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Gordon Brown today accepted MP's recommendations for an annual report and debate on the state of UK surveillance in a speech which rejected charges that the government's increasing use of high-tech surveillance compromises British citizens' liberties.
He also said the government was considering subjecting all new UK legislation to something called a "freedom of expression audit".
Brown's speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research came in the wake of Tory front bencher David Davis' triggering a by-election to force a debate on civil liberties. Davis claims that traditional British liberties are under threat from a government intent on extending the amount of time terrorist suspects can be detained, and obsessed with the ID card scheme, CCTV, and including as many people as possible on the DNA database.
Brown said today that "We absolutely accept the challenge set down by the Home Affairs Committee: that we must demonstrate that "any extension of the use of camera surveillance is justified by evidence of its effectiveness."
In addition to the government's own proposed CCTV safeguards, Brown said "We are happy to accept the Committee's recommendation that the Information Commissioner should produce an annual report on the state of surveillance in the UK for Parliamentary debate."
However, while Brown accepted the proposals for an annual debate on the UK's surveillance apparatus – at least where it involves CCTV - the rest of the speech was a defence of CCTV and the other technologies which prompted the committee to consider whether the UK is indeed sleepwalking into being a surveillance society in the first place.
The prime minister argued that terrorism was the "most dramatic new threat" facing the UK in the 21st century, with organized crime, drug trafficking and illegal immigration all close behind.
All four were not new, he accepted, but had become increasingly complex and global, as the world itself had become more global and interdependent.
Brown claimed, "It could be said that for too long we have used nineteenth century means to solve twenty first century problems. Instead we must have twenty first century methods to deal with twenty first century challenges."
And this, inevitably, means technology. Brown justified the government's record on and plans for DNA databases, CCTV, and the use of biometrics for ID cards and passports.
Paralleling David Davis' appeal to traditional liberties, Brown rehashed some Newish Labour traditions, saying the ID card scheme was not about increasing the power of the state, and insisting that public support for the ID card scheme remains strong, "despite years of exaggeration about its costs and its implications for liberty".
Brown said that citizens were not alarmed by the government's demands for biometric data, saying this was proved by the fact that "many people now have laptops activated by finger-scans."
On CCTV, he argued that "it actually helps give them [citizens] back their liberty, the liberty to go about their lives with reassurance."
Brown rounded off his speech with a shopping list of ways in which the government has "advanced the liberties of the individual" saying, that in the last year, "we have given people new rights to protest outside Parliament, made it easier for people free of charge to exercise their right to Freedom of information – and we are now considering a freedom of expression audit for all legislation."
Traditionally it was the judges, MPs, and stroppy private citizens which were the guardians of freedom in this country. What a relief that motley crew can all pack up and go home and leave the job to the Freedom Auditors in future. ®


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It takes a satellite view to truly understand the scale of the typhoon that devastated the Philippines this month. Der Spiegel has collected some of the most terrible — and beautiful — images of the storm, taken from space.
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Leave the storytelling to the elders
Somalia's not a friendly place for journalists, and hasn't been since the country's civil war erupted decades ago.
22 journalists have died in the country this year. Now, The Africa Report reveals a new government proposal that will limit who can be journalists — to those who are at least 40 years old. Journalists in the country are outraged by the new regulations, though the government says local media were invited to help create the rules.
Cone-head rebellion
From Glasgow, Scotland, comes an epic tale of municipal sculpture, 19th Century military heroes — and a traffic cone. PRI's The World has been reporting on the struggle to stop locals from 'decorating' a statue of the Duke of Wellington with traffic cones. And while municipal officials say they're determined — and plan to increase the size of the base of the statue so it gets much harder — locals say they're equally determined to keep putting the traffic cone on the duke's head.
Two killed in foreign worker riot in Saudi Arabia
News is emerging of an apparent riot by foreign workers in Saudi Arabia — a country with a huge population of foreign workers, many of whom live with little or no access to civil or workplace rights. At least two people died and 68 were injured in the clash in the capital, Riyadh. More than 500 people were arrested. The Guardian has the story.
Batman bin Supaman bin jailed
It isn't always easy going through life with a distinctive name. Some names, however, do call for a higher moral standard.
So far, however, Singapore's Batman bin Supaman, an ordinary 23 year old with no superhero powers that we know of, has failed to live up to the lofty expectations his name might suggest. The BBC reports he was recently jailed on drugs and theft charges.
So, how long have you been harassing women?
Reporter Julia Simon got tired of being harassed while walking in public in Cairo, so she pulled out her tape recorder and asked one of her harassers why he did it. The answers were stunning. PRI's The World has the exchange and the heated discussion between Simon and readers that occurred in the comments below the article.
What we're seeing on social
A new definition of 'democracy' RT @zalali: From an actual newspaper in Egypt two days ago. pic.twitter.com/7uTX1nbqnM— Aleem Maqbool (@AleemMaqbool) November 13, 2013
Weather around the world
A freak storm, being described by locals as a tornado, ripped through three coastal villages in Southwest England over the weekend, damaging homes and even killing a family's chicken. People in the area described a train engine sound as the storm moved through, according to the Plymouth Herald. Some 30 tornadoes a year touch down in the UK, but British meteorologists on Wednesday weren't yet ready to confirm this was one of them.
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Down Reveal Title and Release Date of New EP
The long-awaited beginning of Down's upcoming four-part series of EPs has finally been given a name and a release date. The six-track EP, which will be called 'EP One,' is set for a Sept. 18 release.
Down drummer Jimmy Bower recently discussed the theme that will connect the four separate EPs in an interview with Target Audience. "The idea is we're doing four EPs and the first one is pretty much cut-throat. The third one is supposed to be the acoustic one. But we're releasing four EPs within the next year and a half. They all coincide with one theme … it's kind of like end of the world kind of s–t. Just the times we're in. It reflects on how humanity is going apes–t. Like the artwork and everything. It's like a big story."
Additionally, Down vocalist and legendary Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo had promised fans that 'EP One' will be "a very pure doom metal record." In an interview with Full Metal Jackie, Anselmo also promised that fans will not be disappointed with Down's latest effort.
"To me, I'm happy with this EP," says Anselmo. "We went through a lot of different things, personally during the making of this record that I can't really get into right now but everything has worked itself out and really at the end of the say I'm happy with the result. I'm thinkin' if you like Down, if Down is your cup so to speak there's no way we could've let you down."
Down are set to embark on a U.S. tour in the fall, beginning on Sept. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Something I read today starting me thinking about the meaning of home. After all, family history deals quite a bit with the subject of home, which is defined in dictionary terms thus:
Main Entry: home
Part of Speech: noun 2
Definition: birthplace
Synonyms: abode, camping ground*, country, element, environment, family, farm, fatherland, fireside*, habitat, habitation, haunt, haven, hearth, hills, home ground, homeland, homestead, hometown, household, land, locality, motherland, neighborhood, range, roof*, site, soil, stamping ground*, stomping ground*, territory
Notes: 1. hone means to sharpen, while home (in) means to seek out a target; you can hone a skill but you home in on something 2. a house is the building or structure in which one lives; home is the place one lives with the pleasant connotations or family ties included.
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
* = informal or slang
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But, what is home, really? It is much more than a physicality. That homey feeling certainly involves settling on my favorite corner of the sofa with a mongo-size cup of Irish Breakfast Tea (with milk) after a long commute to the house where I live, and knowing that my loving husband and faithful canine companion are close by. (Or, is that my faithful husband and loving canine companion? Well, nevermind.)
