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As someone with a good deal of education in scientific thinking and the scientific method, I have put considerable effort into attempting to find any real scientific evidence backing the widespread use of influenza vaccines (flu season shots). Before learning about nutrition and holistic health, I was a computer software entrepreneur, and I have a considerable scientific background in areas such as astronomy, physics, human physiology, microbiology, genetics, anthropology and human psychology. One of my most-admired thought leaders is, in fact, the late physicist Richard Feynman.
I don't speak from a "scientific" point of view on NaturalNews very often because it's often a dry, boring presentation style. But I do know the difference between real science and junk science, and I find examples of junk science in both the "scientific" side of things as well as the "alternative" side of things.
For example, so-called "psychic surgery," as least in the way it has been popularized, is nothing more than clever sleight-of-hand where the surgeon palms some chicken gizzards and then pretends to pull diseased organs out of the abdominal cavity of some patient. The demonstrations I've seen on film are obvious quackery.
Similarly, flu season vaccines are mainstream medicine's version of psychic surgery: It's all just "medical sleight of hand" based on nothing more than clever distractions and the obfuscation of scientific facts. Flu season shots, you see, simply don't work on 99 out of 100 people (and that's being generous to the vaccine industry, as you'll see below).
A year ago, I offered a $10,000 reward to any person who could find scientific proof that H1N1 vaccines were safe and effective. No one even made a claim to collect that reward because no such evidence exists.
Conventional medicine, they say, is really "Evidence-Based Medicine" (EBM). That is, everything promoted by conventional medicine is supposed to be based on "rigorous scientific scrutiny." It's all supposed to be statistically validated and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it works as advertised. And in the case of flu vaccines, they are advertised as providing some sort of absolute protection against influenza. "Don't miss work this flu season. Get a flu shot!" The idea, of course, is that getting a flu shot offers 100% protection from the flu. If you get a shot, they say, you won't miss work from sickness.
This implication is wildly inaccurate. In fact, it's just flat-out false. As you'll see below, it's false advertising wrapped around junk science.
You see, there was never an independent, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study proving either the safety or effectiveness of the H1N1 swine flu vaccines that were heavily pushed last year (and are in fact in this year's flu shot cocktail). No such study has ever been done. As a result, there is no rigorous scientific basis from which to sell such vaccines in the first place.
To try to excuse this, vaccine hucksters claim that it would be "unethical" to conduct a placebo-controlled study of such vaccines because they work so well that to deny the placebo group the actual vaccine would be harmful to them. Everybody benefits from the influenza vaccine, they insist, so the mere act of conducting a scientifically-controlled test is unethical.
Do you smell some quackery at work yet? This is precisely the kind of pseudoscientific gobbledygook you might hear from some mad Russian scientist who claims to have "magic water" but you can't test the magic water because the mere presence of measurement instruments nullifies the magical properties of the water.
Similarly, vaccine pushers often insist it's unethical to test whether their vaccines really work. You just have to "take it on faith" that vaccines are universally good for everybody.
Yep, I used the word "faith." That is essentially what the so-called scientific community is invoking here with the vaccine issue: Just BELIEVE they work, everybody! Who needs scientific evidence when we've got FAITH in vaccines?
Forget about evidence-based medicine. Forget about any rational cost-benefit analysis. Forget about the risk-to-benefit ratio calculations that should be part of any rational decision making about vaccines. No, the vaccine industry (and its apologist bloggers) already know that vaccines are universally good for you, therefore no such rigorous scientific assessment is even required!
The Scientific Method, in other words, doesn't really apply to the things they already believe in. Faith can override reason in the "scientific" community, if you can believe that! What's next, are they going to claim vaccines work because some sort of "vaccine God" makes them work?
Here, take your vaccine shot. And don't forget to pray to the Vaccine God because that's how these things really work. Vaccine voodoo, in other words. (Hey, that would have been a great title for the vaccine song, come to think of it…)
Unethical to find out if they work?
I got to wondering about the whole explanation of how it would be "unethical" to test whether the H1N1 vaccines actually work. This deflection strikes me as particularly odd, because it comes with an implied follow-up statement. Here's what they're actually saying when they invoke this excuse:
#1) It is "unethical" to conduct placebo-controlled studies on seasonal flu vaccines to find out if they actually work.
#2) But at the same time, it is entirely ethical to give these shots to hundreds of millions of people, even while lacking any real evidence that they are safe or effective.
In other words, it's unethical to conduct any real science, but entirely ethical to just keep injecting people with a substance that might be entirely useless (or even harmful). That's just a hint of the kind of warped logic and failed ethics that typify our modern vaccine industry.
Vaccine advocates claim that H1N1 vaccines are so effective that NOT giving vaccines to a placebo group would "put their lives at risk." That alone is apparently enough reason to avoid conducting any real science on these vaccines.
But I'm not buying this. I think it's just a cover story — an excuse to avoid subjecting such vaccines to rigorous scientific inquiry because, deep down inside, they know vaccines would be revealed as an elaborate medical fraud.
So I poked around to see if there were other randomized studies being conducted that might actually put people's lives at risk. It didn't take long to find some. For example, the New England Journal of Medicine recently published two studies regarding post heart-attack patient cooling which seeks to minimize brain damage by physically lowering the temperature of the brain of the heart attack patient until they can reach the acute care technicians at a nearby hospital.
In two studies, researchers who already knew that "cooling" would save lives nevertheless subjected 350 heart attack patient to a randomized study protocol that assigned comatose (but resuscitated) patients to either "cooling" temperatures or normal temperatures.
In one study, while half the cooled patients recovered with normal brain function, only a quarter of those exposed to normal temperatures did. In other words, patient cooling saved their brains. And yet the importance of knowing whether or not this procedure really worked was apparently enough to justify withholding the treatment from over a hundred other patients, most of whom suffered permanent brain damage as a result.
You see, when scientists really want to know the answers to questions like, "Does this brain cooling work?" they have no qualms about subjecting people to things like permanent brain damage in a randomized clinical trial. The knowledge gained from such an experiment is arguably worth the loss of a few patient brains because, armed with scientific evidence, such procedures can be rolled out to help save the brains of potentially hundreds of thousands of patients in subsequent years.
But when it comes to testing vaccines like the recent H1N1 variety, the official explanation is that it's too dangerous to withhold vaccines from a treatment group. They say it's not really important to determine if vaccines are statistically validated, and it's not worth the "risk" of withholding vaccines from anyone in a randomized clinical trial.
Now, sure, there have been some clinical trials done on many different vaccines over the years, but most of those are industry funded, and there are almost never rigorous trials conducted on each year's seasonal flu vaccines before they are released for public consumption. As a result, each year's vaccine is a brand new experiment, carried out across the guinea pig masses of patients who just do whatever they're told without questioning whether it's backed by real science.
Because, of course, it isn't. And I'm not the only one who recognizes this inconvenient fact.
The Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Collaboration, as described on its own website, is, "…an international, independent, not-for-profit organization of over 28,000 contributors from more than 100 countries, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care readily available worldwide."
"We are world leaders in evidence-based health care," the site goes on to say, followed by a quote from The Lancet which states, "The Cochrane Collaboration is an enterprise that rivals the Human Genome Project in its potential implications for modern medicine."
Working for the Cochrane Collaboration, an epidemiologist named Dr. Tom Jefferson decided to take a close look at the scientific evidence behind influenza vaccines (seasonal flu vaccines).
