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ABOARD THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN PLANE — Mitt Romney said that military action to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon may not be necessary, though he still pledged to take a tough line against the nation if elected president.
"I do not believe that in the final analysis we will have to use military action. I certainly hope we don't have to," Romney told reporters on Friday.
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"I can't take that option off the table — it must be something which is known by the Iranians as a possible tool to be employed to prevent them from becoming nuclear. But I certainly hope that we can prevent any military action from having to be taken."
The GOP nominee's statements came after Romney and President Barack Obama both spoke Friday by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a day after Netanyahu warned of Iran's nuclear ambitions during a speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly.
"We spoke about his assessment of where the red line ought to be drawn and my own views with regards to Iran," Romney said, noting the two also covered other Middle East developments in Syria and Egypt.
Asked if there was any daylight between himself and Netanyahu on thresholds for military intervention in Iran, Romney replied, "We did not go into enough, into the kind of detail that would define precisely where that red line would be."
Romney has taken a tough posture towards Iran, calling it the top U.S. national security priority. He has also supported the right of Israel to unilaterally defend itself by intervening militarily to disarm a nuclear Iran.
"If Israel has to take action on its own, in order to stop Iran from developing that capability the governor would respect that decision," top Romney adviser Dan Senor said during a July trip by the GOP nominee to Israel.
On Friday, Romney said as president he would undertake "extensive covert activity" if he were president and leaving open the door to U.S. military action if that country continues pushing development of nuclear weapons.
Speaking to reporters while en route to Boston, the Republican presidential nominee outlined his Iran agenda when asked how his policy differs from that of the Obama administration.
"There would be extensive covert activity, but I'm not aware of the president's and our administration's covert actions to an extent to be able to define differences between the two of us in that regard," Romney said.


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Now comes the tough part: finding a champion. In my experience, the person you put in charge of a program will make or break it, no matter how good the program is. You need someone with drive, lots of personality, and enough knowledge and talent to be both credible and compelling with your group. He or she will probably not be the least expensive team member but will be well worth the money.
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Next, you must set a fee. Keep in mind the purpose of your program. You definitely want to make money, but charging too much could kill the program. In today's economy, it may make more sense to narrow your program margins, knowing that if the program works, you will keep members that you may have lost without it. By setting the fee appropriately, you can create a program that facilitates member recruitment as well as member retention and member referral.
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Before you begin marketing your new program to members, develop buy-in among team members who might think your program will compete with them (personal trainers and other fee-based service providers). If you're concerned about membership retention, it's a good bet that your trainers, nutritionists and other fee-based providers are concerned about their businesses as well. It's important for them to understand that your program is meant to compliment their services, not compete with them. Some members may reduce the frequency of their sessions with these professionals, but your new program could help these clients continue to see great results. The best part about that is, the member gets results, the club keeps the member, and the professional keeps the client. It is well worth the time to talk to these team members. You could win both advocates and extra marketing for your efforts.
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You're now ready to run your program. It's time to arm your champion with the mission and send him or her out among your members to recruit them into your new program. Remember to measure your program's success at regular intervals. For your weight-loss program, are participants losing weight? If not, you'll need to tweak it to make it work. How many participants did you get in the first run? Did you hit your goal? If not, you may need to tweak something. Consider using program surveys at the end of each session so you can hear from participants about what worked and what needs to be changed.
If you follow the above steps, you can create a great fee-based program that adds great value to your membership without adding excessive cost to your members. In summary, determine who you want to save, decide on the appropriate program topic and format, find a champion, price it responsibly, and measure and tweak as needed. Be sure to get your teams to advocate for your program. Retention is everyone's responsibility, and the time is most definitely now.


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XPRIZE CEO to deliver inaugural Summit keynote
Space pioneer, entrepreneur, author and XPRIZE CEO Peter H. Diamandis will deliver the inaugural Shaping the Future Summit keynote address at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in Eisenhower Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus. Diamandis will speak on "The Impact of Innovation," the theme of the 2014 Summit, which is being sponsored by the Schreyer Honors College with support from Life Technologies, Inc., a global biotechnology company based in Carlsbad, Calif.
"The idea behind the Shaping the Future Summit is to bring before our students and the community someone who can speak to what lies ahead and how they can start now to prepare themselves to successfully meet those challenges," said Christian M. M. Brady, dean of the Schreyer Honors College. "Peter Diamandis is a visionary and the right person at this time to get our students and the entire community to embrace the possibilities before us. This is a man who sees no limits -- not on this planet, not beyond in space. He pushes the envelope on ideas and technology and I look forward to him pushing our students and propelling them to think about the roles they will play in the future."
Diamandis, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical College, has built his career upon innovation. The XPRIZE Foundation, which he leads, is dedicated to bringing about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity through incentivized prize competitions ranging from global development to deep space exploration.
One current competition, the Google Lunar XPRIZE, has a Penn State connection. Penn State's Lunar Lions, a group of undergraduate and graduate students and researchers, are the only university team remaining in the competition against 18 other organizations from around the globe. The first team to land a rover on the moon, cover a specified distance on the lunar surface and successfully transmit data back to earth by Dec. 31, 2015, will win $20 million.
In addition to the XPRIZE, Diamandis is the co-founder of Singularity University, the Silicon Valley center dedicated to innovation and technical acceleration; a co-founder of Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company; and the co-author of the New York Times best-seller "Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think."
Diamandis' Summit address culminates a series of programs focused on innovation that were held on campus throughout this academic year.
"For this inaugural Summit, we chose innovation, a theme that has allowed us to look at different aspects of various enterprises central to the future -- technology, energy, sustainability, health care, entrepreneurship," Brady said. "It is my sincerest hope that the events leading up to our April 1 event were just the beginning. My vision is that 10, 15, or 20 years from now we will see Penn Staters taking the lead in innovative breakthroughs be it in energy or healthcare or new industry and the seeds for that success will have been planted at this inaugural event, the first of many Summits."
Summit-related events included:
· "From Wall Street to Watson: The Next Generation of Data Networks" with Casimer DeCusatis, a 1986 Penn State engineering graduate and the chief technology officer of IBM System Networking Strategic Alliances.
· "What do you do with Entrepreneurship? Everything." with Patricia Green, a 1972 Penn State graduate in health policy and administration and the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College. This lecture was held in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week.
