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Intelligence gathering is neither straightforward nor foolproof. The intelligence community's abject failure when it came to the matter of Iraq and WMDs illustrates that point rather effectively, as does the failure to anticipate the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, as well as the USSR's wild goose chase over Able Archer 83. When we think of the application of science to the intelligence gathering world, it's usually something like spy satellites or listening devices, but the US intelligence community needs to pay more heed to the world of the neurosciences, according to a new report from the National Research Council.
One of the major findings in "Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies" is that the intelligence community should invest in research for detecting and measuring psychological states via neurophysiological markers. It's no secret that polygraphs are almost worthless. Their analysis is highly subjective, and it's fairly simple to fool them. But advances in neuroscience, specifically neuroimaging, mean that a lie detector that actually works is much closer to reality. It's fairly obvious why this would be of interest to the intelligence community, but it's just a single example of developments in the neurosciences that are of potential interest.
Other key findings include the need to stay up-to-date with the state of new pharmacological developments, along with other neuroimaging advances, the potential growth in computer modeling of cognition, and distributed human-machine systems. The NRC recommends that the intelligence community pay particular attention to developments overseas. Although not explicitly stated by name, the implication is that China and India, referred to obliquely as "countries where software research and development is relatively inexpensive and where there exists a sizable workforce with the appropriate education and skills" may be in a position to advance past the US into technological superiority.
The report was commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, who are aware of emerging trends in neuroscience but lack the personnel to truly understand them. This lack of sufficiently trained people is highlighted in the report, which points out that the intelligence community needs to recruit more officers and analysts with advanced science backgrounds, and should expand collaborations and links with academia.
That last point could be a potentially provocative one. Last year, arguments over the complicity of psychologists in the torture of detainees by the US military and intelligence agencies reverberated through the American Psychological Association, and it doesn't take much imagination to think similar things could happen in the neuroscience community. Then there's the specter of programs such as the CIA's MK Ultra, which ran during the 1950s and 1960s, and attempted to use psychoactive drugs to induce mind control.
On the other hand, it's worth bearing in mind that the US has neither a monopoly on intelligence agencies nor neuroscience research, and it would do well to make sure it was aware of developments in competitor nations with national security implications. After all, that's why we have intelligence agencies! Whether all of this means more funding for researchers in neuroscience is not quite clear, but we saw a large spike in funding for biodefense following the anthrax mailings. Then again, with black budgets, perhaps we'll never know.


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Welcome Back, David Duval
I disagree with those who may want to place an asterisk by Glover's name for winning the bizarre, waterlogged U.S. Open at Bethpage Black. Lucas's long game was solid most of the week, he only had one three-putt green, and he handled the pressure better than more-experienced players have in the past.
I'll leave Phil for others, but his family vacation would be much more enjoyable if he had not bogeyed two of the last four holes. It was Lefty's fifth second-place finish at the U.S. Open.
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But I'd much rather discuss Mr. 764 in the world, one David Duval (at left). As I watched Duval coax in a birdie putt on the 16th hole to close to within one stroke of the lead, it occurred to me that he might pull off one of golf's greatest comebacks. A birdie and a par and the man who fell into golf's black hole eight years ago could actually hoist the Open's silver cup. It would be, dare I say, "unbelievable."
Duval's final round was a parallel of sorts for his desolate years in golf. Things went terribly wrong on the opening three holes, which included a bogey and triple bogey. It looked hopeless, but David refused to give up. He kept battling to the end, hitting solid shot after solid shot with his Nike golf clubs and holing pressure putts that reminded us why he was once the best golfer in the world.
Duval is a soft-spoken determined man with a healthy ego. Of course, I don't mean ego in the usual puffed-up sense. He has been completely humbled by this cruel game. Yet he still believes in himself and his ability. I'm not a quitter, he has said. That's a healthy place to be.
As Duval also said just the other day, there's not anything that can happen on the golf course or in a golf tournament that's likely to fluster him. He has experienced both the highs and the lows − the lowest of the lows − and he's still out there swinging and believing.
Today that belief almost won David Duval his first U.S. Open. It certainly won him the golf world's respect.
Duval File
Turned pro: 1993
Birthplace: Jacksonville, Florida
Residence: Denver, Colorado
World ranking: 764
PGA Tour wins: 13
Major wins: 1
Equipment: Nike
−The Armchair Golfer
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5 comments:
- Miranda said...
Are they (the media) starting that Asterisk thing again?! Let me guess - it's all because their precious Tiger didn't win and they need to make excuses to satisfy the sponsors who pay for the commercials. One of these days the media is just going to have to suck it up and realize that there are other golfers out there who might deserve to win tournaments. Today we saw several of them: Glover, Fisher, Mickelson, Duval, and for three days Ricky Barnes. If the Asterisk is used on this tournament record book, then it should stand for 'yes, Tiger was in the field' so Glover will get all of the respect he deserves for coming out on top.
- The Armchair Golfer said...
Miranda: I heard a mention of an asterisk on an NPR interview with New York Times golf writer Larry Dorman. The reason: Because the course was wet and the draw favored one half of the field early in the tournament. Dorman was asked if Glover's win might be considered less credible due to the above.
- Charles Boyer said...
Glover's victory is doubly credible because of the conditions that the tournament was played under. He overcame those conditions and prevailed, and deserved the trophy he hoisted yesterday.
Armchair, I agree completely with you about Duval. The man has been to the top, fallen to the bottom and has the courage to not only get back up and get back to work, but also to excel once more. That should be an inspiration to anyone.
Although it took a while, the final round wasn't too bad, except if you were cheering for Mick. This guy dazzles you with his brilliance & at the same time lets you down with his simple gaffes. All the experience he has & he comes up short on 17, & those 2 puts for par. Mick, you were tied for the LEAD!!!
That is why there is Tiger & the rest of "the field". Tiger's in position & he comes through. Mick is in positon & you just don't know.
If anyone says that his mind was elsewhere is copping out. When you are a pro athlete playing a competitive game, your mind is at the event, the moment. When it is all over does it change.
Mick needs a mental coach. There is no way that this guy should have only 3 majors, too much talent for that.
- GolfToImpress said...
I must admit DD looked close to his old self again. In fact he could be just as good as he was back in the day but the field is just a whole lot better now.
See what a few extra hot dogs and beers can do for your game?


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I'm a speaker, and this product is geared toward a tour of the country to put America back to work. With the success of the secret, I decided to go all the way back to the begining, to Napoleon Hill and start again, because along the way to where we are now we forgot about the hard work and commitment to excellence that are required for success! This product is all about putting action behind your motivation and setting achievable goals.
Prosperity minded people who attend success seminars. Must be luxurious looking to attract them. Everyone who bought the Secret is my audience.
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I have nothing against mass transit.
In fact, the reason we moved to rural Milton in the first place was because there was a GO Train out this way (well, Georgetown; my record for getting to the station in my old Mini was 11 minutes...), and we both had real jobs in The Big Smoke.
We couldn't afford any house we wanted to live in along either the east or west Lakeshore lines, and this was the only other Go Train at that time.
The commute wasn't all that bad; we were both teaching at the time, so we used the 50 minute train ride for marking, lesson planning, snoozing, etc.
It did mean considerably more planning than I (especially) was used to, although it was always a good way to get out of a meeting: "Oops, sorry, gotta go, my train leaves in fifteen minutes."
