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Paris Nov 21, 2012 - The gap has widened between countries' pledges for reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and what is needed to keep planet warming in check, the UN warned on Wednesday.
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If we can't plead stupidity, what else is there? How do we live with ourselves? Is it all the stuff we buy that manages to numb our brains and consciences?
When I see a headline like this one at Bloomberg today, World Needs Record Saudi Oil Supply as OPEC Convenes, there's just one thought that pops into my head: what the world needs is for us to stop doing this thing we're doing. Even apart from peak oil concerns, it's obvious we're going to run out at some point or another, and it doesn't matter whether that's tomorrow or at some other point in the future, though we do know it's not going to take another 100 years, or even 50.
And nothing will ever take the place of oil; once those unique carbons are gone, that's it, we'll have to find a completely different way of running our societies, and if we're not smart enough to prepare for that beforehand, we'll be cats fighting in a sack and use the last scraps to kill off each other. And our legacy won't be the Greek thinkers and Picasso and Dostoyevsky and Walt Whitman and Maria Callas, since there won't be the means for our children anymore to share what makes man great between them. Our main legacy will instead be bloodshed, we will have gone the exact same path that any non-thinking or even primitive organism would have taken, who don't have opera or philosophy or poetry to their name.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the risk of Ebola spreading to the United States was low, but it nevertheless issued a Level 2 health alert, advising U.S. health workers to be vigilant.
The largest outbreak of the Ebola virus on record has spread across the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since first detected in March, with more than 670 deaths, according to the CDC.
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Before the colonial era, 100,000s of people lived on the land now called California, and many of their cultures manipulated fire to control the availability of plants they used for food, fuel, tools, and ritual. Contemporary tribes continue to use fire to maintain desired habitat and natural resources.
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The world is unmistakeably warming, melting glaciers and raising sea levels world-wide.
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NISKAYUNA, N.Y. – A possible decision could come on Tuesday night in the Niskayuna Central School District, as leaders could vote to close an elementary school for the next school year.
The Niskayuna school district has been under financial strain due to a lack of state funding and a rise in pension costs. As a result, school officials said they want to reconfigure the school district and cut jobs.
Niskayuna Superintendent Susan Salvaggio said whether or not they close a school will likely come down to capacity issues and how K-5 students are distributed throughout the district.
Birchwood Elementary School is the school officials are considering closing. The superintendent said closing the school will help close the budget gap the district has developed over the last five years.
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She described the school as "excellent, beautiful, I couldn't ask for anything better from my kids."
She said she is shocked closing a school is even being considered.
"Initially I just thought I needed an explanation, I needed a reason," said Boler.
Superintendent Salvaggio said Birchwood is ideal to close because it would have the least impact on students. Birchwood holds 276 of the nearly 1,700 K-5 students in the district. It has the lowest enrollment in the district, and the least space.
"I think they're not thinking far enough ahead, I think closing any school is short sided," said Boler.
If Birchwood is closed the district said more than 500 students would be relocated among the elementary schools and $415,000 dollars would be saved.
Evan Brooksby thinks the savings from closing a school doesn't translate into good fiscal health.
"I don't think the district is in a position where that needs to happen yet," he said.
Salvaggio said if the board votes to close a school, it is in the best interest of students and long term health of the district.
"We will attend to every child, and every family, in every zone of Niskayuna, we are one school," she said.
The board of education anticipates making a decision about the possible reconfiguration at the meeting Tuesday or on February 4, in order to allow enough time for a healthy transition that won't disrupt school next fall, if the school closes.
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Best Sazerac?
I just put together a list for a friend -- in no particular order:
Feelings Cafe
Mr. B.'s Bistro (and try the BBQ Shrimp!)
Bar Tonique
Peristroika @ Pravda (or their sister bar Cure)
Carousel Bar
Maurepas Foods
French 75 Bar
Others have indicated that one can indeed get a good sazarac at the Sazarac bar, I haven't been in ages so don't want to comment.
Thanks for the recom.
I had one at the Sazerac Bar 5 years ago during my last visit to NO but wanted to see what the current cocktail situation is now.
I have also heard that Uncommon Bar and SouBo also craft excellent cocktails and am surprised it did not make 'montuori's' list. Perhaps Sareracs are not their specialty?
Thanks again for the feedback.
We recently did a Sazerac crawl, trying 7 Sazeracs on one route with a mix of new and traditional locations. You can tread it here:
New post: The great Sazerac Crawl of 2013. We try 7 versions of what are supposed to be the best of New Orleans' iconic cocktail. Who's got the best? Read it here:
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Let me add that your photography is above average ... the K-Paul pics particularly. It all kind of makes me want to head over there.
(I'm on the fence about how allowable any picture taking is in a restaurant: not owning a camera or phone or whatever this is easy for me to say. It's certainly to your credit that you didn't have the flash going ... there's a circle of Hell for that -- the tenth.)
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big666dogq, Nicely done. I will mention a couple of typos, in case you care to update your page. The name of the bar at Arnaud's is French 75 (not 175). http://www.arnaudsrestaurant.com/fren...
Also, in that same section, you mention their use of "Old Overton" and the correct name of that label is Old Overholt ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Over... ). Old Overholt is actually among the cheapest labels of Rye now being sold. I lean toward Bulleit Rye.
Many New Orleans mixologists use Herbsaint for the rinse, my experience has been that a good absinthe provides a better result, the Lucid brand being my personal favorite in a Sazerac. I also find that almost everywhere I go the drink is being made sweeter than it really ought to be. I've learned to request in advance that they use half the sugar (or simple syrup) than they usually do. Getting a little micro drop of lemon oil out of the twist and on to the surface of the drink also adds a lot to getting the correct aroma. Lastly it really helps to use an old fashioned glass with a very thick bottom that has been well-chilled. It helps keep the temperature nice and cool.
When I was there in August, the Swizzle Stick Bar at Cafe Adelaide had some interesting Sazerac "flights," highlighting different ingredients and styles. If they are still doing that, it makes a worthy stop for Sazerac fans.
Thanks again for an entertaining read!
