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Insure.com's Anti-Gay Propaganda
Timothy Kincaid
July 11th, 2008
The trend in business relations has been towards an acceptance and welcoming of gay and lesbian clients and appreciation of them as customers. This may be because of the perception that product loyalty is particularly strong in gay consumers or because businesses generally believe that moralistic rants drive away not only gay customers but also those who love them.
Which made it all the more surprising to find that Insure.com, an online insurance purveyor, has been hosting articles that make false and defamatory statements about gay men and women.
Gay Mortality Claims
Insure.com is a publicly traded company with an advisory board ranging from a former US Senator to executives with various companies, including AT&T. The company is a major sponsor of Bill O'Reilly's radio talk show and Bill gives voice to their commercial.
In addition to selling insurance, they provide information about the insurance industry. Joe White, an employee and company blog contributor, wrote two pieces in which he claimed that "being gay" was a health risk, and not just a minor one.
In an article on the business website entitled Top five ways to kill yourself and get away with it, White lists the number one way to kill yourself:
1. Being gay. A gay lifestyle is by far the biggest risk to life expectancy that goes unrecognized by insurance companies. The question has been considered by multiple studies, and the gay lifestyle is universally acknowledged to decrease life expectancy. A conservative estimate is that a gay lifestyle takes away 8-20 years from the average lifespan.
In other words, living a homosexual lifestyle has health risks at least as severe as smoking (by some estimates even more), but due to the sensitive nature of the issue, life insurance companies don't charge different rates for gays. So gays save money on life insurance at the same rate they die young.
White bases his Number One self-killer information on another insure.com article he authored, Gay men die 20 years younger.
It's a loaded subject, but let's get right down to it: gay men, on average, die significantly younger than the rest of the population.
Vancouver Study
Part of the bases for White's wild claim is an extrapolation from a 1997 study from Robert Hogg entitled Modeling the Impact of HIV Disease on Mortality in Gay and Bisexual Men. It was based on research performed in Vancouver from 1987 through 1992. The question that they were trying to answer was not the mortality of gay men, but rather the impact that HIV might have on the gay population.
White acknowledges that this study was of HIV positive individuals but then says something curious: "Many who read the study, however, understood it to categorize the gay lifestyle as inherently hazardous."
Perhaps recognizing that "Impact" means the opposite of "inherently", White did not reveal the name of the study. Further, the only persons who read some inherent hazard into sexual orientation were anti-gay activists and writers. In fact, this so annoyed the authors that they responded to the claims of anti-gays with a letter of clarification.
Mr. White was aware of the letter; he references part of it.
In the same letter, the researchers reiterated their original claim, that a gay man in Vancouver had the same life expectancy as a Canadian man in 1870, 8-21 years shorter than the average male today.
The wording in the letter is
The aim of our research was never to spread more homophobia, but to demonstrate to an international audience how the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men can be estimated from limited vital statistics data. In our paper, we demonstrated that in a major Canadian centre, life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 21 years less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality continued, we estimated that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years would not reach their 65th birthday. Under even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this urban centre were experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by men in Canada in the year 1871.
That does sound ominous, if you stop there. Which is exactly what Mr. White chose to do. He opted to eliminate the substance of the words following this quote:
In contrast, if we were to repeat this analysis today the life expectancy of gay and bisexual men would be greatly improved. Deaths from HIV infection have declined dramatically in this population since 1996. As we have previously reported there has been a threefold decrease in mortality in Vancouver as well as in other parts of British Columbia .
It is essential to note that the life expectancy of any population is a descriptive and not a prescriptive mesaure. Death is a product of the way a person lives and what physical and environmental hazards he or she faces everyday. It cannot be attributed solely to their sexual orientation or any other ethnic or social factor. If estimates of an individual gay and bisexual man's risk of death is truly needed for legal or other purposes, then people making these estimates should use the same actuarial tables that are used for all other males in that population. Gay and bisexual men are included in the construction of official population-based tables and therefore these tables for all males are the appropriate ones to be used.
This is a most curious edit. By leaving out the above paragraphs, White leaves the reader believing exactly the opposite what the authors intended. They did not "reiterate their original claim"; rather, they reported that circumstances had changed significantly and that their statistics were no longer applicable.
While Vancouver during the late 80's may have had a large number of HIV positive individuals, and while they may have been dying young, this cannot be extrapolated to any other geographic region or time.
