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Skip to comments.Rep. Keith Ellison: We Were Held In Slavery Longer Than Weve Been Free
Posted on 06/16/2012 11:54:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
From the day he was sworn into office in 2006 with his hand placed on the Quran, Representative Keith Ellison (pictured left) (D-MN), the first Muslim American elected to the U.S. Congress, has exemplified political bravery.
As previously reported by NewsOne, before entering into public service, he was an attorney with the law firm of Lindquist & Vennum, specializing in civil rights, employment, and criminal defense law. He was then appointed executive director of the Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis, a non-profit organization that specialized in representing clients living in poverty.
Rep. Ellison is also a passionate supporter of H.R. 40, the proposal to establish a Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for the African-Americans Act, authored by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) In a pivotal moment in U.S. history, Congress officially studied the institution of slavery, its lingering ramifications, consequences, and viable methods that the United States should address during hearings by the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Conyers had introduced the legislation for almost two decades, and 2007, was the first year that an official hearing took place.
For over 19 years, I have introduced H.R. 40 not to spark controversy or promote division but to direct attention to a historical wrong that warrants substantial consideration, Rep. Conyers said when he gaveled the Oversight Hearing on the Legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. With an H.R. 40 commission, this nation could come closer to racial equality and understanding. Slavery is a blemish on this nations history, and until it is addressed, our countrys story will remain marked.
When we asked Rep. Ellison why he joined forces with Conyers on such a politically risky legislation, he answered simply, It was the right thing to do.
In an exclusive interview, NewsOne spoke with the fiery politician from Minnesota about the violent history of slavery; other dehumanizing eras in African-American history; reparations; and how, when, and to whom redress could logically be dispersed.
NewsOne: Do you agree that reparations should be awarded to the African-American community for the economic and psychological impact of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim and Jane Crow, the Civil Rights Era, and the Reagan Era when drugs flooded our communities?
Rep. Ellison: I think the conversation is generally too simplistic. Yes, I think we need to study reparations. When theres injury there should be redress, right? Its a basic concept of justice, but some people automatically leap to the conclusion that the only legitimate form of redress is direct cash payments, and that might not necessarily be the case. Im not saying that, that isnt the right way, but it needs to be studied.
Lets figure out what companies benefited from slavery the shipping companies, the underwriting companies, the insurance companies. Who built the equipment? How international was it? One thing that needs to be comprehensively studied is what financial benefit the African-American community has meant for America. People need to recognize that. I think one of the reasons that we have these pervasive unkind stereotypes is many of us dont recognize and many others wont acknowledge the value we brought to this country.
When we were brought here in 1619, until, I think, after 1865, because the legal slave trade did not end with the American Civil War, we didnt even have control over our own intellectual property. Our intellectual property was legally the property of our owners. Ive always found it fascinating: I was born in 1963; my father was born in 1928; his father was born in 1896; and his father, Crawford Ellison, was born into slavery in 1861, in Burke County, Georgia. What does that mean?
That this is a very recent phenomenon.
I went to law school and practiced law for many years and we took courses in property, but we never had one single case on the property of all of these slaves. Take for instance, if you beat someones slave and they die. Whats due? Whats void? What should the family have received? They had rules against excessive force against animals, but not against slaves.
There is just an entire range of questions that need to be answered. And for America to look squarely into the eyes of her past, it would be a good thing to do.
NewsOne: So if you dont necessarily believe that direct cash payments are the way to go, then what?
Rep. Ellison: Well, even that needs to be studied, because is that the best way? Is that the best way for redress to occur? We are talking about a multi-generational injury. The people who were in slavery are now all dead, so we want to compensate them for slavery, [but] we cant, because theyre all gone. Now, there could be some sort of survivor benefit, but how could that be distributed?
Perhaps you have an ancestor who migrated from Africa and didnt go through the American slave experience. Maybe one of your parents is White and the other is Black. Maybe youre only 1/8 Black. At some point, people who say that we have to get reparations and we have to get money, I just think that is simplistic and its 100 times more complex that that. So we need to really plumb the depths of it. What about the African Americans who owned slaves? Do they pay? How do we differentiate between the ones who legitimately owned slaves from the those who were freed and had to buy their childrens freedom or their wives freedom? Theyre on the books as slaves.
What about the Native-Americans, the Cherokee? Do we demand reparations from the Tribal governments? I mean, this thing is complicated and the worse thing we can do is take a complicated subject and try to simplify it because we do injustice one way or another. Rhode Island was implicated in ship building during the slave trade, New York is guilty of underwriting capital used in the slave trade, and as a country, we tend to always focus on the South.
To study this thing in depth not only rights an egregious wrong, but tells us more about ourselves as Americans.
Then what about the international scope England, the Caribbean, South America. Who would be responsible to pay? Would [it be] the Ashanti Empire, who aided and abetted the slave trade? Or would we just focus on the American government?
It might be entertaining barber shop conversation, but its 10 times deeper than that.
NewsOne: When you look at the governments integral role in the perpetuation of slavery, how governments in Germany paid reparations to the Jewish community, how the United States is even paying some form of reparations to Native Americans. Why do you think there hasnt been more of an active push to rectify the financial and psychological subjugation of African Americans in this country?
Rep. Ellison: Well, let me tell you, in terms of active push, there aint never been reparations for anyone, for anything, unless the plaintiff made a demand. No one who inflicts injury on anyone else, they dont volunteer reparations. If African Americans want to have a more in-depth exploration into what weve contributed to America, then we have to be the ones who make that call.
A lot of people think, Oh, I voted for that guy, hes supposed to come in here and fix my life up. Well, democracy doesnt work like that. You vote for people, then you have to stay engaged in the process, tell them what you want, what you expect. You have to organize, just like everyone else does. Thats how politics works, always has.
NewsOne: From your point of view, how can we address the stigma attached to the mere mention of reparations, often times from within our own communities?
Rep. Ellison: Well, you have to take into consideration that African Americans were just as complex, complicated, conflicted, intelligent, inventive, and creative as we are now. We walk around today and its almost impossible to imagine Black people being owned by anyone else but four generations ago we were. Even the slaves who were freed sometimes walked around like slaves without masters.
Think about that.
Even when we werent owned by one person, there was still the chains of you cant live here, you cant work here, you cant pursue that profession, you cant educate your kids here. It was a horrible existence in many ways.
NewsOne: When you look at the South, specifically, and how the ramifications of slavery stand out in vivid detail obesity, sub-par education, some towns where you can still find separate Black and White proms in many ways its still a very dont-cross-over-the-railroad-tracks existence. There are some people who honestly cannot believe that some places in the Deep South are still that way. You can feel slavery as with the neo-confederatism of the antebellum home tours and restaurants shaped like Mammy. Shouldnt there be some kind of economic push, possibly in the form of financial reparations, just to begin restructuring the hub of where the degradation began?
Rep. Ellison: You know, the neo-confederacy, where they want to remember the South in a fond way, flying the rebel flag everywhere; these people took up arms against the United States and thats called being a traitor.
Thats called being a traitor.
Jefferson Davis [President of the Confederate States of America] was a traitor. These people were traitors against the United States and the fact that they could ever hold any honor, anywhere is an outrage. What did they fight for? Did they fight for a noble cause? No, they fought to keep other human beings in bondage. They are totally disreputable, contemptible, and hold no value in the United States of America.
Still again, for there to be any kind of active push toward reparations for slavery, African Americans are going to have to organize and demand it.
NewsOne: Malcolm X said in By Any Means Necessary:
If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your fathers estate, you have to pay off the debts that your father incurred before he died. The only reason that the present generation of White Americans are in a position of economic strength is because their fathers worked our fathers for over 400 years with no pay . We were sold from plantation to plantation like you sell a horse, or a cow, or a chicken, or a bushel of wheat . All that money is what gives the present generation of American Whites the ability to walk around the earth with their chest out like they have some kind of economic ingenuity. Your father isnt here to pay. My father isnt here to collect. But Im here to collect and youre here to pay.
According to Harpers magazine (November, 2000), the United States stole an estimated $100 trillion dollars for 222,505,049 hours of forced labor between 1619 and 1865 with a compounded interest of 6 percent.
