text: KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DST Systems, Inc. (NYSE: DST) today announced that, in connection with its previously disclosed search for new, independent director candidates, the DST Board of Directors has nominated Lowell L. Bryan, founder of consulting firm LL Bryan Advisory, LLC and senior advisor to McKinsey & Company, Inc., and Samuel G. Liss, a Principal at WhiteGate Partners LLC, for election to the Board's 2015 class of directors at the Company's 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Travis E. Reed, a current DST Director, will serve as the Company's third nominee for election to the 2015 class of directors. Messrs. Bryan and Liss were selected following a comprehensive search process that the Governance/Nominating Committee of the Board has been conducting since December 2011, with the assistance of Spencer Stuart, a leading, global executive search firm. "Our Board of Directors is pleased to nominate Lowell and Sam, and we believe they have the right skills, acumen and independence to add value to the Board's oversight, strategic input and deliberative process," said Robert T. Jackson, Lead Independent Director for the DST Board. "We are confident that Lowell's and Sam's strong backgrounds in finance, management and consulting, combined with their independent perspectives, will be valuable to the Board as we continue to execute on our strategic priorities for the benefit of all DST shareholders." Thomas A. McCullough and William C. Nelson will not stand for reelection to the Board at the 2012 Annual Meeting. "On behalf of the Board and the Company, I thank Tom and Bill for their years of service and tireless efforts. Tom and Bill have long been valued members of the Board, and we wish them only the best in the future," added Mr. Jackson. George Argyros, DST's largest shareholder, and his affiliates have expressed their support for the Governance/Nominating Committee's selection of Messrs. Bryan and Liss by agreeing to vote all of their shares, representing approximately 22% of the Company's outstanding common shares, in favor of Messrs. Bryan, Liss and Reed at the 2012 Annual Meeting. Mr. Argyros stated, "I applaud the Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee for its time, effort and results in finding two new highly qualified and independent directors. I look forward to continuing to work constructively with the Company and the Board to drive performance and increase long term shareholder value." About Lowell L. Bryan Mr. Bryan, 66, has more than 35 years of consulting experience. He is the founder of consulting firm LL Bryan Advisory, LLC, which provides advice and counsel to the top management and boards of directors on a range of corporate strategy and organizational issues. Prior to that, Mr. Bryan spent his career at global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Inc., most recently serving as a Senior Partner and a Director. During his career at McKinsey, Mr. Bryan was also the co-leader of the Center for Managing Uncertainty and was a co-founder of the Financial Institutions practice in 1975. He retired from McKinsey in 2012 and continues to serve in an advisory role.


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Diet and Feeding Ecology of Ateles chamek in a Bolivian Semihumid Forest: The Importance of Ficus as a Staple Food Resource
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We describe temporal patterns of food consumption by Peruvian spider monkeys (Ateles chamek) in a semihumid forest in lowland Bolivia. We assessed dietary composition in relation to temporal variation in abundance, duration, and synchrony of different food items in their home range. We collected data from September 2003 to September 2004, in the forestry concession La Chonta, Department of Santa Cruz. Throughout the period of detailed feeding data collection (February-September 2004), Ateles chamek used Ficus as a staple food resource. Figs constituted almost 50% of their diet in terms of total time spent feeding, and subjects consumed them to a great extent even during times of high overall food availability. This is contrary to the general expectation that for Neotropical frugivores, Ficus is a fallback food in times of fruit scarcity, rather than a staple food resource. Surprisingly, despite being considered ripe fruit specialists, Ateles chamek spent 18% of their feeding times eating unripe figs. Ateles chamek consumed unripe figs all through the year, including periods when ripe figs and other ripe fruit were abundant. We identify other important fallback foods for Ateles chamek in the forest, in particular the ripe fruit of Myrciaria sp.

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Mr. CHAFFETZ. I thank the chairman.
I also want to appreciate and congratulate Dr. Ron Paul for his tireless pursuit of this openness and transparency. Without his leadership, we wouldn't be at this point today, and I applaud him and thank him for that.
Some would say that the Fed is already audited, but there are some key points where it is not. These include transactions with foreign central banks, discussion and actions on monetary policy, and transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee.
If we are truly about openness and transparency in this Nation, which distinguishes us above and beyond so many others, we deserve and need to know this information.
We need also understand the imperative that is before us because the Federal Reserve balance sheet has exploded in recent years. In fact, since 2008, it has literally tripled. It's gone from $908 billion on its balance sheet to over $2.8 trillion, nearly a 33 percent annualized increase since January 2008.
The Federal Reserve ownership of Treasuries has also increased substantially in recent years, having more than doubled from January of 2008 to January of 2012, where it went from $741 billion to $1.66 trillion.
Let's understand also that in fiscal year 2011, the Federal Reserve purchased 76 percent of new Treasuries. Certainly the American people and this Congress deserves more openness, transparency, and at the very least an audit. I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this commonsense piece of legislation, and again congratulate Dr. Paul, and continue to hope for his pursuit of this issue.
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A simple internet search throws up nearly 78,000 references to Schapelle Corby. From forums earnestly dissecting every aspect of the accusations, to polls declaring her resoundingly innocent, much of the Corby cult is being propagated online.
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I like both types of devices, but ultimately I think laptops have more to offer if they're the only device. However, the point of research is to confront and challenge our assumptions – so I've got an open mind. I put the following Slideshare together with a few ideas about why I think netbooks are superior, and I posted a different Slideshare yesterday arguing in favor of tablets.
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Another review of Cyanide's mythologically inspired action rpg Loki, this time from Strategy Informer, likening it to Diablo 3 and implying it would be better as a console title:
Acquiring patronage from the likes of Sony and/or Microsoft is no small or inexpensive task, so it's easy to see why Cyonide opted for the PC route. But "easy" doesn't always cut the mustard, and the nagging feeling of impropriety that pervades Loki is inevitably realised. This simply isn't a PC game. Were it given an extra sheen of gloss, it'd make a very decent home console game that many a casual gamer would find a regular window in their schedule for. But PC gamers are generally a different breed, looking for at least some form of immersion and expansion possibilities in their extended play time. Loki provides none of this, and the limited mouse based attacks quickly become an unsatisfying button mashing practice.
...and thanks to Dark Savant for pointing out another Loki review, this time at YouGamers with a score of 68%:
A poor story can be partially forgiven if the gameplay is good enough. After all, the meat of an action RPG is engaging in wanton carnage, collecting loot and upgrading. After selecting a character (I chose a Norse Warrior), the fighting commences almost immediately. Following a brief chat with a NPC for some story setup, it's off to save a town from imminent destruction by hordes of invaders. Along the way, various NPCs will offer up bits of story and quests. Quests consist mainly of clearing out dungeons and collecting items (why are NPCs always too lazy to do the footwork, anyway?). Since quests drive the gameplay, it would be nice to see some variation to the quests. At times, completing quests in an RPG can feel a bit like crossing items off a weekend chore list, and Loki doesn't break any new ground in this regard.
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The Buffalo Soldier: A Novel (original 2002; edition 2003)
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The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian (2002)
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Another great story! Well researched and so informative it reads like non-fiction.
There are two elements of Chris Bohjalian's writing that I absolutely enjoy: his characters are so well-developed that you feel you know them; and the dialogue is so well-written that you feel you can actually hear the voices of the characters.
Another great story! Well researched and so informative it reads like non-fiction.
There are two elements of Chris Bohjalian's writing that I absolutely enjoy: his characters are so well-developed that you feel you know them; and the dialogue is so well-written that you feel you can actually hear the voices of the characters.
