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Montclair, N.J. – After grabbing the #4 seed for the Skyline Tournament, the Rams season ended with a 13-5 loss to top-seeded Montclair State on Wednesday evening. The Red Hawks led at the half, 10-4 and would hold Farmingdale to one goal over the final two periods, en route to the 13-5 victory.
Freshman attack Tyler Meth (Basking Ridge, N.J. / Ridge) scored
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Joe Stroessenreuther (Bethpage, N.Y. / Bethpage) scored twice for Farmingdale (6-10), which ended its season at 6-10. The Rams, who fell to MSU for the second time this season, also had their three-game winning streak snapped.
Farmingdale jumped on top 1:06 into the contest as Jimmy Owsinski (Kings Park, N.Y. / Kings Park) fed Stroessenreuther for his 24th goal of the season. Montclair State would answer just over a minute later as Schiavone scored unassisted triggering a three-goal run by the Red Hawks. Meth scored the latter two goals eight seconds apart as Montclair went up 3-1 with 5:28 left in the opening period.
Stroessenreuther registered hits second goal with 4:47 to play, but Meth scored on the man-advantage and Sinicola followed with an unassisted marker as Montclair led 5-3 at the end of one period. The Red Hawks would put the first five goals on the board in the second period. Mike Corsetto (Kinnelon, N.J. / Kinnelon) scored a man-up goal 29 seconds in and defenseman Patrick Ferry (Clifton, N.J. / Clifton) ran the length of the field for his third of the year as MSU increased its lead to 7-3. Meth and Schiavone scored 39 seconds part midway through the period before Taylor Bonner (Old Bridge, NJ / Old Bridge) capped off the run with his 32nd with 4:53 remaining as Montclair would lead 10-4 at the break.
Erick Thomson (Floral Park, NY / Floral Park) cut the MSU lead to 10-5 early in the third quarter, but Meth finished off his night with his fifth of the game with 2:59 left as Montclair led 11-5 after three periods. Greg Fitzgerald (Glen Ridge, N.J. / Glen Ridge) and Sinicola closed out MSU's scoring in the fourth for the final margin.
MSU goalkeeper Thomas Bowers (Hamburg, N.J. / Pope John XXIII) made four saves for MSU, which outshot the Rams, 39-16 in the game. Senior Teddy Leone (East Meadow, N.Y.. / East Meadow) had 12 saves for Famringdale.
Schiavone also added five ground balls while Bowers led Montclair with six ground balls. Collin Marsh (Asbury, NJ. / North Hunterdon) had four caused turnovers. Joe Nacarlo (West Babylon, N.Y. / West Babylon) posted four ground balls and eight faceoff wins for Farmingdale State.


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Omaha firefighters still can't believe they made it out of the Hillsborough Point Apartments Thursday.
Firefighters escaped, except for one captain. A special team went in to rescue him, but then they found themselves trapped. They all made it out of the building, but the close call hit home for a firefighting family.
"One minute everything was fine. The next, the whole roof was coming down on us," said Capt. Pete Andrews.
Separated by debris, Andrews made a critical call.
"We didn't have any water, and we also realized we had a couple firefighters unaccounted for," Andrews said.
Without a hose or a clear way out, Mike O'Hanlon pulled his partner through a crawlspace.
"Somewhere in between there was enough room for us not to be completely crushed," said firefighter Josh Goessling.
What could have happened already happened to Goessling's family. On April 23, 1996, a four-alarm fire on North 30th Street killed Captain John Goessling after a ceiling collapsed. Two of his sons are now firefighters.
"There's a whole lot of things my dad would say," Goessling said. "Probably not a lot I could say on camera."
Serving as their father would, Goessling and his brother Nate served as their father did - - with the men and women who put it all on the line for the public's safety.
"Worry about everybody, not just your family," Nate said. "We're all in it together."
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BOTH PARTIES want to do nothing but squabble before this year's election. Not much will stop them — except, perhaps, this dose of reality: If political point-scoring is all they accomplish over the next several weeks, work on the nation's roads, bridges and rails will come to a halt.
The federal Highway Trust Fund is set to run out of money this summer. Without a fix, federally backed transportation projects all over the country — not just highways — would be in danger of severe disruption or cancellation. That translates into high costs now to stop and restart projects once funding comes through, higher costs in the future as contractors build the risk of funding holdups into their prices, downward pressure on construction jobs and unnecessary delay for anyone who uses the infrastructure. Failing to shore up the fund in time would be plain legislative malfeasance.
But, to date, Washington's moves to fix the funding problem haven't been far from that low distinction. The smart and obvious way to fund federal transportation policy is to create a steady, long-term funding source to finance multi-year projects, one that relies on fees from users — such as a higher gas tax or a vehicle-miles tax. It is both efficient and fair to require drivers to pay according to the amount they exploit and degrade the roads. This discourages overuse rather than subsidizing big-time road users. Congress set up just such a system when it established the gasoline tax and dedicated its revenue to the Highway Trust Fund. But lawmakers haven't raised the gas tax since 1993, preferring instead budgetary gimmickry and short-term patches to fill holes in the fund.
This year has been no different. The latest news is that House Republican leaders are drawing up a measly one-year trust fund fix, which would conveniently push tough revenue choices past this year's election. They are proposing to offset the plan by ending most U.S. Postal Service Saturday delivery, which would take 10 years of savings to pay for that one year of proposed highway spending. An earlier proposal from President Obama would run for four years and see a worthwhile jump in infrastructure spending, but it would rely on a one-time windfall from corporate tax reform.
A handful of senators, meanwhile, met Wednesday to begin hammering out a plan. At least both parties were at the table. But the debate still appears to be moving inevitably toward how to push the issue off for a while, not about adopting smart transportation policy any time soon.
Don't get us wrong: The Saturday delivery change makes a lot of sense on its own. So does corporate tax reform. But continuing to jury-rig the highway budget with unrelated "offsets" does not. If the nation's leaders are too cowardly to make obvious policy choices this year, they will have to develop some backbone before the next self-imposed transportation funding crisis. At the rate we're going, that won't be so long from now.


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You know your maintenance team gets equipment back online fast, so why do the downtime numbers look so bad? Your job may rest on the correct answer.
You may be doing all the right things to get failed equipment up and running fast. You may be superefficient when equipment is down for preventive maintenance. You may have been doing such a good job for so long that equipment failures are rare. Yet, management says the downtime numbers are not acceptable.