The objectives of the study were to: "Identify, retrieve and assess all studies evaluating the effects of vaccines against influenza in healthy adults."
The Search Criteria: "We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library, 2010, issue 2), MEDLINE (January 1966 to June 2010) and EMBASE (1990 to June 2010)."
Selection Criteria (for inclusion in the study): "Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-RCTs comparing influenza vaccines with placebo or no intervention in naturally-occurring influenza in healthy individuals aged 16 to 65 years. We also included comparative studies assessing serious and rare harms."
The Total Scope of the study encompassed over 70,000 people. And just so you know, these the results may strongly favor the vaccine industry. The author even went out of his way to warn that "15 out of 36 trials [were] funded by industry (four had no funding declaration)."
In other words, close to half of the studies included in this analysis were funded by the vaccine industry itself, which as we know consistently manipulates data, bribes researchers or otherwise engages in scientific fraud in order to get the results they want.
The author even goes on to warn how industry-funded studies always get more press, saying, "…industry funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and cited more than other studies independently from methodological quality and size."
Study results show influenza vaccines are nearly worthless
Now here comes the interesting part: Even though nearly half the studies were funded by the vaccine industry itself, the study results show that in most circumstances, influenza vaccines are virtually worthless:
"The corresponding figures [of people showing influenza symptoms] for poor vaccine matching were 2% and 1% (RD 1, 95% CI 0% to 3%)" say the study authors. And by "poor vaccine matching," they mean that the strain of influenza viruses in the vaccine are a poor match for the strains circulating in the wild. This is usually the case in the real world because the vaccine only incorporates last year's viral strains and cannot predict which strains will be circulating this year.
In other words, you would have to vaccinate 100 people to reduce the number of people showing influenza symptoms by just one. For ninety-nine percent of the people vaccinated, the vaccine makes no difference at all!
In a "best case" scenario when the viral strain in the influenza vaccine just happens to match the strain circulating in the wild — a situation that even the study authors call "uncommon" — the results were as follows: "4% of unvaccinated people versus 1% of vaccinated people developed influenza symptoms (risk difference (RD) 3%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2% to 5%)."
In other words, the matching vaccine (which is uncommon in the real world) reduced influenza infections in 3 out of 100 people. Or, put another way, 97% of those injected with the vaccine received no benefit (and no different outcome).
Furthermore, the study's conclusions go on to state:
• "Vaccination had… no effect on hospital admissions or complication rates."
• "Vaccine use did not affect the number of people hospitalized or working days lost."
• "The review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions…"
• "There is no evidence that [influenza vaccines] affect complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission." (Got that? Vaccines do not affect transmission of the disease, yet that's the whole reason vaccines are pushed so heavily during pandemics — to block disease transmission.)
• "In average conditions (partially matching vaccine) 100 people need to be vaccinated to avoid one set of influenza symptoms."
And finally, the study author's summary concludes with this whopper of a statement: "Our results may be an optimistic estimate because company-sponsored influenza vaccines trials tend to produce results favorable to their products and some of the evidence comes from trials carried out in ideal viral circulation and matching conditions and because the harms evidence base is limited."
In other words, taking into account the industry bias, the actual results may be that vaccines prevent influenza symptoms in only 1 out of 1,000 people.
Putting it in perspective
So let's put all this in perspective in a rational, intelligent way. This far-reaching analysis of influenza vaccine trials shows that under common conditions, seasonal influenza vaccines have no benefit for 99 out of 100 people.
Furthermore, even this result is describe as being "an optimistic estimate" because nearly half of the vaccine trials were funded by the vaccine industry which tends to "produce results favorable to their products."
Furthermore, some of the studies were carried out in "ideal" viral matching scenarios that rarely happen in the real world.
And finally, some evidence of harm from vaccines was simply thrown out of this analysis, resulting in a "harms evidence base" that was quite limited and likely doesn't reveal the full picture.
Are you getting all this? Even with industry-funded studies likely distorting the results in their favor, if you take a good hard look at the scientific evidence surrounding the effectiveness of vaccines, you quickly come to realize that influenza vaccines don't work on 99 out of 100 people. (And the real answer may be even worse.)
Now that's a far cry from the false advertising of the vaccine industry, which implies that if you get a shot you're "protected" from influenza. They claim you won't miss work, you'll stay well, and so on. Through these messages, they are cleverly implying that vaccines work on 100% of the people.
But based on the available scientific evidence, these are blatantly false statements. And the wild exaggeration of the supposed benefits from vaccines crosses the threshold of "misleading advertising" and enters the realm of "criminal marketing fraud." Where is the FTC or FDA on speaking out against this quackery?
Vaccine marketing is, essentially, scientific fraud. To claim that vaccines protect everyone when, in reality, they may reduce symptoms in only one out of 100 people is intellectually dishonest and downright fraudulent.
It is, simply put, just pure B.S. quackery.
Now, imagine if an herbal product were advertised on television as offering some health benefit, but it turned out that the product only worked on 1 out of 100 people who took it. That herbal product would be widely branded as "quackery" and the company selling it would be accused of false advertising. The company owners might even be charged with criminal fraud.
But vaccines get a free pass on this issue. While an herbal product might be heavily investigated or even confiscated by the FDA, vaccines that only work on 1% of the people receive the full backing of the FDA, CDC, WHO, FTC and local hospitals and clinics to boot. The fact that the vaccine is pure quackery apparently doesn't matter to any of these organizations: It's full speed ahead, regardless of what the science actually says.
Once you understand all this, you now understand why it is an accurate statement to say "The FDA promotes medical fraud."
Similarly, "The CDC promotes medical fraud." As does the WHO.
These are scientifically accurate statements, assuming you agree that a product that only works on 1 out of 100 people fits the definition of "fraud" when it is marketed as if it helped everyone. And most people would agree with that reasonable definition of fraud.
It's a totally different story if the efficacy ratio is higher. If influenza vaccines actually produced some benefit in 25 out of 100 people, that might be worth considering. But it's nowhere near that.
The FDA, by the way, will often approve pharmaceuticals that only produce results in 5 percent of the clinical trial subjects. The world of modern medicine, in fact, is full of pharmaceuticals that simply don't work on 95% of the patients who take them.
It's entitled, "Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults"
Authors: "Tom Jefferson, Carlo Di Pietrantonj, Alessandro Rivetti, Ghada A Bawazeer, Lubna A Al-Ansary, Eliana Ferroni"
Enter the vaccine zombies!
With these study results in mind, take a look at some of the lyrics in my recent hip hop song, "Vaccine Zombie"
I forgot how to think for myself
I don't understand a thing about health
I do the same as everyone else
I'm a vaccine zombie, zombie
Now you can see where these lyrics come from. If influenza vaccines are worthless for 99 percent of those who receive them, then why are people lining up to get injected?
The answer is because they fail to think critically about vaccines and their health. They don't understand health, so they just go along with everybody else and do what they're told. Hence their earning of the "Vaccine Zombie" designation.
The song goes on to say:
I'm a sucker for the ads, a sucker for the labs
A sucker for the swine flu jabs
and I don't mind followin' a medical fad
Cause livin' without a brain ain't half bad
Yes, people who line up for influenza vaccines are "suckers" who have been bamboozled by fraudulent vaccine propaganda. But they're following a "medical fad" and it's easier to just do what you're told rather than engage your brain and think critically about what you're doing.
