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1. BBC News: "Darwin Teaching 'Divides Opinion'"
Darwinism is a controversial topic, and many believe creation should be taught in the classroom. But why is that news?
A survey conducted by the British Council in ten countries has revealed that the majority of respondents who were familiar with Darwinism think it should be taught alongside other views on life's origin. (The survey is part of the council's year-long "Darwin Now" program.) But in spite of the support for teaching multiple views that the survey revealed, the council's press release on the survey puzzlingly declares, "Darwin Survey Shows International Consensus on Acceptance of Evolution."
Surveyers interviewed 11,000 people from Argentina, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and the U.S. Among those respondents who were familiar with Darwin's theory (apparently just under two-thirds of all respondents; only 70 percent reported knowing who Darwin was), those from Argentina were most likely to believe (68 percent) that other perspectives on life's origin should be taught in science classes alongside Darwinian evolution.
Interestingly, in no country surveyed did a majority believe only evolution should be taught. Respondents from India were most likely to have that view (49 percent), followed by those from Spain (42 percent). Also interesting is that Spain was the country with the smallest proportion of respondents who believed other perspectives should be taught alongside Darwinian evolution—but at 38 percent, that fraction is almost as large as the number in Spain advocating evolution-only.
As for the scientific merits of the idea itself, only 41 percent of American respondents who claimed to be familiar with Darwin and his theory agreed that enough scientific evidence exists to support it. In fact, in only one country—China—did a majority of respondents agree that life on earth, including humans, evolved as a result of natural selection, with no supernatural intervention.
Despite the press release's title, then, the survey is a clear confirmation that many people worldwide are not convinced by the naturalism-infused science used to support Darwinism. Further, a global majority believes Darwinism shouldn't have exclusive reign in science classes on life's origin. (For all the results, see the press released linked above.)
Everyone is free to take an online version of the survey. Be warned, however, that many of the questions seem to be worded with little thought or awareness of young-earth creation views. (For example, question three implies that creationists do not believe life has changed at all since creation.)
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2. ScienceDaily: "Junk DNA Mechanism that Prevents Two Species from Reproducing Discovered"
Has the U.S. government finally supported creationist research? Alas, no, but the results of a National Institutes of Health study fit squarely within the young-earth creation framework.
Researchers at Cornell University report in PLoS Biology the results of a genetic examination of fruit flies ("Species-Specific Heterochromatin Prevents Mitotic Chromosome Segregation to Cause Hybrid Lethality in Drosophila"). The scientists learned that "junk" DNA can be responsible for rendering two otherwise closely related species unable to interbreed.
The team examined cross-breeds between the closely related fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. The flies are closely related, and male D. melanogaster can breed with female D. simulans to produce viable male offspring. Female offspring of such a cross, however, die as embryos. The question is, why? Lead author Patrick Ferree calls it an "unsolved problem," elaborating, "What are the elements that are killing these female hybrids and how are they doing that?"
By looking more closely at the genetic composition of the D. melanogaster x D. simulans embryos, the scientists found a specific DNA segment that appears only in the father fly's X chromosome and that leads to embryo death. Because only female offspring receive an X chromosome from their father (males receive a Y chromosome), only the female cross-breeds die.
The location of the fatal DNA segment was in the male X chromosome's heterochromatin, a region full of what is sometimes called "junk" DNA. The segment halts the initial divisions of the embryo by preventing the male X chromosome from separating as it should. The researchers believe the cellular machinery from the mother no longer "recognizes" the heterochromatin of the father's. In fact, the part of the paternal X chromosome believed to be causing the trouble has some five million DNA base pairs, compared to only 100,000 in the equivalent portion from the mother.
The researchers believe such problems may cause reproductive incompatibility in other similar species. Cornell's Patrick Ferree explained, "[The study] points to a species-specific difference in heterochromatin between these two species. This could explain other instances when you have female hybrid lethality."
The species on earth today descend from the original created kinds of Genesis 1. The many inter-species breedings that are possible today (e.g., zonkeys, wholphins), as well as the close similarities within biological groups (e.g., the canine group) that are distinct from one another, remind us of this fact. But exactly why the created kinds have fractured into many incompatible species has only been answered indirectly by creationists, who point to the speciating effects of genetics and geography. By investigating a case of mixed-success cross-breeding, the scientists at Cornell have given us greater insight into how genetic differences have contributed to the further division of the created kinds.
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3. PhysOrg: "Charles Darwin Really Did Have Advanced Ideas about the Origin of Life"
Charles Darwin was convinced that life's origin didn't involve a creator, even though there was no (and still is no) scientific explanation of how life could have begun without one.
That's the thrust of new research on Darwin's writings, published in the journal Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres ("Charles Darwin and the Origin of Life"). In the paper, scientists—including evolutionary origin-of-life theorist Jeffrey Bada, whom we've reported on before (in September and October 2008 and January 2009)—discuss Charles Darwin's opinion on the origin of life.
Darwin famously references a "Creator" in the last paragraph of some editions of On the Origin of Species, giving the false impression that he was an avowed theist despite the implications of his new theory. Actually, the phrase was added to try to reduce the controversial nature of the already-controversial book. University of Valencia biochemist Juli Peretó, the lead author of the study, said of the Origin passage, "It is utterly wrong to think that [Darwin] was invoking a divine intervention; it is also well documented that the mention of the 'Creator' . . . was an addition for appearance's sake that he later regretted."
Letters and other documents reveal Darwin's true views on the initial origin of life, argue the study authors. "The intimate relationship between the vital phenomena with chemistry and its laws makes the idea of spontaneous generation conceivable," Darwin wrote in one notebook, while in a letter to English botanist Joseph Hooker, Darwin speculated that inanimate matter may have arranged itself into life in a warm pool with the right chemical components and energy sources. The paper authors emphasize that "many . . . lines of evidence demonstrat[e] that Darwin took for granted a natural origin of life," even taking a somewhat favorable view of spontaneous generation.
