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How Can Parents Navigate Children's TV Shows?
Michele Norris speaks with Dr. Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute, about how parents can navigate the world of children's TV programs. A new study done at the University of Virginia with a group of 4 year olds found those who'd watched the fast-paced cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants performed worse on mental function tests than their peers who watched the slower-paced cartoon Calliou or who simply spent their time drawing. Christakis says young children's brains get over-stimulated by the faster-paced programs — and urges parents to think about what kind of television-watching experience they want their children to have.
MICHELE NORRIS, host: Now back to an earlier stage of childhood.
TOM KENNY: (as SpongeBob) Nice work, buddy. Now my house can withstand anything nature has to throw at it.
BILL FAGERBAKKE: (as Patrick) I guess Squidward is not part of nature.
KENNY: (as SpongeBob) Squidward...
NORRIS: "SpongeBob SquarePants" has been under fire this week, and not from his cranky neighbor, Squidward. A new study found that four-year-olds who watched just nine minutes of that cartoon performed worse on mental function tests, compared to children who either watched the PBS cartoon "Caillou," an educational show, or kids who spent their time drawing.
The study was published this week in the journal Pediatrics. Its lead author says "SpongeBob" specifically isn't the problem, rather it's the fast pace of some children's programming.
And that got us wondering. What TV show should parents be avoiding and what should they be seeking out for young kids?
Joining us now is Dr. Dimitri Christakis. He's the director of the Center for Child Health Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Hospital. He's also the author of "The Elephant In The Living Room: Make Television Work For Your Kids." Welcome to the program.
Dr. DIMITRI CHRISTAKIS: Pleasure to be here.
NORRIS: Now, first of all, you have seen this study in Pediatrics. What did you make of it?
CHRISTAKIS: Well, it's interesting. You know, it was a small study. It had only 60 children. But one of its strengths was that it actually was an experiment, so the children that you described were actually randomly assigned to those three groups. And then, immediately afterwards, they had their executive function tested. Your listeners can think of that as a child's ability to stay on task, to focus his or her attention on something. And that's obviously critical for school performance.
And, in fact, the children who watched the fast-paced program, "SpongeBob," did perform significantly worse.
NORRIS: So why would a fast-paced program have a negative effect on a child's executive functions?
CHRISTAKIS: Well, I think one way of thinking about it is our brains evolved over millennia to process events that happen in the real world. And events that happen in the real world take place in real time. But there are many, many ways in which media of all types speed up events. And while our brains are able to actually process those events, right, we can watch "SpongeBob" and follow the narrative, it's potentially at least overstimulating. It's taxing our minds and that could lead to short-term deficits, as seen in this study, and at least potentially to long-erm deficits as has been seen in other studies.
NORRIS: You know, help us understand something, particularly when we talk about overstimulation - and to illustrate the point, we're going to do a little listening exercise. Let's listen first to a clip from a show called "Blue's Clues," that's a Nickelodeon show.
DONOVAN PATTON: (as Joe) What do you think Blue saw with sticks and a tree? Oh. Maybe, maybe we should find our last clue to figure this out.
NORRIS: Mail time, a regular feature on that show. And for comparison, let's listen again to "Spongebob."
KENNY: (as Spongebob) Now my house can withstand anything nature has to throw at us.
FAGERBAKKE: (as Patrick) I guess Squidward's not part of nature.
KENNY: (as Spongebob) Squidward. Did you come to weather out the storm with us?
ROGER BUMPASS: (as Squidward) No. I - what storm?
NORRIS: Okay. So help us understand the difference between those two clips. What do you notice?
CHRISTAKIS: Well, first of all, this is radio, so we're only getting half the story. You're only hearing the audio. The video that goes with these is also very, very different because in the first case, you have a continuous segment and there's actually pauses built in. There's an opportunity for the child to actually talk back to the television. And in the second case, you have very, very rapid scene changes, which goes along with the audio where you're hearing many, many different voices.
Now, in some respects this comparison is a little bit unfair because we're comparing a well-designed educational program to a program that's intended purely for entertainment purposes.
NORRIS: So in defense of the little man who lives in a pineapple under the sea, Spongebob is actually targeted to elementary school-age children, not 4-year-olds, the kids who were actually in this study. And in some ways, therein lays the problem. How do you judge what's appropriate for children at a given age?
CHRISTAKIS: Well, it's a very good question. I should point out that in spite of the fact that "Spongebob" - we are told - is intended for children at school age, it remains the most popular cartoon for children in the preschool age group. I think the important thing for parents to think about is what is their goal for television or other medium? What do they want their children to get from it? Do they want them to improve their recognition of letters, of numbers? Do they want to expose them to new horizons, to new experiences? Do they want them to be entertained? All of those things can be done by television and there's nothing wrong with any of them. And how you use the medium determines which of those things it does.
NORRIS: Dr. Christakis, thank you very much for your time.
CHRISTAKIS: It was my pleasure.
NORRIS: That's Dr. Dimitri Christakis. He's the director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Hospital.
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Uncut Interview - Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burke for Star Trek Into Darkness
Daniel Anderson
7 May, 2013
The writer and producer on fan service and their favourite Treks
Star Trek Into Darkness
is almost here and
Daniel Anderson recently caught up with writer and producer
Damon Lindelof
and producer
for a chat about the sci-fi sequel.
is best known as the co-creator and showrunner of the massively successful
TV show, which he contributed to as a writer through its entire six season run. His first feature writing work was 2011s
Cowboys & Aliens
and he also worked extensively on
as a screenwriter. He comes on board
Star Trek Into Darkness
to craft the script with Transformers scribes
Roberto Orci
Alex Kurtzman
Bryan Burke
has been a constant collaborator with
Star Trek
JJ Abrams
and is the co-founder of their production company
Bad Robot
. He has various credits on everything from
, where he also worked on the story of the first season. His feature experience includes time on
Star Trek
, as well as the upcoming
Wars: Episode VII
Here, the pair talk about making a movie for fans and newcomers alike, honouring the legacy of Trek and tiptoe gently around spoiler territory.
Read our review of Star Trek Into Darkness here.
[This interview was conducted in April 2013. This interview has been edited for spoilers ahead of release]
Damon Lindelof
CLICK: To start with – what is your favourite Star Trek movie of all time?
It's the safest answer but it also happens to be the truth – Wrath of Khan. That was the first Star Trek anything that I saw. So far and away.
Same. I wasn't a big Star Trek fan but when I saw that it definitely resonated with me and I remember being at the Bruin theatre in Westwood village and it definitely affected me.
CLICK: So did your enjoyment of that film influence your work on Star Trek Into Darkness?
Sure. Certainly in the sense of all the ideas that it represented and I feel like one of the reasons that Star Trek doesn't have a lot of iconic villains is because of just the fundamental design of the franchise. It's not like when there's a new Iron Man movie you're asking 'who's the bad guy?' I think there's the Klingons and then there's Khan. Those are the greats. And then in the Next Generation there's the Borg. But the Klingons and the Borg are both races of people, there's only really one individual. And I think that for me coming out of that movie, firstly naming a movie 'the Wrath of Khan' and not really knowing who that was and he had a Wrath! So it was obviously going to be a bad thing! And that just sort of infused it with a power.
