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San Diego Union-Tribune Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 4, 2013
This Privacy Policy ("Policy") is intended to describe the kinds of information that The San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC, d/b/a San Diego Union-Tribune, and its subsidiaries and affiliates ("San Diego Union-Tribune" "we," "us" or "our") may collect with respect to our Sites and Services (as defined below), how we use and share that information and your choices with respect to same, how we endeavor to protect that information, how we make changes to this Policy, and how you can contact us if you have any questions about this Policy.
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- Information We Collect
- How We Use the Information We Collect
- Targeted Online Advertising
- Social Media Interaction
- Information We Share
- Your Choices
- Opt-Out of Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties And Affiliates for their Own Direct Marketing Purposes
- Unsubscribe From Marketing Emails Sent by Us
- Unsubscribe From Text Messages Sent by Us
- Web Analytics
- Targeted Advertising
- Geo-Location Information
- Cookies
- Social Media Information
- Your California Privacy Rights
- Access and Correction
- Links to and Use of Other Websites and Services
- How We Endeavor to Protect Personal Information
- Children's Privacy
- Updates to this Privacy Policy
- How to Contact Us
Information We Collect
We collect personal information (information that can be used to identify a specific individual) from:
- Subscribers to the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper and our other print publications;
- Users, visitors and subscribers of www.UTSanDiego.com, www.discoversd.com, www.sandiegoclubs.com, www.vidalatinasd.com, deals.utsandiego.com, and utsandiego.premiumrewards.com, and their subdomains;
- Users of San Diego Union-Tribune mobile applications and mobile messaging services operated by or on behalf of San Diego Union-Tribune, including those applications identified at http://apps.utsandiego.com;
- Customers and others that attend San Diego Union-Tribune sponsored events who provide sign-in and registration information;
- Persons that choose to participate in surveys, polls, panels, focus groups and other means of conducting market research online, over the phone, through the mail or in person; and
- Persons enrolled in or that participate in events, contests, reward programs, daily deal services, sweepstakes and other promotions of ours or third parties, including individuals enrolled in or registered for U-T Rewards.
We may collect certain personal information about you related to your visiting, enrollment in or use of the Sites and Services. We also may obtain information about you from our parent, affiliate or subsidiary companies, business partners and other third parties. The types of information we may collect that may be considered personal information include:
- Your contact information (such as name, postal and email address, and phone number);
- Username and password for any account(s) you may establish for any of our Sites and Services;
- Payment card information (including payment card number, security code, expiration date, cardholder name and billing address);
- Material you contribute using our Sites and Services, including comments, photos, recommendations, reviews, ratings or other items you submit;
- Demographic information (such as age, date of birth and gender);
- Information you provide by connecting our Sites and Services to, or interacting with us through, social media (such as Facebook, YouTube, GooglePlus, Pinterest or Twitter), including social media user name, recommendations, pictures, shared articles, ratings, information contained in your posts, the identities of your friends and profile information;
- Location information, such as country, state, city, the real-time geographic location of the device used to access Sites and Services or on which you install our mobile applications, and the location of places and businesses you visit;
- Offline and online shopping behavior and preferences, such as a record of the purchases you make on our websites and while visiting third party establishments;
- Household or personal characteristics, behavior and preferences, such as might be provided in connection with voluntary surveys, panels, focus groups or other means of conducting market research in which you may participate;
- With respect to text messages sent to San Diego Union-Tribune or via San Diego Union-Tribune's text services, your incoming phone number, the lists or campaigns users have responded to, the identity of your wireless provider, the date and time the text services were activated and deactivated, the date and time of the text, and the content of the messages sent between you and San Diego Union-Tribune;
- The name and email address of another person provided by you in connection with a recommendation to, referral of, or purchase for or on behalf of such person through our Sites and Services;
- Messages that you send to others, and records related to when and where such messages were sent, using messaging features provided by our online Sites and Services; and
- Other details that you may submit to us or that may be included in the information provided to us by third parties. In addition, when you visit or use our Sites and Services, we may collect certain information about you by automated means, such as cookies and web beacons. A "cookie" is a text file that websites send to a visitor's computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor's browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A "web beacon," also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or clear GIF, is used to transmit information back to a web server. We also may use third-party website analytics tools (such as Google Analytics, Anametrix and quantcast) that collect information about visitor traffic, browsing patterns and usage on our Sites and Services. The information we may collect by automated means includes:
- Information about the computers, mobile devices or other devices our visitors use to access the Internet and our Sites and Services (such as website IP addresses, unique device identifiers, the device, browser and operating system type, domain names, and browser language);
- Websites that refer users to our Sites and Services, and websites that users visit from our Sites and Services;
- Dates and times of visits and uses of our Sites and Services;
- Information on actions taken on or when using our Sites and Services (such as page views, landing pages, exit pages, "clicks", time spent on the website or pages, dates and times of actions taken on a website or page and site navigation patterns);
- A general geographic location (such as country and city) from which a visitor accesses our Sites and Services;
- Usage and volume statistics related to our Sites and Services; and
- Search terms that visitors use to reach our sites.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We may use the information we obtain about you to:
- Register you for membership for, or a subscription to, our Sites and Services and certain features, functions and activities related to our Sites and Services;
- Provide you with, develop and enhance our products or services;
- Process, validate, record, confirm, verify, deliver and track your purchases (including by processing payment card transactions, arranging shipping and handling returns and refunds, and contacting you about your orders, including by telephone);
- Respond to your questions and comments and provide customer support;
- Communicate with you about your account, subscription or use of our Sites and Services, including emails related to order confirmations, renewal/expiration notices, administering and troubleshooting of the Sites and Services, notices of credit card problems, other transactional e-mails and notifications about changes to the San Diego Union-Tribune Sites and Services and/or to our Privacy Policy;
- Assist with administration, diagnosis of problems and troubleshooting related to our Sites and Services;
- Communicate with you about products, services, transactions, offers, events and promotions of ours or third parties, and display or offer you content, deals, products and services we believe may be of interest to you, including targeting offers and advertisements to you that are more likely to be of interest and value to you;
- Enable you to communicate with us through our blogs, social networks and other interactive media;
- Enroll you in and manage your participation in our events, contests, reward programs, daily deal services, sweepstakes and other promotions;
- Tailor and customize our Sites and Services, products, services and features to suit your personal interests and enhance your use of our Sites and Services;
- Operate, evaluate and improve our business and the products and services we offer;
- Conduct marketing analysis of our customers and users, including through surveys and polls, and analyze and enhance our marketing communications and strategies;
- Combine it with other online or off-line information we possess or obtain from third parties to help us maintain a more complete profile about you so that we can offer you more personalized products, services, advertising and marketing and promotional communications;
- Analyze trends, demographics and statistics regarding visitors' use of our Sites and Services, including the advertisements users click on and purchases they make using our Sites and Services;
- Protect against and prevent, investigate, monitor for and mitigate fraud, physical harm, property damage, criminal activity, financial loss, violations of law, breach of contract, unauthorized transactions, unauthorized use of the San Diego Union-Tribune Sites and Services, claims and other liabilities, and manage risk exposure, including by identifying potential hackers and other unauthorized users;
- Enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements;
- Help us comply with applicable legal requirements, industry standards and our policies.
You may see certain ads on our Sites and Services because we participate in advertising networks. Some ad networks allow us and other advertisers to target advertising to users through demographic, behavioral and contextual means. These networks track your online activities over time by collecting information through automated means when you visit our Sites and Services and third party sites, applications and services, including through the use of cookies, web server logs, web beacons and other methods. Some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows them to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. We do not have access to or control over the cookies that may be placed by these parties on your computer, and have no control over these parties' privacy policies or information collection practices.
The information our ad network vendors collect includes information about your use of our mobile applications and visits to websites that participate in the advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you have viewed, the location of your mobile device and the actions you take on the websites and mobile applications. The networks use this information to show you targeted advertisements on our Sites and Services, and on third party sites, applications and services, that they believe will be of most interest to you. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
For ad serving solutions we incorporate Doubleclick, Nielsen eXelate and Mixpo technologies.
When you choose to participate in a third party application, social media site, feature or service offered within the Sites and Services (for example Facebook Connect, integrated Facebook comments or Twitter website widgets), you may be opting to link or share your activity on Sites and Services with that third party application, social media site, feature or service, which may then collect information about you and may publish that activity to your "profile," "timeline," "feedback" or similar feature with that third party. For example, if you choose to "like" or "share" content through our Sites and Services when a third party application, social media site, feature or service is enabled, or to otherwise post information from or via our Sites and Services to a third party application, social media site, feature or service, that information may be publicly displayed or displayed to your friends or followers and the third party may have access to information about you and your use of our Sites and Services. You may be able to disable ongoing sharing of information with us from third party applications, social media site and features. To do so visit the applicable section of the application, site or feature and adjust your privacy and sharing settings, or otherwise disassociate the application, site or feature from our Sites and Services.
We may share and disclose personal information we collect with our parent, affiliate and subsidiary companies, business partners, ad network vendors and their participants, and other third parties for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to communicate with you about products and services, offers, events and promotions that we believe may be of interest to you. We may also share and disclose information as follows:
- Service Providers. We may use third parties to perform certain services on our behalf, such as hosting or analyzing certain data, performing administrative services, credit card billing and processing, delivery and shipping of products and services, email distribution, list processing and analytics, and survey and promotions management. These service providers are generally not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements.
