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Since 1 January 2011, Australia has one national law for fair trading and consumer protection—the Australian Consumer Law. This means that Australian consumers and businesses have the same rights and obligations wherever they are in Australia.
The Australian Consumer Law fulfils key reforms in the Council of Australian Government's National Partnership Agreement to Deliver a Seamless National Economy, and will help to reduce regulatory complexity and duplication for businesses and consumers.
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The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) commenced on 1 January 2011 as the national consumer law which applies in all states and territories, and replaced consumer protection provisions in at least 20 different Commonwealth, state and territory laws.
The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is a single, national consumer law. The ACL will replace provisions in 20 national, State and Territory consumer laws.
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- a national law for unsolicited consumer agreements covering door-to-door sales and telephone sales;
- simple national rules for lay-by agreements; and
- new penalties, enforcement powers and consumer redress.
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The ACL applies nationally and in all States and Territories, and to all Australian businesses.
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The ACL replaced 20 different State, Territory and Commonwealth laws with one law.
- Previously the law that applied to a consumer transaction differed across each State and Territory of Australia.
- The ACL now makes it easier for consumers to understand and enforce their rights because they will be the same across Australia.
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- The ACL is simpler and clearer than the equivalent provisions of the former Trade Practices Act and the earlier State and Territory Fair Trading Acts.
- Complex legal terms have been replaced with terms that consumers can understand.
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Consumers will benefit from better enforcement of the ACL.
- A single law is being uniformly enforced across Australia. A memorandum of understanding between regulators ensures this is the case.
- Similar enforcement powers are available to all regulators.
- Courts and tribunals across Australia will apply the same law to consumer disputes, allowing for clearer avenues of redress and greater consistency in outcomes irrespective of where the dispute occurs or where the court or tribunal is located.
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Businesses will benefit from one law applying to consumer transactions across Australia.
- Businesses that trade in more than one State or Territory only have to comply with one law.
- Regulatory complexity is often a deterrent for businesses when they consider expanding. The ACL removes a barrier to interstate expansion of businesses.
Easy to understand
The ACL provides businesses with a law that is easy to understand.
- Updated terminology, when compared to the archaic provisions in previous laws, is more easily understood by businesses.
- A law that is easy to understand will result in fewer disputes, as businesses and consumers can have a common understanding of the ACL.
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- Even when State and Territory laws are similar, differences in enforcement approaches can lead to additional compliance costs for businesses.
- Improved co-operation between regulators in applying the ACL gives businesses comfort that the law is being applied consistently across Australia.
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- Previous laws imposed different obligations on businesses depending on where in Australia a business or a particular part of a business is located or where a transaction took place.
- The ACL imposes the same obligations on businesses across Australia, making compliance easier for businesses who trade in more than one jurisdiction.


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You may be wondering whether the recent spate of blogging about science in popular media and peer review (by the way, you should definitely read Janet's two posts on these issues) has any connection to my talk next month at the Science in the 21st Century workshop. Yes, yes it does– I figure that I'm going to be getting so little sleep in the next few weeks that I need as much of a head start as I can manage. Of course, this also means that I will continue to go on and on about this topic for a little while yet…
The thing that I think is most critical here is to recognize that the poor handling of science in our general culture has consequences that go far beyond silly lifestyle articles that piss scientists off. And these consequences are as much the fault of scientists and science supporters as religious leaders and ignorant politicians. When Thony C. writes:
The scientific community is a closed shop that exercises the right to determine membership of the community and also to determine the content of that which we call science.
It's hard for me not to see that as the first step toward the outlawing of chemistry sets. After all, Science is only for professional scientists, and we can't have kids or civilians fooling around with chemicals, now, can we?
But the bigger problem is, as always, money. And as I've written before, I think that the funding problems facing science today are due in part to a failure on the part of the modern scientific community to take our work to the general public. This shows up both in the actual amount of funding, and also in the funding instability that Jake Young rightly notes is a major problem.
Basically what happened when NIH funding doubled between 1998 and 2003 was that academic institutions went hog wild to gobble up as much of the new funding as possible. They expanded their graduate programs, hired new professors, and invested in new buildings. That is all fine and good, but when funding stopped growing as fast it resulted in something like a market bubble in academic scientists. New professors were much less likely to get new grants — putting themselves in funding trouble, and newly minted graduates students were unable to get new postdocs. The problem is especially acute because the training scientists is such a long process. Individuals starting at the beginning with a reasonable expectation of academic jobs are hurt when much less of those jobs are present than were at the start of their training. Considering the length of the process, it may be unreasonable to expect new students to incorporate this uncertainty into their decision about entering graduate school. No one can predict 20 years in the future.
(Actually, Jake's getting that from an editorial in Science, but the people at Science don't see fit to make their editorials freely available, so I can't link to it.)
You see the same dynamic in other fields as well– the "America COMPETES act" is, like the Clinton-era doubling on NIH's budget, a response to a perceived crisis in physical science funding, which was allowed to slip while they were working on doubling the NIH budget. Even if it gets fully funded, we can probably expect that funding to lapse again a few years down the road, when the issue is no longer front and center.
The problem here is that there is no broad and consistent constituency for science in this country. Everybody's generally in favor of the idea, but hardly anyone (other than professional scientists) sees it as a core priority, so science funding tends to float on the whims of politicians. When somebody identifies a funding crisis, they'll shuffle some money our way, and when the crisis has passed, or times get tough, science funding goes on the chopping block, because it doesn't upset that many people.
This is partly because (contrary to the impression you may get from ScienceBlogs), scientists are generally pretty apolitical. They mostly just keep their heads down and do science, and don't organize big rallies or fund large lobbying efforts on a consistent basis. When funding gets cut, the various professional societies will put together some frantic letter-writing campaigns, and may even win some short-term relief, but it's not the strong, sustained effort needed to get stable funding.