Paul Cameron
But Mr. White did not rely solely on the Vancouver study (with selectively eliminated information). He also based his claims on a familiar source, Paul Cameron.
In 2005, Dr. Paul Cameron, the President of the Family Research Institute, published a study in Psychological Reports that confirmed a 20-year life expectancy gap for actively gay men. Researchers performed the study by examining gay obituaries and comparing them with data from the Center for Disease Control. Both data sets put the average age of death for gay men about 20 years younger than average.
Those of us who are familiar with Cameron and his followers know that these claims are fraudulent. But others relying on White's claims might not know that Dr. Paul Cameron has been thoroughly discredited.
He has been dropped from the American Psychological Association, condemned by the Nebraska Psychological Association, the American Sociological Association, and the Canadian Psychological Association and been barred from presenting himself as an "expert" in at least one courtroom. And even the anti-gay fringe disavowed Cameron after he lauded Rudolph Höss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz, and his efforts to eradicate homosexuality.
White takes the outdated Vancouver study, combines it with Cameron's bogus "research" and declares:
this revised estimate would establish the life expectancy of gay males to be at least 20 years below average.
This classifies gay men with a graver risk of mortality than smokers and the obese—perhaps the highest mortality risk for any demographic its size.
Are there Mortality Variances?
To the best of my knowledge, there have been no serious studies that reveal any difference in average age of death between heterosexual and homosexual persons. But that does not mean that such a difference does not exist.
Various demographics of persons do have different average life expectancies.
Many factors impact life expectancy – genetics, diet, exercise, smoking, drugs and alcohol, stress, marital status, poverty, and many many more. And there are likely to be some characteristics that result from the social patterns found more often in the gay community.
But we cannot know whether the increased emphasis on diet, exercise, health, and body awareness leads to a measurable average increase in life expectancy. Nor can we know whether a higher incidence of drug use or stress related to discrimination or rejection leads to a measurable decrease. We don't even know if enough gay persons share enough stereotypical characteristics that these presumed risk factors can impact the gay population as a whole.
During the 80's and early 90's we know that deaths from AIDS related illnesses impacted the gay community much more severely than the population at large. But current drug regimens have brought the life expectancy for some HIV positive persons to be nearly that of non-infected persons. And even if there is some reduction due to HIV infection, this subpopulation is only about 15% of gay men and no measurable percentage of lesbians.
Perhaps there is some mortality variance, but neither White nor myself have any idea as to what it might be. And only a highly irresponsible insurance provider would provide to its clients "information" that is both defaming and demonstrably false.
Corporate Response
On June 1, we contacted the Robert "Bob" Bland, the CEO of Insure.com and informed him that his company was hosting articles that were factually inaccurate and based on the work of an anti-gay activist that had been discredited.
Bland responded that because the articles were based on third party studies and not original research they would require time to do fact-checking. He did not pull the articles.
We offered to provide Bland with additional information, if needed. He responded:
I may, thank you. We want to do a wider-ranging issue that is fair and balanced and include more research and debate, maybe even quotes from you and your organization.
Can you give me a list of studies or links regarding gay male life expectancy that you think may be valid? Or are you saying that there's no difference in mortality there?
We discovered that, while the 35 major life insurance companies do not ask about sexual orientation, virtually all of them immediately decline any applicant who is HIV positive, indicating to me that their actuaries have sound data showing reduced mortality for this group, just as they decline anybody who engages in risky hobbies or racing.
We provided Mr. Bland with thorough information about the invalidity of Whites sources as well as clarifying for him that HIV status does not equate to sexual orientation. He responded by repeating his "risky hobbies" comment. That was on June 12th.
On the 28th I wrote inquiring how the research was coming and whether they were going to continue to host the anti-gay articles on their site. Bland responded:
Other priorities came in front of this. This could take 1-4 more weeks as we have limited editorial resources. We've never hosted anti-homosexual articles at our site and have no corporate agenda on this issue whatsoever.
As of this writing, the Top Five Ways to Kill Yourself article is no longer at the web address. But those persons wishing to find fun insurance facts can still read that gay men die 20 years sooner, on average, than straight men. Mr. Bland has not clarified why he does not believe this to be an "anti-homosexual" article.
No doubt Insure.com does have some accurate information on their website. But considering the extent to which they are willing to accommodate and defend myth, lies, and homophobic ranting, I would be more trusting of a fast-talking guy with a bad toupee to accommodate my insurance buying needs.
