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Poznan, Poland - A loophole in proposed schemes to tackle deforestation was exposed at the UN climate talks today.
forest carbon trading exposed
Poznan, Poland - On 1-12 December 2008, the Polish city of Poznań will host crucial United Nations climate talks amidst fears that dangerous forest carbon trading proposals will undermine the stated objectives of the negotiations, according to a new report issued today by Friends of the Earth International.
Climate change: ambition missing at upcoming U.N. talks
Poznan, Poland - On 1-12 December 2008, the Polish city of Poznan will host crucial United Nations climate talks. The UN reported this week that greenhouse gas emissions in industrialised countries continue to rise, exposing their lack of ambition to seriously address the climate threat.
World Bank Climate Funds Under Fire
WASHINGTON, D.C. October 10, 2008 -- Two days before the World Bank's annual meetings, a coalition of watchdog and non-profit groups exposed World Bank lending for dirty projects and urged individual nations to refrain from supporting the World Bank's new "Climate Investment Funds."
PENANG (MALAYSIA) / BRUSSELS (BELGIUM), October 7, 2008 – Malaysian palm oil exported for use in food, biofuels and cosmetics is far from 'green' – contrary to claims by Malaysian palm oil producers – shows the new report "Malaysian Palm Oil: Green Gold or Green Wash?" released today by Friends of the Earth groups.
international day against monoculture tree plantations
Joint Release from World Rainforest Movement, Friends of the Earth International and Global Forest Coalition, 19 September 2008 -- Groups call for Action on 21 September: International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
real price of agrofuels revealed
Brussels (Belgium) / Porto Alegre (Brazil) / Montevideo (Uruguay), 10 September 2008 -- The rapid development of agrofuels in Latin America looks set to increase big business profits but it is not benefiting local people, according to a new report released by Friends of the Earth International.
Climate Talks End Amidst Fears Over Carbon Colonialism
ACCRA (GHANA) 27 August 2008 - The United Nations climate talks ending today and focused on 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries' risk moving towards 'carbon colonialism', Friends of the Earth International campaigners warned.
Land Grab Threat at UN Climate Talks
ACCRA (GHANA), 19 August 2008 – Delegates attending the United Nations climate talks in Accra on 21st – 27th August will focus on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD) but environmental campaigners are warning against the inclusion of forests in carbon markets.
world bank casts its dark shadow over g8
HOKKAIDO (JAPAN), July 7, 2008 -- The World Bank is officially launching its "climate investment funds" backed by Japan, the US and the UK during the G8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, 7-9 July.
G8 2008 futile rhetoric on climate
HOKKAIDO (JAPAN), July 8, 2008 - Reacting to the statement released by the G8 in Hokkaido, Friends of the Earth spokesperson Karen Orenstein said that G8 leaders spewed futile rhetoric that will do nothing to stop the toll that global warming is taking on people and the planet.
HOKKAIDO (JAPAN), July 4, 2008 - G8 leaders meeting in Hokkaido July 7-9 to tackle issues such as rising oil prices and global warming are being urged to dump the World Bank's highly controversial 'climate investment funds'.
Groups Oppose World Bank Climate Funds
BONN (GERMANY), June 5, 2008 – More than 121 groups released today a statement opposing the World Bank's proposed 'Climate Investment Funds' to address climate change and its impacts. [1]
Biodiversity Plan of Inaction Condemned
BONN (GERMANY), May 30, 2008 -- Friends of the Earth International expressed its alarm at the failure of the latest United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity talks to take any meaningful steps against the dangerous loss of biological diversity.
Deforestation Threatens Biodiversity Efforts
The continuing failure to prevent catastrophic deforestation is hampering global efforts to reverse the loss of biodiversity and has become a major threat to forest-dependent people, warned Friends of the Earth International on 'International Biodiversity Day', 22 May.
Banks Financing Agrofuels
Many major European banks are funding the rapid expansion of agrofuel production in Latin America, leading to large scale deforestation, increasing human right abuses and threatening food sovereignty, according to a new report released today.
European crimes face Latin American trial
Environmental and human rights violations committed by European companies in Latin America are being examined at a people's tribunal in Lima, Peru this week (13-16 May).
Corporations threaten biotech talks
A last minute attempt by six biotech giants to undermine international negotiations on biotech crops was condemned today by environmental group Friends of the Earth International as a proposal to 'privatise international law'.
Development bank misleads on climate
Environmental and human rights groups branded today the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a "leading world emitter of climate hypocrisy" for issuing calls for clean energy investments to fight global warming while extending massive funding support for dirty mega coal projects in Asia.
