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Madison, WI -- One of the most hypocritical corporate PR campaigns in decades is advancing inside the beltway, attempting to convince the White House, Congress, and the American people that another cataclysmic economic crisis is around the corner that will destroy our economy unless urgent action is taken. Soon this astroturf supergroup may be coming to a state near you.
Today the Center for Media and Democracy launches a new wiki resources on the funding, leaders, partner groups and lobbyists of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, see it here at PetersonPyramid.org.
Move over David Koch and George Soros! The effort is being bankrolled by one of the wealthiest men in the nation. Peter G. Peterson made a fortune at the Blackstone Group on Wall Street. He conveniently cashed out with $2 billion shortly before the 2008 financial meltdown and now has pledged to spend $1 billion of that payout to convince Americans -- who overwhelmingly want to keep and strengthen Social Security and Medicare -- that these programs threaten our very existence as a nation.
His task is a tough one.
After Mitt Romney picked famed "deficit hawk" Paul Ryan for vice-president, the two barnstormed the country warning audiences that U.S. debt and deficits were like a "prairie fire" moving ever closer to our "homes and our children." To save our kids from conflagration, America needed to rein-in out-of-control spending.
Voters sent the deficit scolds packing. Economists warned that austerity during an economic downturn was a recipe for disaster and polls consistently showed that jobs were America's top priority with the deficit trailing well down the list.
To overcome this wall of opposition, Peterson needed a new strategy. For years, he had funded think tanks, seminars, national tours, town hall meetings, TV ad campaigns, college TV, school curricula, online media and even a motion picture -- all in an effort to convince America that deficits would one day sink the economy. Now Peterson needed something bigger and better than before -- and the Campaign to Fix the Debt was born.
Peterson rallied the crème de la crème of the 1% to his cause. Hiding their self-serving motives and wrapping themselves in patriotic language of "shared sacrifice," 127 CEOs have signed up to his Campaign to Fix the Debt. Accompanied by elder "statesmen" (many of whom have gone through the revolving door and have undisclosed financial ties to firms that lobby for tax loopholes and other corporate welfare that contribute to the deficit), plus four PR firms, 80 full-time staff members, 23 phony state chapters, and a raft of Peterson-funded "partner organization," Fix the Debt has targeted a budget of $60 million in "the first phase."
Key to the strategy is ginning up a crisis. In lockstep, the CEOs, politicians, and partner organizations stormed the media last fall warning of the looming disaster of the so-called "fiscal cliff." Breaching the fiscal cliff "will lead to chaos," warned Erskine Bowles; "derail the fragile recovery," said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein; generate a "shock to the financial markets and a painful return to the recession," said the CEO of Morgan Stanley.
But this chorus of calamity was pure hype. One Fix the Debt steering committee member, former Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen, let slip that the strategy was to create an "artificial crisis" that would force Congress to act.
Their goal is to achieve a Simpson-Bowles style "grand bargain" on an austerity agenda for the United States by the nation's 237th birthday on July 4, 2013.
But the Founding Fathers would be outraged at the shenanigans of these summer soldiers and phony patriots.
Many Fix the Debt firms pay a very low or even a negative average tax rate, contributing to the nation's deficit. Fix the Debt is secretly pushing for a major tax break that would exempt profits earned overseas by U.S. firms from taxation and encourage the offshoring of U.S. jobs. While the Fix the Debt CEOs call for cuts to Social Security, many of the publicly-traded Fix the Debt firms underfund their employee pension plans -- making their workers even more dependent on the popular social insurance plan that American workers pay into with each paycheck.
Plus, Fix the Debt steering commitee members have extensive ties to corporations lobbying to preserve dozens of costly tax breaks (such as the "carried interest loophole" that made Pete Peterson a rich man) that are not disclosed in their Fix the Debt bios. (Click here to see a chart of these conflicts (PDF) and share it with your local news producers and reporters every time you spot a Fix the Debt talking head.)
The reality is that the nation's budget deficit is not caused by overspending; it is largely due to the collapse of the $8 trillion housing bubble. But fear mongering over the deficit "is preventing us from giving the same boost to the economy that got us out of the Great Depression," says economist Dean Baker.
The Center for Media and Democracy tracks the PR industry, front groups, and corporate spin. We launched the award-winning ALECexposed investigation in 2011. Rarely have we seen such a well-financed astroturf supergroup as Fix the Debt.
New Online Resource on Campaign to Fix the Debt
Today, CMD is pleased to unveil -- in partnership with The Nation -- a new resource on the Campaign to Fix the Debt for the public and the media, that exposes the leaders, the Peterson-funded partners, the phony state chapters, the lobbyists and the stunt men (who convinced Alan Simpson to dance Gangnam Style) behind this massive PR effort.
This package includes:
Lisa Graves, Pete Peterson's Long History of Deficit Scaremongering, The Nation.
John Nichols, The Austerity Agenda: An Electoral Loser, The Nation.
Dean Baker, Fix the Debt's Fuzzy Math, The Nation.
Mary Bottari, Pete Peterson's Puppet Populists, The Nation.
Fix the Debt Astroturf Supergroup Portal Page
Fix the Debt Leaders' Conflicts of Interest
and much more!
amacd replied on Permalink
Focus of forces
Lisa, it's a great idea to have insightful information about the Astroturf elitist group 'Fix the Debt' and to provide revealing information on Peterson and his ruling-elite cohorts by exposing their schemes under the punchy title, "PetersonPyramid" --- all of that is very instructive and constructive in and of itself.
