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One of two American researchers to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday is a Stanford University biochemist so enamored of a tiny sensor found in cells that he doggedly worked for 20 years to get its portrait — yet, fearing he would fail, kept working as a doctor on weekends to pay the mortgage.
Dr. Brian Kobilka's work has revealed the secrets of the elusive sensors, called receptors, that enable the body to detect and react to chemical substances, such as hormones, poisons and drugs. About half of all medications act through these receptors, including medications for common heart ailments, allergies and mental disorders.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Kobilka, 57, and his mentor, Robert Lefkowitz, of Duke University, made a groundbreaking discovery by mapping out how an important family of these sensors, called G protein-coupled receptors, work.
Throughout modern medical history, scientists struggled to understand how cells communicate and sense changes in their environment. Lefkowitz and Kobilka solved this mystery in the 1980s, showing how receptors convey chemical messages from the outside world to the cell's interior.
Understanding the mechanism is critical to effective drug development, because medications work through cellular communication.
The academy's 2:30 a.m. call to his home startled Kobilka, a physician who is a professor and chairman of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford's School of Medicine.
"I didn't believe it at first, but after I spoke with about five people — they handed the phone around — with really convincing Swedish accents, I started to think it was for real," said Kobilka, in a Stanford news release.
At a Wednesday morning news conference, before a throng of media and admirers, Kobilka sat stiffly between Stanford president John Hennessy and Medical School Dean Dr. Philip Pizzo — and, as if still stunned by the early morning phone call, he spoke quietly, sparingly choosing his words.
"I am not very comfortable doing this," he said. Then he relaxed, crediting everyone who helped and explaining the beauty of the work.
Colleagues describe Kobilka, who grew up in a rural Minnesota as the son of a baker, as a complex and fascinating character — shy and modest in public but fiercely driven and intense in his research.
The Yale-educated cardiologist was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke in a large team led by co-winner and mentor Lefkowitz. They built the foundation of the Nobel work.
Lefkowitz first identified the receptor and discovered how it works. Kobilka isolated the gene that governs the receptor's behavior and took its picture. Their research has led to the discovery of a large family of receptors, with many different roles throughout the body.
Last year, Kobilka even got an image of the receptor at the very moment it transfers the signal from a hormone on the outside of the cell to the cell's interior.
"That's the Eureka moment that stands out above all others," he said Wednesday.
Kobilka had become fascinated by the receptors for adrenaline during his experience in a hospital intensive care unit.
He knew that a shot of adrenaline could be the difference between life and death — opening up the swollen respiratory system and speeding up the heart rate. He sought to understand the power of epinephrine in its smallest molecular detail. And how did the body communicate in this time of crisis? That's what he wanted to know.
At Duke, he isolated the gene for receptors for adrenaline. And he analyzed its genetic code — discovering, astonishingly, that the receptor winds its way back and forth through the cell wall seven times. He remembered that a different receptor did the same thing an identical number of times. This was his first Eureka moment: a family of receptors acting in the same manner.
Kobilka was recruited by Stanford to join its fledgling Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology.
He had been headed toward a career in cardiology. But soon after his arrival at Duke, he had the chance to do research. "I fell in love with the process."
He kept practicing medicine, even early on at Stanford, "moonlighting on weekends to pay the mortgage," he said.
"I was afraid I might fail at research," he said.
The Palo Alto resident lives with his microbiologist wife, Tong Sun, and they have two adult children.
Kobilka said he would put his half of the $1.2 million award toward retirement or "pass it on to my kids."
The Associated Press also contributed to this story.
The Nobel Prize awarded Wednesday to Stanford Professor Brian Kobilka brought the school's total number of honorees to 26.
Stanford's first Nobel Prize winner was Felix Bloch, honored in 1952 with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith."
UC Berkeley counts 22 and the University of California system has 58 affiliated faculty and researchers awarded a total of 59 Nobels.
UC's first Nobel medal went to Ernest O. Lawrence in 1939 for "for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements."
Dr. Brian Kobilka
Sharing 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Palo Alto resident
Runs marathons: 3:55 time in a San Diego marathon this year.
Relaxation: Weekend bicycling up Page Mill Road to Skyline Drive and other rigorous routes. "If there's a road in the Bay Area, he's probably been on it," said his son, Jason.
What does his work mean?: Understanding the structure of receptors may be useful for the development of more effective drugs for many diseases.
Appreciation: "Stanford has been a remarkable place. I am not sure how I managed to land here, but I did. It was probably the only place that offered me a job. You might have an idea that might be crazy — but people here help you do it."


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Dozier picked for Emily Couric award
Three years after CBS reporter and UVA alum Kimberly Dozier was seriously injured by a car bomb in Iraq, the journalist talked about her work and recovery to a crowd that included John Grisham and Congressman Tom Perriello at the May 18 Emily Couric Leadership Scholarship Awards luncheon.
"Please don't risk my life if we're not going to make air," Dozier recounted her cameraman, Paul Douglas, saying. The report on what it was like for U.S. troops in Baghdad was supposed to make the airwaves on Memorial Day 2006, but a car bomb killed Douglas and soundman James Brolan, and left Dozier with her legs looking like "hamburger," she said.
Dozier was presented the Women's Leadership Award, which has gone to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Caroline Kennedy, and Dozier's CBS News colleague Katie Couric.

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Life Line
Compatible with wireless alarm systems that support the Honeywell 5800 series, the 5802WXT - Button Honeywell Medical Pendant is a life line for every alarm owner, should you experience a life threatening situation in your home. At the press of a button, this Honeywell Medical Pendant will dial your alarm monitoring company and in-turn send medical or police personnel directly to your aid. If you ever face an eye-to-eye emergency situation such as a debilitating injury or a sudden break-in, you'll be glad you have the Honeywell 5802WXT.
How to Use
By pressing and holding the transmitter button for two seconds, the Honeywell 5802WXT will send a signal to the control receiver (activating an emergency response, after programming). With a long-life replaceable lithium battery, feel at ease with your new panic switch. This Honeywell Medical Pendant is also water resistant for use in the bath or shower and the transmitter automatically sends a message the control receiver that includes battery status every 70-90 minutes. You won't have to worry about the Honeywell 5802WXT malfunctioning without being notified of low battery or signal strength first!
Versatility and Performance
This life saving Honeywell Medical Pendant wirelessly connects with your home security system for effortless installation and works like every other alarm accessory in your home. Simply enroll the system via your control panel and it is ready to begin working.
The versatility and flexibility of the Honeywell 5802WXT separates it from other panic pendants and lifeline devices. This wireless Honeywell Medical Pendant can be worn around the neck, on a wrist band (like a watch), or as an apparel clip that may also be mounted to a desk, dresser, wall, etc. Included are a necklace, band and clip to attach to pants.