But more than that, the problem is that there's no large public consitutency supporting science funding, because we do a miserable job of communicating the importance of science to the public. People are generally in favor of science, but they lack a good understanding of how it all fits together, and why it's important to spend money on basic research. This happens because professional scientists do an absolutely miserable job of communicating science to the public.
It's hard to blame them, though– the whole modern system of research science is set up to reward only high-level technical publications for a narrow audience. You don't get tenure by writing great layman-level explanations for Scientific American, you get tenure by writing papers in specialized technical journals. Writing for a non-academic audience may even be held as a negative factor when it comes time for tenure and promotion reviews. Public communication is for journalists who washed out of Ph.D. programs, or distinguished elder scientists who have lost their edge.
Put this together with the all-too common attitude reflected in remarks like Thony C.'s, that science is by and for scientists, and insignificant journalists should keep out of our "closed shop," and it's no wonder that science doesn't have the strong political support it needs. Not only are the results mysterious, confusing, and badly presented, but the researchers themselves come off as arrogant assholes who think they're better than everybody else.
If we want to improve the status of science in our society and the funding for science in our labs, that attitude and those practices need to change. As a community, we need to start recognizing the important work done by people who write for a general audience, and reward their efforts. We need to encourage a wider range of people to take in interest in science not necessarily as a career but as an approach to understanding the world, and get them to see how it all fits together.
The opportunity is there– look at the success of things like the World Science Festival in New York, the science cafe phenomenon, or the popularity of science-y shows like Mythbusters. There's an audience out there for this stuff, if we're willing to provide it, and encourage the people who can do a good job with it.
But it's not going to happen while people in the scientific community continue to sneer at journalists and other non-scientists as unworthy.

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Dionne Custer Edwards is a writer, artist-educator, and our educator for school programs. Among many school programs, she runs the Wexner Center's Pages, a year-long art and literacy program. With the ninth year of the program coming to a close, she, along with participating students and teachers, reflects on the year.
Pages has brought our English class together in a new, creative way, and it taught me how to be open to new styles of learning and expressing my thoughts.—Molly S. (Rutherford B. Hayes High School student)
Pages allowed me to see a side of my students that I never would have seen without the program. They became creative, lively, and engaged about language and art and material that never interested them before. I saw a new side of them because they discovered a new side to learning. It was an amazing experience.—Mandy Bruney (Pickerington Central High School teacher)
Through Pages, I have grown not only as a student but also as a person. The impactful and mind-opening experiences I've had will stay with me forever.—David A. (Rutherford B. Hayes High School student)
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It [Pages open mic and reception] was an occasion to remember—the courage our young people displayed in telling their stories speaks volumes about Pages as a source of empowerment.—Aaron Sherman (Arts and College Preparatory Academy teacher)
Pages is a sanctuary for writers and artists.—Trajan M. (Franklin Heights High School student)
As we conclude this year's Pages program, we watch readers swept away by the release of the latest edition of the Pages anthology, a collection of youth voices featuring participants from the 2014–15 program year. The book, which you can find in digital form here, serves as a celebration of our work this year, a glimpse into where students were willing to take their writing and their art. It is evident while flipping through this beautifully-bound anthology, a pale blue, landscape frame with a cloth-covered spine, the influence of the year's experiences on these students' writing and art-making, their thinking and dreaming.
Over the course of the year, 200 students from eight different Central Ohio schools participated in a series of classroom visits and field trips to the Wexner Center, led by a collaboration of Wexner Center educators, classroom teachers, and local artists. At the beginning of the year, we simply ask participants to keep an open mind as we might encounter art that is provocative, sophisticated, or unusual. From resistance and protest, to energy and power, to globalization, Pages students encountered and grappled with complex themes and ideas through media arts, Forbidden Voices (2012); performing arts, Mitch Epstein and Erik Friedlander's American Power; and visual arts, Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars Experimental Volume I and Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present. Students, with their curious glances, smiles, engaging questions, and a willingness to try on contemporary art, surprised us again and again with their flexibility and energy, a willingness to play and think critically and creatively. They overcame the uneasiness of the unfamiliar, the complicated, the complex, generously sharing their voice. Our Pages teachers and students were a thoughtful bunch, with the stamina to pen essays and narratives on freedom and inclusivity, poems on identity and revelation, and artwork of multiple themes and media: stained, stitched, and stated.
We wrapped up the year with one of the final events: the open mic and reception, a debut of the writings and artwork of our Pages youths at the Columbus Metropolitan Library's brand new Whitehall Branch. The open mic, hosted by the brilliant Kim Brazwell, stirred up the audience with writing on grace, reflection, humor, and tears, where throughout that room, the words of these young writers carried the tone of the evening and the spirit of this program. As local writer and poet Joy Sullivan put it, "Their voices really mattered."
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Ramit at I Will Teach You to Be Rich has announced his Save $1,000 in 30 Days Challenge. During the month of November, he's urging people to get off the couch and actually take steps to reduce their spending. Here's what he writes:
Right now, people don't care about proper asset allocation or understanding average stock market returns. The people I've talked to want to know how to save money right now. [...]
Each day in November, I'll post one suggestion to cut your spending. If you spend time each day working on the day's post, the vast majority of you will save over $1,000 each month. Even if you don't, saving $700 is sure better than nothing. I'll post tips for the first 15 days. For the last 15 days, I'll turn to I Will Teach You To Be Rich readers to submit your best frugality tips.
Check out this video introducing the Challenge.
This is an unusual move for Ramit. I Will Teach You to Be Rich — which is a great site — isn't a frugality blog. In fact, Ramit's an outspoken opponent of what he calls "stupid frugality tips" (e.g. use two tablespoons of cocoa powder instead of three). His site usually focuses more on boosting earning potential than cutting costs.
But in this sort of economy, every little bit helps. The "Save $1,000 in 30 Days Challenge" is a great way to stop thinking about frugality and to begin practicing it.
