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coll necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 122 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
Colleen O'Grady
I am a marriage and family therapist and a life coach. I am a mother of a teenage daughter. I want it to look contemporary, feminine but not with curly cues...more feng shui. I want it to be inviting
I am a creative person. I have a MFA painting and drawing
My target audience will be Mothers of teenage daughters. Upper middle class women in their 40's to 50's who have been struggling with their daughters and have neglected themselves. They used to have fun lives and be active. They are bright intelligent and spiritual. They have the capacity to change the world if they stop fighting with their daughters
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Power Your Parenting (and Your Life)
A Deeper Way for Moms to Connect with Themselves and Their Teenage Daughters
I would like my name be small and the focus on Power Your Parenting.(and Your Life)
make that big
and then the tagline under it
A deeper way...
I like muted greens with a VIBRANtT orange and magenta--so you have the combination of nuetral colors with brighter colors-so it will pop
Want a contemporary fun feel
I want the words connected PowerYourParenting. The middle work vibrant orange-strong font
with some black thrown in
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Teacher, Teacher - Snap #312
We've all had a teacher we've loved, who changed our lives and believed in us. God bless 'em. Today on Snap Judgment, "Teacher, Teacher."
Potty Mouth
As a teacher, Glynn takes an unorthodox approach to discipline a little too far . . .
Producers: Mark Ristich and Renzo Gorrio
The Life of Brian
Not everyone's born with a gift. But that's where teachers step in. Poet and story teller David Perez takes us into the classroom for a day in the life of Brian. David Perez continues to teach and is the author of the poetry collection, "Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse" available from Write Bloody Publishing. Find more at www.thedavidperez.com.
Producer: Jamie DeWolf and Renzo Gorrio
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Teacher Barbara Shipka encounters an unexpected challenge when she meets Ben because Ben isn't just any old problem child. Ben is a genius.
Producer: Julia DeWitt
Real School
A six year old girl is faced with a terrifying teacher, and finds a secret weapon.
Producer: Anna Sussman
Homeless Opera
Matt Peacock had two very different jobs--working as an opera critic and at the local homeless shelter. He never thought the two would ever have anything to do with one another, until a thoughtless quote in the newspaper changed everything.
Check out Streetwise Opera here, where you can check out past and upcoming performances and donate to their cause. Some of the audio in this piece originally aired in a documentary for BBC's Radio 4, which was produced by Hannah Andrassy and Loftus Productions. Thanks so much to Matt Peacock, Loftus Productions, The BBC, and the two beautiful performers you heard--Kerry-Anne and Doc.
Producer: Stephanie Foo, Hannah Andrassy and Loftus Productions.
Father Dennis
Justin Sweeney's mother was a gambler, and his childhood was difficult. When it became clear that he had to make it on his own, who would take care of him?
Thanks to Justin Sweeney for his story! Justin submitted his story on our website. Submit your own right here!
Producer: Stephanie Foo
Learning to Read
When Joe Buford's wife hands him a letter and asks him to read it, Joe confides in her one of his biggest secrets.
This story was produced by Story Corps
Writing on the Wall
Story by Dhaya Lakshminarayanan.
A mother does everything it takes to help her child to read, but all she had to do was take her on the road.
Producer: Jamie DeWolf, Anna Sussman

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Barry Bonds was the first name I checked on my Hall of Fame ballot.
Roger Clemens was the second name I checked.
Sammy Sosa was the third.
There was no hesitation. No moment of wavering. Didn't even blink.
Bonds, a seven-time MVP, might have been the greatest baseball player since Babe Ruth. Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, was one of the most dominant pitchers of the last 50 years. Sosa, the only man to hit 60 or more homers in three seasons, was one of the most prolific home run hitters we've ever seen.
Oh, the steroids debate?
None ever failed a drug test after Major League Baseball implemented testing in 2004. They were never suspended by MLB for steroids, human growth hormone, amphetamines or any other performance-enhancing drugs.
Clemens was exonerated on perjury charges for lying about steroid use in federal court. Bonds also beat perjury charges and was convicted only on an obstruction-of-justice charge that he's appealing.
Do I still believe they cheated? Absolutely.
Do I have proof? No.
Do I have strong suspicions that Mike Piazza and Jeff Bagwell cheated after witnessing their colossal changes in body type and performance? Absolutely.
Do I have any proof, beyond the whispers of teammates and close friends? Nope, sure don't.
HALL CANDIDATE: The hurdle Barry Bonds may not clear
FINAL VERDICT: Joe Posnanski breaks down his ballot
Piazza, the greatest hitting catcher in baseball history, is a Hall of Famer. Bagwell had a Hall of Fame career and eventually will be inducted.
Rafael Palmeiro is the only player on this year's ballot who for certain tested positive for steroids. His positive came two months before he reached the magical 3,000-hit plateau, July 15, 2005. Major League Baseball was well aware of the test result. He was permitted to play while he secretly appealed, and MLB celebrated his historic 3,000-hit feat two weeks before his 10-day suspension.
Palmeiro insists to this day he did nothing wrong, that the positive must have come from a tainted B-12 shot administered by teammate Miguel Tejada. Few seem to believe him. He has never received more than 12.6% of the Hall of Fame vote.
2013 BALLOT: Cases for, against key candidates
I don't believe him either, but as one of only four players in baseball history to attain at least 3,000 hits and 500 homers, he gets my vote.
Simply, I refuse to exclude players who used performance-enhancing drugs from the Baseball Hall of Fame. It doesn't matter if they were suspected, caught, indicted or admitted their use on national TV. I don't care if Bonds or Clemens came out tomorrow and divulged every detail of their steroid use. Or Piazza informed everyone how a 62nd-round draft pick could possibly hit .250 with six homers in his second year in the minors and three years later hit 35 homers for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They still get my vote.
The Baseball Hall of Fame is not a cathedral. It is a museum of the history of the game.