· "The Future of Medicine" panel discussion with leading health care professionals, including Dr. Duane Alexander, senior scientific adviser to the director of the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center and Penn State faculty. This program was provided in partnership with the Eberly College of Science.
· "Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy" with Jigar Shah, solar pioneer. This event was part of the Penn State Institutes of Energy and Environment's Colloquium on the Environment.
· "Ocean Acidification: The Underreported Crisis" panel discussion with Seattle Times environmental reporter Craig Welch and Penn State faculty. This discussion was provided in partnership with the Department of Geosciences and the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment.
· Student visit to Penn State's GridSTAR Center at The Navy Yard, Philadelphia.
The following community organizations and University units have joined the Schreyer Honors College and Life Technologies, Inc., as partners in supporting this year's Shaping the Future Summit: co.space, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Department of Geosciences, the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Innoblue, New Leaf Initiative, the Penn State Center for Sustainability, the Penn State Hershey Institute of Personalized Medicine, the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, the Penn State Lunar Lion Team, the Presidential Leadership Academy, and the Smeal College of Business.
The Shaping the Future Summit lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Ticket information is at futuresummit.psu.edu. Join the conversation at #futuresummit.
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Peter H. Diamandis, the chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural "Shaping the Future Summit" being sponsored by the Schreyer Honors College and Life Technologies, Inc. The lecture, titled "The Impact of Innovation," will be held at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1, in Eisenhower Auditorium.


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COALINGA - Spurred by her sister and brother-in-law's taking in of D'Angelo, Yolanda Garduno entered a long-term residential rehabilitation program and conquered her drug addiction. D'Angelo, meanwhile, was accorded the stability that eventually would put him on his current course.
COALINGA - Spurred by her sister and brother-in-law's taking in of D'Angelo, Yolanda Garduno entered a long-term residential rehabilitation program and conquered her drug addiction. D'Angelo, meanwhile, was accorded the stability that eventually would put him on his current course.
"One day, I woke up and my aunt was, like, 'You're going to school,' " D'Angelo recalls. "I can remember the first day I stepped into class. She went and bought me some new clothes. I had this big jacket. I walked through the classroom, I looked around, I see all these kids looking at me. The teacher introduces me, 'This is our new student.' "
With D'Angelo finally off the streets, older brothers Michael and Dominic could better watch over the chubby younger sibling they had dubbed "Fat Daddy." Michael and Dominic protected D'Angelo from bullies. Michael would buy Nikes and jewelry for little Fat Daddy.
"(Michael) was really a stylish dude," D'Angelo recalls of his half-brother. "He would love his shoes so he would buy me a pair of shoes."
But Michael's direct role in D'Angelo's life would be only temporary. Michael was 15 years old when his mother got herself clean in 2004, and trouble was brewing.
"I was wild," Michael Garduno recalled this past summer. "Partying. That's all I was worried about."
His earliest years had been anything but a party.
Yolanda was 15 when she gave birth to Michael. By the time Michael was 8, his father had been sent to prison for a gang murder, his little sister had been killed by a car, and his mother had gone on her drug binge. In his teens, Michael became a parent himself, and, at 19 he was the father of three children. Garduno was immature, much more worried about trying to be "flashy" than about his responsibilities, "a kid with kids," as he puts it.
"I was living the life," he says, "or at least I thought I was."
He knows better now, but there was a terrible cost.
A 13-year-old boy was killed. Garduno was sentenced to decades in prison. And instead of being a positive influence for D'Angelo, Michael Garduno became a cautionary tale.
Garduno himself had lacked a positive adult male model while growing up in the tough west-side Louis Park neighborhood. In a sense, his father had become Garduno's role model, even though the son never really knew him.
Father and son both are in prison for their roles in murders. Both have had ties, directly or through acquaintances, to the Bloods street gang. And both have denied direct responsibility for the crimes that put them in prison.
Leonard Farley, 45, has been in prison for the past 22 years for killing one man and wounding three others in a drive-by shooting at a south-side liquor store in 1990, when Michael was 1 year old. Farley was a self-described member of the Bloods street gang at the time of his sentencing, according to newspaper reports.
"I was not physically responsible," Farley wrote to the judge in a request for leniency before he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. "Your honor, I'm not a bad man as you might think. I'm not saying that I have been an angel all my life, but what I am saying is that given a chance, I can become a better man."
Garduno, now 24, has been in prison for more than four years. He is one of four men sentenced for the 2008 killing in Louis Park of a 13-year-old innocent bystander, Aaron Kelly Jr. Garduno accepted a 26-year sentence, pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, the use of a gun and participation in a criminal street gang.
Three other men received longer prison terms than Garduno for their roles in the high-profile crime. One of them accepted a plea deal with a 30-year term, and the others got life sentences. Chanreasmey Prum, nicknamed "Beast" and considered the ringleader of the crime by prosecutors, was a Westside Blood.
Garduno to this day says he was never a member of a gang. "I just knew everybody," he says. In an interview with The Record shortly after his arrest in 2008, he said his only guilty act was accepting a ride from Prum.
"It's a terrible event," Garduno says. "Maybe there was something I could have done, but as far as taking a life, I didn't do that."
Garduno sat for an interview this past summer when he was housed at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga. He since has been transferred to the California state prison in Lancaster.
"It's for D'Angelo," Garduno said when asked why he had agreed to answer questions. "I'd do anything for him. If this will help get his story out there, I'm all for it. He's been through a lot."
Michael Garduno says he is deeply remorseful for what happened on that fateful afternoon in Louis Park in 2008, and he rues the way he lived back then. What he wishes now, he says, is that none of his relatives follow in his footsteps, rising each day before dawn to do menial prison jobs for virtually no pay in a dead-end setting.
"It's a world in and of itself," Garduno says of prison. "Everything fades away. This is our world. There's a lot of violence here. I've become immune to it. I don't want to see any of my family in here. I'm doing enough time for everybody. Don't come here. This is not a good place."
Garduno is 6 feet tall and wiry, his arms heavily tattooed. When he greeted visitors in Coalinga, he wore denim pants, black and white tennis shoes, and a blue, collarless pullover shirt with "CDCR Prisoner" on the back.