So how can you look better, when you're already doing "all the right things?" First, let's look at the components of downtime (see sidebar, right). There's a whole chain of events in the case of equipment malfunction. First, the equipment stops operating. The operator notices the malfunction and contacts maintenance. Then, maintenance restores the equipment to service and notifies the operator. Finally, maintenance observes the equipment for proper operation.
What often happens is the operator shuts off the equipment for a setup change and calls in maintenance about a noncritical concern. Remember: The time it takes from when the operator shuts off the equipment to the time the tech leaves counts as downtime. What was the actual downtime due to equipment failure? None! Yet, the report to higher management shows maintenance just isn't keeping the equipment available for production.
How do you correct this situation so your managers get a true picture? The answer requires true organization and communication. We'll assume you already repair and maintain equipment fast enough. But in case there's room for improvement, the sidebar, on page 60, gives you some tips.
For the purpose of this article, we'll assume you have a Windows-based Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). We'll also assume you have a spreadsheet program, which allows you to copy information from one application and to another for making graphs and charts. If you don't have these tools, you can still follow the concepts. If you implement these suggestions without a computer, you may want to limit application of them to only your worst downtime areas. These suggestions worked for a 63-person maintenance department in a 7224 operation, and the case histories are from that same operation.
Reduce response time. It may take you 10 min to diagnose and repair a motor controller problem, but the motor waits 12 hr for you to begin repairs. So, the motor is still down 12 hr and 10 min. The plant mentioned above experienced this same problem. Operators would fill out a "work order" form and drop it off on a "compost pile" that sat on the desk of one of the maintenance supervisors. That supervisor was on the plant floor most of the time, and didn't always sift through every paper on his desk daily. Nor did he put those papers there. They'd just pile up while he was "out with the troops." You can figure out what happened, as a result.
The plant engineer ordered radios for everyone in maintenance, as well as for each area shift supervisor (production). When an operator had a motor go up in smoke or some other mishap occurred, the operator would tell the supervisor, who would announce the mishap via radio to the maintenance crew leader for that section of the plant. It was a big plant: Each area had its own repair crew, and each crew had a leader. The crew leader answered production maintenance calls by radio, then went to the scene to start repairs. If the leader needed help, he or she would call another crew member. This system gave an immediate response to the production department.
For maximum efficiency, you should have a simple response procedure that's well communicated to everyone. If you write it out, your procedure should take no more than a few sentences. This plant's procedure read: "Any operator who has equipment problems should immediately contact the production supervisor, who will call maintenance on the radio. That shift's crew leader will immediately send someone, or go personally, to the location of the complaint."
That's simple, direct, and effective. This type of response works well, because a "first response" person can carry a minimum of equipment to scope out the nature of the problem and possibly fix it in minutes. When a person or small crew follows up on a "first-response" person's visit, they need to do so with a full ensemble of tools and test equipment so they aren't running back and forth "to the shop" while equipment is down and awaiting repair. In addition to your response procedure, you need troubleshooting and repair procedures for specific equipment. These will, of course, be as detailed as necessary.
Document every response. Most maintenance technicians would rather have a root canal than spend much time doing paperwork. So, why subject them to long forms that bombard them with meaningless questions? What will you do with the information? And while under pressure to get equipment running again, who has the time to fill out excessive paperwork accurately?
The cure is to use an extremely simple form, asking for only the information your CMMS needs for tracking purposes. This plant used a spreadsheet that had two rows per response call, and had enough pairs of rows to last a typical day. The first row was for "As Found" information: time arrived, time equipment went out of service, type of equipment, and the problem. The second row was for "As Left": time equipment was ready for service, action taken, and time left.
This is minimal information, but from it, the maintenance department built profiles of where the hot spots were and what problems needed most attention. The sheet's bottom 2 in. or so had a listing of codes (same ones used in the CMMS, plus a few extra ones), so the technicians didn't have much writing or guessing to do. All times were in the 24-hr format. Time studies on the form showed a typical 12 sec to fill out the first row (while talking to the operator) and 11 sec to fill out the second row.
Gather the right facts. Notice the two different sets of times in the form just mentioned. Previously, the maintenance people recorded "time left" as the end of downtime, but this was inaccurate. They often stayed to watch the equipment for several minutes of operation. Though the equipment was running, the time spent watching it counted as downtime. Thus, the plant engineer came up with "watch time," simply by using a formula in a spreadsheet after importing data from the CMMS. Custom macros made data manipulation an automated process that approached "one-click" convenience.
Some facts will show you where you need to improve your maintenance system, which is why the form had a space for "gripes." The plant engineer, maintenance supervisors, and CMMS administrator all shared the data entry, so all of them handled field reports. When someone came across a gripe, such as "could not identify failed component due to poor markings," the person would mark the gripe with a highlighter and put the field report in the plant engineer's in box. After an ad hoc meeting, someone would implement a solution almost right away.
Maintenance did a safety inspection with each repair call. Technicians would look for signs of tampering with safety switches, frayed cables, missing equipment guards, etc. They documented any discrepancies. Each of these resulted in a personal investigation by the responsible maintenance supervisor and/or plant engineer. They carved this policy in stone after a serious injury and resultant fingerpointing. The maintenance logs showed repeated attention to an interlock switch, which the operating supervisors kept disconnecting to "save time." Following the plant manager's investigation, the maintenance department got carte blanche authority to take any equipment out of service at any time for safety violations.
Analyze the facts. To improve your ability to fix the most critical items, you must ask certain questions of your data. What kinds of downtime are you incurring? Can you eliminate operator error with equipment modification or training? Can you eliminate an operator through automation or some other modification? Do you have patterns of repetition on some shifts, but not others? What happens when downtime occurs? What problems are the technicians encountering in the field? What training, test equipment, tools, or fixtures might help? What procedures need to change?
To improve your image with management, you must present the right data. In effect, you must use the right facts as skillfully as an army must use the right weapons. You must concentrate your forces in the right places, and always think in terms of production bottlenecks.
It's better to have 100 hr of downtime on noncritical equipment and no downtime on critical equipment, than 10 hr of downtime on critical equipment and 10 hr of downtime on noncritical equipment. Why? It comes down to the number of units produced per day. When you submit your downtime reports, don't just show hours here and there. Also show units per day and revenue gained by your improved maintenance responses and preventive maintenance programs.
