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(Amended 9:15 AM 18 Aug 2012 We erroneously reported here yesterday that the German Wirehaired Pointer, GCH CH Mt View's Ripsnorter, was defeated in the breed at Friday's Greater Hickory Kennel Club show. The catalog was marked incorrectly. Oakley was absent yesterday. Our apolgies to Team Oakley for us repeating the error.)
As three of our Top Five Dogs All Breeds returned to the show ring today in Greensboro NC, I was sitting in the Memphis airport feverishly going over the AKC's latest official numbers and updating our numbers through yesterday. We knew that the race was close, but we had no idea how close. By this evening our Top Three were closer than ever and a new Number One Dog had emerged.
While the numbers have not been huge in Greensboro NC (today's BIS was worth 824 points) the competition has been as fierce as we have seen all years. The German Wirehaired Pointer, GCH CH Mt View's Ripsnorter Silver Charm was absent as his handler, Phil Booth, was attending his son's wedding. Congrautlations to Phil and family! The breed would be represented in the Sporting Group by his nephew, GCH CH Reece Afterhours The Buck stops Here JH. Truman would finish the day with a Sporting Group Three, watching the new Number One Dog All Breeds, the English Springer Spaniel, GCH CH Wynmoor Champagne Supernova, advance to Stephanie Hedgepath's BIS final.
Rounding out her seven were the Afghan Hound, GCH CH Criston's Enchanted, the Doberman Pinscher, GCH CH Protocol's Veni Vidi Vici, the Scottish Terrier, GCH CH Lomondview Clementina, the Affenpinscher, GCH CH Banana Joe V Tani Kazari, the Boston Terrier, GCH CH Gunther's Gussied Up Edna, and the Shetland Sheepdog, GCH CH Jesstar's Nirvana.
The RBIS would go to the Sheltie, Noah, while the big prize would go to the Doberman, FiFi. It's the second of the set and the 29th BIS of the year for FiFi and breeder/owner/handler Jocelyn Mullins. Our congratulations to Jocelyn and a special shout out to Tem Peyton on moving into the top spot. Congratulations to breeders Billie, Erin, & Charlie Kerfoot & Ruth Kirby, owners Celie Florence, Beth Fink, Erin Kerfoot, PhD, Ken Goodhue-McWilliams, PhD, & Delores Strength, and handler Robin Novack.


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Slower Credit Growth for the New Year
Are you using more or less credit these days? If your habits track the latest data released by the Federal Reserve, your rate of consumer credit growth has slowed considerably.
The Fed's release for January 2017 revealed that outstanding consumer credit rose by $8.8 billion to $3.77 trillion for a seasonally adjusted annualized growth rate of 2.8% — the slowest rate of consumer credit growth in over five years. This aligns with the Fed's December 2016 report showing that 2016 as a whole brought the smallest annual increase in household credit since 2013.
January's change was driven in large part by a drop in revolving credit (such as credit card debt). Revolving credit dropped by $3.8 billion, partially neutralizing a $12.6 billion increase in non-revolving credit like student loans and auto loans.
It's Too Early to Tell
One potential implication: consumers are beginning to put the brakes on credit card spending and have shifted to paying down their credit card debt. Data from the annual tax refund survey by the National Retail Federation seems to back up this hypothesis. The percentage of people that intend to spend this year's tax refunds hit an all-time survey low, while the percentage that intend to apply their tax refunds to paying down debt is rising.
Does the drop in revolving credit mean that consumers have more money overall, reducing the need to rely on credit and allowing them to pay down debt, or does it mean people are using their limited increases more wisely and cutting back on spending? One can't conclude anything from a single month's data, but the latter is more likely.
Long-term data from the St. Louis Fed suggests that Personal Consumption Expenditures (aka consumer spending) are tracking on the same general curve that they have been for many years. Similarly, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that wages have been exhibiting the same slow growth for years, barely keeping up with inflation.
Does this square with a soaring stock market? Keep in mind that the stock market and economy are two different things. Economic growth is reflected in the current gross domestic product (GDP), which has continued on its relatively slow pace of growth (1.9% in Q4 2016). The stock market is based on assessment of value and expectations of future value (at the moment dominated by Trumpian economic optimism).
Pay Down your Debt and Join the Crowd
If you are bucking the January consumer credit numbers and dealing with increasing personal credit and/or debt, how can you turn your situation around? Start by reviewing your budget — or creating one, if you don't have one — and look for ways to trim your spending and potentially increase your income, reducing the need for credit.
Once you are armed with extra funds, choose your preferred method of paying down debt. LaTisha Styles, Millennial Financial Expert and Founder of Financial Success Media, LLC, outlines the two primary methods: "In the first way, what you do is pay off the debts with the smallest balance.... In the second way, you pay off the debt with the highest interest rate." The second way is preferable for saving the most money, especially if your highest interest rate account (typically credit cards) has a higher balance. However, some people prefer the motivation of "quick wins" from paying off accounts sooner.
If you can draw extra willpower from more of your fellow Americans paying down credit card debt, by all means, do so. It's a difficult but rewarding goal to reach, so take advantage of all the moral support that you can get.
The Takeaway
A single month of slowing consumer credit won't send economists and banks into panic, nor will it give the members of the National Retail Federation many sleepless nights. January's drop in revolving credit may simply be a correction from the previous November's unusually large revolving credit increase of $11.8 billion. Even so, economists and policy makers will be watching the numbers to see if consumers create a lasting trend of borrowing less and paying down debt. If that trend corresponds with lower spending instead of higher wages, it could suggest an upcoming economic slowdown.
On a personal level, limited borrowing and paying down of debt should always be your goal. Every little bit that you can save on interest charges or unmade purchases can be put toward family emergency funds, college funds for your children, and your retirement accounts. While 70% of the economy may be driven by consumer purchases, there's nothing wrong with letting your fellow consumers share more of that burden.
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Officer was accused of taking rifle from evidence locker
State Attorney General Mike Delaney is responding to public criticism from Auburn's police chief after the Attorney General's Office stopped the prosecution of a former Auburn officer.
David Flight was accused of stealing a rifle from the department's evidence locker at some point after it was seized in 1992.
Flight told the Attorney General's Office that at that time, some evidence was actually stored at his house, and the chief gave him the gun as payment for that service.
But Auburn Police Chief Edward Picard denied that and said evidence was never taken to Flight's home.
Prosecutors got an indictment against Flight last year. Flight had retired in 2010.
In a public letter to the chief, Delaney said that despite his office's request for all paperwork or files, certain documents were not provided until last week, right before the trial.
Those documents were timesheets and logs from 1992 that contained notes detailing transfers of evidence to Flight's home, which Delaney said directly contradicted the chief's statement to investigators.
Delaney said the chief also acknowledged the documents would have "adversely impacted the presentation of the case."
The Attorney General's Office then decided to drop the charges.
Picard issued a statement late Friday night thanking the Attorney General's Office for its work, but he still insisted Flight was never given the rifle and never stored evidence for the Auburn Police Department.


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So in this article, I'm going to go over how to use ClickFunnels and how to make a quick basic funnel to get you high opt-ins because the money is made on building your email list.
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So I'm going to be talking about ClickFunnels in this article and I'm not going to drag this out. I want to make it to the point and I'm going to tell you a couple of pros and cons of ClickFunnels . Now there are many funnel builders out there for a squeeze page, we use a squeeze page because our goal is no matter how long your funnel is, your target is to capture an email address. Mostly your sales on your offer aren't getting a lot of people. People are not going to buy from you the first time around, so you're going to have to build that relationship with them. You want them to know you, like you, trust you, and then they're gonna buy from you.
