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Davidski said…
Did Slavs absorb/conquer any Balts though? Seriously? In about 80% of former Baltic territory.
January 30, 2017 at 9:05 PM
rozenfag said…
@ Aram Well, even Lev Kleyn criticized the association of Slavs with these cultures.
January 30, 2017 at 9:35 PM
Aram said…
Lev Kleyn criticizes most of things proposed by genetic studies. 🙂 Yamna theory included. Ancient DNA is needed to rule out this proposal.
January 30, 2017 at 11:43 PM
Davidski said…
This EBA dude from Gustorzyn is very similar to Estonian Corded Ware. I'll put up a new blog post about his genome-wide results later today.
January 31, 2017 at 12:56 AM
Simon said…
I'll wager Poland or basically the wider circum-Tripolyean region is the homeland of middle-late Proto-Indo-European.
January 31, 2017 at 1:07 AM
Monday, January 30, 2017
R1a-Z280 from Early Bronze Age Northern Poland
PL_N17, an Early Bronze Age genome from Gustorzyn, Northern Poland, recently uploaded to the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) under accession number SAMN04633627, belongs to Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a-Z280. R1a-Z280 today shows very high frequencies (>50%) and relatively high SNP diversity in Northern Poland. This is a strong argument for genetic continuity in Northern Poland since the Early Bronze Age. The analysis was run by Vladimir Tagankin from YFull, who, I'm told, is also pretty sure that PL_N17 falls under SNP R-S24902. Interestingly, R-S24902 is an extremely rare marker that currently appears to be most common in Northwestern Europe. But I'd say that there are two very good reasons for this: 1) most Y-chromosomes tested at this sort of level are from Northwestern Europe and 2) today Northwestern Europe shows higher genetic diversity than Eastern Europe. So I expect this pattern to be repeated for many other high resolution ancient Y-chromosome samples from Central and Eastern Europe. I don't yet have the genome-wide data for PL_N17. If I manage to get it, I'll run a whole bunch of analyses comparing him to ancient and modern-day Europeans. See also… R1a1a from an Early Bronze Age warrior grave in Poland Testing for genetic continuity in Poland from the Bronze Age to the present
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Samuel Andrews said…
Do you think Slavs have modern Eastern Europe most of its R1a?
January 30, 2017 at 3:37 PM
Davidski said…
Don't forget Balts. Balts used to occupy a much larger area than they do now, and they surely were always rich in R1a.
January 30, 2017 at 4:31 PM
Romulus said…
What's the context? Is this the guy that had his head modeled way back?
January 30, 2017 at 4:40 PM
EastPole said…
1900 BC is the 1a phase of Trzciniec Culture and in Gustorzyn there are early Trzciniec Culture graves. So it is probably Slavic.
January 30, 2017 at 5:07 PM
Samuel Andrews said…
Did Slavs absorb/conquer any Balts though?
January 30, 2017 at 5:11 PM
Rob said…
1900 BC is also the Iwno culture. Given that this subclade is rare in modern Slavs, it's a stretch to call this man Slavic. Also, there was no such language as Slavic in 1900 BC.
He'd be para-Balto-Slavic, if we wanted to create a term for it.
January 30, 2017 at 5:27 PM
Aram said…
In a recent report in Russian Academy the age of Slavic expansion was proposed at 200 AD.
January 30, 2017 at 8:48 PM
Aram said…
This date was calibrated with genetic data. Pshevorskaya ana Zarubinetskaya cultures were proposed as homeland.
January 30, 2017 at 8:51 PM
Orientacyjny zasięg kultur trzcinieckiej, komarowskiej i sośnickiej
Kultura trzciniecka – kultura wczesnej epoki brązu. Ze względu na złożoność zjawiska obejmującego również kulturę komarowską i kulturę sośnicką w literaturze mówi się o Trzcinieckim Kręgu Kulturowym. Stanowiska archeologiczne kultury trzcinieckiej obecne były na terenach centralnej, południowej i wschodniej Polski (Kujawy, Małopolska, Mazowsze, Podlasie) oraz zachodniej Ukrainy i zachodniej Białorusi (Polesie) od 1900 do 1000 roku p.n.e. Niektórzy autorzy uznają pierwotny zasięg kultury trzcinieckiej za kolebkę Prasłowian[1]. (…)


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Bernadette Peters stopped by a desolate corner of Brooklyn the other day to hang out with a special group of fans. They were literally barking.
A deafening chorus of woofs greeted the two-time Tony Award winner as she toured the Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition and checked in with shelter dogs Louise, Melissa, Sparrow, Joseph, Bobby, Greg and Diamond.
"This is my passion," she says after scratching furry backs, stroking tails and caressing grateful ears. "I realized what a womanizer is because I'm a dog-inizer. I want every dog, like the man who wants every woman."
The love goes both ways: Many animals in this no-kill, privately run animal shelter owe their lives to Peters, who is known to scan the lists of dogs scheduled to be euthanized and rush over to save them from death.
"It isn't hard to find people who care about animals, but when you have the passion that Bernadette has and the drive and the consistent effort to save all these critters, that's special," says fellow actor David Hyde Pierce.
Peters visited the shelter on this day hoping it will be the last time she sees many of "her dogs" there — several will be starring in today's adopt-a-thon she co-founded 15 years ago called Broadway Barks.
Much larger event
She and fellow actress and animal advocate Mary Tyler Moore started the annual star-studded event in 1999 in Shubert Alley — a pedestrian alley at the heart of the Broadway theater district — to help promote animal adoption and raise awareness of the plight of homeless animals.