Back to our plant example. The plant engineer frequently got hammered for excessive downtime, so he put the CMMS information covering operator error into Pareto charts, which are a type of analysis tool. Then he distributed the individual charts to the appropriate operations managers, who quickly realized they didn't want to see these charts at the weekly staff meeting. Almost overnight, many of the operator errors ceased to happen. Consequently, overall downtime decreased.
This same plant engineer came under fire for excessive downtime on a single, very important line. At the staff meeting, he pulled out his charts and showed the numbers. A machine had been down for 11 hr, due to a simple PLC problem. The operators on two shifts simply parked in the cafeteria and never said a word. Similarly, operations supervisors never said a word either. Logs from the maintenance department showed maintenance, which had recently initiated a daily visit to that line, noticed it was down. The maintenance log showed the arrival time and time back in service. Total repair time was about 5 min. The maintenance technician spent 20 min trying to find an operator, and finally ran the machine himself, while his boss located an operator. They documented all of this.
The outcome was very different than it would have been under the old system. The company fired three operators and demoted a supervisor. The maintenance tech received a raise at his annual review the following month. Talk about timing!


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Windhaven is a storm-wracked world consisting of a vast ocean and a small scattering of islands, home to the descendants of survivors of a spacecraft crash centuries earlier. The most efficient way of passing messages between islands is by the flyers, specially-trained men and women who can use strong-but-flexible 'wings' salvaged from the wrecked spaceship to ride the winds from island to island. Tradition has it that a flyer's wings are passed from parent to their eldest child, but this order is upset when Maris of Lesser Amberley, the adopted daughter of a flyer, is required to give up her wings to her adopted father's trueborn eldest child, who has no interest in flying. The establishment is opposed to any opening of the flyers' ranks to the 'land-bound', but the winds of change are blowing on Windhaven, and these changes will be difficult and potentially bloody.
Windhaven, originally published in 1981, is a 'fix-up' novel, consisting of two short stories written in the 1970s and a third, concluding section written for this edition. It was George R.R. Martin's second novel and Lisa Tuttle's first. With the book's feudal society and low technology level (due to a lack of metal on the islands), it is reminiscent of fantasy, although there is an SF background to the setting.
The novel is divided into three episodes, taken from different points in Maris's life. In the first, Maris has to fight tradition in order to hold onto her wings. In the second, Maris has succeeded in allowing the 'land-bound' to train as flyers, but faces problems when a bitter and angry new recruit attempts to earn his wings after rejecting the traditions of the flyer caste. In the third, an older Maris, recovering from a head injury, is drawn into a dispute over the powers of the flyers and the land-bound rulers of the islands.
Each episode builds on the same theme on tradition and transformation. Windhaven is, in essence, a caste-based society with the flyers held to different standards, laws and responsibilities as the land-bound. Maris's arguments for changing this to allow the land-bound commoners to train as flyers works because it solves an existing problem, where people in flyer families who are not good at flying are lost in accidents, and their irreplaceable wings with them. However, it is not a safe or easy answer, as the influx of new blood into the flyer community causes unforseen problems that the society has to deal with. The basic premise of a rigid society being changed by the actions of an individual (usually, as in this case, the protagonist) is commonplace, but Windhaven delights in exploring the consequences of each change and following the ripples and additional complications they cause. The book ends with, hopefully, a new, fairer and more permanent order being established, but even in this case Maris realises that problems will continue to arise, this being the nature of societies and indeed life.
Windhaven benefits from strong characterisation. Maris develops from episode to episode, the scope of her ambition widening as her understanding of the world grows. She starts out as a little girl who only wants to fly, but becomes a leader who must make sometimes unpopular decisions to maintain the rules she herself set in place. More complex still is Val, the 'one-wing' Maris starts out by hating but ultimately has to fight for, despite his own dislike of her. There is also S'Rella, the trainee flyer from the far south, who wants to follow in Maris's footsteps and is upset to find the world a harsher place than she thought, as well as Evan (a doctor in the service of a ruthless and cruel lord) and Coll (Maris's brother, born to be a flyer but wanting to be a singer). It's a small but well-defined cast of characters.
There's a strong sense of place to the islands of Windhaven, particularly successful as we still get a sense of the nature of some far-off places even though Maris never visits them. Song of Ice and Fire fans may also be amused to find some place-names that crop up again in the later series (such as the Iron Islands and the Eyrie). The descriptions of flying are vivid, although the actual act of flying plays a smaller role in the story than a reader might expect (it's function and ramifications being more central to the narrative).
Windhaven (****) is a solid early effort from both authors, though perhaps a tad slight compared to their later works and the book's short length requires a fair amount of convenience in plot developments (namely, the way Maris is at the centre of all three major world-shaking moments in the book). It's well-written, mixing cynicism with hope and adding a dash of realism to the optimism engendered by Maris's successes. It is available now in the UK and USA.
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"Are you a Christian yourself?" Laura Sydell asks me. It's a fair question; I'm sitting in front of a microphone, headphones on tight. I can hear everything that's happening in the room through the hypersensitive mikes; it's very unnerving. I'm being interviewed for NPR's All Things Considered (airing on 12/24/06) about my review of the game Left Behind: Eternal Forces. And, in a situation my friends would consider delicious, I'm actually defending the Christian right.
"No," I answer. And then I take a deep breath. This is an odd position to be put in. "I don't really consider myself a Christian in the classical sense. In fact, the message of Left Behind is one I find dangerous; this isn't a game I would let my children play. What I'm against is gaming being demonized in the media, and we saw that with Grand Theft Auto; we saw it with Bully, and now we're seeing it with Left Behind."
This is true. The game is being called violent; people are saying it's being targeted towards children, and I've heard people say the game contains anti-Semitism, among many other things. The game is none of these things. In fact, it's not even that great. I gave it a six, which puts it a notch about perfectly average. I thought the game play was interesting in that violence was so downplayed, something you rarely see in RTS games. I found the game to be a decent title, and barely worth all the ink that's being spilled over it.
We go on to talk about intolerance for a little while, and my argument is that many religious texts are intolerant; it's important for some Christian groups to paint their belief as the one true way. There are some violent passages in the Bible, and that doesn't carry a warning label. This message, and it's a crappy message to spread, is getting all this attention because it's being spread via a video game. This is just another example of gaming being treated as something less than an art form, and of course it's only the kids that play it. The fact is gaming is a very good way to put forth complex ideas: ideas like how brutal and demeaning school can be. That was the thought behind Bully. I went to bat for that game becuase I thought the message was worth spreading, and the oversimplification of the game's violence was diluting what the game was actually saying. That was an easy fight.
