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It is the second such honor for Hand, who was an Academic All-District First Team member last season.
Hand graduated with an undergraduate GPA of 3.76, earning her bachelor's in health and exercise science. The Fort Worth, Texas, native has maintained a 4.00 GPA through her master's studies in human relations.
A member of the preseason Naismith Award watch list, Hand averaged 11.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 53 percent field goal shooting for the Sooners before suffering an ACL tear in Oklahoma's win over North Texas on Dec. 6.
Hand finished her basketball career collecting 1,211 points, 555 rebounds, 296 assists, 120 steals and 51 blocks and started 103 of 104 games played.
First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team selections will be announced later in February.
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So you're in a bar and the guy on the next stool is bragging about being a Navy SEAL.
Maybe he's trying to cadge free drinks, or impress a potential paramour.
Or maybe it's someone running for office, trying to garner votes.
If your BS radar detector starts pinging, there's probably good reason, says Tucker Campion, a guy who should know.
Campion, now 56 and living in Tarpon Springs, was a Navy SEAL for 19 years, retiring in 2000 as commander of SEAL Team 3. For several years, he was part of an organization called VeriSEAL, which helps ferret out fakers by, among other methods, accessing a database of everyone who graduates from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALs training, or BUD/S for short.
By and large, SEALs remain the "quiet professionals" and don't brag. So if you hear someone who does, they are likely fakes. A check of the database usually proves that.
No BUD/S, no SEAL, no deal, says Campion.
"We always say that for every real SEAL, there are 10 guys saying they are," says Campion. "Ever since bin Laden was taken down, the numbers shot through the roof."
I reached out to Campion after seeing his name in a purloined email about outing a pretender on one of my favorite Web sites, which gathers up all kinds of semi-spooky stuff from a wide array of sources.
The 7-year-old email, which has since been scrubbed, talked about the VeriSEAL team, naming a few names.
VeriSEAL was formed in 1992, according to VeriSEAL.org. Its mission is "to provide immediate confirmation" of SEAL and other Special Operations Forces credentials.
VeriSEAL uses a proprietary database called "SOFCHECK" -- a compilation of VeriSEAL historical case files merged with the BUD/S database, which is a complete record of all graduates of BUD/S training from the 1940s to current graduating BUD/S classes compiled by the Naval Special Warfare Center.
Access to the database is strictly limited. But Campion says that shouldn't stop you if your BS Detector is redlining.
"Ask what BUD/S class they were in," says Campion. "If they do anything but immediately answer you, you should be immediately suspicious."
If someone tells you that his class was classified, because he was assigned to a special unit, you are dealing with a faker, says Campion.
"There is nothing classified about a BUD/S class," he says.
Some poseurs, says Campion, have had an inkling about BUD/S and were able to rattle off a real class number. But there are ways to see through that as well.
"A buddy of mine ran into a guy on a plane, who said he was a team guy," says Campion. "Of course, my friend knew what questions to ask."
The guy said he was in Class 120. Campion, who was in Class 114, says that would make the guy about 50. But he was only 39.
"My friend goes, 'when you were training, you must have been about six.' The guy didn't say a word the whole rest of the flight."
Other questions to ask, says Campion, are which SEAL team? The even number teams are based on the East Coast, odd numbers on the West. SEALs don't like to call Team 6 anything but the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU.
Ask more questions, he says.
"Who was your skipper? What platoon?"
If you are still curious, reach out to VeriSEAL.org. Campion's last stint with the SEALs was as commander of SEAL Team 3, from 1998 to 2000. Geographically assigned to the Middle East, they did foreign internal defense and joint training exercises with foreign special operations forces, among other missions. After retirement, Campion went to work for U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base as a contractor, helping to procure weapons systems.
In 2010, he started his own company, Poseidon Consulting TPM, "which connects industry with the warfighter, helping industry guide development of their products and market within the special operations community," he says.
Across the country, military contractors are among the most concerned about looming budget cuts, a half-trillion over the next decade already called for, another half-trillion or so pending as the result of an impasse over how to cut the deficit.
But companies connected to Socom are breathing a little easier, says Campion.
"Everyone is concerned about the 'fiscal cliff,'" says Campion. "I feel fortunate my focus is on Socom. They will see cuts, but not cuts like the big services have seen."
Adm. William McRaven, Socom commander, "has publicly stated that Socom will always have money," says Campion, "to invest to procure those things that make a significant difference for the SOF operator that will allow him to do his job better, keep him safer or to lessen his time in theater."
Though the bulk of conventional forces will be out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014, special operations forces are likely to be there a lot longer. And in many other spots around the globe. Good news for companies like Campion's.
Operators "stay in a place as long as heat is being generated there," says Campion.
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$500 reward offered for return of wheelchair
The executive director of Spina Bifida Association of Colorado wrote me today to share the news that her group is offering a $500 reward for the return of a custom wheelchair stolen from a Highlands Ranch teen-ager.
