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Yesterday a mother returned home to her Manhattan apartment in the Upper West Side to find two of her young children dead in a bathtub, covered in blood from stabbing wounds to their necks. The family nanny was slitting her own wrists and slashing her neck with the same knife she'd used to kill the children.
"Something happened to my kids!" screamed the mom. Her piercing shrieks were heard on the streets outside the eight-story building.
The mother, Marina Krim, was getting back from taking her 3-year-old child to a swimming class. She'd left her two other children, 2-year-old Leo and 6-year-old Lucia, at home with the 50-year-old nanny, Yoselyn Ortega.
At this point, there's little known about why Ortega, who is now in a coma, would commit a heinous crime like this. Ortega is a naturalized U.S. citizen, originally from the Dominican Republic, and has lived in America for a decade. The Krim family seemed to have an amicable relationship with Ortega, who was referred by a friend. They recently visited the nanny's relatives in the Dominican Republic.
The story is absolutely devastating and as I read the news reports my breath was taken away by deep sadness for this mother and her children. There are no words that could possibly capture the horror of this tragedy or the devastation to this family. There are no tears big enough that could capture the sadness. My heart goes out to this family.
This story is frightening to moms because the first chapter is a scenario that we can all relate to. Having one kid (or two) at after-school or with a friend, a family member, or a nanny while you're taking your other child to the doctor or a class is familiar. I was in this exact situation yesterday when I brought my son to the dentist and left my daughter with a babysitter who helps with homework. You assume your child is safe, and your trust is founded because you've done your homework on this person. You have a relationship with this person, and this person genuinely cares about your child.
This story especially hits home with me because at one time the Krims lived in San Francisco's Noe Valley, probably on a street that I've pushed a stroller down many times. Krim's husband, Kevin Krim, is a former Yahoo executive and the family moved to New York when he got a job with CNBC. Marina works part-time teaching art classes to children at the local playground. She kept a family blog, which was suspended this morning, and posted photos of her kids around Manhattan.
As we all process this tragedy, I think we need to focus on sympathizing with Krim, sending prayers and our thoughts her way. Moms are often quick to judge one another and comments criticizing Krim's decision to hire a nanny are already popping up in the online world. We all often want to think that we're giving our kids the best situation and others aren't making equally good decisions. "I found the best nanny after interviewing 20!" "I would never use a nanny and would only ever watch my children myself!" "I only allow my mom to watch my children!" But please, let's not judge. Right now, Krim needs us all on her side.


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White House Orders Federal Agencies To Require More Open Access To Not Just Research, But Data
from the big-news deptJust a couple days ago, we were talking about the newly proposed FASTR bill, which would require federal agencies with greater than $100 million in research funds to require the end results of that research to be published in open ways within six months of publication. As we've noted, for years, the NIH (National Institute for Health) has had a plan that says all the research it funds needs to be published via open access after 12 months.
However, before anything happened with FASTR, it appears that the White House has stepped in to more or less push a fairly similar agenda via a White House policy memo. This comes in response to one of those We The People... petitions (which we had suggested you support). Dr. John Holdren, the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, explained this rather big change in policy pretty clearly:
I have issued a memorandum today (.pdf) to Federal agencies that directs those with more than $100 million in research and development expenditures to develop plans to make the results of federally-funded research publically available free of charge within 12 months after original publication. As you pointed out, the public access policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health has been a great success. And while this new policy call does not insist that every agency copy the NIH approach exactly, it does ensure that similar policies will appear across government.The interesting part is that, while this plan has the same 12 month delay as the NIH plan, rather than the 6 months in FASTR, it looks like the White House is really pushing agencies to go further. They're not just asking for the papers to be open access, but the more useful data as well:
In addition to addressing the issue of public access to scientific publications, the memorandum requires that agencies start to address the need to improve upon the management and sharing of scientific data produced with Federal funding. Strengthening these policies will promote entrepreneurship and jobs growth in addition to driving scientific progress. Access to pre-existing data sets can accelerate growth by allowing companies to focus resources and efforts on understanding and fully exploiting discoveries instead of repeating basic, pre-competitive work already documented elsewhere. For example, open weather data underpins the forecasting industry and provides great public benefits, and making human genome sequences publically available has spawned many biomedical innovations—not to mention many companies generating billions of dollars in revenues and the jobs that go with them. Going forward, wider availability of scientific data will create innovative economic markets for services related to data curation, preservation, analysis, and visualization, among others.That part is big news, though most people will only focus on the open access to publications part. As he states, open access to data really helps power all sorts of interesting companies and research. In the past, publications have often tried to claim copyright over the data produced by experiments as well (even though you technically can't claim copyright over pure data). I've heard of researchers who have had to redo their own experiments because they had signed away the "rights" to their own data from previous experiments. That's not just wasteful, it's insane. Requiring open access to data is a massive step in the right direction. Kudos to the White House for doing this.
Next up: can we get them to realize the same thing should apply to patents on federally funded research as well, and that such things should not be allowed? Or is that just asking too much?
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"Sex and The City 2" is about to get a lot sexier.
Penelope Cruz reportedly filmed an appearance in the sequel to the 2008 box office hit, according to OK! Magazine.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Scenes From 'Sex And The City 2'
The Spanish actress reportedly plays herself in a red carpet scene.
Penelope won't be the first actress to play herself in the HBO television series-turned-film franchise. During its HBO run Matthew McConaughey and Lucy Liu were among several stars who made cameos as themselves.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Scenes From Sex And The City: The Movie
Joining Penelope in "Sex and The City 2" in a cameo role is Miley Cyrus, who Access previously confirmed would play herself in a scene with Kim Cattrall's character Samantha Jones.
Liza Minnelli is also set to appear in the film, OK! reported on Tuesday. She will reportedly sing Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" at the much rumored wedding of Carrie's gay best friend Stanford (played by Willie Garson) and Charlotte's wedding organizer-turned-pal Anthony (played by Mario Cantone).
The mag also reported that Sarah Jessica Parker will play the best man at the nuptials.
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