In "The Buffalo Soldier", author Chris Bohjalian gives the reader two stories for the price of one: the first story being that of Terry and Laura Sheldon and their foster child Alfred, and the second being the story of George Rowe, "the buffalo soldier." Just as the circumstances and emotions surrounding the Sheldon girls' tragic deaths is a constant theme throughout the novel, so is the story of the buffalo soldiers. Perhaps it was because I listened to this novel on audio, but it is not apparent at first how the two stories are symbolically connected - and at times (again, possibly due to the audio format), the quotes from Rowe seemed to be distracting from the story itself.
The weather, the cold, and the presence of water (in all its forms - rain, the river, etc.) are also key symbolic elements that are an integral part of this novel. It is set in late fall and winter, so the Vermont landscape is often depicted as very cold and gloomy. Such is also the case for the marriage of Terry and Laura Sheldon following the deaths of their daughters. The reader isn't given much of a glimpse into the Sheldons' marriage prior to this incident, but understandably so, the couple deals with their emotions to their shared tragedy in separate ways. Bohjalian portrays the emotions experienced by the wife, Laura, extremely well; his portrayal of 10-year Alfred is also exceptionally well-done.
Much of the writing in "The Buffalo Soldier" is well-done. Bohjalian shines in his descriptions of the landscape, and the interactions between Laura and Alfred as well as Alfred and the retired college professor and his wife who live across the street, are beautifully brought to life. I did not care much for Terry or Phoebe, which may have been the reaction that Bohjalian hoped to arose in his readers. The story does fall short in its ending. The drama that fills the climatic scenes in the book are believable, but the resolution of the conflict in the story absolutely is not. It's wrapped up hastily (as if there was a page limit that was foisted upon the author) and too neatly - a little too "movie-of-the-week"-ish. With all the complexities that each character carries, they - and the reader - needed something more. Overall, I liked the novel and will certainly read more of Bohjalian's work as he is a talented writer.
Terry and Laura Sheldon's lives get turned upside-down when their twin girls die in a flash flood. Their marriage is brittle as they invite a foster child into their home. Alfred is a 10 year-old African-American boy, who has been shuffled from foster home to foster home and can't trust that he may be here to stay. Enter kind elderly neighbors next door, who teach Alfred about the Buffalo Soldiers from the Civil War who were known for the honesty and integrity which inspires the child.
The plot has several important twists that further affect them all. Beautifully written and evocative, Bohajlian deals with the question of what makes a family? Highly recommended.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0375725466, Paperback)There are certain plots that possess inherent drama, and the saving of a lost child is one of them. In The Buffalo Soldier, Chris Bohjalian--who showed such flair for drama in the bestselling Oprah's Book Club® pick Midwives--gives us the story of 10-year-old Alfred, an African American foster child who is taken in by Terry and Laura Sheldon, a white couple whose twin daughters have drowned. Another child is also about to come on the scene: Terry has an affair, and the young woman becomes pregnant. Bohjalian takes his sweet time exploring these relationships, but he also writes scenes with the same tautness that made Midwives a page-turner. The result is a novel that's both readable and exhaustively fleshed out. As Alfred settles into the Sheldons' lives, we actually come to believe in the unlikely little family the three of them forge. Bohjalian narrates his story from the perspective of each of his principal characters, a method that can be tiresome, but here is made fresh by the author's clear vision: these people, you feel, are real to him. --Claire Dederer
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Ninety years ago this month, a series of posters appeared on buildings in Manchester warning of a deadly new threat. "Influenza is again prevalent in Manchester. It is highly infectious, frequently leading to inflammation of the lungs. Those attacked even slightly should on no account join assemblages of people for at least 10 days as they may convey the disease to others."
They were accompanied by handbills containing further advice - "Discharges from the nose and mouth should be destroyed, if possible in a clean rag or paper, which should then be burnt." The posters were the work of James Niven, the city's respected medical officer.
In the summer of 1918, as the first wave of "Spanish" influenza hit, Niven had ordered the closure of Manchester's schools, a decision that resulted in the city suffering a much lower mortality rate than other British towns that summer. But although Niven's warnings may have delayed the onset of the second wave of Spanish flu in the autumn of 1918, he was powerless to prevent soldiers and munitions girls flooding to Albert Square to celebrate the Armistice on November 11 - and two weeks later his worst fears were realised.
"Mothers and fathers were often stricken together," Niven later recalled. "The children, themselves ill, could not receive attention ... Bodies were left as long as a fortnight unburied, partly at home, partly at mortuaries, and partly at the premises of undertakers."
Surely today, with better disease surveillance and our arsenal of drugs and vaccines, the NHS would take care of us in the event of a repeat of 1918?
Don't bet on it. Some 228,000 Britons died in the great flu. Today, for all our medical technology, it is estimated that 375,000 would perish, and maybe more. The reason can be summed up in one word: compliance.
In 1918, Britain had been at war for nearly five years and civilians, inured to hardship by rationing and daily casualty reports, were used to obeying orders. The result was that when doctors said "stay at home", patients generally listened, and when local authorities ran out of gravediggers there was surprisingly little panic. Today, it is hard to believe that any of us would be prepared to accept similar reassurances.
While the Department of Health's current pandemic preparedness plan eschews words such as "curfew" and "martial law", planners admit privately that there may be a need to call out the army. And if the NHS runs out of body bags and cold storage facilities, don't be surprised to see soldiers digging mass graves.
The biggest dilemma faced by government is how to manage the social and economic impacts of a pandemic. Thus, while echoing Niven's advice in 1918, the current government plan calls for the sick to "isolate" themselves at home in order to reduce the risk of spreading infection. It also wants essential workers in industries such as power and telecommunications to continue turning up to work - a policy it dubs "business as usual". Fearing that many working mothers may have no choice but to stay at home if schools are closed prematurely, it also calls for local authorities to plan "both for continuing to operate and for possible closures" - a policy that Niven would surely have considered a fudge.
The world is so much more interconnected than it was in 1918, and panic is as infectious as any virus. As ATMs run out of money, supermarkets run out of food, and fuel pumps run dry, it won't be long before panic becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, making a mockery of the government's advice for people to stay at home and call the national flu hotline.
Today, unfortunately, the old stoicism is gone. If, as many economists are predicting, we are now in for a deep and prolonged recession, perhaps we will rediscover those old-fashioned British virtues. Until then, my advice is to stock up on antibiotics and antivirals, and make sure you have plenty of "clean rags" on hand.
• Living With Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, by Mark Honigsbaum, is available for £15.99 with free UK p&p at theguardian.com/bookshop or call 0870 836 0875


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With entries in eight stakes races as part of Saturday's last big day of preps for the Breeders' Cup World Championships, trainer Todd Pletcher got the day off to a winning start as he won the first two grade I races on the Belmont Park card.After being represented by Fleet Indian in the winner's circle of the Beldame, Pletcher got his second win when Glencrest Farm's Honey Ryder posted a facile nose victory over Film Maker in the Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap (gr. IT).Jade Queen, also trained by Pletcher, assumed the early lead in the 1 ¼-mile inner turf test, followed by Argentina and Film Maker through moderate fractional times of :24 4/5, :50 1/5, and 1:14 4/5 for the first three-quarters of a mile. The field bunched up leaving the second turn as Honey Ryder, Film Maker, and Jade Queen emerged at the top of the pack. Those three battled gamely through the stretch, with Honey Ryder on top at the wire. The final time was 2:02 2/5.Honey Ryder paid $6.70, $3.10, and $2.80, with Film Maker returning $2.70 and $2.20, and Jade Queen worth $3.90.With her fourth victory in her last five starts, Honey Ryder will move on to Churchill Downs as one of the leading contenders in the $2 million Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT) at 11 furlongs.
"It was my fault that she didn't run better in her last race," said Pletcher, referring to a fourth by Honey Ryder in the Beverly D (gr. iT) at Arlington Park. "I told Johnny (Velazquez) not to get too far out of it because it was a paceless race on paper. He was where I told him I wanted her to be, which diminished her late kick a little. We were focused on getting her covered up today, regardless of what the pace was. She basically has one, small blemish on her record and, like I said, that was my fault. She's been awfully good all year."
