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pre-eminent would be my choice of research quality - not so sure about this new per-eminent type you're talking about..:P
Science might tend to disagree with you.
The anterior hypothalamus of the brain participates in the regulation of male-typical sexual behavior. The volumes of four cell groups in this region [interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus (INAH) 1, 2, 3, and 4] were measured in postmortem tissue from three subject groups: women, men who were presumed to be heterosexual, and homosexual men. No differences were found between the groups in the volumes of INAH 1, 2, or 4. As has been reported previously, INAH 3 was more than twice as large in the heterosexual men as in the women. It was also, however, more than twice as large in the heterosexual men as in the homosexual men. This finding indicates that INAH is dimorphic with sexual orientation, at least in men, and suggests that sexual orientation has a biological substrate.
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-banker-morgan-stanley-bought-a-humongous-amount-of-stock-to- try-support-price-2012-5
If you're a corporation - which is where all transferable rights seem to end up - then current evidence seems to indicate that you can copyright seeds at the very least
Arstechnica and Monsanto
I'm a little surprised to see you dismiss the value of someones opinion on the basis of potentially being a "convicted felon" . Quite a few of us might be convicted felons if the copyright maximalists get their way.
Does being convicted according to an (at any given time or location) arbitrary set of rules mean we lose our ability to reason ? Our will to change unjust laws?
Let his argument stand or fall on it's own merits.
I'd like to point you towards the Techdirt Search function. It's towards the top right hand corner. If you enter ACTA in to the little white box there and then press the button next to it you'll see roughly 250 articles since 2008.
Welcome to Techdirt.
was obviously not that at all but actually designed to stop social networking and ideas that would threaten the regime the whole premise of this article is based on nonsense.[Citation needed]
Then of course there was the prosecution of that kid in Sweden, under the DCMA, for creating the DVD copyright protection decode and publishing it.
Quoting A.C. to an AC.
I found that to be oddly hilarious :)
I've been to Italy a few times. There's way more open wifi there than in any other country I've ever been in.
This will get interesting pretty fast.
You're obviously fluent in stupid, so that's ok.
Please be specific as to what constitutes the "solid misinformation"
I'll just quote from ArsTechnica
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/07/stop-red-site-copyright-group-proposes-traffic- light-search-ticks.ars
Please note the last paragraph.
"Finally, we expressed some skepticism about the overall effectiveness of the idea. The PRS proposal posits the existence of a "Moral Majority" for whom Traffic Lights will work. The system will perform the crucial role of "establishing a distinction between good and bad in the minds of users, which we hope will be enough to deter 90 percent of users from accessing problem sites."
No doubt the right light tick would scare some consumers away. But what about rebellious types, we asked, who might see a red tick as a badge of honor?
"Oh yes," Hooper agreed. "I think there will be people that deliberately go for a red light. We're realistic about this proposal�this will not eradicate piracy. What it will do is signpost to the vast majority of people who want to find legal/licensed content a great way of doing so. It will help promote those sites that have chosen to go down the route of paying creators and performers and the more traffic they experience the better for content owners and also for their own sites in terms of search rankings."
The PRS document does point out that the red light/green light system will create a "vital" distinction will provide the "bedrock" for "an escalating series of measures to deal with the remaining determined offenders."
"His $2,250 per song figure is three times the minimum statutory damages of $750."
- http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/judge-calls-15m-file-sharing-judgment-appalling-slas hes-to-54000.ars
What seems to be the consequences for the US Attorney - Richard Cheng ?
I'm assuming that he's about to be arrested for prosecutorial abuse or something ?
Music industry numbers from Norway - which also has had Spotify for some years.
Same month 2010 and 2011
Physical media sales down 51%
Digital sales up 228 %
Total sales same period 2010 and 2011 (January to June )
Physical media down 37%
Digital sales up 91%
Total volume all music 2009 : 505135
Total volume all music 2010 : 592975
Volume numbers make a significant jump from ca 19k to ca 55k in 2008 which is right around when Spotify surfaced in the Norwegian mainstream.
Taking this into consideration mr.out_of_the_blue (I'm assuming that's where you get your 'facts'), I'm going to have to go with "reality trumps ideology" once again.
So sorry.
This erosion of 4th amendment has been going on for a while. Linda Greenhouse had an article about it not that long ago.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2011/04/21/sony_should_pay_100_to_man_for_otheros_removal_ consumer_board_says


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Education and engagement
A large part of Shell's Diversity & Inclusion plan is educating and engaging employees on the need to improve gender representation and to ensure that leaders are equipped to deal with issues affecting employees in the workplace.
Shell has a dedicated D&I consulting practice with focal points located in various Shell businesses and functions. We host D&I workshops and lunch and learn sessions to enable employees to increase their awareness on a range of D&I topics. There are numerous tools available to help embed inclusion in teams, and resources for line managers to support employees in feeling free to speak their minds.
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Tightening the law on the criminal liability of partnerships and reforming the law on unincorporated associations will be the dual focus of a recently launched UK Government consultation.
The Government is seeking views on proposals put forward by the Scottish Law Commission.
Reforming the criminal liability of partnerships in Scots law was suggested after the tragedy of the Rosepark nursing home fire in Lanarkshire in 2004 in which 14 residents lost their lives.
The case against the care home operators failed in the courts because of a loophole which prevented the prosecution of a partnership once it had been dissolved.
The proposed change would ensure all Scottish partnerships could be held to account if they commit crimes and prevent them escaping prosecution for potentially serious offences by dissolving.
The consultation will also look at a separate issue of attributing legal personality to non-profit making unincorporated associations where they meet certain statutory criteria.
Without this reform, a member of a charity, club or other unincorporated association could find themselves held personally liable for someone injured at an event it has organised, for an act for which they are not personally culpable, exposing them to personal financial risk.
The Commission's proposals would provide organisations with limited liability to ensure individual members or office-bearers could not be held personally liable for any damage or offence caused by the organisation as a whole.
The Consultation closes on 2nd July 2012.


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Jayson Megna hopes next stop is Pittsburghby Chris Adamski
PITTSBURGH -- Twenty-three years ago, Jay Megna gave his son his name. He wasn't going to give him the same athletic career path.
Jay's first son Jayson ("I think that was kind of like a little pun on words, I guess," Jayson said with a chuckle) didn't grow up wanting to play college or pro football like his father did. Instead, Jayson Megna chose hockey -- and as he participates in the Pittsburgh Penguins' development camp this week, Megna has is hoping to complete a rare four-levels-of-hockey-in-four-years superfecta.
Megna, a 23-year-old forward, will have the opportunity earn one of the vacant spots in the Penguins' lineup at training camp in September.
"Jayson Megna ... is one of those guys who can compete for the opportunity to play in Pittsburgh this season," said John Hynes, coach of Pittsburgh's American Hockey League affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
Taking their timeBy Alain Poupart - NHL.com Correspondent
Aleksander Barkov, the No. 2 pick in the 2013 NHL Draft, signed his three-year, entry-level contract with the Panthers on Monday -- but he and the team are not going to rush his recovery from shoulder surgery. READ MORE ›
Should the Northbrook, Ill., native make Pittsburgh's season-opening roster, he would be on his fourth different team and league in as many seasons.
Megna closed out a two-season stint with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders of the United States Hockey League in 2010-11, then spent 2011-12 at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He was signed as a free agent by the Penguins after his freshman year and played the 2012-13 season with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Megna put up five goals and seven assists in 56 games for the AHL club despite being hindered by a lower-body injury early in the season, then scored twice and finished with five points in 12 playoff games.
"He had an up-and-down year last year because of some injuries, but by the end he was definitely figuring it out," Penguins player development coach Bill Guerin said. "That's the thing -- two years ago, Jayson Megna was playing in the USHL -- one year in the USHL, one year in college hockey and then, bang, you're a pro. You don't just figure it out overnight. Most guys don't. And it's definitely a process. He... made big strides last year."