Sowhere are these bars?:
Feelings Cafe
Bar Tonique
Peristroika @ Pravda (or their sister bar Cure)
Maurepas Foods
restaurants, hotels?
So this is my report thus far after visiting 5 bars last night. Keeping in my that I am, by no means a connoisseur of what a great Sazerac ought to taste like:
Sylvain was very good, the best of the night. Jackie the young lady behind the bar took her time mixing this cocktail. She obviously has been trained well. She also gave good recos on other good bars.
SouBo was made with Cognac and tasted odd but good anyway.
Carrousel bar was too sweet to my taste.
MR.B's was very good but for some reason not remarkable. I had high hopes for this location; on the other hand the BBQ shrimp was to die for.
We finished the night at arnaud's French 75 bar. they delivered a Sazerac that tasted highly alchoholic (perhaps that's how they should taste?) made with great flair by the bartender. The drink seemed to tame down after a few sips.
Tonight we'll try Bombay Club and Perestroika. as you can tell we're hanging around the FQ for now and might venture to other venues later in the week.
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Jaun, just to clarify . . .
The ORIGINAL Sazerac was made with Cognac. When Cognac came into short supply, due to Phylloxera, Rye came into the picture. SoBou -- So(uth of)Bou(rbon) -- pays homage to both by making it with half Cognac and half Rye . . . they also use half Herbsaint and half Absinthe.
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Zin, thanks for the clarification. the cognac certainly imparts a different flavor profile. I will be back to SoBou to try their Negroni. While I was there yesterday I watched the bartender use a small hatchet to chop off a small chunk from a large block of ice for a scoth rocks. When questioned he said they do that for most on the rocks drinks. He told me he would do that as well for a Negroni, my go to drink lately. I was tempted to get one then but mixing with the sazarac did not seem like a good idea at the time.


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13) There have to be some unhappy people in Raleigh these days, as the NC State Wolfpack slog along at 2-3, 0-2 in the ACC, while Wisconsin is making an unlikely run at a national title. Whats the connection?
Senior QB Russell Wilson is supposed to be a senior at NC State, but he was granted a release from his scholarship, ostensibly because he insisted on playing minor league baseball this summer (he was a 2B in the Rockies organization). Best I can remember, this is a unique situation, where such a skilled player was basically fired by the head coach (think back to 1967 Red Sox, when the A's fired Hawk Harrelson, and he helped Boston win the AL pennant, but a quarterback is more vital than Harrelson was).
12) Wisconsin crushed Nebraska 48-17 in the Cornhuskers' debut in their new league, a game the Huskers once led 14-7. Wilson was 14-20/255 and ran the ball six times for 32 yards. He's a difference-maker and while he's really helping the Badgers, his absence is killing the Wolfpack. Go figure.
11) Clemson has to be ranked in the top 5 after beating Auburn-Florida St and Virginia Tech in consecutive weeks. All with a first-year starting QB. Quite a coaching job by Dabo Swinney, who is the fifth Alabama graduate to be head football coach at Clemson.
10) Syracuse is 3-2, and has already played three overtime games.
9) Then there's poor Utah State, which is 1-3, 0-3 vs I-A teams, after yet another brutal loss Friday night, 27-24 to in-state rival BYU. Cougars got the winning TD on a tipped pass with 0:11 left. Utah State led by 10 at Auburn with 3:38 left and lost, then lost 35-34 in OT to Colorado State after going for two points and the win. They easily could be 4-0, but you are what you are, and they're winless vs I-A teams. Too bad.
8) SMU beat TCU 40-33 in OT, just a huge win for June Jones that has to help his chances of getting the Mustangs into the Big 12, if the Big 12 ever goes back to 12 teams (they're at nine right now). Big win for recruiting in fertile Texas too, since SMU is in Dallas and TCU is in Fort Worth.
7) Colorado led Washington State 27-17 with 3:00 left in its first home game as a Pac-12 team; visitor was supposed to get tired in altitude, but the vastly-improved Cougars scored two TDs in 1:25, the second one on a 63-yard TD pass with 1:10 left, to stun the Buffaloes 31-27 in Boulder.
7) This weekend is the 50th anniversary of Mr Ed, the old TV show about a talking horse, one of my favorite TV shows of all-time. This has nothing to do with football, just wanted to wish Mr Ed happy birthday. The episode where he plays with the Dodgers is a TV classic.
6) For all the gray hairs South Carolina QB Stephen Garcia has given to Steve Spurrier and the other Gamecock coaches, you'd think at least he'd have a decent senior year, but he just isn't a good passer. Garcia completed nine of 23 passes, converted 2-10 on 3rd down, against an Auburn defense that had been allowing 59% conversions on 3rd down. Auburn ran off 92 plays, South Carolina 52. Why can't Spurrier develop a QB at Carolina?
5) Baylor still hasn't won at Kansas State, losing 36-35 in the Little Apple after leading 35-26 going into the 4th quarter. Robert Griffin III threw five TDs, but also tossed a costly INT that handed K-State the winning FG.
4) Stanford 45, UCLA 19. Andrew Luck tossed a 5-yard TD pass with 1:51 left. Why? What coach would risk injury to his meal ticket by having him throw the ball with 1:51 left in a game he led by 19 points? Ha Ha...And some people wonder why that was so important.
3) Arkansas 42, Texas A&M 38 was a fun game to watch, but A&M has to be rivaling Utah State for heartache. Aggies led Oklahoma State 20-3 at the half last week and lost; they led the Hogs 35-17 at the half this week and lost. Something like that becomes mental for a team.
2) Ohio State ran ball 39 times for 35 yards in 10-7 home loss to Michigan State that has to have Urban Meyer's agent's phone ringing off the hook. Going to be some relatively-lean years ahead for the Buckeyes; wouldn't think Meyer is going to be interested in cleaning up that mess.
Meyer is OK on TV, by the way; he has a bad voice, which isn't his fault, but once in a while he sounds like Al McGuire, as in he doesn't identify the player by name, he'll just say, "Number 22 makes a good tackle here." Thought he started to lighten up a little this week. Very serious guy.