Home is often something transitory or intangible - a spirituality, almost. In my quest to learn more about life, the universe, and everything, I have identified some things I cherish that give me a sense of belonging and feel like "home":
- My mother's tuneless humming under her breath as she sat knitting or crocheting: a habit she picked up from her grandmother, who picked it up from her mother, etc., and that I also catch myself doing from time to time.
- The pungent scent of eucalyptus--reminsicent of dry leaves stirred underfoot during childhood excursions in the San Francisco East Bay hills.
- Meeting a far-off cousin for the very first time, gazing into her face and thinking: "I know you."
- The taste of warm, soft lefse with butter.
- Becoming lost between lines from a great writer.
- Family postcards mailed long ago, caring thoughts scribbled from father to daughter, mother to son.
- The humid, sweet smells of home canning: peaches, applesauce, dark cherries, and strawberry jam.
- A first visit to the grave of a grandmother I have never met, yet miss every day.
- The word "Minnesota" (though I was born in California).
- Being safe in the arms of someone I love.
What does "home" mean to you, and how does it fit in with the study of family history, or of history in general? If "home is where the heart is," then home can be many things, including part of the past we have not personally experienced, but have learned about and become enriched by, through countless stories and customs, sporadic details, images, a sense of shared experiences, and our imagination.
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Ron Crouch wrote: Why would you, a self, want to wake up? What is the benefit of enlightenment? A lot of the sales-pitches of meditation out there make it sound like a great thing for the self: being more relaxed and a better "me", who wouldn't want that? But now that you know that the sales-pitch is essentially BS, you have to ask yourself, why meditate? The path is not easy. Like any other serious goal in life – getting a college degree, running a marathon, raising a family – it is a lot of work and not always a lot of fun. The truth is that, to a "self," there really is no tangible benefit at all. From the perspective of the self it just makes no sense at all to wake up, in the same way that it makes no sense to the dreamer to get out of bed. The dream is awfully interesting, so why wake up?
If you are not interested in waking up – then don't. If you simply cannot understand why anyone would ever want to see the self as a fiction, do not start meditating. This might seem like radical advice, but it really isn't. If you have not started down the path of awakening in earnest, and you really aren't interested in enlightenment, I'd recommend not getting started at all.
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- 4 cups water
- 8 cups (or more) vegetable broth or good-quality canned vegetable broth (such as Swanson), divided
- 1 cup (scant) pearl barley (about 6 ounces), rinsed
- 1 teaspoon (scant) fine sea salt plus additional for sprinkling
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil plus additional for drizzling
- 3 cups chopped onions
- 8 cups coarsely chopped stemmed kale leaves (about one 7-ounce bunch)
- 6 cups coarsely chopped stemmed chard leaves (about one 7-ounce bunch)
- 5 cups spinach leaves (about 5 ounces)
- 3/4 cup sliced green onions
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh dill
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh fennel fronds
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh mint
- 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 7-ounce package feta cheese, crumbled
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Bring 4 cups water, 2 cups broth, barley, and 1 scant teaspoon sea salt to boil in large pot. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until tender, about 40 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons oil in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions, sprinkle with sea salt, and sauté until golden brown, stirring often, about 15 minutes. Add sautéed onions and remaining 6 cups broth to pot with barley. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cool, cover, and chill. Rewarm before continuing.
Add kale and chard to soup. Simmer until greens are tender, about 15 minutes. Add spinach, green onions, dill, fennel fronds, and mint; simmer 5 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Season soup with sea salt, pepper, and additional lemon juice, thinning with more broth, if desired.
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What are you doing when you aren't doing anything at all? If you said "nothing," then you have just passed a test in logic and flunked a test in neuroscience. When people perform mental tasks--adding numbers, comparing shapes, identifying faces--different areas of their brains become active, and brain scans show these active areas as brightly colored squares on an otherwise dull gray background. But researchers have recently discovered that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes) is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. If you climbed into an MRI machine and lay there quietly, waiting for instructions from a technician, the dark network would be as active as a beehive. But the moment your instructions arrived and your task began, the bees would freeze and the network would fall silent. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something. But what?
The answer, it seems, is time travel.
The human body moves forward in time at the rate of one second per second whether we like it or not. But the human mind can move through time in any direction and at any speed it chooses. Our ability to close our eyes and imagine the pleasures of Super Bowl Sunday or remember the excesses of New Year's Eve is a fairly recent evolutionary development, and our talent for doing this is unparalleled in the animal kingdom. We are a race of time travelers, unfettered by chronology and capable of visiting the future or revisiting the past whenever we wish. If our neural time machines are damaged by illness, age or accident, we may become trapped in the present. Alzheimer's disease, for instance, specifically attacks the dark network, stranding many of its victims in an endless now, unable to remember their yesterdays or envision their tomorrows.
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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur's varsity swimming team culminated a strong 2011-2012 season with a great performance at the state 3A-2A-1A championships last weekend with solid team performances and numerous swimmers placing in their individual events.
The Decatur boys finished sixth overall out of the top 26 schools in the state championship meet with 160 team points. In the 200 medley relay, the Decatur boys team including Jeff Middleton, Jake Blazer, Shayne Custodio and Jeff Middleton finished fourth. Jake Middleton finished seventh in the 200-meter freestyle and Custodio finished second in the 200-meter individual medley.
Blazer was second in the 50-meter freestyle, while Zach Hoshino finished 18th. Custodio was fourth in the 100-meter butterfly and Blazer was third in the 100-meter freestyle. Jake Middleton finished fifth in the 500-meter freestyle.
In the 200-meter freestyle relay, the Decatur team of Custodio, Hoshino, Blazer and Jake Middleton finished second. Jeff Middleton was 14th in the 100-meter backstroke. The 400-meter freestyle relay team of Hoshino, Zack Keiser, Colin Bankert and Jeff Middleton finished 16th.
On the girls' side, Decatur finished right in the middle of the pack, coming in 13th among the 28 schools represented. In the 200-meter medley relay, the Decatur team of Karli Straight, Carly Deickman, Brianna Carroll and Madison Tinus finished 12th. Carroll was 10th in the 200-meter freestyle and Tinus was 23rd in the 50-meter freestyle.
Straight finished sixth in the 500-meter freestyle and 13th in the 100-meter backstroke. The Decatur team of Julia Wellen, Cece Pyles, Maria Zweifel and Tinus finished 15th in the 200-meter freestyle relay. Deickman was 14th in the 100-meter breaststroke. The 400-meter relay team of Straight, Wellen, Zweifel and Carroll finished ninth.


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I have a bit of a dilemma and was hoping some of you guys could maybe help me out. I am switching a hard drive out on a laptop that I have determined to be faulty. I was able to backup the needed data onto a usb thumb drive, but the usb port is on the back of the computer, so when I lifted the computer to look for something under it, I forgot about the drive and bent it a little. Now, whenever it is put into any computer, it shows up, but the system says it is inaccessible and asks if I would like to format it. That data seems to be lost, so I turned to the old hard drive.
I put the drive into a usb-to-ide external enclosure and tried to access it from another computer, but windows says that the device has malfunctioned and the data cannot be accessed. So, I put it back into the original laptop, and went into the emergency console from the XP boot disk.
I then tried to fix the MBR, thinking that might have something to do with it, because the drive wouldn't boot into XP when placed back in the original laptop. I typed in "fixboot c:" which completed successfully, then typed in "fixmbr" which completed successfully, but when I put "bootcfg /rebuild" it gives an error and won't perform that step. If I look up the directories in the emergency console, it shows modified dates and folder sizes, but instead of the usual "Documents and Settings" and "Program Files", etc, each folder has a jumble of weird symbols like a heart, some letters, an "i" but instead of a dot, it's an apostrophe, among numerous others.
