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Given the changing healthcare environment and the complexities of the healthcare system in the United States, Saint Louis University has recognized the need to train lawyers fluent in the methods of health outcomes research. Clinical policies and procedures, health insurance plans, and health policy at the state and federal levels are becoming increasingly driven by analyses of outcomes data.
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Skip to comments.Idaho to Sue If Health Care Bill Passes
Posted on 03/17/2010 4:59:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Idaho's governor is the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue the federal government if the U.S. Congress passes health care reform.
Legal experts say the measure, signed by Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday, will likely be struck down. But Idaho's new law reflects growing frustration with President Barack Obama's health-care proposal.
Legislation similar to Idaho's is pending in as many as 37 other states nationwide.
Democrats in the nation's capital are hoping to pass health care reform by this weekend.
The American Legislative Exchange Council created the model legislation for Idaho and other states. The Washington, D.C.-based, nonprofit says Idaho is the first to sign a version into law.
Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday became the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue Congress if it passes health reforms that force residents to buy insurance.
Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states nationwide.
Constitutional law experts say the move is mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede those of the states. But the movement reflects a growing national frustration with President President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
This usurpation of liberty cannot stand.
I was watching the news here in Minneapolis a few minutes ago. They said Minnesotas Constitution gives them the ability to refuse the obammycare deal.
When you think what this would cost the states I expect a lot of them will try something similar.
AF1 will be flying to Boise late tonight
If this bill passes, then some day, maybe, the courts will do something. But I wont hold my breath.
The problem here is much bigger than socialized medicine. A year ago congress was bailing out the banking industry to the tune of $1 trillion. Then it was bailing out the auto industry. This week its socialized medicine. Next week itll be cap and tax. This an addiction to power and spending fueled by ever increasing debt. The demand isnt going to abate until there is simply no more money to be spent.
Demand based solutions arent going to work. No junkie comes clean unless he/she has to. We need to start looking at supply side solutions. We need to cut the supply of money. The irony here is that conservatives are enabling the socialism.
Own savings bonds? T-bills? GNMAs? Are they the underlying investment in your money market account or 401(k)? If the answer is yes, then youre subsidizing this just as surely as if you had scratched a check.
But what about the national debt? The ability to fund all this is tied to the ability to borrow. What if conservatives simply pushed for a polcy of repudiating the national debt, or more specifically that portion entered into since January 2009?
Not if the powers are reseved to the states.
I'm really tired of these "Constitutional Law experts" making this claim. I want the "Constitutional Law experts" to show us where in the Constitution does it claim that health insurance is a guaranteed right?
LOL! RINO Gov. Charlie Crist in FL could not be reached at his tanning bed to comment if FL will do jack sh*t.
Agreed, healthcare is not a guaranteed, it is individual responsibility not the government to take care of yourself.
No, he was at the Green Iguana.
It's working it's way through the Tennessee legislature.
Docs won't accept Medicare patients, now Walgreens won't take Medicaid RX's.
This is from a 2007 contact list of congressional aides. Some might not be there any longer, but worth a try.
Contact congressional aides.
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep
Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Toll free to the US Senate:
1-800-882-2005. (Spanish number)
1-800-417-7666. (English number)
Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
Defeat Obamacare call list: List now contains the new MAYBES culled from FR posts. Be sure to call KNOWN RINOS too.THEY ARE ANSWERING THEIR LOCAL NUMBERS
Here is one of the ones Rush gave out on the radio that Im calling. So far its been busy but Im going to burn it up till I get to tell my congress critter to vote NO!
Join me?..... 1-877-762-8762
CODE RED Contact list http://www.nrcc.org/CodeRed/targets/
Remember they are all being offered BRIBES for their votes. Ask them how much their bribe price is.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obamas announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the fixer bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.
New FLIPPERS
Dennis Kucinish, Lakewood 216)228-8850, Fax (216)228-6465,
Parma. 440)845-2707, Fax (440)845-2743, DC (202)225-5871
Fax (202)225-5745
James Oberstar (202) 225-6211, Duluth (218) 727-7474, Chisholm (218) 254-5761, Brainerd (218) 828-4400, North Branch, (651) 277-1234
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
James Matheson Toll-Free Number 1 (877) 677-9743 (202) 225-3011Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928,
Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)
On the Bubble (Major developments from the yes and no columns in the House)
Congressional Dems on Twitter
And here are toll-free numbers we can use to call any Senators or Reps.
At the first number below you must wait through a tape recording urging you to tell your Rep or Senator to vote yes for the health care bill. Just hang on and when the recording is over, you will get the Capitol operator. Just ask for your Rep or Senators office. Then you will either talk to an aid or have the chance to leave a message for him/her to vote NO on the health care bill.
When you use the second number and the Capitol operator comes on, just ask for your Rep or Senators office. Every time I use this number I get the Rep or Senators answer machine, so it may be set up that way all the time...to go to their answer machine. Either way you can leave a message to vote NO on the health care bill!
We need to use these toll free numbers that have been set up for the health care/ BO supporters and illegals to use! After all they are FREE!
1-866-220-0044, 1-866-338-1015, 877-851-6437, 877-210-5351
"Legal experts say the measure, signed by Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday, will likely be struck down."
What did you do, CBS? Exhume William Kunstler??
37 states will opt out, leaving the dictator with an empty pot.
"No, he was at the Green Iguana."
Charlie was there drinking a Pink Squirrel.
Pink Squirrel recipe
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Cocktail Glass
Scale ingredients to servings
1 oz creme de noyaux
1 tbsp white creme de cacao
1 tbsp light cream
Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
A "man's" drink.
ABC Radio keeps squawking that this is 'symbolic' and that 'federal law supersedes state law'.
37 .... just happens to be the number required to call a constitutional convention.
State governors should unite to form a "class action" law suit against the fed.
43 is required to achieve 3/4 of the 57 States
So it begins........it may be a COLD CIVIL WAR, but it has been building up for years and now it's coming to a head, there will be no return to any type of normalcy until it is resolved. Better to swallow the bitter pill now than to wait until it's too late.
What "constitutional experts" are those?
The ones from moveon.org?
Meanwhile, it's not even a federal law, if there is no vote in the House, and Pelosi merely deems it to have been voted upon.
"Legislation similar to Idaho's is pending in as many as 37 other states nationwide."
What about the other 20 states?
Now that's an interesting "factoid" - thanks for cheering me up a bit!!
I've been an advocate of the Tea Party movement adopting such a platform.
On Notice: When we win, we will REPUDIATE ALL US DEBT incurred since Jan 2009.
The interest on the 10 yr bond would go to 10% overnight...and 12-20% on the 30yr. Even then there would be far to few takers.
Hey world! You're on notice. The PEOPLE of the United States of America WILL NOT HONOR the national debt. We can't, we won't afford it.
Only 34 are needed to call a Convention. Then three quarters or 38 are needed to ratify amendments.
Yup. I think you're being a bit conservative on what the interest rate would go up to. James Carville commented famously on the bond markets; we should thank him for his observation :-)
This doesn't end until the checkbook is ripped from their hands.
Last time I checked, we only had 50 states, not the 57 Pres Zero thought we had.
A Constitutional Convention must be called if Congress receives requests from the legislatures of 2/3rds of the States. That means just 34 States submitting a call for the SAME issue although there could be multiple issues as long as each issue has at least 34 calls.
So why wait until November when we take back Congress ? If there are 37 States willing to fight the use of force and penalties on people to buy health insurance, are there at least 34 State Legislatures willing to call for an Amendment to clarify that "the Federal government shall make no law requiring nor penalize any citizen with regard to purchase or failure to purchase any good or service" ?