Note: The first tip in the challenge is to pack lunches for the rest of the week. The second tip is to turn your thermostat down three degrees.
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Hey there, I'm new. I've only been on a few backpacking trips (all of them were through the Sierras and 70 miles and under at a time). Anyway, I'm sort of planning my first trip "on my own" with just a (lesser experienced) friend and I.Basically, we ran into each other at Starbucks and decided we really want to get a trip in soon. I told her I absolutely LOVE Rae Lakes, but the only time I was there, I feel like I just didn't get to stop and take it all in. And since she's never been on the JMT, it was settled. The Rae Lakes Loop would be a perfect trip for us. I have most of my ultra-lightweight gear (thanks to my ex-boyfriend my base pack weight was a mere 5 or 6 pounds for a 60-something mile trip from Bishop Pass to Onion Valley) except a stove and shelter (I'm open to suggestions). The only questions left are... Is October an "OK" time of year? What adjustments should I make because of the time of year? What's the weather like? Uhm.... any other ideas/suggestions?
if you want to go to Rae Lakes you can cover the distance to get there by going over Kearsarge Pass. I would really watch the weather reports because October is the beginning of storms coming in from the Pacific. If you have clear weather then you should be fine. If it snows you could be in trouble. Have fun!!
Hey check out or do research on Tehipite Valley out of Rancheria trailhead off hwy 168 -Wishon Reservoir. A part of Kings canyon that is hardly ever explored....Very, very remote. Epic!
Rae Lakes would be a fine October trip, but you should be going in a little heavier than 5-6 #, IMO, i.e. more clothing and possibly a heavier sleeping bag, maybe even a tent(I suspect you are using a tarp if your base weight is 5-6#). Also, plan for an exit route that will get you lower in a hurry if the weather goes foul on you, e,g. down into Kings Canyon if you came in over Kearsarge Pass. Also carry extra food and fuel, in case you have to wait out a storm. Best of luck.
Just did the Rae Lakes Loop last weekend. Met very few hikers on the trail, and I counted perhaps a total of seven people camping around the Rae Lakes. Quite a change from the mid-summer crunch. Above 10,000 ft the nighttime temps went down to around 40 degrees.Also, you know that as of Sept. 21 the quota system ended in Kings Canyon so you can self-permit at Road's End (never did see a ranger the whole weekend), and you can check the weather forecast via the park's website.
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A straight up no-nonsense revenge-fueled action flick, Dead Man Down is a very entertaining movie with lots of great action and a strong story.
Dead Man Down is the first American film made by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), and he handles the material very well. He brings the action right out of the gate and helps fill in the plot along the way while never letting the film get bogged down. This has been marketed as a Neo-Noir Thriller, and while the storyline is capable, it doesn't rise to that level. This film is much more Commando than LA Confidential. A straight up action flick where the storyline accents the action and not the other way around.
The storyline is pretty simple. Victor (Colin Farrell) has infiltrated a criminal group led by Alphonse (Terrence Howard) who inadvertently killed Victor's daughter. Beatrice (Noomi Rapace) discovers his secret and blackmails Victor to perform some revenge for her as well, taking out the drunk driver who only got a light slap on the wrist after disfiguring her face in a gruesome accident.
The acting here is all very good. After In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths (I have not seen the Total Recall remake, but perhaps it's better that I haven't), it is clear that Colin Farrell is an excellent action star. Noomi Rapace continues her introduction to American audiences, and I really liked her here as damaged woman who feels her life was taken from her. Also good here is Terrence Howard, and it is nice to see him in, well, anything lately. Always a top notch actor, he is very capable as the villain here.
As for the storyline, I think a distinction needs to be made here. had this actually tried to be a Neo-Noir thriller, then the plot does not rise to the task at all. But that is simply the marketing. This film does not try to be anything other than a badass action movie…and for an action movie the plot is more than adequate.
The true star of the movie though is the action. Oplev does a great job here directing the action. The film reminds me a lot of last year's Jack Reacher as just a badass action movie that doesn't have you pulling your hair out when it slows down to tell the story. The shootout scenes here are all excellently shot and have several "holy shit" moments where you will not want to blink.
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Don't get confused by many of the poor reviews. A lot of critics were disappointed Oplev didn't do another thriller after The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and the marketing led them to believe it was supposed to be. However This is an action movie for people that love action movies. If you just want a competent story to give you multiple shoot out action set pieces, then this film will serve you very well.


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Dietary Guidelines: Scientific Evidence for Nina Teicholz
September 29, 2015 Dr. Neal Barnard ,
Take note, Nina Teicholz: A new Harvard School of Public Health study in the Journal of American College of Cardiology again confirms that saturated fat—found mostly in meat and dairy products—increases heart disease risk. The study also finds that replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils, nuts, seeds, and whole grains reduces the risk of heart disease.
But if Teicholz gets her way, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans will soon recommend that Americans start gorging on butter, meat, and cheese. And despite what she says in her recent BMJ commentary, that means more obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
Teicholz—who wrote The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet—makes the assertion that the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) makes recommendations based on limited evidence. So when Congress holds its hearing on the guidelines on Oct. 7, I have some additional scientific evidence for consideration.
Take red meat, for example. Teicholz says that "to support the idea that red meat harms health, the committee repeatedly cites one large randomized trial conducted in Spain." That's easy to remedy. There are many more studies showing that red meat causes harm.
A meta-analysis of nine studies with a combined 1,330,352 participants that was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that consumption of red and processed meat products is associated with increased risk of early death from all causes. A Harvard School of Public Health study that followed 121,342 individuals followed for up to 28 years came to the same conclusion.
On the health benefits of fruits and vegetables, Teicholz says that of the "eight reviews on fruits and vegetables, none found strong (grade 1) evidence to support the assertion that these foods can provide health benefits." Well, there are dozens of studies proving the lifesaving benefits of fruits and vegetables.
