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A group of Ohio House Democrats wants Congress to move quickly and grant statehood to Puerto Rico, which has been a U.S. possession since the Spanish-American War ended in 1898. The Ohioans do not say where the star should go on a redesigned American flag, but they said statehood would "respect the rights of self-governance through consent of the governed of our fellow United States citizens residing in Puerto Rico."
The chief sponsor of the resolution, H.C.R. 57, is State Rep. Dan Ramos of Lorain, a northern Ohio city where about 25 percent of the 64,000 residents are Hispanic. Lorain is considered the most Hispanic city in Ohio, and nearly 20 percent of its population claims Puerto Rican descent. The resolution urging statehood was introduced this week in the Ohio House where it likely faces an uncertain future. The current term of the legislature is scheduled to end in December, and it has no Republican co-sponsors. The GOP controls the House, which means that Democratic proposals often get bottled up or receive short shrift.
Earlier this month, a slight majority of Puerto Ricans voted in favor of statehood for the Caribbean Island. It was the first time a statehood referendum has won there, and the non-binding vote was seen as signaling that many Puerto Ricans appear ready to end the island's status as a U.S. commonwealth. The move by the Ohio House Democrats also appears aimed at cementing the party's support among Hispanic voters. Some 70 percent of Hispanics backed the Democrats and President Obama on Election Day, and Hispanics are emerging as a key bloc with increasing power at the ballot box.
With the exception of State Rep. Alicia Reece, a Cincinnati Democrat, all of the other House Democrats backing the statehood resolution are from Columbus or further north in Ohio. The resolution urges Congress to take swift action "towards admitting the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to the Union as a State." Statehood decisions are up to Congress. The Ohio resolution points out that Puerto Ricans are already U.S. citizens (although they cannot vote in presidential elections), and that many serve in the U.S. military. A 1917 law granted residents U.S. citizenship.
There is a historical footnote involving Cincinnati in Puerto Rico's fate. Former
GOP President William Howard Taft, a Cincinnatian who went on to serve
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the 1920s, delivered a major
legal decision in 1922 that helped keep Puerto Rico separate. Taft
said the congressional act that conferred citizenship on the islanders
did not contemplate that they would be incorporated into the Union. He ruled the U.S. possession had never been designated for statehood. Taft gave the island a unique status that has been described as a commonwealth, or as it is said in Spanish, "Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico."
President Barack Obama announced a new trade action against China during a Cincinnati campaign stop on Monday, where he also took the opportunity to attack Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
The U.S. filed the case at the World Trade Organization on Monday and claims that China offers "extensive subsidies" to native automakers and auto-parts producers.
The Chinese government filed its own complaint before the WTO on Monday, challenging tariffs the U.S. imposes on Chinese products ranging from steel to tires. The tariffs are meant to protect American manufacturers against what the U.S. government claims are unfair trade practices by China.
"(The U.S. action is) against illegal subsidies that encourage companies to ship auto part manufacturing jobs overseas," Obama said before an estimated crowd of 4,500 at the Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park. "These are subsidies that directly harm working men and women on the assembly lines in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest."
"It's not right, it's against the rules, and we will not let it stand. American workers build better products than anyone. 'Made in America' means something. And when the playing field is level, America will always win."
Obama went on to criticize his Republican challenger, saying Romney made his fortune in part by uprooting American jobs and shipping them to China. Obama accused Romney — who has criticized Obama's foreign policy, saying the president apologizes for American interests — of talking the talk without being able to walk the walk.
The Romney campaign countered with an email after the rally, saying that Obama's economic policies were hurting the private sector and harmed manufacturing.
"The President's misguided, ineffective policies have hampered the private sector and allowed China to flaunt the rules while middle-class families suffer," Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg wrote.
"As president, Mitt Romney will deliver a fresh start for manufacturers by promoting trade that works for America and fiscal policies that encourage investment, hiring and growth."
The email pointed to reports from Bloomberg finding that manufacturing and production have shrunk recently.
Before the Obama rally several Ohio Republicans held a news conference behind a Romney campaign bus near Eden Park, where they focused more on the deficit than foreign trade.
U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot said it was "laughable" that Obama considers himself a budget hawk. He pointed to the decline in budget negotiations between the president and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, saying Obama "walked away" from talks with Speaker John Boehner.
"Basically as president from that time last August until now, it's been all politics," Chabot said.
Chabot also attacked Obama on foreign policy, claiming the president has left Israel hanging in the Middle East and is not serious with Iran, who he says is on the brink of getting nuclear weapons.
The president in his speech said he did have a plan to reduce the federal deficit, and would reduce it by $4 trillion over the next 10 years without raising taxes on the middle class.
Monday's visit to Cincinnati was Obama's second of this campaign and his 12th trip to Ohio this year. Romney has visited the state 18 times during his campaign.
Obama was scheduled to fly to Columbus Monday afternoon for a campaign appearance there.
The Ohio Ballot Board on Thursday approved new summary language for Issue 2, which would take the decennial redistricting out of the hands of politicians and task a nonpartisan commission with redrawing congressional lines. The Dispatch reports that the new summary removes factual inaccuracies and included previously omitted information about who would select members of the new citizens commission. Secretary of State and Ballot Board Chairman Jon Husted said the board tried to make the language as generic and concise as possible, but Democrats and voter advocates say the new language is too long and technical and would confuse voters.
Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld became the first elected official in the nation to host an online town hall. The Enquirer reports that Sittenfeld is taking questions on the online tool CrowdHall and by next Friday will have answered them via text or video. He is also asking Cincinnatians to post suggestions as to how they would balance the budget or spend the new casino revenue.
Rush Limbaugh on Thursday theorized that Al Qaeda colluded with President Barack Obama to give up Osama bin Laden to help Obama look good and win reelection.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney defines "middle income" as $200,000 to $250,000 a year. The Associated Press reports that Romney made the comments during an interview broadcast Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." The Census Bureau meanwhile reported this week that the median household income is just over $50,000. CityBeat's reporting staff wishes management would promote us to middle income level.
Speaking of ABC, they're being sued by Beef Products Inc. for $1.2 billion over a report of the beef filler "pink slime." The beef company says the defaming report disparaged the safety of pink slime.
Obama again apologized for America called Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and called on him and the Muslim Brotherhood to stand with Washington against protesters who are attacking the U.S. Embassy in what The New York Times called a "blunt phone call."
Jimmy Kimmel took the iPhone 4S onto the streets, telling people it was the new iPhone 5, proving that Apple cultists enthusiasts will love anything the company puts out.
"The Republicans who are informally auditioning would each bring different strengths — and drawbacks — to the presidential ticket.
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman supported Romney early, has a solid rapport with the candidate and hails from Ohio, a critical battleground state that could decide the election. But he wouldn't necessarily appeal directly to Hispanic or women voters.
(Louisiana Gov. Bobby) Jindal, the Louisiana governor, could help Romney turn out the religious right and would add diversity to the ticket as an Indian-American, but he struggled during a national debut rebutting the 2010 State of the Union address.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell appeals to social conservatives but signed a controversial state law that requires Virginia women to have ultrasounds before having an abortion.
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who's campaigned frequently with Romney, could help with female voters and in her swing state of New Hampshire. But she's from New England, the same region of the country as Romney, while (New Jersey Gov. Chris) Christie, a conservative favorite who can work a crowd, is from New Jersey.
(Florida Sen. Marco) Rubio could bring Florida, always a deciding factor in a general election, and appeal to Hispanics, a fast-growing voting bloc, but he's run into some trouble over a foreclosed home and possible misuse of an official credit card. And Ryan is a serious, leading policy mind with a bright future — and a brand name that's directly tied to a controversial budget that would make major changes to Medicare."
Meanwhile, Romney says Obama doesn't even understand free
A Columbus tavern owner has lost his freedom isn't free battle in the Ohio Supreme Court, which yesterday unanimously ruled that the state's smoking ban is constitutional. The owner of Zeno's Victorian Village had racked up thousands of dollars in fines after 10 citations for violating the ban from July 2007 and September 2009. The state has reportedly threatened to seize the bar if the fines are not paid.
