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Selig honored with humanitarian award
Robinson family, Torre on hand to support Commissioner
NEW YORK -- In the more than two decades Bud Selig has been Commissioner of Major League Baseball, the landscape has been dramatically transformed. There is labor peace and, not coincidentally, record attendance and revenues. New stadiums have sprouted. Wild Cards and Interleague Play have been introduced. The World Baseball Classic has made baseball a global industry.
And none of that had anything to do with why Selig was at the St. Regis Hotel on Thursday night to accept the B'nai B'rith International 2013 Distinguished Humanitarian Award.
The Commissioner talks often about the sport's role as a social institution. And it's not just words. There are Urban Youth Academies and the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program. There is Stand Up 2 Cancer, not to mention the Mother's Day breast cancer and Father's Day prostate cancer initiatives and skin cancer awareness.
There are programs to support veterans and the Boys & Girls Clubs. There is rapid response to natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy. The Commissioner's Community Initiative. The Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation. P.L.A.Y (promoting active lifestyles for kids). Lou Gehrig's Disease research. And so much more.
That's why Selig was honored before an audience of baseball dignitaries including pioneer Jackie Robinson's daughter, Sharon, and former Yankees manager Joe Torre, now MLB's executive vice-president of baseball operations.
"The words of Jackie Robinson remind us that a life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives," Selig said. "Our game serves as a common bond for millions of fans, giving us a unique platform that enables us to touch our communities in significant ways. In the memory of Jackie Robinson, we honestly strive to make an impact on our fans and the causes they care about."
In a 15-minute acceptance speech, Selig quoted not only Robinson but former President Woodrow Wilson, playwright George Bernard Shaw, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Disney. The common theme was taken from the 20th President: To whom much is given, much is expected.
"The last decade has represented a Golden Age for this sport. In turn, that prosperity has created a remarkable opportunity for us to support organizations in the name of the betterment of our society. Major League Baseball is honored that our game is in a position to make an impact on the lives of others. Make no mistake, we are grateful for that distinction every single day," he explained.
"President Wilson said, 'You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable to make the world live more happily, with greater vision with a clear spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that.'
"We use our platforms to promote diversity and tolerance and to raise awareness on issues that demand our attention. We respond to crises and disasters ... knowing we have the influence to set an example for others. Baseball instills life values. Sportsmanship. The importance of day in and day out effort. We are living up to our stature as a social institution with many important responsibilities away from our green fields and blue skies."
Robinson, accompanied by her mother Rachel, and Torre made the introductory comments.
"Baseball remains our society's foremost common thread," Sharon Robinson said. "And the Commissioner has made the most of his chance to make a difference through its hallowed stature. I'm so pleased that his cognizance of the game's potential to be a force for good, has led to such a strong spirit of service and breadth of activities that have helped the lives of others. He has impressed on all 30 Major League clubs that their most remarkable opportunity is not on the diamond but within their communities and in the lives of the fans who support them."
Torre noted that Major League Baseball has been a strong supporter of his Safe at Home Foundation, which deals with domestic violence.
"The work he has done with baseball, through baseball, honoring our children, our veterans, battling cancer, victims of disaster. There are so many efforts that baseball has been a part of and supported," he said.
Allan J. Jacobs, president of B'nai B'rith, said Selig "has made the great game of baseball synonymous with care and compassion." The inscription on the award references "outstanding commitment to community service and philanthropic leadership."
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BEIJING, January 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the term "urbanization" has become a key word discussed by economists and politicians, especially experts from the real estate industry, after a plan for promoting new "urbanization" was released by the 18th National Congress of Communist Party of China ("NCCPC") held on November 8, 2012. Experts predict that the real estate market in third-tier cities, the key areas for promoting urbanization, will have enormous potential for development. In addition, urbanization will also benefit the development of supporting industries and directly drive local construction of various infrastructures affecting people's livelihood.
"Urbanization" has not only been listed in the national strategy in the 18th NCCPC, but it has also been deemed as a historical task of modernization in China by China's Central Economic Work Conference.
As Ha Jiming, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Strategist of the Investment Management Department (China) of Goldman Sachs, said, urbanization will drive up investment in several fields, such as healthcare, education, water, power and transportation. Generally, the consumption per capita of urban residents is 3 times higher than that of rural residents. Therefore, when rural residents become urban residents, their consumption will rise, and the consumption level will be upgraded too.
Zhu Zhongyi, Vice Chairman of the China Real Estate Industry Association, also said that the reason why urbanization is regarded as an important engine for future economic development and the largest potential for boosting domestic demand is that it can drive both investment and consumption, including investment in infrastructure construction and real estate development.
