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Heavyweight Shane Del Rosario (11-0 MMA, 3-0 SF) has withdrawn from an upcoming bout with fellow prospect Daniel Cormier (7-0 MMA, 4-0 SF) following a car accident this past week, MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today learned from sources close to the event.
A lightweight bout between K.J. Noons (10-3 MMA, 2-1 SF) and Jorge Masvidal (21-6 MMA, 2-0 SF) will likely take its place, according to a separate source.
"Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum" takes place June 18 at American Airlines Center in Dallas and airs live on Showtime.
Details on Del Rosario's accident are scant at this time, but it's believed his injuries are serious enough to keep him from fighting on the card. Calls to Del Rosario and his representatives went unanswered.
The undefeated fighter was fresh off an impressive submission win over Lavar Johnson at "Strikeforce and M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Silva." The bout served as a reserve bout in the promotion's heavyweight grand prix.
Del Rosario's bout with Cormier was also billed as a reserve bout. It's unknown at this time whether his injuries will keep him from future tournament vacancies.
Cormier could not be reached for comment.
Noons returns to the cage after falling short in a bid for Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz's belt this past October. The two had met three years prior with Noons emerging victorious as lightweight champion of the now-defunct EliteXC.
Masvidal most recently dispatched up-and-comer Billy Evangelista this past March at "Strikeforce: Columbus." The American Top Team lightweight has hopscotched between wins and losses in his previous four appearances.
For more on "Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum," stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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Say goodbye to July, it's been a very hot one in the great northwest and it's been hot in the markets too. Too hot. Look at that P/E ratio - can you say, "market distortions?" I though you could!
How about, "government gone wild?"
And the markets are selling off on the GDP release this morning (but now bouncing back), gee, do you think maybe Goldman's computers had the data a little early yesterday afternoon when the markets tumbled out of nowhere? I think the many insiders who surround Obama must have also whispered in his ear as he was talking like he knew the number already, which I'm sure he did.
The MANIPULATED GDP result came in at -1% for the second quarter of 09. Here's Econoday's take, I'll get to the manipulated part in a minute:
The economy is coming closer to the end of recession based on the advance estimate for second quarter GDP. The economy contracted in the second quarter by only 1.0 percent, following a revised 6.4 percent drop in the first quarter. The second quarter was close to the market consensus for a 0.7 percent dip. Today's report contains historical benchmark revisions to GDP. The previous estimate for the first quarter decline was 5.5 percent.
Weakness in the current quarter was almost offset by component strength. Pulling down GDP in the latest quarter were business fixed investment, housing, personal consumption, and inventories. Strength was found in a sharp narrowing in the trade gap and a rebound in government spending.
But what led to an easing in the rate of decline-where was the second derivative positive? The slowing in the rate of decline in the latest quarter was due to a slowing in the decline in inventories, less negative business fixed investment, less negative housing, a gain in government spending, and a narrowing in net exports. The big negative was a drop in personal consumption.
Year-on-year growth for real GDP declined by 3.9 percent, after contracting 3.3 percent in the prior quarter.
On the inflation front, the GDP price index rose a meager 0.2 percent after gaining a revised 1.9 percent in the first quarter. The first quarter increase previously had been estimated to be 2.8 percent annualized. The consensus had expected a 1.3 percent gain for the second quarter.
The historical revisions to GDP broadly show the current recession was deeper than earlier believed. All but one quarter of the recession was revised down.
Looking ahead, low inventories point to a rebound in production in the third quarter with motor vehicles almost certainly to be a sizeable contribution. However, the consumer will likely lag. Markets should like today's numbers since it strengthens the case for a rebound in the second half and possibly even the third quarter.
Now I'm going to tell you that the GDP figure is so tampered with that it has NO CONNECTION TO REALITY AT ALL. The distortions begin with the manipulated inflation readings which translate into malformed "deflators" that are used to calculate the GDP numbers. And the absolute last straw, as far as I'm concerned, is the latest manipulation via revisions from the BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis). Here's their latest report: News Release: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) .
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will find their explanation of the revisions to our growth history all the way back to 1929!
So get this;
- revisions from 1929 all the way to 2008 are revised HIGHER by .1%...
- In 2008, they revised GDP DOWNWARDS from 1.1% growth all the way to only .4% growth, meaning that the economy was much worse than you were told – again.
- To throw salt in that wound, from Q4 of '07 to Q1 of '09 (the last reported quarter), real GDP decreased at a 2.8% rate versus the previously advertised decrease of 1.8%!!! How big is that? It's a 56% downward revision in GDP for the entire period of the bear market so far!! 56%!!!
Are you kidding me? Do you believe what they are telling you about today's GDP? I don't. All I can say is that the data is WORTHLESS. It now has no meaning and no connection to reality. You cannot even compare today's numbers to history to come to any rational conclusions.
The BEA, the BLS, in fact ALL government reports are suspect. All reporting of government statistics should be scrapped. The Fed should be abolished, The central banks and bankers should be removed – as in gone, a new money system should be put in place, there should be a Constitutional Amendment dictating the SEPARATION OF CORPORATIONS AND THEIR MONEY FROM STATE, and finally, there should be a new government agency responsible for collecting and reporting economic statistics and that agency should have a mandate to develop data collection methods that cannot be changed over time and there should also be a mandate to release RAW DATA with every report, there should be absolute transparency in that all the calculations and all collection methods should be easily viewable by anyone. Oh, and NO ONE, not even the President should have access to the information before the public!
Other than that, I have no strong opinions!
Have a good day,
Welcome to Wonderland, where the distortions are unreal!
