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|On February 17, 2006, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country's security, not just by the enemy, but also by what he called "news informers" who needed to be combated in "a contest of wills."
In 2002 Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his desire to see camps for U.S. citizens deemed to be "enemy combatants."
A Defense Department document, entitled the "Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support," has set out a military strategy against terrorism that envisions an "active, layered defense" both inside and outside U.S. territory. In the document, the Pentagon pledges to "transform U.S. military forces to execute homeland defense missions in the . . . U.S. homeland." The strategy calls for increased military reconnaissance and surveillance
The Washington Post reported on February 15, 2006 that the National Counterterrorism Center's (NCTC) central repository holds the names of 325,000 terrorist suspects, a fourfold increase since fall of 2003. A Pentagon official said the Counterintelligence Field Activity's TALON program has amassed files on antiwar protesters.
Shortly after Bush orchestrated 9/11, he issued "Military Order Number One", which empowered him to detain any noncitizen as an international terrorist or enemy combatant. Today that order extends to U.S. citizens as well.
|Halliburton subsidiary "KBR has been awarded a contract announced by the Department of Homeland Security's United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) component. The Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contingency contract is to support ICE facilities and has a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year term. The contract provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the United States, or to support the rapid development of new programs". See Source Document on Halliburton Site or page 1, & 5 below
HOUSTON, Texas – Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) announced that income from continuing operations for the full year of 2005 was $2.4 billion. Consolidated revenue in the fourth quarter of 2005 was $5.8 billion. Consolidated operating income was $779 million in the fourth quarter of 2005. This increase was largely attributable to higher activity in the Energy Services Group (ESG), partially offset by lower revenue in KBR primarily on government services projects in the Middle East. Annual operating income more than tripled to $2.7 billion in 2005.
Why exactly are prisons being built for "the rapid development of new programs". Halliburton's company site confirms that the government is engaged in a massive construction and preparation exercise to build concentration camps and prisoner processing facilities in the United States. This is particularity astonishing and disturbing considering that the U.S. already incarcerates more orders of magnitude more people than any other nation, about on-par with U.S.S.R. at the height of Stalin's era.
The contract of the Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists." In the 1980s Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld discussed similar emergency detention powers as part of a super-secret program of planning for what was euphemistically called "Continuity of Government" (COG). These men planned for suspension of the Constitution, not just after nuclear attack, but for any "national security emergency," which they vaguely defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988.
Over 800 concentration camps are reported throughout the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive U.S. Prisoners who disagree with the government. The concentration camps are all staffed and manned by full-time guards, however, they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) when Martial Law is implemented in the United States (at the stroke of a Presidential pen and the Attorney General's signature on a warrant).
The camps have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities, many have airports. Like Auschwitz, some of the camps have airtight buildings and furnaces. The majority of the camps can each house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive "mental health" facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.
Following the Halliburton subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root) announcement on Jan. 24 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps, two weeks later, on Feb. 6, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that the Fiscal Year 2007 federal budget would allocate over $400 million to add 6,700 additional detention beds (an increase of 32 percent over 2006. What is interesting in the Homeland Security plan is that each concrete prison bed costs $60,000 per bed! Observing these concentration camps and general jail and prison facilities throughout the U.S., the Homeland Security plan is clearly buffered to build significantly more than 6,700 additional beds.
This is for real!
Maps Indicating Locations of Concentration Camps Throughout U.S. Click on maps for list of locations and videos.
See Army Regulation 210–35 Civilian Inmate Labor Program: Confirming the government and the Army's plans for U.S. based Concentration Camps:
Former Inspector for Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how U.S. Citizens will be rounded up and sent to death camps. The plans and camps mirror Hitler's SS plans and implementations, correlating with the strong ties between the Bush's and Hitler.
Military Commissions Act
In yet another astonishingly treasonous act the U.S. administration has eliminated yet another key check to control out of control government, the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.
The Posse Comitatus Act which abolished the use of the U.S. military against our own citizens since 1878 has also been wiped out. This act which protected citizens through WWI, WWII, the Vietnam War, the Korean War and the Great Depression is considered by the current administration as unnecessary and a hindrance to the government's ability to prosecute inside the U.S. This is particularly chilling read more at this link: Military vs. Citizens
See March 24, 1997, letter from Congressman Bill Hefner confirming the U.S. Concentration Camps:
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|The Homeland Security $400 million allocation is more than a four-fold increase over the FY 2006 budget, which provided $90 million for the same purpose. Both the contract and the budget allocation are in partial fulfillment of an ambitious 10-year Homeland Security strategic plan, code-named ENDGAME, authorized in 2003. According to a 49-page Homeland Security document on the plan, ENDGAME expands "a mission first articulated in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798." Its goal is the capability to "remove all removable aliens," including "illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers (required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists." The government's definition of an enemy combatant covers almost any individual who promotes the rudimentary rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Readiness Exercise 1984 – Rex 84
Texas Congressman Henry Gonzales revealed many years ago plans of Rex 84 which former colonel Ollie North helped design. The late Representative Jack Brooks also of Texas brought this concentration camp and internment program as well as the Continuity of Government Program to light during the Iran Contra hearing. The chairman refused to let North even talk about them in open hearings under "National Security." Mr. Gonzales stated these camps and plans were for the detention of AMERICANS, especially those who refused to surrender their weapons.
The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise Plan), indicates that FEMA in association with 34 other federal civil departments and agencies conducted a civil readiness exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was conducted in coordination and simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, Night Train 84, a worldwide military command post exercise (including Continental U.S. Forces or CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating both abroad and at home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD led the other federal agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise to test military assistance in civil defense.
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Halliburton Confirms Concentration Camps Already ConstructedPosted in cassini, everyones, freedom, God, jews, life, Nukes, poems, School, truth, world with tags black, china, drugs, God, gothic, japan, lies, life, love, Man, Pride, sex, truth, white, Women on January 29, 2008 by b1thought
7-7-08 will be The 9-11-01Posted in 2012, 911, ananaki, cassini, dazedand confused, everyones, freedom, God, jews, jibber, life, love/ hate, marital law, music, Nukes, planet x, poems, Rapper, reptilians, School, space, tag, truth, Uncategorized, world, World War III with tags faith, freedom, God, love, truth on January 29, 2008 by b1thought
Do the math people! do the fucking math " lucifer project" read about it. The 2nd coming of the SUN not the SON but the innalitation of the planet Saturn to send the moon Titan out of orbit and melt the ice sheets to recreate a fear driven plantet called earth and terrorize the people of the world threw an accident perpetrated bt the powers that be. Total control threw stupiedy, you beieve the bull shit cause you worry about my spelling and not the bigger picture. you life sucks and will suck until you get out of this AMERICAN DREAM.
WAKE up people. the AMERICAN DREAM is dead you are dead, wake UP.
WHY IS there 72 lbs of 238 plutonium on the cassini PRobe that will be decommissoined on Saturn on 7-7-08 just like Jupiter and gaileo a month later a big earth sized black dot appered on the planet. EXPLOSION, NUKE, some might say.
Look at the biblical part. what happend if i blow up a planet and turned it to a SUN. OMG I AM GOD now!!! would you think. I gained the title of GOD. Also i created a sittuation which will redirected my flock into believing me more and more and they will all bow down to me. HAHAHAHAHA.
Loook at the fact. the pres has already signed excutive orderss that state "NOT IF, BUT when an attack or natraul disaster occurs Globally the world will become a police state. look around you, yur being conditions as we speak.
Dont give me that bull shit of its not going to happend. IT could and it will becasue it will be you that causes it.