Yesterday, I put up a piece on the Idea Log about the theft of Pierce Grandchamp's $10,000 chair, wondering who could be so cold as to steal it.
Grandchamp, who has spina bifida, left the chair outside his father's house so he could quickly drive his sister to their mom's house, a short distance away. When he returned, less than 10 minutes later, the wheelchair was gone. Grandchamp, who is 18 years old, has had to resort to using an older chair from his childhood that is too small for him.
"I would like to believe it is just a misunderstanding. The thought that someone would deliberately steal a wheelchair is just too horrible to contemplate," the Rev. John Anderson, Spina Bifida Association of Colorado (SBACO) board president, said in a news release. "SBACO wants to help Pierce get his chair back through this incentive. It is hard for most people to understand how important this piece of equipment is. Having these wheels gives Pierce the ability to go out and take care of everyday living. Without it, his mobility is strictly limited."
The association is offering a $500 reward, no questions asked, with the condition that the chair be returned in good working order.
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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, commander of the International Space Station, holds one of the cups of Blue Bell ice cream during an interview.
The three astronauts on the International Space Station are having ice cream for dessert tonight — and we're not talking about that spongy "astronaut ice cream" stuff. This is the vanilla chocolate-swirl ice cream that was delivered in a research freezer aboard the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship that arrived on Wednesday.
"It's quite a treat," space station commander Sunita Williams told ABC News during a space-to-Earth interview today. "We don't usually have this type of stuff up here. It's usually thermostabilized or dehydrated [food] that we're dehydrating. So homemade ice cream is something special, and we're going to have a little party."
The Blue Bell ice cream was a late addition to the manifest for SpaceX's Dragon supply flight, which marks the first routine commercial cargo delivery under the terms of a $1.6 billion, 12-flight contract with NASA. Astronauts used the space station's arm to bring the Dragon in for berthing early Wednesday, and the time line went so smoothly that the hatches between the station and the visiting spacecraft were opened that same day — a day earlier than scheduled.
The ice cream was transferred from the Dragon's ultra-cold GLACIER research freezer to the space station's own freezer space in preparation for tonight's dinner. Williams is sharing the treats with Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. NASA spokesman Rob Navias told me today that the ice cream supply amounts to a pint or two — and it's not clear how long the spacefliers will be able to stretch that out. "It depends on how much they eat," Navias quipped.
The space station's crew has until Oct. 28 to transfer 882 pounds (400 kilograms) of supplies into the station, load it back up with about twice as much mass in Earth-bound cargo, and unberth the Dragon for its re-entry and splashdown. In place of the ice cream, the GLACIER freezer will be carrying frozen biological samples, including hundreds of frozen blood and urine samples that have been waiting for a ride back down to Earth. Since last year's retirement of the shuttle fleet, the Dragon is the only spacecraft capable of returning a significant amount of cargo from the space station.
Navias made it sound as if Williams and her crewmates should have no problem meeting their deadlines.
"As of 1 p.m. Central Time, the crew had completed 77 percent of all of the cargo transfer and had already unpacked all of that cargo moved over to the station so far," Navias told me in a follow-up email. "All in one day. Way ahead of schedule."
Sounds like somebody deserves an extra helping of ice cream.
Update for 5 p.m. ET: NASA's Space Food Hall of Fame notes that the freeze-dried confection known as astronaut ice cream actually flew in space only once, aboard Apollo 7 in 1968. "It wasn't that popular," NASA food scientist Vickie Kloeris said in 2005. The desserts offered to the space station's astronauts are typically things like chocolate brownies, plum-cherry cobbler, honey cake or berry medley. Every once in a while, though, a space shuttle shipment would include real ice cream as a special treat.
More about outer-space food:
- Frozen dessert goes into orbit
- NASA serves up space food and shuttle tiles
- Simulation crew to explore the final frontier of food
- Spicy food gets five stars from space station crew
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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Diclofenac belongs to the class of medications known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs). It is used to reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation.
The diclofenac sodium tablet and suppository are used to relieve pain for people with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and degenerative joint diseases of the hip. The diclofenac potassium tablets are used for short-term relief of pain and inflammation, such as pain caused by sprains, surgery, dental work or menstrual cramps. The eye drop is used to reduce eye inflammation before and after eye surgery (e.g., cataract surgery) and in other cases of eye inflammation where infection is not present. The powder for oral solution is used for the treatment of migraine headaches.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are being given this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop using this medication without consulting your doctor.Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to use this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
How should I use this medication?
Tablets: The usual adult dosage ranges from 50 mg to 100 mg daily. The immediate-release diclofenac sodium tablets are taken in 3 equally divided doses with food. Diclofenac potassium tablets are taken every 6 to 8 hours with food. The long-acting (sustained-release, or SR) tablets are taken in 1 or 2 daily doses with food or milk. The maximum recommended daily dose of diclofenac is 100 mg.