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New England Revolution head coach Jay Heaps
(Laughing) No questions about Lee Nguyen tonight. Unfortunately, giving up a goal that early – we worked all week on making sure we wanted to start well, and we didn't. That's disappointing, but at the same time it woke us up a bit and we really started to click as that half went on. In the second half, we started slow again but we certainly managed the game a lot better.
That's what we want to do. That's what we see a lot of during the week; that's what we try to build on. That's what we've started to build on since Jan. 15. There's times you see it, there's times we're still each other, to be options for each other. But tonight, there was a lot of movement and that was the key to tonight's success with the passing.
It's crucial. We've talked about that. I'm a big believer, when you give something up, you've got to – it's the cliché the next five minutes – the next minute to two minutes, if you can really press, the team is still tired – literally tired from still celebrating a goal, they all came up and celebrated – that's when you have to take advantage and press a little bit. Maybe you get a corner, maybe you get a free kick. But that's what we were trying to do is get after it right away.
Lee (Nguyen) has been a good locker room guys for us. On the field, he's doing a lot of things. This week, we had a quiet little talk with him and said, hey this is a good moment for him. You're going to play against your former team. As a former player who played against my former team, the Miami Fusion, a few times, there is something there when someone says you're expendable or they want to move on without you. I don't think it was never that Martin Rennie or the organization didn't think he was a good player, because I know they did. They said they had a lot of guys who were similar and we're going to move on. Look, they're 5-3-2 and they're in the Canadian cup final. They're a heck of a team, and so I think maybe Lee had a little something to show but it was not against Martin Rennie. It was not against the organization. It was just one of those where you feel a little bit slighted and he showed it tonight.
Lee (Nguyen) can shoot. We work on that stuff in training. Once in a while you see Lee put a shot on and he, Benny (Feilhaber), Kelyn (Rowe) – those guys can shoot from anywhere and it showed.
It was important – especially the way the half ended. You never know when cards are going to come out and how a game can be changed. We were part of a game last week where cards came out quickly and so that was certainly a conversation we focused about two, three minutes on. The other thing was set pieces. I think tonight was real important for us. At halftime, we were able to pull some footage of the first half set pieces because we wanted to make sure nothing in the second half was going to come from a dead ball situation. And our guys rallied around that.
They're starting to gel. Stephen McCarthy has had ups and downs. He's a second-year player, but it's his first year playing the position. I think he has all the attributes to be an amazing center back and every week you see glimpses of it. But it's still a learning process. A.J. – you see him getting better and stronger and he's helping Stephen along. It's nice to have that partnership. They get along well and you can see it on the field. They work for each other. They communicate well. That's huge for us right now.
New England Revolution midfielder Lee Nguyen
I wouldn't say revenge. I'm just relieved. I'm just happy we got the win. The way it ended up I couldn't have dreamt it any better. I'm just glad for my teammates, we worked hard and we didn't give up after that first goal. It was a great win.
Just mentally for everybody, it was a shocker when they scored. And to come back like that, it helped everybody push forward. Then Saer (Sène) getting the second goal after that, everyone just gained more confidence.
Chris (Tierney) threw me a perfect ball, just into space. I took a touch and I just wanted to take a shot and put it in the corner. That's just how it worked out … The ball is always stuck my laces, right? (laughing) I just felt good in the warm-ups and from there it just carried onto the field.
Yeah it was a huge win, and we have another home game as well so if we can push forward and streak two together and just carry forth from there I think it's going to be great.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie
I think first of all congratulations to New England. It was a great performance by them and an excellent result for them. I know it was an important game for them coming off a couple defeats. Also, well done to Lee Ngyuen, fantastic tonight. He showed the difference between the highs and lows in soccer. A few weeks ago, the low of not being wanted by a club, and the high tonight, of being, I'm sure, man of the match, winning the game, scoring two goals, getting an assist. And even more importantly for him, against the team that didn't keep him, so well done to him tonight. I felt that we were a little bit flat. We started the game obviously really well, scored an excellent goal. But even at that moment I didn't feel particularly excited about it, because I just thought we were a little bit flat. We're in the midst of doing a lot of games just now and we've been doing well and we've been adjusting the team to win every game, but tonight I didn't get it right with the combinations I put out there and as a result we didn't get the win.
I didn't think that (center back) partnership worked out for us tonight. Obviously, tonight the big thing I think that stood out for me was the leadership that was missing with leaving guys back in Vancouver. With Jay DeMerit, John Thorrington, people like that, that bring leadership on the field and maybe that was lacking a little bit.
I think the goals were more, there was space in midfield and we worked clearly on how to defend that and we didn't do a good job of it in the first half. But I think playing slightly different players who haven't played as much together at the MLS Level, it cost us tonight. But for us, we just came off winning five games in a row, and the next few games are really big for us. We've got a cup final on Wednesday, which we really look forward to. You know it's all positive for us except for tonight, which was a humbling experience - which is one we have to take our medicine learn from - and improve from.
(Eric Hassli's) was an excellent goal, and if you analyze the game, there were a lot of positive position and ball movement and things like that. But I think sometimes when you're a couple of goals behind, it's easy to play in, to pass the ball, and it just wasn't there for us tonight. I think it was maybe a slightly harsh 4-1 for a reflection on the game, but that's what it was. Sometimes that's the score lines that help you learn the most cause you made a lot of mistakes that made that happen.