And these players were the greatest of their era. It just so happens to be the steroid era.
Many were using the finest drugs available to enhance their own performance, and, in turn, they improved their team's chances of winning. Name a World Series champion from the last 25 years, and I'll name you at least one player strongly suspected of using steroids on that team.
We don't take away their trophy. We don't put an asterisk by their name or forfeit their regular-season victories like the NCAA. The San Francisco Giants' World Series championship wasn't celebrated any less because Melky Cabrera played two-thirds of the season before flunking his drug test.
Look, if steroids were available 50 years ago, some of the game's greatest players -- Bob Gibson, for one --say they likely would have taken them. Their drug of choice was amphetamines, with trainers passing them out like candy. They were also illegal to have without a prescription, but of the 59 living Hall of Fame players, you can fit in a broom closet the ones who never consumed a greenie.
The truth is that baseball's general managers and their coaching staffs never had a problem with players using performance-enhancing drugs. (And given how easily Cabrera scored a two-year, $16 million contract from the Toronto Blue Jays this offseason, they still don't.)
USA Today's Bob Nightengale talks about performance enhancing drugs and the Baseball Hall of Fame.
PED users were typically the most dedicated players on the team. They worked out more than most. They were the ones most concerned about nutrition. They got their sleep.
The only time baseball's executives really got angry was when they signed or traded for a player who was using performance-enhancing drugs, stopped taking them and saw his performance plummet.
It's baseball. Pitchers scuff or spit on the ball until they get caught. Hitters cork their bats. Managers and coaches steal signs. GMs try to find loopholes in the draft and waiver wire. Prospects lie about their age. Cheating will always be a part of baseball.
"Guys have always been cheating, period,'' Gibson said three years ago on the Mike and Mike in the Morning show. "I'm just glad they didn't have steroids when I was playing. . . . I probably would have a tendency to say, 'Let's try this and see what it does to me.' "
There are victims, of course, none bigger on this year's ballot than first baseman Fred McGriff. He had a .886 OPS (on-base-plus-slugging percentage) and, until the height of the steroid era in 2000, the 10th-highest OPS by anyone with at least 8,000 at-bats. Everyone ahead of him is in the Hall of Fame. He had six consecutive seasons of at least 30 homers, eight seasons of 100 or more RBI, nearly 900 more hits than Mark McGwire and more RBI and hits than Bagwell. McGriff says he never used PEDs. His body didn't change, and there weren't dramatic spikes in performance. Yet his numbers were dwarfed by the steroid era. He'll have my vote as long as he's on the ballot.
The rest of my votes go to Craig Biggio, one of the greatest offensive second basemen in history; Jack Morris, the greatest pitcher of the '80s; shortstop Alan Trammell, the Barry Larkin of his generation; and closer Lee Smith, who wasn't Mariano Rivera, or even Trevor Hoffman, but a was model of consistency.
Biggio is the only player this year whose induction is probable. Morris will be awfully close. Piazza, and likely Bagwell, will make it within a couple of years. Bonds and Clemens will make it too, but their entry will be delayed for perhaps another five years.
My feeling is that they shouldn't have to wait. We can't erase the steroid era from the record books, so let's make sure the greatest players from this era are honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Maybe it'll take a current Hall of Famer to admit he used performance-enhancing drugs. Maybe it'll take greater acceptance that steroids were used more pervasively than anyone could have envisioned. Maybe then, and only then, will enough voters believe that, although these players might be flawed, they deserve to be in Cooperstown.
Maybe then enough voters will come to terms with the era for these stained candidates to gain the ultimate honor.
Follow MLB columnist Bob Nightengale on Twitter: @BNightengale


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What is the best way to create a low impact office? To not have one! I have found several people that have done just that.
First lets meet Isobella Jade. She is a the new face of modeling: model, marketer, promoter, manager, make up artist all in one. She has used the Apple store in NYC to write an entire memoir from start to finish. She setup and launched her own website, blog, and online portfolio by using the computers in the Apple store for free! Here is a video about her life as a the 5′ 4″ model / entrepreneur.
To find out more about how she works in the Apple store here is a great interview with her from Mental_Floss
Out next person is Nicholi. He is 12. What on earth does a 12 year old need an office for? Funny you should ask. Nicholi has shot numerous youtube videos right in the Apple store with their computers. He doesn't own his own computer so he was forced to spread his creativeness through creative means. What is more impressive is that his videos and story ended up getting him spots on TV.
There are some of you out there that are asking, well I don't live in NYC or near an apple store. Well you are not alone. David Lee King blogs about Libraries (I love how on the internet you can find people jazzed up about everything!) . In his post he discusses how Libraries are becoming the new office. With computers, wifi, fax machines, copy machines and a slew of research materials its no wonder these are hot spots for entrepreneurs. You don't have to pay for lighting, heating, cooling. You don't have to take time to clean the bathrooms, fix a leaky roof, etc.
Today libraries have come a long way. Many of them have conference rooms, food and coffee shops. Public transportation almost always has a stop at the libraries. The down side is that you have to walk outside to use the phone, but I will tell you that more and more things are just going to email; I rarely pick up the phone. In addition to entrepreneurs using libraries, homeless use these resources to find jobs, find information about services for poor and homeless, stay in contact with family and friends.