Meteorologists say after this weekend's heat wave this spring could be the hottest on record.
The Reds defeated the Atlanta Braves last night on a Todd Frazier walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. It was the Reds' fifth straight win, and they're currently a half game behind St. Louis for first place in the division.
The Pakistan conviction of the Osama bin Laden doctor who helped the CIA find him is not going over well with the U.S. government. Pakistani authorities sentenced Shakeel Afridi to 33 years in prison for treason, and Afridi was not entitled to representation, though he has a right to appeal. The U.S. has threatened to cut aid to the country, arguing that informants work against al-Qaeda and not Pakistan.
Britain's recession is worse than expected, as the country's economy shrunk by .3 percent during the first quarter.
The SpaceX shuttle passed some tests necessary to move forward with its landing on the International Space Station Friday morning. President Obama called the company's CEO to congratulate him and he answered despite thinking it might be a telemarketer.
John Malkovich is in the latest Apple advertisement for Siri, during which Malkovich gets some life advice. The ads follow those released starring Hollywood actors Zooey Deschanel and Samuel Jackson last month.
• Court rulings allow the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s heir to own and control his "I Have a Dream" speech to the 1963 march. Anyone wanting to use more than a few words must pay. My first reaction was "WTF? It was a public event in a public place and a public speech to the public. That can be 'owned'? Yup.
• Stenographic reporting of the so-called debate over whether to bomb Syria back into the Stone Age helps build acceptance for a new war. Similarly, assertions that Assad's forces gassed civilians are repeatedly reported as evidence or proof.
As of this writing, reporters have quoted no top Obama administration official willing to offer evidence or proof. Instead, as evidence, we have unverified videos online and interpretations of what the images show. Reporters don't tell us who provided death figures or who provided information that White House is using the claim Sarin gas was used.
• Meanwhile, the constitutional expectation that only Congress can declare war has suffered the same fate as the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable seizures and searches; dying if not dead.
Germany and Japan attacked us. Congress responded for the most recent time: 1942. Russia's surrogate attacked our dictator across the 38th Parallel in 1950 and triggered the still-unresolved Korean police action. LBJ was conned or knowingly lied about reported 1964 attacks on American warships in the Tonkin Gulf and moved us into the undeclared Vietnam War. Luckily, Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait in1990 and started Gulf War I. The CIA's totally mistaken 2002 "slam dunk" assurance about Weapons of Mass Destruction was used by Bush to justify undeclared Gulf War II. After 9/11, Afghans sheltered Osama bin Laden before our allies in Pakistan sheltered him and that was used to justify our unfinished and undeclared war against the Taliban in both countries although the Taliban never attacked us. Let's not even get into the invasion of Panama or Grenada or fiasco in Somalia. All that's missing in this latest rush to bash a hornets nest is a repeat of the New York Times sycophantic reporting that Saddam Hussein had and would use weapons of mass destruction.
• If you want a weapon of mass destruction, how about the AK-47, the totemic Soviet assault rifle that is ubiquitous on every continent or the simple machete/panga with which millions have been and are being murdered and/or mutilated. No chemical, biological or nuclear weapon has killed so many people.
• When will some national reporter ask, "What's surgical about a surgical strike?" Nothing unless we're comparing it to carpet bombing a la Germany, Japan, Laos or Vietnam.
Other than assassinating Assad with a drone-launched guided missile — good enough for Americans in Yemen — any attack on Syria will create "collateral" damage. They used to be called innocent victims, sort of like French civilians killed by Allies' D-Day bombing.
"Surgical strike" is a debasement of the language. I'm surprised that surgeons — whose marketing mavens constantly promote ever-smaller and more precise bodily invasions — don't ask the Pentagon to abandon the phrase, "surgical strike."
However, it's no mystery why news media are willing, even eager to echo this desensitizing insider language. It recalls "RPG," "IED," "smart bombs," "boots on the ground" and similar military language embraced by civilian reporters for their civilian audiences. Except those buzz words weren't for civilian audiences; it was how reporters assured military sources that journalists were savvy and sympathetic listeners.
"Surgical strikes" serves us as badly as reporting unsupported assertions and assumptions as fact. Accurately reported bullshit is still bullshit.
• Accurate reporting requires context. Why is gassing hundreds of Syrian civilians in Damascus worse than shooting and killing as many or more civilians about in and around Cairo? Why is the killing and wounding of thousands in Cairo worse than endlessly raping, wounding, mutilating and killing millions of civilians in the horribly misnamed Democratic Republic of Congo?
• Our selective condemnation of poison gas recalls the 11th-century papal ban of the cross bow; peasant crossbowmen could kill armored knights from an unmanly and impersonal distance. That also was bad for the social order. Welsh bowmen faced no such opprobrium although their arrows killed far more mounted knights.
Jump ahead almost a millennium. There is debate on what is a chemical weapon and not all gasses — think tear gas — are poisonous. Poison gas was used infrequently but without sanction during the past 100 years.
Germans and the British gassed each other during World War I. Communists were accused of using poison gas during Russian Civil War. Italians gassed native troops in Ethiopia in the 1930s in years when colonial powers were suspected/accused of gassing rebellious native troops. Japanese gassed Chinese during early World War II. Egyptians gassed Yemeni forces in the 1960s but Americans denied using toxic/blister gasses in Vietnam and Laos. Iraq deployed lethal gas against its own people and Iranian forces in the insane Iraq-Iran 1980s war. Politicians and UN officials fulminate against gassing civilians but they only remind us how selective agony and journalism can be.
• No less authority than President Obama relegated the comparative to the dustbin of grammar. His speech at the Lincoln Memorial last week praised King and other civil rights activists, saying "Because they marched, America became more free and more fair." True, but I'll bet King would have said, "freer and fairer."
• Everyone's lauding David Frost's evocative interviews with disgraced Richard Nixon after he resigned the presidency. He died after a heart attack on Saturday.
My memory of Frost is different: TW3, the original That Was the Week that Was on BBC TV. It was as irreverent as posh Brits from Oxbridge could be and Frost was a central figure in its creation in 1962 and weekly broadcasts until it was cancelled to avoid criticism as the 1964 general election neared. Two skits stand out in my memory, in part because my Saturday night duties at UPI included watching and filing a story on anything newsworthy that TW3 did/said.
The first showed an otherwise empty set with seemingly naked Millicent Martin, then young and drop-dead lovely, astride and leaning over the back of a curvy, modern Arne Jacobsen chair. It was the same pose call girl Christine Keeler used when photographed during the scandal over her affair with government minister John Profumo. You can see the original Keeler image at www.vam.ac.uk. Martin resembled Keeler just as Tina Fey looked like Sarah Palin. Martin looked straight at the camera and said something like, "John told me I was sitting on a fortune." That was it. Perfect lampoon but there was no way to use that skit on UPI's wire.
The second memorable skit followed the apparent TW3 and BBC late night sign-off. A De Gaulle look alike, right down the uniform and kepi on his head, addressed the Brits contemptuously over some strategic or diplomatic blunder. Then the broadcast ended. That skit was newsworthy. BBC said its switchboard operators — remember, this was the early 1960s — were overwhelmed. Seemed the perfect jab at the Establishment by its children fooled a lot of Brits; they thought BBC really had broadcast a De Gaulle speech.
• On a celebratory note, authorities dropped charges against Tim Funk, religion reporter for the Charlotte Observer, who arrested while he interviewed "Moral Monday" demonstrators at the Statehouse in Raleigh, NC. He was charged with second-degree trespass and failure to disperse.
Tim's a Northern Kentuckian and among the ablest of decades of my undergraduate students. After the local prosecutor came to his senses, Tim told the AP, "It was clear to everyone there that I was a news reporter just doing my job interviewing Charlotte-area clergy about how they felt about being arrested. The reporter's job is to be the eyes and ears of the public who can't be present at important public events like this protest. That's all I was doing."