People have all but forgotten that Article V of the Constitution allows the States to call for a Convention to Amend the Constitution at ANY time expressly so the people don't have to suffer an oppressive government until the next election cycle. Congress can do it too, but it needs a 2/3rds majority in both Houses, which we may or may not have even after November.
Every time in the past when the calls for a Convention have come close to the 2/3rds magic number, Congress has run scared and proposed the sought after Amendment themselves to prevent the Convention from forming. Because they are *obligated* to call it if there are 2/3rds of the States requesting one, and Congress has no say at all about what the Convention can do.
We are overdue for a Convention. We can finally pass the Balanced Budget Amendment that has been lingering out there since 1983 as well. Possibly another Amendment limiting the TOTAL of all Federal taxes to 20% or less of GDP for the prior year. Possibly another stating that all taxes must be FLAT rated on ALL citizens with no deductions, exemptions, or credits allowed. And another to disallow unfunded mandates on the States — Congress can only pass laws that it can pay for without States having to share the costs. And a line item veto that will pass the SCOTUS by merely allowing the POTUS to refer individual items in a bill back for a 2/3rds reconfirmation vote in the Senate rather than an outright rejection of the line items.
It is true that it takes 3/4ths of the States to RATIFY Amendments, and that means 38, but it looks like we are almost there due to Zero's overreach.
Civil War is the answer at this point but I'm afraid we wimp out as always and submit to Marxism
Citizens should unite to storm DC.
ALL IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE NEED TO BE FIRED ..We need to totally clean house.
"Civil War is the answer at this point but Im afraid we wimp out as always and submit to Marxism"
The only prayers that a civil war would answer are the prayers of underemployed morticians. Sorry, I'm not going there. I just don't like the idea of lots and lots of dead Americans. And it's completely unnecessary in any case.
The phrase "Constitutional Law" is code for "pretending the Constitution means something other than what it says". Obama was a "Constitutional Law" instructor, in precisely that sense.
And a constitutional amendment after that. Leave no stone unturned in ridding ourselves of this mess!!
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1/6 of recipe, 4 ounces
Calories 190
Calories from Fat 5
Total Fat 0 g
Saturated Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 60 mg
Total Carbohydrate 42 g
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Sugars 40 g
Proteins 6 g
Vitamin A 25% DV
Vitamin C 8% DV
Calcium 15% DV
Iron 2% DV
Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Servings and Times
Servings 6
Preparation Time 30 minutes
Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person: 1.5
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Fresh apricots (1 pound) 8
Plain gelatin 1½ envelopes
Water ¼ cup
Sugar 2/3 cup
Nonfat vanilla yogurt 2 cups
- Drop apricots into boiling water to cover.
- Return to boil. Simmer for 5 minutes or until skins begin to split.
- Drain. Rinse under cold water.
- Halve fruit. Discard skins and pits.
- Puree apricots in blender or food processor. Set aside.
- Combine gelatin and water in small saucepan. Stir over low heat until dissolved.
- Mix sugar, apricot puree, and yogurt with a wire whisk until smooth.
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The UTEPCollege of Business Administration offers the only AACSB
Accredited business programs in the El Paso border region.
March 7, 2014
By Daniel Perez / UTEP News Service
Water is a life-sustaining commodity with no substitute, and the demand for it only will increase alongside the world's population. Institutions that monitor water use are researching ways to extend the water supply. Enter UTEP Professor of Economics Tom Fullerton.
Fullerton, Ph.D., has secured several external research grants that are part of the Border Region Modeling Project 2014. One is called "Improving the Accuracy of Water Demand Forecasts" for the Denver-based Water Research Foundation.
The noted economist, whose research specialty is econometric modeling and forecasting, recently started work on the two-year, $116,000 project that will examine the commonalities of water usage among municipal water utilities around the world. Data will come from U.S. utilities in El Paso, Fort Worth, Phoenix and San Diego, as well as South East Water in Melbourne, Australia.
His applied research will include a large-scale survey into the current forecast practices employed by major water utilities, an examination into how the 2009 recession impacted water forecast accuracy, and will test whether or not econometrics methods – the use of statistics to describe economic systems – can be used to improve the reliability of water forecasts.
"There are questions that need to be asked that haven't been answered in economic terms," said Fullerton, who has studied water forecasting since 1999 and did his first regional water study in 2001. "This will give people involved in municipal water planning a better idea of correct forecasting practices, and the difficulties posed by business cycle downturns."
Fullerton's work will help the El Paso Water Utilities (EPWU) to properly plan production and use of its scarce regional water resources, more accurately chart growth, maintain affordable water rates, and sustain the water supply. These factors will assist the City of El Paso to attract better job opportunities and build the region's economy.
"His regional econometric model provides government leaders, agencies and private companies a tool to plan for the future," said David Torres, an EPWU economist and a UTEP alumnus who studied under Fullerton.
New research is needed to better understand the evolving impact of conservation efforts and the shifts in demand, said Maureen Hodgins, research manager for the Water Research Foundation. She said Fullerton's short-term forecasting will help utilities, especially those from smaller municipalities that rarely have access to these models, to set up demand and revenue limitations.
"The old rules of thumb are not holding anymore and climate change must be a factor," Hodgins said.
Adam Walke, a research associate in the Department of Economics and Finance, and two economics graduate students, Alex Ceballos and Alan Jimenez, are assisting Fullerton.
Ceballos, a native of Chihuahua, Mexico, has worked with Fullerton since 2012 when he was an undergraduate eager to start his graduate work. He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration in May 2013 and plans to finish his Master of Science in economics in December.
The graduate student said this project lets him apply the econometric tools developed in class, and gives him a better idea of how economists work in the field. His duties include collecting and analyzing data, and helping to create a manual for short-term water demand forecasting.
"While a lot of research is conducted at the state and national levels, very little empirical literature was available for border metropolitan regions," Ceballos said. "(Fullerton) recognized this theoretical lacuna and made a successful career in academia by filling that gap. As a result, every time I encounter a gap in the literature, I see it as a potential research project."
The majority of the work will be done on campus, but there will be some travel involved as his team attends out-of-town conferences to explain their findings. The work should be completed by December 2015.
Additional funding came from UTEP's College of Business Administration, Hunt Communities and El Paso Water Utilities.
This is the latest research grant for Fullerton, who is working on three other forecasting projects valued at more than $70,000.
• He is finishing another water-related grant for EPWU, "Business Cycle Impacts on Municipal Water Usage." He started in October 2013 and expects to share the results in September.
• Hunt Communities is funding Regional Forecast Accuracy, a continuation of economic research along the U.S.-Mexico border. The company plans to fund this study for several more years.
• The City of El Paso has asked him to create the El Paso Municipal Revenue Forecast Modeling, where he will model the city's 15 largest revenue sources and use the models to forecast the annual budget revenues as well as potential downside risks.


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A cleverly crafted and well-executed April Fools' hoax can live on in history as a well-regarded bit of performance art.
Such was the case after the Madison Capital-Times in 1933 convinced many readers that the state Capitol collapsed amid explosions due to "large quantities of gas" generated by verbose politicians.
In 1996, people were outraged when fast-food chain Taco Bell took out newspaper ads to announce it had bought the Liberty Bell and renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell.
Even stodgy National Public Radio has joined the fun. A 1994 NPR story claimed teenagers were eagerly accepting offers to tattoo their ears with corporate logos (KFC, the GAP) to get a lifetime 10 percent discount.
So be on guard today for the next great prank, and enjoy these -- five of the finest April 1 hoaxes ever ...
No. 5: Smellovision - 1965
Television was still a relatively cutting-edge, little-understood technology in the mid-1960s.
So for many viewers, it didn't seem too outlandish -- it passed the sniff test, so to speak -- that the amazing new world of TV could produce smells.