See also:
Aug 15: Insure.com Pulls Cameron Quotes
Jul 17: Certified Cameronite: Insure.com
Jul 14: Insure.com CEO Defends Paul Cameron
Jul 11: Insure.com's CEO Bob Bland Responds
Jul 11: Insure.com's Anti-Gay Propaganda


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Dahlia Lithwick chats with readers about the Obamacare oral arguments.
Olav Hellevik: Where do you think justices Kennedy and Roberts stand? I read somewhere that many predict that ACA will be upheld by a vote of 6-3.
Dahlia Lithwick: After Tuesday it appeared Kennedy and Roberts were both hostile to the bill but attempting to keep an open mind. Kennedy implied that he saw how the insurance market differed from other markets. Roberts asked questions of Clement, the challengers' lawyers, but they were all framed as "the government says . . ." rather than as issues he was personally struggling with. I think most people believe that if Kennedy gets cold feet on striking down the mandate, Roberts will go with him to write the opinion as narrowly as possible, hence the 6-3. But—see Scott Lemieux, above—many people now suspect it goes down 5-4.
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Dahlia Lithwick: Go back and listen to SCOTUS on the AIA on Monday because that was really great, boring, and interesting. By end of yesterday when Scalia was giggling about who he would choose between saving himself or his wife, the chief looked ready to kill him. So yes there was a discernible sense of giddiness overtaking the gravitas. Part of that was that we had just sat through over six hours and everyone was weary (and we had eight minutes for lunch). But part of it was that the court had untethered itself somehow and you're right it was very jarring when justices were complaining about reading a bill!
Lisa Tucker McElroy: Dahlia, your coverage was stunningly good and helpful and informative. As an interested reader, you're one of my very first stops.
Dahlia Lithwick: Thanks and you are one of mine!
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Propositions are initiatives in which the people can directly vote on a law. Although not often mentioned, they can help flush out the world of GTA to create a more immersive experience. Players are unable to vote for propositions.
GTA: San Andreas
- Proposition 421
- Proposed law against smoking, which would allow a citizen to legally shoot and kill a smoker for defense. It is referenced to frequently, specifically by Maurice of "Gardening With Maurice" where he complains that he should be able to smoke it as it comes from the ground "like coal or opium".
- Proposition 602
- Proposed law to end mass-transit, converting bus-lanes and train tracks into more roads for the benefit of car owners. Can be heard frequently on SF-UR.
- Proposition 832
- Proposed law to keep immigrants (illegal aliens) out of well-paid jobs. It is advocated by B.I.G.O.T. (Ban Immigration Green Cards Outright Today): "If we give them green cards, soon they'll be just like us - overweight, unhappy, and too lazy to do menial tasks."
- Proposition 15
- Proposed law to reinstate prohibition in order to bring back jazz. It is mentioned in radio commercials.
- Proposition 208
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Although Aptera [2]'s pre-production 2e will be slightly different from the finalized vehicle, it's great to see the company on track for a release later this year. The Aptera 2e is designed to go from 0-60 in under 10 seconds, have a maximum speed of 90mph and give you around 100 miles [5] on a charge. The final cost of the vehicle is yet to be decided but is expected to be between $25,000 to $45,000, and Aptera has already received nearly 4,000 deposits
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Arrive to Rio de Janeiro. Upon arrival you will be met at the airport by an English speaking guide who will welcome you to the country, transfer you to your hotel, and be there to assist you with any questions you have. Your hotel is located on Ipanema beach, the best place in Rio de Janeiro to be based for seeing what the city has to offer. The beachfront is one of the most beautiful in the world, and the area is both a great place to spend time on the beach and to stroll through the streets. Many of Rio's best restaurants, boutiques, and cafes are located in Ipanema and neighboring Leblon. (If for any reason you prefer a different hotel in Rio, for example the Copacabana Palace, just let us know.)
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Free day in the Bahia area. You can take this day to immerse yourself in more of the city's deep culture, or we can arrange a number of different excursions outside of the city. Options include gallery visits (we can provide a list of the most respected ones if you want to visit them on your own), visits to Cachoeira (a nearby colonial town), or visits to nearby islands and bays by boat.
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Exploring the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve as above.
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By Lisa Stump, Student Senate President
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BISMARCK, ND - Happy New Year to all new and returning students and staff!