"She ran great," trainer H. Graham Motion said of Film Maker's race. "It's hard to be disappointed when they run like that. She just needs the race to be a little longer, like a mile and a half. She gets run off her feet a little in these shorter races. Hopefully, we can go back to the Breeders' Cup again and improve on her second and third there."
Pletcher said Jade Queen may also go on to the Breeders' Cup."Jade Queen ran huge," Pletcher said. "That's what we were hoping to do - take advantage of a slow pace. She ran a huge race for a 3-year-old filly running against the lineup that was in there today."A 5-year-old daughter of Lasting Approval, Honey Ryder has now won 12 of 26 lifetime starts and earned $1,523,310. The mare was bred in Kentucky by Wimborne Farm. (Chart, Equibase)
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It'll end up being £1.17 - because in this case, all you really have to do is move the decimal point two places to the left.
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Holiday from Hell: Norwegian Spirit Cruise Review by mammamia1
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Destination: Canary Islands
Embarkation: Barcelona
So extremely stressed, we took a taxi to the ship, last passengers to arrive (in fact, in hindsight we wished we had missed the ship and gone straight to Madeira).
The personnel were all extremely courteous and efficient, so we boarded. The lobby looks alright, and we started to relax. Up to our room...we were living on the tenth floor with a balcony. The room was antiquated and small, shabby. The wardrobe small and badly designed, very difficult to use. The bathroom, was tiny, compartmentalized, titchy loo, with a wall..(pleased I am not overweight), titchy shower also walled with a small basin between. The bathroom was tiled, shabby and difficult to keep clean.
With our hopes of a decent place to sleep ruined, we decided to have dinner. First night we ate at the More Garden restaurant, low ceilings very noisy and mediocre food.
We checked out the rest of the ship. The buffet, Raffles, was no better then a large Workman's canteen, noisy, smelly..we tried eating there once, very mediocre food, the stir fries all taste the same. Plenty of choice of tasteless fodder.
We ate once in one of their specialty restaurants, Teppanyaki, nothing wrong with the raw products, but once the food had been cooked it all tasted the same, a complete waste of money and time. The rest of our eating was in the main restaurant Windows. Much the nicest. Breakfast and lunch menu was the same every day....very boring, dinner was the same as everywhere else, tasteless and mediocre. The waiters and waitresses, however were lovely.
Unfortunately for us, the seas was very rough, when we arrived in Madeira our tour had been cancelled and the tour we took was not as written on the tour sheet. Next we stopped at Tenerife, had a lovely day there with a trip to Mount Teide..then on to Lanzarote...the ship was within swimming distance from shore before we heard that they could not land, because of high winds..we hoped they might try docking somewhere else, but were told withing the hour by a senior crew member that we would just sail on to Malaga, (we asked).
He also told us that we would just sail slower to Malaga and arrive a few hours early. Rough seas, and no compensation, not even a free glass of wine or an apology. When we arrived in Malaga the Captain said over the loudspeaker system that they had tried arrange another port (don't believe that for a second since we had been told before that they wouldn't). Great day in Malaga and ok trip back to Barcelona...Delighted that our transfer picked us up, and after long waits and technical problems on the flights back were at last home (not NCL's fault :).) Less
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My first try of Eclipse War
-The Transformation Card is a new thing for me and is really interesting. I have yet to try these card in the open PVP fights.
-I also noticed that your stats are affected if it's Day or Night
-Also the same thing when I'm transformed. It's harder to damage enemies that is tagged as "Predator" of your card. I morphed into a rabbit and the predator is wolf, that sort of thing.
Here is a sample screenshot of the game:
So sad T2 green is better than T1 purple which I had to work for and spend marks on q.q
Also full female eternal set :3
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Here are some screen shots of my character in ArcheAge. I'm absolutely loving this game. =3
To see the full image right-click, and select "view image". Enjoy! <3
Here I thought the view was nice. I'll be saying that a lot.
This was an area where the hills were transitioning to the desert. =)
This was an area in the hills where some giant trees were growing together over a small village. AWESOME!
Gliding off the top of a mountain! WEEEEEE!!!
My friend and I killed these two things. Don't ask me how they ended up landing like this. O.O
Just did my 1st raid , and omg it was so fun :3 really starting to like healer class , but only in group content and with a troller that doesn't sleep on power restoration
I've defeated him as villain Superman , Batman... GTFO !
1 Brainiac down 9999999 to go
well considering that I mainly have T1 and only few pieces T2 (and not even token ones) I think I did decent :3
They should really take wow raid looting system , getting purples that are useless to me is just painful
Aaaaaand Hijacked Servitor female set
Created another Villain (for when weeklys on my heal are done ) 2 handed wep and rage , and..... OMG 2 handed is op monsters that I tried to avoid with mah healer unless I needed them for a q or smth I kill with 1 full combo and that's without using powers , yeah low lvl atm , it will get harder later but god damn... also took little robot guy to help me out and have my back-up on speed dial
This game looks so awesome.Too bad the restrictions for f2p players kill all the fun.Or at least it looks like it.Are these restrictions too bad to play the game properly ? Or they don't mean that much ? EU server btw.
Bulwark of madness :3
Being the only healer in raids means shitload of healing done
And for the game ppl should try the f2p and if nothing else sub for a month , while it's active you get everything , and when it's over you still get war or the light or w/e it's called that lets you create Green or Yellow lantern and the money cap is 2k
Meh quests are nice all voiced some with multiple endings , doesn't run to well on my pc though , as a f2p maybe it would make it but to pay for this monthly .... I wouldn't ESO btw
Cymmerian king set + Suzakura sword (Annoying to unlock weapon). Took me 3 days of farming one boss, due to the low drop rate on some materials...
i has a fish
my favorite videogame death :P
So I was messing around in Guild Wars 2 making an asura the other day, and when I changed between default faces enough, this is what happened:
Full Female Biker set ! Strange that I didn't get it on my 1st villain O.o also it doesn't h


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- The shot or scene of a film that cost the most to produce, most commonly an action sequence. Alternatively referred to as the 'money-making' shot.
- (pornography) The moment in a pornographic film where the male subject of the scene in question ejaculates; so named because it is often considered the most important part of the film, and often an actor who is unable to provide the shot goes unpaid.
- (pornography) The release of semen on the partner's body, especially on the face or in the eye.


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The last time she saw him alive, he was begging to be saved.
"I don't want to die," the soldier pleaded as hospital medics tended to burns all over his body. "Please, don't let me die!"
Later, when they would meet in her dreams, the soldier wouldn't say anything at all. And though she wanted to talk to him, she never knew what to say.
"I'd just watch him go about his life the life he had before he died," she said.
It has been nearly four years since Marie returned home from the war. She is still haunted by her experiences there.
But the ghosts of those she saw dead and dying in Iraq are only a small part of her distress. Far more painful, she feels, has been the way she has been treated since coming home.
Civilian friends, unable to understand what she went through in Iraq, have distanced themselves from her. Some military comrades have mocked her, sexually harassed her and when she complained to her superiors cut her out of her most vital social support network. Government officials, responsible for assessing her psychological wounds, have told her she's unworthy of compensation.
Nearly a quarter of a million women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Female veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, known as PTSD, at about the same rate as their male counterparts and some studies have suggested that women may be more vulnerable to war-related psychological trauma. But military culture and a post-military support system designed by men, for men can make it difficult for women to access the help they need.
So they often suffer alone.
Marie, a junior enlisted woman in her mid-20s, still serves in a Utah-based reserve unit. The Salt Lake Tribune agreed to identify her by her middle name because she fears retribution from military superiors for speaking out.
She mourns for the woman she used to be. But she insists she doesn't regret her decision to join the military.