1) Illinois is 5-0 after beating Northwestern on a TD with 0:13 left; I'd be little more impressed if they had played a road game, although a win over Arizona State is starting to look better. Illini has four road games on its schedule, but three of them are Indiana-Purdue-Minnesota, games that a good team could show up for hung over and still win.
Ron Zook's wife must have made this schedule. October 29 at Penn State looms as an interesting game, and Russell Wilson leads the Badgers into Champaign on Nov. 19. Everyone in Raleigh will be Illini fans that day.
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EE UK launches double-speed LTE, queen and country hit 40+Mbps
If you're on EE in the UK, you could be seeing a major LTE speed boost coming your way. Alex Dobie of Android Central explains:
The new, faster speeds are enabled by allocating more of EE's spectrum to its LTE network — it's now using 2x20MHz of 1800MHz spectrum instead of 2x10MHz. This brings theoretical transfer rates of up to 150Mbps, with real world speeds averaging around 30-40Mbps. In practice we've seen download speeds regularly hit 40-50Mbps in London and Manchester, with throughput reaching highs of 78-79Mbps in some areas.
Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield, start your speed tests!
(I've gotten 50Mbps down at the local coffee shop, how you doing?)
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Perhaps EE would get a bigger uptake on their 4G services if every time you visit one of their stores to enquire, you weren't simply dismissed and told to go and phone a help line where you can merrily waste an hour of your life that you'll never get back.
Having defected from 02 after 10 years, I can't wait for my Orange contract to expire so I can return to 02. Having been told, prior to the launch of 4G, that i could swap and at no extra cost,Ii find that whilst this may be true, the data allowance is far less and to get the same does actually cost more. A classic case of the grass is not always greener !!
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And peeps, I'll remind you again as "Silver Linings Playbook" is slowly expanding: go see it, you'll love it!!!
Sep. 14th - Resident Evil: Retribution (Sci-Fi adventure with Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez)
Sep. 21st - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Drama with Emma Watson, Dylan McDermott and Paul Rudd)
Sep. 28th Looper (Sci-Fi action with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt)
Sep. 28th - Won't Back Down (Drama with Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Holly Hunter)
Oct. 5th - Pitch Perfect (Musical comedy with Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow)
Oct. 5th - Butter (Comedy with Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman and Alicia Silverstone)
Oct. 26th - Cloud Atlas (Sci-Fi mystery with Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, Halle Berry and Jim Sturgess)
Nov. 2nd - Flight (Drama with Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle and Melissa Leo)
Nov. 9th - Skyfall (Adventure with Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes and Javier Bardem)
Nov. 16th The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson)
Nov. 21st - Life of Pi (Adventure drama with Tobey Maguire and Gérard Depardieu)
Nov. 21st - Red Dawn (Action with Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan)
And peeps, I'll remind you again as "Silver Linings Playbook" is slowly expanding: go see it, you'll love it!!!
I meant to take the high road.... but I missed the exit.
I went to see a movie this afternoon, but was turned back by the mass of people and cars in the parking lot of the mall. Next I tried a smaller shopping mall, and I was about to buy a ticket for Silver linings.... but then I realized that if I just wait until tomorrow morning, I could see it for half the price.
In any case, I plan to see two more movies this long weekend. My initial plan was to see three more, but Black Friday made me change my mind.
I'm posting the releases for next week early as I'm about to start the new thread for the December/January/February period. I noticed that only a small amount of people seem to vote in the poll attached to this thread. Do so few people go see new movies? Do I need tips for making better poll options? Do tell! As for the the releases next week...
I do not recommend any of the smaller films about to come out. Sorry Brad Pitt, Malcom McDowell, Colm Meaney and Robert Carlyse...
November 30 Killing Them Softly (Crime drama with Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Sam Shepard, Ray Liotta and Richard Jenkins)
November 30 American Scream (Documentary. From imdb.com: "An original documentary which follows three families in a small seaside town in Massachusetts as they prepare for their annual home made haunted houses.")
November 30 California Solo (Drama with Robert Carlyle, Kathleen Wilhoite, A Martinez, Michael Des Barres and Danny Masterson)
November 30 The Collection (horror with newer cast and Lee Tergesen)
November 30 Parked (Drama with Colm Meaney)
November 30 Silent Night (Horror with Malcom McDowell, Lisa Marie and Brendan Fehr)
P.S. In addition to not recommending any of this movies, I omitted about five others being released whose trailers who were so awful, I just deleted them immediately from my list!!
It's official. I am madly in love with Meryl Davis.
The Collector and Killing Them Softly both look really good!
OK, so shoot me. I went to see Wreck-it Ralph in 3D last week and loved it. Friend and I had a private showing; we were the only ones in the theater. It was great.
Also saw The Other Son recently; I enjoyed that and would give it B+.
Saw Red Dawn today and hile it was not as awful as I had feared there was sill a lot about the movie tat I found wanting. Like a believable plot, and the fact that the Chinese were digitally removed as the bad guys. North Korea is just not believable as the invaders. But the movie looks good. Chris Helmsworth better pray for a long life a long life to the Avengers franchise because all his other movies sucks.
I finally saw 'Argo' today. It was great. Should receive a best picture nomination.
wreck it ralph!
I saw 'Silver linings playbook' today. I am not into comedies but I liked this one. It's very well done, and the acting is great. There is a buzz about Jennifer Lawrence being the favorite to win the Oscar, but IMO it's a bit early for that, because many other movies have not yet been released. Les Mis will have some top quality acting, I am sure. Bradley Cooper is very good looking. I had never seen him in a movie.
Wanted to see Lincoln but it isn't showing in our tiny town so went to see Skyfall. It was really good, I am not normally a fan of bond films, but this really was good. It had more substance to it than most of the franchise.
I meant to take the high road.... but I missed the exit.
Last weekend caught "Skyfall" and thought it was good, the action sequences are amazing. I have to say, I didn't really find the Javier Bardem villian with a mother-fixation particularly compelling however.
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PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. -- The water's red in the Puget Sound near DuPont, and that could be a good thing for geoduck harvesters.