The Plan for Promoting Sound Development of Urbanization in China (2011-2020) jointly prepared by more than 10 ministries and commissions, such as Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Land and Resources, and Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, under the leadership of the National Development and Reform Committee, will be published before or after "two sessions" are held in 2013 (namely the National People's Congress and the Political Consultative Conference, NPC & CPPCC). Construction in over 20 city clusters, including more than 180 cities at municipal level or above, and more than ten thousand towns, will be mapped out in such a plan.
According to the aforesaid plan, the future construction of new urbanization in China will depend on large cities and focus on medium- and small-size cities, and will gradually form city clusters with a high radiation effect and promote harmonious development among large cities, medium- and small-size cities, and small towns. Furthermore, the development of urbanization will promote the transformation from excessive expansion to quality upgrading.
"Obviously, the key areas of urbanization will be the regions and cities with low rates of urbanization," an analyst at Citic Securities said. Third-tier cities will, of course, benefit from the urbanization.
Data shows that sales volume of commodity houses in 13 national city clusters accounted for 80.84% of that in all cities at the municipal level or above in 2010, up 0.92% from 2005. This means that house sales have become more intensive in large cities. As an analyst at Credit Suisse Group predicted, the new urbanization wave will need investment in real estate and efforts in industrial manufacturing, and will also release great potential consumption.
Moreover, the strategy of new urbanization also benefits real estate enterprises. The real estate sector continuously takes the lead in the stock market, especially Vanke, Evergrande and Country Garden, which are the real estate enterprises with the largest number of projects in third-tier cities.
Data shows that, since the idea of new urbanization was issued by the 18th NCCPC last year, the share price of Evergrande, which owns the largest number of projects in third-tier cities, has continuously risen from 3.87 yuan to 4.5 yuan, up 16.3%, owing to the policy of urbanization. In addition, Vanke's share price, though it has declined slightly, also keeps rising; from 8.75 yuan in the last trading day in November of 2012 to 10.12 yuan as the closing quotation in the first trading day of 2013, up 15.66%.


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The Latin American Studies Program invites you to a talk by Daniela Gleizer, Professor of History at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Cuajimalpa, México). The talk will be given in Spanish.
Prof. Gleizer's Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, she emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country's blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered "inassimilable" and therefore "undesirable."
Through her analysis of Mexico's role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country's traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted.
This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.
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NBC's Lester Holt reports from Norfolk, Va., where nearly 60 million people are on severe storm watch as Hurricane Sandy threatens more than 800 miles of the Eastern Seaboard from Maine to South Carolina.
Updated at 8:21 p.m. ET -- Superstorm Sandy strengthened Monday as it bore down on the East Coast, shutting down public transportation and leading to the first weather-related closure of U.S. stock market in 27 years.
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Forecasters say the massive storm has the potential to be one of the most damaging ever to hit the United States. Here is a look at the figures that make up the storm. We'll be updating these numbers throughout the day.
Number of people affected: Expected to affect between 50 million and 60 million;
Tides are forecasted to be more than 11 feet in New York City, higher than the city has ever seen. As a result, Wall Street could be closed for several more days. NBC's Harry Smith reports.
Number of deaths blamed on Sandy: 65 in the Caribbean.
Size of storm: Nearly 1,000 miles wide;
States impacted: Nine states, Washington, D.C., and a coastal county in North Carolina have declared states of emergency;
Ground speed of storm: 28 miles per hour as of 2 p.m. ET Monday;
Speed of winds: 90 mph. Tropical storm-force winds extended 485 miles from the center;
Number of flights canceled: More than 10,000 flights were canceled through Tuesday, according to FlightAware.com, and that number is expected to grow into Wednesday;
Number of people told to evacuate: 375,000 in NYC; 50,000 in Delaware; 30,000 in Atlantic City, N.J.;
TODAY's Al Roker reports from Point Pleasant, N.J., where water is starting to come over the dunes as Hurricane Sandy strengthens. Due to the full moon, high tides are expected to add to the storm surge, which could rise to 11 feet.
Number of customers without power: As of 2:59 p.m. ET, 3.1 million were without power, most of them in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Get the latest news on Superstorm Sandy on NBCNews.com
Heaviest rainfall: Up to 12 inches in isolated regions of Mid-Atlantic states;
Inches of snow: Up to 12 inches in some areas expected. In addition, up to three feet of snow expected in the Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia to Kentucky;
Size of storm surge: 4 to 11 feet across much of the affected area;
BreakingNews.com's coverage of Sandy
Number of NYC students affected by Monday and Tuesday's school closure: 1.1 million;
Number of public transport riders without service Monday in NYC, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey: More than 10 million;
Gerry Broome / AP
After strong winds and heavy rain washed out bridges and damaged homes in multiple countries, the hurricane looks toward the northeastern U.S.