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That's just one of the futures you can do with ClickFunnels . Now if you're building a landing page and you're working hard on trying to capture emails, look in the description, I'm going to put a share code for ClickFunnels . So what I'll be building is going to take me maybe 10 minutes or so, I want you to copy it if you like and test your results with it. How To Create Landing Page On Clickfunnels
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I use AWeber, I'm gonna leave a link in the description and I want you to remember this. Now just so you know, I talk about my links because that's how my money is made, and you will quickly learn this too. I'm here to give value and it just shows me you're taking the initiative and you're wanting to learn a lot of people that are going to go to your funnel.
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So before I begin, I'm gonna tell you just a couple of basic features on ClickFunnels . You can integrate it with AWeber, Get Response, you can integrate any of your auto email responders to ClickFunnels . You can use a custom domain and for one of my funnels, I actually have a custom domain and now, believe me, it was a pain to set up. But now that I know how to set up a custom domain with ClickFunnels , it's pretty simple.
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Now I liked the ClickFunnels option to do this It's decent, but I don't use it a lot because what I use as a platform called ClickMagic and is what I use to track my traffic, where my traffic is coming from and how much I'm paying for my clicks.
ClickMagic is so versatile. I'm not going to go too much into that yet, but I will be delving deeper into that soon because I believe anyone doing affiliate marketing should be using ClickMagic to track their links, check their conversions. One quick tip about ClickMagic is that you can buy one domain, set that one domain up with ClickMagic and then you can run 20 different squeeze pages to that ClickMagic link with that domain. Magic is perfect for tracking and then you can put pixels from ClickMagic into your funnel. How To Create Landing Page On Clickfunnels
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Alright I'm going to make a funnel right now and I'm going to show you exactly what you need to do. So this is just a basic outlook of ClickFunnels to begin with. If you're wondering what that is, that's just the upgraded version of ClickFunnels which is known as the ClickFunnels Platinum which I mentioned above.
I'm not using that personally because I'm just using the $97 a month Basic plan as it is enough for now. I'm not at the point where I need the ClickFunnels Platinum , but let's just get started.
Okay So what you want to do is you want to just hit Add New.
and next up you want to collect emails.
I always choose this every time. Now let's just name this Youtube love.
So I'm naming at Youtube Love cause I'm gonna share this funnel and show some love with all of you and let you guys copy this funnel that we're about to make. It shouldn't take too long, but you don't want to overcomplicate your funnel or whenever because your goal is to get the Opt-in.
Okay, so let's just take a look in ClickFunnels . These are the templates that you can choose between when choosing a landing page, prebuilt click funnel landing pages.
They're okay. I mean a, there's a couple of good ones in here that I use. Let's take a look. You know what Let's go with this one right here.
So all you want to do is hit select template. Now on this page, if you watch, this page is basically made to where you can create variations and I 100% recommend that you create variations because that's how I was able to scale up from a 15% opt-in rate all the way up to a 70% opt-in rate.
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I'm not saying you're going to get a 70% opt in rate like myself. It all depends on your traffic, where you're getting it from, the quality of it and optimizing and improving. But I would recommend starting off with maybe a, at least three different variations of the funnel, you know change some small details, maybe change the background on one and then maybe change the copy on your sales on what you want next.
So let's, let's get started, click on Edit Page this is ClickFunnels new layout. How To Create Landing Page On Clickfunnels
They used to have ClickFunnels where they had all the buttons right on the side of the screen on the right side where my mouse is at, but they recently changed that. So if you want to go back to the old and phrase, you can do that. But I'm not going to do that.
So what I want to do first is I'm going to take this out right here.
So now with ClickFunnels are so many different features you can do. You can, I'll show you just a couple. Let's go to add an element, you can add your images, you can add a video here on your landing page. You can add a button. What's pretty cool is you can, put tabs up here. If you had a long landing page so someone could click on, if you wanted to show someone testimonials of your program, you could have a testimonial tab here that would redirect people to the bottom.
Let's see what else you can put countdown, see the countdown. I don't use countdown, but it creates, an urgency for people to want to opt-in quicker. And I don't use that, but it's something good you can do.
And navigation is how you do that, where you, how you direct people from the top of the screen to the bottom. But let's keep going.
So I just wanted to show you just a couple of things you can do right here. You can put a headline line, you can add it in. ClickFunnels is pretty basic when it comes to that. So let's think about what we want to say to a lot of people and I'm going to use the business opportunity for an example because that's what I love to promote. That's what I promote is a business opportunity. So, depending on what niche you're in, you can change it to work for your niche. If you're watching this video on nine times out of 10, um, I think promoting business opportunities.
One of the best ways to go, I mean you could promote beauty, you can promote fitness, personal development, and you can just change the copy to work for whatever you're going to use. But let's just keep it basic right now.
So right here above is your integration. So this is where you're syncing your AWeber, you're getting response tracking code is where you put your Facebook Pixel and background is where you basically choose her background.
So I'm going to choose a basic background and what you want to do, if you want a high-quality background, go to this site right here. It's called Pixels and it's really good for backgrounds and you can just type in what you what, and choose what kind of background you want.
So you can add travel and they have high-quality images. I mean, look at that. That image looks perfect right there, that that could work for our landing page. So anyway, let's go back and I'm going to start off with a background let's go with this background right here. How To Create Landing Page On Clickfunnels
All you have to do is hit add more and upload and you're good to go. So I like that background right there. And let's, uh, let's change this button-up right here. So if you want to change the button, all you do is go to right here and you can change this button color.
So that's going to say yes. Let me in and let's go to themes right here and let's go with a blue 3d button. Yeah, I like that.
Now, what else do I want to do to this Um, let's go to advance. You go to the center, correct spacing. So I want to go full width. So another thing you can think about too, whenever using ClickFunnels is you can always click funnels. Has these boxes right here that you can change.
So for an example, if I click settings right there, I can change this background and make it darker. You can change it to whatever you want. I think that looks pretty good right there, really basic.
Now what I don't like is this right here. I'm going to take that out, Delete.
Now let's go with, I mean what do we want this to say to lure people in. Let's change this button. Lets a fool around with this button. Color. Let's see what looks good. I don't mind that color, but I kind of want to change it up. It looks okay.
But what you can do is you can always add a disclaimer at the bottom. If you want do that. There's, tons out there, you can go to Google and Google different disclaimers that put at the bottom and fool around with the backgrounds, create different variations and see what will work for you.
And another thing make sure you sync your email responder. You have to make sure you have to go into ClickFunnels and go to account and you have to add that in. Add in the email responder you're using. It only takes a couple of minutes and makes sure you complete that.
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Next make sure you put a re-tracking pixel. So I'm in Biz op, I'm promoting biz-op for this funnel specifically. So I'm going to go to Facebook, I'm going to get my custom pixel for that audience and I'm going to be targeting and I'll make sure to put that in right there in the tracking code.
Ok so might want to ask the money question. Well now what you want to do is when you're thinking about where am I going to send people from this landing page, once they opt into my email list? where am I going to send them to? What you're going to want to do is you're going to want to go to click on this button that says: Yeh! Let Me In
Right, I'm going to show you the common mistake that most people do. Most people click on this button and they click set action.