Smellovision was unveiled in a BBC segment, with an expert demonstrating a new technique in which aromas conjured in a TV studio could be pumped through home television sets.
An expert on the set even demonstrated by brewing a pot of coffee and chopping up an onion. He urged viewers to call in if they could smell anything and suggested that "for best results stand six feet away from your set and sniff."
Viewers reported that they could, in fact, catch a whiff of the distinctive scents. They apparently did not smell the, ahem, bull.
No. 4: Gravity Disappears - 1976
BBC Radio 2 launched a stellar prank with news that at 9:47 a.m. on April 1, 1976, Pluto would pass behind Jupiter and that this alignment of the planets would result in a stronger gravitational pull from Jupiter, counteracting the Earth's own gravity.
Listeners who timed a jump just at the right moment would be able to experience weightlessness, an astronomer in the report claimed.
Hundreds of listeners immediately reported that they had been suspended in mid-air (along with their disbelief).
One woman said that she and 11 friends -- and the table they were seated around -- had begun to float during the cosmic moment. Another caller said that the gravitational release had been so dramatic that she hit her head on the ceiling.
No. 3: Sidd Finch - 1985
The discovery of a superhuman baseball pitcher who throws 168-mph fastballs (when the game's top hurlers rarely clock 100) would be explosive news indeed.
But easily duped sports fans didn't seem to question that the bombshell was instead subtly unveiled in a lengthy, carefully crafted article written by George Plimpton in a 1985 Sports Illustrated magazine.
The story profiled a 28-year-old "eccentric mystic" quietly training with the New York Mets. Hayden Sidd Finch was a former English orphan, a one-time Harvard student who learned to throw in Tibet -- and completely the fictitious imagining of Plimpton.
Mets fans and other sports fanatics swooned. But they might have paid closer attention to the words spelled out by the first letters of the story's secondary headline: "He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent lifestyle, Sidd's deciding about yoga -- and his future in baseball." (Happy April Fools' Day -- ah fib.)
No. 2: Alabama Pi - 1998
A notable event in the early history of hoaxes involving the Internet was a fake news story that reported the Alabama Legislature had voted to change the mathematical value of pi from 3.14159 (and the infinite number of digits that follow) to a simple round 3 because that's what the Bible teaches.
The author was listed as April Holiday, who worked for the news service "The Associalized Press."
The story was written by a scientist named Mark Boslough as a parody of attacks on the teaching of evolution. He pitched it to the group New Mexicans for Science and Reason, which published it. Boslough quickly posted his confession that it was a hoax, but the story lived on. Forwarded versions began to appear online that deleted the fictitious writer and news organization.


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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/77819
- Title
- Observations and modeling of relativistic spin precession in PSR J1141-6545
- Author(s)
- Manchester, R. N.; Kramer, M.; Stairs, I. H.; Burgay, M.; Camilo, F.; Hobbs, G. B.; Lorimer, D. R.; Lyne, A. G.; McLaughlin, M. A.; McPhee, C. A.; Possenti, A.; Reynolds, J. E.; van Straten, W.
- Abstract
- Observations of the binary pulsar PSR J1141–6545 using the Parkes radio telescope over 9.3 yr show clear time variations in pulse width, shape, and polarization. We interpret these variations in terms of relativistic precession of the pulsar spin axis about the total angular momentum vector of the system changing our view of the emission beam. Over those nine years, the pulse width at the 50% level has changed by more than a factor of 3, reaching a maximum value of nearly 13° in early 2007. Large variations have also been observed in the 1400 MHz mean flux density; this reached a peak of ∼20 mJy in mid-2002 but over the past several years has been relatively steady at ∼3 mJy. The pulse polarization has been monitored since 2004 April using digital filterbank systems and also shows large and systematic variations in both linear and circular polarization. Position angle (P.A.) variations, both across the pulse profile and over the data span, are complex, with major differences between the central and outer parts of the pulse profile. We interpret the outer parts as representing the underlying magnetic field and fit the rotating-vector model to these regions. Modeling of the observed P.A. variations by relativistic precession of the pulsar spin axis shows that the spin-orbit misalignment angle is about 110° and that the precessional phase has passed through 180° during the course of our observations. At the start of our observations, the line-of-sight impact parameter was about 4° in magnitude and it reached a minimum very close to 0° around early 2007, consistent with the observed pulse width variations. We have therefore mapped approximately one half of the emission beam, at least out to a radius of about 4°, showing that it is very asymmetric with respect to the magnetic axis. The derived precessional parameters imply that the pre-supernova (pre-SN) star had a mass of about 2 M sun and that the SN recoil kick velocity was relatively small, between 100 and 250 km s–1, depending on the assumed systemic velocity. With the reversal in the rate of change of the impact parameter, we predict that over the next decade we will see a reversed 'replay' of the variations observed in the past decade.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 710, no. 2 (Feb 2010), pp. 1694-1709
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Non-thermal radiation mechanisms; PSR J1141-6545; Pulsars; Relativistic precession; Spin axis
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The American Astronomical Society does not allow institutions to archive either the accepted manuscript or the published version of the article. However, you can find an earlier version of the full text here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1483.
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So why does it seem like everyone wants to know when you will wean? It's so annoying. It's nobody's business and to force weaning on a child seems so heartbreaking. It's not like a magic switch turns off at one and they don't want to nurse anymore, ya know? DS drinks some water from his cup but put milk in it and boy he gets mad.
Just needed to vent. He's such a happy nurser and I wish peeps would just be encouraging. It's a gift for crying out loud. Sheeesh!


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Fort Collins-based NewMark Merrill Mountain States – the project redeveloper – received the title to the department store building on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Dillard's Inc. (NYSE:DDS) had held veto power over any redevelopment at the mall.
"We're glad to have it done. The uncertainty that was clouding the project is gone. It's a sunny day," Ginsborg said.
The Longmont Urban Renewal Authority in January reached a $5.5 million agreement to settle its eminent-domain case against Dillard's for the 94,000-square-foot store and the 7.1 acres around it. NewMark Merrill deposited $5 million into a Dillard's account last week, and Longmont officials deposited $500,000.
Newmark Merrill representatives are finalizing "a number of leases" for the new $85 million Village at the Peaks shopping center to be built at the site, now that uncertainty about what's going to happen to the Dillard's store is over, Ginsborg said.
Ginsborg declined to name any new tenants or to give a date for when demolition is to start. The open-air Village at the Peaks shopping center will be anchored by a Whole Foods grocery store, a Sam's Club grocery outlet and a Regal Cinema movie theater. It is expected to open in 2015.
Final planning document approvals must be given by city officials before a construction date can be announced, Ginsborg said.
At the same time, Ginsborg laid out plans to remodel the Dillard's store building inside and outside. Unnamed new retail tenants will lease the space, he said. NewMark Merill expects to announce additional retailers for nearly 65 percent of the available Village at the Peaks square footage in the coming weeks, according to a company press statement.
Fort Collins-based NewMark Merill purchased the Twin Peaks Mall property in 2012 for $8.5 million. The company is a division of NewMark Merill Companies in Woodland Hills, California, which manages or owns a portfolio of more than 75 shopping centers in three states, representing more than $1 billion in assets.
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So my fiancé and I are invited to a holiday dinner and party they organise at his job and we usually always bring baby along. But it won't be possible this time, it's not the kind of place you can bring a 4 months old.
So grandma is more then willing to babysit for us this night and I know she's very capable....but we have one problem.
Baby boy absolutely hates bottles! We have tried everything, changing the bottles, the nipples, the milk temperature. His daddy tried while I was not there too and everytime it's like we are totally insulting him by proposing anything else but a breast.
Now I understand him, but just for this once I need him to be fed by grandma!
