many seasonal items.