Of course, spontaneous generation had been experimentally discarded through the work of Louis Pasteur. Thus, as with many evolutionists today, Darwin had faith in an unscientific, mystical process as the ultimate explanation for the origin of life. "Darwin . . . had an amazingly modern materialist and evolutional vision about the transition of inanimate chemical matter into living matter," Peretó noted in an all-too-true reference to the connection between materialism and evolutionary beliefs.
It isn't that we think Darwin's idea is, by itself, a totally worthless idea. On the contrary, Darwin helped clarify our understanding of natural selection, as well as offering more evidence of natural selection; creationists have no disagreement with that idea. However, Darwin went beyond observable science and made a materialistic leap of faith. Evolution of all life from a single ancestor would be an appropriate idea for a science fiction story, perhaps, but it certainly is not a conclusion based on rigorous scientific research, nor is the idea so compelling that one must be viewed as intellectually deficient if he resists it. Besides, the most important point is that Darwin had already rejected God and His Word, laying the foundation for his quest for a godless theory of origins.
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4. The Times: "Skull of Huge Sea Monster that Could Have Eaten T. rex Found in Dorset"
Was the skull of an ancient Leviathan found in Dorset?
Fossil hunter Kevan Sheehan originally spotted the skull sticking out of a cliff face exposed by a rockslide. It took him four years of hard work to finally uncover well enough for extraction.
The eight-foot-long (2.4 m) skull belonged to a pliosaur, an aquatic reptile reminiscent of the dinosaurs but with four fins, powerful necks, and sharp teeth. And if the creature's body is proportional to the size of its skull, it will be one of the largest pliosaur fossils ever found—perhaps some 54 feet (16 m) long, having originally weighed between 7 and 13 tons. Paleontologists hope to examine the cliff further to see if the rest of the fossil is buried inside, but that project could take decades, warns Dorset earth science manager Richard Edmonds.
Of particular importance was the good preservation of the fossil. "Pliosaur skulls are very big, but not that robust, in general, and you tend to find them crushed flat—completely pancaked," explained plesiosaur expert Richard Forrest. (Plesiosaurs were similar to pliosaurs.) "What is fantastic about this new skull, not only is it absolutely enormous, but it is pretty much in 3-D and not much distorted."
University of Portsmouth paleontologist David Martill described what fearsome predators pliosaurs may have been: "They had massive big muscles on their necks, and you would have imagined that they would bite into the animal and get a good grip, and then with these massive neck muscles they probably would have thrashed the animals around and torn chunks off. It would have been a bit of a blood bath."
Isaiah 27:1 refers to the "the reptile that is in the sea," the "fleeing" and "twisted" serpent called Leviathan. Job 41 also describes Leviathan, as God refers to its "outer armor" of "strong scales" and says, "Around his teeth there is terror," and, "In his neck lodges strength." Does that sound anything like a pliosaur?
While it isn't possible to know whether Leviathan was a pliosaur, plesiosaur, mosasaur, or some other marine reptile, the Old Testament passages that discuss it seem to clearly refer to a creature that is not on earth today (as far as we know)—and that hails from the time of dinosaurs, just thousands of years ago in the biblical timeline. Like other accounts of dragons and sea monsters, the Bible's mentions of Leviathan remind us that humans were alive to see such beasts, many of which were fossilized in the Flood of Noah's day. Fossil hunter Kevan Sheehan has found one more evidence of that.
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5. LiveScience: "Sea Creature's Amazing Eyes Could Inspire New DVD Players"
Genesis 1 makes no mention of DVD players, of course, and we're certainly not saying God had such technology in mind when He designed sea life. But mantis shrimp have "the most complex vision systems known to science" that, reportedly, may one day inspire better DVD players.
The eyes of the mantis shrimp are superior to human eyes in two key ways. First, while human eyes can see three colors (which combine to make up the visible spectrum), the mantis shrimp sees twelve. Second, the shrimp's eyes are able to convert light that is polarized one way to a different polarity. A team of American, Australian, and British scientists report on the incredible design in Nature Photonics ("A Biological Quarter-Wave Retarder with Excellent Achromaticity in the Visible Wavelength Region").
The shrimp's eyes are actually similar in some respects to technology called quarter-wave plates, which are designed to convert light polarity in CD and DVD players and some camera filters. However, quarter-wave plates only work well for one color of light. The eyes of the mantis shrimp, on the other hand, work well across a broad light spectrum, much broader than that of human-made devices, the paper reports. The researchers believe the shrimp's ability is used in hunting, communication, or sexual signaling.
Nicholas Roberts, of the University of Bristol's Ecology of Vision unit, said of the shrimp's eye,
"It really is exceptional—out-performing anything we humans have so far been able to create. What's particularly exciting is how beautifully simple it is. This natural mechanism, comprised of cell membranes rolled into tubes, completely outperforms synthetic designs. It could help us make better optical devices in the future using liquid crystals that have been chemically engineered to mimic the properties of the cells in the mantis shrimp's eye."
The Nature Photonics paper made the same point more esoterically: "This complex and novel structural design exemplifies why natural photonic systems continue to offer biomimetic inspiration for the design and construction of new artificial photonic structures." While human-engineered technology accomplishes incredible tasks and requires great ingenuity (both to create and, sometimes, to operate!), time and time again we find designs of God's that are far superior. Is it rational to think that the mind-boggling design in living creatures is the result of the directionless work of time, chance, and the laws of nature working on raw matter, as evolutionists claim?