Miles of subway track closed in New York City alone: Nearly 660;
FEMA's estimate for potential wind damage alone: $2.5 to $3 billion;
Residential properties at risk of damage: Nearly 284,000, valued at $88 billion;
Number of Atlantic City casinos shut down: 12.
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I tried to walk towards the south side of the plaza, near the entry to the US Customs Courthouse (aka the James L. Watson Court of International Trade Building), but was shooed away by the security dude. He said the public isn't allowed along that section of the plaza, between the building and the southernmost planting bed.
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HTC has unveiled its next-generation HTC Desire smartphone — called the HTC Desire S — and it has already been confirmed for an Australian release in the "first half" of 2011.
Read our original HTC Desire review, and check out how it stacked up against the iPhone 4 in our iPhone 4 vs HTC Desire smartphone showdown.
Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, Spain, the HTC Desire S is best described as an evolution of the original HTC Desire; it is essentially the same phone wrapped in an aluminium "unibody" shell; it is a design that HTC also used on its Desire HD and Legend Android smartphones.
The HTC Desire S features the same 3.7in, capacitive touchscreen, 1GHz Qualcomm processor, and 5-megapixel camera as its predecessor, with a minor RAM increase — 768MB up from 576MB — the biggest change under the hood. The Desire S also gets a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls.
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FXCM Deploys Matching Engine in Equinix IBX Data Center in Tokyo
Leading financial services provider benefits from proximity to liquidity providers and FX platforms
TOKYO. – November 15, 2013 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that FXCM Inc.(NYSE: FXCM), a leading online provider of foreign exchange (FX), trading and related services worldwide, has selected Equinix's Tokyo-3 (TY3) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center to deploy its second global matching engine. The expansion into Tokyo, a key regional hub for FX electronic trading in Asia, helps FXCM provide faster, high performance trading services for its customers in the region. FastMatch, a joint venture among FXCM, Credit Suisse Group AG and BNY Mellon, also plans to deploy its matching system for foreign exchange trading, in the same facility in early 2014.
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- At the end of the third quarter 2013, there were over 188,000 tradable accounts on platforms offered by FXCM. According to the Bank for International Settlements, Japan ranks in the top two foreign exchange hubs in Asia, with yen transactions jumping 63 percent between 2010 and 2013, the biggest increase in activity among major currencies.
- To address the continued growth of its customer base and FX trading volumes in Asia, FXCM chose Equinix for its highly secure and reliable data center services that enable its customers to trade at a faster execution speed. Building on the success and confidence of deploying in Equinix's IBX data center in New York in 2009, FXCM has chosen to deploy another matching engine in TY3.
- Strategically located within Tokyo's city center, TY3 offers FXCM the advantage of close proximity to major financial exchanges in Japan, as well as liquidity providers and institutional investors who are increasingly adopting cross-asset trading execution strategies, including FX. Close proximity combined with access to the broadest choice of networks in the region, and over 950 globally, enables FXCM to improve network latency by 95 percent, enhancing trading performance for its customers.
- FastMatch, a matching system for foreign exchange trading, plans to deploy an additional matching engine in the same facility in 2014. With FastMatch located in TY3, customers will have access to real time transparent quotes and trade information, as well as a large pool of diversified liquidity at unparalleled speed in Japan and across the Asia-Pacific region.
- Kazunori Iida, managing director, FXCM Japan:
"The deployment of our global matching engine in one of Equinix's IBX data centers in Tokyo is a strategic move for FXCM to further expand our business and market leadership in online FX trading. The proximity to liquidity providers and FX trading platforms inside Equinix's financial ecosystem is critical for us to provide high-speed and reliable online trading for our customers in Asia Pacific. We're pleased to announce that all of our Japan users with accounts are now live and trading on the Japan system."
- David Wilkinson, senior director, financial services and enterprise, Equinix Asia-Pacific:
"Over the years, we've witnessed huge demand for data center services in Japan driven by financial services companies, trading platforms and liquidity providers. TY3 offers extensive network choice and the ability to interconnect with a wide range of customers, business partners and service providers to support Equinix's financial services customers. FXCM's deployment of its second global matching engine demonstrates our strength in providing premium data center services and fortifies the global financial ecosystem inside Equinix."
About FXCM
FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM) is a global online provider of foreign exchange (forex) trading and related services to retail and institutional customers world-wide.
At the heart of FXCM's client offering is No Dealing Desk forex trading. Clients benefit from FXCM's large network of forex liquidity providers enabling FXCM to offer competitive spreads on major currency pairs. Clients have the advantage of mobile trading, one-click order execution and trading from real-time charts. FXCM's U.K. subsidiary, Forex Capital Markets Limited, also offers CFD products with no re-quote trading and allows clients to trade oil, gold, silver and stock indices along with forex on one platform. In addition, FXCM offers educational courses on forex trading and provides free news and market research through DailyFX.com
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,400 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world's most networked data centers. Today, businesses leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 31 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. www.equinix.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.