But eventually, the convenience and flexibility of the car won out. As Lee Iacocca once said, the company he worked for (Chrysler at the time) was a 'mass transit' company too. Like it or not, the automobile IS the mass transit system of choice for most North Americans.
Although every time I DO have to drive into or out of TBS any time near to rush hour (Rush HOUR singular? Hah...) I ask myself - how does anybody do this? Twice a day? Every day?
You gotta be nuts.
But is the Go Train and/or the TTC a genuine alternative?
Most people vote with their ignition keys.
The most recent issue is the up-coming fare increase for the TTC. My two TBS-dwelling daughters both use the TTC on a regular basis, but I overheard one of them chatting with a friend the other day about the essential problem - transit systems need to raise fares to get the money they need to build new facilities to attract more riders, but higher fares scare riders away.
And now they're into this token-hoarding issue - people buying up boatloads of tokens at the current price to save a few pennies when the fare increase takes place in the New Year.
They first imposed a ten-token limit on buying them from attendants in stations, later reduced to five, and a one-token limit from automated machines. How much is your time worth to make you stand in front of a machine for hours buying one token at a time?
But according to the TTC's web site, they have now stopped selling tokens altogether, saying that too many of the ten million tokens apparently in circulation are stashed under matresses somewhere in the GTA, and have replaced them with paper tickets which expire on Jan. 2. They had stopped printing paper tickets some years ago because computer printers were getting too good and they were too easy to counterfeit.
Here are a few suggestions:
- they should put flashing lights and rows of cherries on the token machines. Every one thousandth push (or so) of the button would spew out ten tokens. Give people white plastic buckets for their loonies, allow them to smoke, give them free drinks...
- borrow a technique from the gasoline industry - don't tell your customers you're going to raise the price! They show up Jan. 3, "Hey folks, thanks for dropping in, your tokens now cost ten percent more today."
- and this one from aforementioned daughter, 'zoned fares'. "I don't mind a three dollar ride to the airport," she just told me, "but a three-dollar three-block street car ride?" She of course is too young and too 'rural-Milton-raised' to remember when the TTC DID have zoned fares. She recognizes it would be more complicated to administer - that's probably why they stopped doing this too. There is a semi-zone system for buses heading north of Steeles Avenue; whether it would be practical to further subdivide the city into smaller zones now is, I suppose, a matter of debate and further study.
- go to an automated ticket system like most other urban transit systems seem to use. On a recent visit to Tokyo I was issued a paper ticket with a computer-readable bar code; these have a one-day lifespan so hoarding could never be an issue. You get scanned going in and out; if you paid less than the distance travelled you have to top it up. We do have the Metro pass system, which gives you unlimited access and is transferable. But you need to take more than 48 rides per month to make this worthwhile - you'd have to be a dedicated Red Rocketeer to make that viable. Our Day Pass - currently nine bucks - needs four rides to pay for itself, again, more than a simple commuter would need. I'm sure the TTC has looked into these systems, but of course they'd need money to implement them, and we're right back to where we started.
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Intimate Encounters: Decoding the Secrets of Body Language
by Jill Shuman, MS, RD, ELS
It is almost impossible for human beings not to communicate their innermost thoughts. In many cases, body language, eye contact, and sexual gestures are more effective than verbal communication. Learning to interpret body language can help you discern what people are really saying.
Body language reveals many of our most intimate feelings, whether we intend to confide them or not. From simple eye contact to a light touch on the leg, body gestures are a very direct form of communication. In a romantic relationship, reading the cues correctly is critical.
The Eyes Have It
Eye contact is the most effective nonverbal communication tool we use, so it's not surprising to find it's also the most common initial sexual advance. Eyes can reveal sparked interest, fantasy, or disinterest. We initiate eye contact every day, in places as disparate as the subway, the office, the supermarket, and the bedroom.
A simple, universal way to show someone that you are interested in them sexually is to make eye contact—by making eye contact you make it easier for him or her to respond to you. When speaking in person, look at him or her directly, not over a shoulder or down at the floor. To show your interest across a room, hold your glance longer than you would in an ordinary social situation. Do not overdo it though. Most people find anything more than intermittent eye contact (5 seconds out of every 30) uncomfortable or threatening and will probably look away. You can assume some mutual interest if they return your gaze steadily.
When your glance is recognized and welcomed, the recipient may move in a way that "opens up" the body, giving you more to look at. Perhaps he will stand sideways and push up his sleeves or lean back against the wall with his torso slightly pushed forward. Or she might place her hands in the back pockets of her jeans, or playfully push her hair back off her forehead.
Other encouraging responses include raised eyebrows, eyes that are wide open, or fluttering of the eyelashes. If you are looking at each other for longer and longer periods and moving closer in toward each other, that is a definite mating call. You can test this by moving slightly closer and noting whether the person moves closer in or draws further way.
If your initial contact is not welcome, the person you are looking at may try to shield themselves from your view or try to create a barrier between you. Hence, if the object of your attention suddenly disappears into the crowd or abruptly crosses her arms or legs, she is saying "you're going too fast for me", or "I am not interested right now."
Facial Expressions and Gestures
If your eyes are the windows to your soul, then your face is a billboard. Remember, you cannot always hide what you are thinking. It just may show up on your face. To send out a signal that you are interested in getting to know someone better, smile. Smiling sends the message that you find someone attractive and would like to initiate further conversation. Hand and head movements are also ways of encouraging people as you become interested in them. Turning your head and stepping in towards him sends the message that you would like to get closer. Gesturing her to sit down next to you or moving over to create some standing room indicates a willingness to pursue conversation. However, make sure you stand or sit a proper distance away—moving in too close too soon encroaches on personal boundaries and raises issues of proprietary space.
Finally, learning to use touch can step up the pace of any relationship. To offer positive encouragement during the early stages of a relationship, try touching her arm or hand while engaged in conversation. When coming up behind, put your hand on his shoulder in greeting. Keep it subtle, do not overstep the line between showing interest and being overly pushy. Remember, too, that skin-to-skin contact—touching a bare wrist, for example—is always more intimate than skin-to-clothing contact.
It Makes Sense
Our 5 senses can combine all the elements into one enticing package. Consider the involvement of everything around you and how it affects your attraction. From initial visual contact to watching a partner undress, sight is an important sexual stimulus.
Hearing soft music or the special intonations of your partner's voice can serve as a caress or even foreplay to sex itself.
Touching and holding can foster closeness and intimacy on their own.
The taste of good food and wine can put lovers in the mood by making them feel good and lowering their inhibitions. There is a definite correlation between eating and deriving emotional nourishment from your partner.
The "smell" of your lover's body mingled with perfume or other scent can act as a powerful stimulant. Is there any question, then, as to the aphrodisiac quality of a romantic dinner accompanied by soft music and followed by an evening of dancing cheek-to-cheek?
Because many people find it hard to converse verbally, body language can help them communicate. As you learn to interpret the various nuances of body language, you can learn to understand what people are really "saying".
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Nonverbal communication. Help Guide website. Available at: https://www.helpguide.org/articles/relationships-communication/nonverbal-communication.htm. Updated May 2017. Accessed October 17, 2017.
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Today we all know that Luigi is the taller of the two Mario brothers, but back in the old days the difference wasn't quite as easy to notice.
To think that Luigi was just a pair of red and blue overalls away from being the star of one of the greatest video game franchises of all time. It's enough to make you wanna murder your brother and stuff his body down a warp pipe.