It's a months-long process to visit a prison inmate. Prospective visitors must undergo a background check by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and they must write to the inmate they wish to see and request a written invitation.
Upon arriving, a visitor must leave his wallet, phone, camera and any other recording devices in his car. Small sheets of scrap paper and short, dull pencils are all that is provided for note-taking.
Garduno's most regular visitor is his aunt, Jennifer Lemos. On one of her trips during the summer, she arrived with the regulation 6-by-8-inch plastic bag, which contained the maximum $50 in quarters and dollar bills for the vending machines that line the visiting room. With Lemos treating, the wiry Garduno feasted on a cheeseburger, a chicken Caesar salad, a country-fried chicken sandwich, a can of iced tea, a Milky Way ice cream bar and a package of microwaved pizza pockets during the five-hour visit.
From his prison perspective, Garduno says what young boys need most are male role models who can steer them into adulthood. Michael Garduno has no recollections of his father. Farley has been in prison since Michael was 19 months old.
Garduno didn't even know Farley was his father until he was 12, when someone blurted out the information to him. His mother hadn't wanted Michael to know, but she was out when he learned the truth. When Yolanda came home that day, Michael confronted her.
"Don't you lie to me," he said. "Who's my dad?"
So Yolanda told him.
"He was mad for a long time," she recalls.
Michael Garduno hasn't seen Yolanda or D'Angelo since he was sent to prison in 2009. Yolanda said her own past legal issues, which are unrelated to her drug problems, prevent her from visiting, at least for now.
Prison has given Michael Garduno time to think. He passes many of his hours reading or writing letters, he says. He says he has learned to talk things through rather than throw punches when he has a problem with someone. Garduno has a GED, and during the summer he was looking into taking college correspondence courses focusing on social science. He said he hopes to work with troubled youth years from now when he is released.
"I took it upon myself to learn from this," he says of his long incarceration. "There are so many things I could have done. My priorities were messed up. I used my time getting drunk and getting high. I was lost when I was free."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The widow and two children of a security screener killed in an attack at Los Angeles International Airport last year have filed a $25 million claim against the city of Los Angeles.
AlderLaw P.C. said Thursday the claim was filed on behalf of the family of Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez, who was killed Nov. 1 by a gunman that authorities say targeted TSA officers. Three other people were injured.
The claim filed on April 16 alleges the city, including Los Angeles World Airports, which operates LAX and its airport police, "failed to properly hire, supervise, train, staff, and plan for the protection and safety of individuals and personnel" at the airport and delayed medical care to Hernandez.
A claim can be a precursor to a lawsuit if it is rejected.
"The city of Los Angeles employees failed in carrying out their duties, creating a very dangerous lapse in security, which was a factor causing Mr. Hernandez to be fatally shot and killed," attorney Michael Alder said in a statement. "Even more horrific, is that the city's employees delayed medical care to Mr. Hernandez."
City attorney's office spokesman Frank Mateljan said he doesn't know if officials have seen the claim and the office is not commenting.
The wrongful death claim was filed on behalf of widow Ana Machuca, her 15-year-old son Luis Hernandez and 11-year-old daughter Stephanie Hernandez.
The claim said wrongful acts and omissions by city employees caused the family to lose the support, love, affection and companionship of the husband and father.
A review of the emergency response by the Los Angeles World Airports found that lapses in communication and coordination led to delays in responding to the gunman and providing aid to victims.
The Associated Press has reported that Hernandez did not receive medical aid until 33 minutes after he was shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead after surgeons worked for an hour at a hospital. A later coroner's media release said he was likely dead within two to five minutes after the shooting.
Trauma surgeon Dr. David Plurad is named as a witness in the claim as is Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Fire Department and coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter.
The airport's report didn't assign responsibility to any person and it did not mention an earlier AP report that found the two armed airport police officers assigned to Terminal 3 had left for breaks and were not inside the terminal when the shooting started. One had left for the bathroom in the next terminal over, and the other was headed to lunch.
The officers didn't inform dispatchers as required by department policy. And because they were out of position, an airline contractor alerted airport police dispatch about the attack from his cellphone. The terminal was left without any armed officer for nearly 3.5 minutes as the gunman advanced with a high-powered rifle targeting TSA officers.
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Nothing like music to ease the pain. Lea Michele opens up in a big way in the December 2013 issue of Elle about her late boyfriend Cory Monteith, and reveals that she recorded a song dedicated to him for her debut album.
"The album was done, and the label said, 'Do you want to add anything?' I was like, 'I might regret it if I don't,'" the 27-year-old tells Elle.
The song — "You're Mine" — holds a special meaning for the couple who began dating in early 2012. So ultimately, the Glee actress decided to add it to her track list last-minute.
"It makes me so happy, this song," she says. "It makes me think so much of Cory. It was ours. When I think if him, I play this."
In the new interview, the Bronx, New York native also touches on how she turned to fellow actress and Glee guest star Kate Hudson within days of Monteith's death in July at the age of 31.
"I called her and said, I don't know where I'm going to go because my house is swarmed [with reporters]. She was like, 'Oh, you're going to stay at my house.' Like it was nothing."
She adds: "She let my family stay there, and any of my friends. She made sure that in the refrigerator were my favorite juices. I'll never really be able to thank her, truly, for what she did for me."
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Week 2 gave us more surprises and, once again, made the burden of producing NFL.com's Power Rankings almost too much to bear. What to do with the upstart Bills? Or the new "Silver Rush?" How about the Cowboys, who won despite having injuries to their starting quarterback, two wide receivers, tight end and tailback?
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To be sure, there are some surprises. That doesn't include the Big Two -- the Pack and Pats -- who remain perched where they've been since preseason. But considering the suddenly suspect Green Bay defense, the arguments can start right at the top.
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That Panthers game was a much closer shave than anyone expected. How in the world did Dom Capers' defense give up four bills to a rookie quarterback, especially considering that coming into the game rookie passers didn't even average a 50 passer rating against Capers' defenses over his career? The Packers keep their spot -- for the time being -- but the pass defense has now surrendered 419 yards to Drew Brees and 432 to Cam Newton.
Speaking of Tecmo Bowl numbers, Tom Brady has thrown for 940 yards in two games. His team just keeps rolling, taking the Chargers' best punches and still coming out with a W. One could make a case for the Pats being the best team in the NFL. Just think, if the Pack and Pats meet on Super Sunday, it will be a Super Bowl XXXI rematch, only one of the most boring big games ever.