Tablets should be swallowed whole with some fluid. Do not crush or chew the tablets as this can change the way the medication is absorbed into your body. It may increase the risk of side effects, such as stomach irritation or bleeding.
Suppositories: The suppositories are usually used as a substitute for the last daily dose in a 50 mg or 100 mg strength, to a maximum total daily dose of 100 mg of diclofenac.
Many things can affect the dose of medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are using the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important to use this medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not administer a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication at room temperature, protect it from moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
Enteric-coated tablet
50 mg
Each tan-coloured, round, biconvex, enteric-coated tablet, printed with black ink and engraved "N" over "50" on one side and plain on the other, contains 50 mg diclofenac sodium. Nonmedicinal ingredients: magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, povidone, pregelatinized starch, silicon dioxide, sodium lauryl sulfate, and sodium starch glycolate; film coating: hypromellose, iron oxide black, iron oxide red, iron oxide yellow, maltodextrin, methacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol, talc, titanium dioxide, and triethyl citrate.
Extended-release tablet (SR)
75 mg
Each light pink, triangular, standard biconvex, bevelled-edged, film-coated, slow-release tablet printed with black ink "N" on one side and "SR" over "75" on the other, contains 75 mg diclofenac sodium. Nonmedicinal ingredients: colloidal silicon dioxide, lactose monohydrate, magnesium stearate, and povidone; film coating: aquacoat ECD-30, cetyl alcohol, dibutyl sebacate, FD&C Blue No. 2, FD&C Red No. 40, FD&C Yellow No. 6, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate, and titanium dioxide.
Diclofenac K 50 mg tablet
Each round, biconvex, reddish-brown, film-coated tablet engraved "N" on one side and "50" on the other, contains 50 mg diclofenac potassium. Nonmedicinal ingredients: calcium phosphate, corn starch, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, povidone, silicon dioxide, and sodium starch glycolate; film coating: hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, maltodextrin, polydextrose, polyethylene glycol, synthetic red iron oxide, synthetic yellow iron oxide, titanium dioxide, and triacetin.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not take this medication if you:
- are allergic to diclofenac or any ingredients of the medication
- are breast-feeding
- are in the third trimester of pregnancy (after 28 weeks)
- are planning to have or have recently had heart bypass surgery
- currently have or have recently had inflammatory diseases of the stomach and intestines, such as stomach or intestinal ulcer or ulcerative colitis
- have bleeding in the brain or a bleeding disorder
- have had an allergic reaction to ASA or other anti-inflammatory medications
- have high levels of potassium in the blood
- have severe uncontrolled heart failure
- have severely impaired or deteriorating kidney function
- have significant liver impairment or liver disease
Do not use diclofenac suppositories if you:
- have any inflammatory lesions of the rectum or anus
- have recently had rectal or anal bleeding
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- abdominal or stomach cramps, pain, or discomfort (mild to moderate)
- dizziness
- drowsiness
- headache (mild to moderate)
- heartburn
- nausea
- sun sensitivity
Although most of these side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- large hive-like swellings on face, eyelids, mouth, lips, or tongue
- severe and continuing nausea, heartburn, vomiting
- signs of a serious allergic reaction (e.g., abdominal cramps, difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting, or swelling of the face and throat)
- signs of bleeding in the stomach (e.g., bloody, black, or tarry stools, spitting up of blood, vomiting blood or material that looks like coffee grounds)
- signs of a heart attack (e.g., chest pain or pressure, pain extending through shoulder and arm, nausea and vomiting, sweating)
- signs of a severe skin reaction such as blistering, peeling, a rash covering a large area of the body, a rash that spreads quickly, or a rash combined with fever or discomfort
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
[October 6, 2014]
Health Canada has issued new restrictions concerning the use of diclofenac. To read the full Health Canada Advisory, visit Health Canada's web site at www.hc-sc.gc.ca.
Allergy: Some people who are allergic to other anti-inflammatory medications also experience allergic reactions to diclofenac. Before you take diclofenac, inform your doctor about any previous adverse reactions you have had to medications, especially ketorolac or ibuprofen. Contact your doctor at once if you experience signs of an allergic reaction, such as skin rash, itching, difficulty breathing, or swelling of the face and throat.
Breathing problems: People who have asthma, long term breathing problems, or allergic conditions such as hay fever or nasal polyps are more likely to experience difficulty breathing and allergic reactions, caused by NSAIDs. If you have a history of allergic reactions to other substances, or respiratory illness, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Drowsiness/reduced awareness: Some people have reported headache, dizziness, lightheadedness, and confusion while taking this medication. Avoid operating motor vehicles and doing other potentially hazardous activities until you have determined how this medication affects you.
