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I have come across a rather refreshing take on the U.S. and Britain foreign policy. Th author points out that countries like Pakistan and others in the middle east like to do a lot of blaming and not enough taking responsibility for their own ills.
Honestly I think he nails it on the head here. When are we going to stop letting them lay it all on the west?
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I don't expect anyone to be comfortable with it, but I view it as inevitable. As long as we are a foreign occupier/babysitter, there is no incentive for local cultures to take responsibility - nukes seem like a great option for them. In Ahmadinajad's case, I'm pretty damn sure he wants nuclear capability so he can get as much 'aid' for his country as Pakistan.
I don't believe that most believers 'truly' believe - crying so profoundly at funerals being strong evidence. If a country develops nuclear capacity, the population has got to know, instantly, that they have become a target for nuclear annihilation. At that point a leader has to tread very lightly to keep the populace from panicking. The cold war set people over here on edge, imagine what it would do in an Islamic country.
In the end they will have nukes anyway - they are just getting easier to build every year. If Ahmadinijad just wanted to blow something up he could have just bought a nuke from Kim Jong Il - or maybe even Kim Jong Il knows that would be too fucking crazy. We used to be terrified of India & Pakistan getting nukes, with the rampant phrase being "Don't let anyone who believes in reincarnation near the button!" Don't forget that Pakistan fell into the hands of a dictator.
Personally, I think the best defense is identifying who has the nukes and using a seriously overwhelming missile defense shield to make sure they can't actually fire them at anybody. We can't occupy the entire middle east for the next century.
The sanctions frankly don't go far enough and the regime tries to curtail sanctions with offshore fronts but the U.S. and international community is catching up with those quickly. Frankly, we need to block the strait of Hormuz and support the Iranian people the next time during the next massive protests which will happen in the next fake elections there in less than 2-years.
The regime simply right now doesn't have as much money to pay their own thugs therefore there has been some interesting infighting lately. They took away the subsidies from their own people and now it is affecting the workers. The regime can kill the youth who protest but once the workers from the factories start protesting in mass numbers; that will be truly the end for the regime. They can't kill all age-groups in mass.
No, this commentator has noticed something quite insidious creeping into our Western way of reasoning and penetrates most detrimentally into our schools and news media, its all pervasive, a kind of uncritical political correctness mixed with cultural relativism with clear slants toward West-bashing.
I'd argue that being capable of self-criticism at the highest (political) level is actually a good thing. And, assuming that cultures can be rated, what would make Western culture superior to others in my view would have to be precisely this, before anything else. But then it should be no surprise that people disagree on what constitutes reasonable self-criticism, and when it becomes 'uncritical political correctness'. Diversity in opinions is what makes a good debate, and that too is a good thing.
The article referred to is far from an objective assessment of solutions. Even the very first sentence belies the fact that it's more of a finger-pointing blame game than a consideration of tried and true solutions. It encourages emotionalist us vs them, simplistic "people like them" (or was it "people like you"?) pronouncements, intentionally ignorant of the evolution of institutions, governments, economy, and other social processes.
We Americans have been so lucky to have occupied/inherited a resource rich country where we could start with a fresh, liberal democracy, with a constant stream of immigrants with hunger and passion for freedom and success. Then in only the most recent decades, theocracy-oilocracies entrenched themselves as suppliers of our growing energy needs, using their new wealth to enslave their own populations' labor resources and control their population's hearts and minds with religious fundamentalism. You can't just blame the people there for having no hope of freedom under those circumstances, but you also can't just magically dismantle or bomb to hell their governments and institutions (and terrorists) and expect them to reassemble a liberal democracy in only a few years.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but it's absurd to claim there are simple, infallible solutions and all we have to do is stop blaming ourselves. It's also very ego-centric/selfish (and dangerous) to ignore our own mistakes or claim that we've been perfect masters, when most people spend hours a day on pure leisure and entertainment and don't have the slightest clue about world culture other than what we can export.
I should add, Iraq is the prime example of what we do when we think we're perfect and infallible.


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Chapter 15: Ten Top Travel Destinations and Attractions 249
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 n.1 Cape Town Jan. 2011
Burns disasters - a plan for South Africa
A D Rogers; C E Price; L A Wallis; H Rode
'An emergency anticipated and prepared for ceases to be an emergency'.1
The need for a burns disaster plan integrated with national and provincial disaster plans was highlighted during the South African Burns Society Congress in Pretoria in 2009. In recent times, a fire at a large printing works in Paarl and a nightclub in Durban, and bush fires around Cape Town, have questioned both the prevention strategies and our preparedness to cope with the potential number of burn casualties. The likelihood of a burns disaster increases when large numbers of people are gathered in an environment where powerful sources of energy are harnessed in industry or where there has been a significant growth in transportation and technology.2-6
Acts of terrorism have highlighted the need for national disaster plans in all countries. The Australian Burns Disaster Plan (Ausburnplan), for instance, was drawn up in the aftermath of the Bali catastrophe.7 Analysis of major terrorist attacks has revealed that up to 15% of the total live casualties sustained severe burn injuries; but the arrival of even 10 new major burns would overwhelm most burns units in South Africa.3,5,6,8
The International Society for Burns Injuries (ISBI) guidelines for the management of large numbers of burns casualties recommend that 'each country has or should have a disaster planning system that addresses its own particular needs'.9 The essential elements of any disaster plan are descriptions of how medical facilities should provide appropriate treatment, and how to ensure access to such facilities.9 The South African Burns Society (SABS) should assist in evaluating these facilities, help to maintain standards, and formulate and implement provincial and national burns disaster plans.
