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It may be possible that I have used a similar headline to describe Amy Winehouse's husband and I apologize for the repetition but not the sentiment.
Blake has been and will always be an ass. When I make fun of Pete Doherty for being a gold digger, at least he has a job, and when he is sober, does quite well at it also and could make a nice living. As far as I can tell though, Blake's only job is to dig through Amy's purse for money so he can get his next fix.
In case you haven't heard, Amy Winehouse's performance in Berlin could go down in history as one of the worst headlining performances of all times. In response to the criticism and spiraling ticket sales, Amy Winehouse has vowed not to drink prior to shows. I don't know what the time window is on that, but her next show in Amsterdam where she followed through with her pledge, was one of her all-time best shows.
One problem has been Blake. Seems that Blake doesn't have any fun or control over Amy when she is sober, so he has been encouraging her to drink, use drugs, and just do anything to stay hammered so he can be the boss. As a result of his jackass behavior, Blake has been banned from all the concert venues and from being near Amy for the four hours prior to her going on stage.
Way to go Amy, and those munchies seem to be making an impact on your curves. You don't look like Gwyneth Paltrow anymore.


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YouTube - reactable: basic demo #2
This is some serious mood lighting! This table and its objects interact with the user to conduct sound or music. Fantastic invention. I have a feeling with how fast technology is moving, this may be a children's educational toy in about two years.
Saw this bad on SNL for the first time. I am enthralled.Tags: music, video, 80s, zero, new music, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, yea yea yeasAdded 8 Years Ago from Youtube
My current musical obsession.Tags: music, video, rock, sexy, music videos, vampires, new music, Kings of Leon, TwilightAdded 8 Years Ago from Youtube
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Posted by Kerry Bodine on November 22, 2013
Business-to-consumer (B2C) financial services provider Ally Bank and business-to-business (B2B) professional services firm PwC Australia took home top honors in the design category of Forrester's first annual Outside In Awards. In our recent report, Amelia Sizemore and I describe how — despite vastly different business models and target customers — Ally and PwC followed strikingly similar approaches: human-centered design processes that involved a collaborative kickoff stage, extensive research, contributions from customers and multiple parts of the business, and numerous iterations of prototyping and testing.
Ally evolved its mobile banking app quickly — without sacrificing customer input.
Ally gave itself just nine weeks to design and test its new mobile banking app. Incredibly, team members managed to involve customers during seven out of the project's nine weeks.
After an initial round of customer interviews, the team asked 10 mobile banking customers to complete a two-week diary study. Participants noted the financial activities they needed to accomplish and sent in photos of places where they wanted — but weren't able — to bank. Next, the team conducted informal tests of its initial sketches and paper prototypes with a new group of customers. Finally, the team brought yet another group of customers into its usability lab for formal prototype testing.
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In 2011, the executives at Bertucci's, a 30-year-old restaurant chain in the US Mid-Atlantic and New England regions, faced a big problem: The restaurant had become nearly invisible to younger generations of diners. Bright lighting and rows of faux-leather booths beckoned parents with messy young children — not ever-shifting groups of young friends on the move. And its traditional table service felt increasingly irrelevant for diners who wanted to get in and get out — or park themselves for hours with a laptop.
Bertucci's saw that it had to throw out its old restaurant model in order to court (and keep) a younger generation of diners. Rather than rework its existing locations, the executive team decided to create an entirely new brand. "What we wanted to do is cut the competition off at the pass," says James Quackenbush, chief development officer of Bertucci's.
Partnering with design and innovation consultancy Continuum, the firm created a new restaurant concept called 2ovens. The success of the pilot restaurant demonstrates the power of following a structured approach to customer experience innovation.


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Provides an update on this year's budget, summarizes the renovation of Pummill Hall, reports on the recent trip to China and draws your attention to the new pouring rights contract.
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Update 10:35 a.m. Authorities state that: "(T)he suspect from last night's incident in the Presidio is Eric Smith, 46 year old male resident of San Francisco."
According to a Golden Gate National Recreation Area statement:
During a vehicle stop being conducted by a US Park Police officer last night just after 9:00PM, the driver of the vehicle volunteered that he had what he termed as fireworks in the vehicle. Upon initial visual investigation the US Park Police officer deemed it necessary to call for the SFPD Bomb Squad to assess the true nature of the items the suspect handed over. The incident occurred near 900 Mason Street, in the San Francisco Presidio, near Crissy Field.
As a safety precaution two businesses in the area, House of Air and Planet Granite, were evacuated and the road was closed. The bomb technician was unable to visually determine the identity of the explosive device, but confirmed that they were active with the potential to be detonated. The SFPD Bomb Squad removed the explosives to a safe location, away from people and the wildlife protection area, and detonated them at 1:15AM.
US Park Police are investigating with cooperation from the SFPD. The suspect was arrested for possession of illegal substances. Other charges are pending results of the investigation.
The arrest occurred along a route that approaches the base of the Golden Gate Bridge. A spokeswoman for the park service, Alexandra Picavet, stated in an email to KQED that authorities don't know where the driver was headed: "Speculation as to his intent and destination. Investigation is still underway."


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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Names Forbes' Top-Grossing Couple
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, it shouldn't be any surprise that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have made a ton of money for Summit Entertainment with their "Twilight Saga" films.
In fact, the "Cosmopolis" hunk and his "Adventureland" lady are Forbes' top-earning couple in the industry, given that their vampire-themed franchise has brought in $625 million in the last three years.
Another real-life couple Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth also scored a spot on the list (#8) since their movie "The Last Song" raked in $63 million.
Meanwhile, Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams (not romantically linked) hit paydirt with "The Vow," which nabbed $125 million to land them at #2 overall.


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This ambitious adaptation of the story of Noah depicts the visions that led him to voice dire prophesies of apocalypse and to build an ark to survive. As he labors to save his family, Noah asks for help from a band of angels called the Watchers.
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- Darren Aronofsky
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- Drama, Adventures, Deadly Disasters
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- DVD and Blu-ray
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PG-13Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
15Common Sense rating OK for kids 15+
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Color; interactive menus; scene access.
Widescreen 1.85:1Subtitles
English, Spanish (Neutral), French, PortugueseClosed captioned
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English: DTS 7.1 HD, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese (Brazilian): Dolby Digital 5.1, English: DVS - Descriptive Video ServiceOther features
Color; interactive menus; scene access.
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Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that this epic tale from director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream) takes on a character of biblical proportions, Noah. As befits the mayhem recounted in the bible, Noah is filled with catastrophe. The skies rain down from the heavens, drowning nearly everything, and humans are nearly feral as they battle each other for survival. There's no real swearing, just the word "damned," but plenty of brutality and gore: mountains of dead bodies are shown, sometimes close up, humans beat each other to death, sometimes with rocks, knives and spears.
- Sexual Content
- Some passionate kissing. Allusions to needing to bed people of the opposite sex in order to procreate.
- Violence
- The violence is epic, bloody, and sometimes gory. Enemies club, stone, stab, or spear each other to death. A few scenes show mass graves, underwater and on dry land. Corpses are shown close up, some without limbs. A character threatens to kill babies. Humans resort to violence in a fight to stay alive. Lots of destruction shown from flooding, as well as fires and battles.
- Language
- "Damned" is as salty as it gets.
- Social Behavior
- Faith guides you where you need to go, but as a human, you also have the power of choice. Man's connection to and responsibility toward the environment is also a theme.
- Consumerism
- Not applicable
- Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol
- A man drinks a brew that brings on visions. It's not clear what it is. Later he's shown what appears to be a substance that makes him drunk.
- Age appropriate
- Not an issue
- Depends on your kid and your family
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Good times indeed in these flattering and versatile pieces, inspired by a great collection from Diane Von Furstenburg, and designed for drape-y knits like merino or cashmere wool, viscose, rayon or silk(y) jerseys. Relaxed-fit styles have a slightly dropped shoulder, back boat neck and a gently shaped waist. We've given you three different sleeves, necklines and lengths for maximum fashionablity. Sleeves can be cap, below elbow or wrist-length with a ruched cuff, and choose from a classic boat neckline, the half placket or tie-front.Top finishes on the high hip with a deep band;Tunic ends at mid-thigh; and the Dress hits *just* below the knee. Tunic & Dress have deep stitched hems, optional side seam pockets and tie or in-and-out belt. Wear these lovely pieces year-round: in light weight jerseys for the Summer, layered over a skinny sweater or T-Shirt for Spring or Fall, or in heavier weights for Winter. Fabulous!
