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Mulch Manufacturing Inc. Selects Katz Marketing Solutions as Marketing Agency-of-Record
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Local Roofer Ups Business 60 percent with Social Media and Door-to-Door Marketing
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More than 400 people from several villages in northern Colombia were forced to flee their homes and one 14-year-old girl was killed in ongoing violence between leftist rebel group FARC, their neo-paramilitary rivals Full Article »
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a US think tank, sent a letter to Colombia's Defense Ministry on Wednesday protesting the pending promotion of military officials accused of war crimes.
As many as 24,000 Colombian state agents are implicated in war-related crimes and could benefit from a transitional justice deal if peace with FARC rebels is reached, the prosecution office said Monday.
The use of airstrikes was one of the main strategic elements that severely reduced the FARC's military capacity ahead of peace talks with the rebel group. Colombia's neo-paramilitary groups are the next target for airstrikes.
A group of mothers whose sons were murdered by the military sued former President Alvaro Uribe for slander after tweeting the victims were criminals.
Colombian authorities arrested five more members of the security forces and three civilians who are accused of trafficking arms for neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organizations.
A massive cocaine laboratory able to produce seven tons of cocaine a week was discovered and destroyed in the southwest of Colombia, the military said.
Colombia's military has dealt one of the biggest blows in the history of drug trafficking paramilitary group "Los Urabeños," killing at least 12 in a bombardment.
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Indigenous guards in the southwest of Colombia have detained 27 soldiers following the murder of a former governor of a local reserve.
Colombian army generals are suspected of embezzling millions of dollars from military budgets, El Tiempo newspaper reported Sunday, creating another military corruption scandal.
Colombia will contribute 5,000 to the UN military peacekeeping force in a gradual deployment over the next three years, President Juan Manuel Santos announced Monday.
A recently closed transitional justice deal between the government and FARC rebels will not adequately punish perpetrators of war crimes committed during the country's armed conflict, according to Human Right Watch.
The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court has welcomed a justice deal between the Colombian government and Marxist guerrilla group the FARC that was signed earlier this week.
Colombia's defense minister and the country's military command on Thursday said that a transitional justice agreement between the government and FARC rebel group is "the most important news in one hundred years."
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Stellar speakers to discuss media, war, conflict resolution at BGSU conference
International journalists and scholars will engage with BGSU faculty and students this fall to explore the interconnections among the media and the complicated political roles journalists play worldwide in fomenting or preventing war, and in fostering the dialogue needed for conflict resolution.
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The Conference on Media, War and Conflict Resolution will be held Sept. 17-19 at the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Top speakers include major award winners such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes, on nuclear issues; Chris Hedges, author and New York Times war correspondent; Robert Parry of Consortiumnews.com, and George Esper of the Associated Press, who was a Vietnam War correspondent.
Also participating are influential academics who study media coverage of war, including Daya Thussu of the University of Westminster and executive editor of the Sage journal Global Media Communication, and Andrew Hoskins of the University of Warwick and executive editor of the Sage Journal on Media, War and Conflict.
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It was recently reported that the /admin/categories.php file in osCommerce contained a vulnerability that would allow someone to remotely add files to an osCommerce installation without. This could be used to add backdoor script, which would allow the hacker access to all the website files and the ability to run code on server. This could be used for a number of malicious purposes including added spam or malware to website. osCommerce has been a frequent target for hackers lately, mainly being used to spread malware, due to a number of security vulnerabilities in older versions. In SecurityFocus's advisory it was stated that version 2.3.1, which is the most recent version of osCommerce, is the vulnerable version. Using the exploit code they provided we tested the exploit and we found that version 2.3.1 is not vulnerable. Version 2.3, which included fixes for a number of security vulnerabilities and a number security enhancements, is also not vulnerable. Version 2.2rc2a and probably versions older than that are vulnerable if the workaround to secure the admin area has not been applied to them.
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This has to be the coolest app ever. Create a quiz on Quick Key and then you can print out a bubble sheet. Snap a picture of the quiz with your iphone and it will grade it for you! Wow. Just remember that if all you do is bubble in - you're probably not testing very well. Hat tip to Richard Byrne's Awesome Facebook page for this one! (Free Technology for Teachers)
If you want to create an inbox for those Google Docs, use this to help you track what they've turned in and whether you've graded it.
I got this notice from Moby Max. There are a proliferation of websites that let you check and have kids working in online spaces like this. Remember that these can be helpful, but you should and must have students programming and inventing with computers. These can be very helpful but are only one use of the computer. Below is what they sent me about the service. Please let me know if you're using this (educators only, please).
"MobyMax has just released the easiest way to get your students motivated and start the year off right—a free 119 prize school contest. Within the first ten minutes of releasing the free 119 prize contest on Monday with no announcement, 22 schools signed up!
Not only are the contest and 119 prizes free, but MobyMax curriculum is free as well. (You may remember that teachers can upgrade to the Pro version for just $79 per year, but the prizes, contest, and curriculum are completely free whether you upgrade or not!)
We are also proud to announce our students' results from the last school year. The results from over 600,000 students showed that those who used MobyMax for 40 hours averaged more than a 1.4 grade level increase in math and a 1.5 grade level increase in language.
Students answered over 1 million problems in MobyMax's new reading module released this summer."
As many move to "online assessment" of Common Core - here is my issue. From talking to teachers this summer, the main issue for teachers in schools where kids don't use technology is this. THE ONLY TIME KIDS ARE USING TECHNOLOGY is when they are TESTED. That is it. They say their kids don't even know how to scroll down or click. They say the technology is an encumbrance because it is never used except for the test.
For students, the test should be about content not about how the test is administered. To test students online or via computer when they use the computer infrequently is grossly unfair and downright educational malpractice.
Now, I do have a word or two for schools who don't have technology but in their defense, some of them are very short on funds and in uber-restrictive districts and states. But if a state is unfriendly to tech for teaching, it shouldn't be the first thing they run to for assessment.
Students should be tested in a native environment. If their environment is predominantly paper and they aren't fluent on the computer - test time is not the time to learn hard lessons about how to click and scroll.
