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By: Cantalomas on February 28, 2006 - 6:46pm - Add new comment
Anyone following the stockmarket today, witnessed quite a dive. It was started pretty much in part by Google's Chief Financial Officer publicly stating that Google (a stockmarket powerhouse and search engine) wasn't doing too well and they expected a down turn in revenue and advertising. Panic hit Wall Street and Googles shares along with most Dow Jones and Nasdaq took a dive. Google dropped 7.1%
A check on their insider trading showed that between February 16 to February 22 (basically, last week), the top 5 insiders ( Director, CEO, CFO, V.P. and Sr.
By: Cantalomas on February 19, 2006 - 11:04am - Add new comment
Listed below are the predominant candidates for the 2008 Presidential race. Hillary, of course, has already started pimping herself with recent comments about the Bush administrations secrecy and what foreign policies should be. One recent picture showed her even smiling and shaking hands with a soldier after her statement of several years ago: "I loathe the military."
Who do you think will be the man/woman to make it to the top?
By: Cantalomas on February 14, 2006 - 7:51pm - Add new comment
Found this and many, many references on other English speaking Arab and Israeli blog sites, especially Egyptian, where Muslim Arabs call each other "rednecks." What's an Arab redneck? Do they shop at Wal-Baz(aar), live way out in the sand dunes somewhere, ride old camels with deflated humps? Anyone have any ideas? Jeff Abba Foxworthy... Ali the Jihad Guy...where are you? I need a description.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's best-selling newspaper on Tuesday defended its competition for cartoons about the Holocaust, saying it was a test of the boundaries of free speech espoused by Western countries.
By: Cantalomas on February 3, 2006 - 4:26pm - Add new comment
For those of you who haven't been following the news the past 2 days, there is a very nearly world wide (getting more violent) protest from the Muslim community, over Muslim cartoons originally printed in a Danish newspaper. These in my opinion are in poor taste, not to the Muslims, in particular, but to any religion in which these type of "things" are depicted. The Danish Government has refused to issue an apology stating that "Freedom of the Press rules over any apology." Other European Nations have picked up on this and today, reprinted these cartoons in their papers.
By: Cantalomas on February 2, 2006 - 4:58pm - Add new comment
Just posted on WPDE.Com website (Florence), under National News, a new computer virus (worm) is on the way. Has anybody had any bad experiences with Norton Anti-Virus programs? What's the best on the market? I've had this computer program (Windows XP) 2 years and have already had 2 "attacks" which got through Norton dispite Norton updates and being careful on what I open. Any similar problems with anyone out there using Norton?
By: Cantalomas on January 23, 2006 - 5:51pm - Add new comment
For those who sometimes wonder about why the world governments seem to be drawing closer and why the U.S. is "farming" jobs away from this country. A one world economy is on the way. Take the time to look this up and read about it...then draw your own conclusions...also read what CBS had to say about it. The future will some day hold, among the world powers, basically one government. The WTO is part of the head start as is the banking. It's been going on for hundreds of years but has recently gone into a higher gear. Check out the past and present members.


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Rinaldi, Ann |
Genre | Novel for Young Adults (291 pp.) |
Keywords | Adolescence, Art of Medicine, Communication, Death and Dying, Disease and Health, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Family Relationships, Freedom, Grief, History of Medicine, History of Science, Human Worth, Illness and the Family, Individuality, Infectious Disease, Loneliness, Love, Medical Advances, Medical Education, Medical Ethics, Medical Research, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Mourning, Ordinary Life, Ordinary Life, Science, Society, Tuberculosis, War and Medicine, Women in Medicine, Women's Health |
Summary | The novel is set in Washington, DC in April, 1865. At fourteen, Emily is sole caretaker of her mother who is dying of tuberculosis. Her neighbor, Annie Surratt, is her best friend, though their mothers have been estranged for some time. Both families have deep roots in the South. Annie's brother, Johnny, an object of Emily's romantic fantasies, has recently left on a secret mission. The war is nearly over. Emily's uncle Valentine, a physician, wants to take custody of her after her mother dies, but because her mother has also felt estranged from him, Emily resists. Still, after her mother's death, she does go to live with her uncle, and learns that he (with his two assistants, one of whom is a woman who is 1/8 African American) has a lively practice among the poor and the African Americans who have flooded the streets of Washington since the emancipation. Valentine is called to Lincoln's bedside the night of his assassination, and participates in efforts to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices, one of whom appears to have been Johnny Surratt, who has escaped to Canada. In the course of her time there Emily discovers that her uncle and his assistant are involved in elaborate, marginally legal, schemes to obtain bodies for study at the medical college. Emily, at first horrified by this discovery, comes to recognize the good that comes of anatomical studies and to sympathize with her uncle's efforts to bring about legislation making the acquisition of bodies for medical research easier. Annie's mother is hanged as an accomplice in the Booth conspiracy, Annie leaves town, and Emily comes to understand a great deal more about the harsh terms on which life must be lived in times of national crisis and ideological warfare. The story ends with her growing interest in medicine as a possible career path. |
Commentary | Rinaldi's rich gift for storytelling is evident in this novel: the plot and characters are complex and the historical situation riddled with controversies that not only invite an interest in the politics of public life and of medicine, but in the history of attitudes toward the body and toward science. Like Austen's heroines, Emily starts with imbedded attitudes and inherited prejudices that are changed as she encounters the costly corrections life offers in a moment of public crisis. As a coming-of-age story the book is both imaginatively appealing and relevant: it invites reflection on some basic issues in medical ethics and in jurisprudence in a way that is accessible to young people, but not oversimplified. The historical epilogue and bibliography help fill out the context, clarify what in the novel is historically accurate, and encourage readers to explore history for further insights into ongoing questions. |
Publisher | Harcourt, Brace (Gulliver Books) |
Edition | 1997 |
Place Published | New York |
Annotated by | McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler |
Date of Entry | 10/16/06 |

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MikeJanuary 1999 |
"Happiness is never how you think it should be so"
-- Duncan Sheik, "She Runs Away"
Geez, have I gotten to know how correct that quote is within the past month. I guess it really started the second day of December when everyone found out that a girl had been raped at 2:45 the previous afternoon in the parking lot. For reasons which I am still not very sure about, this hit me very hard.
What upset me most about this was that guys joked about it. They have no concept of how damaging it is to people. (I don't know how I know this information myself, considering that I'm male.) Any man who can afford to take that lightly doesn't deserve to have a penis. I say this in all seriousness; those who possess any sort of power who are that clueless as to how much power he/she has and how easily it can destroy lives do not deserve to have it.
This incident got me to thinking about what I have, although I seemed to be able to find the spot of tarnish in every silver lining. I have a family that cares for me (even though I can't stand every way they show it), a roof over my head (but I'm happier elsewhere), I don't have to buy my clothes (horribly out of style since I'm too lazy to shop for them on my own), I have someone who I love deeply who returns the feelings (though Paul still won't admit to them, and I'm not going to push him to), someone whose smile can brighten up my entire day, and sappy sentiments like that into eternity.
So far, the holidays are an enormous pain in the ass, especially since I've spent all of Thanksgiving Weekend and the 18 hours so far of Christmas Break thinking about what I'm going to say when I get back, and it just gets depressing after a while.