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Ultimate iPhone Stencil
This is the ultimate stencil for folks designing iPhone apps. • Contains backgrounds, title bars, buttons, selectors, and other iPhone UI elements • Text is fully editable on lists, title bars, buttons, and scroll wheels • Buttons can be resized horizontally by ungrouping, resizing the middle element, and then regrouping the elements back into a single button • Taken from actual screenshots. No fake art! UPDATE: This stencil was recently updated to version 1.5. This new version fixes problems with older versions of OmniGraffle and adds more editable text. And special thanks to James Berry, Josh Black, Troy Church, Dave Knell, Edward Povazan, Josh Schoenwald, and Marcel Schouwenaar for helping fix this stencil.
Is this optimized for Graffle 5? I loaded the stencils on Graffle 4.2.2 (on my Core 2 Duo MBP w/ 3GB RAM) and it pretty much maxed out my computer trying to load them, and it runs exceedingly slow. They look wonderful though!
Hey, pewtey. This stencil was created using OmniGraffle 4.2.2 on a dual G5... so I'm guessing something else is causing the slow down. :)
I am having the same problem as pewtey. OG works great until I select the iPhone stencil. I get SBOD when I try to drag something into a document. After OG recovers from the SBOD, I can select a different stencil and all is well again. Any ideas?
If this stencil is running slow for you on OmniGraffle 4, I recommend breaking the stencil into smaller parts. (1) Create several new stencils by selecting 'New Stencil' from the Stencils menu (2) Switch to the Ultimate iPhone Stencil (3) Select 'Edit Stencil' from the Stencils menu (4) Cut-and-paste blocks from the iPhone stencil into new stencils (5) Save the new stencils you created
There must be something wrong here, I'm on a quad core Mac Pro with 5 gigs of RAM and this stencil is still unbearably slow in OmniGraffle Pro 4.2, however it's nice and fast in OmniGraffle 5. Any ideas as to what's wrong?
It really seems like an issue with OmniGraffle 4, Karl. It seems to choke when loading a stencil that contains large number of bitmap images.
OmniGraffle 4 choked on this stencil, so I converted every PICT to a PNG and updated the plist to reflect that. Now the stencil works perfectly!
crcsmnky is correct. There is something going on with the pict images in the stencil. When converted to png's this works fine with OmniGraffle 4.2.2. I tried mass conversion using both sips (mac os x) and ImageMagick (*nix). Both choked on the pict files. ImageMagick reported a bad header... which is probably why these cause some systems to choke. I used the free image utility Seahorse to convert them and it worked fine.
I've downloaded and I can't get it to load. (OmniGraffle 5, iMac Intel running 10.5.6)... Any idea of when this problem will be fixed?
This stencil should be fixed. It causes version 4.2.2 to crash every time. The solution suggested above does not work. Looks like a good stencil, but until it is fixed don't waste your time.
OmniGraffle allocates 1.5GB (yes, gigabytes) of RAM to load this stencil! .pict files in it are broken - I could not find any program that opens them properly.
Great stencil, I've just redesigned my entire application with it. Wonderful! One question though: do you know if there is a way to turn a one-canvas-per-screen Omnigraffle file into a more dynamic mockup, with transitions between screens when you click controls?
I had problems loading this with 4.2.2. Converting all the images to png (using the venerable GraphicConverter because sips couldn't handle the pict files), and editing the data.plist to point to those png files worked fine.
Patrick.. outstanding work. I have a newby question.. Under 5.2.beta7 when I try to modify the text in the bottom menu bar (eg., replace 'Favorites' with 'Fav' or 'Bookmarks' with 'marks') the text shows up on the middle of the icon and the original text isn't modifed. Is this normal? so I can't use those bottom-of-the-screen menu bar with my own texts? :-(
Hi Patrick. Love the stencil. Is there any chance that you have a higher-resolution version? I'd love to be able to print a poster-size version. I'm at mikee60369 AT "aol" dot com. Thanks! Michael
@koppenhoefer just download the latest version of the stencil. The menu bar text is now editable. :) @mikee60369 this is the only version available for now. @everyone if you had problems with this stencil in the past, you should download the latest version, which replaces the PICT files with PDFs and TIFFs.
What are people doing for capturing the design for the flows between screens? I'm guessing a page with multiple iPhone screens (but not same resolution of a single page screen mock up), with the buttons indicated and lines with arrows going from one screen to the other etc? Any templates available for this type of view (with multiple screens and flows)? Or any other thoughts/advice re how to show the big picture flow view?
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Absolutely. I actually put a fender right next to the cab and looked at it in the sun. They read the same color and look exactly the same, except where the sun is directly hitting the fender, it has a hazy look to it.
The truth is that the only place this will be noticeable is on the fenders when they're in bright sun. And even then, the casual observer would probably just think it's metallic. Or dirt since, as a practical matter, I only wash my cars once every two years.
I bought two gallons and mixed them, thinking that would be enough for a truck. Ended up shooting 3 gallons, but fortunately I had the presence of mind to do the entire front with the first two. The box doesn't ever touch the front.
Much more important at this point is probably that I properly cut and buff it. Some of the drips can only be described as Biblical in proportion
Ahhh, you bought two gallons and intermixed them! That is a whole different animal than spraying out of two DIFFERENT gallons. You DID use the exact same paint, just because you had poured them into two different cans, they were STILL the EXACT same paint.
If you got a lot of runs, I say it is solvent pop or toners settling in the thick, wet, film.
You may find yourself in trouble when you go to cut and buff those runs. Runs will often be full of air and toner concentrations and be a different color!
If you want this truck nice, I think you are going to be re-painting that bed.
But think about it long and hard before you do. I think with the minor flaws once it is all put together it will meet your expectations, which is what is most important.
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Great White Shark Detected Off Cape Cod Beach"Cisco" was pinged at the entrance to Wellfleet Harbor, off the beach in North Eastham.
More Great White Sharks Appear To Be Visiting Off Cape CodThe latest data from a multiyear study of the ocean predators found that the number of sharks in waters off the vacation haven appears to be on the rise.
Scientists Predict Fatal Shark Attack In Cape Cod's Near FutureWhen the summer months roll around, reports of shark attacks are sure to follow in North America.
Penguins Beat Sharks 3-1 In Game 4 Of Stanley CupPittsburgh's suffocating speed stifled the San Jose Sharks again Monday in a 3-1 win in Game 4.
Facing Growing Shark Population, Officials Turn To High- And Low-Tech Warning SystemsA growing great white shark population along the East Coast has officials and researchers turning to responses both high- and low-tech to ensure safety for millions of beachgoers this summer.
2 New White Sharks Identified Off Cape CodThe Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said Sunday that the new sharks were identified using underwater footage.
Great White Shark Stranded On Cape Cod BeachA great white shark was stranded on a Cape Cod beach on Monday morning.
Cape Cod Officials Issue Great White Shark Safety TipsCape Cod officials are reminding visitors how to stay safe as great white sharks begin their annual return to the tourist destination.
Great White Sharks Spotted Off Maine? Not Likely, Scientists SayMultiple reports of great white shark sightings in Maine waters over the weekend are likely a case of mistaken identity, experts say.
5 Possible Buyers At The NHL Trade DeadlineWe saw the NBA Trade Deadline pass last week in a blaze of glory and now the NHL will have it's chance to steal the spotlight on Monday.
Bruins Hold Off Sharks To Win 5-3The Boston Bruins had to fend off a late four-minute power play to earn a wild 5-3 win over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.
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The only problem is that the air valve for the bead breaker sticks. Otherwise, it works great.
Funny, my Corghi Jolly has the same problem. I dont use it enough to have gotten around to fixing it...(2 dozen tires a year maybe?). Maybe it's an italian thing...