Koreans dont want gm crops
Friends of the Earth International and the Korean Federation of Environmental Movements issued today May 1st an urgent call for the South Korean government and food companies to respect the wish of the Korean people by keeping the country´s food supply free of Genetically Modified (GM) foods.


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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual, perennial herb, shrub, unarmed
Leaves generally odd-1-pinnate (sometimes ± palmately compound, rarely some or most simple); stipules conspicuous or not; leaflets 3many, often irregularly arranged
Inflorescence: umbel or 12-flowered, axillary, generally peduncled, often bracted
Flower: corolla generally yellow (sometimes white or pink), fading darker; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit dehiscent or not, exserted from calyx or not, ovoid to oblong, ± beaked
Seeds 1several
Etymology: (Greek: derivation unclear)
Reference: [Isely 1981 Mem New York Bot Garden 25:128206]
Spp. generally variable; intermediates may be hybrids. Key below separates natural groups.
Perennial or shrub, ± glabrous or strigose, green or gray
Stem decumbent to ascending, < 2 m
Leaf: stipules gland-like; leaflets 35, irregularly arranged, 715 mm, elliptic or obovate
Inflorescence 310-flowered; peduncle short or 0, sometimes bracted
Flower: calyx 46 mm, thinly strigose to ± glabrous, lobes < tube; corolla 810 mm
Fruit indehiscent, oblong-tapering, exserted; beak slender
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: Bluffs, inland canyons, open sites near ocean
Elevation: < 350 m.
Bioregional distribution: Channel Islands.Island-to-island variants have been recognized variously; the following are distinct morphologically and geog.
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Leaf: leaflets 35, finely strigose, greenish
Inflorescence: peduncle bracted
Fruit 2.55 cm
Ecology: Habitats and elevations of sp
Bioregional distribution: Channel Islands (San Clemente Island)
Synonyms: L. scoparius subsp. t. (Noddin) P.H. Raven
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Legislation adopted in April regarding earlier phone contact with recruits in sports other than football and men's basketball has been suspended because more than 100 institutions submitted override requests.
Eighteen Football Championship Subdivision schools have submitted requests to override Proposal No. 2010-83, which would not allow institutions to provide lodging (for example, a hotel or motel) to student-athletes before a regular-season home football game. Read More
The Division I Legislative Council will hold a conference call July 14 to reconsider that proposal and one other that received the requisite number of override requests from member schools by the June 27 deadline to necessitate additional review. A third proposal applicable only to the Football Championship Subdivision will be reviewed by the FCS Governance Committee, also during a July 14 conference call.
The phone contact legislation (Proposal No. 2010-30) received 106 override requests. It takes 30 to require the Legislative Council to revisit the legislation and 100 for the legislation to be suspended until one of the following occurs:
Proposal No. 2010-30 is the second proposal since the NCAA federated its governance structure in 1997 to eclipse the 100-submission benchmark and thus be suspended. A proposal in 2005 to expand financial aid limits in women's gymnastics, soccer, volleyball and track garnered 116 override requests. All but soccer were overriden at the 2006 NCAA Convention.
The other override request the Legislative Council will consider regards legislation that prevents an institution from hosting, sponsoring or conducting any nonscholastic basketball practice or game featuring men's basketball prospects on its campus or at an off-campus facility it uses regularly. That legislation (Proposal No. 2009-100-A) received 35 override requests.
Because of the Legislative Council's adoption of Proposal No. 2010-12 in April, override voting this year does not have to be conducted in person at the Convention. Instead, Division I members can cast override votes electronically at a selected time (which could in fact be at the Convention if desired). Details of that process are still being considered.
Proposal No. 2010-30, now suspended, would have allowed schools earlier contact with prospects in sports other than football and men's basketball as follows:
The legislation excludes football because it is specific to the spring evaluation period, and it's already in place for men's basketball. Supporters in fact see a benefit in having uniform contact rules for all sports. They also say the earlier communication allows coaches to better assess a prospect's academic standing and counsel the prospect on his or her remaining academic curriculum.
The original proposal came from the Division I Recruiting and Athletics Personnel Issues Cabinet and had support from the Women's Basketball Issues Committee. Only three comments were submitted during the membership comment period, and the proposal passed by a four-fifths majority at the Legislative Council meeting in April.
Since then, though, schools are raising concerns about extending the recruiting process earlier into the prospect's high school career.
One school commented, "Telephone contact with prospects during their senior year is sufficient time to enhance relationships with prospects. Our coaches feel adding telephone contact one year earlier is both intrusive and unnecessary."
Another cited particular reluctance among women's basketball coaches, "…given several obstacles, including an early role in the recruiting process, conflict with in-season play, and pressure on both the student-athlete and the coach to make an earlier than desired commitment. (Our) women's basketball coaches are unanimously opposed to this legislation, and there appears to be similar support for reconsideration and opposition by a significant number of WBCA members."
