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Shocking AP Headline: 'Obama Disconnects Rhetoric, Reality'
Many right-thinking Americans have been wondering when Obama-loving news outlets would notice that even Democrats don't support the president's new jobs bill.
On Monday, the truth came from a surprising source - the Associated Press:
In President Barack Obama's sales pitch for his jobs bill, there are two versions of reality: The one in his speeches and the one actually unfolding in Washington.
When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignores the fact that his own party has struggled to unite behind the proposal.
When the president says Republicans haven't explained what they oppose in the plan, he skips over the fact that Republicans who control the House actually have done that in detail.
And when he calls on Congress to "pass this bill now," he slides past the point that Democrats control the Senate and were never prepared to move immediately, given other priorities. Senators are expected to vote Tuesday on opening debate on the bill, a month after the president unveiled it with a call for its immediate passage.
Yes, those paragraphs are really from an AP piece. So's this one:
For example, when Obama says his jobs plan is made up of ideas that have historically had bipartisan support, he stops the point there. Not mentioned is that Republicans have never embraced the tax increases that he is proposing to cover the cost of his plan.
So Obama has been less than honest concerning this matter. If only his supporters at most of the other news outlets would notice and share the inconvenient truth as the AP did.
As an interesting sidebar, when this piece was originally published, NewsBusters member Bob Keyser observed the following at the end of the article: "EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look behind the rhetoric of public officials."
As you can see in the PDF he sent me of the piece, this was there as of 9:28 AM. Now it's not.
I wonder if the editor realized he or she was divulging too much about the rarity of such honesty.
*****Update: The Washington Post published this AP piece with the editor's note. That means the folks at Yahoo decided to remove it. Nice!
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Submitted by JLin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:37am.
So now the mainstream Liberal Press has finally reached their tolerance limit for lunacy? Wahappen?
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You can not ignore Sarah Palin
Submitted by JamesPhilip on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:48am.
Since this site has chosen to ignore the speech Sarah Palin gave on Friday....
I submit a video you should watch. This is what I consider to be one of, if not the best, speech that Sarah Palin has ever given.
Question... after you watch it, do you really think any of the Republican candidates could or would be able to make a similar speech? That is why she is not running. She has a more important mission.... to attack the entire corrupt political system and to promote Conservative principles.
Sarah Palin Unshackled - Defending the Republic - http://tinyurl.com/6bdpfvz
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The problem is that the Vichy Press cannot handle truth.
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:16am.
Leaders like Palin and Cain and Santorum will always be shouted down and marginalizeduntil such time as the working "People" rise up and slap down the rabble and assert their authority.
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Methinks they're hoping no
Submitted by kareling on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:58am.
Methinks they're hoping no one will notice the article because everyone is distracted by the Occupy mobs.
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Bambi is coming unglued.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:59am.
Here is a link to a similar article in the New York Post:
Like all communist/Fascist/wacko dictators (or wannabe dictators in Bambi's case), Da One is coming unhinged. It happens to all of them sooner or later. Thank God it happened to this RBFPOS in time for us to correct the biggest mistake in the history of the Republic in the upcoming election. I'm only wondering how much more damage he can cause in the next few months.
It is time for at least a hand full of patriotic Democrats who actually believe in our system of government to step up publicly and call Bull Shiite on this sorry excuse of a president.
It does no good for conservatives to hammer him, because the MSM calls it "just politics." We need a real liberal, hopefully a sane one if he or she can be found anymore, to step out and help save this country from any more destruction from this joke that a majority of voters elected. How sad is that?
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I saw this little article by
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:20pm.
I saw this little article by AP yesterday - I was kind of amazed at what it said..........and the fact that it made it to print, small as it was!!! I'm sure that they will be getting woodsheded soon, or at least tried to.........I've said all along that if the press turns on Boy Barry, he really will be toast - because they were complicit in the big scam, so it's going to take a complete collapse in their own opinion to finally stop covering for him. I don't see it yet - but I do see more and more small shreds of it.
Hey................a thousands small cuts can do him in just as well as one big hack, right???
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Submitted by Granite on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:00am.
The media has served Obama as the biggest best paid Public Relations firm in history that hopefully will never be seen again in our country. No matter what he said, how outrageous, how stupid they had a collective orgasm and swooned at his feet. He started thinking he was a god and could do no wrong and suddenly he is hit square in the face with the ice water of reality. The media have betrayed their job as watchdog for the people and can no longer be called a free press. They are the problem.
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I call them the Vichy Press
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:06pm.
It fits perfectly.
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I wonder if the editor
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:17am.
- I wonder if the editor realized he or she was divulging too much about the rarity of such honesty.
Indeed you nailed that one, NS.
Proper editor's note might have read:
- "EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look behind the rhetoric of public officials on the Democrat side of the isle - we've always nailed it on the Republican side."
(;~/ gary
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In short, Obama lied and the
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:30am.
In short, Obama lied and the AP reported it.
For the liberal drive-by MSM that is a mortal sin.
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Question for you Noel
Submitted by Delsa on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:42am.
Submitted by Delsa on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:32am. WHY does no one ever point out that the TEA Party goers, went to rallies, had the rally,never had sleep overs, cleaned up, and then went home in order to prepare for WORK Monday morning? In addition, WHY does no one in the media point out that TEA stands for TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY??? These maggots in the parks of NY and in the streets of Washington are bottom feeders waiting for my TAX dollars to flow into their pockets. NO MORE! We so called TEA party folks are from all parties and life styles and the one thing we have in common is WE WORK HARD AND ARE TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY!
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The press is blind to obama
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:21pm.
The press is blind to obama and blind to all else.
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With the Sarah Danger now "past",
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:49am.
the AP can look toward getting a progressive Republican in the Oval Office. Those who operate the AP know that Barry is toast and so under the bus he goes. Watch for the Mitt and Rick show to garner saturation not yet seen.
There is no shift here by the AP. There is no sudden moment of insight or turning over a new leaf. They feel empowered because they are licking their chops at the field of party owned pubbies and preparing to anoint another in a long line of media chosen Presidents.
Don't be fooled. This is just more of Old Media's same game.
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Is it too soon?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:51am.
Is it too soon to start looking for the press to call the Occupy crowd what they really are - a bunch of mindless dolts being used by Marxist socialist union leaders and other anti-capitalists whose sole intent is the destabilization of the dollar and, ultimately, the destruction of our Republic?
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Irony to hypocrisy
Submitted by antiObamunist on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:36pm.