I picked up my Jolly and a nice hunter dsp9000 balancer for $700 last year after spending a few years looking for the right deal. Another $300 or so in weights, tools, lube, plastic guards for the duckhead bar and bead breaker shoe I suppose.
If you have an eye on a particular model, do some googling and try to find the operators manuals to familiarize yourself with the unit!
For home shop use, though - if it works, and you can get guards for it (which you can for the major brands, and -some- of the off brands) (unless you don't need them. I like'm.) go for it.
For the balancers, make sure that it's self calibrating (there should be a calibration weight that generally screws into the backing plate). Some machines require a "common 13-15 inch steel wheel" that you have to balance, then flip, then spin and rotate and tweak.... the ones with a calibration weight are much easier to do. Takes me about 15 seconds to do a quick check.
Also keep in mind that you'll need cones or other adapters that fit whatever wheels your working with - and those can get $$ if you have to find them new! There are a few variations in shaft size, so you have to find the parts that fit the shaft you have.
Don't buy anything that you can't test in place before you move it (unless it's pure bottom basement and you don't mind risking it or fixing it).
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Orange Pork Tenderloin RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1 pound pork tenderloin, sliced
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- Dash cayenne pepper
- 1 cup orange juice, divided
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons sugar
- Place pork slices in an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Combine butter, thyme and cayenne; spread over pork. Pour 3/4 cup orange juice over meat. Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 20-25 minutes or until meat is no longer pink, basting occasionally.
- Remove pork and keep warm. Pour pan drippings into a measuring cup; add enough remaining orange juice to measure 3/4 cup. Pour into a saucepan. Stir in flour and sugar until smooth.
- Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with pork. Yield: 3-4 servings.
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Reviews for Orange Pork Tenderloin
"Simple, delicious, and fast. Great recipe!"
"I made a double batch of this recipe. While the flavoring was great, I will not double the cayenne pepper as it was a bit to spicy for my boys. Everyone loved it. Will definitely make again!!!"
"I really liked this but my husband didn't, he declared it to sweet. A wonderful recipe but I will not be making it again."
"Made this using pork steaks instead of the tenderloin. This type of cut created an abundance of pan drippings. I was unsure how much to add to the sauce mixture so I used a 1/3 - 2/3 mixture ratio with the pan drippings and the orange juice. We had expected a bitter flavor from the orange sauce but we were surprised by the sweetness. We LOVED it! Will be making it again!"


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I believe big data is becoming the driving force in our global economy and will drive a new kind of war. Advertisers need it to target consumers. Governments and law enforcement agencies need it to keep us safe and secure, so they say. Internet platforms and technology companies, or the "siren servers" as Jaron Lanier aptly calls them in his latest book, need it to maintain their pivotal roles in our digital lives and to continue nurturing us with all those amazing free services, apps and platforms that we can't seem to do without any longer.
Consumers: Faustian deals no more?
In the mind of most digital consumers that crave a constant flow of cool new offerings that must by default be free, "paying with data" and therefore invariably becoming the content or the product, themselves, has become the new normal – until now. What looked like a somewhat reasonable deal ("I use you and you use me") is now starting to look like a fool's paradise: our boundless love and giddy admiration of Gmail, Google Docs and Search or the Android OS, for example, has in fact been quietly converted into fodder for "collect it all" Captain Kirk wannabes that crave information superiority under the disguise of national security.
The recent revelations by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden are becoming more mind-boggling by the minute; often reading like quotes from a Cory Doctorow science fiction novel. Edward's liberated intel has shown the world that this Faustian bargain of my-private-data-in-exchange-for-free-stuff has in fact already created a global monster that is now surfacing like an angry Godzilla from Tokyo Bay. We have sold our data and we have become the content ie the product, ourselves – and now we have no control over any of it. Take it or leave it, shut up or put up. Pick privacy or security. Love it or leave it.
Epicentre USA: breach of trust on a global scale
As Harvard's Yochai Benkler has aptly pointed out in a brilliant Guardian guest post, the NSA has already single-handedly declared a new kind of war on the internet as we know it, but all the while, our hyper-networked digital lives are now so heavily banking on the assumption that the basic trust, permission and control mechanisms are working. Events like this are shaking those beliefs to the core. Data is the new oil, trust is the new currency – and when trust is broken, business breaks, quickly, as well. The question is, then – who needs oil when there are no cars or aeroplanes to run on it?
Imagine being disconnected by and from the consumer: the end of cookies will be the least of it
Imagine a scenario where a significant chunk of the soon-to-be four billion internet users start to question the default Faustian bargain of "my private data in return for your connectivity, your cool platforms and amazing technologies". This could spell the end for any meaningful and standardised tracking methodologies, with users no longer eagerly broadcasting their locations and MAC addresses on their mobile devices, as well as the likely rejection of NFC/RFID technologies or any kind of digital money, no matter how enticing an eager purveyor would make it.
Imagine brands wanting to advertise to billions of upwardly-mobile and ready-to-buy users (aka consumers) but not having permission to know enough about who they really are, what they think and how to reach them efficiently. Imagine brands and advertisers being locked out of reaching consumers because they don't trust the media they may employ to reach us; and by extension they mistrust them. Imagine consumers wanting to be "off the grid" and off-the-radar because being on the grid is like walking naked down Madison Avenue.
You don't think this will happen? One fifth of the world's desktop internet users apparently already use ad-blocking software with their browsers. Mozilla wants to make "do not track" the default setting in Firefox, and many savvy users are now considering even more dramatic action to cloak themselves and escape from the global data hoovering and hyper-marketing that seems to have become a default mindset in many countries. Jeff Jarvis is correct when he says that we need Big Tech to defend us against Big Brother; but what if Big Brother is married to Big Tech?
The consumers reaction is easily predicted: if my mere participation in this new and shiny SoLoMo (social-local-mobile) universe renders me subject to rampant mass surveillance and perpetual digital nakedness, if it turns me into a meticulously profiled yet unwitting target for hyper-marketing while methodically addicting me to all the cool things that these new gadgets and software apps can now do for me, then... please count me out. This is not the game I signed up for a few years ago; enough is enough.
I recently migrated all my email and online document-sharing from Gmail (which is an unbelievably great product, of course, and really quite irreplaceable) and Google to my own servers, here in Switzerland, myself, exactly because I can no longer trust that US-based providers will – and can – "do the right thing").
Advertisers: rebuild trust or get locked out
If advertisers, marketers and brands, wielding their $650bn advertising war-chest, don't just want to be pawns in the big data wars, they will need to be a lot more pro-active and act with conviction now. Protecting trust is protecting the ecosystem that you rely on. It is time for brands and advertisers to face the music: if trust breaks, so does business, so before you can even get close to selling anything to anyone you must make sure that this dawning digital ecosystem is actually functioning for all of us. It's time to stop the focus on building better mouse-traps; of mimicking the oil companies in their ruthless quest for domination and immediate profit.
Enter the Digital Bill of Rights
As a first step I think advertisers should get behind a global "Digital Bill of Rights" (see what Mashable has already produced here), a bill which must clearly be user-centric not provider centric, and which needs to lay down the law on who can mine, refine and sell what data, when and how, globally. For example, such a bill could regulate what data can be captured on mobile devices and apps, under which exact circumstances, and how long it would be available to whom. It could also specify what data-miners would need to offer in return for being being "paid with data".
Advertisers and marketers need to drive this process now, before it becomes a mission impossible because trust is lost. Such a "digital bill of rights" may also catalyse a new approach by governments around the globe, one that no longer merely sanctions the exploitation of our natural data resources just like it allowed the pillaging of our natural energy resources for the benefit of so very few.
Clearly, we need to take the internet back, as Bruce Schneier points out, and we need brands and advertisers to join us. We need Google and Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft et al to urgently start acting on our behalf, and unequivocally defend us against unwarranted surveillance, hyper-targeting, meta-marketing and blatant digital-addiction schemes. At the same time – and this is crucial – we need brands and advertisers to return the digital controls back to us, and to focus on creating trusted relationships instead of building big-data mouse-traps that profit from the governments' abuse of our digital footprints and breadcrumbs.
