text: Universal Pictures decided to open the trailer for their new Ron Howard-directed feature The Dilemma with the phrase "Electric cars are gay" in an attempt at humor, but it's hardly a joke for LGBT audiences growing increasingly frustrated by use of the word "gay" as a pejorative. GLAAD expressed these concerns directly to Universal Pictures prior to the trailer's release, who have now assured us that the offensive joke will be removed from TV and Media campaigns promoting the film from this point forward, including the trailer currently playing in movie theaters. ttUDDK-JYIE Vince Vaughn's character goes on to clarify that he doesn't mean "homosexual, gay, but, you know, my parents are chaperoning the dance, gay," but this justification doesn't address the underlying problem. Regardless of the intention, hearing words like "gay," "f*g," and "d*ke" consistently used as insults is a hard thing for LGBT people to take, particularly for LGBT youth who must endure such language daily at school. As recent events have shown, the consequences can be devastating. Said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios, "The use of the word 'gay' in this trailer as a slur is unnecessary and does nothing more than send a message of intolerance about our community to viewers." CNN's Anderson Cooper spoke out against the trailer as well, saying "I just find those words, those terms - we've got to do something to make those words unacceptable 'cause those words are hurting kids." In an attempt to combat the use of such language, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) launched the Think B4 You Speak campaign. One of the campaign's goals is to point out to young people that they might not like it so much if their own identities became another word for lame or stupid, as Wanda Sykes makes clear in this PSA. sWS0GVOQPs0 Hopefully Universal Pictures and other film studios will start to think twice before having their performers (and major stars like Vince Vaughn in particular) try to wring a cheap laugh out of homophobic language.


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Creativity, Innovation and Quality of Life
Posted by lucyinnovation on Saturday, May 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Innovation is a buzzword topic. You can even do a Masters Degree in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership at City University in London. It has its own acronym; it is fondly referred to as the MICL.
This is great because they have free public lectures. Last week I went to listen to Professor Patrick Jordan talk about Creativity, Innovation and Quality of Life.
Quality of life is defined as the wellbeing of individuals and societies. There is an increasing emphasis on the importance of quality of life and wellbeing. The Office for National Statistics is now attempting to measure national wellbeing in the UK.
Jordan suggests that there are nine major factors that need to be taken into consideration when measuring quality of life in his 2010 paper, 'The Good Society Framework'.
The nine factors are explained below with examples highlighting how innovation and creative thinking are helping individuals and communities improve their quality of life.
1. Relationships; the quality of our social,family and interpersonal relationships is the single most important factor in measuring quality of life or wellbeing. Research has shown that there is a loneliness epidemic in older men. Men communicate best when bought together round a task. Men in Sheds is an innovative project responding to this by establishing a task based shed network providing a community of support and social interaction for men.
2. Economy; this refers to people's degree of economic spending power and the extent that jobs develop and reward individuals. In tough times, with public trust in large banking corporations at rock bottom, there has been an opportunity for the development of peer-to-peer economics. Zopa provides opportunities for people with savings to lend. The lenders earn interest and the borrowers receive better rates than banks can offer. Regulated by the FSA, Zopa has half a million members who have to date lent more than £190 million.
3. Environment and infrastructure; this is about how pleasant, effective and efficient our environments are. Transport for London invested in an initiative to ensure public transport in London was accessible to people with disabilities. Yet, despite the improved access, people with disabilities were not using London trains and buses. In particular wheelchair users didn't use buses. Transport for London worked with Jordan to establish why. He discovered primary reason wasn't the physical barrier; it was because of the uncomfortable interaction with the driver and the public. Bus drivers are measured on punctuality, the additional time to help a wheelchair user on and off the bus meant their bus would arrive back at the depot late. Because of this they often didn't stop for wheelchairs – or were stressed and rushed when they did. Making using the bus a bad experience best avoided. Therefore changing the time measure for drivers, rather than the physical environment may improve the bus experience for wheelchair users.
4. Health; in particular access to good healthcare and food. Jordan spoke of a hospital project in Korea. They turned their radiography ward into an entertainment centre. Patients could upload photos and listen to their own music in an attempt to take some of the trauma of sitting in a stark and unwelcoming ward by making the experience as comfortable as possible.
5. Peace and Security; this refers to levels of crime and if people feel safe in their homes and public spaces and whether or not society is affected by war or terrorism. Jordan spoke of initiatives to develop more effective ways to identify terrorist suspects. Currently terrorist suspects are single people in a public place, looking nervous, with a backpack, meeting another single nervous person. Anyone who has ever been on an internet date is a hot terrorism suspect based on current techniques.
6. Culture and leisure; this is about identifying if there is a rich and rewarding
culture and opportunities to participate in leisure activities. GoodGym is an organisation that connects people who want to get fit, with physical tasks that need to be done and benefit the community. So rather than mindlessly pound a treadmill you can run to an elderly neighbours garden that needs digging. Great concept.
7. Spirituality; the choice to practice which religion you choose, access to spiritual and philosophical teachings. An example is the Meditator app for smart phone has been developed to enable more people to relax and experience the benefits of meditation.
8. Education; this places the importance on enriching educational opportunities the enable people to function effectively in society. An example of a project enabling better educational opportunities is the US Knowledge is Power Programme (KIPP). Based on the premise that levels of achievement are often inhibited by low expectations, KIPP uses the slogan 'work hard be nice' to build the confidence and expectations of students from undeserved communities that they will go to, and do well at college.
9. Governance; so whether there is democracy, fairness and freedom of expression. Social media has given the masses a voice and the ability to spread campaigning messages. There are many examples of groups coming together to have a voice or take action; from the organization of the riots in London last summer to the uprising in Egypt last January.