I think that we've got a fairly clear idea of where we are. But obviously when you take two or three players out of the back four or you move players around, the back four changes dramatically. So I think if you put in one player with a settled back four it would be fine, but if you change too many, it can hurt. But ultimately, people have asked if the Canadian cup is important to us, and it is very important to us. We see it as a way to get into the CONCACAF Champions League, and a chance to win a trophy. So tonight, some of what we did was based on that, but ultimately we still thought we would have enough to put out a better performance than we did and we let ourselves down tonight.
The fourth (Revolution goal) was a fantastic strike, but it wasn't well defended. He had lots of space at the edge of the box and I think generally there was just a lot of space around the edge of the box. I think it was on the third one, it was a cross where none of us were in the right position to defend it, so basically when you lose goals like that you could break it down and you can definitely say there was lots of improvement that could be made. Probably with (Martin) Bonjour and (Jay) DeMerit in there, it would be slightly different but they weren't and that's what resulted.
That was the thing: as soon as we scored the goal, I sensed that and I was trying to get that point across but we didn't respond and that does make the difference. If you're 1-0 away from home and you keep it solid for a little bit longer, then the game can go your way and you can start to dictate the tempo. But the way the game went, losing the goals as quickly as we did made it too much of a mountain to climb.
I think that generally we do defend well and don't give up too many goals and we need to get back to that. Your going to lose some games in MLS and we know that. Where this team is at right now we're going to get some wins and we'll have some disappointments along the way. But how we respond is important and how we responded last time we lost was to win five in a row. So well have to look to do that again and if we do that again well have a fantastic end to the month.
Listen, I'm happy for Lee (Nguyen). I've never had a problem with Lee. He trained well with us. We basically saw we had a lot of players similar to him and really we wanted to make sure he ended up somewhere where he would play. We could easily have kept him. He was on a salary that was very, very easy for us to keep him, but we felt he would not have played a lot in our lineup. And therefore, he would have been disappointed and unhappy about it. So we felt it was right to let him get a chance to play somewhere else, and he's taken that chance and he's done really well with it. If he plays like that every night he'll be an All-Star and you know it just shows you soccer's like that. I've never ever had a problem with a guy doing well and its happened to me before where I've made a decision on a player and we've gone another way. But I've never wished them any ill. I've always wanted them to do well, not so much against my team of course. Obviously a sweet night for Lee and as disappointed as I am for us and our performance, I'm not disappointed about the fact that he did well and I'm happy for him.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC defender Alain Rochat
Like you said, a tough result. We started very good and then after the first half with three easy goals like that? Unlucky. But we tried to get the ball away, but we didn't manage to do that. So we got punished. Joe (Cannon) didn't even touch the ball but it's still three goals behind. So there are games like that and you don't have to think too much about that.
I prefer to win four times 1-0, then take four goals and lose one, as opposed to 4-1 losing 1-0, you have to get the points at the end. And we have some points. At the end losing 2-1 or 10-0, it's the same. Like I said, it was unlucky and we will try to do better for the next few games
Yes, that's two very nice weeks for an interesting game. It starts on Wednesday, (then) Saturday, so we have to be ready this week. We don't have to think too much about the game from tonight.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC midfielder Davide Chiumiento
I think we started well with a beautiful goal from Eric (Hassli), a nice combination with me and Sebastian (Le Toux). After I think we made a lot of mistakes, and it wasn't a good night for us. I'm just disappointed, but we have a really important game on Wednesday, so we have to forget about this game and focus on the next game.
We have a couple things defensively that we need to improve, and we know that. In away games, if you make mistakes like that, they score. We have to learn from that and focus for the next game, which is a final, so we need to forget about this game.
Yes, we cannot change anything about this game so we need to focus on the next game – recover well, go back to Vancouver tomorrow, and prepare for these really important next games, first Toronto and then Seattle.
We made a lot of defensive mistakes, and we didn't focus well defensively on the field. With these kinds of mistakes, you just have to learn. It was a disappointing night - they scored four goals, and after a good start like that, it is a painful way to lose.
I played really free offensively, and personally I felt I did well. But with a 4-1 end result we can't be happy, and it's a team sport. Personally, I felt we had some good positioning, and you could say at the end it was good. But we made mistakes defensively and that's a problem for the whole team, and so we will have to improve.


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State Responsibility and Medical Rights of Minors
April 3 @ 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM - MRGN 121
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Speaker: Dr. Mark Sheldon, Assistant Dean of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Distinguished Senior Lecture in Philosophy, Northwestern University
Selected Topical Bibliography
"The Clinical Response to Brain Death: A Policy Proposal," with R. Burck, LA Shaw, E Egan, JONA'S Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation / Volume 8, 6 Number 2 / April – June 2006, pp. 53 – 59.
"Medical Decision-Making for Children and the Question of Legitimate Authority," Theoretical Medicine, Vol. 25, pp. 225-228, 2004.
"Children as Organ Donors: A Persistent Ethical Issue", The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 2004, pp 119-122.
"Children as Organ Donors,"Organ and Tissue Donation: Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues, ed by B. Speilman. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996, (Ch. 10), pp. 111-119.
"Ethical Issues in the Forced Transfusion of Jehovah's Witness Children," Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol.14, No.2, March-April 1996, pp. 251-257.
and Bonita B. Sheldon, "Confidentiality and the Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Adolescents," Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law, ed. Robert I. Simon, M.D., American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1990, ps. 145-155.
and William P. Whitely, "Nazi Data: Dissociation from Evil," Case Commentary, The Hasting Center Report, Vol. 19, No. 4, July/August 1989.
