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USA Today Joins Effort to Persuade Alicia Keys to Boycott Israel
Latest update: December 30th, 2013
As if it wasn't enough to have the once-famous novelist Alice Walker publicly claim that the young rhythm and blues singer Alicia Keys will suffer mortal soul decay if Keys goes ahead with her plan to sing in Israel, which Walker and her minions refer to as an Apartheid State, and a huge Internet and petitioning effort to similarly dissuade her, now the national American newspaper USA Today has lent a helping hand.
In a "news article" printed on Wednesday, June 12, USA Today's music critic, Steve Jones, cut and pasted nearly the entire press release sent out the day before by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
The press release/news article told USA Today's readers that a "delegation representing more than 500 organizations" delivered a petition with "12,000 signatures" to the New York office of Keys' non-profit Keep a Child Alive which provides support to children and families devastated by AIDS in Africa and India.
The USCACBI petition lists many of the worst-lies-about-Israel-that-Israel-haters-love-to-repeat, such as that Israel is an Apartheid State and that it is a systemic abuser of "Palestinian human rights, and even that Keys'
performance is legitimizing a country that systematically undermines her nonprofit's mission, that 'every person has the right to health care and that all children deserve a future.' Israel routinely denies Palestinians health care and systematically destroys the futures of Palestinian children, denying their rights to education and health care, and regularly arresting Palestinian children and then torturing the vast majority of them.
There is no mention in the USA Today article that Israel routinely treats not only hundreds of Arab Palestinian children and adults a year, but that it does so even for the children of terrorists as well as the terrorists themselves, as any quick Internet search would quickly reveal.
An Internet search that took less than five seconds produced information that more than 100,000 Arab Palestinians were treated in Israeli hospitals in 2011. More than 4 million other results also showed up for the simple search "Israel treats Palestinians hospitals."
Incidentally, that same search revealed that more than 100 Arab Palestinian doctors work in Israeli hospitals – there goes the Apartheid lie, for anyone who might be interested in truthful reporting.
The USA Today article does not put quotes around the following, which is in Jones's "article":
In response to Israel's large-scale abuses of Palestinian rights, Palestinian Civil Society launched a call for a global campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions of Israel in 2005, modeled on the call by black South Africans for a boycott of apartheid South Africa that helped bring an end to the racist system.
The press release/USA Today article goes on to recount the names of other artists who have been successfully intimidated – eagerly or otherwise – into believing the worst about Israel and who have cancelled their performances in Israel.
Columnist Jeffrey Goldberg was apparently the first to notice the similarity between the press release and the article, and tweeted it on Thursday. The Algemeiner also took note.
Thus far Keys has remained firm and plans to perform in Tel Aviv on July 4. There are some social media efforts to support Keys in this position, including this Facebook page, "Alicia Keys Plays for Peace in Israel," and an inspired effort by a New Jersey woman described in an earlier Jewish Press article, urging supporters to buy Keys' music worldwide on the day of her Tel Aviv concert.Lori Lowenthal Marcus
About the Author: Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the U.S. correspondent for The Jewish Press. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she previously practiced First Amendment law and taught in Philadelphia-area graduate and law schools. You can reach her by email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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84 Responses to "USA Today Joins Effort to Persuade Alicia Keys to Boycott Israel"
I won't be reading or buying USA Today ever again!
She can boycott who she wishes, and if we don't like it we can boycott Alicia Keys! See it all works out!
This world is really starting to suck! Why can't people just leave each other alone!
Boycott USA Today!
Why can't people just leave these poor stars alone insted of trying to get tthem to "support" a cause that will harm her in the long run.
Send Steve Jones to Gaza to live.
Ummm Lori, Alice Walker, unlike you of course, is still very much a famous writer.
She's a one book wonder–woo hoo.
USA Today sucks buckets big time – biased bozos.
Paid for with Muzzie monies.
Think I might be a "minion" of Alice Walker!
USA Today and Alice Walker can kiss my collective keester. Did any "palestinians" or radical Islamists march with Dr. King and put their lives on the line for Civil Rights? Jewish and African American Goodman, Cheney, and Schwerner died for that cause.
A "one book wonder?" I think not.
She has won the following honors and awards:
Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship (1967)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple
National Book Award for Fiction (1983) for The Color Purple.
Henry Award for "Kindred Spirits" 1985.
Honorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995)
American Humanist Association named her as "Humanist of the Year" (1997)
The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
The Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York
Induction to the California Hall of Fame in The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts (2006)
Domestic Human Rights Award from Global Exchange (2007)
The LennonOno Grant for Peace (2010)
And here is selection of her published works:
Novels and short story collections
The Third Life of Grange Copelan (1970)
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
Meridian (1976)
The Color Purple (1982)
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
To Hell With Dying (1988)
The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
Finding the Green Stone (1991)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
The Complete Stories (1994)
By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005)
Everyday Use (1973). Short stories, essays, interviews
Poetry collections
Once (1968)
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
Collected Poems (2005)
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
Non-fiction books
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
Living by the Word (1988)
Warrior Marks (1993)
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
Overcoming Speechlessness (2010)
Chicken Chronicles, A Memoir (2011)
I'm not sure how to battle this new antisemitism more effectively, and hope that Alicia Keys stands firm and true. Israeli doctors are currently working in Africa to overcome the AIDS epidemic, the very thing so close to her heart.
Being a famous writer, painter, actor … anything, doesn't prevent you from succumbing to bigotry. Can't say I care about her resume when considering her views.
.. and this list proves she's not a rabid antisemite how?
Do you really know her Cultural background? LOL This shows how much people even know about her. LOL
Do you really know her Cultural background? LOL This shows how much people even know about her. LOL
If Israel wants to render BDS meaningless, all the country has to do is stop building settlements (COMPLETELY this time…no exceptions for 'natural community development' or any such nonsense) and propose a formula for Right of Return compensation for those driven from their homes during the Nakba. Then you can have all the concerts you want. And who knows, Hawking might even drop by sometime.
Shame on USA Today for promoting bigotry and hatred… they should come here and see for themselves, and then, go to Gaza and see for themselves.
Do not leave the arena to the fibbers
Where else would Palestinians go to get medical treatment when you've stolen almost everything they had? Bigotry and delusion never had a better friend than the friends of Israel. Alicia Keys would be a better person if off performing at a Klan rally than for this crowd.
Where else would Palestinians go for medical treatment when you've stolen almost everything they had? Alicia Keys would be more respectable playing for a Klan rally than for Israel.
Whose Alicia Keys? Is that what's on the bottom of my shoes? Didn't mean to step in that pile!
Judith Sargent This P.o.S. is a mush-brained lunatic self-hating Jew. a rotten degenerate coward – it's easily verifiable if you look on his mug shot that he is clearly deranged. Even his eyes show that he is a fecalia moron.
Dominga Luna Your "LOL" shows that you are a worm. Less than a worm in fact. You are clearly not an American, but a rotten neo-Nazi antisemitic bastard Latino excrement…
Stephen – It proves she's not, as alleged, a "one book wonder." The fact that she married a Jew might indicate she isn't an antisemite.
What a hater you are Gabor. Such rational argument you provide.
settlements? PFFFT..why should JEWS stop building on OUR land? tell me, Steve 47, (the year before Israel became what is was supposed to be all along…got your snide name down)….so tell me, 47, what is a Palestinian? their culture, history, state flower, currency, education faciilities (not built by Jews)? what is their history before 1948? Who was their greatest poet, doctor, medicine man, lawyer, artist, architect, actor/ress, filmmaker, what did they invent besides suicide bombs? Who were they in relation to Romans, the Middle Ages, cro-magnon man? I mean, SIR, where do they fit in to the historical timeline EXCEPT as pawns for other muslims to use to kill Jews? Other muslims won't even help them, but JEWS give them water, medicine, operations, food, electricity. If it were up to me, they would rot.
Israel gives those fakestinians medical treatment and then they go out and stone Jews…..
