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The diagram below shows the creation of the EAD in Archivists Toolkit (AT) during processing. The archivists consider the copy in Archivists Toolkit to be the copy of record; however, we have found that reloading EADs containing links to component items modifies the links, and reexporting modifies them further. So we have altered our workflow. While the EAD in AT is the copy of record for analog material, the delivery EAD (containing the links to digitized content) will be stored separately. Every time EADs are modified by the archivists, they must go through the item-level linking process again.
1) EADs are exported by archivists from Archivists Toolkit and placed in the "new" or "remediated" folders in the share drive S:\Special Collections\Digital_Program_files\EAD directory.
2) Every Friday night, a script called "getEADs" (File:GetEads.txt -- this script no longer places the EADs live in Acumen) picks up these EADs, makes a datestamped directory in the "uploaded" directory there on the share drive (for example, "uploaded_new_20100803"), copys the EADs to the corresponding "uploaded" directory (so the archivists will know what was picked up when), and then places them in an "notInDbase" directory on libcontent (under /srv/deposits/EADs/).
3) "eadModsTester" (in/srv/scripts/eads/) looks for which ones we can link, outputs several lists of problems found, and creates FaList which is used by next script, of what can (and cannot) be linked.
4) "linkInContent" uses the FaList created by eadModsTester, and pulls EADs from /srv/deposits/EADs/notInDbase/. This script goes through the Acumen directories, reading box and folder values in the item-level MODS, hunts through the appropriate EAD to match up the location, creates PURL links and enters them into the EAD, puts unlinked version in /srv/deposits/EADs/unlinked, linked version in /srv/deposits/EADs/notInDbase and LINKED folder (in /srv/scripts/eads) after backing up previously linked version (datestamped) into backups (also in /srv/scripts/eads/).
Once a month, Jody collects all online EADs for linking in newly digitized content. After placing them in a single directory, she modifies a line in eadModsTester and linkInContent to point to this directory, and runs those two scripts (steps 3 and 4). Step 5 follows this monthly process.
5)THIS STEP FOR LINKING NEWLY DIGITIZED CONTENT into EADs previously uploaded. If any linking is done (previous step) linkedEADlive will copy the EAD into Acumen, place a copy in the /srv/deposits/EADs/new directory for uploading to the archive, and will give the archivists a copy over on the share drive, and also load a copy into the /srv/deposits/EADs/linked directory. Remaining EADs in notInDbase may be discarded, as they are old copies that did not link.
Note: Currently lists of problems found are being copied to the archivists area under S:\Special Collections\Digital_Program_files\EAD\Feedback into the summaries and byEAD subdirectories. What needs to be done here is a sorting: what changes need to be made to the EAD; what EADs must be linked by hand (already contain unlinked items); what collections require MODS remediation (item level metadata repair); and script errors.
5 alternative) THIS STEP FOR NEW or CHANGED (by archivists) EADS ONLY. "EadsToDbase" pulls from /srv/deposits/EADs/notInDbase/, updates the database (including replacing changed title and abstract); the values in the database appear in the online collection list (collection list), so it also puts the EADs live online in Acumen, and moves the copy from notInDbase to /srv/deposits/EADs/new.
6) "waitCheckEADs" checks to see if the EAD has changed from the last version cached. If not, it is deleted from the deposits directory. If so, it checks to see if this collection has been released into LOCKSS (and on what date). If it has, the script asks if you are going to go ahead and archive; if you say yes, the script will copy the existing manifest to one ending in "_LOCKSS_$date" where $date is today's date. We need this because LOCKSS collects each version of manifest, and we need to know how many bytes we have in the preservation architecture, as it impacts our costs. Try NOT to archive to a collection frequently, or within 2-3 weeks of release to LOCKSS.
7) Remove RelocateManifests. Uncomment $test = 1 in relocatingEads and run it.
7) "relocatingEads" pulls from /srv/deposits/EADs/new and locates where the EADs go in the archive, versioning as necessary and linking them into existing LOCKSS manifests, or creating new ones as needed.
Some discussion of the linking from EADs, instructions, and implementation, can be found in Linking_out_from_EADS. We are currently in the throes of analysis and repair of data entry in both the item-level metadata and the EADs to enable automated even more linking to digitized content from the finding aid.
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Government drops plans to ban veiled voting
"We have other priorities as far as increasing voter participation and with the expanded voting opportunities legislation," Steven Fletcher said in an interview.
"And that is our focus. That obviously will affect a lot more people."
Dmitri Soudas, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, confirmed the government still supports the idea of forcing voters to reveal their faces, but said the bill doesn't have opposition support.
"The bottom line is even if we were to proceed with legislation, it would be voted down immediately," Soudas said.
The government introduced the bill in October 2007, a month after an Elections Canada ruling allowed Muslim women to vote with their faces covered by burkas or niqabs during three Quebec byelections.
That decision infuriated the government, and Harper accused Elections Canada of subverting the will of Parliament, which several months earlier had unanimously adopted legislation beefing up voter identification requirements.
"I profoundly disagree with the decision," Harper said at the time. "The role of Elections Canada is not to make its own laws, it's to put into place the laws that Parliament has passed."
The government's proposed amendment to the Canada Elections Act would have made a limited exception for any voter whose face is swathed in bandages due to surgery or some other medical reason. It also would have given some flexibility to Elections Canada officials to administer the law in a manner respectful of religious beliefs.
Opposition parties initially supported the proposed legislation, but later backed off when the issue was more closely examined.
Chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand noted that the beefed-up ID requirements passed by Parliament in 2007 did not, in fact, authorize the agency to compel visual identification of voters.
Moreover, it was pointed out that thousands of Canadians have no photo ID. Requiring them to show their faces would be meaningless without photo identification against which to verify their identities.
The Elections Act gives voters three ways to prove their identification in order to cast a ballot: provide a government photo ID; provide two pieces of approved ID, at least one of which must state their address (but neither of which must contain a photo); or have another voter registered in the same district vouch for them.
The federal government's decision comes days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy said full-body gowns that are worn by the most conservative Muslim women have no place in France.
Sarkozy said wearing the burka or the niqab isn't about religion, but the subjugation of women.
"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity," Sarkozy said to extended applause in a speech Monday.
With files from The Canadian Press, The Associated Press