Don't interpret this to mean that I think we shouldn't all move towards paperless and technology-rich environments - WE SHOULD.
But we must be fair to students - how can they show what they know when they don't know how to use the computer used to administer the test. What we're really testing in that case is computer skills, not common core anything.
An important read as we work to reinvent schools and make sure we measure authentic learning with more authentic measures than bubble trouble. ;-)
Grading handwritten answers by students as a feature of a copier? Producing data analytics as a result. IF this works, it will not only sell more copiers, but also make handwritten work more of a commodity. Maybe if a computer can quickly grade the easy stuff, teachers can spend more time assessing project based learning and other work that computers cannot do. This won't help me much - except when I teach binary numbers and memory conversion which do require me to check work (I never do multiple choice.) I could see how math teachers would be thrilled.
"Xerox later this year plans to roll out Ignite, a software and web-based service that turns the numerous copiers/scanners/printers it has in schools across the United States into paper-grading machines. Unlike such staples of the educational system as Scantron, which uses special forms where students choose an answer and fill in the corresponding bubble, Ignite will grade work where the answers are written in by the students, such as the numeric answer to a math problem.
Ignite takes right and wrong answers and turns them into web-accessible data for teachers with reports that say whether a student or groups of students are consistently having more trouble with certain kinds of math problems. Those reports can be used by teachers to tailor what they're teaching — such as by identifying what group of students needs more help with a certain topic — or given to students so they know where they should focus their studying. It also opens the door to specific tests or homework assignments for specific students becoming more the norm, each tailored to academic strengths and weaknesses."
Very interesting app if you're using Edmodo and have ipads. Here's what it will do as per the company who contacted me:
"It's a versatile mapping tool for creating timelines, and an assessment platform for Edmodo users.
myHistro Extended in a nutshell.
- What makes it better than other apps out there?
Its comprehensive digital archive with stories created by historians. An unique way of generating tests. Hassle free and easy grading system and evaluation of students' answers."
MAny teachers are using Edmodo and Timelines are important prewriting and graphic organizing tools. I'm very fascinated to see how this works and will see if there is someone out there using it so we can link to it from my blog.
- Who's it for?
Teachers. First and foremost History, Social Studies and Geography teachers. And for everyone else, who are looking for innovative ways teaching their subjects through dynamic storytelling.
- What is the coolest feature?
Generating tests with a few clicks. Removing the location, time, description or/and the title from all the public stories, and forming it into tests.
Twitter conversations lead the most interesting places. Leah Obach is a first grade teacher who uses evernote to keep an efolio for each student. She creates templates and each child has a stack including photos and pictures of the child's work. She uses this during parent conferences to show what each child has done. Wow! This blog post is a must read for anyone looking at evernote or at streamlining assessment at the elementary level. I'm quite intrigued and want to know more. She's also shared her templates for assessing a variety of things for first grade - counting, etc.
Applause for what she is doing, but also for taking the time to write the blog post when having a conversation with another teacher on Twitter. This is how we teach and encourage each other to know more. I'm debating about what would be appropriate to do with my students.
When teachers don't understand evaluations and are so upset they say they will "cheat" there are many problems with this. We put students on an honor code and even when the teacher is unreasonable and hard, those students are expected to be honest. Now, we have an unreasonable "test" for teachers and some say they will cheat. This "evaluation" needs to be evaluated. Many problems here.
But one of the biggest problems I see is the harem scarem, unpredictable pendulum swing of evaluations and criteria used to evaluate a profession that has been around a very long time. As people work hard to weed out - it is working - more than half of teachers have been teaching less than 10 years as veterans say "enough!"
You don't turn a big ship by crashing it into a reef but by slow, methodical turns of the wheel. I find teacher evaluations that many are using to be cumbersome, confusing, and inconsistent.
I know of a top evaluated teacher in my area according to her hallmate, who plans her lessons twice a year and wow's the principal -- the rest of the time this teacher has a glorified study hall and does nothing. When I hear these stories of highly "evaluated" teachers, I'm convinced it is broken. My curriculum director and principal are in my room several times a month, looking at what we are doing and watching what is happening. That is a much better system, in my opinion and much more in keeping with what is happening in my classroom daily.
Take this powerpoint file and insert it into your slide deck to evaluate learning informally. This is neat.
A list of formative assessment strategies and definitions found via @marzanoresearch on Twitter. A good quick review.
Socrative is an app that turns any device into part of a student response system. Not sure why I haven't written about before as it has won all kinds of awards. If you have BYOD or iPad or any type of 1:1 technology, Socrative is a must use so you don't have to buy a separate response system.
I'm thinking that I will read this study and rework some of my freshman project to include a contract. I wonder if it is because they have to specifically spell out what they will complete.
"A novel study finds that contracts and a new method of assessment can be successful used in the classroom.
Researchers discovered that when students design their own course, based on a contract, students scored higher grades and displayed better student satisfaction than on traditional points-based courses. "
Note, however, that the sample size was 40 college freshmen. I don't think that is enough to overhaul everything, but certainly enough to warrant more research in this area.
OK, time to blog Amazon. (not really) Students are buying test banks from them. Honestly, if a student really wants to find a test bank, they will be able to in this day and age. They're able to get alcohol and cigarettes, what makes us think they can't get the test if it is available for purchase online? We have to be better than just giving a test that is in a test bank. Even if I start with a test bank, I always customize it and make sure that the knowledge that students have to share can't be condensed to multiple choice.
About 10 sophomores at Corona del Mar high school in Newport Beach, Calif. purchased test banks, which provide chapter-by-chapter answers for the exam -- designed to help teachers write tests that properly measure student learning, the Daily Pilot reports. A total of 180 students took the exam.
This video from edutopia is an introduction to comprehensive assessment. It is a nice 3 minute introduction to performance-based evaluation instead of paper and pencil testing. I think every good teacher has many ways of assessing students. The more I've learned about my students and really creating long term knowledge, the less I lean on tests. Now, I test twice a year in Computer science (when I teach binary numbers and computer hardware) and only once a year in Computer Fundamentals. I find that projects - especially long term projects - are a much better assessment of what students are learning.