In a meta-analysis published in BMJ, researchers analyzed 16 separate studies, including one with 833,234 participants, and found that each serving of fruit and vegetables decreased the risk of dying. Another study with 65,226 participants found that those who consumed seven or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day saw a 42 percent decreased risk of death due to any cause, compared with those who consumed the least amount.
What about low-carbohydrate diets? Teicholz notes that "another important topic that was insufficiently reviewed is the efficacy of low carbohydrate diets." More importantly, the DGAC didn't do enough to warn of the dangers of low-carbohydrate diets.
A 2014 study published by the American Heart Association found that a low-carbohydrate diet high in animal products is associated with an increased risk for dying for people with heart disease. A study published in BMJ that tracked the diets of nearly 44,000 Swedish women for 16 years found that a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet boosts risk of heart disease.
The DGAC could also do more to show the benefits of carbohydrates. A recent Harvard study found that more whole-grain intake was associated with lower death rates and that every whole-grain serving was associated with a 5 percent lower risk for death in general and a 9 percent lower risk for death from heart disease. Reducing dietary fat while increasing carbohydrate intake is also good for type 2 diabetes.
Teicholz concludes by calling for "an unbiased and balanced panel of scientists to undertake a comprehensive review, in order to ensure that selection of the dietary guidelines committee becomes more transparent, with better disclosure of the conflicts of interest, and that the most rigorous scientific evidence is reliably used to produce the best possible nutrition policy."
Here's my plan: When the House Agriculture Committee convenes its Oct. 7 hearing on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, it needs to make sure there are no conflicts of interest from the Cattlemen's Beef Board, the American Egg Board, the National Pork Board, and other meat- and dairy-product industry groups that want to profit from recommendations that will keep America's health in ruins.
Pope Francis: Tell Congress Meat and Dairy Causes Climate Change
September 22, 2015 Dr. Neal Barnard ,
Meat and dairy products are a major cause of climate change and a topic Pope Francis must address when he speaks before Congress this Thursday. Members of the House Committee on Agriculture should pay special attention as they ready for hearings on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which could help fight climate change.
Earlier this year, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recommended a shift away from animal products toward plant-based diets for sustainability. The committee stated that "a dietary pattern that is higher in plant-based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal-based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (GHG emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet."
Leaders across the globe are making the same recommendation. The United Nations says that "animal products, both meat and dairy, in general require more resources and cause higher emissions than plant-based alternatives." And the World Health Organization notes that "cutting back on red meat production reduces the nitrous oxide released into the atmosphere by fertilizers and animal manure. Nitrous oxide is … the most important … contributor to stratospheric ozone destruction. Reducing livestock herds would also reduce emissions of methane, which is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide."
But moving toward a plant-based diet won't only save the planet and animal lives. It's good for human health, too. Heart disease and stroke are the leading killers worldwide. Meat and dairy product consumption increases the risk of both, while plant-based diets can prevent and reverse these deadly epidemics.
The pope has said that "reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility." It's a message I hope Congress and the meat and dairy product industry take to heart this Thursday.
World Alzheimer's Day Sept. 21: Advance Research Without Animals
September 17, 2015 Dr. Neal Barnard , alzheimer's disease, alzheimer's research
Since 99.6 percent of Alzheimer's drugs that test successfully in animals fail in humans, many researchers are turning toward promising new human-based technologies. In advance of World Alzheimer's Day on Sept. 21, I'm sharing Alzheimer's Research Without Animals from the Physicians Committee's upcoming issue of Good Medicine. To get your own copy of Good Medicine in the mail, simply join the Physicians Committee with a membership gift of $20.
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Here's my editorial from the issue:
As American soldiers returned from the war in 1945, obstetrics clinics got ready for the Baby Boom. And 70 years later, geriatric clinics are doing the same. Over the next 10 years, half of the surviving Baby Boomers will develop Alzheimer's disease.
The looming crisis turns out to be a bonanza for researchers who are busy breeding mice and other animals with brain disorders that are intended to simulate Alzheimer's, seeking to turn up a marketable drug. Federal grants for Alzheimer's research are an estimated $566 million and have risen dramatically due to special government funding in recent years.
From an animal welfare standpoint, the situation could hardly be worse. To produce animals with genetic peculiarities, biological suppliers breed them by the thousands, and those who do not match up to the expected genetic profile are simply discarded. Those who survive to begin experiments have a far worse fate, before they too are finally killed.
From a human standpoint, the situation is similarly bleak. Of more than three dozen drugs tested in humans after appearing promising in animals, not a single one has been an effective treatment. Of the few medications that are used to treat Alzheimer's, none actually changes the course of the disease.
The failure of animal experiments has necessitated a turning point in Alzheimer's research. New methods are focusing not on mice, rats, or monkeys, but on human neurons, human genes, and chemical reactions within the human body. At Harvard University, the "Alzheimer's-in-a-dish" technology should allow scientists to test new drugs much faster and more accurately than was possible with animals.
Perhaps the most exciting new research is zeroing in on diet and lifestyle. Just as, a generation ago, large population studies identified risk factors for heart disease—cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking, and obesity, among others—all of which were then confirmed in randomized clinical trials, the same risk-factor pathway is bearing fruit in Alzheimer's. The Chicago Health and Aging Project showed that saturated and trans fats ("bad" fats) and excess copper intake are linked to greatly increased risk, while other parts of the diet, notably vitamin E, reduce risk. Other researchers have shown how physical exercise can reverse the shrinkage of the brain's memory centers and combat cognitive decline.
The shift in research from mice to humans, and from an overemphasis on drugs to studies on prevention, will not only mean that millions of animals can breathe a sigh of relief. It will mean that the generation now reaching older age will have power against Alzheimer's.
Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally
September 11, 2015 Dr. Neal Barnard , Blood Pressure, hypertenstions, how to lower blood pressure
Lowering your blood pressure below current guidelines may save your life. Maintaining a systolic blood pressure of 120 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg)—instead of the current guidelines for 140 mm Hg—could reduce risk of heart attack and cardiovascular death, according to study results released today from the National Institutes of Health's Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT). It's what the Physicians Committee already recommends in our Eight Ways to Naturally Lower Blood Pressure report.