- Aggregated and De-Identified Information. We may disclose information in an aggregate or de-identified form (for example, personal information stripped of reference to a named individual) with third parties in our discretion, including advertisers, affiliates and business associates. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to restrict San Diego Union-Tribune's use of aggregated or de-identified information in any way.
- Legal Matters and Safety. We may disclose information about you, in our sole discretion: (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process (such as a court order or subpoena); (ii) in response to a request or investigation by law enforcement authorities or regulators; (iii) to protect or defend our rights, business or property or protect the safety of any individual; (iv) protect against, investigate or mitigate the misuse or unauthorized use of the Sites and Services; or (v) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent, investigate or mitigate physical harm, property damage, violations of law, breach of contract, criminal activity or financial loss.
- Third Parties and Affiliates for Marketing. We may exchange, sell, rent or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties and our affiliates for their own direct marketing purposes. You may choose to opt-out of such disclosures (see "Your Choices" below).
- Sweepstakes, Contests and Reward Programs. We may disclose your personal information to third parties that provide and manage events, contests, reward programs, sweepstakes and other promotions.
- User Contributed Information. By contributing material on our Sites and Services (including for example material submitted on or using discussion boards, blogs, comment sections, reviewing and rating features and other features), you are electing to share and publicly display such material, including comments, posts, photos, recommendations, reviews, ratings or other material you submit. When you contribute such material, additional information about you may also be displayed and disclosed to others, including name, profile photo, username, email and other personal information. You should be aware that any such material you contribute is considered public information and can be read, collected, or used by others, including for the purposes of sending you unsolicited messages. San Diego Union-Tribune has no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of this material. However, San Diego Union-Tribune reserves the right to monitor, edit, or delete such material, in its discretion. Also, we may sell or otherwise make this material available to other persons and sites using RSS feeds, APIs and via other formats and means. As a result, personal information included in your public activities and user material you contribute may appear on other sites, applications, blogs, or feeds.
- Gifts and Referral Programs. If you use our Sites and Services to make recommendations to, referrals of or buy a product or service for or on behalf of another person, an email identifying the relevant information, product or service will be sent to that person.
- Corporate Events. We also reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you if we sell, consolidate, merge or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets, or enter into a joint venture or undergo other corporate changes or reorganization, including, without limitation, in the event of bankruptcy or during the course of any due diligence process related to any such activities or events. Following such a sale, joint venture, merger, reorganization, bankruptcy or transfer, you may contact the entity to which we transferred your personal information with any inquiries concerning the handling of that information.
We offer you certain choices about what information we collect from you, how we use and disclose the information, and how we communicate with you, including the following:
- Opt-Out of Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties and Affiliates for their Own Direct Marketing Purposes. If, at any time, you prefer that we do not share personal information with third parties or our affiliates for their own direct marketing purposes, please either e-mail us at email@example.com or send a letter to us by regular mail at: San Diego Union-Tribune, Attention: Customer Service, 350 Camino de la Reina, San Diego, California 92108. If you are a current newspaper subscriber, please remember to include your account number and phone number in the body of your e-mail, and if you choose to opt-out via e-mail, please put "Opt Out" in the subject line. We may still share your information with third parties and our affiliates for various other purposes, such as customer service, fulfillment and our own marketing. You cannot prevent sharing for these other purposes.
- Unsubscribe From Marketing Emails Sent by Us. You may choose not to receive marketing email communications from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the marketing emails or by adjusting your email preferences using the online account you may establish for some of our Sites and Services. For some of our Sites and Services, you may have the ability to opt-out of receiving certain emails by changing your preferences in the "account" or "preferences" section of the Site and Service. In some cases you will have the choice to opt-in or opt-out of certain marketing emails prior to us sending those emails.
- Unsubscribe From Text Messages Sent by Us. You may choose to stop our delivery of text messages to you that relate to the particular list that you subscribe to by texting "stop" in reply to any such text message. This will only prevent the sending of text messages from the relevant list, and will not stop text messages from other lists to which you have subscribed. You may also request that we stop delivery of text messages by sending an email to email@example.com with the subject line: "FULL TEXT MESSAGE UNSUBSCRIBE."
- Targeted Advertising. To opt out of receiving marketing communications targeted to you based on tracking of your online activities through the advertising networks or our ad network vendors, please visit http://www.bluekai.com/consumers_optout.php, and follow the instructions for opting out. Certain advertising networks and exchanges may participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") AdChoices Program and may display an Advertising Option Icon for interest-based ads. You can learn more about the DAA AdChoices Program here: http://www.youradchoices.com/ . In addition, certain advertising networks and exchanges may participate in the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI). The NAI has developed a tool that allows consumers to opt out of targeted advertising delivered by NAI members' ad networks. To learn more about opting out of targeted advertising or to use the tool, click here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. We may use other advertising networks that target marketing communications to you based on tracking your online activities, and if you want more information about the opt-out choices these networks may provide please email us at email@example.com
- Geo-Location Information. When you use a San Diego Union-Tribune application on your mobile device, you may be able choose not to share your geo-location details with us by adjusting the device's location services settings. For instructions on changing the relevant settings, please contact your service provider or device manufacturer.
- Cookies. Most web browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie and how to disable existing cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the features of our Sites and Services.
Your California Privacy Rights
When California customers provide personal information to a business, they have the right to request certain disclosures if that business shares personal information with our affiliates or third parties for the third parties' or our affiliates' direct marketing purposes. Once per calendar year the customer may request that the business provide a list of companies with which it shares personal information for the third parties' or our affiliates' direct marketing purposes, and a list of the categories of personal information that the business shares. Instead of responding to such requests, however, a company may choose to comply with this law by establishing and publishing on its website a policy of not disclosing a customer's personal information to such third parties or our affiliates unless the customer affirmatively agrees to such disclosures, or a policy of not disclosing a customer's personal information to such third parties or our affiliates if the customer has exercised an option that prevents that information from being disclosed to third parties or our affiliates for those purposes. Thus, a company may comply with the law by notifying the customer of his or her right to prevent disclosure of personal information and providing a cost free means to exercise that right. As noted in the "Your Choices" section above, you may opt-out of our sharing of your personal information with third parties or our affiliates for their own direct marketing purposes.
California customers may request information about our compliance with this law by sending an email to email@example.com. Any such inquiry must include "California Privacy Rights Request" in the first line of the description. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through this email address.
You may access certain personal information we maintain about you, or update or correct inaccuracies in that information, using the online account "profile" or "preferences" feature of our Sites and Services (if applicable). In addition, if you believe other personal information we maintain about you is inaccurate, you may request that we correct or amend the information by contacting us as indicated in the "How to Contact Us" section of this Privacy Policy. If we deny an access request, we will notify you of the reasons for the denial.
Links to and Use of Other Websites and Services
Our Sites and Services may contain links to other sites and services for your convenience and information and for advertising purposes. Linked sites may have their own privacy notices, which you should review if you visit those sites. We are not responsible for the content of any sites or services not operated by San Diego Union-Tribune, any use of those sites or services, or the privacy practices of those sites or services. When you visit or use our Sites and Services, visit linked sites, click on advertisements displayed in our Sites and Services, receive or participate in a service with a third party, or choose to share your information with third parties (including reward program providers and third party social media sites like Facebook and Twitter), your information may be collected and used by third parties and accessible by users of third party sites. The information collected by the third party is subject to the third party's privacy and other practices, policies, and agreements, including whether the third party continues to share information with us or with other third parties, the types of information shared and your choices with regard to the collection, use and disclosure of the information. We are not responsible for any use of those sites or services or the privacy practices of the third parties that operate those sites or provide those services.
How We Endeavor to Protect Personal Information
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to assist us in protecting the personal information we collect against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. When you provide your credit or debit card information as payment for a transaction, the payment card information is encrypted while in transit to the payment processor that processes your transaction. Please note that no data storage or electronic transmission of information can be entirely secure. We cannot guarantee that the security measures we have in place to safeguard personal information will never be defeated or fail or that those measures will always be sufficient or effective.
To further protect yourself, you should safeguard your user name and password for any Sites and Services and not share that information with anyone. You should also sign off your account and close your browser window when you have finished your visit to our sites. Please note that we will never ask for your San Diego Union-Tribune account user name or password via email.
San Diego Union-Tribune does not direct its websites to children under the age of thirteen. If we learn that a user is under thirteen years of age, we will promptly delete any personal information that the individual has provided to us.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information practices. We will post a prominent notice (and/or provide notice using other methods) with respect to our Sites and Services to notify you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy. The "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when it was most recently updated. Your continued use of any of our Sites and Services once such changes are posted to this policy will mean you accept those changes.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. You also may write to us at: San Diego Union-Tribune, Attention: Customer Service, 350 Camino de la Reina, San Diego, California 92108.