Megna made enough of an impression on the Penguins during the first half of the AHL season that he was invited to Pittsburgh's training camp after the NHL lockout ended in January. Although he didn't make the team, he did leave an impression.
Megna's speed and aggressive style are a good fit for the Penguins' organizational style and philosophy. Guerin said Megna is "definitely" capable of being an "energy guy" on one of the bottom two lines of an NHL team right now.
"He's going to be a speed guy," Guerin said. "I wouldn't put him as a big numbers guy but definitely an effective player. With his speed, he'll give people fits."
Speed comes naturally to Megna -- his father was fast enough in cleats to play football at East Tennessee State and have a brief career in the NFL long before Jayson was born.
Jayson may soon have company in the NHL. Jay Megna's second son, after Jayson, was named Jaycob. ("A funny way to spell it," Jayson said. "But I guess it kept with all our names."). He's a 6-foot-6 defenseman who was Jayson's teammate at Nebraska-Omaha two years ago and was selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the seventh round (No. 210) of the 2012 NHL Draft.
Jayson Megna said his dad wouldn't allow his sons to play football until they had grown up some. At a friend's birthday party at an ice rink when he was about 7 years old, Jayson immediately became enamored with skating.
"I had [my parents] sign me up for a house [hockey] league, and it just kind of took off from there," Jayson said.
"He's going to be a speed guy. I wouldn't put him as a big numbers guy but definitely an effective player. With his speed, he'll give people fits."
-- Penguins player development coach Bill Guerin on Jayson Megna
"I played two years of football growing up -- one year of high school and one year before high school. It was fun, I enjoyed it -- but there were other sports that I enjoyed to play a lot more, I think. I played baseball and golf throughout high school, too. Football never really stuck, I guess."
Hockey sure did -- to the point that Megna is on the verge of making the NHL. One year into his professional career, Megna has been working hard to take that final step.
He has turned some heads in the year he's spent in the Penguins' organization. Both Guerin and Penguins assistant to the general manager Tom Fitzgerald remarked this week at Megna's conditioning. To hear them talk, there's no question Megna could crack the Pittsburgh roster this season.
Megna admits he's much more at ease this year, his second as a pro.
"I definitely feel more comfortable than I did at the beginning of last year," Megna said. "I had a pretty good minicamp the first week I was in Wilkes-Barre and then I suffered a little bit of a lower-body injury and missed some time. It kind of took me a while to get my feet under me and get acclimated to the system.
"But after 50-some games and the playoffs, I think I have a pretty good handle. There's always things you can get better on and work on, but for the most part right now I feel a lot more comfortable than I did last year."


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
A video library for K-4 math teachers; 52 video programs (from 15 to 30 minutes in length) and guide
This series was discontinued on December 31, 2018.
1. Introduction
This overview shows the different parts of the library and their uses.
2. Ants Go Marching
Kindergarteners develop number sense by exploring number concepts and number relationships. The number sequence is emphasized and the distinction is made between cardinal and ordinal meanings for number. NCTM standards: number sense and numeration, patterns and relationships, communication, connections
3. Math Buddies
Kindergarteners matched with sixth-grade coaches experience the numbers 1 through 50 through various activities involving hands-on experiences and common objects. NCTM standards: number sense and numeration, communication, connections.
4. Place-Value Centers
First-graders develop an understanding of the numeration system by relating counting, grouping, and place-value concepts. Activities include measuring with Unifix cubes and using base-ten blocks. NCTM standards: number sense and numeration, measurement, connections.
5. Pumpkin Seeds
A grade 1-2 class, working in groups, develops their sense of larger numbers by estimating and counting the number of seeds in pumpkins. NCTM standards: number sense and numeration, estimation, communication, reasoning.
6. Animals in Yellowstone
Fourth- and fifth-graders develop number sense and meaning for large numbers by estimating how many bison, elk, and pronghorn they saw on a field trip to Yellowstone National Park. Students debate and justify their estimates verbally and in writing. NCTM standards: number sense and numeration, estimation, problem solving, connections.
7. Cubes and Containers
Kindergarteners sort Unifix cubes in various ways, focusing on the properties of the objects' similarities and differences. By creating patterns, children develop an early understanding of geometry. NCTM standards: concepts of whole number operations, number sense and numeration, communication, reasoning.
8. Amazing Equations
Using the day of the month, first- and second-graders investigate the concepts of addition and subtraction as they share story problems that relate to the date.
Teams use everyday language and experiences to connect to the mathematical language and symbolism for operations. NCTM standards: concepts of whole number operations, whole number computation, communication, connections.
9. Domino Math
First- and second-graders investigate number relationships and explore the concept of addition in a part-whole model using dominoes. They develop mathematical communication as they represent mathematical ideas with physical materials, words, diagrams, and symbols. NCTM standards: concepts of whole number operations, whole number computation, problem solving, communication.
10. Marshmallows
Second-graders create and discuss a bar graph based on the number of marshmallows they estimate each person in their class would eat on a camping trip. After discussing their results, students determine how many bags of marshmallows to take. NCTM standards: concepts of whole number operations, statistics and probability, reasoning, problem solving.
11. What's the Price?
Third-graders use problem-solving approaches--such as role playing or drawing pictures — to investigate and understand division. They make connections to everyday life and use calculators as they determine unit costs for two different boxes of cereal. NCTM Standards: concepts of whole number operation, fractions and decimals, problem solving, communication.
12. Dino Math
Kindergarteners team up in buddy pairs to explore addition combinations using a "dinosaur math" mat. They work with basic addition facts and use a part-whole concept to perform the addition. NCTM standards: whole number computation, number sense and numeration, communication.
13. Window Puzzle
First-graders investigate number combinations by working with a window puzzle (a square divided into four equal squares). In this task students explore both addition and subtraction employing physical materials to aid in computation as well as using mental math. NCTM standards: whole number computation, communication, reasoning.
14. Wheel Problem
First-graders are asked how many vehicles could be in a parking lot if the total number of wheels is 24. Students review each step of the problem-solving process before they decide on which materials to use and develop strategies. NCTM standards: whole number computation, concepts of whole number operations, problem solving, communication.
15. Bean Sprouts
Pairs of second-graders explore subtraction, based on the number of plants sprouting from the bean-seeds they have planted. The importance of context for student understanding, and various approaches to problem-solving, are exemplified. NCTM Standards: concepts of whole number operations, reasoning, problem solving, communication.
16. This Small House
Second- and third-graders use calculators, paper and pencil, and mental math within a realistic task. Students plan the decorating of their milk carton houses using spatial sense to select appropriate furnishings while staying within their allocated budget. NCTM standards: whole number computation, geometry and spacial sense, connections, communication.
17. Choose a Method
A fourth-grade class shares their reasoning in evaluating the appropriateness of different computational methods (base-ten blocks, calculators, mental math, or paper and pencil) to specific problems. NCTM standards: whole number computation, estimation, communication, reasoning.
18. Thanksgiving Quilt
Creating quilt squares from construction paper, first graders develop spatial sense as they discuss and handle different shapes. They connect geometric ideas to number ideas as they cut squares into congruent triangles. NCTM standards: geometry and spacial sense, patterns and relationships, communication, connections.
19. Pattern Blocks
Second-graders learn the mathematical terms for pattern-block pieces: hexagon, trapezoid, square, triangle, and rhombus. Ideas about fractions emerge as students spot size relationships between shapes. NCTM standards: geometry and spacial sense, number sense and numeration, reasoning, connections.
20. Shapes From Squares
A second/third-grade class develops spatial sense as they subdivide and change squares to create different shapes. The language of geometry — square, trapezoid, hexagon, etc. — grows naturally from their explorations. NCTM standards: geometry and spacial sense, communication, reasoning.
21. A Rocket Shape
Second- and third-graders experiment to subdivide a square to recreate a rocket shape. After completing their rockets, they reconvene as a class to discuss their difficulties and problem solving strategies. NCTM standards: geometry and spacial sense, measurement, problem solving, reasoning.