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Holding court with residencies in some of the most iconic and historic locations Los Angeles has to offer, Tracy Phillips and Dominic Carbone's gritty cabaret-style show, Harlow Gold, has won a devoted cult following.
As high energy and unpredictable as it is intimate, this modern cabaret-style revue is an acrobatic, high-octane whirlwind that titillates as much as it inspires. Harlow Gold is 'not your average burlesque show', its intimate, in your face, cabaret that will have anyone feeling inspired by the end of the evening.
Picture a raunchy edgy love letter come to life and transform what was once an ordinary evening into a chamber of lust and high energy dancers that know how to 'work the room'. Using every square inch the 'Harlow Gold' dancers strut their stuff from the stage throughout the room to the bar tops and pipe lines. The ultimate exploration of the female form, Harlow Gold leaves the women in the audience as revved up as the men-and will have everyone wanting more. Full of attitude a night with the Harlow Gold ladies is a night dedicated to female beauty, creativity, and engaging the power of a woman.
From the stage to the screen, Phillips and Carbone's work—called "fearless" by the LA Times—has garnered such buzz in the entertainment industry they've become the leading choreography team for edginess and provocation. Hailing from Denver, this dynamic duo has a really impressive roster as to who they have worked with in the past. These two have been working together since high school and have made their stamp in Los Angeles. They have done tours for Hollywood's hottest stars such as: Rihanna, Brittney Spears, Ricky Martin, Spice Girls, and many more. "LA was lacking a highly produced show that was easily accessible, [so] we wanted to create our own ideas,' said Carbone, 'we wanted to do something that was interactive and have them feel like they were a part of something."
"Being the creators and choreographers of Harlow Gold has been very fulfilling,' says Phillips,' 'it's a bunch of characters that are really strong and committed to the show." When asked the main difference between an ordinary burlesque show and a performance at Harlow Gold, the team said, "The girls are so strong and powerful, with Harlow Gold, the women are the subject instead of the object,' says Phillips, 'with most burlesque shows the women is the object of desire."
Harlow Gold isn't just a performance it's an experience. The girls are so relatable as they cast so many different types of women and not just the 'cookie-cutter type.' It makes women feel sexy and men like it because it is fun and interactive. Simply put, Harlow Gold, is 'unexpected', it is going to be totally different and unlike anything you have ever seen before.
Harlow Gold performs weekly shows in Los Angeles- check out the website for details: www.harlowgoldshow.com
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UM's administration, institutional support expenses 21 percent lower than national average of U.S. public doctoral universities
In a report to the board of curators scheduled for Feb. 2, university officials will describe nearly $132 million in administrative efficiencies and operating effectiveness measures realized by the University of Missouri System in 2011. Since 2009, these measures have accounted for about $222 million that the university has used to optimize its core mission of teaching students.
"We have been steadfast in our commitment to be responsible stewards of university assets and resources," said Nikki Krawitz, vice president of finance and administration. "We have been doing more with less for years, with the ultimate beneficiaries being our students and the citizens of our state."
The University of Missouri's institutional support expenditures—which include general administrative services, executive management, legal and fiscal operations, public relations, development, and central operations for the physical plant—were 21 percent less than the national average of public doctoral universities. In addition, while institutional support expenditures nationally declined 4 percent from 2008 to 2010, the University's expenditures declined by 9 percent.
This data is based on an analysis of national statistics collected by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
As part of keeping institutional support expenditures low, the university saved approximately $75.2 million last year by reducing, eliminating and deferring costs, including savings from competitive contracting and other procurement activities; operating expense reductions from business process redesign; more efficient use of technology; cuts in services; energy conservation; and workforce reductions.
Revenue enhancements contributed $53 million of the $132 million total and came primarily from net tuition and fees, a new administrative fee on gifts and endowments, indirect costs related to grants and contracts, entrepreneurial activities such as research parks and incubators, and other miscellaneous income.
These cost-savings and revenue generators have directly benefited students in particular, Krawitz said. Tuition at the University of Missouri System's four campuses is less than the national public doctoral university average and significantly below the national private doctoral university average.
"We continue to be a great value for students and their families," Krawitz said. "As the state's land-grant, public research institution, we provide students access to a quality education surrounded by top-notch professors and world-class research."
Krawitz noted that these efficiencies have been realized even as the university has added more than 17,000 students in the past decade and increased institutional financial aid by about 80 percent. These increases, when coupled with state support that is less than it was in 2001, mean the university is currently educating nearly 40 percent more students with a quarter fewer resources. It also has foregone facility maintenance and repair to meet growing challenges, now resulting in a backlog of approximately $1.27 billion.
At the same time the university has increased its efficiencies, Krawitz said it also has focused on its effectiveness. It has increased student access and enrollment while improving degree completion and graduation rates.
In addition, the university now garners $398 million in sponsored research funding a year; provides more than $60 million annually in unreimbursed health care; offers a broad scope of Extension services, including free disaster relief; and creates more new jobs through economic development.
"There is no question we are doing much, much more with less," Krawitz said. "But after more than a decade of carefully managing and reducing our costs, we're at a point where most of those significant savings opportunities and cost avoidances are few and far between. With the current proposed state funding reductions, we will need to make much more difficult decisions on personnel, which is our largest budget line, to ensure we maintain our ability to provide a quality education."
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Barnes and Noble has scheduled a press event for Monday, November 7 in New York, where several outlets are speculating the next iteration of the Nook Color will be released. The device, reportedly named the Nook Tablet, is aimed directly at the wallets of consumers who might have been intrigued by the Kindle Fire a few weeks ago.
First, the name: A few outlets have reported the Nook Color's successor will be known as the Nook Color 2, but a number of pages from what look to be internal documents posted by SlashGear indicate it will, in fact, be named the Nook Tablet. Amazon hasn't even used the word "tablet" in conjunction with its Kindle Fire, though many news outlets have. It feels like B&N is embracing what we really wanted the Nook Color to be all along.
According to those same internal documents, the device will come with 16GB of storage and include an SD card slot that can take up to an additional 32GB, while the Kindle Fire has only 8GB of storage and no expansion slot. The Nook Tablet will also have twice the Kindle Fire's memory, with 1GB of RAM.
The documents posted list a weight of 14.1 ounces, undercutting the Kindle Fire's weight by half an ounce. But the Kindle Fire is a hair thinner, at 0.45 inches to the Nook Tablet's 0.48 inches. Software-wise, the modified Android OS will feature access to Hulu Plus, Netflix, Rhapsody, MOG, and Grooveshark.
TechCrunch and Boy Genius Report say that the Nook Tablet's screen will still measure 7 inches and will be a VividView IPS Touch display that is "sharper than the iPad," according to internal docs (BGR says the display has a resolution of 1024x600). The tablet is slated to have a TI OMAP 4 1.2GHz dual-core processor, slightly faster than the Kindle Fire's dual-core 1GHz processor, and may be WiFi-only.
The Nook Tablet documents take a few digs at Amazon's Silk browser, noting that the Nook Tablet's Web browser "isn't monitored" and so there are "no privacy concerns." The docs also tout B&N's e-book count of over 2 million, and Amazon's at over 1 million.
Battery life is the only spec where the Kindle Fire burns the Nook Tablet: Amazon's device is advertised to have eight hours of reading and 7.5 hours of video playback with WiFi off, while B&N's gets eight hours of some indiscriminately undemanding activity, but only four hours of video playback with WiFi off. These figures also don't fill in the whole picture, given that both devices place a lot of value on their video streaming services (Amazon Instant Video for Kindle Fire, Netflix and Hulu Plus for Nook Tablet), which require WiFi to be on.