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by Damian Duffy (Adapter), Octavia E. Butler (Author), John Jennings (Illustrator)
Harry N. Abrams
Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format.
More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler's mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century.
Butler's most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana's own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.
Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere.
Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.
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March: Book One by John Lewis
Georgia Congressman John Lewis is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.
Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole).
March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.
Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.
The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks
The Harlem Hellfighters
Black Dynamite: Slave Island
Black Dynamite: Slave Island follows everyone's favorite blaxploitation sensation as he brings his bad-ass brand of kung-fu to the sequential page! Based on the eponymous film starring Michael Jai White, Black Dynamite uses his fists of fury to shut down a mysterious island of slavers!
Black Dynamite: Slave Island
The Zabime Sisters by Aristophane
On the first day of summer vacation, teenaged sisters M'Rose, Elle, and Celina step out into the tropical heat of their island home and continue their headlong tumble toward adulthood. Boys, schoolyard fights, petty thievery, and even illicit alcohol make for a heady mix, as The Zabime Sisters indulge in a little summertime freedom. The dramatic backdrop of a Caribbean island provides a study of contrasts — a world that is both lush and wild, yet strangely small and intimate — which echoes the contrasts of the sisters themselves, who are at once worldly and wonderfully naive.
Master storyteller Aristophane's The Zabime Sisters takes a keen look at some of the universal experiences of children on the cusp of growing up, in the fascinating setting of Guadeloupe. Aristophane's bold, graphic brushwork weaves a wild texture through this gentle, clear-eyed tale.
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King: The Special Edition by Ho Che Anderson
Fantagraphics Books
Available 02/28/10 in Hardcover
A special expanded edition of a Fantagraphics classic.
Ho Che Anderson has spent over 10 years researching, writing, and drawing King, a monumental graphic biography that liberates Martin Luther King Jr. from the saintly, one-dimensional, hagiographic image so prevalent in pop culture. Here is King — father, husband, politician, deal broker, idealist, pragmatist, inspiration to millions — brought to vivid, flesh-and-blood life.
Out of print since 2006, King is Fantagraphics' most-requested reprint. In recognition of the advances made in American social equality that has made it possible to elect America's first black President, Fantagraphics Books is publishing King: The Special Edition, a newly designed volume that includes the original 240-page graphic biography, as well as nearly a hundred additional pages of "extras," including:
Black Dogs" is a 14-page prelude to King, a dialogue between a young black couple expecting a child, living in LA in the aftermath of the Rodney King upheaval, a raw and inflected conversation between husband and wife and their racial attitudes in a post-King world;
Excerpts from the diary and notebook the author kept when researching and writing King, with interstitial notes written specifically for this volume commenting on the method he used to conceived and execute the book;
Preparatory sketches, discarded images and pages, an interview conducted at the time of the third volume's publication, and excerpts from the draft of the script;
An epilogue titled "Assassin," written and drawn for this new edition, in which Anderson explores the question of whether James Earl Ray actually shot King. Caroline Longstreet, one of the observers who comments on King's life throughout the book, is obsessed with the assassination, won't let it rest, and pursues her own private investigation and ultimately confronts the reasons why it's held her in its grip so long.
Anderson's biography traces King's life from his childhood in Atlanta and his education at Booker T. Washington High School, and his subsequent centrality to the civil rights movement when, in 1955, he organized the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott; his founding of the Southern Christian leadership Conference in 1957; his Nobel Prize in 1964; his help in organizing the 1966 March on Washington and his "I Have a Dream" speech; and the tragic moment on April 4, 1968 when he was shot dead on the balcony of the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Anderson's expressionistic visual style is wrought with dramatic energy; panels evoke a painterly attention to detail but whose juxtapositions propel King's story with cinematic momentum. Anderson's successful use of the comics form to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale and Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995. King won a 1995 Parents' Choice Award. Full-color throughout.
Holy Black History Month!: 23 Graphic Novels Featuring African Americans
By Martha Cornog, Philadelphia — Library Journal, 2/12/2009 1:12:00 PM
African American history turned a corner in January when Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. From Washington, DC, Obamamania swept through the recent New York Comic-Con, where exhibitors sold Alex Ross's striking Superman Obama print as well as T-shirts proclaiming "Obama is my homeboy." Obama comics are also jumping out of stores, and several more are in production.
Because our new president is a poster honcho for literacy as well as a comics-friendly icon, I hope we will soon see more graphic novels for children and tweens featuring black people as major characters. Luckily, there are many existing works that offer distinctive and often powerful portrayals of African Americans famous and unknown, real and fictional. Limited to teen through adult readers, the titles below are recommended for public and school libraries, and many would be welcome in academic collections. Display away, librarians!
Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans
Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans
by by Roland Laird (Author), Taneshia Nash Laird (Author), Charles Johnson (Foreword), Elihu "Adofo" Bey (Illustrator)
Available 02/03/09
Still I Rise is a critically acclaimed work with an impressive scope: the entire history of Black America, told in an accessible graphic-novel form. Updated from its original version – which ended with the Million Man March – it now extends from the early days of colonial slavery right through to Barack Obama's groundbreaking presidential campaign. Compared by many to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Still I Rise is a breathtaking achievement that celebrates the collective African-American memory, imagination, and spirit.
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
Author: James Sturm
Illustrator: Rich Tommaso
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1905?–1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own history . . . and then rewriting it. A tall, lanky fireballer, he was arguably the Negro Leagues' hardest thrower, most entertaining storyteller, and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon Studies turns a graphic novelist's eye to Paige's story. Told from the point of view of a sharecropper, this compelling narrative follows Paige from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South.
In stark prose and powerful graphics, author and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American.


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Whether your are running the Highlands in June or just want a good training run this beautiful 22 miler will get your spring rolling. We will run the first half of the course plus a few miles of dirt road to complete the loop. There is also a 14 mile loop option.
We will meet at the Start at the Laneville DNR Wildlife Cabin on Red Creek at 9:00am. Drop me a note if you are coming lehmann.
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Well Santorum is done.
This is Mitt Romney's newest commercial.
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kind of hard to go back on what you sead.
Ill bet the Rangers fans were saying that about the cardinals last fall during game 6.
It aint over till its over.
Romney is there boy ive said that from day one and the sad part is he cant beat obama.
I'm with you Spiker, but if it was Rick Santorum it would be the same anyway. I guess there are still enough people out there that like the way he is destroying this country from within. I'm just scared to death to think of what else he'll come up with if he gets another 4 years to work on it. Look out for that!!!
If Romney is the Republican Nominee , then he's the man i will vote for and I hope everyone understands the importance of unity when November rolls into town.
Throughout U.S. History, our next presidential election will be our toughest battle ever.
When is that video from? What year?
So if a person (who is a strong conservative) promotes another person (who is also a conservative) for an office, then it makes the promotor not worthy of election ever, even if someday down the road they are against each other for a particular ticket?
I'm not understanding Romney's angle here. I understand what he's TRYING to do, but does he think we're all idiots? I guess someone's opinion can NEVER change? I guess since someone endorses you in the past, it means it's still good today? People can't change their minds anymore? And most importantly, does Romney not understand that when Santorum gave him his endorsement, he (Santorum) was NOT running for the Republican ticket for the Presidency?
Romney, Romney, Romney, you're going to have to get a lot smarter if you want to be President.
~TATOR in '12~
"Because you need me on that wall...."
Tator in 2012!!!
Do you think the people of this country can stand that much truth all at once????
I'm in!
I seriously doubt it. One thing I pride myself on in my life is that I call it like I see it. :thumbup: That's the only way to live
Ok, now Santorum really is done. time to line up behind Mitt.
Santorum did the right thing--- wish he could've won the ticket, but I think Mitt will do a good job.
Remember,, Romney is going to have ALOT of pressure from true-blooded conservatives if he gets in office. He doesn't want that negative publicity. I strongly feel that he'll fully get his act together when in office.
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Nokia has voiced its frustration at Microsoft's sluggish rate of progress with its Windows Phone platform.
Bryan Biniak, Nokia's VP of app development, has given an interview to the International Business Times in which he addresses some of the issues affecting Microsoft's mobile OS.