Do you agree with Malcolms statement? That aside from the morality of reparations, the United States is legally liable to repay at least that sum to the African-American community?
Rep. Ellison: I respect Malcolm, but there are some things we dont agree on. For instance, he said, By any means necessary, I say, By any moral means necessary. Theres a huge difference. So can you legally [shift] liability to the state for injuries committed against your ancestors four generations ago? There could possibly be some legal theories that support that. I dont know them as I sit here.
Thats why I say we need to study this stuff, so we can dig into it and learn more about it. I mean, if four generations ago, your great-great-great grandmother was in an accident, through no fault of her own, that she didnt get compensated for, can you sue for that today? The law would say no because theres a statute of limitations on it. But if someone killed your loved one, can you sue for that? Well, yes, you possibly could, because the statute of limitation on that is quite a bit longer if there is one.
But before people start screaming for money, saying, Oh, look at what you did, we need to understand slavery more. They sold slaves on the [National] Mall. Presidents and leaders were afraid that when foreign dignitaries visited, they would see that and be embarrassed. Theres documented evidence of that fact that I just stated.
I believe the collective White society is ashamed of it, and by the way, the collective Black society is ashamed of it because they dont want to face the fact that we were that degraded.
No one wants to stare this thing in the face. From a White standpoint, its look, that happened a long time ago, lets move on. From an African-American standpoint, its it happened a long time ago and it still affects me today, but I dont want to be reminded of the pain.
NewsOne: African Americans are tired of being cast into the role of victim.
Rep. Ellison: Exactly. Its disempowering to be the victim. People want to be in the role of victor. And it may help to realize that we were not the only ones disempowered. For instance, could poor southern Whites have been paid more if not for slavery? They probably could have. The only reason they accepted such low wages was because they were in direct competition with slave labor.
Does the White working class have a claim for reparations? I dont know. But people want to make it simple, and its not simple. We know that its a mistake to make a simple issue complicated. It can be an even bigger mistake to make a complicated issue simple.
Ill give you an example. If someone says, What are my taxes, whats my refund? And the government says, Oh, I dont know. Well just give you something; well give you what we got. Well, wait a minute, what about deductions, what about dependents? Its an intricate, detailed process. Theres this deep injury associated with slavery that none of us have really looked at in-depth, and it would be a disservice to do otherwise.
NewsOne: As a liberal Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, how do you answer the criticism (and address the misconception) that public welfare programs enable rather than cripple African Americans? Is there a way to restructure the system so that it is clear that welfare is not a handout, but a necessity in a nation with an inbred, imbalanced sense of economic equality?
Rep. Ellison: This is an interesting issue, and my answer would be no. And heres why: America caring for our poor and unfortunate is something that should be done without any regard to historical injury. We should do it because its the right thing to do. We shouldnt allow our senior citizens to eat dog food or have to pick between a meal and medicine. We should make sure that every child has a decent meal in the morning before they go to a decent school. We should make sure that we dont have homeless people living under bridges. And that should be done without any regard to historical injury.
Even if there was never any historic injury, it shouldnt be that only wealthy White males get government contracts to build highways. We should be striving for diversity for its own sake.
In my view, reparations has everything to do with slavery and African Americans being denied their God-given right to own themselves.
If there was an African slave who ran away, he would have been found guilty of theft theft of himself. They said we had no more legal rights than a chicken or a cow, and yet, if a chicken were to peck its master, the master would say, Oh, thats just a chicken, chickens peck sometimes. But if a slave were to strike his or her master, they would be held morally culpable.
They didnt have any laws saying that chickens couldnt read and write, but they had laws saying that Black people couldnt read and write.
This was a system of oppression. Its important to know what slavery means in our lives not just historically, but how it affects us as Americans today. Its important, a basic matter of arithmetic. We were a legal slave-owning society from 1619 to 1865.
We were held in slavery longer than weve been free: There are whole generations who lived their whole lives, had kids and died. Those kids lived their whole lives in slavery, had kids and died. Their kids lived their whole lives in slavery and died again. In slavery. There have only been about four generations after slavery.
And we have to look at White society as well, how this institution of oppression made good, decent human beings that God created into cruel despots. It supported patriarchy and sexism. It created this myth around White womanhood. These people became cruel and mean in order to preserve this institution.
Everyone was affected.
We have to go through the work to figure out what reparations is, thats what Im arguing for. I think it would be an important journey for our nation. Bottom line: Were all Americans today, but you cant heal a dirty wound, you have to clean it out first.
Rep Ellison provided powerful, comprehensive insight into the complexity of reparations, and there are still many questions that can be asked: Can the U.S. government, even though they recently unsigned the Rome Statute that governs the International Criminal Court, be charged with crimes against humanity for the atrocities of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim/Jane Crow, and the Civil Rights and Reagan Eras?
Recently, a U.S. judge ruled that Iran and Syria owed one family $323 million for the death of their son in Israel by a suicide bomber, citing terrorism.
Should/can this decision set the precedent for domestic terrorism as well and could it be argued that slavery and the aforementioned deadly eras were time periods where domestic terrorism reigned specifically against African Americans?
So says a slave of the demon god allah.
"For over 19 years, I have introduced H.R. 40 not to spark controversy or promote division but to direct attention to a historical wrong that warrants substantial consideration...."
I have never owned a slave, therefore, I owe nothing, Keith. Or should I call you Keith X Ellison, you remember that from your college days, don'tcha Keith ? You know, those fun days of passing out literature from Calypso Louie Farrakhan ? You remember that, Keith ? I do.
Al Franken, this dope, and Jesse Ventura....What happened to Minnesota ? The people up there are so nice. I don't get it.
Certainly didn't expect this fellow to utter the truth. Which he obviously didn't. How utterly predictable . . .
"So says a slave of the demon god allah."
Well put.
I'm a proud Jew who loves his Christian brothers and sisters. It's time to tell the truth about Islam and the misery it causes.
Like hell, Ellison. You're trying to do nothing less than spark an all-out race war, with riots and shootings and murders, and the lockdown of the country into martial law.
You're a lying, scheming, Muslim traitor to America, and you should be up on charges for treason.
And the life of a North American slave versus the tropical Negroes left behind
Does anyone even bother to examine this?
"You're a lying, scheming, Muslim traitor to America, and you should be up on charges for treason."
The very fact that this libtard is in Congress is a sure sign of our decline. Again, I'm forced to ask: What happened to Minnesota ?
White guilt. That pernicious sickness is also found in Iowa, the 97% white state that launched Obama.
Uhmmmm . . . wonder what his stand is on illegal immigration? I fail to see to the difference.
Frankly Keith...I don't give a Damn.
Hey Ellison, you asshole, pick a better country. Better yet you stupid Saracen bastard, hop a plane to Saudi Arabia and taken up the reparations bit with the Saudis.
Give them the reparations on condition that all affirmative action programs for blacks immediately end.
I've never understood "white guilt". Maybe it's me, but I just don't get it. I lost a lot of family in the Holocaust, but I don't go around trying to make anyone I meet with a German last name feel guilty. The only Germans I hold responsible for it are the ones who did the killing. The ones who were born afterword had nothing to do with it.
The whole reparations thing is just the redistribution of wealth with a bunch of race baiting for good measure. Yes, slavery was wrong. No one in their right mind would think otherwise. Would a check from the Federal Leviathan right that wrong ? No. Would some sort of formal apology make it go away ? No. Ellison knows that, but he just doesn't care. A divided, balkanized people is far easier to control.
I live in a predominantly black neighborhood and have never had a problem. My neighbors are very nice and we get along just fine. We didn't need diversity training, or any other crud like that. We're simply neighbors being neighborly.
I've never understood "white guilt". Maybe it's me, but I just don't get it. I lost a lot of family in the Holocaust, but I don't go around trying to make anyone I meet with a German last name feel guilty. The only Germans I hold responsible for it are the ones who did the killing. The ones who were born afterword had nothing to do with it.
