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Florenz Plassmann and Nicolaus Tideman
Accurate Valuation in the Absence of Markets
Neha Khanna
On the Economics of Non-Renewable Resources
Neha Khanna and Martina Vidovic
Facility Participation in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Programs and the Role of Community Characteristics: Evidence From the 33/50 Program.
Neha Khanna
The Income Elasticity of Air Pollution: Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis
Barry E. Jones and Travis D. Nesmith
The Economic Theory of Interest Rate Aggregation
Subal Kumbhakar
Risk Preferences under Price Uncertainties and Production Risk
Barry E. Jones and Travis D. Nesmith
Primal and Dual Representations of the Error in Summation Monetary Aggregates
Barry E. Jones, Gabriel Asaftei, and Lian Wang
Welfare Cost of Inflation in a General Equilibrium Model with Currency and Interest Bearing Deposits
Charlotte Ostergaard, Bent Sørensen, and Oved Yosha
Consumption and Aggregate Constraints: Evidence from US States and Canadian Provinces
Neha Khanna
The Income Elasticity of Non-point Source Air Pollutants
Authors: Florenz Plassmann and Nicolaus Tideman
Title: Accurate Valuation in the Absence of Markets
The law often provides that people are entitled to compensation for losses that occur through the action of others. We argue that in such cases, an appropriate measure of the loss is the reservation price of the plaintiff. If the property is sufficiently unique so that there is no market price that can be used as an approximation, then the only way to learn this subjective reservation price is to have the owner self-assess his property. We describe a mechanism that provides an incentive for the owner to self-assess his property honestly, without requiring that the property's value be objectively observable.
File: Working Paper 0101
Authors: Neha Khanna
Title: On the Economics of Non-Renewable Resources
This paper presents an overview of the key economic results associated with the use of non-renewable resources. The basic Hotelling model of resource depletion is discussed, followed by several extensions. The fundamental result is that scarcity rent rises at the discount rate, and that at equilibrium, marginal benefits from extraction must equal the marginal economic cost. If marginal extraction cost is determined by the remaining stock of the resource, then the result is that the scarcity rent rises at the discount rate less the percentage increase in marginal cost caused by the marginal reduction in remaining reserves.
The versatility of the Hotelling model is clearly brought out in the various qualitatively distinct outcomes possible for the equilibrium production and price trajectories. Production may be monotonically increasing, decreasing, or inverted u-shaped. The equilibrium price trajectory is determined by the interaction between the marginal extraction cost and the scarcity rent. Typically, it is increasing throughout the production horizon. However, if the marginal cost is declining rapidly, it may exceed the scarcity rent in the early part of the production horizon and price will decline. Eventually, however, it must rise as scarcity rent rises sharply.
The results obtained under the Hotelling model are robust to the assumption of market structure - both monopoly and perfect competition yield qualitatively similar outcomes, though, of course, the price and quantity paths are different.
File: Working paper 0102
Authors: Neha Khanna and Martina Vidovic
Title: Facility Participation in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Programs and the Role of Community Characteristics: Evidence From the 33/50 Program.
The advent of voluntary pollution prevention programs has raised the question of their impact on the distribution of pollution. Do these programs enhance or alleviate the current inequity in the distribution of pollution in the US? This paper examines the evidence from the 33/50 Program. The participation decision of a facility is modeled as a probit function of various community characteristics such as income, race, educational status, housing tenure, and propensity for collective action. Several firm level variables identified in the currently published literature as having a statistically significant influence on the participation decision of the firm are included as control variables. Preliminary results suggest that a facility's decision to participate in the 33/50 Program is generally not influenced by these community characteristics. However, there is some tentative evidence to suggest that the probability of participation increases with median household income of the zip code in which the facility is located, and decreases with the percentage of the zip code population below the poverty line. It is unclear whether more polluting facilities are more likely to participate in the Program.
File: Working Paper 0103
Authors: Neha Khanna
Title: The Income Elasticity of Air Pollution: Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis
This paper estimates the relationship between income and pollution while controlling for the influence of other relevant factors such as economic and trade structure, as well as socio-economic factors including race, education, housing, and propensity for collective action. The analysis is based on 1990 ambient concentrations of five gases and data for U.S. census tracts. The traditional inverted U-shaped curve is obtained in the case of PM10 only. For NOx the curve is U-shaped. For the remaining three gases the relationship between ambient concentrations and median household income is statistically insignificant. Furthermore, while the income elasticity of pollution is negative and monotonically declining for PM10, it is positive and rising in the case of NOx. These results call into question the global applicability of the Environmental Kuznets Curve relationship.
File:Working paper 0104
Authors: Barry E, Jones, Travis D. Nesmith
Title: The Economic Theory of Interest Rate Aggregation
The empirical relationship between monetary aggregates, real output, and interest rates has featured prominently in studies of aggregate money demand, the monetary transmission mechanism, identification of monetary policy rules, and the business cycle. Such studies typically incorporate a single interest rate, but there is no consensus as to which is the relevant one. In this paper, we prove that if the conditions under which a monetary aggregate exists are imposed, then a derived interest rate aggregate can be defined. If the subutility function is homothetic, the interest rate aggregate can be tracked using index number methods. Including the interest rate aggregate in a model that contains a monetary aggregate is superior to choosing an individual interest rate in an ad hoc fashion because of internal consistency. We investigate the empirical relevance of our results by comparing the dual interest rate on money to individual interest rates using frequency domain techniques and by investigating money-income causality. We also generalize our results to allow for risk.
File: Working Paper 0105, Appendix 1, Appendix 2
Authors: Subal Kumbhakar
Title: Risk Preferences under Price Uncertainties and Production Risk
This paper deals with estimation of risk preferences of producers when they face uncertainties in output and input prices, in addition to uncertainty in production (usually labeled as production risk). All these uncertainty components are modeled in the context of production theory where the producers maximize expected utility of anticipated profit. Risk preference functions associated with these uncertainties are derived without assuming a specific form of the utility function. Moreover, no distributional assumptions are made on the distributions of the random variables representing price and production uncertainties. A multi-stage estimation procedure is developed to estimate the parameters of the production function and risk preference functions associated with output price uncertainty, input price uncertainty and production risk. Production risk is specified in such a way that one can identify inputs with increasing, decreasing and constant production risks. Similarly, risk aversion behavior is specified in such a way that one can test for different types of risk aversion behavior.
File: Working paper 0106
Authors: Barry E, Jones, Travis D. Nesmith
Title: Primal and Dual Representations of the Error in Summation Monetary Aggregates
We provide primal and dual representations for the tracking error in the official monetary aggregates published by the Federal Reserve System from the standpoint of monetary aggregation theory. We show that the tracking error will be zero if either all asset stocks or their prices change proportionally. This result implies that the squared tracking error is a function of the degree of non-proportionality in the changes in either asset stocks or their prices. We present two measures of the degree of non-proportionality that were originally developed by Theil (1967) and Allen and Diewert (1981). We first illustrate the interaction between the tracking error and these measures using simulated data. We next examine the available time series, which indicate that the degree of non-proportionality in monetary data changes over time and may increase systematically under certain monetary policy regimes. In particular, we show that the degree of non-proportionality for both asset stocks and their prices was very high during 1978-1982, when the Federal Reserve was targeting nominal monetary aggregates, contributing to a large error in the measurement of the underlying policy instrument.