22. Circumference/Diameter
After reviewing the meaning of radius, diameter, center, and circumference, fourth-graders working in teams measure circular objects throughout the room. They are then challenged to find the relationship between the circumference and the diameter. NCTM standards: geometry and spatial sense, measurement, connections, reasoning.
23. Windows, Dinos, and Ants
First-graders are engaged in problem solving and measuring with both standard and nonstandard units. Students work in groups to measure three different distances: ant farm tunnels, dinosaurs, and the length from their classroom window to the playground below. NCTM standards: measurement, number sense and numeration, problem solving, reasoning.
24. How Long Is a Minute?
Having already studied the concept of an hour, first-graders investigate time as a measure of duration. They list activities, such as writing their name, that could be accomplished within a minute, then estimate how many times in one minute they could do it. NCTM standards: measurement, estimation, reasoning, connections.
25. Balloon Travel
In an integrated math/science lesson, second- and third-graders collect data to answer questions such as, "What is the farthest a balloon can travel before falling?" To answer the question, they must understand distance, volume, capacity, and time. NCTM standards: measurement, estimation, connection, problem solving.
26. Meter Cords
Third- and fourth-graders use linear measurement in learning about decimals. Students measure different items with a meter divided into 10 parts then learn to write their measurements using decimal notation. NCTM standards: measurement, fractions and decimals, connections, communications.
27. Pencil Box Staining
Fourth-graders are faced with the task of finding out how much stain to buy from the hardware store and encounter problems as they work with many mathematical ideas in the context of a real application. Students work in groups with pencil box pieces, a ruler, calculator, and instruction sheet. NCTM standards: measurement, fractions and decimals, problem solving, reasoning.
28. Ladybugs
First-graders choose ladybugs as a topic for learning. Based on their observations, students make bar graphs and a class chart to record the number of heads, wings, feet and antennas ladybugs have. They make connections among real objects, diagrams, and numerals. NCTM standards: statistics and probability, number sense and numeration, connections, communication.
29. Woodpecker Habitat
First- and second-graders apply probability and sampling techniques to their study of the habitat of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Using colored cubes to represent elements in the environment, students simulate factors that might harm or help the birds. NCTM standards: statistics and probability, whole number computation, reasoning, connections.
30. Bubble Gum Contest
Third-graders stage a bubble gum blowing contest using sampling to determine the ratio of winners to entrants. They enlarge their sample, collecting data from all the third-graders in their school and use fractions to interpret the data. NCTM standards: statistics and probability, fractions and decimals, connections, communication.
31. Dice Toss
Fourth-graders work with statistics, probability, fractions and decimals while conducting an experiment to see which sum comes up most often when rolling two dice. Once the groups complete their experiments, they compile their findings on a class bar graph and analyze the graph. NCTM standards: statistics and probability, fractions and decimals, communication, reasoning.
32. Questioning Data
A fourth- through sixth-grade class takes data collected from surveys on questions of personal interest. They then represent the data in a graph, and write about what the graph interprets and the questions they still have about the survey subject. NCTM standards: statistics and probability, connections, communication, reasoning.
33. Fraction Strips
First- and second-graders make fraction pieces from paper strips and play a game that involves covering a whole strip with fractional pieces. As they play they informally add fractions and make connections from objects and actions to symbols. NCTM standards: fractions and decimals, number sense and numeration, reasoning, communication.
34. Arrays and Fractions
A first- through third-grade class investigates fractional parts of a set by building arrays that represent wholes of different sizes. In their task they use mathematical language and symbols and form mathematical connections among concepts of addition, area, multiplications, division, and fractions. NCTM standards: fractions and decimals, number sense and numeration, reasoning, communication.
35. Everyday Decimals
Second- and third-graders extend their understanding of common fractions to notation for decimal fractions and to the numeration system. They interpret the use of decimals in the real world by bringing to class items that have decimals or fractions written on them. NCTM standards: fractions and decimals, number sense and numeration, connections.
36. Cookies To Share
Through a story about sharing cookies, fourth-graders investigate a the problem of dividing eight cookies among 12 children. It helps them develop meaning for the concept of division and leads to the use of fractions. NCTM standards: fractions and decimals, number sense and numeration, communication, connections.
37. Fractions With Geoboards
Fourth- and fifth-graders investigate the concept of halves using the geoboard as an area model. They learn that one-half means two equal-sized parts with equal areas, but that are not necessarily congurent. NCTM standards: fractions and decimals, geometry and spacial sense, reasoning, problem solving.
38. People Patterns
One of several lessons on patterns, individual kindergarteners are lined up to represent different patterns to the class. In groups they create their own patterns from simple two-element patterns or more complex six-element patterns to share with the class. NCTM Standards: patterns and relationships, number sense and numeration, communication, reasoning.
39. All Sorts of Buttons
Kindergarteners and first-graders hear a story about buttons, then sort their own collection of buttons to develop skills of classification--observing likenesses and differences. Students see that objects can be looked at in a number of ways and develop a sense of pattern and regularity. NCTM standards: patterns and relationships, number sense and numeration, reasoning, connections.
40. Story-Based Centers
Second-graders work at learning centers around their classroom that are based on the story "Caps for Sale." At the centers students construct graphs, figure out coin combinations to equal 50 cents, use a computer to explore patterns, and write story problems and number sentences. NCTM standards: patterns and relationships, whole number computation, connections, communications.
41. Products and Sums
Exploring relationships between addition and multiplication, fourth-graders represent numbers, sums, and products with symbols and with geometric patterns on paper. NCTM standards: patterns and relationships, number sense and numeration, reasoning, communication.
42. Valentine Exchange
A bilingual fourth-grade class uses a Valentine's Day card exchange problem to explore mathematical relationships and share problem solving strategies. NCTM standards: patterns and relationships, number sense and numeration, problem solving, reasoning.
43. Beans, Beans, Beans
Kindergarteners sharpen their estimation skills and number sense as part of a unit on plants and seeds. Using three known quantities for reference, student groups must estimate the number of an unknown quantity of beans, and then count the beans by tens. NCTM standards: estimation, number sense and numeration, reasoning, communication.
44. How Many People Will Fit?
First-graders investigate the concept of area by figuring out how many people will fit in four different areas in the school building. They organize and record solutions and use measuring, counting, addition to find the total number of people. NCTM standards: estimation, measurement, reasoning, problem solving.
45. Cranberry Estimation
Second-graders in Massachusetts estimate the number of scoops of cranberries that will fit in a jar. They report, graph, and discuss group estimates with the class as the concepts of range, mode, and median emerge. NCTM standards: estimation, statistics and probability, reasoning, connections.
46. Buffalo Estimation
A third-grade class that has been studying the Oregon Trail explores estimation by figuring out how many buffalo would fit in their classroom and on their playground. Students develop number sense as they think about the reasonableness of estimates and use a referent to adjust their estimates. NCTM standards: estimation, number sense and numeration, reasoning, connections.
47. The White Pages
This lesson helps fourth-graders develop number sense by exploring magnitudes of large numbers (the number of listings in the phone book) and reasonableness of estimates. Students mark their estimates on a number line and justify their estimates verbally and in writing. NCTM standards: estimation, number sense and numeration, problem solving, connections.
48. Problem Solving
The half-hour program includes 13 classroom excerpts from the content standards lessons which illustrate students investigating and learning mathematics through problem solving. Teachers share their approaches and observations.
49. Communication
The half-hour program includes 18 classroom excerpts from the content standards lessons which show students representing, discussing, reading, writing, and listening as vital parts of learning and using mathematics. It shows how communication fosters an understanding of mathematical ideas and the language of mathematics.
50. Reasoning
The half-hour program includes 16 classroom excerpts from the content standards lessons which illustrate the central role of reasoning in mathematics. As students explain and justify their thinking and solutions throughout the excerpts, teachers emphasize that how a problem is solved is as important as its answer.