Ten principles of burns disaster planning
1. Disaster plans have not made adequate provision for burn casualties, a group that has required greater access to resources than other categories of trauma, and requires input from several role-players.3-6 Police, fire and ambulance services are critical to the successful implementation of disaster plans, and should be represented in the planning committees.6
2. Crucial to the prevention of burns disasters in South Africa is the critical analysis of domestic, public and industrial settings. The successful implementation of basic safety standards has resulted in a significant reduction in the fatalities per burns disaster over the last century.3
3. If one were to divide the casualties into three groups (those who die within 24 hours, those who require inpatient care, and those who can be managed as outpatients), the smallest cohort have required hospitalisation. The Coconut Grove Disaster demonstrated that the dead interfere with the optimal management of the living.3
4. The first 2 -3 hours require the implementation of emergency care in the field, based on ATLS principles10 and South African Burns Society guidelines.11 During the ensuing 8 hours, the complex relief strategy should be implemented according to the disaster plan. A co-ordinating team should be located at a central facility.3,7
5. Optimal management of major burns casualties occurs in a burns unit.2,3 Triaging patients to the appropriate category is paramount in the success of a plan's implementation.3,4 An experienced burns practitioner should co-ordinate with the senior emergency medicine practitioner on the scene.2,3
6. The early notification of surrounding hospitals is important. A burns disaster will overwhelm even a burns centre within a multi-specialty hospital. Secondary triage may be necessary so that patients may be diverted to where treatment may continue.3-9
7. Each department in the hospital complex involved should have an emergency call-out plan and implement it according to the nature of the disaster, as determined by the senior burn surgeon. Critical medical and support personnel may include doctors from several specialties (surgeons, intensivists, anaesthetists); nurses with critical care, wound care, trauma or burns experience; occupational therapists; physiotherapists; escorts and translators; clerks; radiologists and radiographers; blood bank and laboratory technicians; social workers and psychologists; administrators; security personnel and porters.6
8. An identified member of the team should liaise with the media and with representatives from victims' families. Inappropriate management of these groups hampers patient care.2,3,6
9. Adequate stockpiles of supplies should be available for such a disaster. The laboratory will be under increased pressure, and the blood bank should be able to arrange major blood donation drives at short notice.6,7 Cadaver skin was identified as the major single resource lacking in Singapore after the 2002 Bali attack, despite having more than 9 000 cm2 in their local skin bank at the time of the disaster.12 Legislation and local resistance have severely limited the availability of cadaver skin in South Africa.
10. Members of the South African Burns Society (SABS) should maintain a list of units and individuals accredited with the SABS, collaborate with other agencies, provide courses and training (e.g. course in Emergency Management of Severe Burns13), be represented at disaster management headquarters, maintain contact with burns units and liaise with bed managers during normal functioning.9
Since 'each country should have a disaster planning system that addresses its own particular needs',9 the SABS has identified the need for a major audit of burns care in South Africa in order to formulate, implement and test such a plan.
The maintenance of a central database of burns units and practitioners forms part of this strategy. Broader objectives include the improvement of burns care and resources in South Africa and increasing the number of practitioners to complete the Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) course.
1. Benzaquin P. Fire in Boston's Coconut Grove. Boston: Braden Press, 1959. [ Links ]
2. Clive Wood, ed. Accident and Emergency Burns: Lessons from the Bradford Disaster. Royal Society of Medicine Services Round Table Series. Number 3. London: Royal Society of Medicine, 1987:51-103. [ Links ]
3. Barilo DJ, Wolf S. Planning for burn disasters: Lessons learned from one hundred years of history. J Burn Care Res 2006; 27(5):622-634. [ Links ]
4. McGregor JC. Major burn disasters: lessons to be learned from previous incidents and a need for a national plan. Surg J R Coll Edin Ire 2004;2(5):249-311. [ Links ]
5. Greenwood JE, Mackie IP. Factors for consideration in developing a plan to cope with mass burn casualties. ANZ J Surg 2009;79(9):581-583. [ Links ]
6. Wachtel TL, Dimick AR. Burn Disaster Management. In: Herndon DN, ed. Total Burn Care. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1998:19-32. [ Links ]
7. Hovarth J. Ausburnplan - Australian Mass Casualty Burn Disaster Plan. 2005. http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/phd-health-emergency.htm (accessed 16 February 2010). [ Links ]
8. ABA Board of Trustees. Committee on Organization and Delivery of Burn Care. Disaster management and the ABA Plan. J Burn Care Rehabil 2005;26(2):102-106. [ Links ]
9. Haberal M. Guidelines for Dealing with Disasters involving Large Numbers of Extensive Burns. International Society for Burns Injuries. www.burndisaster.com/isbi%20disaster%20manual.pdf (accessed 22 February 2010). [ Links ]
10. American College of Surgeons. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) for Doctors Course Manual. 8th ed. Chicago: American College of Surgeons, 2008. [ Links ]
11. Karpelowsky JS, Wallis L, Madaree A, Rode H. South African Burn Society burn stabilisation protocol. S Afr Med J 2007;97(8):574. [ Links ]
12. Chim H, Yew WS, Song C. Managing burn victims of suicide bombing attacks: outcomes, lessons learnt, and changes made from three attacks in Indonesia. Critical Care 2007;11(1):R15. [ Links ]
13. Australia and New Zealand Burn Association. Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) Course Pre-reading. Brisbane, Australia: Australia and New Zealand Burn Association, 1996. [ Links ]
Alan Rogers and Chris Price are registrars in the Division of Plastic Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and the University of Cape Town.