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- Astronomers have spotted a cluster of galaxies that lie some 10.2 billion light-years from earth, BBC News reports. If galaxies are spotted even farther away, however, it will mean trouble for the big bang model, which predicts galaxies wouldn't have formed so long ago that we could see them if they were so far away. As for how we could see the light from galaxies so far away if the universe is young, visit Does Distant Starlight Prove the Universe Is Old?
- Scientists at the Ohio State University have linked volcanic activity to the beginning of an ice age, supposedly 450 million years ago. That scenario isn't so different from creationist models of a single catastrophic period in earth history, beginning with the Flood year and continuing through the Ice Age, with volcanoes playing an important role throughout—see Setting the Stage for an Ice Age.
- Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine are using embryonic stem cells to learn more about human germ (reproductive) cells, hoping to one day overcome infertility. What is tragically ironic is that harvesting embryonic stem cells requires the destruction of viable human embryos—all in the name of addressing fertility issues. As such, it would seem to be a case of killing Peter to resurrect Paul.
- Svante Paabo, whose work on Neanderthals we discussed in October 2007 and last February, is about to release his analysis of the entire Neanderthal genome. Among the topics he discusses is whether the ancestors of "modern" humans and Neanderthals interbred—to which he says, "I'm sure that they [did]. But did it give offspring that contributed to us?" In response to the news, Chris Stringer of the London Natural History Museum said, "I used to believe Neanderthals were primitive, but in the last 10,000 to 15,000 years before they died out, around 30,000 years ago, Neanderthals were giving their dead complex burials and making tools and jewellery, such as pierced beads, like modern humans." We disagree with the timeline, of course, but are excited to learn more about Paabo's results and conclusions.
- Richard Dawkins is in the news—yes, again—and this time it's because he's planning a new book that will target teenagers. What is a Rainbow, Really? will include illustrations and will "look to explode myths and legends about the natural world with science," the Guardian reports. But is Dawkins, who has accused Christians of "child abuse" for teaching their children about God, being hypocritical?
- "[W]hat was the trigger for the single cell microorganisms to assemble and organize into multicellular organisms[?]" That question "has remained unanswered until now," according to a report on a study of the Cambrian explosion recently published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. The study looked at how a "sudden surge in the calcium concentration of the Cambrian seawater" was "mandatory for the aggregation and stabilisation of multicellular sponge structures[.]" But what is necessary is not always sufficient; evolving organisms would have required not only energy and certain substances, but also a mechanism to increase genetic information. Also important to remember is that the "simply organized organisms" of which new phyla are said to have evolved "nevertheless survived the last 500 million years almost unchanged."
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The intention of this award is to present a national award of recognition to a obstetrician/gynecologist who has been a champion/supporter of midwifery practice. This is a joint award given by the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc., and the Midwifery Business Network. A.C.N.M. Foundation Staff Appreciation Award
This small monetary award is given annually to a member of the ACNM staff who through their activities as a staff member for ACNM best exemplifies the Foundation mission of supporting excellence in midwifery. A.C.N.M. Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award
This non-monetary recognition is given in honor of one teacher from every ACNM pre-accredited/accredited education program each year. Candidates are recommended by the students in each program. Clinical Stars Award
This non-monetary recognition is given in honor of midwives in clinical practice for 25 or more years who are members of ACNM. Nominations are made by ACNM affiliates and local groups of midwives as a means of honoring their own stars. Scholarships (Basic Midwifery & Graduate Education)Basic Midwifery Student Scholarships
Basic Midwifery Student Scholarships are given to support midwifery students' education expenses. The applicants are judged on academic and financial need criteria. The purpose is to encourage individuals to pursue or complete basic midwifery education, thereby increasing the number, quality and diversity of certified nurse-midwives and certified midwives. (Also given through the under the following smaller donor directed funds: Susan Stein, Margaret Edmundson, Jan Bailey, Mary Keller and Penny Brown
A.C.N.M. Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Education
This award provides a monetary grant that allows CNM/CMs actively enrolled in doctoral or post-doctoral studies to pursue graduate education and research. Initiated and funded for 10 years by Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, more recently funding has come from The Teresa Marsico Endowed Scholarship (which can be used for Basic or Graduate education). If Marsico funding is used, more specific eligibility criteria may apply because priority is to be given to minority students. Sandy Woods Scholarship for Advanced Study – For Midwives of Color
This scholarship was established in honor of Sandy Woods, CNM, of Roosevelt Hospital on her retirement. It is awarded to midwives of color (CNM/CM) who are enrolled in doctoral education. Other Student OpportunitiesVarney Participant Award
This award enables student midwives to attend the ACNM Annual Meeting under the mentorship of an established leader in the field of midwifery. Originally the mentor was Helen Varney Burst; now the mentor is Mary Brucker. OnGoing Group 20th Century Midwife Student Interview Project and Awards
This award is given to SNMs who participate in the OnGoing Group's student project in which they meet and interview an elder midwife and record her/his story. Three awards are given annually to recognize excellence for students who submit an essay about what they learned for the midwife they interviewed and how their listening to the senior midwife may influence their midwifery career. Global Health AwardsThe Jeanne Raisler International Midwifery Award
This award was created in memory of Jeanne Raisler, CNM, DrPH, FACNM, and her commitment to midwifery and to international women's health issues. The award is intended to encourage midwives to become involved in global projects by helping to support an international experience or project that will benefit women in a developing country. Bonnie Westenberg Pedersen International Midwife Award
This award honors the memory of Bonnie Westenberg Pedersen, CNM, and is given to an international midwife to encourage her/him to follow Bonnie's path of leadership, vision and significant contributions to the profession of midwifery and international reproductive health, particularly in developing countries. Other Opportunities – Leadership, Research and Special InitiativesW. Newton Long Award
This award is given to a midwife (CNM/CM) to fund projects which relate to the advancement of midwifery. The following types of activities may be eligible for this award: Advancement of midwifery clinical skills; advancement of midwifery through research and/or the dissemination of midwifery research; promotion of professional midwifery; presentations at medical or midwifery conferences; establishment of new midwifery practices/services; and/or study of different aspects of midwifery practice in the U.S. and abroad. A.C.N.M Leadership Development Award
The purpose of this award is to improve leadership skills in business management and marketing of midwifery practices. CNMs/CMs are eligible to apply. The award is a monetary grant to help cover the costs of attending the Midwifery Business Network (MBN) meeting. A.C.N.M. Foundation Community Awards
These small grants are intended to support community projects that are designed or created to promote excellence in health care for women, infants and families worldwide. This award is ideal for midwives caring for underserved populations, retired midwives, and community activists. Deanne R. Williams Public Policy Fellowship
This fellowship was established in honor of former ACNM executive director Deanne Williams' long and distinguished career in midwifery and public policy. Funding for the first award, which led to the 2010 white paper entitled: "Positioning Midwifery in Health System Reform: A Policy Review" was augmented with funds from The Teresa Marsico Memorial Fund. Rev. 2/14 |


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WIRRAL'S Lib Dems have appealed to the Labour group they helped force out of power to back an alternative budget.