A lot of people then they think, well if they're going to go from click funnels, I'm going to send them to the website URL. So then they're going to click right here and they're going to put it on their website. But what you want to do is you want to click submit form page. So click submit form page and then click out of that, go to your settings and then come over here down to general. How To Create Landing Page On Clickfunnels
So you add whatever link you're promoting, as in your affiliate offer. I'd recommend cloaking your link and use ClickMagic. If you're willing to pay for high tracking software, use ClickMagic and if you're not willing to do that, use bitly or Google URL shortener and all you do is copy it and then hit control V and put that in there and then you're good to go. And then that part's done.
So I decided to change up this uh button a little bit. I wanted to move the email address and change the sign-up form right there. So right here I clicked on integration and I decided to synchronize my email responder with it. And that's exactly how you do it. How I just did it real quick.
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So once you save it, you're ready to change the top text. Look closely at the top and I'm changing it to my liking a make money online and then you can put in key words and you can change it. So when people go to your landing page, they just don't see ClickFunnels at the top of the screen. They see what you actually put in right there. So I would make sure to do that whenever you save your page.
Now also, if you want to change the domain right there, don't do a custom domain, do a manual domain and it only takes about 15 minutes to set up. Always feel free while creating your funnel to click on the mobile app or the computer screen or the phone. And that'll let you know how it looks on a cell phone or how it'll look on a PC. You want to make it sure it's mobile optimized and it looks decent on a mobile phone.
So I decided to make a couple small changes of this. It only took a couple minutes. I also added in information will be sent to your email address provided above. Please check for accuracy. I put a disclaimer at the bottom and I changed this. Enter your email to get access.
So if you don't have click funnels, make sure to sign up. I'll put a link there and you can use the share code and make sure you use this. Make sure whenever this right here it says yes, let me in, put the link to your affiliate offer or put the link to what you're promoting.
If you want to put your pixel in, just to recap, make sure you integrate your autoresponder. I recommend using AWeber for your autoresponder. Now if you want to change this up so it's not exactly like mine, just click add an element and put bullet points or sub-headline. How To Create Landing Page On Clickfunnels
So folks hope all this was super useful to you all and are able to start making your funnels straight away.


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Venezuela remains on MLB players' minds
Rallying support for relatives back home a big focus this spring
TEMPE, Ariz. -- The images on Yorvit Torrealba's iPad break his heart.
It pains the Angels catcher to tap on the social media apps when he wakes up in the morning, but he touches the screen, anyway. That's what a patriot does, and nobody loves Venezuela more than Torrealba.
But the hashtags -- #SOSVenezuela, #PrayForVenezuela, #VenezuelaPaz (Peace) #SomoUnidos (We are United) -- hurt him. The photos -- violent clashes between police and students, torn Venezuelan flags and his baseball countrymen standing together in support of a nation in turmoil -- have him worried.
"It's tough, really tough, and all we can do is pray and hope that everything gets better," Torrealba said. "I also tweet and [post on Instagram] for peace, and I hope that helps in some way. It's definitely something we worry about because part of my family is in Venezuela, and it's tough to concentrate and focus here at the same time your mind is with your family members there."
Since the beginning of February, citizens across Venezuela have been protesting against the government, citing a shortage of goods, poor security and lack of freedom of speech for the media. The movement gained the world's attention when three student demonstrators were killed in Caracas on Feb. 12, and it has hit home in clubhouses in the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues.
"We're all concerned about what's going on, especially with the violence in the streets," Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus said. "There are more dead people every single day. That's what we want to stop. We want peace. Everybody has their family down there."
Groups of Venezuelan players on the Mariners, Tigers, Marlins, Rangers, Royals, Mets, Astros and Braves have posed for photos in their clubhouses and put them on Twitter to show their support for the country. The A's are scheduled to take a similar photo on Monday.
"Man, it takes everything away from you inside," Tigers first-base coach Omar Vizquel said. "It's hard to do something and not think about how your family is and how things are going to progress in our country. I'm just hoping for the best right now, hoping that they get together and resolve the situation. All that we want is just the integrity, the respect, the opinion, the expression of people. We don't want to see anybody dead."
The players tweet because they care. They also choose their words carefully.
"My family is OK, but if I go and say something, maybe they'll [take it out] on my family," Philadelphia's Freddy Galvis said. "A few days ago, my father went downtown to go shopping, and some people almost got in a fight with him because I said something on Twitter. It's crazy, man. People fighting each other. I just hope everything can get back like old times."
"I see it this way: When we play here, [the people in Venezuela] give us a lot of support," Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera said. "Right now, a lot of players give a lot of support to the people of Venezuela. It's kind of hard right now. It's tough. It's a lot of people. You have to be careful with what you say."
Royals catcher Ramon Hernandez said his loved ones are safe because they live outside of major cities like Caracas and Valencia. He worries about other families who are not as fortunate as he is.
"I talk to [family] almost every day. They're doing good, but the situation is bad. I never thought I'd see something like that, especially in Venezuela," Hernandez said. "The people over there are very calm, but I guess people got tired, they didn't have anything. They go to the supermarket and can't find anything to eat; if your car is broken, you have to wait months because you can't get replacements."
Last week, Marlins pitcher Henderson Alvarez brought his wife and two-month old daughter to the United States ahead of schedule because his baby was having respiratory issues as a result of tear gas shot near his home in Caracas.
More family members could be on their way to the United States.
"I don't know what's going on. I just want peace," Mariners ace Felix Hernandez said. "It's dangerous. I just want my family to be safe. That's all I want. I talked to my mom. I'm trying to figure out how to get her here."
In the meantime, MLB players will continue to look to their phones, iPads and laptops for answers.
"I've been living in the United States for six years, but Venezuela is my country," Torrealba said. "Those are my people. They are my brothers and sisters in Venezuela. I get up, I get off the field and first thing I do is get on Twitter and Instagram to find out what's going on and if it's getting better or worse. I can't wait until it gets better."


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Tokyo Hamburg in Koreatown Dishes Out Japanese-style Hamburg Steak
What is hamburg? In Japan, don't confuse hamburg ("hambagu") with hamburger ("hambaga"). Hamburg / hambagu is actually like Salisbury steak. Hamburg steak is a patty of ground beef that originated in the town of Hamburg in Germany, but has become very popular in Japan (after German immigrants brought it there) since the 1950s.
In LA, there's now a place in that specializes in this. Tokyo Hamburg at the edge of Koreatown, as the name suggests, serves Japanese style hamburg. Here, the ground meat comes seared on the outside but still raw inside. It is served with a sizzling stone on the side, and diners are supposed to take small pieces and cook them on the sizzling stone. ($13.99 for the original hamburg)


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NEA commends civil rights organizations for thoughtful education policy agenda
Framework focuses on giving all students the opportunity to learn
WASHINGTON - July 26, 2010 -
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel commended prominent civil rights organizations for their thoughtful and constructive recommendations on federal education policy. Their call for an education agenda that would help all students achieve comes as Congress prepares to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the nation's most prominent federal education law.
The signers of the education policy framework include the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., National Council on Educating Black Children, National Urban League, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and Schott Foundation for Public Education.
The following statement can be attributed to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel:
"We admire and commend the signers' keen understanding of the actual needs of students, teachers and other school personnel. These leaders draw much needed attention to the inequities in the nation's schools as well as the deficits in state resource allocations. They offer insights on improving teacher evaluation systems, recognize that well-designed and accountable charters are an asset to the public school system, and call for targeted resources and supports that can help turn around low-performing schools. Their grasp of the issues facing public education plus their thoughtful recommendations are a welcome addition to the national dialogue on education policy.