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Train Reading: Jeff Gundlach Expects Yen to Collapse
Count Jeffrey Gundlach among those who expect Japan's currency to collapse because it can't service its debt – Advisor Perspectives
Look who else is shorting Herbalife — MarketBeat
Apple is what ails big stock ETFs, not the fiscal cliff — Focus on Funds
Taking stock of Internet stocks in 2012. The winner isn't Facebook ZyngaGroupon or Netflix Instead….it's AOL — Kara Swisher
"Japan might very well be heading toward the end-game of permanent zero interest rate policy: Explicit monetizing of deficit spending." — Economist's View (via Abnormal Returns)
Americans miss $200 billion abandoning stocks — Whitney Kisling
In 2012, many felt the market was rigged — Michael Santoli
The triumphs and failures of deal makers in 2012 — Dealbook
Bulls may be getting set up — MarketWatch
Perfect 10? Never mind that. Ask her for her credit score — NY Times
Now take Train Reading…on the train! Or the bus, or the monorail, or…you get the idea. Click here to save everything in Train Reading to Pocket, a mobile app that lets you take online reading offline.

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E.U. Security Agency Warns on 'Right to be Forgotten'
Ever since the European Commission published its proposals on the handling of data in January there have been concerns in particular about the so-called "right to be forgotten", the idea that individuals should be able to have personal data removed from public access. Many of the loudest voices have come from outside the E.U. including that of Prof. Jeffrey Rosen who talked about the proposals being the "biggest threat to free speech on the Internet".
Now, even the E.U.'s own European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) in a newly-published report is raising serious concerns about the privacy proposals, at the most fundamental level. For example, "personal data" is defined in the proposals as data that can be used to identify a natural person, according to InfoSecurity.
[ENISA says] it doesn't specify whether that identification can be with a high degree of probability but not absolute certainty (such as "a picture of a person or an account of a person's history") or even whether it includes the identification of a person not uniquely, "but as a member of a more or less small set of individuals, such as a family." Incidentally, this issue will only get more complex with the growth of big data analytics, where an individual may never be overtly specified, but may still become recognizable through the accumulation and association of different items.
With photographs, ENISA asks, what if more than one person is pictured? Who decides if it is to be removed? Does this also mean politicians or governments would be able to remove embarrassing news reports?
ENISA then moves to the technical difficulties involved in the right to be forgotten. It notes that in an open global system such as the web, anybody can copy any data and store it anywhere. In short, "enforcing the right to be forgotten is impossible in an open, global system, in general… [since] unauthorized copying of information by human observers is ultimately impossible to prevent by technical means." It can only be achieved within 'closed systems' such as access-controlled public networks entirely within the jurisdiction of the EU.
It also looks at technical solutions such as encryption which would scramble data on a specific date or when agreed. Apart from the difficulty of managing public keys and the risk that they could be compromised and the data revealed, it does not prevent, for instance, photographs being copied from outside the closed system.
Perhaps, suggests the agency, instead of removing the data it would be sufficient simply to hide it–security through obscurity. In other words the right to be forgotten would end up as the right not to be on Google . Just how search engines would manage such a process isn't made clear.
InfoSecurity: Problems with the EU's proposed 'right to be forgotten'