Fertility: As with other NSAIDs, this medication may make it more difficult for a couple to conceive if the woman is taking diclofenac. Stopping the medication allows the body's chemistry to return to normal which often resolves this issue.
Fluid retention: Diclofenac may cause fluid retention and swelling, possibly worsening high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, or decreased heart function. If you have any of these conditions, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed. If you develop shortness of breath; fatigue; excessive weight gain; chest pain; or swelling of the legs, feet, or ankles while taking this medication, consult your doctor immediately.
Heart problems: Like other NSAID medications, diclofenac may increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots. The risk is greater with higher total daily doses and taking the medication for a long period of time. Due to this increased risk, people with the following conditions or risk factors should be closely monitored by their doctor if they use diclofenac:
- congestive heart failure
- diabetes
- heart attack
- heart disease
- high blood pressure
- high cholesterol
- impaired kidney function
- poor circulation
- smoking
- stroke
If you have any of these conditions, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Infection: This medication may hide the signs of an infection, such as a fever or generalized achiness.
Kidney function: Long-term use of diclofenac may lead to a higher risk of reduced kidney function. This is most common for people who already have kidney disease, liver disease, or heart failure; for people who are take diuretics (water pills); and for seniors. If you experience signs of decreasing kidney function, such as increased fluid retention or decreased amounts of urine being produced, see your doctor as soon as possible.
Liver function: This medication may cause liver problems. If you have a liver condition, you may need more frequent checkups with your doctor. If you develop signs of a liver problem (such as yellow skin or eyes, dark urine, pale stools, abdominal pain, or itchy skin), stop taking the medication and see your doctor as soon as possible.
Potassium levels: Diclofenac may increase the risk of high potassium levels in the blood, especially for seniors, people who have conditions such as diabetes or kidney failure, or those taking certain other types of medications. Your doctor may order blood tests periodically during long-term treatment to monitor the amount of potassium in your blood. People who have been diagnosed with having high potassium levels in their blood should not take this medication.
Stomach problems: Stomach ulcers, perforation, and bleeding from the stomach have been known to occur during treatment with diclofenac. These complications can occur at any time, and are sometimes severe enough to require immediate medical attention. The risk of ulcers and bleeding are increased for people taking higher doses of NSAIDs for longer periods of time.
Diclofenac should be taken under close medical supervision by people prone to irritation of the stomach and intestines, particularly those who have had a stomach ulcer, bloody stools, or diverticulosis or other inflammatory disease of the stomach or intestines (such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease). In these cases, your doctor must weigh the benefits of treatment against the possible risks.
Stop taking the medication and contact your doctor immediately if you experience symptoms or signs suggestive of stomach ulcers or bleeding in the stomach (black, tarry stools). These reactions can occur at any time during treatment without warning.
Sun sensitivity: This medication may make your skin more sensitive to the sun. While you are using this medication, avoid excessive sun exposure, including tanning beds and sun lamps. If you experience sunburn with itching, swelling, and blistering, stop using this medication and contact your doctor.
Pregnancy: When diclofenac is taken during the last 3 months of pregnancy, there is an increased risk of the child developing heart problems and the mother having a longer labour to deliver the baby. If diclofenac is taken during the earlier stages of pregnancy, there is an increased risk of miscarriage. For these reasons, this medication is not recommended for use during pregnancy.
Breast-feeding: It is not known if diclofenac passes into breast milk. Due to the potential for harm to a baby if they are exposed to this medication, breast-feeding must be stopped before starting this medication.
Children: Diclofenac is not recommended for children under 16 years of age. The safety, effectiveness, and dosage of this medication for this age group have not been established.
Seniors: Seniors appear to have a higher risk of side effects with this medication. The lowest effective dosage should be used under close medical supervision.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between diclofenac and any of the following:
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
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- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
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President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) must have thought that by going overseas he would be able to get away from his troubles. He must have been disappointed, as everywhere he goes there are protesters. Landing in New York on a stopover before a tour of Paraguay and the Caribbean, he was met with overseas Taiwanese holding banners and shouting out their grievances. Being beset with protests at every turn seems to be the Ma administration's fate.
Since his 2008 landslide victory, Ma's popularity ratings have consistently fallen and now stand at about 17 percent, making him one of the least popular presidents this nation has had.
The main reason for his lack of popularity is his government's terrible record, which features a flailing economy, high unemployment rate and ineffectual policies, exacerbated by a string of forced demolitions of homes under the dubious pretext of development.
Ma likes to brag about how he has lowered cross-strait tensions and how Taiwan has not lost diplomatic allies on his watch. However, his cross-strait successes derive from his continual kowtowing to Beijing in his acceptance of the "one China" principle.
The Ma administration regards the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) as one of its greatest achievements, but the latest figures suggest that the benefits the agreement have brought are falling far short of expectations, seeing as the economic situation is worse than before it was signed.