Having applauded you for that however, forming an increasingly large number of different specific 'issues' web-sites, and separately funded vehicles for addressing the constantly growing number of ruling-elite schemes may not be the best way to aggregate real action against the better-funded ruling elite.
In order to attract, energize, and leverage a significant number of concerned citizens against such ruling-elite 'symptom problems' like; austerity schemes, the sequestration scam, growing gun violence, Global Warming, PR propaganda, ALEC infection of state legislatures, vast inequalities of income and wealth, drone assassinations, spying, lying, looting, wars, torture, etc., etc., etc. ---- it would make more effective use of citizen attention and action (and would certainly focus the limited funding of citizen groups) to employ a common narrative and collective theme that can be used to pull together ---- rather than separate ---- the energies, actions, funds, and efforts of as wide a base of citizens as possible against the much more wealthy, powerful, and focused aggressive forces of the ruling-elite tip of that pyramid of Empire.
For example the PetersonPyramid of Empire, would reinforce rather than divide and conquer citizens' understanding, funding, truthful information, and action against the overall schemes, shocks, and attacks of the ruling-elite pyramid of Empire --- while continuing to educate, engender, and enhance the power of people against the Empire of the Elite.
Lisa, I really respect, applaud, and congratulate your great efforts through The Center for Media and Democracy (and all your other sub-groups and sub-web-sties) for attacking the elitist enemy on all fronts ---- but there is some lack of 'force concentration' in having such a wide, disaggregated, stretched, and necessarily unfocused attack strategy that distributes these separate efforts. BTW, the same can be said of Amy Goodman's fine "Democracy Now" TV show, and many principled left/progressive traditional and web publications like; CommonDreams, truthdig, The Nation, Op Ed News, etc., etc., etc. --- which all try to address all the 'symptom problems' that this not fully diagnosed, understood, exposed, or revealed ruling-elite Empire causes.
While such a well intended, but broad-brush and dissipated attack strategy against the common enemy of the people is certainly interesting for a minority of activists (myself included) to read daily about in a large number of web-sites, the dispersed nature of these multiple web-sites (of which The Center for Media and Democracy is a key example) spreads attention, thoughts, funding, and actions perhaps too broadly to seriously 'take-on' the focused efforts, propaganda, and funding of the ruling-elites' single Empire of deceptive effort in splitting, dividing, and conquering the honest and principled left/progressive forces.
We are only held hostage by their disguised ruling-elite Empire because it is able to remain hidden, camouflaged, disguised and unrecognized --- and thus able to get away with its deceitful posing as a normal and acceptable
democratic Republic --- when, in fact, it is a disguised Global EMPIRE.
Merely shining light on this vampire of the ruling-elite EMPIRE will focus the combined forces of the people, breach its defensive camouflage, and will kill it in an instant!.
Best luck and love to the fast expanding 'Occupy Empire' educational and revolutionary movement against this deceitful, guileful, disguised EMPIRE, which can't so easily be identified as wearing RedCoats, Red Stars, nor funny looking Nazi helmets ---- quite yet!
Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality
Violent/'Vichy' Rel 2.0
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
We don't merely have a gun/fear problem, or a 'Fiscal Cliff' problem,
or an expanding wars problem, or a 'drone assassinations' problem, or a
vast income & wealth inequality problem, or a Wall Street 'looting'
problem, or a Global Warming and environmental death-spiral problem, or a domestic tyranny NDAA FISA spying problem, or, or, or, or .... ad
nauseum --- we have a hidden EMPIRE cancerous tumor which is the prime
CAUSE of all these 'symptom problems'.
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Wicked web...
I'd say you have it pretty covered, The End will come with the Gun registration all the rest of the gun bull is a deception just like Hitler and Stalin all they want is to kill anyone who is a rebel under the guise of terrorism (The most abused word of our time!) Once they get that passed they won't need anything else to confiscate them turning us into China or Russia or Mexico, Destroying the middle class and anyone who enjoys free speach is where their headed, It will start a revolution that they believe they can control with the drones and what have you. The free world is on the edge not just us! Boiling Frogs using Stockholm syndrome physiology they us outrageous bills to scare us when their #1 goal is "Universal Background checks" sounds innocent enough until you do a little investigating....East India ad for jobs in United States "No Experience necessary" The persons job your taking will be forced to train you!
Bill Gates at hearing we need the brightest and best! What Crap just ask any Microsoft, Honeywell, Blue cross people who can't find a job at McDonald's, Other non English people have those, So this is being sold as Immigration reform! We are all getting an education eh!
The Erinyes replied on Permalink
Focus of Forces
Excellent comment. You really incitefully zoomed in on the underlying cause of the symptomatic problems we are having.
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(Taking stock of) What's in your hand?
There's a statement that says "use what you got, to get what you want." It simply means there comes a time when each of us should take inventory of what we have access to. So often we look in all the wrong places for the tools we need to accomplish the mission set before us. I recently heard a song by Pastor Sheryl Brady that reminds us that what we need is already on the inside of us. I'm thoroughly convinced that we have what it takes for our dreams to be realized and our desires to be fulfilled.