And independent of it and I don't think we're talking that openly yet about things. We want to preserve the experience that you had going to the theatre. I'm not sure if it or isn't and if so how!? In terms of the alchemy of it all. But I do think that in so much as we want to forge our own path with Trek there's also a gravity to certain mythological icons from the original series. And to avoid them would be an even more fundamental hubris than coming up with something wholly original.
CLICK: Damon, you didn't get to write on the first Star Trek, did you definitely want to be on board this time?
Well I think that the first movie is infinitely better-written than the second movie! But the way that these stories are designed are by the five of us –Bryan and JJ and Alex [Kurtzman], Roberto [Orci] and myself.
I can barely read!
There's a lot of story work done before any actual screenwriting is done where we all have this rigid consensus about what the movie is about thematically and what character relationships we want to explore. And then what are the plot mechanics. On the first movie that happened amongst the five of us and because we were still deep in the throes of Lost, we were between the second and third season I think, Alex and Bob just took the ball and ran with it on the screenplay. And on the second movie it just felt like it made more sense for all of us to be producers and then I had the opportunity to be more actively engaged in the writing of the script and to put my name on it.
Bryan Burke
CLICK: And how did you guys break the story this time. You said you talk about it for a long time?
It was a similar thing. I remember, and you [Damon] might have had other conversations with JJ, but I remember on the first film when Damon, Alex and Bob came in and said: "Here's our idea, we're going to blow up Vulcan" [laughs]. And it was literally the first thing out of their mouths! I remember on this one it was a similar thing. We were having a dinner and they just started going through all the beats.
CLICK: Was there one big moment?
There were millions! Just one of those things, as they were pitching it and they got to the conference room scene and we were on the edge of our seats and they just said 'hold on, it gets better!' So it was just one of those things where they had thought through all the beats. And I don't know where JJ was in those conversations but I remember sitting there and it was like – 'oh here's a real f**king movie!' and then from there we started having conversations about how to get from point A to point B. And you start filling in the detail. I'm usually the person who gets confused very easily so we'd talk about not making too many big leaps! But it comes in a well thought out place.
Just out of curiosity, when are you going to run your piece?
CLICK: You mean can we talk about Kahn?
Yea that's the question because like I guess in our perfect world we would love to talk about it openly
CLICK: I'm not going to do it before the movie is out.
But at the same time like a week or two after the movie has been released in the States, that May 24th range, I feel like then we're much more comfortable saying here's why we did that. But beforehand I'm just terrified that in the next week before it's even out in the states, it's like 'Lindleof and Burke talk about why they chose Kahn'.
CLICK: Did you enjoy the speculatation then because people guessed quite early – it's the go to place?
: Um…
I was not fun for me!
People were asking when we were working on the first movie, is he going to be in this one? And I think we were very comfortable in the first movie saying no – don't worry yourself about that, we're trying to set up this world and pay homage to the entire canon that came before and that's a slippery enough slope. And then while we were doing press on the first movie, people were already asking if there's a second movie, it's going to be him right? And it felt like it was such inevitability. And to that end we answered the question honestly which was that we were still discussing it. And I do feel like there were many many conversations internally about the pros and cons as to whether or not we wanted to go there. And it just felt like it was a path that was fraught with peril and there was really no way to do it right. Which kind of compelled us to try!
CLICK: Do you feel like with an established franchise you have to include a mix of fan service and new material?
Yea I think so. Star Trek in its 45 years of it has always been for fans. And it's a very loud, vocal group. So by no means do you want to make a film that alienates those people and moves on. But by the same token you also have to make a film that opens up to everybody else – particularly if you want Star Trek to continue. It was the first time in my memory of growing up and seeing Star Trek around me, it was the first time that there was no TV show and no movie happening. And it was just not happening! So in order to continue the franchise and to allow it to go on we had to open it up to a whole new audience – me being the poster boy for that audience because I was not a Star Trek fan. But at the same time you can't alienate fans, nor do you want to as I'm working with producers and writers who are hardcore Star Trek fans. So the whole play and putting together the films is always making sure that people can come in, particularly this film as it's not a sequel, it is entirely its own film. And you can jump in if you've never seen anything or the last one. If you are a Star Trek fan there are numerous things that you'll be able to take home at a different level.
I saw Wrath of Khan when I was 9 or 10 and it was the first Star Trek anything that I had ever seen.
CLICK: Was it R-rated?
Was it R?
CLICK: Well it was 15s over here!
Yea yea it was PG. before the PG-13 because it came out before Temple of Doom, which was when the PG-13 was invented. But when I saw it I was aware of Mr Spock, I knew there was a character with pointy ears. But I knew nothing else and I was able to enjoy that movie thoroughly and to understand what the characters were all about. And I also felt this incredible emotional connection when Spock died. And I knew when I saw that movie that that was a big deal! And there were other people who saw the film that already had a 20 year experience with Star Trek and that must have been even more impactful for them. But I was able to get it. And we wanted to create exactly the same experience for people who have never seen Trek before. And by the way Wrath of Kahn was a sequel, Star Trek the Motion Picture I hadn't even seen that. So there has to be a fundamental sense of just buying a ticket and you'll get it. And when you see it, you'll understand as I did when I saw Wrath that Ricardo Montalban is talking about things which preceded this movie, he's already very, very angry at Kirk and I didn't need to have seen 'Space Seed' [the original series episode] and I know a lot of people who love Wrath of Kahn who have never seen that episode. They know it exists and they could still understand. So we kind of use that as bar.
And the other thing which was really important was wanted to make sure this film was particularly for people who were not Star Trek fans or thought they weren't fans. It was a film that we knew if they were dragged to it, if they were thinking they know what Star Trek is, that this wasn't going to be the experience that they thought it was going to be. And we had a lot of that with the last film and even now as we're starting to screen it, my favourite thing as we're walking out is seeing people walk out with their partners or whatever and saying 'its not what I thought it was going to be' and it turns out that they liked it more than their die hard star trek boyfriend.
In many ways they're easier to please than the diehard star trek boyfriends!
CLICK: So you really set out to make a good movie rather than just a Star Trek movie?
Yea! The analogy I use a lot is something like Iron Man. I was not an Iron Man fan; it was not a comic I knew anything about. Everyone's forgetting that there a million comic books movies before it that weren't as successful. And it was my favourite film of the summer, it was a revelatory experience. And then I had a million friends who felt the same thing – it wasn't Superman or Batman it wasn't one that was already part of the vernacular. So we wanted Star Trek to cross over to a whole new group of people who weren't expecting to enjoy it.
Star Trek Into Darkness is in cinemas from the 9th of May.
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Jan 15, 2014 - By Craig Blumenshine, Staff WriterFor the only time this season, cross-county arch rivals Riverton and Lander will battle on the basketball court Thursday night in Riverton at Wolverine Gym.
Game time for the varsity girls contest is 6 p.m., with the boys at about 7:30 p.m.
Both the Wolverines and Lady Wolverines have shown steady improvement during the early part of their season, and both completed last weekend's Bill Strannigan East vs. West tournament with identical 2-1 records against Class 4-A competition.
Lander a 3-A contender
The Lander boys enter Thursday's contest with a 9-1 overall record, tied with Cody for tops in Class 3-A. Thus far this season, the Tigers' only setback is a 59-52 overtime loss to Douglas. Like Riverton, Lander easily handled Star Valley, the team's only common opponent.