When his June 10 arrest was reported, at least one respondent noted that Tim was among the first detained, stopping him from seeing how police handled demonstrators.
His editor, Rick Thames, told AP, "This is clearly the right result, and we congratulate the district attorney for making the right decision. Tim Funk was working as a journalist inside the most obvious public building in our state. The videotape of Tim's arrest demonstrates clearly that his only purpose in being there was to provide our readers a vivid firsthand account. He was clearly not obstructing the police. It's hard to understand why he was arrested in the first place."
• Cincinnati taxpayers need to know more about competing — and inescapably costly — plans to overcome years of city council shortchanging the city pension fund. The news isn't good. As the Enquirer's James Pilcher put it Sunday, "if every man,woman and child living in the city of Cincinnati contributed $2,000 apiece, it still wouldn't be enough to fill the plan's current $870 million gap."
There's a timeline with his explanatory story that screams for elaboration: What, if any, roles did mayoral candidates Roxanne Qualls and John Cranley play in council decisions to deepen the pension debt?
And I howled at the quote from state auditor Dave Yost: " . . . the city is in a fork in the road . . . And I'm concerned Cincinnati is not doing enough to avoid going down that fork in the road."
Don't try this at home. Sort of like standing with a foot on each side of a barbed wire fence. Reminds me of a friend who'd look right, point left and say, "Go this way."
Maybe with Yost's sense of direction, Cincinnati should consider the road not taken.


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|Another Perspective
|Written by Lori Pankonin, The Imperial Republican
Attitude plays huge part with unexpected changes
It's amazing how attitude is the key to how life progresses when there's a
change in the plan. Weather can often times be that change. And we should all know by now that we have no control over Mother Nature. So if weather throws a curve, you have a choice to get angry or to just deal with it.
We had planned a staff party with families at Enders Lake. Preparation happened as planned, and people started arriving. Horse shoes were flying in some intense competition. The wind invited itself as did the bugs, but the sun was shining and relaxing had begun.
I was gathering some things at the cabin when the wind picked up and it was looking rather nasty. Should I go on down to the beach or will everyone be coming up? The "relaxing" setting was becoming less and less of a reality.
I did join the group on the beach and we soon found ourselves rather cozy as we all crowded under the sun shade. It had suddenly turned into a storm shelter, a sideless one. Some of the horse shoe competitors kept at their concentration despite the heavy rain and some of the kids kept swimming, putting extra lifejackets over their heads to eventually dodge the pounding ice. It was just a new venture for them, no hindrance in play time.
Despite having shelter under the sun shade, when nylon was adjusted to better hold the protection, the stored water went gushing over the edge, soaking some of the guests. Again, attitude plays in. You can react in disgust or laugh and remain with the party in a more dampened state.
One of our guests had on a hat and by placing a towel over that, he had his own unique shelter which would have been a great picture opp, if only any of our journalist group would have had a camera.
The rain stopped, then returned, then stopped, then returned, then stopped. And it was gorgeous!! The lake became much more inviting and the boats were put into action, bringing laughs and more fun times. The evening setting was excellent for a steak barbecue and the bugs were dampened by the storm. All was good.
Meanwhile within 10 miles away, the hail was MUCH more severe. Combines were literally in the fields when a demolishing wall approached, thereby destroying crops and equipment in the fields and vehicles, windows, gardens and roofs on the home front.
This wasn't just a party setting, it was their livelihood. But I heard from more than one affected family . . . "It could be worse." What a great attitude. Yet, what other options do you have but to accept it?
The same holds true for the opening event of Imeprial's 125th anniversary celebration. Hours had been spent by committee members erecting a large tent and making a patriotic stage setting, providing ample seating and a neat atmosphere with lots of decorative flower pots.
Contestants for the cake decorating contest stood at their respective tables awaiting the "Go" call to begin their creative work. Whoa! At that final moment, plans were confirmed that the project would have to move inside. And move inside it did.
Tables, cakes and decorative items were moved within minutes. And the rain came down in bucket loads. No, the setting wasn't as pleasant inside, especially since it was hot with no air moving. After all, there hadn't been a plan to gather fans for a place that would have been empty and closed up had Mother Nature not stepped in.
People are affected by extreme heat, but you might guess what it does to frosting. Contestants were patient even though some questioned if their masterpieces would hold up through the judging time.
Imaginations were amazing. Talent and creativity were impressive and despite the sudden change in conditions, good attitudes made the fellowship in the whole event happen. The show must go on. And it did!
The evening program moved back outside where we met one of Imperial's founder's great grandsons and heard some inspiration from Miss Nebraska.
Attitude. How do you respond to an unexpected situation? You have a choice. Find the bright side or moan. I recommend looking for that silver lining!


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Golfing enthusiast can look forward to an exciting game of golf when Protea Hotel Ranch Resort Golf Course will host their first night golf on 11 December.
It is the perfect time for those leaving on holiday or those staying home to start the holiday season with a blast.
Sport, Team Building and Leisure Manager at the Ranch, Nico Myburgh said the game will start at 18:30 with a R250 entry fee per player. "Those who register a four ball will get 10% discount. There is only place for 12 four balls and the game consists of 12 holes with a shotgun start," Myburgh said.
The entry fee includes a two course dinner but the glowing golf balls are available to purchase or rent. Prizes will be allocated to the three top teams.
"Golf is mostly a solitary game of you and the elements, but there are some games you can play within the sport to make it more interesting, a game of night golf is the ultimate fun you can have," Myburgh said.
Myburgh added that all greens, hazards, pin, cup and player will be indicated by luminous glow sticks.
For more information contact Myburgh at the Ranch on 015 290 5000 or 076 342 7974.
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(WXIA) -- Looking for something fun to do this weekend? The 11Alive Help Desk found a variety of events for the sports, science and circus enthusiasts in your life.
The Atlanta Supercross is speeding into the Georgia Dome on Saturday, February 23. Supercross features teams of speed bike racers navigating their way through excitingly steep jumps and hills made on dirt tracks.
The (29-23) Atlanta Hawks will face the (19-36) Sacramento Kings at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, February 22 at Philips Arena. Head down to the arena to cheer on the Hawks with the help of Harry the Hawk.
Keep dry from the rain this weekend under the big top of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey 'Dragons!' tour taking place Friday, February 22 through Sunday, March 3 at the Arena at Gwinnett Center. The tour is a one-of-a-kind circus experience featuring dragons from various tribes along with the usual circus suspects: clown alley, Kung Fu Kings, and the Panifilov cat troupe.
'Discover the Dinosaurs' will be at the North Atlanta Trade Center from Friday, February 22 to Sunday, February 24. This event features 60 animatronic dinosaur replicas and encourages families to touch the dinosaur on display. Opportunities to ride on the back of a tyrannosaurus rex replica and dig for fossils will be sure to entertain kids of all ages.


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May 8, 2012—North Central College anthropology major Jessica Pantel of Beach Park, Ill., has been awarded the College's 2012 Gloria Levitt Scholarship for Anthropology.
Pantel, a junior, interned with The Field Museum in Chicago during winter term and was awarded the $1,000 scholarship for her work with the museum. The award was announced May 1 when Gloria Levitt, associate registrar in The Field Museum's Department of Anthropology, hosted a talk at North Central about career opportunities in sociology and anthropology.


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Andy Murray has released his official 2010 calendar and it features the Brit in all kinds of guises - including shirtless ones.
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Woodbridge, Va. (WUSA9) -- Volunteer Firefighters battled a town house fire at 15372 Grist Mill Terrace early Tuesday morning.
Firefighters say the fire was located in a second floor bedroom and was under control within five minutes.
Fire officials say the cause of the fire is currently unknown.
They called American Red Cross who assisted the occupants with temporary housing.
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COMMON BRAND NAME(S): Tarceva
This medication is used to treat lung cancer. Erlotinib is also used with another medication to treat pancreatic cancer. It works by slowing cancer cell growth. It binds to a certain protein (epidermal growth factor receptor-EGFR) in some tumors. Erlotinib belongs to a class of drugs known as kinase inhibitors.