Way to bounce back, Sean Payton & Co. No Marques Colston, no problem. Brees was simply fantastic, going 26 of 37 for 270 yards and three touchdowns. Even more impressive was the New Orleans pass rush, which got to Jay Cutler six times. If only they could've done that a couple of Thursdays ago.
Rex Ryan had to pull out his TI-81 graphing calculator to figure out how low the Jags passer rating was Sunday. Gang Green, which was some hack's preseason Super Bowl favorite (mine), actually looked the part Sunday. By the way, what do we think of the New York Titans throwbacks? For you older commenters out there, you can't tell me they don't almost look like the USFL's Pittsburgh Maulers. Just saying.
Matt Schaub and Andre Johnson deep-sixed the Dolphins pass defense, which is quality-free. Houston is fifth on the rankings for five reasons: 1) 13 points allowed in two games; 2) improved secondary play; 3) Johnson; 4) the quarterback isn't David Garrard; 5) depth at the running back position.
Good effort Sunday night on the road, considering Michael Vick was lost in the third quarter and the Eagles' third-stringer almost pulled it out. The offense is strong enough to overcome defensive errors like Jarrod Page declaring himself geometrically challenged with some serious bad angles, particularly on Michael "Burner" Turner in the fourth quarter Sunday. LeSean McCoy can beat any team in the ground game or the passing game. The strength of the roster keeps this club above Detroit, Baltimore, San Diego and the rest.
How did this happen? The new "Planet of the Apes" movie didn't stink ... Sarah Palin hooked up with Glen Rice ... and Detroit is 2-0 and looks awesome. Matt Stafford, please don't get hurt. Please don't get hurt. Please don't get hurt ... please.
That was brutal. To go from trouncing Pittsburgh to losing 26-13 in Tennessee is a precipitous drop. Was everyone wrong about the Titans, or did the Ravens just leave a turd on Elvis' doorstep? Don't blame me for that last line: Dtoll2002 commented on NFL.com Sunday, saying "This is typical of the Ravens. Play great one week, then next week play like complete and total crap." Agreed. Joe Flacco went 15 of 32 for 197 yards, while the defense allowed Matt Hasselbeck to go 30 of 42 for 358 yards. Not to mention the Titans held the ball for over 35 minutes. Baltimore plays the beat-up Rams in Week 3, so all is not doom and gloom in Owings Mills.
Chargers fans must be pulling their hair out over the loss at New England. Call it a dry shave, man. Philip Rivers threw a key pick to the Patriots' best defensive back, Vince Wilfork, which changed the complexion of the game. Especially when the Chargers allowed Brady two cheap and easy completions on the sideline that burned no time and gave the Pats a 20-7 lead at halftime. The goal-line stand also was a killer. Still, San Diego is a top 10 team in my book.
Chicago destroyed a good team, and lost handily to a very good team. So while the 30-13 drubbing in New Orleans merits a drop in the rankings, it was arguably the hardest road assignment in Week 2. Of more concern than the loss may be Gabe Carimi's health. The right tackle, out approximately four weeks with a knee injury, is integral to the Bears' success. It flat-out sucks to see so many good, young players going down to injury already.
Staying healthy was Pittsburgh's biggest concern coming into the season, considering nine regulars on defense are age 30 or over. Then the focus switched to, "Can these guys still play?" Well, that question was answered -- in theory -- Sunday versus Seattle. I say in theory because Dave Krieg would be an upgrade at QB for the Seahawks. He's 52.
It's hard to read this team. The Cowboys looked far more impressive in three quarters in the loss to the Jets than they did in the win over the Niners at the 'Stick. Yet, the club showed a lot of character, particularly the much-maligned Tony Romo, who brought Dallas back from a 10-point deficit. Issue numero uno for this club is getting healthy. Terence Newman's absence has been a major problem in a secondary that struggles with consistency.
The Falcons weren't impressive for much of Sunday night, and escaped a home loss despite facing the Eagles' third-string quarterback in the fourth quarter. Jeremy Maclin catches that ball on 4th down, and the Falcons likely lose. Yet, a win is a win, so these birds stay perched at the 13-hole. One huge bright spot amidst all of the Matt Ryan fanfare -- who, by the way, threw two picks -- was the great play of Michael Turner, who had 146 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown.
The 2-0 record looks good. Ryan Fitzpatrick looks damn good. The uni's look great. The defense? Not so much. Oakland racked up 454 yards of offense on Buffalo. Speaking of, the town will be hosting the 2011 version of Air Coryell and the Greatest Show on Turf next week (that would be Tom Brady and the Patriots). Hope Fitzpatrick keeps that arm loose.
Nice win for Raheem Morris and the beleaguered Bucs, who've had to convince everyone that the lockout and a young core of players wouldn't be the perfect recipe for a fall back to the 6-10 pack. Tampa's biggest issue is the young defense, which needs to incrementally improve week to week. Morris' defense was destroyed in the preseason by the Pats and didn't look particularly impressive against the Lions in Week 1. Getting outgained 284-62 in the first half against Minnesota further highlighted the problem. For now, Tampa stays put in the rankings.
Like Buffalo, another 2-0 start that no one expected -- except colleague Michael Lombardi. If you picked up Rex Grossman on the fantasy waiver wire -- like I told you to on Fantasy Live -- then you are one smart dude or dudette (then again, I recommended benching Ray Rice in Week 1). On another note, how about going for the touchdown on fourth-and-three from the 18 late in the fourth quarter, when nearly every other team in the league would have just tried to get the first down? Just when you thought everything was a pleasant anomaly in Redskins-land, DeAngelo Hall got burned by 20 yards for a touchdown. So don't fret, things are still as they should be.
Tough loss for the Silver and Black. After I bragged about them this week, the Raiders blew one in Buffalo. What a game though, with great plays by both teams. Oakland HAS to solve the penalty problem -- eight more penalties after the self-mutilation of 15 infractions in Week 1. Again, this franchise's biggest issue is curable.
Matt Hasselbeck, we all apologize. Good night, you're playing well: 67.1 completion percentage, 621 yards, and a 94.2 rating. With Luke McCown and Kerry Collins starting at quarterback in the division, the supposedly-in-transition Titans could finish second in the AFC South, and maybe even make a wild-card run. At some point Chris Johnson is going to explode, it's just a matter of when.