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New Canaan girls basketball team beats St. Joseph
TRUMBULL -- The New Canaan and St. Joseph High girls basketball teams entered Tuesday's game with just one win between them, the winner hoping a victory would get its season back on track.
Unfortunately for St. Joseph, the Rams' tenacity and persistence proved to be the deciding factor in a tightly played 47-43 win by New Canaan.
"It was a battle tonight," New Canaan head coach Kim Palmer said. "St. Joe's is a strong team with hard working players, and both sides played really well and didn't want to lose. Everybody fought to the final buzzer."
The score see-sawed throughout, with neither team dominating. For the first three quarters, no team lead by more than four, although the Cadets did own a slight lead in each of the first three frames.
"We take each quarter one by one; so we don't think about the past, we just move forward," said Palmer whose team outscored the Cadets 16-9 in the final frame.
It wasn't until the end of the fourth quarter that the Rams finally found their mojo. With 36 seconds remaining and the Rams trailing 43-42, New Canaan captain Courtney Rogers hit an clutch 3-pointer, and the Rams (2-2) never looked back.
"I just kind of felt like it was there, and I knew (my teammates) were there for the rebound if it didn't go in," Rogers said.
St. Joseph (1-4) was crestfallen to come up short in such a close game.
"We're not playing well right now," St. Joseph's head coach Chris Lindwall said. "We have the talent, and we have the ability, and we just have to put it in a performance."
As for the Rams, captain Georgia Hunsiger says the win gives her team a shot in the arm.
"We've had a rough start to the season," she said, "and this game is a great boost for our morale, both on and off the court, so I really think that will help improve our play.
"We did a good job with our passing, keeping it safe, and not giving away any silly turnovers," Hunsiger said.
The high scorer of the game was New Canaan senior Kelly Armstrong who notched 15 points, by dominating inside. Teammate Brianna MacEwan put up 10 points including two treys.The Rams were 7 for 16 from the foul line.
The Cadets' scoring was led by junior Mairead Donahue, who had 10, followed by Maite Gritsko with nine, and Jenn Vazquez with eight. St. Joe's was just 10-for-23 from the line.


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| State of New Jersey
Department Of The Public Advocate
240 West State St.
P.O. Box 851
Trenton, NJ 08625-0851
Phone: (609) 826-5090 Fax: (609) 984-4747
For Immediate Release:
February 28, 2007
Public Advocate
For Further Information
Nancy Parello:
Robyn Roberts
(Rate Counsel)
Tel: 973-648-2290
New Jersey Public Advocate Urges Consumers To Know Their Rights and Resources For Difficulty in Paying Utility Bills
Newark, N.J.—New Jersey Public Advocate Ronald K. Chen today urged consumers to know their rights and the resources available to them if they are experiencing difficulty in paying their energy bills.
"I want consumers to know that they have options and rights when it comes to paying for their utility bills," said Chen. "Consumers may meet the eligibility requirements of several programs that can assist them if they are facing extreme hardship in keeping up with their utility bills."
Chen said consumers should not wait until the last minute or when they are in crisis to communicate with their utility about what can be done to pay for energy bills. He said they should reach out to their utility companies and then see if they are eligible to apply for assistance from available energy programs.
Rate Counsel Seema M. Singh said utilities are obligated to abide by the Winter Termination Program – a program in effect from November 15 through March 15. The program prevents residential gas and electric customers who participate in the Lifeline, Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), Work First New Jersey/Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (WFNJ/TANF), Federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled (PAAD) from having their gas or electric service disconnected during the winter months. The program is administered by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. For more information on the Winter Termination Program, call 1-800-624-0241.
Several utilities also offer financial assistance help, so consumers should check with their utility. For instance, New Jersey Natural Gas offers the Gift of Warmth program to help customers pay their heating bills during times of financial hardship. The program is supported by the company's shareholders, employees and customers. For more information on the company's program, call 800-221-0051 or go to www1.njng.com/community/gifts.asp. New Jersey Natural Gas customers can also contact their appropriate county agency for eligibility information.
"The sooner consumers reach out and start the process in seeking assistance with their energy bills, the better," said Singh.
Singh also encouraged energy conservation as a way to reduce energy bills. Contact the Rate Counsel office for the free Consumer Conservation Handbook, which is filled with energy-saving tips. The book can be obtained by calling 973-648-2690 or visiting www.rpa.state.nj.us.
Information on energy assistance programs is available on the Rate Counsel's website www.rpa.state.nj.us and on the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities' website at www.bpu.state.nj.us. Programs include:
1. LIHEAP--(Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program)---800-510-3102 or http://www.nj.gov/dca/dcr/hea/index.shtml.
2. N.J. SHARES (Statewide Heating Assistance and Referral for Energy)--866-657-4273. The program provides assistance to individuals and families living in New Jersey who are in need of temporary help in paying their energy bills. To qualify for N.J. SHARES, a person or family must be facing a financial crisis and not be eligible for welfare.
3. The Universal Service Fund (USF)-- a program designed to help make energy bills more affordable for low-income customers, can be reached on the web www.energyassistance.nj.gov. or by calling 1-866-240-1347.
4. Lifeline Program-- offers $225 to persons who meet the PAAD eligibility requirements or who receive SSI. This includes utility customers as well as tenants whose utility bills are included in their rent. Lifeline benefits are provided for only electricity and natural gas. For more information, call 1-800-792-9745.
The Division of Rate Counsel is a division within the Department of the Public Advocate and represents the interests of consumers of electric, natural gas, water/sewer telecommunications, cable TV service and insurance (residential, small business, commercial and industrial customers). Additional information on this and other utility matters can be found at the Division's website at http://www.rpa.state.nj.us. The Department of the Public Advocate website is http://www.state.nj.us/publicadvocate.


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Kelly Holmes is amazed by the care her daughter Kassie received at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and the Mass General Transplant Center. A premature birth had left Kassie with developmental delays and severely damaged kidneys, ultimately requiring a kidney transplant.
"First we were told she had 48 hours to live, then one week, and now here she is, 14 years later," says Holmes.
Holmes remembers when her newborn daughter was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the infant's blood pressure was difficult to regulate. Kassie was placed on peritoneal dialysis and a variety of medications. She eventually came off dialysis, but she was left with chronic kidney disease.
"They didn't think she would ever walk, maybe not even talk," says Holmes, "They didn't think she'd get very far at all." Kassie's kidney function deteriorated over the years to dangerous levels. Finally she was faced with going back on dialysis or receiving a transplant. Her parents felt a transplant was the best option. To their relief, both were matches for their daughter.
"Kassie was a candidate for a transplant regimen that did not include steroids," explains Avi Traum, MD, pediatric nephrologist. "We felt this would be important for her, given the side effects associated with steroids. We also were encouraged that her parents were both potential donors, so Kassie could receive a pre-emptive transplant without having to suffer on dialysis."
On Aug. 18, 2009, Kassie and her mother had surgery at Mass General. Within three weeks, Kassie was "up and running."
"We've experienced major changes since her transplant," says Holmes. "Kassie has more energy, and she is much happier. Her teachers have noticed that her attention level is way up, as is her receptiveness to what she is learning." Kassie's appetite and strength also have improved dramatically.
"She now tells us she's hungry," says her mother, "And she has no restrictions – she can eat whatever everyone else eats. She has the energy to ride her bike again, and she can keep up with the kids on the playground. The level of care we received – from the physicians to the front desk staff – was incredible."
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Before my injury, I wasn't interested in having children. After my injury, I was told that it wasn't likely to happen... pretty much zero chance. At that time, I didn't really care. Skip ahead 27 years and now that a good number of quads are actually able to do so, things aren't so clear. I think that I would like to be a dad and would be a good dad at that, but given the fact that I'm 46 years old and not even dating, that prospect is as far away as the moon.
Anyway, in the last couple of weeks, I've had a fairly identical dream, twice. I find a baby lying down in the floor or a crib and I pick it up. I hold it to my chest, put my head down on its head and begin bawling. A huge rush of sadness overwhelms me and I wake up.
Last night it happened again. I feared that I would forget the dream so I asked Alexa to remind me. I've been off of Valium for a little over 5 weeks now and my dreams have been a bit more lucid. There's no way that I'm going back on Valium but I wish that I could stop these particular dreams.
Anyhow... life goes on.