Lander is led in scoring by CooXooEii Black, who averages 18.3 points per game, shoots 63 percent from the field, and is third in Class 3-A blocked shots.
"He's a really good player, as good a big kid as we'll play against this year. He will create problems for people. It's hard not to double him, and that opens things up for others," Riverton head coach Dick Quayle said.
Casey Winger and Jaxon Hedges also average in double digits for the Tigers, scoring 14.9 and 11.8 points per game, respectively.
"They have good size and create some matchup problems," Quayle said.
Riverton (5-8) will counter with its guard trio of Brandon Fullerton, Austin Patterson and Chris Quayle, all who average double figures in scoring with 13.1, 11.3 and 10.6 points per game, respectively.
For Riverton, this is one of two final non-conference games. The Wolverines host Powell on Saturday before setting their sights on Class 4-A West opponent Rock Springs the following week.
"I probably shouldn't say this, but Riverton vs. Lander isn't what it used to be. We are not in the same conference, and we're working to get better to play against the teams we will have to play at state. We probably haven't spent any time in talking about what they do," Quayle said.
Lander is led by Terry Hopkin, a coach Quayle says he "has tremendous respect for."
The Tiger boys are a favorite to compete for the Class 3-A state title, according to Quayle.
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Riverton's Lady Wolverines (4-9) have strung together two wins for the second time this season after completing a season sweep of Laramie and out-gunning Cheyenne South in the Bill Strannigan East vs. West Tournament.
The Lady Wolverines also own a 41-32 win over Star Valley in December, while Lander lost to the Lady Braves 46-26 last weekend. The Tiger girls were playing their first game after the three-week long holiday break.
"Lander (2-6) is a better team in my mind than Star Valley, and this game does mean a lot for our community and our school. t's always a fun night, and I encourage each student body to yell and scream for their team. It's an environment you don't forget," Riverton Lady Wolverine head coach Ron Porter said.
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He added that he misses playing in the old Fremont County Shootout, where all county teams played, including Riverton and Lander, before big crowds and exciting environments rarely seen in the regular season.
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[USA CONFIDENTIAL] To shore up deficiencies exposed at the Concacaf Olympic qualifying tournament, the proper selection of over-age players would have been a
goalie (maybe Brad Guzan), defender (Michael Parkhurst?), and midfielder (Michael Bradley), all veterans of the 2008 competition.
Overage players? Why bother? When the plane leaves for London, the Americans won't be on it.
This isn't a moot point, though for practical purposes discussions of over-age players ended Monday night when Jaime Alas' shot caromed of Sean Johnson's mitt and into the net. As slipshod as the U.S. U-23s performed against Canada and El Salvador in Nashville, they were one good save away from reaching the semifinals and a somewhat favorable – compared to Mexico, certainly – matchup with Honduras.
And that save might have come from starter Bill Hamid, who soldiered on with a bad ankle long enough to concede two goals in the final minutes of the first half. He hadn't played well against Canada, and Coach Caleb Porter can be admired for sticking with his No. 1 in the belief he could get the job done in the group finale.
Maybe a healthy Hamid gets it done, yet when he hobbled for a ball shortly after the collision in which he was injured, sufficient evidence had been presented that he needed to be substituted. His desire to stay in the game is admirable, and if necessary a trainer could have let him test his ankle for a minute or two just to be sure, but if all head coaches elected not to overrule their players, injured or not, subs would be an endangered species. By putting a player ahead of the team, Porter shirked his responsibility, even if he did so for the "right" reasons.
In any case, either the selection of Hamid or Johnson for the Olympic Games would have been risky. Both are athletic, courageous, promising goalies plagued in their MLS performances by errors not uncommon for young players in their position. Over a long season, hiccups here and there are expected and can be tolerated; it's part of the process. In a three-game season -- also known as the group phase, be it qualifying or the tournament proper -- such errors are onerous.
In this theoretical exercise, then, we can debate if player development or results takes top priority at the Olympic tournament. If the primary focus is to groom top young goalkeeping talent, come what may, the young guys go. But if neither can honestly be deemed up for the task, it would be irresponsible not to take a Brad Guzan, for example, who despite his struggles for playing time in England has more MLS experience, along with a few U.S. caps, than Hamid or Johnson.
Guzan played as an overage player in Bejing four years ago, so maybe someone else would deserve a shot. Tim Howard, Nick Rimando, Tally Hall, there are plenty of candidates. The point remains; the Americans' goalkeeping is the primary reason they are not going to London, as in both the Canada and El Salvador games the performances were subpar. There were major gaffes in many facets of play, but one essential of goalkeeping is to plug the leaks that may spring.
The addition of overage players for the Olympic Games is both seductive and dangerous. Great Britain, for example, could deploy Ryan Giggs and David Beckham, not only for playing ability as players but their leadership, experience, and star power as well. There's a tendency to believe that the right three players can turn just about any qualifier into a medal contender; more practical is the idea that those three players can strengthen spots deemed to be weak or at least mediocre.
A rickety U.S. back line didn't inspire a lot of confidence. There were some mitigating circumstances; one centerback, Perry Kitchen, probably was miscast, and partner Ike Opara, an incredibly gifted athlete, has missed most of his first two pro seasons because of injuries. That inexperience impaired his decision-making and positioning at critical moments.
The back four looked out of sync far too often, so a Michael Parkhurst could have brought the confident, vocal presence crucial for success in high-pressure environments. Plus, his skill on the ball – which both Porter and U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann have established as a requirement for defenders – would fit snugly with their philosophies of possession.
Parkhurst also played in Beijing as an overage player (by a year). In his MLS career, before departing for Denmark after the 2008 season, he displayed the poise and savvy at the centerback position that was sorely missed last week in Nashville.
Much criticism has fallen upon the 4-3-3 formation chosen by Porter, who used both Jared Jeffrey and Amobi Okugo in the holding midfield spot and started Joe Corona and Freddy Adu in all three games as attackers. That Canada overran the Americans in the second group game was not a flaw of formation, though this one does demand a lot of those three players in the middle. Whether caused by fatigue or overconfidence, a shocking inability to hold the ball set up the fresher, hungrier Canadians to dictate play. The goals conceded came on set pieces, which perhaps confirms the impression of tired, unfocused players, who tend to react too late.
A courageous rally in the group finale against El Salvador wiped out a 2-1 deficit – the goals conceded by a gimpy Hamid -- yet with a 3-2 lead, again the Americans proved to be much better offensively than defensively. This is an admirable trend, and hopefully brighter attacking play will be a staple for U.S. teams going forward, yet locking up a game in the late stages is essential.
Adu, who played brilliantly and set up two goals, couldn't handle the grunt work of killing time by holding the ball, and a few of his teammates faltered, too. Michael Bradley, who played in the Beijing Games a week after his 21st birthday, would have brought the steel and bite to win balls along with the vision to distribute them. So, too, could another 2008 veteran, Maurice Edu. They have their faults but in tough situations they man up.
Had the team qualified for London, players like Jozy Altidore, Tim Chandler, Danny Williams and Alfredo Morales would have been age-eligible. (Editor's note: FIFA announced Friday that clubs are now obligated to release their under-23 players for the Olympic Games tournament.)
So the under-23 player pool is richer and deeper than what events in Nashville may indicate. Yet compared to the 2008 pool, which in the age group also included Sacha Kljestan, Stuart Holden, Marvell Wynne, Robbie Rogers, Benny Feilhaber, Eddie Gaven and Charlie Davies, it does seem to have slipped.