This is to all the Jews in the world: We have no homeland! We are from all the countries in the world and we fend for ourselves where ever it is that we may be living. My father, a Holocaust survivor, helped Jews get to Palestine, but no Jew had been born there in many centuries. Why Israel cannot agree to the Nobel Peace Prize agreement regarding the borders, which everyone felt was fair is beyond me? A greedy Jew is an unacceptable Jew and to me that person ceases to be a Jew the minute they cross the greed lline. We must all be benevolent and humble. Accept your Jewishkeid and accept that we are a world-wide cultural and religious community!!!
I find it a little odd that none of the comments to this article have much to say about the article's point – which is that one of the largest circulation "News"papers in the U.S. simply took a press release issued by a small group of ideologues and printed it as if everything it said was a fact. That is a particularly shameful thing for any serious journalist to do. None of the partisans who've commented on this — and urged Israel to defend itself by ceasing construction of "settlements" — seem to pay any attention to the actual facts. Among those facts is that, as far as the official representatives of what we are supposed to believe is the Palestinian "people," ALL of Israel is a settlement. So all the Jews should go "back" to Poland. thanks a lot. Those who believe something else is at stake should take seriously the things said by the people whose interests they claim to advocate. Read Palestinian Media Watch and MEMRI. Then report back.
In the meantime, per this article, don't bother reading USAToday.
I find it a little odd that none of the comments to this article have much to say about the article's point – which is that one of the largest circulation "News"papers in the U.S. simply took a press release issued by a small group of ideologues and printed it as if everything it said was a fact. That is a particularly shameful thing for any serious journalist to do. None of the partisans who've commented on this — and urged Israel to defend itself by ceasing construction of "settlements" — seem to pay any attention to the actual facts. Among those facts is that, as far as the official representatives of what we are supposed to believe is the Palestinian "people," ALL of Israel is a settlement. So all the Jews should go "back" to Poland. thanks a lot. Those who believe something else is at stake should take seriously the things said by the people whose interests they claim to advocate. Read Palestinian Media Watch and MEMRI. Then report back.
In the meantime, per this article, don't bother reading USAToday.
Denise Karter How can you say that there were no Jews born in Ottoman occupied Palestine? You should research and you would find that that is untrue. In fact, the Arabs were murdering jews before Israel existed. Just look up the Hebron Massacre and the Tzfat Massacre.
The Muslims began murdering jews in the 7th century, when Mohamed went on his murderous rampage, stealing, robbing , raping from Jews, as well as taking them as slaves.
You really need to educate yourself
ps.There is a Jewish homeland, which we have never left. In 3,000 years there have always been Jews in Israel, through persecution and pogroms. You also should know that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the Arab rep in those days, was a great friend of Hitler's, but angry that Hitler wasn't killing Jews quickly enough
They are angry at Israel because Israel is the only country in Middle East that is still not occupied completely by their Arab Moslem friends and is not an Arab State or Moslem State. Moslem States only belong to Moslems and Arab states only belong to people of Arab race, and people of other religions and races, specially Jews who have lived all over Middle East before Arab and Moslem invasion and occupation of their native countries or those few Jews who are still living there have been constantly forced out of their native countries and their lands are stolen and occupied by Moslems so that they can only belong to Arabs and Moslems.
People like Alice walker have no problem with Moslems stealing Jewish lands all over Middle East.They are not even worried for human rights of Moslems or Arabs, anywhere in Middle East or in Israel, They are only against Israel's existance out of their sick ideological believes, the same way that many Islamists all over the world are committing all kinds of crimes against even other Moselms because of their ideological believes.
G-D bless Ms. Keys, who is beautiful, intelligent, and talented.
USA has always been a left/liberal publication. I expect noting else from them.
Relax Michael. These are just the usual trolls that seem to infest most pro Israel sites.
You are the kind of racist scum that dare to pretend to be "Patriots".
Had the Arabs/Palestinians made peace they would be sharing the prosrerity with Israel. The pre Intefada 2000 Palestinians had the highest standard of living of any Arabs in non-oil states.
Denise Karter wow you really have some deep rooted problems. You parrot garbage fact as if they were true and if you really a daughter of a Holocaust survivor then shame on you for having such stupid opinions.
BOYCOTT USA today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Printed ARTICLE TO BOYCOTT Alecia Keys if she sings in ISRAEL on JULY 4th
IN 1948, YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE FOR A COUNTRYAND YOU REJECTED IT IN FAVOR OF WARS OF RACIST ANTI – SEMITIC HATRED. YOUR CALLS FOR A JUDENREIN LAND IF YOUR OWN SHOW THAT YOU HAVE LESRNED NOTHING SINCE THEN EXCEPT HOW TO LIE. To you and all those other ignorant and Jew Hating. Others I say. GET LOST, GET F***KED & GET DEAD.
Boycott USA Today! See how they like it. At least the reason would be an honest one based on real evidence, and not calumny.
Michael D Blum All of these awards from left-wing-radical organizations which only care that Walker is a left-wing advocate.
Hooray for Alicia! She is ok in my book!
Don't listen to any lies Ms Keys. I'm sure you will make the right decision. The rest of those who oppose Israel, when the truth actually slams you in your face you WILL be very unhappy people.
What a disgusting newspaper, I use that word lightly, its written on the level of a third grader, maybe. Really Israel the only democratic country in the middle east, we really need another Muslim police state, don't we have a dozen or more already.
Stevie boy – one tiny little problem. That is JEWISH LAND. The Arabs do not have a single claim to the territory and we do.
Just a tiny problem for people with tiny minds and no clue as to the facts
Sonny – to steal something it would have to belong to somebody else. It happens that is our land. Every international law and treaty on the subject says so.
The Arabs do not have any legal claim to the land – because they are Jordanian colonists.
And you are a racist moron
So was ezra pound and hitler. You point?
arabs were not native to palestine. They arrived with the murderous hordes from what is now saudi arabia. They've been interlopers for about 1200 years.
Loren…I am no one's 'boy'…and that 'Jewish Land' you speak of came at the expense of kicking many MANY people out of their homes…how would you feel if you were kicked out of YOUR home?….
Joseph…you are free to counter my dear Cousin Denise on her ideas with the facts as you see them…but you calling someone 'stupid' without presenting those facts is MORE stupid than stupid. …Denise is a child of a Holocaust survivor…but Hedy Ebstein is an ACTUAL Holocaust survivor who believes deeply in justice for Palestinians…you should read what Hedy has to say sometime…
With all awards that she got, she need one more for all her lies about the state of Israel, she is an ignorant.
USA. paper will be a good source for lining dog kennels and for use as toilet paper in pinch after your inspired effort.
It's look like a plague the all want to boycott Israel for lies, or they just want their names on paper.
They have taken over where the Nazis left off.
Great article and congrats to Alicia Keya for honoring her convictions.
Maybe you should do a similar Google searchon Israel's contribution to mankind. Then when you get done, do the same for the Palestinians. The second search
shouldn't take you any time.
Maybe you should do a similar Google searchon Israel's contribution to mankind. Then when you get done, do the same for the Palestinians. The second search
shouldn't take you any time.
Abbie Applestein Very informative Abbie & more people should learn about the Nazi collaborator Grand Mufti Mohammad Amin al-Husayni and his protege Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, commonly known as the Egyptian born Yasser Arafat
That is despicable! No blessings for USA Today and those who speak against Israel!
How much money does Israel pay to the Palestinians monthly, again? Millions, right? Is that listed in the article? How many bombs and terrorist attacks occur in Israel daily? Hundreds? More? How much land has Israel GIVEN to their enemies? 90%? How much do they want? 100%. How does a country negotiate or make peace with an enemy who does not want them to exist?