Just call them Occupiers it fits hypocritically with their detest of Jewish occupation
Unless you just think Stinkers fits better
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all the psychopaths of the
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:19pm.
all the psychopaths of the world are today proud..we have a president whom is in their company. Charles Manson should be very proud.
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it is an AP article:
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:23pm.
The only thing that matters is who picks it up and actually publishes the story for their readers and where in the back of the Style section they put it.
Otherwise, it is still a tree falling in the forest.
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Narcissist meltdowns are never fun. Never.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:31pm.
Just hope it stays in Axis II cluster B symptoms. If it reaches Axis I (the bad stuff - depression, schizophrenia, bipolarity, etc.), we're in for trouble.
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proper procedure
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:13pm.
If it gets that way, Congress would have to invoke the 25th Amendment. I can easily see the current House doing it, but I can't see the Democrat-led Senate doing that. It requires both to do so.
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The majority of economists
Submitted by coin of the realm on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 5:25pm.
surveyed say the Obama plan will add jobs and stop the downward slide of the economy. The notion that the republicans espouse that he wont compromise with them is absurd to anyone who follows the offers and counter offers. To the repubs the word 'compromise' means to do everything they want and nothing Obama wants.
I guess if the so called job creators aren't creating jobs then lets take back some of those tax gifts they have been enjoying for more than 10 years and put the money towards creating jobs. face it, if they haven't been hiring bc of taxes then they aint gonna hire if they get more tax breaks. How can any reasonable analysts argue that tax rates or uncertainty are the primary factor in any hiring decisions by businesses? Especially considering that a large number of companies pay no taxes, low taxes or , in some cases, actually get paid money by the gov. I mean, common man, record profits, record levels of cash on hand, multi -decade lows in taxes and low interest rates. But they are not hiring bc of the debt or health care??!!
Quit the political propaganda and let the truth win out once in a while even though it is not aligned with republican idea;logy and rhetoric. Your credibility would be much improved if you where to act like you are really interested in fighting political bias in the media by not taking a stance that is politically biased. It wont kill ya to admit that the facts are not liberal talking points, but just facts.
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For 2012, but........
Submitted by Par for the Course on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 6:01pm.
The majority of economists surveyed say the Obama plan will add jobs and stop the downward slide of the economy.
I don't think the American Jobs Act is going to make that much of a difference. It appears to give a boost to employment in 2012, an election year, but that's about it.
Obama plan would make small dent in jobless rate
Obama estimates his American Jobs Act would lower unemployment by just a single percentage point by next year, to just over 8 percent, heading into the 2012 presidential election.
Burned before by making overly optimistic job-creation predictions, the White House turned to prominent outside economists to crunch the numbers.
The projection of 1.9 million new jobs, a 1 percentage point drop in the unemployment rate and a 2 percentage point increase in the gross domestic product under Obama's plan came from Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.
Zandi, who has advised both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, said he's still sticking with his forecast, mainly because the stimulus in the plan, including a temporary reduction in Social Security taxes for both employees and employers and infrastructure spending, would come in 2012 and be paid for later.
But there is one feature Obama doesn't emphasize.
Zandi said his job-creation figure only applies to 2012.
"Beginning in 2013, and certainly into 2014, the plan is a drag on the economy because the stimulus starts fading away," he said. "So by 2015, the economy is in the same place as now, as if there were no jobs package."
So, by 2015, even with Obama's American Jobs Act, the economy will be roughly in the same place it would have been as if there were no jobs package. I don't know about you, but I would prefer long-term growth policies, rather than short-term tax and spend stop-gap measures.
The Obama-Zandi target of 1.9 million new jobs next year, or 158,000 a month, is somewhat higher than private analyses that suggest the plan would create 100,000 to 150,000 jobs a month.
Heidi Shierholz, economist for the labor-leaning Economic Policy Institute, calculates it would take job growth of 400,000 every month for three years in a row to get back to the 5 percent jobless rate last seen in December 2007, at the recession's outset.
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I have a nice Bridge to sell you
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:20pm.
A big one in NY. Dont worry, they cleaned all the poo off it after last week.
Question, why did Obama's other stimulus create another 1.8% unemployment?
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Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:36pm.
Right. A few questions.
1) Who consists of this "majority of economists"? I'm no expert on economics, but I have been doing accounting for enough years to know that if I ran a business the way his majesty and his yes-men run the government, I would be put in jail.
One more thing. If you mention that epic failure of intellectualism, paul krugman, I will have to call b.s. on you.
2) What exactly are these jobs and where are they to be found? Are they part-time? Are they only in blue states? Are they given to only those unions and fringe groups that supported his majesty? Are they burger-flipping jobs at McDonalds?
Be honest. There are NO jobs and it is not the evil bastard republicans who are impeding job growth.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
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Quit the political propaganda, you say, counterfeit money,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 7:53pm.
while spouting voluminous reams of liberal drivel.
God, you are a putz.
Even for a troll.
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Is this Mike Fisher and Carrie Underwood walking to LA from Ottawa?
Does a trade for Fisher even make sense for the Kings?
Personally, I don't see the fit. Fisher is a Center.
The Kings have been searching for a #1 left wing and a top four Defenseman. Adding Fisher would definitely provide depth up the middle. Behind Kopitar, the Kings have Stoll and Handzus followed by a rotating collection of 4th line guys. Adding Fisher pushes Stoll to #4 and keeps Handzus as the shutdown #3 Center.
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For Vietnam, one can get an e-visa approval by a variety of web based vendors. Our processing fee for a couple for a multiple entry was $26. You need to add $65 each payable in fresh US currency at HAN or SGN (we entered at the latter - took all of a few minutes).Report Abuse Reply to this post
The vendor turned about the app and had a copy of our approval letter back to us in less than a week. At SGN, we presented the letter, and you need to partially complete an entry form, and in a few minutes you will be asked for the money, the Visa will be affixed into your passport, and you will be on your way.
For Cambodia, Uniworld said it could not be done on the River, but our Cruise Director offered to do it. Anyway, for US and I guess Canada, file the app and your passport to the Consulate in Washington DC. Cost is $20, plus about $5.50 (I'm guessing on 2013 US postage rates) postage each way. From FL to DC, time for processing, and back, was about 17 days.
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This is great information. The agency that Uniworld has provided is extremely expensive based on what others have told me as you have confirmed as well.Report Abuse Reply to this post
I've learned that there is a Tourist Visa booth at the airport in Vietnam where you can get your visa at much less. However, I am still not sure what requirements are needed. Passport photos, a letter of entry etc.?