The G-Men got a win, but stay put in the rankings. We need to see how the injury situation plays out, as well as the suspect pass defense. This is one club that could power up the ladder quickly, especially if Hakeem Nicks can stay healthy.
The Kevin Kolb project seems to be working, but that was one tough pill to swallow Sunday at FedEx Field. It was nice to see Larry Fitzgerald put on the jets on a 73-yard touchdown catch-and-run. The secondary has to play better, but only one sack of Sexy Rexy sure didn't help matters. In fact, that one sack came courtesy of all-world pass rusher Kerry Rhodes. He's a safety. Somebody in Arizona has to get to the passer.
Niners fans from Carmel to San Jose were throwing their Merlot at the mounted HD flatscreen over their Victorian fireplaces after their team blew a 10-point, fourth-quarter lead to a Dallas group whose: 1) quarterback had a punctured lung, 2) running back had a separated shoulder, 3) two starting wideouts were out, and 4) best corner was out. The Niners defense has been relatively solid, but close your eyes when Alex Smith loads up. He makes two nice plays, then a bad one. You know a guy is inconsistent when Alan Ball intercepts him. Sure would help if Smith could get better protection.
Another close call, another tough loss. Everyone in that locker room is frustrated. Said Adrian Peterson, "We are pretty stunned ... second week in a row we let one get away." Minnesota moves up in the rankings (slightly) by default, only because I feel they're a small tick better than the Broncos, Bengals and Browns. They've lost to two pretty decent clubs in the Chargers and Buccaneers. The defense is going to have to close teams out to win more than six games this year.
John Fox says "my philosophy is do whatever it takes." How much that includes Tim Tebow is anyone's guess, but he saw action as a slot receiver this past weekend. Why? Injuries galore. In fact, defensive backups played a key role, as did starter Robert Ayers who blew up a key fourth-down play late in the game. All of the clutch play moves Fox's boys up several spots in the rankings this week.
Marvin Lewis isn't leading a bunch of hooligans, malcontents, or space cadets any more. His roster fought hard in Denver but just came up a little short. The defense is much better than anyone is giving them credit for, and rookie Andy Dalton made great strides. It still figures to be a five-win season in Cincy.
Cleveland probably deserves to be a shade higher, but they lost to Cincinnati, who, in turn, lost to Denver. Thus you have the exact science behind Denver at 23, Cincinnati at 24, and Cleveland at 25. The Browns face the Dolphins at home next week, a rematch of a close contest from last season. Will Colt McCoy be able to take advantage of the Dolphins' secondary, which has struggled mightily?
Cam Newton is only the sixth quarterback to throw for over 400 yards in back-to-back games. Don't get too excited, as one of those guys was Billy Volek. What is worth getting excited about is that Newton is ready for the big boys. The dude just doesn't seem impressed by the NFL. While that's a big plus for Panthers fans, the defense could really use Jon Beason. Give Carolina credit -- it hung in with the Super Bowl champs, but Ron Rivera's guys have to be able to stop somebody. They allowed the Pack a staggering 8.1 yards per play after allowing 7.3 to the Cardinals.
St. Louis must get out of its own way. The Rams outplayed the Giants for most of the first half and then proceeded to beat themselves. Being without Steven Jackson hurts. This team is only ahead of Miami because I'd take Sam Bradford over Chad Henne.
Another season in South Florida could be slipping away. Henne didn't follow up his promising play from the season's opening week with more good football deeds vs. the Texans. Of greater concern is the awful pass defense, and the 0-2 record. Keep in mind, both of those losses were at home. Jeff Ireland, Tony Sparano, and the rest of the staff have their work cut out for them.
Blaine Gabbert got on the field and acquitted himself OK, going 5 of 6, albeit in garbage time of a 29-point loss. Hey, look at the bright side. It was an improvement over starter Luke McCown, who posted a 108 passer rating ... divided by about 100.
Indy is tough to watch. Even though Kerry Collins is approximately 59 years old, the past two weeks have been like watching the Colts of the future. The Peyton Manning-less franchise doesn't look too good, but they aren't the worst team in the league. Collins started hot against the Browns, but regressed as the game went along. The defense is being leaned on like never before, and in order to avoid a four-win season, Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis are going to have to wreak havoc on teams like never before.
Just so you Chiefs fans know, I don't dislike your team, as some have said I do on this very site. My dad was a huge fan of the Dallas Texans, who became the Super Bowl IV-winning Chiefs. Even that club could not have withstood season-ending injuries to its best offensive player ( Jamaal Charles) and arguably its best defensive player ( Eric Berry). Kansas City has been outscored 89-10, and last year's wild-card berth feels like it was 40 years ago. What a turn of events.
Seattle is terrible. The offense is going to have to take some shots down the field, if for no other reason than to open up some running lanes. In two games, Seattle's ground game has run 35 times for 95 yards. Not good. The 'Hawks didn't take a snap on the Steelers' side of the field until midway through the fourth quarter Sunday.


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WASHINGTON - (Reuters) - Republican Senator Rand Paul, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, fueled speculation on Wednesday that he will follow in his father's footsteps and run for president in 2016.
Paul, a freshman senator from Kentucky, told reporters he will visit early voting states this year and indicated he will make a final decision next year.
Paul's father, former Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, was a presidential candidate three times, running once as a Libertarian and twice as a Republican. He won Libertarian and Tea Party movement voters during the last Republican primaries, but failed to win broad support.
The younger Paul, at a media breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor, said he wants a voice in rebuilding the Republican Party after its losses to Democratic President Barack Obama.
"I want to be part of the national debate, so whether I run or not, being considered is something that allows me to have a larger microphone," Paul said.
Paul said he plans to visit Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, the first three states to vote in the Republican nomination battle, this year.
Paul expanded his national profile when he led a 13-hour filibuster on March 7 to highlight the risk of the potential use of drones on American soil. The move sparked the slogan "Stand with Rand."
Earlier in the spring, Paul spoke along with other Republican up-and-comers, including Florida Senator Marco Rubio, at a Washington gathering of conservatives known as the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC).
At that conference, a number of young Republicans wore t-shirts proclaiming "Stand with Rand."