G-d Bless the innocent children in Israel and Arab nations. Let this generation grow in love. War is not the answer. Pray for the peace of JerUSalem
Steven Forty Seven…you talk about the right of return..then what about the same for all of the jews who were pushed out of their homes throughout the middle east for centuries by the muslims who just took over everything that did not belong to them. When Gaza was given back..the Palestinians destroyed everything that was beautiful in the strip. Israel has kept giving back…the Palestinians just want Israel gone so they can destroy all of the history it holds.
Michael D Blum I'm a pretty avid reader and I can't recall any of her other books (in contrast, I could name you four books Toni Morrisson wrote before Beloved). And while I realize there are three sides to every story, if 1/10 of what her estranged daughter Rebecca Walker has written about her is true…
Abbie Applestein You can't have it both ways. The Jews are entitled to and have received a homeland, and they deserve secure borders, and they have the right to occupy the territories until a final peace is reached. But they do not have the right to SETTLE the territories – if you're going to trash the 4th Geneva Convention (and spare us the twisted interpretation that nobody – not even the US accepts), then all bets are off.
Joseph Marmor Because she agrees with the position of Alan Dershowitz and Jeffery Goldberg (among others) – oh, the self-hatred!
You realize you're slamming the person who supports Israel, not the BDS'er. With friends like you…
We have Dhimmis here in the US that would rather kiss muslim ass than have freedom, or be masters of they're own lives.
Some people don't need ankle or wrist chains, they're minds are already enslaved.
Alice Walker is a total nutcase. She believes we have been invaded by alien reptiles. She's a complete looney. Who cares about her awards. You can list all her publications, all her awards, it's of no consequence. She is an anti-semite and she's mentally unbalanced. I'm not impressed and have no desire to read any of her works.
Michael D Blum She married and is divorced from her former husband, Melvyn Lenventhal. So what? I've met racists married to blacks, I've met Jews who were antisemites. So, she wrote one book of note that is famous. I haven't read it and see no need to. I won't be any worse off for not reading it.


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June 21, 2007
NIST WTC Recommendations Spur New Model Building Codes
NIST Fire Experts Examine Charleston Building Collapse
Catching Waves: Measuring Self-Assembly in Action
Fans Clear High-Rise Stairwells of Smoke
NIST/Industry Quality Measurement Data Standard
Coming Soon! Baldrige Awardees Share Successes
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NIST experiment to replicate an office fire in the World Trade Center. Tests such as this helped validate computer models of the spread rate and intensity of the fires initiated by jet fuel and fed by the office furnishings and other combustibles.*
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Safer buildings—especially tall structures—that are more resistant to fire and more easily evacuated in emergencies are the goal of the first comprehensive set of building code changes recently approved by the International Code Council (ICC), based on recommendations from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The recommendations were the result of the findings of NISTs three-year investigation of the collapses of New York Citys World Trade Center (WTC) towers on Sept. 11, 2001.
The changes will be incorporated into the 2007 supplement to the ICCs International Building Code (IBC), a model code used as the basis for building regulations promulgated and enforced by U.S. state and local jurisdictions. Those jurisdictions have the option of incorporating some or all of the codes provisions but generally adopt most provisions.
We fully endorse these code changes and are gratified that NISTs WTC recommendations have stimulated fundamental and substantial changes in U.S. building codes and standards that represent a significant improvement in public safety over current practice, says Shyam Sunder, lead WTC investigator for NIST. NIST is committed to continuing our work to support industry and the nations building and fire safety officials so that the remaining recommendations also are fully considered.
The model code changes address such areas as the fire resistance of structural components, the use of sprayed fire-resistive materials (commonly known as fireproofing), elevators for use by first responders, the number of stairwells, and exit path markings.
Two more model code changes will be considered for the next edition of the IBC in 2009. In the first case, a broad industry coalition is developing a proposal that would recommend structures be designed to mitigate disproportionate progressive collapse and ensure, for the first time, minimum structural integrity and robustness requirements for structures as complete systems. The second proposed code change would require the use of a nationally accepted standard for conducting wind tunnel tests routinely used for determining wind loads in the design of tall buildings. During its investigation of the collapses of the WTC towers, NIST found that wind load estimates from three separate wind tunnel tests on WTC models differed greatly.
For more information, including a Web-based system for tracking the progress toward implementing all of the NIST WTC recommendations, go to http://wtc.nist.gov.
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On June 19, 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sent four fire experts to Charleston, S.C., to gather information and examine the site of the previous nights fire and subsequent collapse of a furniture store/warehouse located near the citys historic district. Nine firefighters were killed in the collapse.
In Charleston, the NIST experts worked with local officials and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to learn more about the collapse. Based on that reconnaissance, NIST will decide if any additional study is appropriate.
NIST has more than 30 years of experience investigating building fire and structural failures. By understanding the technical causes leading to structural failures and then making that information public, NIST engineers and researchers strive to improve safety for buildings, their occupants and emergency responders.
For more information on NISTs building fire and structural failure investigations, go to www.nist.gov/public_affairs/factsheet/bfrlinvestigations.htm.
Schematic of the monolayer self-assembly process studied by the NIST/NCSU team. The silicon substrate is approximately 1 x 5 cm in dimensions. The source (left) is a mixture of organosilane (OS) molecules and paraffin oil (to control the evaporation rate.) The whole system is enclosed in a Petri dish. The concentration of OS molecules is higher near the source and the ordering process initiates near this region. Molecules behind the advancing self-assembly front are relatively ordered, while molecules ahead of the front are engulfed and incorporated as the front reaches them. The molecules at the leading edge of the front are less ordered and this region becomes broader as the front advances—this is the key phenomenon measured in the experiment.
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Click to view movie of a mean field reaction-diffusion model of the monolayer self-assembly process. High-resolution measurements reveal that the S-shaped interfacial region of the self-assembly wavefront becomes progressively rougher as it advances, a feature not captured by the model. (Requires Realplayer or Windows Media Player.)
By making careful observations of the growth of a layer of molecules as they gradually cover the surface of a small silicon rectangle, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and North Carolina State University (NCSU) have gained basic insights into how self-propagating self-assembly wave fronts develop and have produced the first experimental verification of recently improved theoretical models of such systems. In addition, the researchers say, the results reported in this weeks Proceedings of the National Academy of Science* should be important to understanding self-propagating chemical reactions and ordering and self-assembly phenomena in situations involving confinement, such as thin films and the porous internal geometries of many materials, such as rocks and cement.
Systems that are transformed by so-called self-propagating or autocatalytic wave fronts actually are very common. Diverse molecular processes, and even social processes and population dynamics, often can be described in terms of fundamental entities that undergo changes randomly on an individual level, but at large scales exhibit some regular motion or pattern formation as they collectively move from some unstable situation to a relatively stable state. Mathematicians have developed a highly successful basic model for such processes, called mean field theory. The same basic equations describe, for example, the spread of advantageous genes in an animal population, the growth of brain tumors, wound healing, flame propagation, the spread of contagious epidemics, the spread of Neolithic farming techniques, and chemical reaction fronts and nerve propagation—all phenomena that grow outward on waves of change.
In recent years, simulations and theoretical arguments have suggested that small fluctuations can significantly influence the advance of these wavefronts as they grow. In the simple case of growth of a layer of molecules by self-assembly, this would lead to a progressive roughening of the interface between the ordered and disordered regions. This phenomenon is completely missed in the classical mean field theory, raising important questions about the applicability of these and philosophically similar models to describe propagating fronts under general conditions.
To provide experimental verification of this phenomenon in a real system, the NIST/NCSU team examined the spontaneous assembly of organosilane molecules into a monolayer film on an oxidized silicon surface. If a supply of the carbon-silicon-based molecules is placed along one edge of a treated silicon wafer, under controlled conditions, the organosilane molecules spontaneously organize themselves into a well-ordered layer, creating a carpet-like layer on the silicon that advances from the edge of the wafer at a constant velocity. The technique involved was developed in the 1990s as a simple way to create substrates with a gradually changing surface-energy gradient, a useful experimental tool for surface scientists. The system lends itself to high-resolution measurement because the process is slow enough to allow highly precise, quantitative measurements of the layer as it advances using a high-resolution synchrotron X-ray technique. The team found wavelike ordering, as expected from classical theory, but with the interface of the growing front broadened in time, as predicted by the recent theoretical modeling, but in contrast with classical theory.