The state Department of Health is injecting red dye into the treated water at the wastewater plant at Joint Base Lewis McChord to see if geoduck harvesting restrictions can be lifted around the base.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Christmas is still more than three months away, but the Huntington Area Salvation Army is urging families to start thinking now about the holiday.
The Angel Tree sign up schedule for Cabell, Wayne, Lincoln and Mason counties is being moved up this year to the third week of September.
"If we can have everything ready we can put more names out in the beginning, than we did last year," Major Matt Riley said. "We actually start planning Christmas around here in July."
The Cabell County office of Information and Referral helps spread the word about programs like the Salvation Army's Angel Tree.
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Is this the Katy Perry primary?
Days after Perry took a photo with Hillary Clinton, the pop icon took a selfie Tuesday with Vice President Joe Biden, another potential presidential contender for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
"Brought my pink pony to the White House to holler @VP Joe Biden," she wrote on Instagram.
"P.s. He made me call my 93 year old grandma to thank her for my baby blue eyes! What a Q-T," she added.
Washington marked Perry's latest stop on her "Prismatic World Tour."
The vice president and his granddaughter are fans of Perry's music, and he invited her to come in to say hi and meet them while she is in town, an official from Biden's office told CNN.
She met Clinton at a book signing Thursday in Los Angeles, where she offered to write the former secretary of state "a 'theme' song if she needs it."
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In a fiery speech that mixed self congratulation with lavish praise for his Democratic successor, former President Bill Clinton said Barack Obama is steering the nation on a path to prosperity similar to the one that Clinton paved in the 1990s, and he urged Americans Wednesday night to support Obama's re-election.
"If you want a winner-take-all, you're-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket," Clinton told the packed convention hall, which erupted in frequent cheers and ovations during his remarks. "If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility--a we're-all-in-this-together society--you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden."
And he drew a raucus ovation when he declared, "In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president's re-election was actually pretty simple and pretty snappy: We left him a total mess, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in...I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better. He inherited a deeply damaged economy; he put a floor under the crash, he began the long, hard road back to recovery, and laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses and lots of new wealth for the innovators."
[Elizabeth Warren: System Is 'Rigged']
And Clinton directly addressed the question that Republicans have been asking all week: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Clinton shouted, "I know we're better off because President Obama made the decisions he did."
Obama and his strategists are counting on Clinton to win over voters who admire the former president's economic policies, such as working-class whites and moderate independents--groups that have soured on Obama for failing to improve the economy enough to satisfy them. And he delivered a vigorous defense of Obama's record, pointing out the rescue of the automobile industry as an example of the type of long-term policies the nation needs.
Clinton acknowledged that many Americans aren't yet feeling the positive impact from Obama's policies but promised that this would happen during a second Obama term.
Team Obama hopes that Clinton will validate Obama on the economy. Many Americans remember the Clinton era as a time of prosperity and progress in reducing the federal deficit and on social issues. For example, he presided over a historic overhaul of welfare, imposing work requirements on beneficiaries that pleased many middle-class voters who felt that the program had become a colossal giveaway.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has accused Obama of trying to weaken those work requirements, which the president denies. Clinton agreed with his Democratic successor and said Romney and his Republican allies were distorting Obama's record and his intentions simply to win votes.
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Polls show Clinton's popularity is higher than it's ever been since he left office because Americans see his eight years in the White House as a time of prosperity and common-sense policies. About 70 per cent of Americans think favorably of Clinton today, while Obama's favorability rating is about 50 per cent.
Since leaving the White House, Clinton has embarked on a series of humanitarian mission and charitable projects, such as raising money for tsunami relief in East Asia. This has enabled him to rehabilitate his reputation to some extent from the biggest blot on his presidency, his impeachment by the House of Representatives for lying about his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He was acquitted by the Senate but the episode persuaded many Americans that Clinton's private character was deeply flawed. Over time, Americans increasingly have separated those flaws from his public policies, which are widely admired today.
One irony is that the Republicans, who led the way in impeaching Clinton and said his sexual misbehavior demeaned the institution of the presidency, now lavish praise on him and say Obama comes off poorly by contrast. "When it comes to the state of the economy, President Clinton just can't match President Clinton," says Amanda Henneberg, a spokeswoman for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. "Just this week, gas prices set a new record, the national debt topped $16 trillion, manufacturing slowed, and the number of Americans on food stamps hit a record high. Mitt Romney will reverse President Obama's record of decline and disappointment by passing pro-growth policies that will get Americans back to work."
Clinton's featured appearance at the convention was a high-wire act. His aides coordinated with the Obama campaign on themes, but as was his custom when he was in office, the draft of his speech went through so many changes, by Clinton and his own advisers, that Obama and his staff weren't sure exactly what Clinton would say until the words came out of his mouth.
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Dr. Wendel Ray is the holder of the Frances Davis Hammond Professorship in Education.
He serves as professor of Family System Theory in the Marriage and Family Therapy doctoral and master degree programs at ULM. He is a Senior Research Fellow and former director of the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif.
His research, teaching and clinical expertise is in cybernetics, communication and system theory as applied in understanding human behavior and interactional/systemic therapy. He travels widely, conducting teaching seminars and lectures across North and Central America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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- "Irreverence: A Therapists' Guide to Survival" and "The Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy" (co-authored with Gianfranco Cecchin and Gerry Lane).