Jordan's final point was that using innovation and creativity to create a better quality of life was for all. Not for the few that can afford it – but for everybody.
How can we better engage our creative and innovative skills to improve our individual and community wellbeing? What do you think?
PS. You can find out more about MICL at a free open day conference in London on 11 June.
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text: Intel, the computer chipmaker, is in line for one of the largest ever fines for anti-competitive behaviour handed out by the authorities in Europe. The European Commission is expected to approve the penalty on Wednesday. It is likely to be similar to the 497m euros ($650m, £480m) fine levied on Microsoft in 2004 for abusing its dominant market position. Some observers say the fine could be as high a one billion euros. The Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is also set to impose a "cease and desist" order requiring Intel to change its business practices. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8046393.stm


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About 20 years ago I attended a fascinating lecture-demonstration tracing the evolution of motion picture sound technologies. It was held in a restored movie palace, where film clips were shown and heard, everything from Fantasia's Fantasound and four-track magnetic stereo to Dolby SR.
One of the clips shown that evening was a reel of Lisztomania (1975), the very first movie released in Dolby Stereo. It was an indescribable sequence and while I'd heard that the movie was pretty terrible, I was quite taken with that particular sequence, and determined some day to see the whole thing, especially in its original Dolby Stereo.
Warner Archive's new manufactured-on-demand release of Lisztomania now makes that possible. Director Ken Russell wasn't exactly known for his restraint, but even by his anarchic standards the film is unusually bizarre. As Spinal Tap might say, visually it's an "eleven," starting there and never dropping below, say, a nine. But this dazzling stylization throughout doesn't add up to very much. Although the screenplay touches on some interesting concepts - Beatlemania-like fame from a 19th century perspective, with Franz Liszt (The Who's Roger Daltrey) as proto-pop star, the perversion of classical compositions into vehicles for racist propaganda, etc. - it seems more a movie to be experienced organically, like the sensory-depravation tanks in Russell's later Altered States (1981).
Lisztomania was made back-to-back with Tommy (1975), Russell's adaptation of The Who's rock opera, which also starred Daltrey and made by much the same crew. Lisztomania has many of the same flaws as that film while lacking some of its attributes. While Daltrey's characters in both are pretty vacuous (though Daltrey's singing is good), Tommy at least had something resembling a story and characters. Oliver Reed and especially Ann-Margret gave good, even revelatory performances as Tommy's parents and there were several great vignettes, most notably Tina Turner's "Acid Queen" solo.
Lisztomania certainly has its share of audacious moments, and some may be swept away by its visual and aural flair, but personally I quickly found it wearying and eventually was quite bored by most of it, though it gains a certain momentum during the last 20 minutes and I became interested in it again.
Warner's Archive Collection release features a good 16:9 enhanced presentation of this Panavision production, and the original Dolby Stereo mix is intact and extremely impressive, even today. There are no extras, not even a trailer, but the disc is region-free.
The film breaks far from the conventional narrative model and, especially near the end, is crammed with anachronistic references, props, costumes, etc. Instead, the movie is composed of long, disconnected episodes with Liszt usually at the center of things. It opens with Liszt and his lover, Marie (Fiona Lewis) discovered in bed by her husband, the Count d'Agoult (John Justin). After a brief saber duel, the Count forces the young lovers into the body of a piano which he nails shut and then has placed on some railroad tracks where it explodes on impact.
Next is a backstage scene with Liszt cavorting with various 19th century composers and other artists, including Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas), Frederic Chopin (Kenneth Colley), Felix Mendelsohn (Otto Diamant) Hector Berlioz (Murray Melvin), Rossini (Ken Parry), and even Lola Montez (Anulka Dziubinska) and George Sand (Imogen Claire). Then to a screaming auditorium filled with young girls in green bonnets, Liszt exhibits much crowd-pleasing showmanship at the piano, but it comes at the expense of Richard Wagner's Rienzi arrangement, which Liszt constantly interjects with bits from Chopsticks. (Characters from Russell's The Music Lovers and Mahler are in the audience.)
A dull and clichéd sequence follows showing Liszt's unhappy domestic life with Marie and their three children, which he's all too eager to flee when requested to perform for the Tsar in St. Petersburg.
In Russia, after being fumigated in a room where sculptures of buttocks emit gas from their anuses (and attended to by Oliver Reed, uncredited), Princess Carolyn (Sara Kestelman) and her ladies-in-waiting, including Olga ("Little Nell" Campbell, looking just like her Rocky Horror character) seduce Liszt. The women so arouse him in fact that he has a colossal erection, his penis literally the size of a canoe, which the women threaten with a guillotine.
After an audience with the Pope (Ringo Starr), the movie becomes even more outrageous and nonsensical. Anti-Semite Wagner sings about the raping of Germany's flowering youth by "the beast" (who has a Star of David tattooed on his forehead), promising a Master Race and a "new messiah" who will rid Germany of its Jews. To this end Wagner creates a mechanical Viking Siegfried while Wagner himself becomes a blood-drinking vampire and, later, transforms into a half-Frankenstein's Monster/half-Adolf Hitler, whose machine-gun electric guitar guns down Jews in a war-ravaged Berlin. Liszt, meanwhile, returns to earth from heaven in a laser-shooting spaceship resembling a pipe organ.
Did I mention that Lisztomania is not a conventional film biography?
Visually and aurally - the music score is by Yes's Rick Wakeman, who appears briefly as Thor - Lisztomania undeniably overflows with outrageous imagination and, for some, these excesses are central to its appeal. Such films tend to not sustain my interest, in the same way that today's excessive reliance on big CGI-driven set pieces bore me. There's clearly a lot of wit and intelligence behind the film but, while entertaining on a certain level, I found it all pretty frivolous and, after the first 40 minutes or so, tiresome.
