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Protesters by the dozens in Salt Lake City and the hundreds elsewhere, not the thousands hoped, gathered at courthouses Friday to protest a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that removed most limits on corporate and labor spending in federal elections.
Move to Amend, the grassroots coalition that organized the event, said protesters in more than 100 cities would launch petition drives to gain support for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the court's decision allowing private groups to spend huge amounts on political campaigns with few restrictions. Occupy Wall Street activists joined forces with Move to Amend.
In Salt Lake City, about 20 protesters held signs outside the Frank E. Moss federal courthouse as a cluster of police officers maintained a presence nearby.
Sandy resident Kole Bodell, 28, recently organized a Move to Amend presence in Utah. He took a vacation day from his mechanical engineering job with Rio Tinto to protest the high court's ruling in the case Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission in 2010.
A former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq, Bodell carried a sign that read, "Veterans don't fight for profit."
"When I served four years in the military, it wasn't so that Bechtel, KBR, Halliburton and all the other corporations could make money and buy politicians to further drag out the war and create policies that support all that," Bodell said. "I fought for the Constitution, for representation and for freedom of the American people."
Bodell said he felt betrayed by the Supreme Court ruling.
"Companies can influence people by pouring propaganda down their throats through TV and media outlets," Bodell said. "We need politicians that want to represent the people, not special interests."
His 23-year-old brother, Jadee Bodell, served in the Air Force in Afghanistan. His sign read, "My speech is free, don't outbid me."
Jadee Bodell is an engineering student at the University of Utah. He also works at Kennecott as a chemist and at the university as a research assistant. Salt Lake City's Move to Amend group numbers about 70 members, he said.
"Bringing about a constitutional amendment is no small feat," Bodell said, anticipating that the effort could take three to four years. He said the group's next step will be to get a nonbinding resolution supported by city and county representatives and eventually a statewide ballot initiative. The ultimate target is a constitutional convention where a legislative fix could occur.
"The federal courthouse has been really nervous about our protest — it caused a really big stir," Bodell said, noting that Move to Amend had to clear several layers of bureaucracy to be able to protest on the courthouse steps, including a meeting with U.S. Marshals last week. The group also obtained a permit from Salt Lake City to protest on the sidewalk.
Carol Holland, 74, a member of Occupy Ogden, came with eight other members to participate in Friday's protest.
The retired Clearfield Job Corps counselor held a sign saying "Corporations are not people, $ is not speech."
"The way the country is going financially, corporations go in and support their candidates and put in billions of dollars," Holland said. "There's even corporations that are not in the United States that are supporting their favorite candidate — and that's offensive."
In Washington, D.C., about 150 protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court. Other cities drew relatively small numbers, as well, including Baltimore; Albany, N.Y.; and San Francisco. A protest in Minneapolis included chants and street theater. In Denver, several dozen activists entered the Capitol to engage lawmakers following the protest.
Salt Lake Tribune reporter Cathy McKitrick contributed to this story

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The Cyclocross season is nearing it's climax. USGP and National are all that remain for me. Thanksgiving provided a much needed lull before the final gasp of effort necessary for me finish the season with at least a small amount … Continue reading
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Bob Arum promised a "spectacular" undercard for the November 14 pay-per-view featuring the huge Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao main event. Promises, promises.
Dan Rafael reports that Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will be in the co-feature, taking on another mid-level opponent who presents no real threat. Michigan's Troy Rowland (25-2, 7 KO) will be the opponent for Chavez (40-0-1, 30 KO), who looks to keep fluffing up that record.
As for Arum's "spectacular" undercard, it now looks like this:
- Chavez v. Rowland in an obvious hope that the loyal Mexican fanbase will tune in for JCC Jr. in addition to a great main event
- A snoozer-in-the-making between Daniel Santos and Yuri Foreman for Santos' 154-pound title
- Jesus Soto Karass v. Alfonso Gomez in a battle of welterweight also-rans, but it could be a damn exciting fight since both guys tend to bring it pretty hard
Color me -- and I'm betting many others -- quite unimpressed. This also means the proposed Acosta-Soto fight is off, which is too bad.


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NEWLY-WEDS picked the opening of a new restaurant in the Oxford Castle complex for their evening reception.
James and Valerie Bentley, of Cumnor Rise Road, celebrated their marriage at the opening night of The Big Bang.
Owner Max Mason opened the new British restaurant – which specialises in bangers and mash – on Saturday night with free food for more than 750 guests.
The Big Bang in Walton Street, Jericho, closed last year after seven years, to make way for a six-shop and 41-student room development.
The business has been relaunched in the old home of Carluccio's Italian restaurant, which closed in 2010.
Jazz bands also played on the opening night, giving Mr and Mrs Bentley the chance for a first dance.
Mrs Bentley, who had been invited to the launch party as a former Big Bang customer, said: "It was absolutely fantastic, because Max had not just got music but a gentleman doing some magic tricks, too. We even had a dance."
The couple were married at Oxford Register Office and had a lunchtime reception at the Nut Tree, in Murcott, near Islip.
Mr Mason said the new location for his buisness was ideal.
He said: "It's right in heart of Oxford. I don't think there are premises with quite as much potential as the castle in the middle of Oxford."
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(VOVworld) – Russian President Vladimir Putin says bilateral relations with the US are more important than "squabbles" relating to former CIA employee Edward Snowden.
Putin told reporters on Wednesday that Snowden and similar cases should not complicate bilateral ties. The President affirmed that Russia has important work to do, including to promote Russia-US relations. Mr Putin stressed that Russia is an independent country with an independent foreign policy. He urged others to stay calm and seek to understand the situation.
Putin made the statement after the White House protested Snowden's application for temporary asylum in Russia to evade a US charge of spying. The President said Russian agencies will not investigate Snowden. Russia has warned that it will not tolerate any activity harmful to Russia-US relations.


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About Kian Hean.
Passionate about utilizing technology to improve lives of the masses. This is my collection of useful stuff and hacks ;)
Hacks For the Connected World
If your email is working without and problem please ignore this post.
For those having problems connecting to your email on outlook, entourage, mail, iphone etc…
Change the server to
Also, again for those who do not know… I am graduating from SMU this coming May.
This Website will not be updated with configuration news from SMU anymore after then.
Please refer to this wiki that i have created with the help of Macness as well
Also SMUMacness!
Somehow it was updated today this morning and all previous settings are broken.
Please use the new settings as below. The rest is the same
I have been investigating this issue and i have found the solution!
It works 90% of the time!
Step 1
Delete all other networks except the school network and maybe your home network. Dont worry they wont be lost forever.
This is to reduce "confusion" when mac tries to find a network. Somehow this works
Step 2
Make sure under the advanced tab of network. In the 802.1x portion make sure only 1 profile is active. Delete everything else.
Step 3
Go to keychain and make sure lanacs1, wlanacs or any cert that is wlan or smu is set to always trust for everything.
Following these 3 steps will make WLAN auto connect!
Realizing that i will be graduating in a few months and that there is a need for mac support in SMU to continue. I decided to create something that can
Hence the creation of the SMU Mac Wiki hosted independently by 3rd party servers!
Spread the Link!
Some Notes
Some parts of the wiki are not complete and i am looking into it.
Anyone who wants to contribute or edit some settings, please let me know and i will give u access.
I will still update my site before i graduate but i will mirror the guides on the wiki as well.
Lets keep mac support alive. Contribute today!
Here are instructions for those using leopard and dont want to use entourage!
Thanks Jed
Create IMAP Mail account on mail with the following settings
Outgoing server settings
Hey all
For those forwarding their emails to gmail, here are the updated settings. Thanks Fengru
For full instructions how to do it from scratch please go here
Page 79-81 but use the settings above.