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This medicine may increase your risk of stomach bleeding. Limit alcoholic beverages.
Sunlight may worsen any skin reactions that may occur while you are taking this drug. Avoid prolonged sun exposure, tanning booths, and sunlamps. Use a sunscreen and wear protective clothing when outdoors.
This drug is not recommended for use during pregnancy. It may cause harm to an unborn baby or miscarriage. Women of childbearing age should use reliable form(s) of birth control during treatment and for at least 2 weeks following the end of treatment with this drug. Consult your doctor for more details.
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I found one of these at one of the big camping and outdoors mega stores the other day. About a hundred bucks and only 9.1 ounces. If your looking ultra, ultra, ultra light. This might be it. I've never used one but reading this page reminded me of this thing.
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But it's for a good cause...
The ends and means of mission fundraising
"But it's for a good cause..." Continued...
Although it's still September, the make-or-break Thanksgiving fundraising season already has begun for hundreds of Christian inner-city missions to the homeless! Staffers at these missions are often among the most dedicated and self-sacrificial evangelicals to be found anywhere. They show Christ's love to alcoholics and drug addicts and irresponsible men and women who, staggering in from the streets, do not appear particularly lovable. They typically work long hours for short pay and receive neither the honor nor financial support that their work deserves.
The financial battle is tiring, especially since many potential contributors do not understand what the real struggle is. Finding food is often the least of a mission director's worries; plenty of supermarkets donate their surpluses. Helping men and women with good attitudes is also easy; there's almost always a job for someone who can politely say "yes, sir," or "no, ma'am." The tricky part is feeding the souls, not just the bodies, of those who look like they have seven demons inside them. The challenge lies in changing attitudes about God, about work, about commitment-and that's a much more time-consuming and expensive proposition than merely providing "three hots and a cot."
If you were a mission director, seeing what needs to be done, and frustrated at the difficulty in making contributors understand, wouldn't you consider maximizing your fundraising by playing into clich's about the homeless? If you could raise the most money by making a well-fed Christian believe that his contribution will keep a person from going hungry on Thanksgiving, wouldn't you consider sending out such an appeal? You would not be lying, you would merely be moving a potential giver's emotional levers-and the money would be going to a very good cause.
Here is JAY GRELEN's examination of some urban mission fundraising.
The Gospel Rescue Ministry's heart-rending Countdown to Thanksgiving appeal letter has arrived at 100,000 homes in the Washington, D.C., area. The letter, dated August 20, 1997, is signed by Nate Jones, food service manager, who showed up at the mission from New Orleans 29 months ago with pneumonia and a drug addiction. The letter attracted the interest not only of potential contributors but also the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, which was in the midst of investigating the fundraising practices of the ministry that runs one of Washington's great institutions, the Gospel Mission.
An ECFA compliance review team visited the mission and will present its findings to the ECFA Standards Committee at its meeting in Colorado Springs in October. While the compliance review team's report and findings are not yet available, ECFA president Paul Nelson said this latest mailing, created by the Russ Reid Company, could not be defended. Mr. Nelson's opinion does not constitute an official finding.
While the ECFA review involves only the Washington ministry, its findings may have an impact on scores of groups, many of which mailed out the same letter. The attention to fundraising practices comes as the crucial but short holiday campaigns begin. During this season missions raise 50 to 75 percent of their money for the entire year. It is the missions' equivalent of television's sweeps week, during which missions bring out their most emotional tales. "If you don't win Thanksgiving," says Gary Millspaugh of the Allentown Rescue Mission in Pennsylvania, "you lose."
The August appeal letter was what's known in the trade as a "fill the pantry" letter. Appropriately, it was sent out over the signature of the food services manager. "It's my job to get the food on the table every day," Nate Jones writes. "I'm concerned because I expect to feed more hungry folks this holiday season than ever before ... and I have a large pantry that needs to be filled."
The letter describes a grocery list for the Thanksgiving meal that includes 300 pounds of turkey, 3,000 rolls, 150 gallons of milk, and 900 pies. The letter does not note that most of the food served at the mission at Thanksgiving-and year round, for that matter-is donated. Edward J. Eyring, ministry executive director, says his appeal letters raise about $800,000 per year, and that he spends about $31,000 for food. The other $300,000 worth of food is donated.
The letter also includes some moving words from Mr. Jones about Steve: "My biggest concern is for the people who will come through our doors during the holiday season, especially guys like Steve ... When you first meet him, you wonder how someone so kind and gentle could lead the kind of life Steve has." Nate describes the horrors and tragedies of Steve's life, how his family didn't want him back after his release from prison.
The letter does not note that Nate Jones did not write it. He told WORLD that it was shown to him, and he only skimmed it. A signature appears over his typed name, but Mr. Jones says he did not sign it. The letter certainly suggests that Nate Jones knows Steve well, but Mr. Jones says he knows no details of Steve's life and is not certain he ever talked to Steve.
Readers of the letter might be further surprised to learn Steve is a well-traveled transient. He shows up in an almost identical letter-different only in the grocery list-in an appeal mailed on behalf of a Russ Reid client mission in Miami. The signature over food service manager Michael's name looks suspiciously like Nate's. An identical person named Alex, with word-for-word the same life story as Steve, has aroused the concern of food service manager Steve Engleman (who signs his letter in the same hand as Nate and Michael) at a Los Angeles mission, which is also a client of Russ Reid's.
Peter Arnold of Russ Reid said he did not know how many missions used the campaign, but acknowledged that the letter using the kitchen chief was the August campaign. He declined to release samples of the letter, or the master copy on which the individual campaigns were based. Steve, in fact, was a client of a mission in Albuquerque, N.M., where his story and full name appeared in a 1993 newspaper story.
When Paul Nelson, president of ECFA, examined a copy of the letter that WORLD sent to him, he said, "ECFA distances itself from this letter."
"As I read the letter, and because of what we know about this issue, as much as we have worked on this issue, this is a letter I cannot defend.... You have what is like a smoking gun here. You've got evidence that appears to be very convicting.... We will probably require an accounting of how much money came in from this letter, and how much of this money was actually used for food."
Mr. Nelson said if donations outrun expenses for food, he believes the letter could possibly be in violation of ECFA standards. "We know from our own investigation, when you get into issues that pull at the heartstrings of the public, and therefore bring money in, food certainly is that." He noted that the letter says, "'Send money so that we can fill our pantry.' We believe that for many of the missions in this arena much of the food is donated, and a lesser amount of food is purchased to supplement that which is donated."
The technical term for raising money in these ways is "oversubscription," with money raised above the specific need spent on general ministry expenses.
"There's nothing wrong with spending money on general expenses," Mr. Nelson says, but he is disturbed by "the premise upon which they raised that money. They created a restriction that says this money will be used to buy food for the Thanksgiving season."
A disclaimer printed on the back of the letter, at the bottom of the page, in small type, did inform readers that surplus money would be spent throughout the year to "care for the hungry and homeless."
Mr. Nelson contends, however, "that's not enough. If you go into an issue where you almost know before this letter is sent out that that's what's going to happen, a disclaimer doesn't get it done.
"We are long-suffering and will work with organizations, but truth is truth, man," he added. "If we can't uphold that without cleverly worded things ... then we're not doing our jobs. The standards committee, I'm sure, will look at this very seriously"-including the question of Nate Jones's signature.
Stever Burger, president of the International Union of Gospel Missions, is a member of the committee that approves the Russ Reid letters that go out for participating IUGM ministries. "I think that that could be said better than the way it's said. Let me tell you that I am sure that it will be. Somethimes I think that we need somebody on the other side of the fence to say, 'Look, is this clear?' We have worked real hard to be clear and to use words that give the sense that this person was helped by a mission, but not necessarily that one. This obviously is in the gray area. I'm committed to making sure that this gets fixed."