File: Working Paper 0107
Authors: Barry E, Jones, Gabriel Asaftei, and Lian Wan
Title: Welfare Cost of Inflation in a General Equilibrium Model with Currency and Interest Bearing Deposits
The user cost of non-interest bearing currency is the nominal interest rate. Increases in inflation lead to decreased real currency held in steady state, which imposes a welfare cost. Lucas (2000) estimates this welfare cost in a model with a single non-interest bearing monetary asset. Lucas suggests applying monetary aggregation/index number theory to generalize the model to contain interest-bearing deposits. We solve a general equilibrium model with three agents: a household, a goods producing firm, and a financial firm. We assume that currency and deposits provide utility to the household and form a weakly separable group in the utility function. We use monetary aggregation and index number methods to calibrate the model and estimate the welfare cost of inflation. We compare these estimates to welfare cost estimates from a model in which all money is non-interest bearing currency. We find that the welfare cost of inflation is substantially lower in the models with interest-bearing deposits than in models with only non-interest bearing currency. We also find that the welfare cost of inflation is positively related to the own price elasticity of aggregate money demand.
File: Working paper 0108, Graphs
Authors: Charlotte Ostergaard, Bent Sørensen, and Oved Yosha
Title: Consumption and Aggregate Constraints: Evidence from US States and Canadian Provinces
State-level consumption exhibits excess sensitivity to lagged income to the same extent as US aggregate data, but state-specific (idiosyncratic) consumption exhibits substantially less sensitivity to lagged state-specific income---a result that also holds for Canadian provinces. We propose the following interpretation: borrowing and lending in response to changes in consumer demand is easier for individual US states than for the US as a whole and, therefore, the measured deviation from the benchmark PIH model is smaller. However, lagged state-specific variables help predict state-specific consumption suggesting that the PIH model still requires qualification.
File: Working Paper 0109
Authors: Neha Khanna
Title: The Income Elasticity of Non-point Source Air Pollutants
This paper examines the income-pollution relationship for three non-point source pollutants in 1990. Ambient concentrations reported at monitors throughout the U.S. are regressed on median household income and other socio-economic variables for the census tracts in which the monitors were located. Contrary to earlier studies, a u-shaped relationship is obtained.
File: Working Paper 0110
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Good Afternoon to all my fellow GSOMers,
I'd like to give a preview of all the games going on around the Association (The National Basketball one) today. Sometimes I get so bored when the Warriors don't play, that I just feel like watching some basketball and talk with my homies from the Bay.
It's Friday... you got no job... you ain't got shiz to do... Let's get high off of basketball!
So, onto the matchups I'm least excited about AND least likely to watch:
Now onto the matchups I might watch for a little while:
THE OK: Bulls Vs. Raptors (I'm a little intrigued by that Toronto starting line-up)
76ers Vs. Hawks (Besides the Wizards, the 76ers are the only other team that has all five of their starters averaging double digits)
Spurs Vs. Jazz (The Jazz are just so God-awful, But I hope the win!)
Finally, the games I am for sure going to watch:
Suns Vs Nets (I'm curious to see why the suns are 5-3 at this point. I haven't seen much of Eric Bledsoe lately either.)
Pistons Vs. Kings (This will be broadcasted through ESPN Tonight, so we're relegated to watch them. Monroe/Drummond Vs. DaMarcus/Thompson. This game will definitely showcase some of the up-and-coming Big Men)
Grizzlies Vs. Lakers (I've watched these teams plenty)
Timberwolves Vs. Nuggets (This game will be broadcasted through ESPN Tonight. Hoping the Nuggets get the win. Love/Rubio Tandem is always great to watch. ESPECIALLY IN SPANISH SAP!!! "Rubio camina el balon, Rubio pasa, LOVE ANOTA CON UN DUNK!")
Trailblazers Vs. Celtics (OakTown Native, Damian Lillard and LaMarcus vs. uuuuuhhh???)
Mavericks Vs. Heat (Rematch of the 2006 and 2011 Finals. And Monta gets to play against his "equal", Dwyane Wade. Roll the tape!)


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Bank of America rethinks teleworking
Like many companies, Bank of America slowly but surely embraced teleworking as a workplace strategy.
The bank launched a "My Work" program in 2005, and it has expanded significantly ever since. The benefits for employees are fairly obvious. Those with suitable jobs, the lack of commute and the flexibility was nice. For the bank, it was a way to save money and promote environmentally sound workplace policies. But as the pressure to keep costs low mounts, the bank is rethinking the program.
According to the Charlotte Observer, "the bank has asked department managers to determine which job categories would better serve the bank by having workers come into the office…Specific changes will vary depending on the line of business, the Charlotte bank said Tuesday. Some new employees may be told they are not eligible to work from home until they've worked at the bank for a year. Others may lose the ability to work remotely altogether. Workers who will be affected are being notified in the next several weeks."
The bank apparently also "intends to curtail the practice of informally allowing employees to keep an office at a bank location while spending much of their time working remotely."
The issue first and foremost is cost. If the programs are not saving the company money, executives will be less likely to support them. Indeed, unless these sorts of programs are done right, the savings could easily prove elusive. Some employees may end up with a laptop and desktop, a smartphone as well as a desk phone. The teleworking software and security issues are certainly not trivial from a cost perspective.
For employees, this is disconcerting to say the least. For many, this will be a life-altering change. But at a time like this, they'd be wise not to complain.
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Kanhangad/Hosdurg Fort
This place is renowned for its chain of forts built by Somashekara Nayak of Ikkeri dynasty and also for the Nithyanandashram, an internationally recognised spiritual centre
Cheruvathur: This is the home of the illustrious poets and scholars of Kuttamath. The ruins of a Dutch fort built in the 18th century can be found in the Veeramala Hills. Cheruvathur is also a fascinating picnic spot.
Kottancherry (30 km north east of Kanhangad): This place bears great resemblance to the scenic beauty of Kodaikanal. The rain forests near Konnakkad are ideal for trekking.
Trikkaripur: The old seat of the Thazhekattu Mana, Trikkaripur is the hometown of T. S. Thirumumb, poet and freedom fighter, and Guru Chandu Panikkar, the famous Kathakali artist.


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CENTRAL ILLINOIS -- As the residents of Oklahoma continue to clean up and start the rebuilding process, there is a way you can help here at home and treat yourself at the same time.
Monday, Papa Murphy's locations all across Central Illinois are pitching in to raise money for the residents of Oklahoma, by donating half of their pizza sales to the "United Way Tornado Relief Fund."
Store owners say it's all about giving back in a time of need.
"We hope to raise as much money as possible," said Kim Fields, Co-owner of Papa Murphy's in Morton. "I can't even begin to say the amount because I don't want to put a limit on it. I just hope people come out and get pizzas and we can help those in need."
Many area stores are open until 8 p.m. Check with your local Papa Murphy's for more information.


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Greensburg —
John Calvin, Morgan, 88, born in Clarksburg, May 14, 1924, he left his work here Jan. 8, 2013 after living a very full life.
John had lived in Monticello since 1986, after leaving his active vocational life in Elkhart.
He had served in the US Army as a Major in the 114th Airborne Division. John was stationed in the Philippines during World War II.
He then returned to the U.S. and attended Purdue for his undergraduate studies, where he received his Master's Degree in Education.
On Oct. 6, 1950, he married June Finley on her parent's farm, near Freeland Park.