On behalf of Macness which i am apart of, we are doing a survey on the mac community in SMU, more specifically the level or support and the situation of mac users in SMU. Please take 3 minutes to fill in the form so that we can bring a case to the school to make things better for us! There are only 4 questionish to fill. Below is the link and a note from the Smumacness President.
Hi all,
Thank you for participating in the SMU Mac Users Feedback.
In order for the voice of Mac users to be treated with respect and seriousness, The Macness Team is gathering statistics from all Mac users in SMU.
Currently, there is no information on the number of Mac users in SMU, or their satisfaction levels. Lack of such information gives us very little power and credibility when speaking to the relevant authorities.
Through this feedback, we hope to gather:
1. The number of Mac users in SMU
2. The satisfaction of Mac users with regards to Mac support
3. The common disadvantages Mac users face in SMU
Please also encourage all your Mac using friends in SMU to provide us with more feedback. The more numbers we have, the greater our chances of making a better tomorrow for ourselves.
Please be 100% assured that your feedback will be kept anonymous, so do give us your honest feedback =)
Remi Choong
The Macness Team
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"Exchange account verification failed" message despite 100% following my guide try this
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oh yeah finally I got it..
it is because of my password problem which is longer than 8-12 characters limit and info to ppl who had the same problems change your password either at CIT or at web portal so finally it will work =)
So the new system cannot accept passwords longer than 12 characters!!
Please go to webmail to change your password to a shorter one and try again!
Please verify this if it works for you!
Thanks people
This is a summary of what to do. It seems many people cant find what they need.
Configure Entourage, LDAP should be auto configured
Configure Mail (Recommended Way – Faster and less issues), LDAP should be auto configured (Snow Leopard Only)
Configure mail for iPhone (only iOS 4 and 3 tested)
Some Notes
There is no more DOMAIN no more SMUSTU etc…
Your email is now [email protected] you cannot use [email protected]
Your username is is now e.g [email protected] not khlim.2007
Please note your migration dates! If it doesnt work please also give it some time. there are migration windows! e.g biz from 9-11 oct.
I am sorry i do know now anything about windows configurations for the new mail, refer to IITS email.
I know there are some issues, i will try to solve them as best i can, please also look at the guides very carefully. every detail is important


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How cold is it? It's so cold I could swear I heard bells, and saw a suspicious looking deer in an antique shop. I believe it was watching me. Must be a spy from up North... I even saw an unidentified lady giving the deer a kiss and telling it she was being a good girl. It is so cold I think I'm hallucinating.
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With 2010 soon to be in our rearview mirror, we look with hope to 2011. Here are some of the reasons we are hopeful.
This week we separate the Naughty from the Nice. Which DC sports figures were Naughty in 2010?
Redskins fans are struggling to find reasons to keep tuning into the awfulness that transpires each week. It should be a little easier this week against their rival, the Dallas Cowboys.
Every major pro sports team (of the 5) in D.C. boasts a coach who has yet to record a third full regular season.
Which players that once represented our beloved DC teams continue to remain favorites of ours?
What are the most memorable celebrations by DC sports figures over the years?
Where do you like to watch your favorite team play? Sports bars, basements, and even casinos rank as the best places to catch a game.
The home debut of John Wall is one of the Top 5 games between now and Thanksgiving for Washington fans. Which games rank higher?
In the short term, which players on the Washington Redskins should be considered the most "Irreplaceable"?
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Nov. 6, 2011 M5.6 Oklahoma Earthquake Foreshocks and Aftershocks
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Shown here in time lapse sequence are 48 aftershocks greater than about magnitude 1.0 recorded within one week of the M4.8 foreshock. These earthquakes were located by the USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC). Numerous aftershocks were felt locally.


text: From Silicon Roundabout to Silicon Valley: Web Mission accomplished Technology 21 March 11 by Olivia Solon Tweet Flickr.com/Pedro Lozano Ning Li, Co-Founder & CEO, Made.com Made.com is an online furniture retailer that lets consumer vote and group-buy furniture direct from factories at a fraction of the high street price. Each product is crowdsourced before being made to order and shipped direct from the factory to the consumer.What was the highlight of the trip? It was fascinating for me to get an insight into how Silicon Valley companies (such as Twitter and Salesforce) are run from the inside. What has been the biggest challenge of the trip? It was hard to leave the London team for a week. Web Mission was a full-week programme with intense activities (day and night!). We are a small team and we ship around one container of furniture a day -- we are very busy.How do you think your business was received on the Mission? Made.com is lucky to be one of the only Mission companies focused on e commerce/consumers. I was thrilled to discover that seven delegates (out of the 20 Web Mission companies) had previously bought furniture from Made.com.What are the next steps for your company? Still in our first year, Made has been growing fast and we have been very tempted by growing beyond the UK frontier. After the San Francisco trip, thanks to the initial contacts provided with the help of the Mission, the US market appears even more appealing. Watch this space.... Next interview: Azeem Azhar, CEO, PeerIndex... Read page 4 123456 Read on one page Comments Read more on Silicon Roundabout East London's hub of innovative startups Silicon Europe Schools gain access to Tech City employment opportunities Silicon Europe All aboard the incubator bus! Business Smart clothing and cancer research tools: eight UK academics get £85k to launch startups Silicon Europe Private sector advocacy group aims to support London tech scene Business London real estate anticipates US tech expansion Silicon Europe David Cameron announces £50m facelift for Old Street roundabout Latest on wired.co.uk


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Welcome To MMOSite - Guild [Freedom]
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Here we got one all-player guild [Freedom] to come and join in our MMOsite fan club and they will bring us more interesting contents about Dragon Nest (CN) in the future. Let's welcome~
[Freedom] Member list → click here
[Freedom] Frontier
Dragon Nest China guild, [Freedom] was formed at 27th of July 2010, around 1 week after the game started. It was founded by a group of six mmo-lovers from Singapore and Malaysia who enjoy action mmorpg. The guild provides a place for them to chat and form party for dungeons. However, it is soon realized that Dragon Nest is a game that involves immense teamwork and synergy between different classes. The need to gather more players to improve the gaming experience has sparked off the idea of expanding the guild further.
After more than 4 months, [Freedom] is now a Level 6 guild and able to hold up to 100 members. As of 23rd of November 2010, [Freedom] is ranked as the top 30 guild in the server. We currently have over 80++ active members from all over the world, including Malaysia, Singapore, US, India, Honduras, Sweden, Russia, Peru, Germany, Australia, France, Serbia, Dominican Republic, Canada, Romania, Argentina, Switzerland etc. The guild is currently still expanding and recruiting more English speaking players. Despite national and cultural background difference, all guild members are able to blend in and form friendship here.
Dragon Nest features Darklair, Abyss and Nest dungeons which prove to be great challenges and demand tremendous teamwork among party members. With the wide spectrum of classes in [Freedom], forming a good party would not be difficult at all. There are a total of 8 jobs in the game :- Mercenary, Sword Master, Elemental Lord, Force User, Bow Master, Acrobat, Priest and Paladin, each with its unique role to play in parties for various dungeons or group pvp.
Mercenary is the best stunner in game with his high stun stats and buffed with "Battle Howl", besides removing buffs from enemies and silencing them with "Disenchanting Howl". Sword Master increases the damage output of teammates by using "Hemorrhage", a very powerful debuff on enemies, while slashing them with blinding speed in "Hacking Stance". Elemental Lord stops the enemies in their tracks by freezing them with "Glacial Wave" and burns them to death with "Flame Road". Force User gathers the mobs with "Black Hole" and accelerates the cooldown for the skills of other teammates with "Time Acceleration". Bow Master obliterates enemy with "Arrow Shower" and fires "Guided Shot" to chase target to oblivion. Acrobat grabs and pulls enemy with "Binding Shot" and increases the movement speed of the party with "Spirit Boost". Priest heals wounded party members with "Relic of Heal" and electrocutes enemies with "Chain Lighting". Paladin provokes mobs and gathers agro with "Provocation" while reflecting the damage dealt to him with "Divine Punishment". Forming a good 4-man party with the combination of classes that suits your play style often determines your success in dungeons.