In the NIH study of people 50 years or older, blood pressure medication was used to achieve a target systolic pressure of 120 mm Hg. That reduced rates of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and heart failure, as well as stroke, by almost a third and the risk of death by almost a quarter, as compared to the target systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg.
Of course, you'll want to talk to your physician about the best way to reach your ideal blood pressure. But remember that medications aren't the only route to lower blood pressure. You can start lowering your blood pressure today with these Eight Ways to Naturally Lower Blood Pressure. Then make sure to share the tips with your doctor at your next visit.
Jazz Tofu
September 8, 2015 Dr. Neal Barnard , soy, Cancer, isoflavones
On Saturday night, I was at Washington's Blues Alley to hear Chris Thomas King. In the great tradition of blues singers and guitarists with the same surname, CT is one of the best.
Blues Alley's menu features dishes named for jazz greats: Dizzy Gillespie's chicken, ham, and sausage jambalaya, Joe Williams' stuffed pork chops, Maynard Ferguson's Cajun chicken, and Sarah Vaughn's filet mignon.
I ordered Ahmad Jamal's signature vegetarian Creole rice, made with sautéed Cajun-spiced tofu, onions, celery, carrots, red peppers, and asparagus with Creole seasoning, served over rice.
"Are you sure want it?" the server asked. "It's tofu."
I asked what she meant. "It's made from soybeans," she said, and she went on to explain that soybeans are processed.
"Have you seen how they process chickens?" I asked gently. The conversation drifted from "tofu is weird" to the oft-repeated myth that "soybeans have estrogens that can cause cancer." Whether the myth has been kept alive by the dairy industry or simply by Web trolls, it has been remarkably persistent. And in case your friends—or restaurant server—have subscribed to the same misimpression, let's have a quick review.
First of all, tofu is not weird. It is a centuries-old Asian traditional food. Straight out of the package, it has loads of protein, but essentially no taste—the vegan equivalent of egg white. But marinated, grilled, baked, or added to stir-fries, it is delicious and quickly becomes a favorite.
Many years ago, researchers found that soybeans—like many plants—contain natural isoflavones, whose chemical structure is somewhat similar to human steroid hormones, like testosterone or estrogens, leading some to speculate that soy products might have hormonal effects—increasing cancer risk in women, for example.
Over the years, these biological issues have been studied in detail. And in 2008, eight prior studies conducted in Asians and Asian Americans were combined in a meta-analysis.1 The populations were selected because they have a very wide range of soy intake, from almost none to very high. It turned out that, instead of soy products causing cancer, they appeared to help prevent it. Women with the highest soy intake—including soy milk, tofu, and similar products—had 29 percent less risk of breast cancer, compared with women who generally skipped soy. By 2014, 35 studies were summarized in a new meta-analysis, showing that women eating the most soy products had a 41 reduction in the risk of breast cancer.2
In 2012, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a different kind of study.3 This time, the focus was on women who had had breast cancer in the past. The question now was whether tofu, soy milk, or other soy products would affect the likelihood of cancer coming back.
And it did. Drawing on a total of 9,514 women previously treated for breast cancer, those who consumed the most soy had about a 30 percent reduction in the risk of cancer recurrence.
In other words, soy products are protective. They reduce the likelihood of getting cancer, and, for women previously diagnosed with breast cancer, they reduce the odds that cancer will ever come back.
That said, a healthy plant-based diet is not the soybean cheerleading club. Soy is not essential. The key nutritional theme to remember is that vegetables, fruits, beans, and whole grains are healthful, and you can have tofu or not. But soy products are extremely versatile and are far healthier than burgers, milks, and cheeses they replace. And they may well have health benefits of their own.
Fifteen minutes later, the server brought Ahmad Jamal's signature dish. And the vegetarian Creole rice—tofu and all—turned out to be delicious.
By the way, Joe Williams died at age 79, Maynard Ferguson at 78, Dizzy at 75, and Sarah Vaughn at 66. At age 85, Ahmad Jamal is not only still with us; he has released two new records in each of the last two years. Credit the tofu, if you like.
1. Wu AH, Yu MC, Tseng CC, Pike MC. Epidemiology of soy exposures and breast cancer risk. Br J Cancer. 2008;98:9-14.
2. Chen M, Rao Y, Zheng Y, et al. Association between soy isoflavone intake and breast cancer risk for pre- and post-menopausal women: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies. PLoS ONE. 2014;9:e89288.
3. Nechuta SJ, Caan BJ, Chen WY, et al. Soy food intake after diagnosis of breast cancer and survival: an in-depth analysis of combined evidence from cohort studies of US and Chinese women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2012;96:123-132.
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International Business Machines Corp., of Yorktown Heights, NY received a cost type contract for $2.4 million, under the "Wafer-Scale Graphene RF Nanoelectronics effort." This effort is connected to DARPA's CERA(Carbon Electronics for RF Applications) effort. The project's goal is to investigate 2 challenges that are fundamental to development of high performance carbon electronics for military radio frequency applications in military systems. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH manages the contracts (FA8650-08-C-7838). At this time all funds have been obligated.
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NOTE: This is a guest post from Alex Ralston, Online Organizer at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Less than two weeks after President Barack Obama rightly rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate that would allow Congress to approve the pipeline.
There are plenty of good reasons to reject the pipeline; here are five of them:
1. It will spill. The State Department's review of the project clearly says Keystone XL will spill oil. Not may, but will. The existing Keystone pipeline has already leaked 14 times since it began operating in June 2010, including one leak that dumped 21,000 gallons of tar-sands crude. Keystone XL would carry up to 35 million gallons of oil every day — so any leak has the potential to be massive.