I have this ability to get stuck on Paul's emotional rollercoasters at exactly the wrong time, like the first day of finals, right before the only day out of the four days when we weren't scheduled to be stuck together. He was really upset about something, and he told a girlfriend of his (as in how straight women have girlfriends) that it was something really trivial. It took a lot of self-control to keep from slapping him for giving such a bullshit reason. (I don't think he realized that I understood what he said, though; I have a much stronger ability to understand spoken Spanish than I have demonstrated publicly.) Then, two days later, we were back to our old selves, and saying things that could be taken entirely the wrong way out of context, such as, "It's too small, and this is the cheap latex that won't stretch." (I was putting on "small" size gloves at the time.)
Last, but not least, I was outed this month. Sort of. As a joke. Someone put a fictitious note from me onto the back of a picture and gave it to a teacher. Luckily, he has enough of a sense of humor to realize it was a joke. Actually, he's not unattractive, just that his youngest daughter is too old for me. I just can't leave it behind me, because the teacher told all of his classes about it, and teenagers don't forget a single possible taunt.
Speaking of coming out, doesn't this verse from the song "Slide" by the Goo Goo Dolls sound like it's about coming out: "Don't you love the life you killed/ the priest is on the phone/ your father hit the wall/ your ma disowned you/ don't suppose I'll ever know/ what it means to be a man/ something I can't change"


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The mechanisms that couple cell cycle progression with the organization of the peripheral cytoskeleton are poorly understood. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the Swe1 protein has been shown previously to phosphorylate and inactivate the cyclin-dependent kinase, Cdc28, thereby delaying the onset of mitosis. The nim1-related protein kinase, Hsl1, induces entry into mitosis by negatively regulating Swe1. We have found that Hsl1 physically associates with the septin cytoskeleton in vivo and that Hsl1 kinase activity depends on proper septin function. Genetic analysis indicates that two additional Hsl1-related kinases, Kcc4 and Gin4, act redundantly with Hsl1 to regulate Swe1. Kcc4, like Hsl1 and Gin4, was found to localize to the bud neck in a septin-dependent fashion. Interestingly, hsl1 kcc4 gin4 triple mutants develop a cellular morphology extremely similar to that of septin mutants. Consistent with the idea that Hsl1, Kcc4, and Gin4 link entry into mitosis to proper septin organization, we find that septin mutants incubated at the restrictive temperature trigger a Swe1-dependent mitotic delay that is necessary to maintain cell viability. These results reveal for the first time how cells monitor the organization of their cytoskeleton and demonstrate the existence of a cell cycle checkpoint that responds to defects in the peripheral cytoskeleton. Moreover, Hsl1, Kcc4, and Gin4 have homologs in higher eukaryotes, suggesting that the regulation of Swe1/Wee1 by this class of kinases is highly conserved.
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We can afford $9 a month; raise PTC taxes
I sent the following letter to the mayor and city council members of Peachtree City. Like anyone else, I prefer to spend my money on entertainment, but residents of a community need to pay for services that they enjoy and need.
I read an article in The Citizen this weekend concerning a 1.25-mill increase in property taxes. According to the math in the article, if I owned a house valued at $272,000, I would have to pay another $108 a year in property taxes.
Of course, that $108 could be used as a tax deduction on my income tax return so part of it would be subsidized.
The article indicates that cutting $3.6 million from the budget would mean avoidance of the property tax increase and the elimination of funding of the entire recreation department, the Kedron Center, the Gathering Place, and the library.
I would think that most people with a home valued at $272,000, could afford an extra $9 a month to avoid the elimination of funding of the entire recreation department, the Kedron Center, the Gathering Place, and the library.
I spend more than that on lotto tickets each month, and my house is valued at about $183,000, and I'm retired.
Pass the property tax increase. Who cannot afford an increase of 1.25 mills?
According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $84,339, and the median income for a family was $96,880. No one is going to need food stamps if you increase the property tax by 1.25 mills.
Fred Sprickman
Peachtree City, Ga.
I don't live in a mansion. My taxes are $7500/year. They go up about $500 each year. I can't retire in my house because property taxes will be my biggest expense. Who wants to buy an average house that has a $1000/month property tax bill. I'll be moving soon to somewhere that won't tax me to death. So any tax increase is a huge deal to me.
When will the taxes stop? Where is all this money going? Let's keep businesses out of Peachtree City so residents can pay higher taxes!!
Read about Haddix Turn Down of Local Potential for Millions of Dollars
They don't get it! SENIORS ARE THE FUTURE OF FAYETTE COUNTY> He's elderly prejudice due to tax funding!!! Read about his Senior Complex Turn down!!
Fred,the fact you buy lotto tickets each month pretty much tells me I don't need you financial advice. Hey guy, why don't you get a second mortgage on your home and go to Vegas and see if you can bring home enough winnings to pay the taxes for us?
you are exactly right on your figures...now is the best time to raise the milage. with a milage increase accompanied by an assest decrease in home values the "net" results will be no added cost the tax payers.
We will all be better off in the long run if we see the city takes this opportunity to prioritize. Generally, I have no objection to the tax rate for living in the city. However, when the mayor wants to pay $100,000.00 to the development authority to add a director, I say the budget must still be too fat. There is already a well-funded dev authority in fayette county. There also are plenty of opportunities for existing city staff to man a tourism desk and at the same time answer the phone for the PTCDA. The most expensive option considered should be to either partner with the FCDA or to simply pump up the resources of existing staff with marketing materials for the Tourism Assoc as well as those who already pursue leads on businesses wanting to locate here. Businesses with empty commercial space in PTC are already pursuing opportunities around the world. We do not need to pretend we can do it better by hiring a stand alone, overpaid, single individual to do more of the same. I thought the city would have learned a lesson with the last hire for the Tourism Association, wasting 300K on an individual that accomplished nothing.
The actual average value dropped from $272.00 to $259.00, so at 1.25 Mills that is a $130.00 increase. Just setting the record straight.
That model also reflects additional increases in the outlying years. So, it isn't just 1.25.
The other factor that has to be considered is the impact on attracting jobs.
The County will probably be raising taxes next year as well.
Our concern is PTC, not the whole of all the County taxes.
..in favor of more taxes now and maybe forever more!
Did you know that a grown person can drown in a pool with an average depth of 2"? That assumes of course that half of the pool is only wet on the bottom and half is also much deeper.
An average $280,000 house means that many , many are under that and many, many are over that.
I calculate that about 40% of those homeowners can't really afford any increase in taxes. Some even in the $5-600,000 range are in debt so far they can't pay now what they owe!
Anyway as some have already said they will be back next year and for years thereafter for more increases unless the spending is cut!
Quit dreaming about the 80s Reagan, 90s Bush, and 2000s Bush; we are going to suffer for that overspending a long time.
"Quit dreaming about the 80s Reagan, 90s Bush, and 2000s Bush; we are going to suffer for that overspending a long time."
Don't you know that congress decides and votes upon where all the money is spent? what kind of banker doesn't know that? Congress-largely controlled by the democrats during those years--overspent, there chief. Some other guy named wsbanker seems to know this already, because he posted the following today:
"President's do not make loans to anyone. He can ask congress to do so!"
Maybe you should be spooning with that wsbanker, he seems to know what is going on. Of course they are both you and you are both bonkers
As you agree to pay the extra nine bucks a month for next year, have you considered what it will be for the out years. Just in case you didn't know, Peachtree City has a debt of $19 million. These nine bucks are going to pay for those extra city staffers that suplement those that are employed, but seemingly have so much on their plates that they are overwhelmed by their own self importance.