Honeywell Medical Pendant Features:
- Option to be a fully supervised portable panic transmitter
- Multi-wear accessories included:
- Pendant
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- Keychain
- Water resistant-can be worn in the shower or bath
- Tactile feel key(s) are recessed to deter false alarms
- LED indicates transmission was sent
- Long-life replaceable lithium battery
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- One-button: Press and hold two seconds for activation
- Two-button: Press both buttons simultaneously for activation
- Compatible with Honeywell's 5800 Series wireless system
- Unit Dimensions: 1.5" (3.9mm) Diameter
- Battery: 3V 2032 Lithium
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Science Friday® and SciFri® are registered service marks of Science Friday, Inc. Site design by Pentagram; engineering by Mediapolis.
|It sounds like the setup for a joke: what do you get when you tickle a baby gorilla? Writing in the journal Current Biology, researchers give the answer: data on the evolution of laughter among the primates. The authors of the paper recorded the sounds made by tickled gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and human infants, and analyzed them for similarities and differences. We'll talk with the lead author of the report about what she found, and what the work can tell evolutionary biologists about laughter and other social behaviors.


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Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art announces summer lineup for "Mixed Taste" talks
The Museum of Contemporary Art is moving its totally illogical "Mixed Taste" lecture series to the Loft Theatre of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House this summer.
Why? We don't ask why when it comes to "Mixed Taste." The series has its own brand of reasoning and success shows that it knows what it's doing. Or that it's just lucky.
We'll let the MCA explain how it works, by quoting the press release that just arrived:
"Mixed Taste's unique format features two seemingly unrelated topics presented by two speakers; the first speaker speaks for 20 minutes, then the second speaker covers a separate topic for another 20 minutes. This is followed by a question-and-answer session on both topics, at the same time. During the first part of the program, speakers are not allowed to make connections between topics, whereas during the Q & A, anything can happen."
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JERUSALEM, March 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Jordan Friday after a visit to Israel that included with a stop Friday at the Holocaust Memorial at Yad Vashem.
On his way out of Israel, the president sat in on a phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Netanyahu, talking from a trailer at the airport, apologized to Erdogan for the deaths of Turkish nationals in a confrontation in 2010 between the Israeli military and a Gaza relief flotilla.
Jordanian King Abdullah II and his son, Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah, greeted Obama on his arrival at al-Hummar Palace in Amman. Obama shook hands with the king and prince and was overheard explaining he arrived an hour late because of a dust storm.
In addition to his visit to the Holocaust memorial, Obama visited the graves of Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, and Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister who was assassinated in 1995 after signing the Oslo Accords with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, The Washington Post reported. Obama laid stones on both graves.
He also visited Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ.
At Yad Vashem, Obama said Friday bigotry and hatred have no place in a civilized world.
"Nothing equals the wrenching power of this sacred place ... ," Obama said. "We could come here a thousand times, and each time our hearts would break."
The memorial is a reminder that people are faced with the choice to "succumb to our worst instincts or to summon the better angels of our nature," Obama said.
"For us, in our time, this means confronting bigotry and hatred in all of its forms, racism, especially anti-Semitism. None of that has a place in the civilized world -- not in the classrooms of children; not in the corridors of power. And let us never forget the link between the two. For our sons and daughters are not born to hate, they are taught to hate. So let us fill their young hearts with the same understanding and compassion that we hope others have for them," Obama said.
Obama's three-day trip to Israel was his first visit to the country as president.
Jordan, a country of 6.5 million people, has taken in more than 360,000 refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war -- with the number expected to rise to 1 million by the end of the year, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said this month.
Syrian refugees enter Jordan at an average 1,200 people daily, officials say, but nearly 2,000 crossed the border into the country Tuesday and more than 1,700 more entered Wednesday, the official Petra News Agency reported Thursday.
More than 100,000 refugees are living in the overcrowded desert Zaatari camp, which was opened near the Jordan-Syria border last July and where security and crime problems are growing, Jordanian officials say.
Jordan's al-Ghad newspaper noted Friday while Obama and Abdullah were expected to discuss the refugee crisis, Obama had no plans to visit any refugee camps, which are straining the nation's resources.
Jordan is seen by U.S. officials as possibly playing a role in Middle East peace efforts because of its normalized relations with Israel. Abdullah's father, King Hussein, signed a peace treaty with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1994.
Hussein was later honored when his picture appeared on an Israeli postage stamp in recognition of the good relations he established with Israel.
Obama spoke with Palestinian leaders and young Israelis about the peace process Thursday.
He urged Palestinians to return to the bargaining table even if Israel did not meet their condition of halting Jewish-settlement construction in Palestinian territories.
"If we're going to succeed, part of what we're going to have to do is to get out of some of the formulas and habits that have blocked progress for so long," Obama said in a joint news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after the two leaders met.
"Both sides are going to have to think anew," Obama said. "Those of us in the United States are going to have to think anew. But I'm confident that we can arrive at our destination to advance the vision of two nations, two neighbors at peace -- Israel and Palestine."
Abbas said it was "the duty of the Israeli government to at least halt the activity so that we can speak of issues. And when we define our borders and their borders together, each side will know its territory in which it can do whatever it pleases."
Abbas did not explicitly cite halting Israeli settlements as a precondition for entering into face-to-face talks with Netanyahu.
Those talks have been dormant since 2010.
Obama later told young Israelis they should empathize with their Palestinian neighbors living under occupation.
"Put yourself in their shoes," Obama said. "Look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own; living their entire lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements, not just of those young people but their parents, their grandparents, every single day.
"It's not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished," he said. "It's not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands; or restricting a student's ability to move around the West Bank; or displace Palestinian families from their homes.
"Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer," Obama said, "Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land."


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I will hazard a guess, right now, that there are not many 26-year-old attorneys in Manhattan who have baked a layer cake from scratch, complete with two types of buttercream frosting. In fact, I will go a little bit further, and even guess that there are not too many non-lawyers who've done it either.
I think of layer-cake baking as generally restricted to two types of people: professional pastry chefs and housewives circa 1954. For the rest of us, we trudge to the grocery store to purchase those terrible $2 Betty Crocker mixes, and if that doesn't work, there is a quite lovely selection of sheet cakes available in nearly every grocery store in this city. I know, because I buy one for my fiance for his birthday every year, and I have long mastered the art of carrying a sheet cake across the entire length of Manhattan on foot, wearing high heels.
Next year, however, things are going to be a little bit different, because now I can make my own. I am quite proud of this little cake, because it took about 2 or 3 hours altogether, created an enormous mess, but at the end of the day, tasted really good. And this was my first non-disastrous attempt at piping frosting, and it turns out that if you don't overload your pastry bag, and you remember that the pastry tip goes on the inside of the bag, it's actually not that hard at all (I know, I probably shouldn't admit that I've made both those mistakes).