"Livin' without a brain ain't half bad" because it takes the burden of decision making out of the loop and allows you to just rely on whatever the doctors and health officials tell you to do.
How the scientific community lost touch with real science
But what if they were all lying to you? Or what if they, themselves, were ignorant about the fact that influenza vaccines are worthless on 99% of those who receive them? (Very few doctors and scientists, it turns out, are aware of this simple truth.)
Or what if the vaccine pushers had all convinced themselves of a falsehood? What if they truly believed that vaccines were really, really good for everyone but that belief was based on wishful thinking rather than rigorous scientific review?
Because that, my friends, is exactly what has happened. We have an entire segment of the scientific community that has been suckered into vaccine propaganda. They've convinced themselves that seasonal flu shots really work and that virtually everyone should be injected with such shots. And they believe this based on irrational faith, not on scientific thinking or rigorous statistical evidence.
They are, in other words, pursuing a vaccine religion (or cult). The is especially curious, given that most vaccine pushers don't believe in God or any organized religion — except for their own vaccine religion, where real scientific evidence isn't required. All you gotta do is believe in vaccines and you can join their religion, too.
And so all across the 'net, so-called "science bloggers" embarrass themselves by promoting near-useless influenza vaccines as "evidence-based medicine," apparently unaware that the evidence shows such vaccines to be all but worthless.
They might as well say they support vaccines "Just 'cuz."
And "just 'cuz" is no reason to inject yourself with a chemical cocktail that even the industry admits causes extremely dangerous neurological side effects in a small number of vaccine recipients.
Vitamin D would actually make vaccines work better
To top this all off, here's the real kicker of this story: You can beat the minimal protective benefits of vaccines with a simple, low-cost vitamin D supplement. Vitamin D, you see, is the nutrient that activates your immune system to fight off infectious disease. Without it, vaccines hardly work at all.
In fact, the very low rate of vaccine efficacy (1%) is almost certainly due to the fact that most people receiving the vaccines are vitamin D deficient. (Anywhere from 75% – 95% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D, depending on whom you ask.)
Hilariously, the way to make vaccines work better would be to hand out vitamin D supplements to go along with the shots! Even more hilariously, if people were taking vitamin D supplements, they wouldn't need the vaccine shots in the first place!
Influenza vaccines, in other words, have no important role whatsoever in preventing influenza infections. This goal can be accomplished more safely, reliably and at far lower cost by promoting vitamin D supplements for the population at large.
What we really need to see from the scientific world is a study comparing vitamin D supplements to influenza vaccines (and using realistic vitamin D doses, not just 200 or 400 IUs per day). I have absolutely no doubt that healthy-dose vitamin D supplementation (4000 IUs a day) would prove to be significantly more effective than influenza vaccines at preventing flu infections.
But such a study will almost certainly never be done (at least not anytime soon) because it would expose the false propaganda of the vaccine industry while giving consumers a far better way of protecting themselves from influenza that doesn't involve paying money to vaccine manufacturers.
In medicine, as in war, truth is often the first casualty. And when the lies are repeated with enough frequency, they begin to be believed. The flu shot lie has been repeated with such ferocity and apparent authority that it has snookered in virtually the entire "scientific" community.
That even rational-minded scientists can be so easily hoodwinked by the vaccine industry is causing more and more people to question the credibility of not just modern medicine, but the entire scientific community as well.
Because if so-called "rational" scientists and thought leaders can be so easily suckered into an obvious falsehood, what other fictions might they be promoting as fact?
Medicine, you see, makes all the other sciences look bad. The obvious scientific fraud going on in the name of "science" in the pharmaceutical industry makes a mockery of real scientific thought. The ease of which medical scientists have been hoodwinked by the drug industry calls into question the rationality of all sciences.
And in doing so, it brings up an even bigger question: Is science the best path to gaining knowledge in the first place? This is obviously a philosophical question, not a scientific question, and it's beyond the scope of this article, but it's one I will likely visit here on NaturalNews very soon in an upcoming article.
There are many paths to truth, you see. Science — good science — is one of them, but it is not the only one. Any scientist who believes that science has a monopoly on all knowledge is himself a fool. Just read a little Feynman and you'll quickly come to discover that the very brightest minds in the history of science consistently recognized there were other pathways leading to truth.
I believe if Feynman were alive today and saw the vaccine propaganda taking place in the name of "science," he would respond with something like, "Surely you're joking."
Mike Adams


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What's Cookin' at Callie's Cabin: A surprising summer salad and berry treat
On the South Shore, I've ordered a chef's salad at many restaurants. This popular salad is touted for its hard-boiled eggs, variety of meats – including chicken, turkey, and ham – tomatoes and different cheeses put on lettuce and smothered with Thousand Island or Blue Cheese dressing. This week I admit I was craving a high-fat salad dressing and turkey. I even bought roasted turkey slices–but I ended up changing my mind midstream. I decided to go meatless like I usually do and did a few years ago after a book lecture/signing.
These days, I'm getting waves of flashbacks from past Barnes & Noble book signings, complete with hotels and room service, because I'm getting ready to go on a tour again. One past book tour, I recall going to Chico for my book "The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes." It was a fun lecture andsigning because I brought Simon, my Brittany, who was allowed in the store. He upstaged both geologist Jim Berkland and me by making the rounds to rows of people in the audience. Simon was a true gentleman and enjoyed the attention of his surprise showing. It was a Kodak doggie moment.
After the signing, once cozy in the hotel room, I ordered a chef's salad and blueberry cheesecake. It was a huge salad and made an impression. As usual, I went into high-maintenance mode and ordered extra veggies, olive oil and vinegar and requested to hold all meat. I recall munching on the greens while in a strange room, snuggled with my devoted dog, and watching the film "10.5" on TV. At 11 p.m., I snuck my canine down to the swimming pool and took a dip. Sadly, Simon, a sporting dog, didn't take to the water. Worse, I broke the rules and got caught. It truly was one of the more fun business-pleasure trips. And the salad was unforgettable, too, so this week I decided to create a re-do.
Skinny Chef's Salad
2 cups pre-washed mixed salad greens (with romaine)
2-4 Roma tomatoes, chopped
1/2 cup cruciferous vegetables, raw, chopped
3 organic brown eggs, hard-boiled, sliced
3/4-1 cup cheese, a mix of four Italian cheeses (shredded or sliced Julienne style)
Red wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil (ratio: 3 to 1)
2 tablespoons red onion, chopped
1 tablespoon honey
In a bowl, place greens and vegetables, toss. Add eggs. Top with cheese. Drizzle with vinegar olive oil, vinegar and onion mixture. Serves two.
Blueberry Sour Cream Cupcakes
2 eggs
1/4 cup European-style butter
1/2 cup water
1 package of pound cake mix
1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups blueberries, whole and fresh
1 teaspoon cinnamon
In a large bowl, mix eggs, butter, and water. Add cake mix and beat with a mixer till smooth. Fold in sour cream and berries. Add cinnamon. Pour into extra-large cupcake liners. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or till golden brown. Makes one dozen.
The homemade salad without meats and high-fat salad dressings is perfect if you want to stay healthier, eat light, and keep lean. The blueberry cupcakes are moist (thanks to the sour cream), sweet with the blueberry punch and easy on the eyes and taste buds. Making a cake in an 8-inch-by-8-inch baking dish works too.) This meal is ideal for summer at the lake while preparing my mind and body for a run of upcoming book signings for "The Healing Powers of Coffee." And, of course, my Brittany duo will come to some of the bookstores, because they add a surprise factor to each trip.