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- Binding: Hardcover & eBook
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- Number of Pages: 512
- Subject: Political Science/International Relations
- Date Available: July 2011
Clear The Decks Price*
China's aircraft carrier program is making major waves well before the first ship has been completed. Undoubtedly, this development heralds a new era in Chinese national security policy. While the present volume presents substantial new insight on that particular question, its focus is decidedly broader in scope. Chinese Aerospace Power offers a comprehensive survey of Chinese aerospace developments, with a focus on areas of potential strategic significance previously unexplored in Western scholarship. The book also links these developments to the vast maritime battlespace of the Asia-Pacific region and highlights the consequent implications for the U.S. military, particularly the U.S. Navy.
Andrew S. Erickson is an associate professor inthe U.S. Naval War College's Strategic Research Departmentand a founding member of its China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). He is an associate in research at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a fellow in the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations' Public Intellectuals Program.
Lyle J. Goldstein is an associate professorinthe U.S. Naval War College's Strategic Research Department and the founding director of the department's CMSI. He is proficient in Chinese and Russian and has published widely in scholarly journals on China, Russia, Central Asia, and surface and undersea warfare.
The have co-edited several books including China, The United States and 21st Century Sea Power and China Goes To Sea.
To learn more vist Andrew Erickson's website: http://www.andrewerickson.com [9]and http://www.chinasignpost.com. [10]
Praise for Chinese Aerospace Power
"The editors have produced another key text in the literature on what is the main potential maritime conflict of the twenty-first century, a United States increasingly preoccupied with the Pacific and China, flexing its maritime muscles both in home and more distant waters. It is strongly recommended."
— International Journal of Maritime History
"Chinese Aerospace Power is an outstanding and important book."
— Marine Technology, April 2012
"The book is a comprehensive look at changes in Chinese air power from a maritime perspective… and anyone who is interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the rise of China would benefit from reading it."
— Australian Defence Force Journal
"Erickson and Goldstein are uniquely positioned in their roles to edit and discuss such an important topic. Both are experts in the field of Chinese military technology and have written extensively on the subject. Professor Erickson is widely sought for his views on China's military rise, naval technology, and possible US strategic responses to such challenges. Both are well suited to the challenge of editing such an important work. . . . This volume has numerous strengths. Its greatest contribution to existing literature is that it uses a great deal of open source Chinese based literature to add credence to the authors ideas. . . Erickson and Goldstein have created a volume that is balanced, dense in scope but still readable and enjoyable. Combined with the assemblage of a "who's who" in Chinese security studies, the appeal of such a work is hard to deny. This volume should serve as the textbook to any security studies student who wishes to gain a scholarly perspective on China's aerospace and military rise to power from a maritime perspective. It is a work I will keep close at hand for years to come."
— e-International Relations, September 6, 2011, http://www.e-ir.info/?p=13643 [11]
"China's air and space development is an area of significant interest for the U.S. Navy. This book elucidates the critical linkage between China's military aerospace and maritime capabilities. Whereas China's rapid progress has already rendered many studies obsolete, this volume connects the latest 'data point' dots and puts them in strategic context. Navy leaders and planners should read it today."
—Admiral Timothy J. Keating, USN (Ret.), former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command
"Absolutely the most important book on air and space power I've had the pleasure to read. The power of this detailed survey is doubled because it presents both an intelligent American analysis and an insightful view of the 'Chinese perception' of the situation. Our two nations have much in common, but the understanding this difference in perception is essential to our selection of our future alternatives. A must have book!"
—Col. Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.), National Aviation Hall of Fame honoree and former director of the National Air and Space Museum, author of Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the U.S. Air Force, 1947-2007
"An excellent and very readable overview of China's impressive advances in almost every aspect of air and space operations. Not only have the Chinese developed impressive technical capabilities, but they have also given careful thought to the operational concepts associated with them. This is a must read for anyone with a concern for American or Chinese military affairs."
—Col. John A. Warden III, USAF (Ret.),Gulf War I planner, president of Venturist, Inc., author of The Air Campaign and Winning in Fast Time
"Erickson and Goldstein provide us with a comprehensive survey of China's ongoing efforts to shift the military balance in the Western Pacific decisively in its favor through the development and application of aerospace power as it pertains to the maritime competition. Drawing upon primary research and Chinese sources, this volume will be valuable and timely for those with an interest in this issue of growing geostrategic importance."
—Dr. Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, author of 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores the Changing Face of War in the 21st Century
"Arrives on the scene as the United States is facing declining resources for defense while China is realizing rapid expansion of its military capabilities in the aerospace and maritime domains. Andrew Erickson and Lyle Goldstein yield timely insight into how these two trends are evolving in these arenas. Resolving the security objectives of the United States and China in the Pacific—and around the world—requires that policymakers and military strategists understand the reality of Chinese military capability, experiences, and perspectives. This work provides that insight and is a must read as Chinese aerospace development is significantly altering the character of the military and political balance in the Pacific."
—Lt. General David A. Deptula, USAF (Ret.), former USAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
"Serves well as an introduction to advances in Chinese maritime aerospace technology, and will also reward experts looking for the latest update on these evolving capabilities. Many readers will be surprised by the extent of Chinese progress described by the contributors to this work. They detail the strategic and technical issues that are shaping the Chinese military establishment as it looks beyond the country's shores, and examine how it will develop in coming years and decades."
—Bradley Perrett, Asia-Pacific bureau chief, Aviation Week, Beijing


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Topic: Happy Pi Day!
Clearly I am a math geek and so was my dad. He used to call me and my sisters Sweetie Pi's and would always wish me a happy 3.14 day through text messages.
That makes me sad and happy at the same time. But mostly happy - I like that
I love you, Daddy.