Paul also told reporters on Wednesday he will do what he can to help fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, get re-elected next year.
Relations between the two had a rough start as Paul, seen as the insurgent candidate, defeated McConnell's choice, Trey Grayson, in the Republican primary on his way to victory in 2010.
Paul said of McConnell: "I've endorsed him. I've raised money for him. And I will try to see him re-elected. I think he's good for Kentucky."
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What is Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation?
Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.
The Eclipse Project was originally created by IBM in November 2001 and supported by a consortium of software vendors. The Eclipse Foundation was created in January 2004 as an independent not-for-profit corporation to act as the steward of the Eclipse community. The independent not-for-profit corporation was created to allow a vendor neutral and open, transparent community to be established around Eclipse. Today, the Eclipse community consists of individuals and organizations from a cross section of the software industry.
The Eclipse Foundation is funded by annual dues from our members and governed by a Board of Directors. Strategic Developers and Strategic Consumers hold seats on this Board, as do representatives elected by Add-in Providers and Open Source committers. The Foundation employs a full-time professional staff to provide services to the community but does not employ the open source developers, called committers, which actually work on the Eclipse projects. Eclipse committers are typically employed by organizations or are independent developers that volunteer their time to work on an open source project.
In general, the Eclipse Foundation provides four services to the Eclipse community: 1) IT Infrastructure, 2) IP Management, 3) Development Process, and 4) Ecosystem Development. Full-time staff are associated with each of these areas and work with the greater Eclipse community to assist in meeting the needs of the stakeholders.
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The Eclipse Foundation manages the IT infrastructure for the Eclipse open source community, including CVS/SVN code repositories, Bugzilla databases, development oriented mailing lists and newsgroups, download site and web site. The infrastructure is designed to provide reliable and scalable service for the committers developing the Eclipse technology and the consumers who use the technology.
Intellectual Property (IP) Management
An important aspect of Eclipse is the focus on enabling the use of open source technology in commercial software products and services. We consciously promote and encourage software vendors to use Eclipse technology for building their commercial software products and services. This is made possible by the fact that all Eclipse projects are licensed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL), a commercial friendly OSI approved licensed.
The Eclipse Foundation also undertakes a number of steps to attempt to ensure the pedigree of the intellectual property contained within Eclipse projects. The first step in the due diligence process is trying to ensure that all contributions are made by the rightful copyright holder and under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). All committers are required to sign a committer agreement that stipulates all of their contributions are their original work and are being contributed under the EPL. If a committer is sponsored to work on an Eclipse project by a Member organization, then that organization is asked to sign a Member Committer Agreement to ensure the intellectual property rights of the organization are contributed under the EPL.
The second step is that the source code related to all contributions which are developed outside of the Eclipse development process are processed through the Eclipse Foundation IP approval process. This process includes analyzing selected code contributions to try to ascertain the provenance of the code, and license compatibility with the EPL. Contributions that contain code licensed under licenses not compatible with the EPL are intended to be screened out through this approval process and thus not added to an Eclipse project. The end result is a level of confidence that Eclipse open source projects release technology that can be safely distributed in commercial products.
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The Eclipse community has a well earned reputation for providing quality software in a reliable and predictable fashion. This is due to the commitment of the committers and organizations contributing to the open source projects. The Eclipse Foundation also provides services and support for the projects to help them achieve these goals.
The Foundation staff help implement the Eclipse Development Process. This process assists new project startup and ensures that all Eclipse projects are run in an open, transparent and meritocratic manner. As part of this process, the Foundation organizes member community reviews for projects to ensure consistent interaction between the projects and the broader membership.
The Eclipse community organizes an annual release train that provides a coordinated release of those Eclipse projects which wish to participate. The release train makes it easier for downstream consumers to adopt new releases of the projects because 1) all the projects are available on the same schedule, so you don�t have to wait for independent project schedules, and 2) a level of integration testing occurs before the final release to help identify cross project issues.
Ecosystem Development
A unique aspect of the Eclipse community and the role of the Eclipse Foundation is the active marketing and promotion of Eclipse projects and wider Eclipse ecosystem. A healthy vibrant ecosystem that extends beyond the Eclipse open source community to include things like commercial products based on Eclipse, other open source projects using Eclipse, training and services providers, magazines and online portals, books, etc, are all key to the success of the Eclipse community.
To assist in the development of the Eclipse ecosystem, the Eclipse Foundation organizes a number of activities, including co-operative marketing events with Member companies, community conferences (EclipseCon and Eclipse Summit Europe), online resource catalogs (EPIC and Eclipse Live), bi-annual Members meetings and other programs to promote the entire Eclipse community.
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The Eclipse Foundation has been established to serve the Eclipse open source projects and the Eclipse community. As an independent not-for-profit corporation, the Foundation and the Eclipse governance model ensures no single entity is able to control the strategy, policies or operations of the Eclipse community.
The Foundation is focused on creating an environment for successful open source projects and to promote the adoption of Eclipse technology in commercial and open source solutions. Through services like IP Due Diligence, annual release trains, development community support and ecosystem development, the Eclipse model of open source development is a unique and proven model for open source development.
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Industry leaders Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft and Webgain formed the initial eclipse.org Board of Stewards in November 2001. By the end of 2003, this initial consortium had grown to over 80 members.
On Feb 2, 2004 the Eclipse Board of Stewards announced Eclipse's reorganization into a not-for-profit corporation. Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse Platform into Open Source, Eclipse became an independent body that will drive the platform's evolution to benefit the providers of software development offerings and end-users. All technology and source code provided to and developed by this fast-growing community is made available royalty-free via the Eclipse Public License.
The founding Strategic Developers and Strategic Consumers were Ericsson, HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, QNX, SAP and Serena Software.
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Over the past 10-15 years, the concern with social and cultural impacts of migration have tempered the optimistic functionalist literature of the 1980s and early 1990s, that tended to emphasize the positive economic consequences of remittances on origin societies. In 1998 Levitt coined the term "social remittances" to refer to the normative structures, systems of practice, and social capital that are transferred by migrants from host to sending communities. They accompany monetary remittances but also range far beyond them in terms of the characteristics of their transmission and the time over which they operate, as well as their bi-directionality. Social remittances are closely tied to the paradigm of transnationalism, which specifies a broad set of interchanges by which migrants and their families live in two societies at the same time.