There are those in our town that would like to have a policeman on every driveway to begin to feel secure. These folks are never going to be satisfied. Should you be one, realize that life simply is not fair.
Have a little common sense, balance the damn budget with an effort to eliminate this debt. No one has ever petitioned to eliminate all of recreation, but taking a ten to fifteen percent reduction in payroll across the board does not mean elimination of all programs nor does it necessarily mean a 10-15 per cent reduction in services.
Tell me, should the city go bankrupt like the state of California would those at the Georgia State House pay for all of the amenities afforded us in Peachtree City?
A couple observations if you please.
The $108 increase is for only the 1 mil. The extra .25 will cost an extra $27. So the total mil rate change will cost the average home owner of a $272,000 home $135. I still agree this is not so much to pay for all we receive. Besides, we've been on borrowed time not having to pay this increase since previous councils failed to raise taxes when they increased services.
Now the other side of the equation which makes this tax interesting. Since the average $272,000 home will have their taxes reduced because of the average 4% fair market value going down, this equates to a reduction of about $175!!! The net effect will be to actually lower the average person's home owner's tax by about $46. (Reference last budget workshop at city hall.) Therefore the question becomes, can you afford a $4 less per month? Of course.
If taxes have to be raised this is the year to do it. Some on council seems to know this and are raising the mil rate at the right time. If you paid $3,500 in property tax last November 2009, you'll pay $3,454 this November 2010! It's true. (This is for average homes only. Not all homes will be the same.)


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From: Railway Young Professionals Best Paper Competition 2013, 18th November 2013, London
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The IET Railway Network invited young railway professionals from across the industry to hone their writing and presentation skills by participating in the 2013 Best Paper competition. This year's theme is 'What is the value of innovation?'.
Given the critical nature of railway operations, it is not surprising that railways are naturally risk averse in both the areas of safety and project timescales. There have been examples in the past where an older technology has been selected over a better, new equivalent, not because of any concerns with the actual safety of the item, rather because of the perceived risk of delays to the project timescale in achieving safety acceptance by the relevant safety authority. However, as we impose constraints on the system to protect against failure to gain acceptance, we also reduce the potential to improve the capability and performance of the railway.
Cross Acceptance has been a desire of the European Rail Industry for many years, yet it still appears to be an 'impossible dream' to achieve cross acceptance without going through a major re-engineering of existing safety arguments, even when trying to cross accept between different safety authorities in the same country!
How do we decide if novelty should win over tried and tested solutions? What values do we assign to the risks and the benefits? When, if ever, should we rip up the standards and start again? What can be done to reduce the risk of failing to gain safety acceptance, and how can we make cross-acceptance, or acceptance in general, function more efficiently?
This competition, open to young (i.e. unchartered) railway professionals of any discipline or affiliation, culminates in a presentation evening where each finalist will have the opportunity to give a professional conference-style presentation. Judges will then determine the winner, based on the following criteria:
Relevance to the rail industry
Relevance to the theme
The technical standard of the paper
How effectively the paper states its aims and objectives
Presentation of the paper (including structure, clarity and quality of English).
Whilst the judges are deliberating, there will be a keynote address.
Jay Shen - Electrical Engineer, Atkins
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Jee Hye,
I've been invited to give feedback to all Parsons students, regarding your thesis projects.
You are addressing a very serious problem in America today: childhood obesity. So many schools have had their budgets cut for physical education, so there needs to be more interactive and fun tools to enable movement for kids. Yours is a step in the right direction.
You would do well, however, to articulate more clearly how your system works. I see no indication of it in your blog write-up. You simply state the problem (lack of physical activity among kids) and propose a solution (encourage physical activity among kids). We need more systemic thinking on your part to show how this fits into curriculum at elementary school. Who makes it? What does it actually do? What games do kids get to play with it? How is it different from Nintendo's Wii, for example?
Great start. But more details, please! J.


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Orchestra CEO Gentry Underwood is a busy man these days; his company launched its new iPhone email app Mailbox () on Thursday. But Underwood still managed to find some time to speak with Macworld about the app, its rollout, and the company's plans for profitability.
Mailbox aims to be a true replacement for Apple's built-in iOS Mail app. From your inbox, you can swipe on messages to archive them, delete
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In thinking about what to write after a long election season hiatus, I honestly just thought of completely reposting this piece from back in May, which built upon an earlier case I laid out for a ginormous Republican seat gain by making the case that if you simply assigned House seats to their Cook PVI winner, the result would be a sizeable GOP majority.
How big? The seat breakdown I had for a perfectly politically balanced House of Representatives was 239 Republicans to 196 Democrats.
Right now, we sit at 239 and we'll end up in the 242-243 range.
In an odd way, I think the Tea Party surge has ended up bringing Washington back to the true political center of the country, but not yet fully to the right. The obstacles Republicans faced in moving the needle in their House numbers -- entrenched Blue Dog incumbents like Ike Skelton, John Spratt, Chet Edwards, and Gene Taylor -- were moved away last night. These are not "surge" seats that will be surrendered at the next election, but now likely Republican for life -- and ones we didn't have during Republican control of the House from 1994 to 2006. I tweeted out a few possible remaining targets for 2012 -- Heath Shuler for one, Ben Chandler for another -- but in truth I was having trouble coming up with that many because the Blue Dog hit list was exhausted so completely.
Meanwhile, we generated a 63 seat wave without much in the way of gains in deep blue areas. The second act to the Scott Brown miracle didn't happen as New England stayed staunchly blue with the exception of New Hampshire. That's unfortunate from a storytelling perspective, but it also means we defend our newfound majority from much more solid ground than either the Democrats from 2006 onwards or Republicans in the dozen years after the 1994 revolution.
The atmosphere in Washington today is also much more muted than it was after '94. Check out this remarkable clip of Gingrich right after the '94 vote poking his finger in the eye of the White House, claiming a mandate and saying "We are revolutionaries." I remember all that, but it sounded so out of place in today's context given all the modest rhetoric about a "second chance."
This election was also a direct repudiation of a leader elected under Messianic pretexts. It was only a matter of time before the arrogance of it all -- the Hope stuff, the "We are the change we've been waiting for," the pretentiousness of the sunrise "O" -- generated an equal and opposite reaction (kind of like all of you who love to hate the Yankees). With Republican enthusiasm in the toilet the last two cycles, their very legitimacy as a political opposition spit on by the media, Republican voters I talked to yesterday took enormous satisfaction in seizing upon Obama's political weakness as they cheerfully showed up to vote.
The act of yelling "realignment" after an election is getting tired and farcical after an unprecedented third wave in a row, so I'll resist doing it here. In the House, there was a tactical realignment, as seats Democrats held for personal reasons now give way to natural conservative Republican-held strongholds we'll hold for a long time. Attitudinally, the pendulum simply swung from the far left to the center. The President will be a Democrat, the Senate will be narrowly Democratic, and the House Republican, and the overall result will be all sides canceling each other out, e.g. centrism.
While not conservative per se, it is in one important sense: very little will get done. And that's a good thing. D.C. types assume gridlock is a dirty word, but voters acted very deliberately to hit the breaks on the Democratic train that ramrodded Obamacare. A pause in the frenetic activity of the last two years in Washington, and the fact of the House as a de-facto veto on spending levels, means a profoundly conservative outcome, if not in policy, than in the nature and speed and pace of activity coming out of the nation's capital.