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Any film calling itself Rad had best be taken with a grain of salt, regardless of its subject matter. As it happens, the subject matter of Rad constitutes probably the dorkiest storyline we've seen this year.
It's all about the exciting world of BMX cross-country biking, in which a bunch of teenagers jump up and down, twirl, spin, and perform other herky-jerky maneuvers on their little bikes. I don't even know what BMX stands for, if anything, so I'm not qualified to comment on the authenticity of the biking scenes. But they appeared mindless and improbable, which probably means they're accurate.
The locale is a small American town (although the extras speak with Canadian accents), in which some money-grubbing businessmen decide to hold the world's first BMX race, full of stunts and obstacles. The finest racers from the land are recruited, but the race seems fixed in favor of the world champ, who stands to win a fat contract from big-time sponsors if he wins.
But hold everything. Turns out there's kid in town whose bike racing/twisting/jumping is totally awesome. Radical. Rad, if you will. He's not about to take the fix lying down, even when the bad dudes try to change the rules on him. He qualifies for the race and the big showdown comes, as the actors go to their trailers for coffee and the stunt riders strap on their concealing helmets and go for it.
If you've seen Rocky, you know what happens. But director Hal Needham isn't taking any chances—he's even cast Mrs. Rocky, Talia Shire, as the hero's mom. Naturally, it's up to her to try to talk the kid out of it, as she does with the Rock.
But our hero doesn't care that the college SATs are the same day as the qualifying heats. Man, he's gotta race. And he gets some encouragement from an out-of-town girl who is a pro racer herself, and who quickly falls for the lad's backwoods charm.
She also recognizes his talent: "It took me six months to airwalk; it took you one afternoon," she says admiringly. Airwalking is something you do with your bike while arcing about 10 feet off the ground.
Needham, who used to direct Burt Reynolds' down-home comedies, doesn't even try to get around the corny storyline. Oddly enough, this tactic works. The movie may be ludicrous, but it has its entertaining moments. The leads are fresh, especially Lori Laughlin as the big-city girl who does a bike dance during the sock hop. Ray Walston and Jack Weston provide rather tired support as the pillars of the community.
Since the film doesn't carry a disclaimer that says, "Professional bikers; please, don't try this at home," a lot of kids are probably going to wind up with collections of bumps and bruises, attempting to imitate the riders. When is somebody going to make a film that dramatizes the excitement and reward of studying for college SATs? That'd be radical.
First published in the Herald, April 1, 1986
I don't know how I failed to mention that the competition is known as Helltrack, but somehow I did. (And by the way, it was shot in Calgary.) If you're wondering how I didn't know what BMX stood for, it was because this was before the Internet and I was frequently apart from any kind of research sources.
This is how I wrote about movies in 1986: I would go from an evening screening to the AP office across the street from both the Northwest Preview Room (a tiny little space for 35 mm. previews) and the Seattle Times building. I would walk into the office of the bureau chief and retrieve a slightly-larger-than-typewriter-sized box left there for the use of Seattle-based reporters for the Herald (as far as I could tell I was the only one). Sometimes I would nod to the AP reporters who sat there in their office; they must've wondered who I was and who set up such a cockeyed system (I was never without the cringy sense that I didn't belong there, which encouraged me to write my reviews as quickly as possible). I would write a review on a teeny screen on this bulky black box, and when I was finished writing, would dial a telephone number (and some codes or something) and place the receiver on the phone-sized openings on the top of the machine, where it would screech and send the story. Then I would fold up the machine, place it back in its corner, and skulk out. I am sure this affected my writing in some strange way. All of this now seems like some kind of vaguely-remembered dream, thankfully long in the past.


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How do I perform a (soft) restart (reset) or Power cycle on Sony's Android TV?
IMPORTANT: This solution is applied for Android TVs. For details about how to reset a BRAVIA TV other than an Android TV, refer to: How to perform a power reset on a Sony television. Before performing the following steps, you may like to refer to our TV Troubleshooting guide for possible solutions.
Your BRAVIA TV runs the Android OS, which is also used in many smartphones and tablets. As with these devices, resetting your Android TV is an effective method to resolve some issues such as "the picture does not appear", "only sound is output", "the remote control does not work", or "the App is extremely slow."
Perform the following operation to reset the TV.
- When an external USB hard disc is connected to the TV, disconnect the USB cable from the TV before resetting.
- If TV is turned off, turn it on first and perform the following operation.
- Point the remote control to the illumination LED and press and hold the POWER button of the remote control for about 5 seconds until a message Power off appears.
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[2]: Remote control POWER button
- TV reboots automatically. Wait for approximately one minute, and the TV will turn back on.
If it does not reboot, press the POWER button on the remote control to turn on the TV.
- TV reset operation is complete.
Make sure your issue has been resolved.
- Point the remote control to the illumination LED and press and hold the POWER button of the remote control for about 5 seconds until a message Power off appears.
- If you unplug and plug in power cable, it may have same effect as the reset steps above.
If the situation does not change after pressing the POWER button on the remote control, try the above. If you leave the TV with the power cord (mains lead) disconnected, the electricity that remains in the unit will be discharged. As a result, unnecessary data and error information in the memory will return to their defaults, and allow you to use the TV again normally.
- Turn off the TV.
- Unplug the television power cord (mains lead) from the electrical outlet.
- Let the television remain without power for 2 minutes.
- Plug the power cord (mains lead) back into the electrical outlet.
- If the issue is still not resolved after trying the above steps, try a Factory Data Reset.
IMPORTANT: Be aware that if you perform a factory reset, all of the TV's data and settings (Wi-Fi and wired network setting information, Google account and other login information, Google Play and other installed applications, etc.) will be erased, and the TV will return to how it was at the time of purchase.
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Sudbury retirement homes part of $100-million deal
Oxford Living, a newly formed senior housing platform, announced Friday the acquisition of nine Ontario retirement communities, including two in the Nickel City.
The acquisition cost $100 million and represents 648 suites, including about 160 in Sudbury. Locally, the company bought Walford Lasalle, which has 67 units, and Walford Sudbury, which includes 94 units.
"We like Sudbury; it's a good town and a good spot," Tim Foster, co-founder of Oxford Living, said Friday. "We're all from small towns so this feels much more (comfortable) than doing things in Toronto or a bigger city."
The nine communities acquired include the Blue Mountain Manor in Stayner, King Place in Midland, Inspirit Residences and Maple View Terrace in London, as well as Windsor's Shoreview At Riverside.
Oxford also acquired seniors' homes in Elliot Lake (Walford Hillside Park) and Thunder Bay.
In a release, the company said it plans to "invest to enhance and upgrade these properties and plan significant expansions" at several locations.
"Our plan is to sort of stay the course," Foster said. "They're well-run homes that are part of the community so the plan is to not change much – to keep them running the way they've been running, to work with the general managers. The goal is to carry on the way we have been. Residents likely won't notice any difference at all."
While there are small annual increases to rent, Foster said Oxford will not be increasing rent costs for residents over and above that.
"The plan is to keep everything the same," he said.
Founded by Oxford Capital Group LLC, a Chicago-based investor-developer, this new platform is a partnership between a New York-based insurance and investment firm, and an experienced Canadian team that will oversee operations while drawing on Oxford's deep experience in the senior housing and hospitality sectors. Oxford Capital has invested more than $3 billion in senior housing and hospitality assets.
"Consolidating mid-market retirement communities in secondary Ontario markets is an ideal launching pad for Oxford Living," John W. Rutledge, founder, president and CEO of Oxford Capital Group and CEO of the new affiliate, said in a release. "In Canada, where most institutional investors are focused on high-end properties in urban centres, our strategy is to acquire and operate mid-market assets."
Foster said the company likes the Sudbury properties, so much so, they may actually expand their local holdings by a "small number" of suites.