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Since we don't watch much TV in my house (no cable in our neck of Virginia), movies are our main source of entertainment. We're always eagerly awaiting the release of a favorite film on DVD so that we can race to the local supermarket or department store to snap up a copy. (For my children, waiting for the latest Harry Potter DVD is like waiting for Christmas.)
But once a DVD is released, that's when things get tricky. Then you have to play "which store has the best deal?" For instance, I purchased a copy of "The Golden Compass" last week. But I had to look in three different stores before I found one with a decent price tag. The difference between the lowest and highest price was $6. That's a fair bit of pocket change. (Heck, you could buy a gallon and a third of gas for $6.)
That combination of wanting the newest releases and demanding the cheapest price is one reason that Apple just announced that it will no longer wait 30 days after the release of a DVD before selling the same movie on its online iTunes store. After signing a whack of contracts with movie companies (20th Century Fox, Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment, and First Look Studios), Apple will now make those movies available on iTunes for download the same day they are released in stores AND they'll sell it for a price that will be tough for competitors to match – $14.99.
It's all about convenience, and this is the latest attempt by Apple to corner the way people buy, watch, and listen to their entertainment. Apple had already been selling more than a few movies and TV shows via iTunes, but it obviously wasn't enough for boss man Steve Jobs. In fact, Mr. Jobs appears to be so eager to get people to shop for movies at iTunes that he's basically losing $1 on every movie.
Most experts see two reasons for Apple to sell these movies as a "loss leader." First, it wants movie fans to get hooked on the iTunes site for all their entertainment purchases. So when you drop by iTunes to pick up that copy of "The Golden Compass," you might also snap up a couple of tunes by Nine Inch Nails. And since you missed it, you'll buy last night's episode of "American Idol."
The second reason is that Apple wants you to use its gadgets. While movies can be downloaded to watch on either a Mac or a PC (only standard definition for a PC), they will also run on your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. They will not work on similar gadgets from other companies. Apple TV is the real fair-haired child here. Now that new versions of the software enable you to both rent and buy movies, Apple wants more people to fork over $299 for this extra set-top box that wirelessly connects your digital library to your TV.
(This is the same thinking behind Amazon's e-book reader, the Kindle. Its wireless connection gives you the opportunity to buy a book when you want it.)
Hear that sound of bells tolling? It tolls for the DVD. It only seems like a few weeks ago that Blu-ray won the format battle against HD-DVD. These high-definition movie discs promise next-generation visuals that will blow away the aging DVD.
Few people have bought into the idea, so it's not like the DVD will disappear tomorrow. But as Pacific Crest Securities analyst Andy Hargreaves said in an interview with Wired: Apple's digital distribution plan "points to the weak spots in Netflix's and Blockbuster's strategies."
Those two offer plans that let you rent DVDs through the mail, and both have dabbled in digital download deals that let users pay a monthly fee – not per movie like iTunes. But Netflix and Blockbuster have their hands tied by all the sticky content-rights issues that come with digital downloads.
"[Netflix] won't be able to get a lot of new content now, next month, or even four or five months from now," Mr. Hargreaves said. "Those issues don't apply to Apple since it's selling movies a la carte versus subscriptions."
Apple is also a step ahead because it doesn't need to transition between DVDs and digital files – it's been all digital from the start. But Netflix and Blockbuster will probably provide both options for customers for several years to come, until digital distribution is de rigueur for all movie rentals and purchases.
Of course, Microsoft is tooting its horn this week. It just announced that it's going to sell TV shows for download onto its Zune media player – two years after iTunes did that for iPods. (You can already download movies via Microsoft's Xbox 360 video-game consoles. But it's not a big market for the company.) Jobs has basically eaten Microsoft's lunch in this particular field.
Life just gets easier, eh? We can get our books, music, TV, and movies without ever having to move an inch from anywhere. I'm not sure that necessarily makes it a better world, but it sure makes it a more convenient one.


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- Description
With what Charles and Ray Eames called the "warm, receptive look of a well-used first baseman's mitt," this chair and ottoman have been instantly recognizable since their introduction. An innovative amalgam of traditional club chairs and the designers' experiments in molding wood, the set has not only endured, it has become one of the most significant furniture designs of the 20th century.
- Veneer
- Foam cushions
- Base: Black-enameled base with polished aluminum trim.
- Length: 32.75 inch
- Width: 32.7 inch
- Height: 32 inch
- Seat Height: 15 inch
- Length: 34.5 inch
- Width: 32.75 inch
- Height: 34.5 inch
- Seat Height: 15.25 inch
- Length: 21.55 inch
- Width: 26 inch
- Height: 17.25 inch
- All pieces hand-assembled
- Cushions individually upholstered and replaceable
- Back cushions interchangeable
- Shells: Lounge chair seat, back, and ottoman have molded veneer shells
- Cushions: Both chair and ottoman have 6 inch thick foam cushions upholstered in black Category 11 MCL leather.
- Glides: Available with adjustable glides for hard floors or carpet.
- Seat: Swivels.
- Base: Chair has 5-star black-enameled base with polished aluminum trim.
- Ottoman has a 4-star black-enameled base with polished aluminum trim.
- 28% recycled content; 37% recyclable
- Ships assembled
- Warranty: 5 years.
- Brand
By the middle of the 20th century, the name Herman Miller had become synonymous with "modern" furniture. Working with legendary designers George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, the company produced pieces that would become classics of industrial design. Since then, Herman Miller has collaborated with some of the most outstanding designers in the world, including Alexander Girard, Isamu Noguchi, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Studio 7.5, Yves Béhar, Doug Ball, and many talented others.
Today, in addition to their classic pieces and new designs for the home, Herman Miller is a recognized innovator in contemporary interior furnishings for the home or office workspace. Headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, Herman Miller has manufacturing facilities in the United States, China, Italy, and the United Kingdom and sales offices, dealers, licensees, and customers in over 100 countries. All of them work to design and build a better world around you.
While we might know them in a home furnishings sense, Herman Miller is also an innovator in health care environment solutions and other related technologies and services. Winning multiple awards in categories of design, environment and manufacturing, Herman Miller was named one of Fast Company magazine's "Most Innovative Companies" and was among FORTUNE magazine's "Best Companies to Work For" in 2010. Headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, Herman Miller manufacturers in the US, Italy, China and the United Kingdom. They are present in over 100 countries through licensed dealers, sales offices and customer homes.
Herman Miller values and celebrates design of the past and strives to redefine the future. Working with outstanding designers, innovative environmental policies, and standing behind their products makes them a leader in their industry and well on their way to bettering our world through good design. www.hermanmiller.com
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Herman Miller Eames® Lounge Chair and Ottoman Designed by:
- Charles & Ray Eames , 1956
Charles and Ray Eames
Charles, 1907 – 1978 / Ray, 1912-1988
The prolific body of work of Charles and Ray Eames, which spanned from 1941 to 1978, extended well beyond their major achievements in furniture design, graphic design, architecture and film. Their influence on the aesthetic and social aspects of design made them two of the greatest industrial designers of our time.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Charles Eames grew up in America's industrial heartland. As a young man he worked for engineers and manufacturers, anticipating his lifelong interest in mechanics and the complex working of things. Ray Kaiser, born in Sacramento, California, spent her formative years in New York's modern art movements and participated in the first wave of American-born abstract artists. They met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit in 1940. Cranbrook's creed of better living through better design shaped their sensibilities and their shared agenda. They married in 1941 and moved to Los Angeles as the city was gearing up for World War II. Wartime experiments with new materials and technologies inspired the Eames' low-cost furniture for Herman Miller and expanded ways for designers to work with industry.
In LA, they conducted plywood experiments in their apartment. The US Navy order enabled the Eames to rent an office on Santa Monica Boulevard in 1942 and to gather a group of collaborators including Harry Bertoia. They produced sculpture, chairs, screens, and tables in plywood. Herman Miller, the US furniture group, was persuaded to put some of these pieces into production by George Nelson, its head of design. All the Eames' plywood furniture combined an elegant organic aesthetic with a love of materials and technical ingenuity. After the success of the plywood pieces, the Eames focused on other materials, creating furniture in fiberglass, plastic, aluminum and, for the 1956 lounge chair, leather and rosewood. The Lounge Chair became an icon of the 1960s and 1970s, becoming a must-have for all hip executives.
Their collaboration with Herman Miller continued and extended to Vitra, its European partner. Charles and Ray were equally influential at making respectable the then-neglected folk crafts not only in the US but also in India. These concerns dominated their later work in the 1970s when, able to live comfortably on their Herman Miller and Vitra royalties, they concentrated their creative energy on propagating their ideas in exhibitions, books and films.
Charles died in 1978 and Ray worked hard to complete any unfinished projects but having done so, did not seek new ones. She devoted the rest of her life to communicating their ideas through talks and writing. Ray Eames died in 1988, ten years to the day after Charles.