Why should anything be different during election time than during the normal day-to-day machinations of government? Well, my reply to that question would be that the re-election hopefuls would try to show themselves in the best possible light.
Polish the halo a little, carefully apply some make-up to cover the unsightly blemishes and, although perhaps difficult and not true to character, at least appear genuine and sound honest.
Promises and track-record are the two criteria that enable the average member of the electorate, the majority of whom, unfortunately, are pretty clueless when it comes to politics. Their main source of information is the traditional media, nearly all of which is biased to the left. While the internet has made huge inroads in educating and/or informing the public on political affairs, most are more content to spend their free time on Facebook or checking out the latest showbiz gossip than reading political analysis sites.
Even internet news sites are biased in favor of the left, in some respects. This has come about from the fact that the most popular sites are extensions of existing traditional media, whether newspaper or television. Here is a list of the 'Top Twenty' that I found, although it did not contain a publication date:
1 CNN.com 2 CBS 3 ABC 4 Google News 5 Reuters 6 Yahoo News 7 BBC News Online 8 World News 9 MSNBC 10 FOXnews 11 USATODAY.com 12 CBC News Online 13 Time.com 14 The Associated Press 15 Guardian Unlimited 16 NewsLink 17 The New York Times 18 EmergencyNet News 19 Consortium News 20 News.com.au
I think you can see the general trend.
It is this overwhelming deluge of mostly biased information that is responsible for most of the major mistakes in recent years. Goebbels would have been impressed by the way the constant hammering home of promises and fabrications on the human senses has created a society where those that see through the falsehoods are ostracized and deemed 'crazy'.
Tell the people a lie often enough and they will believe it. Man-made global warming, a better health care system, hope and change…. I don't need to go in to the details, just cast your mind back to the frenzy of the 2008 presidential election, or the daily dose of doom from the climate-change soothsayers.
The American people have seen through their lies. A part of American exceptionalism is the ability to question and analyze the known facts, to filter out the rhetoric and lies. What remains is either something of no substance, or an agenda so repulsive that not even its designers would dare reveal to the public. If the electorate vote for the faux sheep's clothes, the inner wolf gets a free pass.
This brings us to the current mid-term elections. The present Congress now has a track-record for the electorate to view. It is no longer about promises but cold, hard facts. The facts are that they, and the president, have failed in all respects. Not only have they failed the American people, the majority of whom are generally center-right, but failed the hard-line leftists in their own party. If a government with a Democrat president and large Democrat majorities in both the House and Senate can not get their radical legislation through, the game is up and they might as well take an early shower.
With a history they'd rather forget and a president that is now causing embarrassment to his own party, the Democrats are left with only one option. They can not campaign on success stories or policies, so the demonization of the opposition is the final line of defense.
The labeling of Mr and Mrs Average American as extremist is the biggest mistake they have made to date. If it was not so pathetic and downright offensive, it would be funny. The thought of Grandma, law-abiding and hard-working all her life, initiating a terrorist attack on the Capitol.
The announcement that they are launching a dirt-digging exercise on Republicans, including John Boehner, proves conclusively that they have no respect for anything or anyone, except of course for themselves, their failed ideological policies and their status. Make the most of that status, you won't have it for much longer!
(Editor Dee is in for Skip today)
"Now is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. It is, perhaps, the end of the beginning". Sir Winston Churchill at the close of the Battle of Britain. The Obama administration is scrambling to get the word out to its lapdog press and political smarm operators that it's just a midterm and it doesn't really mean that much…after His Arrogance crossed back and forth across both states enough times to give himself a teleprompter crick in his lying neck. The Marxispin band-aid crew is out in force, trying out spin after spin to try to keep this from looking like the ass-kicking it was. Virginia and New Jersey are firmly in Republican hands…and by large margins. The Democrats have been more tone deaf than the leadership of the Republican party, if that's possible. AND that's hard to do…must have been all those locked doors and overnight how-to-screw-the-electorate and what-can-we-do-to-fool-them-today meetings. They've been buried in letters, phone calls and emails, with concerned voters visiting representatives' district offices to voice their concerns over what they saw as a monumentally destructive policy in the form of this health care bill….and they didn't listen. The leftist liberal OBSESSION to control every single aspect of every American's life has completely blinded them to the groundswell building out in the electorate. In the 23rd District NewYork race Hoffman, completely unknown until thirty days ago, ran a heck of a race and gave the Democrats a near coronary but lost in a narrow decision…but it changes nothing. This is a harbinger of very tough times for Obama and the Democrats. "We have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with terrible purpose". Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor. Americans, as much as the Obama-world view would try to have you think otherwise, are more fair-minded than any other people in the world. We are also very quick to react to those who are not and who offend that innate sense of fair play. A lot of this has come into play here. Obama was elected on a raft of promises and make-believe centrism, then immediately turned hard left and he didn't walk, he didn't even trot (although he prances a lot), he ran as fast as he could to create the most extreme radical agenda AGAINST this country in its history. This hasn't been lost on the American people…they are afraid and they are mad. The Conservative march to regain the country, its legislature, its laws and Constitution has begun. God Bless this Great Country and its indomitable people.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2009
This exit poll statistic is a candidate for most underreported fact of the 2008 election.
Those who said race was an important factor voted 55 percent to 44 percent in favor of Obama.
So, as Mike Turk had predicted last year, racism was a more common factor among Democrats than Republicans in the 2008 election.
This may explain why the 'racism factor' stories disappeared so quickly after the campaign, replaced (if it was discussed at all) by "race not a factor in election" stories.
Promoted. My basic philosophy on a good leader: A's hire A's, B's hire C's. Let's hope that the next RNC Chairman is an A that can find A's within CR's and YR's to work for (and provide innovation for) campaigns and parties around the country. -Matt Moon
College Students to the RNC: We Care, Use Us!
by James Barnes and Brandon Hines, The George Washington University College Republicans
Fellow Republicans: As we enter a fresh new year, it's easy to be discouraged by the battle ahead. The Obama Administration promises to pursue an agenda of socialist redistribution. On top of this, the 111th Congress has just convened, and it's the most liberal in our nation's history. Together, this double-headed monster threatens to grow another in the form of a new judiciary.
Sitting in a position we have long been removed from, our first step has been to question what got us here. We've started to regroup, on Twitter, on the web, and soon by reconsidering who should lead the RNC into 2010 and beyond. And, through these exercises, we've come up with some basic answers to the question of what got us in trouble. We've blamed it on our grassroots, our fundraising, our web presence, our message, and a slew of other equally valid reasons, which we promise to overcome in the next election cycle. We hope to argue, however, that many of these issues boil down to one oft-overlooked component: a focus on engaging and activating the 18-24 demographic —College Republicans.
As the future of our party and, in many cases, the most passionate advocates for our platform, it is important that the RNC not only reach out and speak the language that we speak and communicate the way that we communicate, but that it engage and empower the youth of the party in helping to win elections. In this vein, the party already has a virtual army of well informed and connected potential activists, who, in many cases, simply haven't been asked to volunteer the resource they have the most of: their time. Though we lack the ability to donate large sums of cash, or the experience needed to run campaigns, we make up for this with cheap labor and an uncanny, even absurd, ability to remain in instantaneous contact with our peers and advocate for what we believe in. It is time for these and other potential resources to stop being overlooked, and for the RNC to directly engage the future of the party.