Motto: Meatless salad with a good-for-you twist and cupcakes with nature's berries are good no matter where you are. Simple food and breaking the rules is sometimes worth the effort.
– Cal Orey, M.A. is an author and journalist. Her books include "The Healing Powers" series (Vinegar, Olive Oil, Chocolate, Honey, and Coffee) published by Kensington. "The Healing Powers of Coffee" and "Animal Attraction: A Collection of Tales & Tails" will be released this summer. Her website is http://www.calorey.com.
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Equity futures are down slightly this morning prior to the open, the dollar is higher, bonds are flat, oil is lower, gold is lower, silver is lower, and most food commodities are slightly higher.
The hypocritical shills at the MBA released their gutter bound Purchase Applications Index which supposedly grew by 6.7%, and the Refinance Index rose by a whopping 9.0% in the past week if you can believe that – in case you can't tell, I don't. Here's Econoshill going along with the charade, however, I will note that it is spring and I do expect purchases to rise due to seasonality, but the wild swings found here are purely fiction, a result of people who have given up on reality in exchange for a few bucks – they have exchanged their morality for paper fluff and false prestige:
Falling rates are giving a boost to mortgage applications according to the Mortgage Bankers Association whose composite index jumped 8.2 percent in the May 6 week. Mortgage applications rose for both purchases, up 6.7 percent, and refinancing, up 9.0 percent. The purchase index has gained about 1/2 percent over the past four weeks which points to badly needed improvement for home sales. Thirty-year mortgage rates, at 4.67 percent in the latest week, have fallen more than 30 basis points over the past month.
Just as a reminder, we are now in the phase where Option-Arm loans are resetting in mass.
This will cause massive pressure on upper-end homes and prices as people are faced with resetting mortgage payments. If they cannot afford those higher payments, or if their home is upside down (most who took these loans are), then it will be difficult, if not impossible, for them to refinance. Look for upper-end inventory to build throughout the year and to pressure prices and banks. Don't worry about the banks, of course, they will simply shed their wickedly worthless paper off on the public who is still largely unaware that the "Fed" IS the banks and only looks after their interests, not yours.
The International Trade Data is showing a widening between what we export and import, the gap grew from -$45.8 Billion in February to -$48.2 Billion in March, largely on the back of rising oil prices. High oil prices eventually rise the price of everything, even our trade deficits. Of course since we're running still massive deficits, we need to pay for it somehow, and that would mean more debt via bond/Treasury sales, and/or more printing. In this space we lost our way a long time ago, exporting far less than we import, and not really paying for any of it. Can you imagine working to produce products to sell to a country who returns you only financial engineering for decade upon decade?
The U.S. trade deficit worsened notably, largely on higher oil prices. But there are some positives in the report as well as negatives. The overall U.S. trade deficit in March expanded to $48.2 billion from a revised $45.4 billion gap in February. The March deficit came in worse than analysts' estimate for a $47.7 billion shortfall. Exports jumped 4.6 percent, following a 1.5 percent decline the previous month. Imports rebounded 4.9 percent after dropping 1.9 percent in February.
The widening of the trade deficit was led by the petroleum gap which grew to $31.3 billion from $25.5 billion in February. The nonpetroleum goods shortfall shrank to $29.8 billion from $32.8 billion the prior month. The services surplus expanded somewhat to $13.9 billion from $13.7 billion in February.
Looking at end use categories for goods, the increase in imports was led by a $7.7 billion jump in industrial supplies with $3.6 billion from oil imports. Auto imports rose $2.1 billion while capital goods ex autos gained $1.6 billion. Foods, feeds & beverages were essentially unchanged. However, consumer goods imports dipped $2.0 billion.
By end-use categories, the boost in improvement in exports was led by a $2.5 billion jump in industrial supplies, followed by automotive exports, rising $1.6 billion. Also increasing were consumer goods, up $0.7 billion, and foods, feeds & beverages, up $0.6 billion.
On a not seasonally adjusted basis, the March figures show surpluses, in billions of dollars, with Hong Kong $2.7 ($2.5 for February), Australia $1.1 ($1.4), Singapore $0.9 ($0.8), and Egypt $0.4 ($0.5). Deficits were recorded, in billions of dollars, with China $18.1 ($18.8), OPEC $10.8 ($9.4), European Union $9.0 ($6.9), Mexico $6.2 ($5.3), Japan $6.1 ($5.2), Germany $4.6 ($3.3), Venezuela $3.0 ($2.1), Canada $2.8 ($3.0), Ireland $2.6 ($2.6), Nigeria $2.5 ($2.5), Korea $0.6 ($0.8), and Taiwan $0.6 ($0.9).
The direction of the trade gap was not a surprise but the impact of higher oil prices was more than expected. However, the good news is that exports are back up and sharply. Export gains were broad based, likely benefiting from a soft dollar and moderately healthy economic growth overseas. Manufacturers should be happy about the export numbers. However, the growing oil gap is a drain on U.S. consumers, businesses, and the economy. And the slippage in imports of consumer goods indicates that businesses may be notching down their forecasts for economic growth the remainder of this year.
This is just another measurement that is made in Dollars. And this points out the fantasy of money printing to inflate away debts. Note that the more you print, the larger this deficit gets because oil and other real things are priced in dollars… thus the debt is growing faster because you printed, which is the exact opposite of what you are told will happen by people who simply have been brainwashed with the "Fed's" B.S..
Let me say that again to make it clear – printing does NOT reduce your debts, it increases them! If you don't believe that, then take a look at the U.S. debt since the time "QE" began and report back.
No, we have lost our way. The introduction of the "Federal Reserve Act" in 1913 was the beginning of a very slippery slope. Initially the introduction of debt backed money created a boom, but now we are totally saturated with debt, our collective incomes completely incapable of ever paying it back.
This moral decline accelerated greatly with the removal of Usury Laws. Taking advantage of people via the production of money has always been a sin and always will be. The production of money is the most powerful right that exists, it is as powerful as all of human imagination. That power rightfully belongs to everyone, not a few individuals who have wrongfully staked their claim to that power.
The people of Europe are being sold down the river, while paper is being created by the central bankers to mask it over – paper that enslaves future generations. The impossible math there is staring everyone there point-blank in the eyes. The people of Europe need to send the central bankers packing, but their money is corrupting the politicians and their political systems as it is here in the United States.
Keep an eye not only on Europe, but also on Japan. The media ignored disaster there is certainly not over, and in fact there are several risks that are further threatening Fukushima. The real news there is only deteriorating, the contamination is far worse than let on, it is spread far further than let on, and there is still a risk that this could get worse.
The markets and our banking system are nothing but fraud, completely controlled by the same people. The whole shebang is coming down and "other events" are coming. That's what happens when people lose their way…


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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 83 years ago today, August 14, 1935. Here are some key facts about the program, courtesy of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
- About 62 million people received Social Security checks in June of this year.
- The average monthly check was $1,343.
- Benefits for the average worker are only about half those in other developed countries.
- Social Security lifts about 15 million elderly Americans out of poverty.
- About 1 in 5 seniors rely on Social Security for virtually all of their income (more than 90 percent).
- Administrative costs for the program are just 0.7 percent of annual benefits.
- Social Security's trust funds will be exhausted by 2034. If policymakers do not act by then, payments will be reduced by about 25 percent.