I made a few changes to the recipe that should be noted. First of all, I took out all the lemon from the buttercream frosting — give me plain vanilla over lemon frosting any day. Also, I might have been a little heavy on the sugar in the frosting, and perhaps a little bit too light on the butter. The advantage of this approach was a very stiff, sweet frosting, but the texture in your mouth was a little bit off — using confectioner's sugar, which I didn't have, would help a lot, although good luck beating out all of the mini-lumps!
I used my super-thick chocolate fudge frosting as the filling for between the layers, and also used it to pipe decorations onto the cake. The intense sweetness that I complained about when attempting to eat a dish of the chocolate on its own was tempered, a lot, by the combination of the chocolate with other ingredients, and it worked really well.
There's just one thing I wish I had thought about before making this recipe: how to transport it! Once mine was finished on the cake stand, and the wax paper was removed to leave just the decorated cake behind, I had no hope of dislodging the cake without risking totally destroying it. If I had been really smart, I would have decorated it on some kind of plastic or cardboard container, so that I practice that cake-balancing, high-heel-walking technique I so love to brag about.
Dorie Greenspan's Perfect Party Cake
For the Cake:
2 1/2 cups cake flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups whole milk
4 large egg whites
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 stick (8 tablespoons or 4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
For the Buttercream:
1 cup sugar
4 large egg whites
3 sticks (12 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
For Finishing
1 1/2 cups thick chocolate pudding or light ganache
For the cake:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter two 9 x 2 inch round cake pans and line the bottom of each pan with a round of buttered parchment or wax paper. Put the pans on a baking sheet.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
Whisk together the milk and egg whites in a medium bowl.
Put the sugar and lemon zest in a mixer bowl or another large bowl and rub them together with your fingers until the sugar is moist and fragrant.
Add the butter and working with the paddle or whisk attachment, or with a hand mixer, beat at medium speed for a full 3 minutes, until the butter and sugar are very light.
Beat in the extract, then add one third of the flour mixture, still beating on medium speed.
Beat in half of the milk-egg mixture, then beat in half of the remaining dry ingredients until incorporated.
Add the rest of the milk and eggs beating until the batter is homogeneous, then add the last of the dry ingredients.
Finally, give the batter a good 2 minute beating to ensure that it is thoroughly mixed and well aerated.
Divide the batter between the two pans and smooth the tops with a rubber spatula.
Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the cakes are well risen and springy to the touch – a thin knife inserted into the centers should come out clean.
Transfer the cakes to cooling racks and cool for about 5 minutes, then run a knife around the sides of the cakes, unfold them and peel off the paper liners.
Invert and cool to room temperature, right side up (the cooled cake layers can be wrapped airtight and stored at room temperature overnight or frozen for up to two months).
For the Buttercream:
Put the sugar and egg whites in a mixer bowl or another large heatproof bowl, fit the bowl over a plan of simmering water and whisk constantly, keeping the mixture over the heat, until it feels hot to the touch, about 3 minutes.
The sugar should be dissolved, and the mixture will look like shiny marshmallow cream.
Remove the bowl from the heat.
Working with the whisk attachment or with a hand mixer, beat the meringue on medium speed until it is cool, about 5 minutes.
Switch to the paddle attachment if you have one, and add the butter a stick at a time, beating until smooth.
Once all the butter is in, beat in the buttercream on medium-high speed until it is thick and very smooth, 6-10 minutes.
During this time the buttercream may curdle or separate – just keep beating and it will come together again.
On medium speed, gradually beat in the vanilla.
You should have a shiny smooth, velvety, pristine white buttercream. Press a piece of plastic against the surface of the buttercream and set aside briefly.
To Assemble the Cake:
Using a sharp serrated knife and a gentle sawing motion, slice each layer horizontally in half.
Put one layer cut side up on a cardboard cake round or a cake plate protected by strips of wax or parchment paper.
Divide one half of the chocolate ganache into three equal portions, and spread each portion in between the center layers.
Place the last layer cut side down on top of the cake and use the buttercream to frost the sides and top.


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Demo - To-do list reimagined web app
This code sample is one of three referenced in the Azure AD sessions of the Microsoft Cloud Roadshow. Recordings of these sessions will be available shortly here. We recommend you watch one of these recordings to understand the purpose and goals of this code sample.
To-Do List Reimagined (tdlr;) is a new cloud service that allows users to store and manage a list of tasks. It integrates with Azure AD in order to provide enterprise features to its customers that have an existing Azure AD tenant. These features include:
- Discovery of accounts with an existing Azure AD tenant
- Signing up for the app with a work account
- One-click user authorization using consent & OAuth 2.0
- Signing into the app with a work account
- Sharing tasks between users in the same company using a "people picker".
- Outsourced user management to company admins
The full service consists of three different sample projects:
- The tdlr; web application, written as .NET 4.5 MVC app.
- The tdlr; iOS application, written as a cross-platform Xamarin app.
- The tdlr; admin web portal, written as a .NET 4.5 MVC app.
Running the tdlr; web app
Register an app with Azure AD
You'll first need to register an app in the Azure Management Portal so that your version of tdlr; can sign users in and get information from Azure AD.
You'll need an Azure Activce Directory tenant in which to register your application. For more information on how to get an Azure AD tenant, please see How to get an Azure AD tenant. You may also wish to create an additional tenant, since the tdlr; app is 'multi-tenant' - it allows users from any organization to sign up & sign in. You'll want to create a few users in your tenant(s) for testing purposes - a guest user with a personal MSA account will not work for this sample.
- Sign in to the Azure portal.
- On the top bar, click on your account and under the Directory list, choose the Active Directory tenant where you wish to register your application.
- Click on More Services in the left hand nav, and choose Azure Active Directory.
- Click on App registrations and choose Add.
- Enter a friendly name for the application, for example 'TDLR;' and select 'Web Application and/or Web API' as the Application Type. For the sign-on URL, enter the base URL for the sample, which is by default
https://localhost:44322/. NOTE: It is important, due to the way Azure AD matches URLs, to ensure there is a trailing slash on the end of this URL. If you don't include the trailing slash, you will receive an error when the application attempts to redeem an authorization code. Click Create to create the application.
- While still in the Azure portal, choose your application, click on Settings and choose Properties.
- Find the Application ID value and copy it to the clipboard.
- Find "multi-tenanted" switch and flip it to yes.
- Edit the App ID URI - enter
https://<your_tenant_name>/tdlr, replacing
<your_tenant_name>with the name of your Azure AD tenant, like
- From the Settings menu, choose Keys and add a key - select a key duration of either 1 year or 2 years. When you save this page, the key value will be displayed, copy and save the value in a safe location - you will need this key later to configure the project in Visual Studio - this key value will not be displayed again, nor retrievable by any other means, so please record it as soon as it is visible from the Azure Portal.