He eats every two hours so I'm sure I won't be there for at least one feed.
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Tue, 29 Oct 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PMLocation: Taylor 304Roundtable
In this roundtable, Matthew Lee, Assistant Professor of Psychology, will lead the discussion of his teaching/research project on racial attitudes among students. The project looks at whether factual information on affirmative action, combined with other teaching interventions such as simulations, affects the racial attitudes of students, and how other factors interact with this relationship. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss teaching interventions as well as the measurement of student attitudes.
This roundtable is designed for faculty to make progress toward the following outcomes:
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Breast implants and anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL): Is there a link?
I must admit that I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with breast implants. On the one hand, as a breast cancer surgeon, I see them as a major benefit to my patients who are unfortunate enough to require mastectomy in order to control their disease. The armamentarium of techniques for reconstructing breasts after mastectomy generally falls into one of two categories, either various form of muscle flaps or breast implants. However, some women are, for various reasons, not eligible for various muscle flap reconstructions. That leaves either breast implants–or nothing. Certainly, some women are perfectly fine with no reconstruction after mastectomy, but many, if not most, women are not. For these women, it would be difficult to overstate how much of a boon to body image and self-esteem reconstruction can be, particularly given how much better at it plastic surgeons have become over the last couple of decades.
On the other hand, breast implants make my life as a breast cancer surgeon more difficult for a variety of reasons. First, they tend to make mammography more difficult by obscuring part of the breast, thus decreasing the sensitivity of mammography. Good mammography facilities can get around this to some extent by using various displacement techniques, but it takes some effort, and it doesn't completely correct the problems that implants cause for mammographic screening. Moreover, when a woman who has had implants placed for cosmetic reasons comes to see me for a breast mass or an abnormal mammogram, the presence of the implants can complicate treatment decisions. If the abnormality or mass is close to the implant, we worry about rupturing it in the process, particularly if the implant is not below the pectoralis major muscle. Even when the implant is subpectoral, the muscle overlying it frequently ends up being so stretched out that the muscle in essence forms part of the capsule around the implant and ends up being a lot thinner than you might expect. Let me tell you, my anal sphincter tone is always much tighter when operating near an implant, particularly a silicone implant. True, I'm perfectly capable of removing an implant if it's accidentally ruptured, but such an outcome is not desirable, particularly with silicone implants, where cleaning up the leaking silicone can be difficult.
It doesn't help that silicone breast implants have been the subject of controversy since the late 1980s and early 1990s, when thousands of women with silicone implants reported a variety of ailments, including autoimmune disease and a variety of other systemic illnesses. These reports led to a rash of lawsuits and, ultimately, the banning of silicone breast implants for general use in 1992. After that, silicone breast implants were only permitted in women requiring breast reconstruction or women enrolled in clinical trials studying breast implants. This ban was partially lifted in 2006, as evidence accumulated that the claims of autoimmune diseases and increased cancer risk due to silicone breast implants were not supported by clinical and scientific evidence and two products made by Allergan Corp. (formerly Inamed Corp.) and Mentor Corp. Not surprisingly, given that the furor over silicone breast implants as a cause of autoimmune and other systemic diseases is based on about as much solid scientific evidence as the antivaccine furor over vaccines as a cause of the "autism epidemic," there was widespread criticism of this decision. Even now, it is not difficult to find articles about breast implants with titles like Breast Implants: America's Silent Epidemic and websites like the Humantics Foundation and Toxic Breast Implants . I do note, however, that the number of such sites and articles does appear to be declining and, at least to my impression, seems to have decreased markedly over the last 10 years or so.
Having reviewed the literature and found evidence for a link between silicone breast implants and the systemic diseases attributed to them to be incredibly weak at best, I had little problem with the FDA's decision. Actually, the only thing I had a problem with at the time, my opinions of how breast implants interfere with breast cancer detection and treatment notwithstanding, is that the FDA was probably being more cautious than the evidence warranted after 14 years.
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I haven't been around at all really the last few months, life got really crazy...but I really need some ideas with this.
DS is 13 mo and we've had latch issues on and off since birth. I've never seen anyone for it mainly because we've never had milk transfer problems and the issue would come and go, making me think we'd resolved it...then come back. So I just kept trying to fix it myself. Now I'm at the end of my patience and out of ideas.
I have always had a very strong letdown (OALD earlier on when I had OS, I still have an abundant supply and he doesn't seem to struggle with the flow so it's hard to tell what it's really like) and he gulps and could probably do just about anything as far as latch/suck pattern and still get plenty of milk. So that's not an issue, it's just about my own comfort.
Sometimes he curls his lips inward, over his teeth, especially the lower lip. When he was younger he would try to "slurp" the nipple in like a noodle but I really cracked down on that and he usually doesn't try that anymore, but will try to latch, then pull it further in so his lips curl over. I can fix his lips but then his teeth are exposed and he doesn't push his tongue out to cover the bottom teeth. Other times the latch looks good on the outside (lips turned out) but is uncomfortable on the inside. When he dives in, he usually puckers his lips to try to get to the nipple rather than opening his mouth wide. Other times especially on the left side he will try to turn his head and readjust so he is nursing out of the side of his mouth!! He does not have a tongue-tie, he can stick his tongue WAY out past his lower lip.
Sometimes he does not cover his lower teeth with his tongue, and I can feel a ring of teeth digging into my areola. (and then can see marks when he is done.) Other times the tongue is in the right position but the top teeth still dig in.
Almost always he has a shallow latch. I feel sensations of the nipple being compressed uncomfortably, or actually pushed toward the opening of his mouth with every suck combined with something like sandpaper (his tongue, I guess) on my nipple. The sensation is not what I'd call pain, but it's EXTREMELY irritating. If he leaves teeth marks, they are usually very close to the base of the nipple, like a quarter of an inch or less. We have more trouble at night when side-lying. He has a chewing/chomping kind of suck, and his latch has always been narrow and tight.
I keep trying over and over to get him to relatch correctly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There have been times especially during the day when I have just ended the session saying nursies are all done if you won't latch nicely, usually after 5 or 6 attempts. I talk about what I want him to do in as simple of terms as I can manage and try to demonstrate but I don't know how else to communicate with him and it typically doesn't make a difference.
I just can't handle the sensation emotionally. It's overwhelmingly irritating and it triggers an intense rage, and a feeling of shaking like adrenaline is shooting through me and it's all I can do to not hurt him. Especially at night when I am exhausted and half-conscious and have already tried several times to correct it.
I really need something to change, and not cycle back around to this. I fantasize about weaning but I really don't want to. I can definitely see us weaning earlier than I want to though because I dread nursing and I'm sure my vibes put him off too.


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Mitchell Dale Stehling told his wife and parents he was going to hike to the Spruce Tree House, which is a cliff dwelling on the Chapin Mesa in the park.
When Stehling did not return Sunday, family alerted park officials.
Park crew members searched Spruce Canyon, Spruce Tree House, Petroglyph Trail and other trails on Chapin Mesa.
Crews resumed their search early Monday, expanding the search area, searching by foot, horseback and helicopter. Two dog teams from Dolores Canine Search and Rescue also were assisting.
About 30 people were involved Monday as temperatures reached 102 degrees in the canyons.
Rescue workers continued to search Tuesday with 60 to 70 searchers, including 20 members from the San Juan National Forest Hot Shots.
Temperatures in the park were in the 90s. The terrain consists of steep canyons and mesa tops at elevations between 6,500 feet and 8,000 feet.
Stehling was last seen wearing a brown shirt and hat, khaki shorts and hiking boots. He was not carrying any water or other gear.