Finally you have you shared office space Co-op's which are basically non-profit business that have space, resources, materials, and sometimes a secretary for patrons. Co Work Chicago is a rental office, where individuals will rent a desk and work along side of others who just need office space. They each run their own business, but from the same space. A few times a week they all sit down for lunch, which is locally sourced. Rates run $20 per day, $90 per week and $300 a month, not bad! Their services are "T-1 Internet Connection, Kitchen & Bathroom, Furnished with Desk, Security Camera, Office Dog (included), Close to CTA & Downtown, Flexible Lease, and Most Importantly Good People. "
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OBDII Diagnostic Scan Tools
After getting multiple CELs within the last couple of months on my 2001 Forester, the dealer "fixed" the current error and said that it was a gas cap issue (charged me $120 for THAT). Only reason I had the Subaru dealer check it is that our regular mechanic couldn't decipher the meaning of the code (thought it was the car's computer that was the error), that and I was due for a 90k service. Anyway, other than making frequent trips to either Autozone or shelling out 120 bucks at the Subaru dealership each time the CEL comes on, I figure I could purchase a OBDII tool to figure out what the errors are. I was curious to find out if anyone else has one. If so, what kind? How well does it work? Price?
subearu Posts: 3,613if you have a laptop (not even a high priced one, just needs a serial com port or USB), you could try http://www.obd-2.com - get the ISO version for your Subie.
discopete Posts: 21I bought a code reader on sale for $100(regular price $150)about three years ago at AutoZone. Wal*Mart is selling cheaper ones recently, although mine looks to be of better quality.
I have used the code scanner to delete a couple of alarms that turned on the CEL. They didn't look like serious problems and did not reoccur after deletion. When the knock sensor went bad, I knew that it was a real problem because the alarm would return if deleted.
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Agreed. I've used mine a couple of times, to troubleshoot my car and to clear a code when my wife forgot to tighten a gas cap.
I've also used it for two friends to read and clear codes from them.0
tamsher Posts: 1I have a 2000 forester and have now replaced at least three oxygen sensors (front as well as rear) a knock sensor and a third sensor that's not coming to mind right now.
I replaced the knock sensor about a month ago, had the codes cleared, came up clean, and the next day the engine light came back on.
I have only had the car about 16 months and it currently has 120,000.
Kind of getting annoying.
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Perhaps the sensors are not malfunctioning after all. Maybe they really are reporting the correct symptoms.
Do you know what the codes were each time? Misfires? Or something else?
Spark or fuel, as they say. Could be the plugs or plug wires, or the ignition coil. Hope it is because all are cheap and easy fixes.0
tygertone214 Posts: 2here's a practical code reader at a good price http://www.etoolcart.com/equus-innova-canobd-2-code-reader-3110.aspx
although there are more simplier ones available at a lower price too....0
Yes, mine is just like that sans C.A.N. compliance. It works well for reading the codes, but does not give real-time diagnostic information. For the price, it has paid for itself over and over again by allowing me to read/clear codes. I much prefer to clear codes that are recurring (like P0420) rather than leave them active and risk having a new, serious code trigger but go undetected. The readers are worth quite a bit just through added piece of mind!2014 Audi Q7 TDI, 2008 and 2013 Subaru Forester(s), 1969 Chevrolet C20 Pickup, 1969 Ford Econoline 100, 1976 Ford F250 Pickup0
jsaban Posts: 2I was going to the dealer too always to get things repaired. Find out $100s of dollars later that all I needed was a scan tool to do it myself. The dealer charged me $100 every time they hooked up to my vehicle and then charge me crazy costs to repair. I have now bought a great little scanner that I use on all of my vehicles. This is one of the best tools I have ever bought!!! Here is the place I got it from: http://mechanicdoctor.com/
I paid around $50 bucks.
Good luck!0
I own a 98 Saturn SL2 series. When I take it to emissions it keeps coming up OBDll systems not ready to test. So if that part is not ready they will not even follow thru with the test. Until the computer has run through a complete cycle. The problem I am having is I do not know how to run it through a complete cycle. I was told to run it at least 200 miles. I did so. It still came out the same problem at emissions.0
illinoiscentra Posts: 67I bought the el cheapo version of the Equus/Innova reader on Amazon.com, maybe $57?. It would not read codes from my 2002 Forester until I did something, but I cannot remember what the something was; maybe it was as simple as starting the engine. If that is the case, since the car is in the garage, that would require the door to be open.
I used it to fix a knock sensor. Paid for itself right there.
It has NO memory, NO batteries, no real time, it takes power from the vehicle. Just bring a pencil to write down the numbers.
What the heck? That is NOT my car in the preview picture!!! Gone when I post though.0
I found on another web sight the possible answer. If you guys don't think this will work please let me know.
It states. What is the obd-ll drive cycle for a 99 Saturn SL2.
A: - 1-8 cold start, accelerate, hold steady speed, decelerate, Accelerate, Hold steady Speed, and Decelerate. With more detailed information on each 8 steps.
Thank you again,
I will try this. If you have any other info please let me know. Thank you, Abby0
Usually, you plug in the reader before turning on the car. Then, once plugged in, turn the key to the 'on' position, but do not start the engine. At that point, the reader should come on and you can press the "link" button to download the codes.
Don't worry about the preview picture - it seems to be some sort of non-executed functionality that has been there since the forum went to the current format. On CarSpace member pages, posts include a thumbnail (and include the correct one!), but that feature was never enabled on the forum.2014 Audi Q7 TDI, 2008 and 2013 Subaru Forester(s), 1969 Chevrolet C20 Pickup, 1969 Ford Econoline 100, 1976 Ford F250 Pickup0
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Optometry Giving Sight
Currently, more than 600 million people are blind or visually impaired due to no access to eye examinations and lack of vision correction, like a simple pair of eyeglasses.
Optometry Giving Sight wants to change this for the better, and so do we.
Optometry Giving Sight is a global organization that helps improve and, in some cases, return vision to people. More than 67 sustainable eye care projects in 38 countries have been supported by Optometry Giving Sight since 2007. This has helped to provide basic eye care services to over 4 million people, train more than 2600 eye care personnel and support the establishment of more than 100 vision centers.
Their aim is to help prevent blindness and impaired vision by providing something many of us take for granted: access to a professional eye examination and corrective lenses.
Optometry Giving Sight distributes 85 percent of donations directly to eye and vision care projects that are initiated and implemented by its project partners.