"We'll upgrade, enhance and refresh in the initial months in the common areas, and we're potentially looking to add units at LaSalle in the medium term, but there are no plans in place currently," Foster said. "But we like Sudbury as a place to do business and we like the teams at both properties, so we're excited at the prospect of growing in Sudbury."
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Company's coming to Pimlico Race Course.
For the throngs expected at Saturday's Preakness, the hospitality team at Pimlico Race Course is bringing in 7,000 pounds of crab meat and 3,000 pounds of aged tenderloin. Did someone remember to get ice? Yes: 30,000 bags of frozen water are already in place.
Those were just a few of the items on the Preakness list of Tommy Inzer, director of hospitality for the Maryland Jockey Club, which has been hosting the Preakness since 1873.
Another item on Inzer's list — a celebrity chef.
This year, the Maryland Jockey Club is trying spice up the Preakness brand, and they've brought in "Top Chef" alumnus Mike Isabella to create the menus for the Turfside Terrace, where guests pay $315 for spectacular finish-line views, and for the Preakness Village, where corporations entertain on grand and semi-grand scales.
The most coveted Preakness Village invite will be Kevin Plank's Under Armour party, which has evolved in four short years into the Preakness' celebrity nerve center.
In past years, according to Inzer, the Under Armour hosts would ask for changes to the standard catering menu offered in Preakness Village. But not this year. Inzer said Under Armour signed off on this year's menu, which includes the kind of original, Italian-inspired fare served at Graffiato, the restaurant Isabella opened in Washington's Chinatown neighborhood in June 2011.
On Isabella's Preakness menu: a roasted beet salad with green peppercorn vinaigrette; coffee-dusted roasted tenderloin of beef, dry-rubbed, seared and sliced, accompanied by smoked fingerling potatoes and baby peas; and free-range pepperoni chicken, served with the pepperoni sauce that Isabella whipped up for the finals of "Top Chef All Stars."
"Every year for the Preakness we try to elevate things," said Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas. "By bringing in Mike Isabella, it has elevated it to another level. And with that, the people that were here last year and had a memorable time will have an even more memorable time this year."
The idea of bringing in a celebrity chef to design the Preakness menu, Inzer said, emerged out of last fall's planning meetings.
But the race to create a classier food experience at Preakness began in earnest with the Maryland Jockey Club's hiring of Inzer, whose resume includes luxury properties like The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., and the Park Lane Hotel in London.
Inzer was hired in March last year, not enough time to make big improvements before the annual May event. Inzer said he needed to see, and get through, last year's big day.
"Now I got it," Inzer said. "Now I know what we can do differently and here's how we can elevate the experience. It takes a lot of forward thinking: What's hot in the industry? How can we stay on the cutting edge?"
Once they committed to the idea of a celebrity chef, the next step was getting one. Isabella was on the planners' early list, Inzer said, in part because he had some Preakness experience. Isabella appeared at the 2011 Preakness, doing cooking demonstrations in the corporate village.
It turned out that Inzer knew someone with a direct connection to Isabella, so they asked him.
"I thought it would be a great opportunity," Isabella said. "I get to see the races, I get to hang out, and I get some people to see my food who don't always get to D.C."
Along with a chef-driven menu, the Maryland Jockey Club decided to get serious about where and how they got the food for Preakness. The 6,000 guests in the Preakness Village and Turfside Terrace will be treated, the jockey club said, to "the largest Farm to Table dining experience in the world."
Inzer stressed that farm-to-table doesn't necessarily mean local but regional. Crab cakes this year will be made with Maryland crab meat, he said, and the raw bar will feature Chesapeake Gold oysters from Hoopers Island.
Still, some of the efforts to go even regional were stymied, Isabella acknowledges, by the cold spring. Eight days before the Preakness, Jackie Ludden, a Washington-based consultant whom Inzer brought in to assist with the farm-to-table efforts, was waiting to hear if she'd be getting oregano from a New Jersey herb farm — or from Mexico.
"It's the single most difficult project I've had to do in my career," said Ludden. "It has been a huge effort by an army of people to make this happen."
"Certain things will come from Maryland or Virginia or Jersey," Isabella said. "Certain things will come from here and there. We only can do so much. My focal point is getting pepperoni from someone in Virginia [instead of ] getting it from Italy. We want to source everything locally, and whatever we can't get locally, we focus on domestically."
Baltimore chefs in and out of farm-to-table restaurants said they appreciated the efforts.
"At the end of the day it's more about sustainability and ethics," said Chris Becker of Fleet Street Kitchen, which serves a seasonal menu featuring produce grown at the restaurant's private farm. "[Farm to Table is about] not using factory farm ingredients and using local farms whenever with you can."
And standards for farm-to-table, Becker acknowledged, vary from place to place. "If it were true farm-to-table, you couldn't use lemons or limes," he said.
Chad Gauss, chef and owner of the Food Market in Hampden, said that farm-to-table doesn't have to mean local. "If they're looking at it as regional, it makes complete sense," Gauss said.
But both Becker and Gauss did have some concerns about other local credentials — Isabella's.
"I think it's great to have a celebrity chef," Gauss said. "And I respect every chef and every chef's craft. Any chef who chooses to put on the apron and put in the hours gets my support. But if it's farm-to-table, the chef should be from Baltimore."
"I was a little surprised that it wasn't a Baltimore-based chef," Becker said. "At the same time I just hired a chef, Chris Amendola, who wasn't from Baltimore."
One Baltimore chef will have a prominent role on Saturday. Jonah Kim, executive chef at Pabu, the Japanese restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore, will be creating the sushi bar in the International Pavilion, which this year is featuring a Japanese theme. And Kim's Pabu colleague, Tiffany Soto, a master sake sommelier, is supervising the beverage program for the pavilion's invited guests.
Isabella, who is opening three new restaurants this year, seemed ready for Saturday, but he acknowledged some fatigue.
"It's definitely a challenge. I've never done anything like this before, for 6,000 people," Isabella said. "But it's gone a lot smoother than I thought it would."
Not all of Isabella's fatigue was work-related, though. He had recently attended the Kentucky Derby.
"It was an amazing experience," Isabella said. "But I had a better time at Preakness."
The menu
Here's what chef Mike Isabella has planned for diners at the Turfside Terrace and Preakness Village:
The Bakery and Gourmet Cafe
Gourmet Coffee and Tea Selections, Fresh Squeezed Juices
Warmed Croissants and Muffins, Seasonal Fruit Salad, Yogurt Parfait
Village Raw Bar
Sponsored Vodka Bloody Mary Bar and Fresh Seafood Raw Bar
Deluxe Open Bar
Whiskey, Bourbon, Vodka, Rum, Scotch, Brandy
Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, White Zinfandel
Domestic and Imported Beer
The Official Preakness Cocktail — The Black Eyed Susan
Juices, Soft Drinks and Water
Main Buffet
Salads and Sides
Artisan Display of Fresh Baked Breads
Broccolini Peperonata Salad with Feta and Walnuts
Roasted Beet Salad with Green Peppercorn Vinaigrette and Smoked Yogurt
Whipped Sheep's Milk Ricotta with Tomato Caramel and Lemon Thyme
Roasted Cauliflower with Pecorino and Mint
Chesapeake Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes with Guanciale, Kohlrabi Slaw, Drizzled with a Garlic Hollandaise
Coffee Dusted Roasted Tenderloin of Beef, Dry Rubbed, Seared & Sliced, Accompanied by Smoked Fingerling Potatoes and Baby Peas
Free Range Pepperoni Chicken with a Farro Risotto
Rosemary Panna Cotta with Orange and Pine Nuts
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12/5 Tall Tales and Reality of Brain Tech, and What Can an Engineer Do Today to Exploit this Burgeoning Field?