Referring to the relative lack of take-up for Windows Phone 8 devices - and in particular the Nokia flagship devices that run it - Biniak said, "To give you a reason to switch, I need to make sure the apps that you care about on your device are not only on our phones, but are better. I also need to provide you unique experiences that you can't get on your other devices."
He went on to draw attention to Nokia's prodigious hardware output, with the company having launched 10 Lumia handsets (most recently the Nokia Lumia 1020) in just 12 months, and the lack of equivalent progress on the Windows Phone app front.
"We are releasing new devices frequently and for every new device," said Biniak, "if there is an app that somebody cares about that's not there that's a missed opportunity of a sale."
He later added that "It's not just about the hardware, it's about the tools that are on the hardware. You can't sell a phone without the apps, you just can't."
Windows Phone's 165,000 apps doesn't appear to stack up to the 900,000 on iOS and the 1 million on Android, although it did launch somethan two years later. Biniak doesn't see that there are any "major gaps" in Windows Phone's app offering, but admits that there are a couple of "select applications" missing.
He believes that by the end of 2013, however, "people will be hard-pressed to say '[Windows Phone] doesn't have this app' and it makes a material difference."
Part of Windows Phone's problem, hints Biniak, is that Microsoft retains a relatively glacial approach to software upgrades and improvements - a hangover from its Windows desktop OS roots. Mobile operating systems, of course, are far more iterative and fast-evolving.
To that end, Biniak claims that Nokia is trying to "evolve the cultural thinking" at Microsoft, adding that "Waiting until the end of your fiscal year when you need to close your targets, doesn't do us any good when I have phones to sell today."
Next, read our Nokia Lumia 1020 vs Lumia 925 vs Lumia 920 comparison.
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SUCCESS revolves around taking your opportunities. Tom Kingston has certainly done that this season, taking advantage of devastating injuries to the Waratahs' Test wingers Drew Mitchell and Lachie Turner to become one of the team's most consistent attacking performers.
His impact on the right wing has been so noteworthy that if illness and form slumps stay away, Kingston is, in a few months, destined to be promoted to Wallabies squad status.
The most telling moment of the 20-year-old's short representative career occurred last Saturday when he manoeuvred himself into the right spot to take a Tatafu Polota-Nau pass in the 76th minute to score a match-winning try against the Sharks. This was just the latest time the youngster trusted his instincts, saw the opposition try line and just went for it.
Kingston certainly holds no fear, consistently eager to take the ball into the tackle and charge headlong into the defence. But he also has the speed and the nimble feet to get around would-be tacklers and the finishing qualities for his three Super Rugby tries.
His teammates are also taking notice. Adam Ashley-Cooper, who has been around some fancy footballers at the Brumbies, the Waratahs and the Wallabies, is astounded that a player in only his second season of representative football and not yet having celebrated his 21st birthday is so assured at this level.
''I don't know how he's done it,'' he said yesterday. ''Tom's come in off the back of two major injuries to Lachie and Drew, has had massive boots to fill and done exceptionally well. Not only has he covered his position but he's performed like a Super 15 player … and more. He has slotted in so nicely and given so much to the back line because his involvements have been very strong.
''He carries the ball well, has great feet and does what is required when attacking and defending the high ball.''
Kingston has become a home crowd favourite for the Tahs. The youngsters have a strong affinity with him - not surprising, considering that not that long ago he was one of them.
After spending his early years in Hong Kong, Kingston moved to Sydney when he was eight and was an avid Waratahs fan for close to a decade, attending virtually every home game.
''The family have always been big Waratahs fans, so to put on the sky blue jersey, especially for games at the SFS, is incredible for me,'' Kingston said yesterday. ''I'm just enjoying the experience. Playing at home last week and seeing all the Waratahs flags in the crowd was just fantastic.
''I'm not daunted by it all, more energised and excited by the situation. It still does feel strange in a way because a couple of years ago I was sitting in the crowd for games like last weekend.''
While he looks as if he has played all of his football on the wing, the reality is that Super Rugby forced the position onto him. He played the bulk of his schoolboys football with St Aloysius' College in the centres and appeared on the wing for the first time in his initial Super Rugby match against the Blues last year, when he replaced the injured Turner.
He has remained on the wing ever since - a situation that will work in his favour in a few months when the Wallabies selectors, who know that Turner and Mitchell won't be around for a long time, will be looking for speedsters to confront Scotland and Wales. And there was a Robbie Deans sighting at Waratahs training yesterday.


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Union Leader Pens Misleading Editorial On The Tax Burden Of The Wealthy
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On Wednesday, the New Hampshire Union Leader penned a misleading editorial about the tax rates different groups of Americans paid as a percentage of their income. The piece attacked President Obama's call for wealthy Americans to pay more by claiming "the rich and super-rich pay a far higher percentage of their income in taxes than the lower and middle classes do." From the Union Leader:
As you can see, the rich and super-rich pay a far higher percentage of their income in taxes than the lower and middle classes do. On average, people who earn more than $500,000 a year pay more than three times the percentage that people earning less than $100,000 a year pay.
When looking at all federal taxes paid, the richest 20 percent of Americans paid 68.9 percent of them. The richest 1 percent paid 28.1 percent. Despite recent rhetoric from the President, the rich shoulder a much larger share of the federal tax burden than everyone else.
It's quite apparent from the editorial that the Union Leader is leaving out a substantial amount of information about taxation and the rich in America. First of all, from 1983-2009 the top 5% of Americans accounted for 81.7% of the wealth gain in the United States. Despite gaining a bigger piece of the pie, thousands of millionaires and billionaires are paying a smaller share of their incomes in taxes than millions of middle-class Americans; in 2009, for instance, 1,470 of the richest Americans paid no federal income taxes at all.
Tax rates for the wealthiest Americans have been steadily falling over the past 50 years. In 1960 the top marginal income tax rate was 90% while today it is just 35%. However, given the Union Leader's own data, it doesn't seem like many are paying that rate anyway. What is notable from the Union Leader's data is that after the $2 million to $5 million dollar bracket the percentages begin to decrease again -- evidence that many of the wealthiest earners are paying a lower percentage of their income in taxes than those that make less than them.
By only referencing income tax rates, the Union Leader deceptively omits the fact that the middle class shoulders a disproportionately excessive burden when it comes to payroll, excise and state and local taxes. As the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities points out:
Considering all taxes -- federal, state, and local -- the bottom 20 percent of households pays an average of 16 to 17 percent of their incomes in taxes. The next 20 percent of households pays about 21 percent of income in taxes, on average.
It's disingenuous for the Union Leader to put up income tax numbers and claim the burden on the rich is so onerous. Ultimately the hardship and burden falls on those making the least, not the most. As Jonathan Chait, formerly of The New Republic, explained in an October 2010 column:
It would be nice if nobody had to pay taxes. Given that we do, though, shifting a greater share of the burden onto the rich causes less hardship. (Raise Paris Hilton's taxes by 1 percent and that's one less vacation home for her grandchildren; raise her maid's taxes by 1 percent, and her kids are sweltering because they can't afford air-conditioning.)
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Total darkness, the drone of stealthy, sleeping insects, the smell of dampness and rock, and you want your camera to show the world how this looks? Cave photography is not as easy as it sounds, but with the following guidelines, it can very well be.
All you have to do is this:
1.Handle with Care
En route to the caves you want to explore and photograph, you might have to walk on two legs or even four. In such cases, use a backpack to carry your accoutrements. Protect the camera because even a slight fall on a rock can reduce it to smithereens. Carry it in a waist belt with a pocket and keep an eye on it as this pouch will prove indispensable. There may even be a sudden downpour when you cannot afford to expose your camera, so you'll be glad you have it. Also make sure you keep a cloth handy once you enter the cave, because water can drip from the ceiling. Carry a soft cloth to keep wiping out the moisture and place to over the camera while shooting if need be. The water might have several undesirable minerals.
2.Wear A Headlamp
Use a headlamp, because not only will it act as a flash and help you focus easily as your hands will be free , but it will also act as torch for you to maneuver in the cave and shift positions easily to set your tripod up. Along with an off-camera flash , this headlamp will be the primary light source. An LED headlamp has temperature closest to that of the flash.