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On September 30, 2013, the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC")[1] released the first of 4 reports that make up its Fifth Assessment Report (the "Report"). The IPCC also released the Summary for Policymakers (the "Summary") just a few days before the full Report was made available. This Report further confirms, with 95% certainty, that humans are ... Read More »
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Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, released a report yesterday finding that North America is experiencing the fastest increase in natural disasters in the world. The report, entitled Severe Weather in North America: Perils, Risks, and Insurance, is not yet publicly available, but in a USA Today article its author – Professor Peter Hoppe – explains that the number ... Read More »
Communities Discuss Relocation Strategies to Adapt to Climate Change
Community leaders from Newtok, Alaska, and the Cartaret Islands, Papua New Guinea, met over the week of September 27th, 2012, to discuss the solution they have both chosen in the face of rising sea levels and harsher, more frequent storms: relocation. These communities are among the first in the world to choose relocation as a way to adapt to climate ... Read More »
Environment Canada: tips for Environment Minister Peter Kent to describe climate change impacts
A memo and powerpoint presentation sent to Canadian environment minister Peter Kent from Environment Canada dated March 5, 2012 contain a very interesting summary of climate change impacts in Canada. The memo states "In external discussions and speeches regarding the government of Canada's action on climate change, it may be useful to present concrete examples of climate-change impacts occurring in ... Read More »
New Study Convinces Former Climate Skeptic of Human Influence on Global Temperature Rise
Former climate change denier and Berkley physicist Prof Richard Muller recently renounced his skepticism of global warming in an op-ed piece written for the New York Times after performing his own analysis through the Berkley Earth Surface Temperature project. Previously, Muller maintained dissatisfaction over data that had been used in previous temperature studies [1] but claims that findings within the ... Read More »
An Update On Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Reduction in Canada
By Meghan Babin, Zizzo Allan Climate Law Summer Intern According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, Earth may be on the brink of an ecological tipping point, due in large part to the destruction of natural ecosystems, climate change and population growth.[1] Released just weeks shy of the United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, ... Read More »
A Warmer, More Extreme Canadian Summer: Is Above Normal the New Normal?
By Vivian Chung, Zizzo Allan Climate Law Summer Intern Across Canada, summer has arrived early this year with projected extreme weather making national news recently. In a changing climate, are these weather extremes the new normal? If so, what are the implications for our health and economy? The Globe and Mail recently published a national weather map depicting the forecast ... Read More »
Air Pollution and Climate: Towards an Integrated Approach
Air quality and climate change are two very closely linked environmental problems. Many air pollutants that are toxic for human health are also greenhouse gases (GHGs) or GHG precursors. Additionally, the warming climate may increase chemical reaction rates, making smog in cities worse. The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project working under the umbrella of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), ... Read More »
Toronto WeatherWise Partnership Looks at Adaptation
An increase in extreme weather events and a need for climate change adaptation spurred the foundation of the Toronto WeatherWise Partnership in 2011. It involves representatives from more than 50 public private and non-profit organizations from across Toronto, including Travis Allan, aiming to identify key risks associated with weather events and develop a strategic action plan to reduce these risks, ... Read More »
Opportunities to Address Transportation-based GHGs Abound
Today half of the world's population live in cities, therefore transportation in and around cities, especially during people's daily commute to work and back, can have a significant environmental impact. Jean Mercier, one of the leading scholars of environmental policy in Canada, and professor at the University of Laval spoke at the University of Toronto recently about upstream and downstream ... Read More »


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For over 3 months now Of the Fall has been in the top 5 of the Roots 66 radio chart... Peaking at #1 for 4 weeks!!! http://www.thealternateroot.com/chart We are still #2 just behind Ryan Adams!!! We are so thankful for all the requests out there, DON'T STOP!!! You all helped make 2011 a great year for us!!!
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"Pope Live" follows the choice of the new pope as seen by journalists from The Associated Press around the world. It will be updated throughout the day with breaking news and other items of interest.
He has won the papacy, but there is little time for celebration.
Pope Francis takes over a Vatican plagued by scandal in its bureaucracy and under pressure over its failures to protect children from sexual abuse by priests. The Church is also losing parishioners and its influence on public life, and some Catholics face persecution and violence in parts of the Middle East and China.
Lauded for his humility and austerity, the 76-year-old from Argentina will be called upon to emulate one of his namesakes, St. Francis of Assisi, who saw his calling as trying to rebuild the church.
Francis will celebrate his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday and will be installed officially on Tuesday, ahead of the busy Easter calendar.
His first public words to the thousands cheering in St. Peter's Square today were characteristically humble: "Thank you for the welcome."
With that, the 266th papacy has begun.
"It will bring fresh air to the Church ... I think the Church needs that at this time, somebody from a different zone."
— the Rev. Keneth Obiekwe (oh-bee-AYK-way), pastor of St. John the Baptist Church in central Louisiana, a state whose Catholic origins are reflected in its division into parishes rather than counties. He says that although he had thought the next pope might be from Latin America, he was still surprised when he turned out to be right.
— Janet McConnaughey
Pope Francis will visit his predecessor Benedict XVI at the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo south of Rome.
U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan says Francis told fellow cardinals following the conclave that made him pope: "Tomorrow morning, I'm going to visit Benedict."
Benedict resigned on Feb. 28, becoming the first pope to do so in nearly 600 years.
Arkansas est solum IV percent catholicus — or, in English, Arkansas is only 4 percent Catholic. But it does have a Pope County. In the county seat of Russellville, a Nigerian priest who leads St. John's Catholic Church says Pope Francis' election had a different feel than previous ones because the previous pontiff, Benedict XVI, is still alive.
"So this conclave took place in a good mood. The cardinals were not in grief, nobody died," says the Rev. Chuma Ibebuike (ee-bay-BWEE-kay).
Ibebuike says having a pope from the Americas gives hope to those who would like to see a Catholic leader from Africa or Asia. "That the leader of the whole church comes from the new church, so to say, is amazing and I think he will really strengthen the faith of the old church," he says. "The black pope, that's what we are still waiting for."
— Jeannie Nuss — Twitter http://twitter.com/jeannienuss
Pope Francis has been criticized by some for his actions years ago during Argentina's "Dirty War."
Many Argentines remain angry over the Catholic Church's acknowledged failure to openly confront a right-wing dictatorship after a 1976 coup that was kidnapping and killing thousands of its citizens as it sought to eliminate "subversive elements."
Under his leadership, Argentina's bishops issued a collective apology in October 2012 for the church's failures to protect its flock during the 1970s. But the statement blamed the era's violence in roughly equal measure on both the junta and its enemies.
That statement came far too late for some activists, who accused Bergoglio of being more concerned about the church's image than about aiding human rights investigations in Argentina.