The issue regarding the other override proposal (No. 2009-100-A) appears to involve the legislation's potential financial impact.
The Board-sponsored proposal was intended to address a proliferation of nonscholastic men's basketball events held on Division I campuses during quiet periods, especially in May and June.
Supporters say these events are being planned and operated to help institutions with recruiting, but that college coaches are being leveraged to help the event operator arrange for discounted operational costs under the threat that the event operator will take the event (and all of the prospects) to another institution's campus.
Schools that submitted override requests, though, lament the loss of revenue potential. One cited "unintended consequences" that "will severely hamper other areas of our campus that depend on these events."
The proposal has a long history. The original version was submitted in October 2009 but went through several revisions involving the months during and locations at which these events could not be conducted.
Ultimately, the Board in April amended the proposal to allow schools to conduct (a) an open event in which the participants reside within a 50-mile radius of the institution's campus; (b) an event that is part of a program that is consistent with the mission of the institution (for example, state wellness and educational programs) and is conducted in accordance with Bylaw 184.108.40.206; or (c) an ancillary event that is part of a nonathletics program (for example, Boy Scouts) and is conducted in accordance with Bylaw 220.127.116.11.
Even that, though, hasn't satisfied everyone. One override submission said, "At (some universities) where most of the facilities are owned and run by campus recreation, this becomes an incredible hardship. Recreation arranges and enters into contracts with organizations without any input from athletics. Limiting who they may rent to severely inhibits their ability to generate revenue. There is no allowance made for institutions set up in such a way that athletic departments do not own or control the facilities. There should be an allowance that allows other campus departments to rent their facilities to outside organizations with no input or say from athletics."
Other proposals adopted in April received override requests, too, but not enough to require further action. Most notable was the activity regarding Proposal No. 2010-59-C, which in football specifies that a student-athlete who does not successfully complete nine semester hours or eight quarter hours of academic credit during the fall term and earn the Academic Progress Rate eligibility point shall not be eligible to compete in the first four contests in the following season.
That proposal came from the Board-appointed Football Academic Working Group and was designed specifically to improve student-athlete academic performance in football. Twenty-two Football Bowl Subdivision schools submitted override requests (eight short of the 30 required for the Legislative Council to revisit the legislation), and 14 Football Championship Subdivision schools submitted override requests (one shy of the number required in that subdivision).
If an override vote occurs this year, it will be the sixth time in seven years that Division I will have gone through that process. The last was at the 2010 Convention when delegates upheld legislation that allowed sand volleyball as an emerging sport for women and preserved legislation that added a week to the front end of the baseball season.


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Charm++ is a portable adaptive runtime system for parallel applications. Application developers create an object-based decomposition of the problem of interest, and the runtime system manages issues of communication, mapping, load balancing, fault tolerance, and more. Sequential code implementing the methods of these parallel objects is written in C++. Calls to libraries in C++, C, and Fortran are common and straightforward. Charm++ is portable across individual workstations, clusters, accelerators (Cell SPEs and GPUs), and supercomputers such as those sold by IBM (Blue Gene, POWER) and Cray (XT3/4/5/6). Applications based on Charm++ are used on at least 5 of the 20 most powerful computers in the world.
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Hybris (hybrid scripting language) is a dynamic scripting programming language created to help developers to automate everyday procedures in a easy and fast way. Although is a high level language, Hybris supports dynamic library linking, native C function calls, and a lot of other low level functionality.
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HARTFORD — The former chairman of the tribe that runs one of the world's largest casinos and his brother, the tribe's treasurer, have been charged with stealing a combined $800,000 from their Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, federal prosecutors in Connecticut said Friday.
The indictments returned by a federal grand jury in Hartford follow a lengthy FBI investigation at the tribe's tiny reservation in rural southeastern Connecticut, where it owns and operates Foxwoods Resort Casino.
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Hultgren cites spending issues on fiscal cliff 'no' vote
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden make a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The nation may have tip-toed away from the edge of the fiscal cliff — a series of tax hikes and across-the-board spending cuts aimed at reducing the national debt — but lawmakers warn the country is hardly back to solvency.
In a deal brokered late Tuesday evening, the House passed a bill that raises income taxes on those earning more than $400,000 as well as capital gains taxes for high earners, while avoiding major tax increases for average and low-wage workers.
The deal also postpones deep cuts in defense and domestic spending for two months to give Congress time to work out a more permanent plan.
Fox Valley Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-14th District, was one of 167 members of the House who voted against the deal.