A school grappling with changing assessment policies towards more personalized learning. They started discussions by posting a draft policy on their blog. a must read fornthose of you involved in edreform and assessment discussions. I'd love to hear opinions on this.
Larry Ferlazzo can curate some sites. If you are interested in international testing, these are some good sites to review.
I uploaded my "Freshman Project" to the @Tesconnect website. This is a very large network of teachers that I'm using now as it links with English speaking classrooms outside the US. This is the assignment that begins the year long project in my class as students design their own project. This is based upon the senior project I first saw this summer in Evansville, Indiana. Yes, you need to join TES to download the resource. I am promoting this site as part of some work I'm doing for them (as I disclosed two weeks a go) but it is a great site and I like the work they are doing very much! So join in, share, and download.
This handy firefox add on lets you hold down the right mouse button and draw a square over a set of links. Then, it will open each of those links into its own tab. This is useful if you have students placing links on a page and need to open each link to assess them. This is the only firefox extension that I found compatible with the newest version of firefox, although it is preliminary, I've found it to work fine for me.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Gordon Beckham went to extreme lengths to express shock he hit a home run on Tuesday night.
The White Sox second baseman was so alarmed by his first-inning homer off Kansas City's Ervin Santana, he quoted the great 1980s American philosopher, Clark W. Griswold.
Griswold was a character played by Chevy Chase in several comedy films, including the 1983 hit 'National Lampoon's Vacation.'
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Beckham's astonishment may come from the fact he hasn't had a ton of success at Kauffman Stadium. When he ripped a 1-1 slider from Santana into the left field bullpen, it marked only Beckham's third homer in 142 plate appearances at the Royals' home park.
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What would you do if you got $100,000? Saint Ignatius leads us in a meditation on this problem.
What would you do if you got $100,000? Saint Ignatius leads us in a meditation on this problem.
Who's got the sweetest disposition? — Donald Duck can teach us a lot about human brokenness and finding God within.
Justin Bieber's new fragrance line emphasises longings and false hopes.
So what if I want white wine with beef or red with chicken? Our culture tries to conform to the expectations and the "supposed-to's" of the status quo. Are we trying to be something we're not?
Like materials that can change states with temperature (water, metal, plastic), we too change states but remain the same at the core.
We're told not to be a quitter, but sometimes there are great benefits in saying "no" and quitting. It all depends on what our investments are and what we're willing to invest to progress in our God-given calling.
Saint Ignatius gives pray-ers a tip for gaining "spiritual relish". Perhaps it can be considered a condiment for your prayer. Spread it thick!
Ignatian spirituality is a treasure because it is a spirituality that requires your full involvement and God's full involvement. I cannot solely search within me for the answers and, on the other hand, I cannot discern what God desires for me if I do not look within.
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Not so many aboard! London bus use declined in 2012
Another transport titbit from 2012. This article showing that the number of passengers using London's buses declined during 2012 for the first time in over a decade slipped past Games Monitor's dedicated team!
TfL's surface transport managing director Leon Daniels explained to BBC News that the decline was not due to fare rises: "Last year it was the Olympic Games, so during the course of 2012 on all sorts of days across the summer, we had lots of our streets closed and here at TfL we were asking people to travel to work different ways."
That TfL was encourgaging people to avoid using public transport was certainly borne out by the pleas of businesses faced with the collapse in trade during the first week of the Games.
According to TfL 2.3 billion bus journeys were made in London in 2012 representing a drop of 0.4%, the first time there had been a decline since 1998.
Ting! Ting!
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that legacy of rough sleeping
they still seem to be forging ahead with their efforts to make London a world class centre of excellence for rough sleeping:
but then of course we must always bear in mind their pre-Olympics aspirations were so much less ambitious:
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newham goes supernova
Convergence is coming, that long anticipated regeneration supernova is starting to explode:
Newham shows the steepest house price rises in the country
Over 50,000 families shipped out of London boroughs in the past three years
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Parking the legacy
Fancy a swim at the Aquatic Centre with your kids? Need to use the car park? Better be sure in that case you've got cash to feed the machine because it won't accept a card.
Friends took their two children aged 12 and 8 for what they said was an enjoyable swim. Enjoyable, that is, until they had to go home. They had overrun the free hour's parking so had to pay £1.50, a perfectly reasonable charge. Only problem was the machine only took cash and they didn't have any. In most cases you can pay a parking charge by card and they went round the different machines to see which one took a card. But none did.
The notice at the entrance hadn't said 'cash only' and when they asked at the reception desk of the Aquatic Centre no-one had said it was cash only.
So back they went to the reception desk to see if they could make a payment there only to find the parking charge was nothing to do with them. They were directed to a machine at the exit of the car park to talk to a faceless voice which told them they could only pay by cash. When they said they didn't have any cash they were told, rudely, too bad, you'll have to find a cash machine
By now it was dark and getting cold on a January Sunday night with two small children. The Aquatic Centre was in the middle of nowhere and neither the receptionist nor the faceless voice could tell them where the nearest cash machine was.
They asked for the gate to be lifted so that they could go home and sort out the payment later. No, no money, no exit. By now a further hour had elapsed so the charge was now £3. They found another family was in the same plight, also queuing up at the reception desk without the cash to get out.
They decided to call the police to be let out. The police came and were sympathetic but could do nothing about the gate. The officer said this was the second time he had been called to the car park for this reason. One officer, two calls? How many other officers and how many other calls?
But at least the police officer was able to say where the nearest cash point was, at the bottom of the absurd pile of metal known as the Orbit.
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The fightback is on - now in San Francisco
Now San Francisco joins all those other cities across Europe, Japan and the United States that don't want to host the Olympics!!
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Opportunities lost - if Boston gets the Olympics
It's a question being asked more and more about the Olympics. $20billion? Is it really worth it? For three weeks? Yeah, it's a lot! What could we get for that money? Jobs, health care, elderly care, roads, education, homeless shelters, affordable housing... NoBostonOlympics videos of Bostonians talking back about lost opportunities, lack of transparency in the bid, thumbs down to Boston2024....
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Lest we forget - Dow, the company the IOC likes to do business with
Lest we forget - Dow, the company the IOC likes to do business with....