As for Cambodia, I was told you can receive a visa as soon as you disembark. I cannot confirm what is required for this visa by anyone at the moment.
We have an Embassy in Canada for Vietnam, but so far have not found one for Cambodia.
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Money and currency are considered synonymous, but a broader definition of currency gives an interesting perspective on the current financial crisis, as well as the next wave of currency innovation.
The Difference between Money and Currency
In a recent panel discussion called "Monetizing Intangible Capital" at the Future of Money conference (Feb 2011), Art Brock drew an interesting distinction between money and currency which I had not heard before. Brock suggested that a currency could be regarded as any symbolic representation of value, issued according to a set of rules:
I use the word currency distinct from money. Normally in every day speech we collapse the two. But monetary currencies or money is a subset of the overall range of currencies that we have. For me, something like "Certified Organic" is actually a currency. There are rules by which it's issued. It changes value flows. It changes the way people shop. It changes the way production is done.
Art Brock, Monetizing Intangible Capital
According to this view of currency, money is just one type of currency which is fungible, enabling it to serve as a medium of exchange and a store of value. Symbols like "Certified Organic," "Fairtrade," or "AAA-Grade investment" or even "CNN" are all currencies too. Their issue is subject to rules which give them meaning, usually by the organisation which owns and operates the currency.
Brock suggests that one of the functions of a currency, in this broader sense, is to "change the way value flows." The existence of the "Certified Organic" sticker on an apple makes visible an otherwise intangible part of the apple's value. Consumers are able to factor in an aspect of the product they wouldn't have otherwise known about, or perhaps valued – its organic production. Currencies of the broader sort have the power to change the way people perceive and value goods and services, and hence change patterns of consumption and production generally.
Brock's distinction between money and currency is not entirely new. The ancient Greeks held a similar view. Diogenes the Cynic, a Greek philosopher and vagrant in the 5th century BC, famously called for the "defacement" of all currency. Diogenes was the son of a money changer, but meant more than "money" by the word "currency". According to Peter Marshal:
The Greek for currency was nomisma, derived from the word Nomos (custom). Since Diogenes felt that the standard of society was wrong, his call to deface the currency represented an attack on all prevailing customs, rules and laws.
Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible
The less frequent use of the word "currency" – to describe an idea, belief or opinion which has common acceptance, also casts light on this broader definition of currency. Our currencies are, after all, symbols of value issued according to rules which have common acceptance.
Why do we need currencies?
After pondering Brock's distinction for a while, I got thinking about the reason why currencies came into existence in the first place. It seems that symbols like "Fairtrade" or even brand names like "BMW" solve an epistemological problem faced by people having to make quick, accurate decisions based on limited knowledge of a complex world.
Our capacity for knowledge is limited in the first instance by sheer scarcity of attention. We don't have enough time in the day to personally inspect and evaluate the production process underlying each good or service we consume. Additionally, and crucially for a democratic society, the degree of technical expertise in any domain of knowledge, from organic farming to finance, is beyond the grasp of the average citizen. There are very few people who know how to operate nuclear power stations, for instance. Yet, if we are going to rely on nuclear technology, we need to come up with a way of knowing who to trust, even if we don't share their expertise.
It seems that we have invented currencies as a kind of social heuristic to solve these epistemological problems. By navigating our decisions with the help of currencies, we turn the knowledge problem into a trust problem. Rather than thinking about whether this apple really is produced organically (not to mention defining what "organic" means exactly,) by using the "Certified Organic" sticker we trust the organisation who regulates "Certified Organic" to do the job for us.
The trust problem which currencies give rise to is technically easier for us to solve than the knowledge one. This principle seems to be true of almost any currency you can think of. Take, for example, a car brand name like BMW. The value of the BMW symbol is a largely dependent on the quality of the cars to which it is attached. Consumers benefit from not needing deep knowledge of motoring and car manufacturing – they use "BMW" as a kind of short-hand in this regard – turning the absence of knowledge into an issue of trust towards the BMW brand.
When currencies go wrong
Brock's distinction between money and currency also provides a powerful lens though which to view the ongoing financial and economic crisis. In many ways, there is a theme of "currency breakdown" where numerous, interdependent commonly accepted currencies failed to accurately reflect the underlying value they were supposed to represent. (The fact that such currencies still enjoy currency in the sense of common acceptance is perhaps an indication that the crisis is not over.)
One particularly obvious example is financial investment ratings leading up to the financial crash of 2008. The role of ratings agencies like Moody's, Fitch and Standard and Poor's is to analyse and rate financial products according to their level of risk. The three major firms effectively monopolise the ratings market: they are ubiquitous in the financial world, and their ratings are considered very strong indications of the safety of an asset. Many pension funds, for example, are forbidden from investing in sub-AAA rated investment products, which gives the ratings agencies a critical role in determining the flow of capital in the economy. This sounds very much like the kind of currency Brock is describing.
However, in 2008 investment ratings were one of the most unambiguous points of failure in the financial system, which led to the misallocation of billions of dollars into the sub-prime housing bubble. Financial instruments such as CDOs, which are complex combinations of sub-prime and prime mortgages, were systematically over-rated by the big three agencies, leading to large losses. It seems like an excellent example of a currency failing on a very large scale. Furthermore, there are some interesting insights to be learned about currencies by asking why this happened:
One of the overriding reasons for the failure of the ratings system were the conflicts of interest which arose within the ratings agencies, due to their centralisation and dependence on the investment banking industry for fees. The agencies' revenues came from the investment banks who securitised and sold toxic financial products. A combination of short-termist self-interest, wilful delusion (and perhaps worse) led all three agencies to tell the investment banks what they wanted to hear.
Another reason was the degree of complexity in the financial products which were being assessed. If the role of a currency is to provide a social heuristic for making accurate judgments about complex issues, there is a problem when the people responsible for regulating that heuristic – the investment ratings – do not themselves understand what they are rating. It doesn't seem unlikely that investment banks benefited from and promoted complexity in their products for this reason.
What further characterises currency failure is a kind of fetishism where people mistake a symbol of value for value itself. In many cases, individuals made poor investment decisions because they uncritically accepted currency systems like investment ratings, allowing them to monopolise their attention and decision making.