In an effort to gauge the popularity of fundraising as practiced by Russ Reid and the Gospel Rescue Ministry, WORLD contacted more than half of the missions who are members of ECFA. Among the 25 who responded to the survey, fundraising philosophies varied greatly, although all said appeals should be honest and not manipulative. The survey found that six of the missions use a fundraising company exclusively to prepare letters. Eight create their own letters. Four use a combination of both. Six missions, including three who employ Russ Reid, say they create composite characters for their fundraising letters. Twelve say they do not.
Here's how the syndicated approach works: First, a company like Russ Reid creates a stock letter. The letter is printed on each mission's letterhead and bears the computer-stamped signature of the director. Minor tweaking is done to tailor the letter to the missions, such as adjusting the grocery list in the "fill-the-pantry" campaign, but the same anecdotes are used. Seven missions approved of the use of such letters. Thirteen said they would not use them.
Russ Reid, who went into fundraising more than 30 years ago, defends use of stock stories because it is cost-efficient for his clients. "From a cost standpoint, if we had to write individual stories for every mission, it would raise the cost to make it prohibitive," Mr. Reid says. "We do it honestly." When a mission wants a letter specific to itself, the Reid company will produce it for an extra $1,500.
The Washington mission's Edward Eyring agrees that the approach is acceptable. "The stories are examples. It takes time and effort, as well as money [to customize] ... ," he says. "I'm really not concerned with the method we're doing now. Those people come and go. There's no possible way if you wrote a story about ... particular persons for it to be completely accurate. You have to take people's word. One story is just about as likely to be accurate as another story."
Even if readers knew the same stories were being told about the same people in all the cities where he mails letters, contributions would not be adversely affected, Mr. Reid says. "I don't think they give diddly-twit.... It's irrelevant, any more than donors to the American Red Cross would care that the same letter that goes out in Syracuse goes out in Tucumseh." The letters aren't always exactly the same, he says, but the anecdotes generally are.
Randy Brewer of the Hemmings, Birkholm, Grizzard agency in Los Angeles, who spent seven years with Russ Reid, does not mind that the same stories go to different missions, as long as they are true and are typical of the homeless. HBG also allows personalization of the stories, for a flat fee of $150; a mission wanting to personalize completely the letter and use different photographs pays an extra $450.
Barry Durman, president of the Atlantic City (N.J.) Mission, and a member of the ECFA standards committee, thinks readers do believe the stories are taken from the mission that sends the letter. "The big integrity question is, when you say, 'Johnny came through the front door with these problems... ,' is that really a true, real person, or are you going in on a cookie-cutter approach where you're saying, 'Men like Johnny come in every day'? I have a problem with that." Nor does Mr. Durman believe that small-print disclaimers are sufficient. "Most of the readers of these letters are older people. They cannot read small type, and their heart is going to get caught up in the emotion of the letter. They're not going to read official-looking disclaimers. I think the intent of the letters needs to be clear.... Otherwise, you're becoming manipulative." '
Richard Shannon, who brought the Washington situation to the attention
of the ECFA, believes that if a letter says a "guy like Steve" came to the mission, then Steve should have been there. "We have plenty of stories without making them up," he notes. (Four times during 1995 and 1996, WORLD profiled actual Gospel Mission clients, based on interviews conducted at the mission itself, and used the clients' real names.) Mr. Durman says he has no trouble finding clients willing to be interviewed and to have their name printed with their story in a fundraising letter.
Mr. Shannon, who was director of the mission's School of Tomorrow, which trains formerly homeless individuals to move into good jobs, felt so strongly about the fundraising matter that he resigned his position when he felt the mission didn't change its tactics. "It goes beyond whether this is legal," he says. "It's a phenomenal and profound moral issue."
The concerns that Mr. Shannon raised are nothing new, says Mr. Nelson of ECFA. Even before ECFA received the Shannon complaint, the agency had sent out an advisory to all its members stressing that organizations should use contributions for the purpose for which they were solicited, and that "communications must be truthful, current, complete, accurate and not misleading."
Bottom line, Mr. Nelson says, is that for ECFA to have any value, it must be vigilant: "We are not adversarial to our members. We're not going to play 'gotcha.' We are all believers. It's peer regulation. We're trying to say, 'Here are our standards. Truth is truth.'"
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The TV thread got me thinking, i thought this might be fun to talk about.
What words or phrases do you find to be like nails on the chalkboard when you hear them? There are a bunch on outdoor TV. I will offer up the following to start:
"A Dandy" - what the hell does that mean, I thought that meant someone who dressed in fancy clothes whose sexuality may be in question. When did we start calling animals with big headgear that?
"Of a lifetime" - I think this should only be reserved to be used by people over 65 or those with terminal illness. WAY overused, I won't know what my "whatever" of a lifetime is until I hang it up or I can't get around enough to go anymore.
Boyaa and BBD are used by particular tv hunting personalities, but why does everyone have to have their own catch phrase? Rediculous. Thanks Eastman boys for "keeping it real." Oh hell now I went and did it! :D


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2014 Portland Roadster ShowWritten by on March 28, 2014 Celebrating 58 Years in the Rose City
From its beginning in 1956 the Portland Roaster Show has had the reputation of being one of the best shows in the country, and this year's addition continued the tradition. Owned and produced by the Multnomah Hot Rod Council, the Portland Roadster Show always has outstanding cars, trucks, and motorcycles along with a variety of additional features.
This year's show at the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center took place Friday, March 14 through Sunday, March 16, 2014. A host of celebrities were on hand, including King of the Customizers, George Barris, and the leader in the custom car movement, John D'Agostino. Also there signing autographs were Candy Clark and Cindy Williams from American Graffiti, while pinstripers from around the country competed for honors in the Rose City Brush Bash. On Saturday the Bob Paeth Portland Classic Model Car Contest, sponsored by the SABA (Scale Auto Builders Association) held the "You build it, you take it" event for the kids in Hall C.
A tradition at the Portland Roadster Show is the recognition the efforts of the Portland and Vancouver area high school students. Each school has an annual contest to choose the hottest ride and those winners are on display. Show attendees then picked a favorite.
As expected a show of this caliber has the country's finest show cars from the best builders on display competing for awards, including Grand Sweepstakes Rose Cup and $10,000 for the highest overall points vehicle at that year's show; World Cup Of Hot Rodding and $5,000 for '48 and earlier roadsters, convertibles, cabriolets, coupes, sedans, and custom-crafted rods; King of Customs trophy and $3,000 for vehicles manufactured from 1941-72 with radical body modifications; Bill Peterson Award and $500 for the best all-steel '32 Ford; Dee Wescott Memorial Award given by the Multnomah Hot Rod Council to an individual for contributions to the community or the Multnomah Hot Rod Council and the Portland Roadster Show; and finally ISCA class awards.
While the Portland Roadster Show has all the expected elements to be a success something that makes it special and puts it a rung above similar events is the huge contingent of the beautifully built, down-to-earth traditional hot rods the Northwest is known for. Take a look at the following photos and if you don't agree, then make arrangements to check it out for yourself in 2015.
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"Inspired" was the name given to this '41 Packard convertible created by Bob Gibson. Under the hood is a current Chrysler Hemi.Irwin Schimmel of nearby Vancouver, WA, owns this bright blue '59 Chevrolet Impala. VIP Classics was responsible for construction.A long list of custom tricks have been performed on "Miss Taboo," the '56 Chevy owned by C.J. and Sherry Carlile. Under the pancaked hood is a 327 with six carbs.Veteran street rod photographer and STREET RODDER contributor Dale Moreau had his '36 Ford roadster on display. Bob Livingston originally built it in 1986.The car that could've been. Eckert's Rod and Custom built the "Mach Forty"—the offspring of a Mustang Mach I and a GT40.A real blast from the past, Steve Frisbie, owner of Steve's Auto Restorations, is redoing Ron Dunn's famous '50 Ford coupe built by Valley Custom. Note the six-cylinder engine and that the body has been sectioned while the top is stock height.Terry's Kustom Auto built this tribute to the "California Kid;" interestingly this is a '33 Ford three-window and Pete & Jake's original was a '34.