The work was funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
* J.F. Douglas, K. Efimenko, D.A. Fischer, F.R. Phelan and J. Genzer. Propagating waves of self-assembly in organosilane monolayers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2007 104: 10324-10329.
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NIST fire researchers Stephen Kerber and Roy McLane position a mounted fan outside the doorway of a 30-floor building in Toledo, Ohio. The positive pressure ventilation (PPV) experiment demonstrated that in a building with sprinklers, the fan, operating at 3500 rpm, is able to prevent smoke infiltration into the entire stairwell.
High pressure fans that direct air flow up the stairway of a burning high-rise building can increase the effectiveness of firefighters and the survivability of occupants by ridding the stairwell of smoke and toxic gases, according to a recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report*.
The NIST analysis of 160 experiments conducted last year with small and large fans in the stairwell of a vacant 30-story office building in Toledo, Ohio, showed that the positive pressure ventilation (PPV) techniques used in small homes also worked in tall structures. The NIST engineers found that portable PPV fans, if used correctly, can both limit the amount of smoke and heat entering the stairway, and push smoke and deadly gases out of the structure. Data were collected with training smoke and pressure measurement devices.
Pressurization smoke control systems, which usually consist of mounted wall fans, have been incorporated into high-rise buildings since the 1970s. The NIST Toledo experiments, however, represented the first scientific evaluation of positive pressure ventilation technology using portable fans for buildings without built-in systems.
The NIST researchers developed several guidelines for the most effective use and positioning of portable PPV fans. The researchers also noted that the noise level near the working fans can go as high as 110 decibels—comparable to the level of a chainsaw—making communication difficult, and recommended that the fire command post be sited well away from the fans.
The NIST report urges further experiments to update current fan air flow performance standards for PPV needs. Manufacturers could certify air flow rates for specific fans. To aid fan selection, firefighter organizations also could use formulas that incorporate data for certified air flows with information related to the height or the volume of a building. NIST is continuing to study the use of PPV (see NIST Test Fans the Flames for High-Rise Fire Safety.) A second series of tests, to be conducted later this summer with the assistance of the Toledo Fire and Rescue Department, will use actual fire in the PPV experiments.
The Department of Homeland Securitys Science and Technology Directorate sponsored the Toledo PPV experiments. The Toledo Fire and Rescue Department, the Fire Department of New York and the Chicago Fire Department provided guidance and assistance during the experiments.
* Evaluating Positive Pressure Ventilation in Large Structures: High-Rise Pressure Experiments (NISTIR 7412) may be downloaded at www.fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/NIST_IR_7412.pdf.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers, together with colleagues from the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), key manufacturing companies, and quality software vendors, have completed work on a new data specification that will allow compliant products to store and exchange measurement data from process-monitoring instruments in a completely open and non-proprietary format. Widespread use of the new quality measurement data (QMD) specification, which defines the information exchanged between factory floor measurement instruments and Statistical Process Control (SPC) software, should provide substantial savings to quality systems users and their suppliers throughout the manufacturing sector.
Manufacturers worldwide use a wide variety of measurement instruments and systems to monitor processes and measure critical values of parts and assemblies at their factories as part of quality control. These measurement devices need to communicate with software components—from a variety of vendors—that collect and process the measurements. However, a measuring device typically cannot communicate with statistical process-control software unless both the device and the software component speak the software vendors proprietary language
and the 1500 to 2000 existing quality data languages makes transfer of information difficult. This widely recognized interoperability problem causes large and unnecessary costs to users, suppliers and vendors.
The QMD development effort represents the first time that a group of competing providers of widely used quality software have joined forces to define an open and completely non-proprietary quality data solution, based on the general XML data format, for all types of quality data—not just dimensional metrology data—in a format that captures all the necessary characterization of the data. QMD is also an entirely generic streaming data format that is measurement-system and database-schema independent—and thus can convey quality data measurements from any source to any target.
NIST supports the now two-year-old QMD development effort in a variety of ways. NIST created a QMD test suite, which is being used to verify whether a vendors implementation of the QMD specification actually conforms to the specification. Such testing is critical to ensure interoperability.
More information on the QMD specification is available at http://qmd.aiag.org and at www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/metrology_interoperability/qmd_test_suite.htm.
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Leaders from the three organizations selected for the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, as well as from past award recipients, will share their best practices and results at one-day regional conferences in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 20, 2007, and Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 5, 2007. Participants can network with the recipients and gather valuable tips on applying the Balrdige Criteria for Performance Excellence. For more information and to register online, go to www.quality.nist.gov/2007_Regionals/Regionals.htm.
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- Address: Sharm el Sheikh-Ras Mohamed Road, Sharm el Sheikh 46619, Egypt
- Admission: Free. Diving boat available for hire.
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Ras Mohammed Marine Park
World-famous coral reefs, wreck diving, fantastic snorkeling and a rich array of marine life are protected by Egypt's Ras Mohammed Marine National Park, attracting avid scuba divers from around the planet.
Plunge into the park's waters and you have the chance to spot more than 220 species of coral, over 1,000 species of fish, dozens of varieties of star fish and sea urchins, and several kinds of sea turtles.Popular diving sites include Sha'ab Mahmoud, Beacon Rock, Jackfish Alley, Yolanda Reef, Old Quay and the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm.
Practical Info
Ras Mohammed Marine Park is 12 km (7.5 miles) from the resort town of Sharm el Sheikh, off the southern edge of the Sinai Peninsula, surrounded by the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba.Come here by organized day tour, by boat, or hire a car in Sharm el Sheikh. You'll need to have wheels to get around the park.
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Ras Mohamed Red Sea Cruise and Snorkeling
Hit the water at Sinai's famous Ras Mohamed National Park, where an abundance of underwater life is waiting to be discovered. Spend the day snorkeling, ... Read more
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Duration: 7 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
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Snorkel your heart out on this full-day trip to Ras Mohamed National Park from Sharm el Sheikh! Head to a fabulous beach and revel in the spectacular coral ... Read more
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Finalists for Top College Football Awards Announced
Maxwell Award (nation's best all-around player)
*Dennis Dixon - Oregon - Senior - Quarterback
*Darren McFadden - Arkansas - Junior - Running Back
*Tim Tebow - Florida - Sophomore - Quarterback
What are your thoughts? Any predictions?
Tim Tebow wins the 2007 Maxwell Award for the nation's best all-around player.
Who would you have given the award?
Another award for Tebow. This one I am not as sure about, but I don't know who else I would give it too either. Tough call.
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The City of Topeka periodically experiences red water in our water distribution system. This red, or rust colored water occurs in areas of the city with unlined cast iron water mains. Unlined cast iron mains were used in Topeka until the mid 1950's when the city began using cement mortar-lined or plastic mains.
Unlined water mains rust over time through a natural oxidation process. Contributing to the problem can be an increase in salt levels in the Kansas River during low flow conditions. Increased concentrations come from rivers and creeks in salt-rich western Kansas that flow into the Kansas River. Salts such as sulfate and chloride are slightly corrosive and cause older unlined iron water mains to dissolve more iron into tap water.
Is Red Water Safe?
All water produced by the City of Topeka meets stringent guidelines set forth in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. Iron is an important mineral and the human body easily discharges any excess. However, for individuals on a low iron diet, with hypertension, or who are mixing infant formula, bottled water may be an option.
Red Water Solutions
A short term low cost solution to the red water problem is to flush water mains where red water is occurring. Flushing water mains is not a long term solution. Once flushed, the pipe will produce clear water for a time. However, red water will eventually return.
The long term solution to red water comes at a higher financial cost. That solution is replacement of the older unlined cast iron water mains with cement mortar-lined or plastic pipe.