Consider this: during our organization's deployment by the RNC this year in Ohio, a state never lost by a Republican president, we never met a single student from an Ohio college. Elsewhere, in 2007, many argue that we lost the Massachusetts special election due entirely to a complete absence of area college students. Contrastingly, in Georgia's recent runoff, the unusually strong showing of college students from Maine to Texas served to bolster a winning campaign—a notable exception to a troubling rule. College Republicans exist everywhere. In this regard, it's very simple; it's not about changing the minds of college students-- it's about activating and empowering the ones who already care. To our detriment, this is something that Barack Obama knew all too well.
In the coming years, the promise of victory does not tolerate the prospect of an inactive college demographic. This is why we, with the support of many of our friends in the young conservative movement, are calling on the next RNC chairman to pledge to directly engage the next chairman of the College Republican National Committee in kick-starting a strong partnership for a radically better next four years. In this, they should plan for a future that utilizes CR's in dominating new media, more directly involves college students in party operations, and most importantly, ensures that, in 2010 and beyond, every willing College Republican will be afforded the chance to work for a Republican candidate through a better organized and more broadly utilized College Republican grassroots operation in every state. On the path to victory, this is an important stop that has the promise to change the future (and the face) of our party for the better.
James Barnes and Brandon Hines are the Political and Public Relations Directors, respectively, of the George Washington University College Republicans and are working to re-engage Republican youth.
The political blogosphere is buzzing about Obama campaign manager David Plouffe's interview. Soren Dayton argues the lessons of the Obama campaign were "budgeting, technology, field, and media," while Patrick Ruffini finds that the important lesson is that "Obama ran a better kind of offline campaign." Although it is quite true that these are some critical lessons, as a business nerd and student at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, I think there's a massive lesson that pundits are missing: Obama for President wasn't run like a traditional campaign, but instead like a huge corporation. I don't believe that any campaign on this level was ever able to accomplish this with nearly the same success as Plouffe and company.
Plouffe makes this unmistakenably clear throughout his interview:
There are business analogies. One is, we're a startup, we had to go from zero to 60 in a matter of weeks. Our company, if we were successful, would only last two years at the most. … We had over 5,000 employees… And we were an organization about accountability. Down to the entry-level staffer, we measured their job performance based on metrics.
What specific trends that the most successful modern corporations employ were echoed by the Obama campaign?
In business, constant innovation is crucial. Fall behind and your competitors will likely crush you. Find a decisive edge and you stand to profit immensely. Plouffe's comments and the results of the election demonstrate that business and politics are actually two very similar animals.
Crossposted at NextGenGOP.
Lost in all the punditry about the "impressive" Obama victory is how 2008 compares to other elections where one party had served two consecutive terms.
In 2004 Bush won re-election with about 2.5% of the vote. In 2008 Obama won by somewhere around 7.0%, producing a "swing" of 9.5%.
For comparison:
In 1904 Republican Theodore Roosevelt won by 18.83%. In 1908 Republican Taft won again, but only by 8.53%--a swing of 10 points even though Roosevelt was popular.
(1912 was complicated by a three-way race that hurt the Republicans, so direct comparisons with 1908 are impossible.)
In 1916 Democrat Woodrow Wilson won by 3.12%. In 1920, after an unpopular war and an economic recession (sound familiar?) Republican Harding won by 26.17%. The swing amounted to 29.29%.
(Another third party ticket sabotaged a party in 1924, making comparisons with 1928 impossible.)
In 1936 Roosevelt won re-election by 24.26%. He ran for a thrid term in 1940 and won by 9.95%--a swing of 14.31%.
(1944 was a war year and Harry Truman essentially served that term.)
In 1948 Truman was elected by 4.48%. In 1952 Eisenhower beat Stevenson by 10.85%. The swing was 15.33%.
In 1956 Eisenhower was re-elected by 15.40%. In 1960 Kennedy beat Nixon by 0.16%. The swing was 15.56% even though Eisenhower was popular.
In 1964 Johnson crushed Goldwater by 22.58%. In 1968 Richard Nixon barely won by 0.70% but it amounted to a 23.28% swing.
In 1972 Nixon won by 23.15%. In 1976 Carter beat Frod by 2.06% and the swing was 25.21%.
In 1984 Reagan won re-election by 18.22%. In 1988 Bush won a Republican third term by 7.73% but that still amounted to a 10.49% swing in spite of Reagan's popularity.
In 1992 Bush lost to Clinton by 5.56%, marking another 13.29% swing.
In 1996 Clinton was re-elected by 8.51% and in 2000 Gore won the popular vote by 0.51%. The Swing was 8.0% even though most thought the country was going in the right direction.
Barack Obama's 9.5% swing is thus smaller than the 16.5% average swing. In fact, only in 2000 was the swing less than 9.5%--and then not by much.
If we only average the unpopular administrations (1920, 1952, 1968, 1976, 1992), we get a swing of 21.28% on average.
Once again, the question that should be asked is why we didn't lose by more, not why we lost.
According to a new Pew survey, that is. Of course, they don't put that in their actual report, instead you have to go to the complete report and scroll down to page 35 to find out that fully 24% gave press coverage an "F" grade. The previous high was 20% in 2000 after the Florida fiasco. Another 15% gave a "D" grade and 26% said "C".
But there's more. Fully 44% believe that the press did not fairly cover the McCain campaign. This compares with 40% who said the same thing about Bush in 2004 and 35% who said it about Bush in 1992. Even these numbers don't tell the full story though. Just 22% of Republicans thought the press was fair to McCain compared to 40% who thought it was fair to Bush in 2004 (and 67% of Democrats who thought the press was fair to Kerry).
In 1992 73% of Republicans thought Clinton was covered fairly, in 2008 only 48% of them thought Obama was covered fairly. 41% of Republicans thought the press was fair to Bush in 1992.
A lot of commentary has been focusing on the fact that the GOP lost Virginia for the first time since 1964 and North Carolina since 1976. This is treated as absolutely unprecedented, and to a certain extent it is.
But consider the demographics. The last Republican loser, Dole, won Virginia by a tiny 2 point margin while McCain lost it by 5.5. However, in 1996 the Virginia electorate was 81% white and 16% black while in 2008 it was 70% white and 20% black. Dole won white voters 53-39 while McCain won them 60-39--a substantial improvement. The problem was, of course, that the black vote in 2008 was larger and more monolithic than in 1996. The same lesson applies to 1992, where the elder Bush won the state by 4 points while obtaining an identical margin among whites than McCain did.
Similarly, in North Carolina whites were 80% in 1996 and Dole won them by 24 points, carrying the state by 5. McCain did better at 29 points but barely lost the state because whites only constituted 72% in 2008.
The point is that we lost these former Republican strongholds not necessarily because parts of the state have more white liberals, but rather because the white share was lower (and the black share correspondingly higher) than in the past elections we lost. We can look forward to these states being purple for as long as these turnout trends hold up.
Defined, a poison pill is that of a strategic move in politics or business designed to increase the likelihood of negative results as opposed to positive ones during a takeover. By winning the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections, President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrats have willfully swallowed a big poison pill left behind by George W. Bush.
