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Personal life
Menzel was born in Queens, New York (and raised in Syosset, New York)[2] to Helene and Stuart Mentzel (they would divorce when Menzel was 15). She has a younger sister, Cara.[2] Her family is Jewish.[2] Menzel attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, during that time she worked as a wedding and bar mitzvah singer, and earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Drama at New York University[1] prior to being cast in Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent.
Her surname, Mentzel, was changed to Menzel to better reflect how they pronounced the name upon their arrival to America.[1]
Menzel was married to Taye Diggs for ten years before the couple decided to separate in 2013[3]; their divorce was finalized in December 2014.[4] Their son, Walker, was born in September 2009.[5]
Menzel married Aaron Lohr in September 2017.[6]
She originated the role of Elphaba in the hit Broadway musical Wicked (for which she won a Tony Award) along with fellow Glee guest star Kristin Chenoweth as the original Glinda (also known as Galinda). Idina also played the role of Maureen in both the 1996 original Broadway production and 2005 movie musical Rent. Additional theatre credits include the role of Amneris in Elton John's Aida and Kate in the 2000 Off-Broadway production of Lippa's The Wild Party.
Menzel returned to Broadway in Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's production of If/Then in March 2014. She was announced, in April 2014, to be nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her If/Then performance.[7]
Menzel was announced, by The Broadway League, that she will serve as the 2014 Kids' Night on Broadway National Ambassador.[8] The 18th Kids' Night on Broadway took place between February 24 and March 2, 2014.
Menzel voiced a role in the 2013 Disney animated feature Frozen and sang the universally acclaimed "Let It Go". Former Glee co-star Jonathan Groff also voiced a role in the film. On March 2, 2014 she sang "Let It Go" at the Oscars, where the song later won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Frozen won the Award for Best Animated Feature.
Menzel announced, in April 2014, to have a one night only concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York in June.[9]
She released her holiday album, Holiday Wishes, on October 14, 2014.[10]
She will release her new album, "idina.", on Setember 23, 2016.
On Glee
Menzel appears in twelve episodes on Glee, so far, as a fictional character, Shelby Corcoran. Shelby is the coach of Vocal Adrenaline in Season One, and Rachel Berry's mother, as well as the adopted mother of Quinn's baby Beth. She was cast after many fans noted how much resemblance there was between Idina and Lea Michele. As for her time on Glee she also got a bit naughty with the opposing showchoirs director Will Schuester as she seems very into him in the end. Menzel returned to Glee for Season 3 for six episodes. She made her comeback appearence in I Am Unicorn, along with her adoptive on-screen daughter, Beth. She later appeared in Season Four in the episode Sweet Dreams.
Covered Songs
- Defying Gravity (Wicked with Kristin Chenoweth) sung by Rachel and Kurt (Wheels)
- Take Me or Leave Me (Rent with Fredi Walker) sung by Rachel and Mercedes (Comeback)
- For Good (Wicked with Kristin Chenoweth) sung by Rachel and Kurt (New York)
- Seasons of Love (Rent with full cast) sung by New Directions (Season Three verison cut / The Quarterback)
- Let It Go (Frozen) sung by Rachel Berry (Loser Like Me)
|("Hercules and the Song of Circe" and voice)
|Kissing Jessica Stein
|Just a Kiss
|Late Show with David Letterman
|("Dakota Fanning/Rocco DiSpirito/Wicked")
|Jessy Turner
|The Tollbooth
|Raquel Cohen-Flaxman
|Rescue Me
|Maureen Johnson
|Kevin Hill
|Francine Prescott
|("Sacrificial Lambs" and "Losing Isn't Everything")
|Ask the Dust
|Vera Rivkin
|Nancy Tremaine
|Great Performances
|Florence Vassey
|("Chess in Concert")
|Private Practice
|Lisa King
|("Do the Right Thing" and "What You Do for Love")
|Shelby Corcoran
|2010 - 2013 (12 episodes)
|The Wonder Pets
|The Queen of Hearts
|("Adventures in Wonderland")
|Elsa, Snow Queen
|Dr. Paula
|voice ("Shelter from the Storm: Part 1 and Part 2")
|Frozen Fever
|voice and short
|Lego Frozen Northern Lights
|voice (4 episodes)
|CC Bloom
|TV movie
|Olaf's Frozen Adventure
|voice and short
|Julie's Greenroom
|(2 episodes)
|Ralph Breaks the Internet
|Frozen II
|Uncut Gems
|Dinah Ratner
|Rent: Live
- She is a mezzo-soprano and a belter.
- All of her parts in her covered songs are sung by Lea Michele who plays her character's biological daughter.
- Her idol is Barbra Streisand.
- She's the original Elphaba (Wicked) and Maureen (RENT).
- She is widely known for her wide vocal range and belting techniques.
- Before she was on Broadway, she was a wedding and bar mitzvah singer.
- She's Jewish.
- She's the original singer of For Good, Popular, Defying Gravity(all aforementioned along with Kristin Chenoweth) and Take Me or Leave Me.
- She has a Yorkshire Terrier and 2 "Jazz" Cats.
- She has a son named Walker.
- Prior to winning the Tony for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked, she had already been nominated for her performance as Maureen in RENT.
- Her vocal range is E3-C6.
- She is left handed (as seen in Asian F).
- She describes her time in RENT "the best time of her life." Source
- She is particularly close to fellow Film/Original Broadway Cast Member, Adam Pascal. They both grew up together in New York.
- If/Then is her second time working with Michael Greif; the two previously worked together in RENT.
- If/Then is also the second time she works with Anthony Rapp, where the two also worked in RENT previously.
- She was featured in Disney's Enchanted as Nancy.
- She appeared in the Disney animated movie Frozen with co-star Jonathan Groff. She voiced the character Elsa the Snow Queen, who will be the 13th Disney Princess. Two versions of her song, Let it Go, appeared in the movie: one sung by her character and another covered by Demi Lovato who was also on Glee.
- Lea Michele also covered Let It Go on Glee as Rachel.
- Her name was flubbed at the Oscars by John Travolta as "Adele Dazeem".
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Indina Menzel Bio
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Idina Menzel – Wicked's Original Elphaba
- ↑ Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs Separate after 10 years of marriage.
- ↑ Idina Menzel & Taye Diggs Finalized Their Divorce Before the Holidays, 1 Year After Split
- ↑ Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel Welcome a Son
- ↑ Idina Menzel Marries Rent Co-Star Aaron Lohr
- ↑ Tony Nominations 2014: Neil Patrick Harris, Idina Menzel and Bryan Cranston Up for Awards
- ↑ Idina Menzel to Serve as National Ambassador of Kids' Night on Broadway 2014
- ↑ Idina Menzel Announces 'One Night Only' Radio City Concert!
- ↑ I know I've technically spilled the beans already, but excited to share that my holiday album will drop October 14! http://t.co/OrIjpY82Pu