The whole reparations thing is just the redistribution of wealth with a bunch of race baiting for good measure. Yes, slavery was wrong. No one in their right mind would think otherwise. Would a check from the Federal Leviathan right that wrong ? No. Would some sort of formal apology make it go away ? No. Ellison knows that, but he just doesn't care. A divided, balkanized people is far easier to control.
I live in a predominantly black neighborhood and have never had a problem. My neighbors are very nice and we get along just fine. We didn't need diversity training, or any other crud like that. We're simply neighbors being neighborly.
Where's the barf alert?
Give em the 40 acres an a mule then tax em, imprison for tax evasion an the added offense of animal abuse an neglect.
Property taxes and nanny state laws will wiz all over the reparations this wannabe camel road apple seeks.
All it took was 19 thugs with hijacked airplanes to do this.
If reparations are owed to the descendants of slaves so be it. Let's establish a figure to be paid, say, 100 trillion dollars. Now let's make sure all descendants get a fair share. Since it is prudent to allow for any exigency, let us safely assume there will be another 100 trillion generations of descendants. Therefore let's split one dollar among each generation of descendants.
To me, Reparations means to return to the status before the wrong.
So...give them tickets back to Africa. Send them back to "Mother Africa". Give them 10 grand on the understanding they can never return to the USA.
See how long they last when they find out they cant buy 1000 dollar sneakers and the punishment for stealing is losing a hand. And let them try to blare rap music with car radios in Liberia.
Writing for the Chattanooga Free Press, Walter Williams, an economics professor at George Mason University, agrees with the foreign correspondent, now based in Jakarta. "Assuming I would have been born anyway," Williams wrote, "my wealth and my liberties . . . are greater as a result of being born in the United States than they would be in any country in Africa. In other words, while slavery was a brutal institution, I can be thankful for its results."
"We" were?
And how many bails of cotton has he picked?
To any black....Get your a** going. Actually FINISH school, stop doing drugs, passing on aids, making babies but not "fathering", living off "the system"....etc etc...
What a shame that cotton grows in North America at all.
Reparations were paid in full years ago.
Trillions of dollars in welfare, section 8 vouchers, EBT cards,set asides, affirmative action, padding the government workforce, racist gerrymandered Congressional districts, etc, etc,
An Affirmative action industry where blacks are paid 6 figure salaries to confront imaginary discrimination. For example with budgets cuts for engineering and other practical college disciplines widespread the California Affirmative Action Industry is expanding:
The University of California at San Diego, for example, is creating a new full-time vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion. This position would augment UC San Diegos already massive diversity apparatus, which includes the Chancellors Diversity Office, the associate vice chancellor for faculty equity, the assistant vice chancellor for diversity, the faculty equity advisors, the graduate diversity coordinators, the staff diversity liaison, the undergraduate student diversity liaison, the graduate student diversity liaison, the chief diversity officer, the director of development for diversity initiatives, the Office of Academic Diversity and Equal Opportunity,
Not to mention the racial lawsuit industry which last week awarded a black victim of racial slurs in the work place 25 MILLION DOLLARS for his suffering.
Poor Keith has never caught a break.
Why take my money because someone else is too lazy to take care of themselves. I am not a racist like Jackson or Sharpton.
Never owned a slave, and don't know if any of my ancestors did either.
"Reparations were paid in full years ago."
Yep. The placation motivation of the welfare system.
I'm old enough to remember a time when you could go to a nice restaurant, and see no black people. This is certainly not true today. What's more, we see blacks and whites dining together. We see black males and white females together. Lately, we've begun to see black females and white males together. Blacks are successfully penetrating the upper income strata.
It's interesting to me how even the criminal element has integrated, as we see when mug shots show up in our local paper.
Heck, family reunions are no longer mono-toned.
Ellison and others with a stake in maintaining the blacks-as-victims-of-whites meme are stating things as they wish they were, not as they are.
Oh, and we have a black President.
'__________for muslim conquest.'
My thoughts also, after 9-11.
Somewhere during GWBush's years, I thought this country would never see/better not see, a muslim president.
I would have that thought every now and then over the years.
That it would be crazy if a muslim even tried to run - - -
It is too incredible that we have the closest thing to one now - since BHO is a Christian, and all - - -
9-11 - what has it wrought?
Actually, it brought into the open what has been going on under the radar - - -
On 9-12 the spotlight flushed out the roaches.
In view of the billions and billions of dollars that these programs have cost those of us who've never owned slaves, who've never supported slavery, whose ancestors were never even here when slavery was in effect, perhaps it's time to stop these programs immediately and demand the refund that is overdue.
If Ellison wants reparations for black people...
I routinely see people who are capable of working living in 900 dollar a month HUD apartments, who allow their shiftless baby daddies to shack up in these TAXPAYER paid for apartments that anyone would be proud to have, and we still have disabled vets trying to get housing?
It is so upside down.
"No one who inflicts injury on anyone else, they dont volunteer reparations."
Can he seriously argue that point from a legal standpoint?
Can a person wait until the one who inflicted the injury is dead and then sue their relatives successfully?
With all his meandering on who should get...what they should get...how much they should get...from whom and in what form, it looks like the muslim wants to keep this thing going so he can get a piece of the race-pimp pie.
Minnesota has a very pronounced socialist mindset (think Madison, WI but with even worse weather). Michelle Bachmann is an aberration in Minnesota.
Didn't realize Rep. Ellison had been a slave.
When, where, and who liberated him?
If these shakedowners got reparations every 10 years, they would still be back for more. That is who they are. That is what they do.
If Ellison were really concerned, he would be concerned about the 'current' slave trade in various Middle Eastern and African nations. Some of which is black on black; some of which is Muslem on non-Muslum.
"...a non-profit organization that specialized in representing clients living in poverty"
Many thousands, of all races and heritages, have managed to find a their way out of poverty. How did they do that? Work, determination, education, perseverance, effort ...
Executive Order, don't ya know.
Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963)
Thats 1963 not 1863 so you do not qualify for victimhood payments, nor will I feel guilt for a practice that ended 102 years before your birth.
And the life of a North American slave versus the tropical Negroes left behind Does anyone even bother to examine this?And how many whites gave their lives to end slavery in the Civil War? And does the reparations crowd plan to share their spoils with the descendents of the families who lost all those soldiers?
However, Ellison wasn't there.
The historical wrong Mr.Ellison, would have been allowing
a beguiler like yourself ever be accorded the recognition as a member of Congress. IMO No Muslim ought qualify for Congress as they fundamentally lack the necessary allegiance to this
Country and our way of life. We were established by Christians to be a nation among the Christian nations of the Western
Civilization. But as Mr.Lincoln said in 1863 Fast day proclamation "We have forgotten God."Perhaps Ellison ought be sent back to school under Mr. Thomas Sowell to correct the
Congressman's understanding of what he claims is a historical wrong.
Minnesota is home to CPUSA.org
Communist Party of the USA.
So go sue your democrat party. If your sense of the Confederacy is so acute it allows you to mock those who fought under the Stars and Bars as traitors you should also understand it was your democrat party who worked so diligently to maintain de facto enslavement after the Civil war.
And that faith you embrace, you're the ones who sold the blacks into slavery in the first place and still believe in slavery.
Ellison, yer a putz.
Is this coming from the man whose prophet married little girls?
It simply doesn't register anymore. Other than to remind me to buy more ammo.
More likely, like Obama and Rev. Wright, he believes Jesus and his followers were black. However slavery is the reason that, as far back as Alexander, Egypt hasn't pursued their various nonsensical lawsuits, most recently an issue in 2003. Some threads. For the suit in Alexander's court see Sanhedrin 91a.
Egypt, Arabia, et. al. v. the Jews
In defense of Moses-Egyptians may sue Jews over the Exodus.
Egyptian Jurists Sue 'The Jews' for Compensation...of Gold Allegedly Stolen During Exodus from Egypt
Group of Egyptians to Sue 'All Worldwide Jews' Over "Theft of Pharoah's Gold" (No Joke)
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Wisconsin rallies to tie Minnesota Duluth 2-2
Badgers get both goals in third period
Published On: Oct 28 2012 11:45:41 PM CDT
Mark Zengerle and Michael Mersch scored in the third period as Wisconsin rallied to tie Minnesota Duluth 2-2 in a Western Collegiate Hockey Association game Saturday.