Lee Wallis heads the Divisions of Emergency Medicine at the universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch, and is Head of Emergency Medicine in the Western Cape provincial government.
Heinz Rode heads the Paediatric Burns Unit and is Professor of Paediatric Surgery at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town.
Corresponding author: A Rogers (email@example.com)


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An animal welfare group is combining efforts with the city of Grandview to help law enforcement investigate animal fighting.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says in a release that it's hosting a training workshop with the city to teach law enforcement officers and animal cruelty investigators how to crack down on animal blood sports like dog fighting and cockfighting.
The workshop is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday
The ASPCA says the workshop will be led by Terry Mills and Kyle Held, APSCA employees who were involved in a recent large U.S. dog fighting raid that resulted in 26 arrests and the seizure of more than 400 dogs.


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A top appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to end the suspense and come to a decision on the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
In a 2-1 decision that raises the political stakes, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit determined that the commission has "continued to violate the law" by refusing to act, one way or another, on the Yucca Mountain licensing application. The time for a decision, the court added, "has long since passed."
"The commission is simply flouting the law," Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority.
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act gives the Nuclear Regulatory Commission three years to accept or reject a license application for a nuclear waste storage site once it's been filed. The Bush administration submitted the Yucca Mountain application in June 2008.
"By its own admission, the commission has no current intention of complying with the law," Kavanaugh wrote. "Rather, the commission has simply shut down its review and consideration of the Department of Energy's license application."
The highly anticipated ruling is a victory for South Carolina, Washington and other states that want to use the remote Yucca Mountain site in Nevada as a resting spot for the nuclear waste that's piled up with no permanent place to go. Federal law originally called for the nuclear waste repository to open by 1998.
The ruling is a defeat, though probably not a definitive one, for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other lawmakers who've fought to keep Yucca Mountain from opening.
Reid said Tuesday in Las Vegas, where he was at the National Clean Energy Summit, that the ruling was "not unexpected," but he said it "means nothing" because Congress wouldn't provide the money needed to finish the licensing work.
An NRC spokesman said the commission was reviewing the ruling.
Legal scholars, too, will be parsing the case, which Kavanaugh said raised "significant questions about the scope of the executive's authority to disregard federal statutes." While it's unusual for a federal court to issue a so-called writ of mandamus like this to order a federal agency to take action, Kavanaugh and his fellow Republican appointee, Judge Arthur Randolph, called the dramatic step necessary.
"It is no overstatement to say that our constitutional system of separation of powers would be significantly altered if we were to allow executive and independent agencies to disregard federal law in the manner asserted in this case by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," Kavanaugh wrote.
The dissenter, Judge Merrick Garland, cautioned that a court ordering a federal agency to act is a "drastic and extraordinary remedy reserved for really extraordinary causes." A Democratic appointee to the bench, Garland added that it's unlikely that the commission has all the money it needs to complete the processing of the Yucca Mountain license application, which stalled several years ago.
"Given the limited funds that remain available, issuing a writ of mandamus amounts to little more than ordering the commission to spend part of those funds unpacking its boxes, and the remainder packing them up again," Garland predicted.
Located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the underground Yucca Mountain site was supposed to store safely for 10,000 years some of the most dangerous material known to man.
There's a lot of it around.
The United States already has generated more than 80,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste, and the toxic materials are stored at some 80 sites in 35 states, according to the Government Accountability Office. The federal government already has spent nearly $15 billion on preparing the Yucca Mountain site.
"Consumers of electricity generated by America's 100 reactors . . . deserve to know whether Yucca Mountain is a safe site for the permanent disposal of used nuclear fuel," the Nuclear Energy Institute and the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition declared after the court ruling Tuesday.
While campaigning for president in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to oppose the Yucca Mountain repository. As president, he's proposed budgets that eliminate funding for the project, prompting an unsuccessful effort by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee, to restore the money.
In 2010, Obama's appointed NRC chairman, a former Reid staffer named Gregory Jaczko, ordered the commission's staff to stop working on the Yucca Mountain license application. Two other commissioners and dozens of members of Congress erupted in opposition to the halt. The majority in the House of Representatives showed its continuing support for Yucca Mountain last month, when lawmakers rejected by 87-337 a proposal to direct Yucca Mountain funding elsewhere.
"I think the Congress on a bipartisan basis can agree that we ought to go ahead and finish the review of the Yucca Mountain site,"' Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said during the House debate. "We have spent billions – billions of dollars – on that site. Let's spend another $25 million and finish the job."
The NRC currently has about $11 million appropriated for the Yucca Mountain licensing work, Kavanaugh said.


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Criminals continue to evolve as does the threat landscape. Their targets are your business assets and disrupting the availability of your business operations. Why you ask? Well, it depends on what you have to offer and its value, or who you may have negatively provoked. The risk, impact, and amount of exposure will vary from incident to incident. Some questions to think about.
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The labs build upon the best practices covered in the Cisco Guide to Harden Cisco IOS Devices and as in Aikidō, attendees will begin by learning basic techniques for protecting their networks and then progress to learning specific forms that will be used to identify and neutralize a number of different attacks. At the conclusion of these labs, students will be more prepared to effectively implement and deploy basic and advanced security features and techniques for identifying, classifying, deterring, and detecting attacks, threats, and nefarious behaviors.