Meanwhile, a Pyrrhic victory comes from King Pyrrhus, the ruler of Eprius, who won a series of battles that his army won in 280 and 279 BC against the Romans but the casualties they took on were devastating. Had John McCain been elected President, it would have been one such victory that would have been enough to strengthen Democrat majorities in the House and Senate while setting up the Democrats for a landslide win in 2012. For that, McCain and the Republicans spared themselves what would have been a costly victory.
The good news for the Republicans is that there are a number of ways that Obama can consume poison pills and do so happily while fooling himself by proclaiming it as an "engine of change". Believe me, that the Republicans will be more than happy to keep supplying the poison pills. All of this with the GOP's rise back to the top by 2012.
Had the roles been reversed with McCain winning and a Democrat-led Congress to work with, the Democrats would have blocked many of McCain's economic policies and would force him to cross the aisle for the policies they wanted, which would have made McCain the second-comings of Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter.
In the end, it would have made John McCain's Presidential win that very Pyrrhic victory that would have lengthened the minority of the Republicans in government and turned John McCain's legacy from that of "Maverick" John McCain the war hero to John S. McCain the failed President. Instead, Obama and the Democrats took a tighter grip on power that could ultimately give the public one reason to vote Republican.
What Obama and the Democrats are proposing could be a prescription for an unmitigated economic disaster that could lead to GOP victories in 2010 and 2012. Those victories also assume that the Republican leadership in Congress and party back in working order.
If nothing else, it would be highly unlikely that Obama governs from the political center. Back in 1992, then-President-elect Bill Clinton was told by House Democrats that they would pull support for centrist positions of his if he tried to get Republicans to vote for his proposals. They told Clinton that if he stayed within the confines of the Democrat Congressional and Senatorial Caucuses, they would deliver other policy proposals. That ended in 1994 with a Republican landslide in the House and Senate elections.
Before that, Jimmy Carter decided that he was not going to govern from the left in the early stages of his presidency. The end result was a clear alienation of his own party that led to Carter vetoing in four years more than double the bills that George W. Bush did in eight years. By the time Carter tried to woo the liberal base of his party, it was too late. Thanks to not governing from the left and his ineptitude, Ronald Reagan defeated him in a 44-state landslide in 1980 in an election that was over one hour before the polls closed on the west coast.
President-elect Obama is now in a bad spot electorally. If the economy goes from bad to worse post-2009, Obama and the Democrats will not have Bush to blame. Instead, they will have to answer the question "What have you done for me lately?" If they're not careful, the Republicans will start by making significant electoral gains in 2010 and could regain power back from the Democrats in 2012. That would be the final, fatal poison pill.
There was no secret by the Obama campaign about their desires to raise the capital gains tax from 15 percent to anywhere between 20 to 28 percent. The last time an increase in the capital gains tax was implemented was back in 1986 when the tax code was reformed under Ronald Reagan to make the capital gains rate the same as the top rate of 28 percent. When implemented, capital gains tax revenues dropped 44 percent because selling stock became less desirable.
What could make matters worse is the desire of Obama and the Democrats to raise the top marginal income tax rate from the current 35 percent rate to that of the 39.6 percent it was back in 2000. There are a number of serious consequences that would arise from a tax increase in an economic slowdown or an economic recovery. According to Obama's proposals to repeal the Bush tax cuts for the top five percent of wage earners ($153,542 in adjusted gross income or more) and Obama's proposed removal the income cap on FICA taxes could impose a federal tax rate of 54.9 percent.
As for the rest of the Bush tax cuts, they will be set to expire on January 1, 2011. If there is now tax cut extension put in to place, an economy that could be poised for a recovery would instead suffer a contraction. George W. Bush will not anywhere close to the scene of the crime (he'll probably be getting ready to go fishing in Texas by this time) to be blamed and Obama would take the hit. In other words, Obama will be the first President to run for reelection on the heels of a recession since George H.W. Bush lost to Bill Clinton in 1992.
Spending can also get out of hand with the Democrats wanting more money for more spending programs. John Kerry has called for a new New Deal and Barney Frank has called for more spending, deficit be damned. This, combined with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's push for funding for embryonic stem cell research (which is more throwing good money after bad since embryonic stem cell research has produced no cures while over 80 cures have been found via adult stem cell research) and Ted Kennedy's push for socialized health care will be enough to generate our first-ever trillion-dollar deficit.
Once the recession is over, the next monster the economy will become hyperinflation that has gone unseen since the 1970's. The contributors will be record deficit spending, energy prices run amok, and artificially increasing wages.
Obama has proposed raising it from the $5.15 it was back in 2006 when the economy was actually good to the $7.25 per hour wage that it will be next summer to $9.50 by 2011. The dirty little secret about labor pricing in economics is that if you inflate wages against the will of employers, you actually create more unemployment—like what is happening right now.
If you look at the inflation-adjusted number of the original minimum wage when it was implemented in late 1938, today's minimum wage would only be $3.64 an hour. The $9.50 an hour that Obama would attempt to implement would be the 1938 equivalent of 68 cents. In other words, when adjusted for inflation, non-skilled workers—mostly high school teenagers, people working for the first time, and those looking to start a business by learning a trade—are making more than 2.61 times more than what they were making 70 years ago.
In some ways, inflation was made worse by the Carter administration in the 1970's by increasing the minimum wage every year he was in office. When Carter took office, the federal minimum wage was $2.30 an hour. That figure went up to $2.65 an hour in 1978, $2.90 an hour in 1979, $3.10 an hour in 1980 and to $3.35 an hour when he left office in January 1981. By comparison, the Reagan administration never passed a minimum wage increase and one would not take effect for more than nine years.
Why does the minimum wage matter? It is the only real way to create a trickle-up economic effect. It will increase wages across the board by an even bigger percentage than that of a minimum wage increase. Employers will respond to higher taxes and higher wages with higher job cuts. We will be longing for the days of a 6.5 percent unemployment rate.
Then there is the credit crisis as we are facing as banks are more reluctant to give loans for any reason. Obama wants to give selected homeowners the ability to refinance during a 90-day foreclosure freeze. That will lead to a freeze on lending for either the same length of time to one that's even longer. That is, unless of course, Congress decides to force banks to lend (which is what got many of the banks in this mess in the first place).
With the shrinking equity from Wall Street and the reduced lending of the banks (barring mandatory lending against the better interests of the banks), businesses will be harder-pressed for cash which will lead to more layoffs and less production of goods. When inflation by contraction (stagflation) on this scale happens, more Congressional bailouts won't be enough to save corporate and small-business America.
Speaking of bailouts, there will be a push to bailout the automotive industry to the tune of $250 billion. For once, I agree with Congressmen like Dennis Kucinich. It is only on the issue of equating this to corporate welfare. However, he and his fellow far-leftists in the Democrat Party will likely acquiesce thanks to all of the additional goodies thrown in the form of pork-barrel spending projects to win votes just like what Nancy Pelosi did with her first Iraq spending bill that George W. Bush promptly vetoed.
The end result is a Democrat Party and an Obama administration overwhelmed with political poison pills gladly accepted on their part from the Republicans. By 2012, Obama will likely go down as one of America's worst presidents and could make Americans long for the days of—dare I say—George W. Bush. At that point, the American public will vote probably for Republicans…any Republican.
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Students wishing to prepare for a career in dentistry are advised to major in Biology or Chemistry with a concentration in both disciplines. They should consult the requirements of representative dental schools in consultation with their advisor to select a program meeting those requirements.