To help further this worthy cause, CooperVision is a proud Global Sponsor. For Optometry Giving Sight's 2013 World Sight Day Challenge, employees in over 30 locations worldwide participated in a global fundraising campaign and organized local activities to help raise funds for the Challenge. With the support from our parent company, CooperCompanies, $100,000 was donated to Optometry Giving Sight for its World Sight Day Challenge.
We've made it easy for you to help, too. We've invited those people who purchase contact lenses using a rebate to donate a portion, or all, of their CooperVision® contact lens rebates to help Optometry Giving Sight continue their work.


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TAIWAN... Tea,Temples and Twining Cherry Blossoms
Intertwining cherry blossoms…fragrant, fragile and soul inspiring…guided me along the path at The Lingxiao Chapel of Chi Nan Temple and The Jiu Tian Temple in Miao Li County where I ascended all 606 arduous steps with a wooden statue of Taoist saint San Nai Fu Ren cradled in my arms.
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Margette's Indian Summer
Margette's table setting of blue and white Limoge china, centerpiece foliage with peacock feathers on top of mandala design table cloth
Cebu's most evolved host and my favorite yoga teacher Margette Sarmiento recently came back from a month-long training at an ashram in Kerala, Southern India. She invited her closest friends and this jotter to an Ayurvedic dinner at her Maria Luisa home. The indian summer soiree was to celebrate her return and, at the same time, as "despedida" for Jiji Gulllas and my publisher Eva who are going on a European hiatus.
Posted by oj hofer on Saturday, June 18, 2011 | 1 comments | Labels: ayurcedic, Jing Ramos, kerala ashram, margette sarmiento, rajasic, sattvic, tamasic Links to this post
The Magical Glow of ANGKORIAN AETHER
In 2004, my good friend Jing Ramos and I flew to Siem Reap, Cambodia to see the temples. We stayed at a private home owned by a couple of educators and moved to Grand Hotel d'Angkor on our last day.My recent holiday collection for FashionWatch called ANGKORIAN AETHER is colored by our adventures, and misadventures in that holy land of Devatas and Apsaras…
There, we saw portraits of the hotel's famous guests: Somerset Maugham, Charlie Chaplin, so on and so forth… Transfixing us however, were images of Lee Radziwill and Jackie O. Thus on our last day, we traveled to BANTEAY SREI, the Temple for Women, and took on the roles of the two sisters.
Devatas @ Angkor Wat
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A stickler for economy of lines I found myself engrossed with the minimal and somehow simian design of Vibram Five Fingers, named one of the best inventions by TIME Magazine in 2007. I own a number of huge, bulky high-tops that I mainly use with shorts, skinny or drop-crotch jeans but admittedly, they're more for looks than function. For comfort, I use minimalist Nike Free and Lunarlite @ the gym and yet these two pairs look nothing like Vibram's FiveFive Fingers Classic (seemingly morphed ballet slippers) and the KSO (Keep Stuff Out) with their five-toe pouches.
I've read so much about the trend and benefits of bare-foot training for runners, and outdoors bare-footing from athletes, enthusiasts and physiologists on the net. It all sounded like sales talk to me, anyhow, after a call to Carlos Alvarez for directions to their outlet at Rockwell, I sought out to experience the truth about this barefoot phenomenon myself.
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if i ...
...... were an elderly impolite white man who has burned too many bridges in Hongkong and in Cebu, would I elicit disfavor from this city's respected grand dames by maligning them? Recently, the above mentioned aging social mountaineer (let's call him Ripley) had a heated exchange of words with another guest at a wedding reception after he disapproved of what the guest wore at a previous party. When the guest told Ripley that he was in no position to publicly and rudely ridicule what he chose to wear, and that he should be more careful with his words especially when he is around Cebu's genteel ladies, Ripley retorted: "oh, those old women don't know fashion anyway. They haven't traveled enough, so why should I even care?"
Inno @ 30
In 1995, my closest designer friends in Cebu Jun Escario and Jojo Romoff insisted that we travel together to Manila to watch the fashion gala "Inno Sotto: Anno XV." Top model Suyen Chi had gotten us three tickets, and the prospect of seeing Inno's 15th year collection mesmerized us, thus we packed our suits and headed for the capital.
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Art of Kaiseki Cuisine @ Nadaman
Kaiseki or Kaiseki-ryori, is a traditional multi-course Japanese meal, which puts emphasis on artistry, graciousness and the changing of the seasons. It also refers to the collection of skills and techniques that allow the preparation of such sumptuous exclusive meals analogous to Western haute cuisine.
The Valera Redux
Design genius Ramon Valera, the first National Artist for Fashion, is celebrated in a 24-piece ready to wear collection by Freeway, a local brand that offers clothing and accessories that follow current international trends at reasonable price points. Valera's signature creative cut, grand silhouette, unusual colorization, and opulent but tasteful embellishment are reinterpreted and given renewed relevance in the company's Valera, National Artist Collection-- the fourth installment of Freeway's successful National Artist Collectors Series.
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Style-Spotting @ Japan Fashion Week 2010
(Part IV)
(Part IV)
I saved the best for last---this is the ultimate installment of your jotter's style – spottings @ Japan Fashion Week.
Meeting this unassuming designer was worth the unmanageably hectic schedule and the flight anxiety one had to go through.
I wore my favorite gold trainers that he designed for Puma and congratulated him after the show for designing the best Fall-Winter 2010, collection on the Tokyo runway.
Every piece that came out was polished and esthetically appealing.
The soft, suede boots that the girls wore draped around the shin and ankles looked beautiful with their short sack skirts.
The extra long cable knit for men elongated the look of lean wool pants and washed chambray shirts.
A wool jacket with large shawl collar worn over a beaded vest, grey chiffon shirt, ikat-print shorts and deep brown combat boots makes for a youthful winter.