51. Mathematical Connections
The half-hour program includes more than a dozen classroom excerpts from the content standards lessons that illustrate mathematical connections. Connections are made among different topics in mathematics, to other curriculum areas, and to students' daily lives.
52. Classrooms Over Time: Problem Solvers Fall and Spring
53. Classrooms Over Time: Long Term Projects
Long Term Projects - two segments with Steven Levy's class at the Bowman School, Lexington, MA
Segment 1 - Pencil Box Staining
Segment 2 - Bike Path Usage
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Experts say the work offers new hope for people with glaucoma, a condition in which raised pressure destroys the optic nerve.
It may also eventually help people with spinal cord and other injuries of the central nervous system, they say.
The research, by Boston's Schepens Eye Research Institute, is published in the Journal of Cell Science.
Many tissues in the body continually renew themselves if injured.
But the optic nerve, along with other tissues of the central nervous system, does not have this ability, so damage is permanent.
Switched off gene
The Schepens team had already discovered that the optic nerve's inability to regenerate was linked to the fact that a key gene called BCL-2 is switched off.
They also believed the regeneration process was blocked by the creation, shortly after birth, of a scar on the brain by specialised glial cells.
These cells have many functions in the brain, one of which is to create this kind of scar tissue.
Potentially the scar puts up a physical as well as molecular barrier to regeneration.
The researchers bred mice in which the BCL-2 gene was always turned on.
They found the animals were able to regenerate optic nerve tissue quickly - but only when they were young, and before their brains had developed the glial scar.
Once the scar had formed, regeneration failed again.
The researchers next bred mice in which not only was the BCL-2 gene turned on, but the ability to produce a glial scar was reduced.
This time even the older animals were able to regenerate damaged optic nerve tissue.
Dr Chen said: "We could see that at least 40% of the optic nerve had been restored, but we believe that an even higher percentage was actually regenerated."
Other applications
The next step will be to determine whether the regenerated nerves were functional.
The researchers believe the combined BCL-2 and scar prevention technique could work to regenerate other central nervous system tissue - increasing the possibility that spinal cord patients could walk again.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Robert Read, of the US Department of Defense, said the research had tremendous potential to help wounded service personnel.
"Fifteen percent of all wartime injuries include the eye and those with optic nerve trauma are the most grave," he said.
"Today's medicine has little effective treatment to offer and blindness is often the end result."
Professor Peng Tee Khaw, an expert in glaucoma at Moorfields Eye Hospital, in London, told the BBC News website the research was potentially exciting.
However, he said while a young mouse had to regenerate a damaged nerve across only a few millimetres, for a human the distance could be tens of centimetres.
David Wright, chief executive of the International Glaucoma Association, said treatments for the condition currently focused on trying to prevent further damage to the optic nerve.
"The regeneration of optic nerve fibres has always been considered impossible due to the fundamental difference between these nerves, which are essentially an outgrowth of the brain itself and the other sensory and motor nerve fibres which occur throughout the body," he said.
"This research paper reports what I believe to be the first instance of optic nerve fibre regeneration.
"While it is obviously a long way from research in mice to a technique that may be applicable to people with glaucoma or spinal cord injuries, it certainly holds the promise that further research could lead to a technique that might revolutionise the treatment of people with serious visual impairment or even blindness from glaucoma."


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AMRI Announces Five-Year Extension of API Supply Agreement With Shire
18 Oct, 2012, 21:00 BST
ALBANY, New York, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AMRI (NASDAQ: AMRI) announced today that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement for an undisclosed product with Shire US Manufacturing Inc., whose parent company, Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), is a global company that focuses its business on behavioral health, gastro intestinal diseases, rare diseases and regenerative medicine. The agreement extends a previously existing agreement between the two companies. The terms of the agreement are confidential.
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"We are pleased to extend this agreement with Shire," said Thomas E. D'Ambra, Ph.D., Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of AMRI. "Our partnership lays the groundwork for AMRI to be considered by Shire for future development and manufacturing opportunities."
About AMRI
Albany Molecular Research, Inc. (AMRI) is a global contract research and manufacturing organization offering customers fully integrated drug discovery, development, and manufacturing services. For over 21 years AMRI has demonstrated its adaptability as the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries have undergone tremendous change in response to multiple challenges. This experience, a track record of success and locations in the United States, Europe and Asia now provides our customers with SMARTSOURCING™, a full range of value-added opportunities providing customers informed decision-making, enhanced efficiency and more successful outcomes at all stages of the pipeline. AMRI has also successfully partnered R&D programs and is actively seeking to out-license its remaining programs for further development. For press releases and additional information about the company, please visit www.amriglobal.com.


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The Visual Studio 2012 DemoMates for showcasing application lifecycle management scenarios have been updated based on the RC release. You can download the DemoMates here.
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AIG's New CEO Looks to Data to Chart Insurer's Course
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"It's the coolest thing," said Mr. Hancock, the insurer's incoming CEO, of the $350 racket. "It tells you exactly how many forehands, backhands you hit, where on the strings you hit the ball, how many were top spins…" He called it "just one tiny example of the kinds of things [technology] can measure now."...


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WACO, Texas — Visited with Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin here yesterday. The most exciting quarterback in the Big 12 — yes, that includes you, Sam Bradford and you, too, Colt McCoy — feels he has totally recovered from the blown out knee that cost him nearly all of last season.
What was harder to overcome than the knee was the feeling of letting down a university and community that haven't been to a bowl game since the 1994 Alamo Bowl. Without Griffin, the Bears went 4-8 overall and 1-7 in league.
Read all about it in my upcoming "Carwriters" tour series of the Big 12 South.
By the way, Baylor is catching up in the arms race. Its new indoor practice facility and football house are absolutely gorgeous. Colorado? You're falling further behind the Joneses.


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Aliza is blogging about creativity this week at WCS. I contributed with 2 new pages. This first one on tuesday which talks about how I feel like being creative is like a drug to me. I need to be creative everyday in some way even if it is just planning a new project, sketching layouts or choosing my photos.
And here is a page I did with what is inpiring me at the moment. I made some of my pinned Pinterest images into mini polaroids and made a grid on the left side. Then I used some of the things that inspired me and made them on the page; the confetti tape, watercolor hearts and speach bubble. It was a fun way to use new techniques that inspire me!


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Local Father and Daughter Cancer Survivors Give Bell of Hope for Patients at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross
New Lenox, IL (December 12, 2013) — After being diagnosed with colon cancer and undergoing 10 radiation treatments at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital, Arthur Grindler and his daughters Barbara Widelski– a three time cancer survivor, and Laura Luzan wanted to express their gratitude to his physician Dr. Daniel Golden and the entire care team that supported him. Arthur and Barbara donated an inspirational plaque and a shiny, brass ship's bell to share a gift of hope and inspire cancer patients.
"We needed to find a top-notch bell for the top-notch medical care that I received here at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital. It's big - weighs 21 pounds - and it really shines just like everyone here," exclaimed Arthur Grindler who resides in Homer Glen. "Everyone has gone above and beyond with my care. They truly cared and made me feel very special. I'm so thankful for all of them."
Photo caption # 1: Staff from the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital pose with cancer patients Arthur Grindler and Barbara Widelski, who donated an inspirational plaque and ship's bell. Cancer patients will ring the bell three times after completing their radiation treatment course to celebrate this significant milestone. Pictured from left to right are Joanne Harrison, Radiation Therapist; Rosie Damian, Radiation Therapist; Eugenia Perevalova, DMP, Physicist; Theresa Quinn, Practice Administrator; Kathleen Meyer, RN; Chris Stepaniak, DMP, Lead Physicist; Nicki Fender, RN; Melissa Wilson, Radiation Therapist; Anne McCall, MD, Radiation Oncologist; Amy Norwich, Radiation Therapist; Eric Miller, Radiation Therapist; Daniel Golden, MD, Radiation Oncologist; Kim De Nardo, Lead Radiation Therapist; and cancer patient Arthur Grindler, cancer survivor and Arthur's daughter Barbara Widelski, and his other daughter Laura Luzan.