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Police: Woman kept child amid drugs, prostitution
Published: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 6:15 p.m.
SARASOTA - A Sarasota woman faces numerous charges, including child neglect, for allegedly having her child in a home where drug deals and prostitution are common practice, according to police.
Heather King, 24, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant after the narcotics unit searched her home on Tarpon Avenue.
Drugs and paraphernalia, including needles and cooking spoons, were observed in places accessible to King's child, according to the Sarasota Police Department.
The girlfriend of King's roommate reportedly engages in prostitution at the home.
King, who is pregnant, told police she continues to use drugs. She is a member of the Juggalos gang, according to police.
King faces numerous drug-related charges, in addition to one count of child neglect. She is being held without bail at the Sarasota County jail.
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At 10:41 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a report of aggravated assault and criminal use of a firearm. Details will be released as available.
MARQUETTE — At 7:20 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters and emergency personnel responded to 31st and Wheatridge in Ellsworth County for a combine fire.
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Preheat oven to 350�F. Grease and line four mini loaf pans (3 x 5 inch) with wax paper.
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Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until well blended. Stir the mashed bananas and orange juice.
Add the flour mixture, alternating with the banana mixture--starting and ending with the flour mixture--and beat until just blended. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared loaf pans.
Bake until loaves are golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Transfer the loaves to a wire rack and cool for 10 minutes. Invert and cool completely.
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IBM Making Do With Less, But for How Long?
IBM is making do with less, like so many companies.
When Big Blue reports fourth-quarter earnings after the bell today, it's expected to show a rise in earnings and a slide in revenue, signs that the big tech bellwether is having trouble finding new levers to pull.
"IBM has a rich mix of strategic software/services revenue, we believe Big Blue is running-out-of-levers to sustain its customary ~10% EPS growth, said ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall. The challenge for IBM is finding enough new business to sustain what had long been its staple: double-digit earnings growth.
The Street expects that double-digit growth to continue this afternoon. IBM is expected to report earnings per share of $5.25 and revenue of $29.12 billion, according to FactSet. The EPS would be an improvement from last year's $4.71 a year ago, and a roughly 11% growth rate, but the revenue would mark a slide from $29.49 billion a year ago.
Marshall noted that in the company's third quarter, IBM posted its fifth consecutive quarter where it missed Street consensus for revenue growth, so the top-line number will be closely watched this time around.
Since bottoming along with everything else on the planet in March 2009, IBM shares have been on a steady climb higher, topping out in October around $210. But it's slide since then (in fact, last year's chart shows what looks like a double-top, in March and October) and it's sitting around $194 today. The closing low in between those two tops was $186; from a technical perspective, keep an eye on that level.
One problem for IBM is that software is increasingly becoming a bigger part of its business, but many of its offerings are older products that have seen their growth stagnate, and as Spencer Ante reports, nothing illustrates that better than one software offering that was a big deal, once upon a time: Lotus Notes.
Remember Lotus? When IBM paid $3.5 billion for the email pioneer in 1995, the deal was seen as a game-changer that plunged the hardware company more deeply into the higher-margin software market.
Now, it's a symbol of the challenges facing new Chief Executive Virginia "Ginni" Rometty as she tries to spur growth in a software division that accounted for nearly a quarter of IBM's revenue and more than 43% of its pretax profit in 2011.
IBM has spent billions of dollars on dozens of software acquisitions in recent years, which have helped the company deliver a flow of steady earnings. Still, much of its software revenue flows from technologies like Lotus that it acquired or developed at least a decade ago. The company needs to modernize its portfolio for a new technology era by selling more software aimed at fast growing areas like social media, cloud computing and mobile.
Right now, Street consensus for IBM's first-quarter EPS is $3.04 (the fourth-quarter, seasonally, is obviously stronger) on sales of $24.72 billion. In the first-quarter of 2012, the company earned $2.78 a share on sales of $24.67 billion. That's EPS growth of about 9%. The company's hosting a 4:30 p.m. conference call, in which we'd imagine they'll talk about the outlook.
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PARKERSBURG - For young people interested in experiencing live theater, a local theater program is preparing for a new year.
The Theatre de Jeunesse Inc. held pre-auditions at the Parkersburg Academy on 38th Street Sunday afternoon, following a similar class on Saturday at Marietta College in Marietta.
From smaller children to high school and college-age teenagers, there was something for everyone to learn.
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Connor Walker, left, and Clare Walker take instruction from choreographer Matt Carroll on Sunday afternoon at the Parkersburg Academy.
"We are targeting kids who think they might like to go into professional theater," said Linda Buchanan, administrative director of the youth theater program.
Buchanan and her husband, Gary, started Theatre de Jeunesse about three years ago to fill a void in the area, she said.
"There really isn't anywhere for (teenagers to young adults) to go to participate in the arts," she said.
The production being performed on July 12-14 and 19-21 at the Friederich Theater in the Hermann Fine Arts Center at Marietta College is from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." Buchanan said the workshop Sunday was to help the children and teens gain an understanding of the play by learning about the background and gaining the confidence to play a role in it.
"The Pirates of Penzance" dates back to 1879. The main character of the play is a man named Frederic who, upon turning 21, is released from a band of pirates. He comes into contact with Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley and the two fall in love. Frederic discovers that he was born Feb. 29 and technically only has a birthday each leap year. His indentured state means he will have to serve another 63 years as a pirate. Bound by his own sense of duty to his work, his only solace is found in Mabel who agrees to wait from him, faithfully.
Buchanan and assistant director Karen Smith said doing classical productions makes sure there are no boundaries crossed. Galen Smith is the director of the play.
"We have to somehow relate the context of the story to them with something that they do know," Karen Smith said of teaching the young pupils about classical plays.
Meryl Walker knows first-hand what it's like to be a parent whose children are no longer exposed to the arts at school, due to budget cuts occurring nationwide. She said her children, Connor, 12, and Clare, 9, are from Williamstown where there is no presence of drama or musical theater in their school.
She has tried various theater productions throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley to make sure her children are exposed to the artistic side of life.
Buchanan said the company tries to pick classical plays rather than well-known ones. She said it teaches the children involved more of a lesson and they can gain more of an understanding of how people in those times lived and what they experienced.
Austin Perkins, a freshman at Ohio Valley University, said he was no stranger to putting on performances. He craves the lights, camera, action part of production, he said.
"This will be my fifth play," said Perkins. "It gives you a certain rush that you don't find in many other things."
Perkins said he was interested in the role of the Major-General because it challenges him musically.
"It's like a fast rap that puts most rappers to shame," Perkins said of the well-known song beginning "I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical."
This program is presented with financial assistance through grants and from The Oakland Foundation, Artsbridge, the Belpre Area Community Development Foundation, the Ohio River Border Initiative, Easton Printing, and in partnership with the Parkersburg Art Center and the Allohak Council 618 of the Boy Scouts of America.
For more information on the production or organization visit the website at www.tdej.org.
Formal auditions for the musical will take place April 13 from 1-4 p.m. at the Hermann Fine Arts Center on Butler Street in Marietta and April 14 from 2-5 p.m. at the Parkersburg Academy on 38th Street in Parkersburg.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Laquana Raymond couldn't wait to move into the small rental on Mercier Street this summer.
"It's been a long time since I've really been back on my own," she said.
But it didn't turn out as ideal as she thought it would be.
"I thought it was a good thing for me but turned out to be almost like a nightmare," Raymond said.
Raymond paid the landlord a $200 deposit plus $400 for the first month's rent. Only after she drained her bank account getting into the home did she realize the house was drier than her wallet.
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She made a trip to the Water Department where she learned a previous tenant stole water from the county and racked up fines at her address. Her landlord also owes money to Richmond County utilities. Not even Raymond herself can get the water turned on until the owner of the home pays the bill.
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She rarely stays at the house and is looking to move. However, she is going forward a little more cautious.
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By jacki decoster on May 12, 2009
Interoperability between applications in heterogeneous technology environments is essential to successful collaboration. Sun and Microsoft are taking interoperability to a new level by utilizing the SAML federation standard in both the Sun OpenSSO Enterprise federation solution and the forthcoming Microsoft "Geneva" Server federation solution.
As part of these efforts, Sun and Microsoft have created a new whitepaper: "Microsoft "Geneva" Server and Sun OpenSSO - Enabling Unprecedented Collaboration Across Heterogeneous IT Environments" available for download here.
Sun's Chief Identity Management Officer, Daniel Raskin, posted his blog entry on OpenSSO & "Geneva" here.
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At a regularly scheduled Sleepy Eye City Council meeting held Monday evening the council unanimously approved to purchase lot 6, block one, Nelson's second addition which had been forfeited to the State of Minnesota.
Total purchase price of the lot would be just over $9,800. City Manager Mark Kober encouraged the council to consider the measure before the vote, saying that about $7,500 would be returned to the city from owning the lot.
In other news the council approved:
- applications for exempt gambling permits for a Brown County Pheasants Forever raffle to be held at the Eagles Orchid Inn and the St. Mary's Men's Sausage dinner raffle to be held March 3.
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This somewhat melancholy idealised landscape explores the theme of the poetry of ruins made fashionable by Claude Gellée and La Hyre. It is one of the few paintings attributed with certainty to Mauperché, one of the greatest French landscape artists of the middle of the century.
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Jeep Cherokee Problems Keep Vehicles from Dealerships
October 22nd, 2013
Going from a manual transmission to a car equipped with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) can be a bit jarring. I've driven a 5-speed for as long as I can remember, and sitting down in an auto-equipped car sends my senses into no man's land every time I step on the clutch pedal that isn't there.
The feeling is amplified when I drive a car with a continuously variable transmission, since my brain is programmed to feel a shift of gears at very precise moments in an engine's rev cycle. When shifts don't happen, I get dizzy and confused.
Strange, I suppose, but true.
Car Industry News, Car Minded, Car Shopping, Domestic Cars, General Chat, Trucks & SUVs