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An edited version was published by South Asian Generation Next on 10th February 2011.
The day my mother found out I was dating K.B., she threw a fit, "But he's white!" It did not matter that he was well-read, funny, had a great job with a well-known pharmaceutical company, was a true gentleman and had never once tried to get me into bed. And, when the relationship fell through, she said, "It could have never worked. He was white." That is not why we broke-up, I reminded her. Sure, I remember getting stares while walking with him, holding hands, but I think that was mostly because he was 6"1 and I reign under 5".
In retrospect, it was not his colour my mom was referring to, but to his culture. She always insists that I marry someone from an Indian background so that I can connect with him on different levels. Sure, K.B. loved Bollywood movies. We even went for Om Shanti Om. However, while I remember enjoying the movie, he was busy speed-reading the subtitles. And later, he complained of a headache as a result of his speed-reading.
Tasnuva Rabiyat, however, does not believe that a cultural difference is the problem. She firmly believes "[t]he biggest problem is where we grew up and how we grew up rather than cultural". According to her, environmental conditioning differs from person to person, and regardless of race and background, if two people hail from the same environmental conditioning, they have a better chance of having a successful relationship. Born in Bangladesh and brought up in Canada, Tasnuva has been dating her American boyfriend, Justin, of a Polish-Italian descent for the past two years. For her, the "biggest problem" she might face with Justin is that of political differences, "It's not [a] problem between chicken curry and fried chicken… It's really a problem with the environmental differences…He comes from a very conservative political family [and] I come from a very liberal brown family."
For Reshma Dhrodia, on the other hand, it was a difference between belief systems (of the parents) that created initial hesitance on both sides. A former Phd student at York University and the current chair of the collective board at Toronto Rape Crisis Center, she has been dating her boyfriend, Tony, of North Korean descent, for the last two and a half years. She smiles as she reminisces over how they met, "[We met] on Lavalife!" I squeal with surprise, "No way! Does that even work?!" She laughs and reveals, "I joined because I was trying to get over some guy… He was the first Lavalife date I went on."
And, obviously it worked for both of them. But what about the parents? Reshma smiles and continues, "My mom was a little hesitant and then she met him and really, really liked him. Tony was more nervous about telling his parents because they are… also very, very Christian." Being a former Ismaili Muslim, and now an atheist, this was more of an issue for Tony's parents rather than Reshma's race. "It took him a while to reveal that he was dating me. Since then I have met his mom and [s]he still wants to me to accept Jesus… and she wants us to pump out kids. But I have told her to hold her horses on that!"
Both Reshma and Tasnuva admit that there has been an integration of some sort of the two cultures. Reshma reveals, "The biggest part of our cultures that we have each latched onto is food. I make curry on a regular basis. I have grown to really like Korean food. I have got recipes from his mom… I really enjoy spending time with his family and friends, who are primarily Korean… When I get invitations to weddings, they include him. We even went to Gerrard [street]… and got him a kurta".
Tasnuva also mentions spending family holidays with Justin's family, "I have gone over to his place and spent American Thanksgiving with them. I have never done that before and it was amazing. And [I have spent] Christmas and Easter [with them]". I note a slight tinge of regret in her voice when she adds "and I want [Justin] to experience Eid and Ramadan… and Bengali culture". She divulges the dilemma of being a South Asian woman, "Initially [my parents] had concerns just like any parent would. In fact, if I was dating anyone from my own culture… they would still have a problem because that's how parents are [but] he did a great job in showing them respect… There is a problem with my parents. [They are like] 'what do we call him when he comes over? I cannot call him your boyfriend'. I understand the kind of mindset they come from, and I will not change that. I will respect that. He will be exposed to [my culture] when we get married or engaged".
What stood out of both relationships was that it was the eventual acceptance of both sets of parents that allows for these relationships to flourish. Tasnuva sounds grateful when she mentions that "[My parents] have had a love marriage. They basically accepted it on the fact that [Justin] is a good person. My dad is a super liberal person. I really got lucky with that." Reshma also echoes similar sentiments, "No one really has blinked at [Tony and me] because of our relationship and I feel fortunate to have experienced our relationship that way. There was really no drama… A little bit of resistance on his side but I think both of our sets of parents are really supportive because they see that we love each other, support each other and are good for each other." She laughs and adds, "[And a] couple of times we get told that we would make beautiful babies!"
So, mom, I know you want the best for me and want me to be happy, but if I happen to fall in love with a man from a different cultural background, all I have to say is, "But we would make beautiful babies!" Atleast you can take comfort in good-looking grandchildren, if nothing else.
Update: I wrote this article back in June 2010. Since then my parents have modified their attitude towards who I date or end up with. In fact, being with a brown guy is not as much as the issue as being with someone who can make their daughter happy.
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Does Import Competition Induce R&D Reallocation? Evidence from the U.S. »
Volume/Issue: 2017/253
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Rui Xu , and Kaiji Gong
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 16 November 2017
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484326008.001
Keywords: Western Hemisphere, Asia and Pacific, United States, Chinese Import Competition, R&D Expenditures, Reallocation, R&D Expenditures, Country and Industry Studies of Trade, Trade and Labor Market Interactions
We analyze the impact of rising import competition from China on U.S. innovative activities. Using Compustat data, we find that import competition induces R&D expenditures to be reallocated towards more productive...


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IntroductionThis city on the Syr Darya in the Ferghana Valley is the main city in Uzbekistan's most densely populated province. It has a long history as a Silk Road trading center, but the only thing of real interest there today are its two bazaars (one street is filled with traditional wood- and metalworkers carving and banging away). There are also the not-so-impressive remains of an ancient fortress once encircled by three moats and two walls. The area is known for its pistachio, almond and walnut groves. We don't recommend a special trip to Andijan unless you're already in the Ferghana Valley—save your time and money for more intriguing destinations. Before traveling to Andijan, or anywhere else in the Ferghana Valley, check on the current political situation. 155 mi/245 km east of Tashkent.
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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
With Friday representing the precise 50 year anniversary of the assassination of then-President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, this evening at 9 Piers Morgan speaks with a man who'll forever be associated with one of the most fatal dates in American history.
Secret service agent Clint Hill was riding in the car behind JFK's vehicle as part of the infamous Dallas, Texas motorcade, and upon hearing the gunshots, he instinctively rushed forward, jumping on the back of the president's vehicle in an attempt to offer protection.
Sadly, the gunshots that pierced Kennedy's head proved fatal, and the president was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. Three days later, following a funeral mass in Washington DC, the nation was presented with one of the most iconic images in American history, as the president's son – "John-John" – raised his three-year-old hand to his temple, and upon his mother's urging, saluted his father's casket:
"That's one of the photograph's that really reminds me how sad the occasion was," remembers Hill. "That happened to be the day of the president's funeral, but it also was young John's third birthday. And he had learned how to salute ... he threw his shoulders back, and he saluted his father. And I don't think there was a dry eye, from the highest-ranking general, to the lowest private."
Following Kennedy's assassination, Hill spent an additional year with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her family. After leaving them, the man tasked with protecting the first family received a hand-written note from the former First Lady, which featured praise and gratitude for his work
"That was very pleasing to me, that she would take the time to write that note to me," said Hill, author of the new book "Five Days in November." "It indicated to me that I had helped her in some way, that her life there, during that three year period when they were in the White House, was a happy period in her life."