As I look at Exodus chapters 3 and 4, Moses was called upon by God to deliver the people of Israel from bondage and captivity. Moses was also commissioned to go to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to let the people go. This was no easy task for Moses, so he thought. He felt inadequate, unequipped and unworthy to fulfill the assignment God called him to do.
Moses had a conversation with God and continued to make excuse after excuse as to why he couldn't fulfill the task at hand. God had to remind Moses that he had just what he needed. He asked Moses, "what is that in thine hand," and Moses answered, "a rod." For Moses, it was just that, a rod; a dried piece of wood that was used as a walking stick and an instrument for navigating his way through difficult terrain.
However, God saw it as so much more. God saw it as a tool he could use in the hand of his servant.
I believe God has asked some of us that same question; "what is that in thine hand?" When he poses that question to us, he is really asking; what's under your control? What do you have possession of? What are you good at? What are your talents and abilities?
God has purposed us for greatness. Yet, some of us will never walk into what he predestined for us because we fail to see that the blessing is already in our hands.
As I examine the scriptures a little further, In 1 Samuel 17:49 God used what was in David's hand to slew the Philistine giant Goliath. In Judges 15:15 He used the jawbone of a donkey in the hand of Samson to slew 1000 men. In John 6:9, I'm reminded of a young boy who had 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread and Jesus used it to feed the multitude. These scriptures clearly remind us that little becomes much when placed in the hands of God.
If we were to examine all the ways God used the rod in Moses' hand, they would be numerous. But one thing is for sure; because Moses allowed God to use what was in his hand, the people of God were delivered.
Exodus 14:13-16 states, "Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me: speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea."
Not only was there power in Moses, David, Samson and the young boy's hand but there is power in your hand too! Refuse to focus on what you don't have and begin to celebrate what you do have.
When you present what you have to God, he'll give you the power to use what you got, to get what you want. What's in your hand?

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The United States has taken a major step toward advancing to the knockout round of World Cup by beating Ghana 2-1 in the opener for both teams. Clint Dempsey scored 32 points into the game, the fifth-fastest goal in World Cup history. But the game was tied until substitute John Brooks scored on a header off a corner kick in the 86th minute, four minutes after Ghana tied the game. Other scores had Germany ripping Portugal 4-0 and Nigeria & Iran finished in a scoreless draw.
Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn has passed away at the age of 54 from cancer. The eight-time National League batting champ and 15-time All-Star spent his entire career with the San Diego Padres and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2007. Gwynn finished his career with 3,141 hits, a .338 average, five Gold Glove awards and 319 stolen bases.
Louisville has been eliminated in the College World Series. Texas stayed alive with a 4-1 win over the Cardinals at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha. Parker French and Travis Duke combined for a four-hitter to help the Longhorns end a four-game CWS losing streak dating to 2009. Texas scored runs on a sacrifice fly, a groundout and a throwing error. Also at Omaha, Vanderbilt beat UC Irvine 6-4 as Walker Buehler pitched 5 1/3 innings of no-hit relief. The Commodores will play in a bracket final Friday against the winner of tomorrow's elimination game between UC Irvine and Texas. Play resumes today with Mississippi playing Texas Tech in a 2:00 elimination game and TCU meeting Virginia at 7:00.
Hebron's Jay Cottam battled through some tough scoring conditions to post the low round of the day (72) and earn stroke play qualifying medalist honors along with the top seed for the 25th Nebraska Junior Match Play Championship at Heritage Hills Golf Course in McCook. Cottam will face Justin Coffey (84), who won a 5-for-1 playoff for the final spot in Match Play. The Round of 32 begins this morning, with the Round of 16 to follow in the afternoon. Laurel's Mitchell Klooz tied for fourth place with a 75, Plainview's Colin Wright & Norfolk's Luke Kluver tied for 23rd place with an 82, and Humphrey's Trevor Kosch withdrew from the event. Klooz, Wright, and Kluver will all be in competition today.
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Holmes' Town Transport
A potted
history of the Hansom cab
The Hansom cab, as favoured
by Sherlock Holmes as a method
of getting around the city, is, or rather was, a horse-drawn carriage.
and patented by one Joseph Hansom, an architect from York, in 1834.
Hansom realised that there was a need for a lighter, more
manouverable, type of transport than the Hackney carriage at the time.
The Hackney carriage was much more cumbersome,
being a four
wheeled carriage, drawn by a pair of horses, and seating six people. By
contrast, the Hansom was much lighter, only two wheels, and only needed
horse to pull it's load of two passengers and driver.
Being much more manouverable, able to
turn round in it's own
length, speedier, and able to cope easily with the congestion that was
becoming notorious in London at the turn of the century, the Hansom
became popular. The fact that for a given journey they were quite a bit
than the Hackney did no harm for their reputation either.
Of course, as today, many journeys were
undertaken by just
one or two people, (Holmes and Watson for example), and often the
carriage was only a third full, making the Hansom cab a better bet.
However, they were not totally enclosed, the
front of the cab had just folding doors which protected the occupants
feet and
legs from mud etc. and they soon gained a reputation as being a bit
"racy", it
was not done for ladies to travel alone in them.
The original Hansom cab, as designed by
Joseph Hansom, was
to combine speed with safety, having a surprisingly low centre of
which made cornering safe. This design was altered by John Chapman, who
that it was not sufficiently practical. However, although the design
altered, the patent held, and the name Hansom cab was retained.