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Newt Gingrich says government would impose 'Obamacare' standards on religious institutions
Newt Gingrich, on the campaign trail before the Florida GOP primary, called out the Barack Obama administration for engaging in a "war against religion."
Federal officials' interpretation of the 2010 health care law violates religious freedom, he said.
"Their decision last week that they would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance is a direct violation of freedom of religion, an example of the dictatorial attitude of this administration," he told voters in Jacksonville, Fla., on Jan. 30, 2012.
What decision was he talking about? One about birth control.
His campaign pointed us to criticism from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of a Jan. 20 decision that "ordered almost every employer and insurer in the country to provide sterilization and contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs, in their health plans," according to the group.
The bishops said "almost every employer and insurer."
We wondered, was Gingrich right that the Obama administration "would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance"?
'The Obamacare standard'
The rule Gingrich was talking about, announced by Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, addressed which preventive services must be covered by insurers without a co-pay, co-insurance or a deductible paid by the recipient of medical care.
We should mention: There's not a clear "Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance." The law provides for co-pay-free preventive care, which is what Sebelius clarified Jan. 20. And for individual and small-group plans, the law requires that policies cover "essential health benefits." They must include services in 10 categories, but the details have been left to the states.
The idea of co-pay-free preventive care stems from studies that show that even moderate co-pays kept women from getting care, such as mammograms or pap smears, according to HHS. The nongovernmental Institute of Medicine recommended that preventive services include "all FDA-approved forms of contraception." So that's what HHS decided to include in its final rule about preventive services.
Most health insurance plans will have to cover them without a co-pay, co-insurance or a deductible. For most new and renewed health plans, that requirement kicks in Aug. 1, 2012.
Religious exemptions
Notice we said that "most" health insurance plans will have to offer co-pay-free preventive care. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said "almost every employer and insurer."
Gingrich said, "every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution."
But the rule provides an exemption for "certain non-profit religious employers" that meet a four-part test -- essentially churches and synagogues, but also some primary and secondary religious schools.
It's that definition of "religious employer" that has prompted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, with the support of groups such as the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, to fight the rule.
That's because it wouldn't cover religious organizations that don't primarily employ or serve people of the same religion — ruling out many universities, hospitals and charitable groups.
That would require, say, a Catholic hospital to offer insurance coverage to its employees that included FDA-approved contraceptive drugs — which includes some drugs that Catholics consider abortion-inducing. Plan B and Ella prevent fertilization of an egg, prompting the FDA to categorize them as contraceptives rather than abortion-inducing drugs, but Catholics argue that Ella can be used like the abortifacient RU-486, which isn't considered a contraceptive by the FDA.
The government is giving such nonprofit religious groups an extra year to implement the preventive care requirements. But it won't exempt them.
The decision already faces legal challenges from Belmont Abbey College and Colorado Christian University.
Still, if you consider a Catholic church to be a "Catholic institution," or a synagogue to be a "Jewish institution," Gingrich isn't correct that the recent federal rule on contraceptives applies. Those nonprofit religious employers could choose whether or not they covered contraceptive services.
Our ruling
Gingrich said that "the Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."
He makes a broad statement in reference to a rule dealing specifically with co-pays for preventive care -- making it sound as though there's a blanket "Obamacare standard" for all insurance policies. The reality allows for states to set benchmarks for private individual and small-group plans.
Meanwhile, he ignores an exemption in the federal rule for nonprofit religious employers such as churches and synagogues. That exemption has been condemned by Catholic bishops as too narrow and has been challenged in court. But it makes Gingrich's statement that the rule would "impose on every ... institution" inaccurate and misleading. We rate it Mostly False.