"I had the privilege of serving my nation," she said. "That's the one thing, maybe the only thing, they can't take away from me."
'If they won't help me, who will?' • After offering to spend her off-duty hours helping at Air Force Theater Hospital at Joint Base Balad in northern Iraq, Marie realized hospital work wasn't for her. But after a boisterous argument with another member of her unit, her commanding officer sent her back to the hospital as punishment.
"He specifically ordered me to work in the emergency room," she said. "He said it was to remind me of how good I had it."
Among her duties: Cleaning up the body of an Iraqi soldier mutilated in a bomb attack.
"His teeth had been blown into the roof of his mouth," she said, curling her lips in recollected revulsion. "He had a huge head wound and it was still bleeding, dripping blood onto the floor. And his guts were just hanging out of his stomach."
The dead soldier would later join the burn victim in her nightmares. Sometimes she went sleepless in an effort to avoid their visits.
During the daytime she felt restless, anxious and lonely. She lost her connections to many of her civilian friends who simply couldn't understand what she'd been through. But at least for a time, Marie felt she could count on the support of members of her unit, many of whom were having similar struggles.
Then, less than a year after her return from Iraq, she lost that support, too.
At work, a member of her unit began to make sexually derogatory comments toward her. And it only got worse when she asked him to stop, she said.
Women in the military are officially encouraged to report harassment to their commanders, and she did. But while the direct harassment ended, so too did the cherished relationships she had with many of her unit's other members.
"Suddenly I was being excluded from everything that was going on," she said. "People wouldn't talk to me."
Not long after, the man she accused of harassment was given an award for exemplary service. And with that, Marie said, her humiliation was complete. She transferred into the reserves, a move that extended her enlistment by several years.
"I'd just had enough," she said of her decision to leave the active-duty military. "I felt completely abandoned. I felt like I was dirt."
Distrustful of the military medical system, Marie confided in a civilian psychiatrist, who diagnosed her with PTSD. Citing her work in the hospital and her service in Balad during a period of frequent mortar and rocket attacks, she submitted a claim for compensation to the Veterans Benefit Administration.
When the response came in the mail on a Saturday afternoon, she anxiously ripped it open.
"They said I didn't have any post-traumatic stress at all," she said. "I cried and I cried that night, and I cried for the next two days. I was thinking, If they won't believe me, who will? If they won't help me, who will?"
'I'm going to have to really earn her trust' • The women's clinic at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake City has offered a range of services to qualifying women veterans for more than a decade. But Gina Painter, its manager for the past two years, said it's still not well-known. "We have staff members who don't even know that we have a women's clinic," she said.
That's in spite of the fact that the number of female patients at the VA has doubled in the past six years nationally and is expected to double again in the next six. Painter attributes the lack of awareness to the glacial way large bureaucracies accept change.
The average female patient at the VA is 48 years old but a rapidly increasing number are younger than 30. Male patients, meanwhile, average 61 years old and, with tens of millions of veterans from World War II, Korea and Vietnam in or approaching their twilight, their ranks are getting older. In Utah, male patients are even older, averaging about 68 years old.
The needs of the two groups are vastly different. Last year, Salt Lake City's George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical Center became the first VA hospital in the country to deliver a baby. Meanwhile, a few hundred yards away, men in their 80s and 90s make up the majority of those staying at a VA-operated nursing home.
"It's a complete paradigm shift," Painter said.
Although hundreds of thousands of women served in uniform in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and intervening times of peace, it wasn't until 1988 that the VA began offering medical and mental health services to female veterans due mainly to a policy favoring vets who served in combat. Today, nearly all veterans are eligible for some level of VA services, but women still underutilize their entitlements.
Studies show that women suffer from PTSD at least as much as men. Although they make up about 14 percent of the fighting force in Iraq and Afghanistan, they comprise 6 percent of the patients from those wars who have been processed through a mental health intake clinic at the Salt Lake VA.
One possible reason: The VA has a long way to go before it reaches its goal of being a one-stop location for women's primary care. Only about a third of VA medical facilities have a gynecologist on staff. And according to a report from the Government Accountability Office earlier this year, the VA has done a poor job of protecting women's comfort and privacy. Among its observations: Only a small number of gynecological examination spaces have adjacent restrooms, as required by the VA's own rules. And in some clinics, the exam tables were oriented so women's feet faced the door. In at least one such instance, the door opened into the view of a mixed-gender waiting room.
"It's nothing nefarious," said Dan Murchie, a patient advocate at a clinic for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the Salt Lake VA. "It's just that what has been set up for women is something like an afterthought."
But Murchie lamented the message that that sends to female veterans, especially those who might need mental health care.
"When I get a woman coming into my office, I already know that, more likely than not, I'm going to have to really earn her trust," he said. "Any little thing that makes her feel uncomfortable could make her bolt and if she does that, then I can't get her the help she might need."
'I'm not making this up' • Another substantial obstacle is what is found or not found in a woman's service records.
At war in Iraq and Afghanistan, women carry guns, drive on bomb-laden roads, stand watch on guard towers, take fire and return it.
They fight, they bleed and sometimes die.
But because women are technically barred from serving in U.S. military units in which direct ground combat is the primary mission, they have a higher burden of proof when it comes to establishing that they've suffered from war-related psychological trauma.
Murchie ruefully recalled one of the first women he tried to help with a benefits claim. "They shot her down like a duck on opening day," he said. "Not surprisingly, she walked out of here pretty disgruntled."
A new policy intended to give all veterans the benefit of the doubt when they file claims for disability benefits related to PTSD is expected to result in a higher approval rate for female vets, who generally don't have the word "combat" in their service records and must establish, through other evidence, that they suffered through traumatic experiences while at war.
Marie hopes benefits officials will reassess her claim more favorably under the new policy.
"It would mean a lot to me if they would just acknowledge that I'm not lying, I'm not making this up," she said. "This is my life and I am suffering. And when they deny all of that, it feels like it cheapens what I've been through."
For many female veterans, however, the more lenient rules likely won't help. That's because their psychological wounds have come not only as a result of combat trauma, but also from sexual harassment and assaults during their time in uniform.
Veterans seeking compensation for mental- or physical-health issues must provide proof that those issues are related to their military service. Victims who report the abuse when it happens create a record that can be relied upon later to support a claim.
But Department of Defense officials say about 80 percent of sexual assaults in the military go unreported.
"Victims are concerned about losing their privacy, fearful about being judged, fearful of retaliation and afraid that people will view them differently," Kaye Whitley, the director of the military's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, told the House Committee on Veterans Affairs in May.
Testifying before the same committee in July, PTSD expert Janice Krupnick complained that what little study has been done "suggests that female veterans are less likely to receive service-related compensation for PTSD and this is, at least in part, a consequence of the relative difficulty of substantiating exposure to non-combat stressors," most notably, sexual assault, she said.
Nearly 60 percent of women screened for PTSD at the VA in Salt Lake City since 2008 have been identified as victims of sexual harassment, sexual abuse or rape during their time in the military.
Those who have suffered from harassment alone are likely in the minority. "Among the women I'm doing individual therapy with, I would say that at least 85 percent have had a sexual assault," said VA psychologist Tanya Miller.
"It's unacceptable," said Andrew Wittwer, a combat-veterans case manager at the Salt Lake VA hospital. "There are a lot of injuries that come out of serving in the military. Clearly, sexual trauma shouldn't be one of them."
But it often is and it can be debilitating. In a 2005 study of veterans of the first U.S. war in Iraq, VA researchers found that military members who were sexually assaulted during their deployment were significantly more likely to have suffered from PTSD than those who were exposed to combat alone.
'I'm going to die all alone' • Researchers have known for decades that women suffering from PTSD have significantly different symptoms than men. It's also clear that women are far more likely to develop PTSD as a result of military sexual trauma than men.