Mersch's goal at 14:47 of the third was the equalizer. Zengerle also scored a goal in the Badgers' 2-0 win Friday.
Tony Cameranesi opened the scoring for UMD (2-3-1, 0-1-1), which outshot Wisconsin 37-21. Keegan Flaherty made it 2-0 late in the second period.
Joel Rumpel made 35 saves, including one in overtime for the Badgers (1-2-1, 1-0-1).
Matt McNeely had an easier night in net, stopping 19 shots, none of which was in overtime.
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- Brousseau, M.E., et al, Cholesteryl ester transfer protein TaqI b2b2 Genotype is associated with higher HDL cholesterol levels and lower risk of coronary heart disease end points in men with HDL deficiency: Veterans Affairs HDL Cholesterol Intervention Trial. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 22, 1148-1154 (2002)
- Brull, D.J., et al, Interleukin-6 gene -174g>c and -572g>c promoter polymorphisms are strong predictors of plasma interleukin-6 levels after coronary artery bypass surgery. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 21, 1458-1463 (2001)
- Brull, D.J., et al, The effect of the Interleukin-6-174G > C promoter gene polymorphism on endothelial function in healthy volunteers. Eur J Clin Invest 32, 153-157 (2002)
- Chen, W. et al, Combined effects of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism (G894T) and insulin resistance status on blood pressure and familial risk of hypertension in young adults: the Bogalusa Heart Study. Am J Hypertens 14, 1046-1052 (2001)
- Dullaart, R.P., et al, Cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene polymorphism is a determinant of HDL cholesterol and of the lipoprotein response to a lipid-lowering diet in type 1 diabetes. Diabetes 46, 2082-2087 (1997)
- Leeson, C.P., Glu298Asp endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism interacts with environmental and dietary factors to influence endothelial function. Circ Res 90, 1153-1158 (2002)
- Miyamoto, Y., et al, Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene is positively associated with essential hypertension. Hypertension 32, 3-8 (1998)
- Shoji, M., et al, Positive association of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism with hypertension in northern Japan. Life Sci 66, 2557-2562 (2000)
- Brown, C.A., et al, A common polymorphism in methionine synthase reductase increases risk of premature coronary artery disease. J Cardiovasc Risk 7, 197-200 (2000)
- Christensen, B., et al, Genetic polymorphisms in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and methionine synthase, folate levels in red blood cells, and risk of neural tube defects. Am J Med Genet 84, 151-157 (1999)
- Chen, J, et al, A methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism and the risk of colorectal cancer. Cancer Res 56, 4862-4864 (1996)
- Jacques, P.F., et al, Relation between folate status, a common mutation in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, and plasma homocysteine concentrations. Circulation 93, 7-9 (1996)
- Ma, J., et al, Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism, dietary interactions, and risk of colorectal cancer. Cancer Res 57, 1098-1102 (1997)
- Martinez de Villarreal, L.E., et al, Folate levels and N(5),N(10)-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genotype (MTHFR) in mothers of offspring with neural tube defects: a case-control study. Arch Med Res 32, 277-282 (2001)
- Slattery, M.L., et al, Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, diet, and risk of colon cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 8, 513-518 (1999)
- Brown, S., et al. Interaction between the APOC3 gene promoter polymorphisms, saturated fat intake and plasma lipoproteins. Atherosclerosis. 170: 307-313, 2003.
- Fisher, R., et al. Common variation in the lipoprotein lipase gene effects on plasma lipids and risk of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis. 135: 145-159, 1997.
- Guzik, T., et al. Relationship between the G894T (Glu298Asp variant) in endothelial nitric oxide synthase and nitric oxide-mediated endothelial function in human atherosclerosis. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 100: 130-137, 2001.
- Wallace, A., et al. Variants in the cholesterol ester transfer protein and lipoprotein lipase genes are predictors of plasma cholesterol response to dietary change. Atherosclerosis. 152: 327-336, 2000.
Genes associated with antioxidant function and detoxification: MnSOD, SOD3, GSTM1, GSTT1, GSTP1:
- Ambrosone, C.B., et al, Manganese superoxide dismutase 9MsSOD) genetic polymorphisms, dietary antioxidants, and risk of breast cancer. Cancer Res 59(3), 602-606 (1999)
- Hirvonen, A, et al, Association between manganese superoxide dismutase (MsSOD) gene polymorphism and breast cancer risk. Carcinogenesis 5(22), 827-829 (2001)
- Kimura, K.Y., et al, Genetic association of manganese superoxide dismutase with exudative age-related macular degeneration. Am J Ophthalmol 130(6), 769-73 (2000)
- Stoehlmacher, J., et al, A genetic polymorphism of manganese superoxide dismutase (9MnSOD) predicts for risk of colorectal cancer in young individuals. Annals of Oncology 11(Suppl 4), 59 (2000)
- Wang, X.L., et al, Plasma extracellular superoxide dismutase levels in an Australian population with coronary artery disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 18, 1915-1921 (1998)
- Purdie, D., et al, Dietary antioxidants, manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. Proc. American Assoc. for Cancer Res. 43, 4227 (2002)
- Cotton, S.C., et al, Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms and colorectal cancer: a HuGE review. Am J Epidemiol 151(1), 7-32 (2000)
- Lampe, J.W., et al, Modulation of human glutathione S-transferases by botanically defined vegetable diets. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 8, 787-93
- Lin, H.J., et al, Glutathione transferase GSTT1, broccoli, and prevalence of colorectal adenomas. Pharmacogenetics 12, 175-179
- Mitrunen, K.N., et al, Glutathione S-transferase M1, M3, P1, and T1 genetic polymorphisms and susceptibility to breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 10(3), 229-36 (2001)
- Pool-Zobul, B, et al, Mechanisms by which vegetable consumption reduces genetic damage in humans. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 7, 891-99 (1998)
- Rock, C.L., et al, Nutrition genetics and risks of cancer. Annu Rev Public Health 21, 47-64 (2000)
- Steinkellner, H., et al, Effects of crusiferous vegetables and their constituents on drug metabolizing enzymes involved in the bioactivation of DNA-reactive dietary carcinogens. Mutation Research, 480-481,285-297 (2001)
- Ambrosone, C., et al. Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) genetic polymorphisms, dietary antioxidants, and risk of breast cancer. Cancer Research. 59(3): 602-606, 1999.
- Chistyakov, D. A., et al. Polymorphisms in the Mn-SOD and EC-SOD genes and their relationship to diabetic neuropathy in type 1 diabetes mellitus. BMC Medical Genetics. 2(1): 4, 2001.
- Parke, D.V. "Antioxidants and disease prevention: mechanisms of action". Antioxidants in Human Health. CABI Publishing, 1999.
- Gaudet, M., et al. Diet, GSTM1, and GSTT1 and head and neck cancer. Carcinogenesis. 25(5): 735-740, 2003
- Lampe, J.W., et al. Modulation of human glutathione S-transferases by botanically defined vegetable diets. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Preview. 9(8):787-793, 2000.
- Verhoeff, B., et al. The effect of a common methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation on levels of homocysteine, folate, vitamin B12 and on the risk of premature atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis. 141(1): 161-166, 1998
- Change, A., et al. The effect of 677 C T and 1298 A C mutations on plasma homocysteine and 5,10- methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase activity in healthy subjects. British Journal of Nutrition. 83(6): 593-596, 2000.
- Jacques, P., et al. Relation between folate status, a common mutation in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, and plasma homocysteine concentrations. Circulation. 93(1): 7-9, 1996.
- Miller M., and Mohrenweiser, H. Genetic variability in susceptibility and response to toxicants. Toxicology Letters. 120(1-3): 269-280, 2001.
- Cosma, G., et al. Relationship between genotype and function of the human CYP1A1 gene. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 40(2-3): 309-316, 1993.
- Bosron, W. and Ting-Kai, L. Genetic polymorphism of human liver alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenases, and their relationship to alcohol metabolism and alcoholism. Hepatology. 6(3):502 - 510, 1986.