The free event has grown from a folding-table affair with a few animals from six shelters to a mammoth one with celebrities, musical acts and dogs and cats from 27 shelters across the city. There will be signed memorabilia like calendars and stuffed dogs, with all proceeds going to help homeless animals.
Broadway stars this year scheduled to attend and introduce the animals include Sigourney Weaver; Laura Osnes; Bebe Neuwirth; Isabel Keating; Annaleigh Ashford; the girls rotating the lead in "Matilda the Musical"; the lead of "Annie," Lilla Crawford; Victoria Clark; Harvey Fierstein; Andrew Rannells; and new Tony winners Gabriel Ebert and Billy Porter. Music will be provided by the cast of "Jersey Boys."
"We're all there for the love of animals," says Jane Lynch, a veteran animal rights activist who has been playing Miss Hannigan in the "Annie" revival on Broadway and was asked by Peters to help out Broadway Barks this year.
Shows represented will include "Once," "Newsies," "Motown the Musical," "Kinky Boots," "Rodger's + Hammerstein's Cinderella," "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," "Pippin," "Wicked," "Mamma Mia!" and "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
"What's so wonderful about Broadway Barks is that it reaches a whole new audience all of its own — theatergoers and theater lovers and show fans, not to mention so many of the cast and crew," says Gail Buchwald, senior vice president of the ASPCA, which sponsors the event.
"It's got a brand of its own and a fantastic draw. Who doesn't want to see the cast and crew members of Broadway shows that are running now? It doesn't get any hotter than that."
The event estimates it helps find homes for 200 animals each year, part of the reason the number of animals killed in the city has been falling. An estimated 31,000 animals were euthanized in 2003 and only 8,000 last year.
She's No Broadway diva
"We're doing better, but we're still not there yet," says Peters, who calculates that there are 7 million unwanted animals nationwide. "I'm not giving up. I'm not giving up."
From poodles to pugs, Peters is a dog lover, a woman whose hand naturally gravitates to a snout and a muzzle. At the shelter, she is no Broadway diva. She unlocks the cage doors and gets down on her knees to play with the dogs, scratching bellies and getting licks. Chili, a 9-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, later comes out to melt into her with what has to be a doggie smile.
Peters grew up in New York with a father who loved animals. "He would rescue birds and bring them home and fix their broken wings," she says. She got her first dog at age 9.
A visit to the city shelter 15 years ago galvanized her into an activist. She saw so many homeless and abused animals facing death that she felt compelled to act. "We shouldn't discard them," she says. "It's the last frontier where we're allowed to behave barbaric."
Happy matchmaker
Peters, who has two rescue dogs of her own, is always on the lookout to connect a homeless animal with a loving home, as she did recently with the actor and singer Cheyenne Jackson. He had been mourning the loss of his dog Zora and wasn't ready for a new dog when he got an email from Peters.
"Not even any text in the email, just this picture of this dog came up," recalls Jackson with a laugh. "It was this little scrapper. He looked like the Tramp from 'Lady and the Tramp.' " Jackson and his husband, Monte Lapka, soon welcomed Brillo into their lives.
Recently, Jackson was named one of the grand marshals at San Francisco Pride's Parade and Peters was delighted to see him photographed along the route cuddling Brillo. "It was meant to be," Peters says, like a happy matchmaker.
Lynch and Pierce may be the big stars at Broadway Barks this year but both know they'll be taking a backseat to the sweet, furry visitors to Broadway.
"The irony, of course, is that when you go there you think you're the celebrity but once you get on that stage you realize, 'No, it's the animals,' " says Pierce, who is starring in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and has two pooches at home. "You're sort of a glorified plant stand for a dog or a cat — and that's absolutely fine."
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bedspread dress..
April 19, 2012
I have a sewing machine, fabric, and time to sew! I got this piece of fabric from India, and was going to save it for a tablecloth or something like that, but I held it up as a dress, and loved it!
First thing was to cut the neck, square to match the pattern. The dress is rather shapeless, and almost more of a tunic. There is so much complexity in the pattern on the material that I didn't think that it was necessary to shape the dress itself.
I decided on gathering the sleeves to add a little finishing detail. Because there is so little shaping, it needed a little something to add dimension.
I tried belting the dress, but the fabric pattern didn't lend itself to the shape created, and the dress ended up looking a little bit top heavy.
The length is a little shorter than I would have liked, but I wanted to end the skirt at the end of the pattern on the fabric, so no choice there…
The border is really beautiful, and I experimented with my new machine to sew the border by machine instead of by hand. (I got to my room this morning, armed with all my supplies, carefully collected and selected, only to realize that I didn't have a sewing needle…)
The machine stitch worked well though, and I am excited to have learned how to do it.
I think that the fabric was tie dyed somehow, and there is a strong band of white going around the dress. I am considering dying the fabric a little with some coffee to darken the band. I think that I will have to wear the dress a little first to decide if I like the band or not.
The material might end up being a little rough for a dress, but I am going to give it a try, and wash and wear it a bit. I noticed a tag saying that it was a bed sheet a little bit after I had cut the hole in the top for the head…
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First Love International Ministries provides relief to typhoon survivors
ROCKFORD — The Rockford based First Love International Ministries is providing support and relief to those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the village of Tacloban on the island of Boracay Panoy.