The move follows the announcement last week by the newly elected Tory leader of Wirral Council for a 3% cut in council tax this year.
The Lib Dems – who had helped the Tories into power days before that budget announcement – said they disagree with a 3% cut and instead proposed a £30 rebate to every council tax payer – what they call a "People's Dividend".
Liberal Democrat leader Cllr Tom Harney said his party agreed with most of the Conservatives' budget, but added that their plan "would benefit wealthier households more – but in Wirral, nine out of 10 households live in council tax Band A, B, C or D".
He said: "Under our proposals, households in these council tax bands will pay less council tax than under the Conservative proposals.
"It now appears to be up to Labour to choose."
But Cllr Steve Foulkes, leader of the Labour group, ridiculed the move by the Liberal Democrats and ruled out voting for their budget.
Cllr Foulkes said he was not surprised the other parties had "already fallen out over their budget proposals".
Labour had proposed a zero increase in council tax in their budget plan. But this was removed by the other parties when they lost power.
Cllr Foulkes said: "It beggars belief that the Liberal Democrats expect the Labour group to ride in and rescue their proposal."
He said with the council facing a £78m budget shortfall between 2013 and 2015 both the Tory and Lib Dem plans were "what some might see as a very large election bribe to the voters".
"There is no way that Labour would countenance voting for either proposal, which we view as totally reprehensible, against the interests of the council and the people of Wirral, and effectively the last desperate throw of the dice for two parties terrified of losing any further seats in local elections."
Tory leader Jeff Green said he was pleased the Lib Dems supported most of his budget proposals and his "inclusive approach".
The Conservatives' budget is due to be presented to a meeting of the full council at Wallasey Town Hall on Thursday, with Labour and Lib Dem amendments also on the table. However under council rules if neither of those amendments is passed the Tory budget will stand without a vote being needed.


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Crikey! Add 3G speed to the list of beer-brewing, croc-hunting, and bum-booting that Australians claim to do better, stronger, and faster than just about everyone else in the world. Or so an anonymous Telstra exec would have us believe:
"We know what is coming we have seen the new device and it will be available on our network as soon as it is launched in the USA. By Christmas this phone will be capable of 42Mbps which will make it faster than a lot of broadband offerings and the fastest iPhone on any network in the world."
Hard to believe anyone outside the Jobspod has seen the actual device (remember AT&T hadn't even seen the first gen model until Macworld 2007), so this one sounds fishy from the get-go.
Also, 42Mbps is jaw-dropping, face-smacking fast, and would pretty much require the next-next gen, tippity-top end HSDPA technology, known as HSDPA+ or HSDPA Evolution. Right now Telstra maxes out at around 14.4 and while they reportedly claimed they will reach 21 by the end of 2008, that's a far cry from delivering twice that in half the time, which is what making the rumored June iPhone 3G launch would require.
I'm calling shenanigans. What do you think?
That about triples my home cable connection for speed... I will believe it when I see it, but I agree about the shenanigans!
Ok, supposing for a minute this is true, what would that tell us about the RF chip in the new iPhone? There can't be many capable of 42 Mbs I'd have thought. In fact, are any known?
Also, is there an tiPb articles forum yet? Somewhere I can edit mistakes like missing the p in Mbps? :)
starting with the iPhone's alleged baseband chip—the Infineon's S-GOLD3, which tops at 7.2Mbps.
There are no 14.4Mbps baseband chips commercially available in the market now—much less back when the new 3G iPhone development started
• In fact, there are no HDSPA-based mobile devices of any kind supporting more than 7.2Mbps at this point, and even those are still not common.
The 3G baseband chip most likely to be in the iPhone 3G is the Infineon S-Gold 3.
• The iPhone beta firmware code specifically mentions the Infineon S-GOLD 3.
• There have been multiple press and analysts' reports about Infineon getting the contract for the next version, continuing its relationship with Apple—right now the iPhone uses the Infineon S-GOLD 2 as its baseband chip.
The S-GOLD 3 tops at 7.2Mbps.
So yeah, not happening/doesn't matter for iPhone users as it won't be able to be fully utilized due to hardware limitations.