- Takeshita, T. and Morimoto, K. Accumulation of hemoglobin-associated acetaldehyde with habitual alcohol drinking in the atypical ALDH2 genotype. Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research. 24(1): 1-7, 2000.
Genes associated with bone structure: VDR, COL1A1, IL6, TNFα:
- Chen, H.Y., et al, Relation of vitamin D receptor FokI start codon polymorphism to bone mineral density and occurrence of osteoporosis in postmenopausal woman in Taiwan. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scan 81, 93-98 (2002)
- Dennison, E.M., at al, Birthweight, vitamin D receptor genotype and the programming of osteoporosis. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 15, 211-219 (2001)
- Eastell, R. and Lambert, H., Diet and healthy bones., Calcif Tissue Int 70, 400-404 (2002)
- Ferrari, S., et al, Bone mineral mass and calcium and phosphate metabolism in young men: relationships with vitamin D receptor allelic polymorphisms. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 84, 2043-2048 (1999)
- Ferrari. S.L., Osteoporosis, vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and response to diet. World Rev Nutr Diet 89, 83-92 (2001)
- Garnero, P., et al, Association between a functional interleukin-6 gene polymorphism and peak bone mineral density and postmenopausal bone loss in women: the ofely study. Bone 31, 43-50 (2002)
- Gong, G., et al, The association of bone mineral density with vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms. Osteoporos Int 9, 55-64 (1999)
- Lorentzon, M., et al, Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism is related to bone density, circulating osteocalcin, and parathyroid hormone in healthy adolescent girls. J Bone Miner Metab 19, 302-307
- MacDonald, H.M., et al, COL1A1 Sp1 polymorphism predicts perimenopausal and early postmenopausal spinal bone loss. J Bone Miner Res 16, 1634-1641 (2001)
- Mann, V., et al, A COL1A1 Sp1 binding site polymorphism predisposes to osteoporotic fracture by affecting bone density and quality. J Clin Invest 107, 899-907 (2001)
- Prentice, A., The relative contribution of diet and genotype to bone development. Proc Nutr Soc 60, 45-52 (2001)
- Ralston, S.H., Genetic control of susceptibility to osteoporosis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87, 2460-2466 (2002)
- Grant, S., et al. Reduced bone density and osteoporosis associated with a polymorphic Sp1 binding site in the collagen type 1 alpha 1 gene. Nature Genetics. 14: 203-205, 1996.
- Ortlepp, J., et al. The vitamin D receptor gene variant and physical activity predicts fasting glucose levels in healthy young men. Diabetic Medicine. 20: 451-454, 2003.
- Uitterlinden, A., et al. Interaction between the vitamin D receptor gene and collagen type 1alpha1 gene susceptibility for fracture. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 16: 379-385, 2001.
Genes associated with inflammatory response: TNF, IL-6:
- Abraham, L.J., et al, Impact of the -308 TNF promoter polymorphism on the transcriptional regulation of the TNF gene: relevance to disease. J Leukoc Biol 66, 552-566 (1999)
- Chung, H.Y., et al, The inflammation hypothesis of aging: molecular modulation by calorie restriction. Ann NY Acad Sci 928, 327-335 (2001)
- Grimble, R.F., Nutritional modulation of immune function. Proc Nutr Soc 60, 389-397 (2001)
- Nakajima, T., et al, Allelic variants in the interleukin-6 gene and essential hypertension in Japanese women. Genes Immun 1, 115-119 (1999)
- Terry, C.F., et al, Cooperative influence of genetic polymorphisms on interleukin 6 transcriptional regulation. J Biol Chem 275, 18138-18144 (2000)
- Vickers, M.A., et al, Genotype at a promoter polymorphism of the interleukin-6 gene is associated with baseline levels of plasma C-reactive protein. Cardiovasc Res 53, 1029-1034 (2002)
- Ferrari, S., et al. Two promoter polymorphisms regulating interleukin-6 gene expression are associated with circulating levels of C-reactive protein and markers of bone resorption in postmenopausal women. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 88: 255-259, 2003.
- Grimble R., et al. The ability of fish oil to suppress tumor necrosis factor alpha production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells in healthy men is associated with polymorphisms in genes that influence tumor necrosis factor alpha production. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 76(2): 454-459, 2002.
- Terry, c., et al. Cooperative influence of genetic polymorphisms on interleukin 6 transcriptional regulation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275: 18138-18144, 2000.
- Vendrell, J., et al. A polymorphism in the promoter of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha gene (-308) is associated with coronary heart disease in type 2 diabetic patients. Atherosclerosis. 167: 257-264, 2003.
- Witte, J.S., et al, Relation between tumour necrosis factor polymorphism TNFalpha-308 and risk of asthma. Eur J Hum Genet 10, 82-85 (2002)
Genes associated with glucose balance: VDR, PPARg2, ACE, TNF:
- Chiu, K.C., et al, The vitamin D receptor polymorphism in the translation initiation codon is a risk factor for insulin resistance in glucose tolerant Caucasians. BMC Med Genet 2,2 (2001)
- Dalziel, B., et al, Association of the TNF-alpha -308G/A promoter polymorphism with insulin resistance in obesity. Obes Res 10, 401-407 (2002)
- Deeb, S.S., et al, A Pro12Ala substitution in PPARgamma2 associated with decreased receptor activity, lower body mass index and improved insulin sensitivity. Nat Genet 20, 284-287 (1998)
- Dengel, D.R., et al, Exercise-induced changes in insulin action are associated with ACE gene polymorphisms in older adults. Physiol Genomics 11, 73-80 (2002)
- Kadowaki, T., et al, The role PPARgamma in high-fat diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance. J Diabetes Complications 16, 41-45 (2002)
- Nicaud, V., et al, The TNF alpha/G-308A polymorphism influences insulin sensitivity in offspring of patients with coronary heart disease: the European Atherosclerosis Research Study II. Atherosclerosis 161, 317-325 (2002)
- Paolisso, G., et al, ACE gene polymorphism and insulin action in older subjects and healthy centenarians. J Am Geriatr Soc 49, 610-614 (2001)
- Li, S., et al. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma2 gene polymorphism (Pro12Ala) beneficially influences insulin resistance and its tracking from childhood to adulthood: the Bogalusa Heart Study. Diabetes. 52: 1265-1269, 2003.
- Ostgren, C., et al. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gammaPro12Ala polymorphism and the association with blood pressure in type 2 diabetes: Skaraborg hypertension and diabetes project. Journal of Hypertension. 21: 1657-1662, 2003.
- Paolisso, G., et al. ACE gene polymorphism and insulin action in older subjects and healthy centenarians. Journal of American Geriatric Society. 49: 610-614, 2001.
- Perticone, F., et al. Relationship between angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphism and insulin resistance in never-treated hypertensive patients. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 86: 172-178, 2001.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Gene SNP™ DNA Analysis:
What is the Gene SNP DNA Analysis?
The Gene SNP DNA Analysis is a comprehensive kit that provides a laboratory analysis of specific gene variants in your genetic material (DNA) that have been found to influence health and an Online Customer Profile survey that provides valuable information about various lifestyle habits that relate to the gene variants being tested. These two pieces of information are then analyzed together to provide you with a personalized Health Action Plan outlining diet, nutrition, exercise and supplementation recommendations.
Who should use this product?
Everyone over the age 18 concerned about how their genetic makeup plays a role in diet, nutrition and exercise should use this product.
How can understanding your genes promote a long, healthy life?
Your health is a result of interactions between your genes and lifestyle factors, such as diet, exercise, stress, smoking and alcohol. It is your genetic makeup that determines which nutrients are utilized, how they are used, the way toxins are removed and how effective these key processes are within the body. The best part is that the results remain accurate throughout your life since your gene makeup does not change. Since your genes don't change, you have the ability to optimize the functioning of your genes through diet, exercise and nutritional supplementation. And while you can't change your genes, you can change your lifestyle. As you progress through your Health Action Plan, following the recommendations specifically suited for you and your body, you can make changes to your online customer profile and receive an updated Health Action Plan with recommendations based on your new, healthier lifestyle.