This isn't.
I don't like the message of Left Behind, but I feel strongly that if we defend Bully we have to defend every game that's being talked about unfairly, or that is being used for sensationalist headlines simply because it is a video game. We have to defend the art form, and we can't just do that only when we believe what the game is saying. In order to be fair, we must also defend people who are saying things we might not agree with. That's the uncomfortable position I'm being put in, but if it's uncomfortable—if we're thinking about these issues in the world of gaming—that means that we're getting somewhere. That means the medium is growing, and I'm proud to be a part of that.
Laura brings up the game's rating. It's rated T for Teen, and some argue that because of the Christian undertones (and overtones, I guess) the game should have been rated with a stricter Mature rating.
"The ratings are there for drugs, sex, violence, and language. Left Behind has very little of those things. What you're talking about would be rating a game harshly because of its ideas, and that's a dangerous thing in any art form. We can't say that certain ideas are more dangerous than others. I don't like the idea of censorship in any art form."
We talk for about an hour, and finally she thanks me for my time. I put my headphones down and leave my local NPR affiliate. I was nervous, and of course I know only a few soundbites will actually make it on the air. I hope I don't sound like a goofball. I still smile thinking about the fact that I was put in a position to defend a game like Left Behind from its detractors, but the main thing is they were attacking the game for all the wrong reasons. I went to New York and wrote a feature to help dispell some of the myths about Bully when that firestorm was in full swing, and I'm grateful for the chance to do the same for Left Behind. If you want to attack Left Behind, and there are manifold reasons to do so, attack it because of its message and your own faith or lack thereof. Don't bash it simply because you feel religious ideas should be kept out of games. The more we see complex and even divisive topics like religion in our games, the more we'll grow as an industry.
We can't pick and choose our fights based on whether or not we agree with what a game says; we must fight for the game's ability to say anything it wants to. I think I made the right choice. I just thought it was important for you guys, the readers, to know why I did it.


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This week's house is a Center Square building constructed in 1872 at 155 Lancaster Street in Albany. (map)
The five-bedroom, three-bathroom house includes about 3,700-square-feet of space. It features original detail, yet with a modern kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite counter-tops. It also has a large garden-level apartment that brings in about $900 monthly.
The asking price is $449,000, and property taxes are estimated at $11,500 annually.
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Characterizing a Digital Librarys Users: Steps towards a Nuanced View of the User
Lorraine Normore
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
The importance of understanding the wants and needs of an information sources users is a key belief of user-centered design. In digital libraries, we find two approaches to including users as factors in system design. User studies tend to provide a more abstract view and can be associated with information science research. Usability assessment tends to be associated with the practical assessment of the ease, efficiency, learnability, and flexibility of the digital library. However, usability assessment seldom deals with differences in user communities. This study of the information needs and information seeking values of three groups of digital library users illustrates how important it is to understand differences between user communities, to have a nuanced view of the user, to support informed decisions assessing the need for digital library content and organization.
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Senate Advances Call to Arm Some Syrian Rebels
Committee Passes Bill Authorizing Weapons for Moderate Rebels; U.K. Presses EU to Blacklist Hezbollah
A key Senate committee overwhelmingly approved legislation that calls on the U.S. to provide small arms to moderate Syrian opposition groups, underscoring growing sentiment among lawmakers for a change in the U.S. approach to the conflict.
The 15-3 vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee showed broad support from both Democrats and Republicans for arming the rebels, though the legislation has to go through many more votes to be adopted, and even then wouldn't compel the administration to provide arms. Some lawmakers...


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The softball Raiders continued their winning ways by defeating LaGrange 10-1 and 6-3 on Wednesday night to advance to the next round of the state tournament. Randee Bettis was the winning pitcher in game one and Alexis Damron picked up the win in the nightcap. Madison County will host the next round. Game times for the second round of the state playoffs (Sweet Sixteen) vs Heritage-Catoosa have been set for 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday and the (if) game for 5 p.m. on Thursday.
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Conservatives rebel against Boehner
Conservative opposition to John Boehner's reelection as speaker on Thursday was more determined than it originally seemed, as a small band of hard-liners either flat-out opposed the speaker or simply abstained from casting a ballot.
There were some signs that conservative resistance to Boehner was well-organized, at least by one member who has never been a big fan of the Ohio Republican.
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( Also on POLITICO: Who are the Boehner resisters?)
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) — who was recently removed from key committees and supported Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for speaker — sat on the House floor during the speaker vote brandishing an iPad. A message was displayed on the screen ticking off members of the House Republican Conference he hoped would oppose the sitting speaker. The title of the document: "You would be fired if this goes out."
Among the Republicans on the list were Reps. Steve King (Iowa), Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Scott Garrett (N.J.), Steve Fincher (Tenn.) and Scott Desjarlais (Tenn.). All of them ultimately supported Boehner.
It's not clear that any of the Republicans on Huelskamp's list knew they were on it, or even knew of the list's existence.
In the end, nine Republicans abandoned the Ohio Republican's bid for a second term as speaker, and cast votes for people as varied as a former member of Congress who lost his reelection bid in November and a 1990s-era U.S. comptroller general who appears on cable television.
( Also on POLITICO: Boehner's battle for speaker)
Two Republicans – Reps. Raul Labrador (Idaho) and Mick Mulvaney (S.C.) – sat in the chamber, pointedly ignoring the call of their name to cast a vote for Boehner, who edged to victory with 220 votes. And newly elected Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who returned to the House after 15 years , voted "present," demonstrating his lack of fear for the diminished Boehner.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) — long a foil to Boehner — got three votes. As a trio of Republicans lawmakers cast their votes for him, Cantor shook his head on the House floor, visibly displeased. His office declined to comment on the vote.
Huelskamp's and others' whipping efforts to oust the speaker fell short, though several lawmakers listed in the Kansan's iPad message did oppose Boehner, including Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Louie Gohmert (Texas) and Paul Broun (Ga.).
( PHOTOS: 12 lawmakers who didn't back Boehner)
"I will not comment on stories that invade personal e-mails or private property," Huelskamp said in a statement read by a spokesman when asked about the anti-Boehner list, which was clearly visible to photographers and reporters as he worked on it while sitting on the House floor.