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Thanks all. I'll get great practice this weekend, snowing all day in the DFW area. That means I don't leave the house so I can stay away from all the nuts who don't know what the falling white stuff is.
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Those of us whose life was changed when first encountering the writing of Albert Camus will always regard his insights into the nature of the human condition as helping us to understand humanity in all its differing shades of truth. President Sarkozy, a Camus fan, has created a storm of protest by his desire to move the body of Camus from his grave and place it in the Pantheon in Paris, the resting place of those deemed "great" and "good" by the people of France. Left wing critics are furious their hero will be lying alongside the bodies of those who represent the establishment of French intelligence. Camus was a writer, a resistance hero, a man who clashedwith the great Jean Paul Sartre's naive acceptance of communism, and remained a man alone.
Camus was not a left or right winger, not a liberal or a conservative, not a moderate or radical, his was a mind that always remained independent and not prone to be classified. He made us aware of the absurdity of life and each day we live only confirms that humanity is more absurd than realistic. Let him lie in rest, apart from the great because he never regarded himself as fitting that definition of greatness.


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Individuals who receive a pension based on work for a federal, state or local government where Social Security taxes were not withheld may find their Social Security benefits reduced. This is because in 1977 and 1983, Congress enacted legislation reducing Social Security benefits to such individuals through the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). The GPO applies to those eligible for Social Security spouse's or widow's or widower's benefits. The WEP applies to those eligible for their own Social Security benefit.
In enacting the GPO, Congress intended to address a perceived inequity between those who spent a lifetime working and paying into Social Security and government employees who did not pay into the system. The GPO was intended to place spouses, widows and widowers whose government employment was not covered by Social Security in approximately the same position as those whose employment was covered by Social Security. Similarly, the WEP was enacted to ensure that government employees who had not paid into Social Security received a Social Security benefit equivalent, with the government pension taken into account, to that of an individual who had paid into Social Security.
But unfortunately, these provisions in practice have proved to be both unfair and unworkable. Millions of individuals lose benefits due to the WEP and GPO each year, and regrettably they usually find out about the loss in benefits only when they apply—at which time it is too late to effectively plan for the resulting cuts in benefits. That's why the National Committee believes the time has come to repeal these two provisions.
Government Pension Offset – How Does It Work?
The GPO applies to spouses who qualify for both a government pension based on their own non-Social Security-covered employment and a Social Security spousal benefit. The GPO reduces Social Security spousal benefits by two-thirds of the pension from non-covered government employment. For example, a monthly civil service pension of $600 will result in a $400 reduction of the Social Security spousal benefit (2/3 of 600=400). Therefore, an individual eligible for a monthly $500 spouse's, widow's or widower's benefit would receive $100 per month (500-400=100).
In December, 2013 almost 615,000 Social Security beneficiaries or about one percent of all Social Security beneficiaries had spouse's, widow's or widower's benefits reduced because of the GPO. Of these, 56 percent were spouses, 44 percent were widows or widowers, and 81 percent were women. For approximately 74 percent of those with benefits reduced by the GPO, the offset was large enough to bring the Social Security benefit to zero.
The GPO is an imprecise way to achieve the Congressional intent of establishing parity between the benefits of those who spent a lifetime working in Social Security covered employment and those who did not. Reducing the spouse, widow's or widower's benefit by two-thirds of the government pension does not equate to the amount of the spousal benefit had the government work been covered by Social Security. The purpose of Social Security dependent and survivors benefits is to provide additional income to help the financially dependent spouse once the breadwinner retires, becomes disabled or dies. By reducing this benefit, the GPO harms the financially dependent spouse, and, as noted above, those most likely to be harmed are women.
Windfall Elimination Provision – What is it?
The WEP reduces the earned Social Security benefits of an individual who also receives a pension from any employment not covered by Social Security, such as a government agency. The reduction is achieved by modifying the formula used to figure the benefit amount, giving the beneficiary a lower Social Security benefit. The WEP exempts workers who have 30 or more years of "substantial" employment covered under Social Security, with lesser reductions for workers with 21 through 29 years of substantial covered employment. The WEP primarily affects people who earned a pension from working for a government agency in non-covered employment and also worked at other jobs where they paid Social Security taxes long enough to qualify for retirement or disability benefits. It reduces the replacement rate for benefits from 90 percent to as low as 40 percent for roughly the first $10,000 in average annual earnings. However, the reduction cannot exceed more than one half of the government pension based on the worker's non-covered work.
As of December 2014, approximately 1.6 million Social Security beneficiaries were affected by the WEP, representing about 2.7 percent of all Social Security beneficiaries. Ninety- three percent of those affected were retired workers, 61 percent of whom were men. In state and local government, approximately 25% of employees and retirees (including teachers, police and fire employees, and general employees) are in non-Social Security jurisdictions, while 75% fully participate in the Social Security program (they contribute to the system and their public employer matches their contributions) and, therefore, are not affected by the WEP.
The regular Social Security benefit computation formula is intended to help workers who spend their lifetimes in low-paying jobs by providing them with a benefit that replaces a higher proportion of their earnings than the benefit that is provided to workers with high earnings. The regular formula, however, cannot differentiate between those who work in low-paid jobs throughout their careers and other workers who appear to have been low paid because they worked many years in jobs not covered by Social Security. The WEP was created to remove that unintended advantage, or "windfall," thereby preserving the progressive nature of the benefit formula. The WEP formula, however, is an imprecise method of determining the actual "windfall" when applied to individual cases. In many instances, the WEP can be regressive, causing a proportionally larger reduction in benefits for workers with lower life-time earnings. The reduction is especially harsh on retirees with work careers divided roughly equally between covered and non-covered employment.
The National Committee endorses S. 1651, the "Social Security Fairness Act of 2015," which will repeal both the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset provisions of the Social Security Act. Sponsored by Senator Sherrod Brown and Representative Rodney Davis, this legislation would repeal provisions which, since their enactment over 30 years ago, have unfairly prevented millions of Americans including teachers, firefighters, and police officers from receiving the Social Security benefits that they have earned.
Government Relations and Policy Department, April 2016
Government Pension Offset - http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/EN-05-10007.pdf
Windfall Elimination Provision - http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/EN-05-10045.pdf
Social Security: The Government Pension Offset, Congressional Research Service - https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32453.pdf
Social Security: The Windfall Elimination Provision, Congressional Research Service - https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/98-35.pdf
PERSPECTIVES: The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provision for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study , Social Security Administration -http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v74n3/v74n3p55.html
What You Need to Know About the Windfall Elimination Provision, AARP - http://www.aarp.org/work/social-security/info-07-2013/social-security-windfall-elimination-provision.html
Q&A: Social Security's Government Pension Offset (for members in jobs not covered by Social Security) AFSCME - http://www.afscme.org/union/retirees/resources/retiree-tools-and-information/q-a-social-securitys-government-pension-offset-for-members-in-jobs-not-covered-by-social-security
Q&A: Social Security's Windfall Elimination Provision (for members in jobs not covered by Social Security), AFSCME - http://www.afscme.org/union/retirees/resources/retiree-tools-and-information/q-a-social-securitys-windfall-elimination-provision-for-members-in-jobs-not-covered-by-social-security
FAQs about Government Pension Offset, National Education Association, http://www.nea.org/home/17739.htm
FAQs about the Windfall Elimination Provision, National Education Association, https://www.nea.org/home/17745.htm
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What Are the Pros and Cons of SharePoint in Microsoft Office 365?