"Patients' Rights and Physicians' Prerogatives Surrounding DNR," Springfield Clinic Medical Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 1, June 1988, ps. 17-21.
and Bonita Sheldon, "Adolescents and Informed Consent," (Chapter 7)Medical Ethics : A Guide for Health Care Professionals. eds. Thomasma and Monagle. Aspen Press: Rockville, 1988, pp. 90-96.
with Mark Siegler, "Paying the Price of Medical Progress: Causation, Responsibility and Liability for Bad Outcomes after Innovative Medical Care," (Chapter 1) Medical Innovation and Bad Outcomes: Legal, Social, and Ethical Responses, eds. Siegler, Toulmin, Schaffner. Ann Arbor: Health Administration Press/University of Michigan, l987, pp. 1-17.
"Ethical Issues in Perinatal Care, "(Chapter 19) Clinical Aspects of Perinatal Medicine, ed. Manohar Rathi, M.D., Macmillan Press, l986, pp. 209-216.
"Some General Problems Related to Informed Consent and the Psychiatric Treatment of Children," (Chapter 6) Ethics in Mental Health Practice, eds. D.K. Kentsmith, S. Salladay and P. Mija, Grune and Stratton, Inc., l986, pp. 111-122.
"Truth-Telling in Medicine," The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 247, No. 5, February l982, pp. 651-654.
Review of Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine: Clinical, Conceptual and Ethical Issues, Howard Brody, M.D., Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. XIII, No. 3, 1982, pp. 78-80.


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For some reason Nebraska is the place to be this July if you are in the market for a project car. We told you last month about the 200 car junkyard being auctioned July 17 in Maxwell, Nebraska. While browsing Hemmings this past week we came across another 150 car auction of one man's project cars that will be sold July 30 in Bennington, Nebraska.
Although the only pictures included with the listing are the ones shown here, according the auction company over 150 project cars will be offered for sale. The diverse selection of vehicles range in age from the mid 1900s well into the 1980s. Among the most intriguing of the "barn find" condition vehicles that will be sold are a '53 Packard Carribean, '12 R.E.O. Speedwagon, '55 Corvette, several Model A Fords and a '55 T-Bird.
If the prospect of a junkyard full of project cars for the taking wasn't enough to motivate you to make the journey to Nebraska, how about another auction full of old iron in need of some love and attention just two weeks later? Although we are still a little too far away to make the trip, we sincerely hope enough collectors make it out to this auction to ensure old and restorable project cars don't fall into the hands of scrappers.
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Screening is the filtering process used to either identify certain securities to exclude or to find those that should be included in investors' portfolios based on social and/or environmental criteria. Screening has evolved as a tool for investors to manage risk and engage with companies that fall short in areas such as strong employee relations, community involvement, excellent environmental policies and practices, and human rights. Positive and negative challenges come with screening.
Tune in to this webcast to learn the following:
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I'll be at Duke University this Friday (4/19), speaking on conflict minerals in DRC at the Nicholas School of the Environment at 10am. Details are here. I'll also be speaking at a public event at Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church at 7pm that evening. Would love to meet anyone who'll be around!
Next Thursday (4/25), I'm speaking at my alma mater, the African Studies program at Yale University. Details for that are here.


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Fast-growing Brazil has been criticized for chopping down rainforests to make way for beef cattle, soy and sugar farms.
But those days may be behind us. Brazil is fast becoming an industrial leader with a growing green conscience, as two reports out this week show.
In the first, scientists report that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 77 percent from 2004 to 2011, though the scientists said Brazil's carbon emissions did not drop commensurately, according to a study in Global Change Biology. That's because the slow decay of roots or burning of wood biomass produced carbon emissions, even though the much slower deforestation curbed carbon pollution.
The net reduction was a 57 percent drop in carbon emissions from deforestation over the period studied.
The second promising report out of Brazil comes from US-based General Electric, which is trumpeting a new wind turbine developed especially for Brazil.
The 1.85-82.5 turbine (so called for the megawatts it produces and the span of its blades) is designed to best take advantage of Brazil's relatively gentle but steady winds.
"Brazil has unique conditions in a couple of ways," says Lauren Thirer, a wind product strategy leader at GE quoted in GE's Ecomagination newsletter.
"It has strong and steady winds, but they are not turbulent. That means you want a turbine that can capture a lot of wind, but you know it won't undergo all the stresses normally associated with those very high wind speeds."
GE Energy has more than 300 GE turbines installed in Brazil, and has plans to supply wind and gas turbines for projects that will total 1.4 gigawatts (GW) of electricity, according to the company.


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Mango Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Recipe
Breakfast snacks for those who get peckish first thing in the morning.
In this twist on the classic upside down cake, the pineapple is put in the batter, which adds extra moisture, texture, and a fruity flavor to the crumb. The top of the cake is sliced mango, which enhances the dish's tropical flavors.
- Yield:serves 8
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
- For the Topping
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 mango, peeled, cored, and sliced into about 1/2-inch wide and 1/4-inch thick strips
- For the Cake
- 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2/3 cup sour cream
- 3/4 cup diced pineapple, from about 1 small pineapple (hulled and cored)
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An organization that promotes the use of technology in the classroom by putting teachers who have specific requests in touch with donors who can help make those wishes come true has launched a new service to link teachers with volunteers. Non-profit Digital Wish now offers "Virtual Volunteers," an area on its Web site. The new service allows teachers to post classroom projects and ask for a virtual volunteer who can serve via video conference; it also allows volunteers to sign up, describe their various capabilities, and volunteer to help with a class project...
NASHUA – Wanting to liven up a class project on verbs with a picture of a Christmas tree, fifth-grader Kourtnie Hamel did a quick Google image search. She found a colorfully decorated evergreen in a matter of minutes and dropped it into a word document.