But the drama playing out among House Republicans during the last 48 hours was a rebuke of Boehner's leadership — and one that matters in both substance and style.
A small, but extraordinarily vocal group of conservatives sent Boehner a message: We don't trust you.
Boehner allies write off the near-miss as sour grapes from lawmakers who have long opposed the Ohio Republican. Boehner is speaker for the 113th Congress, they noted. But the numbers do matter. Boehner now faces significant restiveness in his ranks over taxes, spending, borrowing, messaging and his hands-off leadership style.
And this comes as Boehner is about to enter three months that will define his tenure as speaker.


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"There are things you can get away with in this world, and things you can't."
The voice is Matthew McConaughey's, and days after seeing him in "Mud," I can close my eyes and hear him still — a simple line echoing with the mysteries of a man caught in the emotional muck and Mississippi mud of Jeff Nichols' fine new drama.
McConaughey's voice is like that, so specifically seasoned by Texas you know it sight unseen. That's the power of a drawl, the way it can wrap entire stories and an ocean of feelings in honeyed tones; the way it can fit a person, a character, like broken-in jeans.
VIDEO: Southern drawls in film
McConaughey, from the Hill Country that hugs Austin, comes by his drawl naturally, but its texture changes with each film he does. It almost disappeared in "The Lincoln Lawyer." It was thicker and meaner in "Killer Joe"; worried and worn in "We Are Marshall"; sweatier in "Magic Mike"; wasted on "The Wedding Planner," when he was still in rom-com jail. But it has never been richer than it is in "Mud," pure gold spun out of love for a girl.
Me, I pay attention to the distinctions when movies try to tap into that homespun magic. I'm fitful when Southern accents are forced, angered when they're false and hold them close when, like McConaughey's, they are true.
I'm sure my sensitivity is tied to the melting pot of differing drawls I was raised around in places as well known as Atlanta and Austin, as obscure as Ellenboro and Paw Creek.
My parents were Tarheels, a prideful name for folks with North Carolina roots, and mine are six generations deep. To keep me occupied on summer vacations, my great aunts would send me to pick cotton in the field that stretched out behind the family homestead; fresh-squeezed lemonade and pocket change were my payment for a few hours of wrestling those unforgiving bolls. And when Sally Field picked until her fingers bled in "Places in the Heart," I recognized the prickly edge that action brought to her enunciation.
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The years have only deepened my affection for the flavor of Southern accents, and their presence in movies can transport me back to other places, other times: Like country ham, redeye gravy and grits at my grandmother's table next to Uncle SJ when I hear Tommy Lee Jones; a taste of great Aunt Ella's fried green tomatoes, hot and sweet, in Julia Roberts' warm tones; the scent of my granddaddy Harlen's tobacco curing in the barn conjured up by Robert Duvall; hogs being slopped … well, I won't mention who made me think of that last one. OK, Nicolas Cage in "Con Air."
While a bad accent makes me cringe, the right inflection deepens and shades the story, and not just for me. It changes the texture of the experience for everyone.
The way a weeping guitar can heighten anguish by clinging to a note, a drawl conveys so much more than mere words ever could. There is an easy wit that sneaks up on you, the humor often carrying an unexpected bite buried inside all that down-home irony, insight and cheek.
Accents, and specifically Southern ones, are an art form, yet sorely overlooked. Alabama is different from Georgia; North Florida distinct from South. Some of the best are from natives, but in "Junebug," Amy Adams proved that being born in Italy and raised in Colorado didn't mean she couldn't bring home North Carolina. Sissy Spacek left every trace of Texas behind for her meticulous Oscar-winning turn as Kentucky's own Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter."
And so, in an attempt to pay my respects, here are some of my favorite Southern movie drawls. Not a ranking but a range. On any given day, the one I love best depends on what place in my heart needs filling.
VIDEO: Southern drawls in film
Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (2009). Though I did love the stomped flatness of Rooster Cogburn's pronouncements in "True Grit" — "I can't do nothing for you son," a gunshot as punctuation — I'm partial to the whiskey- and cigarette-saturated voice that carried Bad Blake down the road to redemption. Bridges had a way of seasoning the words, then swallowing them up in a gravelly sound that was seductive if not always understandable. And yet you do understand as his voice grows darker when bad times blow through, turns bright when hope beats down like the sun, and always echoes his pain. The way Blake settled into Bridges bones, or vice versa, would win him an Oscar. The voice is what brought it home.
Holly Hunter in "Raising Arizona" (1987). A Georgia girl who never left Georgia behind, Hunter seems to pack words in her cheeks like a wad of bubble gum and chew on things for a while before she spits them out. Her liquor-laced Okie detective in TNT's "Saving Grace" was exceptional, but nothing matches the full-throttle Hunter in "Raising Arizona." She rode that accent like she was the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse instead of Tex Cobb. When Hunter's Ed tells Nicolas Cage's H.I., "Now don't you come back here without a toddler, I need me a baby," never has the need to nurture been funnier or fiercer — or a drawl sharper.
Tommy Lee Jones in "No Country for Old Men" (2007). Though Jones breaks my heart with the Spanish version of his Texas twang in "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," his weathered lawman in "No Country for Old Men" is so layered it gets my vote. Just the knowing of how horrific humans can be hangs in each syllable as he speculates on the motives of the madman he's after. Though Jones' portrayal of another lawman in "The Fugitive," his accent dialed way down, would win an Oscar, the poignant tenor of "No Country" — with the actor gentling the hard edges of a voice that tends to cut at dialogue like a knife — is Jones at his best.
Amy Adams in "Junebug" (2005). Set in North Carolina, I was prepared to be unforgiving. But the irrepressible country-strong warmth Adams brought Ashley was as irresistible as it was true. And as nonstop. She's like a wind-up toy that won't wind down. The hopeful way Ashley says to no one in particular — "I love her" — about her sophisticated new sister-in-law primes you for the way Ashley's lemon-meringue optimism will ease family tensions. Light, sweet and loving, Adams' voice lifts spirits like a joyful Southern hymn.
Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercies" (1983). Duvall brings a still-waters-run-deep quality to the spare dialogue of writer Horton Foote's minimal masterpiece. Traces of hard-baked West Texas give the actor's reclaimed country singer an emotional depth whether newly sober, newly saved or somewhere in between. The way that drawl travels from spoken word to song is flawless. And when a stranger asks, "Hey, mister, were you really Mac Sledge?" there is a lifetime of irony packed into his, "Yes, ma'am, I guess I was."
Morgan Freeman in "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989). Most of the time you can't hear the Tennessee in Freeman's voice. But as the bemused driver behind the wheel in a racist South, he dug into those roots. It was a fine line he walked, the actor using those warm, buttery tones to voice a weary tolerance for white folk who were not, yet never slipping into subservience. Dignity tempered by affection infused every word and spoke eloquently of the complicated dynamics of Southern race relations in the 1950s.
Woody Harrelson in "Natural Born Killers" (1994). It always sounds like words are having to skinny themselves up to slip through that sideways grin in, say, "Zombieland" or get past the toothpick being worked in "The Messenger." But the whip and sting of it in "Natural Born Killers" is my favorite. Harrelson's Mickey is already a stone-cold killer by the time he makes a blood-oath to love and honor his renegade sweetheart Mallory — Juliette Lewis doing a killer drawl herself. But like a sidewinder, snaking around the sound, Harrelson makes Mickey tough yet vulnerable and frightening as hell.
Julia Roberts in "Steel Magnolias" (1989). Most of the time the Georgia in Julia is barely there, which makes "Steel Magnolias" such a syrupy delight. As the Southern belle fighting for "a little bit of wonderful," Roberts turns the saccharine soulful. As Shelby, that drawl rides currents that are sometimes slow, sometimes swift, always deep. Between the fighting and placating, what you ultimately hear in all those vowels the actress stretches like salt-water taffy is love.
Sally Field and Danny Glover in "Places in the Heart" (1984). It's Depression-era Texas, and Field's young widow is trying to hold on to her land. Glover is a drifter with big dreams. There is both silk and steel in their conversations as they stand on opposite sides of the racial divide. Respect comes first, friendship later. By the end, their bond is unbreakable, all those feelings resonating through accents shaded in distinct ways by a complex blend of shared emotions: deference born of need and defiance in its face.
Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain in "The Help" (2011). Like spit and fire, Spencer's and Chastain's accents played off each other beautifully in that bit of '60s-era Southern discomfort. Spencer's maid is full of sass and resentment until Celia, Chastain in high heels, tight dresses and a mouth to match, comes teetering into her life. Their voices are octaves apart, their rhythms in complete contradiction, and yet the music they made was perfection.
Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line" (2005). As June Carter, the Southern spark who would win Johnny Cash's heart, Witherspoon shifted between over-the-top onstage to slightly bruised off. In an encounter between the ruffles of her dress and Cash's guitar just as she's about to go on one night, Witherspoon shows how a drawl can be played for maximum effect. Flirty and winning, she worked that drawl right into an Oscar win.
And McConaughey of course, who started all these random musings, will always linger at the top of my list. Though truth be told none measure up to the sound of my daddy's voice — like warm molasses on homemade vanilla ice cream — sweeter and richer than all the rest.
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War of 1812
On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain, which was at that time in a life and death struggle with Napoleon and France. Much of the war was fought at sea and on the Great Lakes but the American army also tried to invade Canada, then part of the British Empire.
Blacks fought on both sides of the war, many with the US Navy. (Blacks made up somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of sailors manning the American ships on the Great Lakes.)
In Canada thousands of Black volunteers fought for the British. Fearing that the invading Americans would return them to slavery, many Blacks in Upper Canada served heroically in Black and regular regiments. The British promise of freedom and land united many escaped slaves under the British flag. Despite many restrictions barring them from service in the army, exceptions were always made for Black musicians. For example, it is thought that Black musicians filled out the ranks of the mostly Gaelic-speaking Glengarry Light Infantry Regiment of Upper Canada.
Another notable exception was the Coloured Corps, an Upper Canadian regiment made up of Blacks from the Niagara region. In 1812 Richard Pierpoint, a former slave who had won his freedom by fighting for the British in the American Revolution, petitioned the government to form a Black regiment. His request was granted with the condition that the commanding officer would be a White man. Pierpoint himself joined on as a private. The unit consisted of about 30 men from the Niagara region, many of whom had escaped slavery in the United States. The men fought bravely at the critical Battle of Queenston Heights.
The British Royal Navy did not have the same racial restrictions imposed by the British army. (Canadian hero William Hall had served with the Royal Navy earlier.) In 1814, Black regiments from the West Indies were employed during the naval campaign against New Orleans. After the war, the British settled a significant number of these sailors and their families in Canada, particularly Nova Scotia.
To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada
A review of a book that chronicles the participation of Black men who fought for the British during the War of 1812. From the Manitoba Library Association website.
To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada
Click on "Preview this Book" and then scroll down to page 73 for an account of the formation of the "Coloured Corps" in Upper Canada during the War of 1812. From From the Google Books website.
Admiral Cochrane's proclamation
Read a digitized copy of Admiral Cochrane's proclamation which invited Americans to desert to the British side during the War of 1812. A Government of Nova Scotia website.
The Black loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia
Scroll down to page 389 for information about the Cochrane Proclamation. From Google Books.
Richard Pierpoint
A biography of Richard Pierpoint, soldier, militiaman, labourer, and farmer. From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
Richard Pierpoint
Read the text of "The Petition of Richard Pierpoint" submitted by Richard Pierpoint to Lieutenant Governor Sir Peregrine Maitland following his service to the British during the War of 1812. From the website for Parks Canada.
African Americans at war: War of 1812
Click on "Preview this Book" and then scroll down to page 151 for an overview of the role of Blacks in various military services on the British side in the War of 1812. From Google Books.
Edith Clayton
Scroll down to page 24 to read a profile of renowned basket weaver Edith Clayton, a descendent of "refuge Blacks" who arrived in Nova Scotia aboard British ships during the War of 1812. From the book The Haligonians: 100 Fascinating Lives from the Halifax Region. From Google Books.
We Are Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History
Scroll down to page 32 to "The Women Among Them" for a brief note about actions leading to the War of 1812 and the subsequent plight of Africans who migrated to Nova Scotia from the US. By Sylvia Hamilton. From the Our Roots website.


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Their trolley bag turns into a backpack when needed, I love it! And I loved how brave Jodi was about the bungy, and how supportive Christy was for her, and she even cried a little for her...And I thought they were awesome with the cheese! They made up a lot of time there! Love these ladies, can't wait to see more!