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As City Councilman Bill Greenlee recently fought to pass a bill mandating that some companies offer employees paid sick leave, he got a lesson in how Philly's largest businesses feel about such regulations. One lobbyist, says Greenlee, broke it down for him: The lobbyist "said to me, in a frustrated manner, 'Dammit, we don't want you to tell us what to do,'" Greenlee recalls. "I think that's really what [the resistance to paid sick leave] is all about."
Leading the charge under that banner was Philly's highest-grossing company, Comcast. Last year Comcast spent $108,429.36 on Philly lobbyists, primarily targeting paid sick leave. Since Comcast is believed to already provide paid sick leave to most of its employees, critics theorize that the company wants to make another point — that it can do what it pleases.
And it often does, flexing its political might at all levels of government, from City Council to Pennsylvania's General Assembly to the United States Congress. These tactics have won Comcast millions of dollars' worth of government largesse and soft-touch regulation, and supplied supportive politicians with generous campaign contributions. But consumer advocates say we're getting the short end of this deal.
They point, in particular, to 2011, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Comcast's mammoth and controversial merger with NBC-Universal. Critics argued that the combination of Comcast, the country's largest cable and Internet-service provider, and NBCU, a major content producer, would allow the company to shut out rival content producers and distributors.
"Telecommunications policy in this country is the story of monopoly, concentrating power and wealth in the hands of a few. Ultimately, consumers lose," says Todd O'Boyle, of the good-government group Common Cause. "Comcast, as the nation's largest cable provider, holds the cards. They name their own terms with consumers and, too often, with regulators."
Nowhere was merger support stronger than in Philadelphia, where then-Gov. Ed Rendell said it would bring "prestige" to the city and Mayor Michael Nutter gushed that "any announcement that shines a positive national spotlight on Philadelphia can only be good news for this city and for all Philadelphians."
U.S. Rep. Bob Brady led 15 of Pennsylvania's 18 House members in signing a letter to the FCC, drafted by Comcast lobbyist (and former chief of staff to Sen. Arlen Specter) David Urban, promoting the deal. It would be, Brady's chief of staff suggested to the Inquirer, "congressional malpractice to not help a major employer and taxpayer [in the state]." Rep. Allyson Schwartz signed, as did Rep. Chaka Fattah, who also joined a group of black and Hispanic lawmakers urging approval.
But the company's longstanding opposition to an open Internet made consumer advocates wary. In 2009, Brady, whom the Sunlight Foundation calls the "Congressman from Comcast," circulated a letter, also signed by Fattah and Schwartz, criticizing the FCC's attempt to enforce net neutrality, the principle that Internet providers should treat all information passing through their pipes equally. In 2008, the FCC sanctioned Comcast for blocking access to applications like the file-sharing site BitTorrent, though its decision was overturned after Comcast sued.
The political pressure to approve the merger was strong. Comcast spent $19.6 million on federal lobbying in 2011 and its employees and PACs made $5.1 million in contributions to PACs, parties, candidates and third-party groups during the 2011-2012 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In 2009, Comcast also made $400 million in politically savvy (and tax-deductible) charity donations to win the support of nonprofits and politicians, according to communications-law expert Susan Crawford's new book Captive Audience, which chronicles the rise of telecommunications monopolies.
In 2011, the FCC voted to approve the merger by a four-to-one vote. Comcast soon hired one of those "yes" votes — Republican Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker — as senior vice president of government affairs. When Seattle-based Reel Grrls criticized the move on Twitter, Comcast terminated donations to their teen film camp. The company later apologized.
Commissioner Michael Copps, who cast the sole dissenting vote, complained the deal would not only prompt the harmful "cableization of the open Internet" but further undermine American journalism. Copps failed to secure a condition to "beef up the news operation at NBC," and argued that there is "nothing in this deal to address the fundamental damage that has been inflicted by years of outrageous consolidation and newsroom cuts. … Investigative journalism is not even a shell of its former self. All of this means it's more difficult for citizens to hold the powerful accountable."
Merger critics' fears were soon realized. In 2012, Comcast was accused of privileging its own Xfinity video-streaming service over competitors like Netflix, by exempting Xfinity use on the Xbox console from Comcast customers' 250-gigabyte monthly data cap.
In February, Comcast's profits and share price soared after the company announced it would pay $16.7 billion to buy the final 49 percent of NBC-Universal from General Electric.
Comcast, which contended that the merger would give consumers greater access to content, asked City Paper to submit written questions and then declined to answer them.
The Comcast Center became the city's tallest building when it opened in 2008, its 58 stories hailed by then-Gov. Ed Rendell as a "wonderful shot in the arm for Pennsylvania and for Philadelphia." The benefit, he said, of "being home to one of the world's leading technology, communications, entertainment and media companies" is "incalculable."
This boon wasn't free. The state gave $42.75 million in grants and other assistance, while the city's 10-year-property-tax-abatement program resulted in a tax break of $28.8 million from 2008 to 2013. In 2008, Rendell and Comcast Center owner Liberty Property Trust also (unsuccessfully) lobbied the Republican-controlled state legislature to make the Comcast Center a Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone, which would have exempted the property from many state and city taxes.
Comcast may also benefit from evading the corporate state income tax. More than 1,000 Comcast subsidiaries and holding companies are registered in Delaware, the United States' most popular on-shore tax haven. Though Pennsylvania corporate-tax payments are not public, Comcast paid an average nationwide corporate-income-tax rate of just 3.4 percent from 2008 to 2010, according to a 2011 study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The average state corporate-income-tax rate is 6 percent, and Pennsylvania's rate is 9.99 percent.
Though business leaders complain about Pennsylvania's second-highest-in-the-nation corporate-income tax, 73 percent of corporations operating in the state paid no corporate-income tax in 2010, according to Department of Revenue data. Harrisburg Republicans have resisted efforts to close the "Delaware Loophole" like mandating combined reporting of subsidiaries.