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London2012 - the miracle of hotels in Stratford
Popular London2012 miracle stories keep cropping up, often in an academic context. Recent examples were provided at the ongoing UEL seminars held at the LLDC headquarters in the poshly named Montfichet Road at Stratford City. The upmarket de Montfichet was a Norman baron who founded Langthorne Abbey in Stratford back in the early 12th Century. Another classy name thrown up by recent events to inject an estate agent inspired aristocratic ambience in the E20 zone is Chobham Manor, the new address of the former rather down at heel Clays Lane.
Among recent purveyors of Olympic miracles in East London were two representatives of local boroughs. One, a business research manager from Newham, a Doctor no less, recounted how sport participation in the borough had been boosted by the Olympics, a report strangely at variance with recent findings which showed the Olympic borough was the least active in the whole of England. Another miracle she reported was there had been a legacy of 'shopping improvements' arising from London2012. When it was pointed out that this particular miracle related to the aforementioned Stratford City, a project unconnected with the Olympics, she declined to comment further saying she had no expertise in miracles of regeneration.
Another miracle jobber at the same event came all the way from neighbouring Hackney, where he works for the council to promote business, to tell of the wondrous emergence of business hubs which had been found near to the recently developed railway stations on the reopened and extended East London Line, now renamed the Overground on account of the fact that most of it is above the ground. This miracle of the hubs had only occurred because the Olympics had brought about the redevelopment of this Overground line. The council man was considerably dismayed when it was mentioned that the development of the railway had nothing to do with the Olympics and after some scratching on a note pad agreed that this was indeed correct, but he still insisted that the railway would not have re-emerged as quickly without the impetus provided by the miraculous year of 2012, a suggestion vigorously disputed from the floor.
Undeterred, the man from Hackney produced another miraculous event, the Radio One music festival on Hackney Marshes, which had attracted great multitudes to the borough and which Hackney wished to repeat, another event which owed its existence to the wondrous Olympic year of 2012. He refused to be put off by the naysayer in his audience who pointed out that this event had roused the ire of the many sportsmen and women of East London, supported by their national associations, who had been unable to use the Marshes for their traditional activities of hitting and kicking round objects over specially laid out pitches both because the Marshes had been fenced off unnecessarily for many weeks and because it had then been severely damaged by the multitudes and their vehicles who had only been on the Marshes for a few hours. Indeed this impact had mirrored the extraordinary damage done by the Olympics to a large area of land over many years and to those living and working there for a mere few weeks of sport. The devoted believer considered all this disruption had been worthwhile even though the anger of the national sports associations for football, rugby and cricket, who had provided money for the Marshes to be used for sport, had meant there was no chance of a repeat festival in the immediate future.
The council man from Hackney also claimed another miracle from within the Olympic Park, where he said excellent opportunities for employment of local people were being created even though it was again pointed out thousands of jobs done by local people had been lost by the removal of companies from the Park and few of the new jobs to be created at the Tech Hub at the former Media Centre would go to local people. At which point he fell silent.
Earlier, at another event in the same sequence of seminars, a noble lord, the Lord Harris, ventured into the Montfichet headquarters to declare there had been a great and miraculous legacy of new stadiums built in the Olympic Park. The noble lord had chaired a specially selected committee of the House of noble Lords into the legacy of the events in East London, a matter which has been frequently investigated for the benefit of the poor of this part of London. He felt it was unnecessary, and indeed impossible, to consider what might have happened if the recent miraculous events had not happened, which made it difficult to consider the merits of the events as there was nothing to compare them with.
The noble Lord was also imprecise about the miraculous gains, as for example in his brief report on the miracle of sports participation in which he failed to mention the decline in participation by the target 16 to 25 years age group. He was somewhat taken aback when this was pointed out and that the event had been sponsored by sellers of fizzy drinks and fatty foods whose products were often consumed by members of this very age group and that research showed an unhealthy lifestyle was more to blame for obesity than a lack of participation in sport. He had the grace to laugh when he was asked how the miraculous stadiums counted as a legacy even though they had already been paid for and they had actually cost more than they should have and when many had been knocked down as they would never be used again, while the Olympic stadium was now a football stadium which the Olympic Minister had said we did not need as we already had a football stadium at Wembley.
Despite these setbacks other devotees were determined that miracles had indeed occurred and fixed on how a number of hotels had been built and had miraculously survived in the vicinity of Stratford. The noble lord concurred with this report and noted that hotels had also been built in the vicinity of Brent Cross but had not survived, proof if any was needed of how miraculous the events in Stratford had really been.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Wed, 26/11/2014 - 15:11.
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London2012 fails to 'Inspire a Generation' in Newham
London 2012 is still not inspiring people in the host borough of Newham to take up sport. A recent report from UKActive showed that the borough was home to the least active population in England. A second host Borough, Barking and Dagenham, came second in the list. UKActive also highlighted the unsurprising finding that participation was lowest in the poorest parts of the county. But not only is poverty a marker for lower rates of activity so, perhaps surprisingly, is youth. Far from inspiring sport participation among the 'target' age group of 16-25 year olds the period after the Games witnessed an actual decline in activity in this age group.
Oddly enough sport participation is not necessarily accompanied by a decline in obesity, a benefit usually claimed by those advocating for sport. As Australian researchers have noted it is diet and lifestyle rather than sport participation which is at the heart of tackling obesity. Obesity among children in Australia rose even as level of participation rose, hardly helped by the Olympics promotion of fizzy drinks and burgers particularly to young people.
Of course the message about 'participation' has got slightly confused in recent times with Lord Sir Seb claiming that the London Anniversary Games of 2013 would inspire the "next generation of track and field fans". But then the expansion of sports fandom is really what the Olympics is about. Watching Olympic sport on tv and eating and drinking Olympics sponsored food and drink helps keep the IOC in business.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Wed, 19/11/2014 - 00:29.