This year has been exciting as well as hectic for the senate. The Student Senate decided to wind down and close out the year with a retreat focusing on Native Leadership. We gathered on a blustery Saturday in December at Bismarcks Radisson Hotel. Thankfully, the hotel staff greeted us with steaming cups of coffee, fresh fruit and bagels.
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The definition of a random encounter is, an encounter that is not planned during the adventure. The GM rolls the dice and consults a table or just opens a monster book to a level appropriate page. The random encounter was seen as a bump, diversion or action filler for the adventure. Most players that I was acquainted with saw them as filler with no relevance to the story. This was one of the game mechanics that went out the window with encumbrance (another story) in our youth.
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The engineering core is a location on board Mothership Zeta.
The engineering core is the third area that the player encounters aboard the Mothership, and serves as a hub between numerous other locations aboard the ship, including the steamworks, hangar, cryo lab, robot assembly, cargo hold, maintenance level and engine room. Here, the player can also find several other captives who will assist the player aboard the ship. As the player progresses through the Mothership Zeta quest, the Engineering Core changes. Defenses are put up and barricades are made by the other captives; eventually a broken Nuka-Cola vending machine will show up; a teleporter to the Bridge appears near the steamworks entrance, down a corridor to the left of the Nuka-Cola machine; and a terrified alien will appear and plead for its life, only to be shot by Paulson.
The Engineering Core is one of the few rooms still available to explore after This Galaxy Ain't Big Enough... quest is complete, as most other rooms beyond it will become inaccessible. At this point, aliens will also begin to spawn occasionally in the room.
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The central power for Mothership Zeta is at the center of the map. The lower level surrounding the core has limited areas of interest.
Lower Observation Deck
The lower level is far smaller than the top level. It has a small room the Toshiro Kago sits most of them with a large window that displays the reaches of space. There is a table opposite Kago and a foot locker near that. Across the from the windows is a hallway that has some garbage in the middle of it. Through this hallway, you reach the main part of the lower floor. This has a main energy pillar in the middle of it, surrounded by capacitors. Also on this floor underneath the stairs is a bed for the player to sleep on.
Upper Observation Deck
In Kago's room is a staircase that leads up the second level. This staircase opens to a room with random junk strewn about on tables, beds and the floor. Going through a door on your right will take you to the main area with the energy pillar from the first level. This is the area where most of the captives roam. Going straight, you will head into the cryo research area, going to the right will let you into the maintenance level, robot assembly, or the engine rooms and going to the left will take you to the hangar of cargo hold.
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- There are alien captive recorded logs 5, 6, 7 and 8, beside each frozen captive.
- A Buttercup toy on the table near the windows, and on the floor above, near the powered down teleporter.
- 26 alien power cells can be found here in a box along with a Nuka-Cola Quantum.
- 2 Nuka-Cola Quantums appear in a crate with a Nuka-Cola next to a generator and rusty tricycle after exploring all of the rooms branching from the Engineering Core and destroying the generators.
- 1 mini nuke appears in the chair next to the workbench in the room that leads to the Decompression Chamber after exploring all of the rooms branching from the Engineering Core and destroying the generators.
- 1 Nuka-grenade in a bucket, on the right side of a control panel, in the room leading towards the decompressing chamber.
- Engineering core is an excellent place to store items worth keeping but that the player doesn't wish to always have in inventory, and is much safer than using abandoned houses in the Wasteland. Aliens do not steal items, so leaving unique weapons in cases or even on shelves comes with no risk of thievery. It has more than one bed and an alien workbench. This is useful after the This Galaxy Ain't Big Enough... quest is complete and the player is given control of (parts of) the ship. The ship is simply an alternative and only for aesthetic purposes.
- Loot in the Engineering Core appears in stages, depending on how many generators the player has destroyed and how many side areas have been visited. Especially notable are the Buttercup toys, which only start to appear after two or more generators have been destroyed.
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- In the room with a makeshift bed. The footlocker on the far right when looking into space is a safe place to store items.
- The toolbox next to the alien workbench is safe.
- The alien container on the bottom floor of engineering furthest from the npcs. It is too far away for them to steal from during Among the Stars and a break in the upper level railing allows one to quickly drop down on top of it while unable to jump (encumbered).
- The overturned Nuka-Cola machine.
- As you walk up the stairs above the bedding if you look down when you reach the top you can see a miniature drone holding a teddy bear.