Video & Audio
Lisztomania is presented in 2.40:1 enhanced widescreen. The transfer struggles a bit to keep pace with Russell's bombardment of color and detail, but generally the transfer looks fine and sounds great throughout. The audio, remixed to Dolby Digital Stereo, is among the best I've experienced in the MOD format. The region free-disc runs 103 minutes, and is in English only with no subtitle options. No Extra Features.
Parting Thoughts
While not exactly a good movie, like Tommy Lisztomania is a film the more adventurous movie-watcher should sample at least once. For its exhaustively wild imagination and groundbreaking use of Dolby Stereo audio, it comes Highly Recommended.
Stuart Galbraith IV is a Kyoto-based film historian whose work includes film history books, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries and special features. Visit Stuart's Cine Blogarama here.
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Venezuelan Astros show support for country
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Several Venezuelan-born Astros players and some of their teammates and members of the field staff posed for a picture and held up a Venezuelan flag for a photo opportunity on Sunday morning to show support for the country in turmoil.
"It's for our country," said Cesar Izturis. "We need to see everybody at peace. Everybody knows over there, right now, it's crazy, and I have my family -- my mom, my dad, my brother. We need some peace over there."
Venezuela has seen an increase in violence over the last few weeks, as the government has tried to subdue a protest movement. Several Venezuelan players, including Jose Altuve and Marwin Gonzalez, declined to speak publicly about the topic.
Instead, the players and staff members joined with other teams in posing with the Venezuela flag and signs that read "PAZ, TODOS UNIDOS, HERMANDAD" in Spanish in a plea for peace for a nation in crisis. The sign loosely translated in English means "peace, together, brotherhood."
The Astros who posed together included native Venezuelans Altuve, Gonzalez, Jesus Guzman, Izturis, David Martinez, Carlos Perez, Gregario Petit and Ronald Torreyes. Players from other nations, such as Carlos Corporan and Carlos Correa from Puerto Rico, also participated, along with bullpen catcher Javier Bracamonte and bullpen assistant Carlos Munoz, both of whom are from Venezuela.


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The emails were flying this week, as it was anticipated that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) would offer on the floor of the U.S. Senate an amendment to ban packer ownership of cattle when the Senate's version of the 2012 farm bill is brought to the floor. The reason it wasn't offered during the markup of the bill was that it never had the votes to get out of the Ag Committee. Thus, there is hope that if senators from enough non-farm states join in, that it might have a chance in front of the entire Senate.
Anyone who follows such amendments that are brought to the floor understands they're largely done for political posturing. Of course, a ban on packer ownership is unlikely to change the course of many elections, but it does get the grass roots going.
Issues such as this, brought up in this way, however, aren't about governing; they're raw meat to get special interest groups fired up for the election. It serves to draw a distinction between those organizations and the larger organizations that represent the vast majority of producers.
Thus, the odds are that we'll be talking about this topic again in 2014.


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Jessica Alba's trendy diapers not safer than other brands, research suggests
Super-absorbent diapers are a fantastic invention, saving parents hours upon hours of time, laundry loads, and stinky clean-ups. (Just ask your grandparents.) But they're also the source of much controversy and angst. Baby Dry or Cruisers? Eco-friendly or regular? Pull-ups or unassembled? To make matters more complicated, now there's Honest, a diaper and baby product company founded by actress Jessica Alba in 2012, which claims that it makes "safer" diapers. Cue immediate feelings of parental paranoia: Wait, safer diapers? Are other diapers dangerous? To help you answer those questions, the Honest website devotes a page to describing just how scary traditional diapers really are, with questions about diaper companies like, "What are they trying to hide?" (Answer: "From what we gleaned, a lot.")
Honest diapers carry a hefty price tag -- a bundle of 276 of their size 1 diapers and 280 wipes costs $79.95, but $66.98 will buy you the same number of Huggies size 1 diapers, along with 448 Huggies wipes, on Diapers.com. And tests conducted by BabyGearLab, a pediatrician-run baby gear review and comparison site, suggest that Honest diapers don't work nearly as well as other diapers do. Yet progressive parents everywhere are going gaga over Honest. Are regular old diapers really that risky -- and Honest ones so much less so -- to warrant shelling out the extra cash for a leaky product?
Probably not. Research suggests that diapers, regardless of brand, are very safe. Yes, some children will be allergic to certain diaper components, which I'll get into below, and for them, brands like Honest and Seventh Generation could be preferable. And yes, companies don't always openly disclose ingredients on diaper boxes. But industry scientists describe many diaper ingredients (and diaper safety testing protocols) in the scientific literature. And many vocal parents and media outlets have misconstrued the small body of research on diaper ingredients to make diapers seem far more dangerous than they probably are. There's no question that Honest diapers, as well as those made by Seventh Generation, Earth's Best and several other "green" companies, are better for the environment than traditional diapers because their cores aren't bleached with chlorine (a process that pollutes and requires a lot of energy) and because they use some plant-based materials in place of petroleum-based chemicals. But if you're buying Honest because you think those other diapers will sicken your child, you're probably being duped. (I reached out to the Honest company several times to get their take on the matter, but they did not arrange an interview in time for my deadline, which is kind of funny given that one of the company's eight core principles is to provide "incredible service.")
One of the common claims about traditional diapers is that the chlorine they use leaves traces of byproducts called dioxins behind on the diaper, which could increase your child's risk of cancer. It's true that dioxins are carcinogens, and it's also true that dioxins can be found on diapers. But to put things in perspective, a 2002 study that analyzed dioxin levels in four types of diapers didn't find the most potent known dioxin (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) in any of the diapers tested. The researchers did, however, find other dioxins in both the cloth and the disposable diapers, at similar levels -- yet overall, the levels were 30,000 to 2.2 million times lower than the amounts infants and toddlers get from food or breast milk. So your baby might be exposed to dioxins from diapers, but he'll get them from cloth diapers too -- and overall, they contribute only a minuscule amount to our total daily exposure.