Kourtnie, a student in Tanya Ackerman's class at Bicentennial Elementary School, didn't have to go to the front of the room for this; she did it from her desk..
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ADDISON COUNTY — In Dawn Berno's fourth-grade class at Addison Central
School, students are learning key skills for the Internet age, ranging
from principles of digital citizenship to managing a personal password,
with the help of their own netbook computers.
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Danvers, Mass. – (September 9, 2011): The International Cars, Ltd. (ICL)
family of dealerships is pleased to announce that it has donated
$10,000 through the online giving forum, Digital Wish, in recognition of
"National Back to School" month. Each of ICL's five dealerships
contributed a percentage of their August sales proceeds to the total
donation. The funds will help Digital Wish fulfill requests from
educators looking to bring more advanced technology into their
Read more at the Boston Globe.
Jenna Zwang, assistant editor for eSchoolNews, recently interviewed Heather Chirtea, Digital Wish's executive director and founder, to write this article on how Digital Wish "makes school fundraising easier."
Check out the full article at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/06/22/digital-wish-makes-school-fundraising-easier/
Websites that let teachers post their classroom "wish lists" for
donors to fulfill have been around for more than a decade, but now one
of those sites—Digital Wish—has added a new fundraising feature that
could help schools raise support from their local communities.
The fundraising feature allows for teachers and their supporters, such as
administrators and Parent-Teacher Associations, to establish their own
fund drives for their educational needs. Through Digital Wish, users can publish their event on social media websites and print customized fliers.
Read more at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/06/22/digital-wish-makes-school-fundraising-easier/
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"Buy one, get one free" is a great deal. But for teachers in cash-strapped schools around the country, getting two Flip Video camcorders at no cost sounds too good to be true. With Digital Wish, it isn't.
Executive Director Heather Chirtea founded Digital Wish in 2007 "to solve technology shortfalls in classrooms," she says, and to better prepare students for tomorrow's workforce. The nonprofit allows teachers to register for document and digital cameras, camcorders, projectors, interactive whiteboards, mobile labs and other tools they'd like to have in their classrooms but can't afford.
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The Fayette school building project can now move forward following the board of education's decisions last week. The board's votes at a special meeting Jan. 31 surely brought a sigh of relief from those involved in the project and from community members.
Not everyone is pleased with the decision and the school district will suffer from that outcome. A segment of the community once known for its strong support of the school district may now be less likely to serve as a booster. The group may be small in number, but it's an influential cluster of citizens and a serious blow to school/community relations.
There are still significant challenges ahead before Fayette students walk into a new school building, away from the present contaminated site. Some of the most significant will be faced by those in the village offices rather than at the school. Roads, sidewalks and sewers top the list, and costs associated with the work will likely trickle down to village residents.
Building a new school is a novel undertaking for board members and administrators. The board has little to go by other than the guidance of the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission (OSFC).
Perhaps some leadership from the OSFC was absent in the early stages of the project. The experience gleaned by the OSFC should have pointed out the necessity of involving community members and village officials right from the start. The earliest meetings about needs and options should have included a wider range of faces at the table.
School officials will now move forward, hobbling a little from the turmoil of recent weeks, and hoping to avoid a "referendum" on the May ballot in the form of a challenge to the required continuous maintenance millage.– February 8, 2006


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"While the crew continued to wait for La Nina to come back, we loaded up the sleds and made a journey up onto Mt. Baker in search of some freshies. We were able to session some super fun natural hits up high on the volcano and even send the sleds off some hits as well.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to take a case that has pitted Texas against the Obama administration over a federal rule aimed at reducing air pollution that crosses state borders.
The decision comes 10 months after a split U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority with the new regulation, which was one of the hallmarks of the administration's recent efforts to improve air quality.
In seeking high-court review, U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli argued that the appeals court's decision "hobbles the agency ... where the need for a strong federal role is most critical."
The justices accepted the EPA's appeal of the lower court's opinion and will hear the case in the term that begins in October.
Led by Texas, 14 states and several power companies challenged the legality of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which imposes caps on nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide from coal-fired power plants in eastern states.
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The Vancouver Sun's book club is discussing Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's All The Broken Things. We will be chatting online with Kuitenbrouwer at noon on Monday, March 31. Plan to join the conversation at www.vancouversun.com/books.
Melanie Jackson: You could argue that All the Broken Things is a historical novel. Set in 1983, it's Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's story of a Vietnamese-Canadian boy whose sister has extreme deformities caused by Agent Orange, the debilitating herbicide used by the United States during the Vietnam War. The boy, Bo, is a bear wrestler in a southern Ontario circus. In 2014, things have changed. Both Agent Orange and bear wrestling belong to the past.
On the other hand, things haven't changed enough. Bear wrestling may be outlawed in Canada, but circuses can still confine and display animals, who, as Bo hopes for Bear, may yet somehow sense beyond the crowd's sweat and yelling to "locate: the lake, earth and its wormy prospect, clean air under it all, nature."
The United Kingdom has banned the use of animals in circuses. After reading about, and coming to love, Bear in this story, you may well seek out the change.org petition and urge our own government to legislate a Canadian ban.
To risk eye-rolling, here I have to allude to the place of bears in CanLit. Let's be honest. We Canadians like our bears. We think highly of them. Contrast this to bumbling, dimbulb Br'er Bear of the American Uncle Remus folk tales. We have the original Winnie The Pooh, called Winnie the Bear, statue in Winnipeg. Then there's the late Marion Engel's Bear, winner of the 1976 Governor General's Literary Award. Engel's ursine protagonist is not only a cuddly (albeit sharp-clawed and -toothed) pal but an erotic lover. Only in Canada.