- If you have the Child at Heart perk, talk to Sally immediately after thawing the cryotubes and you will get the option to ask Sally if she has "any good stuff hidden away". She will give you access to room near the teleporter to the bridge, which contains three containers full of non-unique alien items but is normally blocked by an energy barrier. This is also a great place to store things if you're becoming over encumbered, so that you can collect as much alien gear as you want. Note, however, that if you talk to Sally again while she's leading you to the room, she will stop and talk to you and won't open the room; the dialogue option will also no longer be available, effectively causing everything in that room to be lost to you.
- Sitting on a box at the top of the stairs is a teddy bear holding a beer and wearing brass knuckles.
- Sally can sometimes be seen drinking beer in the area above the makeshift bed.
Engineering core only appears in the Fallout 3 add-on Mothership Zeta.
- ps3 xbox360 The teleporters on this deck may stop working, while displaying the appearance of a fully active teleporter; attempts to activate them only result on a no interaction tone. This can be a fatal game glitch permanently trapping the player on the ship. as a precaution one should save on the bridge before returning to the engineering core.


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"The personal is political," the well-known slogan of the Women's Liberation Movement, continues to demand that we explore the ways in which our most intimate embodied practices, experiences, and images can be the site of politics, and alternately, how politics are carried out and enacted in the desires, affects, self-consciousness, and relationships of personal and interpersonal life. Focusing on the highly productive concepts of body, image, and power, this conference aims to engage in discussion of a number of philosophical themes, topics, and approaches that are feminist in method or that deal with the topic of feminism. How does the body stand at the juncture of the public and the private? How do our private and collective images conceal or reveal the intersections of imagination and representation? How does power operate as the conjunction of identity, knowledge, and praxis? Feminist philosophy and feminism more broadly has much to tell us about the nature of our embodiment, our imaginaries, and the power relations that structure our lived experience, and this conference welcomes papers and artwork that deal with these topics, broadly construed. While all papers addressing feminism and feminist issues, works, authors, etc. are welcome, we especially encourage papers that take on these perennial issues of feminism in a contemporary context.
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Dizziness versus Vertigo
What causes dizziness?
From what I have been told by doctors lightheadedness or dizzy spells is caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure which happens when you get out of bed too quickly or stand up too quickly. Of course there are other causes too, like drinking too much or having a bad reaction to a medication. Dehydration is also a cause of dizziness as well as diarrhea and vomiting.
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In my own case even before I knew about Meniere's disease I had bad cases of dizziness that would last a while. What caused it? Blood pressure fluctuation? Maybe, or maybe it was just a Meniere's attack or even vertigo, although I have been tested numerous times for BPPV and I don't have it.
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- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 4:38 AM
I have been told that you can have Menières and BPPV at the same time. I have experienced periods with BPPV-vertigo. These vertigo-attacks are shorter, lasts about 1 minute and they always appear while I move my head or eyes in a certain direction. I have got some exercises to get rid of the vertigo which is caused by small crystals of calcium carbonate derived inside the balance system in the inner ear. With the exercises you can re-move the chrystals back where they don´t cause vertigo. With a Menièreattack you cannot do any movements to stop the dizzieness. I think I suffer from a lot of different dizzienesses (?) and it´s hard to know the causes. A slight dizzieness is following me all the time and I also find it hard to know if that´s it or if an attack will follow.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 1:46 PM
have followed the blog for a long time, I am facing some difficult decisions in the future with menieres and what route to take. I currently go to Emory clinic in Atlanta, I have decided to reach out to dr Della Santina after reading your blog and doing some research. I will see him in march to make final decision on future treatments. It appears he holds the key with his prosthesis, talked to his office and they are hoping to start trials in next year.
If your readers/followers want me to ask him any questions I will. He also mentioned a collaboration between genvec and novartis. Apparently genvec has been able to regenerate balance and hearing cells in the inner ear and trials will start soon as well. Genvec website!!!
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Clearly, I need to check out this Genvec stuff. Thanks for the mention, Thomas.ReplyDelete
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Share your favorite U2 memory
"I literally cry at every U2 concert. There is a powerful energy that you cannot help but feel."
That's how much U2 fan Jason Siemer loves U2.
The band's fans are many and extremely devoted. When I asked for superfans last week for a story previewing the concert, I didn't anticipate all the e-mails I'd be flooded with. I'm still getting some of them. Thanks!
Some of those fans, like Siemer, are quoted in today's story about the show.
But if you weren't, here's your space to tell us why you love U2, where you're coming from to see the show, how many times you've seen them live, and your favorite U2 concert memory.