The latest version of Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Office 365, is designed to ease and enhance presentation, collaboration and sharing data in small, medium and large enterprises. One of the applications comes packed with enterprise editions of Microsoft Office 365 is SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online offers excellent cloud service with easy managing options. You can get SharePoint Online either as a standalone product or as part of the complete Microsoft Office 365 package. SharePoint Online is designed to help enterprises to collate, collaborate and share data with team members, clients, partners and other intended users. With this SharePoint Online, users can access their internal business site, spreadsheets, documents and other important information. This cloud-based application will enable users to access information from their office computers, from home and mobile device.
Organizations, which have migrated to SharePoint Online with Microsoft Office 365, have benefitted from many of the advanced features and advantages of streamlined data sharing. However, there are also some cons to think about before you decide to migrate to SharePoint Online with Microsoft Office 365. Hence, consider following pros and cons before you dive into the environment of the SharePoint Online.
Share large files: With SharePoint Online, you can share large volume of data with intended group of users. You can also ask users to add their comments on those shared documents, update changes and mark when changes are incorporated to shared documents. Thus, you can maintain transparency and also manage data on a secure environment.
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Join us for two staged readings (professionally cast by Caroline Sinclair Casting and directed by Susane Lee). The comedic screenplay, 99 FAKE STREET, was selected from among dozens of submissions judged by a panel of Guild members. The dramatic screenplay, WHEN THE SPARROWS COME HOME, is the work of a recent Collyer Fellow under the mentorship of Marshall Brickman.
Each reading will be followed by a conversation between the writers and WGAE President Michael Winship. Afterward, please join the writers and actors for a reception at The Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at 8:30pm.
Gordon Rayfield is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. His Showtime film Our America premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the prestigious Humanitas Prize for best Long-Form Television writing, as well as an Emmy award and a Writers Guild Award. He previously won an Emmy and a Writers Guild Award as co-producer/writer of "Stand Up," a CBS Schoolbreak Special. Mr. Rayfield has written for Law & Order and other series, and as head writer of All My Children was nominated for an Emmy and was awarded a Writers Guild Award. His screenplay Alison Offline was selected as Best Romantic Comedy at the Gotham International Film Festival, and his plays, Bitter Friends, Living Proof and Fever of Unknown Origin, premiered off-Broadway in New York City, and have been produced across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Israel. Bitter Friends was published by Samuel French.
Antal Zambo is a Detroit-area native who roamed the country for a few years before settling down to study film at Wayne State University. He decided to use all the weird people he's met over the years as fodder for stories and began to write his own films. He drew on his Lithuanian family's stories and experiences as inspiration for "When The Sparrows Come Home," which won him the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting from the WGAE in 2010. When he's not writing, Antal teaches digital video production. He resides in Hamtramck in reclusive-writer fashion with several hundred books, records and DVDs and an ill-tempered cat.


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Offering relief from managing complex, distributed systems, Microsoft Corp. Chief Software Architect Bill Gates took the stage of the IT Forum in Copenhagen Tuesday to introduce a handful of tools and a hatful of promises.
"The magic of software can eliminate this complexity," Gates said in his opening address, amid a cloud of smoke left lingering from the magic show that preceded him on stage.
Microsoft's key for simplifying system management lies in its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), which Gates laid out as a long-term vision requiring broad industry cooperation.
DSI is the company's phrase for moving from thinking about individual systems and manual activities to the streamlined creation and maintenance of distributed systems, Gates said. The initiative relies on the automation of tasks, and capabilities such as having applications and hardware tell management software their status, for instance.
Despite some industry criticism that DSI sounds like smoke and mirrors, Gates said that Microsoft is proving it a reality with the introduction this week of new offerings aimed at tackling IT complexity.
Gates announced at the show the public beta of Windows Update Services, a tool that allows administrators to control and automate the deployment of Windows software updates, as well as the worldwide availability of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, and Virtual Server 2005. MOM 2005 gives administrators event and performance management tools for the Windows Server System while Virtual Server provides software testing, development and migration capabilities.
Gates also highlighted a partnership with platform integration software provider Vintela Inc. to extend MOM 2005 to Unix and Linux environments.
The announcements came a day after Microsoft introduced an initiative with Dell Inc. to integrate systems management applications so customers can update their hardware and software with one tool. Gates updated the news Tuesday, saying that Dell will be bundling MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition with Dell PowerEdge servers in 2005.
"Using software to reduce complexity is a very big theme for us," Gates said. "The DSI initiative is the common description that will bring us to the ultimate level of efficiency."
With the speed of hardware and network advances already driving down IT costs, users are looking to software to take them to the next level of innovation, he added.
Looking ahead, Gates expressed enthusiasm for the broad arrival next year of 64-bit computing, giving users more memory and a better ability to cache data. Microsoft is internally testing a 64-bit version of Windows, he said, and also using it to run its Internet search initiative.
"Hardware is not holding us back," Gates said. "It's software that's a problem."
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Let me know what ya think, of course not everyone is going to like all the picks, but noone knows what is going to happen. That's what is so great about the draft. Also I may have missed an obvious 1st round player or two so let me know. Enjoy!!
1. Kansas City - Luke Joeckel, OT Texas A&M
2. Jacksonville - Sharriff Floyd, DT Florida
3. Oakland - Geno Smith, QB WVU
4. Philadelphia- Eric Fisher, OT Central Michigan
5. Detroit - Dion Jordan, DE Oregon
6. Cleveland - Dee Milliner, CB Alabama
7. Arizona - Lane Johnson, OT Oklahoma
8. Buffalo - Cordarelle Patterson, WR Tennessee
9. NY Jets - Jarvis Jones, LB Georgia
10. Tennessee - Chance Warmack, G Alabama
11. San Diego - Xavier Rhodes, CB FSU
12. Miami - Johnathan Cooper, OG UNC
13. Tampa Bay - Tavon Austin, WR West Virginia
14. Carolina - Sheldon Richardson, DT Missouri
15. New Orleans - Ezekial Ansah, DE/OLB BYU
16. St. Louis - Star Lotuleli, DT Utah
17. Pittsburgh - Barkevious Mingo, OLB/DE LSU
18. Dallas - DJ Fluker, OT Alabama
19. NY Giants - Bjoern Werner, DE FSU
20. Chicago - Arthur Brown, MLB Kansas State
21. Cincinnati - Kenny Vacarro, S Texas
22. St. Louis - Keenan Allen, WR California
23. Minnesota - Desmond Trufant, CB Washington
24. Indianapolis - Damontre Moore, DE/OLB Texas A&M
25. Minnesota - Alec Ogletree, LB Georgia
26. Green Bay - Tyler Eifert, TE Notre Dame
27. Houston - Quinton Patton, WR Louisiana Tech
28. Denver - Sylvester Williams, DT UNC
29. New England - Robert Woods, WR USC
30. Atlanta - Johnathan Banks, CB Mississippi State
31. San Francisco - Matt Elam, S Florida
32. Baltimore - Kevin Minter, LB LSU
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Not a Pat Chung clone! Robert Woods?