There are currently 35 missionaries working with the ministries' executive director, Tom Clinton and his wife Linda. The ministry set a goal of raising $25,000 to provide food, water and relief to the village.
For information: firstloveinternational.org.


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Newport Folk Fest @ Npt Blues Cafe 2013 - THU
Newport Folk Fest @ Npt Blues Cafe 2013 - THU
Friends at the volunteer-run Columbus Co-op bring you "Revival! at Newport" hosted at the Newport Blues Cafe and featuring The Low Anthem, Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons, The Songs of Christopher Paul Stelling, Roz Raskin & The Rice Cakes, and special guests from the Columbus Theatre family. I got there in time to shoot The Low Anthem and Roz Raskin and The Rice Cakes. I also grabbed a little bit of video clip material.Read More
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I've seen fossils of the ammonites, in lovely curving spirals,
I've seen children saved from certain death by modern antivirals,
I've seen salmon swim up waterfalls, to find their tiny brook–
And you're asking me to trade it for the contents of one book?
I've seen galaxies, and nebulas of brilliant glowing gases
I've seen Painted Desert valleys; I've seen Rocky Mountain passes
I was at the Gulf of Corinth when the earth beneath me shook–
Do you really think I'd trade it for some stuff that's in a book?
I've seen elephants and rhinos; I've seen buffalo and deer
I've seen humpback whales I almost could have touched, they came so near;
I've seen giant redwood forests, where I craned my neck to look;
Is there anything so awesome in your tiny little book?
I've seen microscopic beasties of a thousand different forms
I've seen hurricanes, tornadoes, snow and hail and thunderstorms
I've seen babies reach adulthood—Oh, how little time it took!
And I would not trade one heartbeat for that obsolescent book!
I've seen beauty that you couldn't buy, no matter what the price;
I have tasted of life's bounty, each ingredient and spice–
I would throw it all together in a pot, and let it cook…
And I guarantee it's better than the contents of your book;
Yes, I'd sooner starve, than swallow all the poison in your book.
Inspired by, but totally not a copy of, this.
And yeah, it's all true. Which is the best part of all.


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Since the earliest days of medical school, I learned fast to bring my computer wherever I went. Not only did my laptop function as my personal entertainment center through the dullest parts of lectures, but it also proved to be a source of instantaneous and infinite medical knowledge via the click of a mouse. Four years later and here I am, one hand on the shoulder of patients whilst listening to their afflictions with the other hand already reaching for my iPhone, ready to pull up necessary gaps of my medical knowledge.
Is this proper way to train as a physician? Surely I'm not the only doctor to sneak out of the patient room like a cheating lover to softly glance at a guideline on UpToDate or straight up ogle a dosing regimen on Epocrates. Yet, this is how many of us Gen Y physicians survived medical school and how many of us will continue to claw our way through residency and beyond.
It's a fact. Your doctors today do not know everything about your health. But we sure as hell have perfected the art of finding out exactly what we need to provide the right kind of care for you. So the question remains: are the new physicians of the world the adventurers of medical knowledge, paving paths through the vast and ever-widening available online literature? Or are we the lazy college grads living in our mothers' basements, completely functional yet totally okay with someone else doing all the housework?
To infinity and beyond
Every time I am on the phone talking shop with the real Dr. Secemsky (my father), he never hesitates to counter my complaints about residency with unsolicited anecdotes of what it was like during his training. Back in those days (years? decades?) the only websites around were in unswept cellars and children's books about Charlotte. (And yes, they had to walk three miles in the snow to work!) In all honesty, medical training back then sounded awful, not only because of the long hours, but also because of the lack of available medical resources to rely on during their daily grind. In the 1970s and 80s, students and physicians alike had to trek to the nearest library between patient visits in order to find a relevant journal article or dig up treatment guidelines for uncommon conditions. Now that there are more computers in hospitals than there are patients, all one needs to do is take a few steps to the nearest terminal and, through a variety of popular medical search engines, find answers to most any clinical questions.
PubMed, created in 1996, was one of the first big players in the field of online medical resources. It functions as a subscription medical database that provides full access to most life sciences and biomedical journal articles dating back over two decades. Thankfully, the creation of this trove of online knowledge obliterated the painful activity of searching through countless paperback journals for the right issue and specific study. Another behemoth, UpToDate,took things a step further by becoming the largest online evidence-based medical textbook. Written by physicians and covering almost every angle of clinical medicine, it quickly replaced the 30-pound textbooks that even I (gasp) had to lug around the hospital like a baby in a sling. Can't wait to tell my kids about that one.
Not only has medical literature become ever more accessible to physicians today, but it is also becoming much more individually tailored to their specific needs. Take Docphinfor example: created last year by a resident from UPenn, it functions as a free online platform for physicians to share and discuss research from hundreds of specialty-specific journals.
Losing the physician's brain
So what's the problem, the reader might ask? In today's world, where the efficiency of a physician is more important than ever (think of the estimated 30 million more insured Americans flooding clinics and hospitals around the country in the next few years), one might say that online medical resources are the silver lining to our otherwise stormy healthcare system. However, critics of such large and readily available online databases are right to question the effects that these sources of medical knowledge are having on physicians' ability to critically think on their own.
One of the first phrases that I've readily picked up as a new resident is "forgetting your intern brain." This essentially involves an intern misplacing his notes in a nursing station, only to become completely useless as a physician until said notes were recovered. I can't tell you how many times I've lost my intern brain, only that it's a shock that I still have the capacity to write this opinion piece. In a similar vein, one might rightfully question if newly trained doctors are as dependent on online resources.