Remenber you voted in the people to run and control your life. so it is you that will have the world run you over. its you that has the vocie you give up when you vote for some jack ass to comply to your feelingss. it is you that has faith in a system that lies and treat others like shit, it is you who shuts his mouth and bitches and complains. it is you that had that vocie that feeling of freedom that you wasted away going to that 9-5 cow farm and eating up your green paper to better your debted reality that was created by people you paid to watch over you and rape and tax………………… sorrry for spellign
ZIONIST"9-11″ NWO « "Thought" you like "TO KNOW"Posted in 2012, 911, ananaki, cassini, dazedand confused, everyones, freedom, God, jews, jibber, life, love/ hate, marital law, music, Nukes, planet x, poems, Rapper, reptilians, School, space, tag, truth, Uncategorized, world on January 14, 2008 by b1thought
GOVERMENT KILLED 1,000,000 people (u.s. is next)Posted in 2012, 911, ananaki, cassini, dazedand confused, everyones, freedom, God, jibber, life, love/ hate, marital law, music, Nukes, planet x, poems, Rapper, reptilians, School, space, tag, truth, Uncategorized, world, World War III with tags 2012, demons, end of the world, hate on January 14, 2008 by b1thought
Why the fuck do we stand there and bitch and moan about other people doing wrong and being racist and failed tpo realize that we fucking blew up over 1,000,000 people in japan. Come on people we blew up alot of people. does not that become a genocide. A country commit genocide aganist another race. are we not held by the same standard of war. BE killed or get killed.
why the hell does this devil tell us this… IS GOD TELLING US SOMTHING
Are we next…


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This week on The Collision, we talk about horror movies: what defines them, their past, their present, and their future. What comes after found footage movies? Are horror movies required to scare us? How have classic horror films like the Universal Monsters movies changed over the years? This all leads us into a discussion of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, which proudly pays homage to classic monster movies. And as always, we finish up with our recommendations.
Click here to listen to the new episode of The Collision, click here for the previous episode ("Summer 2012 and Lawless"), click here to add the podcast to your RSS, and click here to find us on iTunes. To keep up to date with The Collision, you can follow us on Twitter at @MattGoldberg, @AdamChitwood, and @DrClawMD (Dave Trumbore). Hit the jump to check out the trailers for this week's recommendations.
Adam's Recommendation: The Monster Squad
Dave's Recommendation: Frankenstein (1931)
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The fantastically awesome pod-casting, gut-crampingly hilarious post-writing, Canada-living folks over at Fightlinker offered to raise my lowly status from "Just another WordPress.com blog" to "A totally awesome blog hosted by Fightlinker."
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But most importantly of all, keep reading! This upgrade may just be the kick in the pants I need to level-up my writing from "random nonsense that makes me spray milk and/or melted cheese out of my nose and eyes" to "holy wow crap this is the funniest thing I have ever read or had read to me by a man in a rubber suit kapow"
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This debut contains one basic doll, three dressed dolls and three fashion packs. I would definitely purchase these for a child that was ready to move on from, for example, the American Girl dolls although they certainly could exist side by side in a child's collection.
Here they are.
|Cape Town
|Gray Haze
The dolls look to be fully articulated although I could not find information on their material and construction.
Looking back in my blog, I found a picture from last February's Toy Fair of the City Girls. Apparently two of the three dolls shown there did not make it into the debut. Perhaps they will appear towards the end of the year.


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At almost three pounds, this is a substantial item that can be enjoyed in two ways.
First, as a book:
Discover what makes the Millennium Falcon the most famous ship in the galaxy with this master builder kit! Featuring a 64-page book detailing out some of the ship's most daring adventures and introducing members of the crew, Star Wars fans will enjoy learning more about one of the most legendary starships in the galaxy.
Secondly, as a ship building kit:
Plus, this kit includes thick puzzle-like pieces so fans can build their very own Millennium Falcon ship for all their adventures.
The instructions are straightforward and the pieces are substantial.
In addition to the Millennium Falcon, two more kits are available, Star Wars Builders: Droids (affiliate link) , and Star Wars Builders: Starfighters (affiliate link).
Disclosure: I was sent these Star Wars Builders books for review. I was not asked to write anything specific about the Star Wars Builders books. All opinions I express regarding the Star Wars Builders are my own.


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Alex Pettyfer's Thursday night was "Beastly" -- but not in the way he hoped it would be.
Days after breaking up with "Glee" hottie Dianna Agron, the actor's Beverly Hills home caught on fire the night of the L.A. premiere of his new movie with Vanessa Hudgens, FOX 11 in Los Angeles reported.
A rep had warned Us Magazine earlier that night the actor may not show up at all "due to a small house fire," but he managed to make a quick appearance on the red carpet.
"It was an electrical fire in the garage," a rep for Agron told Access Hollywood. "House not burned, no one hurt."
The "Glee" actress used to share the house with Pettyfer, but she reportedly moved out when they called it quits. Neither celeb, who co-starred in "I am Number Four," have spoken up about the breakup.
Fire officials said 27 firefighters put the flames under control in 24 minutes, Fox 11 reported. The garage is not attached to the rest of the actor's home and fire did not spread to other parts of the house.
Selected Reading: Fox 11 Los Angeles, E! Online, MTV News


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Our 12 Favorite Portraits of 2012Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Other than Sports and Weddings we shoot a lot of portraits for various sports teams, athletic clubs, law firms, financial companies, construction firms, newspapers and magazines. Another area that is hard to choose my favorites, but here they are – Our 12 Favorite Portraits of 2012.
This photo is a fav more because of the story behind it. Danny Mwanga had just been traded to the Timbers and this was his first day with the team. After training and media interviews and what not at the training facility, we brought him to the stadium to do a photo shoot for the program cover and inside pages. He is a Portland native show we wanted to shoot him with the skyline in the background. The best place to do that at Jeld-Wen Field is on the roof. So, the first time I talked to him was to say "Hi Danny, I'm Craig, nice to meet you…you're not afraid of heights are you?" Then we climbed up on the roof and shot this image.
This photo is of my 4 year old son Carter. Ok ok, its not a client photo, but man I love this kid. He cracks me up. This is him standing in for a test photo when I was setting up at the studio. It's now on the wall at my house.
One of my clients is the Washington Dental Association. They put out a glossy magazine once a quarter or so and brought me up to Seattle to shoot the Dean of Dentistry at the University of Washington. I needed 4-5 different images of him so I found a location near Red Square with a lot of different options for shooting a lot of different looks without having to move too much equipment. This image was one of my favorite from the shoot.
This is an image I shot for the Milwaukie High School Wrestling team. I wanted a dingy, dirty, gritty look to the portrait and shot in the practice room.
These images are both of lawyers, but shot for different uses. The one on the left was shot for the law office in Seattle for use on the website and the image on the right was shot for Super Lawyers magazine. I shot this image with the cover in mind, but the ended up using a different photo.
These images were portrait sessions for website usage, I like them for the simplicity of the lighting and the look of the subject.
The image on the left is another one shot for the Timbers. I shot Hanyer Mosquera in the locker room and we wanted him to look sweaty. He speaks very little english and I speak even less spanish so it was a little funny when I was trying to tell him I was going to spray him down with water. The image on the right was shot for Oregon Athletic Clubs. We spent 3 days shooting in all 3 clubs in the area for their new brochures and website.
This image was shot for the USA Today. A money section story about a local company that builds ships for export to China.
I shot this image of a local realtor for OutFront Magazine in a cool penthouse condo near downtown Portland.
Ok, so I know this blog is called 12 of 2012, but I wanted to include one last image that didn't really fit into the other categories. In the fall, I was given what may have been my favorite assignment of the year. I was sent to a windmill farm in Eastern Washington to shoot a bunch of photos of windmills. Now, this is not something I ever do, but it was very fun. The only thing I had to do was drive around by myself for 2 days waiting for good light and making pretty pictures. I was a great change of pace and I shot some images I like and learned a lot of wind power.
Well, that's it for my 12 of 2012. It was a great year for me personally and professionally. We traveled all over the place, made some nice pictures and met a lot of great people and new clients along the way. I can't wait to see what 2013 has in store.


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Just a short post today to share one of our current favorite games. It's called Walk the Dogs. We found it at the thrift store for $3. When I looked inside and saw all the little dogs and thought it would be worth it even if the game was silly. Surly I could use 60 something plastic dogs for something. I'm good at rationalizing stuff like that.
It's available here at Simplyfun.com. Glad we got it for the $3. Turns out the game is really fun. Lou can play under his rules, which is random and often changes for his benefit. Bee and I play with a slightly modified directions and Hubby and I play total strategic no-hold-barred-to- the death. More or less. The box says it's for ages 6 and up.... I think 4 and up is more appropriate since there is no reading or counting really.


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This MUPPETS INSPIRED 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY submitted by Dina Hafez-Suggs of Deliciously Darling Events is absolutely amazing! A party CHUCK full of inspiration and ideas! Every single detail is just incredible!
"My son, Malik, just loves the Muppets! He fell in love with them instantly. Just looking at him watch the original Muppets Movie (circa 1979) brought back lots of childhood memories. I remember watching the Muppet Show with my parents. So a Muppets themed birthday it was. The Muppet characters are so colorful & playful and I knew that I wanted to capture that in the design so I went with a rainbow pallet.