Police 'assisted' Olympic blacklisters
Police denials that they were involved in briefing the blacklisting agency, the Consulting Association, have taken another knock with the leaking of minutes of a meeting of representatives of construction companies in 2008 at which a Detective Chief Inspector Gordon Mills was present. Allegations about the activities of the Association and blacklisting of workers on the Olympics site had been denied by the ODA leading to criticism by the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Select Committee. Both the Information Commissioner's Office and the Independent Police Complaints Commission had insisted they have evidence of police involvement with the blacklisting organisation but the police had claimed there was no evidence of this. The leaked minutes report that Mills said he was there to 'liaise with industry'. The police have failed to respond to Freedom of Information requests for documents relating to the activities of the former National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (Netcu) of which Mills was an officer saying they do not have any information about his meetings with the Consulting Agency.
The Chair of the Commons Select Committee had said the ODA were either 'deceived, gullible or negligent'. Plainly the police were among those doing the deceiving.
Submitted by Julian Cheyne on Sat, 15/11/2014 - 16:38.
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Grand Ole Creamery vs. Lynden Soda Fountain: Ice cream clash
Here are some stats from last Friday's blizzard: 17 inches of snow; post-snow highs in the single digits; 60,000 people without power; more than 1,900 automobile spin outs and 680 crashes; 100 flights cancelled; 66 jack-knifed semis; black ice under bridges and on ramps; and yet another school day cancelled. What we're saying is this: If current trends continue, we're right in the middle of one of the five coldest winters in Minnesota history.
What we're also saying is this: who feels like some ice cream (or maybe some sherbet)?
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Grand Ole Creamery German Chocolate and Black Cherry
Amy Dahlin
The Venue: This week features two St. Paul ice cream parlors that cultivate an old-timey atmosphere. Grand Ole Creamery on Grand Avenue has been a staple of that neighborhood since 1984 (there's a second location on Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis). It's a warm and friendly place with a small shrine of autographed celebrity photos and some community-billboard detritus on the walls. Lynden's Soda Fountain is a clean, classy modern version of a Herbert Hoover-era ice cream joint. With counter stools, an honest-to-God soda fountain, and a back wall stocked with candies from days gone by, this is the perfect place for old and young folks to bridge the generation gap with a frozen treat.
The Weigh-in: Grand Ole Creamery regularly offers over 20 different flavors. Although Lynden's has fewer ice cream choices, they will whip up sodas, phosphates, malts, egg creams, shakes and even lime rickeys for any handlebar-moustachioed members of your posse. Grand Ole Creamery makes its own ice cream; Lynden's gets theirs from Madison's Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company.
Round 1: Size When trying to forget this endless winter, the bigger the serving of ice cream, the better. At both shops, we asked for the same size serving in a cup. Grand Ole Creamery presented us with two scoops of ice cream as big as cue balls. Teenage boys would find these servings reasonable, but everyone else should suck in their gut and prepare for sugary, creamy bloat. In contrast, Lynden's serving size is entirely reasonable and satisfying, especially if you've just eaten a gargantuan burger/fries combo at The Nook next door.
Lynden's Soda Fountain Chocolate and Coconut Almond Delight
Amy Dahlin
Round 2: Texture Good ice cream, especially in winter, should be soft, not melty; creamy, not icy; and thick, not overly crunchy. Both shops passed the "lip gloss" test: after a few bites, their wares left a slight sheen of fat on our lips. Stick a utensil in the ice cream at either place and it will stay vertical for hours, but Grand Ole Creamery's was a little softer and easier to eat.
Grand Ole Creamery's Butterscotch Ice Cream Sandwich
Amy Dahlin
Round 3: Flavor At the risk of sounding impolite, lavender-flavored ice cream can go to straight to hell, where it probably came from anyway. We were looking for deep, rich, traditional taste to chase away our sub-zero blues. At Grand Ole Creamery we enjoyed German Chocolate and Black Cherry. The coconut shreds offered a necessary texture contrast with the chocolate, and the big black cherry chunks lent a deep, true cherry flavor to the surrounding ice cream. But Lynden's version of chocolate ice cream is the Ur-chocolate -- dark, mysterious, decadent and thick enough to fill in potholes on residential streets. The Coconut Almond Bliss we paired it with was a traditional vanilla ice cream with bits of chocolate, almonds, and coconut. The nuts were chewy rather than crunchy (PRALINE THOSE NUTS STAT), and the coconut didn't dress up the vanilla enough.
And the winner is... Grand Ole Creamery. Perusing GOC's many flavors and then scaling their mountainous servings with a plastic spoon and a pal is a much better way to spend the winter than sweating it up at the gym, running multiple Netflix marathons, or murdering your whole family in a paroxysm of seasonal-affective disorder.
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Our second Women's Training session for 2015 will be run over 4 consecutive Thursday nights on June 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th. This program is aimed at any woman of any track cycling level. We will have specific skills, drills and workouts that will suit everyone from newly certified riders, through advanced track cyclists. The 5 week class will also serve as a beginners certification for those women who are new to the track.
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Hannah Rodger, Reporter / / News
CAMPAIGNERS in the West End are furious after plans to open a homeless hostel were given the green light.
As revealed in yesterday's Evening Times, the proposals for accommodation to house up to 40 men were discussed in a private meeting on Monday.
According to Glasgow City Council, the plans for Burnbank Gardens are to go ahead and bosses will allocate £150,000 to cover security costs, including CCTV cameras.
It is also proposed to introduce residents to the site in phases, initially giving 25 men accommodation before increasing the number to 35 and 40.
It is understood that some local councillors and campaigners were told at the meeting that a final decision had not been made, creating anger and frustration.
Sue Mackechnie, a member of Burnbank Action Group, said: "We are repeatedly told that there has been no final decision to give us false hope. The 'revised proposal' is just a re-phrased version of the original proposal.
"There will still be 40 men with complex needs in an over-large unit with no amenities or outdoor space.
"Social services are fooling none of us."
Sandra White,MSP for the Kelvin ward, said there had not been enough consultation. She said: "By trying to rush the decision through behind closed doors, the council is sending out the wrong message and making the situation worse."
Sources say social work bosses told councillors they do not work on petition.
A council spokesman said: "We have listened to the concerns of the community and have taken on board the points they have raised.