"I certainly didn't want to go over the fiscal cliff," Hultgren said Wednesday. "But the bigger threat to our nation is our out-of-control spending. It is absolutely going to affect our quality of life and the quality of life for our children and grandchildren."
Hultgren said although he campaigned on a pledge to not raise any taxes, the automatic tax increases that would have resulted had a deal not been brokered amounted to the lesser of two evils.
"I'm very supportive of not raising taxes on anybody," he said. "My frustration, however, is the amount of debt we have, the spending that continues."
Hultgren said that postponing decisions on deep spending cuts would cost taxpayers another $600 million.
Hultgren joined Reps. Peter Roskam of Wheaton, Bobby Schilling of Moline and Joe Walsh of McHenry, all Republicans, as the only members of the Illinois congressional delegation to vote against the measure.
Foster welcomes
Rep. Bill Foster, a Naperville Democrat who was sworn in as a new member of the House on Wednesday, called the New Year's deal imperfect but "encouraging."
"While I don't think the package passed last night by the House was perfect, I do think it's encouraging to finally see Congress come together to pass bipartisan legislation," said Foster, who will represent the new 11th Congressional District, which includes Aurora, Naperville and Joliet.
"I hope that we can continue to follow this model of bipartisan compromise and look forward to working with my colleagues to put forward legislation that both Democrats and Republicans can support."
Over the next two months, Congress will be faced not only with decisions on spending cuts, but with another vote on the debt ceiling — a vote that does not increase the country's debts, but allows the Federal Reserve to borrow to pay for debts already incurred.
Historically Congress has raised the debt ceiling dozens of times previously with little quarrel.
But in 2011, partisan fighting nearly killed a rise in the debt ceiling, which, in turn, nearly resulted in the United States defaulting on its debts.
Another vote to raise the debt ceiling will need to be cast by March to keep the U.S. from defaulting.
"I don't want to see us default, but we can't keep doing this every year, maxing out the credit card and raising the credit limit," said Hultgren.
Biggert support
Republican Rep. Judy Biggert — who lost to Foster in the election for the new 11th District — cast a "yes" vote, her last in office, to avoid the fiscal cliff.
She could not be reached for comment Wednesday, but reportedly spoke out in a closed-door meeting of House Republicans, urging colleagues to not throw out the package.
The House voted 257-167 to approve the agreement. Voting yes were 172 Democrats and 85 Republicans. Voting no were 16 Democrats and 151 Republicans.


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Situated on Ocean Drive, this European-style hotel lies in the center of South Beach's clubs, restaurants, and shops, inside the Art Deco District, and across the street from the beach.
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The five-story Casa Grande Suite Hotel and Spa has 34 suites and is located across the street from the beach and in the middle of the fashionable Art Deco SoBe (South Beach) district. The intimate lobby area has French and Italian tiled floors and a modern couch surrounded by waterfalls.
The hotel prides itself on its attentive service and offers a concierge service and discount passes to a nearby health club (4 blocks away).
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The ocean beach is across the street from the Casa Grande Suite Hotel and Spa.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on-site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
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Check-in time starts at 4 PM
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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Hotel resort fee inclusions (may be listed elsewhere in this description as complimentary or available for a surcharge):
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We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
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Pressure is mounting for Washington to find a way to avoid the automatic spending reductions set to begin March 1, with President Barack Obama Tuesday urging Congress to stop the "meat-cleaver approach" that he says will undermine U.S. military strength and "eviscerate job creating investments in education and energy and medical research."
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Ara Khachaturian, PhD, from Prevent Alzheimer's Disease 2020 discussed the development process for a National Institutional Review Board, challenges ahead, and how a well-designed, highly-qualified, and responsive National Institutional Review Board promises to provide better safeguards for clinical trial participants while more efficiently accelerating the scientific enterprise to bend the curve of Alzheimer's disease.
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Founded in 1904, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) is the impartial professional organization that supports the state boards of pharmacy in protecting public health. NABP aims to ensure the public's health and safety through its pharmacist license transfer and pharmacist competence assessment programs, as well as through its VIPPS, Vet-VIPPS, VAWD, and DMEPOS accreditation programs.
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The opening of The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park last January marked the return of the Ritz Carlton brand to New York after a four-year absence. The hotel occupies the first 14 floors of a striking new glass-and-brick tower, with 298 guest rooms and 12,000 square feet of conference space, including a 4,500-square-foot ballroom and an 1,800-square-foot junior ballroom. In midtown Manhattan, The Ritz-Carlton New York Central Park opened at the end of April. Formerly the St. Moritz hotel, it has 277 rooms including 40 suites. And in October, the original Ritz-Carlton Boston reopened after a major restoration. The oldest Ritz-Carlton hotel in continuous operation in the United States, it anchors Newbury Street in the heart of Back Bay. Noted for the elegance of its signature cobalt blue chandeliers and views overlooking Boston's Public Garden, the hotel's dining room is also back, now under the direction of Chef Tony Esnault, formerly at the Dining Room of The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco.