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In an April 3 guest commentary for the conservative New Hampshire Union Leader, ABC News 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel returned to promoting author Michael Crichton's assertion in his book State of Fear (Harper Collins, 2004) that global warming is "just another foolish media-hyped scare." Stossel stated that "[m]any climate scientists agree with" Crichton and that reporters "often listen to alarmists and don't take the trouble to survey the scientists who really know." Stossel failed to note, however, that the vast majority of scientists recognize global warming as a genuine phenomenon with potentially serious consequences for human life. Stossel also echoed Crichton's claim that "[e]nvironmental organizations are fomenting false fears in order to promote agendas and raise money," but he neglected to mention that many global-warming skeptics receive generous funding from industry lobbyists to downplay the problem.
As Media Matters for America has previously documented, studies by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1996 and 2001, and a 2001 National Academy of Sciences report, commissioned by the Bush administration, have recognized global climate change. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Union of Concerned Scientists both also note a "strong consensus" among climate researchers that global warming is a scientific reality.
Stossel stated that Crichton "points out that the even the scientists who study global warming have an incentive to exaggerate the problem. If you say, 'there isn't a big problem,' you're less likely to get grant money." But he neglected to note that many global warming skeptics receive generous funding from energy interests with a direct financial interest in downplaying the problem. Former Washington Post and Boston Globe reporter and editor Ross Gelbspan documented the phenomenon of dubious industry-funded scientists in his 1998 book, The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription (Perseus Books Group, 1998).
This wasn't the first time Stossel has offered a misleading presentation of global warming. The Washington Post reported on June 26, 2001, that parents of children that Stossel interviewed for a piece called "Tampering With Nature" accused him of manipulating his subjects to support his contention that the children had been brainwashed by environmentalists.
"The questions were all entirely misleading to evoke the responses he wanted," [Brad] Neal [father of one of the children] says. "He'd repeat questions until he got the answer he wanted. ... We knew we were hoodwinked." ... Neal says Stossel was obviously trying to get the 10 assembled students, who ranged in age from 8 to 17, to say they found the prospect of global warming "scary." He said Stossel told them, " 'There are no scientists who think global warming is not occurring, right?' ... The kids didn't know any better. This guy was disgusting. ... When my kids get used, I'm going to fight."
"Tampering With Nature" also included several other inaccuracies, including misrepresenting the loss of American forest habitat and the cost of reducing greenhouse emissions, according to the progressive media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
Media Matters has also noted Stossel's attacks on vice presidential candidate John Edwards' career as a trial lawyer, citing data he claimed was from a government study but was actually produced by a private group with a political agenda. And ABC was forced to correct a broadcast in which Stossel misreported research findings on organic food.
His own journalistic offenses notwithstanding, Stossel has been a severe critic of bias in society and in the media. He made his view of the media abundantly clear by the title of his 2004 book Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media....


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a zipped pocket sits behind an open one with both openings angled gently to the right to make the reach-around easier.
As long as you're right handed. Otherwise tough.
This is no ordinary jersey, this is the Rapha Cross Jersey. Specially designed for the demands of cyclocross with a lightweight merino-rich fabric and a slim structured fit, the Sportwool fabric supposedly both insulates and breathes to keep you comfortable even when flailing through the mud. A padded shoulder for bike carrying run-up luxury and race-specific pockets add to the crossentric design, and for £130 it will clean your bike afterwards as well. Probably.
As it's designed for racing the Cross Jersey is cut podium slim and as Rapha figure that your engine's going to be running at high-revs whilst wearing it you won't need a warm jersey so it's constructed from a lightweight Sportwool fabric, think long-sleeve summer jersey and you get an idea of the fabric's weight. Slipping the jersey over a base-layer in the car-park and on the first warm-up lap it feels way way too light and downright cold but once the gun has gone and you're up to speed breathing hard it's actually spot on temperature wise, even when other competitors are in full-on Winter layers with ear-warmers and balaclavas.
Made from a 22% merino wool and 78% polyester mix it keeps you warm enough and wicks away sweat so doesn't become suddenly cold and clammy for the bell-lap. And it's natural material composition also means it's not going to smell the back of the car out on the way home, especially when it's stowed away in it's own little dedicated Rapha drawstring water and stain resistant bag where there's also enough room for muddy socks, shorts and gloves to be stashed too. The frequent wearabilty without washing capabilities of the Cross Jersey's natural fabric might be compromised though as it's likely to be caked in mud after every use.
As you're only going to be on a 'cross bike for an hour if you're doing it properly Rapha have done away with the excessive cargo-carrying three rear pockets of a normal jersey and replaced them with two, although they take up the space of just one as a zipped pocket sits behind an open one with both openings angled gently to the right to make the reach-around easier. The zipped one has a big O-ring pull loop on it to help using with gloved hands and is good for not losing car-keys, mobile phone and the loose change for a cup of tea and slice of cake at the finish, and the open pocket is big enough for an energy bar and an inner-tube and a multi-tool, although why you'd need any of those during a 'cross race is a debatable subject, you could just about squeeze in a lightweight warm-up jacket in there, or a water-bottle if you feel the need for one and have a cage-free 'cross bike. On the inside of the open pocket is a little story printed on a sewn-in piece of fabric, it's got something to do with foxes.