Economic and social remittances share some of the same features. In both cases, as pointed out by Levitt and Lamba-Nieves (2011) in their study of two villages in the Dominican Republic, they may be individual as well as collective; may be transmitted by interpersonal contact or electronic means; and have multiplier effects that extend beyond their original spatial concentration on the family or the village (e.g., regarding social remittances, the "scaling up" of repatriated practices from the local to the regional and national). As these authors point out, however, social remittances may of themselves be negative as well as positive for the recipient (this is not the case with economic remittances, which almost always directly benefit the recipient, even though from a broader societal perspective they may generate inequality, dependency, etc.). They may also move in both directions, which barring an extreme reversal of fortunes, is not true with monetary remittances.
Another way in which social remittances are different is that they continue to shape origin societies long after monetary remittances cease. This occurs, in particular, through the mechanism of return migration. At the level of the individual, return migration truncates monetary remittances but continues and facilitates social remittances (i.e., their application is enhanced by the physical presence of the migrant to implement them). In a study of international migration from the Valle Alto, Bolivia, Jones (2010) focuses on household work, consumption, and investment patterns that distinguish return migrant households from other households, and that are likely to lead to economic growth through multiplier effects in local village economies. In returnee households, a higher proportion of members work, own a family business or a farm, purchase more business inputs locally, and make more business or farm sales outside the municipio, than in active migrant households. Social remittances, in the form of skills learned abroad and "modern" attitudes, in addition to greater local embeddedness, provided an explanation for this conclusion. However, as shown by De Bree, Davids, and de Haas (2010) for northeast Morocco, the successful re-integration of return migrants may just as likely be hindered by negative social remittances in the form of experiences abroad that compel the return. These experiences are themselves contingent upon the demographic profile of migrants. Males returning because of unemployment or divorce, and dependents forced to return due to decisions of household heads, integrated less successfully than males returning to retire or invest.
Social remittances include political attitudes and political participation in home country electoral and non-electoral politics. Guarnizo et al. (2003) document this for a large cross-sectional sample of Colombian, Salvadoran, and Dominican migrants in the United States. Higher educational levels, legal status, and greater economic mobility in the U.S. are associated with more participation rather than less, as would be predicted by the traditional assimilation model. Nevertheless, as pointed out in other research, political participation does not necessarily equate to progress; the reinforcement of power asymmetries and conflict between competing groups may tip these social remittances to the negative side. Nor do political attitudes, which clearly change as a result of migration, necessarily lead to more democratic and participatory stances on the part of migrant families and return migrants—even when migrants return from working in societies more nominally democratic than those they left. Rother (2009), interviewing returnees to the Philippines from three Asian employment destinations, finds no relationship between support for democratic ideals and the level of democracy in the country of destination based on Freedom House ratings. Positive experiences of the migrants in the enclaves where they work may result in their evaluating the country's regime positively on measures of human rights and transparency, despite their undemocratic nature based on objective criteria.
Topic 22 – Articles
de Bree, June, Tine Davids, and Hein de Haas. 2010. Post-Return Experiences and Transnational Belonging of Return Migrants: A Dutch–Moroccan Case Study. Global Networks 10(4): 489-509. (Publisher Link)
This article summarizes results of a non-random sample of 14 Moroccan return migrants assisted by a Dutch foundation in their re-entry to Morocco, and 9 other returnees (not seeking such assistance) located by chain referral sampling, in northeast Morocco in 2006-2007. It addresses the question of how transnational experiences in the host country (the Netherlands), as mediated by age, gender, and motivation for return, shape feelings of transnational belonging upon return to Morocco. Detailing economic and social dimensions of transnational behavior through the lens of a typology of return migration pioneered by Cerase, the authors find that return migrants are not automatically re-accommodated into Moroccan society. Instead, they must renegotiate their position in it. Men who returned involuntarily due to unemployment, divorce, or illness found themselves alienated but nevertheless considered themselves superior to native Moroccans, Dependents who returned involuntarily experienced problems being accepted in Moroccan society. Men who returned voluntarily, however, maintained their social networks and had a positive view of the host society, looking to their retirement or investment there. They maintained supportive social and economic infrastructures in Morocco and used their positive social capital and ties to the Netherlands to better their position back home. Social remittances from their Dutch experience were parlayed into their successful re-integration.
Jones, Richard C. 2010. "The Local Economic Imprint of Return Migrants in Bolivia: a Case of Embeddedness and Social Remittances. Proceedings of the Conference on Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on International Migration: Cross Border Impacts, Border Security, and Socio-Political Responses. The University of Texas at San Antonio, March 4-5. (Publisher Link)
Drawing upon Granovetter's notion ofembeddedness and Levitt's concept of social remittances, the author argues that return migrants are able to mobilize social capital to induce local multiplier effects and contribute to the economic base of their communities. The research is based on a 2007 survey of 417 randomly-selected households from three municipios in the Valle Alto of Bolivia, near Cochabamba. Return migrant households (those in which at least one member worked abroad in the past, but none were active at the time of the interview) were more likely to work locally, to own a family business, to purchase business inputs locally, and to sell products or services outside the municipio, than were active migrant households. This was true in spite of the fact that returnees were older, less-educated, and earned less abroad than active migrants. This "negative selectivity" was unimportant vis a vis their family and business contact networks in Bolivia and the systems of practice and social capital with which they returned from abroad and which furthered their economic involvement in Bolivia.
Guarnizo, Luis, Alejandro Portes, and William Haller. 2003. Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants. American Journal of Sociology 108 (6): 1211–1248. (Publisher Link)
This study is derived from the Comparative Immigrant Enterprise Project (CIEP), and based on qualitative and quantitative data gathered from 353 key informants in areas of immigrant concentration in the United States and 1,202 adult family heads in the countries of origin: Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador. The conclusions refute the traditional assimilational model that poses stronger home-country political ties for less-educated, less-mobile migrants with shorter residence times at that the destination—finding relationships that are just the opposite. Most significant are differences by nationality. Colombians want little to do with their country's politics, having escaped a situation of profound instability, official corruption, and widespread violence. The return to social peace in El Salvador and the relative political stability in the Dominican Republic facilitate regular cross-border ties by their expatriates. The authors caution that based on their analyses, transnational political action is regularly undertaken by a small minority, is socially bounded across national borders, occurs in quite specific territorial jurisdictions, and appears to reproduce preexisting power asymmetries.