The mentor and apprentice system has encourages the partying of our low level members with high level members. The high level mentor can obtain extra experience and loots without consuming fatigue (FTG) while the low level apprentice is able to clear tough nest and abyss dungeons with the help from his mentor. In [Freedom], due to the large community from different time zones, it is not hard to find a mentor to guide and help you while you are leveling up.
In the coming months, Dragon Nest China will release the hardest dungeon yet:- Apocalype Nest. The December update of the first 8-man dungeon, the Sea Dragon Nest in Korea would require even closer cooperation and dedication from each member to conquer the seemingly insurmountable challenges to come. With the expected release of second job change at level 45, the roles of each class will become even more distinct and specialized. Guild war system is also expected to be introduced in Dragon Nest soon. [Freedom] are preparing for overcome all those challenges by fostering strong bonds among party member through constant party and various pvp events.
Together as one, allow [Freedom] to take you to a whole new frontier in Dragon Nest!
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Freestyle skier Hannah Kearney earned America its first gold medal of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games with her win in Women's Moguls Saturday night. Fellow American Shannon Bahrke won bronze.
The win prolonged Canada's long drought of having never won a gold when hosting the Winter Olympics. Jennifer Heil was in first position until the final run of the competition, when Kearney supplanted her for the gold, by a final score of 26.63 to 25.69.
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Friday Afternoon State News Summary
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:50:16 EDT
(MI-Canvassers-Detroit Primary)
The Board of State Canvassers will meet next week to try and certify the results of Detroits August 6th mayoral primary election.
A spokesperson for the Secretary of State announced that the board will meet in Detroit on Tuesday. A time and location for the meeting have not yet been determined.
The Wayne County Board of Canvassers wants to disqualify roughly 20-thousand write-in votes because incorrect markings were used to tally the votes.
State Elections Director Chris Thomas says the markings are not significant enough to disallow the votes.
The results of the state count could change who actually received the most votes: former Detroit Medical Center CEO Mike Duggan (DUHG-en) or Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon. Regardless, the two will face off in the November general election.
(24/7 News Source)
(MI-Mackinac Bridge Top)
What's your story?
For the second year in a row, the Michigan Department of Transportation and the Mackinac Bridge Authority are asking you to share your Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk experiences on social media with photos and videos.
Now through Monday, September 9, you can post your memories of walking the bridge, either this year or in a previous year, on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #MightyMacWalk13. Officials say due to recent rules changes, Facebook postings will not be considered entries.
One person will be chosen at random to receive a behind-the-scenes tour to the top of the bridge.
Last year's winner was Michael Gronseth of Negaunee.
(MI-Prison Kitchens)
The State of Michigan has agreed to a contract with a Philadelphia-based company to run prison kitchens.
Aramark was awarded the contract after bidding 64-million dollars to provide daily meals to approximately 43-thousand prisoners. Officials say there are currently 300 to 400 workers on the state payroll and half may be hired by Aramark.
Governor Rick Snyder has been trying to pare down the operating costs of state prisons which is estimated at one-point-two billion dollars annually.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees union who represent current food workers is appealing the change to the Michigan Civil Service Commission.
(24/7 News Source)
(Kalamazoo Co-Enbridge Dredge Pad)
Enbridge will have to find a new site for their dredge pad in Kalamazoo County after the Comstock Township Planning Commission voted last night (Thursday) to deny a special exception permit.
The pipeline company had planned to move material it dredged from Morrow Lake to the pad in Comstock Commerce Park, a move opposed by some residents and business owners, such as the owners of Bells Brewery which sued to stop the plan.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Enbridge to do additional dredging of the Kalamazoo River at the delta in Morrow Lake as part of the ongoing cleanup from a massive 2010 oil spill near Marshall. Dredge pads are designed to hold oil-contaminated sediment removed from the river until it can be hauled away.
Enbridge has been ordered by the EPA to complete the dredging by December 31st.
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(MI/MT-Firefighters To Montana)
Firefighters from Michigan are being sent to Montana to help battle wildfires.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is sending 18 firefighters out west. They will join the fight against a blaze that has charred over 95-hundred acres in western Montana to date.
The crew is comprised of five fire officers, 12 foresters and one surveyor from the DNR, Two U.S. Forest Service employees rounded out the crew.
DNR Forest Resources Division chief Bill O'Neill says they have been trained to battle fires and are ready to go wherever needed. He says it's important for states to cooperate during emergencies.
Nationally, there are 50 large uncontained fires currently burning, with 238 new fires that started Wednesday.
When sent on out-of-state assignments, the DNR is fully reimbursed for all costs associated with the support.
O'Neill stressed that while some employees were sent to assist firefighters in Montana, the state is still well-equipped to handle wildfires should one occur in Michigan.
(Escanaba-U.P. State Fair Attendance)
The numbers are in, and it was another successful year for the Upper Peninsula State Fair.
Delta County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Vickie Micheau says that paid attendance for last week's event in Escanaba was up by almost four percent.
Nearly 80,000 people visited the fair, and that doesn't include vendors, sponsors, and others who got in for free. The Skerbeck Carnival reported that its ridership was up by almost ten percent. And the grandstands were near capacity for the concerts.
Micheau says that last week's dry, sunny weather was a factoralong with a lot of U.P. residents choosing to "stay home" this summer.
(WTIQ, Manistique)
(MI/DC-Jeep Roof Fires)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the reports of roof fires in 2012 model year Jeep Grand Cherokees.
The safety board began their probe this week after three fires were reported near the passenger side sun visor. Investigators say one fire caused the sunroof in the vehicle to shatter while another fire spread to the passenger seat. No one has been injured.
The investigation reportedly involves over 146-thousand vehicles.
A Chrysler spokesman says the company is investigating and working with NHTSA.
(24/7 News Source)
(Macomb Co-Child Beaten-UPDATE)
A 26-year-old Macomb County man has been charged with first degree child abuse, accused of severely beating his girlfriends 2-year-old son.
Damian Sutton was listed in critical condition this morning (Friday) at Childrens Hospital in Detroit after police say he suffered terrible abuse at the hands of Ronald Dimambro (duh-MAM-bro).
Family members said at first, they thought the toddler had fallen out of a playpen at his Washington Township home on
Tuesday - but they quickly became suspicious.
Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said Dimambro, who eventually turned himself in, admitted that he shook the boy roughly and then threw him.
Hospital personnel told authorities the child suffered from severe head trauma consistent with shaken baby syndrome.
Dimambro is being held on a $500,000 bond. He faces up to life in prison.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for August 27.
(Help from: Mike Campbell, WWJ, Detroit)
(Holland-Prettiest Town List)
It's another fresh leaf added to the Tulip City's laurels.
The West Michigan city of Holland is one of the 15 prettiest towns in the nation, according to Forbes Magazine.
Mayor Kurt Dykstra says Forbes was impressed with the city's wide beaches, the lively arts scene, shops that celebrate its Dutch culture and even the snowmelt system that keeps downtowns streets dry during those cold, wet Lake Michigan winter days.
The publication gathered information from magazine travel experts for Frommers, National Geographic, Fodor's and Midwest Living to help compile the list of 15 which it says would not only stand out in a beauty pageant, but also provide great options for your next getaway.
(Jason Scott, WSJM, St. Joseph/Benton Harbor)
(Barry Co-Fatal Crash Charges)
A 24-year old man will stand trial on 10 charges in connection with the death of his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn baby in a traffic crash near Hastings earlier this year.