Tablescape & Decorations:
This party was a little challenging in the sense that I really wanted it to be inspired rather than character-image driven. Thats where the idea came of turning the characters into the letters of my kiddos name and having that be the glue that ties the party together. I came across a very talented artist, Mike Boon, who actually created a Muppet Letter Alphabet. He created Maliks Muppety name logo that was used throughout the party – from the straw flags to the cake toppers.
The kids tables had wooden plates and buckets that contained beautiful stamped spoons and Izzie sparkling juice, a straw and a napkin. The kids loved the fact they had their very own bucket of uten-sacles as my son calls them {utensils + tentacles = uten-sacles}. I created simple but adorable centerpieces using fresh flowers from Trader Joes and a paper embellishment that I made. The white ceramic vases were decorated using washi tape.
For the dessert table banners, I enlisted the help of the Glitter Whisperer herself, Kristy from The Purple Pug. She created the absolutely beautiful Happy Birthday Malik banner and the mahna mahna billboards. I feel so special that she created one of her new designs for Maliks party! The Animal, Dr. Teeth & St. Pepper vintage posters were created by Nick from Retro Art Prints. The quality of these prints is incredible. I loved the pictures so much I have them hanging in my house. The confetti garland hanging above Dr. Teeths candy table was created by Peas and Thankyous. I just love how they look hanging above the candy table.
Favors & Candy Station: Naturally our favor station had to be themed and my son helped pick the theme. We decided on a Fozzi Bear Joke Shop table filled with silly items that the kids {and} adults can enjoy. I tried to really go with what Fozzi uses in the movies, little rubber chickens, over-sized glasses, mustache & eye glasses and of course whoopee cushions. I think the parents may have enjoyed this item the most. The kids seem to have this befuddled look on their faces and one parent was like no worries, Ill show you as soon as we get home.
Dr Teeths Candy station was my favorite. The phenomenal artwork by Nick from Retro Art Print just made this table incredible. I knew the minute I saw this poster that I had to have a Dr. Teeth Candy station to display it on! The candy was beautiful and colorful. Vintage Confections created the most adorable filigree letters and numbers. I just love them. For the jar tags, I knew that I wanted to work in the Lifes a Happy Song Song. So I created these little tags that looked like old school movie boards and wrote out the lyrics to the song. Whats my favorite tag? Why, Lifes a fillet of fish of course!
Sweets Table: I have a little bit of a sweet tooth, okay it is a huge sweet tooth. I love all things sweet so when I was sketching out the desserts table I knew I needed a really cool backdrop and a really awesome cake! For the backdrop, I used beautiful fringed garlands and a little Gonzo being carried away by a bunch of balloons. Gonzo and the balloons was a reference to the very first Muppet movie and my sons favorite part of that movie. The ruffled rainbow cake was made by my sweet cousin Reema Hafez. She and her girls flew down to attend Maliks party. Reema is an incredible baker. She whipped up the animal cookies and the French Macarons as well. The incredible fondant work was by Brittany of Edible Details. I just have to say she is a total joy to work with and so very sweet! She created the Muppet letter toppers on the cake that left everyone speechless when the cake was brought out. I love all of her other creations for this part y especially the clock for the Time to Meet the Muppets push up pops. The Marshmallow Studio created adorable Animal Marshmallow pops. Malik couldnt believe his eyes when he saw it. They were not only super cute but delicious as well. Other yummy items on the dessert table included: rainbow jello {made by cousin Amy}, popcorn, red velvet and confetti cupcakes, brownie push-up pops, sugar cookies, muppet cake pops and French macarons. All the cake plates & acrylic stands, paper favor bags and straws came from Shop Sweet Lulus.
This party was so wonderful and a memory I will always cherish. It was so nice to have family down to celebrate with Malik. He ran up to me and told me that it was the best day ever and thanked me for planning his party. It was the sweetest moment of the whole day. Of course his face was covered in face paint, smudged cotton candy and chocolate but it was still the sweetest moment. Thank you to the wonderful Lauren from Lauren Nicole Studios for capturing all of these moments!"
Recreate This Party:
Photography: Lauren Nicole Studios
Event Planning, Flowers, Paper Design & Styling: Deliciously Darling Events
Malik Muppet Letter design: Created by Mike Boon
Fondant Cake toppers, Push-up pop toppers, Cupcake toppers: Edible Details
Marshmallow Pops: The Marshmallow Studio
Cupcakes: Jillys Cupcakery
Vintage Lollipops: Vintage Confections
Stamped Happy Birthday Wooden Spoons: Sucre Shop
Cake Pops: Candy Cake Company
Cake, Animal Sugar Cookies & French Rainbow Macarons: Reema Hafez (my super sweet cousin)
Animal & Dr. Teeth & St Pepper vintage posters: Retro Art Prints
Happy Birthday Banner & Mahna Mahna signs: The Purple Pug (www.thepurplepug.com)
Confetti bunting hanging over candy table: Peas and Thank yous
Cake plates, acrylic popcorn stand, bags, popcorn bags, spoons: Shop Sweet Lulu
Items used in this party that are available in Kara's Party Ideas Shop:
Fringe Streamers
Tutorial on how to make this gumball machine found here.
Whirly pop lollipops available here. Rock candy sticks available here.
Fringe Streamers {at bottom of letters} available here.
Happy Birthday wooden utensils available here.
White gable boxes available here.
Push pop containers available here.
Wooden Utensils available here.
Clear plastic curved spoons {holding macaroons} available here.


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If the Oxford Physics Department sounds grey and sobersided to you, you might want to watch the scientists themselves acting in the movie The DiVincenzo Code about a mad science scheme to reduce the value of the h-bar Planck constant to zero. But life is not all fun and games at Oxford's Ultrafast Group.
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Led by Prof. Ian Walmsley they labor in the dawn of quantum computing over the quantum light-matter interface, performing theoretical leaps and developing engineering solutions for devices which will eventually become quantum communication channel repeaters and quantum memory.
I spoke by phone with Prof. Walmsley recently ...
JW: Before we discuss your work on quantum memory, I'd like to ask you a few questions about your earlier paper Ionization effects on spectral signatures of quantum-path interference in high-harmonic generation.
IW: Quite a different subject! What caught your interest there?
JW: It was that everything you said about the harmonics generated from the path interferences which you were studying seem to apply to the acoustics of music as well.
IW: There are some very similar analogues there, having to do with the fact that the underlying entities in all of these physical theories is a field, which is a weird sort of concept. Once you have that, interferences and oscillations play a big role in quantum mechanics as they do in music.
JW: When you have a stopped pipe, one gets that same effect of the odd harmonics as is observed in perturbative harmonic generation in quantum systems based on n-photon absorption.
IW: As in an organ pipe.
JW: Or a clarinet .. the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, etc. harmonic generation being especially strong because the second normal mode is 4/3 the length of the pipe.
IW: It all depends on where your boundary conditions are. That's an important thing.
JW: Further I was intrigued by the electromagnetic phenomenon of plateau harmonics, where the rapid decrease in intensity of the harmonics ceases and nearly levels out when you reach the plateau around the 12th harmonic.
IW: When you get into these high harmonics, the amplitude does not decrease with harmonic order. It's really a fundamentally different mechanism, a different way to look at this perturbative n-photon absorption.
JW: Something like this happens in brass instrument playing. As you're playing up the harmonic series, you have to put more effort into achieving the higher and higher notes, but when you get up around the twelfth harmonic, it takes about the same effort to ascend therefrom, which is why classic valveless trumpet and horn playing worked. Anyway, that's what intrigued me in reading your earlier paper!
IW: There are certainly some very strong analogues.
JW: With regard to your current work on quantum memory, I have talked to many people working on quantum processors. You are striving towards, by contrast, an indispensible peripheral, since among the many questions in quantum computing is, "What does one do with an intermediate result if you want to continue a quantum computation?"
IW: There are some immediate applications to our present work [apart from the longterm use as memory for a quantum computer]. The obvious one is the next stage of a quantum communications link, which is called a quantum repeater.
If you want to communicate using photons over a long link, the loss goes exponentially with the length of the link. That turns out not to give you any enhancement, quantum mechanically, over that which you could get with a regular communication link.
What you have to be able to do is break that link up into sections so that you have efficient transmission over each section. But if you are going to do that, you have to have a way to store entanglement of these intermediate sections.