Photo Caption # 2: Arthur Grindler, patient at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital, and his daughter, Barbara Widelski, donated an inspirational plaque and ship's bell for patients to ring once they complete their radiation course of treatment.
After patients complete their final radiation treatment, they are to ring the ship's bell three times in celebration. The plaque is adorned with an eagle in flight representing the courage and strength of the patients; and includes an inscription "Ring this bell, Three times well, Its toll to clearly say, My treatment's done, This course is run, And I am on my way!"
"Oftentimes there are set-backs with cancer, so it is important to acknowledge a patient's achievements. Ringing the bell to celebrate this special milestone is a step toward hope for physical and mental well-being, not only for patients but their loved ones who are also affected by the disease," said New Lenox resident Barbara Widelski. "My dad and I are so happy to pass forward the gift of hope, and help others celebrate life; especially to those in our community."
"We are so appreciative to Arthur and his daughter, Barbara, for their bell and plaque donation that will give inspiration and hope to our patients, their families and our staff for many years to come," said Daniel Golden, M.D., Radiation Oncologist with the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital.
"Even though we were only a part of Mr. Grindler's life for a short period of time, he will forever remain in our hearts. And we will think of him every time we hear the bell toll when another patient finishes their treatment. I would like to thank the Grindler family for their very generous gift," said Kimberly DeNardo, Lead Radiation Therapist for the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross.
About the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross
The University of Chicago Medicine and Silver Cross Hospital's outpatient cancer treatment center located in the Carolyn J. Czerkies Pavilion at I-355 and Route 6 (1850 Silver Cross Blvd.) in New Lenox opened its doors on June 25, 2012. The 20,000-square-foot University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross brings University of Chicago academic specialists and their advanced and investigational therapies into a community-hospital setting. The facility provides state-of-the-art chemotherapy and radiation therapy, as well as access to hundreds of clinical trials. It also offers a TrueBeam new-generation linear accelerator system, which delivers precisely targeted radiation therapy to provide the best results. In addition, other services provided at the Comprehensive Cancer Center include cancer support services, hormonal therapy, immunotherapy, infusion services, and preventative screenings. The University of Chicago Medicine maintains more active clinical trials for the treatment of cancer than any other program in Illinois. To schedule an appointment, call 1-855-UCM-1400. For more information about the new University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital, visit www.uchospitals.edu/cancercenter-sch.
About Silver Cross Hospital
Silver Cross Hospital is a not-for-profit health care provider serving Will County and southwest suburban communities since 1895. Silver Cross has been recognized as a Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals National Award winner for seven consecutive years and as a Hospital of Choice by the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers. With over 3,500 employees, physicians and volunteers, Silver Cross operates a new 289-bed acute care hospital at I-355 and Route 6 in New Lenox and 8 satellite facilities providing outpatient services and physician offices. To learn more about Silver Cross Hospital or a referral to a physician on staff, visit www.silvercross.org or call 1-888-660-HEAL (4325). Physicians on Silver Cross Hospital's Medical Staff have expertise in their areas of practice to meet the needs of patients seeking their care. These physicians are independent practitioners on the Medical Staff and are not the agents or employees of Silver Cross Hospital. They treat patients based upon their independent medical judgment and they bill patients separately for their services.
About The University of Chicago Medicine
The University of Chicago Medicine is home to world-class medical, research and teaching facilities where innovation has been a hallmark for decades. University of Chicago physician-scientists performed the first organ transplant and the first bone marrow transplant in animal models, the first successful living-donor liver transplant, the first hormone therapy for cancer and the first successful application of cancer chemotherapy. Its researchers also discovered REM sleep and were the first to describe several of the stages of sleep. Twelve of the 87 Nobel Prize winners associated with the University of Chicago have received the award for discoveries related to biology or medicine.
The University of Chicago Medicine's Biological Sciences Division and the Medical Center work together under the University of Chicago Medicine brand to teach and train future physicians, perform research and practice patient care. The Medical Center ranks among the best in the country in cancer treatment, digestive disorders, diabetes and endocrinology, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of the nation's hospitals. The University of Chicago Medicine's Comer Children's Hospital also is among the nation's leading children's hospitals, particularly in neonatology, gastroenterology and pulmonology. And the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine was named one of the Top 10 medical schools in the United States in U.S. News' 2012 graduate schools survey.


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Lax gun laws played part
We may not be sure that the bloodbath in Tucson had anything to do with politics, but we know it had to do with our nation's insane refusal to impose reasonable controls on guns.
Specifically, the rampage had everything to do with a 9mm semiautomatic Glock pistol - a sleek, efficient killing machine that our lax gun laws allowed an unstable young man to purchase, carry anywhere he wanted and ultimately use to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head. The weapon also was used to shoot 19 bystanders, killing six of them, including a judge and a 9-year-old girl.
The accused gunman, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, appears to be deranged. But this fact does not automatically absolve the politicians and professional loudmouths who spew apocalyptic anti-government rhetoric full of violent imagery. Only someone on the fringe - of society, of sanity - might hear a slogan like "Don't retreat, instead - reload!" and think it a direct order.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, in whose jurisdiction the massacre took place, said that "the rhetoric about hatred, about mistrust of government, about paranoia of how government operates" has an "impact on people ... who are unbalanced personalities to begin with."
But Loughner has so far declined to talk to authorities. At this point, it is impossible to know whether he was thinking about white-hot political discourse or listening to imaginary transmissions from outer space.
We do know, however, that Loughner reportedly had a history of drug use and bizarre behavior.
Students and a teacher at a community college that Loughner briefly attended found him so erratic and potentially violent that they convinced college authorities to bar him from campus.
Yet on Nov. 30, he was able to walk into Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson and purchase the weapon that authorities allege was used in Saturday's rampage.
He apparently also bought extra magazines loaded with ammunition.
To buy the gun, Loughner was required to pass a federal background check - and he did. It is against federal law to sell a gun to someone who is mentally ill, but there is no indication that Loughner was ever officially deemed to suffer from mental illness.
According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, "about 80 percent to 90 percent of disqualifying mental health records" are not in the background-check database. Some states simply don't bother to submit the information; others do so haphazardly.
Arizona is neither the best nor the worst on this score.
In other respects, however, Arizona is one of the most lenient states in the country when it comes to gun ownership.
It is one of only three states - along with Alaska and Vermont - that allow individuals to carry concealed handguns without a permit. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano vetoed "concealed carry" legislation when she was Arizona's governor. Her successor, Gov. Jan Brewer, signed the measure into law last year.
Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, said in a statement that "if Congress had not allowed the 'Assault Weapons Ban' to expire in 2004, the shooter would only have been able to get off 10 rounds without reloading. Instead, he was able to fire at least 20 rounds.
The specifics of state and federal gun laws matter greatly - lives are at stake - but we really need to look at the bigger picture. The Second Amendment is a fact of life. But even recent Supreme Court rulings have left the door open to effective gun control measures.
We must recognize the obvious distinction between rifles, shotguns and target pistols used for sport on the one hand, and semiautomatic handguns designed for killing people on the other.
Giffords is a supporter of responsible gun ownership. If we force our elected officials to act responsibly, the next senseless massacre just might be prevented.
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From Bergen, New Jersey, to St. Louis, Missouri, to Salt Lake City, Utah, the merging of law enforcement moves along, applauded by a coterie of city leaders and well-meaning citizens.
Nationwide, towns and cities are jumping on the consolidation bandwagon. According to the latest data, there are about 18,000 state and local law-enforcement agencies in the United States. Of those, more than 150 have undergone some level of consolidation.
Those pushing for the consolidation of police forces into regional or metropolitan agencies typically cite budget shortfalls as the best reason for closing down local forces and combining resources to form a consolidated force.