The Cross Jersey is laden with the kind of detailing that Rapha revel in and is often appreciated by people that actually ride their bikes. The collar sits a bit higher than a usual jersey to keep those winter winds away as they cut across the sports field, and it incorporates a de rigueur zip-dock to stop chin chaffage from the Rapha logoed pull on the end of the full-length front zip. The cuffs are ever-so subtly tailored to cover the entire wrist when bent over the bars and though Rapha make great play about the padded-right shoulder to increase bike carrying comfort it's pretty minimal when it comes to easing the suffering, and isn't much use if you're one of the few left-handed carriers.
Pink red and blue detailing strike across the back and shoulder of the jersey with an embroidered blue Rapha logo on the left sleeve to co-ordinate with the Rapha-FOCUS Cyclocross Team colourway. Similarly coloured 3/4 'cross bibs and a cycle cap are available for the matching ensemble as well should you wish, and an umbrella if you think your pit-crew/partner deserve one. These colours continue into the detailing in predictable Rapha style with a pink drawstring to keep the hem tight, and light blue detailing within the silicone hem gripper, even the embroidery over the padded shoulder is in team colours. Swish.
As a jersey it does it's job very well, the fit is superb and the material mix deals with the sweaty rigours of racing in a way that astounded initial scepticism, but most people are going to think twice about £130 for a jersey, let alone spend that much on one for the very time and effort specific and niche demands of cyclo-cross, and thinking about buying a jersey just for getting dirty and treated badly for an hour would make most people reach for the bargain bin for a top at a tenth of the price. And would it be churlish to suggest that someone dedicated enough to spend so much on a jersey for the rarified sport of cyclo-cross would be serious enough to be in a cycle club and want to wear their colours? Or their sponsors jersey even?
Rapha say the jersey is versatile enough for everyday cycling as well as racing, which seems to cut across the claim that it's specifically designed for 'cross racing. Heyho. Finding room in an day-to-day cycling wardrobe for a pricey lightweight long-sleeved jersey with limited cargo capabilities might prove tricky.
The Rapha Cross Jersey is a lovely bit of kit deep down, it has the level of detail and fit that you'd expect from the London boys and it works really well for a cold yet strenuous hour on the bike. It's a nice concept on paper and it actually works in practise too, but the price is galling for any cycling jersey as it is, let alone one that's so specific where the cost becomes instantly prohibitive, and it's certainly an amount of money that you really don't want to get dirty, or rip a sleeve in a muddy slide-out. And, though it's a nice touch, do you really needs a cute little kit bag for post-race clothes when a plastic bag will do?
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Make and model: Rapha Cross Jersey
Size tested: Medium
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The Rapha Cross Jersey has been constructed for the high-energy demands of cyclocross, and it meets those demands really well, but at a price, and too specific for much else.
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78% polyester and 22% merino Sportwool™ with four-way stretch, eyelet construction ensures excellent moisture transfer, itch free, antibacterial and odour resistant. Low-profile, right-shoulder pad prevents bike top tube rubbing, angled pocket zips allows easy access, drawstring bag for stowing post-race kit.
It performed very well in the racing it was designed for, but it's a lot of money for an hour.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The fit, the Sportwool.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
The price.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? No - I couldn't justify spending that amount
Would you recommend the product to a friend? No, I'd point and tut with them though.
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Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.


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Emerging Leaders Poster Session
Friday, June 27
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Hilton Anaheim, California Pavillion C
ALA's 2008 class of Emerging Leaders (EL) will showcase its final projects during a poster session on Friday, June 27 during the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. All are welcomed and encouraged to attend.
The poster session will be the culminating event for this class of Emerging Leaders. Since the ALA Midwinter Meeting the groups have been working virtually on projects related to ALA or a professional concern. They have been supported by an ALA staff person and a member mentor from the profession. The poster session will allow each group to showcase its creative and innovative solutions for their projects.
Participants in the EL '08 class come from all across the United States and represent a variety of types of libraries. An ALA division, round table, chapter or an ALA affiliate organization sponsored approximately one-third of the participating ELs. For a list of participants, projects and sponsors, visit the Emerging Leaders wiki at wikis.ala.org/emergingleaders
The Emerging Leaders program began as one of ALA Past-President Leslie Burger's initiatives. ALA has committed to making this program available annually for young and/or new librarians.
Applications for the 2009 class of Emerging Leaders are now being accepted at cs.ala.org/hrdr/emergingleaders.
Present a Poster Session at Annual Conference.
Dear members of the USA and International Library Community,
We want you to show the national and international library community your best ideas!
Applications for presenting poster sessions at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference are now being accepted. An application form is available on the poster session website at http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/ for both US and international submissions.
The 2008 ALA Annual Poster Sessions will be held at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, June 28, 29, and 30, 2008.
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The deadline for submitting an application is January 31, 2008. Applicants will be notified by March 31, 2008 whether their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference.
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CHICAGO - The ALA Workplace Wellness Task Force will host a Wellness Fair on Sunday, June 29, during the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif., June 26 - July 2, 2008. In conjunction with this event, the Task Force invites poster session proposals relating to the program's theme, "Be Well at Work." Selected posters will be displayed during the Wellness Fair. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2008.
Please help share examples of successful workplace wellness initiatives for library employees. Suggested poster session subjects include diet and nutrition, ergonomics, exercise incentives, health education, health screenings, sick building syndrome and stress management. However, proposals relating to initiatives on any wellness issue are welcome.