That's the utility of quantum memory. I think that will turn out to be one of the early applications before we get to the level of computers.
JW: The problem of storing entanglement is indeed, is it not, one of the fundamental problems of practical quantum computing?
IW: It is. Solving that problem will certainly be of value to a quantum computer.
JW: And your current focus is to be able to make secure quantum channels which repeat the entanglement in stages so you get the same quality of entanglement at the end as at the beginning of the pipe?
IW: Over a long distance, that's right. We certainly have an eye on quantum computers, but there are many other things that will have to come together before one can envisage building a quantum computer out of light, or indeed, out of anything.
So one is looking for intermediate applications that might come to pass in the next few years, rather than the next ten years or so.
JW: And which might incidentally finance further research!
IW: Yes, that's true. One of the interesting things that quantum information processing has brought is an interesting way to look at the contrast between the classical and quantum worlds, that is, looking essentially at how much it costs to do something. How do resources scale when you're looking at a quantum problem compared to a classical problem? At the boundary between the classical and quantum worlds you have quantum computers, which are a macroscopic scale machine that operates on a preserved quantum phenomenon. It's a really interesting physics task.
JW: I have seen ion-trap experiments in quantum computing. I've talked to people who are working with Josephson junctions. I have not managed yet to chat with the electron-spin crowd nor have I gotten briefed on photon-based quantum computing, which I believe is the approach your team would favor.
IW: Yes, certainly. These memories were developed in part with that sort of quantum computing in mind.
JW: So you are colliding photons into an atomic gas, which are later re-emitted.
IW: Our first stage was to say, "How do we get what you might call practical bandwidth in a practical system?" And we were successful and increased the bandwidth dramatically. The second feature, again practical more than fundamental, is that we are able to do this in warm gas. You don't have to have a big cooling apparatus. What we are working on now and have some preliminary results on is showing that we can really operate this device at the quantum limit.
JW: So how does this work?
IW: The key feature is that you take an excitation of the electromagnetic field, the photon, and you map it to an oscillating excitation of that atomic system. Two things then happen.
First of all, the atomic system is fixed in space, stationary, so you can hold it one place. And second, it being an atomic system, with very little, relatively rare gas, has a fairly long lifetime, on the order of hundred of microseconds up to milliseconds, and longer if you do other things.
The point is that light is not fixed in space. You're mapping a temporal excitation into a spatial excitation. It's not an original idea, it's been around for some time. There have been various schemes proposed over the past decade for doing this. Our scheme is one that is particularly well-suited to using large bandwidths and warm atoms.
JW: How warm are they?
IW: These are about 50 degrees centigrade.
JW: A little warmer than room temperature in the Sahel.
IW: Yes, you don't have to have them at microkelvin temperatures.
JW: So you've made a significant engineering advance based on theoretical ideas which have been kicking around for some time.
IW: I would like to claim there is a physics advance, too, because the particular process we are using had been looked at once briefly but dismissed as being impractical, and we found a way to make that physical process practicable.
The fact that one can do it at practical bandwidths in warm vapors, you're right, that's an engineering step.
JW: What is the physics insight that made this work?
IW: The physics insight was to recognize that, when you go a long way from electronic resonance, the bandwidth of the memory you have, the bandwidth of the storage, is determined almost entirely by the shape and bandwidth of the control field, as opposed to many of the other systems where it is determined by the atomic absorption resonance. That gives you a lot of advantage in bandwidth and tunability.
People has sort of looked at this one paper that had decided that it wasn't practicable because you couldn't get efficiency. So we decided to study the physics of the interaction and optimize it.
Our control pulse energies are about a factor of ten (10) more than the people who do it on resonance. A factor of ten is not outrageous in nanojoule pulse energies, nothing really dramatic.
A standard way to do memory is that you take an atom and absorb the light directly into the atomic electronic transition, you excite an atomic electron. Then you apply afterwards you apply a control field to take that excited electron and store it in a more quiet state.
In that scheme, your absorption is determined by the properties of the atom you are using.
What we do is this: we never excite a real electron. We only excite virtual electrons and that gives us a flexibility the other schemes are missing. The tradeoff is that we have to use more energy in our control pulses than the other scheme.
JW: What's a virtual electron?
IW: The electron is real. You shake it around with the optical field, but you never give it enough energy that it can stay stably in an excited state. So it's never put into a real excited state, it's put into what we term a virtual excited state.
Imagine water waves. If you put a float on a water wave, it bobs up and down. It follows the amplitude of the wave. Imagine if that wave got bigger and bigger, it could lift the float onto a rock. Then as the wave went down, the float would stay on the rock, it would have reached a "real excited state", if you like.
So we never get into that condition. The electron is always following the control wave as we wiggle it up and down.
What this means is that there is more flexibility in terms of the bandwidth of the memory and wavelength you can store.
JW: If the electron gets stuck "on the shelf" in the excited state as you described before, have you lost your quantum information?
IW: You haven't lost your quantum information, you're more or less restricted to where that shelf lies, where that state is. Certainly people have demonstrated quantum memories that make use of the fact that you generate a real excitation. But there you are constrained to the atomic absorption resonance, whatever frequencies the atomic absorption allows. Those are usually quite narrow bands.
JW: What can you do today with what you have built? And is it something which can be mass-manufactured as a relay on a fibre-optic system?
IW: We have not yet demonstrated something that can be integrated into an optical system. We have some ideas about how to pursue that.
What we are working on at the moment is proving that this room-temperature warm gas really can operate to store light at the quantum limit and can store entanglement efficiently.
Our overall efficiency was reasonable with respect to other systems. It still needs to be increased, so we are working to improve that.
I think we will not try to engineer something into a technology until we have nailed down all of these benchmarks that will be crucial for a practical system.
To read more about the Oxford Ultrafast Group's work on quantum memory, please see the paper Towards high-speed optical quantum memories.


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Bobbi Duncan, 22, and Taylor McCormick, 21, might have someday been ready to tell their parents that they're gay. But then Facebook went ahead and told the University of Texas students' parents for them.
The two students' "fundamentalist fathers" learned of their sexual orientation after they were added to a discussion forum called Queer Chorus, and their addition to the LGBT-themed Facebook group was advertised via a Facebook update, according to reports.
Facebook apologized and said that users must continue to be updated about the site's "robust privacy controls," according to a story published by The Wall Street Journal.
In this situation, the discussion forums' privacy settings were set to "open," rather than "secret" or "closed," which means that their addition to the group was advertised on the site for all to see, according to SF Weekly.
Both outed users say that they used the site's privacy settings to the best of their abilities, but the news was still published, the newspaper reported.
Both students' fathers have since left threatening voicemails or angry Facebook updates lambasting "queers," the newspaper reported.
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A new open mic at Connie's Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) hosted by Dan Vetrano and Joe Murdock begins tonight. The stage is open to all comedy performers and the hosts also encourage bringing a video to show on the Ric Rac's screen. Sign ups begin at 8:30 and the mic starts at 9:00.
Philly Improv Theater is now accepting applications to their Improv Conservatory class to take place this spring. The conservatory class will accept eight students to work with director Steve Kleinedler to develop a new "style of play". At the end of the eight-week class, the ensemble will perform a one-month run of shows at PHIT. Applications are being accepted until February 28.
This Wednesday touring show Comedians at Law will visit Helium Comedy Club (2031 Sansom St. Philadelphia). The show will feature performances from lawyers-turned-stand-up-comedians Alex Barnett, J-L Cauvin, Kevin Israel, Matt Ritter. Tickets can be purchased online.
Also this Wednesday Accidents Will Happen returns to The Adobe Cafe (947 E. Passyunk Ave.) This month's show will feature performances from: Rachel Fogletto, Dave Terruso, Dan Scully, Matt Monroe, Malwina, Bino Brown, and Tommie Turner as well as a Dating Game and the "1st annual WitAccidents Open Mic Awards!" The show begins at 9:00pm and is immediately followed by an open mic.
This Thursday Bird Text brings their comedy show back to Helium Comedy Club for a night featuring stand-up from Mike Lawrence, Doogie Horner, Mary Radzinski, and Tommy Pope plus brand new Bird Text sketches. Tickets can be purchased online.
Comedy is Liberty will make their weekend show debut this Saturday at Liberties Restaurant & Bar (705 N. 2nd St.) with a show featuring headliner Tommy Pope. Tickets can be purchased online.