Derrick McElhaney of Delton has been bound over to Barry County Circuit Court on second degree murder, grossly negligent act causing miscarriage or stillbirth and several drunk driving and drug-related charges.
State Police say McElhaney was driving drunk on M-43 in Rutland Township on May 12 when he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a tree.
21-year old Faith Allen of Lake Odessa died two days later at a Grand Rapids hospital. Her injuries led to the pregnancy failing.
McElhaney's next court appearance is tentatively set for September 23.
A conviction on 2nd degree murder can bring a sentence of up to life in prison; the lesser crimes carry varying sentences and fines.
(Jean Gallup, WBCH, Hastings)
(Tuscola Co-Helicopter Crash)
The pilot and a passenger were not hurt when a helicopter crashed Thursday evening in a corn field in Michigan's Thumb.
According to the Tuscola County Sheriff's office, the pliot said he was working on the power lines about 250 feet up, when a hoist that was attached had a line break. That caused the helicopter to pitch and strike a support arm.
The chopper's blades were damaged, but the pilot was able to land safely in the corn field in Denmark Township.
The Federal Aviation Administration was to inspect the site and the helicopter.
(WSGW, Saginaw)
(MI/DC-Crop Insurance)
For the first time, tart cherry growers in Michigan will have crop insurance available to them.
Michigan U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow says the United States Department of Agriculture has agreed to her proposal to offer the insurance to those growers following the disaster last year that wiped out nearly all of the crop. Sweet cherry growers received the option to have crop insurance last fall.
The coverage will be available in 14 counties in the state for the 2014 crop year. ?
Stabenow had pushed to get the insurance as part of a new five-year Farm Bill, but while the Senate has named conference committee members, the House has not done so yet.
(24/7 News Source)
(Saginaw-Splash Park Closes)
Saginaw's Splash Park is closed for inspection and maintenance of the chemical treatment system.
City officials said recent water quality testing showed that disinfection performance was outside the acceptable range. They said there have been no reports of illness or any indication of contamination, but the park will be closed until adjustments have been made and water quality test results meet required standards.
The city does plan to have the splash park in the Frank N. Anderson Park reopened in time for the Labor Day holiday next weekend. The Park is scheduled to close for the season on September 3.
(WSGW, Saginaw)
(Gogebic Co-Inmate Beating Death)
Two inmates at a state prison in the western Upper Peninsula have been arraigned on murder charges in the beating death of another inmate back in January.
25-year-old Delorean Henderson and 32-year-old Michael Smith were both charged in Gogebic County Circuit Court with second degree murder and manslaughter.
Both are charged as habitual offenders, fourth offense on the manslaughter charges.
26-year old Randolph Connor died after being punched and kicked several times in the TV room at the minimum security Ojibway Correction Facility in Marenisco Township.
Henderson and Smith will be in court October 1 for an all purpose hearing. They have since been moved to a higher security facility.
(Rick Allen, WCCY/WOLV, Houghton)
A Canadian scuba diver arrested near Marine City for trying to smuggle eight pounds of marijuana into the U.S., by swimming through the St. Clair River, has been arraigned on charges.
The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office says 24-year old Jesse Zunti is charged with one count of controlled substance and delivering and manufacturing of marijuana, a four year felony.
The incident started with a tip from a citizen to agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, with the pot towed in what's called a "dry bag", which is often used by divers.
Zunti was arrested by border patrol agents early Monday morning when he got out of the water by Marine City.
(WPHM, Port Huron)


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This is a prototype made of birch. The wife and I kicked around the design the other day then a friend and I made it for another friend's birthday.
Might be worth finalizing for some production
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#1 posted 1677 days ago
Looks nice troy, like the G&G influence!
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#2 posted 1677 days ago
This looks great. Now you need to turn some wine glasses with wood that matches. As an FYI – I have turned several wine glasses. I only turn the base and stem and then insert and glue in a glass top. They are pretty easy to do.
-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.
#3 posted 1677 days ago
great design. I can already see one of these in our corner cupboard… (if I can work out a mod to work in a triangular space.)
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#4 posted 1676 days ago
I think it's worth production. Nice design.
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#5 posted 1675 days ago
very simple but useful design. Better get a patent out before someone from ikea steals it…
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#6 posted 1288 days ago
very nice design! I really like this
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A higher rate of unemployment is a sign of a failing national economic performance. On the other hand, low unemployment rates are an indication of good economic performance. The following are some of the reasons that have contributed to the increased rate of unemployment in the United States.
The growing population
The first census in the United States was conducted in 1790, and showed the population to be about 3,929,214. This number grew over time and today, it is estimated that the population lies well above 311, 800,000. It is no secret that job opportunities do not increase with the increasing population and this is one of the reasons as to why unemployment is also caused by increase in population (Krueger, Alan & Lawrence, 1999).
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Air Miles Can Save You a Fortune on Baseball Road Trips
Friday, February 17, 2012
Douglas 'Chuck' Booth (Baseball Writer)- With my apologies to our friends of the USA right off of the bat, this blog is geared towards Canadians who are familiar with Air Miles. You might still want to read this since you probably know someone north of the border, or could score free ticket vouchers for the 'Rogers Center in Toronto.' For years I have traveled on heavy discounts from collecting Air Miles@ http://www.airmiles.ca. How do you do this you ask?
It is simply achieved by shopping at their best valued sponsor. This sponsor is Safeway. www.safeway.ca. You can collect Air Miles on many items each week by shopping for merchandise Air Miles that could get you hotel gift certificates from Best Western Hotel Chain (denominations of $100 and $150) or airline vouchers. The better value is to use them for hotel gift cards. So how do you determine how much an Air Mile is worth? This is easy. We look at the price right now for $100 gift card at the Air Miles Website. This item costs 750 Air Miles in the reward category. The $150 gift card costs 1125 Air Miles (which is the same value). This would make each mile worth 13.3 cents. This can be applied to every purchase you make at Safeway. Keep in mind that you should be shopping for a deal on these Air Miles already. It is not unheard of to save enough Air Miles in one year to take care of all lodging costs for all of your baseball road trips in the summer.
I will give you an example: There is a deal for 32 ounce Coke bottles (3 for $3 at Safeway.) For every 6 bottles you buy, you receive 40 Air Miles. An Air Mile is worth 13.3 cents each when you redeem them for Best Western Hotel Gift Cards. So you buy (6) 32-oz Cokes for $6, in exchange you receive 40 Air Miles at 13.3 worth for $5.32 in return. You can assess each deal like this. I have always bought deals like this for advance shopping, but if you are afraid of carrying too much inventory at your house, make sure you are going to use the items within six months at the time of transaction. Sit in your house with a calculator for each week's flyer. Crunch the value of the Air Miles in connection to the products listed. In some instances the value of the air miles might even be worth more money than the product itself. As most of us know, grocery chains in Canada do let you use multiple coupons on the same item like they let you do in the USA, so this is a smart way to achieve great value in buying groceries.
Hotel Gift Cards at Best Western will be given in Canadian Funds. Here is why I like traveling with the Best Western Hotels; they have more hotels than any other chain in the price demographic and most of them serve free continental breakfasts. If you are traveling in a party of 1-4 people, having breakfast already included can net you savings of $30-40 for the morning meal daily. You can reasonably stay from $65-$120 a night in most travel cities. There are four ridiculously valued bargains for baseball cities; (Oakland, CA, St. Petersburg. FLA, Fredericksburg, Virginia and Chula Vista, CA. The prices per night go for about $50 a night in these locations.