Can I alter my genes through diet or lifestyle, or by using a vaccine?
No matter what we do, our genes remain the same throughout our lifetime. No amount of food or exercise can physically alter our genes. With proper nutritional supplementation and lifestyle changes, you can maintain the functioning of your gene variations to maintain optimal health.
Will you be able to tell me if I'm ill?
No, we can only determine what types of genes people have and how they relate to certain metabolic factors involved in well-being. If you think you may be ill, you should consult your doctor.
What is included in the Gene SNP DNA Analysis?
Your Gene SNP DNA Analysis kit includes:
- Access to a secure Online Customer Profile
- Bubble envelope
- Pre-addressed return FedEx stamp for the envelope
- Two swabs
- One small paper envelope
- Gene SNP booklet
- Consent form, Genetic Assessment Request Form, instructions and Gene SNP Code wallet-card
What do I do with the Consent and the Genetic Assessment Forms?
Both forms have to be filled out and signed before the laboratory can accept your swabs for processing and DNA analysis. Send the completed forms with your swabs in the padded envelope using the prepaid shipping label to the laboratory.
How does the Gene SNP DNA Analysis testing process work?
In the privacy of your home, you simply use a mouth swab to collect cheek cells, which contain your DNA. The swabs are put into the white swab envelope provided after drying. Send the swabs with the Genetic Assessment Request Form and the Consent Form in the padded envelope with a prepaid shipping label provided in the kit to the processing laboratory. Once at our certified laboratory, DNA is extracted from your swabs and then prepared for analysis. The DNA is analyzed using the latest genotyping technology to give the most accurate results. Your DNA analysis is then matched with the answers you provided into the Online Customer Profile. Once all of this data is compiled, it is entered into a sophisticated, algorithm-based computer software program that generates your confidential, easy-to-follow Gene SNP Health Action Plan.
How long does it take to get my Gene SNP DNA Analysis results?
Typically, it takes three to four weeks for you to receive your Gene SNP Health Action Plan.
How accurate are the results of my Gene SNP analysis?
The analysis of your DNA is in compliance with the Quality Assurance and Accuracy Verification Standards of the CLIA certified laboratory. The accuracy of the genetic analysis is greater than 95 percent.
How can my sample fail the Gene SNP DNA Analysis?
Sometimes the sample provided does not contain enough DNA because you just brushed your teeth, or if you did not let the swabs dry long enough before putting the swabs in the envelope, or if it took too long (longer than 10 days) to reach the laboratory for analysis. It is important to follow the Swab instructions in your kit.
How is my privacy protected?
Protecting your privacy is at the core of Gene SNP DNA Analysis. We recognize your need for strong privacy protection and the careful management of your personal information. Any information you share is kept strictly confidential and is secured electronically using sophisticated encryption technology. The laboratory personnel and others who are required in the processing of your genetic results have been trained and tested to meet the requirements of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Your results are handled as Protected Health Information (PHI), as defined in HIPAA and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in accordance to that defined in 45 CFR, §160 and Subparts A and E of §164.
Should I worry about privacy issues?
Your genetic information will be encrypted and will not be directly associated with your personal information collected from your Online Customer Profile, but will be stored in a database maintained in accordance to CLIA and HIPAA standards. While this information may be used by the laboratory research affiliates to conduct further analyses for commercial purposes, under no conditions will this information be released to third parties in a way that discloses personal information, except with your written permission, unless required by law. The laboratory is vigilant against breaches of security and improves security and privacy safeguards on a regular basis.
Can I use my PCID to allow more than person to take the Online Customer Profile?
No, the PCID number is used to authenticate a unique person who is logging on and is used to identify specifically the supplements recommended for that person.
What is the difference between the Nutri-Physical® and the Gene SNP DNA Analysis?
The Nutri-Physical is an analytical tool that recommends a customized nutritional supplementation program based on your answers to a series of lifestyle and behavioral questions. These questions center around your current health and various lifestyle factors, including diet, exercise, medical history, current supplementation and related contributing factors.
The Gene SNP DNA Analysis is a specialized program which analyzes your DNA and lifestyle and customizes a program to your individual genes. It will help you identify the changes needed to promote your health and wellness. According to variations in your DNA and your lifestyle choices, the Gene SNP DNA Analysis will make recommendations based on how your body metabolizes food, utilizes nutrients, removes toxins and responds to physical activity. The Gene SNP DNA Analysis helps you understand how your genetic profile affects your well-being by a simple swab of your cheek.
Does my Gene SNP DNA Analysis Kit have an expiration date?
You must send in your cheek swabs, consent forms and complete your Online Customer Profile within 180 days of the date the kit was purchased. All sales of the Gene SNP DNA Analysis kit are final.
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- Are high commodity prices here to stay?
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- Investing in infrastructure
- Over the past 4-5 years corn has been a driver in the commodity market and indications it will remain the crop to watch over the coming years.
- China became a huge consumer of commodities, and this has really manifested itself over the past 5-6 years.
"The new norm for farmers worldwide is high commodity prices, high volatility of production costs and little or no safety net for crop failures," says Sterling Liddell, vice-president for Rabo Agrifinance.
Speaking at the Southern Peanut Growers Association meeting in Panama City Beach, Fla., Liddell said prices U.S. farmers get for their crops over the next few years will in part be driven by farm decisions made in China, India, Russia and Brazil.
Over the past 4-5 years corn has been a driver in the commodity market and indications it will remain the crop to watch over the coming years, Liddell says.
By 2006, corn prices had stabilized over a period of years at less than three dollars a bushel — that's what corn growers expected to get paid for their crop.
In 2006, corn prices started to go up and continued to go up and now appear to be stabilized at nearly double the price farmers received prior to 2006.
Two primary factors caused the price of corn to go up and thus influenced the price of other crops that had to compete for acreage and markets. The near worldwide recession and the emergence of ethanol as a major market for corn created demand and reduced supply.
Any time new demand on the scale of that created by ethanol for corn two things happen: You either increase supply or you increase price. Since 2006, ethanol use has grown to five billion bushels a year — and continues to increase, but at a slower rate, while demand for livestock feed and other corn uses has decreased slightly.
At the same time ethanol was driving up demand for corn, the world, or most of it, experienced a recession. Two countries least affected by the recession were China and India. Both have emerging global economies and rapidly rising middle classes, thus increased demand.
Brazil was only marginally affected by the recession and recovered quickly, primarily because of their ability to produce their own energy in the form of ethanol from sugar, Liddell explains.
In the Midwest, soybeans and wheat had to compete with corn for acreage, driving supply down. Combined with worldwide production problems, the increased demand for grain from emerging countries, the need to price other grains competitive with corn, and other economic factors significantly reduced worldwide stocks of wheat and soybeans, creating more demand and increasing prices.


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Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced officially the price of the Kinect motion sensor previously known as Natal. Besides, the company unleashed a new inexpensive version of Xbox 360 game console as well as a bundle consisting of an Xbox game machine and Kinect sensor.
The all-new Xbox 360 4GB console, the revolutionary Kinect sensor and "Kinect Adventures" packaged together will cost $299.99. With "Kinect Adventures," players will make their way through 20 adventures, navigating roaring rapids and ducking and dodging through mountaintop obstacle courses and other exotic locations - no controller, wand or balance board required. In addition, existing Xbox 360 console owners can purchase the Kinect sensor with "Kinect Adventures" for $149.99. In addition, the new Xbox 360 4GB console, which begins shipping on August 3 in the U.S., will be available for $199.99. With a sleek new design, the Xbox 360 4GB console looks better and includes built-in Wi-Fi N, 4GB of internal flash memory, touch-sensitive buttons and a black matte finish.
The Kinect sensor can be plugged directly into any Xbox 360 and features a camera, audio sensors, and motion-sensing technology that tracks 48 points of movement on the human body. Kinect has the abilty to recognize faces and voices. Kinect can perform full-motion tracking of the human body at 30 frames per second.
"Kinect for Xbox 360 offers tremendous entertainment value for the whole family. With full body, voice and the ability to play games with your friends right out of the box, Kinect is the most unique, complete and affordable way for everyone to enjoy controller-free fun and entertainment," said Dennis Durkin, Xbox 360 chief operating officer at Microsoft.