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'You learn to read upside-down and backwards in this trade'
Molly Bloom wanted to write a book about her husband. Steve Cole may do it for her
Master printer Sean Sills (left), technical officer at NCAD's Distillers Press, and letterpress printer and book designer Jamie Murphy inspect antique wooden type on an Adwest flat-bed printing press. Murphy is seeking funding for The Works of Master Poldy. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
US-based James Joyce fanatic Steve Cole once celebrated Bloomsday by tweeting Ulysses , over 265,000 words, 140 characters at a time. This year he's resorting to older technology, forgoing ones and zeros to create a limited edition, letterpressed art book called The Works of Master Poldy .
"In Ulysses , Molly Bloom says she wants to make a book called The Works of Master Poldy based on things Leopold Bloom said," explains his Irish collaborator, Jamie Murphy, who operates the Salvage Press imprint from the Distiller's Press in NCAD's School of Visual Communications. "This is the first time anyone's done it, to my knowledge."
Murphy and Sean Sills, technical officer at Distiller's Press, are showing me around the print workshop. There are several printing presses of differing vintages. The walls are covered with beautifully handset posters. We stop at a wrought-iron hand printing press from the 1830s, still operational, with a decorative eagle perched on top.
"There's nothing here that would be unfamiliar to Gutenberg," says Sills, referring to Johannes, inventor of the printing press (not Steve Gutenberg star of the Police Academy movies). Letterpress was used, practically unchanged, for 500 years. Only in the 1980s was it largely replaced by desktop publishing.
There are 500 wooden cases of metal or wooden type in the workshop, most dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. "We have full families of some fonts," says Sills, "four different weights, every size and the same again in italic. We have a good collection of Caslon, Garamond, Centaur, Bembo, Plantin. And some beautiful old foundry Irish type used up until the 1960s." He hands me a block with a letter carved out of wood.
He shows me how they lay out paragraphs on the "composing stick". You learn to read upside-down and backwards, he says. Murphy stresses that you should never wear a watch doing work like this, because if you look at it you might tip two hours of work on the floor. Then you'd have to spend "another hour putting the letters back in the right part of the case." Each type case is laid out with all the letters and symbols always in the same position. "Like a QWERTY keyboard," says Sills. "The most regularly used letters are in the middle." The capital letters and numbers were once in a separate tray in the top. "Hence 'upper case' and 'lower case', says Sills.
[the letters] are called sorts," says Sills.
"When you're setting text, at some point you can run out of a particular letter, so you physically can't do any more. You're 'out of sorts'. If you don't set the type in the composing stick correctly, you've 'got the wrong end of the stick', and people say 'watch your ps and qs' because a 'p' looks like a backwards q and they're easy to mix up."
Sills is 63 and learned the craft when it was still the industry standard. Murphy, who is 28, entered the field when it was a niche artisan activity. "I went through NCAD 10 years ago and developed an interest in it," he says. "When I graduated I worked for commercial graphic design agencies and then opened my own design studio. But I got disillusioned. I wanted to be more hands on. You get your hands dirty doing this. Rather than composing and laying things out on screen, you're physically making it with your hands. You get covered in ink. There's a tactile quality I missed in graphic design. You'd always try and bring some kind of craft or making into your work but it's very difficult when everything you produce is on screen. Your work only ever exists as light."
There's been a bit of a resurgence. "We see more young people trying to acquire these skills," says Murphy. "I think there's a whole wave of designers now that don't want to look at a screen. It's like what happened with vinyl in music. I guess it's part of the same wave. It's taking off in a big way in the UK and the US. In the UK there are a lot of family run businesses producing incredible work."
They get lots of visitors. Authors like Roddy Doyle and Colm Tóibín have collaborated with them and international aficionados just drop in. "We had some Lithuanians in today," says Sills. "American professors yesterday. The chief librarian from Sydney library dropped by as well."
"We never get any work done," laughs Murphy. They'll meet more enthusiasts when they attend Oxford Fine Press Book Fair in November, which features art books that have been worked on for 20 years and rare tomes costing €20,000.
Murphy is hoping to crowd-source enough funding to create 120 hand-bound copies of The Works of Master Poldy (including 20 deluxe editions). He's passionate about printing.
"I feel every graphic designer should do a stint in here," he says. "It makes you slow down and consider every aspect of what's produced. Nowadays people can design something, send it to the printer and never even see the finished product. Here everything is hands on. And there's no 'I'll have this by two o'clock' unless you mean two o clock in two week's time. Nothing is throwaway. You consider the work that went into things. You look at something and think: 'This has taken someone 20 hours to produce' and there's a respect that comes with that."
To read more about The Works of Master Poldy go to indiegogo.com/projects/the- wit-wisdom-of-leopold-bloom


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2014 Outdoor: Placed 13th in both the long jump and the triple jump at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships… Posted a season-best leap of 12.59m (41'3.75") in the triple jump at the conference meet at Vermont… Recorded his best long jump of the year, 6.76m (22'2.25") while finishing fourth in the event at the 2014 Big Dawg Invitational at UMBC Stadium.
2013-14 Indoor: Competed in multiple field events during the winter season, placing seventh in the long jump and 15th in the triple jump at the 2014 America East Indoor Track and Field Championships in New York… Registered a top indoor long jump of 6.79m (22'3.5") at the conference meet at The Armory… Notched his top triple jump of 13.02m (42'8.75") at the Rider/Lafayette Winter Games.
Background: Helped Mount Hebron win its second straight Howard County championship as a freshman… Also lettered in football and basketball for the Vikings… A four-year member of the honor roll… Also received the state Minds in Motion award.
Personal: Son of Mark and Debbie Glaze… Has one older brother, Alex… Plans to major in business technology information and receive a minor in visual arts… Born June 13, 1994.


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(PMW) A "Palestinian historian" and a senior PLO official have denied that the Jewish nation has any historical connection to the Land of Israel, thus continuing the "Palestinian" Authority's ongoing historical revision. In an interview on official PA television, historian Nabil Alqam denied thousands of years of documented Jewish history in Israel, then replaced it with "4,000 to 5,000 years" of fictitious Palestinian history.
Nabil Alqam, PA "historian":
"Why does the occupation [Israel] concern itself with stealing, [cultural] theft, distorting and erasing the Palestinian heritage? Because it [Israel] seeks a history [in the land] while [Palestinian] heritage is a history that proves our connection to the land... [The Palestinian heritage] has historical depth of 4,000 to 5,000 years. And here [Israel] attempts to steal these symbols to create fake Israeli symbols and identity."Saleh Rafat, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, said earlier this month that Israel has even stolen "cuisine, clothing [and] architecture" that were Palestinian in origin and claimed they are part of Jewish history. He denies that the Jewish Temple ever existed, arguing that the tunnels near the Western Wall of the Temple ruins are merely the remains of old aqueducts:
[PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 22, 2009]
"We revive this [Palestinian] heritage and cling to it in order to counter all of the attempts by Israel, by the Israeli occupation, to steal the national heritage and to falsify it with the claim that it is their heritage - from cuisine to clothing, and architecture. Every part of our heritage in our land, they claim is their heritage - even the tunnels they are trying to dig beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque and under Jerusalem. Many of these tunnels are ancient tunnels that carried water to Jerusalem, and they [Israelis] claim that they are seeking an alleged Temple."Background
[Al-Filistiniya (Fatah) TV, Oct. 15, 2009]
For more than a decade, the PA has been conducting a longstanding, systematic campaign to deny Israel's right to exist, first by claiming there was no Jewish history in the Land of Israel and then by fabricating a "Palestinian" history for Jewish sites, artifacts and archeological finds.
Since 1998, PA academics and religious leaders have claimed that Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims all populated the land of Israel in biblical times and even earlier. This year, the Supreme Islamic Council of the Palestinian Authority declared that Arabs have been living in the land of "Palestine" since 7500 BCE [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 17, 2009].
Placing Arabs and Muslims in Israel in biblical times is historically impossible:
1. The name "Palestine" as a replacement for the Land of Judea/Israel was coined by Rome only in 136 C.E., and for nearly 2,000 years Jews were the only Palestinians the world recognized.
2. Islam was established only in 610 C.E.
3. Arabs first arrived in Israel with the Muslim invasion in 637 C.E.
For in-depth review of PA rewriting Jewish history and fabricating Palestinian history, click here. © Palestinian Media Watch – www.palwatch.org
See also:
- Fast Fatah Facts
- "Moderate Palestinian" Daily Cartoon: Jews Control the United States
- 'Moderate' Fatah Leader Barghouti Calls to Resume Terror
- "Moderate" Fatah Kills Two Israeli Policemen in Jordan Valley
- 'Obama committed to ejecting Jews from Judea-Samaria,' says Abbas
- Third Intifada? Israel worried "moderate" Fatah terrorists may resume suicide attacks