But despite the hundreds of millions of dollars the government has spent on PTSD research, there has been scant investigation of gender-specific care. The VA usually offers men and women similar therapy. And despite the prevalence of sexual trauma as a primary or aggravating factor for many women's PTSD, the one thing female veterans can't access at the Salt Lake women's clinic is mental health treatment. They instead head to the facility's mental health ward.
Miller, who leads a therapy group for victims of military sexual trauma at the facility, acknowledged that not all of her patients are comfortable around men. She also conceded that a male psychiatry resident now serving as a co-facilitator makes for "a hard transition, because they don't trust men and they don't feel comfortable being vulnerable around men."
But Miller said she also believes that exposing victims of sexual trauma "to a kind, compassionate male is helpful in their recovery." But she noted that all women have a right to see a female therapist in individual sessions.
In one of the few studies to investigate treatment methods by gender, researchers at the National Center for PTSD found that "high levels of social support after the war played an important role for women veterans."
For Julianne Hancock, there's a bitter irony in that finding.
Serving with the Air National Guard in Balad in 2005, Hancock faced the same dangers as male soldiers. But often, she faced those dangers alone.
When mortars and rockets screamed down on the base, Hancock and her comrades fled to the nearest protective structure a concrete restroom. Because she was the only woman in her unit, Hancock was left to wait out the attacks alone in the women's latrine.
One day near Christmas, she recalled, "I was in that bathroom, all by myself, for hours. I remember thinking to myself: If I die, I'm going to die all alone, in a bathroom, on Christmas in the Middle East and that sucks."
Hancock said she laughed at that morbid idea at the time, but five years later, the isolation she felt is more apt to bring her to tears.
"I don't know how much of that isolation plays into the fact that things came to a tipping point for me, all these years later, but it's still painful," she said.
Now, as she struggles with VA bureaucracy in an effort to get help with the anger, anxiety and helplessness she's felt since her two tours of duty in Iraq, Hancock still feels alone.
"Right now I've got six doctors up there," she said. "And it doesn't seem like anyone is talking to anyone else. I've got to keep telling my story over and over and over again."
firstname.lastname@example.com RESOURCES AVAILABLE
Women Helping Women, support and education group, meets 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. Women's Clinic, Room 1D17, Building 1, George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center, 500 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City.
Women Veterans Clinic, George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center 801-582-1565 ext. 5423.
Confidential VA chaplain services: 801-582-1565.
Salt Lake Vet Center, 1354 E. 3300 South, Salt Lake City; 801-584-1294.
Provo Vet Center, 1807 N. 1120 West, Provo; 801-377-1117
Upcoming talk: Mic Hunter, author of Honor Betrayed: Sexual Assault in the Military, will speak on Oct. 28 at the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Hunter will discuss the prevalence of sexual abuse in the military and the reasons it persists despite continued attempts to eliminate it. He will also discuss how the experience of military sexual assault is different from that of civilian sexual assault; and he will argue that homophobia contributes to sexual assault in the military. Hunter's talk will be held in Auditorium Building 9. Women and post-traumatic stress disorder
Women have long been exposed to stressful, violent and gruesome events while serving at war, but the number of women exposed to combat has increased dramatically with the advent of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For now, little is known about the unique needs and issues facing female veterans with PTSD.
Research has shown, however, significant differences in diagnosis and treatment.
In one recent survey of patients at Walter Reed Medical Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital, about 13 percent of active-duty patients with PTSD were women about equal to the rate at which women are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But women are more likely to experience depressive symptoms related to PTSD, while men report more anger, nightmares and flashbacks, according to a 2009 report from the Society for Women's Health Research.
Women are also generally more responsive to psychotherapy, while men tend to have a stronger preference for medication, according to the report.
Yet the vast majority of research on the treatment of combat-related PTSD relates to treating the condition in men. After studying the issue for more than three decades after the end of the Vietnam War, for instance, Veterans Affairs only last fall began a comprehensive, multimillion-dollar effort to study the effects of PTSD on women who served in Vietnam.


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FOX Sports Ohio Announces 2010-11 UC Basketball Telecast Schedule
Nov. 1, 2010
CINCINNATI – FOX Sports Ohio and The University of Cincinnati Department of Athletics announced the six men's and two women's basketball games they will produce this season. In addition, the network will carry eight men's basketball games as part of the BIG EAST Network, bringing the total to 16 UC basketball games on the state-wide network.
FOX Sports Ohio further prepares for the start of the Bearcats basketball season with a preview show. The 30 minute Inside Bearcats Basketball Preview special will premiere November 10 at 6 p.m. with replays throughout the week. In addition to featuring highlights from last season, the show will provide analysis of this offseason and projections of the upcoming season.
The complete schedule is listed below.
"The relationship we have with FOX Sports Ohio is truly a partnership," said UC Director of Athletics Mike Thomas. "The coverage they bring to the University of Cincinnati athletics programs and the BIG EAST Conference with its statewide footprint is invaluable when it comes to recruiting. They bring current and future Bearcats fans a unique and in-depth look at our programs with their game productions and Bearcats Sports Weekly. We are proud of this partnership."
Coverage of Bearcats men's basketball begins Nov. 15 with a match-up versus Mount St. Mary's at 7 p.m. FOX Sports Ohio will also produce games featuring opponents including IPFW, Savannah State, Utah Valley State, Georgia Southern and St. Francis.
FOX Sports Ohio will also produce two women's games featuring match-ups with Robert Morris and Marshall.
Tom Gelehrter will do play-by-play for both men's and women's games produced by FOX Sports Ohio. Anthony Buford will be the color analyst for the men's games while Betsy Ross will be the color analyst for the women's games. Brian Hunterman will produce and Dave Ashbrock will direct the games.
"FOX Sports Ohio is proud to have a strong relationship with the University of Cincinnati. We're delighted to provide our viewers another extensive and exciting package of UC Bearcats Basketball programming," said Henry Ford, Senior Vice President and General Manager, FOX Sports Ohio.
The Mick Cronin edition of Bearcats Sports Weekly premieres on Dec. 16 and will air Thursdays at 6 p.m. Additional replays will also be scheduled around the network's programming later the same evening. The show will continue to be hosted by UC's Tom Gelehrter, who is the Bearcats' director of new media for the department of athletics. Bearcats Sports Weekly will also be linked nationwide through the FCS (FOX College Sports) Network. Check local listings for times and dates.
Following is the 2010-11 UC basketball programming on FOX Sports Ohio:
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...when I was a cop...we didn't write other cops...or firemen...or nurses...some folks deserve all the breaks they can get...a cop or a fireman can have any equipment they deem necessary to protect those I love...no apologies...
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...when I was a cop...we didn't write other cops...or firemen...or nurses...some folks deserve all the breaks they can get...a cop or a fireman can have any equipment they deem necessary to protect those I love...no apologies...
And, to help my Bronx buddy Secret out,
here's the text: He is right.
a. Sections 265.01, 265.02, 265.03, 265.04, 265.05, 265.10, 265.11,
265.12, 265.13, 265.15 and 270.05 shall not apply to:
1. Possession of any of the weapons, instruments, appliances or
substances specified in sections 265.01, 265.02, 265.03, 265.04, 265.05
and 270.05 by the following:
(a) Persons in the military service of the state of New York when duly
authorized by regulations issued by the adjutant general to possess the
(b) Police officers as defined in subdivision thirty-four of section
1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
(c) Peace officers as defined by section 2.10 of the criminal
procedure law.
Don't let the facts get in the way of a hot thread--- carry on.
It's a good reminder, though, particularly in this choke-the-2A climate we're all experiencing. Check the info before it gets taken as fact, given how many "spinner" sources there are, how many in the media fail to do so and how many are prepared to run with something, anything, once they hear/read it.