"We have agreed to modify our plans so that a smaller number of people affected by homelessness will be initially accommodated at Burnbank."
hannah.rodger@ eveningtimes.co.uk
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Company Overview of Oak Tennessee, Inc.
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Oak Tennessee, Inc., doing business as The Oak Rubber Company and Oak Technical, manufactures vinyl gloves for healthcare, beauty, and service industries. Oak's critical environment line offers contamination control mats, clean room paper, and glove liners and wipers. In addition, it provides laboratory, industrial, and food service handies. Oak Tennessee is based in Stow, Ohio. As of February 4, 2009, Oak Tennessee, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Omar Medical Supplies, Inc.
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Enjoy a unique travel experience through the unforgettable France and Spain
Join this adventure from romantic Paris to cosmopolitan Barcelona and be captivated by the culture and history of France and Spain. Visit castles, cycle through the Loire Valley and hike in the majestic mountains of the Pyrenees. Peruse paintings, admire Gaudi's quirky architecture and marvel at an illustrious Moorish past in Spain's byways and boulevards before partying the night away. This trip will make sure you come away with the best memories of two of Europe's most-visited countries.
- Fall in love with captivating Paris
- Amble down elegant boulevards in Bordeaux
- Conquer trails in the mighty French Pyrenees
- Sample pintxos in sunny San Sebastian
- Shop in the fashionable city of Madrid
- Be captivated by medieval monuments in Toledo
- Relax on the beaches of the Costa de la Luz
- Marvel at Gaudi's creations in Barcelona
Day 1 Paris
Day 2-3 Tours
Day 4-5 Dordogne Region
Day 6-7 Bordeaux
Day 8-9 Pyrenees
Day 10-11 San Sebastian
Day 12-13 Segovia
Day 14-15 Madrid
Day 16-17 Granada
Day 18-19 Seville
Day 20-21 Costa de la Luz
Day 22-23 Ronda
Day 24 Cordoba
Day 25-26 Valencia
Day 27-29 Barcelona
Meals7 breakfasts
TransportBicycle, Bus, Kayak, Metro, Private vehicle, Public bus, Taxi, Train
AccommodationHotel (18 nights)
Included activities
- Alcazar
- Alhambra entrance
- Bike rental - Valencia
- Chateaux Villandry & Gardens
- Cycling tour
- Flamenco performance
- Kayaking, Sarlat
- La Sagrada Familia - Barcelona
- Mezquita
- Picnic
- Wine tasting Bordeaux
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Intrepid a great way of seeing a place with just the right amount of organised and free time a little bit of the tourist trail using public transport trains buses is a great experience and the small group tours makes it a lot friendlier travelling with like minded people of all ages
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Samurai Isaburo Sasahara faces the wrath of his clan when he exhibits disobedience in favor of what is right. When the ruling lord forces his son, Ichi, and his unwanted mistress into marriage, the two fall in love despite all expectations. However, when the callous ruler requests Ichi's return only two years later, Sasahara, unwilling to see his son and daughter-in-law torn apart, is prepared to fight for their union.
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SourceCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, January 26, 2016 (University of Chicago): As the University of Chicago prepares to celebrate two major anniversaries in South Asian studies, a new gift will help to ensure UChicago's continued leadership in the study of the Indian subcontinent. The Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professorship in Sanskrit Studies, established by a US$3.5 million gift from Guru and Anupama Ramakrishnan, supports a faculty member whose work focuses on the ancient classical language. Gary Tubb, professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, will be the first scholar to hold the new position.Sanskrit is the language of the scriptures of the Hindu religion, as well as much of the literature of the Jains and Buddhists. In addition, many important works of poetry, philosophy, science, history, law, political theory, medicine and aesthetics were written in Sanskrit, the oldest literary language of South Asia. Sanskrit is also the longest continuously taught South Asian language at UChicago, having been offered since the first classes were held at the University in 1892.
SourceA person's growth begins with dissatisfaction. Not content with the world, he seeks satisfaction by prayers to God; this purifies his mind and he longs to know God more than to satisfy his carnal desires. Then God's grace begins to manifest. God will take the form of a guru and appear to the devotee, to teach him Truth so that his mind gains strength and is able to turn inward. With meditation the mind is purified yet further, and eventually remains still without the least ripple. That stillness is the Self. The guru is both exterior and interior: from the exterior he gives a push to the mind to turn inward and from the interior he pulls the mind towards the Self. That is grace. See? There is no difference between God, guru and Self.-- Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
SourcePAKISTAN, February 1. 2016 (by David Frawley): Which religious group has the least amount of human rights in South Asia? The probable answer, perhaps surprisingly, is a group that few think about or recognize as existing - Pakistani Hindus. The plight of Pakistani Hindus is among the direst of any community in the world and has been so for decades. Yet not many in the world are aware of, much less have any concern for them, even in India. Hindus in Pakistan are a targeted community and losing their numbers, unlike Muslims in India who are increasing. While there were similar percentages of Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India at the time of Partition, Pakistani Hindus have been continually oppressed, marginalized, converted or simply eliminated. The result is that only two per cent of Pakistan is Hindu today.Pakistani Hindus are among the poorest of the poor and do only the most menial jobs. The most basic human rights are not given to them. Pakistani Hindus cannot own land or register their marriages. Their women are commonly abducted and there is little they can do about it. Pakistani courts seldom hear their pleas, or if they do, seldom rule in their favor. You will not see any thriving Hindu temples left in Pakistan comparable to the great mosques that have continued in India. Hindu temples are neglected, occupied or destroyed. There are no Hindu religious schools of any size or any group funding them like the Saudi-funded madrasas in India. There are no government honored Hindu holidays in Pakistan, such as Islamic holidays in India.Should not all groups in India insist that Pakistani Hindus be afforded the same rights as Indian Muslims? After all, they are both human beings. Fortunately, the Narendra Modi government is beginning to address the plight of Pakistani Hindus and a few India media groups are making better efforts as well. Yet so far they are only scraping the tip of a massive iceberg of oppression and abuse that will require persistent and determined struggles to effectively correct.