With the signing of the cross-strait service trade pact, the government once again failed to do its homework and ignored the impact the agreement will have on Taiwanese industries.
Ma's success with Taiwan's allies is due to his diplomatic truce policy. Under this policy, China no longer needs to waste resources wooing countries with which Taipei has diplomatic relations, while Ma has to take generous gifts on his trips to maintain these ties.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) holds a majority in the legislature, but despite this complete control over government, nothing Ma does seems to work. This is mainly due to his refusal to communicate with other political parties and civic groups, or even his own party. Decisionmaking is concentrated in a small group of people within his administration, resulting in policies that are out of touch and ineffectual.
Former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has extended Ma an olive branch, suggesting that he convene a national affairs conference. The suggestion was a good one, but, once again, Ma immediately changed the idea of a conference to individual meetings between leaders of the KMT and opposition parties.
Meanwhile, attention has been diverted to whether stopping the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City's (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮) should be a prerequisite for the meetings or simply an agenda item. Because of this diversion, the idea of a national affairs conference will likely just fizzle out.
Ma's reluctance to convene the conference is due to his unwillingness or inability to communicate on policy matters with the other parties, academic experts or civic groups. He has said that meeting opposition leaders separately at the Presidential Office would be sufficient. His proposal fell through, leading to divisions within the DPP and upsetting the party's internal cohesion.


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California's three strikes law is often blamed for the state's overcrowded prisons and rising state spending on corrections (though three strikes is only one of many sentencing laws and decisions that are responsible for these problems).
Efforts to fix three strikes, however, have failed.
In 2004, a ballot initiative to limit three strikes crashed in the final days before the election under a last-minute assault from a billionaire's ads and then Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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A new proposal for a ballot measure, however, has the best chance politically of reforming three strikes.
It's narrowly drawn. It would permit prisoners convicted under three strikes to appeal their life sentences -- so long as their previous convictions did not include rape, murder, child molestations or certain other heinous crimes.
That would allow three-strikers who got life sentences even though their third strike was a non-violent felony to petition for new sentences.
But it could blunt objections that violent criminals would be released too soon if three strikes were changed.
Previous attempts to change three strikes didn't make this distinction between those prisoners whose previous convictions were for serious violent crimes and those whose previous convictions were non-violent.
This is wise politically, and probably as a policy matter.
But it won't make much difference to the prisons.
Only a few thousand people (The San Francisco Chronicle says "more than 4,000" in this story) would be affected by the law, so even if all were released earlier, the impact on crowding and the budget would be minor.
More on California's Three Strikes Law:
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One of the best things to come out of this year's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was Kirk Goldsberry's paper on interior defense, in which he details which defenders are the best and worst at lowering opponent field goal percentage on shots at the rim. Surprisingly, the paper pointed to little-known Milwaukee Bucks big man Larry Sanders as the NBA's best interior defender.
Last night, Sanders backed up Goldsberry's findings in spectacular fashion. Near the end of the first half of last night's Jazz-Bucks game, Jazz guard Alec Burks knifed into the lane and attempted to throw down a monster dunk over Ersan Ilyasova. That's when Sanders came bounding in from the top of the paint and denied Burks at the summit. Blocks don't get much cleaner than this.
Unfortunately, the referee whistled Burks for a charge on the play, and Sanders's block wasn't recorded. Still, the moment provided a valuable lesson to Burks and the rest of the NBA: do not bring that weak stuff at Larry Sanders.


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Methodology - Population, Housing, and Income Estimates
We do not have the "Other Race" category in the estimates even though Census 2010 does, because the USCB dropped the "Other Race" data from its estimates. They switched to 8 races in 2001 and we had to follow. It is worth mentioning that the USCB redistributed the racial counts of Other Race completely and the counts for "2 or more Races" were partially redistributed between the rest of the races in their estimates. We did the same and therefore the racial breakdown differs from the Census 2010 but fits the 2001-9 USCB estimates. We believe that the USCB made these changes because there are no actuarial tables for "other" or "2 or more" races so they needed to redistribute those people into one of the race categories by which they could create estimates
3. Having dealt with Race we then turn to Age. The USCB groups the population into 18 age groups. These range from age 0 (under 1) to age 108. The age groups are each 5 year intervals (0-4, 5-9, etc) except the ages 85 and up (85-108) are treated as a single group.
4. Now that we have the entire population broken down into age and race categories we begin building the death-birth model. With the use of Actuarial tables we calculate the statistical likelihood for any given age/race group to die or to give birth. We then apply these coefficients to the 2010 data to create an estimation base for 2011, the coefficients are reapplied to create 2012, and so on until we get to the current year.