Bergoglio twice invoked his right under Argentine law to refuse to appear in court. When he eventually did testify in 2010, human rights attorney Myriam Bregman said his answers were evasive.
At least two cases directly involved Bergoglio. One examined the torture of two of his Jesuit priests — Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics — who were kidnapped in 1976 from the slums where they advocated liberation theology. Yorio accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to the death squads by declining to tell the regime that he endorsed their work. Jalics refused to discuss it after moving into seclusion in a German monastery.
Both men were freed after Bergoglio took extraordinary, behind-the-scenes action to save them. Bergoglio never shared the details until he was interviewed for a 2010 biography.
Bergoglio — who ran Argentina's Jesuit order during the dictatorship — told his biographer that he regularly hid people on church property during the dictatorship. But all this was done in secret, at a time when church leaders publicly endorsed the junta and urged Catholics to restore their "love for country" despite the terror in the streets.
— Mike Warren — Twitter — http://twitter.com/mwarrenap
Pope Francis is getting right to work. He will celebrate his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, and will be installed officially as pope on Tuesday, according to the Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
The pope leads alone.
Benedict XVI's decision to be the first pontiff to step down in 600 years raised a host of questions about his role in the Church. But he made clear as he ended his leadership that there was no doubt who would be in charge, pledging obedience to the future pontiff.
The former pope's coat of arms was removed from a floral display in front of the Vatican's governor's palace and his fisherman's ring, an official part of the pope's regalia that features an image of St. Peter fishing from a boat, as well as the personal seals and stamps he used for official papers were destroyed.
Benedict has literally been kept out of sight. The emeritus pope has only been spotted once since retiring — in a photo snapped by a paparazzo hiding in a tree.
— Victor L. Simpson
Doctors are buzzing about the new pope having just one lung. He had one removed due to an infection as a teenager.
"It could be simply an infection that couldn't be cleared with antibiotics," or even tuberculosis, says Dr. Joe B. Putnam, chairman of thoracic surgery at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
"The key thing is he had it as a child and has probably taken very good care of himself. My hunch is that he's a lifelong nonsmoker," Putnam says. "He looked great" in the public appearance today, he added. "I don't think he's going to slow down at all."
The late actor John Wayne had a lung removed for cancer, Putnam notes: "He made seven more movies after that, including 'True Grit,' for which he won an Oscar."
— Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer — Twitter http://twitter.com/MmarchioneAP
The Rev. Enrique Ramirez, a Dominican priest in Lima, Peru, was pleased that the new pope seems less of an intellectual and more of a shepherd than his predecessor.
"The writings of Benedict XVI are marvelous because he is an intellectual. Here our new Pope Francis seems to be a bit closer to pastoral duties side, as that's what he's done all his life," he says.
Ann Hochman, who was picking up her daughter Jane from daycare at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen In Baltimore, said she was very excited to have a Latin American pope.
"He seems fantastic, he seems very warm," she said. "To have someone from our side of the world is pretty exciting."
— Alex Dominguez
Paolo Olivares, a 29-year-old seminarian from Chile, says it's very important to have a Latin American pope.
"Yes, yes, yes! I think it's a change that the church needs," he says. "I think Cardinal Bergoglio has done a great job in Argentina and he will do even better in Rome."
Maggy Pena, a 45-year-old Rome resident from the Dominican Republic, was ecstatic, jumping up and down and screaming out her pride in being Latina.
"I'm so happy because the new pope is from Latin America. That means we are a big people," she said. "For the first time we have a pope. And next we will have an American president. You'll see!"
— Karl Ritter — Twitter —http://twitter.com/karl—ritter
"We hope that this man will be bold, will be courageous and will try to clean up the sexual abuse scandal. We feel the very first step should be to discipline the cardinals and the bishops who are complicit in the cover-up, because until that happens this behavior will continue." — Barbara Dorris, victim outreach director of SNAP, or Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests.
— Gillian Flaccus
Before they even saw his face, Pope Francis had already won over the Roman masses.
The announcement that he would be known by the same name as St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of Italy, sent the crowd into ecstasy.
He did even better with his first words, when Francis said the cardinals had reached to the "end of the earth" to find the bishop of Rome — recalling the beloved Pope John Paul II, a Polish cardinal who told his first crowd in 1978 that cardinals had called him "from a far country."
The former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio is the son of an Italian immigrant and his Italian is only lightly accented.
— Victor L. Simpson
After Francis was chosen as pope, AP's Stacey Plaisance caught up with Robert Stanley, a Catholic native of Chicago and a freshman at the University of Notre Dame. Stanley is enjoying his first trip to New Orleans and was eating lunch at a cafe near St. Patrick's Church downtown when the news broke.
Here's some of his reaction:
— "It's good for the Church. I was worried we'd have another Italian pope. Italy controls so much of the Church. They don't need to control the papacy too."
— "In South America, they are extremely dedicated in a way you don't see in the U.S., Italy or in France. They have pilgrimages where they literally crawl for miles. They are very dedicated, devout and pious. "
—"It's a new face, and I feel like he will have a greater appreciation for the problems of the developing world, in places like Africa, India and South America. It's bigger-picture issues, and that's the purpose of the Church, to help the naked, the hungry, those most in need."
— Stacey Plaisance — https://twitter.com/splaisance
"We share many common goals — from the promotion of peace, social justice and human rights, to the eradication of poverty and hunger — all core elements of sustainable development." — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
"Francis" is a name that carries a lot of cachet in Italy.
St. Francis of Assisi is one of Italy's patron saints. The Umbrian hill town of Assisi, where the saint lived a humble life of poverty, is one of Italy's major draws for pilgrims and other tourists. It is also associated with world peace movements.
St. Francis Xavier is another noted evangelist and a prominent Jesuit missionary. The new Pope Francis is one of the Jesuit order's most prominent members.
— Frances D'Emilio — Twitter — http://twitter.com/fdemilio
In Cuba, parish priest Gregorio Alvarez says he believes Pope Francis' background could lead the Roman Catholic Church to focus more on the ills afflicting humanity, and less on internal issues.
"One hopes that the church will be closer to the problems of humankind and not only the problems of the church," Alvarez says.