He moved to Elkhart where he was a teacher and guidance counselor, then retired in 1986 as the Director of the Elkhart Area Career Center.
John was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Elkhart and Monticello.
John stayed active in the Army Reserves for over 20 years.
He was also a 60-year plus member of the Masonic Lodge.
John had volunteered, and served with the Boy Scouts of America for many years. John was an avid reader, and liked photography. He loved automobiles and working on them.
John was always on the go, and was a habitual "do it yourselfer", rewarding himself with ice cream. John will always be remembered for wearing a bow-tie.
Survivors include his wife, June Morgan; son, James Morgan; daughter, Jane Malashock; and brother, Loyd Morgan.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Mary Morgan; and his brothers, George and Layman Morgan.


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Getting Started on a Low-Carb Diet
By Laura Dolson
- Popular Low-Carb Diet Plans
- Low-Carb Foods to Have on Hand
- Food Lists for Specific Diets
- Special Ingredients in Low-Carb and Sugar-Free Foods
Low-Carb Basics
Before starting to cut carbs, it's important to have an idea of what you'll be doing and why.
- What is a Low-Carb Diet?
- Is a Low-Carb Diet Right for You?
- Seven Myths About Low-Carb Diets
- 7 Carb-Cutting Steps
- 20 Benefits of Low-Carb Diets
- Ecourse: How to Cut Carbs
- Before You Start a Low-Carb Diet
- Favorite Things about Low-Carb Eating
- What to Expect the First Six Months
- The First Month of Weight Loss
- Budget Low-Carb Eating
- How Low-Carb Diets Work -- It's all About Blood Sugar
- 6 Steps for Low-Carb Beginners
- Top Ten Low-Carb Mistakes
- Getting Through Your First Week
- Success Stories and Tips from Fellow Low-Carbers
Your Low-Carb Pyramid
So, how much should you eat of which types of foods? If you are following one of the popular plans, you will follow the guidelines of that diet. Here is another way to look at it. Although there is individual variations, there are some guidelines you can follow, as well as steps to take if you want to change your diet gradually rather than all at once.
- Low-Carb Food Pyramid -- Illustrated Version
- Low-Carb Food Pyramid -- Text Version
- How Much Carbohydrate is Right for You?
- How Much Protein do you Need?
- Seven Steps Towards Low-Carb Eating
Low-Carb Food Lists
Wondering which veggies have the least carbs? What's the difference in carbs between regular and nonfat milk? These lists will help you out.
- High-Protein Food List (with protein counts)
- Carb Counts in Dairy Foods
- Alcoholic Beverages on a Low-Carb Diet
- Yogurt on a Low-Carb Diet
- Carbs in Coffee Drinks
Menu Help
Can't think of what to have for breakfast, lunch, or Thanksgiving? Here are some menu suggestions for different meals, as well as 12 complete menus which are low carb and contain all basic vitamins and minerals (except, in come cases, calcium and vitamin D).
Popular Low-Carb Diet Plans
Quite a few different authors have written books about low-carb diets, and they all have different ideas about how best to go about it. Here are some of the main authors of low-carb diets. Each section tells the basics of the diet, pros and cons of each, and most have food lists and other information.
- Atkins Diet
- South Beach Diet
- Comparison of Atkins and South Beach Diets
- Ketogenic Diets
- Weston Price Dietary Recommendations
- Paleo Diet/ Caveman Diet
- Protein Power Diet
- Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Diet
- Sonoma Diet
- Sugar Busters Diet
Low-Carb Foods to Have on Hand
Out with the old, and in with the new! When you change your way of eating, it's best to have food in your home that supports you in your new endeavor. These guides will help you know what to keep and what to get rid of.
Food Lists for Specific Diets
Here are food lists for some of the poplar low-carb diet plans.
Special Ingredients in Low-Carb and Sugar-Free Foods
If you're cutting carbs, you're probably reading food labels. And you may be seeing strange words like "oligofructose" and "maltitol." What are these ingredients? It's actually pretty important to understand them. And any time you see "Net Carbs" on the front of the label and a different number on the back, it's time to look pretty carefully.


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Wednesday morning, the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport opened an upgraded terminal to passengers.
Doors opened at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. The first flight took off about 6 a.m.
This is the first phase of upgrades at the airport. The newly opened area includes a covered parking deck with access to the terminal, a centralized checkpoint to travel between concourses, new eating options, and a children's play area.
The centralized checkpoint, a key feature of the renovation, is meant to streamline the check-in process and save travelers time.
The old terminal required passengers to check baggage at the counter and then take their luggage to a separate location. The inline baggage system costs $14 million alone. "Passengers will be able to actually walk up to the counter… check-in… check their bags.. and leave their bags rather than having to roll them over to TSA," Toni Herrera-Bast, a spokesperson for the Birmingham Airport Authority reports.
Passengers say they liked what they saw. "Oh yes, they got it right," Laura Clevenger of McCalla Al. said. "This is a good thing for the Birmingham airport." Clevenger was one of the first passengers to fly out of the newly-renovated structure Wednesday morning.
The renovations also include additional food options past security, many of them local establishments. Jim N Nick's Bar-B-Que, Good People Brewing Company and Starbucks are only a few of the venues passengers can look forward to.
The upgraded facility also boasts a "children's play area designed by the McWane Science and private rooms for nursing mothers," a Birmingham Airport Authority statement reports.
The upgrades are part of a $201.6 million modernization project. The final phase of the project includes work on Concourse C. Construction is expected to begin sometime in the spring and should be complete by 2014, according to Bast.
Additionally, "Phase I improvements also included attention to sustainability, with an emphasis on conservation of energy and natural resources, as well as pollution reduction," the Birmingham Airport Authority reports. The Authority has applied to officially qualify the new structure as environmentally friendly with LEED certification.
Passengers are encourages to arrive at least 90 minutes before their flight takes off to check in and go through the screening process.
You can check arrival and departure schedules for flights in and out of Birmingham on the airport's website.
The Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport is the largest airport in Alabama. It served over 2.8 million passengers in 2012. It opened as the "Birmingham Airport" in 1931. In 2008, the board of directors for the Birmingham Airport Authority approved renaming the facility for civil rights activist Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
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Web Application (and any UI) Automation in an agile project can be a fairly daunting and time consuming task. In this talk we will take you through the various problems of web application automation and how small innovations are incorporated in Sahi to solve these problems.
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The holidays are coming and you have to figure out what you're going to ask Santa for. "Okay," you think, "I want to climb stronger cause I wanna send my project so I'm going to ask for Chris Sharma's strength and style." Then you think, "Oh right, Santa's not a genie. He can't make me into Sharma." Chris Sharma, of course, is one of the world's best climbers. Year after year he crushes all the toughies. Well, since you're not a mutant like Sharma then ask Santa for the next best thing—the gear that Chris uses. Here's a list of my top Sharma choices. Go ahead, ask Santa for them and maybe you'll climb like Chris.
1. Evolv Pontas Climbing Shoes
The Pontas climbing shoes, designed for Evolv as the Chris Sharma Signature Series of rock shoes, is a superb choice for your climbs at Rifle, the Gunks, New River Gorge, and Ceuse. The Pontas, named after Pontas Arch, one of Chris's hard deep water solos in Spain, is a Climbing Magazine Editor's Choice shoe. It offers precision edging on small holds; has a full mid-sole and extra half mid-sole for support and stiffness; and fits like a glove in the toe box and heel. The Lace-Up model has a high rand for friction when heel-hooking and foot-scumming, perfect for overhanging routes. The shoes are soled with Evolv's TRAX XT-5 friction rubber, one of the stickiest rubbers available. Try them and you'll see how Chris climbs the hard stuff.