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By Alexandra Hudson
BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel will hold preliminary coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) on Friday and also plans to meet with the Greens, as she tries to play her potential partners off against each other at the start of a tough horse-trading marathon.
The SPD are seen as the chancellor's most likely partner, but they said on Monday they would not be rushed into a deal, suggesting the formation of a new government could drag on until January.
Germany's European partners are watching the coalition maneuvering in Berlin closely, concerned that delays could push back EU-wide decisions on important crisis-fighting measures like the ambitious banking union project.
"No one can say when we might get to the point where a government can be formed -- it could be December or January," said Andrea Nahles, general secretary of the SPD. "We won't be rushed."
There is deep resistance among SPD members to entering another 'grand coalition' with Merkel, after partnering with her in her first term and then plunging to their worst post-war result in the 2009 election.
Merkel's outgoing partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), suffered the same fate. After four years as her junior partner, they were booted out of the German parliament for the first time since 1949.
Nahles said the talks on Friday would examine whether policy compromises were possible. Once these preliminary discussions were completed, a group of 200 senior SPD officials from across Germany would have to give a green light before the party entered more formal coalition talks with Merkel's conservatives.
"I'd like to stress, that we can't go back to the party with empty hands," Nahles said.
The aim of the formal talks would be to agree a policy blueprint for the next government, as well as the allocation of top cabinet posts. At the very end, the SPD has said it will have to go back to its 472,000 grassroots members and seek their approval before agreeing to a coalition with Merkel.
This raises pressure on the chancellor to make compromises, but it also poses a major risk to the SPD leadership.
If ordinary SPD members were to reject a coalition deal negotiated by their leaders, party Chairman Sigmar Gabriel and other senior figures would probably have to step down.
"We'll have to gauge how serious the SPD are about negotiating, as so far they have made a lot of noise against a grand coalition," Hermann Groehe, the general secretary of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), told reporters.
He said Merkel would sound out the SPD on Friday but also invite the Greens to preliminary talks next week. The Greens are seen as unlikely partners for Merkel, in part because the environmentalist party is in turmoil after winning a disappointing 8.4 percent of the vote in the election.
The result forced several veteran Greens politicians to step down, and the party is in the process of finding new leaders and rethinking its policy approach.
The conservatives and SPD appear headed for a showdown over tax policy and key cabinet positions, including the influential finance minister post held by Merkel ally Wolfgang Schaeuble.
Leading conservatives have sworn to stand by their campaign promise not increase taxes. The SPD campaigned on a platform of tax hikes for top-earners to fund improvements in infrastructure and education.
Neither the conservatives or SPD would name their demands on Monday. Nahles said the initial meeting on Friday would not discuss how to distribute cabinet posts, though media reports say the party could demand six, among them the finance ministry.
In a sign of concern that coalition talks could ultimately fail, forcing new elections, President Joachim Gauck has taken the unusual step of inviting party leaders for one-on-one talks.
(Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke, Holger Hansen and Stephen Brown; Editing by Stephen Brown)


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Comparing how your city, county or even local sewage district pays its workers just got a whole lot easier.
Through a website run by the state Controller's Office, you can now check how much workers have been paid and how much of that pay came in addition to their regular salary.
For instance, the data shows that Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Garden Grove paid an unusually high amount of overtime to employees in 2011 when compared to other cities.
Overtime represented about 7 percent of total wages at the average city in Orange County and across the state. In Huntington Beach and Garden Grove, it represented 10.5 percent and 9.8 percent respectively.
And at 13 percent, Costa Mesa especially stood out in the statewide landscape. Out of more than 400 California cities, the rate of overtime in Costa Mesa ranked sixth.
These percentages don't necessarily indicate unwise spending. Some cities like Huntington Beach choose to pay more overtime instead of hiring additional workers.
"Our public safety departments have found that having officers work overtime is much more economical than hiring more officers," city spokeswoman Laurie Frymire wrote in an email. "We have found that salary, benefits and retirement combined are greater than time and a half."
More detailed information on the website, added this year for the 2011 pay data, makes it easy to compare government wages. Orange County paid an average of $64,087 per employee, ranking fourth among counties. Santa Ana paid an average of $83,542 per employee, ranking tenth among cities.
State Controller spokesman Jacob Roper said the office began posting the additional payroll data online in response to public feedback. City managers wanted more detail to compare compensation, and government watchdogs wanted more tools to prevent another Bell scandal.
"We are always looking for input and suggestions for what people would like to see," Roper said. "This is a work in progress."
Locally, some of the factors behind unusually high overtime vary. Not every city is in the position of choosing to spend more overtime.
John Clark, who oversees Garden Grove's workforce and treasury, attributed the amount of overtime to attrition. As firefighters and police officers have retired, he said, they haven't been replaced as quickly.
It takes about a year to replace an officer and six to nine months to replace a firefighter, he said. Even with new hires on the books, the training process puts more pressure on backs of veterans to keep up staffing levels.
"We're still not at full strength," Clark said. "We're still in the process of recruiting for both police and fire."
Clark said firefighters should be at full staffing by this fall and police officers by next spring.
In Costa Mesa, overtime fanned a heated battle last year between elected officials and firefighters. The city had cut firefighter positions but was still required by a labor contract to meet the same staffing levels.
As a result, firefighters said, the demand for overtime spiked. A handful of fire department employees nearly doubled their base pay in 2011. One battalion chief made about $109,000 in overtime alone.
Then, in September last year, the city and firefighters agreed to eliminate minimum staffing requirements as part of an amended labor contract. The firefighters union estimated the deal would cut about 75 percent of overtime.
In the years to come, using the state Controller's website, Costa Mesa residents will be able to check up on those claims and compare whether the amount of overtime remains unusual.
To visit the Controller's website, go to publicpay.ca.gov.
If you find anything interesting, please shoot me an email.
Keegan Kyle is an investigative reporter at The Orange County Register. He covers public safety and local government issues. What should he write about next?
You can contact him by sending an email to email@example.com or by calling (714) 796-4976. You can also follow him on Twitter (@keegankyle).