"Being Latin American gives him an advantage — he understands the problems of poverty, of violence, of manipulation of the masses," he says. "All that gives him experience for the job. ... He's one of the family."
— Anne-Marie Garcia — Twitter http://twitter.com/AnneMarie279
Tess Ernest, a volunteer at the Saint Francis Xavier church in El Paso, Texas, says Pope Francis's background will help him undertake the task before him.
"Jesuits are missionaries and educators but also very good administrators and that is what the Church needs now," she says.
A Jesuit might be the right man for the job "after all that has happened in the Church."
In Miami's Little Buenos Aires, Argentines broke out into cheers and applause as the new pope was announced.
"Long live Argentina!" some shouted. "God is Argentina!" cried others.
"We have Messi and we have the pope now," says Gabriela Pisquariello, an owner of the Buenos Aires Bakery & Cafe, referring to star Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi.
— Christine Armario — Twitter http://twitter.com/cearmario
Pope Francis' transition will be much smoother than others in the pontificate's bumpy two-millennium history.
— In 897, Pope Stephen VI hated his deceased predecessor, Pope Formosus, so much he had his minions dig up his corpse. The new pope then held a mock trial for the old one, stripped the corpse of its vestments, cut off the two fingers that bestowed papal blessings and threw the body into the Tiber — before he himself was strangled to death.
— Pope Sergius III in the 10th century seized the papacy through armed force, and he had his imprisoned predecessor, Pope Leo V, strangled.
— Alexander VI won the papacy just before the 16th-century Protestant Reformation by bribing cardinals and promising lucrative jobs. The cardinals who elected his successor included his illegitimate son.
The Vatican says the new pope's official name is Pope Francis, without a Roman numeral.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, sought to clear up any possible confusion, noting that Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who announced the name to the world, said simply "Francis." It is also listed that way in the first Vatican bulletin on the new pope.
"It will become Francis I after we have a Francis II," Lombardi quipped.
In choosing a 76-year-old pope, the cardinals clearly decided that they didn't need a vigorous, young pope who would reign for decades but rather a seasoned, popular and humble pastor who would draw followers to the faith.
— Nicole Winfield — Twitter http://twitter.com/nwinfield
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Manasquan agreed to partner with an agency that will measure first floor elevations in Hurricane Sandy damaged areas of the borough, as part of a pilot program to create flood risk maps with new technology.
On Feb. 26, the agency is expected to drive around the borough, using sensory equipment to gather the elevations of hundreds of damaged buildings in town.
The program, called Risk Assessment, Mapping and Planning Partners, or RAMPP, is a pilot program Manasquan was selected to join at the suggestion of FEMA. It will help form a flood risk assessment map of the borough that could in the future aid in the re-mapping of the county and coastal devastated areas.
A RAMPP vehicle, equipped with elevation monitoring equipment such as sensors, GPS devices, and lasers, will drive around Manasquan gathering data.
According to the resolution passed this week, compiling the elevation data is non-invasive, will not put vehicles or staff on private property, and will only be done from public roads.
"The RAMPP team will not require access to this data and will be limited to public roadways and right of ways," according to the resolution.
With approximately 355 buildings in Manasquan damaged by Hurricane Sandy, the RAMPP program will focus on the damaged areas to assess first floor elevations in those neighborhoods, according to the borough.


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MENLO PARK, Calif. — For some users, Facebook's front page used to grab their attention with the latest news from friends but had become a jumbled morass of random updates and photos. Their attention had increasingly begun to wander to shiny new offerings from Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat.
Now Facebook is hoping to get people to stick around with a sweeping face lift to its most popular feature: News Feed, the steady stream of updates that users see when they log on to the social network.


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The Judith Svalander School of Ballet in downtown Crystal Lake is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
The school, located at 83 E. Woodstock St., started in 1972 with only 10 students.
It now has grown to close to 400 students 40 years later.
"I love teaching here in McHenry County, and the people here are hard working dancers who have a deep commitment and dedication to dance and the theater," Judith Svalander said.
"The community has always been extremely supportive of having pro dance here and many – over 40 – have gone on to professional dance careers through the USA and Europe."
"It's an amazing feat for a school not located in a major city," she added.
Svalander herself was a professional dancer.
She started with the Lyric Opera Ballet, directed by the legendary Ruth Page in Chicago. She went there after training with Bentley Stone and Walter Camryn in Chicago, she said.
She then danced in Europe for 10 years.
Svalander returned home and opened her school in McHenry County in 1972.
One of the most popular events produced by the school is its annual Nutcracker production.
The show requires six to eight weeks of rehearsals from mid-October to the opening, which runs December 8-16 this year.
Tickets for the production, which takes place at the Woodstock Opera House, can be purchased by calling (815) 338-5300, or by visiting Woodstock Opera House website.


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Marty Moylan has officially won the 55th Illinois House District seat. He beat his competitor, Republican Susan Sweeney, by approximately 2,000 votes.
"The thing that put me over the top was everybody's hard work," Moylan said.
"The campaign was decided on the issues," Moylan added. "I'm like a moderate in this district. People made their decision based on issues, not the personalities."
A number of Des Plaines aldermen showed up in support of Moylan's candidacy at his campaign headquarters and at The Bar, 1569 Oakton St. in Des Plaines, where he gave his victory speech.
"I thought he was the best fit for Des Plaines, and Des Plaines would benefit the most by having him represent the 55th," said Sixth Ward Alderman Mark Walsten. "Sweeney has zero experience in government. It so happens she is a Republican, which I'm not against, but the fact that it's a Democratic controlled legislature, you're going to get the most from someone who is allied with the current legislature."
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It happened Monday night around 10:30 p.m. at the Tobacco Hut near 48th & Center.
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Family Kitchen guest Tommy O'Dell Jr., above left, eats a plate of potatoes and meatloaf Tuesday inside St. Helens Hall. A member of the Trinity Episcopal Church volunteer team, Mae Lane, above right, helps another guest.
The kitchen resumed operations after smoke damage was cleaned up following last week's fire. A fire also caused significant damage to the neighboring Trinity Episcopal Church.