Water Main Replacement Program
In January, 1997, approximately 400 miles of the 767 miles of water mains throughout the City were unlined cast iron. Thirteen percent (52 miles) of those unlined cast iron water mains were critical or of a high priority for replacement. Of those mains considered critical, approximately 90% were replaced by the end of 2001.
Annually, the city is projecting a budget of approximately $1.5 million to replace nearly 10 miles of unlined cast iron water mains per year.
Water Main Replacement
The City of Topeka is replacing water mains in your neighborhood. The majority of water mains are located within the city's right-of-way running through your front yard or your neighbor's across the street.
The scope of water main replacements includes finishing any areas disturbed during construction of the new mains. All areas which have been disturbed by the contractor during construction must follow guidelines set forth in the latest edition of Standard Technical Specifications of the City of Topeka Engineering Division, Public Works Department.
During Main Replacement
During the process of replacing your water main, there will be considerable construction activity on your block. Contractor vehicles as well as large machinery will be traveling on your street, and some equipment may be stored on your street also.
Once construction in front of your house has been completed, there may be a delay before your yard is cleaned up. Delay time will be based on several factors including time of year, weather, other water mains being replaced in the surrounding neighborhood, and the service hookovers.
Yard Clean Up
Requirements for Finishing Disturbed Areas are located in Section 4, Article 10 of the Standard Technical Specifications of the City of Topeka Engineering Division, Public Works Department. Finishing areas disturbed during water main replacement is the task of the contractor. Responsibilities generally include seeding, fertilizing, compaction, and mulching of the seed bed. It is not the responsibility of the contractor or the City of Topeka to water or otherwise care for finished areas once they have been completed. Fescue grass seed will be seeded during the planting season.
Taking Care of Your Fescue Lawn
Planting season for fescue lawns is usually September to mid-October; however, seeds can be planted in the spring as well. Spring seeding should be done in March or April so the grass can become well established before hot weather. Local weather conditions are the best indicator to use when determining when to plant. Under good conditions, seeds germinate in 4-7 days.
- Watering. It is your responsibility to water your newly planted fescue lawn. Fescue is relatively drought-tolerant, but needs to be watered during the summer to keep it green. For a newly seeded lawn, watering should be done every day or two depending upon the weather. It is important to apply water at a rate it can be absorbed by the soil. Under normal conditions, it should take approximately two hours to apply one inch of water.
- Mowing. Fescue grows rapidly and requires frequent mowing to help it spread. Spring mowing can be greatly reduced by fertilizing in the fall and not during the spring. Tall fescue should be mowed often enough so that no more than 1 1/2 inches is removed at one time. For a healthy lawn, the Kansas State University Extension Service recommends leaving grass height at 2 1/2 inches in the spring and fall and 3 1/2 inches in the summer.
Zoysia Yard Policy
Zoysia yards present a special problem since it can not be seeded. Often, residences with Zoysia yards request we lay Zoysia sod. Sodding is generally unacceptable because it greatly increases the project cost.
Zoysia plugging is more expensive than laying seed for Fescue. However, it is an effective way to re-establish a Zoysia yard.
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A former legislative candidate conceded defeat Thursday, while complaining about the shortage of voting machines in many precincts.
District 83 candidate, Gary Houston, a Democrat, thanked his supporters during a news conference, two days after his loss to incumbent Republican Greg Snowden.
But Houston says he is concerned about the fact that several precincts had long lines because of huge turnout and a shortage of electronic voting machines.
"We know the federal government has provided millions of dollars to make sure we have enough voting machines at all our precincts," said Houston. "And we want to work with local and state officials to ensure in the future that there's enough voting machines so that the citizens can exercise their right to vote."
Houston also says he'd like to see Mississippi have some kind of early voting system, like many other states now allow.


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CNN Looks at Threats to Office of Congressional Ethics
I was interviewed in a report that aired last night by Scott Bronstein, Joe Johns, and Rahel Solomon of CNN's Special Investigations Unit. The text of this very well done story appears below. One point not made in the report is that without the Office of Congressional Ethics, our exposé of Rep. Charles Rangel's acceptance of corporate-funded Caribbean junkets may have been ignored.
In November 2008, NLPC President Peter Flaherty tagged along on a Rangel trip to sunny St. Maarten. He snapped photos and made audio recordings evidencing that big corporations like Citigroup, in violation of House Rules, underwrote the festivities. Based on media coverage we generated, OCE took up the case. It produced a detailed report based on Flaherty's materials, and referred it to the Ethics Committee for action. The Ethics Committee "admonished" Rangel who was soon after forced to resign his Ways and Means Chairmanship.
More recent events demonstrate that instead of being limited, OCE's powers should be expanded. The House Ethics Committee keeps proving its worthlessness. On Thursday, it announced that it would take no action against members of Congress and staffers who participated in Countrywide's VIP program, claiming that the acceptance of discounted mortgages and other perks was outside of its jurisdiction. It took the Committee several years to reach this stupendous conclusion.
On December 20, the House Ethics Committee cleared Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) who failed to disclose a $40,000 "loan" from a Guyanese-American businessman who subsequently pled guilty in a multi-million-dollar mortgage scam. The Ethics Committee treated it as simple disclosure case, when the "loan" may in fact be the tip of the iceberg of corruption in Queens, New York. Several of Meeks' political associates have been arrested in recent weeks.
The Ethics Committee is currently chaired by Rep. Jo Bonner (R-AL).
The Republicans on the Committee are:
The Democrats are:
Here's the CNN report:
Washington (CNN) -- Inside an ordinary office building six blocks from the Capitol, investigators sift through evidence of possible violations against ethics and laws committed by the nation's elected representatives.
This is the Office of Congressional Ethics, also known as the OCE.
It is one of the most important watchdogs in Washington. That's because the OCE is the only quasi-independent government body whose sole mandate is to formally investigate members of Congress.
But it could soon be silenced by the very people it investigates.
"What is outrageous about it is that you see members of Congress on both sides saying they have zero tolerance for unethical conduct," said Melanie Sloan, a former federal prosecutor who now directs Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
"But then behind closed doors they are quietly trying to kill the one body in Congress that is seriously going after unethical members."
Sloan's public interest group monitors ethics and legal violations by members of Congress. And, like many other citizen watchdog groups in Washington, CREW is worried that the OCE could soon die through purposeful inaction by Congress.
The ethics office -- which gets its mandate and funding from Congress -- must be reauthorized by this Congress, which soon adjourns, or early on by the new Congress.
What's more, at least four of the OCE's board members are approaching the end of their terms, and new members must be selected and appointed for the organization to continue with its work.
No investigations or reports or real work can be done by the office until their board is in place.
The OCE was formed just four years ago when then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and others declared they wanted to "drain the swamp" of scandals and corruption in Washington. Among the biggest scandals that prompted action was that of Jack Abramoff, a former lobbyist, who admitted in 2006 to illegally showering gifts on officials in exchange for favors.
The probe into those allegations led to convictions or guilty pleas for 20 lobbyists and public officials -- including a member of the House of Representatives and several aides to congressmen.
Other scandals included those tied to former Reps. Tom DeLay, Mark Foley, William Jefferson and Duke Cunningham.
Since its creation in 2008, the OCE has launched more than 100 investigations of lawmakers, raising serious questions about possible Congressional misdeeds.
In about a third of its investigations, the OCE found that House ethics, and sometimes federal laws, were likely violated. Those 37 cases were referred to the House Ethics Committee for further review.
"The OCE has forced members of Congress to take ethics more seriously," said Sloan. "It has forced the (House) Ethics Committee to act and has let all members of Congress know that they're not going to be able to skate by like they have for so many years, with unethical conduct just going on."
Sloan and her public interest group -- which is considered by some to be a liberal organization -- aren't the only ones worried about the future of the OCE.