- Configure permissions for your application - in the Settings menu, choose the 'Required permissions' section, click on Add, then Select an API, and select 'Microsoft Graph' (this is the Graph API). Then, click on Select Permissions and select 'Read all users' basic profiles'.
Download the code
Now you can download this repo as a zip or clone it to your local machine:
git clone https://github.com/azureadsamples/azureroadshow-web
In your local repo, open the
TDLR.sln file. We recommned you use Visual Studio 2015, which will restore all necessary packages for you when you run the app for the first time.
Edit the app's config
To run the app, you'll need to enter the information from your app registration. In Visual Studio, open the
web.config file in the root of the project and locate the
<appSettings> section. Replace the following values with your own:
<add key="ida:ClientId" value="[Enter your clientID from the Azure Management Portal, e.g. b1132c6b-fbf8-43b3-a9d8-329be1c87fcb]" />
<add key="ida:AppKey" value="[Enter your key from the Azure Management Portal, e.g. TpNUr1CrYMP5bkvXKwmRKQvINuTp2nyp4kIzoabgZC0=]" />
<add key="ida:Tenant" value="[Enter the name of the tenant where you registered your app, e.g. mytenant.onmicrosoft.com]" />
<add key="ida:TaskApiResourceId" value="[Enter your App ID URI from the Azure Management Portal, e.g. https://mytenant.onmicrosoft.com/tdlr]" />
Run the app!
You can now run the tdlr; app and explore its functionality. Try signing up and signing in with your Azure AD users, creating tasks, and sharing them with other users. To understand the code behind the app, we recommend you watch on of the recorded Microsoft Cloud Roadshow sessions which will be available soon here. If you're already familiar with Azure AD, you may find the code comments instructive as well.


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MARION, Ohio (AP) -- Several dozen people have been charged or arrested in a roundup by a drug task force in northern Ohio.
WBNS-TV in Columbus reports 32 of 46 people indicted were arrested Tuesday in the task force operation focusing on alleged drug trafficking around Marion, about 45 miles north of Columbus.
Those arrests stemmed from a months-long investigation in which investigators bought heroin, cocaine and prescription medication from suspects.
Marion police Maj. Bill Collins tells The Marion Star that the effort in conjunction with the county sheriff's office fulfills a promise by law enforcement to crack down on illegal drug sales in the area.
He says marijuana was found on at least one suspect, and officers seized more than $3,000.


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NH town of Freedom wants Sox to win, to use fireworks ordinance
FREEDOM, N.H. (AP) — Residents in the small town of Freedom, N.H., want the Red Sox to win the World Series, partly to carry out a provision of their 3-year-old fireworks ordinance.
The ordinance, enacted in 2010, allows people in Freedom to light off fireworks on holidays like the Fourth of July and and New Year's Eve.
WMWV-FM reports town moderator Don Johnson proposed — and got approval for — an amendment allowing fireworks to be used within "24 hours following the final out when the Red Sox win the World Series."
Johnson said if the Sox win, he hopes to get back to Freedom from a business trip in time to light off some fireworks.
Information from: WMWV-FM, http://www.wmwv.com/index.html


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Keith Weaver, Ph.D.
- Professor, Basic Biomedical Sciences
- USD Sanford School of Medicine
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Ph.D., Microbial Genetics, University of Texas, Austin
- B.S., Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University, State College
Current Research: Dr. Weaver's research interests are in the field of microbiology, specifically bacterial genetics and plasmids. Bacterial plasmids are small circular DNA molecules that are replicated and inherited within cells, separately from the chromosome. Plasmids are important because of their involvement in the spread of antibiotic resistance in disease-causing bacteria. They often carry genes important in the pathogenesis of bacterial infections. Dr. Weaver is interested in how these important genetic determinants are replicated, inherited, and transmitted by bacteria. Throughout his eighteen years as a faculty member at USD, Dr. Weaver has obtained grant support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and other sources. He has published 36 referred publications and is consistently involved in advising graduate students as well as mentoring undergraduate and honors students.


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Sport First Aid 5th Edition with E-book
This course is a self-paced online course designed to be taken by individual coaches.
Provides high school and club coaches with action steps for the care and prevention of more than 110 sport-related injuries and illnesses. With Sport First Aid, you will be prepared to make critical decisions and respond appropriately when faced with medical emergencies.
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whelp, i will be gone for a week because i'm leaving for Arizona--to visit family--tommarrow. i'm so excited to go on a plane again! it's been about several years or so since i've actually flown out there! woot! gonna be fun. see ya'll in a week or so!
It's raining in Canada today, but
the weekend looks great,
I found out about a newly discovered Shipwreck
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hey everyone! this post is comin' from good ol (very WARM) Arizona! yee haw! the flight was nice...but would have been better if it was jims plane! te he it's so weird cuz out here, they have duststorm warnings..i've had thunderstorm.. and tornado watches, you name it, but duststorm warnings?? anywho im gonna lay down fer a lil while. im beat! later..
nope my name is cheri but my friends call me churt(umm dont ask)tho i prefer cheri. if you want you can call me IKC too. doesnt matter
hi priya nice to meet ya!
well i'm back and i had an amazing trip to arizona! it was really beautiful and it wasnt so bad being only 6 hours away from california well i'm gonna have to get back into sync around here see ya.
Bon voyage
i am glad that u had a nice time cheri ..i hope to catch ya on chatting..
glad to see you're back! also glad that you had a good time!
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Dan Morain: Money lures politicians, and FBI
Sen. Ron Calderon, whose Capitol office was searched by the FBI last week, may never be indicted or see the inside of a prison cell.
But ever since he arrived in Sacramento, Calderon's fundraising has intersected with his legislation, his lifestyle and his family. Democrats who control Sacramento have enabled it.
Calderon dwells on legislation that might seem trivial. But his bills can mean millions for the small groups of insiders who seek his assistance. It's a way of Sacramento. Business lobbyists seek narrow legislation on behalf of clients. Certain lawmakers dutifully agree. The interests dole out donations. It's perfectly legal.
Not much has changed from the mid-1980s when FBI agents posing as businessmen from the South sponsored a phony bill to create a fictional shrimp processing plant, and used money as bait.
On Aug. 24, 1988, they raided the Capitol offices of several legislators in what became known as Shrimpscam. One of those lawmakers was Sen. Joseph Montoya, a Democrat from La Puente.
"You're scared. You're scared to death," Montoya told me last week, recalling what went through his mind when he arrived at work on Aug. 25, 1988. "The bogeyman at the time was not the IRS, but the FBI."
The FBI executing a search warrant is not an indictment or a conviction. Still, feds don't search the offices of duly elected officials lightly. Montoya guesses that for Calderon, the gravity of the situation might not have sunk in.
"Eventually, he'll end up understanding there is nothing more powerful than the federal government," Montoya said.