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Despite postponement of a momentous vote on the Delaware River Basin Commission's proposed natural gas regulations, activists carried through with a planned rally in Trenton, NJ on November 21 (see page 1). The rally was one of a quickly multiplying number of initiatives on the part of people responding to a sense that the time has come to be heard on issues ranging from the economy to hydrofracking.
In addition to international actions such as the Occupy movement, some of the local efforts arising include last weekend's Occupy Honesdale event (see page 5), weekly gatherings in front of the Monticello, NY post office to express solidarity with the Occupy movement and the Watershed General Assembly on November 19 (see sidebar below).
Crones recount
During a community discussion on civil disobedience sponsored by the Crones Club in Narrowsburg, NY recently, a group of elder women led a stirring session on civil disobedience with personal accounts of past activism and guidance for today's initiatives.
Crones Club founder Beverly Sterner said she recognizes a similar energy to that of the 1960s when she first became an activist. "It's Washington and Wall Street coming together now," she said. "We're connecting the dots, forming a movement and creating coalitions. This is the beginning of a discussion about how we can connect and bring this issue home."
Sterner began with an explanation of what civil disobedience is and how it has historically been practiced. "Civil disobedience and nonviolence go hand in hand," said Sterner, before sharing Martin Luther King's basic elements of non-violence, including, "The ethic of real love is at the center of non-violence."
"It's extremely important that when we commit a civil disobedience, we make it clear that this is nothing personal against the person who is arresting us, that we have options to walk and talk with them, or to go limp and not cooperate with the arrest," she said.
Drawing upon years of personal experience, Sterner urged caution. "It can be a very iffy situation. If provoked, don't engage. Don't get hooked into their language or their arena. Back off and allow yourself to be vulnerable. Suppress your immediate response to react. Heavy judgments, blaming and projecting are all forms of violence."
Sterner recounted the principle of "moral jujitsu." "Don't give something to push against," she said. "If you do not respond in kind, then your opponent is thrown off balance and there is an opening to get through." Sterner also stressed the importance of non-violent language and cited the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg.
Award-winning children's author and illustrator Vera B. Williams spoke next. "When you're dealing with power, there are very different layers. There's a great danger in situations with police. You can't regard it lightly. You are asked to find in yourself what will respond to a given situation. You're steering a way between not inflaming another's ego or vulnerability. They have been led to believe that we are dangerous and they don't want to show weakness. If you can keep your head and not get furious, you will find a way to reach into their humanity and find common ground."
Now 83, Williams said she is deeply grateful to be part of the special community she is enmeshed with in the Upper Delaware region. "The 'beloved community' really sets forth how you feel about the people you work with, protest with, go to jail with and sing with," she said. "There becomes a deep connection. I went down and hung out for a few hours at Occupy Wall Street and you really feel it there."
Williams's oldest grandchild, Hudson, who is featured in one of her early books, is now 25 and active in the Occupy movement in Seattle, WA. Talking to his mother, Williams asked, "Are you worried that he'll get hurt, stepped on, run over, or even die in the service of this?" Williams continued, "His mother said, 'I'm worried that his heart will be broken,' that he'll throw his heart into this, striving for the beloved community.'"
Williams concluded, "In the end, it's your bravery, your courage that gets you through. You work at it your whole life. This is a project like anything you want to accomplish in the world, but it's not a given, and like love, you will get your heart broken."
Following Williams, Virginia Kennedy and her daughter Marygrace recounted their recent experience protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline, during which Virginia was arrested. The experience connected the pair to activists from across the country and woke them to a sense that many issues are coalescing into increasingly unified and timely movements that strike at deeper issues.
"What's so important is that the potential and momentum exists not just to stop fracking, or mountaintop removal, or a pipeline or to get regulation on Wall Street, but to ask people what they value in this life," said Virginia. "Do we value relationships, tradition, ceremony and experience, or do we just want to accumulate crap? The reason this momentum is happening is because it's time. There are better ways of being in the world and people have been fighting for this for a long time."
Teens respond
High school senior Marygrace offered her perspective on the Tar Sands protest. "The action itself was really empowering," she said. "It was this new feeling that I never had before. When we went to DC the second time and made a chain of 10,000 people around the White House, it was just incredible.
"It's really scary to be this young and have to be thinking about this. It's so unfair that this falls on us. We didn't cause the problems. But you have to turn this into 'think of the amazing opportunity we've been given to be the beginning of change.'"
Grace Lutfy, a Pike County teen with a long activist history of her own, said it's valuable to become involved at an early age. "It's important to stand up for what you believe in," said Lutfy. "There are lots of challenges that could put you down and it's so easy to give in to those roadblocks. But I've met many amazing people who never gave in to anything. They're very inspirational."
Moving forward together
Virginia challenged the audience to consider how to motivate those who sense things aren't working, but who are lulled into complacency by their own level of comfort. "People have to be convinced to become uncomfortable even if they aren't," she said. "We never really understand until the plight becomes personal," added Sterner.
"This is revolution we're talking about, peaceful none-the-less, but that's what's going to be required," said audience member Pat Carullo. "This is our world; we're fighting for it."
Presenter Marcia Nehemiah stressed the importance of not vilifying opponents. "When we look to the police guard as the enemy, or the gas leaser as the enemy, that is a mistake. When we do that, we accept as legitimate what the people in power want us to do—to pull apart the community. That happens when we look upon the person next to us as our enemy without understanding that there's another story there and to get beyond that dualistic thinking. The unity is what will make us stronger."
Williams advocated for stepping up efforts related to natural gas extraction in the region. "There's still a movement we have to make if we really intend to resist fracking," she said. "It's possible to be outraged without being furious and it is outrageous that they want to take our valley, which includes a federally founded scenic preservation river. We have to make this even more visible than it has been."
Barbara Yeaman, founder of the Delaware Highlands Conservancy, expressed her deep gratitude to those assembled. "Those of us who are crones have been fighting these fights for a long, long time, and to look around this room and see all of you working toward a better world is just incredible. It gives me a great sense of good will and peace. When I leave this world, I will leave with a lot of satisfaction that the work is going to carry on."
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- 7:23 pm Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 by M.M. Cloutier
The fifth-annual Flavor Palm Beach kicks off next week so it won't be long before we'll be privy to a month of dining deals at 40-plus area restaurants, including a strong contingent of eateries in Palm Beach.
Flavor is a September-long promo, with participating restaurants cashing in on the power of collective marketing and the potential to fill seats during a slower-paced time of year.
The rest of us have the opportunity to try some of them—or frequent long-time favorites—at bargain prices relative to high season; in this case, three-course lunches for $20 and three-course dinners for $30 or $35.
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In the past two decades the "new science," known popularly as "chaos," has given us deep insights into previously intractable, inherently nonlinear, natural phenomena. Building on important but isolated historical precedents (such as the work of Poincaré), "chaos" has in some cases caused a fundamental reassessment of the way in which we view the physical world. For instance, certain seemingly simple natural nonlinear processes, for which the laws of motion are known and completely deterministic, can exhibit enormously complex behavior, often appearing as if they were evolving under random forces rather than deterministic laws. One consequence is the remarkable result that these processes, although completely deterministic, are essentially unpredictable for long times. But practitioners of "nonlinear science," as "chaos" has become known among experts, recognize that nonlinear phenomena can also exhibit equally surprising orderliness. For example, certain seemingly complex nonlinear systems, involving many interacting components, can exhibit great regularity in their motion, and "coherent structures" - such as the Red Spot of Jupiter - can emerge from a highly disordered background.