2. It won't be a major job producer. The State Department estimates that Keystone XL will result in only 20 permanent, operational jobs in the U.S and 2,500 to 4,650 temporary jobs. What's more, after Keystone XL oil makes it to Texas, much of it will be exported beyond U.S. borders without paying U.S. taxes – never benefitting our economy or slacking our thirst for oil.
Help stop the Keystone XL pipeline by signing the Center for Biological Diversity's petition.
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The Keystone pipeline encourages the development for many decades of Alberta's tar sands, some of the dirtiest fuel on the planet.
The United States can, and must, refuse to be complicit refuse to be a partner in harvesting this filthy fuel.
Keystone is about yesterday's power. We must focus as engineers, economists, and parents and consumers on tomorrow's power. Our goal is to power our country with energy that is clean, affordable, and sustainable."
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Scientist Switches Position, Now Supports Keystone XL Pipeline
Steyer: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Get Canada Better Oil Price
In 2010, Steyer and his wife, along with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, signed the Giving Pledge to donate half their fortune to charity. Steyer is on the board of Next Generation, a non-profit that intends to tackle children's issues and the environment.
Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist who is editor-in-chief of the journalScience. McNutt was director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior.
wealth breeds greed.........
greed creates injustice and destruction.......
its easier to remain addicted and or become newly addicted to new oil rather than make the gifts of conservation and or changes that will lead to a cleaner healthier future for all life and the planet.......
"TransCanada didnt bother to ask the people of this neighborhood if they wanted to have millions of gallons of poisonous tar sands pumped through their backyards," said Almonte. "This multinational corporation has bullied landowners and expropriated homes to fatten its bottom line."
On Monday afternoon Almonte and Collins were forcibly removed from the pipe by police and arrested. The police also arrested a third activist, Isabel Indigo Brooks, who was assisting Almonte and Collins inside the pipe, Tar Sands Blockade reports. The group says the three were were charged with misdemeanors of resisting arrest, criminal trespassing and illegal dumping.
Tar Sands Activists Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL
Another act in Tar Sands Blockade's ceaseless fight against TransCanada's pipeline
Building the pipeline off the coast of BC is, and always has been a risk. There is an incredible amount of seismic activity in and around the BC coast (see links below) as well as the Japan quake/tsunami debris now hammering the BC coastlines. There is no way that Enbridge can secure all along the pipelines to ensure that either an earthquake and/or several tons of debris will not break the pipeline from either of these events. A pipeline off the Canadian west coast is a disaster waiting to happen and with Enbridge's abysmal record, it is a guarantee.
Seismic activity in and around the B.C. coast is increasing in frequency. The pipeline must not go forward.
now you have had your wee vent russell r i have to ask do you feel better for it?
Self-congratulatory pats on the back are supposed to excuse your ill behavior? :rolleyes:
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Summary: Accelerated ATI/AMD binary drivers for Radeon HD 5000 and newer chipsets.
Use Flags
- Install qt4 dependent optional tools (e.g Catalyst Control Panel)
- Build the kernel modules
- Do a potentially dangerous binary search and replace to disable watermark
- Enable pax kernel specific patches
- Enabled Video Acceleration API
OpenSSH 7 Disables DSA Keys By DefaultPlease be aware of this important change to avoid getting locked out of your Funtoo server.
Project Unfork StatusHere's an update on Project Unfork, plus other neat things.
IP Space Migration ContinuesAll Funtoo user containers in the 8.28 IP space will be moving into our new IP space (172.97) over the next few days. If you have DNS set up -- be sure to watch your container and update to the new IP! container.host.funtoo.org DNS will be updated after the move.
AMD Catalyst Video Drivers
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x11-drivers/ati-drivers (often referred to as "fglrx", the name of its kernel module) is the proprietary, accelerated driver for AMD (ATI) graphics cards.
Preparing to Install
Configuring the kernel
[*] Enable loadable module support Processor type and features ---> [*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support Bus options (PCI etc.) ---> [*] PCI Express Port Bus Support [*] Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI and MSI-X) Device Drivers ---> Graphics support ---> < > Direct Rendering Manager (xFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) --->
If you need support for AGP cards, enable the following kernel options:
Device Drivers ---> Graphics support ---> <*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) ---> Select an appropriate AGP driver: <*> AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
Editing make.conf
Add the following to your
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Editing package.use
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x11-drivers/ati-drivers qt4
Adding the
qt4 USE flag enables support for building of amdcccle (AMD Catalyst Control Center: Linux Edition).
Emerging the package
To emerge the drivers, run the following command:
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Next, set ati-drivers to manage the system's OpenGL implementation:
# eselect opengl set ati
Afterwards, run aticonfig to modify the X-server configuration file to work with the ati-drivers:
# aticonfig --initial
I am using a HDMI connection, and my monitor's display has a black border around it.
Disable overscan using the following command, as root:
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You may need to restart your X session.
GNOME 3 windows only refresh when I drag them.
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Greens condemn plan to curb wind farms
Posted: April 25, 2014|
SOUTH West Greens have condemned a Conservative pledge to stop the march of wind farms across the South West if they win the next election.
The Green Party said the Tories were abandoning onshore wind while at the same time planning to allow shale gas exploration companies to drill under people's homes.
But the move was welcomed by local MP Geoffrey Cox, who said: "The next Conservative Government will strengthen the planning rules to send a clear and unmistakeable message to local planning authorities that landscape value should be the main priority and it will end bill payer funded subsidies for any newly planned onshore wind farms."
The Conservatives have promised to axe public subsidies for any new onshore wind turbines and give local councils the power to block new schemes in they win power next year.
The Government will also include plans in an infrastructure Bill to allow energy companies to drill on private land without permission, despite protests of residents and green groups.
The Bill will be part of the Queen's speech in June and would see changes in the trespass law.
Greens said the wind farms announcement was even more alarming as it follows a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which concluded that clean energy will have to increase threefold by 2050.