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Ukraine clashes resume, fires light up night sky
KIEV, Ukraine -- As riots spread from Ukraine's embattled capital to nearly half of the country, President Viktor Yanukovych promised Friday to reshuffle his government and make other concessions -- but a top opposition leader said nothing short of his resignation would do.
Hours after the president's comments, huge fireballs lit up the night sky in central Kiev and plumes of thick black smoke rose from burning tires at giant barricades erected by protesters.
Clashes resumed at the barricades, which are just yards from lines of riot police and also made up of bags of ice and scraps of furniture.
Angry demonstrators hurled firebombs, rocks and fireworks at officers. Riot police responded with tear gas and several dozen protesters were rushed to a makeshift medical triage area to be treated.
"We will force the authorities to respect us," 27-year-old protester Artur Kapelan said. "Not they, but we will dictate the conditions of a truce."
The fighting had stopped earlier this week as opposition leaders entered into face-to-face talks with Yanukovych.
But hundreds of demonstrators in ski masks and helmets were still armed with sticks, stones and firebombs at the Kiev barricades.
After nearly two months of ignoring mass demonstrations calling for his ouster, Yanukovych offered to meet some of their demands, after crowds angered by the deaths of at least two protesters and allegations of abuse by authorities besieged government buildings in scores of cities in western Ukraine.
At a meeting with religious leaders, Yanukovych vowed that, at a special parliament meeting on Tuesday, he would push through changes to his Cabinet, grant amnesty to dozens of jailed activists and amend harsh anti-protest legislation.
But Vitali Klitschko, an opposition leader who is a former world heavyweight boxing champion, declared the only way to end the street protests -- known as the Maidan after the central Kiev square occupied by demonstrators -- is for Yanukovych to resign.
"Just a month ago, the Maidan would have gone home," Klitschko told reporters Friday night, according to the Interfax news agency. "Today, people are demanding the president's resignation."
The protest law enacted last week appeared to have backfired on Yanukovych, sparking confrontations in which demonstrators threw stones and firebombs at police, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. The violence since Sunday was a harsh contrast to the determined peacefulness of the anti-government protests that have gripped the country for the last two months.
The rallies broke out after Yanukovych scrapped a key treaty with the European Union in order to secure a bailout loan from Russia. President Vladimir Putin had pressed hard to keep Ukraine in his nation's political and economic orbit, but more Ukrainians favor closer ties with the 28-nation EU than an new alliance with Russia.
At least two demonstrators were killed this week in clashes with police and protesters have seized government offices in cities in western Ukraine, where support for Yanukovych is thin.
In a separate incident, a protester was found dead outside Kiev this week after going missing from a hospital together with a prominent activist who was beaten but survived.
Meanwhile, protester anger boiled over as one activist recounted Friday how he was stripped naked, beaten and humiliated by police after being detained this week at a barricade in Kiev.
"They wanted to break my spirit and dignity but I stood firm," said Mykhailo Havrilyuk.
His plight shocked the country when a video of the abuse was posted online, showing him standing naked in the snow, covered in bruises and taunted by policemen. Protesters were further angered after Kiev courts on Friday placed about a dozen activists, detained in clashes earlier this week, under arrest.
On Friday, protesters continued occupying government buildings in a number of cities in western Ukraine, having forced two governors to resign and chasing another out of his office. Government buildings in many other cities were besieged by angry crowds.
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who spent several years backing the scrapped EU agreement with Ukraine, suggested that Yanukovych was losing control over the country. He posted a map of Ukraine on his Twitter account, where many regions were shown engulfed by protests.
"If Kiev regime tries a military solution to this situation, it will be very bloody and it will fail," Bildt tweeted.
EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele flew to Kiev on Friday to meet with Yanukovych and the opposition and try to broker a solution. The West has been urging Yanukovych to compromise with the protesters as well as threatening sanctions against his government.
"The country is sliding towards dictatorship and we must stop that," said Denis Nakhmanovich, a 33-year-old protester. "Molotov cocktails are louder than any empty words from politicians."
AP reporter Sveta Fedas contributed to this story from Lviv, Ukraine.


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Schroders Quickview: Chinese stimulus to boost sentiment, but not growth yet
The People's Bank of China (PBoC) moved to cut both the benchmark interest rate and reserve requirement ratio (RRR) today. The stimulus measures should help market sentiment, but we do not expect a resurgent China as a result.
- PBoC cuts interest rates by 25 basis points
- Reserve requirement ratio cut by 50 basis points
- Cuts are a positive for liquidity and lending
- China resurgence not on the cards
Liquidity restored
The cuts follow a disastrous few days on the equity markets, but we do not believe the PBoC wishes to reflate that particular bubble.
However, the magnitude of the slump in the stockmarket is likely to have a negative impact on sentiment, especially given a weak economic environment (we saw a much softer-than-expected manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) print last week).
Stimulus measures should help market sentiment, but we do not expect a resurgent China as a result.
In addition, the change in exchange rate policy which resulted in a devaluation of the renminbi has seen capital outflows, which in turn have reduced liquidity and led to tighter monetary conditions.
By cutting the RRR, alongside recent market operations, this liquidity is restored and lending supported. Interest rate cuts, meanwhile, should reduce borrowing costs for existing borrowers, particularly households and state-owned enterprises.
Will this stimulus drive a growth rebound?
We are doubtful:
- The RRR cut likely just restores lost liquidity.
- The interest rate cut, while helpful, probably just forestalls defaults, rather than encouraging investment in an economy beset by deflation, overcapacity, and high debt levels.
Further, previous rate cuts have done little to lower borrowing costs for new borrowers, as bank interest margins have been squeezed by asymmetric effects on deposit rates compared to lending rates.
This asymmetry has eased thanks to further deposit rate liberalisation, but banks may still seek to restore some of their lost margins, particularly given their mandatory participation in the local government debt swap.1.
In short, the stimulus measures should help market sentiment, but we do not expect a resurgent China as a result.
1. Banks' interest margins have suffered as a result of a programme implemented by the finance ministry that enables local governments to swap existing debts on which they are paying high interest rates for lower-cost bonds which banks are obliged to buy. While this is beneficial for local governments, the banks who lent them the money in the first place now have to accept coupon payments on the debt that are lower than the interest they could previously charge, which has affected interest income and margins.↩


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This is Sophita's Omega Sword from Soulcalibur IV. In the flesh. It's made not from polygons, but resin and styrene.
Buily by Harrison Krix, from Volpin Props, it's incredibly lightweight, and from his build log looks to have been as hard to construct as a real sword.
Sophitia's Omega Sword, Soul Calibur IV [Volpin Props]


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22 Jan Dana Gould and Greg Fitzsimmons
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Adam opens the show with a freshly shaved face and heated up about Senator Boxer's recommendation of Villaraigosa for the new transportation secretary. Dana Gould then enters the studio, and Adam shows him a depressing new traffic sign. The guys also talk about wiping their kids' butts. Greg Fitzsimmons then steps in and chats about a ranting contest he had with Jay Mohr. The guys also talk about magicians, Evel Knievel, and the passing of Huell Howser.
Alison opens the news discussing more details from the presidential inauguration, including the fact that Beyonce may have lip-synched her performance of the national anthem. The guys also discuss the celebs on Twitter with the most followers, and TSA's removal of certain body scanners. Adam also rants about Mike Love's hat, and breaks down some very car-specific lyrics in a Beach Boys song. As the show wraps up, Alison talks about Phil Mickelson threatening to leave California because of the high tax rates.
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Centralist party political structures are as corrosive of democracy as is the central State. On-message control freakery is not confined to Brown and Labour; independent thought is viewed every bit as dangerous by Cameron's Tory CCHQ. The whips' and party mandarins' worst nightmares are MPs such as Sir Partick Cormack (who Cameron tried unsuccessfully to deselect) who can say
I've had masses of letters from people who say they vote for me not because I'm Conservative but because they think I'm an independent-minded local parliamentarian. I've always taken the line it's country-constituency-party, in that order.Next to the Sir Patricks of this world they must hate blogging MPs, never mind blogging ministers.
Both Cameron and Brown are terrified of localism. They're terrified of losing control. They're scared of allowing local associations and web-alliances to push policy upwards, of leading looser coalitions of independent MPs whose priorities are, like Sir Patrick's, local. At the same time they realise British democracy is sinking fast - 98.6% of voters don't belong to a party, 16m voters boycotted the last general election and the Royal Yacht Association has more members than Labour - and that the central parties are every bit as culpable as the central State for this deadly corrosion.
But as comments both on Tom's blog and on Iain Dale's post about this show, once voters have a taste of this kind of democratic access they want more. The party leaders must face the reality that either we spiral ever downwards with parliament and MPs losing what little remains of their popular legitimacy, and the old central parties dying on their feet, or embrace a new political paradigm that includes blogging and looser central control. If Cameron fails to recognise this, the present hostility of the blogosphere towards Labour could well turn on him.