There is a certain symmetry to it all.
In 1978, Montoya won a San Gabriel Valley Senate seat by knocking off an incumbent who was the focus of an FBI investigation. After Montoya's conviction and resignation in 1990, Ron Calderon's oldest brother, Charles Calderon, won the seat. Ron Calderon now represents some of Montoya's old turf east of Los Angeles.
Montoya has served his debt to society, and talked over coffee at Les Baux, an east Sacramento bistro owned by a former Senate fellow.
At 74 and remarried, Montoya stays active, overseeing real estate investments and chatting with cronies from his Senate days. He is sharp, witty, tough, angry and hopes one day to prove his innocence.
In office, Montoya made serious money by buying up real estate and making winning bets on stocks. He traveled the world, paid for by various interests, and made a practice of taking honorariums, payments made for giving speeches, no matter how brief, or showing up at prearranged meals, comped, of course.
He took in $50,000 in honorariums in 1986, second only to then-Speaker Willie Brown.
During his trial, prosecutors showed jurors a video of Montoya accepting a $3,000 check over breakfast from an FBI undercover agent who posed as a shrimp company owner lobbying for legislation authorizing construction of the processing plant. Montoya assured the agent he would support the measure.
Montoya entered a federal prison camp in Kern County, Boron – he calls it the Boron Institute of Technology – in July 1990, and served five years. In 1991, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned convictions on five of the seven counts against him, but upheld racketeering and money laundering charges.
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier in 1991 had ruled that in a corruption case, jurors must find there is "an explicit promise or undertaking by the official to perform or not perform an official act" in exchange for a campaign contribution or, in Montoya's case, an honorarium. That decision could become highly relevant to Calderon if he ever is indicted.
Honorariums since have been banned. But there are other ways for legislators to live well while doing the public's business, as Calderon demonstrates.
He is a regular at fundraisers and conferences at Pebble Beach and in Hawaii, and helps pays for his lifestyle by convening fundraisers in Las Vegas and at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.
Diversity PAC, a political action committee operated by the Calderons, spent $82,941 between 2009 and 2012 at exclusive Bandon Dunes Golf Course on the Oregon coast. Ron spent another $5,880 at the Dunes through a legal defense fund he once set up.
Calderon reports paying $157,000 in consulting fees to a brother, Tom Calderon, and Tom's consulting firm, Calderon Group. Tom, a former assemblyman, has been raising money to run for Ron's Senate seat when Ron is termed out next year. Perhaps he will ask himself what his legacy might be.
Imagine that you have the high honor of being elected to serve the people of the state of California. You might spend your time trying to make the tax code fair, improving education, or figuring out how to feed the poor.
Ron Calderon proposed Senate Bill 777, to expand the market for fireworks by permitting them to be sold during the days leading up to New Year's Eve. The bill proposes to deal with the disposal of seized fireworks, which contain hazardous material. To help pay for disposal, the bill would permit the state fire marshal to sell seized fireworks.
But a Senate analysis cited a problem: "Staff believes that it is unclear whether the firework sales would generate enough revenues to offset the costs of the sell-back program. This bill does not create a reimbursable mandate."
Despite the doubts about funding for disposal, the California Senate approved the bill 31-6, and sent it to the Assembly. Over the years, the bill's backer, a fireworks manufacturer out of Alabama, has donated $3,500 to Calderon, who has carried similar bills in past sessions.
Then there was Calderon's 2007 legislation legalizing the sale of running shoes made of kangaroo leather through year 2011. The Senate and Assembly approved it, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed it into law.
In 2010, Calderon pushed through a follow-up bill that permitted the sale of kangaroo shoes until 2016. The Senate approved it 23-5. The Assembly approved it 53-19. Again, Schwarzenegger signed it.
Adidas, which sought the legislation, has been a minor campaign donor in California.
However, as the bill awaited a final vote in August 2007, Adidas gave $1,500 to then-Assemblyman Charles Calderon, and paid $1,230 for a Ron Calderon fundraiser.
Adidas donated $2,360 to Ron Calderon in October 2007, two days before Schwarzenegger signed the bill into law, and contributed $13,600 to the California Democratic Party during the fall of 2007. Such is the way of Sacramento, enabled by politicians who control the town.
In 1989, the Los Angeles Times quoted Montoya as offering this wisdom: "We're all on the borderline of being felons (because) there are votes being switched for money. If we're not there, we're on the verge of it."
Not much has changed.
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A letter going out to doctors Thursday details "calamitous consequences" and pins the blame on the Illinois State Medical Society for lobbying against proposed legislation to transfer $9.6 million to the unit.
Eighteen positions are targeted for elimination, including more than half the investigators whose work ultimately protects patients from bad doctors.
Medical society president Dr. William Werner says the legislation required borrowing against future money collected by the fund that supports the medical unit. He says it's time to restore money that was raided from the fund by previous General Assemblies.


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80 million year old dinosaur feathers were found in amber deposits in Alberta. The feathers tell us not only about their shape, but suggest their color as well.
I have in my mind an image of T-rex done up like big bird in a feather boa. Well maybe not that.
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A 60-year-old maid in Lokeren, Belgium, was crushed to death yesterday when the folding convertible top on her employer's BMW mysteriously closed on top of her neck. Police believe she was cleaning the car at the time, which offers little solace or explanation as to how this can happen. Good morning world, meet your new phobia.
If the car's folding top activated without any interference then BMW's got problems and, oh yeah, will you excuse me while I hide in my closet the next time I'm asked to drive one. Fortunately, this is the least likely scenario.
The BMW was described as partially out of a garage, indicating she likely turned the car on and moved it for better access. If the car is on she could have engaged the folding top by leaning against the key or accidentally hitting the close button. Even if the folding and subsequent crushing isn't BMW's fault, the system should sense when there's interference and shut down.
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Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is like a lot of 15-year-olds: He tries to be smarter than he is while acknowledging he knows little, and he tries to do the right thing while admitting he can't let principles stand in the way of progress. His current issues: Trying to win and keep the heart (and sexual advances) of Jordana (Yasmin Paige), and preventing his mom (Sally Hawkins) from drifting away from her husband (Noah Taylor) and into the arms of her ex-lover, a ridiculous "mystic" named Graham (Paddy Considine).
The buzz: No one will accuse "Submarine" of breaking new ground. Writer-director Richard Ayoade practically plants a big kiss on the mouth of films such as "The 400 Blows," "Rushmore," "Harold and Maude," "The Squid and the Whale" and even "Rocket Science." Bonus: Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys wrote the songs for "Submarine."