The cab, as previously mentioned, sat
two passengers
comfortably, three at a squeeze. The driver sat behind and above the
cab on a
sprung seat, giving him visibility and control. The passengers were
able to
communicate with the driver through a trapdoor just behind their heads
in the
roof. The occupants would also pay the driver through this trapdoor. He
then operate a lever, releasing the door so they could get out.
Problems with
non-payers even then!
Over the years the cab was modified,
with the addition of a
glass window above the doors to enclose the passengers, and a curved
mounted in front of the doors to stop flying stones etc. thrown up by
horse's hooves. Depending upon which illustrations,
films, and TV shows
have seen you will probably have seen Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
use all
these varieties.
At the height of their popularity there were
around 3000
Hansom cabs in use in London, and they had spread to many other cities
large towns in the UK. They were also popular in Europe, being
well represented in Paris, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. By the late
1890's they
had been introduced to the United States, where they were in common use
in New
York City.
The Hansom cab remained popular until the 1920's,
when the
internal combustion engine had found it's way into cheap, reliable
for the masses. Surprisingly however, the last Hackney cab licence was
issued until 1947. Quite a success story, I wonder if Sherlock Holmes
envisaged them lasting so long?
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Well this is my best friend and its so depressing because I wanted him to be my partner so bad. I am going to talk to my farrier and vet and try to get him sound. I am keeping him no matter what. I will never sell him. That would break my heart. Maybe I can give some lessons on him and get a younger athlete. And he can be my trail and just English pleasure/flat horse. If he can't be used for eventing. But we will see
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The Memorial Day Weekend, for the most part, was tragedy free.
The exception being two drowning incidents that occurred in Augusta and in Coffee County.
Melissa Cummings with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources says there was a substantial drop in incidents reported this year compared to last.
"Almost by half, and injuries that were sustained were for the most part relatively minor", said Cummings.
The reason for that she says, is that Georgia DNR had an increased presence on the water and on land as well.
Cummings said, "Not as a sign as we are coming to destroy anybody's fun, but to let them know that we are out there making sure everyone is safe and that they can have a great time while out there."
With the newest boating laws that went into effect recently, she says that led to more Boating under the Influence citations than in years past.
"We had actually an increase in the number of B.U.I.s that were given out this weekend, as compared to last year", said Cummings.
According to Cummings, there were a grand total of thirty-nine B.U.I. citations handed out this year, and all thirty-nine were issued out on Lake Lanier.


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November 14, 2013 12:45pm - 2:00pm
The Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights reflect the diversity of their constituent nation states. Judges in both courts hail from all over Europe, ranging from monarchies, century-old republics, to newly established democracies, and represent a variety of legal families. Individual judges bring their own vocational experiences, and only a few share the same mother tongue.
Despite these differences, both courts have established its own distinct legal culture that is different to the national legal cultures of the member states. Judges, once on board these supranational benches, are absorbed into that legal culture.
If we go a step further and recall that EU Commission President Barroso spoke of a 'European Human Rights Culture', do we find this distinct culture at these courts?
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text: QSpace Community: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/810 2015-08-05T12:31:52Z 2015-08-05T12:31:52Z RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR AND SCHOOL INJURY IN CANADIAN ADOLESCENTS KWONG, JONATHAN LOK-MING http://hdl.handle.net/1974/13394 2015-07-09T05:18:25Z 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Title: RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR AND SCHOOL INJURY IN CANADIAN ADOLESCENTS Authors: KWONG, JONATHAN LOK-MING Abstract: Background: Adolescent school injuries are common and often result in serious consequences. Problem risk behaviours are known causes of injury and interventions have targeted these independent behaviours with modest success in the past. Although there is some research investigating relationships between risk behaviours, none have empirically evaluated measures of multiple risk behaviour using a theoretical framework of adolescent risk-taking. There is a need for research to utilize population health theory to investigate associations between measures of multiple risk behaviour and school injury. Objectives: The objectives of this thesis are to: 1) investigate the relationships between risk behaviours among a sample of Canadian adolescents using a framework of adolescent risk-taking, and 2) to evaluate adolescent risk behaviours and school climate as independent, and perhaps interactive, determinants of school injury under the Population Health Framework. Methods: Both objectives utilized an interim dataset from the 2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study. Objective 1. Factor-analytically derived (and validated) scales of multiple risk behaviours were used to describe relationships between these behaviours. Objective 2. Students reported their experiences with different types of school injury. Relationships between multiple risk behaviour and school injuries were assessed. The influence of school climate on that relationship was also evaluated. Results: Objective 1. Adolescent risk behaviours appear to cluster into three distinct categories: 1) Overt Risk-Taking, 2) Active Healthy Lifestyle Detriment, and 3) Passive Healthy Lifestyle Detriment. Objective 2. Young, overt-risk takers were identified as a specific high-risk group for general school injuries, as well as several sub-types of school injury. School climate influences relationships between risk behaviour and school injury in complex and context-specific ways. The inconsistency of its effects suggests that it is not an effect modifier. Conclusions: Objective 1. Currently, surveillance, intervention programs, and research target isolated domains of risk behaviour. This thesis shows that risk behaviours cluster in predictable ways and should be studied and