While the Nook Tablet is beefier than the Kindle Fire in just about every way, its reported price is too: $249, $50 more than the Kindle Fire. Engadget reports that B&N will open up preorders on November 7, and the actual release will take place November 16, one day after the Kindle Fire drops.
Ars will be present and accounted for at the November 7 Barnes and Noble event next week, ready to report on all device-related news. In this battle of devices and ecosystems, where will your loyalties lie?


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How farm subsidy checks end up in big cities
City Slickers: Appendix 1. Background on Federal Farm Subsidy Programs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is required to provide assistance to 20 specified agricultural commodities, to achieve three primary objectives: to support prices, supplement incomes, and manage supplies. Supporters contend that financial help to the farm sector also ensures consumers an abundant supply of reasonably priced food. But critics believe that basic U.S. farm policies, conceived in the 1930s, no longer meet the needs of modern agriculture or society as a whole.
Commodities Supported
Current Law requires the Secretary of Agriculture to support the following commodities: cotton, rice, wheat, peanuts, milk, tobacco, feed grains (corn, barley, oats, sorghum, rye), soybeans and other oilseeds (sunflower seed, canola, rapeseed, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed), and sugar (sugarcane and sugar beets).
Type and Extent of Support
Congress has devised a variety of techniques, some dating to the 1930s, for the CCC to assist producers. Generally, each was designed to achieve one of three broad policy objectives:
- To support farm prices of designated commodities. The methods for achieving this goal have included nonrecourse loans, commodity purchases, and farmer-owned grain reserves;
- To supplement incomes of those who produce them. Methods have included deficiency payments (based on target prices), incentive payments, marketing loans, loan deficiency payments, and disaster payments;
- To manage supplies of particular commodities. Methods have included acreage reduction programs, paid acreage diversions, acreage allotments, marketing quotas, milk diversion and dairy termination programs, and production and marketing assessments.
Which techniques are used, the levels of aid they provide, and impacts on taxpayers, consumers, and/or other producers, differ among the commodities. Some products are supported by only one program tool; others receive their support through a combination of methods.
Wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice producers have access to the most extensive set of program tools. Not coincidentally, these crops represented nearly $100 billion, or about 70 percent, of the approximately $142 billion in total CCC program outlays between fiscal years 1983 and 1992. Each year, USDA announces a program" for each of these crops. If farmers choose to enroll, they agree to abide by certain planting and other requirements in exchange for a variety of potential benefits. The enrollment usually takes place by early spring, prior to planting time, at county offices.
One primary benefit for wheat and feed grains producers is a CCC nonrecourse loan at harvest time. To qualify, a farmer pledges his crop as collateral and agrees to store it, usually for 9 months; he can later choose either to repay the loan or to forfeit his crop to the CCC to satisfy repayment. The loan is based on a per-bushel (or per-pound) rate; it serves as the lowest price a participating farmer will have to take for his crop. In some years, wheat and feed grains producers are permitted to, in effect, extend their loans by keeping their crops in longer storage under the farmer-owned reserve program.
Rice and cotton program participants have been using a variation of the nonrecourse loan known as the marketing loan, which requires them to repay their original CCC loan but permits redemption at less than the original rate of borrowing. The producer essentially pockets the difference as a subsidy.
Wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice program participants also may benefit from deficiency payments, income supplements that are based upon a per-bushel (or per-pound) "target" price set by Congress for each crop. The subsidy is the difference between: (1) the average market price or CCC loan rate for the crop, whichever is higher and (2) the target price (which is set above the CCC loan rate).
In exchange for CCC loans and payments, enrolled producers must agree to participate in any acreage reduction program (ARP) announced for that year's crop. An ARP requires them to remove a designated percentage of their land from production and to devote it to conserving uses. One reason the Government uses the ARP feature is to limit potentially large, price-depressing surpluses. In some years, the ARP may be supplemented by a paid acreage diversion--either voluntary or as a further condition of eligibility--that offers an added financial incentive to take even more acres out of production
Legislative Authority
Some standing authority for CCC programs is provided by three permanent laws: the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (P.L. 75-430), the Agricultural Act of 1949 (P.L. 81-439), and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of 1948 (P.L. 80-806). However, while the programs retain many of the features of these laws, Congress has frequently altered them, usually through omnibus, multi-year farm bills. The most recent omnibus farm law, which is now guiding program operations through 1995, is the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-624). The programs also must meet certain cost-saving requirements outlined in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Acts of 1990 and 1993 (P.L. 101-508 and P.L. 103-66, respectively).
USDA's Land Conservation Programs
The following section was prepared by the Environmental Working Group
In addition to Federal commodity support programs, the USDA administers a number of conservation programs that provide direct payments to farmers for a variety of land retirement, management and conservation treatment activities.
The lion's share of federal land conservation spending has come through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) which transfers nearly $1.8 billion per year in the form of annual rental payments to farmers who have taken marginal lands out of production, planting them to grass or trees. By the time all 375,000 existing CRP contracts expire, the program will have paid over $19 billion to farmers. Over half of those payments, which began in 1986, had been made by the end of 1994. In addition, USDA provides roughly $200 million annually in cost-share funds to producers for conservation improvements on their land. These cost-share programs include the Agricultural Conservation Program (ACP), the Forestry Incentives Program (FIP), the Water Quality Incentives Program (WQIP) and others. Payments for these and other programs are captured in the database used to prepare City Slickers.
Disaster Programs
In most years for which this study presents data, USDA made substantial payments to farmers for a wide range of disasters. So-called ad hoc disaster bills funneled billions of dollars in payments to farmers for damages incurred from floods, droughts, hurricanes, hail, early frost, and other natural calamities. In 1994, ad hoc disaster assistance was in theory replaced by comprehensive federal crop insurance. All disaster payments made to farmers through ASCS between 1985 and 1994 are captured in the database used to prepare City Slickers.


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Since my project is music only, I vote to post ahead of the TV work being done. Here is a taste of my splash screen that I have been working on. It was inspired by your this thread but I am not much of an artist.....I need to get more inspriation....or "borrow" some real art.
I took some heat for the pinup girl sitting on the radio....


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I rarely go political. I'm going to do so today, against my better judgment.
Illegal Immigration is justified Civil Disobedience on a massive scale.
A few points:
1. I refuse to use PC terms like "undocumented worker" or simply "migrant" (or "immigrant"); that robs it if the true power of what is happening. Yes – it's illegal – and that's the whole point. Civil Disobedience isn't really civil disobedience if it isn't breaking a law.
2. Opposition and a desire to enforce the borders is not, in my mind, usually racist. It's a disagreement. Some people value keeping the law, and while I disagree in this one instance, I despise the constant accusations of racism that occur when this debate happens. Yes, there is racism, and I've seen it (I have relatives who hate Mexicans merely because of their darker skin and different language), but the accusation of racism is too casually thrown about.
3. Read this article (warning – some bad language) which only scratches the surface of what is wrong with current immigration law. I am not necessarily a totally 100% open border advocate, but our current immigration laws and policies are evil and deserve to be ignored.
I think that's good for now. We'll see what the rest of all y'all have to say.