Comcast has opposed combined reporting legislation in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and has spent $455,635 lobbying in Harrisburg since 2007, including on matters related to "taxation." According to the National Institute on Money in State Politics, Comcast hired 46 Harrisburg lobbyists during 2011-'12 alone. "The fact that Comcast has been so prominent in seeking to prevent the state from enacting combined reporting is a strong indicator to me that they're engaging in some kind of tax-sheltering activity that would be nullified by combined reporting," says Michael Mazerov of the left-leaning Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
Asked about the grants and tax credits the company received, a Comcast spokesperson referred CP to a June 2008 Econsult study, which found that the company and Comcast Center made more than $2 billion in total expenditures within Pennsylvania during construction, and paid $56 million in local and state taxes. The project created $1.6 billion in ongoing annual expenditures, and $70 million in state and local tax payments. The commonwealth, according to the study, reaped "more than six times its initial investment" in tax revenues.
As a point of comparison: In 2011, chief executive Brian Roberts made $26.9 million. The majority of trips taken by one $40 million company jet over six months in 2010, according to a 2011 Wall Street Journal investigation, were to Martha's Vineyard and Palm Beach, where Roberts has homes, and to other resorts.
Comcast executive vice president David Cohen has parlayed local influence into national power. He began as the disciplined superego chief of staff to Mayor Rendell's dangerously free-spirited id in the 1990s, and now serves as self-described "consigliere" to Brian Roberts and co-founder Ralph Roberts.
Cohen, who according to the Washington Post makes $15 million per year (not including all stock holdings), makes the public case for leaving a benevolent Comcast unregulated and unaccountable — and it's a tough case to make.
The company has long had a reputation for sharp elbows, and currently faces a class-action federal lawsuit accusing it of employing anti-competitive practices to force small competitors like cable company RCN out of the Philadelphia market, including by denying access to lucrative Comcast-owned sports programs. RCN also accused then-Mayor Rendell and City Council of delaying approval of its plan.
[UPDATE: On Wednesday after CP went to press, the Supreme Court denied Philadelphia Comcast customers the right to proceed in their class-action suit in a politically divided 5-4 decision, a ruling that will more broadly limit plaintiffs' access to the courts.]
"You will have to search long and hard in this city to find anyone who will say anything bad about Comcast or the Robertses," Rendell, who counted on the family's support for his first mayoral campaign, told the Los Angeles Times in 2001. This is perhaps not true among its customers.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable each have near-monopoly control over cable television and broadband Internet in their respective U.S. markets, and thus have little incentive to lower the price of Internet service or bundled cable television packages, or to expand the fast-but-expensive-to-build fiber-optics networks common in Europe. Low-income Americans on the losing edge of the digital divide get the rawest deal. In Philadelphia, four of every 10 people have no Internet access at home.
Cohen, however, has called broadband access "the civil-rights issue of our time," and touts Internet Essentials, a program initiated as a condition of the merger that provides reduced-price Internet and computers to the parents of low-income children, as a gesture of corporate goodwill.
But in November, Cohen let it slip to the Washington Post that Comcast had come up with Internet Essentials prior to the merger and then held it back to preserve a bargaining chip with the FCC.
Consumer advocates criticized Internet Essentials' slow roll-out in Philadelphia, and some call it a ploy to abuse privileged access to schools and community groups as a way to lure in new customers. Though Comcast says staff and volunteers are separated from the company's main sales staff, applicants with past-due Comcast bills and even current or recent Comcast customers are not eligible.
"For more than 80 percent of Americans, the only choice for quasi-world-class Internet access is their local cable monopoly. We're getting second-class service at very high prices with no real oversight," says author Susan Crawford, a former special assistant to President Obama on tech policy who consumer advocates want nominated to the FCC. "Within our borders we're creating two Americas: a world in which some people can get access to world-class educational resources and health care and new jobs, [while] … a third of Americans don't even have a wired connection at home."
Verizon, which provides a FiOS fiber-optic Internet service in Philadelphia and a few other markets, is a paper tiger of a competitor. In 2011, the company announced that it would stop building out its fiber infrastructure just as it struck a deal whereby it and leading cable providers will market each other's services: Verizon selling Comcast cable, Comcast selling Verizon's wireless. By 2015, Comcast will even be able to sell its own branded mobile service as part of the deal.
In September 2012, Philadelphia television viewers were treated to a half-million-dollar advertising campaign funded by the Republican State Leadership Committee accusing Democratic state attorney general candidate Kathleen Kane of being "soft" on rapists during her time as assistant district attorney in Lackawanna County.
The cases cited, however, were not actually handled by Kane, and Republican candidate David Freed hurried to distance himself from what Factcheck.org called "one of the most blatantly false attack ads of the political season."
But Comcast, like other corporations that fund the RSLC, received less scrutiny. The company has donated $730,531 to the group since 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
In July 2012, Gov. Tom Corbett headlined a fundraiser for the RSLC held at the Comcast Center, according to the Daily News. The RSLC had long since become a central cash nexus between state Republican politicians and interested corporations. Eight years earlier, the group donated $480,000 to Corbett's campaign for attorney general, most of it from Aubrey McClendon, who was then chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Co. and would grow into a titan of natural-gas drilling in the state.
Comcast is also active in American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative alliance of legislators and corporations that advances legislation in state capitols nationwide. According to the liberal Center for Media and Democracy, the company sits on ALEC's Communications and Technology Task Force, which has opposed federal broadband funding. Comcast has been accused of thwarting federal broadband investments in cities nationwide in order to stifle competition.
In 2009, Philly's grassroots Media Mobilizing Project protested Comcast's filing of comments with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ragarding the city's Digital Philadelphia bid for a stimulus-funded broadband grant. Comcast also filed comments with regard to other cities' applications.