Starting today, select retailers are taking pre-orders for the Xbox 360 Kinect Console Bundle at $299.99 and Kinect for Xbox 360 at $149.99.
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Statistics indicate that more and more frequently, "hookups" are turning into meaningful relationships. While that might sound like a snazzy pickup line, it actually means you might marry someone because of the color of the shirt she was wearing the night you met her. According to science, the world around you is dangerously full of hidden aphrodisiacs that can land you in bed, and even in long-term relationships, with someone who's totally wrong for you.
The Romantic Notion:
"If two people are meant for one another, it doesn't matter whether they meet in high school or prison -- love will find a way."
Science Says:
"Did you see a comedy or a horror movie on your first date? The answer to that question can determine who you end up sleeping with more than any of the "important" factors you pay attention to."
We tend to think that emotions such as fear and anger cause our hearts to speed up. According to the two-factor theory of emotion, it's the other way around. When you meet a 15-foot-tall grizzly bear in the woods, your body doesn't have time to ask your brain about feelings. Instinct takes over and turns your heart into an internal combustion engine. According to the theory, it's only later that we come up with "an emotional interpretation of that arousal" and decide we were scared.
Here's where it gets weird. If you experience the symptoms of fear around someone with your preferred brand of sexual organ, your brain will assume that your heart was racing because you were sexually attracted to that person. Seriously. Science even found a way to prove it.
He just crapped his pants, and she's still going to walk away with a crush.
In a study by Donald G. Dutton and Arthur P. Aron, two groups of males were approached by an attractive female research assistant and were asked to fill out a survey. One group was approached on a solid, railed-in foot bridge that was five feet off the ground, while the other was crossing a "five-foot wide, 450-foot long bridge" that had "a tendency to tilt, sway and wobble" and featured "a 230-foot drop to rocks and shallow rapids below."
Yeah, science is a dick like that.
The men dangling hundreds of feet above certain death were just as likely to stop for the hot lady asking them to do paperwork. Also, they tended to provide more sexual answers to the open-ended questions on the forms they filled out. What's really weird is that their confused terror boner didn't go away. Both groups were given a number where they could reach the female assistant in case they required any "clarification" on the surveys. The guys on the suspension bridge were five times as likely to call her the next day.
That's why this is bad news for your soul mate and good news for some idiot who happens to take you to a scary movie. The sexual charge we get from being scared while sitting next to someone doesn't just wear off as the credits roll. Fear makes that person more sexually attractive in your memories.
Scientists say women are just as prone to the scare-induced hornies, which probably explains why guys always decided that "Makeout Point" should be within 10 feet of a dangerous cliff. Being on a first date in a scary environment is basically like dosing each other's drinks with an aphrodisiac.
For longer movies, try punching them intermittently during the quiet bits.
But scary movies aren't the only type that can screw with your ability to choose a partner. Ladies, let's say you take your soul mate to the latest Nicholas Sparks movie (you presumably don't know he's your soul mate yet). At a sad moment in the movie, you start crying, and he goes in for the cuddle. That slide whistle you just heard was his testosterone level dropping like a homesick rock. It turns out that female tears produce a hormone that dampens the male libido. According to the scientist behind the discovery, the purpose is evolutionary: "We've uncovered the chemical word for 'no,' or 'not now.' " While that probably came in handy when the dating scene was full of hunter-gatherers, in the modern world, this means that something as simple as a bee sting can scare away the person you're destined to be with for the rest of your life.
5The Color Red
The Romantic Notion:
"Looks don't matter. It's what's inside that counts. Once a girl starts talking to you, she'll see the real you and fall in love."
The "real you" would have more Cheetos stains.
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Yeah, that's all fine and nice and romantic-sounding, but if you really want to get the girl, make sure you're wearing the right color.
But first, here's one for the ladies: A few years ago, a study found that men tended to be attracted to women who were wearing red. Participants in the study were shown various pictures of women in different colors. The key was that researchers snuck in more than one photo of certain women wearing different tones. You would think that if the men found a woman to be unattractive in one color, she would be unattractive in any color. Nope. It didn't matter whether the picture of a woman they saw in blue was the same person, only digitally changed to be wearing red. The redder picture was almost always rated as sexier. The men were even willing to spend more money on a date with the women in red than with her counterparts wearing blue, green or gray. Apparently, the people who run red-light districts are smarter than we've been giving them credit for.
As with women's boner-slaying tears, science thinks this has to do with evolution. More specifically with this:
Various types of monkeys and apes have, to put it in scientific terms, hilariously bright-red asses. These serve a purpose other than making humans point and laugh. They tend to swell and get redder when a female is fertile, indicating this fact to the males and thus ensuring the continuation of the species. This relationship of red and fertility may play with a man's perception of what woman he finds most attractive. The monkey in him wants to make sure he knocks someone up, so the suave modern man finds himself most attracted to the lady in red.
A more recent study has found that women are just as susceptible to this phenomenon. Using a similar test of looking at photos, the researchers found that a man wearing red is just as irresistible to a woman. Unlike the evolutionary attraction to a woman in red, researchers say this one is more of a social construct. Women tend to see men wearing red as more powerful, possibly because we associate the color with aggression. Our brains take this to the next level and assume that an aggressive man will be more successful and make more money than a timid one. By wearing red, you project an aura of wealth and potential and sexy. Basically, the only difference between human mating rituals and bullfighting is that human mating rituals didn't give Ernest Hemingway a boner.
This can, of course, be taken too far.


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I have been thinking for months that I need to write DJ a letter. And I do. And I will. But I am also going to write some stuff down here. Before I forget. Because it will be here when I do. So I can be reminded of this sweet sweet love affair that I have had with my son. Through nursing. Because of nursing. I am pretty sure that when I am done, I won't see DJ anymore. Because since he got here he has been trying to grow up. Was trying to hold up his own head on day three and trying to stand since he was 2 months old. Sitting unassisted since 4.5 months. Walking at 10 months. Running by a year. Could throw a baseball by 14months. And catch one before his 2nd b-day. Jumping on that trampoline since before his 2nd b-day.
The potty training took a little longer. But just seemed to cement his place as a toddler. And as that phase of his life comes to an end, So it seems will this. And I am so proud of his progress. But there is so much bitter in this chocolate. Because once he doesn't have to come to me to have me hold him in his arms to nurse when will a child like this slow down to have his mother hold him at all?
All year it's been less and less. And all of it with my gently prodding. Which is the right thing I know. But the big boy bed, and the going to preschool, and just now the beginning of the end of nap time. Will I even remember what it was like? I hardly remember what if felt like to have to tote around a diaper bag or wash diapers. I try to so hard to remember what he looks like when he falls asleep attached to my breast. What it feels like to be physically compelled to cover him with kisses. The way it feels to nurse and have all forgiven. I get so angry sometimes. I get so frustrated. Without oxcytocin will I have any patience at all? I know I don't have as much as I should. Will I have any at all? I wonder.
We have been down to 2-3 times a day for some time now. And you know when you are only nursing twice a day you are in your last leg. You know when you can tell someone no without them putting up as fight that they are letting go. He is beginning to push away. He will get up and walk away from this table soon. And I will let him. As gracefully as I possibly can. But OH! I am so afraid that I will FORGET IT ALL. The way the characters in the Novel IT forget it all in the end. And I don't want to. But I know. That is the way we are. It's what we do. We forget so much. So soon. And I don't want to.
I don't want to forget the way he used to smile at me with my breast in his mouth. The way he STILL laughs while there. The way he STILL blows rasberries on them to get a laugh. The way even know he looks like a baby while there. Even though he no longer fits in my lap. What he looks like blissed out from his milk. The way he says "Let me have some of that DELICIOUS NOONIE." And the way he has become sheepish about asking about it. And sometimes says no to himself before I get a chance to answer. My ambivilence has become his own.. I don't want to forget that he twiddled me right into a case of trauma induced psoriasis. That I endured for months as he relearned to use a nursing necklace. Or that for the first three years of his life ANY tears could be quelled by my breast. Now it only works when he is tired. But it works exactly the same way it always did. Sweet baby DJ only cried when he was tired or hungry. Such a happy baby was he. But toddler DJ is so passionate and emotional. And I can't tell you how it feels to have someone who is crying because they can't have their way yell at you "NO! I don't want Noonie! I want you to listen to me! Or "I want to go outside!" Or "I want to watch TV!" Or have him writhe in your arms to be put down when he is crying. Writhing in my arms to get AWAY from me.