3.Use A tripod stand
You cannot stand on uneven surfaces and completely concentrate on the shooting because you cannot walk around freely as you would on even ground. That's why a tripod is a must-have. It will help you position the camera with ease, and at a safe place and elevation.
4.Use a Wireless Shutter or Timer
Find a camera that has a wireless, remote-controlled shutter or use one with a self-timer. Avoid shakes in your picture by using a cable to decrease it if you want the shutter to stay open for longer than the camera's slowest speed. Set the self-timer as well, once you have stationed it in the right place.
5.Let your lens be a wide one
Caves cannot be said to be of a particular shape. Whatever it is, be prepared to take shots that are mostly wide-angled. Start off with a size of 18mm for an APS size sensor or 28mm for full frame. A 16-35mm zoom will give you amazing width without fail. Do not neglect the smaller ones either as you might have to shoot smaller angles as well. Handle the lenses carefully and protect them from moisture.
6.Get an external flash device
Photographs taken with cameras with a built-in flash, lack depth and proper lighting. They look flat and two-dimensional. Instead, get an off-camera flash to introduce shadows and extra depth to the image. If you use more than one flash, you can try getting extra optical features into your photography.
Try more RAW in your shooting
Shooting with this mode helps because it gives you maximum latitude in the darkroom for both the flash and the exposure you set.
7.Adjust the ISO to a low value
It is better to have a low ISO because in spite of the flash, your might spot a few black patches here and there in your final image. An ISO value of about 800 is acceptable. Go lower to about 640 and you will have felt that you could have perhaps gone lower than that. Decide the right value depending upon the capabilities of your camera.
8.The longer the shutter time, the better
Leave the shutter open for about 30 seconds and then illuminate the field. Hot spots might be present on the CCD which will show up only after processing because you exposed for too long. Handle these later once you obtain the image. Or speed up the operation.
9.Shoot people as well!
Have a reference point for every picture you click. Don't include a human in a close-up shot because it defeats the objective which is photographing the cave. Have someone standing in all your wide angle shots and make sure they stand absolutely still because the longer shutter speed might cause their image to go blurry. Make them move around if you are planning for multiple shots. Get a ghostly image by making them move out of a lit area. Try different settings!
10.Turn the flash off!
Try not to use the flash. Instead, illuminate the walls using torches or lanterns after setting the camera for very long exposures. Use colour filters to make the shots more interesting and unusual. Expose the camera and then illuminate using a carbide lamp or a candle as these can light up even huge dark voids. This works only for caves that are completely dark and are situated underground with absolutely no stray lights.
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There can be two separate issues here: the UTI and GBS.
Was your urine sent for culture? It should only take 48-72 hours for results.
|GBS can colonize the bladder, but even if you're GBS positive from a vaginal swab, that doesn't mean your UTI is caused by GBS. If your UTI is caused by GBS, then that implies a heavy colonization and I would seriously consider antibiotics in labor.
Thank you both SO much for the replies!
She didn't send the urine for a culture- just went by the results on the stick. I didn't know any better at the time and then today I was asking her about it. I told her that my research showed that it could be two seperate issues since UTIs are so common in pregnancy, and that I would feel more comfortable with a urine culture to know if the GBS was present or not. She told me most often if it was in the vagina that it was in the urine- not what I found to be true in my research. I don't even "know" if I had a UTI- I never had any symptoms besides having to go often which kinda goes with the territory.
ETA: I'm not sure if my white/red bllod cells would be present in the test strip or if that could be a sign of something else...
Exactly why I asked her about it today, thanks SO much! We agreed to do a swab as well as urine culture when I was done with the month long course that is supposed to take care of the GBS, do you think I should have her do it sooner, or is it going to make a difference- I can't treat the GBS in my urine now it just might make a difference what I decide to do during labor.
I just really want to know whats going on- and find out my options and be able to fully research everything, that's why I'm a bit concerneed!
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- Health Status >
- Reproductive and Maternal Health >
- Maternity Leave
Maternity Leave
Maternity leave from employment after childbirth provides critical time for maternal-infant bonding and adjustment to life with a new baby. Longer length of maternity leave is associated with increased breastfeeding duration, as well as improved maternal mental health and child development.1,2 The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) guarantees both women and men up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave around the birth or adoption of a child as long as they work for larger employers (50+ employees) and meet certain tenure and working hour requirements. However, many women cannot afford to take unpaid leave and usually use a combination of short-term disability, sick leave, vacation, and personal days in order to have some portion of their maternity leave paid. The U.S. is one of only 5 countries in the world that does not mandate paid maternity leave.3
In 2006–2008, 65.9 percent of women reported being employed during their last pregnancy, of which 70.6 percent reported taking maternity leave. Thus, nearly one-third of employed women did not report taking any maternity leave (29.4 percent). When taken, the average length of maternity leave was 10.3 weeks. The proportion of women who took maternity leave for their last child varied by race and ethnicity. Hispanic women were less likely to report having taken any maternity leave than non-Hispanic White or non-Hispanic Black women (59.5 versus 73.0 and 68.7 percent, respectively). Among women who reported taking maternity leave for their last pregnancy, 33.1 percent did not have any portion of their maternity leave paid. Only 24.9 percent of women reported paid maternity leave for more than 2 months (9 or more weeks).
1 Staehlin K, Coda Bertea P, Zemp Stutz E. Length of Maternity Leave and Health of Mother and Child – A Review. International Journal of Public Health. 2007;52:202-209.
2 Berger LM, Hill J, Waldfogel J. Maternity Leave, Early Maternal Employment and Child Health and Development in the US. The Economic Journal. 2005;115:F29-F47.
3 Institute for Women's Policy Research. Fact Sheet: Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave in the United States. May 2011.
Women Aged 18–44 Who Took Maternity Leave for Their Last Pregnancy, by Race/Ethnicity,* 2006–2008
Percent of Women:
- Total: 70.6
- Non-Hispanic White: 73.0
- Non-Hispanic Black: 68.7
- Hispanic: 59.5
*The samples of American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and persons of multiple race were too small to produce reliable results.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Survey of Family Growth 2005-2008. Analysis conducted by the Maternal and Child Health Information Resource Center.
Weeks of Paid Maternity Leave Received Among Women Aged 18–44 Who Took Maternity Leave,* 2006–2008
Percent of Women:
- 9 Weeks or More: 24.9
- 5-8 Weeks: 26.0
- 1-4 Weeks: 16.0
- None: 33.1
*Respondents were asked to report based on their last pregnancy
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Survey of Family Growth 2005-2008. Analysis conducted by the Maternal and Child Health Information Resource Center.


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Metabolic Effects of Alcohol
This study has been completed.
Bantle, John P., MD
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University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute ( Bantle, John P., MD )
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First received: September 9, 2005
Last updated: July 9, 2012
Last verified: July 2012
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|Study Status:
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|Study Completion Date:
|September 2005
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A Biomarker and MRI Study on Troponin Release After Exercise in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (BE STRONG HCM)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Heartcenter, University Medical Center St. Radboud
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
D.H.F. Gommans, MD, Heartcenter, University Medical Center St. Radboud
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: March 19, 2012
Last updated: August 15, 2016
Last verified: August 2016
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Study population: 1) mutation carriers without the hypertrophic phenotype (pre-clinical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)) and in 2) patients with clinically overt HCM (clinical HCM).