The comments are yours.
The show is likely to be special for another reason: it may be one of the last music concerts M&T Bank Stadium gets to host. The stadium concert as a concept is on the wane, as we reported last year when the U2 show was announced.
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When young people so readily joined the nation's massive outpouring of generosity following September 11, their public spiritedness came as no surprise to one group of people—the K-12 teachers who use service-learning in their classrooms. Service-learning is a teaching strategy that combines classroom curriculum with community service, to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. According to a report released recently by the National Commission on Service-Learning, chaired by former Senator John Glenn, service-learning offers the chance to actively engage young people by channeling the inclination to help others into activities that promote academic achievement.
"Even before September 11, young people in this country were looking for ways they could help other individuals, their communities, and their country," said Glenn. "The desire to make a difference runs strong in American youth, when passions are intense and the search for self-definition is at its peak. Service-learning builds on the growing willingness of students to serve their communities—and makes sure there is a high-quality academic component to that community service."
"Service-learning can help to lay the foundation for good scholarship—and good citizenship—for every young person in our country," said Glenn.
"I watched September 11 ignite in young people an incredible burst of enthusiasm for helping others," said Sharon Buddin, MetLife/NASSP National High School Principal of Year. "Service-learning is the perfect outlet for this instinct, and it has the additional benefits of engaging students in their studies and increasing academic achievement."
Service-learning stands at the intersection of civic and academic engagement. For example, Miami High School in Oklahoma is close to one of the nation's worst toxic clean-up sites and when a group of students and community members learned that children in their community had high levels of lead in their blood, they formed the Cherokee Volunteer Society to increase community awareness of the hazards of exposure to lead and other heavy metals found in local water.
The teachers at Miami High School collaborated with Cherokee tribal leaders and the Environmental Protection Agency and biology students conducted sophisticated water monitoring procedures, language arts classes engaged in creative writing essays and research projects related to toxic waste, and journalism classes tackled public relations, public-health communications and community awareness issues. The students at Miami High School reaped numerous academic benefits while helping the community.
Similarly, in West Philadelphia, a neighborhood that had been consistently undercounted by the U.S. Census, eighth graders at Turner Middle School came up with strategies to make sure that people there were fully counted. After a year-long project that applied math, social studies and language arts skills, their neighborhood had the most complete census count of any in the city.
According to Anne Bryant, Executive Director of the National School Boards Association, "Striving for high academic standards, designing assessment and accountability measures to gauge student progress—all these things are futile unless kids are motivated and energized to meet these standards. Authentic learning requires the sort of mental and emotional engagement you see employed at Miami High School and Turner Middle School."
Studies show that large numbers of young Americans are not fully engaged—intellectually or otherwise—in the teaching and learning enterprise. As many as half of all high school students find their classes boring, and substantial majorities see no particular reason to get good grades in school or to refrain from cheating on tests. Disengagement also extends to activities fundamental to democratic society, such as voting and keeping up with current events. Service-learning has proved to be a powerful antidote to student disengagement, in addition to offering the following benefits:
- Reinforces and extends the standards-based reform movement by providing real-life context for learning and giving students a sense of the practical importance of what they are learning in school
- Builds on students' willingness to become involved in service while adding an academic component to the service
- Contributes to young people's personal and career development
The National Commission on Service-Learning challenges the country to ensure that every child in a primary and secondary school participates in quality service-learning every year as an integral and essential part of the American education experience. The Commission makes four specific recommendations to achieve the broad goal of making service-learning a universal experience in American public schools: Reclaim the public purpose of education by expanding the definition of student achievement to include students' community contributions; increase policy, program and financial supports for service-learning in K-12 education; develop a comprehensive system of professional development regarding service-learning; and provide meaningful leadership roles for youth in all aspects of service-learning. The results of this comprehensive study can be explored in greater detail in the Commission's full report, which is available on their site.
About The National Commission On Service-Learning
In 2000, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, a longtime supporter of service-learning, appointed the National Commission on Service-Learning to study the current state of this practice in American schools. The Commission, chaired by former United States Senator John Glenn and co-sponsored by the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at The Ohio State University, consists of 18 education, government, and community leaders. These leaders spent a year reviewing research data, visiting schools, and questioning students, teachers, and other advocates in order to understand the prevalence and practice of service-learning.