2. Sterling Velocity Climbing Rope
Hands down, Sterling makes some of the best ropes in the world. They maintain their shape, they last a long time, and they handle well. Jim Ewing with Sterling Ropes tells me: "Chris is not actually using any special rope. He is not too keen on super skinny ropes and prefers ropes in the 9.7mm to 10mm range. He's been using our Velocity 9.8 for most stuff and the Nano 9.2 for the special sends. In my opinion, the Velocity is the absolute best all-around rope on the market. Its combo of lightweight and durability are the perfect balance. If I had to buy rope, it would be the Velocity. I'm biased, of course, but I really don't see a comparable rope out there."
3. Sanuk Vagabond Sidewalk Surfer Shoe
Wear a pair of Sanuk's Sidewalk Surfer Shoes for an hour and you'll see why Chris Sharma joined Sanuk's Climbing Team. These shoes, actually a sandal with a shoe upper, are, as the Sanuk website says, "addictively comfortable." Or as Chris says, "Since I got on board I've hardly taken off my Sidewalk Surfers. They really are the most comfortable things ever!" Another testimonial is from Ian Spencer-Green: "They are the most awesome shoes I have. Wearing them is like walking around barefoot. I've done heinous approaches in them and they performed excellent. They were sticky while scrambling across boulders and they DO NOT have a sticky sole!" Wear these surfer shoes and I guarantee you'll never wear flip-flops or plastic Crocs again.
4. Petzl Sama Climbing Harness
Chris Sharma usually wears Petzl's Sama climbing harness, a men's harness that is ideal for both long routes as well as short hard sport routes. The Sama has snug, comfortable leg loops for hanging belays and repeated falls while not restricting leg movement. It's also lightweight; has mesh inside the harness to wick moisture away from skin on hot days; has prethreaded buckles making it easy to put on and take off; and has reinforced tie-in points, making it perfect for working tough routes and putting in a lot of air time. Petzl, a French company, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of climbing goods.
5. prAna Climbing Clothes
Since the early 1990s prAna has become the gold standard for climbing clothes. Using the motto "Born From The Experience," prAna designs functional clothes and accessories from sustainable materials. Chris Sharma, from the time he was an 11-year-old climbing phenom, has been sponsored by prAna, wearing their clothes on his climbing adventures. If you want to climb like Chris, start dressing like him by wearing prAna favorites including the Komodo Pant, the Snakebite shirt, the Cadet Beanie, the Zion Pant, the Tenaya Pant, the Hornet Pullover, and their Chalk Bag. In the 1970s I used to wear painter's pants and rugby shirts on the rock, but now I outfit myself in prAna's excellent clothes, some of which I've used for 15 years. Good stuff.


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One year ago on June 12th 2012, 612Brew announced that we had signed our lease for our brewery. Over that year we've been busying building what we feel is one of the best locations to drink craft beer. So in honor of that we are going to be having a few special deals/events this year on Wednesday 6/12/13.
Here's what we've got for you so far:
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Through the first five innings of tonight's game, Jeff Niemann did his best to make us forget about his last start (3.1 IP, 8 hits, 10 runs, 2 strikeouts, 3 walks, one home run, if it somehow slipped your mind). Using 66 pitches to navigate the first five frames, Niemann generated seven swinging strikes (10.6%) and, other than allowing a solo home run to John McDonald in the second inning, was nearly impossible to get a good swing on.
Ricky Romero was just as strong for the Jays, facing the minimum through four innings while allowing two walks: Zobrist in the third and Upton in the fourth, both runners erased on double plays. Romero hiccuped in the fifth inning, giving up walks to Longoria and Rodriguez then an RBI single to Zobrist and a two RBI double to Dan Johnson. With the Rays up 3 - 1 through five innings and Niemann on cruise control, the game seemed to be in good shape...
A flip was switched, as they say, and the sixth inning brought in some bizarro baseball.
The Jays started out the inning with some unexpected small ball. Fred Lewis executed a perfect bunt down the third base line that Longoria could only watch as it tiptoed on the chalk.Three pitches later, Lewis stole second and then scored on Dewayne Wise's single to right center. The Jays are last in the Majors in stolen bases with 44, but stole three bases off of the Neimann/Shoppach battery tonight.
The Big Nyquil got a wakeup call as he lost control and allowed the Jays to rack up five runs on two singles, three doubles, and a hit batsmen without recording an out before he was taken out in the sixth. Lance Cormier would enter the game and allow five more runs on home runs by Aaron Hill and Jose Bautista (one run charged to Niemann) leaving the Jays with a ten run sixth and effectively ending the game.
And that's all there really is to say. Niemann threw five innings of one run ball and then imploded in the sixth. Without being a trainer, it seemed that Niemann simply ran out of steam. While not ideal, this can be chalked up to this being his second start off of the DL and hopefully we can expect the Big Nyquil to return to form in his next start. I don't expect this Davis/Niemann Freaky Friday situation to last too much longer.
- The Yankees won, which puts the Rays one game back for the division, but thankfully the Red Sox lost and remain seven games back in the wild card.
- Jose Bautista did his best...well, 2010 Jose Bautista impression tonight (2-3, HR, BB, HBP, 4 RBI). Or maybe it was 2007 Carlos Pena...
- After stroking a two RBI double in the 5th, Dan Johnson tried to stretch it to three and was thrown out easily to end the inning. I know "They" say Joe Maddon doesn't believe in the common baseball adages and just wants his players to be aggressive on the base path, but with Romero on the ropes and Upton swinging a hot bat on deck, I wonder what might have been.


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Posted by Brian Allmer on February 12, 2013
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"Vilsack and Kirk Respond to Russia's Suspension of U.S. Meat Imports"
Russia is now prohibiting imports of all U.S. beef, pork, turkey and other meat products by requiring a zero tolerance for the presence of ractopamine. Ractopamine – an additive for animal feed – is used in 27 countries and has been shown to be completely safe at levels established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the preeminent food safety international standards organization Codex. U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk responded to Russia's suspension of U.S. meat exports with disappointment. They note U.S. meat is produced to the highest safety standards in the world. They say Russia is disregarding the extensive and expert scientific studies conducted by Codex that have repeatedly concluded that animal feed containing the additive ractopamine is completely safe for livestock and for humans that consume their meat. According to Vilsack and Kirk – Russia's failure to adopt the Codex standard raises questions about the country's commitment to the global trading system.
Vilsack and Kirk say Russia has refused to engage in any constructive dialogue despite several requests to discuss the safety of ractopamine. The U.S. is calling on Russia to restore market access for U.S. meat and meat products immediately and to abide by its obligations as a World Trade Organization member.
"New Export Records for U.S. Beef and Pork"
According to end-of-year statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation – U.S. beef and pork exports set new value records in 2012. Given challenging export conditions that included non-science-based trade barriers in several key markets and an anemic economy in certain regions – USMEF says the achievement was significant. The top five value export markets for pork in 2012 were Japan, Mexico, China/Hong Kong, Canada and South Korea. For beef – the top five value export markets in 2012 were Canada, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Hong Kong.