Ken Boehm, chairman of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center, agrees that some members of Congress publicly support the office and its efforts to crack down on ethics violations, but are privately trying to kill it.
If the OCE is not reauthorized and new board members are not appointed, Boehm said it would "(send) the message to the public that not only is the ethics system broken, but it doesn't even exist anymore."
House Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi would need to lead the effort to reauthorize the OCE and to appoint new members.
Both Boehner and Pelosi say they will do that.
"House Democrats are firmly committed to the continuation of the OCE and replacements will be named at the appropriate time," said Pelosi's spokesman, Drew Hammill.
Similarly, Boehner "intends to retain the OCE for the 113th Congress and to appoint an ethics chair in a timely fashion," his spokesman, Michael Steel, said this month.
But neither Boehner nor Pelosi have made public any more specific actions they have taken. And time for action is quickly running out.
The reauthorization should have really been started before this Congress goes on its winter break to allow for the time that it takes to select and appoint new board members. The new Congress is scheduled to be sworn on January 3.
In many of its hard-hitting investigations, the OCE has confronted legislators about their actions, raising sensitive questions about possible conflicts of interest, financial reports, missing financial information, and even questions about the legality of some lawmakers' actions.
There are other watchdogs for ethics within the Congress -- the House Ethics Committee, and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. But these internal committees are often criticized for doing almost nothing because they are in the awkward position of investigating their own members and close colleagues.
By contrast, the OCE is an outside body, widely seen as being objective. It is made up of experts, including some former members of Congress, who are nominated and approved by Boehner and Pelosi.
However, the OCE cannot take disciplinary action against the lawmakers it finds are likely to have violated ethics or federal law -- so it has to refer its most serious investigations to the House Ethics Committee.
Out of the 37 cases it received from the OCE, the House Ethics Committee meted out formal punishment only on two occasions.
It is hard to know whether the stalled fiscal cliff negotiations have sidetracked any effort to deal reinstate the office, or if members of Congress might be quietly leading an effort to kill the OCE.
"Nearly everything the OCE does rubs the entire Congress the wrong way," Sloane said. "And in large part that's because Congress doesn't want to hold anybody accountable for ethics violations. There's no case that they think, 'Oh this was a great case. We're so glad the OCE brought it.'"
In the past, numerous federal lawmakers from both political parties have voted to cut the OCE's budget or limit its powers, including Reps. Mel Watt, D-North Carolina; Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas; John Campbell, R-California; Yvette Clarke, D-New York; Eliot Engel, D-New York; Sam Graves, R-Missouri; Tom Price, R-Georgia; Laura Richardson, D-California; Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi; and Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina.
None of them would agree to an interview with CNN. The OCE also declined to answer any questions.
The lawmakers who did speak to CNN about the OCE said part of the problem is that it casts a wide net.
"They accept anonymous complaints made by anonymous individuals and then have the resources to conduct an investigation which can become a fishing expedition," said Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Georgia.
Rep. Brad Miller, D-North Carolina said he believes there should be a way for the American public to raise issues about the conduct of their representatives in Washington.
But, he added, "Some of what the OCE has sent to the Ethics Committee was actually really flimsy. I mean, conduct that if you have any idea what the real world is like, you would know was not ethically questionable or if it is, everything that happens in politics is ethically questionable."
And if the accusation is referred to the Ethics Committee, Miller said that's "like torture" for lawmakers.
"It's like being charged with a crime," he said.
Johnson raised a criticism that first surfaced several years ago after the OCE investigated Rep. Charles Rangel and several other members of the Congressional Black Caucus for expenses from an overseas trip to the Caribbean.
After those investigations, some representatives in Congress accused the OCE of "targeting" African-Americans.
"The Office of Ethics was established for political reasons," said Johnson, who is African-American. "And the victims of it tend to be people who look like me and that's why I'm opposed to it.
"I would rather for us to continue with the same ethics rule and process that was in place before we came to this Office of Ethics. And I don't think it's working well."
All the citizen watchdog groups CNN interviewed -- including CREW, Public Citizen, and the National Legal and Policy Center -- said they do not believe the OCE has targeted any Congressional officials because of their race or any other reason. They all maintain that the OCE has simply investigated cases where concerns of ethics were raised.
Whether members of Congress decide to keep the OCE or allow it to dissolve "is a critical test," according to Lee Hamilton, a widely respected former Congressman who chaired the famous 9/11 Commission.
"It is going to tell us whether the leaders of Congress are serious or whether they're not serious about the enforcement of standards of conduct within the institution," said Hamilton, who is now the director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University.
He said it should surprise anyone that members of Congress don't want to be held accountable for their actions.
"I want to see a tough enforcement of those standards," Hamilton said. "And it bothers me not a whit that some members of Congress get uneasy about it. They should get uneasy about it if they are acting in an unethical way."


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Handelsblatt spoke with American philosopher Michael Sandel about Brexit, Donald Trump and the brutalization of political culture.
Handelsblatt: Brexit, Trump and the Populist Backlash
Harvard Gazette: 'People want politics to be about big things'
The Harvard Gazette takes a look at how Michael Sandel created one of the most famous courses in Harvard's history.
HuffPost Politics – Going Global: Debating the Ethics of National Borders
Professor Michael Sandel comments in a blog post on HuffPost Politics about the ethics of national borders.
Harvard Gazette: 'The Global Philosopher'
EJ Insight: 'What money can't buy': A Harvard don makes us ponder
Professor Sandel recently spoke at the Research Centre for Human Values at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Bloomberg: Harvard's Sandel 'Pursue Your Passion'
Michael Sandel recently told Bloomberg what advice he'd offer his 25 year old self. Watch the video.
The Michigan Daily: Harvard professor talks markets, morals
Professor Michael Sandel hosted a lecture on the role of money and markets in society at the University of Michigan.
Harvard Gazette: Pedro, a pitcher with 'no space to fail'
Baseball Hall of Famer, Pedro Martinez, talked with Professor Michael Sandel about his celebrated baseball career during a visit at Sanders Theatre.
Bloomberg: Assessing the Moral Limits of Markets
Professor Sandel discusses the moral limits of financial markets with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin on "Trending Business."


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Members of Myanmar Red-Cross team and Muslims gather outside a mosque after a fire broke out Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in Yangon, Myanmar. A fire engulfed a mosque housing Muslim schoolchildren in Myanmar's largest city Tuesday, killing at least 13. Authorities, anxious over sectarian violence that has shaken the nation, quickly blamed the blaze on an accidental electrical short. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)


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Markets held onto a rally Monday, spurred by news of continuing manufacturing sector growth. The Dow gained .98% in mid-morning trading, the S&P 1.24% and the Nasdaq 1.7%. But don't start firing up your Scottrades and Etrades just yet unless you've got a fifth of Pepto in your desk drawer. 2011 is looking to be just as rocky as ever.
Markets Hit 2011 With A Jump
I hope goldman, citi and BoA have a better 2011 than 2010…the recession really hit those companies hard, limiting their profits to simply "revolting" rather than "obscene".
Bank of America is up almost 5.5% right now. Of course, there is no good reason why.
Maybe because the government agreed to settle for only $3.3 billion?…means they settled too low. the profits realized from the fraud were significantly more than the $3.3 billion they have to pay.
Average investors historically are terrible at timing the market… and are actually 180 degrees off from where they should be. When markets are down they flee, when they're up they all jump back in.
There is also a disconnect between what is big news to market players, and industry professionals, and what should be important to average people. People don't really stop to take in these thoughts, but if the market is up 2% that is a HUGE day–for the market– but for an investor 2% isn't all that amazing, especially given the fact that they have to pay a commission to buy and sell. I love when people say "wow did you see how great the stock market was today" and then I press them for what they're invested in and they say "oh nothing, but I heard it was a really good day."
Almost all of my money is in Emerging Markets right now (mostly S. America and Asia). I have a feeling that's where it will be staying for a while…
Emerging markets is slang for crappy third world debt. They wanted to name it less developed countries, then developing nations debt, then emerging markets which sounded sexier than all the other names they had.