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Motorcycle Helmets
A motorcycle helmet is the only item of protective wear that, by law, you have to wear when riding a motorcycle in the UK, and indeed in any European country. All helmets sold in the UK must be EC approved. The defining mark, an upper case E, is normally to be found on a label sewn on to the chin strap. Other countries have different approval systems, and whilst helmets from, say America, may be as protective as those we buy in Europe, their DOT and SNELL standards are not recognised in the EU, and their helmets cannot be sold or worn over here. The problem is that, if you were to wear a helmet like an American helmet like a Biltwell that should not be sold in the UK, you could find that your insurance company may not be willing to pay for your medical bills in a scenario where there are serious head injuries. Helmets, of course, come in a wide array of shapes and sizes;


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Now, I recently had an offer to write some flashy columns for a - shall we say - well known Bollywood site. I won't name names because I'm classy like that. I gave it some very serious thought and almost (almost) signed on but decided against it for a few reasons. Though it would have been great to get a broader platform for my writing, the fact that I wouldn't own my own words anymore after publication left a bitter taste in my mouth. My words are all I get out of this. And though I was very tempted by the chance to throw a few stink bombs into the greater Bollywood conversation, in the end, my inner adult spoke up and reminded me that I really don't have the time or energy to write diatribes on how much Neil Nitin Mukesh sucks monkey balls... for somebody else's profit. I don't care about money but I also don't not care about the effects of money, you know?
But one thing that the offer did spur me on to do was think up column ideas and guess what? I have a lot of opinions about things. So, because you guys are so great I thought I would go ahead and write up a few things anyways. For YOU only. And, hey, if people google "Neil Nitin Mukesh sucks monkey balls" and they end up here - I'm not going to complain.
The other day I was listening to NPR (a sentence starter that one hears far too often around my house) and caught Joan Rivers talking with Terry Gross on Fresh Air. Joan, a living legend, had some advice for people trying to make it in show business - take every job because you don't know what might be your big break. That was in the back of my mind as I mulled over this offer but, in the end, I'm not a struggling writer trying to make it. I'm content to sit back and do things on my own terms at my own pace.
Besides, Shobhaa Dé already exists. There don't need to be two stink bomb throwing lady columnists around.
I'm working on a mini-project on the 100 crore club at the moment, so you'll have that to look forward to!


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Personal Income Drops in January
Personal income fell in January, while consumer spending inched higher. Also, the Dow aims to break its all-time record again. Brendan Conway has details on The News Hub. photo: AP Images.
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Rana Mitter is a professor of Chinese history and modern politics at the University of Oxford. He's here to answer your questions today about China's past, present, and what we might expect for the future.
He's the author of the book Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, looking at China's history during the second World War and how it shaped the events that came after it. His research interests include the Republican period (1912-1949), the Cold War, Sino-Japanese relations, and he also frequently writes about the contemporary Chinese political scene.
He'll be joining us from 11-12 PST, so start asking him your questions now about China's history, where it is today, and what might be coming up next - he'll answer as many as he can while he's here.
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Writing an encyclopedia by yourself is a herculean task especially on a subject as diverse as cycling but that's exactly what William Fotheringham has attempted with his Cyclopedia. Does he succeed in his task? Yes he does, this is a fact packed read that you can dip in to or just sit down and keep turning the pages. Does the Cyclopedia encompass everything you could possibly want/need to know about cycling between its yellow covers? No, that would impossible. William Fotheringham wisely sticks to what he knows (which is quite a lot) but is very much from the road-going side of things.
With three decades' experience as a cycling journalist and writer, Fotheringham is better equipped than most to take on such an endeavour, and his knowledge of and love for cycling, whether addressing the history of the sport's biggest races or the development of the parts that make up a bicycle in the first place, shine through.
Given the letters with which his surname starts, it's the Uzbekh sprinter Djamolidin Abduzhaparov's lot to be cycling's equivalent of the aardvark, and from that first entry through to the pre-war American track star A.A. Zimmerman some 440 pages later, the book, perhaps best dipped in and out of as the whim takes you rather than read from cover to cover, is a delight.
The entries with which it opens and closes testify to the fact that the riders it covers goes beyond just those remembered for winning Grand Tours or World Championships, with personality and the story behind the person on the bike as important in determining whether or not they merit inclusion.
Those pen portraits are interspersed with entries covering everything from Critical Mass to Ghost Bikes, the bicycle's place in Literature – an entry that references the likes of Ernest Hemingway and the French surrealist Alfred Jarry – plus an introduction to cycling Slang – French, however, gets its own entry given the number of words and phrases the language has given to cycling.
Along the way, there are some more reflective discussions, too. Catholicism gains attention – "Is cycling the religion's official sport, or is Catholicism the semi-official religion of cycling?" – but so too does Sex, where the issue of whether or not cycling is a help or hindrance to mankind's oldest form of exercise is addressed ahead of a look at some of the more salacious episodes involving certain star names.
Trivia fans who already have a deep knowledge of cycling will find a decent sprinkling of esoteric facts throughout the book to keep them engaged, while someone new to bikes who wants to gain an introduction to the history of the bicycle and its components, as well as the sport's biggest personalities and races, will find plenty here to build their understanding.
Mountain Biking gets about three pages, and BMX two, both would warrant cyclopedias of their own, but this is by no means a book all about road racing, there's sections on frame design, materials, and gears sadlles and roughstuff- the British precursor to mountain biking. Interestingly Great Britain gets a bigger section than France although to be fair the Tour de France gets more space devoted to it than both.
There's a temptation with a book such as this to set the picture editors to work, resulting in a photo-rich tome in which the text can be overwhelmed. However, Fotheringham and his editor have eschewed that approach, preferring instead to illustrate the book sparsely with line drawings and, where appropriate, simple graphs and diagrams, the effect being to focus the reader's attention on the words.
If there is one minor complaint, it's that the book's colour scheme employs yellow lettering to denote new entries and highlight references to topics that appear elsewhere, which can make it difficult to pick out words, particularly if your reading it in poor light.
That slight issue aside, the book is well presented and it's clear a lot of thought has gone into its design and layout, with a compact size and the fact it is printed on good quality paper adding to the satisfaction in flicking through it and helping make it a worthy addition to any collection of books on cycling.