"We look forward to more fruitful discussion on the specific elements of their framework. Their ideas should inspire a diverse and broad community to work together to craft federal education policies that better serve all students and give respect and support to those students most in need."
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By Scott Bland, National Journal
The tea party has been charting the course of the House of Representatives. But a smaller group of House Republicans reasserted its influence in Wednesday's vote to end the government shutdown, highlighting a possible path toward a more productive Congress.
Thirty GOP House members have now gone against their conference to pass three separate pieces of major legislation this year. They formed the backbone of the group of 87 Republicans who joined every voting Democrat to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling this week without the support of most of the House's GOP majority. They also took this course in supporting aid for Hurricane Sandy recovery and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act earlier this year.
This group of Republicans represents, with most House Democrats, a potential governing caucus on a number of issues moving forward–most immediately, some sort of longer-term budget agreement. The question is whether this potential coalition could get the opportunity to work its will on broader issues or if it is bottled up by the "Hastert rule," the unofficial principle that legislation does not come to a House vote without the support of a majority of the majority party.
The latter is far more likely; there is a reason the Hastert rule has been violated sparingly so far. But these votes do highlight a potential coalition for bigger legislation in the remainder of this Congress.
On average, the 30 House Republicans who voted against their conference to pass these three bills represent more politically-contested territory than their colleagues. President Obama averaged nearly 45 percent of the vote in those 30 districts in the last election, and these lawmakers include eight of the 17 GOP House members whose districts Obama carried in 2012. Among the 44 House Republicans who voted for at least two of the three bills, every one of them was from a district Obama carried. Meanwhile, in the 116 districts where their Republican members opposed all three of those votes, Obama won less than 37 percent of the vote. (While he won 51 percent nationally, the president averaged just under 40 percent of the vote in Republican-held House districts.)
The coalition also contains some conservative-district Republicans with ties to leadership. Retiring Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., who represents one of the most Republican-heavy House seats in the country, supported all three bills, going against the majority of his conference. But most of them are from more hotly contested territory. Twenty of the Republicans who joined Bachus in support of all three bills came from districts where Mitt Romney won less than 55 percent of the vote in 2012. Over half of the 80 House Republicans from such districts where Romney didn't clear 55 percent voted for at least two of these three bills.
Multiple times this year, this unusual coalition of some Republicans and most Democrats has come together to pass legislation through the House. The question is what–if anything–this pattern means for the future. If the Republicans in this coalition feel emboldened by their most recent move, they could make a stronger push to work with Democrats on major legislation in the future.
Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., who was one of the House GOP voices pushing for a clean bill to reopen the government this month, cautioned against automatically applying a coalition that emerged on a few specific issues to a broader legislative agenda. But he didn't close the door, either.
"Out of this whole situation, I think there are bipartisan working groups both in the Senate and the House that I think are really pushing back on extremes in both parties" to work on legislation that can pass Congress, Dent said. A lot depends, he said, on what those he characterized as "hope yes, vote no" House members decide to do on future issues like taxes or immigration.
If that group is willing to bless floor votes on legislation they oppose with more frequency, that could give the coalition that passed these three bills more opportunities to work in the next months.
There is precedent, from an earlier era of divided government, for major legislation passing without a majority of the House majority. Most notably, a coalition of conservative Democrats and a near-unanimous Republican minority combined to pass President Reagan's budget in 1981, against the wishes of a majority of House Democrats, who then controlled the lower chamber. House Democrats also provided the passing votes for Reagan's tax-cut package that year, again joining nearly every Republican.
Former Rep. Martin Frost, a Democrat from Texas, was at the beginning of his 26-year congressional career during that term. He said the political environment that gave the House minority power in 1981 may not apply 22 years later.
"Reagan carried a number of districts that historically had been Democratic and had Democratic congressmen," Frost said. "So it was in the interest of those members to be seen as supportive of Reagan. That's not as much the case here."
That is one of several barriers blocking this potential path. House Republican leaders would also have to acquiesce, which has mostly happened in potential disaster situations thus far–like the response to Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey. It may be an unlikely path for Congress to take after months of unceasing partisan warfare. But Wednesday's events have illuminated that path again, should Congress choose to take it.
This article appears in the October, 2013, edition of National Journal Daily as Republicans Who Break From Pack Could Pave Way to More Productive Congress.


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Information and state-specific resources to protect Iowa businesses and business owners, & guidance to help you report and recover from business identity theft
Protect your personal credit and identity, and find additional state-specific information for personal identity theft protection
Learn about business identity theft, how it happens, and ways to protect your business & reduce your risks
Report business identity theft to law enforcement and appropriate government agencies, & get assistance in resolving your case
Note: These resources are specifically designed to address personal identity theft prevention and incidents of consumer identity theft. Because most state and federal identity theft and consumer protection laws are designed to protect individual consumers, businesses generally do not enjoy the same rights, protections, and potential recourse as consumers. Therefore, while helpful in addressing many issues that you may face as an individual, be aware that consumer identity theft information may not be applicable to an incident of business identity theft or fraud.
Iowa Attorney General - "A Guide for Victims of Identity Theft" (for personal cases)
Business identity thieves often use the identity information (and credit) of the business owner or company officers to open new accounts, or as guarantors of fraudulent loans and lines of credit. In addition to taking actions to protect your business, it is also important to protect yourself as well. This section provides detailed explanations of important consumer credit protection tools that are available to help protect your personal credit from identity thieves.
Use the links below to learn what these tools are, how they work, and how to use them to help protect your personal credit.
Tools & Resources to Protect Your Personal Credit:
If your business does not regularly review your state business filings, file your annual reports in a timely manner, or enroll in email alerts or other preventative systems that may be offered by your state, you may unknowingly attract the unwanted attention of business identity thieves.
The Iowa Secretary of State is currently developing a list of email addresses for registered agents. When this list is developed, the registered agent will receive an email notification of any change to the business registration records.
Business identity thieves can manipulate or falsify business credit records and then use these to impersonate your business, or as a part of a fraud scheme to target your business. To combat this, you should periodically review your business credit reports and the information that is being reported.
Contact the business credit reporting agencies:
In Iowa, if your state business records have been fraudulently changed or updated, contact the Iowa Secretary of State Business Services Division to report and correct fraudulent business filings. Contact information is provided below.
Please note that you should only contact the Iowa Secretary of State Business Services Division for business identity theft incidents involving fraudulent business records.
All other types of business identity theft incidents and related fraud should be reported directly to law enforcement. Also review the Business Identity Theft Victim Action List for other important steps to take.
Iowa enacted its own state law establishing the availability of credit security freezes for its citizens. The three major credit bureaus (Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion) have also voluntarily made security freezes available to all Iowa state citizens. Innovis voluntarily allows consumers in all states to freeze their Innovis credit files.
Eligibility: All consumers
Credit Security Freeze Fees: Per credit bureau. To be effective, you should place a freeze at each credit bureau
• No cost for confirmed identity theft victims to place a freeze (with a copy of police report), to temporarily lift the freeze, or to remove it entirely
• All others must pay $10.00 to place a freeze, and $12.00 to temporarily lift the freeze or remove it completely
• There is a $10.00 fee for replacement PINs
• The freeze will remain in place until you remove it
To Place a Credit Security Freeze in Iowa:
• Experian security freeze website
• Equifax security freeze website
• TransUnion security freeze website
• Innovis security freeze website
In Iowa, if your business is a victim of business identity theft, you should report the crime to your local law enforcement agency. In some cases, you may also report business identity fraud to the Iowa Office of the Attorney General.