The verdict: Hold off on that lawsuit, Wes Anderson. Any addition to the very tall pile of coming-of-age stories is worthy when it boasts darkly witty writing so zeroed in on a 15-year-old's irrational view of the world. The little lines and details are everything in "Submarine." Priceless highlights: Mom asking Oliver if his black eye was self-inflicted; dad memorizing the hotline to report potholes; and Oliver's affinity for routine searches of his parents' bedroom. None of these crosses the too-quirky line. The movie's a giddy ode to cinema and the dizzying naivete of adolescence, when who you are might not be as important as developing a persona. Hindsight couldn't exist without those kinds of mistakes.
Did you know? Graham's got both a mullet and spiky hair on top of his head, which is a great way of twisting the phrase, "Business in the front, party in the back" to "Party on the top, after-party in the back, baby."
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Crystal Fairy and An Oversimplification of Her Beauty open Friday, July 19 in Bay Area theaters.Read More
Mosquita y Mari by local filmmaker Aurora Guerrero is now available to watch on DVD - buy it now or queue it on Netflix!Read More
Over the years of SFIFF we've seen many forms of love, and we would love to share them with you. Scroll over the images for captions.
Rosemarie DeWitt and husband Ron Livingston at the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 28, 2012. Photo by Pamela Gentile
Satyajit Ray Award recipient Sally Potter recipient and director Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes) at a cocktail reception at 36th San Francisco International Film Festival, May 8, 1993. Photo by Pamela Gentile
Father and son directors Melvin and Mario Van Peebles at the 36th San Francisco International Film Festival, 1993. Photo by Pamela Gentile
Annette Bening and Akira Kurosawa Award recipient Warren Beatty attend the 45th SFIFF Film Society Awards Night, 2002. Photo by Pamela Gentile
Film Society Directing Award recipient Taylor Hackford (The Idolmaker) with his wife Helen Mirren at the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival. Photo by Pamela Gentile
Another addition to our selection of SFIFF-related films available to stream on Netflix: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry - on the short list for an Academy Award for Best Documentary - and The Do-Deca-Petathlon! See our WATCH page for the complete list of films.
What else do you need to know? Turn up the volume and enjoy!
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Journey's Arnel Pineda gave us a little a cappella treat to ring out the festival.
Rachel Rosen is Director of Programming at the Film Society.
I'm a film viewer who mostly enjoys the whole ensemble; what I truly relish are the particular details of well-dressed characters. It is with this particular taste that I present a montage of some of my favorites: the lessons from the stylists, costume designers, cinematographers, directors, and others with 'the eye' behind these films enjoyed on the SFFS and SFIFF screens.
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
When you cite that style and fashion are essential to a narrative scene, you are indeed hailing the Queen who coined it. With all my respect (and credit card bills), this broad re-schooled us all again on the imaginative and dripping richness of why we all need to dress well!
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
Much of the film celebrated the unclothed body, but hey, I'm giving props to the dame whose iron will lead her to wear the same dress for over 90 days!
Chicken with Plums
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We all love vintage throwbacks and the Italians have it on lock down. Maybe it's in their flared pants. Maybe it's the sheen of their fine merino knits. Maybe it's that shine of those Gucci shoes. Regardless, if it's 70s, for the love of fashion, get Italian.
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I know, 80s fashion is already passe. But 80s hand picked by le French is haute couture.
It all starts here! This is the core staff for SFIFF55, who all worked their asses off to make the Festival happen. Photo by George F. Gund
One of my favorite red carpet moments was early in the Festival, when the folks from The Fourth Dimension came through for their world premiere. Here's Harmony Korine and Val Kilmer, whose segment "The Lotus Community Workshop" kinda blew my mind. Photo by Tommy Lau.
One of the highlights at SFIFF every year is the pairing of silent films with contemporary musicians performing new scores, and this year we had Merrill Garbus and tUnE-yArDs with Ava Mendoza accompanying Buster Keaton shorts. It was an inspired match, and everyone had a blast. Photo by Pamela Gentile.
One of my favorite sights on earth: a full Castro Theatre. Any time I see this, I know we're doing something right. Photo by Pamela Gentile.
Look at this classy guy. Kenneth Branagh came to town to receive the Founder's Directing Award at the Festival this year, and just charmed the pants off everyone. This arrival photo just kills me; it doesn't get any smoother than that. Photo by Tommy Lau.
We gave a new award this year in honor of our late friend and leader Graham Leggat, which went to Benh Zeitlin. Beasts of the Southern Wild is amazing, and I know Graham would have loved it and would have gotten along famously with Benh. Photo by Tommy Lau.
On day four of the Festival, a fire alarm went off at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas and cleared the building, spilling six packed houses onto the sidewalk in front. For me this moment is a great testament to the skill and efficiency of our Operations crew, who got everyone out, then back in, and got those films running again with a minimum of disruption to the day's schedule. Those guys rock. Photo by Tommy Lau.
The Closing Night film at SFIFF55 was Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey, and we had all the members of Journey there to help celebrate their hometown premiere. New frontman Arnel Pineda is an amazing guy and is super down-to-earth considering the hurricane of superstardom that has swept him up. Photo by Tommy Lau.
The event I was most sorry to miss this year was David OReilly Says Something, at which the animator showed selections from his work, and then…apparently said something. His stuff is super weird (check him out here), and I would have loved to hear more about it. Photo by Stefan Jora.
For the duration of the Festival we were also presenting an exhibition in our KinoTek series of cross-platform and multimedia work, featuring interactive artist Karolina Sobecka. Very cool stuff. My favorite piece was the projection of a dog in the window in front of the gallery, which would bark at people and interact with them as they walked by on the sidewalk. Photo by Pamela Gentile.
Probably the hottest ticket at SFIFF this year was Sam Green's live cinema program The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller. I had the great honor to be there; the piece was moving, funny, informative, entertaining and just plain fascinating. And oh yeah, that's Yo La Tengo in the back supplying tunes. No big deal. Photo by Pamela Gentile.
I'm not really sure what's happening in this photo, but I have a crazy crush on Rosemarie DeWitt, and she can do whatever her adorable self wants. Also, Your Sister's Sister was awesome. Photo by Pamela Gentile.
Barbara Kopple, who was selected for this year's Persistence of Vision Award, shares a moment of mutual adoration with our Rachel Rosen. Photo by Pamela Gentile.
My favorite portrait of the year has to be this one of Chris Nilan, subject of Alex Gibney's doc The Last Gladiators, about violence in ice hockey and the role of "the enforcer" on the team. This guy got famous beating by dudes bloody and never losing a fight, and doing so WHILE WEARING ICE SKATES. Bad ass. Photo by Pamela Gentile.
Local filmmaker Barry Jenkins emcee'd the Golden Gate Awards this year, and did a fantastic job. Also, he can wear the hell out of a suit. Photo by Pat Mazzera.
Here are a few of my favorite photos taken at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival. It's my great pleasure to work closely with the outrageously talented photographers that document our big show every year, and they captured some fantastic moments in 2012.