Pork exports set volume and value records in 2012 – reaching 2.26-million metric tons valued at 6.3-billion dollars. The per-head export value of U.S. pork exports also set a record in 2012 – reaching $55.87. Exports accounted for 27-percent of total pork production for the year.
The value of beef exports for 2012 rose to a record-high 5.51-billion dollars on 12-percent lower volumes of 1.13-million metric tons. The per-head export value for beef hit $216.73 – an increase of $10.36 over 2011. A new monthly record value of $242.65 set in December contributed to the increase. For the year – U.S. beef exports accounted for 12.7-percent of total beef production.
"USMEF CEO Looks Ahead to 2013"
U.S. Meat Export Federation President and CEO Philip Seng says the outlook for 2013 appears positive for the U.S. beef and pork industries. While there are several factors that go into projecting 12 months into the future – Seng says USMEF continues to focus its efforts on markets that offer the greatest potential for growth and is optimistic that 2013 will provide an opportunity to maintain the momentum seen in pork exports while rebounding in beef. He says the opening of the Japanese market to U.S. beef under 30 months of age contributes to a projected growth in beef exports of four-percent in volume valued at more than six-billion dollars. Though Seng does note that total could be tempered if issues with exports to Russia aren't resolved. The projection for pork calls for steady to slight growth. Exports will likely still exceed 2.2-million metric tons valued at more than six-billion dollars. The key risk factors are Russia and China's domestic production. On the bullish side – USMEF notes U.S. pork is an extremely versatile, high quality protein at a great value that will gain market share in key export markets. USMEF also expects continued growth to top volume market Mexico to boost the bottom line.
"White House Uses Meat Industry in Statement on Sequestration's Potential Impact"
When the Obama Administration warned of the impacts of the across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect in March – they highlighted the prospect of mass furloughs of meat and food inspectors. According to a White House statement – USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service may be forced to furlough all employees for approximately two weeks. Since meatpackers and processors aren't allowed to ship beef, pork, lamb and poultry meat without USDA's inspection seal – the White House said the meat industry would shut down. Meatpackers said that would devastate consumers and the industry – with a USDA official estimating 10-billion dollars in production would be lost during a two-week furlough.
"Kerry Suggests Action on Keystone XL Pipeline is Near"
Secretary of State John Kerry recently told reporters that action on the Keystone XL oil pipeline may be near. He said the permitting process for the proposed pipeline will be open and transparent and expressed hope that an announcement could be made soon. Kerry met with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird Friday. Baird is hopeful a decision will be made midway through the year. According to Baird – he and Kerry talked about making a science-based decision. TransCanada provided a revised application – which will be the basis of a new environmental impact statement from the State Department. That will trigger a public comment period.
"NCBA Elects Officer Team"
At the conclusion of the 2013 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen's Beef Association Trade Show – Scott George of Wyoming was officially elected to succeed J.D. Alexander as NCBA President. Bob McCan of Texas is the new President Elect and the new Vice President is Don Pemberton of Kentucky. George says the opportunities for U.S. cattlemen and women are boundless – but says it takes everyone working together toward the goal of being successful and providing consumers with the world's safest, highest-quality supply of beef. George is looking forward to seeing what the year will bring for the cattle industry. He says there will always be challenges – from the drought, to educating elected officials and consumers about the industry, to continuing to ensure beef remains an affordable, nutritious choice for families to put on their dinner tables. But like the challenges of the past – George says the beef industry will overcome hurdles, succeed and move forward.
In addition to electing the new officer team on the final day of the convention – NCBA members voted on new and expiring policy issues. This included resolutions on cattle health and well being, food safety, immigration, cattle marketing and trade, federal lands ranching and more.
"New CBB Officers Elected in Tampa"
The Cattlemen's Beef Board elected its new officer team in Tampa on Saturday. Weldon Wynn of Arkansas was unanimously elected to serve as CBB Chairman for the coming year. Kim Brackett of Idaho will serve as Vice Chairman and Jimmy Maxey of California will fill the position of Secretary/Treasurer. Members were also elected to serve on the CBB Executive Committee and to fill the CBB seats on the Beef Promotion Operating Committee.
Wynn served as Beef Board Secretary/Treasurer during the first half of 2011 before being elected to fill a partial term as Vice Chairman during the second half of the year. He was then elected to serve as Vice Chairman of the Board for all of 2012. Wynn has also served on the Beef Promotion Operating Committee, the CBB Executive Committee, the Joint Advertising Committee and the Joint Beef Industry Budget Committee.
Brackett served as Beef Board Secretary/Treasurer in 2012. She was also an active member of the Beef Board and the Joint Producer Education Committee during her first term on the Board. In December 2011 – the Secretary of Agriculture reappointed Brackett to serve a second consecutive three-year term. Brackett will serve as Chairman of the CBB Executive Committee – which includes the Board's three officers and eight members elected at large.
Along with Brackett, Wynn and Maxey – Anne Anderson of Texas; Dean Black of Iowa; Laurie Bryant, an importer; Steve Irsik of Kansas; Hank Maxey of Virginia; Sugie Sartwelle of Texas; Gary Sharp of South Dakota; and Eric Smith of Alabama were elected to the 2013 Executive Committee. The Beef Promotion Operating Committee includes 10 members of the Cattlemen's Beef Board – including the Board's three officers and seven others elected by Beef Board members – and 10 members appointed from the Federation of State Beef Councils. In addition to the CBB's elected officers – the CBB members elected to the 2013 committee include Spencer Ellis of Wyoming; Will Frazee of Iowa; Linda Gilbert of South Dakota; Joe Guthrie of Virginia; Chuck Kiker of Texas; Dan Kniffen of Pennsylvania; and Brett Morris of Oklahoma.
"Biodiesel Board Thrilled with Growing List of B20-Ready Vehicles"
The new 2014 Chevy Cruze light-duty diesel passenger car launched by General Motors is approved for use with 20-percent biodiesel blends. The biodiesel industry is celebrating the news. National Biodiesel Board Technical Director Steve Howell says many people don't realize that today's new technology diesel engines powered by ultra-low sulfur biodiesel blends provide tailpipe emissions as clean or cleaner than natural gas or gasoline – while providing superior fuel economy, horsepower and durability. NBB says a bumper crop of new 2013 clean diesel vehicles are beginning to arrive in dealership showrooms nationwide – including more new B20-approved vehicles from domestic automakers Ford and Chrysler. Ford is introducing a new diesel model in its Ford Transit full size van that is approved for use with B20 and Chrysler's new 2013 Ram Heavy Duty diesel pickups are approved for general use with B20.
According to the National Biodiesel Board – more than 33 light and medium-duty diesel passenger cars and trucks – as well as heavy-duty diesel models from nearly 20 different brands – will be available in the market this year. NBB says nearly 80-percent of manufacturers selling diesel vehicles and equipment in the U.S. now warranty them for use with high-quality B20 biodiesel blends. The remainder are certified for use with five-percent biodiesel blends. The National Biodiesel Board is working cooperatively with those manufacturers to encourage and enable their support for B20 in all vehicles sold in the U.S.
NBB is headed to the 2013 National Automobile Dealers Association and American Truck Dealers Convention in Orlando this week. As part of the American Truck Dealers Convention – NBB will educate dealers about biodiesel use in the vehicles they sell during two workshop sessions. NBB will also exhibit at the NADA/ATD Expo.
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I came out more than a half dozen years before "Transgender" was a word and a quarter century before the Transgender Borg created the idea that it was supposed to be some sort of shared collective identity.