Karl Marx described described something similar when he wrote of commodity fetishism – the fallacy of attributing inherent value to money and commodities, while failing to perceive the underlying social relations they derive it from. This fetishism is described quite well in a World Policy Institute article by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green:
The global economic meltdown may have busted these toxic ideas, but the institutional framework of today's capitalism—including our economic statistics—still rest upon them. To tell us where the economy is going, business television channels keep on reporting quarterly profits and minute-by-minute stock price movements. Politicians are cheered or tormented by quarterly GDP statistics that are taken to be a measure of whether voters' lives are getting better or worse.
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, World Policy Institute, We Are What Me Measure
The example of the investment ratings shows how currencies in the broader sense can become "debased" in the same way that money can. This is why it is also an apt distinction. During the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century, the Severan emperors reduced the quantity of silver and gold in the aurei in order to finance the expansion of the military to police the Roman empire, bringing Rome to the brink of collapse. Today, fiat money is backed by nothing and debasement thought so-called "quantitative easing" is done at the push of a button. In the same way, the "AAA" currency of the rating agencies have been debased as a result of improper issuance.
The future of currencies
Brock's main interest in proposing a broader definition of currency is to consider what the future of currency might look like. It seems natural, looking at the failure of antiquated pre-information age currency systems, to ask how we might be able to build more robust and reliable currencies in the future.
Brock suggests that we are in fact at the cusp of a new wave of currency innovation, which he compares to the advent of language. Much like language enabled humans to create and share gradients of meaning, future currencies will do a better job of capturing gradients of value. In this sense, Brock seems to see the future of currency as a kind of major cognitive and social leap forward, which could change the way "value flows" for the better.
Quantifying new flows
The first observation to make about the future of currency is that information technology gives us the possibility of quantifying the previously unquantifiable. The ability to make intangible types of value, like reputation, trust, or authority, visible is the idea behind the metacurrency project. We can see such currency systems at work already on the web. One example is StackOverflow, a masterful implementation of social software which rewards people for asking and answering programming questions. StackOverflow has a single "reputation" currency, which can be earned in a number of ways – by asking good questions, giving good answers, voting answers and questions up and down. StackOverflow also rewards participation with badges, which it hands out liberally for key achievements. The reputation currency drives further participation, increasing the value of the site for its users.
Connecting flows
Another of Brock's insights is that in the future, currencies will become more interconnected, much like web pages are hyperlinked to each other. He gives the example of borrowing a power drill from someone, based on trust points earned from receiving CouchSurfer guests. Similarly, we can already see eBay reputation points playing an important role in determining prices – sellers with less reputation history are likely to earn less on their sales, as the increased risk is priced in. StackOverflow are also putting their reputation metric to use in the area of recruitment – their careers site allows members to apply for programming jobs. Rather than claiming to know a programming language on a CV, today's talented coders can simply point to their StackOverflow reputation score. More recently, a story has surfaced about a professor achieving tenure based on his 16,000 Wikipedia edits.
Decentralisation and transparency
This vision of currencies seems to reintroduce some of the lost values of the pre-industrial era, where the consumer's contact with a producer was far greater than today, and values like reputation factored into decisions far more. The exciting prospect of meta-currency is that it will allow us to extend reputation, trust and other metrics beyond our immediate social circle, making them count among people we have never previously come into contact with.
The currencies of the future will need to learn from some of the mistakes of industrial-era currencies which are continuing to fail the global economy, leading to large resource misallocation and market failures. These currencies failed due to a combination of centralisation, fetishism and opacity, which made them impervious to scrutiny and prone to debasement. A network of meta-currencies will need to leverage the power of decentralisation and transparency to prevent these mistakes from being repeated.
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On this blog
- Monetizing Intangible Capital – Art Brock
- Metacurrency Orientation Prezi – Alan Rosenblith
- The Bank of Facebook: Currency, Identity, Reputation – Venessa Miemis
- We Are What Me Measure – Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, World Policy Institute


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Monday, February 13th, 2012
A huge 10m inflatable wall and a double decker bus plastered with extreme sports photography were a few of the advertising mediums manufacturers used to showcase their flagship products for the 2012-2013 season. Once inside, it was clear this was the place to be if you had a passion for sport and sports equipment. An eclectic mix of people, some in suits, some in board shorts on skateboards, but somehow it just seemed to work. Looking around you could see people meeting up with old acquaintances or making a new contact. The passion and energy in the room was contagious. Picking up the map of the conference layout was when it really hit home how massive ISPO was. There were 15 separate units split into sport specific categories. To put the scale into context, each unit could probably hold 2, or even 3, football pitches.
The exciting element of the conference for me was visiting the smaller brands, who were trying to increase their market presence and potential catch the eye of a big game player. Three products stood out to me and I have highlighted them below. I will be writing more detailed reviews of each product shortly.
It was my first visit to ISPO and personally I found it had a great buzz and energy about it. If you are involved in this industry, or aspire to be, ISPO is a must attend event in 2013.
1) Go Pro (Hero 2) – Extreme Sports Video
Their core product is a video/camera that in essence is capable of capturing extreme sports from unique perspectives. The Hero 2 can capture footage in HD at 120 fps and comes with a protection case that is suitable for underwater filming. This is a company for the future, look out for them – Be a HERO.
2) Recon Instruments – Head up displays
Velocity, distance, height of jump, friend finder, are just a small selection of tools available to the wearer. A head up display located in a pair of ski goggles that uses accelerometers and GPS technology to provide the wear with more information than they could hope for – Knowledge is power.
3) Kali Protective Helmets – Protect your assets
Quality looking helmets with the added benefit of improved protection. This is achieved through a patented manufacturing technique to improve the energy absorption characteristics – Use your head.
Article by David Rogers
Friday, February 10th, 2012
Nike revealed a new addition to the Nike+ family this month, the Fuelband. In essence it's a wristband that measures movement. That in its self is nothing novel, however the marketing guys at Nike have established a clever USP. Movements are measured using a new metric called NikeFuel. The more active you are the more NikeFuel you earn. A normal day of activity, for instance, would provide 2,500 points of NikeFuel, while a high-energy day would provide 5,500.
The technology used in the system and the conversion from movement to Fuel is a mystery, however, it is likely they use tri-axis accelerometer to track the intensity of active to be able to convert this to NikeFuel. Four pre-sets are available: time, steps, calories and NikeFuel. Users can set targets of how active they want to be throughout the day with the 20 LED light display transitioning from red-to-green based on how close they are to achieving their target. Data can be transferred to a computer through the USB function or wirelessly to a free iPhone app.