In the case of fraudulent business filings, the Iowa Secretary of State Business Services Division may also report or escalate to law enforcement as appropriate.
Also review the Business Identity Theft Victim Action List for other important steps to take.
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Great Taste Hong Kong Dim Sum, USJ21
>> Wednesday, November 2, 2011
This post was supposed to be published mid this year, but somehow it didn't get outta the oven! Hahaha...here's a short write-up anyhow of my experience dining at Great Taste :)
Overall comment: I heard that this place is quite popular for its good tasting dim sum. Since one of my mentees from Jeremiah School works there temporarily, I decided to head there one Saturday to try this place out. My personal opinion, not as good as what people have mentioned. I somehow find the Jin Xuan Hong Kong Dim Sum @ Damansara Jaya better - fresher & has more variety. Perhaps I dropped by at Great Taste slightly too late? I was there around lunch time instead of the usual breakfast hours...
Halal: No
This was my 1st time at USJ21 - all the way here for dim sum, just because Christina works (worked) here :)
Here are some of the dishes that we had that late morning:
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Will I go there again? Maybe not. It's a little too far from where I stay. I won't totally rule this place out though. It may be that the food is fresher during mornings (according to my JS mentee), which shouldn't be the case! Restaurants should serve fresh food every hour of their business! I know of dim sum restaurants that open from morning 'til night & their dishes are still nice & fresh. Oh well, I've read quite a number of good reviews of this place, but perhaps preference is a very subjective matter, eh? Great taste hong kong dim sum...? Erm...didn't taste THAT great in my personal opinion :S
Great Taste Hong Kong Dim Sum 真之味点心之家
No. 1-1, Jalan USJ 21/6
47630 UEP Subang Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan.
Tel : (+6017) 3778434 (Ben) / (+6012) 2121887 (Jack) / (+6012) 4828997 (Kelvin)
URL: http://great-taste-hkdimsum.blogspot.com/
Business hours: 7:00a.m. - 3:00p.m. daily
Presentation: * * *
Price: * * 1/2
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Taste: * * 1/2
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Video: Thunder's Kevin Durant drills game-winner over double team to beat Hawks
Thunder forward Kevin Durant hit a game-winning jumper over two defenders with 1.5 seconds remaining to lift Oklahoma City to a 111-109 home victory over Atlanta on Monday.
This was a matter of the Hawks wanting anyone besides Durant to beat them, and Durant beating them anyway.
DOLLINGER: Durant, OKC take top spot in latest Power Rankings
With 10 seconds remaining and the score tied at 109, Reggie Jackson milked the clock at the top of the key. Durant popped out to receive the ball with seven seconds remaining, and Atlanta immediately rushed a second defender at him in hopes of taking the game out of his hands.
Instead, Durant drove to his right, away from the extra attention, using three dribbles to get into position for a pull-up, mid-range jumper. Both DeMarre Carroll and Mike Scott rose to contest the shot, but Durant knocked it down with relative ease over both of them.
"Not fair, Kevin Durant," the Hawks' official Twitter account wrote on Monday.
RELATED: Kevin Durant hits clutch shot to drop Timberwolves
Durant finished with a game-high 41 points (on 15-for-25 shooting), five assists and four rebounds. The NBA's leading scorer (at 31.3 points per game) topped 40 points for the sixth time this season and the fifth time in January, as he scored 13 fourth-quarter points and accounted for Oklahoma City's final seven points of the game.
"I'm just trying to inspire the team by my play," Durant said, according to DailyThunder.com. "Just playing hard, being emotional. Hopefully it helps."
Over his last 13 games, Durant is averaging 37.8 points, 6.4 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 1.9 steals while shooting 53.7 percent overall, 41.5 percent from deep and 88.1 percent from the free throw line. That stretch helped make him an SI.com panel's most popular midseason MVP pick.
Here's a look at his winner.
Kevin Durant hits a game-winner to beat the Hawks. (Layne Murdoch/Getty Images)
Jackson added 18 points (on 7-for-17 shooting), five assists and three rebounds for the Thunder.
Paul Millsap tallied 23 points (on 9-for-19 shooting), eight rebounds and four assists for Atlanta. Six other Hawks finished in double figures.
The game-winning shot secured Oklahoma City's eighth straight victory and improved the Thunder's record to a West-leading 36-10. The Hawks dropped to 23-21 with the loss.
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The iPod Touch from Apple comes with various storage capacities. An 8GB iPod Touch will store 1750 songs, 10,000 photos or 10 hours of videos. A 32GB iPod will store 7000 songs, 40,000 photos or 40 hours of video. A 64GB iPod Touch will store 14,000 songs, 90,000 photos or 80 hours of video. These storage details are obviously based on if you were to completely fill your iPod with just music, or just videos, etc. The 5th generation iPod Touch is available with either 32GB or 64GB storage capacity, and these storage details still apply.
In terms of a combination between storage space and performance, you can't beat the iPod Touch. The iPod Shuffle, although boasting a terrific sleek, lightweight design, only supports 2GB of storage. The iPod Nano is better, combining its small, slim shape with a decent 16GB storage space. The iPod classic holds an impressive 160GB of content, but doesn't support games and apps like the iPod Touch, and is a little on the chunky side when compared to all other iPods. Being able to store games, videos, apps, music, books and photos on one handy device is a terrific opportunity, and the audio and visual playback on the iPod Touch is so good that you are sure to want to do all of these things.
Although the iPod Touch boasts plenty of storage space, it doesn't take long to fill up. Between all the songs, videos, apps, games and photos that the device can hold, it's only a matter of time before you are out of space. Here are a few handy tips to free up space on your iPod:
- Use standard definition videos. High definition videos are definitely better to watch, but they take up far more space than standard definition. If you plan on storing videos, stick to standard definition, or if you would rather watch in HD then delete the videos as you go along
Delete unused apps and completed games. If you no longer use an app or game, then keeping it on your device just means using up valuable space. The App Store records details of any app of game you download, so you can always re-download the app at a later date at no extra cost
- Rotate your music. Rather than putting your entire iTunes collection straight onto your iPod, just rotate what music you store and listen to at regular intervals.
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People are losing their jobs as a result of debt collectors. Debt collectors are calling consumers at their place of work and harassing them.
The New York Better Business Bureau and Attorney General's office haver received numerous complaints about a debt collector known to harass consumers - Eltman, Eltman and Cooper. Fred Lembeck, a freelance writer, who is also on disability, claims Eltman, Eltman and Cooper began harassing him when he fell behind on his credit card payments. The firm went as far as to freeze his bank account, so that he did not have access to his only form of income, his social security check.
Harassing consumers at work and interfering with your social security payments are not allowed under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
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KALAMAZOO—An experienced academic administrator with a track record in strategic planning, program development and international education has been selected to become the new dean of Western Michigan University's College of Education and Human Development, effective Sept. 1.
Following a nationwide search, Dr. Ming Li, interim executive director of the Center for International Studies at Ohio University, will take the reins of programs now part of WMU's original academic discipline. He brings a 10-year history of academic management to the task. Li replaces Dr. Walter Burt, who has served as dean on an interim basis since October 2012.
"Dr. Li's wide-ranging experience in higher education has given him a perspective and set of skills that dovetail beautifully with this University's mission and values," says Dr. Timothy J. Greene, WMU provost and vice president for academic affairs. "As dean of our education college, he will have the opportunity to use all of those skills as he guides our education disciplines into the future and helps build an even stronger reputation and international profile for some of our foundational programs."