Watch the clip for more of Morgan's interview with Hill, and for a special episode of "Piers Morgan Live" that is dedicated entirely to remembering a date which changed American history, watch CNN at 9p.
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Could you please comment on the Secret Service Agent named George Hickey (now deceased) who was holding an AR-15 gun and the smell of exploded gun powder was evident as the third gun shot may have come from him. Butter fingers . . . as has been established in the past, AR-15 explode after making contact. It seems very plausible to me.
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Today's Money Monday, is there any question which direction the equity futures went overnight? Up, of course:
If you're betting on the Monday effect to continue, beware, it's looking a lot like a bearish flag. The dollar is taking a little breather, bonds are about level, oil is hanging on just above $73, and gold is holding just above $1,080 support for now. Funny, but the SPX, as someone pointed out, is also at the 1,080 level:
Remember when the Euro broke its rising wedge and I said it would likely fall to the base of the wedge? Well, it's well on its way, the 1.35 target of the bear flag looks to be coming up pretty soon:
Personal Income and Outlays report came in at a supposed .3% growth gain in December, but the wages and salaries portion only showed a .1% rise. Here's Econoday:
This morning's personal income report definitely requires some digging beyond the headline numbers. Income was not as good as the headline but spending might be a little better. Personal income in December advanced 0.4 percent, following a gain of 0.5 percent in November. The latest number beat the median forecast for an increase of 0.3 percent. But where it really counts, income barely rose. The important wages and salaries component edged up 0.1 percent after improving 0.4 percent increase in November. Strength in December income was in proprietors' income (notably, the farm component) and in rental income.
Spending shifted around a bit last quarter as personal consumption posted only a 0.2 percent gain in December, following a 0.7 percent boost the month before. The December gain came in below expectations for a 0.3 percent rise in PCEs. However, November was revised up from the original estimate of 0.5 percent. Apparently, most of the holiday shopping was front loaded in post-Thanksgiving surge as December sales slowed.
Inflation was quite soft in December. Headline PCE price inflation slowed further in December, rising only 0.1 percent, following a 0.3 percent rise the month before. Meanwhile, core PCE inflation in December firmed incrementally to a 0.1 percent increase, following no change in November. The consensus had projected a 0.1 percent uptick in the core rate.
Today's income report does not bode well for spending in coming months by the average consumer as wages & salaries are being constrained by lack of income growth. Equities should focus on the softness in wages & salaries – and not like it.
Soft inflation in December? Note how the various inflation measurements are all saying something else. That's what happens when the data is massaged by a bunch of different groups and there is little transparency.
Manufacturing ISM and Construction spending come out at 10 Eastern. Friday is the Employment Situation Report for January, the consensus is for a Zero number…
Obama's Budget for 2011 is set at $3.8 Trillion! Right now we are taking in $2.2 Trillion in total income, so that leaves him only $1.6T short at first whack! No biggie, just tack on yet another $11,428 per worker in America just in federal level debt.
Oh, but it was built under the principles of "Paygo!" Wow, I am so impressed with that word, aren't you?
According to the Administration, "If Congress passed the budget, the deficit in 2011 would reach 8.3% of the U.S. gross domestic product -- down from a high this year of 10.6%. By 2014, it would drop to 3.9%."
Ahh, okay. Evidently they are thinking people still believe in the Tooth Fairy. By the way, the actual percentage of REAL GDP is actually MUCH higher, again due to the over statement of GDP by a large margin. The game is to overstate growth and to understate DEBT. This is the same game subprime mortgage companies helped people play with mortgages they couldn't afford.
Technically we are oversold but still inside of the downtrend channel. Again, watch for a break of the upper channel to know that wave 2 up has begun. There was a fake out on Friday, but we're not too far from it again.
January was a negative month for stocks, and the past two weeks have been very negative. The character of the market has changed. This is very similar to the change of character near the '07 top. Takes a while to set in.
On the SPX 1,080 is still the key level. SPX 1,090 should be fairly strong overhead, then 1,100. 1,107 is the next higher pivot, 1,061, then 1,041 are the next support levels. The character of the wave 2, when it comes, is going to be important to watch. It is Monday after all…
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A LITTLE blue symbol is carrying big implications.
Trying to ward off regulators, the advertising industry has agreed on a standard icon — a little "i" — that it will add to most online ads that use demographics and behavioral data to tell consumers what is happening.
Jules Polonetsky, the co-chairman and director of the Future of Privacy Forum, an advocacy group that helped create the symbol, compared it to the triangle made up of three arrows that tells consumers that something is recyclable.
The idea was "to come up with a recycling symbol — people will look at it, and once they know what it is, they'll get it, and always get it," Mr. Polonetsky said.
Most major companies running online ads are expected to begin adding the icon to their ads by midsummer, along with phrases like "Why did I get this ad?"
When consumers click on the icon, a white "i" surrounded by a circle on a blue background, they will be taken to a page explaining how the advertiser uses their Web surfing history and demographic profile to send them certain ads.
The symbol will be introduced Wednesday by Mr. Polonetsky's group and a coalition of trade groups that have been vocal about fending off government regulation.
It comes amid a fierce debate about privacy. Congress has shown interest in the subject. And Federal Trade Commission officials have been vocal, saying that privacy policies of companies are not clear or accessible enough to protect visitors, and debating whether online data is being used appropriately.
Maneesha Mithal, associate director for the division of privacy and identity protection at the Federal Trade Commission, said it was "too early to tell" whether the icon and phrases would work with consumers.
"We support industry efforts to develop a consistent symbol and message that would help educate consumers about online advertising," Ms. Mithal said in an e-mail message. "We hope they will share data, such as click-through and opt-out rates, that will inform the debate."
The conversations between the commission and trade groups have become intense over the last year. The gauntlet was thrown last February, when the Federal Trade Commission warned that unless the industry wanted it to step in, it had better devise stricter self-regulatory principles.
That report inspired the project from Mr. Polonetsky and his co-chairman, Christopher Wolf.
"One of the key points," Mr. Polonetsky said, was about privacy policies. "Legalese is not especially working."
Mr. Polonetsky's group, which is a mix of privacy officers of privacy advocates, academics and corporations, began experimenting with icons. Several divisions of the advertising holding company WPP, including GroupM, the Kantar Group and Ogilvy, helped create the icons.
"We said, let's turn to creative people whose job it is to sell things, to communicate, instead of to lawyers whose job is to create highly accurate things that mean only what they mean and can be highly complex," Mr. Polonetsky said.
The WPP divisions came back with several potential icons, which were presented to focus groups. The little "i," which was dubbed "Power I," did well, as did an asterisk that resembled a silhouette ("Asterisk Man").
Icons that failed included one that looked like a "T" in a thought bubble. ("The focus group recipients just didn't know what to make of this one," Mr. Polonetsky said.)
The forum also tested some different phrases to go with the icon, like "Why this ad?"
"The feedback from focus group users was, don't ask me to click something, tell me something and then I'll decide to click," Mr. Polonetsky said.
The group narrowed the icons down to Asterisk Man and Power I. Next, the WPP divisions, along with two professors, tested the icons and phrases with a panel of 2,604 Internet users to see if they remembered them and understood what they meant. Two of the phrases — "Why did I get this ad?" and "Interest-based ads" — did the best, while industry groups also liked the phrase "Ad choice," which had done well in the focus groups.
Of course, without industry adoption, an icon is pretty meaningless. That is where the advertising groups come in.