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City gives restaurant flack over Irish flag | News
ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. -- The pride of Culhane's Irish Pub, their Irish flag, has been put in storage after the business was served a written citation by the city of Atlantic Beach Code Officer.
The written citation, dated February 20th, states they can comply by ceasing to "display flags other than American."
"The flag is considered a pennant or a banner and those are prohibited in Atlantic Beach for commercial businesses," said Maria Mark, Mayor Pro Tem for the city of Atlantic Beach.
According to chapter 17 of the city of Atlantic Beach ordinances, the American flag is the only one that can be displayed, no exceptions.
So, after eight years of representing their homeland, the Irish pub will be without it's nation's flag on the biggest holiday of the year, St. Patrick's Day.
"Shocked. This is America, the land of every nationality," said Michelle Culhane, part owner of Culhane's Irish Pub. "I couldn't believe they made us take down our Irish flag."
First Coast News asked the city why the law is suddenly being enforced.
We were told it was just an oversight, but one that will be addressed.
Mark took her concerns about the ambiguity of the law to the city manager and then to the Community Development Board in an effort to change the verbiage of the law and allow other nations' flags.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Politicians, lawyers and academics are gathering to advance a united effort by more than a dozen Caribbean nations to seek slavery reparations from three European nations.
The regional conference in St. Vincent is the first major step at advancing the reparations effort since the Caribbean Community organization announced it in July. Representatives from all the 15 member nations and territories are attending the gathering.
St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves told attendees Monday that the matter of reparations is a "fundamental, defining matter of our age."
British lawyer Martyn Day says the Caribbean nations are seeking to negotiate a settlement "based on the impact of slavery on Caribbean societies today."
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Glenn Reynolds has rescued his interview last year with Utah's prospective Fourth District Republican congressional candidate Mia Love from the archives. Love narrowly lost her race last year to incumbent Fourth District Rep. Jim Matheson. With the pending retirement of Mathewson from Congress, Love is in the air. Roll Call notes that she is the clear front-runner for Matheson's seat. Her campaign Web site is here. Glenn asks Love about »
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What's even more interesting for me is how my mobile browsing habits have gradually changed into something very different from my desktop browsing habits. A couple of years ago, I used to visit roughly the same sites on both devices, but over time I found myself visiting some websites more from my mobile, and other websites more from my desktop computer.
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A Beaufort Memorial Hospital nurse has been honored with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, a national tribute reserved for RNs who go above and beyond the call of duty.
Bluffton resident Laura Hawkins, a nurse in the hospital's oncology unit, received the award for her efforts to comfort a dying 31-year-old father, distressed his children would forget him.
The patient was a Marine who had been deployed before being diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Hawkins and her colleagues at BMH had cared for the young man throughout his treatment.
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The 29th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) has announced their programming! This annual event is the largest and most prestigious of its kind and we often look to them for inspiration and advice (just like an older sibling). This stellar event is taking place March 10-20, 2011 — check it out if you can!
We are thrilled to announce SUITE SUITE CHINATOWN, our special commissioned project from 2010 Reel Asian will be making a tour stop in San Francisco on March 14 with Directors Heather Keung, Aram Siu Wai Collier, Lillian Chan in attendance and Toronto-based composer Arthur Yeung performing with local San Fran musician Jack Tong. Click here for more details.
Other Reel Asian films and filmmakers that will be presenting work at SFIAAFF:
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All season long, Fisher looked old and slow. He made ordinary point guards on other teams look like Hall of Famers. He wasn't hitting jumpers, he wasn't getting to the rim. He was hurting the team.
Then the playoffs started, and it's like a whole different Fisher.
Not a dominant one, but solid one. And that's all the Lakers really need.
Suddenly he's a guy who has used his physicality on defense to guide Deron Williams to help and keep the Jazz star in check (as much as he can be kept in check). In the first half of game one, the Lakers went with their defensive stopper — Ron Artest — on Williams, but when the game was on the line at the end it was Fisher on him. Because he was doing a good job.
The playoffs mean Fisher can suddenly shoot again. His 38 percent regular season shooting average is suddenly 43.5 percent. His 34 percent from three is suddenly 44 percent. He is getting the same looks, but there is something about Fisher when the pressure is on.
The shots go in.
The Lakers triangle offense does not ask a lot of its point guards. First, organize the offense and set it in motion — the one thing Fisher did well all season, the one reason he continued to get key minutes all year (Jordan Farmar and Shannon Brown both struggled with this). Second, hit open shots. Third, play some defense.