Paradigms of Nonlinear Science Researchers in this new nonlinear science have learned to recognize the seemingly contradictory manifestations of chaos and order as two fundamental features of inherently nonlinear phenomena. Indeed, "deterministic chaos" and "coherent structures" are often referred to as two "paradigms" of nonlinear science, in the sense that they represent archetypical aspects of nonlinear phenomena, independent of the conventional discipline in which they are observed. Two other "paradigms" that have emerged from recent studies of nonlinear phenomena can be termed "pattern formation, competition, and selection" and "adaptation, evolution, and learning." It is perhaps most convincing to clarify the impact of these paradigms by presenting examples of their interdisciplinary relevance. The same type of "deterministic chaos" can be observed, for example, in electrical activity from biological systems, in the transition of a fluid to turbulent motion, and in the motion of the moons of the giant planets. "Coherent structures" arise in the turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter, in giant earth ocean waves ("tsunamis"), in the spatial spread of certain epidemics, and, on a microscopic scale, in the behavior of certain unusual solid state materials. "Pattern formation, competition, and selection" occur in very similar ways in such seemingly disparate phenomena as instabilities in secondary oil recovery techniques and laser-plasma interactions in advanced technologies designed to control fusion energy. Recent attempts to isolate the conceptual, as opposed to the biological, essence of life have identified and clarified the paradigm of "adaptation, evolution, and learning" and have led to extensive studies of mathematical models of "neural networks" and to the creation of the field of "artificial life."
Interdisciplinary Nature and Methodology of Nonlinear Science As these examples suggest, nonlinear science is inherently interdisciplinary, impacting upon traditional subjects ranging through all the physical and biological sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many of the social sciences, notably economics and demographics. Any attempt to circumscribe artificially the scope of nonlinear science inevitably limits the insights it can provide. Significantly, the successful pursuit of nonlinear science requires the blending of three distinct methodological approaches: â¦"experimental mathematics," which involves the use of cleverly conceived computer-based numerical simulations to give qualitative insights into problems that are at present analytically intractable; â¦novel and powerful analytical mathematical methods to treat functional recursion relations, to solve certain nonlinear partial differential equations, or to describe complex geometrical structures arising in chaotic systems; and â¦high precision experimental observations of similar nonlinear phenomena in many different natural and man-made systems arising in a variety of conventional disciplines. An important illustration of both this tripartite approach and the interdisciplinary applicability of the paradigms of nonlinear science is the discovery of the metric universality in unimodular one-dimensional maps. Many physicists considered Feigenbaum's results for the universal dynamics of these maps to be a mere mathematical curiosity of no clear physical significance until Libchaber and others observed exactly the same period doubling dynamics in laboratory experiments on fluids and electric circuits. The ensuing efforts to prove various aspects of the theory rigorously have greatly stimulated large segments of the pure mathematics community. Of course, the interaction can also go in other ways; laboratory observations of new nonlinear phenomena have also stimulated and guided the development of theory and mathematical modeling. This close interaction among experimenters, theorists, and pure mathematicians is rare and refreshing in the recent age of increasingly specialized science.
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science The now celebrated example of period doubling illustrates the crucial importance of transferring the developments in our understanding of nonlinear phenomena, wherever these developments occur, to other disciplines. The excitement and challenge of the journal, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, lie in its interdisciplinary character and its firm commitment to communicating the most recent developments in nonlinear science to the research community at large. We welcome contributions from physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, engineering, economics, and social sciences, as well as other disciplines in which inherently nonlinear phenomena are of interest and importance. Further, we always seek a balance among the methods of computation, theory, and experiment, to reflect properly the tripartite methodology which has proved essential to the progress of nonlinear science. Finally, Chaos has grown to be truly international in character, again mirroring the field itself.
Uniqueness of Chaos Chaos is a peer-reviewed research journal but with some unorthodox elements relative to typical journals. Besides front-line research papers, letters, and brief reports, Chaos includes solicited technical reviews and deliberately pedagogical articles of broad appeal. The Editors of Chaos take an active role in developing the content and, together with the AIP, seek to assure its comprehensibility, as well as relevance and quality. Importantly, approximately every other issue of Chaos is a special "Focus" issue. These issues are intended to provide a critical introduction and overview of a particular topic, suitable as an introduction to nonspecialists but also of value to experts in the area. To ensure timely publication of other articles, only about 60% of the articles in a "Focus" issue are devoted to the focal topic, with the remaining articles dealing with other areas of nonlinear science. In addition, each article in Chaos is preceded by a "lead paragraph" targeted at the non-specialist reader. This paragraph provides a sense of the context of the work and conveys the primary results, but in language that is accessible to the journal's broad interdisciplinary audience.


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Peace Corps entered Niger in 1962 with seven Volunteers teaching English as a foreign language. Volunteers now work in agriculture, environment, community development, youth education, and health projects to help Nigerien communities attain household food security and to promote sustainable development. Volunteers in the agriculture, environment, and community health sectors typically work in small (200–1,000 population) rural villages, while community & youth education (CYE) Volunteers are based in regional capitals, small towns, and large rural villages. A few Volunteers are assigned to work with special projects and local or international non-governmental organizations.
All Volunteers, regardless of sector, are trained in how to promote HIV/AIDS awareness.
Peace Corps History
Main article: History of the Peace Corps in Niger
The Peace Corps entered Niger in 1962 with seven Volunteers teaching English. Programming continued to be centered on education through the 1960s. In later years, in response to the expressed needs of the government of Niger, the program expanded to include health, agriculture, and environmental conservation.
Currently, Volunteers in Niger are in four programs: agriculture, natural resources management, community health, community and youth education, and municipal and community development. Those in the first three programs are stationed in small (200–1,000 population) rural villages, while education Volunteers are in regional capitals, small towns, and large rural villages. Municipal Volunteers are posted to commune council offices with varied living conditions. A few Volunteers are assigned to work with special projects and local or international NGOs.
Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyle
Main article: Living conditions and volunteer lifestyles in Niger
Most agriculture, environment, and community health Volunteers live in villages of 200 to 3,000 people within a few miles of other Volunteers and roads served by public transportation. You may be anywhere from 60 to 750 miles (100 to 1,200 kilometers) from Niamey. You are likely to be one of only a handful of people—perhaps the only person—in the village with anything beyond the equivalent of a sixth-grade education. Many sites have a rural health clinic or a primary school, but some do not. Housing is provided by each village and consists of a traditional one- or two-room house of adobe brick with an adobe or thatch roof. Most Volunteer houses have a small yard surrounded by an adobe or thatch enclosure. The Peace Corps pays for the cementing of the floor of your house and bath/toilet area and provides screens for doors and windows.
There will be no running water or electricity. You will obtain your water from a well and rely on a kerosene lamp or candles for light in the evening. Most of the year, you will sleep outside, with only a mosquito net, which the Peace Corps provides, between you and the stars. You will become adept at using a squat latrine and taking a bucket bath—pouring water over yourself from a bucket. Although it may sound like a two-year camping trip (and in some ways it is), your site will become your home. With time, you will find ways to make yourself comfortable, and soon enough, you will forget how strange some of these conditions once seemed.
Community Development Volunteers are posted in small towns of 2,000 to 20,000 people located in commune capitals. The majority live in simhousecamparable to agriculture, enviroment and health volunteers. Some of these towns are on the main east-west highway with about 25% of community development volunteers will have electricity either at their office or home.
Education Volunteers are posted in small towns of 10,000 to 100,000 people, located near clusters of rural-based Volunteers. Housing consists of a small mud brick or cement house or an apartment provided by the government of Niger. The towns have the education infrastructure and partners you will need in your assignment. Some of the towns have Peace Corps regional offices, headed by a Volunteer regional representative. There may also be Volunteers working with international and nongovernmental organizations such as UNICEF and CARE. Most of these sites are on the main road that crosses the country from east to west.
Although running water and electricity are available in most towns, there may be limited hours of electricity use and frequent power failures.