Chase N' Laughs Comedy/Karaoke/Fish Fry is this Saturday at Treasures Banquet Hall (5549 Germantown Ave). Doors open at 5:00pm with free martinis being served until 6:00 and comedy beginning at 8:00. Tickets can be purchased by calling 267-405-2025.
Joe Conklin's 3rd Annual Comedy Showcase is also taking place this Saturday at Glen Mills Thornbury Rotary at Penn Oaks Country Club (150 Penn Oaks Dr. West Chester, PA). The night will feature a DJ, cocktail hour, dinner, and comedy from the "man of a thousand voices."
This Sunday Propoganda!, a monthly comedy show from Denver, CO., will come to L'etage (624 South 6th St.) for a free show featuring comedy from: Alex Grubard, Alex Pearlman, Doogie Horner, Scott Sharp, Brett Hiker, and Ray DeVito.
Philly Improv Theater will also have shows all this week at The Shubin Theater (407 Bainbridge Street). Some of their regular shows have changed days and times so make sure you check out their full schedule online.
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Bri's Coconut, Chocolate Mango Ice Cream Cake
Unless you have a commercial ice cream maker or multiple bowls for your ice cream machine, this will be a multi-day affair, it's easy though, so don't worry. If you have a silicone baking pan, this is the perfect use for it. And remember, whatever flavour of ice cream you pour into the bottom of the cake pan will become the top of the cake, (in my case coconut, mango and then chocolate). Make whichever flavour of ice cream you want on the top of the cake first and when it's done in the ice cream maker, simply pour in into your cake pan and put it into the freezer to set. After making your second ice cream flavour simply pour it overtop of the first one, and so on, creating multiple layers. The sky's the limit with mixing ice cream flavours and layers. When you're done, let the ice cream cake set up in the freezer for a few hours, preferable overnight. If you've used a silicone mold to freeze it in simply flip it upside down onto a serving plate and peel off the mold. If you've used a normal cake pan you pan have to dip the bottom in hot water for a few second to release the ice cream, (alternatively you could have lined the cake pan with saran wrap). Decorate as you wish, I just melted and drizzled chocolate.
Coconut Ice Cream (from Anna Olson's Sugar)
1 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup coconut milk
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp coconut extract
dash salt
1/2 cup whipping cream, whipped
Beat cream cheese and sugar. Add coconut milk, lemon juice, extract and salt. Whip cream to soft peaks and fold in.
Freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.
Chocolate Ice Cream (from Joy of Baking)
2 cups (480 ml) half-and-half
1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons (50 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 vanilla bean or 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 ounces (55 grams) semisweet chocolate, chopped
4 large egg yolks
1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated white sugar
In a small saucepan gradually whisk together the half and half and the cocoa powder until it is a smooth paste. Place over medium-high heat and bring the half-and-half cocoa mixture and the vanilla bean (if using) to the scalding point (the milk begins to foam up). Remove from heat, take out the vanilla bean and scrape the seeds from the bean with the back of a knife, and mix the seeds back into the half-and-half. Add the chopped chocolate and stir until the chocolate has completely melted and is smooth.
Meanwhile in a stainless steel bowl beat the egg yolks and sugar until light and fluffy (about two minutes). Gradually pour the scalding half-and-half mixture into the whipped egg yolk mixture, making sure you keep whisking constantly so the eggs don't curdle. Place the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, cook until the custard thickens enough that it coats the back of a spoon (170 degrees F) (77 degrees C).
Immediately remove the custard from the heat and continue to stir the custard for a few minutes so it does not overcook. At this point stir in the vanilla extract, if using. Cover and let cool to room temperature and then refrigerate the custard until it is completely cold (several hours but preferably overnight).
Transfer the cold custard to the container of your ice cream machine and process according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Mango Sorbet A La Brilynn
3 ripe mangoes
½ cup water
½ cup sugar
Little splosh of coconut rum
Little squeeze of lime juice
Make a simple syrup by combining sugar and water in a small saucepan and brining it to a boil, stirring so that sugar dissolves. Removes from heat and let cool slightly. Put all ingredients into a blender and blitz until smooth. Put mixture in the fridge and let cool completely before freezing it in your ice cream machine.
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University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry requires all conditional accepted applicants, prior to matriculation, to submit to a criminal background check (CBC). A final decision about matriculation will be made after a review of the applicant's CBC.
The underlying principle for performing criminal background checks is:
Individuals who are offered a conditional acceptance to the Dugoni School of Dentistry must successfully complete a criminal background check (CBC) prior to matriculation into our DDS program. The CBC will serve to verify information provided in the application. The Dugoni School requires this criminal background screening process following conditional acceptance and prior to enrollment. The rationale for extending these requirements to incoming dental students is the concept of due diligence and competency.
The criminal background check will not be a component of the application, interview, or selection process but will be a mandatory component of the pre-matriculation process. The final decision regarding matriculation of an applicant will be based on the self-reported information in the candidate's application and information in the CBC report. Factors involved in the final decision may include, but are not limited to:
The information obtained through a criminal background check will not become part of a student's academic file and will remain confidential unless the findings result in an institutional action by the Dugoni School of Dentistry.
Only candidates offered class positions and alternate-list candidates will be asked to provide a criminal background check prior to matriculation.
Each candidate shall pay for his or her respective background screen estimated at $40.
Individuals who do not give permission to the conduct of the criminal background check or who fail to provide the report as required will not be allowed to matriculate into the educational program.
Criminal background checks will be facilitated by the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) AADSAS and conducted by ADEA selected vendor, Certiphi® Screening Inc. (CSI). Conditionally accepted individuals will be contacted by CSI after the admissions offer has been made to conduct a background check. Accepted individuals are responsible for the cost for the CBC. Copies of the CBC's report shall go to the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry admissions office and to the conditional accepted student.
Conditional accepted individuals understand that CSI was not involved in any decision that may adversely affect the individual. All information will be separately maintained in a confidential file. The background check document will be destroyed upon graduation/separation from the institution. The report shall include all convictions and deferred adjudications of a felony or misdemeanor level. Individuals will be provided with an opportunity to contest the accuracy of the contents of the report within a specified time period. Validated background reports found to be in conflict with responses on the application may be grounds for withdrawal of an offer of enrollment based upon submission of false or misleading information on the application. The existence of a conviction will not necessarily result in a denial of admission to our dental institution, its programs and/or its housing. Instead each case will be reviewed by a committee other than the admissions committee and evaluated on its facts. Examples of disqualifying criminal offenses are listed below.
This review committee shall include but is not limited to the Associate Dean for Student Services, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (or other administrative deans) and if necessary, the university attorney to clarify legal processes.
For more additional information, please visit ADEA's website: ADEA Criminal Background Checks.


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Pinaki posted a topic in HyderabadIf you read and think I am exaggerating, fabrication is just another style of Pinaki.... I go on my knees to say, I am little mad for beaches and this beach just unveiled the beauty of AP coastal line when I visited Chirala for the first time. I do carry the good memories and excitement in me b'coz it was planned overnight ( in less than 12 hours ) and did bring a name on my list that I can definitely visit more than once . There are two ways to reach this spot. You can either start early - take Nagarjuna Sagar Road, enjoy the sunrise , stop at Ethipothala waterfalls, click some pictures go towards Chilakaluripet and go towards Chirala. This route is not excellent or best road to drive and enjoy end to end though the first two spots are great to start your day and lose sometimes on way to Chirala Early Morning picture towards Nagarjuna Sagar Sunrise Picture. Ethipothala waterfalls inside the property of Haaritha. Take ORR - Exit gate 11 - Take Nalgonda Second route and recommended. Take ORR - Exit gate 11 - Take Nalgonda Road - Miriyalguda - Piduguralla - Narasaraopet - Chirala. Total Distance - 336 kms. The road is pretty good and have scenic beauty. You can definately mainatain a speed of 100 -120. There are three toll gates on the way. It takes 6 hours . We did start at 3.30 in the morning , had a break at Piduguralla and reached Chirala by 10.15 am. Stay Chirala has very limited options. I have tried my luck at two different spots. a) Sea Breeze Resort - Definitely a good place. Most of the travelers prefer staying here . Rooms on weekends go off soon and can be a problem if you go without booking. The resort has different varieties of rooms. Do not fall for room types. Request for information on the room location inside the resort, ventilation and facing of the room. Sea facing are only available with Deluxe room and cottages. Rest of the sea facing room are actually garden facing. Swimming Pool b) Lotus Buddha - The management is cooperative however the property is not well maintained . I was almost in depression of spending two nights at this resort. It is just in the middle of village with fishermen and local crowd. The smell and the not so maintained locality dampen the spirit and feeling for the place. Food You can definitely order your food at the resorts. The quality, quantity and the service support is very decent and well maintained. They do serve dinner on the beach at night. They charge you INR 500 for the effort. The experience is great if you go during full moon night. You see the sunset followed by the full Moon in the sky , high tide and the breeze. the variety of food is also quite grand at Sea breeze. You have options from fish to chicken to Biriyani . Atleast they serve you what you see on the menucard. A lot of people told me, they do order food from outside. Local villagers are great cook and serve you hot chicken and local dishes. Beach The beach is just opposite to the sea breeze property. My first trip was in September. The silver sand and the non sticky quality brings softness to your feet and happiness as you walk down the clean beaches. The water was so clear , it was literary blue. The beach is stretched over almost 7 kms and also have awesome tree lines across the road. Incase you feel you want a shade while you want to be on beach - simply go and take a seat under the shade and sip coconut water in the morning or in the afternoon and leisurely drink your fav one in the evening. Collect broken or new designed shell, shoot around with crabs , or just lie down on the silver sand. Check in - Check Out - Your check in time is 9 AM and check out is 9 PM. Breakfast is complimentary and includes Dosa, Idli, Kheer, Vada, Poori, Omlette, Juice , Tea, Coffee. There is no local spots to drive around. Though you can visit the local saree mill for some handwork sarees or can even drive down to Narasaoraopet for Kotappakonda Temple . The Temple is on the top of a hill and has amaziong scenic beauty. The drive up to 5kms is really amazing and can be a good disconnect for sometimes. Give Chirala a try! After all, small things bring more happiness so why you let this one go?