Typically, the austerity argument goes like this: If Town A spends $1 million on police services, Town B spends $1 million, and Town C spends $2 million, wouldn't it make more sense to streamline those services by creating a combined force that is smaller and costs less?
Sounds good, but the hypothetical doesn't live up to the hype. Take the story of Louisville, Kentucky, for example. Beginning with a referendum in 2000, city administrators began singing the cost-saving serenade, and on January 6, 2003 city police merged with the unincorporated areas of Jefferson County. After reassigning the responsibilities and reassessing needs, the number of patrol divisions was reduced from 10 to eight, and the number of beats fell from 51 to 44. Additionally, key management positions in the new department were taken from officers and given to newly hired civilian employees.
Those numbers would seem to prove the fulfillment of the money-saving promises made by the consolidation cheerleaders. Sadly, the ledger tells a different story.
According to Steve Conrad, current chief of the Glendale, Arizona, police and former assistant chief of police in Louisville, the savings they were promised never materialized. At a conference on police consolidation held in 2011 at Michigan State University, Conrad recalled that although the metro mayor touted "the synergy of merger: ten people here, ten people there, they could work more efficiently together," the department actually ended up hiring "15 or 20 here, and 15 or 20 there."
In fact, the merger was a budgetary disaster. Conrad estimated that consolidation cost about $85 million. New communication equipment cost nearly $70 million and allowances for new healthcare plans and other benefits ended up costing another $10 million. Hardly a windfall.
The consolidation math doesn't add up, but the harsh economic realities don't appear until years after the consolidation is bought and paid for — literally.
That isn't to say every consolidation will be as big a boondoggle as Louisville. Certainly there will be cases when the consolidation saved money in the long run, but these cases will be few and far between. Everything will cost more than promised, but local governments will have already surrendered their control over the costs of contracts made for the outfitting of a force.
Another fiscal fact is that upfront costs are usually prohibitive. It doesn't take a CPA to realize that for the one-time cost of new branding, new uniforms, new vehicles, new training manuals, etc., a town could pay for its own police force for years.
Often, in support of their plans for consolidation, politicians will point out that smalltown budgets prevent them from fully staffing a police department and from providing citizens with the services of specialty units like SWAT or K-9.
This might be true. A more relevant question needs to be asked in response, however: How many of the crimes committed within the jurisdiction of a local police force require the participation of one of those specialized units? Very few.
Furthermore, if such a crime is committed, what prevents the local police chief from calling his colleague from a larger nearby jurisdiction and asking for the assistance of this bigger town's SWAT team?
Besides, there is the competing concept of ad hoc consolidation. Under this theory, several local police forces combine resources long enough to train a select number of officers from each department to serve on a SWAT team or bomb squad who are deployed only when an extraordinary situation arises in one of the participating jurisdictions. This way, chiefs cede no power to politicians or bureaucrats, townspeople save money by not having to pay to staff and train their own specialized unit, and on those rare occasions when they are needed, a specialized unit will be available.
Law Enforcement as a Business
Even if consolidation did lower costs, there are other considerations more important than money.
The story of the transformation of law enforcement in Salt Lake County to one "unified" police force illustrates some of the harmful consequences of consolidation.
In a widely reprinted article entitled "The Sheriff Who Sold His County," Clint Richardson recounts the "evolution" of law enforcement in this Western ski haven. According to Richardson, on January 1, 2010, Salt Lake County "became a police state" when the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department was officially dissolved and in its place a corporation took over all law-enforcement duties. The private company that was given control of police functions is called the "Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake" (UPD).
First, the UPD became the "new police force" for all of the cities and unincorporated area within Salt Lake County. As Richardson says, this abolished "the only true lawful protective body within the county, the elected Sheriff's 'Department.'"
At the time of the consolidation, a report published by the county mayor declared that the man the people elected as sheriff, Jim Winder, was appointed by the County Council to be the chief executive officer (CEO) of the UPD, a private company that would be handling the county's crime prevention duties and running the "day-to-day police operations."
This reassignment and relabeling seems to turn the man who was once the duly elected sheriff into an unelected personal commissar of the politicians who run the county.
All concerned police chiefs nationwide, proud of their noble profession and their responsibility to protect and serve their fellow citizens, who are facing the hard press from local politicians to cooperate with the move toward consolidation, should learn from Salt Lake County.
Without simplifying the situation too much, the plain fact is that a business now runs law enforcement in Salt Lake County. Local police chiefs, if they still exist, no longer have any control over policy or procedure. In Salt Lake County, control right now belongs to an unelected and unaccountable board of directors that is driven not by a zeal for the fighting of crime or the well-being of officers, but by an obligation to mind the bottom line and keep the profit margin wide.
For their part, the people can't turn to a man who lives in the community and benefits from the protection and safety he maintains. Police chiefs and the public will have their control, their autonomy, and their dignity co-opted by a corporation.
In the case of Salt Lake County, Clint Richardson ably sums up the sad situation:
A corporation is always designed to make a profit, even in a so-called non-profit structure. Therefore the Sheriff, as CEO of the UPD Corporation, has been catapulted into a position that now directly conflicts with the lawful purposes for which the voters elected him into office. As the corporate president of this police corporation, he must ensure a profit is made for the company. Therefore, the people of the county will suffer the consequences of their Sheriffs [sic] conflict of interest.
The Federalization of Local Police
By incorporating this new company, the UPD, county officials dissolved the bands that attached police to the people of a city, and forever robbed the people of their constitutional sheriff — the last line of defense against the encroaching federal government and its mission to arm a national police force.
Self-serving bureaucrats inside the U.S. government are tirelessly trying to obliterate local police forces answerable to local citizens and promote the consolidation movement as a step toward federalization of law enforcement. These proponents of regional and national police forces desire nothing less than the eradication of all local police departments and sheriffs' offices, the surrender of state and municipal sovereignty, and the conversion of cops into federal security agents sworn not to protect and to serve their neighbors, but to protect the prerogatives of politicians.
Take for example the information contained in a White Paper presented earlier this year to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In that report, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is encouraged to embark on an "evolving mission" away from its ostensible purpose of fighting terrorism, toward becoming the administrators of an enormous domestic intelligence agency resulting from an integration of the country's local and state law-enforcement agencies.
This report was written by the Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group, co-chaired by former DHS chief Michael Chertoff. The blueprint promoted in the White Paper pushes Congress toward green-lighting the growth of DHS and the dissolution of local police and sheriffs.
The organization described in the paper, entitled "Homeland Security and Intelligence: Next Steps in Evolving the Mission," is reminiscent of more draconian governments. For example, one section of the report calls for a transition in the mission of DHS away from protecting the country from the "terrorism" of foreign militants and toward "more specific homeward focused areas." Additional sections of the report lay out the plans for building a DHS/police hybrid agency that can monitor Americans in any town and prevent threats from fellow citizens.
In order to achieve their ultimate aim, the globalists demand that DHS or some other federal agency take control of the personnel decisions currently made by local police chiefs and county sheriffs. "As the threat grows more localized," the report claims, "the federal government's need to train, and even staff, local agencies, such as major city police departments, will grow." Put another way: The federal government will run your local police department and sheriff's office.
A key component of this proposal is the establishment of "fusion centers." The following information is taken from a fact sheet on fusion centers posted on the DHS website: "A fusion center is a collaborative effort of two or more agencies that provide resources, expertise and information to the center with the goal of maximizing their ability to detect, prevent, investigate, and respond to criminal and terrorist activity."
A description of the functioning of these incubators for the forthcoming federal police force is also provided on the DHS site:
State and major urban area fusion centers (fusion centers) serve as primary focal points within the state and local environment for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) partners.... Fusion centers conduct analysis and facilitate information sharing, assisting law enforcement and homeland security partners in preventing, protecting against, and responding to crime and terrorism.