The ALA Workplace Wellness Task Force will select posters for the Wellness Fair based on quality, and holds a goal to represent a variety of wellness program themes and library types.
Submissions should include a brief description of the poster session (250 words or less), your name, institution, phone, fax, e-mail address and poster title. Submissions should be addressed to Lynne Ring, member, ALA Workplace Wellness Task Force, via e-mail at email@example.com, and must be received no later than March 15, 2008.
Poster Session entries will be reviewed upon receipt, and those selected will be notified by April 15, 2008.
As part of ALA President Loriene Roy's presidential initiative, the mission of the Workplace Wellness Task Force is to produce tangible expressions that promote healthy workplaces and lifestyles among library workers. For more information on the ALA Workplace Wellness Task Force please visit www.ischool.utexas.edu.


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Photo: Getty Images for Michael Kors
Not even a blizzard could keep the style-hungry celebrities away from New York's Fashion Week. Actors, musicians and models — like Allison Williams, Ashlee Simpson, Brooke Shields, Vanessa Hudgens and Stephanie Seymour — and a handful of sporting stars took to Lincoln Center for front-row and backstage looks at the 2013 fall collections. Take a look at who has made a showing so far.


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(NOTE: Post contains spoilers from last week's wacky episode if you haven't seen it)
And so we find ourselves left with just five contestants on "Project Runway." This will sound odd, but this season's cast seemed much more talented when there were ten of them left as opposed to now, when that number has been cut in half.
This seaons's like a good album with no hits. I go into the final five with no better idea of who's going to win this thing than I did a month ago. I thought Jay was the favorite earlier. Then I thought it was Seth Aaron. Now, I guess it's Emilio? Really? Eh. I dunno. Here's my best stab at sorting out this mess:
Mira (25/1): Maya Sr. somehow made the final five, and I wonder if she'll make Bryant Park simply because she's the only woman left in the competition. I mean, shouldn't she have gotten the boot two episodes ago? She didn't even make the bottom two last week with that boob-spreading monstrosity of hers. How is that possible? I think she may be colorblind. I SMELL A FIX! Even if Mira does make it to Bryant Park, there's no way she wins it all.
Anthony (20/1): He's the unquestioned star of the season. He's like a black Graham Norton. I wish I could summon him at all hours, like some sort of pithy genie. They brought him back after he got the boot two weeks ago, and it didn't even feel like a cheap trick, the way it usually does in reality TV. Anthony is just someone you're happy to see regardless. The only problem is that all I care about is what he says, and not what he makes.
Jay (15/1): He seemed poised to sail through to the finals, before suddenly going right into the tank. Now I have no clue if Jay is any good or not. All I know is that I hope he stops wearing cutoffs. Makes him look like a leprechaun.
Emilio (3/1): I guess Emilio is now the logical favorite, after he won three challenges in a row and four overall. I certainly like that he was the only one to call out Maya for copping out and leaving the competition with just a few weeks to go. But while Emilio has had a couple of good designs in the past few weeks (last week's was considered impeccable by Kors), there's still something missing. There's no identity. No definitive style. That's what the judges say every time they deliberate. Does this person know who they are as a designer? I'm not really sure Emilio does.
Seth Aaron (2/1): I still think he's the logical choice to win it all because, despite flopping last week, he's the one with the most distinct personality as a designer. That's certain to serve him well in the finals. And he is making the finals. He and Emilio are locks. I don't know who will join them, but I do know it won't matter.


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White House
How Obama's regulation plan aims to fix what went wrong
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's proposed overhaul of financial regulations aims to eliminate a number of the loopholes that contributed to the recession. Here's a summary of what went wrong and how his proposals would try to fix it:
- Nobody looking out for the little guy. At least five federal regulators had some responsibility for protecting consumers from fraud and predatory lending involving credit cards, payday loans, mortgages and other credit products. Yet this responsibility was the primary focus of none. Obama's plan would strip the Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission and other regulators of certain powers and give them to a newly created Consumer Financial Protection Agency. It would be independent and would have the power to make and enforce consumer-protection rules. States could pass rules even tougher than those of the new agency.
_ No regulator looking at the entire financial system. Individual regulators saw parts of the problem, but nobody saw how together they posed a systemic threat. The Federal Reserve would be charged with guarding against threats to the broad financial system. It would have until Oct. 1 to propose what new powers or changes in law it would need to do this.
_ Insufficient regulatory tools. When investment bank Lehman Brothers went bust last September, regulators lacked the authority to seize it as they would a commercial bank. Its demise triggered a near-collapse of the global financial order. Obama's plan would allow regulators to take over and dissolve a large, globally interconnected financial institution if it posed a threat to the financial system.
_ Many voices, no consensus. Although at least seven federal regulators tried to halt the global financial slide, they spoke with different voices. Obama's plan would create a Financial Services Oversight Council — a panel of regulators led by the Treasury Department — to identify risks to the financial system and advise the Federal Reserve.
_ Outsized risks. Because no one was looking at the whole picture, regulators were unaware of how much risk had accumulated in the financial system. The Treasury Department will lead an effort to create new capital requirements for all financial institutions, not just banks, and must issue a report with proposed changes by Dec. 31. The Treasury is expected to require financial firms to save money in good times to have adequate reserves in bad times.