Dr. Ming Li
Li has been interim executive director of the Center for International Studies at OU since 2012, serving as that university's senior international officer. He also has filled a wide range of other administrative posts at the university. He was the inaugural chair of the Department of Sports Administration in OU's College of Business for two years, acting associate dean for academic affairs for the College of Health and Human Services for a year, director of the School of Recreation and Sport Sciences from 2002 to 2010, and director of the master's program in athletic administration in the School of Recreation and Sport Sciences from 2003 to 2010.
Prior to joining the Ohio University administration, Li taught at Georgia Southern University for 11 years and was graduate coordinator of sport management and undergraduate coordinator of sport management in GSU's Department of Sport Management. He earned a bachelor's degree from Guangzhou Sport University in China in 1983, a master's from China's Hangzhou University in 1986, and a doctoral degree from the University of Kansas in 1992.
"I am humbled by the opportunity to serve as the next dean of the College of Education and Human Development and extremely pleased to be part of the Western Michigan University family," Li says. "The college has established a distinguished record of accomplishment and national reputation, and is well positioned for the future challenges. I am excited to lead the college in its next phase of growth".
Li is active with a number of national and international professional organizations. He finished his three-year term on the board of the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation in 2012. Currently, Li serves as president of the Alliance for Sport Business, an international professional organization for sport management programs that are housed in business schools. Li served as president of the North American Society for Sport Management, and in 1996, he worked as an Olympic envoy for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. In November 2011, he worked as a consultant for the sports department of the Organizing Committee for the Asian Games.
His research interests include the economics of sports, financial management in sport, comparative sport management, and research design in sport management. He serves on the editorial board of Sport Marketing Quarterly and recently played a similar role with the Journal of Sport Management.


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NEW YORK (AP) - David Alan Grier would obviously love to win a Grammy when the awards are handed out this weekend. It's a small part of his master plan.
NEW YORK (AP) � David Alan Grier would obviously love to win a Grammy when the awards are handed out this weekend. It's a small part of his master plan.
If he wins in the best musical theater album category, it would be the actor's initial step in his quest for an EGOT � winning the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
"This is the first brick in the EGOT castle. One down, if we win," Grier joked recently by phone from his home in Los Angeles. "I'm not taking it seriously but it'll be a lot of fun."
Grier, who earned a Tony nomination as a featured actor in the musical "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" last year � but lost on Tony night � gets another chance to take home a prestigious award for his role in the show, which has since closed.
The cast album for "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" � also featuring Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald � is up against the Tony-winning "Once," the revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies," Disney's "Newsies" and another CD of Gershwin songs from the show "Nice Work If You Can Get It."
Getting a Grammy nod is almost routine for Tony-winning composer Alan Menken, who has won 11 such trophies and is up again this year for the music for "Newsies." But he says it never gets old and his nomination is something of a vindication.
After all, Menken earned a Razzie Award for the song "High Times, Hard Times" from the 1992 film version of "Newsies," a rare disappointment in a career with massive hits such as "Under the Sea" and "A Whole New World," not to mention soundtracks for "The Little Mermaid," ''Aladdin" and "Pocahontas." (The Razzie didn't upset him too much; on the same night he learned of it, he won two Oscars for "Beauty and the Beast.")
"I took that as sort of a poke in the ribs," he jokes.
But a few years ago, Menken and lyricist Jack Feldman got a chance to revisit the music and rework it for the stage. The result has been a hit. "It's great to be nominated and I'm really excited about that," says Menken.
Grier knows the feeling and confesses to being a little sad he's not on a Broadway stage this season. Although best known for his scathing wit on the groundbreaking sketch comedy TV show "In Living Color," his time in "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was the Yale School of Drama graduate's fifth time on Broadway. (While "In Living Color" won an Emmy in 1990, Grier didn't take home an individual prize.)
The 56-year-old actor, who bought as many as 30 copies of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" CD to give to friends and family, says the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday has triggered warm memories of the fun he had in New York.
"It reminds you of all the happiness doing the show and it's like finding a piece of a cookie in your pocket. Or a piece of cake that you lost," he says. "It's like a forgotten joy."
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A Vancouver architect with a passion for building wooden skyscrapers will make a bid to become one of the presenters at a major ideas conference in California next year.
Michael Green is one of 23 people hoping to secure a place at the TED2013 conference in Long Beach as an official speaker.
The TED series of conferences showcases ideas from the world's most innovative and creative minds. Focused initially on technology, entertainment, and design — the source of the acronym TED — the annual event has since expanded to cover a broad spectrum of contemporary issues from the arts to theology.
Green wants to change the way buildings are constructed by championing a shift to materials – like wood – that have a minimal impact on the environment.
"[Wooden skyscrapers are] provocative and interesting," he said in a telephone interview. "Fifty per cent of climate change issues are related to the building industry. Concrete and steel have huge carbon and energy footprints whereas wood is rapidly renewable."
To win a spot on the TED speaker roster, Green must demonstrate his speaking style and sell his ideas at an audition of sorts today at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre in Yaletown. All participants will make six-minute presentations between 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Talks given by speakers at similar TED salons around the world will be uploaded to the organization's website at the end of June. Salons were also held in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Doha, Johannesburg, London, Nairobi, New York, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo, and Tunis. The Internet community will then be invited to comment and score the various entries. TED organizers make the final decision on which applicants will attend the 2013 conference.
Previous speakers at the TED conference include luminaries like former U.S. president Bill Clinton, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, and Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson. The theme of the TED2013 conference is "The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered."
Green knows he will have to be on top of his game for today's talk. His challenge will be to cover everything that needs to be discussed in six minutes. There will be no time to answer technical questions, but he hopes he can speak to the spirit of innovation.
"I call this the Eiffel Tower moment," he said. "When the Eiffel Tower was built, nobody thought it could be done. Now it's a symbol of Paris. Projects like it really triggered an innovation on how cities were built. Man moves by innovation and [by] aiming for the moon."
Green started his firm, Michael Green Architecture Inc., this year after spending nine years at North Vancouver-based McFarlane Green Biggar Architecture + Design. He teaches at the University of B.C.'s school of architecture and is a fellow of the Royal Architectural Society of Canada.
His interest in advocating and developing new and environmentally friendly approaches to construction caught TED'S attention and conference organizers contacted him about the 2013 event.
"I was asked to do it," said Green. "I recently released a report about wooden skyscrapers that received a lot of attention around the world because it's a new and important conversation. I guess they were curious about where it stands."
TED content director Kelly Stoetzel said the speaker search was initially called a "live audition," which implied competition, but the angle was reworked.
"We changed its direction," she said. "It's more of a salon to share ideas. They're not contestants competing with one another."
Stoetzel said prospective TED speakers attending the global salons are either contacted directly by the group – as in Green's case – or selected from candidates who apply through TED'S website. Applicants submit a brief summary of what they want to talk about, state why they are uniquely qualified to speak, and include a one-minute video clip of them speaking on camera.
"We're always looking for people who can communicate clearly and with authenticity," Stoetzel said, "and people who are working on something new or thinking about something in a new way."
Green praised the global conference as a great opportunity to spread innovative ideas around the world.
"TED is probably, to me, one of the most meaningful things in society today," he said. "I'm amazed and excited to be able to share. It has absolutely transformed the way I think. It's an incredibly powerful thing."


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Peter Lorre (26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.