The model includes:
5. The same model is applied to the results for the projections. This time, however, the "tweaking coefficients" are predicted (as we do not have any materials for comparison). The prediction algorithm is based on a linear regression approach (they actually fit the linear plot very nicely),
Methodology - Household Estimates
The household estimates were calculated from:
GeoLytics calculates the ratios of Census household variables to Census age-race-sex data and Census housing data and then used these ratios for estimated data of the same nature to get the estimated values. The underlying assumption being that the average family size by race will not have changed dramatically in the years since the 2009 ACS Census was compiled.
Methodology - Housing Estimates
The only way that the number of housing units (HU) changes is if new buildings are built or old ones torn down. Some houses can be built on empty lots, but if a lot of houses are built usually a whole new development gets put in. So the first thing that we do is to look at the TIGER/Line files. This is the USCB file that shows each and every street in the US and has the numbers of each housing unit. By looking at this dataset we can determine if new streets have been put in and by looking at the numbering we can determine about how many units are being built. We can also see if new numbers have been added to an existing street.
1. The TIGER/Lines records for the years 2009 and 2010 were analyzed. For each block, the sum of associated address ranges was calculated. As a result, each block was assigned a Change Coefficient (CC), a number representing the changes in the aggregate number of addresses within this block. The number is a fraction between -1 and +1. The number 0 represents a block that has not been changed within this time interval. The number +1 represents a block that did not have any addresses in 2009 and has some in 2010, and the number -1 is a block with no addresses in 2010 and had some addresses in 2009. The block changes were later summarized to BG level.
2. The Census Bureau Housing Units Estimates (at the county) for the years 2009 to 2010 were used to assess the number of HU per county for the year 2011 via a linear regression algorithm.
3. For each county, the Census Bureau HU growth/decline was distributed among BGs of this county so that:
Once we had the change in the number of Housing Units we can then look at the other housing variables such as of number of rooms, vacancy status, tenure (own vs. rent) status, etc. People all live in either a household or a group quarter (military barracks, college dorms, nursing homes, prisons, mental institutions, half-way homes, etc). The group quarters were left stable so the changes in population were then accounted for in the changes in Housing Units that had now been calculated. So for example, if the housing units stayed the same but the population numbers dropped than the vacancy status would go up.
The sum of all changes for all BGs in a county is equal to the Census Bureau HU county growth estimates.
Methodology - Income Estimates
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1. The first step was to create an Income Growth by Race number for each Block Group. Luckily, the 2009 ACS data is actually in the 2000 block group boundaries so we were able to compare data over the exact same geographies. Unfortunately though to roll it forward to the 2011 estimates we then have to normalize the data to the new 2010 geographic boundaries - unfortunately the 2010 Redistricting does not include any income variables otherwise we would have used this data set and not had to normalize the findings to comply with the new 2010 boundaries.
2. The BG-level racial growth data were applied to 2009 ACS Census data to obtain 2009 racial income growth coefficients for each BG area. First, the growth data for 2000-2009 were processed using a compound interest model. Second, the calculated "interest rates" were applied to 2000 racial income data to get the 2009 growth data.
The Income Growth data by Race were not available for many BG for some races because if there are very few households of a given race in a block group than numbers were suppressed by the USCB. For these cases, we used the USCB Median Income Estimates for years 2000-2009 to get 2011 state median income growth data using a linear regression algorithm, and then used these state growth data for Block Groups and races.
3. The racial aggregate income data were processed in the same manner as racial median income data.
4. The Householder age distributions were estimated by using estimated Householder totals from our dataset and an age shift model. Namely, for each age group, a calculated number of householders was moved to the next age group. The first and last age groups were processed in a special way to take into account both new and dead householders. The sum of all householder age brackets is equal to our estimated HH total.
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6. Finally, the BG data (both medians and aggregates) were tuned so that summary state median values were exactly equal to the state median data for 2009, as estimated from Census Bureau´s ACS data set. This was done by using a two-section linear mapping scheme. The scheme


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WASHINGTON - As one of the House's least senior members, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., wasn't in Congress when the fiscal cliff and the spending "problems" were created.
But now that those tough issues need to be solved, she has a distinct philosophy about what needs to be done. It embraces many of the mainline positions of President Barack Obama and her fellow Democrats. But Bonamici also blends those positions with the needs of her district.
Cut spending, she says, but protect education and the social safety net. Extend unemployment benefits for people who've been out of work for long periods, renew tax credits for research and development and for alternative energy, and pay for infrastructure projects.
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Congress is working on a deal to forestall $600 billion in budget cuts and tax hikes that begin with the new year. The change, called "the fiscal cliff," is widely viewed as a threat to the economy, though there's considerable disagreement about whether problems would be immediate or increase gradually. There's also substantial disagreement about what the deal should be, with plenty of nuance even among members of the same party. Charles Pope, The Oregonian's Washington correspondent, contacted all the members of the Oregon delegation to get their opinions on this issue. We are publishing the views of the House members this week, with the senators on Monday and Tuesday.