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Find out how our Switched on Computing courses help meet the new Ofsted requirements with this set of FAQs put together by Switched on Computing author Miles Berry and Havering Computing experts Amanda Jackson and Dave Smith.
You are using the laptops to create a newspaper article on the amazon. One of the students in the class is searching for images of wildlife and the image search returns an image that is graphic in nature. The child tells you immediately. What do you do next? In this article, guest blogger Ben Cornford explains his 3-step e-safety model.
One of the hardest challenges faced by coordinators is getting staff (and pupil) buy-in to new curriculum changes. Guest blogger, Sarah Brown from Wilbraham Primary School in Manchester, shares some of her experiences regarding implementing the new computing curriculum which will hopefully give you some ideas to use in your approach.
Assessment is huge. We frantically scrabble from one assessment point to the next, hoping and praying that our pupils have made progress. Often asking ourselves how we managed to survive the onslaught of pink and green pens and whether we have given the children enough time to reflect and respond to our marking. We all know that marking and feedback has a massive impact on progress, but often balancing this with the number of other tasks we need to complete is mind-blowing. And there's more – we must assess Computing too. Please keep reading though... Guest blogger, Ben Cornford gives us his 3 step guide to assessing computing.
Ben Cornford, ICT & E-Learning Advisor at Thomas A Becket Junior School, West Sussex shares how their pupils have been using different computing programs to help with their history projects.
Do your staff understand how the internet is different to the world wide web? Do they have an understanding of HTML? Do they really know what an algorithm is? Guest blogger, Ben Cornford, outlines four key steps you can take to get your staff up to speed on Computing.
This month, Sarah Brown from Wilbraham Primary School in Manchester, has shared with us the Switched on Computing work her Year 6 pupils have been doing. They have been planning an app using Mozilla Appmaker for Unit 6.1 'We are app planners'.
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Tuesday 9th February is Safer Internet Day! Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations get involved to help promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Have a look at some of the resources available on the UK Safter internet centre and the list of tools and advice available from Switched on Computing.


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The presidential election comes Tuesday to Terrebonne, Lafourche and the rest of Louisiana.
The presidential election comes Tuesday to Terrebonne, Lafourche and the rest of Louisiana.
Early voting starts then and continues through Oct. 30 at local registrar's offices.
Voters who were registered by Oct. 9 are eligible to cast ballots either during early voting or at the polls on Nov. 6.
Registrars in both parishes will be open for early voting from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. In Terrebonne, the office is on the first floor of the parish Courthouse Annex Building at Goode and School streets in Houma. Lafourche has two offices: one at 307 W. Fourth St. in Thibodaux, the other at the south Lafourche library, 16241 E. Main St., Suite B23, in Galliano.
We're not going to lecture you on why it's important to vote. You should already know this stuff; it's one of the rights and responsibilities good citizens exercise.
Here are a few things to help the process go smoothly for you:
n If you're not sure where you vote, visit the Secretary of State's website, www.geauxvote.com, and type in your address. It will list your polling place and its address. This also will be useful to determine your congressional district, which has changed for everyone locally since the last time you elected a congressman. Residents of northern Terrebonne and Lafourche now live in the 6th Congressional District. Residents of southern Terrebonne and Lafourche live in the 1st District. The website also includes a sample of everything that will appear on the ballot when you walk into the voting booth.
n The Courier and Daily Comet will publish sample ballots in Monday's newspapers and will post copies online. Many people use these to study the issues. Some cut out these ballots or use them to draw-up a checklist they take into the voting booth or to early voting. This will help you vote quickly — you're only allowed three minutes — and ensure you cast votes the way you intend.
n Both newspapers have published numerous stories about issues and races on the ballot and will continue to do so into this week. You can find a collection of those stories in our voter resource center at houmatoday.com and dailycomet.com. Just click the button on the home page. You'll also find links to helpful resources such as the Public Affairs Research Council's user-friendly "Guide to the Constitutional Amendments." The printable guide is one of the best ways to decipher the amendments, and it includes a handy checklist you can clip out and bring with you to the polls. For older stories, type the word "election" into the search engine at the top of either home page.
Our message today is simple: Do your homework and vote.
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For her husband's birthday, pastry sculptor Vivian made him cupcakes depicting the entire crew of Firefly. The little details — like Jayne's hat and Wash's dinosaur — make all the difference here. You can see close-ups at her blog.
And for more edible Whedonverse, see the gingerbread Serenity.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Now Playing: God Of The Wires
8 comments:
- bean said...
Totally digging this with the morning coffee. That boy is talented!
I would buy his cds.
- September 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- Jay's Shadow said...
Good Stuff....
- September 27, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- Jay's Shadow said...
and a great picture too....
- September 27, 2011 at 8:00 AM
- crudedoodle.com said...
this is so beautiful and, to use a John Gardner word, thestral.
- September 27, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Marrow said...
Hell yeah. I'd buy a CD.
I read once that you wanted to do a collaborative thing: selling Haunt Theory with a Jon Glassett CD as a free extra. THAT would be awesome.
So, when can we expect a Haunt Theory release date?
- September 28, 2011 at 12:25 AM
- Rot said...
I keep putting HT at the bottom of the pile of projects. : )
- September 28, 2011 at 6:15 AM
- Jon said...
Thanks for the nice comments, everyone. It means a lot.
Rot, thanks to you for sharing my little ditty. Sorry for creating a monster (har) with the whole Haunt Theory thing, even though I still think you should do it and I would totally buy it. No pressure.
And a gorgeous photo, as always, Miss Bean. Perfectly chosen.
- September 28, 2011 at 10:10 PM
- The Gill-Man said...
Another excellent entry from Mr. Glassett (and, if I haven't thanked you before for hipping me to his stuff, Rot, well....BIG thanks)!
Add me to the chorus of voices of folks that would plunk down change for a CD. I've compiled the 8 tracks that are available on his site onto my iPod, and frequently listen to them when I go on walks at night. I've found these tracks to be extremely inspirational for my stories.
- September 29, 2011 at 11:19 AM


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A hydrogen gas tube automatically drops into the gas lamp socket on the left of the screen. The spectrum appears at the top right of the screen.Four of the spectral lines are in the visible spectrum and are colored accordingly. The infra red lines and ultra violet lines appear grey.
Create the energy levels on the energy graph on the right by clicking the "Add Energy Level" button. Change individual energy values by clicking and dragging the level with the mouse from the left of the vertical scale.
Click on an energy level to the right of the vertical scale. With the mouse clicked drag a transition line to any other lower energy level. Release the mouse button only when the lower energy level turns green and a spectral line appears in the trial spectrum just below the real spectrum of the gas. Releasing the mouse button midway causes the energy level to disappear.
Manipulate the energy levels as explained in STEP 2. Add more levels and/or transitions until the trial spectrum matches the real spectrum above.
On the right of the screen directly under the simulated (lower) spectrum window is the zoom scale. The yellow rectangle surronding the scale can be resized allowing you to view parts of the spectrum in more detail. Using your mouse click and drag either the left or right sides of the yellow rectangle to resize the spectrum. The resized spectrum scale will appear in both the real (top) and simulated (lower) spectrum windows.
It is possible to delete an individual energy level or transition. Select the specific energy level or transition by pointing and clicking your mouse curser on the specific energy level or transition arrow. An orange rectangle will then appear around the selected object. Press the Delete key on your key board and the selected object will disappear from the energy level graph. Please note that if you delete an energy level, any transistion to or from that level will also be deleted. You can delete all of the energy levels and transitions from the energy graph by clicking the "Clear All" button.Direct comments to: Chandima Cumaranatunge (programming aspects); Sanjay Rebello (physics content).