Monique Sherrett: Well I couldn't think of any bears in CanLit except for a vignette in Up In Ontario by my husband James Sherrett. It's a terribly visceral depiction of a man who needs to remove a dead bear from his boat. The decomposing matter comes apart in his hands. Otherwise it's all tigers (I'm thinking of you Yann Martel and John Vaillant). Dead or alive, the animals always seem to win in my mind. That is until they are shot over a mauling.
The mauling of Gerry reminds me of the Siegfried & Roy incident where the tiger attacked Roy in Vegas. With these types of incidents, the media often cites the unexpected nature of the incident, or that there was no known cause. I suppose the public feels reassured by that, but it's quite clear that a caged animal who is several hundred pounds and used to roam several hundred kilometres a day is going to snap eventually.
What I found striking was Kuitenbrouwer's descriptions of Bear's scent and the articulation of her tongue licking the ice cream. I have her scent in my nose and I can picture that tongue hunting out ice cream from between Bo's toes. As fun as that scene is, the contrast is the ominous cloud that hangs over these caged bears.
Orange's trailer display with it's one-way windows is another cage. Max tries to tell Bo that Orange loves the trailer and isn't bothered by people staring because she can't see them, but Bo rightly questions this and her right to decide when she's older. It's a messed up world.
Trevor Battye: I think the real challenge with bears in CanLit is they lack character development. Winnie the Poo had some basic feelings — happy, sad, longing for Eeyore — but not to the degree that this bear had.
Throughout the novel there were moments when you really had a sense that the bear had a much deeper semblance to humans than to other bears we've seen. It reminded me of art books by Robert Bateman and how he captured the movement of the animals so beautifully with a similar human-like quality.
Its a great point that Melanie raises about the abuse of animals for "entertainment" I just watched the movie Black Fish, which gives a first-hand account of the abuse animals suffer, so that we as humans can be "closer" to them.
Our book club panel includes Ian Weir, author of the novel Daniel O'Thunder; Vancouver young-adult author Melanie Jackson; Daphne Wood, the Vancouver Public Library's director, planning and development; Julia Denholm, division chair, humanities at Langara College; Monique Sherrett, principal at Boxcar Marketing and founder of somisguided. com; Trevor Battye, a partner in Clevers Media; Vancouver Sun books editor Tracy Sherlock; and city editor Bev Wake.


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DAVENPORT, Iowa – Newspaper publishing company Lee Enterprises Inc. said on Tuesday that it has refinanced $94 million worth of debt with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., avoiding an interest rate increase that would have gone into effect next year.
As part of the debt financing deal, Lee added as collateral its 50 per cent stake in TNI Partners, which publishes the Arizona Daily Star and azstarnet.com.
Lee said the refinancing reduces the interest to a fixed rate of 9 per cent, down from 11.3 per cent, and extends the maturity from December 2015 to April 2017. The interest rate was set to rise to 12.05 per cent in January 2014 and to 12.8 per cent in January 2015.
Lee said it is paying off debt ahead of schedule. Its debt stands at $893 million, the level that it predicted it would reach in September 2014 in its bankruptcy reorganization plan. Lee ended a brief stint under bankruptcy protection in January 2012. Its debt includes $624 million due in December 2015.
Lee Chairman and CEO Mary Junck said the refinancing will reduce the company's interest expense and allow it to repay debt faster. Junck is also chairman of The Associated Press.
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The Blue Ring Nebula, which perplexed scientists for over a decade, appears to be the youngest known example of two stars merged into one.
Astronomers were surprised to see these data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in January 2013, showing a huge eruption of dust around a star called NGC 2547-ID8. In this plot, infrared brightness is represented on the vertical axis, and time on the horizontal axis.
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I adore biscuits. They have so much versatility. They can be a base for fresh strawberry shortcake in the middle of summer or the perfect companion to sausage gravy at breakfast. But nothing compares to a warm biscuit with real butter and jelly. My husband is not crazy for biscuits, but you give him a fresh biscuit with butter and honey, and he's all over it. After all these years, I had not made biscuits from scratch… until today. They were either popped out of a can or the recipe on the side of the Bisquick box. So I was excited to get started on this week's Tuesdays with Dorie challenge. Melissa at Love at First Bite made this most excellent choice for the week, and you should check out her blog for the recipe.
The recipe called for White Lily flour, which I have never seen this far north, so I compromised with a combination of all-purpose flour and cake flour. My biscuits didn't turn out so great, and I'm thinking that maybe I need to look a little harder for it. I've been looking at my cohorts' blogs about the recipe, and I'm thinking it just takes practice to make a good biscuit and I shouldn't be so hard on myself.
The only moisture for this recipe was sweet cream. The dough came together very well, but I think I messed with it and flattened the dough too much. They came out very crumbly and could've used a bit more flavor, maybe some salt. I did add in some fresh rosemary, and that helped a bit, but I was stilled bummed. However, when you put some sweet butter and marionberry jelly on a warm biscuit, all becomes right with the world… if only for a minute or two.


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I'm really happy with mine. Here are a few things I wanted to share about how I made my dress that I hope will help you, too.
First of all, I made a muslin. I debated showing this photo, but here it is.
I used a thrifted sheet to make a trial version of the dress. I am really glad I did, because the size 14 was too tight in the chest area. Also, I realized that it was too short for my liking. So, I made a few changes. I went up two sizes...gasp....and added two inches to the length of the dress on pattern pieces 1,3,and 5.
The dress ended up being too big in a few spots.. (yes!)
So, I took in the side seams, and long the seams at the yoke.