This means I went through some 25 years before I ever heard of the term "transphobia".
Coming out in Berkeley during the Cultural Revolution (1969) it never dawned on me that I should define the sudden change in the way I was treated specifically to my having come out as transsexual and to my having started living as a woman.
What I am trying to say is this: The first few times I went to San Francisco to get information regarding a clinic to go to and my first visits to that clinic were a preview. I thought it was really neat to have the construction workers whooping and whistling at me. Considering the abuse I had to put up with on occasion it was. But then a friend pointed out that women had to put up with that shit everyday, everywhere they went and that I would get tired of the attention rather quickly.
They were right.
It cracks me up when I hear transsexual and transgender people say they never had male privilege.
I was an obvious transkid and I had it even when it seemed like the world around me automatically assumed I was a queen, a feminine gay boy if not a drag queen.
Much of male privilege is based on gender and gender is the team uniform you are handed based on what is between your legs.
It isn't a binary black/white sort of thing.
Just the freedom I felt I had to leave home and travel across the country to live in the Haight Ashbury and later Berkeley where I came out is a sort of male privilege.
I know and acknowledge things like this just from the way the act of coming out restricted my sense of freedom.
I was fortunate enough to have women friends (natal female) who advised me and gave me support point out danger and tell me I shouldn't go places by myself.
Just the idea that one can go places without being concerned about being attacked by strange men is a form of male privilege.
Not understanding the rules that women have to live by and acting accordingly means a lot of transsexual/transgender sisters get hurt. The same as natal women who ignore those rules do.
There is a TDOR but there have also been mass murderers who prey on a certain class of women engaged in sex work and there is no DOR for them.
As a woman I have learned over the years that it is pointless for me to apply for many jobs. Even professions. All one has to do is look at those professions. When one to five percent or so of the people in that field are women, the chance of a woman finding working in that field is problematic.
So when someone who has worked in that field comes out as transsexual or transgender and can no longer find employment in that field, it might be sexism and not transphobia. Even if they give the impression that it is transphobia.
Becoming female means that all the sexist bullshit that is laid upon women is now laid upon you. Even gender presentation leads to the assumption of a female body and the sexism that is the burden of all women becomes your burden too.
One of the things that accompanies transition is the loss of male privilege no matter how damaged by obviousness that male privilege was.
Julia Serano calls it misogyny, and misogyny it is. What I call sexism is less obvious than a form of hatred like misogyny. It is the gendered set of expectations of ability.
The dismissal as light weight of creative and or intellectual endeavors. The idea of "the right man for the job" that cause women to wonder what role the penis plays in performing that job.
That is the constant drone of sexism.
I was one of those rude Second Wave Feminists twenty years before the idea of "transgender as umbrella" or the word "transphobia" existed but sexism was sure alive and well..
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JERUSALEM — Told she was too fat to be a model, Danielle Segal shed a quarter of her weight and was hospitalized twice for malnutrition. Now that a new Israeli law prohibits the employment of underweight models, the 19-year-old must gain some of it back if she wants to work again.
Not that she was ever overweight. At 1.7 meters (5-feet-7), she weighed 53 kilograms (116 pounds) to begin with. Feeling pressure to become ever thinner, she dropped another 13 kilograms (29 pounds). The unnaturally skeletal girl weighed 40 kilograms (88 pounds) by then, or about as much as a robust pre-teen, and her health suffered.
The legislation passed Monday aims to put a stop to the extremes, and by extension ease the pressure on youngsters to emulate the skin-and-bones models, often resulting in dangerous eating disorders.
The new law poses a groundbreaking challenge to a fashion industry widely castigated for promoting anorexia and bulimia. Its sponsors say it could become an example for other countries grappling with the spread of the life-threatening disorders.
It's especially important in Israel, which, like other countries, is obsessed by models, whose every utterance and dalliance is fodder for large pictures and racy stories in the nation's newspapers. Supermodel Bar Refaeli is considered a national hero by many. She is not unnaturally thin.
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How do you take a powerful brand and completely destroy it in one fell swoop? Ask the people at Susan G. Komen for the Cure; they'll tell you.
According to Laura Basset at Huffington Post, things are not going well for Komen, even since it decided to shoot itself in the foot by siding with anti-choice extremists—including the Catholic Church—who had been demanding that Komen stop funding breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood.
And Komen has been paying the price for its disastrous mistake ever since:
Two top executives at Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced their resignation, amid reports that the breast cancer charity is struggling to raise money and repair its reputation after its decision to defund Planned Parenthood and subsequent reversal. [...]A Komen insider told HuffPost that "employee morale is in the toilet" since Komen leadership made the controversial decision to defund Planned Parenthood, one of the nation's most prominent women's health and family planning organizations. The move was led by anti-abortion executive Karen Handel, then Komen's senior vice president for public policy, who has since resigned.
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(Reuters) – A new Vatican report on the sexual abuse of Irish children by Catholic clergy accused Ireland's religious leaders of negligence and called for more reforms there to avoid a similarly "shameful" scandal in the future.
Here are some details of some major developments in the Roman Catholic Church abuse scandals in Europe in the last two years:
– November 30, 2011 – Cardinal Sean Brady, head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, agreed to a legal settlement over his role in administering an oath of secrecy to a teenage victim of clerical sexual abuse in 1975, the victim's lawyer said.
– July 13, 2011 – The Catholic Church in Ireland concealed the sexual abuse of children by priests as recently as 2009, a decade after it introduced rules to protect minors, and the Vatican was complicit in the cover-up, a government report into the handling of sex abuse claims in the diocese of Cloyne, in County Cork, showed.
– May 31, 2010 – The Vatican named two cardinals and three archbishops from England, the United States and Canada to lead its inquiry into sexual abuse by clergy in Ireland.
Continue reading at: http://news.yahoo.com/factbox-catholic-sex-abuse-scandals-europe-173704444.html
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/chuck-winder-rape-abortions_n_1366994.html
Laura Bassett
The sponsor of an Idaho mandatory ultrasound bill, state Sen. Chuck Winder, made some highly controversial comments Monday during his closing arguments, suggesting women might falsely use rape as an excuse to obtain an abortion.
Just before the Idaho's Senate passed the bill, which requires woman to have an ultrasound prior to obtaining an abortion, opponents of the bill pointed out that it makes no exception for rape victims, incest victims or women in medical emergencies.
Winder, a Republican from Boise, responded to those concerns by raising the question of whether women understand when they have been raped.
"Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," Winder said on the Senate floor. "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on."
Women reported 84,767 "forcible rapes" in the United States in 2010, according to the FBI's most recent Uniform Crime Report; the figure does not include statutory rape, incest or any other kind of rape that falls outside the FBI's narrow definition of the crime.
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From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/story/154622/conservative_bullying_has_made_america_into_a_broken%2C_dysfunctional_family%3A_but_there_are_ways_to_regain_our_well-being_/
An abusive, out-of-control, rageaholic GOP broke our country by shattering our trust in democracy and in ourselves.
By Sara Robinson
March 20, 2012
A marriage counselor friend once told me that he almost always knows by the end of the very first session whether he's being hired to guide a damaged couple back to health, or to help them work toward a divorce — even when the couple doesn't know the answer to this question themselves.