Madrid-based NH Hotels might be a new name in this country, but it has been a leading chain for business travelers in Spain, where it manages 95 hotels in more than 45 cities, and a handful of Latin American properties. In 2000, the company purchased Dutch- based Krasnapolsy, which included nearly 50 Golden Tulip hotels in The Netherlands and Belgium. All have been rebranded as NH strives to "become a leader in Europe," according to Moria Dennert, director, international sales offices. NH Hotels also purchased the Krystal group of Mexican hotels, which have been rebranded, and the Astran hotel chain in Germany — giving it a total of 238 hotels worldwide. The hotels are known for their "eye for detail," says Dennert, from technology to cuisine to service, "with an aim to be innovative." For golf incentives and meetings, NH has reached an agreement with Gary Player to design and develop signature golf courses, the first of which will be La Reserva in Sotogrande, Spain.
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Ground was recently broken on Le Reve, casino-mogul Steve Wynn's new $2.4 billion hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The 2,700-room mega-resort, with an adjacent 18-hole golf course, is tagged with a spring 2005 opening date. On the site of the now-demolished Desert Inn Resort & Casino, the resort is expected to have 2,700 luxury rooms, 18 restaurants, a 111,000-square-foot casino, a Ferrari and Maserati car dealership, and an art gallery that will include works by masters. The resort's focal point will be an eight-story-tall manufactured mountain and a three-acre manmade lake. The meeting and function space square footage has yet to be announced. Although he no longer owns or runs them, Wynn is also the creator of Bellagio, Mirage, and Treasure Island.
The new 750-room Westin Kierland Resort and Spa, Scottsdale, Ariz., recently opened. The property, designed for larger groups, offers 160,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space. The Westin Kierland also has a full-service spa, eight restaurants, and a water park. The hotel's 60,000 square feet of indoor meeting space includes 20 function rooms and a 25,000-square-foot ballroom. T1 lines and videoconferencing capabilities are available in all meeting rooms. Outdoor function areas include seven themed locales that can accommodate up to 1,500 people. The hotel is beside a retail and shopping complex as well as a 27-hole golf club. www.starwood.com
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Nairobi, October 5, 2012--Ethiopian authorities should halt their harassment of journalists covering the country's Muslim community and their intimidation of citizens who have tried to speak to reporters about sensitive religious, ethnic, and political issues, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Police in the capital, Addis Ababa, briefly detained Marthe Van Der Wolf, a reporter with the U.S. government-funded broadcaster Voice of America as she was covering a protest by members of Ethiopia's Muslim community at the Anwar Mosque, local journalists said. The protesters were demonstrating against alleged government interference in Islamic Council elections scheduled for Sunday, according to VOA and local journalists.
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- January 31, 2012
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"Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare,'" said Saul Landau, a professor and filmmaker. "Cubans bitch and moan, like citizens everywhere, but there is no serious opposition to the current government," he told Al Jazeera. "They do not face a legitimacy crisis at home."
- January 10, 2012
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"They (the Mayan Indians) have a lot to teach us. My experience down there filming was a very humbling experience for me," Landau said. "There is no electricity. You are totally deprived of your biological comforts."
- January 9, 2012
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Speaking to Press TV's U.S. Desk on Sunday, Landau said, "President Obama has made very minor cuts in military budget but nothing that basically alters the fundamental position of the United States abroad."
- December 16, 2011
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Landau: "Well I think it started really in the early 1970's when wages began to freeze and then actually real wages went down and in order to keep Americans; everybody uses the word middle class, now people forgot about working people.
Anyway, whatever we call them, the people who do most of the work in this country had their wages begin to decline 38 years ago and to make up for that so that they can continue consuming, there was an expansion of credit. This came not just in availability of credit cards but in the inflation of home values."
- November 5, 2011
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Landau: I think what it demonstrated here in Oakland is that majority of the population clearly support the occupiers. And they have rallied around them in one form and another to force the mayor and the city council and even the media, to begin to react in a more rational and reasonable way, now what the police do and what some of the provocateur do is a different stories.
The fact is if one break down this whole idea of occupation, well people are occupying cities across the US and indeed across the world, because they cannot go to their regular occupations, their jobs have been eroded, vanished, lost, gone, they are gone somewhere else, or just disappeared.
Occupy? They can't even occupy their own homes, because they are foreclosed or evicted, after they lost their jobs and could not pay their rents, so they are occupying. What they really saying is that the government the political system and economic system are illegitimate.