There were a larger number of trick trucks on hand, including this '56 Chevy belonging to Robert and Bonnie Grinstead. Suspension on both ends is from Heidts, wheels are 18- and 20-inch Eagles.Bobby, Annie, and Taylor Westbrook could make deliveries in a hurry. Their '48 Divco milk truck is powered by a 400-horse LS1. Air suspension is provided by ShockWaves at all four corners, and it's air-conditioned to keep its contents cool.The World of Speed Museum display provided a sneak peak of what can be expected upon its completion. Construction to begin this summer in Portland—the building will feature more than 100 vehicles, according to executive director Tony Thacker.Lonnie Gilbertson's '55 Chevy "Classical Gas" was a STREET RODDER magazine cover car. Construction was by the combined talents of Lonnie and Marty Strode."Vanilla Shake" is the name, and the color, of Jerry Logan's '50 Chevy built by Donn Lowe. There are a ton of body mods as the hardtop has been nosed, decked, shaved, 1-1/2 to 2 inches front to rear, tapered top chop, and a wedge-cut trunklid. The one-piece windshield is a '50 Olds, a 283 with Tri-power makes it all go.The '32 Ford five-window coupe of Jerry Logan caused lots of double takes. The low stance comes from a 4-1/2 inch top chop, the subtle 2-inch channel and raising of the rear wheelwells the same amount. Color is PPG Classic Clay and there's a 408-inch small-block Ford underhood.There were a number of highly modified cars wearing subtle colors to great advantage. A perfect example is Jerry Schumacher's '40 Ford. Suicide doors, Mercedes headlights, and air suspension to put it on the deck, all under paint by Red Cup Customs.Tim Young's '49 Ford convertible is absolutely perfect and is our idea of a cool cruiser. The ragtop rolls on five-spokes with Wilwood brakes supplying the stopping power. Underhood is a 4.6L Ford modular V-8 with electronic stack fuel injection.
Traditional cars are big in the Northwest—and they don't come more traditional than Paul and Linda Gilligan's '32 Ford five-window coupe. Real Henry steel running gear includes a late Flathead and a '39 trans.Reportedly chopped by Barris Customs and upholstered by Gaylord's in 1951, Mike Thompson's '32 three-window Ford was owned and raced by NHRA legends Don Rackerman and Joe Pisano. The current black paint was applied in 1981.A three-window of a different sort—this '34 Chevy runs a 235 Chevrolet six-cylinder built by the late Don Sciocceheti in 1949. Reading like a vintage parts catalog the engine has McGurk pistons, Chet Herbert cam, and a Nicholson intake with a trio of Zenith sidedraft carbs.Clean, simple, and very cool describes Steve Dykman's '32 Ford highboy pickup. A twin-carbed Flathead with aluminum heads supplies the power. We particularly liked the paint treatment—it was old school but subtle.Kim Meeks '29 Ford Tudor made us smile—it just looks like a fun car. The four-banger is equipped with an aluminum head; wheels are '35 Ford wrapped in wide whites. Pinstriping, particularly the "tear drops" on the cowl, has a Tommy the Greek vibe.The fenderwell headers on Ron McBee's '55 Chevrolet Gasser connect to a 548ci big-block Chevy. Other than the removal of the front bumper the stock body has been restored to better-than-new condition. Chrome Cragar wheels are period perfectThis 1960 Chevrolet is absolute proof that a car can be cool and simple. All it takes is the right stance, a tasteful wheel and tire combination, and careful attention to detail.Junior Nelson was one of the participants in the Brush Bash. Junior not only pulls great lines, he builds cool cars too.


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New to the Eastmans forum. I apoligize if this topic has been discussed previously.
Posting in the General Hunting room to get the most exposure to the topic.
Just started aquiring western hunting preference points last year. Bought a sheep, moose, deer and pronghorn point in Wyoming. I think the Wyoming system is a excellent system for those of us on a budget and just need to aquire some points first. I also understand why states are interested in getting the hunters money up front and what they can do with it before the draw actually happens. Interested in expanding my application and point aquisition process for 2013. As I am sure many people understand, applying for tags/points is not a cheap engagement. But we also understand that applying for as many as possible increases our chances of drawing success.
Been looking into services such as 'Hunting Fool' and Cabelas T.A.G.S. The appeal of these services to me is that they front the initial monies required to apply for draw licenses. One of my primary long term intersts is Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Unfortuneatly these are also the most expensive of tags to apply for. Using a service would reduce the up front costs to the end user by a significant margin.
Wondering if those individuals who use a license application service could discuss the process a bit and give a newbie applicant some recommendations regarding which service to use and why.
Some of my primary game interests include sheep, coues, blacktail, mule deer, pronghorn and moose.


text: Some of you may have seen some of my posts and know that I prefer the standard calibers 270, 280, and 30-06. However, I got a really good deal on a S/S Winchester 70 in 300 WSM. The first range sessions for accuracy were pitiful and my reloads were hard to chamber. So against my better judgment I went all in on a custom barrel job (Lilja), and stock (McMillan). The finished rifle has been completely accurized and blueprinted by a very competent gunsmith. However, my hand loads are still hard to close the bolt on. Accuracy is there with 180gr accubonds shooting consistent 1/2" groups at 3075 fps (27" Barrel). I went back to the gunsmith and had him check the chamber, its perfect. I have adjusted my dies, changed dies, adjusted bullet seating depth, and the bolt still closes hard on hand loads only factory loads are fine. I have been reloading for 20+ years and have never had this problem on the 31 different calibers (I counted my dies, that's a whole other thread) I have loaded for. What am I doing wrong? any help would be greatly appreciated. If I can't find a solution this rifle is going to find its way to the used rack at the gun shop.


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STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. -- A warning about a telephone scam involving the Stockbridge Courts and a caution that when you telephone rings, do not necessarily believe the name or organization that appears on the caller ID.
It could be a fake, generated by an easy to get computer program that could con you out of your personal information.
"You can just go to the Google Play Store and within ten seconds you can download an APP that will basically spoof your telephone number," said Jason Alexander of the Total Technology Group.
"You put in the number you want it to look like, whether it's the White House or a number from contacts, any number and hit dial," he added.
In Stockbridge, scammers tried to push pay-day loans using the Stockbridge Courts as a ruse.
"The caller would actually say they have outstanding warrants and unpaid tickets and those they needed to do a pay-day loan, and then they would try to get personal information to them in order to process it," said David Milliron, Stockbridge City Manager.
To be convincing, a second call quickly followed.
"Let me have someone from the court call you in 10 minutes and sure enough, 10 minutes later the phone would ring. On the caller ID it would show the courts telephone as if it was the court number," he added.
Officials say the caller would then threaten that police could come to the door with a warrant if the loan wasn't secured.
Henry County Police say that so far people called have escaped falling for the scam, but they warn.
"If you've never done any business with them prior to that, never give your personal information or debit card or anything like that to the caller unless you verify who they are," said Sgt. Joey Smith of the Henry County Police.
Better yet, if you see a number or ID you don't recognize, don't answer the phone.


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text: The Westboro Baptist Church are famed for brandishing homophobic placards saying 'God Hates Fags'. But now the US-based hate group are receiving a colourful backlash after a charity bought the house opposite their HQ, painted it with a gay pride rainbow and erected a pride flag on a 30-foot flagpole. Aaron Jackson, who started the charity Planting Peace, bought the 2-bed home in Topeka, Kansas for $80,000 and is now set to turn it into a gay-rights center, whch opened on March 19, 2013. "We're going to take the negative attention and spin it into something positive," said Jackson's friend Davis Hammet, 22, who planned the project with him. "Instead of millions of people getting this hate message, they're going to see a message of love and compassion."


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How to Cook with Spinach
Spinach is seen both as a life force and a cause for sheer rebellion, depending on whom you ask. The enthusiast might be the token health nut in your friend circle and the pessimist is likely your 7-year-old daughter and most grown men. However, whichever side of the spinach argument you fall on, there's no denying it's insanely healthy for you.