Second, I decided to embroider the yoke and neckband because I had a hard time finding a fabric that went with the main fabric of my dress. I used THIS tutorial for the circles and also French knots, similar to THIS tutorial. I've inspired by all the pretty things that Katy does with clothing.
Third, I made a contrast band for the bottom of my dress. Even with adding two inches to the bottom, it was still shorter than I'm used to, and I didn't want to lose the added length. Essentially, I cut two long bands of fabric just longer than the width of my dress, 5 inches wide. Then, with the band cut side up, cut a diagonal that is just opposite of the slope of the skirt. Here's a short picture tutorial to help you see what I mean:
If you need a more detailed version, let me know. I used the basic method in the Oliver + S Lazy Days Skirt.
|Me and my girls on Easter Sunday...my boy took the picture. :)
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Datacentre vendor, Equinix, is increasing its global footprint with a $US39.4 million expansion of its Sydney 3 (SY3) datacentre, following the rollout of phase one, which cost $US65 million.
It recently opened phase two of the datacentre, which minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, inaugurated alongside Equinix Australia managing director, Tony Simonsen.
SY3-II is located south of Sydney and provides about 1000 cabinets across 22,927 square feet.
Once the third and final phase of SY3 is completed, the IBX will provide 72,850 square feet and capacity for 3000 cabinets.
Senator Conroy said the NBN is seen as a demand driver for Cloud services within Australia and, by extension, for Australian datacentres.
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Asia-Pacific is Equinix's fastest growing region, and Simonsen claimed the expansion of itsfootprint in Australia and other Asia-Pacific markets such as Jakarta and Singapore will enable Equinix to assist multi-national customers looking to expand into the market.
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G-Unit rappers 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Young Buck and Lloyd Banks hint that more new content is coming soon.
G-Unit returned in full form yesterday, following a reunion on stage at Summer Jam, with a new freestyle over Hit-Boy & HS87's "Grindin' My Whole Life." The track was originally a posse cut from HS87, so there was plenty of space for 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck (and Kidd Kidd) to rap over it.
Following the reunion record's release, the G-Unit crew hit up 50's screening of his new TV show "Starz." So despite all their beefing and public disses to each other, they all seem to be back on good terms. XXL caught up with each rapper and discussed the possibility of a new G-Unit album. According to each, they're just working in the studio at the moment and we'll have to stay tuned, but an album sounds highly likely.
According to Young Buck, "We got no dates, we working. [We] in the studio. Stay tuned." Banks said, "Work in progress. We just put out the new freestyle today. Check it out."
Yayo mentioned their recent fighting, calling it brotherly. "We just sat at the table, and it happenedâthatâs it," Yayo said referencing how the reunion came together. "It feels good. Weâre brothers. Thereâs nothing we canât work out. Brothers fight all the time. We just dropped a new record [yesterday]. We working. We just taking it one day at a time."
Finally, the G-Unit leader, 50 Cent promises we can expect more content to come, so an album doesn't sound too unreasonable. "Being able to bring everybody out to actual shows is not difficult for me," Fif said. "I can do it. I have a compass, a moral compass that comes from my corner on 134th Street. We supposed to behave and respond to each other a certain way. We supposed to hustle to eat. We supposed to get what we supposed to get, not have things handed to us because nobody never gave me nothing. It may be my fault for enabling them at points. I expected them to continue to get what they want immediately. And then now having everybody back in the circle, the morale is great. They all ready to work. They been on ice long enough. So now you should expect [something]. You already got something new today. It didnât take but a few hours after the show. Meltdown, itâs on now. It donât take as much out of me as it takes for me to create a solo song than to create and participate in a G-unit record. We have so many moving parts on it and everybody got to show up."
Listen to "Nah I'm Talkin' 'Bout" here.
[UPDATE: 50 Cent Announces New G-Unit Album]
50 Cent is keeping the blogs busy. After reuniting with G-Unit at Summer Jam and dropping off two new G-Unit records, plus dropping his solo album Animal Ambition, Fif announced some more big news while on a FOX TV segment.
When XXL spoke to the G-Unit members the other day, it sounded as though a new album was a strong possibility. As it turns out, it's more than a possibility, because 50 has already planned a new full-length project for a November release.
"Yes. You'll see an album by late November," Fif tells the host.
Who's excited? Listen to their remix of Drake's "0 To 100" here. Video clip below.


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Why are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness towards Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam's old prison at Abu Ghraib, those young British squaddies in Basra came -- as soldiers often come -- from towns and cities where race hatred has a home: Tennessee and Lancashire.
How many of "our" lads are ex--jailbirds themselves? How many support the British National Party? Muslims, Arabs, "cloth heads", "rag heads", "terrorists", "evil". You can see how the semantics break down.
Add to that the poisonous, racial dribble of a hundred Hollywood movies that depict Arabs as dirty, lecherous, untrustworthy and violent people -- and soldiers are addicted to movies -- and it's not difficult to see how some British scumbag will urinate into the face of a hooded man, how some American sadist will stand a hooded Iraqi on a box with wires tied to his hands.
The sexual sadism -- the bobby-sox girl soldier who points at a man's genitals, the mock orgy in Abu Ghraib prison, the British rifle in the prisoner's mouth -- might be a crazed attempt to balance all those lies about the Arab world, about the desert warrior's potency, the harem, polygamy.
Even today, we still show the revolting Ashanti on our television stations, a feature film about the kidnapping of the wife of an English doctor by Arab slave-traders, which depicts Arabs as almost exclusively child--molesters, rapists, murderers, liars and thieves. It stars -- heaven spare us -- Michael Caine, Omar Sharif and Peter Ustinov and was made partly in Israel.