addressed in their related groups. Objective 2. Associations between multiple risk behaviour and school injury appear to be strongest among younger students. Effects of school climate on these relationships cannot be easily generalized across different grades or injury types. Description: Thesis (Master, Community Health & Epidemiology) -- Queen's University, 2015-07-06 10:22:18.619 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z COMPARING THE RESPONSIVENESS OF TWO HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENTS IN A PHASE III RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL OF MEN WITH PROSTATE CANCER (NCIC CTG PR.3): THE EORTC QLQ-C30+3 WITH PR17 TRIAL SPECIFIC CHECKLIST VERSUS THE FACT-P Murray, YVONNE http://hdl.handle.net/1974/13027 2015-04-30T19:19:53Z 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Title: COMPARING THE RESPONSIVENESS OF TWO HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENTS IN A PHASE III RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL OF MEN WITH PROSTATE CANCER (NCIC CTG PR.3): THE EORTC QLQ-C30+3 WITH PR17 TRIAL SPECIFIC CHECKLIST VERSUS THE FACT-P Authors: Murray, YVONNE Abstract: Background: The EORTC QLQ-C30 and the FACT are two commonly used Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) instruments in cancer clinical trials, but there is limited data comparing them. The NCIC CTG PR.3 clinical trial compared Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) alone with ADT plus radiation therapy (ADT + RT) in prostate cancer patients. In a PR.3 sub-study, we conducted a comparison of the EORTC QLQ-C30+3 and prostate module (PR17) to FACT-P by employing a cluster randomization of 29 participating North American centers to HRQL instrument used on the PR.3 clinical trial. Purpose: To compare the responsiveness of two HRQL instruments to short-term radiation effects and long-term hormone effects in men treated for locally advanced prostate cancer on a clinical trial. Methods: 311 patients randomized to the PR.3 sub-study were included for analysis. HRQL was assessed at baseline, 6 monthly (for 2 years), then annually; compliance exceeded 85% to three years. The ability of each HRQL instrument to detect RT toxicity was determined by comparing mean change scores (ADT vs. ADT + RT arms) at 6 months by HRQL instrument (Wilcoxon rank-sum). The ability of each instrument to detect proportions changed (at 6 or 36 months) was determined by calculating proportions (clinically meaningful change defined as 10% change from baseline) then comparing between instrument groups (chi-square). Finally, we compared instruments on time to clinically meaningful worsening of HRQL using Kaplan-Meier survival curves/Cox regression. Results: The FACT-P detected significant between-treatment arm differences in urinary symptom change scores at 6 months. The EORTC QLQ-C30+3/PR17 detected significant between-treatment arm differences in diarrhea and bowel/rectum symptom changes at 6 months. For functional domains and fatigue, no significant between-instrument differences were observed in proportions of patients improved/stable and worsened at and up to 36 months. However, the FACT-P reported a faster rate of clinically meaningful HRQL decline for physical and role/functional domains. Conclusions: When randomly assigned to patients participating in a clinical trial, the FACT-P and EORTC QLQ-C30+3/PR17 instruments differed in responsiveness to changes in urinary and bowel symptoms attributable to radiotherapy. The FACT-P was more responsive to change in physical and role function over time. Description: Thesis (Master, Community Health & Epidemiology) -- Queen's University, 2015-04-30 14:29:23.85 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Acculturation and Health Experiences Among Young Immigrant Canadians Kukaswadia, Atif http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12944 2015-04-25T05:17:52Z 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Title: Acculturation and Health Experiences Among Young Immigrant Canadians Authors: Kukaswadia, Atif Abstract: This thesis investigates the measurement of acculturation, and the effects of acculturation on obesity, physical activity and sedentary behaviour, among Canadian youth. It consists of four manuscripts. The first manuscript developed a short, 16-item questionnaire that measures acculturation among youth in Canada; named the "Bicultural Youth Acculturation Questionnaire." The questionnaire was pilot tested on a sample of Canadian young people aged 18-25. The BYAQ demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach's alphas > .75), and convergent validity with immigrant generation. The second manuscript examined the relationship between immigrant generation and race/ethnic group on BMI, using data from the 2009/10 Canadian Health Behaviour in School Aged Children (HBSC) study. This study found that foreign-born youth had lower mean BMI percentiles than youth born in Canada, and this did not differ by time since immigration. Within the same ethnic group, foreign-born Arab/West Asian and East Indian/South Asian youth had lower BMIs than peers born in Canada. The third manuscript examined the relationship between time since immigration and ethnic group with physical activity using the Canadian HSBC study data. Youth who immigrated within the last 1-2 years were less likely to meet the physical activity guidelines of 7 days a week of at least 60 minutes of MVPA compared to peers born in Canada. Conversely, no differences were observed between youth who immigrated 6+ years previously and Canadian born peers. Finally, East and South-East Asian youth were less likely to meet the physical activity guidelines than Canadian host culture peers, regardless of time since immigration. The fourth manuscript examined the relationship between immigrant generation and ethnic group on screen time, and how screen time changed over two years of follow-up, using the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). Screen time increased in all groups over follow-up. The unique finding of this study was that 1st generation immigrants reported the largest increase in screen time. This increase was enough that the low levels of screen time observed among 1st generation immigrants at baseline was consistent with 3rd generation peers at follow up. Description: Thesis (Ph.D, Community Health & Epidemiology) -- Queen's University, 2015-04-20 18:14:06.99 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Mapping the risk of breast cancer to exposure from traffic-related air pollution using land-use regression in Vancouver, BC Kwon, Nicollette http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12769 2015-03-05T06:18:31Z 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Title: Mapping the risk of breast cancer to exposure from traffic-related air pollution using land-use regression in Vancouver, BC