The open knit-work on dresses, tunics, and pants gave garments a poetic, disheveled appeal that complimented the girls' hair and makeup.
Yasuhiro is indeed an artist;
his chosen medium is fashion.
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally won't move to Microsoft
He says he wanted to end speculation
Ford Motor shares rose while Microsoft stock fell Wednesday morning after Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally said late Tuesday that he will not leave his job at the automaker this year.
Numerous reports have speculated he was in the running to succeed retiring CEO Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. But in an interview with the Associated Press, Mulally said firmly that has no plans to leave. And Ford officials confirmed the AP report to USA TODAY. "Alan made it perfectly clear that he wanted to end all speculation. He has no plans to do anything else other than continue serving Ford," says spokesman Jay Cooney
Mulally would not disclose to the AP whether he had talked about the CEO job with Microsoft, but did say that the speculation had become distracting for Ford.
Ford shares were up 1.5% to $15.61 in morning trading and Microsoft slipped 1.3% to $35.94.
MICROSOFT: New frontrunner to replace Ballmer
Mulally, 68, had said previously that he would stay at Ford through 2014. The company has a transition plan in place that created a new chief operating officer position for Mark Fields, the former president of the Americas, making him the heir apparent. As COO, Fields is overseeing day-to-day operations.
Mulally came to Ford in 2006 at the behest of then CEO and now Executive Chairman Bill Ford. He is credited with turning Ford around and saving it from the bankruptcy reorganizations undergone in the financial crisis by the other U.S. automakers. He has reorganized operations worldwide, streamlined the product line and dramatically increased its profitability.
Adding to the Microsoft speculation was that his revival of Ford had some analysts talking about his chances of leading the tech giant. "We think it likely that Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally is Microsoft's top pick based on the merits of his candidacy and will be named Microsoft's new CEO in a month or so," wrote Nomura Equity Research's Rick Sherlund in a note to investors in November.
Also, Mulally has a ties to Seattle, where he ran Boeing's commercial aircraft business before coming to Ford in 2006. Microsoft is based outside Seattle.
But the speculation dragged on for months without a definitive statement from Mulally. The Ford board, which had said it would let him decide, reportedly had become impatient.
Mulally's announcement was a step he had to take, especially against a backdrop of General Motors last month naming Mary Barra to succeed CEO Dan Akerson and Fiat last week announcing a deal to acquire all remaining shares of Chrysler, says Karl Brauer, senior analyst for Kelley Blue Book.
"We see the other players in the space settling down for an important year," Brauer says. "If Mulally hadn't done it, they would have continued (with) misdirection and questions about who is running Ford."


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On May 21st I attended the LATISM Top Bloguera Retreat in Washington, D.C. and part of that event included a White House briefing on issues affecting the Latino community. Today I want to share my experience and some of the things I learned which I think are worth passing on.
The main issues discussed were Health and Education, however, that didn't stop Meagan Ortiz of Vivir Latino from kicking things off with a very good question regarding immigration. Of course the answer to the question was less than satisfying to anyone who has long supported comprehensive immigration reform, but perhaps that was to be expected.
(Check out Meagan's thoughts on her experience here.)
Meagan's question seemed to ignite others. Passionate blogueras lined up and asked very brave and difficult questions. I was proud to be in a room full of women who weren't afraid to stand up and speak their minds.
Roxana Soto of SpanglishBaby asked about bilingual education and the possibility of more dual immersion schools – again, the answer she/we were given, didn't satisfy me, but I still feel that our voices were heard, and that's a start.
(Check out Roxana's thoughts on her experience here.)
While the blogueras were given plenty of time to ask questions, the White House also had plenty of talking points and messages they wanted to get out to us and to the Latino community as well. Here is video I took, highlighting some of the parts I found most informative.
Here are some links to learn more about the programs mentioned in the video:
FNS.USDA.gov (Nutrition Assistance Programs)
La Mesa Completa
Let's Move!
Let's Move! – Spanish version/español
Choose My Plate
Choose My Plate/Mi Plato – Spanish version/español
What information did you find most useful or surprising? What question would you have asked?


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Atlanta, Ga., (March 6, 2013) – As the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship® approaches, VCU has already earned one national title this season. The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), an affiliate of IMG College, and the Atlanta Tipoff Club today announced Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) as the winner of the second annual Naismith Student Section of the Year Award.
A total of 158 schools representing 25 conferences submitted entries for the award, which was launched nationally on Jan. 17. The VCU basketball student section was selected after two rounds of public Facebook votes, combined with a scoring of finalists by the Naismith Awards Board of Selectors. Selection criteria for the top eight finalists included the student section's name and attendance, photos, video, a write-up submitted by the nominating school, a weighted score based on the public vote. VCU led the way into the final round of scoring with the highest vote tally throughout the first and second rounds of the public vote.
The Rowdy Rams outlasted the remaining candidates including Gonzaga, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Pitt, Purdue, and Saint Bonaventure, the Board of Selectors said, noting the 2,000-seat student section's unique traditions, including a the Rowdy Rams student section membership, screaming for the black and gold alert, the "Let's Go VCU" chant, and students waiting in line all day prior to tip-off.
"We have the best students and fans in the country, and we are thrilled to now have national recognition of what we have always known," said VCU Head Coach Shaka Smart. "Our student section stands by our team and is loud the entire game, giving us an unbelievable home-court advantage. We thank the Naismith Awards organization and CLC for establishing this unique award and selecting our VCU students."
The Naismith Student Section of the Year Award is dedicated to celebrating fans who love college hoops and provide support to their college basketball team with devotion and passion.
"In just the second year of the award, we are thrilled to have doubled the number of basketball schools that nominated their student section to be named the best fans in college basketball," said Eric Oberman, Executive Director of the Atlanta Tipoff Club. "We applaud VCU fans for displaying such passion, and we look forward to adding VCU Basketball to our storied Naismith Awards family."