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I had been doing a little undercover sneaky organising as last weekend it was Mr HenHouse's birthday so I decided to whisk him away. I managed to organise outings for each of the three days and on the way to our main destination and bed for the night, we happened to be passing near to somewhere I had long wanted to visit. Through Hampshire's green and rolling lanes we travelled until we found ourselves at Mottisfont.
Mottisfont is a village but it's also the way people tend to refer to the infamous house there, now owned by the National Trust, which is renowned the world over for its walled rose garden. As a die-hard rose lover, I had longed to go there; it being June and almost the longest day, it was the perfect occasion upon which to visit. We were shocked to see how many cars there were in the car park and I mean the overflow car park. Mottisfont's secret is well and truly out. We got in quickly though, we are members of the National Trust anyway, and headed straight for the main attraction (for me, at least). There's something about a walled garden which is inherently romantic I think, so when paired with roses, it's a dreamy combination. Roses are really set off against old brick and stone walls.
There is a large area for rose sales when you first enter. I wonder how many people do not go home with a rose. I know we did, in fact the very first one we saw, which will enhance The Beehive Garden here at home. There was a large selection of potted David Austin English Roses (of which I am an ardent fan) as well as lots of beautiful older varieties.
It was difficult to know where to look first. What I wasn't to realise was that the space we first entered was only the beginning and there were further rooms to the walled rose garden.
There were traditional box-edged borders along the edges, with climbing roses trained against the walls underplanted with more shrub roses and pretty herbaceous perennials. Now was the perfect time to see the peonies and catmint and there was a lot of lavender ready to flower.
There were areas of classic English lawn, green and stripy, and many places to sit and enjoy the views.
As you may imagine, the scent in the air was pretty heavenly. I couldn't resist a sniff and lots of people were doing the same. I find it impossible to buy roses for my own garden which don't have a fragrance because on seeing a rose, I think your first instinct is to smell it. It's always a disappointment when there isn't at least some perfume.
Onwards, there was a whole other large area of the walled rose garden to admire.
The planting combinations were really beautiful with lots of old cottage garden favourites: love-in-a-mist, foxgloves, lupins and so on. All plants I adore.
We were further rewarded when spotting this little chap; a baby robin who was very vocal, no doubt calling for his mum who was not too far away.
A sweet little garden shed had been filled with ephemera relating to the walled rose garden and a voice recording was playing of Graham Thomas who planned the rose garden back in the 1970s.
We decided it was time for a rest and a spot of lunch. We had taken a picnic with us so we set it out on the lawn in front of the house. It was a fine spot and good to use the picnic quilt I made when I first started quilting. There was a river running to the side of the lawn with a beautiful rose growing over the bridge. A duck and her family of ducklings were splashing along on the water. Glorious.
We set off to explore the house which was once a medieval abbey, in fact elements of it remain at the core of what is now largely a Georgian house. You can look round many of the rooms on the main floor. The house was bought by a wealthy banker and his wife back in the 1930s and the identity of the house was a mix of all eras inside. There were still hints of the Georgian grandeur, many of the walls were covered with Victorian marbled paint effects (a bit dark and oppressive for my liking) and the main drawing room was in a decadent '30s art deco style with the original furniture.
I was more interested in the top floor which is where the housemaids' quarters were. Up a steep and narrow wooden winding staircase a series of small rooms opened out. There was a little scullery (I do love one of those!) complete with its carpet beater, enamelled pots and carbolic soap.
Several bedrooms were open on display. They were simply furnished but contained the old metal bed frames, patchwork quilts and ragrugs that I love.
The house shut at 5pm and we just about managed to scamper round in time. I am glad we managed to see inside even though the rose garden was my real passion.
Ah Mottisfont, I wasn't sure you would be able to live up to the hype but in fact you surpassed it. Places like this make me really proud to be British. I shall return.


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In the world of stuffing, this one is relatively light, though no less satisfying than a more traditional mix. And it tastes like a gift from the forest, with hearty cremini mushrooms, fresh sage, and the crunch of toasted hazelnuts.
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- 8 cups 1/2-inch cubes of firm white bread such as a Pullman loaf (1 pound)
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped shallots (about 8 medium; 10 ounces)
- 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, divided
- 1 1/2 pounds cremini mushrooms, sliced 1/4 inch thick
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped celery (from 3 ribs)
- 2 teaspoons chopped thyme
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped sage
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 2 cups hazelnuts (1/2 pound), toasted , any loose skins rubbed off in a kitchen towel, and coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 4 cups turkey stock , heated to liquefy if gelled, or reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Equipment: a 3-quart shallow ovenproof baking dish (2 to 3 inches deep)
- Preheat oven to 400°F with racks in upper and lower thirds. Generously butter baking dish.
- Arrange bread in 1 layer in 2 large shallow baking pans and toast, switching position of pans halfway through baking, until golden and dry, about 15 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl. (Leave oven on.)
- Meanwhile, cook shallots in 1 stick butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened and golden, about 6 minutes. Add mushrooms, celery, thyme, sage, and 1/2 teaspoon salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid given off by mushrooms has evaporated and mushrooms are browned, 20 to 30 minutes.
- Add wine and deglaze skillet by boiling, stirring and scraping up any brown bits, until wine is reduced by about half, about 2 minutes. Transfer to bread in bowl. Add hazelnuts and parsley and toss.
- Whisk together stock, eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper, then stir into bread mixture. Transfer to baking dish and dot top of stuffing with remaining 1/2 stick butter.
- Bake, loosely covered with a buttered sheet of foil (buttered side down), in lower third of oven 30 minutes, then remove foil and bake until top is browned, about 15 minutes more.
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· Bread cubes and hazelnuts can be toasted 2 days ahead and kept in sealed bags at room temperature. · Stuffing, without hazelnuts and stock-and-egg mixture, can be assembled (but not baked), 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Stir in nuts and stock mixture, then proceed with recipe. · Stuffing can be baked 6 hours ahead and chilled, uncovered, until cool, then loosely covered. Reheat, covered, in a 400°F oven until hot, about 30 minutes.


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Since records began in 1776, Youngstown, Ohio had never been shaken by an earthquake, until the Northstar 1 deep injection well was built to pump wastewater produced by fracking in Pennsylvania.
In December 2010 the Northstar 1 came online, and in the year that followed 109 seismic events were recorded at Youngstown.
"The earthquakes were centered in subsurface faults near the injection well," said Dr. Won-Young Kim. "These shocks were likely due to the increase in pressure from the deep waste water injection which caused the existing fault to slip."
Waste fluid generated during shale gas production, or hydraulic fracturing, is pumped underground by the deep injection well.
Researchers found that the onset, cessation, and dips in seismic activity correlated to activity at the Northstar 1 well. Their findings are published in Geophysical Research-Solid Earth.
The first earthquake recorded in the city occurred 13 days after pumping began, and tremors ceased shortly after the Ohio Department of Natural Resources shut down the well in December 2011.
The strongest earthquake, magnitude 3.9, occurred on December 31, 2011. Twelve total events registered above 1.8 magnitude. Main shocks occurred at depths of 3.5 to 4 kilometers, deep in the layers known as the Precambrian basement.
Dips in seismic activity occurred for Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving holidays as well as other scheduled stops at the well.
Researchers concluded that deep well fluid injection "induced seismic activity" at the Northstar 1 site.
"Throughout 2011, the earthquakes migrated from east to west down the length of the fault away from the well -- indicative of the earthquakes being caused by expanding pressure front."
Two years after it was shut down, the well remains shuttered and abandoned. Ben W. Lupo, owner of Northstar Disposal LLC. which operated the Northstar 1 well, was charged with violating the Clean Water Act in an unrelated case.