The literature promoting the acceptance of fusion centers lists several ways the new federal agency will impose its will on the formerly autonomous and accountable police chief or county sheriff.
First, the feds will decide where and when to deploy local police department personnel. The chief, if he still exists, will be no more than a functionary required to make sure that the orders of the federal government are carried out. More likely than not, these new missions, in addition to preventing crime in the city or county, will engage in the collection of information about and apprehension of those local citizens identified by a committee in Washington as posing a threat to national security. Consider the revelation in 2009 that Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis released a document entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalism and Recruitment," which listed war veterans, anti-abortion activists, small-government advocates, and those concerned about immigration as terrorist risks.
Second, DHS (or whichever one of the federal agencies eventually takes over law-enforcement duties) will train new recruits. Policies, procedures, and purposes will not reflect traditional (and constitutional) goals of law enforcement, but will be tailored to training officers to perform those duties associated with the new, national emphasis of the force, with a slant toward federalism.
Finally, funds for this conversion from local police department to outpost of the federal law-enforcement agency will be provided by the bureaucrats on Capitol Hill. This carrot will be tied to the stick of federal control.
PPP as a Tool of Tyranny
Another weapon in the arsenal of the local police abolitionists is a concept known as Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
PPP is often defined as "a contract between a public sector authority and a private party, in which the private party provides a public service or project and assumes substantial financial, technical and operational risk in the project." As in the case of the Unified Police Department created in Salt Lake County, a private company is given control over some public function typically provided by government. It is a tactic very much in vogue in internationalist circles and is considered an effective way to sneak the influence and the control of the UN in the back door.
Regardless of the rhetoric, the true purpose of PPP is to consolidate government and private corporations, giving them joint control over public entities such as law-enforcement agencies. The result is the elimination of local sovereignty and the insidious replacement of police chiefs, county sheriffs, and elected local councils with a board of directors of a company whose mission statement calls for the creation of an executive governing body that is neither fish nor fowl, but is obliged to enforce international treaties and regulations written by the apparatchiks at the UN.
Given the UN's role in promoting PPPs, it is likely that those administering these centralized partnerships will come from a coterie of managers accustomed to looking to the international body or federal agencies for guidance, if recent initiatives such as Agenda 21 are any example. If the UN passes, for example, the currently proposed Small Arms Treaty that calls for the confiscation of privately owned firearms in high-crime areas, then officers deployed in local jurisdictions will be ordered to go door-to-door in communities rounding up the "offensive" weapons. Thousands of police chiefs and sheriffs who understand their role as public servants and protectors of the Constitution will be powerless to oppose these edicts, and if they dare, they will simply be fired by the federal or international body that has already assumed control of personnel decisions. The Second Amendment would be dead. Which amendment would be next?
As envisioned by the UN and the internationalists in the U.S. government, PPP will dissolve local police departments and county sheriffs' offices, replacing them with pseudo-private agencies made up of a mish-mash of federal agents and bureaucratic overseers adhering to global government regulations.
Last Line in the Defense of Liberty
In many cities and towns there is still time to stop the march toward consolidation, merger, and PPP. State and local sovereignty is the solution to consolidation. Constitutional sheriffs and conscientious police chiefs are the last line of defense of the traditional mission of American law enforcement and should be jealous of their responsibilities, and should never permit politicians to hand those duties over to companies, cabals, or federal agencies.
Citizens should be concerned because they will lose direct control over their neighborhood law enforcement through the right to elect their sheriff, and because every large law-enforcement agency divorces itself from the local community. The further away a government bureaucracy is from the direct involvement of the local citizen, the less responsive it becomes to the local citizen.
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The potato is making news these days, not only for its potential role in global food security as grain prices escalate, but also as an income-generator for growers in many countries and as an ally in the developed world's quest for nutritional sanity. Boiled, potatoes pack more protein than corn and nearly twice the calcium. If you don't believe me, ask the nonprofit International Potato Center in Lima, Peru (the country where potatoes originated some 8,000 years ago), which also notes that potatoes contain lots of other nutrients – and, well, taste good.
The United Nations has weighed in as well, naming 2008 the International Year of the Potato, a "hidden treasure" of a tuber.
I have heeded these messages, but these folks are preaching to a member of the choir here. Potatoes are among my top choices of what to eat any time of day, and the basis for a sizable personal cookbook of meals and memories.
My worst childhood faux pas – chattily remarking to a teacher we'd invited for lunch that the ceramic soup bowls were "just like the one our dog eats out of" without explaining that a chipped companion had been demoted for dog use – was closely seconded by asking, just as my mother served Thanksgiving dinner to a long table of relatives, "Are those real mashed potatoes?"
In my and my mother's defense, there was no time like the 1950s for serving up powdered and packaged versions of fresh foods. Instant potatoes were a weekday staple in our home, but they paled against potatoes freshly cooked and beaten with butter and cream for holidays. At the age of 10, I was helpless to ignore that distinction for the sake of protocol or my mother's pride.
Time or occasion permitting, she made wonderful "real" mashed spuds as well as delicious twice-baked potatoes. These were named "Mrs. Corwin potatoes," after another teacher who shared a meal of them with us (without benefit of my commentary on the china).
Potatoes, cheap and filling, helped sustain me in graduate school. When I emerged with a degree in geology, I avoided oil company employment by heading off to milk cows on a farm in southwest England. There I met Mrs. Cridge, who knew all about the potential of potatoes. On raw, wintry mornings as I headed to the cow barn, she would arrive from a neighboring village to do the household's cooking and washing up with a freshly baked and steaming tuber in her pocket – hand warmer and lunch, all in one perfect oval.
I was raised on big Idaho bakers, but I've subsequently discovered what rich varieties of this humble food exist in their unassuming mesh bags and supermarket bins. In fact – once again provided by the International Potato Center – some 5,000 types of potatoes grow worldwide. Belarus leads the world in potato consumption, each inhabitant of the eastern European state downing more than 377 pounds a year.
I believe my own household might come close to that. Yukon Golds, reds, and baby versions of each are among our favorites. We eat them mashed, steamed, boiled, or baked; fried into hash browns; and in soups, curries, and salads. It just wouldn't be home without a sack of spuds hanging from their hook in the kitchen – lumpy with humble promise.


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In January 2010, the President launched the National Export Initiative with the goal of doubling U.S. exports over 5 years and prioritizing exports by small businesses. This goal was a key component of the administrations plan to help the United States transition from economic crisis to sustained recovery, as increasing exports could help accelerate job growth. Some of the approximately 20 member agencies of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee directly assist small businesses to export overseas, including the Small Business Administration (SBA), Department of Commerce (Commerce), and the Export-Import Bank. In fiscal year 2011, these three agencies requests for export promotion funding totaled about $350 million, and SBA and the Export-Import Bank provided nearly $7 billion in financing assistance to small businesses. While Commerce has historically been the primary agency for promoting U.S. exports, in 2010, Congress directed SBA to increase its activities related to export counseling and financing. A nationwide network of over 900 Small Business Development Centers (SBDC)nonfederal entities partially funded by SBAprovides counseling, including some export counseling, to small businesses. Both SBAs Office of International Trade, which leads SBAs efforts in assisting small businesses seeking to export, and the Export-Import Bank provide financial assistance to small businesses.
In January 2013, GAO reported that some SBA services overlap with Commerce counseling services and Export-Import Bank export financing programs, as outlined below:
Select Features and Limitations of SBA and Export-Import Bank Working Capital Loan Guarantees
Program features and limitations
SBA Export Working Capital program
Export-Import Bank Working Capital Guarantee program
Loan guarantee
Loan guarantee
Single order or revolving line of credit, but allows for advances against purchase orders
Single order or revolving line of credit
Small business operating for at least 1 year (can be waived based on management experience)
Business of any size operating for at least 1 year (can be waived based on management experience)
Must meet certain financial requirements, including having positive net worth and meeting minimum standards on certain key industry ratios
Export-related inventory and accounts receivable from the export sales
Personal or corporate guarantee of the owner
Export-related inventory and accounts receivable from the export sales
Personal or corporate guarantee of the owner
Content requirements
Must contain more than 50 percent U.S. content
Cannot be used to finance defense articles or services, with limited exceptions
Loan percentage guaranteed
Up to 90 percent
Up to 90 percent
Loan amount guaranteed
$5 million
No limit
Source: GAO analysis of Department of the Treasury, SBA, and Export-Import Bank documents.