Hypothesis: Cardiac troponin release after exercise can be demonstrated in both clinical and pre-clinical HCM patients.
|Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|BE STRONG HCM: Biomarkers, Exercise Stress Testing, and mRi to Obtain New insiGhts in Hypertrophic CardioMyopathy Study
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
MedlinePlus related topics: Cardiomyopathy Exercise and Physical FitnessU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by D.H.F. Gommans, MD, Heartcenter, University Medical Center St. Radboud:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Troponin levels at baseline and troponin rise after exercise testing using a high sensitivity-troponin (hs-troponin) assay [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 and 24 hours after exercise ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Correlation between troponin levels and phenotypic characteristics assessed with MRI (LV volumes, mass and ejection fraction, presence of LGE and/or elevated signal on T2-weighted imaging) [ Time Frame: Baseline ]
|Study Start Date:
|April 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2020 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Clinical HCM patients
Patients with an echocardiographically proven hypertrophic cardiomyopathy according to the ESC and ACCF/AHA guidelines
Pre-clinical HCM patients
Individuals with a HCM associated mutation without the clinical characteristics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Study Population
The study population will consist of clinical or pre-clinical HCM patients that are registered in the HCM database of the HCM outpatient clinic of University Medical Center St. Radboud. This database will be screened for eligible patients according to the in- and exclusion criteria described below.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with an echocardiographically proven hypertrophic cardiomyopathy according to the ESC guidelines or individuals with a HCM associated mutation without the clinical characteristics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (pre-clinical HCM patients);
- Age ≥ 18 years;
- Able to comply with the protocol;
- Written informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known significant epicardial coronary artery disease;
- Patients with LVH in the clinical setting of other disorders that explain the myocardial hypertrophy (amyloidosis, MELAS, Anderson-Fabry, WPW etc.);
- Heart failure NYHA class III-IV;
- Patients with known hemodynamic instability or syncope during exercise due to left ventricular outflow gradient or occurrence of ventricular arrhythmia;
- History of PTSMA (percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation) or Morrow myectomy;
- Patients not able to complete a bicycle test;
- Any contraindication to MR imaging (MR imaging is not obligatory for assessment of the primary objective, therefore relative exclusion criterion);
- Recent (within 30 days) admittance to the hospital for any cardiac reason (myocardial infarction, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, etc.);
- Severe renal insufficiency (eGFR < 30 ml/min);
- Any other condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, may pose a significant hazard to the subject if he or she participates in the present study.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01559714
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01559714
|Heartcenter, University Medical Center St. Radboud
|Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, 6525 GA
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Heartcenter, University Medical Center St. Radboud
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Keywords provided by D.H.F. Gommans, MD, Heartcenter, University Medical Center St. Radboud:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 22, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|D.H.F. Gommans, MD, Principal Investigator, Heartcenter, University Medical Center St. Radboud
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01559714 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|March 19, 2012
|Last Updated:
|August 15, 2016
Keywords provided by D.H.F. Gommans, MD, Heartcenter, University Medical Center St. Radboud:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Aortic Stenosis, Subvalvular
Aortic Valve Stenosis
Heart Valve Diseases
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Gentle Jersey, the most southerly of the British Isles, closer to France than to our south coast, claims to enjoy more sunshine hours than any other corner of the land. So the annual June in Bloom Floral Festival (01534 448800; jersey.com), which runs from today until 24 June, provides an appropriate summery moment to visit as the island's parks and gardens, public and private, throw open their gates to reveal the natural beauty that thrives here. For most visitors, a trip to Jersey is all about the landscape. In summer, looking out from the cliff path above the blue waters and golden sands of St Brelade's Bay on the south-west coast, you could imagine yourself to be in the Mediterranean. Jersey may be tiny, at just nine miles by five, but it's the largest of the Channel Islands and has a satisfyingly diverse terrain.
Take a walk through the flower-filled meadows and shady woods of the Fern Valley just north of the capital, St Helier; scale the cliffs at La Grève de Lecq on the rugged north coast; romp across the dunes on the western windswept sands of St Ouen's Bay. Along the way, you can expect to see puffins and petrels, sea campion and sand crocus, swallows and spotted flycatchers, foxgloves and primroses. The National Trust for Jersey (01534 483193; www.nationaltrustjersey.org.je) is just one of a number of organisations that has pledged to protect the island's natural environment which has, in places, been blighted by overdevelopment and some quite unremarkable structures. Yet, Jersey's architectural heritage also offers much to admire.
The island's position between France and England has attracted invaders and settlers since prehistoric times. Each wave has added to Jersey's collection of structures, from the dolmen at La Hougue Bie (01534 853823; jerseyheritage.org; entrance £7.40), which also houses a museum about the Neolithic era, and impressive coastal defences such as 13th-century Mont Orgueil Castle (01534 853292; jerseyheritage.org; entrance £10.90), above the eastern harbour of Gorey, and the simple yet evocative 19th-century communal washing areas, such as the Lavoir de La Rue des Prés near Five Oaks junction.
Historic buildings are favoured for illustrating on the local currency, the Jersey pound, just one of the small differences that makes this place feel a little distant from the British mainland. Travelling around the island, with its predilection for civic floral displays, you could be forgiven for thinking that you're somewhere in stockbroker-belt Surrey. But then your eye will alight on a road sign written in French and you'll be reminded that, while geographically part of the British Isles, Jersey is not a part of the United Kingdom but rather a dependency of the British Crown – ruled by its own assembly, with its own, if dying, language, Jèrriais – which bears the influence of its Norman neighbours, too.
The island also has its own distinct gourmet scene that makes use of its enviable wealth of local produce. Go about the island's lanes in May and June and you'll see the pickers bent-backed on the cotils – steep south- and west-facing terraced slopes – plucking Jersey Royal potatoes from soil that is fertilised using seaweed gathered from the shoreline.
Thousands of tons of potatoes are exported each year, but you'll still find plenty on offer in the island's restaurants, alongside the seafood for which Jersey is also famed – sweet scallops from Bouley Bay, oysters from Grouville, lobster, chancre crab, ormers and mussels. And the creamy milk of Jersey cows creates sublime ice cream. Buy yourself a cone, roll up your trousers and weave your way through the bucket-and-spade-wielding throng for a paddle in the ocean.
This island has plenty of experiences to offer the traveller, but a good old-fashioned trip to the beach is surely one of the best.
Breath of fresh air
The locals are so keen on stepping out they hold walking festivals in spring and autumn. The next, Autumn Walking Week (15-22 September), features self-led and guided walks aimed at all ages and abilities, during the day and night. Highlights include a five-day Around Island Walk and Food Trails.
From April to October, there's a guided walking programme with themed town and country walks daily. One follows in the footsteps of Jersey's famous daughter Lillie Langtry, including the Old Rectory, where she was born. There is a similarly full calendar of events for cyclists. The Jersey Tourism website (jersey.com) contains full details.
On the coast, surfing, kayaking and wakeboarding are all offered. Check out activities run by Absolute Adventures (07829 881111; absolutejersey.co.uk), such as blokarting (£30 an hour) and coasteering (£35 for two hours).
A taste of the island
The recent award of a Michelin star to Tassili, the restaurant led by Richard Allen at the Grand Jersey Hotel & Spa (01534 722301; grandjersey .com) in St Helier, brings the island's quota to an impressive three. His adventurous dishes include parfait and yuzu marinated salmon, octopus and avocado salad, quail egg, wasabi and squid ink, and kombu foam.
The other two stars are held by Shaun Rankin's Bohemia Bar & Restaurant at The Club Hotel & Spa (01534 876500; bohemiajersey.com), also in St Helier, and the Ocean Restaurant at The Atlantic Hotel (01534 744101; theatlantichotel.com), at St Ouen's Bay, headed by Mark Jordan. He's also just launched a more relaxed dining space at St Aubin's Bay, titled simply Mark Jordan at the Beach (01534 780180; markjordanatthe beach.com). There's a taste of Portugal on offer in St Helier, at Restaurant Barqueiro (01534 868686) in Beresford Street. One in twelve of Jersey's 100,000 residents originate from Portugal and Madeira, a link dating back to the 1930s.
Self-caterers can opt for the daily catch at Captain Lobster (01534 615815; captain lobster.co.uk) on Victoria Pier, St Helier, open most afternoons.
On the history trail
Jersey documents its past well, not least through a fine collection of forts maintained by Jersey Heritage (01534 633300; jerseyheritage.org). Among the most imposing is the 16th-century Elizabeth Castle (01534 723971; jersey heritage.org; entrance £12), set on its own islet in St Aubin's Bay, which can be reached on foot at low tide. (Also site of the hermitage said to be the home of St Helier in the 6th century.) Like many Jersey Heritage properties, the castle has holiday rentals – an apartment sleeping six in the old barracks costs from £594 for a minimum three-night stay.