Some of Nikes top sponsored athletes including Lance Armstrong, Kevin Durant and Carmelita Jeter endorse the product.
Armstrong said, "What's great about the idea of NikeFuel and the FuelBand is the way it provides real information and numbers to show how much people are doing all day, every day. That's what will get people challenging themselves to do more and better their own scores. It's a tool to get people more active."
"NikeFuel means everyone can get recognition for activities they do," said Durant. "It provides a scoreboard for your day and gets everyone moving."
Jeter said, "You don't have to be an elite athlete to appreciate how NikeFuel can motivate you. It's an easy way to get credit for activities and compare how you do with others, even if you take part in different sports.
The Nike Fuelband hits the US on the 22nd February, the UK on the 1st May and the rest of the world in the summer, with an expected price tag around £100.
Article by David Rogers
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Eleven times ASP world surfing champion Kelly Slater is the first to try Quiksilver's Xplosive prototype wetsuit during the pipeline maters in Hawaii. The R&D team at quicksilver have integrated POWER LINES into the suit design based on advice from leading physiotherapists and engineers. The principle of these power lines is to store and release elastic energy back to the athlete through activation of major muscle groups.
"The power lines have been designed to mimic the naturally-occurring stretch reflexes within the body, by adding these lines to the already established reflexes, we can amplify the body response of action and reaction".
Quiksilver also claim their suit improves proprioception and has injury prevention properties.
"The athlete's awareness of their body is both complemented and enhanced by the suit. The wetsuit aids the control of major muscles during explosive actions and also allows for smooth movement. This is highly important in injury prevention.'
Quiksilver are not the first to add an elastic material to sporting apparel, indeed adidas were the first to market with their TECHFIT™ PowerWEB™ boldly claiming figures of improvements in power of up to 5%.
Whether the Xplosive suit is assistive, or indeed resistive remains to be seen until or if scientific data is published, wetsuits are almost resistance suits in themselves due to the nature of neoprene wrapped around the joints. Whether it reduces injury may be a question for Mr Slater as a long term and large scale study would be required to properly get a handle on this.
Article by David Rogers
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Cambridge Design Partnership's innovative design allows commuters to keep fit and look smart
The practice of cycling to work, whether for convenience or keep-fit, has risen sharply in recent years: Yet cycling is still impractical for many people who need to dress smart for their job. Commuters wanting to cycle often have to sacrifice either a sharp look or exercise in their struggle to find convenient ways to cycle to work and look slick. Cambridge Design Partnership today announces an innovative solution to this problem.
Suitpack is a prototype of a compact rucksack that, with an innovative yet simple patented roll-fold concept, combines convenience with a crease-free solution for clothes. It is designed to hang easily from locations wherever required allowing easy-access to the clothes, toiletry and shoe compartments. The Suitpack has been designed for speed of use with its novel folding system making it an all-round solution for the modern commuter.
Increased commuting time and the ever more common practice of working long hours often mean that there is little time outside of work to dedicate to exercise. The convenience of cycling as a form of exercise, the popularity of various government cycling initiatives, and financial and environmental concerns, have all resulted in a significant net increase in cycle-commuting. 1.3 million new UK cyclists joined the roads last year, there are now 783,000 cycle commuters and the increase in cycling levels is predicted to continue to grow another 20% by 2015.
Furthermore, cyclists clearly enjoy spending on their passion1: The bicycle market in the UK was worth £1.62 billion in 2010, (up 28% on the previous year), with the accessories market worth £853 million. The average cycle commuter spends, on average, £195/year, and 'enthusiasts' a whopping £1295/year, on accessories. And that's just the UK market; the EU cycle market is 10 times the UK's with 4 million frequent commuter cyclists.
As part of their ethos to think differently, Cambridge Design Partnership has ventured into new capabilities by combining their traditional engineering and innovation skills with 'cut and stitch' design. This is another example of flexibility and versatility in applying innovation to diverse market opportunities and technology areas with the ability to gather rich, in-depth research to discover unmet consumer needs and tackle them with creative solutions.
"We know the challenges faced by anyone who has to pack smart clothes for the journey to work," commented Ben Strutt, Head of Design at Cambridge Design Partnership. "Most people who go to the gym early, cycle or jog to work, and commute regularly in 'practical' clothes understand the need to change into smart attire upon arrival. This can be annoyingly impractical: Current poor solutions result in disruption to personal routine; lack of exercise, or commuting via different methods. There is also the issue of office changing facilities which tend to be cramped, impersonal, with floors too wet to put clothes on.
"Very often the trick of good design is not to reinvent the wheel; but to identify and understand problems, give a fresh perspective, and address a burning gap in the market. Here, Cambridge Design Partnership has provided an innovative, graceful solution to what is, for many people, an everyday problem, and which addresses a huge market need."
It's not just cyclists who will benefit from Suitpack. Many commuters wish to go to the gym before or after work, or during their lunch break, and Suitpack also fits within the dimensions of 'hand luggage' allowed by European airports and in railway ceiling racks, allowing business commuters to travel in comfortable clothes with all of the convenience of the backpack form-factor. Also despite its compact size there is still space for a laptop and important daily accessories.
Graeme Henderson, business commuter and partner in the project, says: "Life in the city can be fast and days in the office are often long, so many people find they don't have time to go to the gym or play any sport. Commuting by bike solves this problem by incorporating exercise into your daily routine, so a healthy lifestyle and a busy job are no longer incompatible. But the problem of what to wear means the only options seem to be turning up with crumpled trousers, keeping your wardrobe under your desk or taking transport and exercising later. The Suitpack is a smart solution to all this."
CDP's Head of Design continues "Cambridge Design Partnership's most recent demonstrator has evolved during the application of our usual iterative design process; with rapid experimentation and critiquing of successive models and prototypes we quickly learn about problems and opportunities, while refining the design for cost and labour effective manufacture."
Cambridge Design Partnership is now interested in speaking with potential partners about the future branding and development of the Suitpack backpack, or its core innovations into other luggage designs, and on to the manufacture and distribution phase.
1 Dr Alexander Grous; 'The British Cycling Economy: (http://corporate.sky.com/documents/pdf/publications/the_british_cycling_economy)
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
This Sunday (29th January) sees the opening day of Europe's biggest outdoor trade show; ISPO. Held in Munich from January 29th-February 1st the event will see all the major players aswell as some of the emerging brands set out stall to buyers, media, researchers and enthusiasts showcasing product launches and technical developments.