text: How can do you select alternative endings in a movie using MEncoder? For instance "I Am Legend" has an option for multiple endings. The way to select multiple endings usually is like this: When playing, right click on the Haali icon, select edition1 for theatrical (default) or edition2 for alternate. Please advise.


text: Paul Wilkes is a veteran journalist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times magazine. He has authored 18 books on Catholicism, including the bestselling Excellent Catholic Parishes. He is the author of The Seven Secrets of Successful Catholics and the creator of New Beginnings, a parish revitalization program, which is distributed by St. Anthony Messenger Press.


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The Palm Chat Gas Fire Pit Table is a classic piece for any outdoor entertainment area. This gas fire pit table has intricate carvings of mountains and palm trees decorating its exterior, further highlighting the craftsmanship and beauty of this piece. Additionally, the chat height is ideal for long evenings spent relaxing around the fire.
- 63,000 BTUs
- Natural Gas Orifice Conversion included
- Choice of complimentary gas log or fireglass burning display
- Stainless steel burner construction
- LP tank access door
The Palm Chat Gas Fire Pit Table from California Outdoor Concepts features a cast resin construction and is finished with powder coat natural paint. It's also available with several different granite top options, as well as the choice to order your fire pit table without a granite top, further making this fire pit table highly individualized according to your preference. Though it isn't pictured, these gas fire pit tables are already finished and ready to use without the granite top accessory; choosing a granite table top will add more table space and uniqueness to your outdoor entertainment area. The granite top also come standard with the Granite Insert Kit for easy conversion to a solid table.
If you choose to source your own granite stone for a customized table top, please be advised that the diameter of the inner hole for the round burner must be 23". All burners are included with purchase of fire pit table.
The Palm Chat Gas Fire Pit Table is designed to use natural gas or propane. Standard 20 lb. tank fits in base.


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Personalized Pet Garden Flag. Personalized pet banner with your favorite pet photo and pet's name. Personalized pet flags are great gifts for Mother's Day, Father's Day and birthdays! Display personalized flags outdoors or hang indoors on a wall. MATERIAL: Silky soft, heavy-duty 100% polyester. Double Stitched on all sides.
Note: Not more than 12 letters per line recommended.