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Politically correct speech has corrupted our language to the point that sometimes we no longer know what we are talking about. Descriptive characterizations and appellations no longer correspond to reality.
Consider the following: terrorist attacks are now "man-caused disasters," people who entered our country illegally are labeled "undocumented immigrants," and "Social Security" is now called an "entitlement" even though the Federal Insurance Contributions Act mandates contributions from both the worker and the employer.
These conundrums may explain why so many people are confused and easily misled.
What does it mean to say the wealthy are not paying their "fair share" and that the poor deserve more? What is "fair"?
To the redistributionists, "fair" means equal and everyone is the same. This proposition implies wealth isn't fair because it makes people unequal. It also implies poor Americans deserve more money, but why does having less entitle you to get more?
Half the population is subsidized by some program or another, yet the liberals and socialists among us insist America is a greedy and mean-spirited country. The philosophy of wealth distribution is based on the idea that wealth is a negative. We cannot paint wealthy individuals as the enemy because they have money, and we can't consider the poor as morally deserving because they have less.
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Republican Ken Cuccinelli's activism on conservative issues such as abortion rights and gay marriage dogged him at a forum before Virginia technology leaders Thursday, while his Democratic foe, Terry McAuliffe, professed deep concern about local taxes that burden business, but couldn't prescribe his own solutions for them.
In their second joint appearance in three weeks, Cuccinelli and McAuliffe -- both of Fairfax County -- were questioned separately for almost two hours in their own backyard, mostly about tax and business initiatives, by members of the regionally influential Northern Virginia Technology Council, a voice for suburban Washington, D.C.'s burgeoning Internet and information technology industry.
The same question posed to both men, however, asked about hard-line conservative stances on issues such as rights for same-sex couples and for abortion that could affect Virginia's allure as a premium location for business, particularly at the doorstep to the nation's capital a few miles away.
Cuccinelli downplayed the activism on such issues, both as a state senator and the past four years as attorney general. It earned him the adoration of the GOP's Christian conservatives and tea party followers, but brought snickers and muffled laughter in Thursday's audience as a result of a follow-up question.
Asked by a woman about "historical pressure on women's health" in Virginia and how he would respond to further GOP efforts to curb abortion rights, Cuccinelli noted his campaign's disciplined focus so far was on issues of jobs and economic development.
"I am a defender of life and families, but it's not like I overdid this," he said as some in the crowd laughed.
He noted his position on a 2012 bill that would have mandated a vaginally invasive form of ultrasound examination for women before they have abortions, saying he opposed making the procedure mandatory but supported a requirement that if the procedure is done, its results be shared with the patient. The invasive procedure was deleted from the bill in favor of a mandated external ultrasonic exam, and it became law.
Others, he said, have infused conservative social issues into the campaign.
But Cuccinelli defended his decision to use the threat of denying legal representation to state Board of Health members if they adopted regulations that would have blunted the effect of another 2012 anti-abortion bill that holds stand-alone clinics that provide abortions to the same design safety standards as new hospitals. Defenders of the clinics said it would close nearly all of them across the state, and the board proposed exempting existing clinics and applying the rules only to new ones. The panel backed down and the stricter rules were adopted.
Cuccinelli sought to flip the issue around and raise questions about McAuliffe's murky role with an electric-car factory with ties to China that was opened in a Memphis, Tenn., suburb last year over Virginia while McAuliffe was its chairman.
"The last time my opponent had a chance to create a business, it was in that bastion of tolerance, Mississippi," said Cuccinelli, who the evening before had spent time with Republican former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.
Both candidates were asked how they'd make Virginia friendlier to business. Cuccinelli noted his plan to cut income tax rates for individuals and businesses and recoup some of the revenue by eliminating outdated tax breaks. But the focus was on three taxes that businesses find onerous but which are a major funding source for cities and counties: ones on machines and tools, inventory, and one businesses pay on gross receipts, not profits.
Cuccinelli acknowledged the taxes are harmful and said he'd empanel an advisory commission to study alternatives, noting that the gross-receipts levy -- the Business, Professional and Occupational License Tax -- dates to the War of 1812.
McAuliffe said he'd leave the issue to city and county governments, offering no guidance nor proposing executive action on his own if he's elected.
"Communities ought to look at these three taxes because they're regressive ... on business," McAuliffe said. "So if there's a way they could look at it and keep it revenue-neutral and do something else to replace it because it is stigmatizing the ability to start a small business."
In a region where traffic congestion adds hours to daily commutes, McAuliffe played up his support for Virginia's transportation funding reform law that takes effect in 10 days. The six-year highway construction plan the Commonwealth Transportation Board adopted Wednesday is about $6 billion fatter than the same package adopted a year ago thanks to the more than $1 billion annually the new law will generate.
"This is a big difference in the race. I publicly supported the plan. My opponent tried to stop it at each and every step," McAuliffe said.
Pressed on whether the transportation funding law would faces repeal if Cuccinelli is elected, the Republican acknowledged his misgivings about it, saying transportation policy needs to be decentralized from Richmond and that local land use decisions must be taken into consideration more in highway planning. But he said he would leave the law alone.
"I have no intention as governor of going back and revisiting that debate, to try to undo what has been done," he said.
Likewise, McAuliffe rejected Cuccinelli's claims that Virginia's historic right-to-work law, which prohibits compulsory union membership, would be endangered if McAuliffe is elected. The former Democratic National Committee chairman has deep ties to and financial support from labor unions.
"Right to work has been the law here in Virginia for 65 years and I wouldn't change it," McAuliffe said.
Va. Gubernatorial Candidates Share Stage at Tech Forum
Republican Ken Cuccinelli's activism on conservative issues such as abortion rights and gay marriage dogged him at a forum before Virginia technology leaders Thursday, while his Democratic foe, Terry McAuliffe, professed deep concern about local taxes that burden business, but couldn't prescribe his own solutions for them.


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With only a brief moment in which to set down their newly awarded Emmys, the "Modern Family" cast is back on air Wednesday night.
Eric Stonestreet, who just collected his second Emmy trophy as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy, promises that – beyond how the extended Dunphy/Prichett/Tucker clan deals with the surprise pregnancy of Gloria (Sofia Vergara) – everybody's got a little shakeup ahead, including his character Cam.
"Cam gets a job," Stonestreet reveals. "Lily is back to kindergarten and Cam has some free time on his hands so he figures out he needs to spend some time doing something. He gets a job as a music teacher at Luke and Manny's school, which is great!"
"The Halloween episode's coming up, which is gonna be really funny," adds Stonestreet. "Cam has some ideas of what he wants to be for Halloween and something goes wrong with that. And then the family has a yard sale together, and what you can always count on is some craziness happening."