Authors: Kwon, Nicollette Abstract: An environmental role in breast cancer etiology has been suspected but evidence is still inconclusive. Traffic-related air pollution is a potentially modifiable risk factor that has been studied in the etiology of breast cancer. Two Canadian studies using similar methodology to this study have recently reported positive associations between exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a proxy for traffic-related air pollution, and breast cancer. This thesis used land-use regression to estimate NO2 exposure for 2,015 women recruited from Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) into a population-based case-control study conducted in 2005-2010. Cases were recruited from the BC Cancer Agency and controls from the Screening Mammography Program of BC. Cross-sectional and historical analyses were conducted using NO2 estimated at time of study entry and ten years prior to study entry, respectively. Logistic regression models were created to estimate the relationship between exposure to NO2 and breast cancer, adjusting for breast cancer risk factors and stratified by menopausal status. Sensitivity analyses were conducted, assessing potential biases introduced by screening mammography program attendance and immigrant status, among others. The analysis at study entry included 964 cases and 945 controls. No association between NO2 exposure (per 5 ppb increases) and risk of breast cancer was observed in the postmenopausal sample at study entry or at ten years prior to study entry. A consistent positive association in premenopausal women was observed at study entry (OR=1.17, 95% CI: 0.93, 1.48) and ten years prior to study entry (OR=1.18, 95% CI: 0.93, 1.49). The association between historical estimates of NO¬2 (per 5 ppb increases) and breast cancer was stronger in a sensitivity analysis excluding cases who had not attended screening mammography in the premenopausal sample (OR=1.20, 95% CI: 0.91, 1.59). This study adds to the growing literature on exposure to traffic-related air pollution and breast cancer incidence. The results provide some support for the hypothesis that increased exposure may be associated with breast cancer, particularly in premenopausal women, although bias may have been introduced due to the selection of controls from a screening mammography program and low response rates. Future research, especially using prospective cohort studies, is needed. Description: Thesis (Master, Community Health & Epidemiology) -- Queen's University, 2015-02-27 17:13:16.124 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z


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(A) There is hereby created in each city and in each general health district a health district licensing council, to be appointed by the entity that has responsibility for appointing the board of health in the health district. The members of the council shall consist of one representative of each business activity for which the board of health operates a licensing program. To be appointed and remain a member, an individual shall be a resident of the health district for which the council was created.
The appointing authority shall make initial appointments to the council not later than thirty days after November 21, 2001. Of the initial appointments to the council, one-third of the members, rounded to the nearest whole number, shall serve for a term ending three years after November 21, 2001; one-third, rounded to the nearest whole number, shall serve for a term ending four years after November 21, 2001; and the remaining members shall serve for a term ending five years after November 21, 2001. Thereafter, terms of office shall be five years, with each term ending on the same day of the same month as did the term that it succeeds.
Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Members may be reappointed.
Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office as a member for the remainder of that term. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first.
Members shall serve without compensation, except to the extent that serving on the council is part of their regular duties of employment.
(B) Each health district licensing council shall organize by selecting from among its members a chairperson, a secretary, and any other officers it considers necessary. Each council shall adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business.
Each council shall meet at least annually or at more frequent intervals if specified in its bylaws. In addition to the mandatory meetings, a council shall meet at the call of the chairperson or the request of a majority of the council members.
(C) Pursuant to sections 3709.03, 3709.05, and 3709.07 of the Revised Code, the health district licensing council shall appoint one of its members to serve as a member of the board of health. The council shall appoint one of its members to serve as an alternate board of health member if for any reason the original member is required to abstain from voting on a particular issue being considered by the board of health. While serving on behalf of the original member, the alternate member has the same powers and duties as the original member.
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Torri Allen
March 11, 2014
ATHENS, Ga. --- Recent Georgia soccer alums Torri Allen and Madeline Barker opened training camp with National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) squads on Monday, in hopes of landing a spot on their respective rosters. Allen is currently working out with the Western New York Flash, while Barker is in camp with the Washington Spirit.
"We are thrilled that both Torri and Maddy have been called in to their respective preseason camps," said Georgia soccer head coach Steve Holeman. "This is the next step in their goal of becoming pro, and they have worked extremely hard to get there. Many top-level players did not make it to this phase in the process, so they are in a select group. We know that their time spent at UGA has prepared them well, and we wish them the best as they compete with and against some of the top players in the world."
Allen was a four-year starter for Georgia on the back line, helping the Bulldogs to some of their best statistical marks defensively while chipping in on the offensive end as well. She finished her career as a three-time All-South Region selection and a two-time All-SEC performer, named to the league's second team in 2013 and to the All-Freshman Team in 2010.
Barker came on strong as a senior, turning in her best season in 2013 as she finished second on the team in goals with a career-high eight tallies. She also added three assists for 19 points. Barker earned a place on the TopDrawerSoccer.com midseason top-100 list and was named All-SEC by College Sports Madness. She concluded her Georgia career with 14 goals and eight assists for 36 points.