"No state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Some folks deserve all the breaks they can get" can be used by almost anyone, to justify almost any violation. Who, outside the Legislature or the Courts, is going to choose just which folks "deserve all the breaks they can get?" In the Obamanation, I think you'll find it'll be illegal aliens, atheists, welfare recipients, and any other special-interest group that will provide votes and/or campaign contributions.
NO slam against LEO's here - just sayin'. I don't want any compromises on the 2nd Amendment, or any of the others, either.
While I do not believe any law biding citizen should have their mag capacity limited, the question was why should police officers be exempt.
First most officers by law are NEVER OFF DUTY.
Second, how many of you will run towards gunfire when none of your family or friends are in danger? That is part of the job.
Before Columbine, it was acceptable police practice to wait for SWAT before entering a live fire situation. Now "Active Shooter" situations require immediate action upon the first officer's arrival. Would you expect that officer to go in with his NY legal 7 round magazine?
If so, ....
Lets Be Careful Out There!
It's my opinion that First responders should have the necessary tools to defend themselves and carry out their duties. I also believe that every-day citizens should also have the same tools necessary to defend themselves, especially since they are the ones the criminals prey on, and thus, are the first to need such protection. Also, we don't have the luxury of backup, so being prepared to defend ourselves against attackers is doubly important.
I would not limit law enforcement to reduce their effectiveness against threats. Instead, I would want civilians to be properly equipped to meet the same dangers.
They shouldn't. In fact there is no need for them to carry a gun in the first place. They don't in the UK and look how good it works there.
Yup and that is a risk they assume when they apply for the job. If they don't like it they should seek other employment. And running toward the gunfire is irrelevant. If you are sitting in the food court or the theater or where ever when the shooting starts you don't get to run toward it, you are in it. You don't have the luxury of time to come up with your tactical plan. The police are not really the "first responders". The people that are at the scene when the incident goes down are the true first responders. Their response will have a much larger impact on if they live or die than that of the officers that show up a few minutes after the shooting starts.Quote:
Second, how many of you will run towards gunfire when none of your family or friends are in danger? That is part of the job.
And officers responding to an active shooter have back up on the way, should in their "active shooter bag" have armor, medical kit and spare magazines for both sidearm and long arms. The general population going to movies (other than Gecko45) don't have that. Officers responding to an active shooter are by definition getting involved after bullets have started flying. With the luxuries of time, training and equipment on their side why do they need more firepower than Joe Citizen who only went there with the intent of watching a movie?Quote:
Before Columbine, it was acceptable police practice to wait for SWAT before entering a live fire situation. Now "Active Shooter" situations require immediate action upon the first officer's arrival. Would you expect that officer to go in with his NY legal 7 round magazine?
If so, ....
Lets Be Careful Out There!
I find it amusing how many folks over the years have been whining about getting the military to drop the double stack 9mm pistol and go back to the 1911 but now people are saying that the 1911 isn't enough gun. If a single stack .45 isn't enough gun for cops why would it be enough for our war fighters?
...an officer giving a break with only a warning isn't even CLOSE to your accusation...but, believing as you do, I'm sure you'll refuse the courtesy of a warning should an officer ever want to honor your being a CHL holder and DEMAND a ticket...
...equal protection is slightly different...if you understand it...
I don't think any of us should be limited but if you ask me, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. This is just another step to the liberals ultimate goal of the only people with guns being the military, police, and criminals. Today it's 7 round magazines, tomorrow after that doesn't work, it will be 0 rounds.
THe exemptions or privileges accorded to our officers are necessary for our protection; you can't hold them to observance of a gun free zone for example if they are in hot pursuit or investigating an incident. We don't keep armed police from entering a school or a court or if needed, even an operating room.
State legislators throughout the country have given police powers and authority under statutes that go back decades in most instances, statutes which pre-date most of our lives, statutes and case law which go back to before we were the USA when they had night watchmen on the streets of Philadelphia (I would think).
I mention this because police authority isn't as stated in post 100 by KoolBreeze anything "liberal" or new or different.
Granting of authority to law enforcement is a long standing practice which is apolitical.
Few sane people want to tie the hands of the honest police officer and hamstring him in the ability to keep crime under control. To label a desire for law and order "liberal" is to twist the very meaning of the word as you can't have liberty in a world of chaos. Moreover, traditionally in our country the "law and order crowd" were labelled (insultingly) conservatives. Policing is neither liberal nor conservative, Dem or Repub., nor is it a political act or statement: It is even handed
(hopefully) fair application of the law as set forth by our legislators and interpreted by our courts.
We don't have, never have had, and never can have a "whats good for the goose is good for the gander" approach.
Simply put without an essay again. Nobody wants PD to be underarmed etc. We should be on parity with LE in relation to firepower however. The whole premise of at least my argument is that if and I repeat if Legislatures knew they were not going to be able to reduce firepower on civilians without also reducing it on LE then they would not and could not even propose such idiocy. To do so would gut their own LE agency to a point of being irrelevant which they would not consider or do.
It probably took five minutes to correct that little oversight if that in NY for PD. But they shouldnt have been able to correct it without dumping the whole legislation because it should be illegal for PD to better armed than citizens precisely in order to prevent such stupid legislation from being proposed in the first place.
Concern over an "arms race" between civilians and police has seriously got to be just about the most ridiculous, baseless, statist and illogical crap I've seen in a long time. The life of a cop is not worth any more or less than the life of a civilian, and complaining about something like that shows thinking contrary to that basic fact. It is insulting. And to insinuate that someone needs more than just a NICS check to be able to own an AR-15 because they might go shoot a cop is equally insulting. Your average .30-30 deer rifle from Wal-Mart will zip right through a cop's vest just as surely as anything an AR fires, so should we restrict them too? We have far more than enough gun laws on the books already, and the nonsense I see some advocating on here is reprehensible. Cops outgunned and stuck in the middle of an arms race. Give me a break. This represents shallow and frankly pathetic levels of "thinking" if I've ever seen it.
The bad guys may or may not be comparably armed, but they should be less well armed than police or law-abiding private citizens.
I've done stories on police who were gunned down by scumbags using cheap crap handguns loaded with 5-6 rounds of .380 ACP. We ought to be far better armed than those jerks, but B.S. magazine limits puts us on their level while upper level scum still have 15-rounders. Where is the sense in that?


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The kitchen is a great place to hang out. My people are messy when cooking and are always dropping yummy morsels. I get yelled out when I try to take a peek in the oven. Tonight we had some pork. It was very juicey. I was tossed a nice piece and when tried catching it in my mouth, it bounced off my nose. Mogwi was nearby and tried taking advantage of the situation. He almost ran off with the food, but Kelly stopped him and tossed it back to me. She's good folk (even though she didn't take me in the car today, hmmmmph). I'm breaking in my downstairs bed quite nicely. It's so very plushy. The cats are still enamored with it and they keep rubbing their stink into it. They do that to me as well. A little too much, I might add. Their either trying rubbing on me or yelling at me for looking at them wrong. Mogwi got angry at me the other day and I didn't even do anything!! He got into trouble and was scolded by Kelly. I came into the room when I heard the commotion and Mogwi got cranky at me. As if I was the one to blame!!! I tried playing with Star, a neighbor dog, tonight. She rebuffed my advances. I don't know why she won't play with me. I may be trying to hard to get her attention. I may need to learn some new moves. It's lightly snowing tonight. I wish it snow more. I love running and jumping in snow. My favorite winter sport is catching snowballs in my mouth. We haven't had enough snow to do that yet. It's still early in the season though. At least it's finally starting to get cold. I don't mind that too much. I got some strong healthy fur. What I can't stand is the rain. I've always hated it, but I despise it even more since I was sprayed by the skunk. I'll save that story for another time.