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The award comes with a $10,000 cash prize, which VCU will donate to the University's general scholarship fund. A formal presentation of the award will take place at a home men's basketball game at the beginning of the 2013-14 season.
Complete details on the selection process can be found at facebook.com/ilovecollegehoops.
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The Atlanta Tipoff Club, an Atlanta Sports Council property, is committed to promoting the game of basketball and recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of those who make the game so exciting. The Atlanta Tipoff Club, founded during the 1956-57 season, has presented the Naismith Trophy every year since UCLA's Lew Alcindor first won the award in 1969. Kansas' Danny Manning won the award in 1988. Old Dominion's Anne Donovan won the inaugural Women's Naismith Trophy in 1983. The Naismith Award has become the most prestigious award in all of college basketball, recognizing the Men's and Women's College Basketball Player of the Year, Men's and Women's College Basketball Coach of the Year, as well as awards for outstanding achievement in high school basketball, officiating, and contribution to the game.


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In an All Africa article about the International Criminal Court's call for new charges against two alleged warlords in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, political science professor Severine Autesserre weighs in on the complexibities involved. An excerpt:
"Re-establishing the justice system and the rule of law is one of the issues," Severine Autesserre, an expert on the region and author of the book "The Trouble with the Congo", said. "But there are many other issues that are beyond a pure justice question. There are conflicts around [individual] status, there are conflicts around family [status], that would be better resolved through either political or economic [means]."
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Prof. Autesserre's research focuses on African politics, international relations, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, and the politics of humanitarian and development aid.


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When it comes to acting and love, Meryl Streep has staying power. The Iron Lady winner has been married to sculptor Don Gummer since 1978. He accompanied her to this year's Oscars, and she touchingly thanked him in her acceptance speech, saying "I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me."
So how did they meet? After her partner John Cazale, of The Godfather and Deer Hunter, died of bone cancer in 1978, Meryl got an offer to move into the vacant apartment of her brother's friend, Don Gummer. Don was traveling in Europe, so he didn't mind if Meryl stayed. When he got back, she didn't move out, and within six months they got married. They now have four kids together. Check out photos of the long-term couple's latest outing last night!


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Lowertown Landing is dedicated to supporting the continued growth and rejuvenation of the Lowertown historic district of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The historic Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul was originally established as the gateway for Mississippi riverboat traffic in the 1800s and later the center of rail commerce for the entire Northwest. Today, Lowertown is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, home to a vibrant arts community, nationally recognized farmer's market, multitude of award-winning bars and restaurants, newly renovated Union Depot, Saint Paul Saints baseball stadium, and Mears Park – one of the most active meeting places of the city.


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Comedian Will Ferrell is a known sports enthusiast, who has oft been spotted on the sidelines of USC football games as well as courtside at LA Lakers games. But when it comes to tennis, Ferrell is getting serious for Match Maker.
Variety reports Ferrell has signed on to star in Match Maker, a docudrama about the pivotal 1973 showdown of tennis legends Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. Ferrell will front the feature as Riggs. Beyond that, he and Adam McKay will produce through Gary Sanchez Productions, in co-ordination with Chernin Entertainment. It has not yet been announced who will co-star as King.
Based on Don Van Natta Jr.'s ESPN magazine article, "The Match Maker: Bobby Riggs, the Mafia and the Battle of the Sexes," Match Maker boasts a script from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty's screenwriter, Steve Conrad. Its story will follow the rivalry that evolved between the 55-year-old Riggs, who was retired tennis pro and a sexist blowhard, and the 29-year-old King, who dared to become a prize-winning tennis player while female. He was a pro from the 1940s who was hungry for attention. She was an icon not only for her victories on the court, but for her emergence in a male-dominated sport as second-wave feminism swept over America. Their paths collided in a widely covered match whose winner was promised a $100,000 prize.
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Of course, Ferrell has already made a slew of sports-centered movies, like Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Kicking & Screaming, Blades of Glory, and Semi-Pro. In them, he's often played an egomaniacal sports anti-hero. So his casting of Riggs does on one level seem a no-brainer. After all, he's created a long line of blowhards, from his sleazy senator in The Campaign to his supervillain Megamind, and most famously his beloved Anchorman.
But what makes this project so interesting is that it's a drama, something Ferrell has dabbled in with movies like Winter Passing, Everything Must Go and Stranger Than Fiction. But none of which have been among his biggest hits. This is precisely what makes Ferrell's decision to play Riggs so intriguing. Aside from potentially bringing in his legions of fans to a sports drama they might otherwise have overlooked, he's setting himself up for a chance to stretch as an actor. Here's hoping he fares better than the real life Riggs did.


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Five years after the 9/11 commission made its recommendations for improving homeland security, Congress has overhauled national intelligence and spent billions to upgrade security for air traffic, ports, and other critical infrastructure. But the reform deemed essential to all others - streamlining congressional oversight - never got off the ground.
A staggering 108 congressional committees and subcommittees now claim oversight of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). That's up 20 from the 9/11 commission's count of 88 in 2004 - a system it then dubbed "dysfunctional."
Failure to reform congressional oversight has stymied legislation on issues ranging from security for ports and at-risk facilities to seamless communications for first responders.
In its final report, released July 22, 2004, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, as it is formally known, urged Congress to create a single point of oversight for homeland security, preferably a permanent standing committee with a nonpartisan staff. It also predicted that Congress would be loath to reform itself - and that without unity of congressional oversight, all other national-security reforms would suffer.
"Few things are more difficult to change in Washington than congressional committee jurisdiction and prerogatives," the report concluded. "The American people may have to insist that these changes occur, or they may well not happen."