For those of you not able to make it, the SPORTSTECHREVIEW team shall be there, to bring you the usual objective lowdown on what's hot and what's that tiny bit cooler (and not in a fashion sense)!
Tickets are still on sale and can be bought at the fair so look out for us and let us know what what's taken your fancy!
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Beautiful Beach View in Carlsbad
- bedrooms 2
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- sleeps 6
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- rates (USD) $ 3,750 - $ 5,500 / month
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Come and spend a month at the beach in Carlsbad, CA. This perfectly positioned condo is right across the street from Carlsbad State Beach. This nearly five-mile stretch of beach is popular with families, but also draws surfers and skin divers to the water as well as runners and cyclists to the boulevard bordering the beach. Take a brisk walk in the morning down to the village for a scrumptious breakfast at the many restaurants, or just take in the breeze as you sit on your patio with your coffee as you watch the dolphins play in the surf. No matter what your families activities: swimming, biking, surfing, snorkeling, golfing, shopping, Legoland, San Diego Wild Animal Park, boating, sailing or many more, we have you covered. It is all here.
This single level two bedroom, two bath condo in a small 8 unit complex is perfectly set up for a family of 4 and expandable for 2 more with a raised air mattress on a stand. The master bedroom has a king bed with its own view of the ocean. Just off of the master bedroom is his and her closets and a huge tub with a separate stall shower. The guest bedroom has two twin beds, or you can push them together to create another king bed. The guest bathroom has a tub/shower combo. Included in this unit is a queen size raised air mattress on a stand that can be used by additional guests.
The kitchen is fully equipped if you choose to create meals and there is plenty of space in the dining area for family together time. This unit has its own wet bar right next to the dining area. On the patio there is a gas grill and patio set to enjoy.
The complex has assigned underground remote gated parking. There is an elevator to take you up to the living area, so stairs are not a problem here. There is a community hot tub for all to enjoy.
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MySpace's recent relaunch is centered around music, but the company is already coming under fire for copyright issues.
UK agency Merlin, who represents several independent record labels, claims Myspace is hosting their artists' music without permission. On the other side, Myspace is claiming that the songs, from artists such as Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire, were posted by individual users. Myspace promised to remove any songs the agency asked for.
CEO of Merlin Charles Caldas did not appreciate Myspace's response.
"I don't see ignorance as a justification for piracy," said Caldas. "If you're offering music, without permission, that belongs to a copyright holder in a commercial environment, the onus is on you, the business, to make sure those rights are cleared."
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Parade of Kimono – University Graduation
In March, the traditional month for all university graduations in Japan, I happened to be in Tokyo's Kudanshita district, just near the Budokan in the Kitamaru Koen. This was the big day for all students at Nihon Daigaku, the biggest university in Tokyo and in Japan with almost 70 000 undergraduate students. The graduation ceremony had ended and hundreds of the most wonderfully dressed young women paraded past me, of course I had to snap a few photos! The traditional graduation dress of women in Japan consist of the kimono over which a hakama is worn, the trouser like skirt also often worn by martial artists. It's a gorgeous combination! To this form of kimono, it is common to wear boots of the 1920's era rather than the more traditional sandals.
More Shibuya Fashion Check
Some more shots from last weeks fashion check in Shibuya. You can see that autumn fashion is finally coming but there are still a few hold out of this year's summer fashion (a good example being the girl in the second from last photo). The last photo is not exactly fashion, rather uniform! It's a young woman dressed in the ever present "recruit suit", the near standard outfit for university students in their final year. Believe it or not, but the majority of university students spend most of their last year in school hunting for a job, attending interviews and seminars. I've always wondered when they get time to study? Still, they do look good in their MIB style outfits!
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Penns Valley drums out Cambria Heights boys
The last time Penns Valley and Cambria Heights boys tangled a couple weeks ago, the Highlanders fell by 18 points.
The Patton squad gave the Rams a much bigger battle on Monday night in the opening round of the District 6 Class AA playoffs at the Tyrone Middle School.
"Our kids battled," said Highlanders coach Eric Nagel, whose team lost 44-40. "That's what I said about this group of kids all season long. They are probably the hardest working group of kids that I've ever had. They come to practice every day and practice hard. We came into this game against a team that we lost to by like 18 (points) two weeks ago and be down in the third quarter and only lose by 4."
The Highlanders, who got a team-high 11 points from Zach Strasser along with nine from Josh Serafin, trailed by seven heading into the fourth, but opened the final quarter with baskets by Shawn Lacue and Strasser to narrow the gap to three, but could get no closer the rest of the way.
The Rams, who did not have a basket in the fourth, were of 9 of 15 from the line in the final frame.
"I don't think there was any part of our game that was totaling outstanding, but it was just good enough to win and that's OK in my book tonight," Penns Valley coach Terry Glunt said. "Stepping into this environment of the playoffs is a totally different animal and it was good for some of our younger kids to experience that and our older kids to remember it because we were one and done last year. It's nice we get to move on and play a second game."
Penns Valley, which will play Blairsville later in the week at a site to be determined, was led by 10 points each from Will Jackson and Luke Weaver, with Jackson pulling down six rebounds. Zach Engle supplied eight points and six rebounds for the Rams.
"I told the kids to be happy with the win, but it's a wake-up call," Glunt said. "Hopefully we come out against Blairsville, probably on Thursday night, ready to play. We've had some big games this year and the kids have stepped up and I expect them to again."
The teams were tied at 9 after the first quarter. Cambria Heights took its only lead of the first half at the start of the second quarter on a basket by A.J. Huber, but the Rams tied it at 11 on an Engle bucket and were able to pull away in the second, leading by as many as 11.
A Serafin 3-pointer at the buzzer pulled the Highlanders to 24-19 at the intermission.
Cambria Heights opened the third with another 3-pointer, this one by Nathan Patrick, to pull to within two points and another Serafin trey gave the Highlanders their final lead of the game with 5:14 left to play in third, but the Rams built the lead to seven heading into the fourth.
"In that earlier game at their place, I think we had 19 or 20 turnovers and it was kind of an unknown," Nagel said. "We knew what they were going to bring to us tonight."
The Cambria Heights coach said he was happy with his team's effort.
"We graduated five starters from last year and six seniors and had just one returning letterwinner," Nagel said. "These kids worked hard from the summer and through the season and gave it everything they had."