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I once quit a well-paid job in healthcare marketing to cycle 4,000 miles round the coast of Great Britain.
The decision to leave was simple. My boss was a bully and the company turned a blind eye to workplace bullying.
Although I thoroughly enjoyed the role and the work load, I couldn't condone working for a firm that didn't value my mental health.
Life is too short to spend so many hours in a day doing a job that doesn't add a sparkle to your eye.
I had my heart in my mouth as I handed over my resignation. The nerves of an uncertain future had begun to set in. But instead of feeling dread – I had never felt more alive.
This isn't the first time I've felt that heart-in-mouth feeling.
I've been made redundant twice in my relatively short work life, and rather than feel angry and resentful, both times I was left feeling hugely optimistic and ambitious to find the next opportunity.
Bear with me.
When redundancy struck I was fresh out of university, finding which way to go with my career. Every job was a learning curve, giving me valuable work experience and an opportunity to find out what I did – and importantly – did not like in a company and job.
It felt great to be pushed out of my comfort zone, challenging and exciting.
I've always been ambitious and like to grab opportunities and bleed them for all they're worth. I don't like standing still, I like to challenge myself and do the best I can do in *ALL* that I do.
My career is a reflection of that.
Every time I've moved jobs, I've enjoyed and thrived in each new role. I've grown better at picking the right companies to work for, with roles that I could really get my teeth stuck into.
My career has been about working hard, enjoying the ride and pushing myself.
Wheeling back from that cycling trip 4,000 miles round the coast of Great Britain, I trained as a bike mechanic to give me some standing in the next chapter of my career as online editor for Total Women's Cycling.
I'm so proud of what I've achieved in such a short work life and I'm sad that it has come to an abrupt end.
First off, know that I CHOSE to be a stay at home mum (SAHM) and at times I thoroughly enjoy it.
Apart from two mornings a week where my eldest is at nursery, I look after both children and run the household full time.
Anyone who is, has been or lived with a SAHM will understand, it's hard. It's definitely the hardest job *I've* ever had.
I've thrown myself head first into the role of SAHM – like all my previous jobs – all while ignoring some niggling feelings of wanting more for myself. Is that selfish?
For the past 2.5 years I've been busying myself with life as a SAHM, I can safely say that ALL of my day is filled with looking after my kids, the house, the dog, the finances and the husband. I've slipped into the 1950s without realising it.
It's been so easy to do and no one, but myself, has forced my hand.
My kids didn't tell me to stay at home, they weren't physically here when we made the decision. My husband has been fully supportive throughout our entire relationship and makes it his lifes mission to help me acheive anything I want to.
But, choosing to accept the role of SAHM has come with consequences for me and my family.
Too much time with our kids
I'm with them ALL the time, I know EVERYTHING about them and with few external inputs to share my attention, my focus is purely on them.
So much time with them leads me to analyse everything, which means I FIND things to do and worry about. This is neither healthy for my kids or me.
If I work I will undoubtedly still worry about them, that won't go away, but I feel I'll be able to put things into perspective.
My marriage is suffering
I've some how let myself slip into the role of a 1950s housewife and it's makes me – at times – resentful of my husband.
Before the kids came along both my husband and I worked. Admittedly he has always earned the big bucks in comparison, but we've always been supportive of our respective careers. He also made it clear that I didn't have to be a SAHM if I didn't want to be.
Perhaps I didn't think it through enough, perhaps I thought I had to prove something to myself that I could relish the role of SAHM.
Then there's the fact that my Mum was a SAHM and I guess it's what tradition in our family dictated.
I'm at a point now where although I love being a mother, I yearn for more.
In the two and a half short years that I've been home our marriage has become rather traditional. Through no fault of my husband, I've slipped into being what I think the best mum, the best wife, the best homemaker.
To clarify, my husband doesn't expect me to do all the cleaning, cooking or weekly shops, I've taken that upon myself. I'm at home surrounded by it all day, so why shouldn't I do it! It's as if I've gone on automatic pilot and stumbled into the life my parents had.
It may have worked for them, but it doesn't for me and it's left me feeling angry.
This anger and resentment, brought on myself has impacted our relationship. I've turned into the nagging, emotional wife and it's awful. Awful for me and downright horrific for my husband.
It's hard to look in the mirror and not like what's staring back.
My confidence and ambition has dwindled
I'm proud of what I've achieved with my kids to date, they're turning into confident, happy little sprogs. I've not regretted the decision to become a mum, I just feel I have underestimated my capabilities in making the move to become a SAHM.
The constant focus on my kids and family leave me lulled into a sense that I'm accomplishing enough, because essentially I am.
It fills every hour of every day. I cook, craft, play, read and laugh with my kids, all the things that parents the world over do with their kids.
But what about my personal ambitions? The dream to set up my own company?
If it takes ALL my day to look after two kids, how can I juggle a start-up business as well?
And then what happens when my children get older? When my kids no longer need me? Will I regret not keeping a toe in the water, will I then resent my decisions?
When I was juggling jobs with multiple hobbies, side projects and a busy social life I never stopped to think I wasn't capable of things. I feel I've lowered what I'm capable of and let the role of SAHM seep into every crevice of my being.
I've almost built walls around my capabilities. Yes it is hard juggling work with kids. It's hard, but not impossible. It requires some creative thinking.
I've bullied myself into thinking that I should be happy with my lot, be happy that we're able to afford the luxury of being a SAHM. But surely I should be confident enough to admit that I want more.
I'm slowly starting to see that the SAHM part of me being a Mum has been a step in my career. A break from the 'traditional' career trajectory, but it's given me clarity.
The emotional rollercoaster of becoming a parent has made me realise what's important in my life.
I may have made the decision to become a SAHM and it was right at that point in my life, it's just now I feel I've outgrown my house – not my kids – and want to spread my wings.
I'm eternally grateful for the time I've had with my kids, but I want to have that twinkle back in my eye, a passion outside my children to share with them.
At times it is going to be hard, the balancing act will take imagination to be a success but I feel parenting my children and my career should not be mutually exclusive.
My future roles will be different from what has gone before in my career, but that doesn't mean I will be unhappier for it. I won't be able to put in as many physical hours, but I want to find the time and space for it.
Only now – if after realising all of the above – do I decide not to take action would I suffer regret. I don't want any regrets, life is too short.
I need to re-energise myself, adjust my daily priorities and find a way to make things work.


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Is the Nexus Q Cool?
Google had revenue of $38 billion last year. So why would they mess around selling a consumer electronics gizmo? Frankly, I don't have the faintest idea. But they have served up a juicy meatball of a nice product.
Actually, the Nexus Q is more like a Magic 8-Ball. Overshadowed by the simultaneous announcement of the Nexus 7 tablet, and the new Jelly Bean iteration of the Android OS, the Nexus Q is a 2-pound sphere that will connect your Android phone, audio/video content cloud, and your stereo and TV. As a media player, the Q is akin to Apple TV, Boxee, and Roku, but of course it's Google and Android-centric. Android devices control the Q and direct which files stream through it from the Google Play cloud (or YouTube) to your stereo and TV. If you tire of the millions of songs on the Google Play cloud, you can upload 20,000 of your own for free.
Every successful product today must have a "social" hook to it, and the Q is no exception. Google calls it "the first social streaming media player" because anyone connected to it via the same Wi-Fi hotspot (or through Ethernet) can control it with their Android apps and put their content in the playback queue. Feeling antisocial? No problem. Turn off the Guest mode, and keep your friends (and their poor taste) off of your Q.
The Q uses a dual-core ARM processor (the same as in some Android smartphones) and it contains seven intricately nested circuit boards. Uniquely, the sphere acts as its own volume control. Rotating the top dome on its base does the honors. An "audiophile grade" power amplifier (2 x 12.5-watt class D) is onboard, so you can hook up speakers directly. Or, use an optical or HDMI cable to connect to something better. Just for fun, there are 32 RGB LEDs around the perimeter of the sphere.
Interestingly, reportedly, almost all of the parts inside the Q are made in America, and the Q itself is manufactured in America (Silicon Valley, to be more specific). While Google isn't claiming any political agenda, it's another signpost in an emerging trend back to onshore electronics manufacturing. Bravo.
At $299, the Nexus Q isn't cheap. And I don't think Google will sell a ton of them. But you know what? If a Magic 8-Ball can help integrate phones with home entertainment, then that's a good thing for home entertainment. With its proven success in phones - and deep pockets to fund new ventures - I think it's terrific that Google is turning its sights on audio/video. Creative products like the Q are just what the industry needs.
For an alternative view of what the Nexus announcements mean, check out Geoff Morrison's Show Me the Content. For Geoff, no streamer or tablet can make it out of the gate without a significant content library. The question is whether Google Play can really compete with the huge libraries of Amazon and iTunes - and nothing else matters.