"We need to make sure we don't end up with so many cuts we end up with a lot more people on unemployment who put more demands on the safety net at a time we're cutting the safety net," she says.
Her ideas are in flux though. Like others, she's waiting for details. While some lawmakers say the revenue and spending cuts must hit a fixed number - $4 trillion over 10 years is common - Bonamici doesn't.
"I want to have an open mind. I don't want to say 'here's a hard line and I won't cross it.' I have certain values I'll follow. But when there are so many possibilities and so many ways to approach this, I don't have a hard line.
"I certainly don't think we need to cut programs that help with the safety net. Do we need to make changes? Maybe. But I don't think we need to be cutting. We need to maintain that safety net and we need to pick policies that are going to grow, not hinder, economic development," she said.
She wants to reform the tax code but says that should wait because it's complex and that moving too fast could produce a flawed result. She supports raising taxes for the wealthy, which in most proposals means anybody earning $250,000 or more a year.
"Continuing tax breaks for people who are already successful is not my priority because that's not how we're going to rebuild our economy," she said.
On changing entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, she wants a light touch - or no touch at all.
"People have paid in to those programs and have earned the benefits. ... We can make changes in those programs without affecting benefits," she said.
And on the big question, can Congress get it done and avoid the combination of tax increases and budget cuts that independent economists say would stagger the economy?
Bonamici is hopeful but uncertain.
"I'm sort of encouraged by what I'm hearing. There seems to be a lot of desire to get this done. I'm hearing a lot of people saying we need to have a balanced approach.
But I haven't had a lot of conversations about it yet," she said, noting that lawmakers had only been back in Washington for four days before taking this week off for the holiday.


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The work was conducted by Eileen Rodriguez as part of her doctoral program at NYU. The study was co-authored with Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology.
"Our findings indicate that enriched learning experiences as early as the first year of life are important to children's vocabulary growth, which in turn provides a foundation for children's later school success," said Rodriguez, now a survey researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Previous research has found that, on average, children living in poverty are less well prepared to start school than are children from middle-income homes. The new findings may offer a remedy for addressing this gap.
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Over a five-year period, the study examined the learning environments of more than 1,850 children and their mothers from households at or below the federal poverty line. Researchers used home visits to gather information when the children were one, two, three, and five years old. They looked at the following: how often children took part in literacy activities, such as shared book reading; the quality of mothers' engagements with their children, such as children's exposure to frequent and varied adult speech; and the availability of learning materials, such as children's books. To assess school readiness, they measured the number of words the children understood and their knowledge of letters and words at five years old.
The researchers found that differences in the children's learning environments over time predicted their readiness skills. For instance, children whose learning environments were consistently low in quality across the four ages studied were much more likely to have delays in language and literacy skills at pre-kindergarten than children whose environments were uniformly high at all the ages. The results also showed that experiences that occur as children prepare to enter kindergarten also matter, particularly in contributing to children's early reading skills.
"Home learning experiences that are consistently supportive in the early years may close the school readiness gap of children from low-income backgrounds," said Rodriguez.


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"Premium economy seats are wider and offer greater pitch or the amount of legroom between seats compared to economy. Offering wider seats, bigger armrests, a larger entertainment screen, an upgraded meal and a more attentive level of service, premium is becoming a much more appealing way to fly. More so for long haul warriors feeling squeezed out of the shrinking seats of standard economy," says a UNIGLOBE expert
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Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 40 min.
Makes8 servings
- 6 small yellow summer squash (3 pounds), cut into chunks
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons dry bread crumbs, divided
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried minced onion
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 teaspoons butter, melted
- Preheat oven to 350°. Place squash in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil; boil, uncovered, 15-20 minutes or until tender. Drain well, pressing squash to remove excess liquid. In a bowl, mash squash. Stir in eggs, 1/2 cup bread crumbs, sugar, onion, salt and pepper until blended.
- Transfer to a 1-1/2-qt. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Bake, uncovered, 20 minutes. Toss remaining bread crumbs with butter; sprinkle over the top. Bake 20-30 minutes or until golden.
Nutrition Facts1/2 cup: 101 calories, 3g fat (1g saturated fat), 56mg cholesterol, 246mg sodium, 16g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 2g fiber), 4g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 vegetable, 1/2 starch, 1/2 fat.
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I thought that I didn't really like squash until I tried this!! The only thing I changed was: I only used 1 tablespoon of sugar and I used Italian Bread Crumbs because that's all I had. It was delicious!!
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My family doesn't care for sweet summer squash, so I substituted 2 T Parmesan cheese for the 2 T sugar. Also, I halved the recipe. Good!
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Fabulous! A family favorite for years! No matter where I bring this wonderful casserole, everyone requests the recipe! This ones a keeper. Even my picky little son loves it!