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Haha I've definitely seen you post that before. Dolphins fan here, as much as it hates me to see a Patriots fan happy, I'll let ya have him.
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Flood my friend your about to get many TE is a terrible pick for the Falcons replies
Just giving you a fair warning ahead of time as TE is like our 5th or 6th need at best this point. People don't realize how bad our defensive talent is right now and im here to show you that and why TE is such a terrible pick. Our offense is straight loaded with talent top to bottom even our 3 TE's are good in Gonzo, Palmer, and Coffman. So you would be drafting a backup who this year would be very likely the #5 to #6 target at best on the team after Roddy, Julio, Gonzo, Jackson/Quizz, Harry Then Ertz.
Now for those defensive problems i told you we had and don't get scared when you see our depth chart it's hideous.
LDE Kroy Biermann Jonathan Massaquoi
DT Jonathan Babineaux Travian Robertson
DT Corey Peters Peria Jerry
RDE Cliff Matthews
OLB Sean Weatherspoon Robert James
MLB Akeem Dent
OLB Stephen Nicholas
RCB Robert McClain
LCB Asante Samuel Dominique Franks
SS William Moore
FS Thomas DeCoud Charles Mitchell
DE - 3 DE on the roster and all 3 were 5th round plus players. Biermann is the only one with starting experience.
DT - Decent depth here although we have to have a 3-4 NT come in this year from the FA or Draft none of those guys can do it and we run 3-4 fronts to often not to have a true 3-4 NT Nolan even said he wants to do more of them this offseason.
LB - We need a legit OLB/ILB to come in here and help this group badly as well. seeing as we only have 4 lb's on the entire team and only 1 starter quality in Spoon.
FS - Were solid here nothing real big needed Pro bowl starter and solid depth we drafted.
SS - We could use a depth pick later although we are known to get a vet SS backup every year in FA for cheap. Maybe Chris Hope comes back.
CB - We have 3 CB on the entire team. All 3 are talented but we could probably use 1 or 2 to come in and fight for a starting spot.
Jessie Williams at NT would be a much better pick for us as we literally don't have a 3-4 NT on the entire roster and we ran 3-4 alot last year and we got gashed up the middle because of it in that aligment. Plus he could play in the 4-3 as well he is that versatile of a DT.
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If we go DE/DT there I think we take Sly Williams. The FO seems to love him.
Edit- Good new pick.
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After signing Osi, I feel like your secondary and DE's are doing alright and you can find depth later on in the draft. I can definitely see them picking up some defense here, but I'm not going to pass up Ertz or Eifert playing behind Gonzo for a year and then taking over.
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After signing Osi, I feel like your secondary and DE's are doing alright and you can find depth later on in the draft. I can definitely see them picking up some defense here, but I'm not going to pass up Ertz or Eifert playing behind Gonzo for a year and then taking over.
Our secondary is doing alright? I hope your team can field a CB group with only 3 people
Grimes, Owens, and Robinson all left this year.
All we have are Asante who is old as well for his position in his mid 30's
Mcclain who was on the PS last year and earned a spot as the nickleback then a starting spot when grimes went down. So he is a 1 yr player. Then Franks who pretty much has done nothing since he got here but has shown talent at times.
We literally have to have a 2 CB's this draft to even have a full squad of CB. 1 of them need to be a starter quality CB.
TE on the other hand we actually have 3 guys who are talented 1 in Chase Coffmann who is probably more talented and upside than Ertz. We also just resigned coffmann this offseason to a 2 yr deal.
It's seems sorta funny to me that everyone who isn't an atlanta fan gives us a TE but not 1 atlanta fan ever gives us one in a draft earlier than the 4th or 5th round.
Plus Austin next year at TE is a much better prospect than Eifert or Ertz we can grab a guy like him next year or 1 in FA or heck even go with a guy like Reed, Fauria, Escobar, Kelce. Mcdonald in the later part of the mock and have them learn under Gonzo their upsides are as good as Eifert and Ertz almost as well for much better value.
Adding Ertz will do what give us maybe .3 points more a game if that as the #5 option. A legit starting NT or CB could literally change our whole defense this year.
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Well I can't say I know more about Atlanta than you do, so you win. I looked at your guys forum and I seen a mock with Banks, so that's what I'm going with now. Like I said this is my first mock of the year, thanks for the input man.
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not sure I would go DT over DE for the Jags. Dion Jordan is a better pikc IMO, although I could live with FLoyd as the pick.
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Okay for the Vikings, CB is okay in round one and Ogletree isn't bad, but he has character concerns, so I don't see the Vikings drafting him.
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Well I can't say I know more about Atlanta than you do, so you win. I looked at your guys forum and I seen a mock with Banks, so that's what I'm going with now. Like I said this is my first mock of the year, thanks for the input man.
Np bro glad ya checked our forums out to get some info
Also appreciate the time you took out to reply both times. I'll probably be complaining like this come draft day if Dimitroff does go TE in the 1st round as will alot of falcon fans lol. But knowing our luck it will happen XD
Banks isn't a bad choice at all CB is def. a huge need and he has alot of upside.
Him or Williams are good picks. The only reason i personally went with Williamsis because Cb is much deeper than NT is and NT is a much harder position to find true talent. But im cool with both.
Look forward to seeing your next mock before the draft if ya do one. Keep checking those forum sections you will get good input from fans of their teams. Thats how i usually make my mocks when i do em.
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Dislike the Fisher pick. We could of drafted Star....
Chip Kelly on Sam Bradford: "We didnt bring in Sam to be a trade chip, Im the only Chip here"
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Not bad for the Steelers. I personally would've chose Vaccaro, but I like Mingo as well.
Props to CalhounLambeau
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Love Brown. Would prefer Vaccaro, Trufant, Moore, or Ogletree.
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Published on Thursday, October 2, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
When Your Only Tool is a Hammer
by Roger Arnold
"When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."
Sure, we've heard that, but do we appreciate how much it applies in real world? It's a psychological truism that how we perceive problems is influenced by what tools we have for dealing with them. We may overlook a problem entirely, if prior experience gives us no cause to recognize it as something we can do anything about. Conversely, when we have an approach that seems to have worked in one situation, we're primed to notice similarities in other situations where it might be applied-even if it isn't, in fact, all that great an approach. It's just the way we're wired.
Flashback to the fall of 1970; I was serving with the army, at a headquarters company in Europe. In a buddy's Playboy magazine, I came across an interview with Joan Baez. The topic was non-violence. Like many GI-s in that era, I had a grudging respect for Baez for the consistency of her non-violent stand. At a time when other anti-war activists were muting any criticism of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, Baez was forthright in condemning both sides. But I considered her to be naďve. Non-violence, to me, implied a Pollyanna vision of human nature.
That interview forced me to change my mind. As you might expect, there were a lot of tough "but what if" kinds of questions from the interviewer. Baez gave thoughtful answers that were not at all those of a Pollyanna. They were the answers of an intelligent woman who had studied the issues, and had a sober grasp of human nature. What impressed me was that, ultimately, she made the case for non-violence in pragmatic terms. Moral issues aside, non-violent solutions to problems almost always *work* better than those based on violence.