Georgia has had its share of players in the pro ranks, most recently goalkeepers Ashley Baker and Michelle Betos with Sky Blue FC and Portland Thorns, respectively.


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FORT WAYNE (AP) — Friday night storms that dumped up to six inches of rain on Fort Wayne swamped city streets and trapped some motorists in their cars, while swirling floodwaters closed the city's zoo for the day Saturday after staff moved hundreds of animals to higher ground.
Fort Wayne Fire Department Assistant Chief Jim Murua said his crews had to rescue people marooned in their cars by high waters.
He told an area newspaper the Red Cross also was helping residents evacuated from their flooded apartment.
COLUMBIA CITY — Whitley County Farm Bureau has funded a grant to the Whitley County Agricultural Museum and 4-H Learning Center for the purchase of a 55 inch Smart TV and components.
The television will be used in the Maple Syrup Learning Center.
Each year the museum selects new themes for the center floor display, and this year the themes will be maple syrup and wheat.
The television will allow visitors to view videos of the history of maple syrup from pioneer days until the present and also show the different methods of production during the same time period.
A car is stranded in deep water on County Road 200 North east of Lincolnway Saturday afternoon.
Many county roads suffered flooding after Friday night's storms.
SOUTH WHITLEY — "You're not at your grandpa's factory, but you're working on your grandpa's equipment," said David Parker, Whitko High School principal, in regards to the school's Industrial Technology program.
With emphasis on exposing high school students to career classes, tech and welding programs are in high demand at WHS, but equipment is falling farther and farther behind the curve.
Editor's note: Throughout the month of June, The Post & Mail will be featuring several public safety officials in a muli-part series.
COLUMBIA CITY — "I knew my life wouldn't be right until I was a firefighter."
Since he was 10 years old, Drew Jines knew what his career choice would be.
"I was hanging out at the fire station with my dad on his shift, and there was a structure fire. I got to go on the truck, and when we pulled up on the scene I saw the firefighter jump out, stretch the line (hose) to the door, and the next truck supplied us with water," Jines said.
COLUMBIA CITY — Storms and wet weather relocated Whitley County's Relay for Life event indoors, but that did not seem to dampen the spirits of those who came together to raise funds and awareness for the American Cancer Society (ACS).
"A great big thank you to everyone for coming out to support their community," said Tammy Gross, a committee member. "We appreciate their willingness to go with the flow when we moved inside after many had already set up their tents outside."
BLOOMINGTON — Five Whitley County athletes competed in the Indiana State Track Meet last weekend.
Three tracksters were named all-state — Samantha Roush, Katie Monk and Austin McClure placed in the top nine.
Columbia City's Roush, who has finished 10th for the last two seasons, came in fifth in the 1,600-meter run Saturday.
"Sam ran as perfect of a race as she could," Columbia City Head Track Coach Bob Fahl said. "She was really determined to get a medal."
Fahl said she was able to take an inside lane and stay in the front of the pack througout the race.
PIERCETON — A project hearing has been set for Whitko Community School Corporation that will begin the process of two major construction endeavors for the district.
Discussion will continue on building a new Pierceton Elementary School and remodeling the existing South Whitley Elementary School at a meeting set for June 17 at 6:30 p.m.
At the May school board meeting, members heard from Superintendent Steve Clason on a proposed building project.
SOUTH WHITLEY — Efforts are being made to pave a 1,600-foot long recreational path in South Whitley.
The Friends of the Eel River Trail experienced success after constructing the Columbia City Trailhead in 2010, located along the Blue River Trail on Whitley Street.
Now the nonprofit is working to establish a trail in South Whitley that will revitalize a retired train trestle off of Calhoun Street.
Further developments are being discussed to connect the trail with one within the town limits that is a current project of Whitley On The Move.
SOUTH WHITLEY — Red and blue gowns adorned Whitko High School seniors as they paraded into WHS's gymnasium for its commencement ceremony last night.
The Class of 2013 graduated 122 students and Superintendent Steve Clason described the group as the "best achieving class in Whitko's history."
Valedictorian Holly Frantz recounted the comical occurrences during the four years spent at Whitko. Practical jokes, pranks and good memories were relived.


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Bethlehem, Pa., August 28, 2014—Moravian College will host a new Farm Fresh Market every Friday during the academic semester, providing campus and community members access to fresh, largely organic, produce and healthy food choices. The Moravian College Farm Fresh Market, which will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Priscilla Payne Hurd Academic Complex (PPHAC) patio on the College's Main Street Campus, will kick off its grand opening with an 11 a.m. ribbon cutting by President Bryon L. Grigsby '90.
Sandra Aguilar, assistant professor of history and co-organizer of the Farm Fresh Market, envisions the market being more than just a produce stand, but an educational experience for students, faculty and staff, as well as the general community.
"I see the market being a warm and welcoming place where people can find fresh produce and delicious food and, at the same time, a place where you can learn about the environment, about student life and about organizations working on topics like sustainability," said Aguilar. "This will be a little different from a traditional farmers market because we are also going to focus on education and engaging students, who are the future consumers of fresh, organic and local produce."
Aguilar, along with Daniel Leiber, SODEXO's on-campus sustainability chef, and Sabrina Terrizzi, assistant professor of economics and business, have spearheaded the Farm Fresh Market initiative. In addition to his culinary background, Leiber offered his expertise in farming. He and his family run a small farm, complete with 40 chickens, 10 hogs and three goats, and produce much of what he consumes.