Time: Tuesday, Dec 5, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Venue: ITRI International - 2870 Zanker Rd., Suite #140, San Jose, CA 95134
Registration: https://ciesf2017bio.eventbrite.com
Caption: Mark Zuckerberg wants to read your mind, while Elon Musk wants to merge his brain with AI. These bold initiatives brought attention to the brain tech industry like never before. In this talk, I will give you an overview of the state of the art in brain technology. Why are Mark and Elon's ambition moon-shots? While waiting for these revolutions to happen, what can you do already with the existing brain technologies? I will show you examples of some interesting brain-machine interface applications using today's technology, and demonstrate to you the NeuroSky tools you can use to develop your own brain-machine applications.
Speaker: Jake Chuang
Chief Product Officer of NeuroSky, Inc.
As Chief Product Officer of NeuroSky, Inc., Jake Chuang runs the science and engineering research and development functions at the biosensor company, and the global leader in mass market Brain-Computer Interface technology. NeuroSky has developed a revolutionary non-invasive neural communication sensor that converts brainwaves and other bio-signals into digital electronic signals. This technology can control electronic devices, enable machines to adapt to people, and further enhance education and research on creative applications powered by the brain. NeuroSky has forged successful partnerships with a broad range of companies from Fortune 500 industry leaders to innovative independent developers. Furthermore, NeuroSky leverages collaboration with a number of top domestic and international academic institutions to move technology out of the lab and into the marketplace.
After receiving his MSEE and BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin, Jake set out to create innovative products that can change people's life. He held progressively senior engineering and marketing positions in several IC companies and is proud to have worked on 7 different products that are named Product of the Year from prestigious organizations. Jake's current interest is to create products that can aid students to learn and excel in their life.


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NEWS- Mover and shaker: Glickman was quaken, but not stirred
Mark Glickman has always been a mover and a shaker. A longtime public relations exec, with a long run at Wintergreen resort , he's met and mingled with celebrities from Bill Clinton to Dolly Parton. But he can now say he really moves and shakes.
In August, Glickman, subject of the Hook's October 5, 2005 HotSeat interview, said farewell to Central Virginia and moved to Hawaii to become marketing director of the Mauna Lani Resort on the Big Island. Less than two months later, he was shaking in a whole new way.
On Sunday, October 15, Glickman and his family, newly settled into a house after two months living at the resort, were awakened at 6:55am by the largest earthquake to hit Hawaii since 1983.
"Here's where you don't want to be during a major earthquake," wrote Glickman to friends and colleagues in Charlottesville.
"Being in a new house, at first we thought that maybe the overhead fan had run amok," he writes from the town of Waimea, six miles from the epicenter, "but after the house swayed violently back and forth for two minutes, and loud thuds and broken glass could be heard from all directions, it was clear this was something much more than a faulty fan."
With his children crying and neighbors calling out, Glickman says, the family ran outside, fearful the house might collapse.
Fortunately, once the shaking stopped, the only damage chez Glickman was a collapsed retaining wall near the driveway.
The resort withstood the quake as well, he reports, with the exception of some 200 televisions, which were "ripped from their cables and flew across every room."
Glickman rushed to the hotel with his family and helped to evacuate guests, among them Hawaii governor Linda Lingle, who checked out in order to declare a state of emergency.
"I'll bill her later," Glickman now jokes.
Though the experience was frightening– as were the 20 to 30 aftershocks– he and his family are safe and sound. But in the wake of the quake, Glickman, who retains ownership of the Charlottesville-based Glickman Group, says he has changed one important detail of his life.
"From now on I'll be making my Sunday morning cup of coffee at 6:30am." he writes. "It was a long day with no Kona."
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Designed in 1969, the Componibili storage unit by Kartell is a design classic that keeps on charming new friends. The storage unit is suitable for various uses and it fits all kinds of decors. Place it in the bedroom, living room, kitchen or even to the bathroom or the balcony. The Componibili was designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri and it has been rolled into the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris.
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A brutal team sport unfolding in a parallel fantasy world based on Warhammer and American football, Blood Bowl invites gamers to form a team of players from such races as Orcs, Wood Elves, Humans, Dwarfs and many other fantasy creatures, and launch themselves into battle in the bloodiest of arenas. This strategy sports game combines a fine balance of tactics and bonecrunching action! The game offers two game modes. The first, which is fully real time, offers a spectacular gameplay. Intense battles between blocking linemen and daring displays of agility of players leaping and dodging through opponents tackle zones, while powerful spells and dirty trick special plays are unleashed across the pitch; all this creates a highly charged atmosphere. The second game mode, an actual turn-based game, is a treat for players of the original board game because it is an exact replica of Games Workshop's tabletop masterpiece. The original rules have been faithfully reproduced, and it contains all of the devices, strategies, play and rhythm of the original game. The single-player experience allows the player to manage a team throughout an entire season of Blood Bowl, through the Old World of Warhammer. The team will evolve over the course of victories, experience gained and awards won. With its immense depth, the game can almost be considered as a management game, from managing the popularity and sponsorship of players to the purchase and sale of players, as well as their aging, retirement and even death. In multiplayer, the player will be able to throw down a challenge to other Blood Bowl players and participate in large tournaments on the Internet in order to climb the official ranks (ladder).
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"Express," by comparison, seems content to keep to the sidelines. Sampled train sounds and drums that mimic them dominate the mix, giving the track a vibe better suited to travel between gigs than for the shows themselves. Still, a hefty low-end makes the thing ripe for a blast on a good system. It's a B-side if ever there was one—just as you couldn't imagine "Hand Made" anywhere other than front-and-center.
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Introducing :: The Night Within Us Leaving Stars
Where to even begin with how I came up with the name for this collection, why I decided on all blacks (well, in all honesty….I have been wanting to do an all black collection for a while now, so that was the easy part), and how meaningful "The Night Within Us Leaving Stars" really is to me.
I will be writing a full blog post this week about some big changes that are ahead for Knack. All of them are so, so good….but getting here was not always a good feeling. There were days that there were tears, and days where anger and fear threatened to creep in and overtake….but even more powerful than the darkness was this deep underlying peace. A voice that said…..rest, find joy, step back, be confident….because the plans I have for you are not to harm you , but to prosper you….to bring you hope….and an even brighter future! (paraphrase of Jeremiah 29:11)
So, needless to say, seeing the light midst the dark was very weighty and heavy on my mind and the inspiration seemed to flow forward out of me with both pain and joy. The mighty ocean waves that I chose for the wallpapered sideboard are no coincidence….but a purposeful reminder of the very fact that when we feel tossed about and pushed under… there is also beauty in the waves that toss us about….and we can let them toss us…or we can let them lull us to peace.
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During the 2012 campaign, the president and his top advisers liked to make the argument that if he was re-elected, the "fever" would break. Washington would no longer be the graveyard of progress, the crypt of consensus. Once dystopian Republicans accepted that President Barack Obama was not running again, they would start cooperating with him.
But it's beginning to sink in that the opposite may be true.
The president called a news conference to mark the first 100 days of his second term, and he quickly ended up playing defense, dwelling on how hemmed in he feels.
ABC News' Jonathan Karl asked Obama if he was already out of "juice" to pass his agenda, citing the president's inability to get a watered-down gun bill passed in the Senate, Congress swatting away Obama on the sequester cuts, and the recent passage of a cybersecurity bill in the House with 92 Democrats on board, despite a veto threat from the White House.
"Well, if you put it that way, Jonathan, maybe I should just pack up and go home," Obama said with a flash of irritation, before tossing off a Mark Twain line: "Rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated at this point."