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, February 2, 2016 (Press Trust of India): Sanskrit would have survived had it become the language of commoners, Union minister Najma Heptulla noted here today while asking people to shun their "colonized" mindset to conserve the country's oldest language. "Sanskrit would have survived had it been the language of commoners and not only elites. Colonization here (in India) also contributed (to the present condition of Sanskrit). We became colonized in our minds.""We need to throw colonization out of our mind," she said. The Minority Affairs Minister made the remarks during launch of author Rajiv Malhotra's book "The Battle for Sanskrit," at Delhi University. Heptulla rued that Sanskrit, despite being the oldest Indian language, was not taken care of in the country, while other nations "distorted" it. She said presently only around 40,000 persons speak Sanskrit in the country.
SourceOnly the guru is father, mother and brother. He is also friend, well-wisher and the only wealth. Thus everything should be surrendered to him. The disciple, fully surrendered to the guru, sees him as God, and then becomes God himself.-- Chandra Jnana Agama, 2.68
SourceINDIA, January 31, 2016 (Babaji's Kriya Yoga): "The Treasure Trove of Tamil Yoga Siddha Manuscripts" is a guide and a large collection of verses composed by Tamil Yoga Siddhars during the medieval Sangam period. These verses, found only on palm leaf manuscripts, were collected, scanned, transcribed into modern Tamil and edited by an eminent team of scholars and manuscriptologists during the past 15 years. The guide is a valuable resource, not only for lovers of Siddha poetry, but also for scholars, translators and researchers in the fields of Yoga and Tantra. All 13,276 verses on 1,677 pages are included in a compact disc inserted in the rear cover. This new publication will be released at a function in Chennai, India, on February 6, 2016, at 6:30 pm organized by Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas and the Yoga Siddha Research Centre. For more information, click "source" above.
SourceINDIA, January 31, 2016 (The Hindu): The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) on Saturday has approved its annual budget for the year 2016-17 with an estimated revenue of US$394.5 million. For the first time in the history of the TTD, the income derived from the temple Hundi by way of offerings is put at Rs. 1,010 crore (US$148.8 million), surpassing the one thousand crore mark. The second major source of income is Interest on investments with the estimates being pegged at $114.7 million. The TTD also expects an income from the sales of special entry darshan tickets, prasadams, human hair, choultry receipts, and arjithas seva tickets.
SourceISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, February 1, 2016 (Press Trust of India): Pakistani lawmakers' lack of political will to pass the pending Hindu marriage bill despite a Supreme Court directive came in for criticism today, with a leading newspaper questioning the government's commitment to minority rights, especially for Hindu women. "While many politicians are quick to issue public statements about the rights of minorities in Pakistan, when it comes to taking practical steps to secure these rights, there is very little to show," Dawn newspaper said in a scathing editorial. "A prime example of this strange paradox is the decades-old issue of legislation related to Hindu marriage," it said, highlighting that the "legal vacuum that created a multitude of issues especially for minority communities."A bill on Hindu marriage was jointly presented in the parliament in 2014 by Ramesh Lal of opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Darshan of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). A separate but similar government bill was tabled in parliament by Law Minister Pervaiz Rashid in March 2015. The Hindu women have to face problems in proving their relationships when dealing with officials, while widows are particularly disadvantaged, it said. It said that these issues were a reason for conversion as some experts point out that forced conversions are also facilitated by the lack of documentation of Hindu marriages.Despite the fact that even the Supreme Court has ordered the state to enact the law, lawmakers have failed to do the needful, the editorial noted."This tardiness and lack of political will are inexcusable. If the parties leading the Sindh and Punjab governments are serious about their commitment to minority rights, they should pass the resolutions without further delay in order to do away with the hurdles in the way of a Hindu marriage law," it said. Sindh should show particular alacrity, as most of Pakistan's Hindus reside in this province.
SourceHinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches-- knowledge is limitless and also limitless is the application of Truth.-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
SourceKWAZULU NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA, December 17, 2015 (Rising Sun): What started off as a page three feature documenting the rich history and tapestry of Indian communities within KZN in the Tribune Herald, has now been turned into a coffee table book. "Beyond the Fields" was officially launched at Coastlands on the Ridge last Thursday, among special guests.The book takes readers into 50 communities and "focuses on their history, culture and the people who shaped them," according to Tribune reporter, Clinton Moodley, who researched and wrote most of the content. He was also assisted by fellow journalists, Neesha Maharaj, Nabeelah Shaikh and Mervyn Naidoo.The former Rising Sun writer said, "The feature was a hit among our readers and the popularity of course led to our decision to turn it into a coffee table book. From the cane cutters in Tongaat to Overport's little India, to the beautiful architectural religious institutions in Phoenix, "Beyond the Fields" tells the story of how our forefathers in KZN built their homes here."
SourceDEHRADUN, INDIA, January 27, 2016 (Times of India): In a first-of-its-kind exercise, 250 soldiers of the Western Command of the Army have been sent for a two-week Yoga Teacher's Training Course being organized by Ramdev's Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar. Army officials said the soldiers after their yoga stint will help impart this training to others in the Command. During the training, which began on January 10 and concluded on Tuesday, the jawans were given a comprehensive knowledge of yoga and meditation by specialists of Patanjali Yogpeeth under Ramdev's guidance.Yoga has been introduced in Army as an important means to address stress and lifestyle-related diseases. The overall aim is to train 1,000 army persons as "yoga instructors". The soldiers will thereafter become the "fulcrum" for spreading the knowledge at various Army units. Krishna Milan, coordinator at Patanjali Yogpeeth, told TOI, "Baba Ramdev himself took classes for the soldiers and taught them the 12 yoga asanas as well as special asanas for a number of ailments. He also guided them about the correct diet and fitness regime to follow. Thereafter, Acharya Balkrishnan took sessions on meditation and spirituality."
SourceMALAYSIA, January 25, 2016 (The Star): Thousands of devotees took part in colorful and vibrant processions during the Thaipusam celebration in Ipoh. Carrying kavadis of various colors, shapes and sizes, many of these devotees walked about six miles from Jelapang to Buntong and to the Sri Subramaniar Temple in Gunung Cheroh on a bright Sunday morning.Chants of "Vel vel" and the beats from the dhol drums were heard far and wide as the devotees made their way to the temple. Many had paid a visit to the temple to fulfil their vows to Lord Muruga for answering their prayers.Apart from the festivities at the temple, there were also thaner panthals (refreshment stalls) set up along Jalan Raja Musa Aziz, offering free food and drinks to devotees. Tents selling food, drinks, clothes, toys and other accessories were nearby as well.