Industry groups had already begun trying to avoid regulation and legislation when the F.T.C. report was issued last winter. The groups argued that legislation or regulation would move too slowly to reflect technological changes, and would choke Internet revenue.
In July, major advertising groups representing most name-brand advertisers and agencies agreed on new self-regulatory principles. Those included the adoption of a new, industry-standard icon that group members would run, which would link visitors to a page with information about privacy. Rather than stuffing information about so-called behavioral targeting into the privacy policy, the idea was to make the information much more visible.
There is no legal requirement that all the groups' members, which include major online companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and traditional marketers like Procter & Gamble and General Electric, along with some ad networks and ad exchanges, adopt the icon, said Stuart P. Ingis, a partner at the Venable law firm and a lawyer for the coalition of trade groups. But, he said, he expects that within a couple of months, many of the companies will begin running it, and "you'll wind up capturing a large percentage of the marketplace."
The Interactive Advertising Bureau, which is involved in the self-regulation effort, has already begun an online campaign to explain the behavioral tactic to consumers. Mike Zaneis, vice president for public policy for the group, said the second phase of that campaign, beginning in a couple of months, would focus on what the Power I is and how consumers are supposed to interact with it.
And, similar to recycling's role in environmental protection, Mr. Polonetsky is not expecting that his icon will immediately fix all the problems.
"This is not the full solution, but this moves the ball forward," he said.
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CHICAGO — Children in Washington reacted calmly to a test of the tornado sirens that were sounded Tuesday for the first time since November 17when a deadly twister leveled whole blocks of houses and killed one person, the school superintendent said.
"It went very well, there were no problems whatsoever, said John Tignor, superintendent of Washington Grade School District 52, a two-school district of 970 children. "No students seemed upset at all by it (and) and they continued their normal class activities throughout the drill."
He said he received no reports that any students needed to speak to the counselors who were standing by.
The children in Washington had not heard the sirens since the Nov. 17, 2013, tornado. District officials were concerned enough about their possible reaction to the statewide test that over the past couple of weeks the district has been notifying parents while teachers and principals have been doing the same with the students.
The test did not include a drill of the students, as is usual when the sirens are tested. During a drill the students are escorted to safe locations where they must get down on the floor and put their arms over their heads. Tignor said the district decided a drill might be too traumatic for the children less than five months after the tornado, one of two dozen that leveled scores of buildings and killed seven people in the state.
"We thought it might create too much anxiety," he said.
Mike Perdun, who was home with his 10-year-old daughter the morning his house was destroyed by the 190 mph tornado, said he had been reminding the girl and his 14-year-old son that the sirens would sound Tuesday morning.
"They know what they (sirens) are for and they weren't nervous about it," he said.
Perdun said his son had been a little apprehensive when he was dropped off at school, so he was glad to hear that the sirens did not seem to bother any of the children.


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Rachel Opitz doesn't dig much at Gabii, but rather records. Leading a core team of four, her topography, data entry, and photogrammetric modelling unit is tasked with the construction of a digital database on a large scale.
"We have scale issues," Rachel chuckles, "Well, they're not issues because the method works."
Rachel's team has implemented strategies and introduced technologies aimed at increasing efficiency within The Gabii Project to support a large open area excavation. They upgrade software and propose new methods nearly every field season. Most recently, Rachel brought tablet technology to the scene, replacing almost all of the paper recording formerly done in the trenches with direct to digital recording on Panasonic ToughPads and Android tablets, linked in real-time to the project's ARK database and GIS system.
"One of the reasons we were able to open such a large excavation area as is that the recording is just so fast," Rachel states plainly. "You can answer very different archaeological questions working at this scale"
The Gabii Project isn't the only dig using digital recording. Excavations at Çatalhöyük and Pompeii—to name a couple high-profile cases—are also making use of similar systems, and such methods have been increasingly adopted in recent years. In Rachel's opinion, what sets The Gabii Project apart is Program Director Nicola Terrenato's insistence on using these systems extensively from the beginning.
"More and more people are doing some variant on what we're doing, and that's a good thing. Of course we try to stay at the forefront, so five years from now we'll be doing something totally different."
You can follow Rachel's work at: http://gabiiserver.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu/gabiigoesdigital/


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Wall Street Journal recommends it to all professionals. Grab it, manage your life.
* Awards and Laurels *
• Named Best Mobile App OCR by 2010 MOBI Awards
• Winner of the CTIA 2010 E-Tech Award for Mobile Applications - Pro-sumer/Business Productivity
• Secured a spot among the Top 10 apps in the Business category in 194 countries
• Ranked #1 Business app in US App Store
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• Over 20 million users worldwide
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WorldCard Mobile, the leading business card scanning application for iPhone, uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to instantly transfer information from business cards to users' native contacts. With a simple click of the camera, you no longer have to manually input contact info from business cards or email signatures.
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Why WorldCard Mobile?
• Capture business cards anytime & anywhere
• Capture business card images with the iPhone's camera.
• Support interface in different languages - English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.
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• Sort recognized information by name, position, company, phone number, fax number, address or other fields.
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• Editor Review - If you're a frequent business card recipient and you'd like to be mobile-enabled, check out WorldCard Mobile. (Michael Rose from TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
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The Circuit and District Courts
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Welcome to the Cullman Courts webpage!The mission of the courts is to provide a fair and neutral forum for the resolution of civil disputes and for the impartial trial of all criminal cases according to the requirements of law.
For many people coming to court either as a party, a witness, or as a juror can be a confusing and at times a somewhat daunting experience. This site is designed to better serve the people of Cullman County by providing useful information about your court system. Here you will hopefully find information that will help answer some of your basic questions. However, this site is not intended to provide legal advice of any type.
Also, please remember that while the judges are committed public servants who care about you and your case, they are not permitted by law to discuss your case with you unless all parties are present, and they cannot give you legal advice. It would be highly improper for an individual to attempt to have any private conversation or communication with a judge or the judge's staff about a pending legal matter and any such communication would likely result in the judge being disqualified from hearing the case.
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Ideas for Tackling the Teacher Shortage
A mid-western farmer's daughter raised me, and she had a proverb for everything. But my personal favorite, and one that she repeated to me time and time again when I became a teacher is, "You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar." In other words we all respond better to praise than we do criticism. I think the same thing can be said when looking at a looming teacher shortage.


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1. Rick Nash, LW, Columbus: If talk indeed turns to action, Nash will be dealt this summer.
The New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs and San Jose Sharks were left at the altar at the February trade deadline because they weren't willing to pay the massive price being demanded by Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson.
The Jackets are in a tough spot because Nash has made it clear he wants out. His $7.8-million cap hit through the 2017-18 season means only certain teams can be involved in the discussions and he has to approve any deal.
Nash wants to be moved to a contender. The Rangers and Sharks both need scoring. Don't be surprised if the Buffalo Sabres try to get into these discussions.
2. Roberto Luongo, G, Vancouver: There are a lot of teams looking for goaltending: Toronto, the Tampa Bay Lightning, Columbus and the Chicago Blackhawks to name a few.
The issue is the contract given to Luongo by Canucks GM Mike Gillis. He always considers himself the smartest guy in the room, but giving Luongo a deal through with a cap hit of $5.3 million through 2021-22 was ridiculous.
Moving the contract is going to be even more difficult. Bolts GM Steve Yzerman has declared he wants nothing to do with that kind of trade. Toronto GM Brian Burke would have to swallow his pride to acquire Luongo.