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Tiffini Harris of Tecumseh announces the birth of a daughter, Kaelynn Dawn Harris.
She was born at 6:28 p.m., Nov. 8, 2013, at St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and was 18 ½ inches long.
She is the granddaughter of Marion and Christy Harris of Tecumseh.
She is the great-granddaughter of Don and Nora Wiley of Shawnee.
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Picasa is a popular photo management application that allows a user to
"star" favorite images. In addition, photos can be "tagged" with keywords,
which are written to the images as IPTC keywords.
My typical workflow is to download images from my cameras, "star" my
favorites, then select the starred photos and add the tag "star", to write
the metadata to the file.
When sharing images over uPNP, I'd like to be able to share only the photos
with the "star" tag. Since I primarily use a PS3 and this is the best
media server software around, I'd like to inquire about implementing this
It shouldn't be too hard... I believe you're using the Apache Sanselan Java
image manipulation library, which supports IPTC keywords. I think I'll try
my hand at hacking the pms.jar file to add this feature, but if you would
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team opened its 2013 preseason with the first official practice on Friday, Sept. 27. The team will tip off its 2013-14 season on Nov. 8 with a contest against Huston-Tillotson.
The NCAA Legislative Council approved a new start date, nearly two weeks earlier than in previous seasons. Under the new system, teams have six weeks in which to complete their 30 preseason practices.
The Islanders are also ahead of most other schools because of the additional 10 days of practice they had leading up to their summer tour of Italy. While abroad, the Islanders were also able to suit up together for four games, going 3-1 against Italian professional teams.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi is slated to play 17 games in the Coastal Bend this year, the most in program history. Among the highlighted home games are a tilt with Rice at the American Bank Center and the Holiday Inn Downtown Marina Islanders Basketball Tournament, which will see the Islanders play host to IPFW, Tennessee Tech and Texas-Pan American in addition to the opener with Huston-Tillotson.
For all the latest on Islanders Basketball, be sure to follow the team on Twitter and Instagram (@IslandersMBB) and like the team's official Facebook page (Islanders Mens Basketball).


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CORPUS CHRISTI – Throughout the summer of 2013, GoIslanders.com will look back at the best moments and athletic performances from the 2012-13 school year.
Every Thursday, we will bring you one of the top 10 individual performances, with Tuesdays bringing the year's top 10 moments. Be sure to keep tabs on GoIslanders.com throughout the summer to celebrate all the great moments.
Senior Trevor Foss had always been a guy with a ton of potential for the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball team, but it had only converted to glimpses of brilliance in his first three years on the Island. Heading into the 2013 season, more was expected of the Janesville, Wis., native than ever before.
The righty set the tone right out of the gate, opening his season with one of the finest performances on the mound in school history. Against Texas-Pan American, Foss delivered a complete-game, three-hit shutout in which he struck out 15 Broncs on Feb. 16.
The senior posted 1-2-3 innings in the first, second, fifth and sixth, and the only two hits he surrendered in his first seven innings came in the third. He matched his career high with his 11th strikeout in the top of the seventh, and continued to cruise all the way to the final out for his first career shutout. He went on to earn National Player of the Week recognition from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and his first of two Southland Pitcher of the Week honors.
Foss went 8-6 on the season with three complete games and a 3.09 ERA. He struck out more than a batter per inning on the campaign, notching 103 Ks in his 102 innings of work. Opponents hit just .206 against him on the year, and he earned Third Team All-Southland honors.
With his career wrapped up, Foss accomplished another dream on June 8, as he was selected on Day Three of the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The Los Angeles Angels nabbed him in the 22nd round (667th overall) as he was the third-highest draft pick in Islanders history. He is currently in the Angels' minor-league system.
For all the latest on Islanders Athletics throughout the summer, be sure to follow us on Facebook (GoIslanders), Twitter (@Go_Islanders) and Instagram (@go_islanders).
Top Performances:
June 6 – #10: Jasmine Boutte Shines at SLC Indoor and Outdoor Championships
June 13 – #9: Johnathan Jordan's Double-Double at Lamar
June 20 – #8: Vanessa Johnson at Southland Championship
June 27 – #7: Brandi Huff Leads Women's Basketball Past McNeese
July 4 – #6: Logen Bourque Posts Second Triple-Double in Islanders History
July 11 – #5: Trevor Foss Mows Down UT-Pan American
Top Moments:
June 11 – #10: Dance Places 11th at NDA Collegiate Championships
June 18 – #9: Men's Basketball Shoots Lights Out vs. Southeastern La.
June 25 – #8: Softball's Walk-off Win vs. Sam Houston State
July 2 – #7: Women's Golf Takes Second at Harold Funston Invitational
July 9 – #6: Men's Cross Country Shines at Chile Pepper Invite


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ELLSWORTH, Maine � A signed copy of a rare Stephen King book is up for auction at a Maine bookstore, with proceeds going to a nearby homeless shelter�s emergency home heating fund.
The copy of the The Regulators, written by horror writer and Maine native King under the pen name Richard Bachman, was donated by a customer of Scottie�s Bookhouse in Hancock.
Owner Michael Riggs says there are only 550 copies of the book in a special collector�s box.
Auction proceeds will go to the Emmaus Homeless Shelter�s emergency fuel fund in Ellsworth.
Emmaus director Sister Lucille MacDonald tells WABI-TV it�s an �ingenious� way to help people struggling to buy heating oil.
The book is on display at Scottie�s and bids are being accepted by email, phone and in person until Jan. 31.


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Heart Disease Health Center
Can a Woman's Job Raise Her Heart Attack Risk?
July 18, 2012 -- Women with high-stress jobs are at higher risk of heart attacks and other heart problems compared to those with lower-stress jobs, according to a new study.
"Women who had high-strain jobs had a 40% higher likelihood of having a cardiovascular event compared to women who were in the low-strain category," says researcher Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
"High strain is defined as high demand and low control," she says. A factory job in which a worker is pressured to produce is an example.
Then came the surprise finding. Women in what she calls ''active strain'' jobs -- highly demanding, but with high control -- had the same increased risk as those in the high stress, low-control positions.
Job insecurity was not linked with a risk of heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular problems, Albert also found.
The study is published in PLoS ONE.
High-Stress Jobs & Women
The researchers followed more than 22,000 participants in the long-running Women's Health Study. The women's average age was 57.
The women were categorized into four job-strain groups. Job strain takes into account both the demands and the control a worker has. The groups are:
- Low strain: with low demand, high control
- Passive: with low demand, low control
- Active: with high demand, high control
- High strain: with high demand, low control
The researchers followed the women for 10 years, looking to see who had one of four types of events. They found:
- 170 heart attacks
- 163 strokes
- 440 heart procedures such as stents, bypass surgery, or angioplasty
- 52 deaths from cardiovascular disease
The researchers took into account other factors that could affect heart health, such as age, race, education, and income.
Even then, they found the nearly 40% increased risk of any of the four outcomes in the women in the active or high-strain groups.
When they looked just at nonfatal heart attacks, they found women in the high-strain group were 67% more likely than those in the low-strain jobs to have one.
They looked, too, at depression and anxiety. Those factors explained only about 20% of the relationship, Albert tells WebMD. More study is needed to further explain the link, she says.
Job insecurity did not appear to increase the risk of heart attack or stroke, she says.