_ Shopping for the least regulation. Regulation of financial institutions was spread among several agencies whose enforcement can best be described as spotty. The most egregious example was insurer American International Group, which branched into financial products through a thrift that the Office of Thrift Supervision insufficiently regulated. That agency would disappear under Obama's plan, which would roll several federal regulators into a new National Bank Supervisor. It would govern all federally chartered lenders, whether they're banks or savings and loans.
_ Spreading risk without responsibility. The financial crisis began in mortgage finance, where mortgage brokers with no federal regulation originated loans that were underwritten mostly by investment banks that weren't regulated for their financial soundness. The banks bundled the loans into pools — a process called securitization — and the securities were sold to investors. Loan bundlers now would have to retain portions of what they sold to ensure that they too had "skin in the game."
_ Free rein for credit-rating agencies. Investors snapped up bundles of loans thinking that they were safe because rating agencies said they were. The rating agencies had a conflict of interest, however, because investment banks often hired them to package the loans. The Securities and Exchange Commission would get new powers to supervise rating agencies and demand tougher reporting requirements.
_ Investment banks ran amok. The SEC regulated investment banks only through the lens of investor protection. These banks — Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and others — often borrowed $30 to invest alongside every $1 of their own. The Obama plan would end SEC oversight of large global investment banks; the Federal Reserve would regulate them instead.
_ Hedge funds and other private pools of capital lacked transparency. These are investment funds for the very wealthy, trust funds, endowments and pension funds. They and private equity funds take huge risks in financial markets, but they aren't regulated. The absence of any public information about their finances amplified concerns as the global financial system tanked. Under Obama's plan they'd have to register and report to the SEC, which would determine whether their investments were so vast that their failure could pose a threat to the financial system.
_ Money market funds thought to be safe. These low-risk, low-return instruments earn interest for ordinary investors and were thought to be virtually risk free, until investors pulled so much money out of one last fall that its investment income fell below operating expenses. That added to the global financial panic. Obama's plan directs the President's Working Group on Financial Markets to recommend changes to eliminate the risk of runs on these funds.
_ Complex financial instruments exploded in popularity before they imploded. Over the past decade, these complex new products galloped beyond the reach of regulators. This was especially true of credit-default swaps, private bets between parties on the performances of loans or other forms of credit. This swaps market, which includes bets on the future prices of oil contracts, is valued in the trillions of dollars. Obama would subject it and other "derivatives" to comprehensive regulation and would require them to be traded on a regulated exchange, along with new reporting requirements and far greater transparency.
CLARIFICATION: A story about how President Barack Obama's proposed overhaul of financial regulations aims to fix what went wrong with the industry said that insurer American International Group had branched into financial products through a thrift insufficiently regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision. AIG operated a division involving financial products before the 2000 start of its thrift, which the OTS supervised. The exotic investments that brought down the company flourished after the thrift was formed and operated under OTS supervision, however.
To ask a question about this story or any economic question, go to McClatchy's economy Q&A
Obama to call for new financial regulator, stronger Fed
In huge change, Obama'd strip Fed of credit card oversight


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Shabak AZA of BBYO's Great Midwest Region in Northbrook, recently completed a Lox Box Fundraiser. On May 18, local teen members sold boxes of orange juice, bagels and cream cheese, cookies and other items bought from local businesses, to which all of the proceeds were donated to Susan G. Komen® of Chicago. The chapter donated $800 as part of BBYO's service, advocacy, and philanthropy campaign.
Shabak AZA covers the suburbs of Northbrook, Deerfield, Highland Park, Glenview, Arlington Heights and Lake Forest. As part of this organization, Jewish males in high school have access to several service events like this, leadership development programs, social events and Jewish experiences in a way that is fun and meaningful to them.
For information on joining Shabak AZA, please email Kevin Friduss at email@example.com.
About BBYO
BBYO is the leading pluralistic Jewish teen movement aspiring to involve more Jewish teens in more meaningful Jewish experiences. For 90 years, BBYO's leadership programs the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA, high school fraternity) and the B'nai B'rith Girls (BBG, high school sorority) have been providing exceptional leadership programs and identity enrichment experiences, shaping the confidence and character of more than 400,000 alumni who are among the most prominent figures in business, politics, academia, the arts and Jewish communal life. Now, BBYO's network of Jewish teens, alumni, parents, volunteers and philanthropists serves as the Jewish community's most valuable platform for delivering to the post Bar/Bat Mitzvah audience fun, meaningful and affordable experiences. With year-round activities in hundreds of local communities and inspiring world-wide travel experiences, BBYO's broad program menu enables teens to explore areas of leadership, service, civic engagement, Israel education and Jewish values.
For more information on BBYO, please visit www.bbyo.org.
About Susan G. Komen® – Chicago
Susan G. Komen® – Chicago was established in 1997 and holds two Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® events annually in Chicago and Lombard. Komen Chicago has awarded nearly $15 million towards the fight against breast cancer by funding grassroots breast health navigation, breast cancer screening and treatment projects, as well as global research. In 2014, Komen Chicago awarded $1.3 million to 17 grantees, who provide services and innovative programs to local communities in need. 75 percent of net proceeds generated by Komen Chicago stay in the Chicagoland area, while the remaining 25 percent supports the Susan G. Komen® Grants Program for research, with many grants at local Chicago institutions. For more information please call 773-444-0061 or visit www.komenchicago.org.


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The Synergy School was fine for me for a while.