Burke has often been an opponent of long-term deals. Perhaps the only hope for Gillis and the Canucks is an "amnesty" clause in the new CBA. That would allow the Canucks to buy him out and not have a cap hit.
3. Jordan Staal, C, Pittsburgh: This guy would attract plenty of attention. He is the best third-line centre in the league.
The Penguins are going to have to clear cash if they're going to keep this team together. That could mean moving out a player like Staal because Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin aren't going anywhere.
Several teams would like to make a pitch for Staal — including the Buffalo Sabres and St. Louis Blues. The Sabres want to get bigger in the middle, which is why Derek Roy has been made available.
Staal is in the final year of his $4.5-million contract. The Pens have made it a priority to get Crosby's deal done. Look for Staal to be dealt and there will be a lot of interest.
4. Jonathan Bernier, G, Los Angeles: He could do just fine sitting behind Jonathan Quick.
If there's anything this run to the Stanley Cup final has proven, Quick is the man with the Kings and Bernier, 23, is going to have to be happy playing the No. 2 role until a trade is made.
Many believe Bernier can be a No. 1. The Jackets made a pitch for him last year, but couldn't get the deal done. There is concern he's never done it before, but maybe Bernier just needs to given a proper chance.
With a cap hit of $1.25 million, the cost is minimal. He's young and that means there's not a lot of risk involved. Can he be a No. 1? That's the question, but don't be surprised if a team tries to find out.
5. Tim Thomas, G, Boston:The Bruins have a huge headache on their hands with this guy.
Thomas, 38, has declared he has no plans to play next season. He says he wants to spend more time with family, but many believe he wants to make sure he controls his own destiny when his "no-move" clause expires July 1.
Thomas will likely ask for an extension from the Bruins in July, but make no mistake — he won't play another game in a Boston uniform. Any chance of his number being retired is gone as well.
Thomas may not actually be dealt to a team looking for help in net. He might actually just be sent somewhere so GM Peter Chiarelli can get his $5-million cap hit off the books. A team trying to get to the floor might want it.
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text: This wonderful event comes to us from the Michael Morin of the White Mountain Chapter. All are welcome to attend, reservations are requested, and it looks like a great time will be had by all! - Scott Stowell There is no better way to brush off the winter blues and post-holiday stress than to attend the club's annual social event - Winter Reunion 2010! This year's party will be just as wonderful, fun, and full of surprises as in the past. Thanks to the creative booking skills of the Social Event committee, we will have another awesome Winter Reunion for you to enjoy, and this $100+ event is being offered for only $40 per person! Attire is "dressy casual". Please make special note that $5 from each ticket purchased will be donated to charity To start, the evening will begin at 6 PM at The Derryfield in Manchester. This is one of the area's renown restaurants. It is known for its fine dining and elegant atmosphere. Your sense will be tantalized by warm hospitality, inviting ambience and savory cuisine. Dinner will be a buffet dinner. When you arrive, you will spend some time socializing during the cocktail hour (cash bar) and looking over the many great silent auction items. After dinner, rock the house down with 97 North. The band hails from Massachusetts and has palyed many venues in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The four piece band will play songs from the 60's and 70's. This year, the silent auction will benefit one of our own - the BMW CCA Foundation. The Foundation is responsible for organizing and promoting the successful Street Survival events throughout the Nation. Our donations will assist the Foundation is pursuing its mission. Please take a look at the following link for more information: http://www.whitemtn-bmwclub.org/winter_reunion.html


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When Boston Police Spy on Free Speech, Democracy Suffers
Originally posted by boston.com.
Psst! Check out this super-secret Boston Police "intelligence report":
Local activists have been trying to get 'celebrity guest speakers' (Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon) for the March 24th demonstration, but at this time it appears that they have been unable to book any of these speakers for their event.
But some well-known speakers will be there. According to this intelligence report," compiled by the Boston police under the heading "Criminal Act--Groups-Extremists," among them will be Cindy Sheehan and a "BU professor emeritus/activist" whose name is redacted--it was the late Howard Zinn.
These excerpts come from one of several documents and videotapes obtained through a lawsuit brought against the Boston Police Department by the ACLU of Massachusetts and Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. We are making these criminal "intelligence" reports public today, along with a report analyzing its significance--and avideo of some of the peace activists who have been targeted.
We now have proof of what peace groups and activists have long suspected: Boston Police officers have worked within the local fusion spying center, the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC), to monitor the lawful political activity of local peace groups and track their movements and beliefs. This information has been retained in searchable electronic "intelligence" reports bearing labels such as "Groups - Civil Disturbance," "Groups--Extremists," "HomeSec-Domestic" under the heading "Criminal Act."
Under what interpretation of the US and Massachusetts Constitutions can the non-violent First Amendment activity of groups like Veterans for Peace and United for Justice with Peace be routinely classified as a criminal act?
If you have glanced at the US Senate subcommittee report on fusion centers that came out earlier this month, you may not be surprised to hear that Boston's fusion center has been collecting dubious "intelligence" and violating civil liberties in the process.
Fusion centers were set up in the aftermath of 9/11 to facilitate the sharing of "terrorism-related" information among local, state, and federal law enforcement and private entities. But the Senate subcommittee report finds that the nation's 70 or so fusion centers (the exact number is in dispute--DHS, which contributed the seed funding for the centers, doesn't know how many exist today) have not uncovered a single terrorist plot.
Indeed, the spying centers have produced "nothing of value," and instead needlessly duplicate the "more efficient information-sharing process already in place between local police and the FBI-led Terrorist Screening Center."
Their output is often, in the words of one government official, "a bunch of crap."
Much of it is also "potentially illegal," according to the US Senate report, because it falls foul of federal privacy regulations and Department of Homeland Security guidelines that forbid the routine monitoring of groups and individuals unless there is reason to suspect them of criminal activity.
The BRIC's own guidelines say the same thing.
And yet we now know that the BRIC, local and state police and the FBI have worked together to monitor and create "intelligence reports" on groups and individuals where there is no demonstrated link to crime or terrorism. There are indications that these illegal reports have been shared around the country, just how widely we don't know.
Given the secrecy surrounding the "information-sharing" surveillance systems that have been erected since 9/11 and the lack of any accountability mechanisms, we can't determine exactly where reports generated by the BRIC end up. Inaccurate information could have found a permanent home in a myriad government--and even private--databases, with harm to lives that can never be repaired.
The documents we received in response to our lawsuit demonstrate that the BRIC cannot effectively police itself.
According to the BRIC's guidelines, "intelligence reports" that do not reference criminal activity should be destroyed after 90 days. And yet we obtained reports that should never have been written in the first place and were still being retained after five years. Why should it take an ACLU/NLG lawsuit to highlight the BRIC's failure to enforce its own rules?
We know the political surveillance revealed in these documents wastes scarce tax dollars and police resources that would be better focused on building community trust and solving actual crimes.
And we know that political spying is bad for democracy.
You can view this videotape to hear some of the peace activists who have been monitored by the police or questioned about their personal beliefs talk about the "chilling impact" such surveillance can have on such core American values as freedom of expression and assembly.
Today, we are calling on the Boston Police to cease the routine surveillance of peaceful protests and the monitoring of individuals who take part in them.
And we are asking you to join us in demanding that reforms are put in place to ensure that there will be no policing of dissent in Massachusetts.
Let's work together to ensure that our Commonwealth--and all of America--remains a Constitutionally protected free speech zone.
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