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Christie Prody recently told "Inside Edition" that her ex-boyfriend O.J. Simpson was "very charming," but he often threatened her and compared her to Nicole Brown Simpson after he was famously acquitted of his ex-wife's murder.
Prody was 21 when she started dating the 46-year-old Simpson. The ex-NFL star had just been acquitted of Brown's murder, but often compared his new girlfriend to his ex-wife.
"I was young and so he could try to shape me, mold me, into what he wanted," Prody, now 38, alleged in the interview. She also said Simpson wanted her to dye her hair blonde to look more like Nicole.
"It was very hard to deal with that everyday, comparing me to Nicole. 'Nicole did this, Nicole did that. You should do this, that's what she did,'" Prody said, according to the The New York Post.
Prody, now 38, also claimed that Simpson threatened her.
"He would say things to me like, 'You better watch out so something bad doesn't happen to you like Nicole,'" she said.
Prody and Simpson ended their 12-year relationship in 2008, shortly after he was arrested for armed robbery in Las Vegas. He is now serving a 33-year prison sentence.


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A new review paper out in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioural Pediatrics
Just a reminder, in case people didn't know, many doctors, sleep experts, sleep trainers, and clinics start to promote sleep training at month 3 or 4. Some parents start even earlier. And when those of us speak out against it's promotion, arguing infants are in a sensitive period at that point (the fourth trimester so to speak) or have naturally developing circadian rhythms we don't want to mess with, or that this type of training can harm breastfeeding success, we're told it's up to us to prove the risk of harm if we don't want it *promoted*. Well… here is that proof. (Remember we're talking about promoting something here, not speaking to parents who used methods without knowing anything or who were told by doctors, sleep experts, etc. to use these methods early. We have to differentiate between speaking to parents who are trying anything that will work and the people who should know what to promote and what not to promote.)
Drs. Pamela Douglas and Peter Hill out of the University of Queensland in Australia (both of whom I'd like to buy drinks for) performed the review. A total of 43 articles met the criterion for inclusion. There were various sleep training techniques included in the review. The usual suspects, as well as decoupling feeding from sleep and touch (i.e., never letting the baby fall asleep at the boob or in arms, teaching the child to "self-settle" without touch or food), scheduling the baby's sleep whether tired or not, and decreasing daytime stimulation. They looked at all of these for the outcomes associated with them on infants and mothers.
One of the most disturbing revelations is that articles promoting sleep training in the early months don't actually have scientific backing for it. What many of them found was simply that sleep consolidates rapidly during the first four months postpartum and that because it does this, it is assumed to be evidence that sleep training will prevent later problems in sleep-wake cycles for infants. But when they actually looked at outcomes for infant and mother (as this is who has primarily done the sleep training in the research they found), they find the following:
- Sleep training in the first 12 weeks does result in longer sleep durations but does not reduce infant crying, which is the main concern for parents seeking sleep training.
- Increased night wakings in breastfed babies was not associated with any long-term sleep or behavioural problems despite many suggesting long-term problems associated with infant night wakings.
- Infants who show night wakings or other sleep disturbances at six months (without intervention) have completely normal mental health in young adulthood, meaning those who suggest a link to later problems don't have a leg to stand on.
- For those who worry about moms with depression, sleep training prior to six months was not found to decrease maternal depression at all. And in fact, mom's sleep problems do not correlate with infant sleep but rather are due to the depression, not the infant.
- In fact, it was maternal depression that predicted longer infant awakenings at night (though not frequency), not the other way around.
- Mothers who breastfeed wake more to feed babies but report better sleep quality and lower rates of postpartum depression.
- The few studies that reported a decrease in maternal depression due to interventions were incredibly complex interventions with many elements (including support for mother) and the lowered depression cannot be said to be due to sleep training.
- Decoupling feeding from sleep in infants younger than six months was associated with increased breastfeeding failure.
- Rigid, scheduled sleep and care in the early months is associated with three times the risk of behavioural problems at six months and twice the amount of crying as infants with cue-based care.
- Placing an infant in a dark room during the day under the guise of them needing sleep or crying from being "overstimulated" or "overtired" actually inhibits the consolidation of night sleep (meaning more night wakings) and increases the risk for SIDS. It also reduces the ability of mom to develop a good daytime biorhythm with the baby which reduces maternal mental health.
- The focus of sleep interventions – namely the amount the baby has slept, how long between sleeps, number of wakings, etc. – actually increases parental anxiety. It can also result in worse sleep for baby.
Perhaps most interesting of all, though not an outcome, most families don't report any issues with infant sleep in the first six months. Most people are being told to use behavioural techniques as preventative measures for later problems. Only there's no evidence that this works and as we've just read, actually can pose more problems for the family both in the short- and medium-term. And none of these studies even looked at any longer-term social or emotional issues that can arise from sleep training so young, thus the question of what the risk of long-term harm is still remains.
What to do? As the authors here suggest, treatments need to be holistic. In the minds of these authors and researchers, early treatment of any problem should avoid sleep training and all behavioural techniques in favour of education about cue-based care, parent-child synchrony, healthy daytime biorhythms, and addressing parental anxiety about sleep and normal crying. Further, feeding difficulties should be examined as one of the potential causes of unsettled infant behaviour, thus parents should be given all the assistance they need to address any feeding issues.
Isn't it sad that we needed 20 years of studies to prove the risk of harm? Couldn't we have not promoted this and saved these families the anxiety, stress, and problems that came with promotion of something that hadn't been proved to do no harm despite countering all biological norms?
So… sleep trainers, baby "experts", doctors, and anyone else promoting sleep training in young infants: What are you going to do now?
Update: Here is a video with the authors of the review talking about the research and sleep in the first six months! (Thank you to Natalie for this.)
Click here for a follow-up opinion piece.
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[1] Douglas PS, Hill PS. Behavioral sleep interventions in the first six months of life do not improve outcomes for mothers or infants: a systematic review. J Dev Behav Pediatr 2013; 34: 497-507.