They have not. A maze of overlapping jurisdictions imposes a massive reporting load on DHS officials. Since 2004, the department has prepared more than 11,300 congressional briefings, and DHS officials have appeared as witnesses before 1,000 committee hearings.
Then-DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff complained in 2007 that "the number of very detailed written reports required of DHS by Congress is proliferating at an alarming rate." Many of the 535 annual reports required of DHS take more than 300 man-hours to prepare, he said - on top of some 6,500 less formal requests for information. He pleaded with Congress to "streamline" its oversight.
In her first appearance before the House Homeland Security panel on Feb. 25, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano reminded lawmakers that "one of the recommendations of the 9/11 commission, the only one that hasn't been acted on, is the need to now streamline and focus on the Department of Homeland Security from a congressional oversight perspective."
Lack of coherent congressional oversight has led to mixed signals and contradictory guidance on several issues vital to homeland security.
The bill that created the new post of director of national intelligence (DNI), for one, was "weaker than it should have been" because the powerful armed services committees kept the DNI from wielding budget authority over Pentagon intelligence programs - a key feature of the 9/11 commission's proposed reform, says Amy Zegart, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Turf battles also broke out over 2007 legislation to protect chemical facilities from a terrorist attack. The law mandates that high-risk chemical facilities develop vulnerability assessments and enhance site security. But before the bill made it through Congress, competing committees stripped out whole areas not under the direct oversight of homeland security panels. These include public water systems, wastewater treatment plants, and any facility "owned or operated by the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy, or any facility subject to regulation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
First responders' ability to communicate with one another during an emergency - a top priority after the 9/11 attacks - is another area in which tangled congressional oversight has slowed progress.
"The inability to communicate was a critical element at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, crash sites, where multiple agencies and multiple jurisdictions responded," the 9/11 commission report concluded.
A New York Police Department helicopter pilot circling the World Trade Center on 9/11 warned that large pieces of the South Tower looked precarious, but his warning never got to firemen inside. Their radios couldn't communicate.
Spurred by billions in federal grants since 9/11, states and localities have made progress. About two-thirds of emergency-response agencies DHS surveyed in 2006 report using interoperable communications "at varying degrees."
On July 1, DHS announced the final phase of a three-part testing and evaluation process for the Multi-Band Radio project, which will enable emergency responders to talk with partner agencies regardless of the radio band on which they operate.
But the federal effort to achieve an integrated wireless network (IWN) fell apart last year. The bid to provide seamless communications among the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Treasury faltered over disagreements on priorities, according to a Dec. 12, 2008, study by the US Government Accountability Office. The GAO recommends that Congress consider requiring the three departments to work together.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel, says the committee intends to address the IWN problem "later this Congress."
"We still have not gotten interoperability worked out - but is it better than it was? Yes," says former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D) of Indiana, vice chairman of the 9/11 commission, in a phone interview.
Some activists who helped establish the 9/11 commission say they're stunned at the difficulties in carrying out reforms they thought were already the law of the land.
"I thought that if it was legislated, it would be implemented," said Mary Fetchet, founding director of Voices of September 11, an activist group on 9/11 issues based in New Canaan, Conn.
After losing her son, who was on the 89th floor of the South Tower on 9/11, she helped pressure Congress to create an independent commission to investigate what went wrong and to ensure it didn't happen again.
"I certainly didn't want another person to perish in the way that my son did," she said in a recent phone interview. "But what I've found is that we had to continue to be involved, because legislation is just the first step."
Without effective congressional oversight and ongoing public pressure, key reforms may never be funded or implemented, she added. "Congress doesn't want to reform itself or streamline the process. There are far too many committees involved in issues that are unrelated to homeland security."
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Greenwich Police Wednesday issued the following statement in response to the news that a Greenwich High School sophomore had committed suicide:
If you or someone you know is having a difficult time coping with a situation, there are many resources available to help. If you are in crisis and need immediate assistance please contact any one of these hotlines.
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Department of Children and Families Careline /Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services: 1-800-842-2288
National Hopeline: 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433)
The National Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255); TTY number: 1-800-799-4TTY (4889)


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DURHAM, N.H. (AP) � A University of New Hampshire forest program has noticed that white pine trees seem to be losing more needles lately.
The Forest Watch program says the trees maintained vigorous growth during the late 1990s as the Clean Air Act took effect and ozone levels fell.
But data shows that since 2010, the trees have not done a good job of retaining those needles.
Barrett Rock of UNH's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, says something very serious is stressing the trees. Possible causes are air pollution from wildfires and unusually wet weather that's caused an explosion of fungi.
Forest Watch is an inquiry-based science program that takes K-12 students and teachers out of their classrooms to study air pollution and forest health.


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If admitted to the Langone Part-time MBA program, you are responsible for paying the tuition deposit by the specified deposit deadline and tuition payment by the specified tuition payment deadline. Students who are fully or partially sponsored by their employer are expected to manage the reimbursement relationship individually with their company. Visit the Stern Graduate Financial Aid Office website for more information.


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Clifford S. Mintz has held a variety of positions, including stints as a medical school professor, professional recruiter, management consultant and medical/science writer. He is the founder of BioInsights, a biopharmaceutical education and training organization, co-founder of BioCrowd, a social networking and career development Web site for bioprofessionals, and the author of BioJobBlog. He teaches product development and regulatory affairs in several biotechnology training programs and is an adjunct professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.
I always have liked science, and, by the age of 10, I decided that I wanted to be a veterinarian. However, after seeing the film "Ben Hur"— in which two characters who have leprosy are miraculously cured – at age 11, I fantasized about what it would be like to discover cures for infectious diseases. As corny as it may sound, the movie convinced me that my true calling in life wasn't veterinary medicine but microbiology. Nonetheless, I enrolled at Cornell University as a preveterinary medicine undergraduate with a dual major in animal science and microbiology. During my senior year at Cornell, Brooks Naylor, my food microbiology professor, invited me to do a senior research project in his laboratory. After several weeks in the laboratory, I was hooked, and I knew that graduate school, not veterinary school, was in my future.