Stonestreet says that after four seasons, there really is a familial tie among the cast and crew behind the scenes, especially since the adult actors took a united stand this summer to successfully lobby for larger paychecks.
"We do enjoy each other's company," he said. "We have a great time and I think the best thing is that we've all been with each other and stick together through breakups and illnesses and tragedies and now contact renegotiation and all that. So we've really solidified ourselves as a family. It's really neat knowing that we're gonna know each other for a long time."
Eric Stonestreet: "Modern Family" Shakeup Ahead
The Emmy winning actor, who plays Cam on the hit comedy, promises hilarious new twists.
With only a brief moment in which to set down their newly awarded Emmys, the "Modern Family" cast is back on air Wednesday night.


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The Wilderness Trace YMCA in Harrodsburg, KY, received a $500,000 grant to help kick off fundraising efforts on a $1.2 million renovation to be completed in early 2014.
The Community Development Block Grant will help the Y, which was formerly an armory building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, begin renovations to modernize its facility and transform its ground-level parking structure into a wellness center with locker rooms and a children's area. In addition, the city will clear adjacent properties to create a parking lot next to the facility.
Because the Y currently has just a gym, many of its programs are held at locations throughout the community. YMCA Director Sage Cutler told Club Industry that the expansion will allow the Y to offer more programming on site.
The YMCA renovation is at the heart of an even larger community project to transform the block that the facility sits on into a focal point of the community. In addition to the new Y fitness center, the block will include a farmer's market, a museum, walking trails and a swimming pool. The rest of the city improvements are estimated to cost more than $4 million and take another three to five years to complete depending on fundraising.
The YMCA board is in the process of planning and preparing a capital campaign to continue to raise funds for the facility as the first step in transforming the community.


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The cult centered on "global warming" alarmism is getting hot under the collar. People seem to have stopped paying attention and polls show "climate change" barely registers on a list of voters' concerns.
This can only mean, as losing politicians like to say, that their message isn't getting through. What to do? Why shout louder, of course.
A recent story in The New York Times sought to help alarmists raise the decibel level: "The countries of the world have dragged their feet so long on global warming that the situation is now critical, experts appointed by the United Nations reported Sunday, and only an intensive worldwide push over the next 15 years can stave off potentially disastrous climatic changes later in the century."
I guess we had better get ready for climate Armageddon then because China, one of the world's worst polluters, is not likely to comply.
The Obama administration and liberal politicians in general seem to promote climate change fiction in order to gain even more dominance over our lives. Apparently controlling one-sixth of the economy through Obamacare isn't enough for them.
Most of the "reporting" on the subject is decidedly one-sided, including President Obama's claim in his last State of the Union address that "The debate is settled. Climate change is a fact." Science is never settled, or it wouldn't be science. It is constantly testing, probing and searching for new information. That's why science textbooks are regularly revised as new discoveries are made.
The Times story was about a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Berlin. To read it one might think there is unanimity of opinion on the subject by panel members. Maybe that's true of current members of the panel, but it is instructive to read the comments by former IPCC member Richard Tol, who, among other things, is professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Professor Tol, writes Globalwarming.org, recently "accused the IPCC of being too alarmist about global warming and asked to have his name withdrawn from its recently released Working Group II report (WG2) on climate change impacts." In a recent article for the Financial Times titled "Bogus prophecies of doom will not fix the climate," Tol explains why, "Humans are a tough and adaptable species. People live on the equator and in the Arctic, in the desert and in the rainforest. We survived the ice ages with primitive technologies. The idea that climate change poses an existential threat to humankind is laughable."
German meteorologist Klaus-Eckart Puls goes further. He has written that contrary to the alarmists' claims of melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels, the rise in sea levels has declined 34 percent over the last decade. His report, which analyzed satellite data from TOPEX and JASON-1 and JASON-2 missions studying global ocean topography, concluded that the sea level rise has "slowed down significantly," and that "...it should not be speculated on whether the deceleration in the rise is a trend or if it is only noise. What is certain is that there is neither a 'dramatic' rise, nor an 'acceleration'. Conclusion: Climate models that project an acceleration over the last 20 years are wrong."
There are plenty of ways to check Puls' conclusions, including www.climatedepot.com, which provides links to the papers and work of climatologists and other scientists who take a decidedly different position from that of the climate change crowd. Some note the pressure placed on them to conform to the "faith" in order to receive government subsidies and donations from foundations and wealthy individuals.
Climate change is a fact? Don't think so.
The Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer, writes, "If climate science is settled, why do its predictions keep changing? And how is it that the great physicist Freeman Dyson, who did some climate research in the late 1970s, thinks today's climate-change Cassandras are hopelessly mistaken? ... Climate-change proponents have made their cause a matter of fealty and faith. For folks who pretend to be brave carriers of the scientific ethic, there's more than a tinge of religion in their jeremiads."
Yet another reason not to trust climate change alarmists.


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Fiscal Year 2003 Budget Request
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Fiscal Year 2003 Budget Request
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Fiscal Year 2003 Budget Request
Witnesses appearing before the
House Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations
March 13, 2002
appearing before the
Senate Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations
March 21, 2002
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
Kerry N. Weems
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
During Fiscal Year 2003, the field of genetics will observe a major anniversary, and the National Human Genome Research Institute will reach an unprecedented accomplishment. Fifty years ago, in the spring of 1953, Drs. James D. Watson and Francis Crick reported the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, a landmark achievement in the annals of scientific research. In 2003 the Human Genome Project expects to complete the final DNA sequence of the human genome. NHGRI and their partners in the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the working draft of the human genome sequence in June 2000, published the initial analysis in February 2001, and since then have been working to correct all the remaining spelling errors and fill in all the gaps. The Human Genome Project is on target to meet that deadline and expects to finish the analysis in time for the 50th anniversary of the Watson-Crick paper.
The availability of the genome sequence of humankind could be said to mark the starting point of the genome era in biology and medicine. There is now much important work to do to deliver on the promise that these advances in genomics offer for human health. While sequencing the human genome has been NHGRI's most visible goal, the Institute has also been conducting important genetic and genomic research in a variety of areas, including working to understand the way individuals differ from each other at the genetic level and the impact these variations may have on health. In addition, the Institute leads in the development of new technologies, such as DNA chips and tools for proteomics, and has been creating novel research strategies to study the function of genes and genomes.
A New Research Plan for NHGRI
The Human Genome Project has, since its inception, been guided by a series of overlapping five-year plans. These plans have laid out ambitious goals to advance our understanding of the human genome and the associated ethical, legal and social implications. The plans have been instrumental to the success of the Project by clearly enumerating our program objectives to the scientific community and the public, and by providing measurable objectives to guide our work and gauge our progress and success.
In December 2001, the NHGRI convened about 200 experts, including scientists, researchers in the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project, consumers, and policy experts to think very broadly and creatively about the future of genomics. Over the course of the following months, we will host several workshops to explore specific topics in detail and enumerate specific goals appropriate for NHGRI. We will take stock of where we are and where we have come from, critically evaluating the challenges and opportunities that lie before us and creating a bold new vision for the future of genomics.
Early and Stunning Results from the Human Genome Sequence
Obtaining an accurate reference version of the human sequence has always been the most compelling goal of the Human Genome Project. Between March 1999 and June 2000, the production of human genome sequence data in Institute-supported laboratories skyrocketed. During this time, scientists sequenced 1,000 DNA letters a second, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The resulting working draft sequence covered over 94 percent of the human genome, with 33 percent in highly accurate finished form by February 2001. By January 2002 the amount in highly accurate finished sequence had risen to 65 percent. The final sequence will be completed in 2003, two years ahead of the original ambitious schedule.
The draft sequence of the human genome is already having a major impact on biomedical research. In the 12 months following the February 2001 publication in Nature of the publicly funded draft sequence, the paper has been cited in over 700 scientific reports, making it one of the most cited papers in all of science for the past year. These citations clearly demonstrate the widespread utility of the publicly available genome sequence and its enormous early impact to advance biomedical research in a wide array of areas.
The rationale for the Human Genome Project, and the strong and sustained Congressional support for it, has been the promise of improving human health. We are already beginning to see the fruits of that investment. Some of the citations of the Nature publication represent research that could not have been accomplished in nearly the same way or would not have been as profound were it not for the draft sequence of the human genome. More than 50 genes involved in human disease have been discovered, based on access to the public human genome sequence data. The examples cited below show the direct connection the genome sequence is having on improving human health.