Another thing you can do is sign up for the Safeway Email Direct Promotion by putting your Safeway number and Air Miles Collector number in at http://cc.safeway.com/EmailDirect/signup.asp. Just give these guys a valid Email and you will receive 100 free Air Miles. This dollar value towards a Best Western Hotel Gift Card is worth $13.33 right there.
The second best redemption for baseball fans of Air Miles is cashing in your Air Miles for Toronto Blue Jays Voucher tickets. These vouchers are good for any game throughout the given season. All you have to do is redeem this voucher in person at Gate 9 at 'The Rogers Center.' You can even pre-buy future games by showing up there during regular business hours. Here is the price point for last year's voucher prices. Keep in mind that you are given the best available seat left for the section at time of redemption.
500 Level Bleacher Tickets (Air Miles Cost-were 50 Air Miles per ticket,) were selling for $12 plus service charges at Ticketmaster last year. So for two tickets you could buy for $30 at best. If you choose to redeem with Air Miles, you could make your Air Miles worth 3o cents per mile by saving $30 on tickets for just 100 Air Miles redeemed. If you sign up at Safeway Email Direct you would receive 100 Air Miles for free, so you in essence you could scoop two 500 level tickets to any Toronto Blue Jays Game. If you are a USA Citizen, don't be afraid to have your Canadian friend sign you up for a card in your name by sending it to their Canadian Address for you. You don't need to make one purchase at all in order to redeem the 100 Air Miles either. They give you for the E-Direct Sign Up.
100 Level Outfield Tickets (Air Miles Cost-were 110 Air Miles per ticket,) were selling for $35-$44 based premium seating at given Toronto Blue Jays games in 2011. Again the value is quite high. The same rules apply. The value of each mile on these Air Miles voucher tickets were 30-40 cents
Field Baseline Tickets (Air Miles Cost-were 165 Air Miles per ticket,) were selling from $56-$70 based on premium seating at given Toronto Blue Jays games. The value on these Air Miles voucher tickets were 35 to 45 cents per Air Mile.
If you are feeling good about this process, there is money to be made by redeeming these vouchers for Toronto Blue Jays games. I made a nice living for a few years by selling them on E-bay, keep in mind that it is only legal if you re-sell the vouchers for under face value prices. You would have to include this disclaimer. You would put in a buy it now price that would not exceed the prices set forth by the ball club.
It is a matter of doing the math value of the redemption divided by the Air Miles redeemed. I would not advise on using Air Miles for flying, car rentals or single night hotel stays. The reason for this is that you are still obligated to pay several taxes on each of the redemption's. I will be divulging other secrets in coming Fridays.
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Some of the most promising young athletes from across the Hampshire Schools' region took part in the 2014 Hampshire School's AA Track and Field Championships at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth recently.
Among them were a host of athletes representing Andover, many from Andover Athletic Club.
With the reward of Inter-Counties team selection for those who excelled the stakes were high, and in the Senior Girls Annie Brooks set the standard taking gold in both the 100m (13:2s), and the triple jump (10:27s). A regular for Andover AC Annie is on top of her game as results proved. Fellow club member Laura Jones proved what a talented field athlete she is, taking gold in the shot putt (8.96m) just 0.07m off her personal best.
The Intermediate Boys highlighted an emerging talent in the 1500m steeplechase, with Ben Reed producing a superb performance clocking 5:00.2. Ben is getting ever nearer to his target time of sub 5:00 and likely to see that become a reality before the season finishes. Archie McKeller fought hard to qualify for the 800m final coming sixth overall.
They continued to impress with Keiran Nicholls hitting a distance of 29.89m in the discus for bronze and Robert Horne was up against a tough field in the javelin, managing fifth with a distance of 37.87m.
In the Junior Boys rising Andover AC star Kai Mumford took gold in the hammer with 44.92m and in the Junior Girls Holly Mills and Jasmine McClutchie ripped up the field in a fashion that has come to typify these young talents. McClutchie took 200m silver in 26:8s and national long jump champion Mills was on fire taking gold and recording a new county best 5.40m. Ella Taylor was just outside the medal positions in the shot putt .
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Millet-Coriander Carrot Cake
It's a toss up whether the texture or flavor of this cake make it such a winner- but combined there's no doubt it's delicious. The crunch of whole millet is surrounded by cake made velvety smooth with coconut oil, and the bright flavor of coriander is delightful . Healthy enough to have for breakfast and tasty enough for tea time or dessert, this versatile cake is a snap to make so enjoy it any time.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line the bottom of an 8x8' cake pan with parchment paper, grease and flour the parchment and sides of the pan..
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and coriander.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, maple syrup and coconut oil. Gently fold in the flour mixture. Then add the grated carrot and millet. Stir until just combined.
- Fill the cake pan and bake for 30 minutes, until the center of the cake springs back to the touch.
Lemon Thyme Rhubarb Cake
Tart, sweet and dramatically red, rhubarb never tasted so good as in this rustic Lemon Thyme Rhubarb cake. The cake is moist and fluffy on the inside with a slight crisp on the outside edge. The sharpness of the rhubarb combined with the delicate pungency of the lemon thyme make this a most wonderful way to take advantage of an abundant rhubarb harvest.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Butter and flour a 9-inch cake pan or cast-iron pan
- In a small saucepan, over medium heat, add rhubarb, sugar and water
- Cook, stirring occasionally, until rhubarb has softened
- Strain, reserve juice
- Set rhubarb aside to cool while you make the rest of the cake
- Cream butter and sugar together until smooth
- Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition (batter should look light and fluffy)
- Gently mix in the baking powder, salt, lemon thyme and flour - be careful not to over mix
- Pour into the prepared pan and smooth the top of the batter
- Spoon the rhubarb compote over the top of the batter
- Using a butter knife, swirl the compote through the cake batter, being careful not to scrape the bottom of the pan
- Drizzle 2 tablespoons of the reserved rhubarb compote juice over the top
- Sprinkle with the rest of the lemon thyme and sugar
- Bake 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center of cake comes out clean
- Serve warm or room temperature
- Enjoy with more of the rhubarb compote mixed with whipped cream or Greek yogurt, served on the side
Bejeweled Spice Cake
The baker's spice holy trinity of Ginger, Indonesian Cassia and Allspice in our Poudre Douce or "Sweet Powder" blend make this upside-down fruit cake an essential for the winter holidays — even if wasn't such a table-top stunner! We made a festive selection of dried fruits over the classic pineapple to allow the spices to shine through. Less sweet than those pineapple upside-down cakes of our childhoods, we like this cake at brunch as well as for dessert!
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Put the dried fruit into a small bowl and cover with boiling water. After 10 minutes, drain and set the rehydrated fruit aside.
- Put the 2 Tbl of butter into a 10 inch round cake pan and put it into the oven to melt the butter. Remove pan from oven and swirl the melted butter around, making sure to get some of the butter on the sides of the pan (use your fingers or a pastry brush). Sprinkle the 1/3 cup brown sugar onto the bottom of the pan and spread around evenly. Set aside.
- Sift the flour, spices, baking soda, and baking powder into a bowl. Whisk in the almond flour and salt, and set aside.
- In a stand mixer, beat the softened butter, brown sugar and honey until creamy and a light color (about 3 minutes). Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then the vanilla extract. (Make sure to scrape the sides of the bowl down.)
- Add the dry ingredients and mix until smooth. Put the drained, rehydrated fruit in the cake pan, patting down to make sure every inch is packed with fruit. Pour the cake batter on top of the fruit and smooth out.
- Bake for about 40 minutes (or until a cake tester inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean). Cool the cake in the pan on a rack for about 15 minutes. Run a knife around the sides of the pan (to make sure the cake is loosened), then invert cake onto a plate.