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Most-viewed stories on KTNV.com (Week of July 21)
Take a look at the most-viewed stories on ktnv.com for the week of July 21.
A round of severe thunderstorms swept across the Las Vegas Valley, leaving a trail of destruction in its path. READ MORE Jessie Browder
Prince William and his wife Kate, showed their newborn baby boy to the world. George Alexander Louis was born on July 22. READ MORE
Las Vegas Police Officer David Vanbuskirk was killed during a hiker rescue at Mount Charleston. READ MORE
The SuperZoo National Pet Show took place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, bringing hundreds of businesses to Las Vegas. READ MORE
A cookie controversy created buzz surrounding the Red Velvet Cafe at the Lou Ruvo Brain Center. READ MORE
An Amber Alert was issued for a mother from Fallon, Nevada, and her 5-year-old daughter. They were later found. READ MORE
The man that was shot by Las Vegas police following a bizarre standoff, died from his injuries. READ MORE
Las Vegas police are warning Valley residents about violent crimes targeting the elderly. READ MORE
Another homeowners association was featured in our HOA Hall of Shame report. One Southern Highlands homeowner said the rules come down to counting trees. READ MORE
Officials closed the lakes at Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs in northwest Las Vegas, as a precaution after approximately 15 ducks were found dead. READ MORE
A 43-year-old Henderson man was struck and killed by a vehicle on Flamingo Road, just east of Euclid Street. READ MORE
Las Vegas Fire & Rescue was called to a mansion fire in Summerlin. The home is located on the TPC golf course. READ MORE


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Mar 18th, 2013
BABSON PARK – The Dale R. Fair Babson Park Elementary A Team poses for a group photo before traveling to a competition last week (March 14) in Lakeland, where the team finished in third place.
The Gnats are (l-r) Brianna Heath, Julian Martinez (in back), Donovan Holmes, Christina Cunningham, Jaylin Gray and Megan Blankenship. A Team coaches are 5th grade teachers Jason Brewner and Kristy May.


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The Clay County Sheriff's Department has identified three men involved in a Saturday morning chase. A Clay County Deputy turned on a vehicle that was northbound on Highway 9 about 1:30 A.M. When the driver saw the Deputy turn on him, he sped up.
The vehicle turned on 140th Avenue North and continued eastbound at high speed. When the road came to a dead end, the driver lost control and rolled.
When the Deputy got to the vehicle, he located one man who was possibly hurt from the accident and with two sets of footprints which left the vehicle in different directions.
Deputies and the Minnesota DNR followed the tracks, searching the area with snowmobiles and ATV's. One set of tracks lead to a road, and police say it looks like the individual was picked up by a vehicle; the other set of tracks went to the north and became difficult to follow because of other tracks in that area.
After several hours of searching, a body was located about two to three miles north of the crash scene. The body was taken to Ramsey County Medical Examiner for an autopsy.
The driver -- the man who was found dead -- is identified as Jordan Louis Oppegard (24) of Mahnomen. The passengers of the vehicle are identified as Clifford Dare Sargent, Jr (23) and Anthony Harrison Engebretson (30), both of Mahnomen.


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Going Five Hole: The Pittsburgh Penguins alternate jerseys that never were?
Lelands.com is a New York-based memorabilia auction house, and in December sold this Pittsburgh Penguins alternate jersey for $529.84. It's an alternate jersey, but one the team never wore. According to the item description, the jersey, designed by Pro Player, was slated to be the Pens' alternate look for the 2000-01 season. Pro Player supplied the Penguins with their jerseys, but before the 2000-01 season began, CCM/KOHO won the NHL license to supply every team.


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It's Coachella season here at the Audio File and I've been spending some time putting together an interactive map of all of the 170-plus artists playing the Empire Polo Club in Indio April 12-14 and April 19-21.
As I've been putting the map together, I came across some artists that are definitely worth putting into your Coachooser list.
I love, love, love Vintage Trouble, a soul rock band out of LA that reminds me of Riverside icons The BellRays. Vintage Trouble has been out touring with The Who so I don't expect them to stay a small band for long, but they are incredible.
"Blues Hand Me Down" had that feeling I get when I hear The BellRays. Note: If you're listening to this on speakers, there's some language you might not want to blast.
Here's the video for "Nancy Lee," which I love not only because the song is great, but because the entire video was filmed on an iPhone.
And because I feel like some blues guitar stomp-along rock in in order today, here's Reignwolf originally out of Canada. I think he's living in Seattle these days, but Jordan Cook's is the one-man band of awesome coming to Coachella 2013.
He played the campground at Sasquatch 2012 and it's kind of amazing.
Here's Reignwolf covering Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain." I think I love it more than the original.
Want to know more about the Coachella 2013 artists? Check out the links in the map below.


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Brandon Roy is reportedly drawing interest from the Golden State Warriors as he prepares for a comeback to the NBA. General manager Bob Myers spoke Friday morning, answering "it's a possibilty" when asked if the organization might be interested. "He's an easy phone call to make."
"I told (Roy) when he was amnesty-ed ... 'I hope this isn't it for you. Make sure this isn't it.'," Myers said. "He's said publicly he wants to come back, so I'll start to talk to him. It depends how everything goes for us and what his expectations are and all of that. But absolutely I'll talk to him."
Myers used to be Roy's agent once upon time, so there is a direct connection to the Warriors. Myers has also said several times over the last few months that team is looking to add a veteran backcourt teammate to join Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.
Roy announced his retirement in December after he was waived by the Portland Trail Blazers. He recently began rehabbing his troublesome knees in hopes of returning to the league, however. Considering his likely cheap sticker price, several teams may jump at the chance to sign the former NBA Rookie of the Year.
For more on the Warriors, head over to Golden State Of Mind and check out SB Nation Bay Area.


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A warning for people who own an AngelCare baby monitor. The company is recalling 600,000 of its baby monitors after the deaths of two infants due to strangulation.
The recall affects all versions of AngelCare's movement and sound monitors with sensor pads. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says a cord attached to the sensor pad poses a strangulation risk.
Two infants have died because of the hazard and two others were entangled by the cord. The monitors were sold from 1999 to 2013.
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Enio Aguero (right), disaster relief chaplain coordinator for the North American Mission Board, prays with Ivette Castro, her son Antonio (center) and daughter Damaris (left). Southern Baptists were there to help the family cope shortly after the storm devastated their home and threatened their lives. Photo by John Swain.