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"Eat In" Update
Step up and be counted! As of July 16, there were 157 Eat-Ins in 43 states signed up for the National Day of Action on Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2009, and new organizers are joining everyday.
Slow Food members and friends are organizing a National Eat-In for Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2009. On that day, people across America will gather with their neighbors for public potlucks that send our nation's leaders a clear message: It's time to provide our children with real food at school.
Visit this link to get started:
The Slow Food USA campaign web site will guide you through the process, and our campaign team is here to provide support. We'll give you everything you need to get involved, starting today.
Please be sure to communicate with Slow Food Seattle leadership at email@example.com and let us know if you need help promoting your event. If nothing else, please tell us about your plans. We want Seattle to come to the table on this one!
Last week, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee announced that Congress is extending its deadline for reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act. Leaders in the House and the Senate both say the bill is a top priority but given the current focus on energy and health care, the committees won't begin marking up the bill until October or November.
Next week, Slow Food USA will be sending all members a guide to inviting legislators and a sample letter to send them, along with more specifics around the communications and publicity efforts leading up to and beyond the National Day of Action.


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Presenting Better Treatments through Bioavailability Enhancement, Macromolecule Delivery and Optimized Tabletting
SOMERSET, NJ , January 18, 2013 – Two scientists from Catalent Pharma Solutions, the global leader in oral drug delivery technology, are to present at ExL Pharma's 2 nd Enhancing Drug Bioavailability and Solubility conference in Boston, MA. The conference will focus on emerging drug bioavailability and solubility enhancement strategies to maximize exposure and reduce the time-to-market of future drug products.
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, Stephen Abele, Principal Formulation Scientist, Catalent Pharma Solutions, will be joined by Tapan Parikh, MS, PhD Candidate, St. John's University, to present "New Modified-Release Technology & the Role of Physico-Chemical Properties of Polymers in Hot Melt Extrusion."
Mr. Abele and Mr. Parikh's presentation will explore the advantages of Catalent's OptiDose™, hot melt extrusion technology that offers solid dispersion in polymeric carriers to enhance dissolution rates and bioavailability, ultimately leading to better treatments. They will compare the advantages of OptiDose over traditional bi-layer, tri-layer, loosely compressed, tablet-in-tablet and any other modified-release dosage forms.
Later that same day, Irena McGuffy, Manager of Softgel Formulation for Catalent, will present "Novel Softgel Delivery Systems for Bioavailability Enhancement, Macromolecule Delivery and Life-cycle Management".
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Enjoy loose-leaf tea without the mess. Scoop the desired amount of tea into one side of this ball, then give the handle a twist. The ball closes with a snap, preventing tea leaves from falling out the sides. The long stainless-steel neck makes it easy to steep by the mugful.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for speed-limit signs in more places on Metro-North Railroad and cameras in the control cabs to monitor engineers and the tracks.
The agency is investigating four Metro-North incidents, but these specific recommendations arise from the Dec. 1 derailment of a train on a sharp curve in the Bronx that killed four people and injured 59 others in which excessive speed has been identified as a factor.
In a letter dated Tuesday and sent to new Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti, the agency calls for permanent signs to warn engineers in advance of areas where speed restrictions are in force, as an additional reminder to slow down.
However, the NTSB said the signs might not have prevented the Dec. 1 derailment on the Hudson Line near Spuyten Duyvil.
"The NTSB believes that Metro-North should take additional steps by implementing a more systematic approach and install such signs where all permanent speed restrictions are in place," NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman wrote. "It is crucial that locomotive engineers and conductors know the location of speed restrictions that are identified."
In the Bronx crash, the NTSB found that the train was going 82 mph entering the curve where the speed limit was 30. The train's engineer, William Rockefeller, told investigators he went into a daze in the moments before the train left the rails.
The NTSB recommendation covers any location where there is a permanent speed restriction in place on Metro-North's three lines, and the railroad would need to survey all the locations to comply with the recommendation, Metro-North spokesman Aaron Donovan said.
The board also recommended the installation of rear- and forward-facing cameras on board all locomotives and cab cars where engineers control the trains, which can assist in post-accident investigations.
"The images and audio captured by recorders can be invaluable to our investigators," said Hersman. "Understanding what is happening inside the cab just prior to a crash can provide crucial information about how to prevent future accidents."
Two months ago, Metro-North established speed restrictions on curves and bridges in advance of completing signal work on the New Haven Line.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said the NTSB's recommendations underlined the need for Metro-North to install the cameras to boost safety and the consciousness of engineers that they need to remain attentive.
"If Metro-North fails to heed these calls, then it may have to be required by legislation or specific orders by the Federal Railroad Administration with the force of law," Blumenthal said.
Last month Blumenthal and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., asked the FRA to expedite a federal rule to require the inward and outward facing cameras on all locomotives.
"The recommendations reaffirm what we've been saying that inward- and outward-facing cameras can greatly enhance safety by making engineers more attentive," Blumenthal said. "These steps, while welcome, are only the beginning of aggressive, proactive measures that need to be imposed."
Donovan said Metro-North will work with the NTSB, but couldn't say how long installing the cameras on cabs and diesel locomotives might take.
"The safety and security of our customers is Metro-North's most important concern, and it is a concern we share with the NTSB," Donovan said. "We have received the NTSB's recommendations and we are studying them closely. Metro-North is working with the NTSB to address questions about implementation of the report's recommendations."


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Quarterback Tim Tebow Gets Starting Assignment In FRS Energy Campaign
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October 23, 2012: Tim Tebow may be the back-up quarterback (and sometimes running back and wide receiver) with the New York Jets, but he gets a starting assignment with FRS energy drink, leading a multi-media campaign anchored by a sweepstakes with a top prize of spending time with Tebow and a social media aspect driving awareness of the Tim Tebow Foundation.
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By late afternoon Monday, nearly 1,200 flights in the U.S. had been cancelled and an additional 3,000 had been delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware.com.
Chicago was hit hardest, as the area was caught in a storm that was expected to drop up to 8 inches of snow by Monday night before moving into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday.
Nearly 500 departures were cancelled Monday at Chicago's two big airports, O'Hare and Midway, and many flights headed to the city were also scrubbed, FlightAware said. The Chicago department of aviation said most of the cancellations were proactive — announced ahead of the storm.
American Eagle, the regional affiliate of American Airlines, and Southwest, which has a big operation at Midway, had cancelled more than 200 flights each. ExpressJet, which operates regional flights for bigger carriers, had dropped more than 180.
Through last week, airlines had cancelled more than 75,000 domestic flights since Dec. 1, the highest total since the U.S. Department of Transportation started keeping track in the winter of 1987-1988.