The National Commission on Service-Learning is coordinated and staffed by EDC. The Commission is one component of the Learning In Deed initiative, a comprehensive four-year effort to expand high-quality service-learning in K-12 education. Other parts of the Learning In Deed initiative include a five-state demonstration project, a research network, and a national partnership of practitioners.
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The world is becoming smaller and smaller. I don't mean physically smaller, but rather through new technologies people are able to work together and collaborate on projects over much larger distances. It is common to have projects with people working from many different continents, and as this globalization of teams occurs there is a need for better methods of collaboration. For 3D rendering the large hardware requirements often make it more difficult to keep all team members up to date with hardware to maximize efficiency especially if the team members are continents away from your IT specialist. Enter Lagoa, an Interactive 3D Rendering & Collaboration cloud service.
Lagoa was the brain child of Thiago Costa who is well known for his Lagoa Multi-physics desktop tool he created which has been purchased and incorporated into Autodesk Softimage. Costa and his team decided to address 3D rendering with their new product because rendering is such a hardware intensive and time consuming part of the 3D production process. Any 3D artist staying up late render wrangling can attest to that. I think the part that I still have "trouble" understanding is how Thiago's team has seemed to magically bring 3D rendering into a web browser. It is absolutely astonishing to be working in a web browser like Chrome and creating test renders and moving lights, etc all with real-time feedback and realistic materials and rendering.
The industries that will find the most use for this service right now will be ones where the end product is a still image. There is no support for animation, at least not yet. Artists in the automotive, production design, or architectural visualization industries however can find a great use for this interactive collaborative renderer.
Why use it?
Lagoa was created with two ideas at its core; to make rendering accessible to everyone and available worldwide.
-No extreme hardware requirements
Maintaining hardware for 3D production can be expensive. The manner in which technology evolves and production tools are developed to take advantage of newer technology forces 3D artists to upgrade their production computers every few years. With Lagoa that need will be reduced.
The ability to log in from any computer that has a web browser with WebGL and access the same file you worked on with a different computer is fantastic. This frees up an artist, no longer tethered by a heavy production computer, to travel more or work from home if need be.
As mentioned you can log into the site and access a file that you had worked on elsewhere. However you do not have to be the only person logged into the file! More than one artist can make adjustments in a file, or simply observe the work that is being done and provide instant feedback at the same rate the user making the changes is seeing it. This will help decrease the time between iterations, and thus increase the number of iterations that can be done in the same time, and with greater iteration comes greater products. David Lesperance mentioned how important iteration is to the design process and collaborative tools included in this product are exceptional.
You really just have to dive in and test it out to believe how fast the changes update, and how fast the rendering is occurring and at what great quality.
-Free to Try
The product is free to try; there are some limitations to what a free account can do, but for testing it out and seeing results you can try it out for free.
With sites like Living Social and Evernote being hacked and having data stolen many people are hesitant to trust putting information into the cloud, and they want to make sure their information is protected well. Lagoa offers data protection as well as the ability to make projects and assets private if you do not wish the Lagoa community to have access.
Finally, I believe Lagoa will help 3D artists is by providing a manner in which to create realistically rendered images with less technical knowledge. I believe it is tools like these that will allow more time for the artistic side of images to be pushed and improved by lowering the technical burden from the 3D artist.


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DW735X Planer Features:
- Powerful 15.0 Amp, 10,000 rpm motor handles larger cuts in wider materials with ease
- Three knife cutter-head delivers 30% longer knife life and makes knife change faster and easier
- Two speed gear box allows users to change feed speed to optimizing cuts per inch at 96 or 179 CPI
- Fan-assisted chip ejection vacuums chips off of the cutter-head and exhausts them out of the machine
- 19-3/4" cast aluminum base is 2X more rigid than a standard 10" base and folding tables
- Automatic carriage lock reduces the movement that causes snipe without the need for manual engagement by the user
- Material removal gauge and extra-large thickness scale deliver accurate cuts with every pass
- Extra-large turret depth stop allows user to return to most frequently used thicknesses with ease
- Amps: 15.0 Amps
- No Load Speed: 10,000 rpm
- Max. Depth of Cut: 1/8"
- Depth Capacity: 6"
- Width Capacity: 13"
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U.S. firefighters bring fight to Afghanistan
February 20, 2011
By Spc. Edward Garibay, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
MULTI-NATIONAL BASE TARIN KOT, Afghanistan - On Sep. 11, 2001 a series of terrorist attacks brought down the Twin Towers killing thousands of innocent people including hundreds of New York City firefighters.