Chinese Five Spice Apple Cake
This simple apple cake was baked by my great-grandmother on a wood stove over 100 years ago, and I'm happy to still be cooking it today. This recipe is timeless, rustic and highlights the flavors of both the apples and the spice. This old family recipe was one of the first that I adapted to experiment with the amazing world of spices and I'm thrilled to share it. Happy Holidays from our family to yours!
- Mix sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla.
- Combine dry ingredients.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and mix thoroughly.
- Fold in apples and nuts.
- Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees in a greased 9" x 13" pan.
Ghost Chile Honey Cake
The combination of chile and chocolate is irresistible, and this Ghost Chile Honey Cake is a mouth watering example. By infusing the chile into honey, we were able to mellow the heat and reveal the subtle fruity flavor of the Ghost Chile. The fudgy and fiery creaminess of the frosting, the moist chocolate cake, and the synergistic tang of the marmalade combine together to make one luscious cake. While it's perfect for a Halloween party, we've made this cake for birthdays, holiday gatherings, and just when we wanted a thick slice of a really good chocolate cake. Enjoy!
- To make the Ghost Chile infused honey - A "honey bear" works great for this, as it will also give you a container to store it in. Empty the honey into a small pan and turn the burner to low heat. Put a tiny slit in 3 Ghost Chile pods, and place in the honey. (Make sure you push them down in the honey, so you get all of that wonderful flavor.) Let steep for about 1/2 hour. Cool to room temperature and pour the honey and chile pods back in the "honey bear" (or a clean jar with a lid). This can be made ahead.
- Preheat 350 degrees. Spray a 9-inch cake pan with 2-inch sides with pan spray. Cut a piece of parchment to cover the bottom of the pan.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder in a small bowl. In a larger bowl, whisk together sugar, infused honey, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Whisk in the vegetable oil, then half of the flour mixture. Whisk in all of the buttermilk, then the rest of the flour mixture. Pour into your prepared cake pan.
- Bake the cake about 55 minutes (or until your cake tester comes out clean). Your cake will have a slight "dome", but that's ok. Let it cool for about 10 minutes, then invert it onto a cooling rack to finish cooling. Remove parchment.
- While the cake is cooling, you can make the frosting. Fill a small saucepan halfway up with water, and put on a medium-high burner. Get a non-plastic bowl that will easily fit on top of the saucepan. You now have a double-boiler, which is used to melt chocolate (so that it doesn't burn). Put the chocolate in bowl, and stir until it's almost melted. Set bowl aside. Pour out the water from the saucepan and pour in the honey and cream. Bring to a boil, then pour over the melting chocolate and stir until smooth. Let it cool.
- Assembly - When cake is cool, carefully cut it in half horizontally. Place the bottom of the cake onto a plate. Spread the marmalade over the cake bottom, being careful not to spread it all of the way to the edge. Place the other half of the cake on top of the filling, and gently press down. (This is why you don't want to spread the filling all of the way to the edge - it will ooze out when you press on the cake.) With a butter knife (or offset spatula), frost the cake. (After you've put all of the frosting on the cake, you can 'smooth' it out by dipping a clean knife into hot water, wiping it off, then using the warm knife to 'smooth out' the frosting.)
- Keep cake in an airtight container, so that it won't dry out.


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Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village
Written by and
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Pub Date: January 15, 2013
Price: $22.00
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Our inspiration for writing this book stems from a simple but powerful fact: If your home is in London, New York or Toronto, you can expect to live well into your late seventies or early eighties. If you live in Morogoro, Tanzania, on the other hand, you will live only about half as long.
In fact, roughly 90 percent1 of human beings live in poor regions of the world, and their lives are routinely cut short by infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis and hiv/aids, diseases that in rich countries are preventable or controllable. The overwhelming majority of the world's citizens are also increasingly more susceptible to non-infectious diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, which in developing nations kill more readily because of poor diet, poor living conditions and limited access to health care.2 For many decades and perhaps even longer, most of us have accepted these inequities as inevitable, a function of the great divide between the lesser-developed world and prosperous nations. But does it really have to be this way? Is there any solid evidence to suggest that life expectancy in some places must necessarily be shorter than in others? And is a life in the developed world really more valuable than the life of someone living in a poorer region?
Absolutely not.
In fact, with the mapping of the human genome we are poised at the edge of a revolutionary wave of science, one that offers incredible opportunities to improve life sciences and medical possibilities—for all people on Earth. In this book, we will tour the groundbreaking new discoveries and technologies spawned by the Human Genome Project, innovations that will change many aspects of modern medicine, including the way drugs and vaccines are discovered and developed, and how diagnoses are made.
We will also pose a critical question: now that we have such extraordinary capabilities, what will we use this power to achieve? To create designer drugs for the rich, which will only widen the health gap between rich and poor? Or will we finally choose to tap the enormous potential of the new science to address the needs of 90 percent of the world?
We are two scientists—one born in an affluent Canadian city, the other in a poor Tanzanian one. A number of years ago, we joined forces to pursue an audacious goal: to use modern genomic science to give a child in sub-Saharan Africa—or any other disadvantaged area—the chance to live as long and healthy a life as a child in New York or Toronto. Contrary to what many people believe, this goal is not a grandiose, abstract ambition. Rather, it is a scientific and ethical mission that, even as we write these words, is being put into practice in labs and in villages around the globe.
It is true that until recently, the Human Genome Project, an epic scientific achievement that is turning information hidden in the double helix of DNA into a readable language, ignored the needs of the developing world. Most scientists thought that genomic research and applications were too sophisticated to be of use to people in poor countries. But imagine if we challenged that thinking. Imagine what would happen if the ability to read the code of life were applied specifically to problems of the poor. Suddenly, recently discovered cutting-edge powers to heal would be available to the very people who need them most. This kind of thinking could positively change the world we all live in, and save tens of millions of lives.
Here's the good news: it's now starting to happen. Exciting research is under way all around the world, and in this book we will be your guides through both the thrilling scientific and medical exploits of the past decade and the most promising of today's innovations in life sciences, those that hold the greatest possibility for improving the health of the world's poorest and most disenfranchised citizens. We will tell the story of how, in 2003, a half-a-billion-dollar investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was deployed to help researchers use the new life-sciences revolution to fight ancient diseases such as malaria from new angles. In California, Australia and London, scientists are now tweaking the DNA of mosquitoes to stop them from spreading malaria. In Seattle, a malaria vaccine is being developed that knocks out genes the malaria parasite needs to survive in the human body.3 Some of the world's greatest researchers are, at last, focusing on the problem of malaria in the developing world and using the newest scientific breakthroughs to address an age-old scourge. And this scientific awakening is not limited just to malaria but is growing to cover problems as diverse as dengue fever, tuberculosis, pneumonia and diarrhea, all of which are serious ailments in the developing world.
But acquiring the knowledge is only one half of the solution, and only one half of the story we tell. How do you transfer the knowledge found in labs around the world right to the hands of the poor in disadvantaged villages? Both of us have devoted much of our professional lives to answering that very question, and what we can tell you is that it's a long road from lab to village, with many roadblocks to overcome. In this book, we will take you to labs in India and China that have become potent new players in biotechnology and in the discovery and manufacture of drugs. We will go to Bangalore, where one of India's richest women started a biotechnology company that supplies affordable insulin to India's growing population of diabetics.
We will go to Hyderabad, where a biotechnology company brought down the price of hepatitis B vaccine more than twentyfold through clever thinking and innovation. In these pages, you will also meet scientists, thinkers, doctors, heads of state, CEOs, ethicists and ordinary people who have taken up the call to action to close the gap between the developed and developing worlds.