Then he put on his best professorial mien to give his high-minded philosophy of governance: Reason together and do what's right.
"But, Jonathan," he lectured Karl, "you seem to suggest that somehow, these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. That's their job. They are elected, members of Congress are elected in order to do what's right for their constituencies and for the American people."
Actually, it is his job to get them to behave. The job of the former community organizer and self-styled uniter is to somehow get this dunderheaded Congress, which is mind-bendingly awful, to do the stuff he wants them to do. It's called leadership.
He still thinks he'll do his thing from the balcony and everyone else will follow along below. That's not how it works.
How can the president star in a White House Correspondents' Association dinner satirical film pretending to be Daniel Day-Lewis playing Barack Obama in Steven Spielberg's movie "Obama," and not have absorbed the lessons of Lincoln?
"Some folks still don't think I spend enough time with Congress," he said in an alleged joke at the dinner Saturday night. "'Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?' they ask. Really? Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell."
He insisted primly on Tuesday: "I cannot force Republicans to embrace those commonsense solutions. I can urge them to. I can put pressure on them. I can, you know, rally the American people around those commonsense solutions, but, ultimately, they themselves are going to have to say 'We want to do the right thing.'"
He said that if lawmakers are worried about primaries and afraid that working with him will be seen as "a betrayal," he can try to "create a permission structure for them to be able to do what's going to be best for the country."
A permission structure?
After Syria, Obama discussed another issue where he came across like a frustrated witness to history, rather than shaper of it. After putting the moral quandary aside for political reasons, he finally began urging once more that the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be closed. A hundred prisoners there, held for a decade without trial, are on a hunger strike, some being force-fed Ensure through tubes in their noses, despite opprobrium from the American Medical Association.
Asked about the hunger strike, the former constitutional law professor in the White House expressed the proper moral outrage at holding so many men "in no man's land in perpetuity." But it sounded as though he didn't fully understand his own policy.
Closing Guantanamo doesn't address the fundamental problem of rights. Obama's solution, blocked by Congress, is to move the hornet's nest to a Supermax prison in Illinois - dubbed "Gitmo North" - and keep holding men as POWs in a war that has no end. They're not hunger-striking for a change in scenery.
It's true that Congress put restrictions on transfers of individuals to other countries with bad security situations. But, since 2012, Congress has granted authority to the secretary of defense to waive those restrictions on a case-by-case basis. The administration hasn't made use of that power once. So it's a little stale to blame Congress at this point.
The senior senator from Kentucky has been a leader in Keep-Terrorists-Offshore. Maybe, if the president really wants to close Gitmo, he should have a drink with Mitch McConnell. Really.
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Before the R8 supercar became the darling of Audi performance and passion-filled motoring, the TT stood as the driver-centric vehicle in the German luxury brand's line-up. First offered as a roadster in 1998 with a hardtop coupe coming later, the Audi TT presented the design, performance and equipment to be a fun-loving beast on the road exhibiting the sharpest measure of quattro all-wheel drive. While the car's eye-catching design and ample performance has remained, there has recently been a long wait for Audi's response to improving on what has been the winning formula known as the TT sports car. Teasing a view of the new TT's interior at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show among their showcase at the exhibition earlier this year, Audi has removed the covers off the entire vehicle for the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. Premiering as the third-generation Audi TT to the world, the Geneva introduction of the new vehicle is realized as a stouter performer and a beacon for Audi's innovative technology.
As is the case of iconic automobiles such as the Porsche 911 and Ford Mustang, the Audi TT must have presented a touchy situation for car designers. With the traditional TT look being so acclaimed, any attempts to modify the appearance had to be performed for a greater good. In addition, too much change would alienate the crowd who had adored the previous two generations of the Audi TT. Fortunately from what has debuted in Geneva, a harmonious balance was found. In coupe form, the essence of the familiar Audi TT remains but some modern touches. The all-new Audi TT receives a bold Singleframe grille with a hexagonal shape. Redesigned headlights do not directly adhere to other Audi products but includes the company's innovation lighting technology. Standard equipped with Xenon plus, Audi's Matrix LED headlights will also be available on the new TT (the latter's appearance in the United States is still pending regulatory hurdles).
Improvements in the shaping of the new TT sports car's Audi Space Frame and the application of aluminum and light steel have provided a leaner third-generation vehicle. Compared to the previous TT, Audi claims to have shaved over 110 pounds of weight when creating the new sports car. The body structure has not been only location where engineers of the new Audi TT have been able to create a lighter weight machine. Efforts placed into weight savings has also been found in the interior with standard seats weighing more than 11 pounds less.
Revealed in January, the interior of the all-new Audi TT is a mergence of sportiness, ergonomics and comfort. Audi wanted to create an aircraft-like appearance with the dashboard layout for the new TT as they developed a cockpit consisting of streamlined controls. The highly visible large circular vents along the dash panel stylishly contain the operational controls for the air conditioning. Gripping onto a flattened rim steering wheel with multifunction controls, the driver of the third-generation Audi TT is presented with a fully digital instrument cluster. Described as the Audi virtual cockpit, a 12.3-inch TFT display eliminates the need for the typical center screen by presenting lists and even maps directly in front of the driver. Standard with MMI radio, the Audi TT will also feature an available MMI touch as well as the MMI Navigation plus unit. Connectivity with 4G LTE technology will support the high-tech in-car solutions for the Audi TT.
In addition to the base TT Coupe, Audi is showing the TTS version for the third-generation sports car. Featuring an increased array of standard features such the dynamic driving system, magnetic ride control, automatic air conditioning and a special aluminum fixed-caliper braking system, the Audi TTS continues to be suited for the performance-seeker.
The powerplants for the Audi TT and TTS have been heavily sweetened in the newest incarnation of the sports car. Still a 2-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, gasoline powerplants feature the enhancement of Audi valve lift system allows the coaxing of even greater horsepower. With a front-wheel drive or a quattro all-wheel drive version set to be available, the 2.0 TFSI engine on the Audi TT will generate 230 horsepower (a 19 horsepower improvement over the outgoing vehicle). For the new TTS, output from the engine is rated at 310 horsepower. Still short of the Audi TT RS, the 45 horsepower boost allows the Audi TTS model to launch from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just 4.7 seconds. A third 2.0 TDI has also been announced for the Audi TT producing 184 horsepower and stubborn 280 pounds feet of torque. North American buyers of the new Audi TT can at least expect to find gasoline engines available for purchase. Fans of stick shifters will rejoice with the existence of six-speed manual transmissions being offered on both the TT and TTS model. Audi's S tronic dual-clutch transmission is optional on the new version of the sports car.
The global premiere of the Audi TT in Geneva has largely focused on the 2+2 passenger Coupe as well as the TTS Coupe. Left out but certainly to be not neglected, Audi would be entering a heap of trouble if they do not debut the convertible roadster variant of the Audi TT. Until that time, the 2014 Geneva Motor Show will have a number of other fine Audi creations to delight the eyes. The Audi S1 and S3 Cabriolet as well as a TT quattro sport concept are premiere vehicles appearing as part of their massive display that also featured the latest R18 e-tron quattro prototype sports car.
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You people know me as therapydoc, but I do research and have a faculty appointment, too. One day I took a call, expecting it to be a client, but it was the dean asking me if I would please take on a funded project. There is this small problem, she tells me, of acquaintance rape.
Ultimately a new agency to treat college rape survivors off campus gets off the ground because of the project, and I get a paper out of it, present it to the annual meeting for the Council on Social Work Education. It's about how social workers should be treating rape.
But the following story happened years before, when all I had to go on was my fairly extensive knowledge of cognitive behavioral and exposure therapies for anxiety and post traumatic stress. I had used these tools for all kinds of abuse and assault, even for rapes that had happened in the past.