Another diaper concern has been over the beads of super-absorbent material that have been used in diapers since the 1980s to make them wonderfully pee-absorbent. This polymer, sodium polyacrylate, absorbs 300 times its weight in tap water via osmosis -- quite a marvel of modern chemistry. Some websites claim that sodium polyacrylate can cause skin irritation, but according to the chemical's material safety data sheet, that's only if you're exposed to the dust of the chemical during the manufacturing process, and the irritation is a direct result of the chemical's drying power. Some of the fear of sodium polyacrylate arose because it was removed from tampons in the 1980s after links to toxic shock syndrome, but most experts believe that it wasn't the chemical that was the problem -- it was the fact that women were wearing tampons for days at a time, creating a moist, warm breeding ground for bacteria (eww). Note that Honest diapers contain this polymer, too.
Yet another claim is that diapers increase the risk of asthma by emitting chemicals that irritate the respiratory tract. This notion is based on a 1999 study in mice (frighteningly titled: "Acute respiratory effects of diaper emissions"), but the study is hard to interpret: The diapers were warmed to 98.6 degrees for an hour before the mice were exposed to them, and then the mice and the diapers were confined to a small 10-by-12-by-20 inch box, after which the exposed mice developed breathing problems and lung irritation. I don't know many parents who heat their diapers or lock their diapered kids in glass boxes; also, it's unclear what, exactly, the diapers emitted that might have caused the symptoms, so there's little reason to think Honest diapers eliminate this possible risk. A 2011 study found no evidence of respiratory problems among workers chronically exposed to diaper chemicals in manufacturing plants, although workers exposed to paper dust did experience problems. "Goodnight Moon," then, might be just as risky.
So should you buy Honest diapers? If you're looking for an eco-friendly brand -- or at least somewhat eco-friendly, since diapers containing sodium polyacrylate aren't fully biodegradable -- Honest is a fine option. But there are plenty of "green" diaper companies out there, many of which may well make better performing diapers (BabyGearLab's favorites include Bambo Nature and Earth's Best). And to sell expensive diapers on a platform of fear -- parents, you need to buy our products because the other ones could harm your precious baby -- is, I think, unfair and cruel, particularly when the claims are not based on clear science.
Slate would like to thank Louis Chapdelaine and Brandi Thomas from Seventh Generation, Eric Bruner from Kimberly-Clark and Sharon Jacob from the University of California, San Diego.


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We provide quality upscale Disc Jockey services. It's your event and you will tell us what to play and we will throw our own spin to the mix. No matter what your song of choice we will deliver. From Top 40, Hip Hop, House, World Beats, the sky is the limit!
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Asteroids: The discovery of asteroids
During the 18th century, astronomers were fascinated by a mathematical expression called Bode's law. It appeared to predict the locations of the known planets, but with one exception...
Bode's law suggested there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter. When Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet, in 1781, at a distance that corresponded to Bode's law, scientific excitement about the validity of this mathematical expression reached an all-time high. Many scientists were absolutely convinced that a planet must exist between Mars and Jupiter.
By the end of the century, a group of astronomers had banded together to use the observatory at Lilienthal, Germany, owned by Johann Hieronymous Schröter, to hunt down this missing planet. They called themselves, appropriately, the 'Celestial Police'.
Despite their efforts, they were beaten by Giuseppe Piazzi, who discovered what he believed to be the missing planet on New Year's Day, 1801, from the Palermo Observatory.
The new body was named Ceres but subsequent observations swiftly established that it could not be classed a major planet as its diameter is just 940 kilometres (Pluto, the smallest planet, has a diameter is just over 2300 kilometres). Instead, it was classified as a 'minor planet' and the search for the 'real' planet continued.
Between 1801 and 1808, astronomers tracked down a further three minor planets within this region of space: Pallas, Juno and Vesta, each smaller than Ceres. It became obvious that there was no single large planet out there and enthusiasm for the search waned.
A fifth asteroid, Astraea, was discovered in 1845 and interest in the asteroids as a new 'class' of celestial object began to build. In fact, since that time new asteroids have been discovered almost every year.
It soon became obvious that a 'belt' of asteroids existed between Mars and Jupiter. This collection of space debris was the 'missing planet'. It was almost certainly prevented from forming by the large gravitational field of adjacent Jupiter.
Now there are a number of telescopes dedicated to the task of finding new asteroids. Specifically, these instruments are geared towards finding any asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit and may therefore pose an impact hazard.


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Monday's mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard is drawing attention to one of the thorniest strands of the national gun debate: How far should laws go to keep firearms away from the mentally ill? WSJ's Jacob Gershman joins the News Hub. Photo: AP
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The decision yesterday by House Republicans to release a broad set of principles for immigration reform may or may not lead to successful legislation this year. There are still many political and substantive hurdles to overcome to reach a bipartisan deal. But regardless, the announcement should be recognized for what it is – a huge and consequential change in the Republican Party's approach to immigration reform.
When my boss Richard Haass asked me in 2008 to direct the CFR Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy, the GOP – with a handful of exceptions like former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who led that Task Force along with former White House chief of staff Mack McLarty – was unreservedly hostile to any legalization for the nearly 12 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States. The House Republicans at the time were advocating legislation that would criminalize all unauthorized presence in the United States, making felons out of people who had been living and working here for years. The GOP had succeeded in 2006 in pushing through a bill, the Secure Fence Act, that authorized hundreds of miles of fencing on the Mexican border, and directed the administration to somehow prevent all illegal entries. And when the DREAM Act , which would legalize children brought here illegally by their parents, passed the Democratic-controlled House in 2010, it was killed by Senate Republicans. That hostility to anything that smacked of "amnesty" remained the party's stance right through Mitt Romney's disastrous adoption of "self-deportation" as the core of his immigration platform in the 2012 presidential election.