They no longer can serve the cause and the purpose that they have been set up for. And this has resonated around the world. They are no channels through which to mediate the grievances of millions and millions of people who are homeless, who are jobless, who are at bay, who have all kinds of qualification that should give them good jobs, but cannot get them.
So something is fundamentally wrong and this is what this movement is talking about, and I think it is done so in a very dramatic way. And it has mobilized discontent as we have not seen since the 1960s.
- September 7, 2011
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The people who are suffering certainly cannot turn to the Republicans who are contemptuous of the poor and contemptuous of human suffering really. They cannot now turn to the Democrats who are led by a man who is always in the middle.
- August 21, 2011
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"I think you could argue that [U.S. President Barack] Obama inherited a legacy from George Bush, and part of that he's stuck with," Landau told Press TV's U.S. Desk in a Sunday interview.
"What George Bush really did was make a much better life for people who had lots and lots of money and a worse life for people who had little money, that is the working people and the middle class of the United Sates," he went on to say.
- August 18, 2011
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Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies Saul Landau says keeping U.S. troops in Iraq would lead to "a constant spark of irritation for the people who just don't want invaders."
Landau told Press TV's U.S. Desk on Wednesday that the U.S. presence in Iraq "is a permanent irritant as it would be in any country when you have a foreign occupying army. So the best thing the United States can do is just get out and get out quickly."
Landau said, "When you send in a massive technologically superior army and wipe out the institutions that held this country together, you are going to create a disintegration."
- August 11, 2011
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- August 8, 2011
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It's very clear that the winners are the billionaires, the oil companies and the other large corporations, who are really going to get at least the same, if not more, than they were before.
The losers of course are the majority of the American public, and it's not just that they are losers in the sense that they are going to be paying more, way more, than their fair share.
It's that they're losers in another way. Its' become quite clear that they are the only people in this country that don't have a lobby.
Every single special interest group has a very good lobby that gets what it wants, but the American public has none and it doesn't get what it wants and needs.


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On December 8th, the House considered the Seniors Protection Act (H.R. 5987) to provide 54 million seniors with a one-time payment of $250 given that there will be no automatic Cost-of-Living-Adjustment for America's seniors in 2011. While a majority of Members voted aye (254-153), it failed to receive the 2/3 necessary under suspension of the rules.
In 2009, Social Security recipients saw a 5.8% increase in their benefits, the largest since 1982, as a result of rising costs; but in 2010, they saw no COLA at all. That means 2011 will be the second consecutive year that Social Security retirees, veterans, and people with disabilities will see no increase in their monthly Social Security, SSI, VA Pension and Compensation, and Railroad Retirement benefits. There are several false rumors circulating about the reason for the lack of a COLA--the non-partisan FactCheck.org explains it succinctly, "the reason is simple: the official measure of the cost of living has gone down, not up."
But without the COLA, many Americans who rely on Social Security to survive can't make ends meet. This $250 payment will help seniors, veterans, railroad retirees and people with disabilities who receive Social Security make ends meet during this tough time, when housing values are down, other retirement income is volatile, and many are facing rising expenses.
Similar Recovery Act payments in 2009 boosted GDP by about 0.5% in the second quarter of 2009, translating to roughly 125,000 jobs created or saved due to these payments.[Economic Policy Institute, 9/14/10]. CBO estimates that these payments will cost $14 billion. Under the bill, the cost would be offset by some of savings included in earlier legislation that are tallied on the PAYGO scorecard. If not used, the balance of the scorecard will be available to offset spending and tax cuts next year in the new Congress.
See the number of people eligible for the $250 payment in each state from the Ways and Means Committee»
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The fiscally responsible legislation enjoys broad support from veterans and seniors organizations, including AARP, Alliance for Retired Americans, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, the Disabled American Veterans, and Military Officers Association of America:
AARP, Nancy Leamond, Executive Vice President: "…we urge you to provide this relief in a fiscally responsible manner to millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet in this difficult economic environment. Older Americans are facing unique financial difficulties, have been acutely impacted by the downturn in the U.S. economy, and are in particular need of economic relief" [12/7/10]
Alliance for Retired Americans, President, Barbara J. Easterling, Executive Director, Edward F. Coyle: "For retirees faced with declining home and retirement account values and, the $250 payment is immediately needed. Your support for this payment will demonstrate a commitment to older Americans."