Most of us can agree with that, in the abstract. We've seen how "violence breeds violence". But we get stuck on that qualifier of "almost always". Aren't there some situations where we have no choice? We're understandably nervous about renouncing violence altogether, and then finding ourselves vulnerable to those who remain willing to employ it. Baez addressed that in a couple of ways, but what struck me was a purely pragmatic consideration: namely, that as long as we retain the *option* of violence, we will never be able to apply ourselves fully to the job of finding superior, non-violent solutions. Our minds function with a built-in economy that resists spending time looking for a better solution, once we have one that seems workable--particularly when we're under pressure. Because violence is such a potent tool, it's hard to see beyond it.
That observation really sunk in. Once you think about it, it's more or less self-evident, if you've spent any time noticing how people work. It didn't quite manage to make me a pacifist on the spot, but it did change my attitude. I gained a lot more respect for Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They were evidently not "high minded dreamers" who got lucky, but astute strategists who knew exactly what they were doing. The interview also gave me a better handle for coming to terms with the mess in Vietnam.
Before I was drafted, I had thought that our Vietnam quagmire was the result of simple incompetence. From inside, I found it more complex. There were all types of individuals in the military, as you'd expect, but most were decent guys dedicated to doing a job. Incompetence was no more common than it is anywhere in business or government. For what it was designed for, in fact, I found the military exceptionally competent. What it was designed for, however, was smashing an identified enemy force on a field of battle. It was not designed for winning the trust and support of foreign villagers who only wanted to be left alone. That's what would have been needed to dry up support for the insurgents and stabilize the government of South Vietnam.
Our leaders in Washington had fallen into the "hammer / nail" trap. On the one hand, we had this very nice hammer in the form of an overwhelming military force. On the other, we had Vietnam, where the problem of an armed insurgency against a government we supported looked very much like a nail. And so we started pounding on it, unable to imagine that all our bombs and helicopters and machine guns wouldn't be sufficient to vanquish the rebels and allow our allies to reign supreme. Our leaders were unable to see beyond the glare of military power to understand the full consequences of its use in the kind of mission that Vietnam presented. We ended up as the best recruiters that North Vietnam could have asked for, among disaffected South Vietnamese.
You can probably see where I'm going with this. A generation later, and here we are in Iraq, in just same sort of quagmire we sunk ourselves into in Vietnam. We tell ourselves that we came to liberate the people of Iraq from the clutches of a cruel dictator from whom they were unable to free themselves. What Iraqis see are occupying troops who don't speak their language, are often arrogant and abusive, and whose periodic raids are frightening, humiliating, and all too often fatal to innocent bystanders. Assault troops are not ambassadors.
We hear a lot of talk these days about how we have to "stay the course" in Iraq, that it would be a disaster to "cut and run" before we had "finished the job" of rebuilding Iraq and preparing the way for a "stable democratic government". Similar talk was prominent in the Vietnam era. I bought it then, to some extent. But however good our stated intentions might have been, the fact was that they could not possibly have been achieved with the tools we were using. And the same is true in Iraq. You simply cannot achieve what we claim to be working for using machine guns, assault helicopters, and troops still operating in battle mode. The longer we remain in Iraq, the more we will alienate those who might have been our allies. You can't cut a board with a hammer; you can only splinter it.
What's really infuriating to me about this whole mess is that I thought we knew better. The Vietnam war was a terrible and tragic experience, for all sides. The one consolation that many of us who were touched by it could take is the thought that the lives lost and ruined by the war were not a total waste. It seemed that we, as a nation, had at least learned a hard lesson about the limitations of military force. We would conduct ourselves more wisely in the future, and the world would be a safer place. But now it turns out that the lesson did not sink in very deeply. A handful of draft-dodging ideologues from my own generation have been able to flush it away, and commit the country to a course that had seemed unthinkable. They have taken the tragedy of Vietnam and stripped it of any redeeming lesson. That, even more than the distortions and lies they used to sell their program to the American people and Congress, is their real crime.
Roger Arnold (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a Vietnam era vet. After release from the army, he avoided politics and built a career as a software engineer and systems architect. He is indebted to G. W. Bush for showing him the folly of taking civil rights and sanity in government for granted. He is now working as a volunteer for the presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich.


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By the time you read this, my daughter may have finally decided where she will attend college, at least as a freshman. Like a careful shopper, she has approached this selection in the same manner she eventually purchased her prom dress. Her plan is simple: Visit every possible store, search for the right fit, and then try to urge a soft-hearted parent that we can afford all the extras. Mom was asked to help out with the prom dress, and I became her college adviser.
In the last 18 months, we've visited colleges scattered around the Midwest. I've enjoyed the time spent with my daughter. But in April I decided enough was enough. Ever the engineer, I finalized a comprehensive comparison spreadsheet comparing the key facts from all our visits. I listed four-year graduation rates, dormitory rules, and faculty-to-student ratios. My daughter contributed factors such as average temperature, male-to-female ratios, and number of midterm holidays. The list that we can't seem to find time to talk about is the cost/benefit analysis sheet.
We aren't the only parent/student research team in action. So it's been interesting to monitor how most college recruiters have recognized this trend and have tailored information. They all tout an educational program that will result not only in a well-educated graduate, but one who can make a living in his field of study. It's nice to know that dollars paid in education will have an economic return.
Later this month, you have an opportunity to see a return on education. Our industry is having its second version of what is quickly becoming the graduate school of concrete higher learning. The 2007 Concrete Technology Forum: Focus on High Performance Concrete, will be held May 22–24 in Dallas. Organizers have assembled an educational program beneficial to researchers and practitioners. The event is becoming the meeting place to discuss the latest advances, technical knowledge, continuing research, tools, and solutions for high-performance concrete.
This year's topic intrigues me. I first wrote about high-performance concrete (HPC) in October 1996, when Mary Lou Ralls, then with the Texas DOT, was on our cover. For more than a decade, innovative leaders from the Federal Highway Administration have encouraged HPC by funding several demonstration projects around the country. The Turner Fairbanks Highway Research Center's Web site at www.tfhrc.gov hosts this research.
For the last three years, efforts have been made to encourage the acceptance of performance-based specifications through the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association's P2P initiative. The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Portland Cement Association, and other groups have been courting bridge designers on HPC through the National Concrete Bridge Council. And even the American Concrete Institute has published its own take on HPC, even though it's only a symposium collection.
The key to this year's forum must be industry-wide agreement on HPC's terminology, measurement, and design criteria. We must present the message from our customer's point of view. Whether precast or cast-in-place, wet-batched, zero-slump, extruded, or gray or colored, the designer/engineer/architect must be assured that an HPC is HPC, no matter from whom he purchases the product.
Our industry needs you in Dallas at this gathering. And just as important, you might want to bring along your best customer.
When you arrive, I may be hard to find. I'll be there at least the first day. But I need to leave early. We're having sort of a technology transfer of our own. My daughter's commencement is that week. I'm interested in learning where she's decided to go to college.
To learn more on the 2007 Concrete Technology Forum, visit www.ConcreteTechnologyForum.org.
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I have a really good piece of advice for you. Google yourself. Google your name, google your email address(es), see what comes up. It might surprise you.
I google myself every couple months to see what shows up. I don't like it when websites post my home address or info like that, and if I see it show up, I email them and ask them to remove me from their site, which they always do.
It's also funny to find out that others have the same name as you and interesting stuff comes up. Tonight I found out that a porn star shares my first and last name. THAT was interesting.