The story of the German occupation in the Second World War is told at the Jersey War Tunnels (01534 860808; jerseywartunnels.com; entrance £11.20), in the eerie setting of a hospital bunker built by PoWs at Les Charrières Malorey. One of the island's top attractions, the Glass Church (01534 720934; glass church.org), aka St Matthew's, at Millbrook, has fully reopened after restoration. The glass font is among the creations of designer René Lalique, who was commissioned in 1932 by Florence Boot, wife of the founder of Boot's the Chemist.
Party on
Jersey may have a reputation as a sleepy backwater, but barely a month goes by without a special event taking place.
On 15 July, the Olympic torch makes its most southerly stop in the British Isles along the south coast of Jersey, from Bel Royal to Weighbridge Place. On 9 August, the island gets into the carnival spirit for its annual Battle of Flowers (01534 730178; battleofflowers.com),above, an event with appropriately royal beginnings for this jubilee year – it was first held in 1902 to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII. Floats decked with blooms will process through the streets for the Grand Day Parade, accompanied by musicians, dancers and entertainers. On 10 August, the whole spectacle will be illuminated by thousands of lights for the traditional Moonlight Parade.
Jersey Live Music Festival (jerseylive.org.uk; from £58) will take place at the Royal Jersey Showground on 1 and 2 September. Headline acts include Professor Green and The Stranglers.
Staying power
This island has plenty of hotels and self-catering options, all listed on the tourist board's website (jersey.com). But Jersey also has a good deal of unusual accommodation. Heritage Holiday Lets (01534 633304; jerseyheritage.org) is a portfolio of quirky historic properties, including the Barge Aground, a 1930s house designed in the shape of a boat which sits on the dunes at St Ouen's Bay. Sleeping six, it's available from £396 for a minimum two-night break.
Luxury camping now features in the island's accommodation mix with the opening this year of Durrell Wildlife Camp (01534 860090; durrell.org/camp) in the grounds of the wildlife park established here in 1959 by the author and conservationist Gerald Durrell. From 30 July to 3 September, 12 geodesic domes will be ready for hire, sleeping two adults and two children, with bathrooms and kitchenettes. Prices start at £495 for four nights, including park entry.
Other accommodation news for this year includes the reopening of the Marina Metro Hotel (01534 724519; marinametrojersey.com), at Havre des Pas in St Helier, after a major refurbishment. Its 34 bedrooms cost from £68 per night, including breakfast.
Travel essentials
Getting there and getting around
Flights from the UK to Jersey include: BA (0844 493 0787; ba.com) from Gatwick; Jet2 (0871 964 0016; jet2.com) from Leeds/Bradford and Blackpool; easyJet (0843 104 5000; easyjet.com) from Southend, Glasgow and Liverpool; bmibaby (0905 828 2828; bmibaby .com) from East Midlands; Manx2 (0871 200 0440; manx2.com) from Isle of Man, Gloucester and Oxford; Blue Islands (08456 202122; blueislands .com) from Isle of Man, Bristol, Bournemouth, Manchester, London City, Cambridge and Southampton; and Flybe (01392 268529; flybe.com) from Bristol, Southampton, Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster-Sheffield, Norwich, Durham Tees Valley, Exeter, Humberside, Manchester, Edinburgh and Newcastle.
Condor Ferries (0845 609 1024; condorferries .co.uk) operates from Poole, Weymouth and Portsmouth to Jersey's Elizabeth Terminal (01534 447788; portof jersey.je). Connex Jersey (01534 877772; mybus.je) operates bus services from the ferry port and Jersey Airport to Liberation Station in St Helier, as well as local routes across the island. Taxis from the airport cost about £15. Car hire is available through companies including Hertz (01534 636666; hertzci.com) and Sovereign (01534 608062; carhire-jersey.com). A week's car hire starts at about £130.
Jersey has lots of cycle routes and Funky Puffin Bike Hire (07797 720159; jerseybikehire.co.uk) has bikes from £18 per day adults, £10 for children.
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Witty Women Take Center Stage
Take a break from arguing whether Colin Firth or Matthew McFayden was the hotter Mr. Darcy. You can get a huge dose of Jane Austen love at the Morgan Library.
The Library owns a third of the letters Jane Austen wrote, and the exhibit "A Woman's Wit" showcases them. Whether for the sake of artistry or austerity, Austen made sure to cover every square inch of the page, giving many of the letters the look of abstract art. In some cases she created elaborate cross hatchings, with script going across and up and down the page. Watch the audio slide show narrated by Declan Kiely (who co-curated the show with Clara Drummond) to learn more.
More Witty Women:
* At the Whitney: The Alice Guy Blaché film series continues through December with screenings of her early comedies.
* At the UCB Theater: Comedienne Maeve Higgins brings her Irish wit to Chelsea.
* At Joes Pub: Burlesque stars Anita Cookie and Clams Casino return to the stage with a new Christmas show. This year they use their wits to remix the album A Christmas Gift to You from Phil Spector.


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Gee, thanx, Catster! fur thinking of me on my Day! It's my BIRTHDAY, no less! and I'm having all kinds of fun watching and listening to the birds from MY bedroom windows, racing through the house, climbing on my Cat Pipe, having a little snort o' nip now and again, and playing all kinds of tricks on my homeys here on the Left Coast.
I have a sad, too, though, for Maus and for the rest of Sable's family, because they are very sad to be missing their sweet blue girl. She is at the Bridge, though, which is a GOOD and HAPPY place, and Nicolas T. Cat and Corrie Angel tell us she has been welcomed in and is playing pain-free and very happy in the Fields of Catnip, watching the butterfly migration that's happening now. HUGS to her and to her furamily. ((((((((O))))))))
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The collection is maintained by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library collects and preserves the rare, unique and otherwise special materials of the University Library. In addition to supporting research and instruction in a wide range of disciplines, its truly distinguished collections serve as a symbol of the greatness of the University and attest to its commitment to the preservation of the significant documents of the past. Many of the collections are known throughout the world. Its approximately 1,130 incunabula make it a major American repository. It is perhaps best known for its renowned Milton, Shakespeare, H. G. Wells, Carl Sandburg, and Marcel Proust collections. However, the collection houses especially strong and growing collections in: sixteenth through eighteenth century English literature; emblem books; the history of geology and other sciences; American wit and humor; early maps and geographical and celestial atlases; architecture; landscape art; seventeenth and eighteenth century German and French literature; early English and American children's books; and the finest examples of the printing arts from the fifteenth through the twentieth century.
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wk mirrors on a wj?
Ive never heard of anyone doing this but I think the wk mirrors are alot nicer to look at than the plain wj mirrors. I need a new mirror anyway so thats why Im asking. from pics Ive seen, the 12 pin connection looks the same on both mirrors, as well as the mounting pins and shape of the base. Anybody have any info or input on this at all?
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nadda? or am I going to have to try it myself to find out?
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The conflict raging within Turkey over issues pertaining to the rights of those with strong religious views and those who fear fundamentalist Muslims seek to impose their ideas on the entire population is raising rather complex problems for the European Union. On one hand, the EU wants nations to have governments based on separation of powers and the right of opposing political parties to be heard. On the other hand, the EU does not want religious values and ideas imposed on a population. These two opposing concepts are currently dividing Turkish society. A case brought to the Constitutional Court seeks to ban the ruling Justice and Development Party on grounds it has violated the Turkish constitution by seeking to impose religious practices in secular institutions. Issues in this case exemplify the quandary facing the EU. Which takes precedence– secular rights or the right of a political party to exist?
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan also has a dilemma. Does he attend the special session being held by the EU group PACE to discuss the issue? Does he abstain to avoid making comments by the government while a court case is pending? The opposition Republican People's Party is furious at Babacan and wants him to remain silent. To add to the complexity of the current situation, many political leaders in Turkey are upset at attempts by the EU to influence internal Turkish issues.
There is no simple solution to these issues. In some manner, all Turkish political parties have to create a solution which protects the rights of secular groups while granting those with strong religious values a right to education.