Dental schools consider a number of factors in the admissions process. Successful applicants will have at least three years of undergraduate study during which they will have completed all prerequisite courses with a high grade point average. Nearly all students, however, complete a baccalaureate degree before entry into dental school. Besides the prerequisite courses listed below, dental school admissions committees consider scores on the Dental Admission Test (DAT), grade point average (average science GPA is 3.5) letters of recommendation, and interviews. Students considering a career in dentistry are strongly encouraged to get some experience with a dentist. This can be with a dentist in the student's home town, or arrangements can be made with a number of dentists in Jacksonville for students to "shadow" their practice. The application for admission to dental school is submitted through the Associated American Dental Schools Application Service (AADSAS).
In the past ten years, Illinois College students have been accepted at the following dental schools:
:: Northwestern University School of Dentistry (1) *no longer open :: University of Illinois School of Dentistry (1) :: University of Iowa College of Dentistry :: Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (12) :: Indiana University College of Dentistry
Preparing for Dental School at Illinois College
Pre-dental students may major in any academic area, as long as they successfully complete the standard science prerequisite courses. While students should be careful to choose the courses specifically required at each school of dentistry to which they plan to apply, the general science prerequisites include:
Other strongly suggested courses include anatomy, histology, biochemistry, physiology, psychology, principles of management, foreign language, art, and sculpture.


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May 5, 2005
New York Governor George Pataki yesterday threw his support behind a security-related redesign of the World Trade Center Freedom Tower. The announcement comes at a crossroads for the site, which is facing questions on several fronts.
After concluding a meeting with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Freedom Tower developer Larry Silverstein, and various rebuilding officials, Pataki, one of the driving forces behind the 1,776 foot-tall buildings conception, announced that A new design for the Freedom Tower is required in order to meet NYPD's security standards.
The New York Police Department first expressed concerns about the towers safety early last month, centering around the buildings vulnerability to an automobile-related attack, specifically from West Street. Skidmore Owings & Merrill, the towers architects, will now work on adjusting the building for such concerns. The new design is unknown, but The New York Times today said that building officials have speculated that the architects may have to remove the torquing design of the tower in order to decrease the size of its floor plate, hence keeping it further from the street. Other ideas include moving the tower further away from West street. It is unknown how long the redesign will delay the buildings construction, but given the pace of major construction projects, it will likely be significant.
Meanwhile, questions about the site loom as construction has reached a standstill, a major rebuilding official has stepped down, and the wisdom of massive amounts of office space in the area have come under scrutiny.
The last construction activity on the site itself came about a year and a half ago, with the completion of a temporary PATH station at the sites northeast corner. New York Senator Charles Schumer on May 3 told a Crains Business Breakfast that we are losing steam, and that a culture of inertia has infected downtown redevelopment and our city in general. He warned that additional delays could jeopardize future federal funding for the area, specifically referring to a possible link between JFK airport and lower Manhattan.
Silversteins 7 World Trade Center, nearing completion just to the north of the site, stands without a major tenant, while the Goldman Sachs Building, to its northwest, has been put on an indefinite hold. Many real estate, design, and business leaders suggest that the site contain more retail and residential space, which appear to be in higher demand in the area than office space.
Why make the program the same as it was, rather than create an innovative part of the city? New York-based architect Winka Dubbeldam told Record in a recent survey of the area.
Kevin Rampe, who has been president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation since 2003, announced on May 3 that he would be leaving his post at the end of the month. Rampe, who is leaving to work for Bermuda-based insurance company ACE, says his departure has been long-planned, and that it has nothing to do with the current developments at the Trade Center. Rampe feels recent concerns over the site are inflated, and says the Freedom Towers new delays represent the Trade Centers only major obstacle. Everything else is right on time, he says. Overall Im surprised by how much progress weve made. There are always going to be hiccups with projects of this scale. Many people dont have the level of understanding to realize that this is what happens.
In his speech, Pataki made sure to note that a new design for the Freedom Tower is not impeding any of our other rebuilding progress.
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Though Jaime King plays an old-fashioned Southern Belle on the CW's 'Hart of Dixie', she embraces a seriously modern life in her sleek Beverly Hills home. The actress's love for decor started as a child in Nebraska, where her parents taught their four kids to lay carpet and build cabinets. King's budget may be more accommodating now, but she brings the same hands-on passion to decorating the midcentury-modern home she shares with her director husband Kyle Newman.
King (in a Stella McCartney tank and Rag & Bone skirt) posed with a painting by British street artist Eelus. "I tracked him down and had him paint it for my husband for Christmas," she says.
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Erie County Executive-elect Mark C. Poloncarz has appointed Richard M. Tobe to serve as his administration's Deputy County Executive. Tobe has more than 30 years of economic development experience in the public and private sectors as well as academia.
As a candidate, Poloncarz promised to make job creation a top priority of his administration and in September released a plan entitled "Growing Jobs: Creating an Economic Development Strategy that Works for Erie County." As part of that plan, Poloncarz's Deputy County Executive will serve as the point-person responsible for coordinating all of the County's economic development tools and agencies and lead Poloncarz's efforts to aggressively attract business expansion from Canada.
Poloncarz stated, "As I have said, my Deputy County Executive's will focus on job creation and creating a streamlined, sustainable and efficient approach to economic development in Erie County. This position required an individual that not only had a proven track record of successfully navigating the often turbulent local economic development process but who could also help create a better system for tomorrow. Today, I am proud to announce Richard Tobe will serve in that role. It is time that Erie County taxpayers see a return on the investment of their tax dollars into economic development initiatives that show results. Richard's decades of successful and multi-faceted economic development experience in the public and private sectors make him the perfect choice to lead these efforts."
During his 12 years serving the Gorski administration as Commissioner of Environment and Planning, Tobe led the County's successful effort to negotiate a new long-term lease agreement with the Buffalo Bills, and construct the Buffalo Sabres' arena (now First Niagara Center) in downtown Buffalo, while serving as the point-person with New York State and local municipalities on economic development initiatives.
Since then Tobe has served as an adjunct professor at the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Planning and School of Law, Vice President of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and Commissioner of the City of Buffalo's Department of Economic Development, Permit and Inspection Services.
Tobe said, "I am supremely honored to serve County Executive-elect Poloncarz as the Deputy County Executive. I strongly agree with the County Executive-elect that, for too long, Erie County has been devoid of a cohesive and focused economic development strategy. I know and love this community and I am confident that by working together with local, state and federal economic development agencies and by leveraging our abundance of resources and strategic location we can realize real, sustainable growth."