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, Barbara B. Kennelly, President and CEO: "The one-time $250 payment will assist millions of older Americans who are still reeling from the economic collapse, providing resources likely to be injected directly into the economy."[12/6/10]
Strengthen Social Security Campaign, which is comprised of 250 organizations representing more than 50 million members from many of the nation's leading aging, labor, disability, women's, children, consumer, civil rights and equality organizations: "It is both fair and appropriate to now provide a… payment to help stimulate our nation's economy and at the same time assist seniors, people with disabilities, children and other Social Security beneficiaries who did not receive a cost of living adjustment 2010 and will not get one again in 2011." [12/7/10]
Disabled American Veterans, National Commander Wallace E. Tyson: "Once again, our nation's economic woes have affected every disabled veteran and surviving spouse receiving compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs. It is especially troubling for those who already bear the burden of disability and loss." In a grassroots alert to its members and others, the DAV urged them to encourage their lawmakers to support this legislation vital to so many service-connected disabled veterans and their families. The $250 would be helpful to many veterans and their families who are struggling with the second consecutive year of no cost-of-living allowance in their veteran and dependent benefits.
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Other groups supporting the Social Security $250 payment include Military Officers Association of America, National Association of Retired and Veteran Railways Employees, National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association and National Treasury Employees Union. [Washington Post, 10/20/10]


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Shirley Temple Black, the child actor who lifted America's spirits and Hollywood's profits during the Great Depression with tunes such as "On the Good Ship Lollipop," then left the spotlight at 21 for a life of political service and limited celebrity, has died. She was 85.
She died Monday at her Woodside, Calif., home, according to an e-mailed statement from Cheryl Kagan, a spokeswoman for the family.
Decades before the label "child star" became a portent of later-life dysfunction, Shirley Temple showed that talented toddlers could survive, even thrive. Dimpled, curly-haired and prodded by her mother, she sang and danced her way into movies beginning at age 4.
At 6, she won a miniature Academy Award. Her licensed dolls and clothing were big sellers. Restaurants nationwide served an alcohol-free drink named for her, usually consisting of ginger ale, grenadine and a cherry.
Temple's most memorable roles — in films including "Little Miss Marker" (1934), "Bright Eyes" (1934), "The Little Colonel" (1935) and "Wee Willie Winkie" (1937) — cast her as precocious and preternaturally optimistic, orphaned or laboring to win the affection of a parent or grandparent. Audiences flocked to her films as respite from economic gloom.
"During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie, look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles," President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in 1935.
Temple's box-office appeal waned as she grew into adulthood, and she made her last movie in 1949. Her second marriage, to businessman Charles Black, lasted almost 55 years until his death in 2005. They raised two children, plus a daughter from Temple's brief first marriage.
As Shirley Temple Black, the onetime star became active in Republican Party politics in the 1960s and served in diplomatic posts under four presidents.
"I had an enchanted childhood, a magic childhood, with great memories," Black told reporters in 1978, when she turned 50. "But I don't want to live in the past, and I don't live in the past."
In her 1988 autobiography, "Child Star," Black described the perks and indignities of her early career. She said she wrote the book partly to counter a misconception that she had been forced into show business by an overly pushy mother.
She also revealed that her father, guided by his business partner, squandered much of the $3.2 million she had earned as a child, leaving her with just $44,000 by 1950.
She said she wasn't troubled by her lost fortune: "Perhaps years spent ignoring such matters had insulated me from disillusion."
Shirley Jane Temple was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, Calif., the third child and only daughter of George Temple and the former Gertrude Krieger.
Her father worked for an electric utility company and later managed a bank branch. Her mother had once aspired to be a ballerina but had received little encouragement from her own family. She was determined to make up for that with her own daughter, beginning with music and dance instruction.
It was at Ethel Meglin's Dance Studio that Shirley, at 3, tried out for a group of studio scouts. They signed her to appear in a series of comedy shorts, the "Baby Burlesks," designed to draw laughs by dressing up and deploying young children in famous film scenes.
The shorts were "a cynical exploitation of our childish innocence," Black recalled in her memoir, and for good measure "occasionally were racist or sexist." Child actors who misbehaved were forced to sit on a block of ice. She got $10 a day, plus $5 for her mom.
At 5, she was signed by Fox Film Corp. — later 20th- Century Fox — for "Stand Up and Cheer!" (1934) and shined in her song-and-dance number, "Baby, Take a Bow." Fox gave her a contract and altered her birth certificate to make her appear a year younger — about to turn 5, not 6.
For that breakthrough year, 1934, Black earned a flood of write-in votes as best actress, resulting in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' decision to give her a special mini-Oscar.
Fox loaned her to Paramount Pictures to play the lead in "Little Miss Marker," which made her a star. In the Damon Runyon tale, she played Marthy Jane, whose father leaves her with a bookie, a cabaret singer and their rough-edged friends as collateral for a bet he ends up losing.
Reviewing the movie for the New York Times, Mordaunt Hall wrote: "Tiny Shirley Temple is a joy to behold and her spontaneity and cheer in speaking her lines are nothing short of amazing."