Comcast denied charges that it was advocating against the applications, but Cohen had told Bloomberg News that they would oppose "applications to provide service in areas where there is already broadband service."
Ultimately, Rendell decided not to endorse the broadband infrastructure portion of the grant, drawing speculation that Cohen, one of Philadelphia's most powerful Democrats, had carried the day.
Earlier this year, Cohen endorsed Corbett for re-election and held a fundraiser for him at the same Mount Airy home where he had hosted Obama in 2011. Some wondered whether the surprise endorsement signaled a lack of Democratic donor enthusiasm. In reality, it simply made the raw political calculus that dictates corporate power unambiguous. Cohen, according to the Inquirer, raised $200,000 for Corbett, nearly half the sum he raised for the president.
Cohen has extended his support to politicians on both sides of the aisle, donating to Republican state Senate Majority Leader Domenic Pileggi as early as 2007, and to Republican House Speaker Sam Smith since 2004. From 2003 to 2012, Comcast has given $11 million to state-level candidates nationwide, including $1.26 million in Pennsylvania, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
Comcast, of course, is a very successful business. And for Philadelphia's most outsize corporate citizen, politics is just a continuation of business by other means.
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Lalique Cologne by Lalique, Launched by the design house of lalique in 1997, lalique is classified as a sharp, oriental, woody fragrance . This masculine scent possesses a blend of citrus, cedar and jasmine, with lower notes of vanilla and woods. It is recommended for casual wear. All products are original, authentic name brands. We do not sell knockoffs or imitations.
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I have been searching for years for a signature fragrance. Lalique pour homme is perfect because it lasts long, is not very well-known, has an excellent, enticing scent and is very well-priced. I use the product for the office. Most colognes wear off within an hour for me, but Lalique lasts a long time. It is the perfect scent.
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- Clean & Fresh
- Great Value
- Not Overpowering
Best Uses
- Anytime
Comments about Lalique Cologne:
nice laid back scent like myself
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- Fresh/Aquatic
- Clean & Fresh
- Draws Compliments
- Great Smell
- Not Overpowering
- Sensual
Best Uses
- Evening Use
- Signature Fragrance
- Special Occasions
Comments about Lalique Cologne:
We collect Lalique glass items and tried this once and have loved it ever since. Fabulous scent, use for evenings and special occasions. Now I want to create something with the 35 empty bottles that I have.
- Fragrance Type:
- Citrus/Fruity, Fresh/Aquatic, Woody/Earthy
- Clean & Fresh
- Draws Compliments
- Great Smell
- Not Overpowering
Best Uses
- Anytime
- Daily Use
Comments about Lalique Cologne:
I have used this product for several years. Get lots of compliments. Great fragrance.
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- Woody/Earthy
- Classic Vintage Scent
- Doesn't Hold
- Too Weak
Best Uses
- Funerals
- Signature Fragrance
- Special Occasions
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This is a scent for men over fifty...not for the young at heart...there are better scents than this one out there.I bought this blind because I judged the notes to be interesting...what a mistake.Do not buy this as a blind buy... to put it harshly...no offense...an old man scent.
This last on average 5 hours on my skin not more.
The only positive on this fragrance that I enjoyed is the base notes.
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- Oriental/Spicy, Woody/Earthy
- Great Smell
- Great Value
- Long-Lasting
- Not Overpowering
- Very Mild Projection
Best Uses
- Special Occasions
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Perfumier, Maurice Roucel who is especially talented in creating scents with an old school vintage(y) vibe, is perfectly cast, to create this delicate, decidedly "old world" gentlemen's Eau De Parfum. We're talking Lemon Meringue from Chez Maxim's, florals from the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris in the 20's; all housed in an antique cedar curio cabinet. Powdery and soft on the top, the Cedar and Sandalwood, prominently anchors it thru it's entirety, keeping it Masculine; Albeit a masculine in wireframes and garters(that's men's garters). Wear it Spring and Summer to dressy events. Longevity lives up to it's Parfum strength. But, projection sadly softer than the already characteristically low volume of most Eau de Parfums. What a terrific opportunity to play matchmaker then, with the winsome Bvlgari Eau Parfumee Au The Vert. A "layering" match made in heaven. Bvlgari's similarly airy but linear citrus and florals is perfectly harmonious with that of Lalique pour homme's, while amplifying Lalique's projection and equalizing it's heavier wood base. Recommended for collectors, and anyone else But the modern scent ONLY guys, not only for it's juice, but for the equally elegant gold rimmed etched glass flacon. A SWELLegant affair!
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The Lord Deserves To Be Praised
1We don't deserve praise!
The Lord alone deserves
all of the praise,
because of his love
and faithfulness.
2 # 3 Macc 6.11 Why should the nations ask,
"Where is your God?"
3Our God is in the heavens,
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4 # Ps 135.15-18Let Jer 1.4-73Rev 9.20 The idols of the nations
are made of silver and gold.
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Mahala Greer, originally from Paonia, has joined 220 other individuals from across the United States in Vinton, Iowa where they are devoting the next 10 months to giving back to communities in the North Central Region of the United States.
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Since arriving, Greer and the other members have gone through an intensive training to prepare them for serving in communities. This four-week training period emphasized teamwork, leadership development, communication, diversity and service learning. During this time, members were also assigned to one of 20 teams. Each team serves, on average, on four to seven projects during their term of service with NCCC.