In contrast, the principles released yesterday by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) are a serious effort to balance competing priorities in immigration reform. The GOP is insisting, rightly in my view, that it is "the fundamental duty of any government to secure its border." In our bipartisan Task Force report, we wrote: "The United States has the right, and the duty, to control and secure its borders." But the Republicans are no longer insisting on an impregnable border, and instead have set up a sensible and verifiable scheme though the Border Security Results Act, which was passed unanimously last year by the House Homeland Security Committee. Much of that bill is closely in line with our recent report Managing Illegal Immigration: How Effective is Enforcement?, which I co-wrote with two former Department of Homeland Security officials, Bryan Roberts and John Whitley.
The GOP principles call for all employers to verify that their workforce is legally authorized; the CFR Task Force report recommended "a mandatory system for verifying those authorized to work in the United States." The GOP called for attracting and retaining foreign students and other highly skilled individuals; our Task Force wrote that while in the past rationing admission had been the main priority of U.S. immigration policy, in the future "recruiting the immigrants it wants must be the highest priority." Most remarkably, Republicans have now declared themselves in favor of the DREAM Act, as well as a broader measure that would finally allow most of the unauthorized to "live legally and without fear in the U.S."; our Task Force recommended the same, calling for "earned legalization" for those who demonstrated "a history of contribution to the United States through work and taxes, a commitment to remaining by learning English and adopting U.S. democratic values, and a willingness to pay some restitution."
Principles are not legislation, for course, and there is a long way to go. The biggest hurdle will be the GOP's insistence on "specific enforcement triggers" prior to any legalization. Those triggers can be made reasonable and workable, or unreasonable and unworkable. The underlying issue here is continued Republican mistrust of President Obama; there is widespread fear that, as one of the leading opponents of the legislation, Mark Krikorian, put it recently, that "once that population has legal status, immigration hawks lose the only leverage they have." In other words, the only way to ensure that enforcement is carried out seriously is to continue to hold the unauthorized population hostage.
Given the history, that is not an unreasonable fear, and there is no simple solution to that mistrust. Obama certainly helped with an interview he gave to CNN last night in which he praised Boehner's efforts. "If the speaker proposes something that says right away: Folks aren't being deported, families aren't being separated, we're able to attract top young students to provide the skills or start businesses here and then there's a regular process of citizenship, I'm not sure how wide the divide ends up being," he said.
The key is not the White House, however, but rather the Department of Homeland Security. In a CNN.com piece last year, I argued that Congress needs to focus not on the president but on the Border Patrol and other permanent elements of the U.S. immigration enforcement effort. I wrote:
"Even potential Republican supporters do not trust the Obama administration on enforcement, particularly on securing the Mexican border, and there is little reason to think this view will change. Fortunately, these lawmakers don't need to. This bill will set immigration rules for a generation; President Barack Obama will be gone in a few years.
What is needed is a closer, ongoing relationship between Congress and the professionals responsible for border security -- the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection agents….For the GOP to reject the new border enforcement resources that will come with an immigration bill because they don't trust Obama is like refusing to pay for new Pentagon weapons programs as long as Democrats are in charge. Border security must be an ongoing mission of national importance that, like national defense, requires a close working relationship between the professionals in uniform and the politicians--one that transcends the party in power."
For all the progress represented by the principles announced yesterday, politics will obviously play a big role in deciding whether reform gets over the finish line. Here too the Republican leadership seems to be waking up to the obvious: that with a growing population of first-generation Americans that today votes overwhelmingly Democratic, the GOP's long-term electoral prospects are grim unless they can get past the immigration policy issue and talk to those voters about something else. As I have argued elsewhere, the Conservative Party in Canada figured out how to do this, and as a result the Tories have won the past three elections, the first time a conservative party had done so in Canada in more than half a century.
Again, it would be naïve to suggest any of this will be easy. But the shift in the Republican Party stance represented by the new principles is enormous and historic. At the very least, it marks a new and hopeful day in our country's long and difficult debate over immigration.
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First, let me start the week by apologizing for my absence for part of last week. I was traveling on business and was just wrecked at the end of each day. I'm still not back 100 percent, but I'm back enough to jot a few words down.
Many of us use complementary treatments for our multiple sclerosis. Whether they are simple things like stretching and yoga or more radical like the Master Cleanse diet or bee sting therapy. I'd like to talk today about something kind of in the middle: supplements.
As simple as a daily multi-vitamin tab, as complicated as doctor-injected hormones, supplemental therapy has really taken off in the MS world. I'm having a good look (with doctors and my naturopath) at what might fit me best.
Right now, I take a daily multi, calcium, chondroitin, fish or flax oil (I alternate back and forth) and that's about it. I've been tested for low Vitamin D and I'm okay there.
My blood work is great, so it's not like I'm trying to overcome some deficiency, I just feel like it's something I can do that's good for my whole body's health, not just for my MS.
I know (because many of you have proffered the information) that some of you take quite a fistful of dietary supplements; I'd like to know which ones you take and for what purpose?
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Yes, you can compete with large, established competitors if you're a small company or start up.
Yes, you can use a more human approach to attract attention to your sales messages.
Yes, social media works. (Despite being a B2C example, this story holds lessons for all marketers).
Dollar Shave Club (a start up) is proof of all three – its YouTube video attracted 12,000 customers within its first 48 hours online.