I entered graduate school in 1974 and did my thesis research in Robert Deibel's laboratory in the department of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I studied the pathogenesis of Salmonella gastroenteritis. Because Deibel was chairman of the department and a food microbiology consultant, he wasn't around much. This forced me to become a self-reliant independent investigator very early in my scientific career. When I started graduate school, my goal was to earn a doctoral degree and teach microbiology at a small liberal arts college. However, after three years at Wisconsin, I decided to eschew a career as a science educator in favor of becoming a tenure-track faculty member at a prestigious research institution.
I received my doctoral degree in 1981and chose to do a postdoctoral fellowship with Stephen Morse in the department of microbiology at Oregon Health and Science University. There, I investigated the pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. After two years in Morse's lab, I realized that the field of molecular biology finally had taken off and that I would need to develop molecular biological skills to compete for my coveted tenure-track faculty position. With this in mind, I joined Howard Shuman's laboratory in 1984 as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of microbiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. My work in Shuman's laboratory looked at the molecular pathogenesis of Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease.
In 1987, my newly acquired molecular biology training and respectable publication record helped me to land a tenure-track faculty position in the department of microbiology at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. I spent the next seven years feverishly doing laboratory research, teaching medical and graduate students, publishing papers and writing grants to establish an independent research program on the role of lipopolysaccharide in the molecular pathogenesis of L. pneumophila. While I was a productive researcher who regularly published work and was recognized on several occasions for teaching excellence, I failed to consistently win grant support to run my laboratory. Consequently, in 1994, I was denied tenure and forced to leave academia— an emotionally devastating event that that ended a lifelong dream of becoming a world-class research scientist.
Luckily, at that time, the U.S. biotechnology industry finally had hit its stride, and I landed a job as a scientist at a New Jersey-based biotechnology company managing an antibacterial drug-discovery program. My two years in industry provided me with a firm understanding of the business side of science and, perhaps more importantly, convinced me that industrial research wasn't for me. This, coupled with a desire to teach again, prompted me to successfully apply for a job as chairman of biology at a local community college. It was a good idea at the time, but I quickly realized that, while I still loved to teach, administration wasn't my strong suit. I left the community college job after a year.
Unfortunately, by 1998 I effectively had exhausted most traditional career options for scientists with doctoral degrees, and I desperately needed a job— mainly because I had a wife and three young children to support. Fortunately, while working at the community college, I helped several professional recruiters place new hires into jobs at biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies; this prompted me to seriously consider professional recruiting as a career option. In early 1999, I landed a job as a recruiter at a local recruiting firm. As a new hire, I had to attend recruiter school for six weeks. Surprisingly, this training played a pivotal role in subsequent decisions that helped shape my career.
After three years as a successful professional recruiter, an Australian biotechnology company hired me as a science and business consultant to help guide its antibacterial drug-discovery program. The new job led to an almost four-year stint as an independent management consultant advising private and publicly traded biotechnology companies on business, scientific and financial matters. Also around this time, I decided to indulge my own entrepreneurial fantasies: In 2001, I founded a bioscience education and training company called BioInsights Inc. Two years later, Abraham Abuchowski and I founded Prolong Pharmaceuticals— a drug-delivery company with two drugs in early stage clinical development. Unfortunately, the rigorous demands of running BioInsights and starting Prolong ultimately led to the demise of my consulting practice, and, by 2004 I was forced to consider another career move.
Luckily, a few years earlier, I had started writing for several biotechnology industry trade publications. Although I wasn't getting paid to write, the job enabled me to hone and polish my writing skills. In late 2004, a medical communications expert whom I knew suggested that I take a stab at medical writing. At the time, I didn't know much about medical writing, but I quickly learned that it pays well and that medical writers are always in demand. I took her advice and landed my first medical writing job in 2005. Since then, I have worked at a variety of medical communications agencies and pharmaceutical companies preparing manuscripts, posters, slide presentations and other documents. Currently, I am a freelance science and medical writer, a blogger at biojobblog.com and a social media enthusiast who, along with Vincent Racaniello, started an online social network site for bio-scientists called BioCrowd (www.biocrowd.com).
Unlike many scientists, my career path has taken several unexpected twists and turns. I never intended it to be as eclectic or convoluted as it has been. Nevertheless, I believe that my unusual career trajectory has made me a better-rounded scientist than I would have been if I had been able to pursue my intended academic career. In retrospect, I attribute my career successes to solid problem-solving skills, an unrelenting desire to continue to learn and an unwavering ability to take risks.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I learned that there is no right or wrong career path in the life sciences— only the path that you choose for yourself!
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How do you harness the grassroots energy and community organizing tactics that propelled Barack Obama into the White House and use them to make a city climate-friendly? That's the task Marcus Ryan is taking on in the nation's capital, as cofounder of the DC Project.
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The first thing we wanted to do was create an actual pathway out of poverty. Getting trained in weatherization and smart-meter installation, green construction, is the first step toward a green job. But we realized there's still not going to be anybody to hire the folks who are trained in these new skills if there's no demand.
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What made you decide to go door to door?
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If we can't do it in D.C., we can't do it anywhere. The city has 100,000 people working in nonprofits. Twenty-seven percent of the population works in government. But a mile and a half away, one out of five kids is living below the poverty line. Some parts of the city have 40, upwards of 50 percent unemployment. It's unreasonable. Washington, D.C., needs to be able to solve its local problems if it's going to then be able to solve the nation's and the world's problems. Change begins in your community.
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Opinion: How Political Correctness Threatens the Military
Editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz on how political correctness facilitated Major Hasan's rise in the military ranks and caused his superiors to gloss over his bizarre behavior. Photo credit: Associated Press.
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