On March 8, NCCC members completed their training and were officially inducted into the AmeriCorps NCCC program with the ceremony being held at Vinton-Shellsburg High School Auditorium. On Monday, March 11, NCCC teams, including Greer and her team, left Vinton to begin serving on their first NCCC service project. She has the task of leading her team, which is serving with Mary McLeod Bethune Intervention and Engagement Center in Mansfield, Ohio, until April 24. On this project, the team is doing interior demolition, painting and landscaping at the new Carter Neighborhood Plaza Center. The center is an urban development project that provides a multi-purpose facility and commercial kitchen for small emerging incubator businesses.
Prior to joining NCCC, Greer graduated from Paonia High School in May 2006 and University of Colorado – Denver in May 2012 with a bachelor's degree in Spanish language and literature. Greer joined NCCC because she has always wanted to be part of a program dedicated to domestic community development. She believes NCCC will allow her to travel to parts of the U.S. she had never been to while engaging in direct service.
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Hamilton Smith is ready for his shot at a Triple Crown race with Done Talking. (Kenneth K. Lam, Baltimore Sun / April 28, 2012) |
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On a cool Saturday morning, Hamilton A. Smith — the programs call him that, but most every acquaintance calls him Ham or Hammy — is doing his best to do as he always has.
He moves around his barn at Laurel Park, working his staff. His rapid-fire delivery is steady, always, and his humor wry. But he can be sarcastic, too.
"You're never quite sure how to take him," says Sheldon Russell, the 24-year-old who is Maryland's leading jockey.
Smith does this on purpose, keeping his riders and other workers — he's never had an actual assistant, like many trainers — on edge.
His nurturing is saved for the horses. He's a hands-on trainer, has been for his 36-year career.
"I like to watch 'em the whole way," he said. "Get to know 'em, see how they respond to everything."
Smith, 67, lives for routine. On this late April day, it is hard to adhere to. He's less than 24 hours from boarding a van bound for Churchill Downs where, on Saturday, he'll saddle Done Talking — a 50-1 shot — in the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby.
He had never trained a horse entered in a Triple Crown race.
"Doesn't matter who you are or where you are or how your luck's been," he said. "That's what you want."
Though few people at Laurel mention the impending trip, there's more attention paid than usual to Done Talking and Smith, who generally blends in at a place he's called home for so long.
That has changed, for at least a day.
There's a camera clicking incessantly nearby. Smith cannot help but turn and momentarily stare into the lens when he hears the blur of sound. As the photographer sways and stoops, hoping to get Smith's silhouette outlined against the sky, Smith glances downward.
"This, I'm not used to," he says before walking away.
Maryland horse comes through
Smith comes from a South Carolina farming family, but fell in love with horse racing as a boy when his older brother worked as a jockey. He galloped horses and began training in New England in the early 1970s then worked in Maryland later in the decade before settling here.
A string of strong years in the 1980s gave him the chance to move to New York, to work with owners more intent on paying big money on promising horses. But he was raising a family in Maryland — his wife, JoAnn, "does everything" both at the house and around the barn, where his twin daughters and son spent much of their youth — and said he felt content with his work and held out hope he'd get a great horse.
"There's never been any question whether he could do it," Franklin Smith, his younger brother, said. "The question has always been whether he'd get the horse. Just like the question in a big race is whether you get the luck."
Franklin Smith made sure his brother would get a chance. When he spotted an energetic colt on his South Carolina training farm — he breaks about 150 horses a year — and found out he had been bred in Maryland, he pushed the ownership group, Skeedattle Associates, to keep him and send him to his brother.
Hammy had nearly given up.
"Getting to the Derby wasn't on my mind maybe the way it once was," he said, standing near Done Talking's barn off the first turn at Churchill Downs. "At this point, I just feel fortunate."


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May 15, 2012Motown the Musical doesn't hit Broadway until next year, but some of music's greatest legends caught a sneak preview of the electric new musical and schooled us on what defines that famous "Motown Sound."
October 2, 2012The larger-than-life cast of Big Fish had a great reason to celebrate on October 6: the new musical officially opened on Broadway! See what Norbert Leo Butz and the stars had to say on their big night.
October 7, 2013On May 13, your Broadway favorites headed to the craziest awards show of the season: The 2012 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards. Darren Criss hosted the evening, featuring hilarious songs, a Rent reunion, Wicked surprises and more!
June 6, 2012Holland Taylor returns to Broadway as feisty Texas governor Ann Richards in the new solo play Ann. Hear from Taylor, her director and her many famous friends about what makes this show special.
March 8, 2013Nothing to Hide, a show created by magicians Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimaraes, will play a limited NYC run this fall at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Find out why director Neil Patrick Harris was drawn to it like a moth to a light!
October 21, 2013Residents of Broadway got together and stripped for a good cause on June 16 at Broadway Bares 23. Get an eyeful of all the hot and sexy fun behind the scenes with Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek!
June 25, 2013High school musical theater stars from all over the U.S. competed to take home a coveted Jimmy Award on July 1. Broadway.com chatted with hosts Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana and pint-sized Broadway stars before the show at the Minskoff Theatre.
July 2, 2013Dancing with the Stars faves Karina and Maks return to Broadway in Luis Bravo's Forever Tango, but before they do the dance of lovers on opening night, they joined the rest of the dancers at the Walter Kerr to offer a look at the show.
July 12, 2013
The Roundabout's revival of Sophie Treadwell's Machinal is hitting Broadway this winter, so we chatted with stars Rebecca Hall, Michael Cumpsty, Morgan Spector and more to find out why this shocking real-life story makes for great drama.
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Published February 15, 2013, 12:45 AM
Astro Bob blog: Must-see videos of spectacular Friday fireball over Russia
I should never check the Web before going to bed. Ah, but I did. That's when I came across this video of a spectacular fireball exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk more than 900 miles east of Moscow this morning. Heck, it's nearly as bright as the sun!By: Bob King, Duluth News Tribune