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Oklahoma Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers Ken Sparks (left) of Moore, Okla., and Hassan "Bubba" Yekzaman of Broken Arrow, Okla., prepare meals at the Oklahoma SBDR mobile kitchen located at First Baptist Church in Moore. Yekzaman, a member of First Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, is originally from Iran and is a former Muslim. Photo by John Swain.
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Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers Roy Byrd (left) and Bill Ammons clear a damaged tree from a home in Moore, Okla. Chainsaw work has been limited because of the intense nature of the winds from the storm. Photo by John Swain.
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Southern Baptist Disaster Relief chaplain Brian Rothrock (right) holds Moore, Okla., homeowner Lannette Phillips' hand as he leads a prayer with his Kansas-Nebraska SBDR unit. Phillips and her husband Lindsay hold a Bible presented as a gift to the couple after they lost their home. Photo by John Swain.
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MOORE, Okla. (BP) -- For 90 minutes on the afternoon of May 20, Ivette Castro didn't know if she, her 16-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son would live to see the evening as an EF5 tornado -- the most powerful rating possible -- bore down on them.
Trapped in a small closet together, the three prayed. Admittedly their spiritual background had been spotty at best. The family rarely attended church.
But in those hot, cramped quarters, it became obvious to Castro that God was sparing her family.
"Other than a miracle, [we wouldn't have gotten out]," Castro said. "We were pinned in. So many things happened. I was supposed to be at work. I decided to stay home for some reason. Because I stayed home, I was able to get my kids to do the things that saved their lives."
As Castro dealt with the aftermath of her and her children's rescue, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers were there to help her through it -- and to point out God's activity in the midst of the storm.
Shortly after the storm, Castro met the North American Mission Board's chaplain coordinator for disaster relief, Enio Aguero. He prayed with her and listened to her story -- one of the most important responsibilities of a chaplain in a disaster situation.
The next day a disaster relief team from North Carolina Baptist Men helped Castro and the family find a variety of items they had given up for lost, such as a hard drive containing photos and an urn full of a pet's ashes.
Those volunteers were among hundreds of Southern Baptists who are helping Oklahoma storm survivors in Moore and Shawnee, Okla., following historic tornadoes early last week. More than 40 SBDR volunteer chaplains have been engaged in the response.
Oklahoma SBDR mobile kitchens have prepared more than 35,000 meals in just over a week, and more than 160 recovery and cleanup jobs have been completed.
"I felt like God called me here," said Bill Ammons, a volunteer from Bethany Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., one of the volunteers who helped Castro clean up her property and find lost items. "I've felt like God has called me other places, too. When He calls me, I go."
Billy Puckett, a member of First Baptist Church in New Orleans, has been helping his Louisiana team with a variety of tasks in Moore, including repairing roofs and debris removal.
Puckett noted that Louisiana has been on the receiving end of significant Southern Baptist Disaster Relief work over the past several years -- from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to Hurricane Isaac last year. Since Oklahoma Southern Baptists had been such a big part of those efforts, Puckett wanted to help them in their time of need.
"I'd like [the people of Oklahoma] to see that we want to come and stand alongside of people, love on people and hug people during their tough times," said Puckett, who serves as director of community ministries for the New Orleans Baptist Association. "If they have a bad perspective of the church, I hope this gives them a new perspective of the church."
A Kansas-Nebraska Southern Baptist Disaster Relief team saw that in action over the weekend. At one of the ministry locations the team talked with a 28-year-old woman who was a believer but wasn't involved in church.
The team's chaplain, Brian Rothrock, shared with her the story of Nicodemus and encouraged her to get involved in a local church. As the volunteers left, the woman told Rothrock that God had been drawing her back to Him for some time and the experience of seeing the team's faith in action had left her changed and committed to getting involved in church.
"She got to tell her story," said Kelly Cook of Crosspoint Church in Hayes, Kan. "She was encouraged, and she was changed. We were just another piece of God showing His love to her."
NAMB coordinates and manages Southern Baptist responses to major disasters through partnerships with 42 state Baptist conventions, most of which have their own state disaster relief programs.
Southern Baptists have 82,000 trained volunteers and chaplains and 1,550 mobile units for feeding, chainsaw, mud-out, command, communication, childcare, shower, laundry, water purification, repair/rebuild and power generation. SBDR is one of the three largest mobilizers of trained disaster relief volunteers in the United States, along with the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army.
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The U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced new rules regarding pocket knives on board airplanes. Starting April passengers can carry on knives with folding blades no longer than about two and one third inches and blades no wider than half an inch.
TSA still bans knives with molded handles and knives that lock in place.
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Updated 2:31pm Friday 22nd February 2013 in News By Joanna Morris
OSCAR-NOMINEE and Hollywood celebrity Minnie Driver visited the region yesterday (Thursday February 21).
The star of Good Will Hunting and GoldenEye was in Stockton filming an episode of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are series.
The 43-year-old actress was there to visit the family history department of a local library, where she looked up details about her ancestors.
Speaking about her trip to the North East, she said: "I'm having a lovely time, it's just gorgeous here. I'm staying at the lovely Crathorne Hall.
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As news spread, crowds of fans gathered at the library hoping to catch a glimpse of the world-famous actress.
Carole Wood, the library's reference and information services officer, said: "We were so excited when we found out she was coming. It is exciting for us and exciting for Stockton. She is a big star but she was so friendly and ordinary."
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text: Sexual Assault Sexual assault is a primary concern on today's college campus. A sexual assault occurs when someone touches another person's body in a sexual way without that person's consent, even if it occurs through their clothes. It can happen to individuals of any age, gender, race, cultural background, socioeconomic status, or sexual orientation. While sexual assault is usually portrayed as an issue for women, men may also be the victims of sexual assault. While statistically not as frequent, women can also be perpetrators of a sexual assault. And sexual assaults can also occur between same sex individuals. Drexel University recognizes the importance of this issue, and has a clearly defined Sexual Harrassment and Misconduct Policy. The policy, as listed in the Student Handbook, defines sexual assault as: Any unwelcome sexual advance, request for sexual favors, or other unwelcome verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: Submission to or rejection of such conduct is made, either explicitly or implicitly, a term or condition of an individual's employment, evaluation of academic work or participation in social or extracurricular activities; Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for decisions affecting the individual; or Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work or academic performance by creating an intimidating, hostile, humiliating, demeaning, or sexually offensive working, academic or social environment. The effect will be evaluated based on the perspective of a reasonable person in the position of a Complainant. 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