Those latter two were missing in the regular season, but they have been back for the playoffs.
This is a guy Kobe trusts — and Kobe does not trust easily — because he has hit the big shots. He did it again in the NBA Finals last year, key threes in game four. He hit three of six from three in the game where the Lakers closed out the pesky Oklahoma City Thunder. There is good reason Kobe likes to go to war with him.
The Lakers still need to sort out their point guard situation this summer. Fisher at age 36 cannot be the lead point guard again for a full season. The Lakers need a change.
At least for the regular season. In the playoffs, we know what Fisher is going to show up.
Kurt Helin lives in Los Angeles and is the Blogger-in-Chief of NBC's NBA blog Pro Basketball Talk (which you can also follow in twitter).


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US Secret Surveillance Court Approves All Domestic Spying Requests For A Second Year In A Row
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For the second year running, all snooping-on-citizens requests have been granted by our nation's most secret court, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States "for foreign intelligence purposes," the Justice Department reported this week.This surveillance was supposed to be limited to American citizens in contact with entities outside of the United States, but requesters found that adding the words "Al Qaeda" into the mix allowed eavesdropping on email and phone calls that never leave the country. This being a secret court, one running without oversight and immune from lawsuits, it seems operatives can request pretty much anything and have it approved. It's the ultimate rubber stamp process and one that can be asked for after the fact. Even a still-theoretical rejection can't slow down the spying.
The 2012 figures represent a 5 percent bump from the prior year, when no requests were denied either.
The legislation does not require the government to identify the target or facility to be monitored. It can begin surveillance a week before making the request to the secret court, and the surveillance can continue during the appeals process if, in a rare case, the spy court rejects the surveillance application.On the
The same Justice Department report this week said the government issued 15,229 National Security Letters last year, down from 16,511 in 2011.We'll have to see how much this number tails off in 2013 considering a federal judge ruled these letters unconstitutional in March. There's no reason to stop writing these letters quite yet, though. The ruling has been stayed for 90 days pending the administration's appeal. Given the track record of this administration (and the last), one would expect these letters to live a full, healthy (and unconstitutional) life, perhaps revived by an Executive Order or some sort of "national safety/security" exemption.
On top of the usual concerns about increased surveillance of American citizens is the fact that this 2-page "report" gives us no useful information about whether all of this spying is actually having any impact in the War on Terror.
As an instrument of public oversight, the annual reports on FISA are only minimally informative. They register gross levels of activity, but they provide no measures of quality, performance or significance. Neither counterintelligence successes nor failures can be discerned from the reports. Nor can one conclude from the data presented that the FISA process is functioning as intended, or that it needs to be curbed or refined.The less data there is available, the fewer questions there are to answer. Right now, there's plenty of questions, but until the courts force the issue (a route that doesn't look terribly promising, despite the recent decision on National Security Letters), these questions can be safely ignored.
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Our sputtering economy needs workers with more of that entrepreneurial spirit. Think tank Civic Ventures suggests they might come from an unexpected demographic: workers who are approaching middle age or their retirement years.
The group found that 1 in 4 Americans between ages 44 and 70 wants to build an enterprise – and nearly half of them want it to be a business with a strong social impact.
Might late-in-life entrepreneurs have the experience to be successful in the business and social sectors simultaneously? With help, yes, posits Civic Ventures, which focuses on baby boomers, work, and social purpose.
To support these second-stage entrepreneurs, Civic Ventures annually awards 10 individuals over the age of 60 with "Purpose Prizes" that include top grants of $100,000 for recipients to invest in their business and social organizations.
These so-called "encore entrepreneurs" are challenging the convention that the second half of life should be spent playing endless rounds of golf, jokes Randal Charlton, a 71-year-old entrepreneur and Purpose Prize recipient.
"Not all entrepreneurs are kids in college dorms, eating Ramen noodles, working through the night," Charlton says. "There's a generation of baby boomers who want to start businesses too. We have to give them tools to do so."
Until recently, Charlton was the executive director of TechTown, an incubator that supports other encore entrepreneurs in the Detroit-area, a city that he says "began decaying ahead of the rest of the country."
Earlier this year, the Kauffman Foundation reported that this bracket of entrepreneurs (between ages 55 and 64) saw a significant increase on the "Index of Entrepreneurial of Activity" in the last two years.
Civic Ventures' new report determined that encore entrepreneurs are seeking small amounts of capital, about $50,000 or less, to launch their ventures.
"This is small-scale, local, almost personal entrepreneurship, not tech IPO or paradigm-shifting social entrepreneurship," says David Bank, vice president of Civic Ventures. "These businesses require little start-up capital, produce modest but respectable income, and serve real and demonstrated needs with proven business models. People really can create their own jobs."