I had a swell time traveling to Illinois for the holiday. The people we stayed with TOTALLY let me sleep on their furniture!! I find sleeping on floors demeaning. There was lots of love to be had and people were properly adoring of me. Mucho handshakes, pats, belly rubbing, treats, and petting. The bossy toddler was around as well, but I don't mind her so much as she's quite clumsy and tends drop goodies a lot. A whole lot. Her little sister is getting bigger and as a result, more grabby and demanding. I just stood there & let the baby do her hugging and kissing thing, the humans really appreciate that. When she got too pokey, I just walked away. It's a good system for all. The highlight of the trip was when I was left alone one afternoon. I hit the jackpot when sniffing for TREASURE. In some bag behind a door, I found cookies, crackers, chocolate bars, and gummi bears. They were all quite tasty. There were some chocolate pudding cups as well, but the Vivian lady returned so I had to scram from the scene. She still ratted me out to the others when they returned. I feigned confusion at her accusations, but still got scolded from Jon. It was a half-hearted attempt though on his part, and I got some sympathy from the others. It was alllllll good.
Yesterday, Jon brought home a new bed for moi. It's super nice and plush. Just the way I like 'em. Unfortunately, the cats seem to like 'em that way as well. It's been hard keeping possession of the bed. Everytime I left it, some cat would magically appear there. They've even started double teaming me as well. I have to have Kelly or Jon shoo them away. How embarassing!! The positive part is that Kelly felt sorry for me today after my bed had been hijacked for the umpteenth time and tossed me a sausage. Gooooood times.
Went to the store with Kelly the other day. When she was putting away the groceries, some meat fell out. It looked mighty tasty so I pulled out my 'adorable dog expression' that no one with a heart can resist. I managed to convince Kelly that the salami needed to be tested. She tossed me a slice or two. It was quite yummmmmmy. I think I should be fed salami every day. That's only fair. After all, I keep the cats in line while Kel and Jon are at work. And I don't complain too much when they get home late some days. I deserve more treats. I'm a darn good dog (when I want to be) and I should be compensated. Until I get more salami, I'm practicing civil disobedience. I'm pretending that I can't hear them when they say my name or "come" or "no" or anything else they deem to be an important command. They hate it when I ignore them. I can play deaf like the best of them. I want me some salami!!!
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LONDON — Amnesty International said on Friday it has received the names of more than 360 people reportedly killed in Syria since UN ceasefire observers deployed last week, and called for a more robust mission.
"The organization has received the names of 362 individuals reported to have been killed since UN observers began work in Syria on 16 April," the London-based rights group said.
"The recent trend of violence surging in Syrian cities directly after UN observers have left underscores the need for a more robust observer mission to be put in place much more quickly," Amnesty's deputy regional director Ann Harrison said.
President Bashar al-Assad's regime agreed to a six-point peace deal brokered by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan that went into force on April 12. But with the violence continuing to sweep Syria, there are growing doubts about its chances of succeeding.
The shaky truce is to be monitored by 300 UN observers due to arrive in Syria in the coming weeks. A small advance team that arrived on April 16 is due to number 30 by Monday, according to a UN official.
"The UN must move quickly to establish, as conditions permit, a sustained larger presence of monitors to verify that all aspects of the plan by Kofi Annan are respected," Harrison said.
"Unless a fully resourced team is dispatched with urgency, the violence and serious human rights violations can only be expected to continue."
Annan's spokesman Ahmad Fawzi this week acknowledged that the truce remained "extremely fragile" and urged the Syrian government to fully implement its end of the deal.
He said UN observers on the ground had entered areas like Hama and the battered city of Homs to its south and found that when they are there "the guns are silent".
But when they leave, he said, "credible reports" indicate that the shooting resumes.


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During what should be a week of celebration marking the twentieth anniversary of National Public Service Week (NPSW), public service professionals feel compelled to draw attention to a number of federal government initiatives which undercut their ability to serve the best interests of their fellow citizens.
Canadians from all walks of life, including internationally renowned experts, former Conservative Cabinet Ministers, and mayors of communities from coast to coast to coast are also opposing the dozens of measures contained in the 2012 Budget, in Bill C-38 (the 420-page omnibus Budget implementation Bill) and in numerous changes to policy, laws and regulations that will damage critical programs and services that they depend on.
Canada's public service professionals have highlighted 10 ways by which this federal government will undermine the health, safety and prosperity of Canadians, their communities and their environment.
Unfortunately, these are only a few examples drawn from a much longer list of dangerous measures undertaken by the government, including changes to employment insurance and pensions, and cuts to a wide range of federal departments and programs.
1. INCREASED RISK: Meat inspection rules changed, food safety inspections and food labelling reduced.
Changes to food inspection will put Canadians at increased risk of food-borne illnesses. Meat Inspection Regulations will now allow the on-farm slaughter of livestock. Instead of independent government professionals at federal facilities who are fully trained for this task, the slaughter will be overseen by private veterinarians paid by the same farmer who may want to salvage an animal that has been found unfit for transport.
Along with a reduction in the number of federal inspectors, this measure puts our food supply at risk and could also damage international confidence in Canadian exports.
The federal government will also stop policing nutrition claims on food product labels and will no longer test of the efficacy of fertilizer products before they are released on the market.
2. ELIMINATED: The Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a world-renowned freshwater and fisheries research facility
This region of 58 remote lakes has been dedicated, since the late 1960's, to whole-lake ecosystem research. The ELA has produced groundbreaking studies into the effects of pollutants and acid rain freshwater ecosystems. The ELA is also where researchers are conducting a one-of-a-kind study of how freshwater ecosystems respond to climate change.
Scientists and experts around the world argue the ELA provides key information for objective, evidence-based decision-making and has been instrumental in the development of environmental policy and legislation, both here at home and internationally. The government's decision to eliminate the ELA will result in the loss of an important training ground for the next generation of Canadian scientists.
3. MUZZLED: Independent expert advice on critical scientific and policy issues
The federal government is continuing down the path of silencing its own experts and ignoring policy advice on issues that impact Canadians directly. A policy of dramatically restricting government scientists' freedom to communicate with the media and the public has drawn an international chorus of condemnation. Most recently, scientists attending the International Polar Year Conference in Montreal were shadowed by government "spin doctors".
The government belatedly confirmed that the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) was being closed down because it produced research-based policy advice that it did not want to hear. Similarly, the National Council of Welfare was axed after 50 years of tracking issues related to poverty and contributing to the development of Canadian social policy.
There are many other examples where evidence-based policy making is being downgraded throughout the federal government. Evidence will be more difficult to gather as Statistics Canada is once again targeted for major cuts to staff and resources. Meanwhile, policy units in departments ranging from Health Canada to Environment Canada will be hit with substantial and sometimes fatal cuts.
4. SHUT: Labs responsible for the measurement of industrial emissions and climate monitoring.
The team of "smokestack" specialists at Environment Canada is being dismantled. These scientists play a key role working with enforcement officers and industry to crack down on toxic pollution. They measure cancer-causing emissions and provide support for the development of standards, the assessment of pollution sources, analysis of the effectiveness of pollution-reduction technologies, and maintaining an inventory of pollution from different sources.
5. SLASHED: Canada's public science capacity and research into health, agriculture and the environment.
The tools, skills and expertise to conduct science and research to inform public policy across most departments of the federal government are being slashed. Five water pollution research labs that have played a major role in identifying destructive environmental pollutants, such as those harming beluga whales and the effects of phosphorus detergents on lakes, are on the hit list. The NRC's Winnipeg-based Institute for Biodiagnostics working on second generation MRI technology is closing, as is the Cereal Research Centre run by Agriculture and Agrifood Canada in that city.
Canada's much vaunted next generation satellite, the Radarsat Constellation, appears doomed, due to cuts to the Canadian Space Agency. At the same time the scientific work conducted within the Department of National Defence represents a significant share of cuts to that department. Casualties will include explosive detection, counter terrorism technology, robotics, and computer network security research.