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ALLIANCE, Ohio — Junior running back Jeremy Murray (Martins Ferry/Martins Ferry) rushed for 152 yards and two touchdowns, and the Mount Union defense held Wabash to 194 total yards, as the No. 2-ranked Purple Raiders defeated the No. 9 Little Giants, 20-8, in a NCAA Division III football national quarterfinal game at Mount Union Stadium on Saturday.
The Purple Raiders (13-0) advanced to the national semifinals of the NCAA tournament for the 17th consecutive season. Mount Union will play host to No. 7-ranked Wesley (Del.) (12-1) at a time to be determined on Dec. 10.
Wabash, champions of the North Coast Athletic Conference, finishes with a 12-1 record.
The Little Giants were averaging 171.8 yards per game rushing, but Mount Union allowed just 31 yards on the ground on Saturday.
"I would say this was our best game of the year, defensively," said Mount Union coach Larry Kehres. "This late in the season you're facing some outstanding teams, and I thought we played exceptional on defense."
The defense was led by junior defensive back Nick Driskill (Wabash, Ind./Southwood), who blocked a punt, recovered a fumble, had a quarterback sack and forced a fumble.
"We're definitely happy to get to [the national semifinals]," said Driskill, "but our ultimate goal is the final game [the Stagg Bowl on Dec. 16]."
Murray's biggest play of the game was a 46-yard run that got the Purple Raiders out from the shadow of their own goal line, and set up his 17-yard touchdown run a few plays later that put Mount Union ahead 7-0.
"The linemen all blocked well, and the hole just opened up," said Murray of his big run.
The Purple Raiders broke a scoreless tie on their third possession of the game, driving 82 yards in nine plays. Murray, whose 46-yard run got Mount Union out to its own 48, rushed five times for 75 yards on the drive, including the final 17 to the end zone, with 1:13 remaining in the opening period. Senior kicker Tyler Almeida (Elyria/Elyria) added the extra point to give the Purple Raiders a 7-0 lead.
Wabash was forced to punt, and Driskill blocked the kick, setting up Mount Union at the Little Giants' 11. The Purple Raiders couldn't get a first down, however, and Almeida booted a 22-yard field goal to make it 10-0 with 10:59 remaining in the first half.
Mount Union extended its lead to 17-0 on a five-play, 47-yard drive late in the second quarter. Murray, again, was the key man on the possession, carrying the ball four times for 30 yards, including a scoring run of 1 yard with 1:11 left in the half. Almeida added the extra point.
The Purple Raiders extended their lead to 20-0 on a 33-yard field goal by Almeida with 13:18 remaining in the third quarter.
Wabash scored its points in the fourth quarter when the Purple Raiders took an intentional safety with 6:59 remaining, and when quarterback Chase Belton ran into the end zone from 4 yards out with 4:31 to go. The two-point conversion failed. Mount Union recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock.
"We played poorly in the first half," said Wabash head coach Erik Raeburn, a 1991 Mount Union and nephew of Larry Kehres, "and just dug ourselves too deep of a hole."
The Purple Raiders finished with 236 total yards, including 136 on the ground. Junior quarterback Matt Piloto (Rotonda West, Fla./Lemon Bay) was 6-of-8 for 40 yards on the Purple Raiders' first series before leaving the game. Junior Neal Seaman (Louisville/Louisville) was 6-of-10 for 36 yards, and freshman Kevin Burke (Westlake/St. Edward) was 2-of-4 for 24 yards.
Junior wide receiver Jasper Collins (Geneva, N.Y./Geneva) caught eight passes for 61 yards.
Defensively, Mount Union junior defensive back Isaiah Scott (Hamilton/Fairfield) had eight tackles and two pass breakups. Junior defensive back Alex Nicholls (Galion/Galion) had an interception.


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Tuesday, 8 December 2009
no decline to 'hide'
Let's get a couple of things straight right at the start:
* The only place he says he 'hid' a 'decline' is in that specific graph
* The 'decline' is in a small number of tree-ring proxy indicators
* What he uses to 'hide' this is the 'real temps' - from tens of thousands of thermometers
* There is no decline to 'hide' in the 'real temps' over the past 50 years; these show a sharp increase
* The real temps are far, far more reliable data than the small number of tree ring proxies
* The proxies are indirect indicators, subject to confounding factors like wet vs. dry, recent air pollution and acid rain
* That problem with the tree rings has not been 'hidden' from the public; it is covered extensively by scientists as the 'divergence problem'
* That problem is a single, small wrinkle against an enormous, huge mass of other data showing warming, using direct measurement with thermometers at over 10,000 sites worldwide that show very clear and unprecedented warming in the last 50 years.
* When we want to look at the past 1000 years, we need to use the indirect proxy data from tree rings (and other proxies like corals, stalactites, boreholes, etc.)
* To compare these two types of data on one graph, the scientists found the best alignment in the period where they overlap (since about 1850)
* In the most recent 50 years, the tree ring series diverge from all the others, and this is the only thing that Prof. Briffa chose to 'hide' in combining the graphs.
To sum up, the 'real temps' for the past 50 years don't have any 'decline' to 'hide'; it's simply outrageous that the data thieves are free to spin a worldwide conspiracy from this one unfortunate combination of words in one email, as if 'trick' + 'hide' = 'everything in the IPCC is a fraud!'?
Now once again we're being treated to 'balance as bias' on CNN as Campbell Brown runs a week-long series 'Global Warming: Trick or Truth?' They're putting anti-science politicos from American Enterprise Institute up against top scientists as if they were comparable. Marc Morano, Stephen McIntrye and their ilk are getting national TV time for their scurrilous, slanderous insinuations that one spinnable email means we can just toss decades of research drawing on tens of thousands of data sources.
I looked on the CNN website and they allowed comments on 'Trick or Truth' but the comments are closed already. The real-time user comments that ran live at the bottom of the screen were really weak; I'll have to see if I can post something better as the show continues.
When I look at Marc Morano on national TV, all I can say is: the world is freakin' crazy. The one thing that looks hopeful right now is that the Copenhagen meetings actual sound like they have some momentum toward a deal, and that the Saudi delegation may be isolated in their oil-soaked protests that they want a total do-over of the past 20 years of climate research based on two phrases in the stolen CRU emails.
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I watched it too. After an introductory comment that the evidence for global warming from mankind's greenhouse gas emissions is overwhelming Campbell Brown asked Michael Oppenheimer "What is the most persuasive piece of evidence..." He did not answer this question. It is undeniable that anthropogenic CO2 has been rising as global population rises. It seems clear (from CRU's charts) that "rapid" warming has taken place (e.g. 1910-1940, 0.5°C, ~30 ppm CO2, although it then leveled off for 40 years to around 1980 ). So, what IS the answer to Campbell's question? I cannot find it anywhere. What is most persuasive?
- Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at 09:26:00 GMT-5
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Hi Broadlands.