What if the Internet shuts down in our hospitals? Are physicians today prepared to calculate the fractional excretion of sodium without their medical calculator app or recall the recommendations of landmark articles without stepping out to do a quick online search? In fear of respecting my father in public, his generation of physicians was certainly more readily equipped to do such mental math. This is simply due to the fact that medical resources were scarcer and less efficient back then, prompting a greater need to commit such knowledge to long-term memory. Thus it is more than probable that physicians today, not excluding myself, may be too dependent on online medical resources, to the point where it hinders our potential to become more autonomously knowledgeable as practitioners. It just might be that this generation of new doctors has permanently lost our physician brains.
Take home point
Online medical resources are certainly not the next fad in healthcare. They are likely to become a permanent fixture in the way we as doctors practice medicine. Therefore, it is the responsibility of practicing physicians in every generation to not only learn how to navigate these online tools but also to spend enough time absorbing as much of this vast medical knowledge as possible in order to be able to critically think on their own. Although easier said than done, it's better for the patient to have their doctor's brain inside the exam room than left at the computer.
Brian J. Secemsky is an internal medicine resident who blogs at The Huffington Post. He can be reached on Twitter @BrianSecemskyMD.


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Casio's Exilim phone (vaguely NSFW ad here) looks to cram in just about every feature you can get on a Verizon dumbphone, with a few higher-end bonuses: It's military-grade ruggedized and features an impressive 5.1MP camera.
Exilim is Casio's digital camera line, so when they've branded a phone with the name, you know the lens is going to get some attention. Who knows if the pictures look good (the camera line is not particularly well-reviewed) but it's got autofocus, an image stabilizer, and video recording, so it's likely one of the better phone cameras out there. Otherwise, you've got the standard Verizon features (VZ Navigator, visual voicemail, V Cast Music) in a rotating flip phone package that just happens to meet military standards for durability.
It's available today online, though at the very steep price of $279, and that's after a mail-in rebate and with a 2-year contract. That's more expensive than every one of Verizon's BlackBerry offerings and, in fact, the third-most-expensive phone in Big Red's lineup. Press release below. [Verizon]
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and NEW YORK – Verizon Wireless and Casio introduce the Casio® EXILIM, a picture perfect blend of digital camera functionality and entertainment features for the adventure seeker. The Casio EXILIM boasts a 180-degree rotating display, professional 5.1 megapixel camera and access to instant messaging, Visual Voice Mail and V CAST Music with Rhapsody.
Available color: Black and champagne
Key features:
· Meets military specifications 810F standards for: water (immersion and rain), humidity, salt-fog, shock, vibration, dust, solar radiation, altitude, and low and high temperature storage
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Gov. Pat Quinn demands gun limits in concealed carry law
CHICAGO — One week before a federal court deadline, Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday demanded that lawmakers approve tougher restrictions as part of a gun possession bill that would make his state the last in the country to allow the concealed carry of firearms.
Quinn cited Chicago's gun violence in declaring that a compromise gun bill that cleared the House and Senate by wide margins was too hurried and influenced by the National Rifle Association. But fellow Democrats who lead the Legislature signaled they would try to override his changes next week.
Using an amendatory veto, Quinn sent the measure back to legislators with significant changes — including a one-gun limit on the number of firearms a person can carry and a ban on weapons in establishments that serve alcohol. Towns also would have the right to enact their own assault weapons bans, beyond just a 10-day window that was part of the bill approved by the Legislature in May.
"There are serious flaws in this bill that jeopardize the public safety of the people of Illinois," said Quinn, surrounded by nearly 100 anti-violence advocates, including relatives of gunfire victims.
Lawmakers who have spent months debating and negotiating the gun bill reacted angrily, accusing Quinn of posturing ahead of a re-election campaign next year in which he likely faces serious challenges even from within his own party. Sponsors of the bill noted the concealed-carry bill passed with well more than the three-fifths majorities needed in both the House and Senate to turn back the governor's demands.
"I think he's playing politics. I'm just saying it like it is," said Rep. Brandon Phelps, a Democratic lawmaker and gun rights advocate from a far southern Illinois district who sponsored the legislation.
Within hours of Quinn's announcement, Illinois' legislative leaders called a session for next Tuesday to deal with the changes. That day is also the deadline the 7th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court gave Illinois to pass a law as part of a December ruling that the state's concealed carry ban was unconstitutional. All 49 other states have laws allowing public, concealed carry of firearms.
It's unclear what happens if the deadline passes without a concealed carry law. Some gun-rights advocates argue residents would be able to carry any type of weapon anywhere, but others believe local communities could enact their own ordinances.
In the Legislature, the heated debate broke down between more conservative lawmakers from outside Chicago who are focused on gun rights and more urban lawmakers worried about gang violence and killings.
Lawmakers balked at the timing of Quinn's demands, just before the court deadline and around a month after they sent him the bill.
"I would hope that we quickly get this matter before the General Assembly and have an opportunity to override the veto, allowing the State Police to begin the conceal carry process for trained, law-abiding citizens," state Sen. Bill Haine, an Alton Democrat, said in a statement.
Senate President John Cullerton said there were issues worth discussing with his caucus, but that he would talk with House Speaker Michael Madigan about an override, spokeswoman Rikeesha Phelon said. Madigan's spokesman Steve Brown said lawmakers would be back in Springfield next week.