Since 2007, Charlton has led the Detroit-based business incubator, TechTown, which transformed an abandoned auto plant into a hub for new businesses. The building now houses over 250 enterprises, a dozen of which have turned a profit in the last two years, and several others that are on the cusp of doing so. They range from mom-and-pop corner shop ventures to stem cell innovators.
Charlton, a serial entrepreneur himself who's started 14 companies, is less concerned with the bottom line and more with the "moral compass" of companies, encouraging them to consider social impact as well as profit. He is now the leader of BOOM!, a Tech Town affiliate focused on supporting older entrepreneurs like himself.
Residing in recession-stricken Detroit, he sees the aging baby boomer generation as an asset, not a liability for the American economy.
"We can see this aging population as an economic problem or as the economic solution," he says. "I think they can be part of the solution. We've just got to help them 'shift gears,' retrain them, and help them apply all their years of experience to something new."
That's what BOOM! will try to do by having a "mall of experts," who can guide encore entrepreneurs with programs and workshops that will help them restructure their past experiences for a new business.
For Charlton, it'll be a natural extension of TechTown.
While Charlton will address the Detroit community, Civic Ventures hopes to spur more national awareness of this untapped segment of the population.
"We hope to catalyze relationships and training that may be useful in order to help people turn their aspirations into action," Bank says. "We'd like to see more mentorship programs for entrepreneurs, more community college courses on starting a nonprofit, more fellowships that can give people an understanding of the nonprofit sector, better financing options for encore entrepreneurs,"
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Spend any time at your office water cooler and you'll hear all kinds of debates regarding Prop 19. That's the measure on the November 2 ballot that, if passed, would essentially legalize marijuana for recreational use.
As that debate rages on, the city of Oakland passed a measure Tuesday to legalize and tax large scale marijuana growing operations for medical use. The city is now looking at the potential of growing 20 percent of the state's medical marijuana to the tune of about $38 million a year in taxes.
So how does it work? The city will now issue as many as six permits that will allow "industrial" cultivation. But having a permit comes with tight restrictions. Heavy regulation that starts with a $5,000 application fee and a $2,000 annual registration fee. We're talking about the potential of 6 large scale operations with no limitations on the size of each growing area. Did you get that part? No size restrictions.
Imagine a pot farm the size of a football field. How about one the size of a golf course?
Lots of weed which will equate to lots of much needed tax dollars.
Oakland currently has 4 dispensaries that grossed $28 million last year. That's a 40-percent increase from 2008. The business of buds is obviously good.
One reason for the passage of the measure is to undercut small time home growers. That's serious business to the city's PD and Fire departments. Fires and robberies at many of these smaller operations keep them hopping year round. Home growers tend to install their own growing systems. These include lights and electrical components that can be hazardous if not installed and maintained properly.
Residential electrical fires in Oakland rose from 133 in 2006 to 276 in 2009. Police can link eight robberies, seven burglaries and two homicides directly to cannabis cultivation over the past 2 years.
So what if Prop 19 passes? What if it becomes legal for anyone over 21 to use and posses? Projections show that could drive the price down from $350 an ounce to about $70 per ounce. Growing weed illegally is a costly endeavor considering the equipment involved and the risk of being arrested and going to the poky. According to the Rand Corporation the passage of Prop 19 could put small time growers out of business and billions of dollars into California's coffers.
So Oakland now leads the charge in the legalization and taxation of big scale medicinal pot farms. With the potential of so much money coming in, the question is will other cities follow?


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You never realize how dependent you are on certain things until they're gone....
This week, it's the computer. My computer genius of a brother-in-law is in the process of helping me fix the problems, but right now, I can't do much. I think I have some sort of virus or something....the other day, it just crashed right in the middle of what I was doing. I panicked, because when I was trying to get everything up (like, all of my pictures/videos/precious things of my boys that I have recorded!) it wouldn't come up! Luckily, Roger helped me locate and save everything to a disk....and yes, I have now learned my lesson, because if I had lost all of that stuff, I would have been devasted!
Anyway, this silly contraption is still kicking me off of the internet after about 8 minutes, so I don't have long to blog....just wanted to let everyone know that we are doing great here, other than the computer issue, which is hopefully soon to be resolved. I'll be back soon with lots of neat things, including some video of Ethan singing "On top of Spaghetti...." (well, sort of) and the boys' new verses, and lots of pics from the last couple of weeks!
Hope you all had a marvelous and wonderful Mother's day, being celebrated for the amazing women you all are! :-)


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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) on Tuesday morning, showing that U.S. students are ranked average in reading and science, and below average in math.
Among the 34 OECD countries, the United States ranks 14th in reading, 17th in science, and 25th in mathematics, not significantly changed since the last time the report was conducted in 2006. Countries that landed in the top ten for all three disciplines include South Korea, Finland, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today called the findings a "wake-up call."