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We recently reported that Mari0, the Super Mario Brothers-meets-Portal mash-up-game, had launched.
Does Mario need a Portal gun? Well, no. Not really. He managed just fine in his 1985 adventure with only basic jumps and fireballs at his disposal. He can squash goombas and rescue princesses just fine without Aperture Science's latest, greatest device.
But is Mario better with a Portal gun? Take a look at our video and judge for yourself. Even pointless, completely unnecessary tricks are better with portals.


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2013 – A Defining Moment for Achieving the MDGsSep 24, 2013
Global leaders urgently call for the continued need to accelerate progress to address widening disparities
With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) looming, global leaders are calling for the urgent need to continue the accelerated approach to meet the worldwide targets that have overseen the fastest reduction of poverty in human history.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim co-chaired a High-level Panel today during the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. They said that achieving the MDGs would help address global disparities and lay the foundation for the post-2015 development agenda.
"With less than 830 days to go before the MDG target date, now is the time to accelerate progress – not give up," said Helen Clark in a speech that underlined the key messages of a forthcoming report by UNDP, Accelerating progress, sustaining results.
"Our efforts must focus on progress for the poorest and most vulnerable people and countries, many of whom have been left behind, despite global progress towards the MDG targets," she said.
Since the introduction of the MDG framework 13 years ago, significant achievements have been made.
"Today, many nations have achieved what could have been considered a dream in 2000 – cutting in half the number of people living in extreme poverty, eliminating gender disparities in school, expanding access to safe drinking water, and improving living conditions for slum dwellers,'' said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.
"But progress on health, sanitation, and primary school completion is at risk. The challenge before us remains large. It is larger than the capabilities of any single institution. It goes beyond the capacities of most governments alone. We need productive partnerships among governments, the private sector, and civil society to accelerate progress."
Adapting approaches are key to sustainability in the new development age. Bringing sectors and partnerships together now to accelerate progress on the MDGs and build momentum towards a post-2015 agenda will proactively and progressively tackle inequalities, address systemic deficits that retard progress in the longer term, minimize and build resistance to shocks, and "climate-proof" the MDGs and other development goals as these threaten to slow down, or even reverse gains made in the MDGs.
The High-level Panel also hosted heads of state from Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ghana, Tanzania and Tonga, as well Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"The MDGs have set the stage for stunning improvements in the quality of life for the poorest people in the world. Countries are measuring their progress on the key statistics - how many mothers and children are surviving; how many girls are going to school - and as a result they're making more progress, faster than ever before," said Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"The UN can help keep this momentum going after 2015 by making sure the next set of global goals is ambitious yet pragmatic, measurable, and focused on the poorest."
Nine-time Olympic gold medalist and UN Goodwill Ambassador Carl Lewis said that while the MDGs have laid the track for development, closing in on the finish line would require a sustained effort by the international community in this defining moment to eradicate poverty.Contact information
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The nonprofit's fourth annual summit brought leaders in civic engagement together to discuss innovation and how it can be executed in public sector.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds gathered on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at the Code for America summit held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Lam Theater to address innovation in civic engagement and the challenges that still remain for governments. Code for America, a nonprofit that pairs technically-skilled fellows with cities to develop civic innovation projects, also announced its 2014 partner cities at the event.
Click here for the full list.
WORK ON STUFF THAT MATTERS -- During opening remarks, Code for America's Co-Executive Directors Bob Sofman and Abhi Nemani addressed some of the bigger challenges state and local governments face. According to Sofman, governments often cling to policies and procedures that no longer work. In order to work on what matters in government, cities, counties and other public-sector entities must rethink innovation.
The Code for America fellowship program has served as a jumping off point to help partner cities create new ideas and incubate civic innovation.
RETHINKING CRITICISM -- Author of Cognitive Surplus Clay Shirky addressed how to handle criticism, particularly criticism of government projects. Shirky made a distinction between constructive critics, who may provide valuable input, and "corrosive critics" – those who address the person trying to solve the problem, not the problem itself.
BOSTON: TWO YEARS LATER -- In 2011, Boston was chosen as one of the first Code for America partner cities. During that year, fellows helped the city develop Discover BPS, a platform to help parents and students more easily determine what local public school to attend. Because schools vary in applicant demand, having an online resource to better understand available options has helped the Boston community.
Since the fellowship two years ago and the launch of Discover BPS in November 2011, the platform has continued to serve Boston residents.
SAN FRANCISCO TEXTS FOR CHANGE -- As a 2013 Code for America partner, San Francisco addressed the issue of eligible residents applying for CalFresh benefits (food stamps). Residents who were disenrolled when benefits expired often had to reapply each time they went back on the service.
The city's Human Services Agency -- with the help of Code for America -- launched an opt-in program called Promptly for residents on food stamps to receive a text message when their CalFresh benefits are about to expire. The new program helped individuals receive updates on their food stamp account in what the agency considers an innovative way.
This November, every individual who applies for food stamps in San Francisco will be able to opt into the new text-based program.
LOUISVILLE, KY., MAYOR TALKS INTERNAL/EXTERNAL INNNOVATION -- According to Louisville, Ky., Mayor Greg Fischer, innovation in government occurs both internally and externally. Internally, innovation and improvements can take place by opening up data, and finding creative ways to make that data available.
To follow this mindset, Louisville joined San Francisco in providing restaurant inspection data on Yelp so citizens can see how local restaurants stack up, both in reviews and with official inspections.
But improving government from the inside is not enough. Fischer said innovating externally means making change to directly impact the community. But the size of the city doesn't influence its ability to do so -- big or small, Fischer believes you can innovate anywhere.
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I asked in this question if there was a heat powered fan for residential steam rads, to increase air flow over them since natural flow is pretty weak.
Alas, looks like some wood stoves can use such a device, but in the $300 range and they are pretty bulky.
Looking at parts, I found some cheaper ($40 US) Seebeck effect generators (Reverse of Peltier effect) and I am wondering if I can build one myself that is worthwhile.
Found a Seebeck generator here that looks to be about the right size, attach to my rad right where the steam comes in, stick a computer style heat sink on the back (bum one from work), and then run the power into a small fan.
Now to find a small fan I can fit under the rad, and needs low DC power.
I am tempted to experiment, since for $40 this should be simple enough.
I know my rad is not hot enough at 100C max, but I wonder if I can get enough power out to run a small battery powered fan styled motor...
Am I going to fail? Or is there a chance this might succeed?