To be able to discuss the end with him before we get there, has been a gift I suppose. To be able to have him talk about a weaning party and getting excited about it.....but I have to tell you the day he finally decides he would RATHER go to Chuckie Cheese than nurse with me (and that day IS COMING) I will feel worse than I do right now.
Because last night he went to bed with my DH. Which he has been doing for sometime. But when I went back there....I thought after the long day and the party....but he didn't ask. And when I walked back there, he looked at me so tired. And then he curled into Kevi's armpit and closed his eyes. I walked away. And it's 6:15 and he didn't ever get up and come find me. Which he always does when we spend the night apart. And I went in there to be close to him. And it didn't wake him. So I came here. To write it down. Because I have been meaning to write it down for months. Because I feel it happening. I feel it slipping away. I feel myself allowing it and I know I l already have forgotten so much. And I haven't wanted to really look at it. Because it makes me so sad.
So now I am going to try again. And if he doesn't wake up this time I am coming out here to work out.


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After all the difficulty I had BFing- now it has smoothed out to a certain extent- no more crying/screaming at the breast etc... now the little guy won't take a bottle. He is 3 mos old- there is still time right to get him onto a bottle right? He uses a Mam pacifier- does anyone know of a nipple that is similar to the Mam? ( I know- pacifiers are bad but I used it to help with the screaming at the breast and now I'm stuck).
I have to go back to work! I have tried the Avent nipple and the Evenflo --no go. He just gets upset. How long do I keep trying to give him the bottle before I should give up?


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Doyle poll: thumbs down on gas tax, cell phones
MONTPELIER Vermonters want their lawmakers to scrap the increase in the gas tax, decriminalize marijuana and prohibit the use of cellphones while driving, if results from the latest Doyle Poll are to be believed.
Even Sen. Bill Doyle, who on Monday finished tallying the nearly 14,000 responses to his 42nd annual Town Meeting Day survey, admits the results arent scientific. But the Washington County Republican says they offer insights into the will of the electorate at a time when legislators could use them most.
I think it does give us a sense of how people are thinking, Doyle said Tuesday.
If hes right in that assessment, then Vermonters, by an almost two-to-one margin, are against a gas tax increase approved by the House last month.
According to the poll, 33 percent support increasing the gas tax to pay for roads and bridges, while 56 percent oppose the idea.
I think it suggests to legislators that we need to think very carefully before we proceed with any new spending or any new programs, not that we arent already, Doyle said.
Only slightly more popular than the gas tax, according to the survey, is the governor who proposed it. Asked whether they think that Gov. Peter Shumlin is doing a good job, only 42 percent of people who answered the poll said yes, while 33 percent said no and 25 percent said they were not sure.
Doyle, the longest-serving lawmaker in Montpelier, said he tried to put a positive spin on the results for Shumlins Deputy Chief of Staff, Sue Allen.
I said to her that if you can just split the undecideds, youre over 50 percent, Doyle said.
But a far more reliable survey indicates that Shumlin doesnt have much to worry about. The Castleton Polling Institute in late February conducted a scientific survey of 620 Vermonters. The poll pegged Shumlins approval rating at 60 percent only two points below President Barack Obama.
On the issue of whether to ban the use of cellphones while driving, Doyles results lined up closer to a similar question on the February survey conducted by Castleton. In the Doyle poll, 76 percent of Vermonters said they would favor a prohibition; Castleton said 68 percent of residents thought driving while using a cellphone should be illegal.
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And as an added bonus, you'll add a little spice to the mail carrier's routine when they get to deliver something other than a bill, magazine or piece of junk mail.
Our next selection shows that manners and texting don't always mix ...
No. 2: Ignore the phone, not your friend
The image of two people walking side by side engrossed in their own text messages is sad. When it's one person yakking on the phone while a friend is sits across the table picking at her salad, it's just rude.
Cell phones have become a necessity we let run our lives. We've been trained to respond to every little beep or vibration, whether important or trivial, no matter what.
If the phone interrupts something you're doing, that's one thing. But when you spend time with someone and decide to take a phone call, you let that other person know they're not as important as whoever is calling.
Sure, there are certain emergencies when you need to stay glued to your phone, but how many messages and calls can wait until later? We survived without being constantly online before the advent of the cell phone. You can wait half an hour to check the direct message you just got through Twitter.
Last up, if you can't say anything nice...
No. 1: Online doesn't mean 'free-for-all'
The anonymity of the Internet makes it easier for people to say what's on their mind without fear of retribution. That can be a good thing in certain situations, but this cloak of the online world is too often used as a cover for spewing bile that most people would never let slip in face-to-face conversations.
You don't need to look much further than most local news sites or blogs to see tirades based on race, politics or assumptions.
After all, it's easy to just type out what's on your mind a push the post button when you don't have to worry about an immediate, in-person confrontation.
That anger-inducing comment may appear only in cyberspace, but at the other end of a computer, it's making someone mad in real life.
Instead of adding to that anger, just remember what your mom told you before making your next online comment: If you can't think of anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.


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October 21, 2013
ISBE DELL e-Broadcast Newsletter 2013.245—Assessment and Professional Development
Dear Bilingual Program Directors:
As the brilliant colors of the season begin to emerge across Illinois, we continue our important work with local school districts serving our youngest English learners. This newsletter will focus on assessment, a series of professional development webinars targeted for early childhood educators, and a World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) lesson plan contest.
Please take some time to review and share this newsletter with appropriate educational leaders across your district. Webinar titles, dates, and times for the one hour segments can be found in the linked attachments. As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, or need additional assistance, please contact us at 312-814-3850.
Assessment: 2013 ACCESS for ELLs Mismatch Report Submission Reminder
Illinois school districts are required to annually assess the English language proficiency (ELP) of all English Language Learning (ELL) students. This must be done using the ELP assessment (ACCESS for ELLs®) prescribed by the State Superintendent of Education until such time that the student achieves an English "proficient" score per 23 Illinois Administrative Code 228.25(c)(3).
Division of English Language Learning (DELL) notified school districts with ELLs who did not take the 2013 ACCESS for ELLs® or 2013 Alternate ACCESS for ELLs and required the districts to report a reason for not administering the test to the ELLs by October 18, 2013. Districts that did not submit the report by the deadline must submit their report no later than October 31, 2013.
Should you have any questions, please contact Ivette Robles, at (312) 814-3519. Please contact ISBE Help Desk if you have any questions regarding the Student Information System (SIS) data at 217-558-3600.
Professional Development: Webinars on Early English Language Development (E-ELD) and Early Spanish Language Development (E-SLD) Standards
WIDA has produced a series of webinars targeted for early childhood educators. Each webinar is approximately one hour in length. Please take some time to review the webinar opportunities and share this information with appropriate educators in your district. The first in the series of webinars is scheduled for October 24, 2013.
- WIDA Early English Language Development (E-ELD) and Early Spanish Language Development (E-SLD) Standards Flyer
Instruction: WIDA Lesson Plan Share Space Contest
WIDA is pleased to announce the return of the Lesson Plan Share Space Contest! This is an opportunity for educators to submit lesson plans and be entered into a drawing to win a $25 Amazon gift card that can be used to purchase books or supplies for their classrooms. A winner will be drawn each week and a final drawing for one $100 gift card will occur on December 6, 2013.
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In two weeks, my speaking partner and I, Bernie Salazar (NBC's Biggest Loser Season 5 at-home winner) will be headed to New Orleans for some shrimp po' boys and a major talk with families living with hemophilia.
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We're also doing food demos and exercising with the whole conference room! Looking forward to meeting hundreds of people and changing some lives. Love me job!!!!!


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