With a very human and humorous approach that address a pain point in the market: the high cost of razors.
Dollar Shave has a solid business premise:
- Basic razors at low prices. As Michael Dubin, founder and chief executive, points out in the video, do you really need the latest razor with a vibrating handle? Because the only way the big players can increase price is by adding features, they keep adding them.
- A new way to sell a consumable — by monthly subscription, delivered by mail.
The company tells a story in a very human, personal way. The founder just plain tells it like it is:
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… With personality and humor (btw, the CEO was trained in improv comedy)
Viewers can relate! For the same reason people like Super Bowl commercials – they're creative, and fun to watch.
Taking a cue from zappos.com, diapers.com, and now even soap.com, Dollar Shave is giving consumers a new and attractive option. It saves them money. It's more convenient.
Investors are noticing – willing to fund companies that are shaking things up. And so are the traditional media. The story has been covered in Fast Company, Forbes, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, and more.
And big competitors? They seem to have no fear of "just another low-cost provider." With views to its video at 4 million and counting, perhaps they should.
And one more lesson for B2B marketers: with social media, you don't need a huge marketing budget to build a following.
Pointing again to the crucial nature of YOUR MESSAGE –not just its guts, but how it's presented.
And, pointing to the opportunity represented when you can find a hole in a staid, competitive market. Consider your own industry. Can you find a new option for designing, packaging or delivering your product or service?
Creative destruction like this can happen in the B2B world. If you're looking for new or better ways to compete, or an impetus for making your marketing more creative, make this story the basis for a team brainstorm, and let the ideas flow.


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QUEENSLAND'S unemployment rate has climbed to 6.3% leaving it well in front of the national rate.
But while the State Government admits the result is disappointing, it is adamant its policies will help the sunshine state bounce back.
Australian Bureau of Statistics employment figures released on Thursday revealed Queensland's unemployment trend rose from 6.2% to 6.3% between November and December.
Women were slightly better off than men, with the female unemployment rate remaining stagnant while the male rate went up 0.1%.
The ABS figures show there were 153,600 Queenslanders out of work in December.
The national unemployment rate still hovers at 5.4%.
The State Opposition seized the chance to take a swipe at the Newman Government's fiscal decisions, including wide-spread public sector job cuts.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk said the Government's mass sackings and constant negativity about the state economy and finances had contributed to its poor performance on job creation.
But Treasurer Tim Nicholls focused on job loses in the private sector.
"A weaker global outlook, including certainty about the US 'fiscal cliff' and a decline in commodity prices, has seen business remain cautious which has led to a weakening in labour market conditions in Queensland," Mr Nicholls said.
"The recent announcements of job losses at Esco, PPI, Boral, BlueScope and Crazy John's are further proof of difficult business conditions."
Nationwide, full time jobs decreased by 13,800 in December while part-time jobs rose by 8300.
HSBC Bank economists predicted the unemployment rate would stay below 5.5% and cast doubt over any future interest rate cuts.


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Writing before the results of Europe's recent push left at the polls, Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, asked Friday: if the "fair value" of the euro is 1.20 to the U.S. dollar, "what on earth is the euro doing trading at a premium, which for much of the year has been close to 10%?"
In O'Neill's view, the euro may continue to trade in a 1.29-1.35 range for quite some time. Yet, it increasingly seems to him "that 1.20 is eventually more likely than 1.40."
Over last week, the euro declined slightly, from about 1.325 to roughly 1.320, in anticipation of the elections and persistent debt issues. Over the weekend, France, Greece and even Germany ousted candidates who supported austerity and opted instead for messages advocating growth. By late Monday afternoon the euro had fallen further to 1.305.
In France, the Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande, unseated President Nicolas Sarkozy, making him the first president in 30 years to fail to win re-election. "At the margin, his appearance on the scene is probably not a EUR/$ positive," O'Neill said of Hollande in his online column "Is the Euro Finally Ready to Decline to Fair Value and Beyond?" which he wrote before the election.
The Greeks gave a surprising vote to the Syriza party, whose name means "Coalition of the Radical Left," putting them in second place over the Pasok party, whose leader helped negotiate the country's second bailout package. If the governing coalition proves fragile, the markets could begin to factor in the possibility of Grece leaving the euro. "Presumably, at least in the short term, this may be euro negative," O'Neill wrote, but "perhaps the markets might regard an exit as euro positive."
German voters in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein repudiated Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, which suffered its worst showing there in 50 years.
"As with many of the other considerable EMU dilemmas, it appears that the equilibrium value of the euro for Germany and others is not the same as it is for many of the Mediterranean members," O'Neil wrote.
Goldman Sachs' research, he says, broadly suggests that Germany can compete at a higher exchange rate than many of the others states. "In this context, a 'spread' of 1.00 to 1.35 is not an unreasonable range," he says.
O'Neil also thinks that we may want to "increasingly think of the EUR/$ rate as sort of a 'Deutsche Mark plus' exchange rate." He asked, "Does this mean that for other EMU members to stay the course, they are going to have to simply live with German standards whatever the strain?"
While an exchange rate represents the relative price between two countries and market commentary, the current euro-dollar rate could be ignoring the fact that the euro is being traded against the currency in which the Fed appears to have a persistent promise of more quantitative easing.
But if fears of contagion from Greece grow again in Europe, the Fed may not be immune. "A prominent U.S. thinker remarked at our GSAM Growth Market Summit that the Italian bond yield represented the biggest re-election risk for President Obama," O'Neill wrote. "It would be ironic, if not improbable, that a major escalation of euro area financial contagion influenced the Fed more than the ECB."
In terms of more "basic" issues at play, the Euro's does continue to be based on an underlying but small surplus.
"It may be the case that in the future, only those that can live with the stringency of the conditions required to keep the show on the road will be in the euro," O'Neill said.