It's easy to see, he explained. The relationship's future success or failure all hinges on one simple thing: How much goodwill and trust they have left. Even if they've hurt each other badly, the couples who make it are the ones that still retain a few shreds of faith in each other's basic good intentions. She didn't mean to hurt me. He's not always a bastard. Deep down, she still loves me. Deep down, he really wants things to be better.
These couples are still seeing same future together, and still cling to the tattered memories of why they first fell in love. Just a few frayed threads of trust are all that's needed — if they've got that, the odds are high that with time and work, they can re-weave the fabric of the marriage into something that's once again strong and good.
On the other hand, the tell-tale sign of a zombie marriage — one that's already dead, even if the parties involved haven't yet confronted that fact — is that one or both partners have already given up and checked out. The trust is broken, the dream shattered, the damage just too much to ever repair. Things have been said and done that can't ever be unsaid or undone. There's so much bad history that there's no way a mere human heart can ever forgive it all. It's so far gone that pain and rage are all that remain — and the longer they stay together, the more brutal it's likely to get.
If, as George Lakoff says, we tend to think of the nation as a family, then my friend's approach for identifying salvageable marriages may apply just as well to salvaging our democracy. Because, like all marriages, all democratic governments are founded — first and foremost, above all else — on an essential bedrock of trust and shared vision. We need to trust that our fellow citizens are decent people with good intentions. If we don't have even that much basic confidence in each other, there's no way that we can work together to build a society that works. In fact, there's not really even a reason to try.
Continue reading at: http://www.alternet.org/story/154622/conservative_bullying_has_made_america_into_a_broken%2C_dysfunctional_family%3A_but_there_are_ways_to_regain_our_well-being_/
From Yes Magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/9-strategies-to-end-corporate-rule/3-things-everybody-knows2014and-why-theyre-wrong
by Lisa Graves
posted Mar 19, 2012
Winston Churchill reportedly said, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on." That was before corporations had perfected the art of public relations, investing millions of dollars in PR campaigns to advance their commercial and political interests.
The fact is, there are a number of things most people know are true—except they're not. That's the result of well-planned, well-funded, long-term propaganda campaigns designed to make people believe things that are against their own best interests.
One relatively new example is the climate denial industry, which is funded by some of the richest corporations and CEOs on the planet to protect their profits from regulations that would address climate change. Although it's one of the biggest threats we have ever faced, an increasing number of Americans believe there is widespread disagreement in the scientific community about climate change.
But that's not true—there is actually widespread scientific agreement on climate, and a few dissenters, most paid in some way by the oil industry. Millions of dollars have been spent to create the appearance of disagreement, including deployment of so-called experts and even TV meteorologists to repeat talking points favored by big oil.
In the past year, the Internet and social media have brought together social movements across the globe, and there are signs that, in this new information age, people are breaking through the fog of corporate disinformation. But some of the "facts" have been repeated for so many years that a lot of people still think they are true.
—The Cass City Chronicle (Jan. 22, 1976)
For more than 30 years, opponents of Social Security have peddled this lie.
The roots of the efforts to attack Social Security run deep in the far right. They include CEOs such as Fred Koch, who promoted the John Birch Society's red-scare-era smears that such New Deal reforms were "socialist" or "communist." In the 1970s, Fred's sons, Charles and David, inherited his billions—and his ideas. Charles began funding think tanks to develop arguments for dismantling Social Security.
Continue reading at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/9-strategies-to-end-corporate-rule/3-things-everybody-knows2014and-why-theyre-wrong
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/religion-politics_n_1370746.html?ref=elections-2012
Andrea Stone
WASHINGTON — Politicians should keep their religion to themselves and quit publicly praying and talking so much about their faith, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
The number of people saying "there has been too much religious talk by political leaders stands at an all-time high" since Pew's Forum on Religion & Public Life began asking the question more than a decade ago. Most Americans continue to say that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of politics. Nearly 4 in 10 Americans, or 38 percent, say they have heard "too much expression of religious faith and prayer from political leaders." Members of both parties say there is too much discussion of religion but that view is more common among Democrats than Republicans.
Not everyone is tired of the religion talk; 30 percent of those interviewed said there has been too little discussion of candidates and their faith. White evangelicals are the least likely to say there is too much God talk on the campaign trail. College graduates (49 percent) and those unaffiliated with any religious group (64 percent) are most likely to have heard enough.
The findings come as Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney edges closer to becoming the first Mormon to win a presidential nomination even though the former Massachusetts governor has been more reluctant than many of his competitors to talk about his religion.
Continue reading at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/religion-politics_n_1370746.html?ref=elections-2012
Not one fucking Right Wing advocate of austerity in any country has suggested cutting the military budgets as part of the austerity program they wish to impose on the poor.
It is time for the people to stop buying the guns that are pointed at our heads, to stop financing the militarists that exist only to defend the interests of the rich.
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/21/greece-austerity-measures-military-spending
Paul Haydon
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 March 2012
In the wake of the private sector debt swap agreed last week, European leaders have continued to call for major structural reforms to Greece's economy and society. The current EU-IMF bailout remains conditional on further austerity measures, including reducing pensions, the minimum-wage and civil service jobs. However, one area of the Greek budget doesn't seem to have received much scrutiny: its huge military spending.
The fact that Greece, a relatively small and democratic country with not much in the way of global ambitions, should spend as much on its military as it does is perplexing. In 2006, as the financial crisis was looming, Greece was the third biggest arms importer after China and India. And over the past 10 years its military budget has stood at an average of 4% of GDP, more than £900 per person. If Greece is in need of structural reform, then its oversized military would seem the most logical place to start. In fact, if it had only spent the EU average of 1.7% over the last 20 years, it would have saved a total of 52% of its GDP – meaning instead of being completely bankrupt it would be among the more typical countries struggling with the recession.
The supposed threat from Turkey is often cited as the major reason for such a high military budget. However, this argument just doesn't hold up for several reasons. First, both countries are part of Nato and share a number of mutual allies, not least the US, and so all-out war between the two is highly unlikely to occur. Second, Turkey has on several occasions proposed a mutual reduction in arms spending, something Greece has repeatedly refused to agree to. Finally, relations between the two countries have markedly improved in recent years, making such a massive military build-up seem even more unnecessary. All Greece's military spending seems to achieve is to polarise the situation and goad Turkey into an arms race.
The second justification given by the Greek government, that its forces are responsible for defending its porous borders from illegal immigration, is only marginally more convincing. While this might account for some increases in spending, it is unclear what role the latest fighter jets, submarines and tanks could play in stemming the tide of migrants arriving by foot or in small boats. So why has Greece continued to spend such huge amounts on its army?
Continue reading at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/21/greece-austerity-measures-military-spending
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/21-0
by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Published on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by Common Dreams
This week, turning the corner into the astronomical Spring, we have gone abruptly from warm winter to hot summer. And I mean hot: it was 84 degrees Farenheit in western Massachusetts today, brightly sunny, with puffy white cumulus clouds against a brilliant blue sky, unobstructed by any leaves. No shade.
Today reminded me of a wax model: beautiful but blank. The façade of beauty, with the crucial vital spark missing.
When I went for a walk up the mountain early this morning, the woods were eerily silent. I remembered mournfully the spring mornings of my childhood, where I would be awakened by the joyful singing of the dawn chorus of thousands of birds each happily greeting each other and the new day.
Reaching the top of the mountain having heard only the distant cry of a single phoebe, I stopped to sit on a rock and listen for a few minutes. All I heard was the dim rushing of the traffic on the road far below me, and the drone of an airplane churning its way across the sky.