6. CLOSED: Environmental emergency response and timely marine rescue on Canadian coasts.
The federal government will dramatically reduce its ability to respond rapidly to environmental emergencies and marine incidents. Emergency response teams which currently prepare for, and coordinate responses to, threats to the environment such as oil spills or other toxic leaks are being removed from Pacific and Atlantic coasts and from all other regions.
At a time when it promotes plans to drive major oil pipelines through valuable watersheds and to allow oil tanker traffic to spike through the pristine waters off the B.C. coast, the federal government is removing its first line of defence and crippling its ability to coordinate emergency responses.
Cuts to coastal environmental protection will be matched by cuts to marine rescue services. After reducing maritime search and rescue coordination in Atlantic Canada, the government will now shut down Coast Guard stations and communication centres on the West coast.
7. Undermined: Protection of fish habitat and regulations that safeguard Canada's lakes, rivers and streams.
Bill C-38, the budget implementation legislation, includes changes to the Fisheries Act that will dramatically narrow protection for fish and fish habitat. As four former Fisheries Ministers have said, the changes will "take the guts of the Fisheries Act." The Act will now only protect specific fish that are deemed to have direct value to a fishery. But because it eliminates protection for fish habitat, the new Act will inevitably put fish species and fisheries at risk. According to scientists, the majority of freshwater fish and up to 80% of the 71 freshwater species at risk of extinction would lose protection under these changes.
These changes follow on the heels of a number of recent decisions that will reduce the application of science to monitor and protect Canada's aquatic environment. For example, high tech labs and teams tasked with monitoring of impact of widespread chemical use - e.g. PCBs, heavy metals, pesticides, organochlorines, and antibiotics – were shut down. And in December 2011, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced that it would be shifting from an annual to a "multi-year" (i.e. every three years) assessment of fish stocks.
A loud chorus of scientists and expert voices argue that these changes will introduce unprecedented levels of risk to the quality and sustainability of Canadian ecosystems, and will impact the future health of our environment and our economy.
8. CUT: Suicide prevention resources, mental health monitoring and injury prevention programs for the Canadian Forces. (*)
The government's decision to withdraw from this area of work at a time when there is increasing awareness of mental health problems among our veterans returning from conflict is difficult to understand. PTSD, depression and suicide are serious issues for the Canadian Forces.
These cuts will deprive the Forces of their most knowledgeable experts on monitoring of PTSD disorder rates and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (concussion). DND's capability to monitor the health of Canadian Forces members will be further crippled by the loss of close to half of the epidemiologists and researchers who analyzed mental health outcomes such as depression, PTSD, mental health services, and suicide.
Budget cuts will also end a successful injury surveillance and prevention trial program run out of CFB Valcartier.
9. ERASED: Programs and organizations that promote and safeguard our common heritage.
Budget cuts will cripple Canadian's access to their history, and their ability to tell and hear stories about themselves and their communities to each other and to the rest of the world.
Major cuts to staff and resources at Library and Archives Canada will have devastating consequences on the preservation of Canada's history. Meanwhile, the shutdown of the National Archives Development Program (NADP) will sound the death knell for dozens of local archival collections painstakingly put together and maintained by volunteers in communities across this country.
The CBC, Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board will all lose 10% of their budgets. A large proportion of the NFB's catalogue will no longer be accessible to the public with the closing of screening facilities in Toronto and Montreal. Telefilm Canada and the CBC will have far less capacity to support Canadian productions and the national broadcaster will further reduce its news gathering and reporting activities.
10. WEAKENED: Environmental assessment scaled back to facilitate hasty resource development.
Legislation resulting from the 2012 budget includes 170 pages of amendments to the environmental assessment process. These changes will significantly shorten the timeframe for these assessments and give politicians more discretion in determining what will be assessed, and how. There will be fewer assessments, involving fewer experts and stakeholders, over a shorter time span and with the commitment of less resources. And if Ministers don't like the results, they can overrule them.
The federal government is literally gambling with the natural environment that Canadians all depend on – lowering the bar for the approval of projects while at the same time implementing major cuts to the scientific expertise and emergency response capacity of departments like Environment Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
One project alone, the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, crosses mountain ranges, hundreds of waterways and dozens of First Nation communities. Improper environmental assessment of a project of this magnitude would be disastrous. Any short term economic gain could be overwhelmed by damage that would impact current and future generations.
(*) After extensive media coverage and public pressure, the cuts to mental health monitoring were partially reversed.
Publish Date: 15-JUN-2012 03:35 PM
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He's baaaaack! Well, maybe his decision to come back wasn't as drawn out as Roger Clemens or Brett Favre (who I hope doesn't come back, stops trying to be the center of attention every offseason, and sticks to doing commercials for Wrangler Jeans). Studly QB's in ass-tight jeans aside, we are here to discuss Pedro Martinez.
There is no doubt that Pedro has been one of the greatest pitchers of the past decade. My boy Kenneth Carl has already chronicled Pedro's past. Pedro's distant past was god-like, but recent history tells us that Pedro is going to have little to no value in the fantasy baseball realm. Unless your league counts "Don Zimmer Takedowns" as a category, then I'd suggest leaving Pedro in the free agent pool.
We already know the kind of pitcher that Pedro used to be, but in the present, Pedro just doesn't hold a lot of value. During his last three seasons, all with he New York Mets, Pedro fell from grace as he compiled a record of 17-15 with an ERA of 4.74 and 1.33 WHIP. The only shining moment during his stint with the Mets came in his first season with the team. The 2005 season was very, very good to Pedro as he mowed down the N.L. in the same way he used to when he played in Montreal as he went 15-8 with a 2.82 ERA and 208 K's. If you're expecting Pedro circa 2005 or anytime before that, then you are dreaming.
As a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, Pedro will once again be doing battle in the N.L. East. Yes, the same division that has spelled his doom for the last three seasons. Not to mention that his new home, Citizens Bank Park, has been Pedro's enemy as he has posted a career ERA of 7.85 in four starts in Philadelphia.
Currently, Pedro is sitting on the DL, a trend all too common in his career. Pedro is going to battle shoulder problems all the time and the injury risk is too high for you to rely on him as a consistent contributor to your team down the stretch. The Phillies knew this and that's why they are only paying Pedro one million dollars for his services. If you do pick him up, that means you have to wait until his current DL stint is over (the Phillies are hoping for a July 30th debut) and then probably have to endure another DL stint near the end of the season. It wouldn't be surprising seeing how Pedro has only started 48 games over the past three seasons.
Pedro's performance in the World Baseball Classic does give you that very dim glimmer of hope. His 6 IP, 0 ER, 6 K stat line was impressive for the most part. However, you can't compare the WBC to the MLB. The talent pool in the Majors exceeds that of the WBC and just because a pitcher does well in the WBC, it doesn't mean it will translate to the Majors (Dice-K anybody?). Also, Pedro was a reliever in the WBC, not a starter. It is one thing to come out of the bullpen every few games, but Pedro is too old and too frail to make quality starts every five days.
The fact of the matter is that Pedro Martinez is 37 years old and is no longer a reliable pitching option in the fantasy community. If there is a slight silver lining to any of this, it is that Pedro could still possibly be a decent source of strikeouts. If in fact he was playing hurt during his last season with the Mets and still has strength left in his arm, then owners could have Pedro to boost their strikeout numbers. If you believe in a Pedro resurgence and have a spare roster spot for him, then pick him up.
At the exact moment I am writing this, Pedro is 9% owned in Yahoo! leagues. The odds of him being available in your league are better than great. I'd love to see Pedro come back and have a quality half season. Unfortunately, if recent trends continue, then you can expect more of the same, which is an ERA between 4.50 and 5.00 and more shoulder problems.
Roll the dice if you feel lucky. Just don't expect a huge payoff.
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