Beyond encountering the people and places on the forefront of a revolution in life sciences, you will also learn about the profound ethical challenges we face on the road ahead. How do you persuade a rural, isolated community to test a new genetically modified mosquito? How do you get female sex workers to try out an anti-HIV gel that could save their lives? How do you obtain consent to trials in a way that respects the health, cultural beliefs and social structures of individual traditional communities around the world? How do you overcome decades of suspicion of multinational companies so that private organizations can contribute to finding a cure to a killer disease? How do you promote the building of labs and other facilities, not in the developed world but close to the people who need them most? How do you encourage companies to make lifesaving drugs and vaccines more affordable? And finally, how do you handle the political roadblocks that can stymie even the most creative and important of scientific endeavours?
We contend that if we can answer these questions and overcome these obstacles, we can not only save lives, we can begin to imagine a new world. True innovation means that the discovery of new cures and remedies will take place not only in Stanford and Oxford but in Bangalore, Shanghai and Cape Town. It means the cities of the poor world will begin to reap the health and economic benefits of science. The greatest gift for poor nations is the scientific power to heal themselves.
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DIY Whiteboard Wall
13 Oct
I mentioned that I was a superhero last week- that's because I was so productive! I don't think I've ever been so effective. I finished most of the old projects in my garage and even started some new ones. AND…also surprised my husband, Manny, big time.
Manny was in California all week working and when he came back to Texas on Friday night he was stunned to see I finished building a floor to ceiling whiteboard for him in his home office.
Here it is!
A whiteboard may not sound exciting but Manny has been wanting one for his office for quite some time. Buying a whiteboard wasn't possible because large ones are very expensive and hard to find. Buying small ones and piecing them together would take away from the goal of having one continuous whiteboard.
Moving across the country two months ago helped delay the project. When we moved into our new rental home, it also delayed the project because I wasn't sure how in the world to make an entire wall covered with whiteboard paint without damaging a wall. Our lease is up in 10 months and I am not sure where we will live when that occurs. There is a chance we might be able to buy this house but that is so undetermined since we still might need to sell our house in Los Angeles. If we move out, the last thing I want to do while packing up and moving out is repaint and retexture a room. Kudos to all those renters that modify and paint but I am still on the fence about doing that.
So until I get crazy ambitious and paint a wall, I figured out another solution– covering the wall with thin boards before using whiteboard paint. The boards can easily be removed if/when we move out.
That's my handsome dad helping me hang the boards. I never usually have help with my DIY projects but thanks goodness my dad stopped by to help with this one because the large sized boards were too difficult for one person to hold up.
This whiteboard project would have been much simpler had I not had to cover the walls with wood. The whiteboard paint could have just been painted directly on the walls. Whiteboard paint can be painted on practically any surface but here is the long complicated way I completed this project to protect the walls. If you don't need to protect the walls, just skip on down to the whiteboard paint part of the tutorial.
One tip when using whiteboard paint is that the surface MUST be very very smooth. Whiteboard paint is not an epoxy. It will not flatten out uneven surfaces. I learned this after completing this project. If you start with a rough surface, you will end up with a rough surface. Whiteboard paint is pretty much the same consistency and texture as regular paint so keep that in mind before applying. If the wall has a textured surface, you will get a textured whiteboard. It will still work like a whiteboard but be pretty dang difficult to write on top of wall texture bumps.
Here's the how to make a whiteboard:
I bought two thin boards for $12 each. They are about 1/8 inch thick.
The picture above shows the completed whiteboard from the side. The boards are so thin, the whiteboard is flush with the wall.
The boards were originally 8′ x 4′ but I had them cut down slightly to fit between the crown molding. The original plan was to make the entire wall a whiteboard but because of a huge air-conditioning vent at the bottom right side of the wall, we could only cover a portion of the wall.
It ended up working out well because now my husband can put other things like pictures or a calendar on the right side. I'm starting to decorate his office so I'll let you know about the fun stuff happens there soon!
Nail boards to the wall using thin nails. It needs to be small nails with thin, barely there nail heads so that there are not any indentions on the board surface. Nails that look almost like a pin. The surface needs to be flat as possible. If large screws or nails are used it will be very hard to cover up and sand down so many holes with wood filler.
Here is how we installed the boards.
If more than one board is used, wood filler will need to be used between boards to make it look like one continuous sheet. I filled with wood filler and sanded twice to get it smooth.
Then I taped the sides with painters tape and applied five coats of latex primer. Five!!
The wood I used was pretty smooth but I wanted to make the whiteboard as smooth as possible which is the reason for applying 5 coats. The first two coats just absorbed into the wood and it was really only the last 3 that started to give it good coverage. I also lightly sanded between coats to help ensure smoothness.
All five coats were applied using this tiny smooth roller..which is one of my new favorite toys. I used this roller on a few other projects including painting furniture and am really pleased with the results. Pretty smooth finish and the roller doesn't suck up or waste a bunch of paint.
Priming took two days to give the paint adequate time to dry. Then it was time to whiteboard! I didn't buy the Idea Paint I talked about before. Idea Paint was more expensive ($175.00) and it also required shipping. I had already held off on this project long enough and didn't want to wait longer for it to get shipped.
I ended up using Rust-oleum which I bought at Home Depot. It was substantially cheaper –$21/kit. Each kit can provide two coats of a paint for a 7′ by 7′area so I bought two kits. (Something to consider if you want to do this project is the Rust-oleum only comes in white. Idea Paint comes in several colors.)
The whiteboard paint kit comes in a two part solution.
Mix Part A with Part B to activate solution.
Stir well.
Then start painting using a roller designed to leave a smooth finish.
Each coat an be applied after the prior coat has had 20-30 minutes drying time. All coats must be completed within 2 hours.
At least two coats of whiteboard paint are recommended. I painted 4 coats.
And here it is!
Now Manny can talk to clients and plan and outline their needs visually at the same time.
Overall, we were very 90% satisfied with the Rust-oleum kit. We were pleased with the whiteboard paint but the texture was not as smooth as I thought it would be. I sanded the raw wood pretty smooth but still the whiteboard paint dried with an oh so slight bumpy textured surface. I hate to call it bumpy because the bumps are barely there. You can't even see the bumps well but I just thought the whiteboard paint would be glass like which is why I warned above about making sure the surface is very smooth before painting. I am not blaming the whiteboard paint…perhaps it was my roller or the wood? I hate to complain because were were happy and would use this product again…but am still left wondering if maybe the Idea Paint is better and would provide a more perfect result. Regardless, it is one really nice whiteboard and my husband loves it.
Here are the costs of the project:
- Two 8′ x 4′ x 1/8″ boards $22
- Two Rust-oleum whiteboard paint kits $42
- TOTAL COST = $64 plus tax (I already owned the painter's tape, roller and primer. If installing boards is not necessary, project costs will reduce $22 based on same size whiteboard.)
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By Bill Kirk
---- — An Andover High School graduate was charged recently with 18 felonies in Indiana following allegations that he hacked into his professors' computers during his undergraduate years at Purdue University and changed multiple grades.
Roy Chaoran Sun, 25, of 1 Robinswood Way, Andover, joined two classmates in a complex and advanced hacking scheme in which they replaced professors' keyboards with ones that logged their keystrokes. They then used the information from the key-loggers to hack into those professors' accounts and change their grades, prosecutors allege.
According to probable cause affidavits, Sun, an electrical engineering student, changed eight Fs and one D to all As. He is accused of changing the first grade, the D, in December 2008 and continuing to change grades through May 2010, when he graduated from Purdue, according to an affidavit.
Following his arrest last month in Brookline on a warrant out of Purdue, Sun reported to Indiana to face the charges. He was released on $125,000 cash bail and $125,000 surety, and, according to court documents, was allowed to return to Andover to live with his parents until his next court date at the end of August. He was ordered to surrender his passport to Purdue University police and told not to leave the country.
Last week, a woman answering the door at 1 Robinswood Way in Andover declined to comment, saying she was busy.