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- Mar 16:
- Contra Costa County call center deal ignores taxpayer risk, rewards political backer
Contra Costa Times editorial
- Mar 15:
- Contra Costa County supervisors choose Concord over Richmond for call center
- Mar 14:
- Contra Costa calls emergency meeting to select call center site
- Mar 13:
- Contra Costa call center jobs are back on the table
- Mar 12:
- Contra Costa County loses state call center in labor dispute
- Mar 11:
- California should directly run health care exchange call center: Contra Costa Times editorial
- Mar 9:
- Inside Politics: Battle royale over call center jobs comes to light
- Mar 7:
- Richmond partners with business owner in attempt to win site for Affordable Care Act call center
- Feb 27:
- Richmond to make pitch to state for health exchange call center
- Contra Costa dumps plan for call center, 214 new jobs
- Feb 23:
- Inside Politics: Contra Costa County says labor is putting new call center jobs at risk
- County supervisors plan decision on whether to put Affordable Care Act call center in Richmond or Concord
RICHMOND -- The City Council voted unanimously Monday to beef up its lending offer to a local property owner, seeking a last-minute edge in the competition with Concord over which city becomes the site of a new Affordable Care Act call center and more than 200 jobs.
The special meeting ended with a 6-0 vote to direct city staff to enter an agreement with local property owner Richard Poe to reduce his bid by an additional $600,000, mostly by slashing leasing rates he will charge to the county. The move follows a unanimous vote March 5 to loan Poe $1 million to help beat the Concord bid. Contra Costa County supervisors are expected to take up the matter at their Tuesday meeting.
"Richmond is in distinct danger of losing the call center, and its 220 good-paying jobs open to those with a high school degree, to a competing bid from Concord," Councilman Jim Rogers wrote in an email to his council colleagues Friday. "It is extremely likely that a majority of the supervisors will pick the Concord site, which is more centrally located, and closer to their districts, unless the Richmond bid is substantially cheaper."
Councilman Jael Myrick said during Monday's meeting that the move was a good use of public funds.
"It's not a giveaway, it's a loan," Myrick said. "This will make it harder for the board of supervisors to justify choosing Concord."
The new agreement drives Richmond's bid down to about $1.8 million over three years, more than $2.4 million less than the initial bid from the owners of the Concord site.
Monday's vote cuts Poe's bid by another $600,000, which Rogers said will be done by guaranteeing $1 million in loans and Poe taking on a greater portion of the cost to upgrade cubicles in his building to meet county standards.
Rogers said the city has to have a much lower bid to get the site.
"Two bids in the same ballpark is a losing game for us," Rogers said.
Several public speakers Monday agreed, saying the city needed to do all it can to secure the new center, which could mean millions in wages for local residents in the coming years.
But not all residents are comfortable with the risks.
"What happens when the call center comes to the end of its useful life after three years and they move out?" resident Barry Nel asked in an email. "(The Council) does not have the right to play fast and loose with hard earned taxpayers' money."
Supervisor John Gioia, who represents West County and Richmond, has said the Richmond site is better-suited to the criteria established by the state, but the other four supervisors have remained noncommittal or shown preference to Concord.
The state selected Contra Costa County in January as a site for one of three call centers aimed at supporting eligibility and enrollment efforts of state-level Affordable Care Act programs. Richmond was the early favorite for the site, and county supervisors voted unanimously to search for a site in San Pablo, Pittsburg or Richmond -- which have the highest unemployment rates in the county -- as part of their effort to land the call center.
But some supervisors soon favored Concord, where another potential site exists. Both property owners, Poe in Richmond and the Garaventa family in Concord, are major political donors.
On March 5, Richmond's council voted unanimously to help Poe cut his bid by $1,012,545 by giving him a 25-year loan of Richmond public funds to erect 200 cubicles in the building, eliminating the need for state funds to finance the construction.
The owner of the Concord site, Garaventa Enterprises, is expected to submit another reduced bid before Tuesday's vote, Myrick said.
Contact Robert Rogers at 510-262-2726 or email@example.com and follow Twitter.com/roberthrogers.


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Study Notes Benefits of Wind Power but Calls for Guidelines
May 9, 2007
A report released on May 3rd by the National Research Council (NRC), one of the National Academies, notes that wind power projects have definite environmental benefits but could potentially harm birds and bats. According to the NRC, wind power has significant environmental benefits, and by 2020 wind power could offset 4.5 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions produced by electrical generating stations. Although wind turbines can kill songbirds during their nocturnal migrations, the NRC sees no evidence of decreasing bird populations due to wind turbines. Regarding bats, wind turbines placed along ridges seem to cause the most harm, particularly in mid-Atlantic regions, although the data on bat mortality remain scarce. The NRC calls for more research on the impacts of wind power and notes that wind developers should conduct studies to determine the effects of wind power installations once they are put in place. The report also calls for government guidance to help communities and developers evaluate proposed wind energy projects. See the links to the report and an accompanying press release on the National Academies Web site.
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) welcomed some aspects of the NRC report, particularly the fact that wind turbines were the cause of less than three in every 100,000 bird deaths in 2003. AWEA notes that the impacts on bats are being studied by the Bats & Wind Energy Cooperative and called for a comprehensive NRC study of the impacts of all energy sources. The Audubon Society also welcomed the report and noted that properly sited wind turbines hold great promise for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As noted by Audubon Senior Vice President Betsy Loyless, "If we don't find ways to reduce global warming pollution, far more birds and people will be threatened by climate change than by wind turbines." See the AWEA and Audubon press releases.
California is one state that is developing statewide guidelines for reducing wildlife impacts from wind power development. The California Energy Commission (CEC) issued draft guidelines on April 5th, and has extended the deadline for comments to May 15th. See the CEC Web page.