What was also interesting when I googled my name is that I found a link to a book that my story is going to be in: http://books.google.com/books?id=7E9sFW2eBZMC&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=nikki+coar&source=bl&ots=1sTwgsPnfr&sig=qp2d3vjoIt3T3TXaCdfT_2DSKeA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sy7JUOiTPKaoywHIzID4DA&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBA
Only parts of the story are shown. I can't wait to see the whole story when the book comes out. And I can't wait to read about other's stories. It's a book about eating well with diabetes, but I contribute how to eat with diabetes AND celiac. When you have both it can be a little challenging.
Pretty cool!!
Sorry this is short. I just finished the tweetchat on #dsma tonight. I get so pumped talking with others with D; it's pretty awesome.
More tomorrow...
About Me
- Nikki
- I'm a glass-half-full type of girl. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, grave's disease and celiac disease in 2010 and life-altering allergies in 2013. I believe having a positive attitude is the only way to live with dis-ease. I also believe that life doesn't have to be PERFECT for it to be WONDERFUL. Dis-ease is expensive, so I live a frugal yet healthy lifestyle. This is just my blog; my day-to-day story.
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Okay, some really good advice here. So, to start diagnosis, or maybe even help come up with some ideas...here goes.
It is a carb engine. That is the reason for the 180 therm. Plus, the engine is newly rebuilt, and a brand new engine tends to run warmer, so I wanted to make darn sure that the therm opens up soon enough.
I have burped and filled every possible air pocket in the system, so I am positive there is no air in the system, so that can't be it either. Flow of coolant is superb, no cavitating, and the hoses have a great "feel" to them while running. Now, I have made no changes at all yet...but I drove it last night, the thing came up to 180...after running for 15 minutes, and then today I drove it again, and it never made it above 110! It's killing me. Every logical troubleshoot I have is being laughed at me by this engine. Ive built many engines, and had great sucess. I've once or twice had to change cooling systems because they were getting too hot, but I have never had one unable to warm up! Shoot, I've got a half a dozen aircraft engines under my belt as well...and I'm the once who test flew them too...I have plenty of faith in my skills, but this one has got me totally stumped!
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CHIBA – To demonstrate that the fish pulled from Tokyo Bay are not contaminated by oil following a collision last month off the Miura Peninsula, a Chiba Prefecture fisheries association offered samples of their catches at a tasting event Wednesday.
A 12,630-ton Panamanian freighter sank after colliding with a 7,406-ton South Korean vessel about 6 km off the city of Miura in Kanagawa Prefecture early March 18.
The cargo ship was on its way to Kobe after leaving Yokohama, while the South Korean vessel was heading for Tokyo from South Korea.
The organizer of the tasting event — the Amaha Fisheries Cooperative Association based in the city of Futtsu — offered fish caught in local waters in the early hours of Wednesday, as test fishing operations resumed that day.
The area had been closed to fishing due to the oil spill caused by the collision. But a company was hired to clean up the waters where the fishermen operate.
Fish brokers and others in the fishing industry gathered at the fishing port, where they were treated to delicacies such as slices of raw porgy and horse mackerel served as freshly prepared sashimi. The fish had been caught and landed by eight fishing vessels early in the morning.
"The oil spill has not affected (the water and fish quality)," said Hideki Isogai who heads the fisheries association. "I'm glad that attendees enjoyed the taste (of the fish)."
According to the association, about 70 percent of the association's members, around 150 gill-netters, stopped fishing on March 20. But now, they say, the water quality has improved since the oil was removed.
The fisheries association plans to resume regular operations Thursday, as soon as safety is confirmed.
The association will have monitoring ship check for any further slicks.


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I am being ailed by the same problem.
I have BackTrack 5 KDE 64 bit installed next to several other operating systems (Win 7, ubuntu, mint) on a Dell Studio XPS 1640. Everything is working fine except this annoying beep at poweroff. It last for about 1 second and is audible immediately when I execute the "poweroff" command via pressing enter.
In blacklist.conf I tried blacklisting pcspkr and also snd_pcsp to no avail, so now I am wondering what else I can try or see why it is even beeping at all?
I am being ailed by the same problem.
I'm with ya. That might actually be the most annoying sound in the world.
Step 1
I just went through this, and this is the solution:
Open up a Terminal and type:
sudo alsamixer
Now using your left/right arrow keys navigate over to PC Beep and press M on your keyboard, you'll see MM appear under the volume bar, this basically means it's been muted now press Esc to exit.
Step 2
Now run the command:
sudo alsactl store
This will basically save the changes you made.


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Evolving new drugs – fragment-based lead discovery for all
The search for new drugs with desirable properties has been likened by Robin Spencer (as cited) to the process of holing a golf ball from a great distance, in which several strokes (using different clubs) are required to get one ever closer to the target. This is because the search space of possible drugs is simply enormous. The field that deals with answering the question of this number is known as 'enumeration', and while not all possible molecules are likely to make drugs, thus introducing constraints, the number of 'drug-like' molecules containing up to 30 'heavy' (non-H) atoms has been estimated at 1063.
To face this challenge, pharmaceutical companies have acquired very large libraries (1 – 2 millions) of candidate substances that might produces hits in appropriate assays (screens), and which might then be developed into leads and finally into marketable substances. While many of these library molecules are proprietary, a lot of molecular diversity is already available to those without direct access to new synthetic chemistry. Thus, Williams points out that PubChem already contains data on more than 18M molecules, ZINC lists electronically 4.8M that are commercially available (see our recent analysis of its diversity as part of a separate analysis of the comparison between commercial drugs and intermediary metabolites, related to the role of carriers in cellular drug uptake), and the internet is a seriously useful resource for acquiring such molecules.
Notwithstanding the recognition that an initial hit must be modified somewhat to get to the final product, 1-2 million compounds is a lot to screen, and one may wonder if there is an easier way that requires considerably fewer assays. The method of 'evolving molecules' that does this is known as fragment-based lead discovery, and works as follows. Imagine a hypothetical binding site with an affinity of 1 nM for a molecule of the form A-B-C. If there are 100 fragments that could serve to make A, B or C individually, the number of combinations is 100 x 100 x 100 = 106. However, if each of those fragments alone can bind with mM affinity, and we just have to find which 3, we only have to screen the 100 in the first instance. Based on this knowledge we can then search for whether the best answer is A-B-C, B-C-A and so on. Clearly the assembly of chemical fragments differs considerably from that of strings of letters, but the main message is clear: by using multiple steps of evolution (as also demonstrated in a chromatographic context elsewhere), including a selection step at each round, the number of individual assays required to find or evolve a potent molecule is massively reduced. In other words, given a robust assay and the necessary cheminformatics skills, fragment-based approaches make molecular discovery accessible to all laboratory budgets. Nowadays, many laboratories narrow the search space by effecting structural studies at each round, to assess exactly where each fragment binds and thus how to join them up optimally. The total number of individual (but skilfully selected) fragments used is usually in the low 100s. Some recent reviews of this include those by Rees et al., by Erlanson, by Hajduk & Greer, by Hubbard et al., by Jhoti et al.
In some ways, this is the molecular equivalent of the strategy discussed in the previous blog, where I looked at the inhibition of networks at multiple sites. However, in this case the fragment-based approaches are considerably better established. They also provide an unexpected twist on the ideas of evolution, a suitable topic to focus on as we approach Darwin Day.
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