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Happy Thursday—SFIFF55 hit The Fourth Dimension is now streaming in full! Get motivated!
Interesting article from SF Weekly about the depiction of porn culture in mainstream cinema. If you missed it at SFIFF55, check out About Cherry at the Castro on Friday! Stephen Elliott and Lorelei Lee in person.


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Tsunami forecast models 'too simple', say researchers
Tsunami forecasting could be significantly improved if the computer models used to predict wave behaviour were to incorporate data on the waves' complex behaviour as they come into shore and break, according to researchers.
Writing in a themed issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, the researchers describe the current state of tsunami dynamics and forecasting, and suggest policy changes aimed at better protecting seaside communities.
They note that tsunami warning systems have generally improved, thanks to the deployment of ocean buoys tethered to the seabed, which can detect underwater earthquakes.
"Once the initial data are known, forecasting the propagation of the tsunami across the open ocean is relatively easy," according to one of the paper's authors, Harvey Segur, a tsunami expert at the University of Colorado Boulder, United States.
Currently these data are fed into computer models that incorporate 'shallow water equations' that aim to describe how a tsunami will behave. But these equations are "too simple" to accurately model highly complex wave behaviour once it nears a shoreline, Segur told SciDev.Net.
"Those [computer] codes have been around for 20 or 30 years and [the tsunami modelling community] has not thought seriously about what happens when the waves break," he said.
He welcomed moves within the modelling community to develop equations that are capable of responding to more complex real-world situations, saying it would enable government authorities "to be a lot clearer about who needs to evacuate and who doesn't".
Adrian Constantin, professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna in Austria, says part of the problem is a lack of communication between — on the one hand — mathematicians and fluid mechanics researchers, and planners who handle practical applications of tsunami modelling.
Some South–East Asian city planners still rely on shallow water equations, he said, despite their shortcomings.
"These equations are good far out, but when you approach the beach they are not good enough, one has to do something more refined," Constantin told SciDev.Net.
Segur's co-author, Diego Arcas from the Center for Tsunami Research at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said despite the problems with shallow water equations, they do provide a valuable guide for authorities to respond to a tsunami threat after an earthquake.
"Even though all these errors are present in current tsunami forecasts, they are small enough that most of the time one can forecast the size of the tsunami, its arrival time and decay rate quite accurately, which provides invaluable information to emergency managers," he said.
Link to abstract in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
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Environmental Protection Agency cannot be trusted to provide accurate information about health threats
Paul Joseph Watson
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The wildfire that threatens to consume the Los Alamos nuclear lab in New Mexico is now approaching the perimeter of the facility, with the Environmental Protection Agency on radiation alert for the deadly consequences of 20,000 barrels of nuclear waste going up in flames.
Having been miles away from the nuclear lab just yesterday, the fires have now reached to within 50 feet of the facility, with officials fearing a "major calamity" because the nuclear waste is not securely contained in a concrete structure, but is unbelievably stored "in a sort of fabric-type building that a fire could easily consume," according to former top security official Glen Walp.
"The concern is that these drums will get so hot that they'll burst. That would put this toxic material into the plume. It's a concern for everybody," said Joni Arends, executive director of the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, an anti-nuclear group.
The EPA has responded by bringing in "air monitors, along with a special airplane that checks for radiation levels," reports ABC News.
The 95-square-mile fire has turned the city of Los Alamos into a ghost town, with 12,000 residents evacuating on Monday.
The EPA's trustworthiness on reassuring Americans that there is no danger from radiation released into the atmosphere is likely to be somewhat lessened by what happened following the Fukushima disaster earlier this year.
As the Fukushima radiation plume took just days to arrive in the U.S., instead of advising Americans to take weaker forms of potassium iodine to build up their immunity to certain types of radioactivity, the EPA simply increased the allowable levels of the radioactive isotope iodine-131 by many thousands of times, despite the fact that within just two weeks of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that crippled the nuclear plant, the amount of radiation released from Fukushima already rivaled that of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster up until that point.
Within weeks of the Fukushima crisis, levels of radioactive Iodine-131 found in rainwater in California, Idaho, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, was already 181 times the U.S. federal standard for drinking water.
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However, the EPA reacted by encouraging Americans not to take potassium iodide or any protective measures whatsoever. Indeed, Barack Obama all but insulted Americans who had responded by buying up supplies of potassium iodide pills as a precaution.
It's little surprise that huge numbers of Americans responded to Fukushima by creating a run on potassium iodide pills and geiger counters. As the sustained cover-up by the Japanese government has once again proven, governments cannot be trusted to tell the truth about public health threats.
Nowhere was this more evident in the case of the EPA than in the days following 9/11, when ground zero workers were told that the air was "safe to breathe," a contrived cover-up on behalf of the EPA and the White House that led to thousands of crippling illnesses and deaths of firefighters, police and first responders.
Despite official assurances that residents in surrounding areas were safe, the 3 Mile Island accident, which was miniscule compared to Fukushima, also led to a dramatic rise in cancer rates.
Should wildfires consume the nuclear waste stored at Los Alamos, the U.S. government will not be able to protect its citizens. As CNN highlighted during the height of the Fukushima crisis, the federal government has never purchased enough potassium iodide pills to meet that standard.
"There is currently only enough of the medication available for populations living within 10 miles of nuclear reactors in the United States, according to U.S. officials," stated the report.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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Big Oil should be ashamed
Just two weeks after the U.S. EPA denied several state requests to waive the renewable fuel standard—pleas made under the banner of drought, lower crop yields and the possibility of higher crop prices (EPA determined waiving the RFS would only reduce corn prices by a meager 1 percent)—Big Oil and Big Food have launched an all-out attack on biofuels and the RFS … once again.
Are you as tired as I am from watching associations that represent the most profitable corporations in the world spend millions, who knows, maybe billions, of dollars to squash small, green American businesses? What degree of absurdity must be achieved before the public reacts to these borderline travesties of justice? How do you feel knowing that when you put gas in your tank at the local filling station, a portion of that huge bill—not the much larger chunk that lines Big Oil executives' pockets—is spent on media campaigns and lobbying Congress to wipe alternative, renewable fuels out of existence? If you're anything like me, it enrages you.
During a media call this week with American Petroleum Institute's Bob Greco, he led his introductory remarks by saying, "Let me first be clear that our member companies support renewable fuels." If this is true, then why have the associations that represent these "biofuel-supporting" companies made their life's work out of viciously opposing biofuels time and time again based on the same fallacious merits? I think we know better.
On that call, I read to Greco a few lines from API's news release regarding the lawsuit it filed against EPA, in which API made specific mention of EPA's restructuring of the RIN program that has "yet to be resolved" (one of its reasons EPA should reconsider its decision to increase the mandate 28 percent for 2013), and then I asked him why API hasn't acknowledged progress made by EPA in this effort, evidenced by the early release of draft QAP guidelines for EPA-approved RIN verification programs.