Levitt, Peggy, and Lambda-Nieves. 2011. Social Remittances Revisited. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Forthcoming.
This article is based on continuous research by the first author in one Dominican community in Boston, coupled with semi-structured interviews and observations carried out by the second author with 50 members of this and an adjacent community, both in Boston and in the Dominican Republic. To bring the original concept of social remittances into line with much recent research, they discuss cultural as well as social remittances, collective remittances, the interplay between positive and negative flows, bi-directional flows, and the scaling out (or multiplier) effects of remittances in the context of their Dominican case study. A key idea is that migrants bring pre-existent skills and interests, for example community organizational capacity and a passion for baseball; refine these in the host setting; and remit these refined attitudes and skills back home (for example, accountability and efficiency in the implementation of a community ambulance service and a sports complex). Unlike the case of economic remittances, social remittances may be positive (calls for government transparency) or negative (conflicts stemming from disagreement on how collective funds should be spent) and they may be bi-directional (starting with pre-selected traits of the migrants). Finally, political accountability at the local level may spread upward to higher levels of governance.
Rother, Stefan. 2009. Changed in Migration? Philippine Return Migrants and (Un) Democratic Remittances. European Journal of East Asian Studies 8(2): 245-74.
The inculcation of democracy as a social remittance is still indeterminate in the migration literature. The author compares attitudes in support of democratic principles for 1000 return migrants and 1000 pre-trip contracted migrants from the Philippines (as controls), matched on a "statistical twins" design for three Asian destinations during 2005-2008. These destinations were specifically chosen to test the expectation that returnees from the most democratic state (Japan) would display the strongest support for democratic ideals, and those from the least democratic (Saudi Arabia) would show the least support, with those from Hong Kong (moderately democratic) falling somewhere in between. All respondents rated democratic structures less favorably in the Philippines (it was viewed as a 'defective democracy') than in any of the three destinations. In general the results were quite contrary to expectations, with declines in support of democratic ideals (between pre-trip and post-trip cohorts) for returnees from Saudi Arabia and Japan, and no change for returnees from Hong Kong. The author explains this by the particular demographics and experiences of the migrant groups: (1) male construction workers to Saudi Arabia saw the material progress of the country and thus rated autocracy positively; (2) female migrants to Japan saw the government make no effort to protect them in the exploitative night-club enclaves where they performed, and rated democracy negatively; (3) female Hong Kong domestic workers found both good working conditions and government activism on their behalf, and rated democracy positively. Thus, migrants' own backgrounds, and their 'specific support' of democracy based on its outcomes for them, may be more important than 'diffuse support' for democratic ideals.


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Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Public Health (Health Policy); Co-Director, Virus and Other Infection-associated Cancers
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School of Public Health: Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS | Health Policy & Management
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Drug use, Addiction, and HIV Research Scholars (DAHRS)
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Dr. Justice has conducted research focusing on outcomes in chronic HIV infection for over 25 years. Her goal is to use living with HIV infection as a model for understanding and improving outcomes in chronic disease. She is the Principal Investigator on the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) (www.vacohort.org). Her research considers the complex roles of aging, symptoms, medical treatment, adherence, patient-provider relationships, disease severity, and medical and psychiatric comorbid illness in determining survival and quality of life for people with HIV infection. VACS has received 15 years of funding from NIAAA and was recently funded as a consortium by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at NIH. The consortium will consider the complex roles of HIV, aging, substance use (in particular multisubstance use-- alcohol, tobacco, and opioids), and comorbid illness in determining morbidity and mortality for people with HIV infection using observational data, operations research modeling, and randomized controlled intervention trials. Dr. Justice has studied predictors of survival and quality of life and is expert in the development, validation, and evaluation of multivariable prognostic models. She has published over 200 papers and served on thirty expert panels addressing issues of understanding and improving clinical outcomes in HIV infection. She is an authority on issues surrounding HIV and aging and has presented on this topic at the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, chaired NIH special emphasis grant reviews, helped draft the first set of treatment recommendations jointly sponsored by American Academy of HIV Medicine and the American Geriatrics Society, and is a member of the Working Group on HIV and Aging for the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health.
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Here is what Kim said about the party- "I am so excited to share this adorable holiday shoot we recently worked on for HGTV! I designed a new full printable collection which is available for FREE download on the HGTV feature. The collection includes a blank invitiation, fill-in invitation, two sets of party circles, favor tags, blank fancy labels, a pennant banner and a gingerbread man recipe card! I hope you will be able to use these fun printables at your holiday gathering this year, whether it is a Gingerbread House Making Party or any Christmas themed event!
Vicki (the photographer) and I had a great time with this shoot which we did at her house. Decorating gingerbread houses is such a fun holiday tradition and our own kids had so much fun making them during the shoot!"
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Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas, responsible for transport, presented at this year's Aeronautical Days yesterday in Madrid a new long-term vision prepared by a high-level group on aviation and aeronautics research. The report is a first follow-up to some of the measures regarding aviation that had been put forward in the White Paper on Transport, adopted on 28 March 2011.
The vision for 2050 lays out how and where the European research priorities should be set to bring clear EU-added value, so as to preserve EU growth and competitiveness worldwide, whilst meeting market needs as well as energy and environmental challenges. The report was prepared for Commissioners Kallas and Geoghegan-Quinn, responsible for research and innovation, by representatives from the infrastructure, vehicle, operation, fuel and research sectors. The high-level group on aviation and aeronautics research was created in December 2010 and the central message of the report is to promote global leadership of the European industry and a competitive, clean, safe and secure aviation by 2050, with citizens' and society's needs at the heart of the strategy.
The 2011 Aerodays will bring together aeronautics stakeholders, ministries, agencies and research & development centres from all across Europe and overseas to network, present their latest research results and discuss common future R&D projects. Organised by the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) in Spain and the European Commission, the 2011 Aerodays provide an opportunity to present and disseminate information about EU-funded results of research and technological development activities, in view of creating a Single European Sky and a European Research Area and of finding innovative approaches to sustainable aviation in a global environment.
The Flightpath 2050 report: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air/hlg_aviation_aeronautics_en.htm


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