In court documents filed with Tippecanoe County, Sun also gave an address of 14 Longwood Drive, Apt. 8, Andover. Nobody answered the door at that address.
More recently, Sun was a graduate student at Boston University. According to a BU spokesman, he attended the school for the spring semester and is no longer a student there. Colin Riley, executive director of public relations at BU, said federal confidentiality rules prevented him from releasing any further information.
Purdue police Chief John Cox said police at Purdue and BU are sharing information about the investigation.
According to one local media report, Sun was arrested on May 29 at 1 John St., Brookline, by Brookline police and charged on a warrant out of Purdue for computer hacking violations. He gave police at that time the Robinswood Way address.
Sun was joined in the scheme by Mitsutoshi Shirasaki, 24, and Sujay Sharma, 24, both of West Lafayette, Ind., police allege. All three are charged with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit computer tampering, conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to commit computer trespass. Sun also faces a misdemeanor charge of computer trespass.
The charges originally were filed in April, but were unsealed and made public only recently, according to the Journal & Courier of Lafayette, Ind.
Sun's attorney, Jack O'Bryan, could not be reached for comment.
Sun had been in trouble before. In 2009, he was facing charges of terroristic mischief after he left a box at the parking services building on the Purdue campus that some believed might have contained a weapon of mass destruction.
Turns out it was a wheel lock, or a Denver boot, along with a ticket and $20 in cash that he owed in parking fines. Charges were never filed after Purdue students rallied to Sun's cause.
In 2007, according to court documents, Sun pleaded guilty to criminal recklessness. The court papers do not specify what he did, but he was ordered to stay out of bars, pay a fine, submit to random drug and alcohol screening and keep away from a victim, who was named in the court documents. He was also placed on probation for one year.
It appears that while he was at Andover High School, in 2005, he was a member of the student government.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.


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Ciudad Juarez:The Serial Killer's Playground
Silent Screams
The first to die, officially, was Alma Chavira Farel, a young woman found beaten, raped and strangled to death in the Campestre Virreyes district of Ciudad Juarez on January 23, 1993. She may not even have been the citys first female murder victim in 1993, since local disappearances exceed known homicides each year. But Chavira remains the first acknowledged victim of a predator the media would later dub the Juarez Ripper or El Depredador Psicópata. While no mutilations were recorded in Chaviras case, many subsequent victims suffered similar slashing wounds to their breasts.
Police acknowledge 16 more murders of women in Ciudad Juarez by years end, with the last recorded on December 15. That case was solved, along with three others. In the dozen cases still unsolved today, five of the victims remain unidentified. Of the 12, at least four were raped. Cause of death in those cases included four strangulations, four stabbings (with one set afire afterward), one beating and one gunshot. Decomposition ruled out a determination in the last two homicides.
In 1994 police acknowledged eight unsolved murders of women in Ciudad Juarez; possible culprits were named in three other cases, but none were arrested. Three of the dead are unidentified today; the others ranged in age from 11 to 35. This time, at least four were raped. Of those whose cause of death is listed, six were strangled, two stabbed, one beaten to death, and one burned alive.
Before that year of brutality ended, state criminologist Oscar Maynez Grijalva warned Ciudad Juarez police that some of their unsolved murders might be the work of a serial killer. In later interviews, Maynez said his warning was ignored.
1995 was worse yet, with at least 19 women slain by mid-September. Eight of the victims remain unidentified, with one case solved and probable suspects named (but not convicted) in two others. At least four of the victims were raped. Where cause of death could be determined, six were strangled, one stabbed and one shot. Three of the four victims found in September alone presented police with an obvious pattern: each had her right breast severed, with the left nipple bitten off.
It appeared that at least one serial killer was stalking the women of Ciudad Juarez, linked by a similar modus operandi to three of the most recent crimes. But authorities did not seem overly concerned.
In October, detectives claimed they had solved the case. They had detained a suspect who was charged with one of the citys brutal sex murders. Best of all, he was a foreigner.
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After just ten days in space, astronauts can lose up to 30 percent of muscle mass because they don't use it in zero gravity. In fact, they end up losing bone faster than an elderly woman. So, by the time they reached some far away destination, they would be too fragile to explore. That's why researchers from NASA are working now with the Cleveland clinic to find a better way for astronauts to exercise in zero gravity and saver their bones. "The particular harness that I'm wearing is the prototype that we're developing. It is comfortable. When I'm loaded you can definitely feel the force pulling you down," said Beth Lewandowski, a NASA research subject. Over the next decade, this treadmill device will help design exercise regimens to help prevent bone loss in astronauts. The good news is what they learn along the way will also be helpful here on earth in the fight against Osteoporosis.
Gestational Diabetes usually goes away after a woman gives birth, but a new study indicates a lot of those patients are not getting the follow-up care they need just in case diabetes is still a concern. Researchers studied more than 300 women who had gestational diabetes while pregnant and they found that just 45 percent had glucose testing after they had their babies. Doctors found more than a third of those tested did have abnormal glucose levels even after childbirth. So the take home message here is if you had Gestational Diabetes during pregnancy, be sure to follow up and ask for glucose testing after childbirth.
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BART unions shocked about collapse of negotiations
Statement by SEIU Local 1021 Executive Director Pete Castelli
Oakland, Oct. 18, 2013 – I'm surprised and sorry to be standing here tonight. In all my years in the labor movement, I've never seen an employer drive negotiations that were this close to a deal into a strike.
We met BART's demands on pensions.
We met BART's demands on health care benefits.
We had the outline of a deal on wages.
We offered to send unresolved work rule issues to voluntary binding interest arbitration.
But after telling the public that their main goal at the bargaining table was saving money to buy new trains, BART management blew up negotiations by insisting that employees sacrifice workplace protections in exchange for economic well-being. This was a poison pill for workers: Choose between your paycheck and your rights.
We had a rough deal on economics. We can't believe BART is willing to incite a strike over their professed desire to implement an electronic pay stub system and handheld computers in the workplace. This is ridiculous.
BART became the top-rated transit system in America with its current work rules.
BART increased ridership from 270,000 riders to 400,000 riders per day with its current work rules.
What's more, BART never focused on performance or efficiency issues during bargaining and repeatedly acknowledged that productivity in the system had increased. The fact is that the system is carrying more passengers than ever with fewer frontline workers than ever.
BART management blew up negotiations by insisting that employees sacrifice workplace protections in exchange for economic well-being. This was a poison pill for workers: Choose between your paycheck and your rights.
The rules we're focused on protect basic rights. Like the eight-hour workday. Like past practice language that protect our workers from punishment and retribution when they report favoritism, sexual harassment and other problems in the workplace.
In the end, we're willing to let a neutral third-party arbitrator help both sides work through the differences on work rules and reach final agreement on the economic package discussed on the last 28-hour bargaining session.
Despite reports that BART General Manager Grace Crunican and Board Chair Tom Radulovich are trying to meet with our union, I want to confirm that neither has contacted me nor the other top staff of the union to restart talks since bargaining broke up this afternoon.
For more information, contact Cecille Isidro at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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BART GENERAL MANAGER GRACE CRUNICAN and MANAGEMENT SHOULD RE- GROUP and train a secondary force that would appreciate the job and hire them, the current employees done got spoiled with the 30- 40 plus an hr.(wow) the black and other communities will perform its task of responsibilities for, far less ,and be even more efficient and effective.↓
Greed at it most high , amongst its union and employees ;train a secondary force that would appreciate and enjoy the job (SPOIED BRATS) MANAGEMENT SHOULD FIRE AND RE-HIRE- NOTE:DO THE ABOVE FIRST. THE COMMUNITIES WOULD LOVE TO GET THE OPPORTUNITY…↓