"We have not overlooked that," he responded. "In fact, we have pushed EPA to move faster on this."
Really? How's that? By bogging the agency down with petitions to waive or scale back the RFS, over and over and over again to no avail?
"The other critical reality is that the RFS program was enacted at a time when our nation's energy landscape was far different," Greco said. "With the current boom in domestic oil and natural gas development, we are steadily reducing our foreign energy dependence, well beyond what the RFS program has achieved. Also, the increasing use of affordable, plentiful domestic natural gas supplies has helped drive a decline in greenhouse gas emissions. The notion that we need an RFS to promote energy independence and security, as the 2007 statute is named, has been turned on its head by the tremendous growth in domestic oil and natural gas."
While the energy landscape may have changed since 2007, some things haven't. Oil is still nonrenewable. Fossil fuel is finite. Continued extraction of carbon-rich oil, natural gas and coal from deep underground for combustion and release into the atmosphere is expediting climate change. Expanded combustion of fossil fuel will continue to cause declines in the air quality of our nation's—our world's—cities, leading to greater cancer rates and other serious, terminal health problems. The world's fresh and salt water supplies, already stressed from the past 100-plus years of oil exploration, will continue to decline, particularly when new methods to extract more oil and natural gas use chemicals that A) are not required to be disclosed, and B) continue to threaten the health of wildlife and groundwater supplies. And the biggest thing that hasn't changed since 2007 is that we still cannot trust Big Oil to do or say what's in the public's best interest.


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When it rains, it pours. Today, the official YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 has received a massive makeover, bringing new features and becoming more than just a web-wrapper for the popular video streaming site.
Version 3.0 is now going live in the Store (depending on region) and brings a new UI, High, Medium and Low video quality settings, pinnable channels, ability to download videos for offline play, play under Lockscreen and more. Indeed, it's just about everything most casual users could want in an official YouTube client.
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The sound of water lapping gently on the shore… the crank of the reel and sudden splash in the water…. the hum of the trolling motor… the flickering hues of gold, orange and red reflecting in the water from the setting sun… the call of the loon… These memories and more are stored away for many Minnesotans and are just waiting to be recalled…
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There is not another state in the U.S.A where fishing has had a more significant impact on the economy, heritage, history, and past time of the state's residents and visitors. For these reasons alone, it is appropriate and fitting that Minnesota have a fishing museum and educational center solely dedicated to preserving that heritage.
Presently the Minnesota Fishing Museum displays over 10,000 fishing-related artifacts. A log cabin set recreates an old time fish camp at the lake. A large diorama depicts a typical spearing dark house on a frozen lake, complete with a Northern Pike moving in to be taken. Numerous displays showcase the artifacts found in many anglers' tackle boxes throughout the years. Motors dating from 1902 are displayed throughout. The aquarium with live native fish is the focal point for learning and just relaxing. The Minnesota record fish display inspires anglers to catch "the big one"
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1 For further description and discussion of online resources, online courses, virtual schools, virtual classrooms, and virtual schooling, see Cathy Cavanaugh and Robert L. Blomeyer, eds., What Works in K-12 Online Learning (Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education, -December 2007).
2 John Watson and Jennifier Ryan, Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: A Review of State-Level Policy and Practice (November 2007). Available online from the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) at http://www.nacol.org (last accessed June 27, 2008).
3 Liz Pape, Mickey Revenaugh, John Watson, and Matthew Wicks, "Measuring Outcomes in K-12 -Online Education Programs: The Need for CommonMetrics." Distance Learning 3, no. 3 (2006): 58.
4 Ibid, p. 58.
5 Cathy Cavanaugh, Kathy Jo Gillan, Jeff Kromrey, Melinda Hess, and Robert L. Blomeyer, The Effects of Distance Education on K-12 Student Outcomes: A Meta-analysis (Naperville, IL: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004), p. 25. Available at http://www.ncrel.org/tech/distance/k12distance.pdf (last accessed June 30, 2008).
6 Available online at http://www.wisconsin eschool.net (last accessed Feb. 15, 2008).
7 Laura M. O'Dwyer, Rebecca Carey, and Glenn Kleiman, "A Study of the 39, no. 3 (2007): 289-306. Effectiveness of the Louisiana Algebra I Online Course," Journal of Research on Technology in Education
8 Laura M. O'Dwyer, Rebecca Carey, and Glenn Kleiman, "The Louisiana Algebra I Online Initiative as a Model for Teacher Professional Development: Examining Teacher Experiences," Journal of Asynchronous Technologies 11, no. 3 (September 2007).
9 Debra Friedman, Evaluation of the First Phase of the Washington Digital Learning Commons: Critical Reflections on the First Year (Seattle, WA: Digital Learning Commons, 2004). Available at http://www.learningcommons.org/about/files/YearOneEvaluation.pdf (last accessed Apr. 14, 2008).
10 Tom Clark and Elizabeth Oyer, Ensuring Learner Success in CPS/VHS Courses: 2004-05 Report and Recommendations (Chicago: TA Consulting & Evaluation Solutions, 2006).
11 For more information on FERPA, see http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html.
12 Michael Long and Helene Jennings, Maryland Public Television's Pathways to Freedom Electronic Field Trip: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study of Effectiveness (Calverton, MD: Macro International, 2005).
13 Laura M. O'Dwyer, Rebecca Carey, and Glenn Kleiman, "A Study of the Effectiveness of the Louisiana Algebra I Online Course," Journal of Research on Technology in Education 39, no. 3 (2007): 289-306.
14 Rosina Smith, Tom Clark, and Robert L. Blomeyer, A Synthesis of New Research on K-12 Online Learning (Naperville, IL: Learning Point Associates, November 2005). Available at http://www.ncrel.org/tech/-synthesis/synthesis.pdf (last accessed Mar. 5, 2008).
15 Cathy Cavanaugh, Kathy Jo Gillan, Jeff Kromrey, Melinda Hess, and Robert L. Blomeyer, The Effects of Distance Education on K-12 Student Outcomes: A Meta-analysis (Naperville, IL: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004). Available at http://www.ncrel.org/tech/distance/k12distance.pdf (last accessed June 27, 2008).
16 Gerald Stahler, "Improving the Quality of Evaluations of Federal Human Services Demonstration Programs," Evaluation and Program Planning 18 (1995): 129-141.
17 Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is intended to provide financial assistance to local education agencies and schools with high numbers or percentages of economically dis-advantaged children to help ensure all children meet state academic standards.
18 Nikola Filby, "Approach to Methodological Rigor in the Innovation Guides," working paper, WestEd, San Francisco, 2006.
19 What Works Clearinghouse, "Evidence Standards for Reviewing Studies" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 2006), p. 1. Available at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/study_standards_final.pdf (last accessed Mar. 24, 2008).