He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M. Later he became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries, notably alongside Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, and as the star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series.
Lorre was born as László Löwenstein into a Jewish family in Rózsahegy (Hungarian), Rosenberg (German), Kingdom of Hungary, part of Austria-Hungary, now Ružomberok, Slovakia. His parents were Alois and Elvira. When he was a child his family moved to Vienna where Lorre attended school. He began acting on stage in Vienna at the age of 17, where he worked with Richard Teschner, then moved to Breslau, and Zürich. In the late 1920s, the young 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) actor moved to Berlin where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht, most notably in his Mann ist Mann. He also appeared as Dr. Nakamura in the musical Happy End by Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, alongside Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and co-stars Carola Neher, Oskar Homolka and Kurt Gerron.


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Excelling Against all Odds
Women representation from Kashmir in the scientific field and research is far less, but young Kashmiri women are increasingly pursuing PhDs in science, undertaking cutting edge scientific research, and taking up fellowships abroad to gain work experience in reputed labs. Here're stories of four such young women scientists and researchers who have chosen their respective fields of scientific research and excelled, both in and outside the state, and also abroad, despite difficult circumstances that hamper their growth and research work in Kashmir
Dr Hina Fayaz Bhat, 31, is currently working as Assistant professor and Junior Scientist in the division of Biotechnology at Faculty of veterinary sciences and animal husbandry in Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST). Before joining as a permanent faculty member in 2014, she worked in the institute as an INSPIRE Faculty in SKUAST. INSPIRE Faculty award is one of the most sought after and competitive Post-Doctoral fellowship of department of Science and Technology (DST), India. In 2013, Dr Hina was the first women scientist from J&K state to qualify for the DST-INSPIRE-Faculty award in Bio-medical sciences.
Her current engagements include teaching at the veterinary Faculty of SKUAST and advising some Masters and PhD students at the university, in addition to her research projects. She is also a member of scientific associations like American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL)) and member editorial board/reviewer of a few science research journals like Insights in Breast Cancer, Scientific Journal of Cardiovascular Disorders and Annals of Medical Case Reports.
Dr Hina is also the principal investigator of two national research projects and Co-Principle Investigator of one NASF-ICAR (Indian Council for Agricultural Research) with accumulated budget of over 3 crore approved by central funding agencies like DST, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India & ICAR, in addition to a few more projects which are waiting for approval. She is heading one proteomics lab at her division and has been granted funding by central funding agency Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB-India) for conducting training programs, workshops for young researchers in proteomics field.
"My primary research area is focused on cancer signal transduction while I have also been working on elucidating the proteomics of some local luxury fibers like Pashmina, as well as finding novel utility for some of the low quality animal fibers, normally considered as municipal waste in the state and to convert them into novel products with prospective biomedical importance," she explains her research area.
"My current primary interest and post-doctoral study lie at the intersection of cancer biology, fiber proteomics, and molecular biology. I am interested in understanding the differences in the signalling pathways between cancer and normal cells and study cancer cell invasion and migratory properties," she says. "My secondary interest lies in understanding the molecular mechanism and cellular contexts that govern the development and proteomics of animal fibers and their value addition." She plans to develop some novel animal fibre derived products and study their biomedical and cosmeceutical applications.
Both of her research fields are relevant to Kashmir. Dr Hina says the current surge in the number of cancer patients in the valley is tragic. "The disease needs a thorough study in the patients of the valley as it is highly varied with the population genetics. The major challenge in cancer therapy is to inhibit the spreading of tumor cells from primary tumor sites to those particular organs where metastases are likely to occur," she explains. "The aim of our work is to develop a strategy for understanding this spreading process and screening drugs with anti-migratory potentials to investigate their effect on cancer cells."
Dr Hina says her work related to the local animal fibers would contribute significantly to the scientific knowledge and pave the way for "further investigations to provide more information in the public domain gene banks as almost no data is available about the rare and economically important fibers of Jnk." She says the research work will be helpful in exploring some innovative products development as well as help in value addition of low quality animal fibers.
Working in Kashmir hasn't been easy for Dr Hina. "There are times when even reaching the work place (lab) seems like a project in itself," she says remembering how during her PhD days in the summer uprising of 2010, sometimes experiments in her lab would take longer time and reaching home on time was difficult. "Being a woman adds to this misery. To work in these circumstances as we are facing here, it's been a challenge to keep my lab working."
She says things become all the more difficult if you're a working woman in Kashmir. "But then you have to learn to live with these things if you really want to succeed in life," she says, adding that having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to make a career in science can make it work. "With the grace of almighty and support of my family and extended family, I've been able to come through it all."
Dr Hina says although the work scenario for women has drastically changed from what it used to be in Kashmir, "there still is this cognitive bias towards women working in Kashmir." She says the statements like "yim ladies kya chei karaan..?. kiheen!" (What do these ladies do? Nothing!) can be still heard in work places. When it comes to women, she says the problem is "people are more judgmental and cherry pick the facts to back up what they believe to be true."
Dr Hina plans to continue working on her current research projects and also collaborate with medical colleges, hospital administrations in future. She would also like to work on another project based on valley's population based cancer studies in addition to the work on development of some novel biomedical, cosmeceutical products.
She believes the best hope for improving the science education scenario in valley is to make people aware about many opportunities available in the scientific fields. "Our perspective of Science as a subject is narrow as a result many youngsters and graduates can't think beyond MBBS, BDS and a few other subjects as science," she says.
For female students, she says, there are many women oriented programs and scholarships and fellowships in science which can be applied for to make a career in science. "The only thing you need is a strong will and an urge to work hard," she says. "In science you can't expect early outcomes as in other fields but if you keep working hard, you'll get success."
Sahar Saleem, 31, was attracted towards science from her school days. She says she was lucky to be taught by a few good science teachers in school who kept their mind occupied with information and questions that made students like her curious to know more.
"I was fascinated about how the human body works like clockwork. Things like which organ works the most, how much does the heart work in comparison to the kidney, and how everything inside us is controlled and other questions always came to my mind," she says. "That led to me reading more and becoming interested in Biology in particular."
After completing her schooling from Mallinson Girls School in Srinagar, she opted for B.Sc Biochemistry course in Women's College, Srinagar. After graduation, she was selected for M.Sc Biotechnology in the Department of Biotechnology in Kashmir University.
In 2012, she went on to join the PhD program in the same Biotech department in Kashmir University. She had also qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2011, CSIR-UGC NET in 2012, and also CSIR-UGC JRF in 2012. From 2012-14, she worked as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and then as a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) in the Department of Biotechnology, Kashmir University while pursuing her PhD till 2016. She has more than 11 publications in international journals, including two book chapters to her credit.
After completing her PhD in November, 2016, she applied for the DST-INSPIRE faculty position, a Department of Science and Technology of India sponsored award. The result was declared in February 2017 and she was the only candidate selected from Jammu and Kashmir in the Biomedical Sciences.
From December 2016 to April this year, Sahar worked as a researcher in Washington State University in the Department of Molecular Sciences, before joining Division of Biotechnology, SKUAST, Kashmir as a DST-INSPIRE Faculty. In SKUAST, she'll have to set up a lab which is mandatory under the INSPIRE award.
"The unflinching support of my parents was pivotal for the pursuance and completion of my PhD," Sahar says, now working as a INSPIRE faculty in the Shuhama campus of SKUAST since May this year. "Every parent should support their children, especially daughters so that they can opt for higher studies and pursue their dreams. Girls need more support in our part of the world. The priority of every parent should be education of their children, especially girls."