You can call it crappy if you want, but I'm seeing 20%+ returns (just over the last year though, that's when i got in). I'm keeping an eye on it, but it's doing well for me!
Twenty percent up one year, 60 percent down the next.


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Catch up on Week 14 Big Ten action: Get scores, stats, recaps & video
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And the 2014 Big Ten title game mathup is set! No. 14 Wisconsin took down No. 18 Minnesota to win the inaugural Big Ten West crown and advance to play No. 6 Ohio State in Indianapolis.


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DOJ Reviewing Historic Hair and Fiber Cases for Flawed Work
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are reviewing thousands of historical criminal cases to determine if possible flawed hair and fiber evidence may have led to a conviction.
"The Department and the FBI are in the process of identifying historical cases for review where a microscopic hair examination conducted by the FBI was among the evidence in a case that resulted in a conviction," said Nanda Chitre, a Justice Department spokeswoman. "We have dedicated considerable time and resources to addressing these issues, with the goal of reaching final determinations in the coming months."
The examination of historic cases follows a report by the Washington Post in April that the Justice Department began looking at cases in the 1990s for potentialy flawed forensic evidence, but didn't make the findings available publicly; only to prosecutors in those cases. The Post first reported the current review on Tuesday.
The review is expected to include cases handled by the FBI Laboratory dating back to at least 1985, the Post reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The Innocence Project is partnering with the Justice Departmen to provide an independent, third-party assessment of DOJ's findings, Ms. Chitre said.
"We remain committed to working closely with our law enforcement partners to go through thousands of cases, all of which are more than a decade old, and to assemble evidence for purposes of conducting a thorough and meaningful review of convictions," Ms. Chitre said.


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Jazz's deformed cousin
funk? funk? jazz'z deformed cousin
rory tarafından 13 Eylül 2005, Salı
Slang word for Crack-Cocaine
This junkie bitch loves that funk
John tarafından 25 Aralık 2003, Perşembe
Gay slang for the accumulation of sweat, dead skin cells, and so forth behind the testicles. Evidently, some enjoy its taste and smell.
As I was licking his ass, I briefly paused to take a whiff of his sumptuous funk.
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Improving quality of health care delivery has been a major focus since the publication of the Institute of Medicine report "Crossing the Quality Chasm."1 While concerns about funding and access to quality health care have not been resolved, there is overwhelming agreement that the foundation of efforts to improve care is predicated on outcomes measurement.2
Since the 1980s, 2 professional societies, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA), have collaborated on guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The methodology is a rigorous, systematic, peer-review process of scientific evidence to develop documents that guide practice.3 Performance measures developed for CVD are the logical progression following implementation of guidelines as an indicator of quality of delivered care. Similar rigorous methodology for performance measures was developed by the ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures in 2000.2 Categorized as either "performance measures" or "quality measures," performance measures are designated as appropriate for both quality improvement and external reporting and quality measures are those appropriate for quality improvement and not for external reporting until further validation and testing. Performance measures are complex and, in the case of cardiac risk factors such as hypertension and lipid levels, have to address whether patients are "treated" and whether they achieve "control." All measures have limitations and pose challenges to ensure that they are accurate reflections of intended outcomes, ie, measurement of blood pressure (BP) control. Reporting of performance measures is crucial to ensure that care is appropriately evaluated, modified, and improved to ensure that patients receive the highest levels of quality care.
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Designed to work in both stretchy and non-stretchy yarns (like alpaca or silk blends). The hat is knit from the bottom up, with a slipped stitch hem to help keep the edge from flaring out. A decorative yarn over round completes the edging and makes the hat more interesting. Instead of the usual ribbing, a slipped stitch ribbing is used to provide negative ease- this helps keep the hat from stretching out too much and keeps the hat in place. Knit in DK weight yarn, pattern includes 8 sizes from preemie to x-large. Includes variations.
Pattern is 8 page version.
PDF preview: http://midnightskyfibers.com/louisa/
Sample knit in Glimmer by The Alpaca Yarn Company (95% baby alpaca, 5% polyester; 183 yards/ 167 meters) 1 skein in color 1609. Shown in size Adult Small.
6 stitches 6.5 unstretched and 9 rows per inch in rib pattern. 1 inch = 2.5 cm.
200 yards of DK weight


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Senior Retirements Spur Deutsche Bank Reshuffle Down Under
Deutsche Bank is poised for a reshuffle of senior management in Australia and New Zealand after two executives, including its country head, announced plans to retire.
An internal memo obtained by MoneyBeat said John Macfarlane will quit as chairman and chief executive of the bank's Australian unit at the end of this year. Mr. Macfarlane joined Bankers Trust Australia a fixed income specialist in 1988 and had risen to the post of New Zealand chief executive by the time Bankers Trust was acquired by Deutsche in 1999. Since then, he has worked with senior bankers advising clients predominantly in the natural resources and financial institutions sectors.
Separately, Scott Perkins will leave his role as head of corporate finance for the region next month after 16 years with the bank, according to the memo. Mr. Perkins has advised clients including Westfield Group, The Carlyle Group, Qantas and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and is exploring a career change.
The memo said Michael Ormaechea, who heads Deutsche's fixed income, currency, commodities and equities divisions in Asia-Pacific, will take on responsibility for corporate banking and securities in Australia and New Zealand from next month.
Deutsche Bank ranks eighth in Dealogic's Australia Equity Capital Markets League Table for the year to date, with three deals worth US$196 million under advice. However, it is absent from Dealogic's 2013 Australia Announced and Completed M&A League Tables.
The bank is faring better across the Tasman, where it ranks first in Dealogic's New Zealand ECM League Table for the year to date, ahead of Goldman Sachs and Macquarie Group, with market share of 27% and four deals under advice worth US$711 million.


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The Soho Hotel
Rooms 91 Interior Design Kit Kemp
The Original Kit Kemp
Design Kit Kemp
The Original Kit Kemp
Kit Kemp
Queen of the Unexpected
Whimsical, eclectic and always hard to pin down, Kit Kemp has much in common with the hotel interiors she's spent a career fashioning into stand-alone pieces of individual expression. Like her, they are anything but static.
Starting with the interiors of a student hotel that her husband and business partner, Tim, bought in the 1980s (the recently reacquired Dorset Square Hotel), Kemp has since outfitted an ever-expanding, ever-popular quiver of boutique hotels owned by their company, Firmdale. From Haymarket to Charlotte Street to Soho, Kemp's hotels are fashionable buzzwords ingrained into the vernacular of the London media set and dearly-loved destinations among visitors to the British capital. A trend she translated beautifully across the pond with the opening of the Crosby Street in New York in 2010.
"A hotel's design is a living thing, in a way, and you always have to look at options that are going to work better. With interiors, it's transitory and subject to passion."
"A hotel's design is a living thing, in a way, and you always have to look at options that are going to work better. With interiors, it's transitory and subject to passion."
Bold colors, contrasting fabrics and patterns, and one-off pieces bought at art fairs and galleries around the globe make up the mélange that has evolved into the Kit Kemp look. Whether there is a category or catchall phrase to sum up that look is something Kemp herself is deeply doubtful of. Suffice it to say, her aesthetic is constantly changing, influenced in equal parts by local characters, neighborhood histories and the indomitable, frivolous and multifaceted spirit of its originator.
The latest gem in London, the Ham Yard in West End, is set to be the largest Firmdale project to date. Stamped with her eclectically British, individually designed rooms, the 90-room hotel will also feature a 176-seat theater, a spa, a four-lane vintage bowling alley, and a pedestrianized shopping area with 13 outlets curated by Kemp herself. The Ham Yard will not just be a hotel, but a destination in its own right.
Vivacious and self-effacing, Kemp gives off the air of one who has changed little since her days working in the office of a Greek shipping company on Syros or delving into London's wicked nightlife. That was before she met Tim and before she unleashed her considerable talent onto a notoriously fickle industry.