Almost ten years later, U.S. firefighters are still carrying on the memory of their fallen brothers and fighting against terrorism in Afghanistan alongside all of the coalition's military forces.
A group of 22 firefighters from all over the country have joined together to form the Tarin Kot Fire Department and support the mission in Afghanistan.
The TKFD provides fire protection for every nation on Multi-National Base Tarin Kot and provides assistance during rocket attacks, vehicle accidents and medical emergencies.
"It lets the Soldiers do what Soldiers do," said George J. Chambers III, chief of the TKFD and Hillsboro, Tenn. native. "Some people may think I'm nuts, but I like what I'm doing and I get to serve my country again."
Chambers is a retired Air Force firefighter and has been in Afghanistan since Oct. 2010, when the group of U.S. firefighters took over the fire department from the Dutch.
Dominic Ahmee, a firefighter on Chambers' crew recalled one of the biggest fires they put out, just two weeks after arriving in Afghanistan.
"A bunch of [Afghan National Army] tents had caught on fire," said the Kailua Kona, Hawaii native. "We did a quick offensive on it with Army firefighters hitting it from one side with roof turrets while the rest of our fighters attacked the other side putting out spot fires."
With a quick effort from both teams, the fire was extinguished just moments before a tent with the unit's mortar rounds caught fire.
"If that would have caught, it would have been a bad day," said Chambers.
Besides fighting fires, the TKFD also participates in humanitarian efforts. Any time an Afghan child becomes injured, members of the TKFD will go to the hospital and bring them toys as part of a Toys-For-Tots program.
Ahmee said it's amazing to see how much of an impact something so small can have on someone.
The firefighters also donate their own clothing to wounded Afghans who come through the hospital, said Michael Muston, a firefighter for TKFD and Austin, Texas native.
"When some of the wounded come in they have pretty much all their stuff cut off of them," said Muston, a former Army Reserve firefighter. "Just being able to help them out that way is a big thing."
Despite all of the action and activity, the best part of his job is when he can go to bed at night knowing nobody got hurt that day, said Chambers.
"When everybody comes home with ten fingers and ten toes, I can rest easy and we can wake up do it all over again," he said.


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Hornets edge Falcons to start the season
Friday, December 3, 2010
There's nothing like getting the season started off on the right foot.
For Blair Oaks, it was nearly a perfect night.
But the Fulton Hornets were a little too strong and wanted it a little bit more in the end, as they were able to win three of the last four matches to pull off a 39-32 win Thursday.
"They're Class 2 and we're Class 1 and they're rated fifth (in the state) and deservedly so," Blair Oaks coach Tim Karsten said after the Falcons split a triangular with Fulton and New Bloomfield. "They have eight really tough kids."
Blair Oaks handled New Bloomfield in the final dual of the night. The Wildcats were open at 11 spots, which gave the Falcons 66 easy points. New Bloomfield was pinned in the three other matches at 125, 140 and 285.
But the Falcons didn't get that kind of gift from Fulton, which was only open at 119. The Hornets ripped off four wins against Blair Oaks in the lid-lifter, which started at 145.
Blair Oaks did make a few changes to its starting lineup, as everybody projected to start from 152-189 was shifted up one weight class.
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07 Jan. 2014
Berlin Trade Show Preview: Ethical Fashion Show
The fifth edition of Ethical Fashion Show (EFS) will once again host the latest collections from the fields of eco street- and casualwear for women, men and children as well as shoes, accessories and lifestyle products from that sector. Around 85 international brands including Format, Elementum, Sey Organic Jeans, Studio Lux and John W. Shoes will be exhibiting in the halls C and F of Berlin's E-Werk, Wilhelmstraße 43, from January 14-16.
'Peak…' is the keyword for the various presentations and discussion-rounds at the Ethical Fashion Show - relating to the fact that "the peak" has been reached and the global economy is now challenged to change its ways of thinking. The exhibitors at EFS want to demonstrate new business models with a clear focus on ecology and ethics.
This season The Netherlands will be the Eco Design partner of EFS Berlin and will simultaneously run Greenshowroom. The exhibitions will focus on Dutch eco design.
Moreover, there will be bicycle taxis and a low-emission shuttle service provided by Mercedes-Benz, which will connect EFS at E-Werk with the Greenshowroom at Kronprinzenpalais, Premium at Gleisdreieck and the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week tent at Brandenburger Tor on all three days to enable visitors to switch between locations easily.
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