We called our teachers "Rusty" and "Kathy," learned macrame and group poetry and signed "agreements" that we wouldn't "hurt each other's feelings." It was 1979. My mother was perming her hair into an afro, wearing her knee-high Frye boots and hoping her daughter's creativity wouldn't be squelched by "the system" and its public schools. In fifth grade I rebelled, begging my mother for a school with desks and grades. We compromised on Brandeis Hillel Day School, a small but studious Jewish institution in San Francisco's Pacific Heights.
And that's how I ended up celebrating my bat mitzvah in a Haight Street coffee shop. But I'll get to that later.
In that funky old Synergy School now a Noe Valley laundromat could do what we wanted (unless it involved littering or hurting someone's feelings).
One day, during a class loosely titled "math," I decided I was angry and frustrated at fractions. And like all feelings, that was OK at Synergy. I took the pink plastic triangles intended to teach abstract mathematical concepts and instead made a collage by affixing the teaching tools to a large piece of cardboard with Elmer's Glue.
"That's beautiful," said Rusty, stroking his red beard. "Let's share it with Kathy."
It was just this sort of thing that would never happen at Brandeis. While I didn't know cursive writing or basic geography, how I loved the sudden introduction of structure! Desks! Quizzes in which certain kinds of writing utensils were required! Homework! States and capitals!
Judaic studies and Hebrew classes appealed to this thirst for order. To my parents' surprise, I began bringing home my worn prayer book every Friday night for private Shabbat services with my teddy bear Gus, who had undergone a spiritual metamorphosis since my Synergy days.
While my classmates dreaded weekly prayers in Congregation Sherith Israel's small chapel next door to Brandeis, I loved them. You could learn the order of the songs, memorize the words and the melodies never changed.
My parents, who met on a picket line, had not been to synagogue in years and didn't know what to make of my newfound Jewishness.
"She says she wants to have a bat mitzvah," my mother whispered to my father over the phone. "No, I don't think you have to wear a suit. Maybe a turtleneck."
Perhaps it was my craving for rules to follow, or the diary of Anne Frank, or my brilliant English teacher who made me fall in love with Atticus in "To Kill a Mockingbird." I wanted to be part of this world. And that meant having a bat mitzvah. Who were my parents to oppress my religious freedom?
But I knew a Strasser party would look nothing like the catered affairs to which I had sometimes been invited, celebrated in the domed majesty of Sherith Israel.
It was either risk the humiliation of introducing my Brandeis friends to my parents and their bizarre coterie of lovable, but freaky associates, or skip the rite of passage entirely. I chose to risk it.
I fell asleep at night cringing at the vision of my father in his turtleneck and Nikes, my mother in a flowing batik dress, her long armpit hair blowing in the breeze. I could just see our neighbor Max the Beat Poet taking the occasion to slip in some of his improvised prose. Who knew what to expect when Sam, my agoraphobic uncle, came out of his apartment for the occasion? I was petrified.
On the upside, I never worried much about learning my Torah portion, the lengthy Hebrew recitation most Jewish pre-teens sweat over for months. Who had time? Leaving an organizational matter up to my mother who accumulated stacks of unanswered mail and bills like some people collected glass tchochkeswas worrisome enough.
In her own hippie way, though, she actually kind of "got it together." She made two cakes, so that only half of the guests had to be subjected to that insidious substance known as carob. She decorated the coffee shop she owned, Sacred Grounds Cafe on Hayes and Cole in the Haight, so that it looked almost quaint.
Despite her derision for things pink, she hung salmon-colored streamers around the place, as per my wishes, and put out trays of both bagels and lox and sprout-laden veggie finger sandwiches. She wouldn't shave the armpit hair but agreed to wear a shirt with sleeves, as well as stockings and even low heels instead of Frye boots or sandals.
My classmates, most of whom had never been to the Haight, seemed to adjust to the smattering of crazy hippies and over-the-top-even-for-Jews insane relatives. They tried carob and sprouts. They ran through the kitchen and said, "Your mom owns this? Can you eat whatever you want? Cool."
In pictures of the party, the kids all have wide smiles, the food has been devoured, everyone looks happy. Even my mother, in her toned-down attire, has a nervous grin.
She didn't understand the ceremony or the prayers I led for the first time, but some deeply rooted, Jungian collective Jewish unconscious thing came out and made her eyes sprout tears in a proud Jewish mom kind of way. That was her daughter up there, wearing a pink and white frothy Gunne Sax dress and earnestly pronouncing words in a foreign language.
I was proud, too. I knew I could never be one of the perfectly polished Brandeis girls whose fathers picked them up from school in a Volvo, but I had fit myself into this new Jewish world in my own way.
Our Hebrew teacher told us a story about the disheveled man who didn't even know how to sing the Sh'ma, Judaism's most basic prayer, correctly. God liked him better than the learned and well-dressed man who didn't feel his prayers. I saw myself as the man in tatters.
After all, I couldn't entirely leave behind the Synergy School for Brandeis, in the same way that my mother was compelled to cry and serve bagels at my bat mitzvah.
In the Jewish tradition, I had passed from one stage of life to the other. It may sound like a bad voice-over from "The Wonder Years," but that day started a struggle for balance in my life that has been excruciating at times but invaluable ever since.
Growing up doesn't necessarily mean "passing through," rather holding on to what you really are. Poised uncomfortably between group poetry and states and capitals, lox and carob, hippie freedom and Judaism, was the person I started to recognize as me.