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There is a saying that is often used in the Ronald McDonald House "global community." It goes like this:
This is the House that provides the home that cooks the meals that sleeps the people that dries the tears. This is the House that love built.
This is the House that provides the home that cooks the meals that sleeps the people that dries the tears. This is the House that love built.
There isn't a better way to put it - and thus we've named our blog "Stories from the House that Love Built."
One of my favorite things about RMH is how many different hearts, hands and lives touch our organization:
So join me, and other guest bloggers as we share stories that will touch your heart from the House that love built. I am excited to bring you on the journey!
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Share Your Experience Choosing a Wireless Plan
Who can keep track of all the wireless plans out there?
This year T-Mobile blew up its pricing plans, calling itself the "un-carrier" by doing away with two-year contracts and early exit fees. Sprint earlier this month added a new set of plans called "Unlimited, My Way" that in some cases are cheaper than other comparable plans it still offers. And AT&T rolled out a new scheme that lets customers upgrade their smartphones more frequently — but the price is a raw deal for most consumers.
The constant changes make it a headache to compare prices and pick the best plan for you.
Now we want to hear from you: What was your process like for choosing a plan? Are you happy with your plan? If not, what would you change about it?
Tell us your story. Please fill out the form below and don't hold back. We will publish some of them soon on this blog. (We won't disclose any information about you without your permission.)


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I have never heard anything more mournful or beautiful in my life.
I have never heard anything more mournful or beautiful in my life.
Rabbi Praver touched many souls with his El Maleh Rachamim chant... There are places in heaven that we can only reach through music, and his moving, heartfelt chant of the ancient Hebrew prayer must have risen up to the angels and the Throne of Glory. May the souls of the sweet children and their heroic teachers and principal rest in peace.
with blessings and condolences, Rabbi Alicia Magal, Seonda, Arizona
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Reusable Bags
We all need to start reusing bags, so start here and now. Supply your customers with our reusable bags. Go to the greener side of life and place these handy, reusable bags by your checkout stand and inspire customers to join the environmental cause. If you are looking for a sturdy, lightweight, and easy to pack bag; The Little Shopper would be perfect for you. This bag comes in all colors, and even comes with the option of having two tone with straps. Other than The Little Shopper, TSI Store Supplies sells oversized reusable grocery bags, reusable wine bottle bags, and mini shopping tote bags. TSI Store Supplies can custom print on each bag and will e deliver them in a timely manner due to our fast turn around time. We do in fact manufacture our own reusable bags and print them here on-site at the TSI Store Supplies warehouse. Other than these advantages, we have an exceptional art department that will be willing to help our customers design their vision.
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This bag is made from sturdy premium quality 80 GSM non-woven polypropylene. It has stitched seams, side and bottom gussets with reinforced sewn handles, and hemmed opening. This Mini Shopper Tote Bag is perfect for retail, spas, give-aways and parties!
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If there was ever an infographic that could be stuck on the wall (of this Wall) in the office this is it. It is a reminder than when it comes to Twitter what matters most is how you use it rather than the fact that you use it all. Twitter has proved a let down for many brands. Not because it is a poor platform, it isn't. But because it is not being used well. So take a minute and look over the tips here and remember three key tenets for using the microblogging platform: engage, provide value and be fresh. It is short, but some of what it talks about is invaluable to any brand using Twitter.
Infographic via Untypical Marketing.


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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:01 am
Post subject: Night Terrors/Bad Dreams??
Anyone know the difference and/or had any experience of it?
My LO has been really suffering lately, waking up in the middle of the night screaming and taking ages to settle. Sometimes she's still half asleep and dreaming when I go into her so it takes longer for me to calm her down.
Last night she woke me and the OH up at 2am and I swear you'd think she was being eaten alive, she was screaming and crying hysterically and when I finally got her to calm down she was really shaken and upset and sobbing quietly....its so upsetting seeing her so scared
It normally happens once a night but on a couple of occasions it has been 2 or 3 times. She does settle back down to sleep once we've sorted her out with a little sip of water and a cuddle and in the morning seems happy as larry and doesnt appear to remember the dream but does remember that mummy or daddy where in the room with her through the night.
Will she out-grow this, is it just a little phase? Its been happening for about 3 months now, not every night but a good 3 or 4 nights a week. I've looked on the internet and it says it s normally over-tired children that have these terrors so I moved her bedtime half an hour earlier and it doesnt seem to have helped! I know shes not in any danger and that its just a dream but does anyone know if this is gonna last and last. We're getting up for work shattered after being up through the night and its also horrible being woken up by your baby screaming hysterically
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:53 pm
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Mmmm I never found out what triggered my daughters and we had this from age 3 till 11!!! She only has the odd one now at 12 but I definitely think lack of sleep at night and being overtired for the next night was a trigger as she is and still is a bad sleeper.
I can't offer any advice as everything I tried did not work but just letting you know that your daughter isn't the only one to experience this.
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:42 pm
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Thanks hun! I've sat having a good look into it on the internet this afternoon and it defo looks like its night terrors she's experiencing due to the time of night she's having them and the fact she doesn't seem to remember anything at all in the morning.
All the sites I looked on say its usually from the age of 3-8 with most kids out growing it by 8 but it can happen anytime and last til above the age of 8. I hope this isn't going to happen to her til she's 8 or more....she'll have to sleep in the shed!
Aww its just so horrible and scary for us as her mum and dad as well but I've been assured that they cause no lasting damage and she won't be affected by them so feeling a bit better. I have noticed the pattern it says as well about them being overly tired or going to bed later causing worse attacks and last night my LO was so tired before bed she was trowing temper tantrums left right and centre so its defo all connected to tiredness!
Was advised that waking her from her sleep when we go to bed then settling her down again might help as it stops them from falling into a really heavy deep sleep as the night goes on so might give it a try and see how we get on.
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:29 pm
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my daughter had them at around 18 months, even though the sites say they dont start until later.
she would scream and be thrashing around in her bed, and i would go in and try and settle her but picking her up she would just fight against me, and if i tried to just stroke her back she would move away from me. it was really scary as she would have her eyes open but just a blank staring look on her face.
iv heard its connected with sleepwalking, and she does that now sometimes she has come into my room in the night and i just turn her round and walk her back to her bedroom and she seems asleep.
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:05 pm
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Hiya we had this with our DD from when she was about 18 months old. she would wake up screaming and when we would go in she would be sitting up woith her eyes wide open like she was awake but she clearly wasnt. this was happening about 2-3 times a night and we were exhausted in the end we started keepin track of the times it happened and set an alarm for 20 minutes before the average time we would then go in an wake her up a little. This broke her sleep but not to much and meant she wasnt in too deep of a sleep to have a "terror" we did this for about 2 weeks she is now 2 and touch wood has never had them since xx
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:53 pm
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I read on the internet about waking her up 10 mins or so before the normal time she has a bad dream so I've been waking her gently when we go to bed at about 11pm and it seems to be doing the trick. She had one last night but that was the first one for about a week after quite a stressful day (was at Alder Hey with her but turned out to be nothing too serious) so I was kind of expecting her to have one last night as she seems to suffer if she goes to bed really late or if she's had a long day.
Will carry on with the waking and hopefully it was just a phase that will pass.


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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Southern New Hampshire University's College for America is expanding its competency-based online program for working adults to include two $10,000 Bachelor of Arts degrees.
Like the Manchester school's existing associate degree program, the new program is offered through employers, and has no traditional classes, instructors or grades. Instead, students work through material at their own pace and are evaluated on their mastery of skill areas. Initial degrees will include bachelor's degrees in health care management and communications.
About 800 students have enrolled in College for America's existing program in the last year, including 46 at Partners Healthcare in Massachusetts. The company's director of workforce development said Monday it has been a success so far, and she expects many will go on to the bachelor's degree program.
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