Thanks for visiting and sorry I've been to tied up to respond. I agree Dr. Oppenheimer didn't have a single simple response. I don't know that I could have done better in his shoes. There are a wide range of different lines of evidence. They all tie in together to make the case. Which one should I pick out as "most persuasive?" Robins in the Arctic? The fact that 95% of glaciers are retreating? The tight correlation of CO2 and proxy temperature, up and down, over and over, throughout the 800,000 year ice core record. The ice core record is the most *striking* data source; we're incredibly lucky to have access to these, and to have had people like Lonnie Thompson work out how to draw so much data from them.
In fact, I wonder if that's really the right question? Why should we have to pick one piece of evidence out of a whole array? It's like asking which soldier won the battle - answer: all of them together.
- Tuesday, 15 December 2009 at 22:19:00 GMT-5
Birds in the Arctic? Glaciers melting? None of this type of answer connects the man-made rise in CO2 with temperature. These observations infer the connection, as was done in reverse in the 70s. Dr. Oppenheimer answered: "The geographic pattern of warming over the past 150 years matches computer simulations of what the warming should have been, given the buildup of greenhouse gases." What all this really boils down to are simulations based on some numbers (now suspect?) "massaged" with terms called homogeneity adjustments and elimination of outliers, plus disputed climate sensitivity parameters, to produce the "most likely" result. Yet, about 33.5 Myr ago pCO2 was between 450 and 1500 ppmv and ice-sheets were not only present but forming. See: Nature 461, 1110-1113 (22 October 2009). Excerpts: "Geological and geochemical evidence indicates that the Antarctic ice sheet formed during the Eocene–Oligocene transition, 33.5–34.0 million years ago. During maximum ice-sheet growth pCO2 (atm) was between 450 and 1,500 p.p.m.v., with a central estimate of 760 p.p.m.v." No anthropogenic CO2 was involved. During the so-called medieval warm period "...two centuries of warm conditions had caused significant sea level rises." An extended sea level rise is a global phenomenon. It rises elsewhere, not just northern Europe, and the rise accompanies ice-cap melting. Again, no anthropogenic CO2 involved. Bottom line question: Do we really want to micromanage the Earth's climate (at great cost) based on what even the IPCC says (p. 40) is just "very likely" but which they admit is based on a few model simulations with limitations and gaps and a limited number of system analyses? Thankfully, we didn't do that back in the early 70s. "Very likely" based on computer models doesn't cut it.
- Friday, 18 December 2009 at 14:27:00 GMT-5


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Porter likes having Grossman, Altuve atop lineup
BOSTON -- The top of the Astros' lineup has looked different over the last couple of games with rookie Robbie Grossman in the leadoff spot in place of Jose Altuve, who was moved to the No. 2 spot in the batting order beginning Wednesday.
Grossman, who made his Major League debut Wednesday, has had a high on-base percentage throughout the Minor Leagues, which would be ideal in the leadoff spot for the Astros if he can continue to do that at the Major League level.
"It changes the dynamics, because you always want to have guys at the top of the lineup that get on base," manager Bo Porter said. "Grossman did a great job at Spring Training. Every time we put him in a game, positive things happened. He's a guy who's led off his whole career, and to have him and Altuve at the top of the lineup, getting on base for the middle of the lineup, it gives us a greater opportunity to score runs."
When asked if second was the ideal spot for a contact hitter like Altuve, Porter said: "I would love to hit Altuve one through nine, but I don't think the other team will let me."
Grossman was a career .267 hitter with a .379 on-base percentage in 511 career Minor League games, while Altuve entered Thursday tied for first in the American League with 30 hits.
"If we can find someone to hit in the one hole who's going to get on base and you have a couple of guys at the bottom of the lineup who can put the ball in play consistently, now we have three guys that can get on base in front of Altuve, who's not just one of the better hitters in our league but one of the best hitters in the game," Porter said. "The more guys you get on base in front of him, it creates chances to score runs."


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People with one or more
close relatives who have or had early
coronary artery disease (CAD) are at an increased risk
for CAD. For men, early CAD is being diagnosed before age 55. For women, early CAD is being diagnosed before 65.1
A tendency to develop certain risk
factors, such as
high cholesterol and
high blood pressure, may be related to specific
genes. Genes are passed on from parent to child and
are like the blueprints of the body. They are a code that determines how our
bodies are made and how they function.
lipid disorders can contribute to
atherosclerosis and may lead to early CAD. Although
family-related behaviors also contribute to the risk of developing CAD,
researchers are still working to understand exactly why CAD runs in families.
Behavior or genetics?
addition to inherited factors, there is probably a large environmental
component to the increased risk seen in some families. People who smoke expose
their family members to
secondhand smoke, increasing the risk of heart disease
in their family members. Children of parents who smoke are more likely to smoke
than children of nonsmokers. Dietary habits may also play a role. Families who
eat fatty diets are more likely to develop CAD than those who eat more balanced
Addressing each of these family-related behaviors may
greatly reduce your chance of developing CAD.
CitationsGreenland P, et al. (2010). 2010 ACCF/AHA guideline for assessment of cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic adults: A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 56(25): e50–e103.
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Ca. counties sue Big Pharma over opioid marketing
Two California counties have launched a lawsuit accusing five major pharmaceutical companies of obscuring the addictive effects of OxyContin, Percocet and other powerful opioid painkillers while reaping billions of dollars in profits from the drugs. The companies deceived tens of millions of doctors and patients about the "significant dangers and questionable benefits of prescription opioids" for the treatment of long-term non-cancer pain, according to a complaint filed today in California state court. The five opioid manufacturers — Purdue Pharma, Cephalon, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Endo Health Solutions, and Actavis — concealed the dangerously addictive nature of the medicines while touting benefits that had no scientific support, in order to expand the market for the drugs and boost profits, the lawsuit alleges.
The complaint charges that the pharmaceutical companies marketed opioids as "rarely" addictive, misrepresented the evidence of their efficacy for treating chronic non-cancer pain, trivialized their serious side effects and falsely assured doctors and consumers that opioids were safer than over-the-counter drugs.
According to the suit:
These pharmaceutical companies have a long history of aggressively marketing these dangerous drugs through sophisticated campaigns. These campaigns employ industry-funded professional associations, patient advocacy groups, and physicians to deceive consumers and their doctors about the harms and purported benefits of opioids for treating chronic pain.
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Ga. sees uptick in heroin abuse
Georgia is the latest state to see an spike in heroin abuse following the rise of prescription painkiller addiction, with heroin submissions to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's crime lab increasing by more than 300% since 2011. The current fiscal year has seen a 20% increase in heroin submissions, while all other drugs during that period have decreased by 22%, according to this article. Many users claim they started off taking prescription painkillers like OxyContin; when the drug started to have less effect, they began melting and shooting up the painkillers before eventually moving on to heroin, the article says.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in 2012 prescription drugs played a role in 592 deaths in the 152 of 159 counties in Georgia for which it performs autopsies. Meanwhile, several major metro Atlanta counties recently reported a spike in heroin-related deaths: in DeKalb County, heroin deaths doubled, increasing from 5 to 10 between 2012 and 2013; in Gwinnett County, deaths rose from 2 in 2012 to 7 in 2013; and Cobb County saw heroin-related deaths surge from 9 in 2011 to 16 in 2012, according to this article.
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Zohydro backlash intensifies despite FDA's defense
Opposition to Zohydro, the powerful new opiate some critics are calling "heroin in a pill," continues to build, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is strongly defending the agency's approval of the drug, saying its benefits to pain patients outweigh the potential negative consequences.