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Yesterday we told you that conservatives were flipping out about the 'Life of Julia', a slideshow created by the Obama campaign showing how Obama's policies would take care of women from the time they were toddlers until they retired.
Today, the hosts and panelists on Morning Joe just absolutely blasted the entire concept as against the "character" of America. Joe Scarborough compared Obama's conception of government to pre-Thatcher Britain.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in an effort to obtain records that could shed light on telecommunication industry lobbying activities. The EFF suspects that major telecommunications companies like AT&T have attempted to use political leverage to compel lawmakers to support legislation that would grant the companies legal immunity for their involvement in the federal government's extralegal electronic surveillance program.
The EFF requested records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) last month from the Department of Justice and Office of Legislative Affairs. The records sought by the EFF include documentation of interaction pertaining to FISA amendments and surveillance immunity between Department of Justice officials, representatives of the telecommunications companies, and members of the Senate or House of representatives. The government has failed to process the FOIA request within the 20-day maximum waiting period stipulated by law, so the EFF has followed up its request with a lawsuit (PDF) demanding swift compliance.
Recent reports have revealed evidence that the telecommunications companies have been heavily lobbying for immunity in order to avoid potentially costly and embarrassing litigation. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has declined requests from several Congressmen and privacy groups to investigate whether or not major telecommunications companies have violated laws prohibiting disclosure of customer information by supplying data to the NSA and FBI.
During recent congressional hearings, Bush administration intelligence officials have characterized the liability faced by the telecommunications companies as unfair and have asked Congress to ensure that the companies aren't punished for assisting the government with surveillance activity deemed necessary by the administration.
Critics argue that granting the telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for colluding with the government in illegal activity would severely undermine the rule of law. Doing so would also indirectly weaken the system of checks and balances that is needed to preserve the integrity of the federal government.
If the alleged criminal activity perpetrated by the telecommunications companies was needed in order to preserve national security, contend critics of the White House, then intelligence officials should have requested that Congress alter the laws to permit such activity before implementing the surveillance program rather than asking for the behavior to be excused after the fact. The executive branch should not be permitted to obviate proper oversight by selectively elevating its coconspirators above the rule of law. If the telecommunications companies are held accountable for their participation in the surveillance plot, it may deter similar activity, hopefully ensuring that intelligence agencies and the executive branch will go through the proper legislative channels in the future when establishing broad surveillance programs.


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Jun 12, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – On the heels of yesterday's pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today urged businesses to review their pandemic plans to make sure they're flexible enough to respond to a moderate or severe pandemic.
At a teleconference today for the business community, Lisa Koonin, MN, MPH, a senior adviser with the CDC's influenza coordination unit, said that because influenza viruses are so unpredictable and the pandemic may change or become more severe in the fall, now is the time for businesses to revise pandemic plans or begin developing one if they don't already have one. About 680 people called in for the conference.
Anthony Fiore, MD, MPH, a medical epidemiologist in the CDC's influenza division, said the novel flu cases and hospitalizations are hitting younger people and children the hardest. "This is much of the workforce, as well as their children," he said.
He warned that a vaccine against the new virus, if successfully developed, won't be available until October or later and probably won't be distributed through typical commercial channels. Fiore advised businesses to plan on using basic preventive measures as a fallback, such as encouraging employees to stay home when they're sick, cover their coughs, and wash their hands frequently.
Employees who have risk factors for flu complications, such as asthma, cardiac conditions, or pregnancy, should be advised to seek medical care quickly if they have flu symptoms, he said. Those who don't have risk factors and experience severe symptoms should also seek care.
Koonin reminded companies that the WHO's pandemic declaration wasn't based on severity, but on sustained transmission levels indifferent parts of the world. However, she advised groups to be alert for new flu developments by seeking out situation updates from local, state, and national public health agencies, which will help businesses align their practices with public health recommendations. She warned that the novel virus will affect different locations in different ways.
"There will be different pictures all around the world," Koonin said. "We need to be nimble and tailor our response based on that picture."
Employers should review their leave, pay, and benefits policies to determine if any adjustments are needed to allow employees to stay home for 7 to 10 days if they are sick with the novel flu or need to stay home to care for a sick family member, she said.
Flexibility with policies will be crucial, Koonin said. For example, employers may not want to require a doctor's note when workers have been home sick, because clinics and emergency departments will likely be swamped, making it difficult for sick people to get notes in a timely manner.
She advised the group to address business continuity concerns by identifying essential business functions and critical employees, planning for staffing redundancy for key positions, and assessing supply-chain and critical input issues. Koonin added that it's a good idea for businesses to ask suppliers to provide details about their pandemic plans.
During a question and answer period, representatives from several businesses said they need more guidance on severity to help them assess and revise their pandemic plans. The CDC officials said they expect the WHO to issue some severity guidance soon, but in the meanwhile business can use a severity scale, based on case-fatality ratio, that was included in the CDC's2007 community mitigation guidance. They said the current severity level would be 2, roughly equivalent to the 1957 pandemic.
Some businesses also asked the CDC for clearer guidance on how long people with novel flu infections should stay home before returning to work. Fiore said the current guidance, issued out of an abundance of caution but without much scientific data, is 7 days or 24 hours after symptoms resolve, whichever is longer.
He said the CDC is actively examining its recommendation on how long to stay home and hopes to update its guidance within the next few weeks.
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Harris jury in sixth day of deliberations
The jury in the Rolf Harris child sex abuse trial in London has started a sixth day of deliberations.
Justice Nigel Sweeney first asked the 12 jurors to retire just after midday last Thursday. At the time the judge said: "You must not feel under any pressure of time at all."
So far the jury has been out for 25 hours.
Harris, 84, is waiting for news at Southwark Crown Court supported by his wife, Alwen, daughter, Bindi, and a small group of other family and friends.
The former TV presenter is charged with 12 counts of indecent assault against four girls in the UK between 1968 and 1986. The Australian's main accuser is a childhood friend of Bindi.
She claims Harris abused her from the age of 13, but he insists the pair had a 10-year consensual affair that started after she turned 18.
Another six women gave supporting evidence during the seven-week trial that Harris abused them in Australia, New Zealand and Malta between 1969 and 1991.
Harris denies touching any of the women inappropriately. He told the court in late May: They are all making it up.
Justice Sweeney has asked for unanimous verdicts at this stage.
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