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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
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IS THAT the root of sin being banished from Saint Nick's sight? Or is he just opening those shutters to get a better perve at the conundrum? Waving mermaids, child brides, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus and 72 virgins on a chain crowd his fevered dreams on this muted, haunted return to a skeleton crew of Bad Seeds. ''But you grow old and you grow cold,'' he sighs as he watches the young bucks dismember the trick-turning nymphs in Water's Edge, and ''the chill of love is coming down''.The tone here lies between the beatific agony of The Boatman's Call and the simmer of panic that propelled Nocturama from lynch mob to sick bed, with an atmospheric through-line from The Proposition and other Cave-Warren Ellis soundtracks. Ellis and bassist Marty Casey heave the solid grooves and unleash the rapture that makes Jubilee Street soar, and play like bickering voices in the gentle suicide of Wide Lovely Eyes. But it's through the anguished mutter of Finishing Jubilee Street and the title track that Cave's big book of revelation draws us ever inward.
My Bloody Valentine
HAVING easily seen off Guns N' Roses 22 years to 17 in the gap-between-studio-albums stakes, Irish-English alternative rock icons My Bloody Valentine added a typically frustrating finale to the release of their new album when the website selling it crashed. Like their music, My Bloody Valentine are suspicious of narrative but invoke deep emotion, making for a fascinating comeback on their third record, MBV. The album, which may or may not have been under way since the mid-1990s, picks up where the quartet's sky-breaking 1991 classic, Loveless, leaves off: invalided rhythms, guitars so woozy they suggest agoraphobia, narcotised, lyrical coos. Kevin Shields can get away with repeating himself because no one has worked out how to duplicate his sound, but as the record progresses, new concepts also take shape. There's the comparatively sweet New You, sung by guitarist Bilinda Butcher, and, as a furious finale, the elegantly startling and transporting drum'n'bass-meets-guitar-rock hybrid, Wonder 2. It sounds, typically, like the discovery of a new world.
Wonderful, Glorious
(E Works/Co-operative Music)
YOU need to say the title out loud in a Grandpa Simpson voice to unpack the black box of Mark ''E'' Everett's world view. His Wonderful, Glorious has a distinctly pugnacious swagger after a 10-album trip through death and despair (see Electro Shock Blues and End Times for the darkest days), so excuse him for taking the upswing with a healthy dose of scepticism. His idea of playful is the two-minute warning of Bombs Away. Even the sweet surge of love is cast as a glitch in the system in Accident Prone: ''I didn't anticipate a pleasant ordeal,'' he croaks. On the Ropes raises a tentative glass half-full to the future but, uh oh, The Turnaround comes straight after. Despite a sustained steel wool texture of treated vocals and scrubby, angular guitar, the joys of rocking out are redemptive enough on Kinda Fuzzy and Stick Together, but you could never accuse E of putting a smiley face on the inevitable undulations of real life. ''You know what? I'm in a good mood today,'' he snarls in New Alphabet. ''I'm so happy it's not yesterday''. Us too, E, us too.
I Am Kloot
Let It All In
IF JOHN Lennon had been Mancunian, less bitter and less soppy, and with hard wisdom built from lack of success rather than guilt from success, he might have sounded like John Bramwell, voice and writer of I Am Kloot. Bramwell sounds world-weary but not worn-down. Not yet. In these elegiac, often quietly captivating songs the tempos are slow, the drum pulse is subdued and the guitars mostly stay in the background for what, with a dab of acoustic folk and cafe jazz, feels more suited to a wine bar than a pub. But as mellow as these songs are, he isn't wholly resigned; he holds on. ''Hold back the night, the streets are filled with laughter/Soon I'll be after you once again/Come to my house and say we're friends.'' Yet there's no finer moment here than the final track, Forgive Me These Reminders, which, as pretty as it is, can't rub away the sadness and could have existed in a smoke-stained French balladeer's pocket in 1963 or with some satin-suited piano player in 1973 or indeed among the Smiths' offerings circa 1983.
Kim Salmon and Spencer P. Jones
DESPITE their common heritage, Kim Salmon and Spencer P. Jones are something of an odd coupling: Salmon, the intense, swamp-laden punk rocker waging a perennial war against the jive; Jones, the laconic troubadour exposing the ravages of his life to the world. After their successful run of shows in 2012 comes an album, Runaways. Of the original songs, A Bitter Projection is reminiscent of Salmon's recordings with the Business in the late 1990s, while Jones' The Monkey Has Gone is transformed into a dirty instrumental torch song. The suitably reverent covers of Chester Burnett's I Asked For Water, the Stooges' I Need Somebody, the Gun Club's Jack On Fire and Alex Chilton's Underclass place Salmon and Jones' musical evolution within a historical context; the versions of Kanye West's Run Away and Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is? paint a vivid picture of lives given to rock'n'roll - ego, dishevelment, transvestites and all. These guys are genuine survivors, with plenty of class.
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Studio One Ironsides
(Soul Jazz/Inertia)
THE vaults, shelves and back rooms of Coxone Dodd's Studio One in Kingston, Jamaica, are in many ways the gift that keeps giving. This latest from that stable, focusing on releases from side labels of Studio One in the early '70s, doesn't quite have the blow-me-away elements dedicated followers loved in its predecessors but it doesn't lack for pleasures. The music is drawn from a mixed bag, ranging from proto-dub to rocksteady, dancehall and sweet soul done in the Jamaican manner as well as an accommodating style of reggae. Marcia Griffiths, as ever, has a winning lilt over the easy lope of Mark My Word and she's matched in the charm stakes by the rather sweet Soul Sisters with Another Night and also a couple of tracks from Freddie McGregor, particularly the groove-driven Come Now Sister. There's a tougher edge to Don Evans and the Paragons' Danger in Your Eyes - its rhythm pushier, its brass sharper - and some production adventure in the spacious and almost vibrating Bongo Red by the Gladiators.


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HDMI cables used to connect a multitude of every day home audio and video devices may become a thing of the past if a new standard by the HDBaseT Alliance catches on.
"HDBaseT technology is poised to become the unrivaled next-generation home networking transport to meet the ever-changing trends in the digital media market," Alliance president and chairman Ariel Sobelman said in a statement accompanying the HDBaseT 1.0 spec's ratification Wednesday.
HDBaseT is a network-based standard that will let devices be connected over relatively inexpensive Cat5e/6 cables up to 100 meters in length, with HDMI ports being replaced by good ol' RJ-45 connectors. If your home or office is wired with Cat5e/6 and you've gone wireless for your internet needs, those cables may again come in handy as your entertainment backbone.
The HDBaseT Alliance was founded by LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures, and Valens Semiconductor. The "cornerstone" of the HDBaseT 1.0 spec, as described in Wednesday's announcement, is something the Alliance calls "5Play" technology that supports the transmission of uncompressed HD video, audio, 100BaseT Ethernet, and 100W of power over Cat5e/6 with various control signals.
The HDBaseT spec supports not only 1080p HD video (1920-by-1080), but also 3D and the next-gen high-resolution 2Kx4K standard (4096-by-2160) — which, by the way, is also supported by HDMI 1.4.
The networking setup, whether in a star topology or a daisy chain, will enable you to link up a variety of devices — think displays, DVRs, Blu-ray players, game consoles, PCs, handsets, whatever — in a dedicated entertainment network, all powered over the aforementioned Cat5e/6 cable.
Well, that's the Alliance's claim, in any case — those 100 watts couldn't power most large-screen displays, a lacking that would make additional power sources inevitable.
The HDBaseT spec will be available for licensing in the second half of this year, and although the Alliance expects products conforming to it to appear shortly thereafter, 2011 is their target for widespread adoption. ®