Dr Molly Scott Cato, lead Green Party European candidate in the South West said: "By abandoning onshore wind the Tories' energy policy is spinning dangerously out of control.
"So much so that they want to allow fracking companies to drill under people's homes with impunity.
"Their fixation on subsiding fossil fuels over renewable energy demonstrates they have either not read the IPCC report or prefer to bury their heads down a very deep shale gas well and ignore the recommendations of the world's leading climate scientists."
Geoffrey Cox, the Conservative MP for Torridge and West Devon, criticised the Liberal Democrats for not support an immediate cap on the number of onshore wind turbines.
Mr Cox has waged a campaign against the proliferation of wind turbines in his constituency.
He secured a debate last month in the House of Commons on the issue.
Mr Cox said: "Thousands of local people have expressed to me their deep concerns over the large number of giant wind turbines that are being granted planning permission in the local area, yet fear their views are not being heard.
"Government targets for onshore wind have already been reached and we should be implementing these changes now. It is a great shame that the Lib Dems will not back the policy but want to go on accelerating and increasing wind turbine construction throughout the countryside.


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Nostalgia for a more romantic time graces this "Love" stamp. A sentimental symbol of peace surrounded by love is tastefully portrayed using images from the Victorian era, represented by a white dove resting serenely in a bed of roses. Artist: Lon Busch Issue date: February 14, 1994 City of issue: Niagara Falls, New York Polished stainless steel case with mother-of-pearl dial on black leather strap. Measures 35 mm x 26 mm (1 3/8 " x 1").
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- Special features Water Resistant
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Original anime TV series Astro Boy evolves into movie, game
- Before Speed Racer offered an anime slant to Saturday morning cartoons in the 1970s, and before G-Force or Voltron made kids rush home from school in the 1980s, there wa...
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DVDs -- Don't Be Conned: Check Out "Duplicity"
- Sometimes, I am amazed by what happens at the box office. Sure, a tiny under-promoted film like Bandslam with stars only a tween would know can slip under the radar and ...
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Saturday Morning: Speed Racer - VIDEOS
- "Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer. He's a demon on wheels." -- The beginning lyrics to the theme song of Speed Racer. In this week's installment of 'Saturday Mornin...
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This 2004 remake of the classic Japanese cartoon features a boy brought back to life after scientists create him as a super bionic robot to save the world from villains and evil robots. The head of the Ministry of Science revived Astro and tries to give him a normal life as a 6th grade student. Astro faces criticism for being a robot and searches for the truth about his creator Dr. Tenma.


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Issue 3.01 | Jan 1995
Inside the metal-jacketed minds of flight-sim heads.
By John Shirley
Archive Category:
Robots & AI
Future of War
the one who searches to destroy....
- Iggy Pop
You're a thirtysomething guy, you're in the garage untangling the Weber from the fishing gear and your kid's obsolete roller skates, preparing for another in an endless series of backyard barbecues. You're gonna baste; you're gonna spread red sauce on meat.
Suddenly your nostrils flare as you hear the drone of an Air Force jet in the distance. You gaze past your '93 Ford Taurus, out the garage window at a tiny segment of horizon hidden away in the blunt suburban skyline.
The enemy is out there; the kill is waiting.
And you want to be out in the sky, hunting, searching, destroying. You want to bring the meat home dripping red in your grimy, calloused fingers.
Hormones secrete; your eyes dilate; your nostrils flare; the hair on the back of your neck stands up. The Weber drops from your manicured hands with a clang, and you run inside to your PC and your flight-sim software.
There's just time for a kill.
You got your five basic flight-sim game packages; you got your low-authenticity simulations like Sega CD's Tomcat Alley; you got your PC games like Blue Max; you got your network games like Spectrum HoloByte's MiG-29, ("Go head to head against Falcon 3.0 with up to six players!"); you got your special hardware-fetishized, traffic-control-tower-linked miniature amusement parks like Fightertown; you got your elaborate online games like Air Warrior - which just might be the wave of the future in more ways than one.
The wave rolls like this: Jonathan Baron, like most flight-sim professionals, started as a gamer, a hobbyist. He got involved in helping a new online flight-sim outfit, Air Warrior, get off the ground - and he never quite landed. What with work and after-work play, he lives a hell of a lot of his life gunning in online simulations.
He's digitally reliving the good part of World War II, and - What? You doubt there was any good part to World War II, aside from liberating the concentration camps? Mostly you're right. But a surviving fighter pilot prefers to think about, say, the one-half of 1 percent of the time he was in the air, when he was in complete command of his machine, when it was an extension of his body, when he was closing in on an enemy in battle (because the enemy's in his sights from above and behind and he knows the enemy's going to die and he's going to live). When he wins, he heads triumphantly home, and he feels good.
One-half of 1 percent, maybe? But that's all a pilot will want to remember, except for that time he got drunk with the Irish girl, on leave in Belfast, and he banged her in the cemetery on the graves of her ancestors.
That half percent of a fighter pilot's flight time is what most flight-sim junkies are patrolling for, time and time again. Sure there's the fun of the simulation - of taking off and landing skillfully. And it requires skill - the more realistic the game the more skill it requires. And there are male bonding rewards in the process; though, if you're not on a network, some of it is computer-simulated male bonding, complete with voice-overs.
But the bottom line is the kill.
"It could seem unbelievably strange to an outsider," Baron says. "Most of our clients are devotees of a rather esoteric pastime. They're often very, very different kinds of people. But that hunger unites them."
Air Warrior is accessible at 2400 or 9600 baud: up to a hundred people and more around the world can fly together in onscreen flight sim - they're now running a scenario that simulates the 1940 Battle of Britain, with a brain-numbing variety of specialized personnel involved because of the authentically reproduced wide scale of the thing, in its various World War II battle sectors.