The PISA report comes on the heels of the just-released McKinsey Global Education Study that analyzes the performance levels of 20 school systems around the world.
The results for U.S. students were not unexpected, but the both reports will undoubtedly cause some politicians to call for any and all education reforms to be accelerated across the country.
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel urged caution, however, asking policymakers to carefully review the data before jumping to conclusions.
"We want to be certain that policies are grounded in the evidence that PISA and other well-rounded research provide about effective education rather than in a political reaction to the PISA rankings," Van Roekel said.
And it's important also to recognize the limits of the PISA study. It does not, for example, cover the full curriculum, nor does it take into account the views of educators. In addition, their "average" or "below average" ranking masks the fact that, according to another OECD study, US students also make up 25 percent of the highest scoring students in the world in science.
What both the PISA and McKinsey reports make clear, however, is that students' socioeconomic background and achievement are inextricably linked and that students tend to succeed when schools and community support teachers through collaboration and professional development.
"High-performing systems make the teaching profession attractive and they support and train their teachers," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said on Tuesday. The PISA report spotlights benchmark country Finland, the highest performing system in Europe, for its comprehensive teacher recruitment and training program.
Successful collaboration in these high-performing countries, Van Roekel points out, depends on the active participation of their professional teachers' union. On March 16-17, 2011, NEA will be co-hosting, along with Secretary Duncan, the OECD, and Education International, a summit on the teaching profession. Key education stakeholders from around the world will be attending to trade strategies and share success stories.
"We are at the brink of a brilliant new era for the profession of teaching,"Van Roekel said, "and it's up to us – unions, policymakers, and the public – to learn from new research and find ways to strengthen teaching and learning."


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The New Yorker, Oct. 16 A piece examines the unpredictable politics of Rupert Murdoch. The chief executive of News Corp., which owns Fox News and the New York Post, has appeared at fund-raisers for Hillary Clinton and contributes to the Clinton Foundation's climate initiative, prompting fear among conservatives that he's swinging left. Even after the Post spent the '90s pillorying President Clinton as "horndog-in-chief," Murdoch and the former president have become friends. It's a convenient relationship for both, as Clinton courts conservatives for Hillary and Murdoch nurses his media empire: "I'm always interested in new ideas," he says. "It's what keeps me young."… A piece discusses the spate of post-9/11 conspiracy theories. One online documentary claims planes never actually hit the Twin Towers but that Wall Street speculators detonated a bomb to upset markets. Nicholas Lemann writes that the conspiracy theorist "mistakenly empowers particular, and evil, forces with the ability to determine the course of events, and it misses the messiness and contingency with which life actually unfolds."— C.B.
Weekly Standard, Oct. 16 Charles Krauthammer cries hypocrisy in the handling of the Mark Foley page scandal. He points out that in 1983, when former Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds' affair with a 17-year-old male page was discovered, Studds was censured for the consensual relationship and went on to serve in the House until the 1990s. Krauthammer asks why Foley and the Republican leadership are held to a different standard. A rehash of past congressional sexual escapades concludes that "it is better to be a carnivorous congressman from Massachusetts than from Florida or Illinois, and that the quality of congressional sexual misconduct has much to do—surprise!—with politics."… A piece answers why Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is always smiling: He's dreaming about annihilating Israel. "Ahmadinejad has a coherent ideological vision in which the call to wipe out Israel is no ordinary manifestation of anti-Semitism. Instead, it is the beckoning of an apocalyptic event that will usher in a millennium of bliss for all believers," the writer claims.— Z.K.
Time and Newsweek, Oct. 16
Foley: A Time cover story on the Mark Foley e-mail scandal asks whether Foley's behavior and the GOP response are signs that the "Republican revolution" has run its course. The piece cites polls showing that voters consider themselves more likely to vote for Democrats for Congress than for Republicans, a reversal from August. If the Democrats do reclaim the House in November, the writer argues, it may be because the GOP has abandoned the principles that Newt Gingrich used to guide it to victory in 1994—because Republicans in Congress have become ineffectual, corrupt, and more focused on partisan favors and politicking than on passing good legislation. … Newsweek's cover article on Foley explores the question of who knew what when, focusing on an incident several years ago when an apparently drunk Foley tried to gain access to the congressional pages' dormitory at night—but the piece doesn't come to much in the way of new conclusions.