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Although employees are still taking a proactive stance on retirement, market rebounds have done little to repair their confidence, research from Financial Finesse found.
Just 14% of employees who called the financial education provider's helpline in the first quarter reported being confident in their ability to retire, down from 15% a year ago. Overall, employees continue to focus on long-term planning issues, a trend that began in the third quarter of 2009. Ninety-two percent of employees say they participate in their employer's retirement plan.
Employees still "have a long way to go," the report noted, in reaching their retirement goals. Not saving enough for retirement is the top vulnerability for employees who participate in financial wellness programs, Financial Finesse found. Saving overall is an area where employees need help. The second vulnerability, according to the report, is not saving enough to cover emergencies.
Although the stock market had its best first-quarter performance since 1998, with the S&P 500 up 12.6%, employees are still concerned about their portfolios. Just one-third of employees with investments said they are confident they're allocated properly, relatively unchanged since the first quarter of 2011. Fewer employees have taken a risk assessment and are aware of where they fall on the risk spectrum: conservative, moderate or aggressive.
"No longer are employees relying on the market to give them strong returns," Liz Davidson, CEO of Financial Finesse, said in a statement. "In a sense, they were burned by this way of thinking before—the market crashed and they lost huge portions of their savings."
The European debt crisis, continued high levels of unemployment and rising health care costs are also weighing on employees' minds, Davidson said, adding that even though some in the industry say we're in a recovery, employees don't feel it. "They're still waiting for the other shoe to drop," she said.
"I think it will take a while for employees to increase their confidence about retirement and investing. We'll need to see a much stronger recovery, along with sustained market gains. Maybe most importantly, they'll need to see their older coworkers being able to retire en masse, at a reasonable age."
Financial Finesse found that while employees' financial wellness is still higher than it was during the recession—honestly, how could it not be?—it has slipped recently in a few key areas. In the first quarter, two-thirds of employees said they had a handle on their cash flow so they spent less than they make every month, down from 73% last year. Fewer employees are paying off their credit card balances in full, and fewer have an emergency fund to turn to if they lose their jobs. Last year, 88% of employees said they pay their bills on time every month. That fell to 85% in the first quarter of 2012.


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To be the premier global provider of innovative welding and cutting solutions for any metal fabrication.
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- Customers Talk, We Listen – The voice of the customer will always drive the development of our strategic plans and actions. Living this value is done by getting Customer Input and Expectations, at every opportunity, and by differentiating ourselves in How We Deliver to our customers.
- The Best Team Wins – Team-oriented, involved associates are our most valuable resource, and we are passionate about attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent. Living this value is done in three primary ways: 1. Building the right team – having the right people to do the job; 2. Creating the right environment – making sure that leaders create an environment where all associates can contribute, and 3. Getting the win – when you have the right people and right environment – it makes getting the win a lot easier!
- Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) Is Our Way Of Life – Set breakthrough objectives, experiment and learn every day, eliminate waste in our business processes, and benchmark the best, then better them. Living this value is done through understating that Change is a Must, and the use of Tools for Improvement. To live this value each ESAB associate fosters an environment of continuous learning employing the Colfax Business System Tools which is the basis of our culture.
- Innovation Defines Our Future – Individual and organizational creativity will drive breakthrough ideas for technology, products, solutions, and processes. We live this value by providing differentiated customer solutions, creating products and services that improve quality of life and environmental stewardship through Creative Thinking, and by understanding What Innovation Brings.
- We Compete For Shareholders Based On Our Performance – To consistently attract and retain loyal shareholders, we must deliver best-in-class results for profits, working capital, and cash flow. We live this value by developing aggressive, yet realistic and measurable performance objectives and consistently achieving established goals.
It takes focus, dedication, and living our values to achieve success for our customers, employees, shareholders and community. Our Vision and Values help us to make strategic decisions, allocate resources, and position us to provide best-in-class results on a daily basis.


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School Board Members to Arne Duncan: Back Off
After four years in office, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan still hasn't won over local school board members.
But he keeps coming back, year after year, to tangle with members of the National School Boards Association during their federal meeting in Washington.
In remarks yesterday, he laid out the four tenets of his second-term agenda: more money to expand access to high-quality early education for disadvantaged children, reauthorizing No Child Left Behind (and following through on waivers), making good on President Obama's goal to lead the world in college completion by 2020, and passing gun control legislation in the wake of the Newtown shootings.
But for the most part, school board members didn't want to hear about his agenda. Instead, they sent a clear message: Your policies continue to overreach into our territory. (They voiced similar complaints about federal overreach last year, and fought with him over mayoral control of schools in 2010.)
Yesterday, a Pennsylvania school board member, who said "what's killing us is charter schools," wanted to know Duncan's position on these nontraditional schools. (He supports charters, of course.) Local school boards sometimes complain that charters reduce their enrollment and siphon money away from traditional public schools while operating without the same level of oversight.
One questioner made a point to ask all elected officials in the audience to stand (hundreds did), in a veiled reference to Duncan's un-elected status. (Of course, Duncan's boss is elected.) Duncan got a little prickly when he was asked how he will "support, and not undermine" local management of schools, and demanded specific examples. To which the crowd started getting a little hostile, offering up loud groans and even some heckles.
Interestingly, Duncan did not raise the prospect of district-level waivers under No Child Left Behind—which would have been an easy bone to throw to a relatively unfriendly crowd.
Perhaps to sum up a lot of the board members' grievances, another questioner wanted Duncan to reconsider his policy on competing out Race to the Top funds, handing out waivers with strings, and supporting charters.
"Ma'am, I'm not prepared to do that," he said specifically in reference to handing out waivers without strings, though that reply pretty much summed up most of his answers.
To further make their point, the NSBA is pushing legislation that would make it harder for the Education Department to do some of its business by, for example, establishing "several procedural steps" before the feds could initiate rules, grant requirements, and guidance documents. (There are others that might agree with this, given the outcry some have expressed over the Education Department's recent guidance on students with disabilities playing sports.)
"In recent years, the U.S. Department of Education has engaged in a variety of activities to reshape the educational delivery system," said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA's executive director, in a statement. "All too often these activities have impacted local school district policy and programs in ways that have been beyond the specific legislative intent. School board leaders are simply asking that local flexibility and decision-making not be eroded through regulatory actions."