So I'm thinking I'm good talking to a rape victim, someone freshly violated . Dispassionately, quietly, she tells me, "I was raped over the weekend."
Tell me everything.
"It was right outside your office, across the street at the park on Saturday night. I had parked my car on the street and left a party around mid-night. I saw a man in the car parked behind mine. Before I got into my car and knew what was going on, he grabbed me and pulled me into the park and . . ."
How awful. Did you report it?
"No. I was very embarrassed and I guess, shocked. I was a virgin. I just wanted my mother. I went home. We wanted to keep this private so we came to you for help. The insurance company said you could help me. You know this."
Uh, huh. I know a little. Do you mind telling me the story again? Try to remember everything.
She tells the story again. I am treating this like other trauma or crisis, going over the story, not because I care about the grisly details, but for the healing and warmth, the retelling in a safe place. I think she'll suffer, this will haunt her, she will have nightmares, and want to warn her of this, begin the exposure therapy immediately, rather than get to know her as a person. So I objectify her, too, treat her from the book. I haven't even heard of Rape Trauma Syndrome, something unique, needing something different. It's not in the DSM.
Assuming that there is meaning in the madness, the mandatory telling and retelling of the narrative, there is theory behind exposure therapy. Flood the brain with details and it will tire of them. People who haven't been raped retell silly stories to their friends about things that upset them, then tell them again to others, then retell them to friends-- and the stories are infinitely less traumatic. Somehow there's mastery in the retelling. We feel more control over the situation
I not only tell people to retell stories, but if they are traumatic, we'll do the retelling under very controlled circumstances, bit by bit, over many sessions, for cognitive exposure. The cognitive in this type of intervention is a way of saying imagined, or visualized, in the brain. That's how therapy is, sometimes, very purposeful, behavioral. And this helps quite a bit, structured technique. Add a little EMDR, and you're golden.
Like I said, I'd done all kinds of cognitive behavioral therapy for trauma victims, and there's more than retelling. We might do a rewrite of a trauma, for example, then repeat the rewrite over and over again in sessions. Sometimes the victim of an assault will bring in a friend or trusted relative and we'll talk about revisiting the scene of the crime, repeatedly, to allow the brain to integrate the idea that in fact, the perpetrator is no longer hanging around. This type of therapy is useful for any type of assault. It's useful for kids, too, who have been beat up, bullied.
But rape. Treating rape.
Wrapping your head around so much stuff, you can't rush it, and sometimes all of that work does nothing to counter the idea that the perpetrator will come around again, eventually.
Rape can be devastating. It can affect a person's emotional and physical health (and will). Reproductive problems or pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, broken arms, bruises, tears, concussions, even death happen. Emotional symptoms include depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, intense fear, flashbacks, nightmares, suspicion, hyper-vigilance, isolation, irritability, lack of concentration. Socially things can go crazy—victims hide from everyone, stop going to school, lose jobs.
All of the above and more are consequences of rape.
This is not a short-term therapy.
I have to admit, when this young woman came to see me, I didn't know enough because I knew nothing about Rape Victim Advocacy.
If I had referred this young woman to a victim advocate program or had worked closely with one at the time, she might have continued her treatment, perhaps joined a support group, worked to become a survivor, to help other victims become survivors.
Who knew?
Rape victim advocate agencies are state funded (in Illinois, relatively well funded at this first writing in 2006) and employ individuals who have often experienced rape themselves, who may have had therapy, surely had support and advocacy, and are now able to work with victims to empower and transform them into survivors.
Advocates call their clients frequently after the first contact, worry about them when they don't show up for appointments, ensure legal advocacy and medical intervention. In other words, they go the extra, extra mile.
Sure rape victims can use therapy and will need to recover from the physical-emotional onslaught they experienced. But I have to say, seriously, based upon my own knowledge and my experience treating that young woman four years ago, that this trauma calls for more than therapy. My client didn't return after the second visit.
Rape victim advocates are the best first step. All kinds of docs need to know this, not only therapists and psychiatrists, but primary care physicians, Ob-gynes, everyone. Get the word out.


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The St. Louis Cardinals signed 10 more members of their 2014 MLB Draft Class, including second round selection Ronnie Williams, a right-handed pitcher out of American Senior High School in Miami, Fla., bringing their total signees to 18 of 42 total draft picks.
Williams, 18, is one of seven draft picks in 2014 who were alumni from Major League Baseball's RBI Program (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), and will report to the Cardinals Gulf Coast League affiliate in Jupiter, Fla.
"Ronnie is an elite athlete who already has a repeatable delivery, feel for both a changeup and breaking ball, and a fastball that we have clocked in the mid 90's," said Dan Kantrovitz, Cardinals Director of Scouting. "Ronnie is a great kid who will work as hard as anybody to find success in our system. From my standpoint, this signing is a result of the excellent work of our scouts in South Florida, Fernando Arango (Southeast Cross-checker) and Charlie Gonzalez (South Florida Area Scout)."
Andrew Sohn (rhymes with "own"), 21, a sixth-round selection shortstop from Western Michigan University will report to the Cardinals short season New York-Penn League affiliate in State College.
Daniel Poncedeleon, 22, a ninth-round right-handed pitcher out of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Daytona Beach, Fla., campus, signed and will also report to State College. Poncedeleon was drafted four times in his career and played college baseball at four different universities including the University of Arizona and University of Houston. The ninth round was the highest he was drafted after being selected by the Rays (2010, 24th round), Reds (2012, 38th round) and Cubs (2013, 14th round) in previous drafts.
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Julius Baer International Equity II A is almost as good as its near clone, Julius Baer International Equity A, which is closed to new investors.
What happens when you take a pair of world-class stock pickers and ask each to do his job with one hand tied behind his back? In the case of Rudolph-Riad Younes and Richard Pell, the results are surprisingly good. "We're like pitchers without one of their seven pitches; we still have six left," Younes says.
We know what Younes and Pell can do with all seven pitches. They co-manage no-load Julius Baer International Equity A -- one of the best all-around foreign funds. In the past ten years, it has returned an annualized 16%, outpacing the MSCI Europe, Australasian and Far East Index by an average of nine percentage points per year. It ranks in the top 10% among foreign funds over the past ten years.
Alas, Baer International, which was once in the Kiplinger 25, our list of recommended no-load funds, is closed to new investors. In mid 2005, Younes and Pell opened a new fund, Julius Baer International Equity II A (symbol JETAX). Initially, I turned up my nose at this pale imitation, but I may have been too quick to condemn it.
The only difference between the two funds: The new fund steers clear of stocks with market values (share price times number of shares outstanding) of less than $2.5 billion. Reason: Younes and Pell now manage $45 billion in the two funds and private accounts, making it difficult for them to invest much more in smaller stocks.
Otherwise, the funds are almost identical. More than other first-rate overseas managers I know, Younes and Pell spend more time on big-picture economic issues and trying to predict which sectors of the market will excel. So, the sector and country weightings in the two funds are almost identical. Even the market value of the average stock in each fund is close to the same. The median market value of the stocks in both funds is about $17 billion.
But the new fund hasn't performed as well as the closed fund. Over the past year through November 17, according to Morningstar, the new fund returned 29.1% while the old fund has earned 31.5%. Both numbers are far ahead of the average foreign fund and a few percentage points ahead of the EAFE index. Younes says the new fund is trailing because small caps have been strong until recently, and because the new fund had money pour in so rapidly that it was caught holding cash at the wrong times. Still, Younes notes that part of his and Pell's success stems from their ability to invest in companies of all capitalizations. Obviously, the new fund is less of an all-cap vehicle.