These overlapping services can be confusing for small businesses and may result in an inefficient use of government resources. Both agency officials and some private sector representatives that GAO interviewed said overlapping services can make it difficult to navigate the federal export assistance system. According to officials from SBA, SBDCs, Commerce, and the Export-Import Bank, small businesses typically do not know which services each agency provides or where to go for assistance. Private sector representatives agreed it is challenging for small businesses to determine what each federal entity does. They noted that export financing assistance is important for small businesses to be competitive in international markets, but understanding the differences between federal loan programs for financing exports can be difficult.
Enhancing collaboration between SBA and other agencies could potentially improve program efficiency and help limit some of the confusion caused by overlapping services. GAOs prior work has outlined practices of effective collaboration, including (1) establishing clearly defined roles and responsibilities and (2) leveraging other agencies resources.[1] SBA and Commerce officials have not clearly outlined each entitys roles and responsibilities for counseling small business clients. Not all Commerce and SBDC counseling services overlap, and Commerce and SBDC officials indicated that they try to focus on the areas where each entity has relatively more experience. For example, Commerce officials generally prefer to work with existing exporters looking to expand to different markets (known as new-to-market businesses) that can quickly take advantage of Commerces extensive services and overseas resources; businesses that are new-to-export are generally referred to SBDCs, where they can benefit from an array of general business development services. However, the division of counseling responsibilities between Commerce and the SBDCs is not so clearly defined in practice, and neither agency has developed guidance that directs SBDC counselors and Commerce staff to focus on any one type of client.[2] Commerce and SBDC staff in the field indicated that interagency roles and responsibilities for counseling new-to-export and new-to-market companies are unclear and said they work with both new-to-export and new-to-market businesses. Officials from both entities also noted they may counsel the same clients, but they do not regularly discuss client services with one another, nor do they regularly share client information.
According to SBA and Export-Import Bank officials, overlapping financial products respond to lender preferences. Both SBA and Export-Import Bank officials GAO interviewed said many lenders prefer to work with only one agency and few lenders use both agencies products, so small businesses may be able to access only one agencys products. Therefore, if a client only meets the eligibility requirements for one agencys product but its bank does not use that product, the client may need to find a new bank in order to use a loan guarantee program. SBA and the Export-Import Bank both attempt to expedite the process through similar delegated authority programs for lenders, which allow lenders to process these loans without prior agency review. Lenders can receive delegated authority from both agencies, but SBA and Export-Import Bank staff that GAO interviewed noted many lenders are reluctant to work with both agencies due to the time and expertise needed to learn each agencys compliance standards and to process each agencys products. SBA and the Export-Import Bank may be able to explore options to harmonize export financing products and to assist lenders in more easily adapting to the rules for both agencies products.
SBA and other agencies could also better leverage one anothers resources by consistently sharing client information, where possible. Field staff from SBA, SBDCs, Commerce, and the Export-Import Bank that GAO interviewed said accessing other agencies client lists could help them reach more clients and potentially improve client services. However, the extent to which SBA and other agencies regularly share exporters information varies. SBDC counselors generally cannot share specific client information with other entities unless they receive permission from the client,[3] and SBAs Office of International Trade does not regularly share its client list with SBDCs, Commerce, or the Export-Import Bank, nor does it regularly receive client lists from other entities. Commerce and the Export-Import Bank have an informal agreement to share certain public client information with one another on a regular basis. Agency officials noted that information sharing is limited by certain privacy restrictions, but SBA and other agencies officials told us they are currently reviewing the types of information that they could share with each other. In November 2012, the Commerce Office of Inspector General found that restrictions on sharing of client information constrained Commerces ability to collaborate with other agencies and recommended that it explore the possibility of requiring clients to waive confidentiality as a condition for receiving services. Commerce concurred with this recommendation.
[1]GAO, Results-Oriented Government: Practices That Can Help Enhance and Sustain Collaboration among Federal Agencies, GAO-06-15 (Washington, D.C.: Oct. 21, 2005).
[2]In commenting on a draft of the January 2013 report on which this submission is based, SBA and Commerce noted that the agencies have begun to clarify counseling roles and responsibilities through an interagency communiqué that provides guidance on how to assess the export readiness of clients and identifies general referral channels once a business has been classified as (1) not a good candidate for exporting, (2) not ready to export, (3) ready to export, or (4) an existing exporter.
[3]See 15 U.S.C. § 648(a)(7)(A).
To limit the extent to which SBA programs overlap with those of other agencies, in January 2013, GAO recommended that the Administrator of SBA take the following two actions to improve collaboration:
Implementation of these recommendations could help to improve the efficiency of federal export promotion services for small businesses. GAO was unable to quantify any potential financial benefits resulting from these actions because they would likely result in a more efficient use of existing resources and improved client services, rather than distinct cost savings.
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from the product in the related GAO product section. GAO analyzed government-wide initiatives, strategies, and laws, as well as agencies documents. GAO interviewed officials from key export promotion entities in headquarters and six field locationsChicago, Dallas, Irvine (California), Miami, New York, and Portland (Oregon). GAO selected these locations based on the number of key entities in the location, the types of services provided, and Commerces assessment of the locations export potential. Commerce, SBA, and SBDC officials that provide export assistance were present in all locations, while Export-Import Bank officials were present in five of the six locations. At some locations, GAO also met with private sector representatives that used federal export assistance. GAOs interviews at these six locations are not generalizable to all U.S. locations but provided GAO with insights about how agencies collaborate with one another at the local level and challenges local officials face in doing so. GAO assessed interagency coordination primarily against selected elements of GAOs practices for enhancing and sustaining collaboration. Table 9 in appendix IV lists the programs GAO identified that might have similar or overlapping objectives, provide similar services, or be fragmented across government missions. Overlap and fragmentation might not necessarily lead to actual duplication, and some degree of overlap and duplication may be justified.
In commenting on the January 2013 report on which this analysis is based, SBA agreed with the above recommendations and noted it is taking steps to address them. SBA and Commerce provided copies of a December 2012 Interagency Communiqué that was intended to clarify counseling roles and responsibilities and provides guidance on referring U.S. businesses seeking export assistance to federal, state, and nonfederal resources according to each firms export readiness and business needs. The communiqué does not provide referral protocols for clients seeking trade finance assistance, which the communiqué said would be issued by the end of January 2013. It also notes that agencies intend to develop local Export Outreach Teams to increase awareness of local international trade expertise and enhance communication and collaboration at the local level. Among other things, the Export Outreach Teams would develop referral protocols and initiate ongoing discussions of shared clients. Thus, the communiqués plans, when fully implemented, would begin to address the recommendations above. GAO will continue to monitor the agencies implementation of these plans.
GAO provided a draft of this report section to SBA, Commerce, and the Export-Import Bank. SBA officials stated that SBA and the Export-Import Bank are taking steps to respond to GAOs recommendations, including developing a new program that bundles non-overlapping financial products from both agencies that address specific lender and exporter needs and exploring the possibility of providing joint training for both agencies export finance specialists so they are well versed in both agencies programs. SBA officials also stated that SBA and Commerce have begun organizing Export Outreach Teams throughout the SBA network to enhance communication and collaboration between SBAs partners and international trade networks. Commerce officials added that the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee has developed a webinar on client referrals, which they planned to roll out to field locations starting in March 2013. They noted that this action, in combination with actions taken under the December 2012 Interagency Communiqué, went a long way toward addressing our recommendations.
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