Main article: Training in Niger
An intensive eight- to nine-week pre-service training program at the Peace Corps training center in Hamdallaye (about 18.5 miles, or 30 kilometers, northeast of Niamey) will prepare you and approximately 30 other Volunteers for your service in Niger. Although the amount you need to learn is vast, you should think of pre-service training as the initial step in a continuing process of learning that will last for your entire stay in Niger.
Pre-service training will include French, one of the national languages (depending on where you are assigned), cross-cultural adaptation, guidelines for personal health and hygiene, development issues, safety and security issues, community entry skills, nonformal education techniques, and a few technical skills related to your particular project. In addition to language classes, there will be hands-on activities, field trips, readings, seminars, and self-directed learning. You will live with a Nigerien family (who speak the local language you are learning) in the village of Hamdallaye for most of the training. You will spend some time in the field with experienced Volunteers to observe and learn development skills and coping strategies.
During training, you will need to reevaluate your commitment to Peace Corps service in Niger. Participating in training is not a guarantee of becoming a Volunteer. While we fully expect you to be successful, there are definite goals and competencies you must attain before you can be sworn in as a Volunteer.
Health Care and Safety
Main article: Health care and safety in Niger
The Peace Corps' highest priority is maintaining the good health and safety of every Volunteer. Peace Corps medical programs emphasize the preventive, rather than the curative, approach to disease. Peace Corps in Niger maintains a clinic with two full-time medical officers, who take care of Volunteers' primary healthcare needs. Additional medical services, such as radiology and dentistry, are also available in Niger at local clinics. If you become seriously ill, you will be transported either to a city in the region where more services are available or to the United States.
Diversity and Cross-Cultural Issues
Main article: Diversity and cross-cultural issues in Niger
In Niger, as in other Peace Corps host countries, Volunteers' behavior, lifestyle, background, and beliefs are judged in a cultural context very different from their own. Certain personal perspectives or characteristics commonly accepted in the United States may be quite uncommon, unacceptable, or even repressed in Niger.
Outside of Niger's capital, residents of rural communities have had relatively little direct exposure to other cultures, races, religions, and lifestyles. What people view as typical American behavior or norms may be a misconception, such as the perception that all Americans are rich and have blond hair and blue eyes. The people of Niger are justly known for their generous hospitality to foreigners; however, members of the community in which you will live may display a range of reactions to cultural differences that you present.
To ease the transition and adapt to life in Niger, you may need to make some temporary, yet fundamental compromises in how you present yourself as an American and as an individual. For example, female trainees and Volunteers may not be able to exercise the independence available to them in the United States; political discussions need to be handled with great care; and some of your personal beliefs may best remain undisclosed. You will need to develop techniques and personal strategies for coping with these and other limitations. The Peace Corps staff will lead diversity and sensitivity discussions during pre-service training and will be on call to provide support, but the challenge ultimately will be your own.
- Possible Issues for Female Volunteers
- Possible Issues for Volunteers of Color
- Possible Issues for Senior Volunteers
- Possible Religious Issues for Volunteers
- Possible Issues for Volunteers With Disabilities
Frequently Asked Questions
Main article: FAQs about Peace Corps in Niger
- How much luggage am I allowed to bring to Niger?
- What is the electric current in Niger?
- How much money should I bring?
- When can I take vacation and have people visit me?
- Will my belongings be covered by insurance?
- Do I need an international driver's license?
- What should I bring as gifts for Niger friends and my host family?
- Where will my site assignment be when I finish training and how isolated will I be?
- How can my family contact me in an emergency?
- Can I call home from Niger?
- Should I bring a cellular phone with me?
- Will there be e-mail and Internet access? Should I bring my computer?
Packing List
Main article: Packing list for Niger
This list has been compiled by Volunteers serving in Niger and is based on their experience. Use it as an informal guide in making your own list, bearing in mind that experience is individual. There is no perfect list! You obviously cannot bring everything we mention, so consider those items that make the most sense to you personally and professionally. You can always have things sent to you later. As you decide what to bring, keep in mind that you have an 80-pound weight limit on baggage. And remember, you can get almost everything you need in Niger.
Many Volunteers end up wishing they had not brought so many clothes and toiletries and had concentrated instead on more personal items like music and , photos. However, we recommend that you avoid bringing anything you would be heartbroken to lose. Since there is a variety of jobs, each with different clothing requirements, you should consider your particular job in deciding what to bring. Health and education Volunteers have a greater need for professional-looking clothing than Volunteers who spend most of the time in the field, but all Volunteers should be neat and presentable. Despite your worst fears, there is a cool season in Niger, when night temperatures become quite tolerable. Make sure your clothes are comfortable and durable, because they will take a beating during hand laundering. Keep in mind that it is relatively cheap and easy to have local tailors make great-looking traditional clothes (or copies of what you bring with you).
- General Clothing
- Shoes: you can easily buy daily, casual shoes (flip flops). Bring good walking shoes (Birkenstocks, Keen, Teva, etc.), and sturdy work shoes (especially if you're doing agricultural or environmental work). Even though its hot, you'll really appreciate strong shoes when working outside.
- Personal Hygiene and Toiletry Items: Special/pampering creams, lotions, etc. are always appreciated. One of the best skin care oils - shea butter - is readily available in Niger.
- Kitchen. You can get lots of spices, etc. there, but consider bringing any special items (some of my favorite items were parmesan cheese, mac and cheese packets (NOT the pasta - just the sauce. You can buy pasta there), drink mixes (without sugar - you can add sugar there), tobasco sauce, A1, good coffee, etc.)
- Miscellaneous: I liked having some photos of my hometown and my family to share with others
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Peace Corps News
Current events relating to Peace Corps are also available by country of service or your home state
The following is automatic RSS feed of Peace Corps news for this country.
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Country Fund
Contributions to the Niger Country Fund will support Volunteer and community projects that will take place in Niger. These projects include water and sanitation, agricultural development, and youth programs.
See also
- Volunteers who served in Niger
- Friends of Niger
- List of resources for Niger
- Pre-Departure Checklist
- Inspector General Reports


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Honda Monkey motorbike - Kumamon version
Today is Kumamon's birthday!
(a.k.a. the day when all of the Kyushu Shinkansen routes opened)
Kumamon meets Honda's small motorcycle series, Monkey. The collaboration motorbike Monkey Kumamon Version is going to be released on April 14. The exterior is colored with Kumomon's image color: black and red. Kumamon and Honda's logo are printed on the fuel tank. Red wheels are made in the motif of Kumomon's cheeks.


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When G+ first came out I was thrilled that finally perhaps there was a real competitor to Facebook, which I hate, but I use because...everyone else does (well not really everyone else - my own husband refuses to sign up for it). I *thought* Google+ was a social network. I think that's what they wanted me to think.
I know I must have been living under a rock to have missed this (I am a wife and mother you know, and have other things to do like pack for a trip to our Adirondack cabin or repair the dishwasher while our cat supervises instead of worrying what Google is up to), but a month or so ago, I discovered that if you do not use your real, full name in your G+ profile, your account can be suspended. You then have a short time frame to prove that the name you provided is your real name, or else fill in your real name. Upon further investigation, I discovered that G+ is not really a social network but an "identity service". You can read about that in this Forbes article: Google's Eric Schmidt Says Plus is an "Identity Service" Not a Social Network.
And I thought Facebook was bad!
My problem is this: I do not want to put my last name on my Google profile because I don't want it showing up associated with my blog. Or anywhere else, for that matter, unless *I* choose to make my full name "public". (For the sake of my own privacy I'd like to at least make a stalker WORK to figure out who I am!) But if you have a G+ account you are required to use your full name, and you have no option to show any other name but your full name across any service where your profile is displayed. (Actually, it looks like from a recent news article (linked below) that you may be able to display a nickname - BUT IT WILL STILL LINK TO YOUR REAL NAME.)