Sahar's field of research is related to cancer signalling and therapeutics. "We try to investigate what changes take place in the internal machinery of a normal cell that changes it to a cancerous cell," she explains. They investigate changes that take place in certain protein signalling pathways in breast cancer cells and how these changes lead to the development of malignancies. "When we elucidate the role of certain proteins in the development of malignancies and understand their role, better therapeutics/drugs can be developed for the cure of the disease," she says.
She wants young female postgraduates and researchers in the college and universities of Jammu and Kashmir to work hard, aim high, and excel in their chosen fields. "When you work hard, avenues open up for you and scientific research is such a vast field that once you enter this field, the world is your oyster," she says, adding that the science graduates and PhD scholars can also apply for many fellowships which are on offer outside the state and also in foreign universities which can help provide much-needed exposure and research experience. "You can work anywhere in the world and make a difference."
Munazah Fazal Qureshi, 32, a resident of Soura, Srinagar, recently submitted her PhD in Life Sciences from the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her area of research was behavioural and molecular neurobiology. Her work involved studying how sleep facilitates memory formation and what could be the molecular mechanisms underlying it.
It wasn't easy for Munazah though to leave her home, her parents behind, and dig her heels alone for many years in New Delhi to complete her PhD from JNU.
She did her Masters in Biotechnology from University of Kashmir in 2008. Thereafter, she joined the same department for her M.Phil degree. But due to some domestic problems, she had to stay back at home for about eight months during which time she could not fulfil the requirement of her M.Phil program.
"Eventually I had to leave the course," she says. It was very discouraging and she felt her career had come to an end. "I was home again and felt bad about my life. But as it goes your family is all you need," she says, adding that her parents, sisters and her brother encouraged her to get over her bad phase. She started looking up again for Ph.D programs and applied in different universities outside Kashmir.
In 2010, she came to Delhi and sat for PhD entrance test for JNU and National Brain Research Centre (NBRC). She could not get through NBRC, but she made it to JNU for her PhD. "Things were falling back in place. I had a whole new ladder to climb however in a place which was very different both culturally and socially from my own," she says. The biggest challenge was to leave her home, her parents, behind.
"My leaving home would mean that my mother had to take care of everything and also shoulder my part of responsibilities," she says. "This wasn't easy on her to be able to take care of my dad who was not keeping good health and run the house too. But she took it all on herself and let me pursue my career without a sigh."
Eventually, with the support and motivation from her family, she moved to Delhi and joined her PhD program in School of Life Sciences in JNU. Subsequent years involved a lot of hard work and struggle. "Research in science is itself a struggle," she says. "One has to be ready to accept failures and then you have accomplishments too. Overall it has been a mix of failures and eureka moments and as I look back I see my growth not just as a researcher but also as an individual."
Munazah has been a recipient of many awards including Budur Krishna Murthy Travel Award by Indian Society for Sleep Research for attending a conference organized by Asian Sleep Research Society held at Kovalam, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala in 2014, where she was also declared winner of Young Scientists Colloquium for the best oral presentation by the Indian Society for Sleep Research. In 2015, she was also awarded DAAD, A New Passage to India fellowship by the University of Würzburg, Germany, for three months research stay in the university.
Following her PhD, she is looking for some post-doctoral opportunities. Eventually Munazah would want to return home to work as a researcher and a teacher. In Kashmir, she says, there's a challenge to nurture scientific research amidst the ongoing turmoil. "It is not always possible to be able to give what we are capable of and stand at par with other states," she explains, adding that limited working hours is the biggest drawback in Kashmir to carry out scientific research in labs. "Outside Kashmir, even the girls can work till late hours in university labs and institution while in Kashmir you can't stretch work hours beyond 5pm. This limits output of our young and bright researchers and scientists and we get a little sluggish too."
For young female science graduates and PhD aspirants from Kashmir, Munazah has a message: dream big and think outside the box. "Women are strong enough to handle life at both professional and personal front," she says. "Have faith in your strength and yourself. Everyone has got two hands to work with, and we are no less than anyone..."
Dr. Durafshan Sakeena Syed, 32, was always intrigued by science since her early years. Soon after her graduation, she was selected for a postgraduate degree in Department of Law and Biotechnology. Given her love for science, it wasn't a hard choice to choose biotechnology.
She pursued her MSc. in Biotechnology from Kashmir University from 2006-2008. Her professors were instrumental in encouraging her to leave her comfort zone to explore various scientific ventures. Soon after completing M.Sc., she joined Prof. Veronica Rodrigues laboratory at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore, as a Junior Research Fellow from 2008-2009. There she was introduced to the world of neurobiology.
Durafshan appeared in the all India level entrance examination for admission to PhD program at NCBS-TIFR and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. She was selected in both the institutes and eventually joined Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan's laboratory at NCBS-TIFR as a PhD student in August 2009.
During her PhD, she studied the mechanisms underlying the development of motor neurons required for walking, using fruit fly as a model organism. Walking, a rhythmic motion, is an outcome of coordination between precisely connected neurons and their target leg muscles. "We discovered the signaling mechanisms that direct the precise positioning of motor neurons in the central nervous system and their connections with specific leg muscles, thus enabling an organism to perform regulated movements," she says. "Given the conservation of developmental mechanisms across taxa, these results could be of general importance for understanding the basis of neural circuit formation."
Currently, Durafshan is working as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Julie Simpson's lab at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in USA. She's studying how brain regulates choice among actions and generation of sequential movements.
Being a woman was never a hurdle for Durafshan to excel in science while she was studying in Kashmir. However, leaving Kashmir and her family behind and taking up research outside the state was a bit challenging. "I have a very supportive family though," she adds. "My parents being teachers always valued education."
Her PhD demanded a lot of effort, time, and patience. "It would have been impossible without the support from family," she says. "But there is always lots of social pressure in Kashmir. Many people don't encourage that you leave the state for a long duration, and there are lot of hurdles that come your way. But then you remember the hard work you have done and that gives you courage never to give up!"
Durafshan believes the MSc. program in Kashmir University is excellent for graduates. "I have met people from various prestigious universities in India and a student from Kashmir University is capable of giving them a tough competition," she says. "However, students lack research exposure in Kashmir. Universities in Kashmir should encourage students to do six months dissertation projects in various research institutes so that they learn the basics of research and it also helps in developing connections that provides an opportunity to pursue PhD in India or abroad; or how to develop collaborations while doing PhD in Kashmir university."
At the college level in Kashmir, she says many science undergraduates don't even know that they can opt for an integrated PhD in some prestigious institutes in India, directly after B.Sc., thereby saving a lot of time. "Educational tours to research institutes, inviting Kashmiri scientists to give research talks, career counselling in colleges would result in the awareness that is lacking among college students in Kashmir," she says. For female students in particular, she says there are various scholarships they can apply for pursuing research in science. "Many scholarships also take into account if one has to take a break for a certain period due to family considerations."
She says college students can opt for small dissertation project in a research institute or in Kashmir University during their winter vacation, or ask for permission from the college during course work. "Talk to your seniors for guidance and counselling and keep yourself updated about various research institutes and fellowship exams," she says. "All information is out there on the internet."
Her advice for female science students and graduates in Kashmir—"stand up on your own by dint of your hard work, look for various research opportunities outside the state and don't always wait for help… Learn to do it yourself." She's herself done that throughout her career in science. "All you need is persistence and patience, and you'll find opportunities everywhere."
(First published in thewire.in)