"It's too bad the governor wasn't engaged in the legislative session," Brown said. "Most of the provisions were pretty thoroughly debated in the House and Senate."
The governor's challenge was underscored this week when former White House chief of state Bill Daley, who's preparing a Democratic challenge to Quinn, received an endorsement from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a staunch gun control supporter. In a video posted online late Monday, Bloomberg said Daley is "uniquely qualified to lead Illinois in these challenging times," and "will fight for common sense gun laws."
Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan also is considering a run.
Quinn, a Chicago resident, has been an insistent advocate for gun control. Last year, he stripped an ammunition sales bill and replaced it with a proposed statewide assault weapons ban, but lawmakers rejected his attempt.
Quinn dismissed the allegations of politics, saying his job right now is to be governor. He said the court's deadline compressed his time to review the bill. He played up Chicago's violence alongside speakers including the Rev. Michael Pfleger, who has led anti-violence marches, and a former Secret Service agent injured in the shooting of President Ronald Reagan.
"I don't believe in compromising public safety and I don't believe in negotiating public safety," Quinn said.
Vetoes are predominantly executive measures designed to stop legislation, but the amendatory veto allows a governor to try his hand at legislating by suggesting specific changes. The intended extent of those changes has been debated since the 1970 Illinois Constitution granted the power.
Only about five other states allow governors amendatory veto power.
The original legislation allows qualified gun owners who pass background checks and undergo training to get carry permits for $150.
Quinn pointed out the bill would allow people to carry more than one gun with unlimited numbers of ammunition rounds. He rewrote it to limit gun owners to carrying one with an ammunition clip holding no more than 10 rounds.
He also called for clarifying language on mental health and objected to language requiring a gun to be "mostly concealed," saying it would lead to a law allowing guns to be carried on the hip.
He said a board considering appeals of denied permits should not be allowed to operate in secret and said gun-toting citizens should be required to notify police, when asked, that they're carrying.
Todd Vandermyde, Illinois lobbyist for the NRA, said he doesn't foresee anything but an override.
"They debated it; they did all of it. Once again you have a governor who doesn't show any leadership skills or abilities," he said.


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ITV has promised "dramatic and entertaining plots" in Emmerdale in the coming months will lead to the departure of some of its stars.
However, a spokeswoman would not confirm which actors will be leaving the show in order to avoid ruining storylines for fans.
According to The Sun, cast members Louise Marwood (Chrissie White), John McArdle (Ronnie Hale), Thomas Atkinson (Lachlan White) and Jonathan Wrather (Pierce Harris) are reportedly leaving the programme.
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Auburn jumps to No. 3 in AP poll
NEW YORK -- The other team from Alabama surged toward the top of the AP poll while another set of Tigers has emerged as the Big 12's unexpected national title contender.
Auburn jumped two spots to No. 3 behind top-ranked Oregon and Boise State in the media poll Sunday, and Missouri vaulted 11 spots to No. 7.
Oregon, which moved to No. 1 for the first time last week and followed up with a 60-13 victory against UCLA on Thursday night, received 44 first-place votes. Boise State had 11, Auburn received three and No. 4 TCU received two.
Auburn has its highest ranking since the Tigers were No. 2 in 2006 after beating LSU 24-17 on Saturday in a matchup of the Southeastern Conference's last unbeaten teams. Quarterback Cameron Newton ran for 217 yards, cementing himself as the Heisman Trophy front-runner.
The Tigers started the season No. 22 and have been climbing steadily since.
Michigan State is fifth and Alabama, last year's champion and the preseason No. 1, is sixth.
Missouri's big move came after the Tigers beat previously undefeated Oklahoma 36-27. The Sooners dropped eight spots to No. 11. Missouri was last ranked this highly in 2007, when the Tigers reached No. 1 and finished the season No. 4. The rest of the top 10 is Utah, Wisconsin and Ohio State.
No. 25 Baylor (6-2) is ranked for the first time since Sept. 5, 1993, when the Bears were No. 24 for a week.
"It's certainly a step in the right direction, you know," third-year coach Art Briles said Sunday. "Important thing is to be in it when the season's over, that's the important thing, but it's definitely a positive step perception-wise, no doubt."
The Bears beat Kansas State 47-42 Saturday behind quarterback Robert Griffin III to become bowl eligible for the first time since joining the Big 12 in 1996.
"It is a growing point for our football team and for Baylor nation in general," Briles said.
The last time the Bears were ranked for more than a week was 1991, when they were still part of the Southwest Conference. To match that, they'll likely need to win at Texas this Saturday.
Texas fell out of the rankings for the second time this season after being upset at home 28-21 by Iowa State. The last time the Bears and Longhorns played with Baylor ranked and Texas not was Nov. 22, 1986. The Bears beat the 'Horns 18-13 in Waco.
West Virginia also dropped out of the rankings this week after a surprising 19-14 home loss to Syracuse. Southern California moved back in the poll at No. 24, just in time to play No. 1 Oregon at home.
LSU's first loss of the season dropped the Tigers six spots to No. 12. Stanford, Nebraska, and Arizona round out the top 15.
Florida State is 16th, followed by South Carolina, Iowa, Arkansas and Oklahoma State, which lost for the first time this season, 51-41 to Nebraska.
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[Below is another guest post on the Debt Ceiling by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. In the interest of getting to closure, Professor Buchanan will let this be the last word on this exact topic for now, although he'll be back on Friday with some thoughts on other aspects of the debt ceiling and budget debate. Now here's Professor Tribe:]
In other words, it is the combination of the ceiling and all other extant revenue-raising arrangements that would leave us with insufficient funds to meet all of the nation's spending commitments come August 3.