Likewise, Aguilar has a considerable background in food and eating habits. In fact, the historian's field of research is food, specifically food consumed in the middle of the 20th century in Mexico.
Since Aguilar and Leiber's initial conversation about the market last spring, the duo have focused on involving the campus community, not only as consumers, but partners in the Farm Fresh Market. "The idea has always been to involve the faculty and students through their academic curriculum," Aguilar said, noting the importance of understanding agriculture, sustainability and healthy living.
"I am trying to engage faculty in thinking about ways to work with their students and use the market as an experience for them to learn outside the classroom," she explained.
One student, Michele Inamagua '15, has already played a large role organizing the market. A management major with a concentration in marketing, Inamagua served as an intern this summer with Leiber, creating a 32-page business plan for the Farm Fresh Market. During the two-month internship, she visited local farmer's markets, interviewed farmers, and developed a SWOT analysis, listing the market's strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
"I found out there is a raising popularity of farmers markets because people are seeking fresher produce," Inamagua said. "People are becoming more aware of what they are eating." From her analysis, she also determined that college campuses often have a greater desire for fresh produce and a better understanding of its benefits.
In addition to campus members, market visitors will also have a chance to be educated on sustainable agriculture through "Food Talks" lectures with local farmers the first Friday of each month. Leiber will also lead cooking demos using local ingredients. Demos will include recipe cards with the names of the farms used. In addition to providing whole produce, there will be prepared food items and convenience items, such as diced butternut squash and complete ingredient soup packages.
The market's produce will be provided by Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative, based in Lancaster. While not technically local produce to the Lehigh Valley, Leiber pointed out that approximately 90% of their food is organic, and "Lancaster is better than California, Texas or Florida."
Leiber aspires to make the market easily visible to the community, inviting several on-campus and Bethlehem organizations to perform and present, including the Moravian College cheerleaders, marching band and theatre department, as well as the Bethlehem Mounted Patrol.
A portion of the proceeds from the market will fund a student-run educational project geared toward sustainability, environmental and current health issues. Project applications will be submitted during the fall semester, with a winner being named at the beginning of the spring semester.
There is a real momentum on campus for a market such as this, Leiber explained, noting the success of SODEXO's sustainable table in the College's dining room. This live station focuses on serving local food, with all items made from scratch.
"I have a passion for this, and bringing real food to as many people as I can is what I want to do," Leiber said. "The momentum is building, and more people are aware of the local food movement. More people are concerned about what we are putting in our bodies. It just makes sense for Moravian College to have a market of its own."
"Everything has some type of connection to food," Aguilar said. "And we hope this market reinforces the link between the College and the community."
Students will be able to use Moravian Dining Dollars M-Flex, and/or cash to purchase from the market. It is cash only to the community.
Moravian College is a private coeducational liberal arts college, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, that is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to 1742, Moravian is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college and the first to educate women. The College emphasizes the deliberate integration of a broad-based liberal arts curriculum with hands-on learning experiences to prepare its 1,600 students, not just for jobs, but for successful careers. Moravian College excels at transforming good students into highly competent graduates who are ready to enter the workplace with confidence or shine in graduate school. Visit the Web site at www.moravian.edu.


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Winning the peace : remaking US defense policy after the Cold War
The impact of the end of the Cold War on United States foreign and defense policy in the 1990s is frequently misunderstood within the field of International Relations. On the one hand, it is often assumed that the US was
The impact of the end of the Cold War on United States foreign and defense policy in the 1990s is frequently misunderstood within the field of International Relations. On the one hand, it is often assumed that the US was able to achieve a substantial 'peace dividend' after finally claiming victory over the Soviet Union. Yet it is also common for scholars to see the early potential for a more peaceful international order after the cessation of Cold War hostilities as having been frustrated by a series of unexpected events during the 1990s. On the other hand, scholars who focus on understanding contemporary developments and the prosecution of US foreign and defense policy in the Global War on Terror often restrict their analysis to the unfolding of recent events, rather than critically investigating the roots of contemporary US defense policy, which lie in the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in 1989. This thesis puts forward the notion that the contemporary parameters of US security policy can only be fully understood when they are placed within a broader analytical narrative that incorporates the politics of US defense policymaking during the late-1980s, as well as the decade following the end of the Cold War. In doing so, it suggests two key factors not sufficiently highlighted in the existing literature. The first is that analyzing how US 'defense coalitions' are formed, which conditions facilitate their influence on the defense policy agenda, and what the consequences of this are for US security strategy is crucial to understanding the intense political struggles that inform US threat perception, strategic planning, and the development of major weapons systems. Building on earlier theories of the Military-Industrial Complex, the concept of defense coalitions establishes greater analytical leverage for providing a compelling account of the dynamics of change and continuity in US defense policy during the 1990s. The second factor is the importance of studying the use of rhetorical action, which is aimed at the construction of an overarching security narrative, for understanding how political entrepreneurs within the US defense policy community have sought to shape the post-Cold War defense policy agenda. In sum, the thesis argues that political elites who were committed to the maintenance of a high volume of US defense spending in 'peacetime' were able to shape how external events were interpreted within the defense policy community, in order to construct a new overarching security narrative that helped to legitimize their policy goals.…
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