Since its approval by the FDA last October, Zohydro has come under fire from members of Congress, state attorneys general, doctors and addiction specialists who have worked to block the pill from being sold in the U.S., according to this article. Critics want the agency to rescind its approval of Zohydro, citing the alleged danger of the drug as well as the growing abuse of prescription drugs nationwide, but the FDA says that instead of blocking the sale of Zohydro based on a fear of abuse and addiction, providers should screen patients before they prescribe the drug and while they are on it, the article says.
The green light for Zohydro, a new version of pure, extended-release hydrocodone that is said to be 10 times more powerful than Vicodin, came after an FDA advisory panel last year voted against approving the drug, citing concerns about the danger of addiction posed by the opioid drug class.
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N.J. docs must boost painkiller vigilance: Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is urging physicians to be more careful about their prescribing habits when it comes to potentially addictive painkillers, and is encouraging their participation in the state's voluntary drug monitoring program. The comments came at a doctors' conference where the governor described how deeply affected he has been by the recent death of a close friend due to pain medication, according to this article.
Only about 20 to 25 percent of doctors in the state voluntarily use the program, the article says. Meanwhile, treatment centers in the state reported 7,238 admissions for painkiller addictions in 2010, 12 times more than in 2000, the article adds, citing data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Christie had previously come under fire for rejecting an early version of the state's Good Samaritan bill, which he claimed was too narrowly focused on encouraging more reporting of drug overdoses, rather than other aspects such as drug abuse deterrence, violence prevention and public safety. In May 2013, he signed an updated version of the bill into law, but partially vetoed a separate bill that would make the overdose antidote naloxone available to spouses, parents and guardians of people addicted to opioids. This March, the Christie administration issued a waiver allowing emergency medical technicians to administer naloxone after completing a training course.
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Heroin deaths triple in W. Va.
The number of West Virginians who have died from heroin-related overdoses has tripled over the past five years, jumping from 22 in 2007 to 67 in 2012, according to this article. Meanwhile, fatalities caused by prescription pain pills have declined for the first time since 2009, the article says, citing the latest available figures from the West Virginia Health Statistics Center.
Berkeley County had the highest number of heroin overdose deaths, with 36 residents dying between 2007 and 2012; Cabell County had the second-highest number of heroin-related overdose deaths, with 26, followed by Monongalia County, with 15 over the past five years; and Kanawha County ranked fourth with 13, according to the article.
West Virginia has the highest drug overdose rate in the country. Between 1999 and 2004, there was a 550% increase in drug overdose deaths in the state, and drug overdose is the leading cause of death for West Virginians under 45 years old.
Judge nixes Zohydro ban in Mass.
A federal judge has struck down Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's ban on the controversial new form of hydrocodone, Zohydro, saying the state lacked the authority to override the FDA's approval of the painkiller. U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel noted that the FDA approved Zohydro after a screening process, and said the federal regulatory agency has more power than the state in this case, according to this article. She also said Massachusetts lacked the authority to force Zohydro's maker, Zogenix, to make an abuse-resistant form of the drug because that formulation has not been approved by the FDA, the article says.
Gov. Patrick issued the Zohydro ban last month, declaring a public health emergency in response to the state's growing opioid addiction epidemic and taking a number of other steps to curb overdoses and help the addicted. In a press release, the governor said the use of oxycodone and other narcotic painkillers, often as a route to heroin addiction, has been on the rise for the last few years in Massachusetts; at least 140 people have died from suspected heroin overdoses in communities across the state in the last several months, levels previously unseen. From 2000 to 2012, the number of unintentional opiate overdoses increased by 90 percent, he added.
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Tenn. mulls criminal charges for prenatal drug use
Tennessee lawmakers have given the green light to a bill that would allow criminal assault charges to be filed against women whose infants suffer harm from their mothers' prenatal drug abuse. The measure, which would allow prosecutors to press assault charges on women if an infant's "addiction or harm is a result of her illegal use of a narcotic drug taken while pregnant," has been sent to Gov. Bill Haslam for approval, according to this article.
Driven by the prescription drug addiction epidemic, Tennessee is seeing a dramatic rise in the number of newborns born with neonatal abstinence syndrome. In just slightly more than nine months last year, more babies in the state were born dependent on drugs their mothers took during pregnancy than in all of 2011, according to this article. By the first week of October 2013, 643 babies were born dependent, compared with 629 for all of 2011. The majority of these births involved a mother taking medicine prescribed by a health care provider.
Neonatal abstinence syndrome is a group of problems that occur in a newborn who was exposed to addictive illegal or prescription drugs while in the mother's womb. Symptoms include excessive crying, seizures, vomiting, fever, and slow weight gain. Some NAS babies may need to receive fluids intravenously; others with more severe symptoms may require medicine to treat withdrawal.
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Pill and heroin deaths surge across the nation
Despite increased media coverage and efforts to crack down on abuse, overdose deaths due to prescription drugs and heroin continue to happen at alarming rates in many states.
In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick recently declared a public health emergency due to the sharp increase in heroin overdoses and opioid addiction, with many addicts shifting from more expensive and harder-to-get pills to heroin, which is cheaper and widely available. Massachusetts state police say 185 people died from suspected heroin overdoses between November and February, a figure that does not include overdose deaths in the state's three largest cities; the number of all opioid-related deaths increased from 363 in 2000 to 642 in 2011.
In Oklahoma, unintentional prescription drug overdoses claimed the lives of 534 residents in 2012; state health authorities say about half of them had taken drugs prescribed by their own doctors, according to this article.
In Iowa, the number of heroin overdose deaths rose 700 percent from 2003 to 2012, from one death to eight, according to this article.
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FDA OKs new overdose antidote treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a prescription treatment that can be used by family members or caregivers to treat a person known or suspected to have had an opioid overdose. The hand-held device, known as Evzio, rapidly delivers a single dose of the drug naloxone and can be carried in a pocket or stored in a medicine cabinet, according to the agency. Naloxone is a medication that rapidly reverses the effects of opioid overdose and is the standard treatment for such situations, but until now it has been available mostly in hospitals and other medical settings.
Evzio is injected into the muscle (intramuscular) or under the skin (subcutaneous), the FDA said. Once turned on, the device provides verbal instruction to the user describing how to deliver the medication.
Drug overdose deaths, driven largely by prescription drug overdose deaths, are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States – surpassing motor vehicle crashes. In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the number of drug overdose deaths had steadily increased for more than a decade.
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For many heroin addicts, treatment barriers remain
The rise in heroin addiction across the nation, fueled by the prescription drug addiction epidemic, means that increasing numbers of people are in need of inpatient treatment services — but many who need help are contending with a shortage of services and constraints placed on care by insurance companies, according to this article.
Unlike withdrawal from dependencies on alcohol or benzodiazepines, heroin withdrawal isn't life-threatening – but it is so horrific that many addicts are drawn back to the drug and overdose, the article notes. Because withdrawal is not directly deadly, most insurance companies won't pay for inpatient rehab, either claiming that the addict does not meet the "criteria for medical necessity" — that inpatient care would be an inappropriate treatment — or requiring that the user first try outpatient rehab, the article says.
Of the 23.1 million Americans who needed treatment for drugs or alcohol in 2012, only 2.5 million people received care at a specialty facility, the article says, citing data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The number of people reporting heroin use in the previous year increased between 2007 and 2012, from 373,000 to 669,000, while nearly 80 percent of people who had used heroin in 2011 had also previously abused prescription painkillers classified as opioids.
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