To begin with, there is no basis for treating the tax laws as fixed. One could just as easily argue instead: "If the current borrowing laws do not provide sufficient revenues to cover current spending, then the only way to get the remaining money that must be spent is by imposing higher taxes." This approach would lead one to conclude not that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, but that the laws fixing current tax rates and creating various tax loopholes are. Thus, Professor Buchanan's argument still does not distinguish taxing from borrowing.
Here is another option: the Treasury could mint coins to cover all the nation's spending commitments. As Jack Balkin has pointed out, 31 U.S.C. § 5112(k) authorizes the Treasury to mint platinum coins in any denomination. Balkin suggests that the President could exercise this authority to mint a couple of trillion-dollar coins. By doing so, the President could put an end to the problem created when the Treasury's revenues are insufficient to meet its spending commitments, without violating any existing federal law. If we accept Balkin's interpretation of the relevant statutory provision, the central premise of Professor Buchanan's argument—that default is guaranteed to occur under extant statutes come August 3—isn't even true to begin with.
Of course, raising the debt ceiling might be a wiser move from a policy standpoint than simply printing more money or issuing new forms of currency. But this is not a constitutional distinction


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No New Year's resolutions around here. I really liked Xan's post the other day and I enjoyed reading Annie Rie's post Six at Sixty. I have accomplished many things over the past year and will continue to make my lists and continue to check items off those endless lists. I much prefer my to-do lists to resolutions.
Am I going to start a New Year's list? Heck no, my other lists are still way too long! There are times I feel like I have been sitting around and I wonder if I have accomplished anything, but when I start to think about the things I have done and the things I have accomplished I lighten up a bit. Not all things are huge and noticeable.
I am happy to have the opportunity to explore new things, plant more vegetables, walk next door to visit the neighbors, and be involved in some local community things. I am grateful for my husband and my family, and the time we have had together and the memories that go along with living our lives. I look forward to more exploring, more veggies in the back yard, more visits with the neighbors. I look forward to more memories and time spent with family (and friends.)
Tomorrow is a new day. I look forward to many new days in this New Year. I hope you do to.
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MONTREAL – Alimentation Couche-Tard founder Alain Bouchard, who transformed a small Quebec-based company into one of North America's largest convenience store chains, is turning to a senior member of his management team to guide the firm through the next stage of its growth.
Brian Hannasch, 47, an American who rose through the ranks to become chief operating officer after joining the company in 2001, will take over when Bouchard steps down as president and CEO at the company's annual meeting in September.
Bouchard plans to stay actively involved as executive chairman of the Laval, Que.,-based company, which operates Couche-Tard and Mac's stores in Canada but counts the United States as its largest source of revenue. It has also expanded into northern Europe and has thousands of stores operating under licence in Asia.
"I see this change as an evolution," Bouchard said during a conference call, adding that the board had sanctioned the change in leadership two years ago.
"It will let me invest more of my time in acquisitions and new industry opportunities and, trust me, there are many out there."
The 65-year-old entrepreneur, who last year made Forbes' ranking of billionaires, said his new role will also allow him to serve as mentor and coach to the next generation of company leaders, including his daughter, who joined the company last year and is treasurer.
"I must confess that I have the same sense of excitement about retail that I had when I founded this organization over 34 years ago. I look back upon the journey of those years with a tremendous sense of fulfilment and pride and today I still love what I do."
Unlike Pierre Karl Peladeau who resigned from management at Quebecor to enter politics, Bouchard said he never considered a similar move. Instead, he will continue to work daily at the company but by relinquishing management responsibilities it will allow him to "accelerate the process and find the right (acquisition) opportunities."
Hannasch, meanwhile, said he shares the same core approach as Bouchard.
"Like Alain, I share a very strong belief in the DNA of our company…and I can assure you there will be no sudden change in direction," he said.
Hannasch joined the organization as part of Couche-Tard's first step into U.S. territory when it bought the Bigfoot chain in the Midwest. He has been chief operating officer of the whole company since 2010. He has purchased a residence in Montreal and plans to move there from the United States.
Some shareholders raised concerns at last year's annual meeting when presentations and questions were answered only in English. The unilingual Hannasch said he hopes the company "can get past" those objections as he tries to learn French.
Bouchard downplayed the language issue, noting that English is the language of work outside Quebec.
"We have chosen the best candidate to manage a company that is in 21 countries."
Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD.B), which reports in U.S. currency, said Tuesday that its net profit increased 28 per cent to $182.3 million for the 16 weeks ended Feb. 2, largely due to the acquisition of Scandinavia-based Statoil Fuel & Retail.
Adjusting for one-time items, including a $10.4-million foreign currency gain, a $6.8-million impairment charge for a Poland lubricant plant and a gain from converting pension plans, Couche-Tard earned $175 million in adjusted earnings, up from $153 million a year earlier.
The adjusted diluted earnings were 92 cents per share, one cent short of analyst expectations, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters.
Revenues decreased 3.3 per cent to $11.1 billion, mainly due to the sale of its European Liquefied Petroleum Gas business in December 2012, currency translation, lower fuel prices in the U.S. and 13 fewer days of operations in the quarter in Europe.
Same-store merchandise revenues were up 3.8 per cent in the U.S. and 2.2 per cent in Canada as the company continued to roll out its enhanced offering of higher margin fresh food.