Health benefits: Spinach is one of the best foods you can add to your diet as it's loaded with essential vitamins and nutrients like iron, vitamin C, niacin, calcium and vitamin B. It's also an excellent source of free-radical fighting antioxidants, and contains folate, fiber, lutein and potassium, which are all essential for maintaining a healthy heart.
Helpful tip: Did you know that microgreens can pack up to 40 times more nutrients than their mature counterparts? For this reason, stick to baby spinach when possible. And if you really want to be an over-achiever, organic is best since the whole green in consumed.
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|Community plays part in preventing child abuse, promoting well-being
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
|Wednesday, 17 April 2013 10:58
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month and throughout the year, Baby Bear Hugs encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making Phillips County a better place for children and families.
By ensuring parents have the knowledge, skills and resources they need to care for their children, Baby Bear Hugs can help promote children's social and emotional well-being and prevent child maltreatment within families and communities.
Research shows that when parents possess six protective factors, the risk for neglect and abuse diminish and optimal outcomes for children, youth and families are promoted.
The six protective factors are:
—nurturing and attachment.
—knowledge of parenting and of child and youth development.
—parental resilience.
—social connections.
—concrete supports for parents.
—social and emotional developmental well-being.
"April is a time to celebrate the important role that communities play in protecting children," said Ruth Seedorf, executive director of Baby Bear Hugs.
"Everyone's participation is critical. Focusing on ways to build and promote the protective factors, in every interaction with children and families, is the best thing our community can do to prevent child maltreatment and promote optimal child development."
Baby Bear Hugs is for all "soon to be parents" and families with children under 3 years old.
It offers families ongoing home visits (parent education and support), nurse visitation, programs of Colorado Bright Beginnings, Healthy Living program, Nurturing Parenting and Ages & Stages Developmental and Social & Emotional Screenings.
All services are free of charge, confidential and available to all families.
For more information, contact Baby Bear Hugs, 970-854-2921, or visit www.babybearhugs.org.
Holyoke Enterprise April 18, 2013


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Hinton House Fire
(Hinton) -- Both the Hinton and the Merrill Fire Departments responded to a house fire Saturday morning. That fire, located at 32278 Indigo Road is believed to have started from a wood burning stove. Fire crews arrived at the scene at about 6:45 a.m. and were on the scene of that house fire for nearly six hours. Hinton Fire Chief Chad Beck describes the scene upon arrival.
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All Texas State researchers are required to submit a disclosure of Significant Financial Interests (SFI) at least once annually. In order to submit a proposal, initiate a contract or open a grant account, researchers must have a current SFI Disclosure on file with the Office of Research Integrity & Compliance (ORIC).
The SFI Disclosure doesn't require the researcher to submit documentation or provide private financial data. The online form walks the researcher through a series of Yes/No questions based on definitions and thresholds outlined in the University's FCOI policy.
Key points for all faculty researchers:
The ORIC welcomes the opportunity to discuss this issue with researchers. Please contact Becky Northcut for additional information or assistance.
SFI Disclosure Form: Click here to initiate the disclosure process
The following agencies are PHS Awarding Components, also often collectively referred to as "PHS agencies," "PHS funding components," or "PHS funders."
As stated in UPPS 02.02.07, to ensure the highest level of objectivity in research, Texas State University applies the PHS standards for definition of Substantial Financial Interest to all research, regardless of funding source or funding status.
As long as the PHS minimum standards are met, per PHS guidance, "The Institution may have more stringent financial disclosure requirements."
Depending on the contents of their disclosure, PHS-funded researchers may have to complete additional items or processes not required of researchers who do not receive PHS funds
The 2011 revised regulation defines a "Significant Financial Interest" as follows: "
(1) A financial interest consisting of one or more of the following interests of the Investigator (and those of the Investigator's spouse and dependent children) that reasonably appears to be related to the Investigator's institutional responsibilities:
(i) With regard to any publicly traded entity, a significant financial interestexists if the value of any remuneration received from the entity in the twelve months preceding the disclosure and the value of any equity interest in the entity as of the date of disclosure, when aggregated, exceeds $5,000. For purposes of this definition, remuneration includes salary and any payment for services not otherwise identified as salary (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship); equity interest includes any stock, stock option, or other ownership interest, as determined through reference to public prices or other reasonable measures of fair market value;
(ii) With regard to any non-publicly traded entity, a significant financial interest exists if the value of any remuneration received from the entity in the twelve months preceding the disclosure, when aggregated, exceeds $5,000, or when the Investigator (or the Investigator's spouse or dependent children) holds any equity interest (e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest); or
(iii) Intellectual property rights and interests (e.g., patents, copyrights), upon receipt of income related to such rights and interests.
(2) Investigators also must disclose the occurrence of any reimbursed or sponsored travel (i.e., that which is paid on behalf of the Investigator and not reimbursed to the Investigator so that the exact monetary value may not be readily available), related to their institutional responsibilities; provided, however, that this disclosure requirement does not apply to travel that is reimbursed or sponsored by a federal, state, or local government agency, an Institution of higher education as defined at 20 U.S.C. 1001(a), an academic teaching hospital, a medical center, or a research institute that is affiliated with an Institution of higher education.
The term significant financial interest does not include the following types of financial interests: salary, royalties, or other remuneration paid by the Institution to the Investigator if the Investigator is currently employed or otherwise appointed by the Institution, including intellectual property rights assigned to the Institution and agreements to share in royalties related to such rights; any ownership interest in the Institution held by the Investigator, if the Institution is a commercial or for-profit organization; income from investment vehicles, such as mutual funds and retirement accounts, as long as the Investigator does not directly control the investment decisions made in these vehicles; income from seminars, lectures, or teaching engagements sponsored by a federal, state, or local government agency, an Institution of higher education as defined at 20 U.S.C. 1001(a), an academic teaching hospital, a medical center, or a research institute that is affiliated with an Institution of higher education; or income from service on advisory committees or review panels for a federal, state, or local government agency, an Institution of higher education as defined at 20 U.S.C. 1001(a), an academic teaching hospital, a medical center, or a research institute that is affiliated with an Institution of higher education."
The Institution may have more stringent financial disclosure requirements. Please refer to the Institution's conflict of interest policy and confer with the Institution's designated official(s) to determine the Institution's disclosure requirements.
A Financial Conflict of Interest exists when the Institution, through its designated official(s), reasonably determines that an Investigator's Significant Financial Interest is related to a NIH-funded research project and could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct or reporting of the NIH-funded research.
Institution means any domestic or foreign, public or private, entity or organization (excluding a Federal agency) that is applying for or that receives NIH research funding.
Entity means any domestic or foreign, public or private, organization (excluding a Federal agency) from which an Investigator (and spouse and dependent children) receives remuneration or in which any person has an ownership or equity interest.
No. "Investigator" means the project director or principal investigator and any other person, regardless of title or position, who is responsible for the design, conduct, or reporting of research, which may include, for example, collaborators or consultants. Institutions should consider the role, rather than the title, of those involved in research and the degree of independence with which those individuals work. When the definition of investigator is limited to titles or designations (e.g., to principal investigators, key personnel, faculty) the risk is that an unidentified FCOI may compromise the research enterprise increases. In addition, the Investigator's spouse and dependent children have been eliminated from the definition of "Investigator" under the 2011 revised regulation; however, they are referenced in the definition of "Significant Financial Interest" because the Investigator must also disclose Significant Financial Interests of his/her spouse and dependent children. (see definition of Significant Financial Interest).
"Institutional responsibilities" are defined by the 2011 revised regulation as an Investigator's professional responsibilities on behalf of the Institution, and as defined by the Institution in its policy on Financial Conflict of Interest, which may include, for example, activities such as research, research consultation, teaching, professional practice, Institutional committee memberships, and service on panels such as Institutional Review Boards. The Institution can include other professional responsibilities within the definition, as appropriate.