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As March begins, event producer Bobby Rodriguez casts an eye on the weather for the remaining weekends that his 21st annual Florida Renaissance Festival will run. Over the course of six weekends in Deerfield Beach and three in Miami, Rodriguez gambles his $1.5 million production won't be ruined by the weather — or by threatening forecasts that keep the public away. "I hate when they say 50% chance of rain. How about 50% chance of sun?" Rodriguez says.
A native New Yorker, Rodriguez came to Fort Lauderdale in 1977 as a jazz band leader and singer. He moved into booking acts, performed when he could, and to get some security — it's tough finding a venue for a 19-piece jazz band — he began producing shows, company picnics, high-end bar mitzvahs and weddings. In 1992, he put on a two-day medieval fair. Rodriguez broke even on the weekend. "If I had lost money, that would have been that," he says.
Instead, it became his main business. The shows are magnets in south Florida as the public turns out to eat and drink and watch jousters on horseback, a falconer, humor acts and other entertainment, whether pirate re-enactors, "Bodacious Bodices" weekends or fellow patrons who come in their own costumes.
At $20 a ticket for adults, the 100,000 attendees bring in upward of $2 million. His Bobby Rodriguez Productions also draws revenue from vendors and sponsors anxious to reach his upper-middle-income patrons. This year, he added a sixth weekend to the Broward event and a third to Miami. In a nod to "Viva Florida 500," an actor will play Juan Ponce de Leon, whose landing in La Florida 500 years ago the state is commemorating.
His ride hasn't been smooth. The recession stalled growth. Miami was a "huge bust" the first two years, he says, but has done well since moving to Cauley Square, a nostalgia village south of Miami. "I just want to continue to build both shows and build the quality of the show," he says. "It has a major positive economic impact on the community."


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I normally take a lot of time picking out the outfits and making sure the pics like this are just so. BUT - we're moving. They were clean, we were at the the mall....the bunny was available.
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- Elizabeth said...
Awwww! At least you got all three of them to sit still for a minute!
And I TOTALLY remember those Cadbury Creme Egg commercials with the Cadbury Chicken. And now I'm going to be saying "bawk bawk" all day! You are such a goof!
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Ya'll do Easter pictures like Santa pictures? That's bizarre to me! Cute pic though.
That bunny looks totally psycho though. Ha ha..
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Negative feedback, or NFB, has taken a bad rap in the high-end audio community. Misunderstood by much of the audio press, and occasionally abused by audio designers, many audiophiles shun the idea like anthrax. In response, marketing departments have made claims of products with "Zero Negative Feedback."
In truth, every audio amplifier, from SET (Single-Ended Triode) to push/pull bipolar, relies on feedback to simply cover the bandwidth required by audio, as well as maintain linear operation. All amplifiers use feedback, period. Triode-based tube amplifiers don't require additional feedback circuits simply because that kind of tube inherently utilizes feedback within. But, because a triode doesn't need an external feedback circuit, you also can't control the feedback loop. Tetrode and Pentode tube-based devices, as well as MOSFETs, HEXFETs, and bipolar transistors, all require negative feedback circuits to achieve full audio bandwidth, low distortion, and in the case of bipolar transistor's negative temperature coefficient (as temperature rises, internal resistance falls), avoid thermal runaway.
And what does this term, negative feedback, bandied about like an overused hockey puck, mean anyway? As explained in our primer, negative feedback essentially creates a process which compares the output signal to the input signal, derives a difference signal, inverts it (hence the negative term) and applies that to the input of the device. Thus, the loop corrects differences in the waveform shape between the input and output as fast as the gain/bandwidth response of the device will allow. Used correctly, negative feedback has the following effects:
- Lower distortion (THD)
- Lower output impedance (increases damping factor) in the case of voltage feedback, higher output impedance in the case of current feedback
- Greater bandwidth
- Lower Gain (amplitude)
The benefits of lower distortion and lower output impedance seem rather obvious: more harmonic transparency, and a flatter frequency response into the reactive loads we've come to know and love as loudspeakers. While the excessive use of feedback can alter the proportion of harmonic distortion, tilting the ratio more towards higher order harmonics, which then might be more noticeable than 2nd or 3rd order harmonics of the same magnitude, both higher and lower order distortion will be lower in a carefully designed system.
Negative Feedback Graph 1What I find most interesting, though, is the relationship between gain and bandwidth. A device without negative feedback will have a lot of gain, but very poor bandwidth (rolloff in the high frequencies) – completely unsuitable for audio use. A device with a lot of negative feedback will have a high bandwidth and little gain. Gain can be increased with multiple stages, but bandwidth cannot. So, by necessity, a wide bandwidth amplifier with lots of gain will require more gain stages and/or feedback than an amplifier with lower gain and/or bandwidth. This flies in the flustered face of conventional audiophile wisdom which covets simple circuits above all else.
Most audio engineers would agree in theory that adding a gain stage which contributes neither current gain, voltage gain, nor a buffering function of any kind does nothing to improve the performance of a system. However, many don't grasp, or won't accept, that the number of gain stages is not necessarily inversely related to sound quality, so long as each stage carries out a valid function. After all, as one of our writers, John Busenitz, likes to point out, "If you think that a shorter signal path is always better, try driving speakers with a preamplifier."
Before it seems that I'm holding negative feedback up as some kind of holy water cooler, let me say that NFB can wreak some nasty havoc if abused. For example, if a designer was dead set on a limited number of gain stages for whatever concerns, but still wanted more gain and/or bandwidth than the devices he chose to use would allow, he might use negative feedback to push the bandwidth beyond the open loop (without feedback) response of the circuit. This "technique" results in a rising response that peaks before the final (and sharp) rolloff.