"I'm satisfied with the results of the third quarter, the outcome of our continuous efforts to improve our in-store offer to our clients and to generate traffic," Bouchard later told analysts during a conference call.
The company has approval for a three-for-one split of its class A multiple voting shares and class B subordinate voting shares, effective April 14. The split shares will trade beginning April 23.
Bouchard said the change is being made following the repeated request of retail investors, who have seen Couche-Tard's share price surge from less than C$20 at the time of the last two-for-one split in March 2005.
On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Couche-Tard's B shares closed up $1.79 or 2.11 per cent at C$86.70 on Tuesday.
"It's an answer to these guys (retail investors). I thought a lower priced share could attract them and invite them to invest more in our stock," Bouchard said.
Irene Nattel of RBC Capital Markets described Couche-Tard's results as "solid" while the stock split signalled management's confidence that the current share price and valuation should be sustainable.
The lack of detailed comments suggest that a large acquisition may not soon be in the cards, she wrote in a report.
Couche-Tard said it remains on track to generate $150 million to $200 million in cost savings by December 2015, despite recording just $64 million annualized before taxes since the acquisition.
The chain is one of North America's largest convenience store operators with 6,221 locations under the Couche-Tard, Mac's and Circle K brands. In Europe, Couche-Tard operates 2,263 Statoil Fuel & Retail stores across Scandinavia, Poland, the Baltics and Russia.
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Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address should all go at the top of your resume. Be sure to use a permanent address and telephone number. Also, remember to use an e-mail address that sounds professional. FirstnameLastname@ is the standard format for an e-mail address when using it on a resume. Do not use an e-mail address such as firstname.lastname@example.com. It just doesn't sound professional.
An objective lets college recruiters or potential employers know your main goal. If your target is a college recruiter, tailor your objective to that specific school. For example, your objective may be, "To earn a degree in Psychology at Boston College." If you want to get a part-time job, you will need to modify your objective to that particular job, such as "To obtain a part-time barista position with Starbucks."
In the education section, list the schools you have attended. Be sure to include your GPA if it is a 3.0 or higher. You can also mention any academic honors, awards, and/or recognitions that you have received. These can include honor roll recognitions, essay-writing awards, science competitions, etc.
The experience section should briefly give an overview of work experience that has taught you valuable skills. In this section, include: title of position, name of organization, location of work (town and state), dates of employment, and description of work responsibilities. Be sure to use action words to describe your job duties, such as sold, created, processed, etc. Since many high school students do not have a lot of work experience, you can also describe class projects in which you have learned important skills or even leave this section out all together and concentrate on the education/academics and additional information/extracurricular sections.
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Writes Amana Fontanella-Khan in XX, "Reproductive tourism in India is now a half-a-billion-dollar-a-year industry, with surrogacy services offered in 350 clinics across the country since it was legalized in 2002." It's a far cry from Baby Mama.
Surrogacy, in America, is normalized. No one blinked and eye when a surrogate gave birth to twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick; the inevitable class tensions were gently lampooned - and conveniently resolved - by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. And while nothing involving maternity can ever be treated with the rakish dash recent rom-coms have shown the sperm donor, more pop-cultural mainstreaming seems both inevitable and in some wise desirable, too.
Reproductive tourism in India has been booming in the last few years: clinics provide everything from in-vitro fertilization to surrogacy, with good medical care, in a conveniently anglophone environment. The reasons for India's popularity from the western customer's perspective are obvious: the cost of surrogacy is a fraction of that in the States, and the industry is largely unregulated. What's more, parents who might have a harder time finding a surrogate in this country - think same-sex couples - face fewer hurdles in India, where the fees can make the difference between poverty and relative economic stability. And, as a New York Times story reported in 2008, prospective parents like that the Indian surrogates are, in the words of one fertility doctor, "'free of vices like alcohol, smoking and drugs.'"
However, as is inevitable, with this lack of regulation - and this level of dependence on the resulting income - comes fallout. Writes Fontanella-Khan,
The surrogates, many of whom are cooped up in "surrogacy homes" away from their families for the duration of the pregnancy, are often in dire financial straits. One woman told a journalist that with a $4,000 debt and an alcoholic husband, she had first considered selling a kidney to get herself out of debt, but decided that the $ 7,000 surrogacy fee was the better option. In another disturbing case, an upper-class Indian woman hired a surrogate to carry her child and invited her to live in her home during the pregnancy. The client accused the surrogate mother of stealing and not only kicked her out of the house but coolly informed her that she didn't want her services anymore and that she should terminate the pregnancy. Surrogates get paid only on delivery of the baby, so this kind of situation is economically devastating for a surrogate. It can also severely compromise the ethical and religious beliefs of surrogates who may not wish to undergo an abortion.
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There's also an issue of local acceptance, particularly in rural areas from which many surrogates are drawn. Writing in Marie Claire, Abigail Haworth writes of one such young woman,
Vohra says she's not ashamed of being a surrogate, but most locals are very traditional and don't understand. "They think it's dirty - that immoral acts take place to get pregnant," she whispers, explaining their disbelief that she could conceive a child without having sex. "They'd shun my family if they knew." Vohra comes from a village 20 miles outside Anand, but she has temporarily moved to the town with her husband and two children, a 12-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son, to hide what she is doing. "We told our neighbors we were coming here for work, which is not strictly a lie."