The regulation covers all financial interests that have monetary value, whether or not the value is readily ascertainable.
The regulations and Texas State policy exempt Phase I SBIR/STTRs, but not Phase II SBIR/STTR applications/awards.
There are two levels of training. The first is very brief, is required of everyone, and is accomplished during the SFI disclosure process: Texas State is required to have a process to inform all researchers of Investigator responsibilities for disclosure of Significant Financial Interests and of the Institution's specific policy on financial conflicts of interests.
The second level of training is only required for PHS-funded researchers. It must be completed prior to account set up and engaging in research. PHS-awarded researchers must complete a brief online training that covers NIH/PHS-specific procedures and policy.


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We study problems in the intersection of Computer Science, Game Theory and Microeconomics. We are particularly focused on effects of strategic behavior in electronic markets, as such behavior has significant implications on the economic performance of these markets.
We study several problems related to game theory. These problems are motivated by e-commerce applications and applications of game theory to computer system and network design. In mechanism design, we aim to develop mechanisms with useful properties which optimize an objective function, such as seller's revenue or global welfare of the system, in the worst- or average-case. Our work shows that techniques from learning, on-line algorithms, and coding theory can be applied to mechanism design. We also study complexity of computational problems that come up in implementations of game-theoretic mechanisms. Finally, we are interested in research problems on the borderline of Economics and Computer Science, including Game Theory, Social Networks, and Electronic Markets.
Past Members
- Liad Blumrosen
- Jason Hartline
Project Visitors
- Avrim Blum
- Amos Fiat
- Anna Karlin
- Robert Kleinberg
- Tim Roughgarden
- Eyal Winter
- Moshe Babaioff, Robert Kleinberg, and Aleksandrs Slivkins, Truthful Mechanisms with Implicit Payment Computation, in ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'10), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2010.
- Moshe Babaioff, Yogeshwer Sharma, and Aleksandrs Slivkins, Characterizing Truthful Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanisms, in ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2009.
- Nicole Immorlica, Anna R. Karlin, Mohammad Mahdian, and Kunal Talwar, Balloon Popping With Applications to Ascending Auctions, in Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), IEEE Communications Society, Providence, RI, October 2007.
- Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, and Robert Kleinberg, Algorithmic Pricing via Virtual Valuations, in ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 2007), San Diego, CA, June 2007.
- Andrew V. Goldberg, Jason D. Hartline, Anna R. Karlin, Michael Saks, and Andrew Wright, Competitive Auctions, in Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 242–269, Elsevier, May 2006.
- Gagan Aggarwal and Jason D. Hartline, Knapsack Auctions, in ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), Miami, FL, January 2006.
- G. Aggarwal, A. Fiat, A. Goldberg, J. Hartline, N. Imorlica, and M. Sudan, Derandomization of Auctions, in Proc. 37rd ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, ACM Press, January 2005.
- A. V. Goldberg and J. D. Hartline, Collusion-resistant mechanisms for single-parameter agents, in Proc. 16th Symp. on Discr. Alg., 2005.
- Andrew V. Goldberg, Jason D. Hartline, Anna R. Karlin, and Michael E. Saks, A Lower Bound on the Competitive Ratio of Truthful Auctions, in 21st Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2004), Springer, March 2004.
- Andrew V. Goldberg and Jason D. Hartline, Envy-Free Auctions for Digital Goods, in ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC '03), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., San Diego, CA, June 2003.
- K. Deshmukh, A. V. Goldberg, J. D. Hartline, and A. R. Karlin, Truthful and Competitive Double Auctions, in Proceedings of the 10th European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA '02), Springer-Verlag, September 2002.
- A. Fiat, A. V. Goldberg, J. D. Hartline, and A. Karlin, Competitive Generalized Auctions, in Proc. 34th Symp. on Theory of Comp., 2002.


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So entries on the 1st are ok? I'm going to be down to the deadline on this one. I've started three different things for this that weren't working out. Do we email them to you? What address?
We are having a Holiday Pattern Contest Extravaganza! This is not only a contest for pattern writers but anyone who has a creative spirit. Create a gift and at the same time you can enter the event and win for some fun prizes. Deadline Dec. 1st.
We are doing something different this year. We are expanding our categories. 6 entries will be chosen leading the 6 categories of competition.
The 6 categories are:
The winner will receive $50 plus $40 in merchandise. Even if you are just a beginner we hope you will get involved and submit your original ideas – the more entries the more fun!
Deadine is Dec 1st. so get started and let your creativity run wild.
So entries on the 1st are ok? I'm going to be down to the deadline on this one. I've started three different things for this that weren't working out. Do we email them to you? What address?
oops, somehow didn't read the pdf! I see the address, just confirm on the 1st deadline if you can :)
Dear Pat and Kim,
I am a dear fan of the KnittingBoard and had a beautiful double knit scarf going for my husband, but was having too much trouble seeing the dark yarn on the dark finish of the knitting board… oh, well. Anyway, I have noticed that as I am getting older, my eyesight is not what it used to be and I purchased an Ott Light to help me in my work. It does help. I know not everyone can afford these lights. Thus, I am sending an idea about possibly changing the wood color to a neutral or even a lighter color. This is just an idea to ponder. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Many blessings to you both!
Mrs. Jolene Torgler
I didn't get to make anything for the contest this year but I hope to next year! Just got my boards this year. Thanks for even having such a thing. Look for me next tiime! :-)


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Creationist lawsuit against UC system to proceed
As expected, Association of Christian Schools International et al. v. Roman Stearns et al. -- the lawsuit in which the University of California system is charged with violating the constitutional rights of applicants from Christian schools whose high school coursework is deemed inadequate preparation for college -- is going to proceed. In a hearing in late July 2006, Judge S. James Otero stated that he was not inclined to rule in favor of a motion by the university system to dismiss the suit.
AAAS releases The Evolution Dialogues
In a press release issued on August 9, 2006, the American Association for the Advancement of Science announced the publication of The Evolution Dialogues, written by Catherine Baker and edited by James B. Miller. As the book's prologue notes, "there are deep misunderstandings about what biological evolution is, what science itself is, and what views people of faith, especially Christians, have applied to their interpretations of the science.
"The Vigil after Dover"
"Keeping Science and Religion Separate in Schools: The Vigil after Dover" was a free public forum held at Florida State University on May 17, 2006, to discuss the implications for science education posed by the December 20, 2005, federal ruling in Pennsylvania on the nation's first court case involving "intelligent design" -- Kitzmiller v. Dover. Featured at the forum were NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott, Georgetown University theologian John F. Haught and Michigan State University philosopher Robert T.
Canadian controversy in review
Brian Alters is on the cover of the Summer 2006 issue of Humanist Perspectives, which devotes a full eleven pages to discussing the controversy that arose in the wake of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's deciding not to fund Alters's research project to study the effects of the popularization of "intelligent design" on Canadian students, teachers, parents, administrators, and policymakers.
Reactions to the Kansas vote
Following the August 1, 2006, primary election in Kansas, supporters of the integrity of evolution education are expected to form the majority on the state board of education, no matter who prevails in the November 2006 general election.
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text: The impressionist movement arose in the early 1870s as a protest against established arts institutions in France, the Academy and its annual Salon exhibition. Exhibiting at the Salon was the only way for aspiring artists to succeed, yet the established artists who composed Salon juries rejected much of the work submitted by the impressionists. Frustrated, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, and others joined formally to raise funds to display and sell their work apart from the Salon. The most notable abstainer was Edouard Manet, who refused to abandon his pursuit of official recognition. The first impressionist exhibition was held in rooms overlooking the Boulevard des Capucines in the heart of Paris, in April 1874, timed to coincide with the Salon. It created a furor, exciting heated debate among serious critics as well as in the popular, humorous press. In all, the group of artists mounted eight exhibitions, the last in 1886, then disbanded as they matured and became relatively successful. The National Gallery of Art has a number of works that were shown in those exhibitions, including Pissarro's Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes and The Harbor at Lorient by Morisot.