Coming down again, a few chipmunks hurried out of sight along the path, and I was keenly aware that there were no acorns underfoot, despite the oak trees towering overhead. Last fall was a terrible year for acorns, so all the animals that depend on them for overwintering must be very hungry now. I know the bears are on the move, as one came and pulled down my bird feeder yesterday. I am thinking of bringing some sunflower seeds along on my walk tomorrow, to spread by the path as an offering of atonement.
While no one of us can shoulder personal responsibility for this tragedy of the commons, all of us who have benefited from the heedless extraction of oil and relentless destruction of the forests and the oceans must be aware of the extent to which we have brought this on ourselves, and taken the rest of the natural world along with us.
Continue reading at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/21-0
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/us/justice-department-opens-inquiry-in-killing-of-trayvon-martin.html
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Published: March 20, 2012
MIAMI — Seven years after Florida adopted its sweeping self-defense law, the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, has put that law at the center of an increasingly angry debate over how he was killed and whether law enforcement has the authority to charge the man who killed him.
The law, called Stand Your Ground, is one of 21 such laws around the country, many of them passed within the last few years. In Florida, it was pushed heavily by the National Rifle Association but opposed vigorously by law enforcement.
It gives the benefit of the doubt to a person who claims self-defense, regardless of whether the killing takes place on a street, in a car or in a bar — not just in one's home, the standard cited in more restrictive laws. In Florida, if people feel they are in imminent danger from being killed or badly injured, they do not have to retreat, even if it would seem reasonable to do so. They have the right to "stand their ground" and protect themselves.
That is precisely the question in the case: Was the gunman, George Zimmerman, 28, a white Hispanic crime watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., in imminent danger and acting in self-defense during his encounter with Trayvon Martin, as he asserts?
In the three weeks since Trayvon, 17, a well-liked high school student from Miami with no criminal record, was killed, public protests have grown larger and louder, and so have calls for Mr. Zimmerman's arrest. The Police Department in Sanford, near Orlando, said that under the law, it had no call to bring charges.
Continue reading at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/us/justice-department-opens-inquiry-in-killing-of-trayvon-martin.html
From The Charlotte Observer: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/21/3115378/nc-bishops-call-obamas-opposition.html
Charlotte Bishop Peter Jugis and his Raleigh counterpart have criticized President Barack Obama's opposition to the upcoming N.C. marriage amendment, calling his comments last week "a grave disappointment."
Voters in North Carolina will decide May 8 whether to add Amendment 1 to the state Constitution. The state already has a law that withholds recognition of same-sex unions.
Supporters say the amendment would provide another layer of support for traditional marriage between a man and woman.
Opponents say it discriminates against same-sex unions, and poses a threat to common-law marriages, nonmarried couples and other relationships.
Obama, who picked Charlotte to host his renominating convention, joined the critics last week.
From The New Civil Rights Movement: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/catholic-church-castrated-homosexual-boys-and-those-who-accused-priests-of-abuse/news/2012/03/20/36836
by David Badash
March 20, 2012
The Catholic Church in the Netherlands castrated at least 10 boys in the 1950s to cure them of their homosexuality, or to punish them for accusing clergy members of sexual abuse. A report states that "surgical removal of testicles was regarded as a treatment for homosexuality and also as a punishment for those who accused clergy of sexual abuse." No records were kept of which reason the boys were castrated. Dutch authorities, including the Dutch Parliament, are investigating.
A Google translation from the Dutch news site Omroep Brabant reads:
Rogge: "We once asked Henk [Heithuis] to his pants to drop when the women were gone. He did that. He was totally maimed. That was a huge shock for us of course." Heit House has to Rogge told how he was beaten was in Veghel, "He was strapped to a bed. In one stroke, his scrotum cut out. Then he was taken to an infirmary put to rest. Then, when other boys did the same. That he could hear screaming."
"At least 10 teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were surgically castrated 'to get rid of homosexuality' while in the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic Church in the 1950s," according to a report today in The Telegraph:
Evidence of the castrations has emerged amid controversy that it was not included in the findings of an official investigation into sexual abuse within the church last year.
The NRC Handelsblad newspaper identified Henk Heithuis who was castrated in 1956, while a minor, after reporting priests to the police for abusing him in a Catholic boarding home.
Joep Dohmen, the investigative journalist who uncovered the Heithuis case, also found evidence of at least nine other castrations. "These cases are anonymous and can no longer be traced," he said. "There will be many more. But the question is whether those boys, now old men, will want to tell their story."
Continue reading at: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/catholic-church-castrated-homosexual-boys-and-those-who-accused-priests-of-abuse/news/2012/03/20/36836


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Yesterday, a new plugin was introduced to allow us to give some powerful things to players. These would be purchasable using Dark Diamonds.
Unfortunately, an unknown bug in the plugin meant that players could craft items called "wands" (this was disabled in our configuration), allowing them access to everything. It's disappointing to see that some trusted players took advantage of this and bypassed protection to grief towns.
These players will not be punished as it appeared from a user perspective to be intended, but it is very disappointing to see that this was the result. The developer has apologised for the mess that has been caused.
At the same time, our backend backup system failed in creating our backups from Friday, so the map has been rolled back to our latest backup, Thursday 28th August. This has been reported to our host and will be looked into as soon as possible.
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Both men were instructor pilots in Moody's 39th Flying Training Squadron. Second Lieutenant Michael Schmidt was a student pilot under Captain Brinson. "I admired him as not only a pilot, but an officer," said Schmidt. "He was such a personable guy, everyone enjoyed being around him and he was really admirable."
He has great memories of their training flights together. "I remember one time we were in a storm, and I was flying, sweating bullets," said Schmidt. "He was sitting behind me so calm and just talking about the flight, he knew we'd be fine."
The cause of the crash is still under investigation. This picture was taken at the Savannah International Airport shortly before takeoff. "They may have been young, but they were two of our best pilots we had here," said Sabo.
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The U.S. State Department recently released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, posing as the world judge of human rights again. As in previous years, the reports are full of carping and irresponsible remarks on the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China. However, the U.S. turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and never said a word about it.
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"A new report claims farmers in Africa are being driven off their lands to make way for vast new industrial farming projects backed by hedge funds seeking profits and foreign countries looking for cheap food. "
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The U.N. Climate Change Conference entered its final week under a cloud of uncertainty as the Africa Group led a protest of the developing world against a perceived attempt to abandon the Kyoto Protocol. By the middle of the day, the Africa Group's displeasure had brought official talks to a halt.
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In 2003, the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Whistler won the bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. Since then, the devastating impacts of the Games have become clear: expanding sport tourism and resource extraction on Indigenous lands; increasing homelessness and gentrification of poor neighborhoods; increasing privatization of public services; exploitative working conditions, especially for migrant labor; fortification of the national security apparatus with the largest military deployment in Canadian history; ballooning public debt as corporate Olympic sponsors get bailed out; and environmental destruction despite promises of "green" Games.


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Question: What Are the Progestin Only Birth Control Side Effects?
It is important to understand that common side effects may occur when taking hormonal control methods. The following list refers to Progestin-only contraceptives.
Answer: Frequent Side Effects (if a woman does, in fact, experience side effects, the following are the most common):
- Dizziness
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- Loss of libido
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- Implanon users: infection at the site of implantation
- Mirena users: possible complications during insertion – perforation, infection, and expulsion
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