Naturally, the "exploitation" question is a loaded one, calling into question as it does women's abilities to make their own decisions and gain a measure of financial empowerment. As one woman tells Marie Claire,
This is not exploitation. Crushing glass for 15 hours a day is exploitation. The baby's parents have given me a chance to make good marriages for my daughters. That's a big weight off my mind.
That said, as the XX article makes clear, there is no "choice" when that choice is not informed - and it's crucial both that women be made aware of the realities and risks of the process, and be protected by legislation. This may be closer to fruition: the issue of reproductive rights - and specifically an Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill - is on the parliamentary table.
And what of the dynamic between surrogate and mother? Is there a bond? Contact? Affection? Or are the cultural hurdles too high - and is this a deficit or a benefit for the average American mother? Certainly, a few lines in the Marie Claire story are telling. Says one surrogate - chosen in part because, like all women at the clinic, she's given birth before and is theoretically less likely to become attached to the baby, "It won't even have the same skin color as me, so it won't be hard to think of it as Jessica's." And indeed, "when they find an empty ward upstairs and sit on the beds to talk, the women struggle for words. It's as though they both realize the gap between their lives is so vast, there's simply no sensible place to begin." On the other hand, in the same story, we learn that "Five weeks before the baby was due, Karen flew to India and moved in with Mondal so they could go through the final weeks together. "Karen became like my sister," says Mondal." Karen sends her surrogate photos of her son weekly. In other words, it's case by case: much as is true anywhere. That there is far less question of the complex custody cases that sometimes arise in America might, arguably, facilitate the question on a practical level - even as it complicates the question of emotional obligation.
To suggest that surrogacy, in India or anywhere else, is "easy" is insulting to everyone involved. "Easier" is not saying much, and takes on only few of the most material facets of the process. The emotions, the power dynamic, the redefinition of roles - to say nothing of the reality of the child's experience - is complex the world over.
Surrogate Mothers: Womb for Rent [Marie Claire]
India, The Rent-A-Womb Capital Of The World [XX]
India Nurtures Business Of Surrogate Motherhood [NY Times]


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Djokovic, other stars face questions at US Open
Novak Djokovic sat in his sideline chair and winced while his right shoulder was massaged and manipulated by a trainer.
Moments later, Djokovic resumed hitting slower-than-usual serves, slapping weak forehands into the net and falling further behind against Andy Murray in his last tuneup match before the U.S. Open.
On the CBS broadcast, Mary Carillo asked announcing partner and former No. 1 Jim Courier whether seeing Djokovic struggle so much changed his view that the Serb should be seen as the favorite to win the year's last Grand Slam tournament, which starts Monday.
"Not even remotely," Courier replied. "Not a scratch on the surface."
Yes, given how great — nearly perfect, actually — Djokovic's 2011 has been so far, plenty of people still figure he's the man to beat at the U.S. Open. Even with that tired and bothersome shoulder that eventually led him to quit during the final of the Cincinnati Masters last weekend.
That went into the books as only Djokovic's second loss in 59 matches during a marvelous season that featured a 41-match winning streak and nine titles, including Wimbledon and the Australian Open.
"I mean, it's kind of expected. I've played so many matches this year. I mean, I've been winning, you know, a lot and reaching the final stages of each event," Djokovic said.
"Considering the schedule that is very busy in tennis, it's kind of normal to expect that at some stage you are exhausted."
Considering all the ailments and assorted other issues that have hampered so many top tennis players lately, it probably would be appropriate if Djokovic is somewhat less than 100 percent fit. Even if his assessment was: "I am confident that I can recover and be ready."
Run down a list of the sport's stars a day before Thursday's draw in New York, and most have been bothered by something:
— Rafael Nadal, the defending champion, has blisters on his left foot and tender fingers that he burned by touching a hot ceramic plate at a restaurant, of all things. Aside from that, there is his 0-5 record against Djokovic this year, all in finals, and upset losses at Montreal and Cincinnati.
— Roger Federer, who counts five U.S. Open titles among his record 16 Grand Slam trophies, also exited relatively early at those two key hard-court tuneup tournaments. Now he is facing the real possibility of ending his streak of winning at least one major championship eight years in a row. He also turned 30 on Aug. 8, and the last man to win a Grand Slam title after that milestone birthday was Andre Agassi at the 2003 Australian Open.
— Serena Williams cited swelling in her right big toe while pulling out of the Cincinnati hard-court tournament, a far-less-worrisome problem than Djokovic's. Williams — who leads active women with 13 Grand Slam singles titles, including three in New York — is a popular pick in the women's field, even though she's seeded only 28th after missing nearly a full year with a series of health scares.
— The top-seeded woman, Caroline Wozniacki, is apparently healthy, but she is dealing with inconsistent play, losing her first two summer hard-court matches, including one against 19-year-old Christina McHale of New Jersey.
Then again, at least they're all planning to play at Flushing Meadows.
Kim Clijsters, whose three U.S. Open titles include 2009 and 2010, pulled out of the tournament because of a stomach muscle injury. And 2001 champion Lleyton Hewitt withdrew, too.
At the Cincinnati Masters — where No. 2-ranked Nadal and No. 3 Federer both lost in the quarterfinals, before Djokovic bowed out in the final — No. 4 Murray was asked whether all of that might bode well for his chances for a first Grand Slam title in New York.
"I'm sure come the start of the U.S. Open next Monday, all of them will be fine," Murray said. "I think each one of them will be playing great tennis, much better than they have played here."