Dec 5, 2009
This turned out perfectly with just 1 egg instead of 2. I used a medium diced onion and maybe a bit more bread crumbs. It got rave reviews at Thanksgiving.
Jul 24, 2009
If I make this again I will omit the sugar. It was very sweet.
Sep 28, 2008
This is a terrific squash recipe: it's fairly simple, delicious, and fast. You can't go wrong!


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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian polar explorer Artur Chilingarov made his name in the Soviet Union with a daring rescue of an ice-bound ship, then won international fame for planting Russia's flag under the ice cap, angering governments with rival claims over the Arctic.
Now at the age of 73, rather than folding away his maps, he is spearheading President Vladimir Putin's diplomatic push to secure more of the mineral-rich region.
"We don't want anything that belongs to anybody else, but if we prove it's ours, give it to us," a cigar-puffing Chilingarov told Reuters in an interview in his Moscow office dominated by a wall map of the Arctic seabed's topography.
On his desk stood a 10-cm (four-inch) high replica of the titanium Russian tricolor that he planted at the North Pole during his 2007 dive.
Huge reserves of Arctic oil and natural gas are expected to become more accessible as climate change melts the ice and technology advances.
For Putin, the race for the Arctic's natural wealth is a matter of national and personal pride at the start of his six-year, third term as president, and would be a victory from which he could reap political dividends.
Competition is fierce, with Norway, the United States, Canada and Denmark also seeking to secure their interests in the Arctic and where international energy majors such as ConocoPhillips and Statoil hope to succeed with potentially lucrative offshore projects.
After the failure of a first attempt to secure an additional 1.2 million square km (463,000 square miles) of the Arctic shelf, Russia intends to present more evidence to support its claim to the United Nations by the end of this year.
"Our economy today is largely based on what was developed in the Arctic regions - oil, gas, diamonds, gold, apatites - from Norilsk to Chukotka, thanks to the Soviet Union's policies of exploring and producing there," Chilingarov said.
"But back then we did not go into the sea. Resources are not endless and our task now is to leave future generations the same chances of economic stability as the Soviet Union left us."
The map on Chilingarov's wall was the result of 30 years of work by Soviet and then Russian scientists and was central to Moscow's first attempt in 2001 to win U.N. recognition that its Arctic shelf extends up to the North Pole.
Russia says an underwater mountain range known as the Lomonosov Ridge, which stretches across the Arctic Sea, is part of its own Eurasian landmass.
But the U.N. was not convinced and asked for more research to back the claim, rejected by Canada and Denmark, which say the formation is a geographical extension of their own land.
Chilingarov said the presentation of new evidence to back up Russia's claim was now a priority for the Kremlin.
"This is a very important task supported by the president. The aim is to do it by the end of this year," said the explorer. "We spare no efforts on expeditions to prove that Russia sits on Arctic resources ... We are very serious, very serious about this."
Russia puts its total shelf oil and gas reserves, from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea, at 100 billion tonnes of oil equivalent - enough to power the world for more than 20 years.
A new strategy for the Arctic, approved by Putin this month, underlines the importance of tapping more energy resources in a country whose $2.1 trillion economy is overly reliant on exports of energy resources.
Oil and gas sales now account for around half of Russia's budget revenues and commodities make up some 90 percent of Russian exports.
The cost of developing any new energy fields will be great.
Russia's flagship gas project on the Arctic shelf, the Gazprom-controlled Shtokman, is already on hold because of cost overruns after years of failed attempts to advance work at the field holding nearly 4 trillion cubic meters of gas.
Other countries, meanwhile, are pressing their own claims. A Danish expedition last year also collected data to support its claim to a vast tract in the Arctic including the North Pole.
The rewards for the winners are potentially huge, with the U.S. Geological Survey estimating that 30 percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 15 percent of oil is in the Arctic.
Several companies, including Russia's Rosneft, Norway's Statoil and U.S.-based Exxon Mobil are already getting ready to drill in areas of melting sea ice, despite the risks, technological difficulties and costs.
After Chilingarov's North Pole dive in 2007, he was officially declared a hero of Russia, an award he added to the title of hero of the Soviet Union that he had won for the 1980s rescue operation, and his face still adorns postage stamps.
He is one of only four people to have been awarded both titles, and one of only two still alive.
"This is not the end of my expedition activity, but this was the pinnacle of it," Chilingarov said of the 2007 dive.
There is also an environmental challenge to face. Many environmental groups say the rush for the Arctic's natural resources risks destroying its fragile ecosystems, already under threat from climate change, as there are no adequate impact studies or emergency plans in case of a leak.
Last August, Greenpeace activists scaled Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya oil rig - Russia's first offshore oil development in the Arctic - to protest against drilling there and draw attention to the destruction of the area.
"As a polar explorer, obviously, I am for leaving the Arctic untouched. As a politician, I understand that Russia lives on its natural resources and should go on developing them," said Chilingarov.
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