Air Warrior has been around since '86, when it was created by Kelton Flinn. Flinn has a PhD in Applied Mathematics, but his heart is in flying over Europe in a Spitfire; he realized his air-combat fetish digitally as vice president of R&D for Air Warrior's source company, the Kesmai Corporation, a division, oddly enough, of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of America. Robert Shaw wrote the introduction to the manual; Shaw, an active Air Warrior player and real-life air-combat vet - and the author of the military press classic Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering - serves as a Kesmai consultant. The fact is, the better flight-sim games, on and offline, are to some extent grounded in real experiences.
John Shirley's recent novels include Wet Bones and Eclipse Corona. His forthcoming story collection is called The Exploding Heart.
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Dec. 6, 2006
West Virginia Students Go Atomic at Robotics Competition
By HNN Staff
Wheeling, WV (HNN) -- Hundreds of young robotics engineers from throughout West Virginia are about to descend on the Wheeling Jesuit University campus Saturday, Dec. 9, 2006, in hopes of entering the mysterious world of the atom.
For the second year the Center for Educational Technologies(r) will host the West Virginia FIRST LEGO(r) League robotics tournament (www.cet.edu/robotics). Nearly 400 youngsters ages 9-14, their coaches and family members along with judges will visit the Wheeling Jesuit University campus for the competition, which will earn winners an invitation to April's FIRST LEGO League World Festival in Atlanta.
The public is invited to attend the competition for an up-close look at LEGO robotics. A high school team from Delbarton, WV, also will be on hand all day, demonstrating its larger-than-life robot.
Last year 19 teams from across the Mountain State came to Wheeling. Highlighting this year's event will be opening remarks from Dr. Eric T. Baumgartner, dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University.
He joined Ohio Northern in July after serving 10 years in various technical and management positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was on the team responsible for the design, development and operation of the two highly successful Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. In 2004 Baumgartner was honored with the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his efforts on the Mars Exploration Rover project.
Baumgartner will also serve as a judge at the tournament. Judges are still needed, in fact. Contact Meri Cummings at email@example.com or at 304-243-2499 to volunteer.
Two teams from Wheeling will compete. Other teams come from all parts of the state, including Morgantown, Charleston, Barboursville, Parkersburg and Matewan.
The FIRST LEGO League competition (http://www.firstlegoleague.org/) asks teams of children ages 9-14 to demonstrate problem-solving and research skills, creative thinking, teamwork, competitive play, sportsmanship and sense of community as they build robots that can perform the functions required in the competition. In September teams learned the theme of this year's competition, Nano Quest, and have had about 12 weeks to prepare. The activities in Nano Quest use LEGO robotics to simulate the strange world of individual atoms seen through a super high-powered atomic microscope. Judges score the teams in five areas: research and presentation, robot performance, technical mechanics of the robot's construction, teamwork and gracious professionalism.
The competitors use LEGO building blocks and a special programmable brick to construct the core of their robots. LEGO MindStorms team challenge robotics kits let teams add moving parts. Then the students create programs to perform a series of tasks with their robots.
Founded by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was created to inspire young people's interest and participation in science and technology. FIRST LEGO League was created in a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Company in 1998. More than 48,000 children participate in the program.
The West Virginia event is funded through grants from the Mid-Atlantic Region Space Science Broker, the West Virginia Space Grant Consortium, American Electric Power and LEGO education. The broker (http://marssb.cet.edu/), which is also housed at the Center for Educational Technologies, brings scientists and educators together to share NASA space science discoveries with students and the public. It serves West Virginia as well as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
The Erma Ora Byrd Center for Educational Technologies (www.cet.edu) houses cutting-edge educational technology in its 48,000-square foot facility. The center is also home to the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, the space agency's principal research and development center for educational technologies, and the Challenger Learning Center(r), one of 51 worldwide established by the Challenger Center for Space Science in memory of the space shuttle Challenger. It provides students, teachers and adult learners with simulations that emphasize teamwork, problem-solving, decision-making and communication skills.


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Holly Robinson Peete Speaks Out About Her 'Talk' Departure
Rumors of her and Remini's departure started to circulate in late August, but nothing was officially confirmed until September. And it turns out that Peete was just as confused as the fans. The actress claims that she was kept in the dark for months, while rumors of other actresses taking her place started to fly. In fact, Peete reveals that she was never given a proper explanation as to why she was fired.
"Usually when you get fired, your boss brings you in, sits you down and tells you why they can't keep you," Peete told The Hollywood Reporter. "They say we have to downsize or you're not doing this, you're not doing that. I was never given that opportunity."
Comedian Sheryl Underwood has since filled her seat at the table and recently it was announced that actress Aisha Tyler will be joining the cast as a permanent co-host, but Peete insists that there's no bad blood between her an the other ladies at the table. But she does believe that the new additions will take the show away from its original concept -- and its "mommy bloggers" concept.
"I feel bad for [Sara], because I think about her original concept for the show. I don't know where that is now," she says. "I mean the two ladies they brought on are fantastic and great TV personalities, but they're not moms. So, I guess they abandoned the whole mom brand. That was Sara's initial concept. I haven't really spoken to her much since, so I don't know what she thinks about that concept being dismantled."
However, Peete isn't letting one little setback get her down. After her departure from 'The Talk,' she quickly snagged a multiple-episode arc on the CBS hit comedy 'Mike & Molly.' Peete's first appearance on the sitcom is slated for Mon., Nov. 7, at 9:30PM ET.
TV's Talk Show Hosts, Past and Present
- Jerry Springer, 'The Jerry Springer Show'
- Maury Povich, 'Maury'
- Oprah Winfrey, 'Oprah Winfrey'
- Rosie O' Donnell, 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show'
- Ellen DeGeneres, 'Ellen'
- Montel Williams, 'The Montel Williams Show'
- Ricki Lake, 'Ricki Lake'
- Jenny Jones, 'The Jenny Jones Show'
- Sally Jesse Raphael, 'Sally'
- Phil Donahue, 'The Phil Donahue Show'


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