Although this amplifier would spec out well in terms of bandwidth and distortion into a resistive load, the sharp slope in the upper bandwidth would cause a very poor phase response (i.e., there would be "phase shift", meaning that the position of the high frequencies in time would be delayed from where they should be relative to the low frequencies). Regardless of whether the phase response itself is audible, phase shift creates a loop very prone to oscillating, making the correction very much after the fact, sometimes causing more error that in turn causes more correction, and so on. Not only does this promote ringing and IM distortion but, especially when driving capacitive loads which induce both a low impedance and heavy phase shift in the ultra sonic range, the oscillation can lead to catastrophic failure of the amplifier ("smoking" it).
In situations such as this, less feedback would have suited the design, but one could argue that it would also help to have a better engineer who knew the limitations of the technology and the chosen devices. Does it make sense to dull the knife because the cook cuts himself? I think not.
What then of these claims of amplifiers without negative feedback. Are they lies? No, not exactly. When an amplifier manufacturer or reviewer speaks of no negative feedback, what they're referring to is not simply negative feedback, but global feedback compared to local feedback. Also, amplifiers often have DC servo-feedback to keep the DC offset at the output as near to zero as possible, and power supplies can have feedback as well. These are not referred to when stating "no feedback" in the specification sheet or marketing information.
While local feedback compares the output of a single gain stage to the input of the same, global feedback loops the output stage of the entire amplifier to the input stage of the entire amplifier, so that the correction signal affects the entire chain in between and, likewise, the entire chain affects that correction.
Because of this, the total error which the feedback loop must address, including the high frequency cutoff phase error, is the sum of all the gain stages of the system, which gets a few designers in trouble for reasons already mentioned. In other words, all other things being equal, the correction speed of the global loop is lower than the local loop, because the bandwidth of the global loop is limited many times over by the multiple stages it must correct, and use to make that correction.
That does't make global feedback bad. Like anything else, you've just got to be careful about how you use it. Even though local feedback allows for more immediate correction, it also requires a separate loop for each device. Plus, there's no reason one couldn't use both (local and global) with great success, even at the same time.
Unfortunately for us audiophiles, there isn't a simple statement about the uses of feedback to evaluate the engineering merits of a particular piece of equipment. It's not simply a matter of stating that more or less is better, but rather, one must examine the specific context of the application. If one really wanted to, one could apply a battery of tests to filter out the best designs from the inept. Considering that some of the most highly touted amplifiers on the market fail miserably in something so basic as stability, it seems quite tempting.
But, to truly evaluate an amplifier purely on objective merits, one almost has to be an electrical engineer. As rewarding as that may be, not everyone can implement, let alone interpret such tests. Besides, it's so much more fun to spend the majority of the evaluation time listening to the equipment.
There is, though, a relatively easy way to get an indication of an amplifier's high frequency stability which relates directly to the implementation of negative feedback. Look at the rolloff curve. Since the phase error is proportional to the slope, an amplifier with a slowly tapered HF rolloff is more likely to be stable than the contrasting example of a rising peak followed by a sharp drop. Of course, this doesn't make any guarantees, as there are always more issues to consider, such as basic power supply characteristics for starters. But, if this stuff was easy, everyone would be designing audio equipment. Too bad, huh?


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In medieval Europe, The Empress card was painted to represent whatever queen currently ruled the land, probably to satisfy the Inquisitors. But the scholars of the Renaissance and beyond had no doubt of her true identity -- she could not be fully revealed on Tarot cards as "the woman clothed with the sun" until after the French Revolution.
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This do in remembrance of me."
2. Jesus gave His life for me.
I want to serve Him thankfully.
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BOSTON -- Jared Sullinger recovered from first-half foul trouble to score 19 points and grab seven rebounds, helping Ohio State beat Syracuse 77-70 on Saturday to advance to the Final Four.
It will be the Buckeyes' first trip to the NCAA semifinals since 2007.
Deshaun Thomas scored 14 with nine rebounds for No. 2 seed Ohio State (31-7), which led by eight points with 59 seconds to play and held on after the Orange cut it to three. The Buckeyes made 13 of 14 free throws in the final 68 seconds.
Brandon Triche scored 15 points and Baye Keita had 10 rebounds for top-seeded Syracuse (34-3). The Orange were hoping for a return trip to New Orleans, where they won their only national championship in 2003.
In a tightly officiated game that left Sullinger on the bench in foul trouble for most of the first half and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim not-quite muzzled after picking up a technical foul, it came down to free throws. Ohio State went 31 for 42 from the line in the game despite playing against Syracuse's usual 2-3 zone.
The Orange went to the line 25 times, making 20 foul shots.
The frequent whistles left both teams struggling to get into a groove in the first half -- there were only four baskets in the last 9:30 of the first. That seemed to be good news for Ohio State, which managed to stay with the No. 1 seed despite getting only 6 minutes from Sullinger, the star of the Buckeyes' East Regional semifinal win over Cincinnati.
Syracuse was already without 7-footer Fab Melo, who missed the tournament with academic issues, and replacement Rakeem Christmas picked up two quick fouls early in the second half to leave him with four.
Ohio State opened a 46-36 lead with under 14 minutes to play. Syracuse scored eight of the next nine points to make it a one-point game, but the Orange could never get back in the lead.
They trailed by eight with 59 seconds left and cut it to three, but they needed the Buckeyes to miss free throws, and that didn't happen.
The loss ended a tumultuous season for Syracuse that began with accusations by two former ball boys that they were sexually abused in the 1980s by Bernie Fine, a longtime Syracuse assistant coach. Boeheim vigorously defended him, but later walked back his support in the face of new information. Fine, who was fired Nov. 27, has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing.
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