Indeed, we now depict Arabs in our films as the Nazis once depicted Jews. But Arabs are fair game. Potential terrorists to a man -- and a woman -- they must be softened up, "prepared", humiliated, beaten, tortured. The Israelis use torture in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. Now we torture in Saddam's old jail outside Baghdad and -- for this is where British soldiers beat a young Iraqi to death last summer -- in the former office of Saddam's most murderous chemical warfare fascist, the awful "Chemical" Ali.
And the officers? Didn't the British lieutenants and captains and majors in the Queen's Lancashire Regiment know that their lads were kicking to death a young Iraqi hotel worker last summer?
That man's fate -- and the documentary evidence proving that he was murdered -- was first revealed by The Independent on Sunday in January. Didn't the CIA boys at Abu Ghraib know that Ivan "Chip" Frederick and Lynddie England, two of the American soldiers in the photographs published last week, were obscenely humiliating their prisoners?
Of course they did. The last time I saw Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade in Iraq, she told me she had visited Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo and found nothing wrong with it. I should have guessed then that something had gone terribly wrong in Iraq.
I remember how in Basra, on the eve of a visit by Tony Blair, I visited the British Army's press office in the city to ask about the death of 26--year--old Baha Mousa. The dead man's family had given me British documents proving that he had been beaten to death in custody, that the British Army had itself tried to pay off the family if they would give up any legal claim against the soldiers who so cruelly killed their son.
I was met with yawns and a total inability to furnish information about the event. I was told to call the Ministry of Defence in London. The officer I spoke to appeared weary, even impatient about my inquiry. There was not a single word of compassion for the dead man.
Back in September last year, General Karpinski was with a small group of journalists in Abu Ghraib -- the same ghastly prison in which thousands were put to death by Saddam, the same jail in which Frederick and England and their American buddies were standing their hooded Iraqi prisoner on a box with supposed electrodes on his hands -- and General Karpinski took some delight in escorting us to the old Saddam execution chamber.
She led the way into the concrete room with its raised dais and gallows, and -- in front of us all -- triumphantly pulled the gallows lever so that the trap door clanged down. She urged us to read the last messages scrawled on the walls of the neighbouring death row by Iraqis awaiting Saddam's vengeance. But there was something wrong about her prison tour.
There was no clear judicial process for the prisoners and there was no mention -- until I brought it up -- of the mortar attack on the American-held jail which killed six of the inmates in their tents in August, when General Karpinski was already in command of Iraq's 8,000 prisoners. They had been given "counselling", she told us. "They seemed to think we had been using them as some kind of sand--bag." Abu Ghraib was then being attacked by insurgents four out of every seven nights. Now it is attacked twice every night.
Oddly, she claimed in answer to a question of mine that there were "six prisoners claiming to be American and two claiming to be from the UK". But when General Ricardo Sanchez, the senior Iraqi officer in Iraq, later denied this, no one asked how the confusion had arisen. Was General Karpinski making it up? Or was General Sanchez not telling us the truth? Prisoners' names were often confused, Arabic script was mis--transliterated, men went "missing" from the files. It spoke of a whole culture in which Iraqis -- especially Iraqi prisoners -- were somehow not worthy of the same rights as us Westerners; which is why, I suppose, the occupying powers in Iraq always give us the statistics of Westerners' deaths but care not the slightest to discover the statistics of the deaths of Iraqis, the very people they are mandated to protect and care for.
A few weeks ago, I was chatting to a young American soldier off Saadoun Street in the centre of Baghdad. He was giving sweets to street kids and mimicking the Arabic for "thank you": sukran. Did he know Arabic, I innocently asked. He grinned at me. "I know how to shout at them," he said. And there you have it.
We are all victims of our high-flown morality. "They" -- the Arabs, Muslims, "cloth heads", "rag heads", "terrorists" -- are of a lesser breed, of lower moral standards. They are people to be shouted at. They have to be "liberated" and given "democracy". But we little band of brothers, we dress ourselves up in the uniforms of righteousness. We are marines or military police or a Queen's regiment and we are on the side of good. "They" are on the side of "evil". So we can do no wrong.
Or so it appeared until those shameful pictures last week tore apart the whole bandwagon and proved that race hatred and prejudice is an old historical inheritance of ours. We used to call Saddam the Hitler of Iraq. But wasn't Hitler one of "us", a Westerner, a citizen of "our" culture? If he could kill six million Jews, which he did, why should we be surprised that "we" can treat Iraqis like animals? Last week came the photographs to prove we can.
Robert Fisk is an award winning foreign correspondent for The Independent (UK), where this article first appeared. He is the author of Pity Thy Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (The Nation Books, 2002 edition). Posted with author's permission.
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* One, Two, Three, What Are They Fighting For?
* Israel's Attack on Syria is a Lethal Step: Towards War in Middle East
* Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The US
* Edward Said Rails Against Arafat and Sharon to His Dying Breath
* Iraqi Broadcasters Risk Being Closed If They Put Saddam's Voice On Air
* US Secrecy on Iraqi Casualties
* A Hail of Bullets, A Trail of Dead, and a Mystery the US is in No Hurry to Resolve
* Don't Say We Were Not Warned About This Mess
* UN Attack Underlines America's Crumbling Authority
* The Ghosts of Uday and Qusay
* US Moves to Censor Freedom of Press
* "We Keep Asking Ourselves Who's Next"
* US Troops Turn Botched Saddam Raid Into A Massacre
* The Ugly Truth Of America's Camp Cropper, A Story To Shame Us All