SourceBANGKOK, THAILAND, December 17, 2015 (Bangkok Post): Vendors convincing passers-by to buy garlands and pay respects to the Hindu God has become a common scene at the Ratchaprasong intersection. Four months after the deadly Erawan shrine blast, thick smoke from joss sticks has again blanketed the shrine as hundreds of tourists, especially Asians, are returning to the spot. As the intersection has been well-decorated ahead of New Year festivities, and many tourists are returning to the area, business at the shrine is picking up. But it has yet to meet local business operators' expectations. Orawan Chatthong, 32, a flower vendor, has been watching business picking up since the tourism peak season began last month. The number of tourists dropped sharply in the two months immediately after the Aug 17 blast. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has made improvements to its security cameras installed at the Ratchaprasong intersection and in nearby locations and is working together with security agencies to prepare for New Year festivities.
SourceThere are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.-- Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
SourceSELANGOR, MALAYSIA, January 24, 2016 (Malay Mail): More than a million Hindus in Malaysia celebrated the colorful Thaipusam festival today, thronging temples to display their devotion with wince-inducing body piercing and offerings to the Deity Murugan. Hundreds of thousands converged on the Batu Caves an important religious site for Tamil Hindus on Kuala Lumpur's outskirts with many walking up to 10 hours to the site, capped by a final 272-step climb to its limestone hilltop shrine.Many show their fervor through mind-over-matter feats of body piercing including long skewers stuck through their flesh in a form of penance, or by bearing the elaborately decorated home-made frames called "kavadi." Kavadi can weigh as much as 220 lbs. and are typically affixed to a person's body using sharp metal spikes dug into the skin.Many endured sweltering heat to follow the 15-kilometre (nine-mile) procession of a silver chariot from a temple in central Kuala Lumpur to the caves. Most of Malaysia's roughly 29 million people are Muslim, but the country also has more than two million ethnic Indians.Photos and video at "source" above.


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The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers: Transdisciplinary Research on the Role of the Environment in Breast Cancer Etiology
Hiatt, Robert A., Haslam, Sandra Z., Osuch, Janet, Environmental Health Perspectives
OBJECTIVES: We introduce and describe the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers (BCERC), a research network with a transdisciplinary approach to elucidating the role of environmental factors in pubertal development as a window on breast cancer etiology. We describe the organization of four national centers integrated into the BCERC network.
DATA SOURCES: Investigators use a common conceptual framework based on multiple levels of biologic, behavioral, and social organization across the life span. The approach connects basic biologic studies with rodent models and tissue culture systems, a coordinated multicenter epidemiologic cohort study of prepubertal girls, and the integration of community members of breast cancer advocates as key members of the research team to comprise the network.
DATA EXTRACTION: Relevant literature is reviewed that describes current knowledge across levels of organization. Individual research questions and hypotheses in BCERC are driven by gaps in our knowledge that are presented at genetic, metabolic, cellular, individual, and environmental (physical and social) levels.
DATA SYNTHESIS: As data collection on the cohort, animal experiments, and analyses proceed, results will be synthesized through a transdisciplinary approach.
CONCLUSION: Center investigators are addressing a large number of specific research questions related to early pubertal onset, which is an established risk factor for breast cancer. BCERC research findings aimed at the primary prevention of breast cancer will be disseminated to the scientific community and to the public by breast cancer advocates, who have been integral members of the research process from its inception.
KEY WORDS: breast cancer, cohort, environment, etiology, transdisciplinary science. Environ Health Perspect 117:1814-1822 (2009). doi:10.1289/ehp.0800120 available via http://dx.doi.org/ [Online 16 June 2009]
The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers (BCERC) sponsored by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) were established to better understand how environmental factors may influence pubertal development and to enable primary breast cancer prevention strategies. In 2003, after a period of focused and thoughtful advocacy integrated with scientific consultation, BCERCs were awarded to The Fox Chase Comprehensive Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan; the University of Cincinnati, Ohio; and the University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
In this review, we define the BCERC research questions and present our common conceptual framework for the etiology of breast cancer and the rationale for a focus on puberty. Then, across multiple levels of biologic, behavioral, and social organization, we highlight our current scientific understanding of the development of the normal mammary gland, the nature and action of breast cancer risk factors, and our understanding of the mechanisms of breast carcinogenesis relevant to early development. Our BCERC experimental approach is driven by the knowledge gaps in this understanding. We conclude with a description of the organization of the BCERC.
Research Questions
We explore whether exposures to environmental factors (e.g., phenols, phthalates, phytoestrogens, genistein, dietary fat, ionizing radiation, psychosocial factors) before and during puberty might set the stage for increased breast cancer risk in adulthood. Multiple hypotheses arc being tested by developing and interrogating rodent models and rodent and human cell culture systems to characterize the molecular basis of mammary gland development over the life span. We seek to determine how environmental agents may affect this development and to better understand the process of breast carcinogenesis. …


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Best Wine Bar in Palm Beach County (2012)
The Blind Monk
Dim lights, red wine, dark-chocolate-covered strawberries — all the essentials are here. Yet the Blind Monk's genius goes far beyond the menu. It's a vibe that makes you want to linger, sipping your petite Syrah, listening to a soulful guitarist strumming on a Tuesday evening. Such sumptuous yuppie havens are common in New York or Chicago, but in South Florida, the Monk is a gem. It's small, with a cozy cluster of tables and a long leather couch under a TV screen that plays classic, black-and-white flicks. No need to worry about drunks in Ed Hardy shirts stumbling or spilling Bud Light at this bar. The ceilings are high, the décor sparse. There are craft beers for your date and enough cheese and prosciutto to soak up the booze. Sit down, stay awhile. This is the perfect place to hide from the world.
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West Palm Beach FL 33401
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