Prostate Cancer
Using the draft sequence of the human genome, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and the NHGRI have found the first gene associated with an inherited form of prostate cancer. In a study of 91 high-risk prostate cancer families the researchers mapped the first hereditary susceptibility to prostate cancer to a region of chromosome 1 that they called the Hereditary Prostate Cancer 1 Region, or HPC1. They have now identified a specific gene - called RNASEL - in the HPC1 region that contains DNA misspellings associated with prostate cancer. Misspellings in this one gene do not explain all forms of inherited prostate cancer, but the discovery of this gene is an exciting step towards understanding the causes of this common and devastating form of cancer. Ultimately, this discovery should bring us closer to being able to prevent the disease as well as better diagnostics and treatments.
Kidney Disease Gene
The recent identification of the gene for autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) by a team at the Mayo Clinic again shows the great power of the draft human sequence. The publicly available sequence of the human genome played an important role in the discovery of this disease-causing gene. With the identification of the responsible gene and the characterization of a rat model of the disease, rapid progress in understanding ARPKD can now be anticipated.
The Future of Genomics
The Human Genome Project and the NHGRI have always aimed to develop new information, tools and technologies that would enable scientists to gain a deeper understanding of the genetic contributions to disease, and to use this knowledge to improve human health. The imminent completion of the project's initial goals presents a compelling opportunity to focus aggressively on translating the spectacular research advances into medical advances. With the completion of the Human Genome Project soon at hand, much additional basic research, guided by a genomic approach, remains to be done to shed light on the many mysteries of life. At the same time, genome research offers a myriad of other opportunities for connecting detailed knowledge of the human genetic instruction book with important problems in clinical research. These basic and applied paths are not mutually exclusive, and finding the right balance between them, although challenging, will be the most effective approach in the end.
Comparative Genomics
To understand the function of the human genome sequence, scientists would like to compare it to the genome sequences of many other organisms. This approach relies on the fact that functionally important regions of DNA are conserved over long periods of evolutionary time. By comparing the human genome sequence with those of the rat, mouse, and other organisms, similar regions are readily apparent, indicating that something biologically interesting -- such as the existence of a gene or important regulatory element -- must be present at that location of the genome.
Simplifying the Study of Complex Genetic Diseases: The Haplotype Map of the Human Genome
Prior to the completion of the draft sequence of the human genome, most studies of diseases using genetics focused on single gene disorders such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. With the tools of the Human Genome Project, finding the genes for diseases caused by alterations in single genes has become relatively straightforward. Many common diseases, however, such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, psychiatric disorders, and asthma are influenced by complex interactions between multiple genes as well as by non-genetic factors such as diet, exercise, smoking and exposure to toxins.
A key next step of the Human Genome Project will be the generation of a "haplotype map" of the human genome. This comprehensive resource for human biomedical research will capture the complete catalogue of the common genome ancestral segments - "haplotype blocks" - observed in the major human populations. This map will provide a new tool for scientists to scan the entire genome and identify more rapidly and effectively those genetic variations associated with disease risk and drug response in the human population. That, in turn, will help researchers develop an understanding of the complex biological processes that give rise to the disease and assist scientists in discovering treatments or cures for these illnesses. This new and exciting project is expected to be a public-private partnership and the data will be immediately and freely accessible.
Health Disparities Strategic Plan
From its inception NHGRI has been concerned about including individuals from various groups in its activities. As the Institute has grown in size and complexity the need for this has become even more imperative and a variety of initiatives have been started and continue to evolve to address this need. The NHGRI staff recognizes the inherent value of increasing diversity among the research workforce as well as engaging and empowering people from minority communities through joint research projects, information sharing, dialogue and the development of partnerships. In order to achieve these goals, NHGRI has developed a plan that lays out a multifaceted approach to address issues of health disparities. The plan encompasses research, training, and education/outreach activities.
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
From its inception, NHGRI has taken on the responsibility to address the broader ethical implications of rapid advances in genetic information and technology. Since 1991, it has committed 5 percent of its budget to studying the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genome research.
The ELSI Research Program has continued to support significant and innovative research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of human genome research. Research projects supported in FY 2001 included projects in the areas of the privacy and fairness in the use and interpretation of genetic information; clinical integration of new genetic technologies; issues surrounding genetics research; and public and professional education.
As the Institute develops its new research plan, the ELSI issues will be carefully integrated. It will be extremely important to consider these issues as new fields of genomic discovery appear. It will also be essential for ELSI funded research to inform policy development in the area of genetics.
Education and Outreach
National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics
In 1996, along with the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, the NHGRI founded the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics as a national effort to promote health professional education and access to information about advances in human genetics.
NHGRI/ORD Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center
There are more than 6,000 genetic and rare diseases afflicting more than 25 million Americans, but many of these illnesses affect relatively few individuals. As a result, information about these rare disorders may be limited or difficult to find. In order to respond to this need, the NHGRI and the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) have established the NHGRI/ORD Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center to provide information on genetic and rare disorders to the public. The Information Center will meet the ever-increasing information needs of the general public, including patients and their families, health care professionals, and biomedical researchers by: 1) serving as a central, national repository of information materials and resources on genetic and rare diseases; 2) collecting and disseminating information on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of genetic and rare disorders; and 3) coordinating with organizations and associations interested in genetic and rare disorders.
The investment in the Human Genome Project is already paying off in terms of advances in biomedical science that promise unprecedented advances in human health. We are moving into a new phase of genomics which will give us a deeper understanding of the genetic contributions to disease. Our vision is that by focusing on the applications of genetics to human health we will make great strides towards treating and curing many complex diseases.
NIH budget request includes the performance information required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. Prominent in the performance data is NIH's second annual performance report which compared our FY 2001 results to the goals in our FY 2001 performance plan.
Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to present the President's budget request for the National Human Genome Research Institute for Fiscal Year 2003, a sum of $466,695,000, which reflects an increase of $35,977,000 over the comparable Fiscal Year 2002 appropriation.
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
April 14, 1950. Staunton, Virginia
University of Virginia, 1970 - B.S. (with Highest Honors);
Yale University, 1972 - M.S.; Yale University, 1974 - Ph.D.;
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1977 - M.D. (with Honors)
Professional History:
1977-1981, Intern, Resident, Chief Resident in Medicine, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 1981-1984, Fellow in Human Genetics and Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. 1984-1993, Assistant, Associate and then Full Professor of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1987-1993 Assistant, Associate, and then Full Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 1993 to present, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
Professional Organizations:
American Society of Human Genetics; American Society for Clinical Investigation; Association of American Physicians; Institute of Medicine; National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Awards and Honors:
Morehead Foundation Fellow, 1973-1977; Alpha Omega Alpha, elected Junior year, President of UNC chapter, 1976-1977; Hartford Foundation Fellowship, 1985-1987; Paul di Sant'Agnese Award of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 1989; Gairdner Foundation International Award, 1990; National Medical Research Award, National Health Council, 1991; American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, 1994; The Baxter Award for Distinguished Research in Biomedical Sciences, Association of American Medical Colleges, 1994; Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation National Award for Scientific Distinction, 1995; Breath of Life Award, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 1997; Mendel Medal, Villanova University, 1998; Champions of Pediatric Research Award, Children's National Medical Center, 1998; Shattuck Lecture, Massachusetts Medical Society, 1999; Arthur S. Flemming Public Service Award, 1999; Association of American Physicians, George M. Kober Lecture Award, 2000; Scientist of the Year, National Disease Research Interchange, 2000; The Biotechnology Industry Organization and The Chemical Heritage Foundation Third Annual Biotechnology Award, 2001; Warren Triennial Prize Lecture, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2002.
Honorary Doctoral Degrees:
Emory University, Mary Baldwin College, Yale University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, George Washington University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University
Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Management and Budget
NAME: Kerry N. Weems
POSITION: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget
BIRTHPLACE: Portales, New Mexico
B.A., Philosophy, New Mexico State University, 1978
BBA, Management, New Mexico State University, 1978
MBA, University of New Mexico, 1981
2001 - present: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget, HHS
1996 - present: Director, Division of Budget Policy, Execution and Management, HHS
1991 - 1996: Chief, Budget Planning Branch, HHS
1988 - 1991: Program Analyst, Office of Budget, HHS
1983 - 1988: Program and Budget Analyst, HHS
(Social Security Administration)
1981 - 1983: Staff Member, United States Senate
2001: Presidential Rank Award
1995: Secretary's Distinguished Service Award
1993: HHS Senior Management Citation
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