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But Younes and Pell are terrific big-picture thinkers, and that alone may make investors want to consider this fund. Even if you don't want to buy the fund, it's worth listening to Younes's world view.
The world economy "looks okay on the surface," he says, but trade imbalances between the U.S. and England, both big importers, and exporters in Asia and Latin America are driving growth. The U.S. and the United Kingdom "are living beyond their means." Sooner or later, the U.S., in particular, will have to do something to shrink its trade deficit. "Globalization is going at too high a speed," Younes argues. When someone taps the brakes, it will hurt both the developed markets well as the emerging markets, which have been investing too rapidly.
Younes and Pell are hiding out mainly in Europe. About 62% of the assets of both the new and old funds are in European shares. They've sunk 16% of the funds' assets into Eastern Europe, which Younes believes will benefit mightily from its integration into developed Europe. Much of the rest is in European companies that are either doing a lot of trading with Eastern Europe or aren't heavily dependent on Asia or Latin America. "It's a chicken's way of participating in the world economy without worrying if the U.S. will come to its senses and realize it's selling the family silver," Younes says.
He and Pell also like sectors, such as cement, where they see global consolidation and increased pricing power. And they're bullish on European banks, which Younes says are cheap.
Favorite stocks in both funds with American Depositary Receipts include energy giant Total (TOT), spirits behemoth Diageo (DEO), cell phone service provider Vodafone (VOD) and drug makers GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis (NVS).
Lebanese-born Younes is the day-to-day manger of the fund. Pell works on overall strategy and risk management with Younes. "He challenges me on my ideas," Younes says.
I like Younes a lot. This is a good foreign fund -- even without the small-cap exposure. But it's not as good as the original, which is a truly great fund.
Steven T. Goldberg is an investment adviser and freelance writer.


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OCEAN CITY — Months after adding Electronic Control Devices, or Tasers, to its crime-fighting arsenal, the Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) has used the device a handful of times this year, including an incident late Tuesday night.
Last October, the Ocean City Mayor and Council approved a pilot program for the acquisition and use of Tasers by the police department and a limited number of OCPD officers started carrying them in February. In the months since, OCPD officers have resorted to the use of a Taser on several occasions and the new tool in the toolbox has achieved the desired results.
"Our officers have used them a handful of times under certain situations and the Tasers have done exactly what they're supposed to do," said OCPD spokesman Pfc. Mike Levy. "Tasers have been used in situations where almost all other options have been exhausted and they've become an effective tool at our disposal."
The most recent case occurred late Tuesday night when police deployed a Taser on a disorderly suspect who allegedly continued to resist arrest after officers exhausted all other means at their disposal. Around 11:45 p.m. on Tuesday, OCPD officers on bike patrol in the area of 15th Street and Wilmington Lane observed a suspect later identified as Dylan Richard Thomas, 19, of Shaverton, Pa., strike the trunk of a vehicle stopped at a red light at 15th Street. According to the police report, the officers heard Thomas strike the vehicle from half a block away.
According to the police report, Thomas allegedly unleashed an expletive-laden tirade against the female driver of the vehicle, whom he reportedly did not know and with whom he had no prior contact. When questioned, Thomas told police he didn't strike the vehicle, but fell into it. When questioned further, Thomas asked police "So what if I [expletive deleted] hit the car."
At that point, an OCPD officer attempted to place Thomas under arrest for disorderly conduct and ordered the suspect to put his hands behind his back. Thomas, who appeared intoxicated, launched a few more expletives at the officer, who was able to get one of the suspect's hands cuffed. According to police reports, Thomas then spun around, struck the officer in the chest with his elbow and assumed a fighting stance.
The arresting officer, noting in his report the only open area on Thomas' body was his face, struck Thomas once in the face with a closed fist. Thomas continued to flail his arms, striking another officer in the shoulder and arm.
The other officer then performed an angle kick to Thomas' right leg while the first officer got the suspect to the ground with a modified arm bar take. According to the police report, Thomas continued to resist and shout expletives. Thomas was on the ground with his hands in closed fists under his body and refused to comply with several commands to stop resisting arrest.
Finally, one of the officers stepped back and presented his Taser and told Thomas to stop resisting or he was going to use it. When Thomas still did not comply, the officer yelled "Taser" three times and fired his ECD at the suspect, but both probes failed to hit their mark. The officer then repeated the procedure, offering another warning, but the probes missed their mark again. Finally, the officer knelt on Thomas' back and performed a "drive stun" to the center of the suspect's back, after which Thomas allegedly said "OK, stop," according to police reports.
Tuesday's incident was just one of several this year during which the OCPD has resorted to its new weapon to control. Deployment guidelines assert a police officer may use a Taser when confronted with active aggression or resistance, although its use should be preceded by a verbal warning when practical. If an officer is faced with less than active resistance, but there is a reasonable expectation the situation will worsen, or attempts to control a suspect using other tactics would be unsafe, the officer may deploy the Taser, according to the guidelines.
Officers confronting a subject with a medical or mental condition should evaluate alternative force options available prior to an ECD deployment as a means to gain compliance, guidelines say. Levy said OCPD officers have used Tasers in cases where traditional methods of restraining suspects have not gained compliance.
"Just like pepper spray or a baton, if an officer is in a situation where they have exhausted all other means of bringing a suspect under control, they're going to use them if available," he said. "There have been a handful of incidents where they have been used and they're proven to be an effective tool at our disposal if needed."
Under the pilot program, the town purchased 14 Tasers thus far and the officers carrying them have undergone extensive training. According to the general orders, a Taser should never be used in a punitive or unjust manner. Each incident is extensively documented and town officials will closely monitor the success of the program, which will be re-evaluated.


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The shocking report of eminent photo-journalist and Antara Mali's father Jagdish Mali roaming disoriented and dishevelled on the streets of Mumbai has sent shockwaves across the film industry. However, people close to him are now planning to take legal action against model Mink Brar for spreading wrong information.
Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit, a close friend of the Malis, says he is shocked at the length people go to gain publicity. Mink had apparently witnessed Jagdish wandering aimlessly on the streets in a semi-nude condition.
"This is so wrong! We're shocked at the lengths people go to just to get publicity. What is Mink Brar talking about? Jaggu (Jagdish) is not a crazed-out wanderer on the streets. We don't know what she saw, or rather didn't see. All we know is someone somewhere misinformed the press," said Pandit.
The filmmaker said Mr Mali is mentally and physically fine.
"He suffers from the normal ailments at that age. So what? That doesn't make him a nutcase wandering on the streets. Jaggu is a dear and close friend. I meet him regularly. And would we his friends and family allow him to wander on the streets if he was really unwell?" said Pandit.
"Jaggu is in shorts most of the time. He lives an austere life. He hasn't touched a drop of alcohol for the past 15 years," he added.
Pandit said Mr Mali's well-wishers are sending a legal notice to Mink.
"What she has done is wrong. It is very unfair to Jaggu and his daughter Antara. She is a good daughter. She takes good care of her father. We are taking legal action against Ms Brar for serving up misinformation to the media for her own interests," said Pandit.
"You can't do this to someone who defined glam-journalism in the 1970s just because he is no longer in demand," he added.
Meanwhile, reactions over the news have poured in from all quarters.
Veteran actress Raakhee Gulzar, who now lives in her posh farm outside Mumbai said, "It is disturbing to hear something like this. In our country there is no social-security system to ensure such things don't happen."
Raveena Tandon, who looks after her parents while running her own household, thinks such sordid situations can be avoided.
"It can happen to anyone from any walk of life. Everyone gets old. Everyone needs a support system. Friends can only provide moral support. It's the family that needs to look after its senior members," she said.


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