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These buildings are three of the structures that make up the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, located in Chile's Atacama Desert. In the skies above them are the constellations Orion, Canis Major, and the Southern Cross, among many others.
This is just a section of Yuri Beletsky's full photograph, which reveals the entire Milky Way - along with various planets, constellations, and faraway galaxies - in the skies above the most powerful telescope array on the Earth's surface. NASA offers some context for this photo, as well as asking a rather interesting question: can you guess what that weird orange orb is in the bottom right of the photo?
Even seasoned sky enthusiasts might ponder the origin of the orange orb seen by scrolling across this panoramic image, taken last December. Perhaps identifying known objects will help...Rising diagonally from the ground to the right of Venus is the band of our Milky Way Galaxy. In the image, the band, which usually stretches dramatically overhead, appears to arch above the elevated Chilean landscape.
Under the Milky Way arch, toward the left, lie both the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud galaxies, while toward the right lies the constellation of Orion surrounded by the red ring of Barnard's Loop. On the ground, each of the four Very Large Telescopes is busy keeping an eye on the distant universe. The orange spot — it's the Moon. The image was taken during a total lunar eclipse when the normally bright full moon turned into a faint orb tinted orange by the intervening Earth's atmosphere.
Check out NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day for the full image and descriptions, which includes some very helpful annotations.
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Systematic reviews in public health: old chestnuts and new challenges
Mark Petticrew*
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, England
The Bulletin's editorial team has decided to encourage systematic reviews. This is an important decision and is to be welcomed. However it is possible that it will not be received positively by all. Some may feel that systematic reviews are not suitable for answering wider public health questions, and that the new section will simply result in the publication of systematic reviews addressing narrowly focused, clinical questions with a focus on randomized controlled trials alone.1
There is no reason why this should be so, and there are far too many examples of systematic reviews of non-clinical interventions (including government policies), which include non-randomized studies, to list.2 Systematic reviews of qualitative research are also becoming more common.3
Nonetheless misconceptions about the scope and flexibility of systematic reviews still surface occasionally and it never fails to surprise me when I stumble across one of these hoary old chestnuts. If it really were true that systematic reviews were only for simple, individual-level interventions, systematic reviewers working in public health would be very concerned. After all, public health problems require us to draw on complex sets of qualitative as well as quantitative evidence; and some policy interventions have never been subjected to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) but have been evaluated using other approaches; everything from controlled and uncontrolled before-and-after studies, to time series analyses, to qualitative methods. In such cases, systematic reviews that focused on RCTs alone would have little to say and we would end up producing many "empty reviews", which contain no studies at all. These would be undoubtedly quicker to do and quicker to read than the typical systematic review, but would be of limited use for making policy.
However this is not the case. In public health we already have a wealth of reviews that prioritize RCTs where they are available, but which draw upon a range of other evidence where they are appropriate to answering the review question.2 Take, as an example, transport policies, an important social determinant of health.4 Public health decision-makers have been interested in the effects on health of building new roads for decades, but there has never been a randomized controlled trial, for obvious reasons. Yet it would make no sense to claim that there is no evidence to be reviewed; rather, there have been many controlled and uncontrolled studies that have examined the effects of new roads on respiratory symptoms, injuries, community severance, disturbance and a variety of other outcomes of public health importance. These studies have in fact been systematically reviewed.5 Many other examples of reviews of complex interventions that impact on public health could be given, which appear on the Cochrane Database and elsewhere,6,7 and such reviews are the main focus of the recently-established Cochrane Public Health Review Group.
It is also worth noting that both the Cochrane and Campbell Collaboration include increasing numbers of reviews that are relevant to low- and middle- income countries,8 though there is a particular need for more systematic reviews that consider the effects on equity of the interventions that they include.9 Currently systematic reviews have a "utilitarian bias" - they tend to be concerned more with the effects on populations and average effects than with distributional effects and impacts in disadvantaged subgroups. It is to be hoped that systematic reviews submitted to the Bulletin will routinely consider the effects of interventions on health inequities. The Cochrane Health Equity Field (http://equity.cochrane.org/en/index.html) was set up explicitly to further this agenda, to encourage systematic review authors to explicitly assess the effects of interventions not only on the whole population, but on the disadvantaged.
So where does this leave non-systematic reviews? Should every review be a systematic review? This is a difficult question to answer in a short editorial. My own view is that not all reviews need to be systematic reviews; there is still a place for review papers that provide a broad overview, and that discuss a range of evidence and make a contribution to wider debates about what might work in particular settings. However, while such discussions help place evidence in context and suggest how it may be used, they should not be confused with the evidence-based conclusions of a transparent, scientific review, which systematically attempts to find all the relevant evidence, appraises its strengths and limitations in a transparent fashion, and draws that evidence together in such a way that the more robust studies are given greater weight.
Finally, the challenges are many. Evidence on interventions to improve public health is in short supply, particularly evidence on social determinants. Systematic reviewers therefore face a real challenge in making best use of the sometimes poor, often sparse and usually heterogeneous evidence available to them. It is easy to set narrow inclusion criteria for a review and then sift through the evidence before concluding that there isn't enough - and what there is, isn't very good anyway. Such "evidential nihilism" is probably not helpful to decision-makers, and public health systematic reviewers need to continue to develop new methods and better frameworks within which different types of research evidence can be integrated to inform decision-making. Publishing systematic reviews in the Bulletin should give an added impetus to this ongoing work.
Available at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/3/09-063719/en/index.html
1. Petticrew M. Systematic reviews from astronomy to zoology: myths and misconceptions. BMJ 2001;322:98-101. PMID:11154628 doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7278.98
2. Petticrew M, Roberts H. Systematic reviews in the social sciences: a practical guide. Oxford: Blackwell; 2006.
3. Pope C, Mays N, Popay J. Synthesizing qualitative and quantitative health research: a guide to methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2007.
4. Marmot M, Wilkinson R. Social determinants of health. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2005.
5. Egan M, Petticrew M, Hamilton V, Ogilvie D. Health impacts of new roads: a systematic review. Am J Public Health 2003;93:1463-71. PMID:12948964 doi:10.2105/AJPH.93.9.1463
6. Tugwell P, O'Connor A, Andersson N, Mhatre S, Kristjansson E, Jacobsen MJ, et al. Reduction of inequalities in health: assessing evidence-based tools. Int J Equity Health 2006;5:11. PMID:17005046 doi:10.1186/1475-9276-5-11
7. Main C, Thomas S, Ogilvie D, Stirk L, Petticrew M, Whitehead M, et al. Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking. Placing an equity lens on existing systematic reviews. BMC Public Health 2008;8:178. PMID:18505545 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-178
8. Robinson V, Tugwell P, Petticrew M, Kristjansson E, Waters E. What works at enhancing health equity? Cochrane and Campbell. In: Global forum update on research for health, volume 2: poverty, equity and health research. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2005.
9. Jackson N, Waters E. The challenges of systematically reviewing public health interventions. J Public Health (Oxf) 2004;26:303-78. PMID:15454602 doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh164
* Correspondence to Mark Petticrew (e-mail: email@example.com).


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Courses are described by a subject prefix (e.g., ACC for Accounting) followed by a three-digit number. This constitutes the official designation of the course for the purposes of registration and official records. The official course title also appears following the course number, along with a brief description of the course. The number of semester hours of credit for the course and information about pre- or corequisites is also provided. The following numbering system determines the level of the course and availability to students.
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|400 - 499
|designed for senior students but may be taken by any student who satisfies the prerequisites or obtains the consent of the instructor; does not carry graduate credit
|500 - 599
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In an e-mail Tuesday, Harris County District Clerk Chris Daniel called a $400 campaign donation he made last month to embattled family court judge Denise Pratt "a mistake."
Daniel's Republican primary opponent, Court Koenning, lambasted Daniel on Monday for making the donation, the only one listed on Pratt's latest campaign finance report. Daniel did not respond to requests for comment Monday, including an e-mailed question.
On Tuesday, he sent an e-mail that read:
The grand jury completed its investigation, no-billing Judge Pratt before I made my donation on Dec. 28. [NOTE: Pratt's finance report says the donation was made on Jan. 2]
I frequently donate to incumbent judges. The controversy in the 311th state District Court was divisive within the party, and I decided to donate in the interests of party unity.
At that time, I also was concerned that possible ill-will between the 311th court and my office could create difficult working conditions for clerks in the court who would be serving at least a year longer under the judge.The donation was intended to send the message that I wanted to put the controversy in the rear-view mirror.
A week later, I learned that Judge Pratt allegedly dismissed hundreds of cases on Dec. 30 and Dec. 31. I realized then that my contribution to her campaign was a mistake.
Read our story about that case purge here.
Daniel also responded to Koenning's claim that the incumbent district clerk made the office "vulnerable" to accepting the kinds of backdated court records that have shown up on Pratt's court by eliminating a program called Data Control meant to catch those kinds of discrepancies. He wrote:
Data control was created under the late District Clerk Ray Hardy to monitor electronic data entry into the JIMS system. It does not monitor paper filings, but data entry made by clerks in the court room. The data entry team would not have and could not have caught the alleged back dating and no signature-on-file-stamp problems. Furthermore, my opponent has been misinformed about what has occurred in data control during my tenure. I increased the size of civil data control and even gave the combined civil/criminal data control a supervisor, whereas my predecessor had gutted the section to one full-time and one part-time employee.