From the Forbes article, Eric Schmidt is quoted as saying, "Regarding people who are concerned about their safety, he said G+ is completely optional. No one is forcing you to use it..."
Okey dokey, then!
I'm not the only one upset about this - while I was living under a rock there was such a firestorm over the "Real Names" policy when G+ came out, that there is a Wikipedia entry on it! Read about it here: Nymwars
Fast forward to last week, about six months after the Nymwars fiasco, Google finally decided maybe they need to revise their real name policy - you can read about that here: Huffington Post "Google+ Real Names Policy Gets Revised". However, there is nothing at all in the latest "revision" that changes the fact that in 99% of cases your real name will still be public.
In fact, with the recent well publicized Google privacy policy change, they can now link information across any of their services - so if you use your real name on Google+ it's now going to be linked to everything that you do on any of their services (searches, posts, pictures, etc.)!
I decided I don't need Google+ (G+) enough to compromise my privacy, nor do I have a need to be a part of an "Identity Service", so I "downgraded" from Google+. If you'd like to "downgrade" from Google+, here's how: Downgrade From Google+.
The bigwigs at Google are making the same mistakes the CEO at Netflix did - their heads are so fat from their success they start thinking they can make/sell the products THEY want, the way THEY want. They forget that in order to succeed, you have to make/sell products YOUR CUSTOMERS WANT, the way YOUR CUSTOMERS WANT THEM.
Count me as a former Google+ customer.
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More than four years after her death, the family of a popular Waianae High School teacher is finally seeing justice. The man accused of stabbing and killing Asa Yamashita, Tittleman Fauatea, was found guilty Thursday morning.
"I think we're all kind of relieved that this has finally come to some kind of fruition," said Bryan Yamashita, Asa's husband.
For Bryan Yamashita, it has been four painfully long years. And the judge's decision helped him find closure.
"At this time, the court finds you, Mr. Fauatea, guilty as charged of the offense of murder in the second degree," said Circuit Court judge Rom Trader.
It was February 2009 when Asa was attacked and killed as she sat on a bench at the Ewa Town Center while she waited for her husband to pick her up.
Court documents say Fauatea bought a foot-long kitchen knife from the Longs Drugs at the shopping center, walked to the Ewa Seed Company, unwrapped the newly-purchased knife and repeatedly stabbed her.
"His actions during the stabbing in this court's view was highly focused, specific and certainly very effective," said Judge Trader.
Fauatea has a long history of mental illness and Judge Trader said although mental health experts all agreed he was suffering from a serious psychotic episode that day, his actions prove his insanity did not substantially impair his judgement.
The judge pointed out what Fauatea said to the first police officer who approached him after the stabbing. Fautea said, "I don't have anything. I dumped the knife."
In fact, the judge said more than one mental health expert believed Fauatea was exaggerating his mental illness to make it appear worse than it was. For that, he will now be serving time in jail, not a state hospital.
"The main thing we want everyone to know is this man cannot come out and do this to anyone else again and put any other family what he put us through," said Rae Shimabukuro, Asa Yamashita's sister.
Fauatea faces mandatory life in prison when he is sentenced in June.
Click here to watch Jill Kuramoto's report on your mobile device.


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How Grimm Can a Game Be? That depends upon your definition. If you imagine a game filled with dark-themed fairy tales and a large dose of black humor, then the new Grimm Bros offering might be just what you are looking for. Think Evil Dead meets Monty Python and you're in the right neighborhood.
Grimm Bros is a new start-up studio founded by Cogswell College alumni, Ash Monif, and his partner Randis Albion, both veteran game developers. Their focus is to produce a franchise of Triple-A quality games for PCs and tablets using a cloud-based technology – meaning you can play anywhere, anytime on almost any device.
"I have always been a fan of complex subject matter," said Monif. "I grew up reading the classics Grimm, Chaucer, Tolkien – and I feel that today's games gloss over a lot of the richness that can be found within these great works. Our goal is to build a community of core and mid-core gamers who are seeking out a redefined RPG experience."
Monif and Albion have worked together for many years and in 2013 decided to combine their talents to found Grimm Bros. The company has started production on its first title and will announce details at the upcoming 2013 Game Developer Conference in March!
Ash Monif is CEO and in charge of business development and production. His game credits include: Fort Courage (Android), TinkerBox (iOS), Fieldrunners (Mobile/Online), Mercenaries 2 (Console), James Bond, FRWL (Console), Sims 2 (PC), Lord of the Rings – TTA (Console) and James Bond – EON (Console)
Randis Albion is COO and in charge of art direction. His game credits include: Puzzlevania (iOS), ThinkerBox (iOS), League of Legends (PC), MMO Cooee (PC), AquaNox Angels Tears (PS2), AquaNox II (PC), and AquaNox (PC)
Sergei Gourski, another Cogswell College alumni and co-founder of the award-winning Subatomic Studios and creator of the hit sensation Fieldrunners had the following to say about Grimm Bros, "We worked with Ash and Randis on multiple projects. Both are outstanding and extremely talented individuals. Grimm Bros looks like a great team with lot of potential for success!"
Check out their official Facebook page for updates and game release dates.


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Buy for$22.95(4 items)
Written by Guest on 14.05.2010 at 16:42
Is this for real? I couldn't be happier if they released a new album so soon.
even 2011 is OK.
Written by tea[m]ster on 10.09.2012 at 22:37
Not sure if I like this one as much as the others. Listened to it once and half way through it lost my attention. Anyone else disappointed?


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I believe the children are our future
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be—Giddy with joy, the atmosphere of the closing ceremony elicited hoots, hollers and thunderous applause as some of the chosen few delivered monologues (written during the conference), won raffle prizes and showcased choreography learned in the process. After raising more than $3,000 for "Broadway Cares" (www.broadwaycares.org), the kids exchanged numbers while hugging it out. "I can't believe it's over," I heard repeatedly, as the final images of the weekend played across the big screen, while the future of America cried over parting from their new friends, before returning to their hometowns. Spying Glodich and his Eldred School students taking their leave, I stopped for a moment and snapped a pic. "Tag yourselves online!" (www.facebook.com/theriverreporter) I shouted. "I'll see you soon." What did these kids teach me? Simple: Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Jan Elliott spends most of her time working, according to her co-workers, but said she enjoys golfing and reading.
Jan Elliott of Clovis was selected as the 25th annual Governor's Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women. She has been the executive director for EMS Region III for 21 years. She will be recognized as one of 20 winners of the award at a banquet in Albuquerque May 7. One winner will be inducted into the hall of fame.
Secret winner: The staff here took it upon themselves to nominate me for the award. They kept it secret until the day I got the letter. I will be honored on behalf of all EMS service providers in the state of New Mexico. It's great knowing my colleagues nominated me for the award.
Hobby time: I look at my job as a hobby not a job. I believe that if you keep that attitude, you last longer at whatever position you are in. We're a big happy family here.
Local lady: I'm from Portales. I moved for Clovis in 1990. Both communities are well established with good people. The people take pride in the activities that take place in the communities. I've noticed over the years that the people have worked to improve the parks and recreation and that's important. I graduated from Portales High School and graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a degree in teaching. I worked for the Portales News-Tribune for five years and the moved here to work as the information specialist.
Passionate EMS: I have a passion for EMS. That's where my heart it. The people that volunteer maintain certification twice a year. They give up their home life sometimes to train and they save lives. Who wouldn't have a passion for what they do? My goal is to find funding so they can do what they do.
— Compiled by CNJ staff writer Liliana Castillo