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A posse of coffee-drinking buddies from my Kansas days were initially depressed when the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce announced that none other than Sarah Palin was to be the speaker for the chamber's annual do at the city's Bicentennial Center arena.
Another conservative Republican, they sighed.
Hey, I know, one of them said, let's put on a show of our own. Let's call it Reality Not Celebrity. And let's invite, oh, I don't know, some wordy progressive guy like George Pyle to come back and give the keynote.
So I did.
The organizers -- or, as they came to be known, the instigators -- quickly sold out the downtown restaurant dining room they'd booked. So we wound up at, of all places, The Salina Country Club.
I love irony.
A sampling of the speech was in today's Buffalo News Viewpoints section.
The full text of my talk is here. [UPDATE: Audio stream added.]
Salina Journal coverage is here and, oh, yeah, here.
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By Mannix Porterfield
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Southern West Virginia delegates are filling many a seat on House of Delegates committees in a shift announced by Speaker Rick Thompson that reflects the political realignment that finds the Republicans occupying 46 of the 100 desks in the chamber.
From a southern perspective, there certainly is no dearth of representation.
Harry Keith White, D-Mingo, stays on as finance chairman, and his committee includes, among others, Delegates Rick Moye, D-Raleigh; Linda Phillips, D-Wyoming; Ray Canterbury, R-Greenbrier; and Marty Gearheart, R-Mercer.
Delegate Linda Sumner, R-Raleigh, will serve as vice chair of the Education Committee, while another veteran educator, David Perry, D-Fayette, is a member from southern West Virginia, along with Adam Young, D-Nicholas; George Ambler, R-Greenbrier; and Roy Cooper, R-Monroe.
Perry was named vice chair of the Health and Human Resources Committee, headed by Delegate Don Perdue, D-Wayne.
Other regional lawmakers on that panel are Clif Moore, D-McDowell; Margaret Staggers, D-Fayette; Karen Arvon, R-Raleigh; and Moye.
Staggers remains as chair of the Roads and Transportation Committee, while Phillips will act as her vice chair, and Gearheart is minority vice chair.
Others on the roads committee are Ambler and two Mercer County Republicans — John Shott and Joe Ellington.
Tim Miley, D-Harrison, continues as judiciary chairman, and on that same panel from this region will be Delegate John O'Neal, R-Raleigh; Delegate John Pino, D-Fayette; Moore and Shott.
The lone regional lawmaker on the Rules Committee is Sumner.
Delegate David Walker, D-Clay, heads the agriculture committee, while Canterbury will serve as minority vice chair, and Ambler is a member.
Staggers and Josh Nelson, R-Boone, the first Republican in Boone County's history to win a seat in the House, will serve on the Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee.
Pino will serve as vice chair of the Natural Resources Committee, which includes Moore, Moye, Canterbury and Shott.
Moore remains chairman of the Banking & Insurance Committee, one that includes Perry, O'Neal and Shott.
Sumner will be the minority chair of the Political Subdivisions Committee. Moye, Perry and Gearheart will serve with her.
Ellington is to be minority vice chair of Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business, while Arvon and Nelson are on the same committee.
Moore, Nelson and O'Neal were named to the Constitutional Revision Committee, while Moye is vice chair of the Senior Citizens Issues Committee, and O'Neal is minority vice chair. The same panel includes Moore, Perry, Pino, Arvon and Sumner.
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The need to prevent HIV couldn't be more urgent. With an estimated 33 million people worldwide living with HIV at the end of 2007, and more than 25 million lives lost to AIDS since 1981, December 1st serves to remind everyone that action makes a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Americans should be reminded that HIV/AIDS does not discriminate. With an estimated 1.1 million HIV-positive individuals living in the U.S. and 56,000 new infections occurring every year, the U.S., like other nations around the world is deeply affected by HIV/AIDS.
Here's another important fact. The disproportionate burden of AIDS affects racial and ethnic minorities across the age spectrum. Racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States, primarily African Americans and Hispanics, constitute almost 60 percent of the more than 1,055,288 cases of AIDS reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since the epidemic began in 1981. African Americans make up 48 percent of all AIDS cases reported in the United States, yet according to the U.S. Census Bureau, they comprise only 12 percent of the U.S. population. Hispanics represent 17 percent of all AIDS cases in the United States and are approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population.
Injection drug use is a major factor in the spread of HIV in minority communities. Other factors contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS in these communities include men who have sex with men (MSM) and increasingly, heterosexual transmission.
According to CDC:
- In 2007, African Americans and Hispanics represented 58 percent of males living with AIDS and 79 percent of those in females.
- In 2007, 62 percent of all women reported with AIDS are African American and 17 percent are Hispanic.
- African-American children represent almost 79 percent of all pediatric AIDS cases.
- Of the 28 pediatric AIDS cases reported in 2007, 21 were in African Americans and 2 were in Hispanics.
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There is good news. HIV is preventable. The Federal Government promotes the A-B-C- prevention method pioneered in Uganda, Africa. The initials stand for Abstinence, Being faithful in a mutually monogamous relationship if you are sexually active, and consistent and correct condom use if you are not using A or B. The A-B-C method is comprehensive and designed to fit real lifestyles. With A-B-C, you have options that work.
Another way to prevent HIV is to get tested, get your results, and encourage your partner and loved ones to do the same. With the availability of rapid testing, you can get tested and know your status in under 30 minutes. What's more, HIV testing is confidential and opens the door to HIV prevention, early detection, and early treatment. To learn more about HIV/AIDS and the benefits of testing, please visit the CDC. To find a free testing site near you, click on CDC's national testing site.
Today can be the day that you personally decide to help prevent the spread of HIV. Start now. Join the millions of Americans on December 1st - World AIDS Day. Pass the word, and visit the HHS HIV/AIDS Awareness Days for more information.
We encourage you to visit this Web site and download materials, such as fact sheets that provide HIV/AIDS statistics and the new World AIDS Day poster, to assist in your efforts to educate, motivate and mobilize your local community in the fight against HIV/AIDS!
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