Temple's pay tripled, and her family moved to a bigger house and hired a secretary to handle the 4,000 fan letters each week. Fox arranged for private schooling in the cottage it reserved for her family on studio grounds.
"Baby Take a Bow," her next movie for Fox, was followed by "Bright Eyes," which featured Temple, aloft in an airship, singing what would become her signature tune, "On the Good Ship Lollipop." Fox rewarded her with a six-year contract extension that paid her $1,000 a week, and her mother $250 a week.
She tap-danced up a staircase with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in "The Little Colonel" (1935), a pairing that would be resurrected in "The Littlest Rebel" (1935), "Just Around the Corner" (1938) and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1938).
Two 1936 movies, "Dimples" and "Stowaway," continued Temple's golden run, each grossing $1 million in the U.S.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tried without success to swing a deal to give Temple the starring role in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) that ultimately went to Judy Garland.
In 1940, after two box-office duds — "The Blue Bird" and "Young People" — 20th-Century Fox jettisoned the star that had saved it from bankruptcy. Stepping into the real world, Temple started attending classes at Westlake School for Girls.
She was signed by David O. Selznick, producer of "Gone With the Wind" (1939), to a contract that gave her a chance at adult roles, in movies including "Since You Went Away" (1944) and "Kiss and Tell" (1945). Among her final films was "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," (1947), with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy.
In 1945, at 17, Temple married John Agar, an Air Force sergeant and the brother of one of her classmates. He became an actor, and they appeared together in "Fort Apache" (1948) and "Adventure in Baltimore" (1949). They had a daughter, Susan, before Temple filed for divorce in 1949.
In 1950, after Temple had declined numerous film offers, MCA dropped her as a client.
"Stars drop agents, not vice versa," Temple told MCA President Lew Wasserman in a meeting, according to her memoir.
She said Wasserman replied, "You're through. Washed up."
Temple was already beginning the next phase of life. On vacation in Hawaii months earlier, she had met Charles Black, a wealthy California native who ran a pineapple business and was unfamiliar with her films or fame.
"It was very refreshing to me — a handsome guy who wasn't interested in Hollywood or anything about it," she said.
They married in December 1950, and she became Shirley Temple Black. They had a son, Charles Jr., and a daughter, Lori. Black made a brief comeback on television with "Shirley Temple's Storybook" from 1958 to 1961.
In 1967, she ran as a Republican candidate in a special election for Congress in her California district. She finished second in a field of 11.
In 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed her U.S. delegate to the United Nations. President Gerald Ford in 1974 named her U.S. ambassador to Ghana and, later, the first woman to be U.S. chief of protocol at the State Department. Under Ronald Reagan — her co-star in "That Hagen Girl" (1947) — she ran seminars for diplomats. In 1989, President George H.W. Bush named her U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, where she witnessed the country's transition to democracy.
Black was a longtime advocate of research and treatment for multiple sclerosis, which afflicted her older brother, George. He died in 1996. Her oldest brother, Jack, died in 1985.
After breast cancer and a mastectomy in 1972, Black held a news conference in her hospital room to encourage women not to "sit home and be afraid" if they discover a lump.
In 1985, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Black a full-size Oscar to complement the miniature one she received at 6. The Screen Actors Guild honored her "most remarkable life" with a lifetime achievement award in 2006. Black's survivors include her children Susan Falaschi, Charlie Black Jr., Lori Black, a granddaughter and two great-granddaughters.
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Celebrity quack moms are a terrible influence on everyday parents
On April 15, the actress Alicia Silverstone released a book called "The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning." It's chock-full of attachment parenting lessons and dangerous misinformation.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Tennessee have found that environmental stressors – from the Trail of Tears to the Civil War – led to significant changes in the shape of skulls in the eastern and western bands of the Cherokee people. The findings highlight the role of environmental factors in shaping our physical characteristics.
House Republicans are more active on Twitter than Democrats
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Procrastinators, in my experience, like nothing better than explaining away their procrastination: General busyness, fear of failure, and simple laziness are just a handful of the excuses and theories often tossed around. Now researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have added another option to the list: genetics.
Do White Castle prices tell us anything about the minimum wage?
The paper looked at how many delicious steamed sliders the minimum wage has been able to purchase over time. The point is that as it notes, in 1981, the $3.35 minimum could buy a whole dozen. Today, at $7.25, it could purchase just 10.
Can Hillary Clinton rock the cradle and the world?
What's most interesting to contemplate is the effect becoming a grandmother will have on Hillary's ambition. It's one of life's unfairnesses that a woman's peak career years often coincide with her peak childbearing years.
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