Odds and ends: A Time article reports on the increasingly desperate situation in Gaza, where an Israeli blockade and bombing campaign, ongoing since January, seem to be edging Fatah and Hamas toward civil war. The conclusion: "If the Israelis thought their siege of Gaza might break Palestinian support for Hamas, they were wrong. It has only made Palestinians angrier and more desperate." … And a Newsweek piece reveals that Iraqi groups are publicly posting hit lists online—giving the "names, addresses and occupations of citizens to kill." These lists are on sites run by both Sunnis and Shiite groups and offer tips about the actions of opposing factions for the safety of their readers, as well as exhortations to violence.—B.W.
New Republic, Oct. 15
A cover piece profiles Sen. John McCain, the hawkish "maverick" whose strongest suit, the author argues, has been a willingness to change his mind. The shadow of Vietnam long colored McCain's realist foreign-policy views. But the success of the first Gulf War, plus the massacre of Srebrenica, pushed him toward neoconservatism. But his belief in Ahmad Chalabi, WMD, and the Iraqi people's thirst for liberation hurt his credibility. "Was I too enamored with the INC?" he asks. "I would say yes." Now, McCain's success as a 2008 presidential candidate may depend, again, on his willingness to admit he was wrong. … Andrew Sullivan argues that former Rep. Mark Foley's "virtual pederasty" reveals much about Republican views of homosexuality: "There is something deeply sick about a Republican elite that is comfortable around gay people, dependent on gay people, staffed by gay people—and yet also rests on brutal exploitation of homophobia to win elections at the base."— C.B.
Economist, Oct. 7 The cover features a package of articles on the global "talent shortage." Corporate demand for intelligent and highly skilled workers, especially scientists and engineers, is outstripping supply. The problem will be magnified in Western countries—aging populations mean large numbers of the most-skilled workers will retire in coming years—unless the United States and Europe make serious strides in reforming education. … A special report on "the cold war in Asia" outlines the strained relationships among Japan, South Korea, and China—and their shared problem of North Korea. China's ascendancy is shifting the balance of economic and military power away from Japan and its U.S. backing, and South Korea and China are both alienated by Japan's continuing efforts to sweep its WWII crimes under the rug. "Serious consequences" could result if new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes moves to aggressively rearm Japan after a possible North Korean nuclear test.— B.W.
New York Times Magazine, Oct. 8 A recent spike in elephant attacks on humans in Africa and Southeast Asia can be traced to psychological damage from decades of poaching, a cover story suggests. Scientists have long ascribed pachyderm aggression to high testosterone levels and competition over resources. But now psychologists point to "a kind of species-wide trauma" with many of the same symptoms as post-traumatic stress in humans: "abnormal startle response, unpredictable asocial behavior, inattentive mothering and hyperagression." Rehab centers now use "passive control" therapy to heal dysfunctional elephants. "She's as sweet as can be," says the founder of Elephant Sanctuary about one formerly violent animal. "You'd never know that this elephant killed anybody."… A piece profiles Brian Schweitzer, Montana's pro-gun, fiscally conservative Democratic governor. Democrats see Schweitzer as a model for replacing the "disheartening wall of red blocks" with a "blue bridge from Alberta to Mexico."— C.B.
New York, Oct. 9 A profile of Arianna Huffington reveals her metamorphosis from Manhattan " 'It' girl" to the wife of a millionaire Republican politician, from liberal gubernatorial candidate to wildy successful blogging entrepreneur. Where's the continutity? "Huffington has continually argued for, and modeled, a (depending on one's perspective) disarming or maddening archetype of female power that draws little distinction between personal relationships and professional ones," the author writes. … NYU law professor Burt Neuborne was lauded by the Jewish community for representing Holocaust survivors in their lawsuit against Swiss banks, at least until he submitted a bill for $ 4.7 million—outraging many who thought his work was pro bono. What's really driving the dispute is not a misunderstanding over legal fees but "the eternal philosophical divide between idealists, who believe the Holocaust is not something anyone should be profiting from, and the market-based realists, who argue that justice has a price and it ought to be paid," says the author.— Z.K.
The New Yorker, Oct. 9 A piece examines the history of obstetrics and its progression from craft to industry. Weaving in and out of one mother's narrative about resorting to a C-section, the author details the numerous methods that have reduced the chances of death among full-term babies. The discovery in 1933 that two-thirds of maternal deaths were preventable led doctors to standardize childbirth. Anesthesia and labor-inducing drugs became common. Fetal heart-rate monitors gained currency. But it was the Apgar score—a simple measurement of a child's responsiveness immediately after birth—that pushed obstetrics into the realm of "evidence-based medicine."… An article profiles Richard McNair, murderer, robber, and perennial fugitive. McNair has slipped out of handcuffs using lip balm, escaped a maximum-security prison through an air duct, and talked his way out of an interrogation. "I promise you I'm not no damn prison escapee," he tells an officer in a video clip that has made the rounds via YouTube. "You'da done run by now," the cop replies, and they laugh.— C.B.