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Development and differentiation is regulated by spatial and temporal regulation of genes. Genes in the nucleus are found associated with proteins and this is called chromatin, which regulates genes. Genes in stem cells are also regulated by chromatin and the structure of chromatin undergoes changes during differentiation. Understanding the sequence of events that occur in specific chromatin domains during stem cell self-renewal and differentiation becomes vital before we can begin to use these in regenerative medicine. Genetically modifying stem cells may be necessary prior to their use in therapy. The non-pathogenic virus AAV is employed as a vector in numerous gene therapy trials and holds promise for use in modifying stem cells. This virus establishes a latent infection by integrating into a specific region of the human genome called AAVS1. This is in contrast to other viruses used in gene therapy that randomly insert into the genome and thus can be mutagenic. We propose to investigate the chromatin structure at AAVS1 so that AAV based vectors can be used optimally in regenerative medicine. This proposal will improve our toolkit for modifying stem cells using gene therapy. One way to reverse the effects of dysfunctional genes is to deliver a corrected copy to the affected individual. By virtue of their ability to propagate indefinitely, stem cells offer an unlimited supply of healthy genes but undifferentiated stem cells transplanted into patients give rise to problems. These problems can potentially be circumvented by genetically manipulating stem cells in vitro to direct their differentiation into the lineage of choice prior to transplantation but will necessitate integrating transgenes into these cells. The proposed experiments will allow us to better genetically modify stem cells. The experiments outlined in this proposal will characterize the chromatin domains around the AAVS1 region in depth. We will determine how the AAVS1 genomic locus changes with respect to its chromatin structure as stem cells undergo differentiation into specific lineages. Furthermore, we will establish the chromatin determinants that (i) promote the stable integration of AAV into a specific region of the genome and (ii) allow stable expression of transgenes in stem cells. As our long-term goal we will study the changes that occur in the chromatin structure of the AAVS1 region in stem cells expressing an AAV-mediated transgene that induces these cells to differentiate along a specific lineage. These studies will enable the development of vectors for the expression of specific transgenes in stem cells that will direct their differentiation into specific cell types. Such a system could then be exploited to generate large cell banks with diverse histocompatibilities for use in patients with hereditary disorders.
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Dr. Ruth, All the Way
Back to Current SeasonFor information on the NYC premiere of Becoming Dr. Ruth, click here.
By Mark St. Germain
Directed by Julianne Boyd
Starring That 70's Show's Debra Jo Rupp
World Premiere
Extended through July 21 Due to Popular Demand!
Everyone knows the pioneering radio and television sex therapist Dr. Ruth but few know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a scout and sniper, to her struggles to succeed as a single mother coming to America, Dr. Ruth, All the Way is filled with the humor, honesty and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became "Dr. Ruth."
Mark St. Germain is the acclaimed playwright of The Best of Enemies and Freud's Last Session.
The Critics Rave about Dr. Ruth, All the Way!
"one of the most smartly constructed, superbly performed, directed and designed solo plays I've ever seen…I dare anyone not to be totally charmed and deeply moved by the actress and the character she so entrancingly portrays…a theatrical orgasm" ~CURTAIN UP
"Debra Jo Rupp turns in an outstanding tour-de-force…[her] energy and command of the material should have future audiences leaping to their feet after each performance" ~IN THE SPOTLIGHT
"…exquisite…flawless…a fine piece of theater…casting Debra Jo Rupp is quite nearly a stroke of genius…a triumph…" ~ADVOCATE WEEKLY
"…a powerful evening of theatre…What we experienced…was the precise synergy of a singularly riveting character, a charming, witty and at times emotionally wrenching flawless performance by Rupp, a meticulously crafted text by St. Germain and the flawless direction of Boyd." ~BERKSHIRE FINE ARTS
"Debra Jo Rupp shines brightly as Dr. Ruth Westheimer…inspiring…highly entertaining…all the pieces fall perfectly in place…a very special experience." ~BERKSHIRE ON STAGE
"Rupp is brilliant in finding the warmth, humor and honesty of the famous woman…this work is carefully constructed to blend entertainment and seriousness." ~THE RECORD (Troy, NY)
Dr. Ruth, All the Way is the first commission as part of Barrington Stage's New Works Initiative. This commission is courtesy of Sydelle and Lee Blatt & Rosita Sarnoff and Beth Sapery.
Dr. Ruth, All the Way is sponsored by Esta and Kenneth Friedman and sponsored in part by Dr. Arthur and Terry Wasser.
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Debra Jo Rupp
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Julianne Boyd
Brian Prather
Jennifer Moeller
Scott Pinkney
Jessica Paz
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Hurricane Berry was part of a mock exercise putting emergency responders through their paces in case a real hurricane hit the Valley. Cameron county Emergency Management Director, Johnny Cavazos says the mock hurricane would be landing between Brownsville and Matamoros. Cavazos say emergency centers for Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy and along with other Texas cities simulated the exercise. Officials set up shelters and evacuating people in the hurricane's path and the exercise will continue through Thursday.


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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)For-Profit Businesses Have Right to Religious Liberty Too, Lawmakers Tell Court in Hobby Lobby Case
By Penny Starr
February 22nd, 2013 Cybercast News Service (cnsnews.com) "In the Hobby Lobby case, HHS's lawyers have argued that business owners don't have religious liberty at all when it comes to how they run their businesses," Keim said. "According to HHS, that's because the corporate form, which was designed centuries ago to limit liability, insulates them from the moral consequences of their actions." WASHINGTON, DC (CNS NEWS) - Republican members of Congress have weighed in on the legal battle being waged over the Obamacare mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs to employees. Eleven senators and congressmen filed an amicus brief, also known as a friend-of-the-court brief, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on Tuesday in support of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a Christian-owned and operated corporation that opposes the mandate based on its owners' religious beliefs. Hobby Lobby filed suit against Health and Human Services and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Rep. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was one of the lead sponsors of the Religious Freedom Reformation Act of 1993, which he said was designed to protect the religious liberty of all Americans, even those who own corporations or other for-profit businesses. "As one of the lead sponsors of RFRA, it's deeply troubling to see this White House trample on the religious freedom the law seeks to protect," Hatch said in a written statement. The brief states: "Amici are federal legislators who were part of the broad, bipartisan coalition that enacted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 ("RFRA"). Amici designed and passed RFRA to establish a blanket default rule that would insulate religious liberty from the shifting fortunes of interest-group politics. "Defendants have ordered that certain employers' insurance plans must cover all FDA-approved contraceptives without cost-sharing (the "HHS mandate"), but have refused to exempt many employers with sincere religious objections. Amici have an interest in vindicating RFRA's blanket protections against the selective and stingy approach adopted by Defendants." In addition to Hatch, the brief was signed by Sens. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), and Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and Frank Wolf (R-Va.). At an event at the Family Research Council on Wednesday to discuss the threat Obamacare poses to Americans' religious freedoms, Adele Keim, legal counsel with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents Hobby Lobby, said that HHS is trying to make the distinction between non-profit and for-profit, with the latter being said to be secular and exempt from religious consideration. "In the Hobby Lobby case, HHS's lawyers have argued that business owners don't have religious liberty at all when it comes to how they run their businesses," Keim said. "According to HHS, that's because the corporate form, which was designed centuries ago to limit liability, insulates them from the moral consequences of their actions." Keim said that HHS claims the for-profit nature of a corporation does not make the religious belief of its owner relevant. "But of course, there's nothing in the First Amendment that says you lose your religious liberty when you make a living," Keim said. Kyle Duncan, general counsel with Becket, said the lawmakers' brief shows that the Obamacare mandate goes against federal civil rights law. "While any brief by sitting members of Congress is significant, this one comes from members who originally supported the federal civil rights law-the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993-which is at the heart of the mandate challenges," Duncan said. "The brief leaves no doubt that Congress intended to protect the religious freedom of those like Hobby Lobby and its founder, David Green, against federal attempts to force them to insure abortion-inducing drugs," Duncan added. According to Becket, there are 47 legal court cases opposing the HHS mandate, with more than 130 plaintiffs being represented. Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |