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Larry Atkins teaches journalism at Temple University and Arcadia University.
In light of the decline of newspapers, you would think that college students would be staying away from the field of journalism in droves. Thus far, that's not the case. But will university journalism schools change their approach in the way they teach future journalists?
According to Inside Higher Ed, applications to Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism have gone up around 40 percent higher than last year. Applications to Temple University's Department of Journalism have remained steady over the last few years. In March, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported that due to student interest and potential demand, the University of Pennsylvania is working to propose a journalism minor.
But how are the Journalism schools and departments accommodating this interest to the changing realities of the journalism profession?
According to Dr. Andrew Mendelson, Chair of Temple University's Journalism Department, "In some ways, we anticipated the new reality. Six years ago, we changed the curriculum to add more multimedia exposure. We require students to do reporting in all types of areas—print, Web, audio and video. In addition to this cross-platform format, students specialize in newspapers, magazines or photojournalism."
"In addition, we recently added an elective in Entrepreneurial Journalism, started by Professor George Miller, in which we teach students how to become their own business model by freelancing or starting their own websites."
"We're also doing more career workshops. Some are with the Career Center and deal with networking and preparing resumes. We also have business practices workshops, which deal with legal issues, contracts, and how to market yourself."
A recent trend of journalism programs is getting students out of the classroom to cover events and issues in the community. Five years ago, Temple established MURL, the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab, in which journalism students work in a newsroom setting where they experience all aspects of news production, including print, broadcast, Web and digital media. MURL's mission is to tell stories of the multicultural, diverse voices in the under-covered urban Philadelphia neighborhoods. MURL students concentrate their news coverage in a targeted neighborhood, then service it with targeted information.
La Salle University will launch a capstone course in community journalism next fall, in which students will be doing multi-media reporting about community issues in Germantown.
As Huntly Collins, a La Salle Journalism Professor and former Inquirer reporter, says, "Ironically, this comes at a time when Germantown has lost its community newspaper [The Germantown Courier] and when nearby Mt. Airy has also lost its paper, the Mt. Airy Express. I would love to see our students help fill the vacuum, perhaps with financial backing from a non-profit organization."
Another emerging trend is that journalism schools are starting to teach social media. As reported by Vadim Lavrusik in Mashable, The Social Media Guide on June 19, 2009, journalism professors are teaching how social media like Facebook and Twitter can be applied to aid in reporting and producing the news. Among the approaches being taught include promoting and distributing content, interviewing, news gathering and research, crowdsourcing, building community and developing a personal brand.
Other emerging trends in teaching journalism include global journalism and interactivity. Drexel offers a BA in Global Journalism, where students are taught journalism skills they can use on a global level. Arcadia University, which emphasizes study abroad programs, recently started a Visual Culture in India Project, where communications students travel to India and then create multimedia projects that are posted on a website. Villanova launched "The Zone," which is an interactive portal run through the Communications Department and also broadcasts live streaming radio shows created by students in the Radio Production class.
Jody Ross, English Professor at Villanova University and Advisor to the Villanovan student newspaper says, "We have not changed our program; in fact, more students than ever seem interested in studying journalism. I love to teach the subject because, regardless of whether or not our students will find jobs as newspaper reporters, they learn to be informed consumers of news and they become advocates for newspapers. They learn to think, report and write accurately and fairly to distinguish fact from opinion and to carry the sensations they see, hear, smell, touch or taste directly to the reader without adding assumptions or conclusions. Best of all, they learn to write well. Journalists are the most passionate aficionados of grammar and usage and accurate phrasing the world–more even than college English professors or attorneys. Whether our students become news writers, public relations professionals, business executives, doctors, teachers or lawyers, their journalism training always pays off. Dozens of them stay in touch with me, and their passion for journalism never wanes."
Will Bunch, a Philadelphia Daily News reporter who writes the popular blog Attytood, believes that journalism schools need to continue teaching the traditional core values of reporting, but that they need to emphasize the concepts of audience involvement and entrepreneurship. "You can look at it two ways," Bunch says. "The core values of journalism aren't really changing. You have to understand what makes a good story, how to report it, and how to report fairly and with integrity. It was the exact same with Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper 150 years ago or with newfangled websites. That hasn't changed."
"What is radically different are important secondary things that schools have to account for. Journalists today need to understand that news is now a two way conversation between you and the audience. Don't talk down to the audience. Audience members are active participants—they comment on stories, participate as sources, and provide information and tips. Schools can maintain their core values and work on that."
"Schools also need to teach that journalists need to think as entrepreneurs. You don't just write a story; you have to find an audience for it. That's been ignored by many journalists, and it's critical today."
So what career advice are university journalism and writing professors giving their students?
Mendelson says, "I encourage students to do multiple internships and diverse types of internships in which they learn a lot of different things. You need expertise and strengths, but don't follow just one path. Getting experience with newspapers, websites, television and radio will strengthen your resume. It's a scary, but exciting time. The paths are not clear and obvious, so you have to create your own paths."
Al Filreis, Director of Penn's Kelly Writers House says, "Young writers often ask me about which genre of their interest – journalism, novel-writing, poetry, screenwriting, etc. – is the one they should follow. The journalists still want to report on their stories, make their short deadlines and all that, but they seem to know, first, that the jobs are fewer than before and, second, that print journalism is a dead end. There's a revival of interest in the traditionally unrenumerative genres of writing, fiction and poetry. This has its own other causes, but one cause is surely that journalism, which seemed a salaried avenue, no longer guarantees anything. Writers, even young ones, sense intuitively that the bad market frees them to do anyway what they really want to do. This is purely anecdotal, but I see a lot of students who want to be full-time writers and the seem actually happier."
Huntly Collins of La Salle says, "Over the past two years, we've had great success in placing journalism students in internships and jobs. How that will play out in the future, however, is an open question. I suspect the best student journalists will land jobs in the news industry, but they may have to move to growth areas of the country. For others, I think it's going to be tough.
One advantage we have at La Salle, however, is that our students are broadly trained within the communication field, including public relations. So even if our journalism students can't find jobs in the news business, they will have the background they need to get plum jobs in public relations."
Bunch says, "I would advise students to go into journalism. If they have a passion for news reporting, by all means go for it. They just need to understand that the format is changing. But that's always been true. Blogs didn't exist for me when I graduated from college 28 years ago. It's an even more rapid change now. But if you care about writing about news, there will be a place for you."


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A Charlottetown busker who drew media attention after claiming to have been assaulted and his guitar destroyed is now being sought by police.
Christopher Wayne (Chris) Nettleton appears on the Charlottetown Police Services web site in a list of wanted people.
Nettleton is described as age 39, height 168 cm (5'6"), and weighing 78 kg (172 lb). He has brown hair and blue eyes.
Police are asking for anyone with information to call the department directly at 902-629-4172 or Crime Stoppers at www.peicrimestoppers.com/
Nettleton has been on the Island for a few years as he lives an itinerant life across Canada governed by addiction and life on the street.
He has a charge on P.E.I. for armed robbery back in October, 2012.
He took to busking at the corner of University Ave. and Kent Street in Charlottetown until March this year when he claims two men smashed his guitar, kicked him in the face and took his money.
Charlottetown Police Services was not available to add further details to the want now in place for Nettleton.

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Kaine and D-Roc, better known as the Atlanta-based duo Ying Yang Twins are back with yet another cadre of crunkified stripper anthems on The Official Work. This time around the frequent Lil Jon collaborators deliver, at the risk of sounding like a political ad, more of the same.
"Don't Trip" and "Ochee" (the latter, quite possibly spelled incorrectly, for those of you playing along at home and referencing Nas and QB Finest) are unquestionably catchy, albeit chock full of references to a gynecologist's money-maker. However, like many of the offerings on The Official Work, they cull from the same bag of sonic tricks and cop lyrics from the Ghosts of Hip-Hop Past. For all their faults, these songs fare better than others on the mixtape. "Juaah" is an unintelligible, unimaginative stripper anthem made painful to listen to by the recurring sample of a man screaming like someone dropped a case of Crunk Juice on his foot. "Whoop Ass" employs similar theatrics but substitutes aggression for libido. Same old, same old. Then again, when Ying Yang step outside of their comfort zone of up-beat booty-shakers, the results are disastrous. While "Cheech & Chong," an ode to everyone's favorite smokers fares better than "The Wind," these songs slow down the party mood and close the disc on a downer of a note
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While every artist has their hallmarks, The Official Work is rife with what sounds like the same, uninspired samples that have been passed around more times than a crumpled dollar bill at a strip club. Having Lil Jon scream "Yeaa-aah!" between every other verse was novel, even catchy, back in 2002. Now it's just another tired cliché, the type of thing that makes hip-hop fans cringe and is turning the genre into a parody of itself.
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Gold rose in Friday trading, boosted by a report showing lower-than-expected U.S. hiring in August. The news appeared to dampen the likelihood that the Federal Reserve would begin tapering its monthly bond-buying sooner than later.
The Labor Department reported that non-farm payrolls climbed by just 169,000, well below the 180,000 that economists had forecast. The Fed has cited the U.S. job market as one of the indicators it is watching to determine the timing for winding down its economic stimulus efforts.
Gold futures for December delivery rose 1% to $1,386.50 per ounce on Friday, according to CME Group. Gold traded as high as $1,393.60 and as low as $1,358.80. Gold bullion closed in London at $1,391, according to BullionVault.
Silver futures for December delivery jumped 2.7% to $23.89 per ounce. Friday's high for silver was $23.99, while the low was $23.08.
Gold and silver funds climbed in Friday trading.
- The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) rose 1.5%.
- The iShares Gold Trust (IAU) added 1.4%.
- The iShares Silver Trust (SLV) gained 2.6%.
Gold and silver mining ETFs improved during the day.
- The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) increased 1.7%.
- The Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) advanced 2.9%.
- The Global X Silver Miners ETF (SIL) moved up 1.3%.
Gold mining shares climbed on Friday.
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- Barrick Gold (ABX) rose 0.9%.
- Eldorado Gold (EGO) added 1.7%.
- Goldcorp (GG) gained 1.2%.
- Kinross Gold (KGC) increased 1.8%.
- Newmont Mining (NEM) edged up 0.4%.
- NovaGold Resources (NG) surged 6.9%.
- Yamana Gold (AUY) improved 2.1%.
Silver mining shares mostly advanced during the day.
- Coeur d'Alene Mines (CDE) gained 4.5%.
- Hecla Mining (HL) inched up 0.6%.
- Pan American Silver (PAAS) dipped 0.1%.
- Silver Wheaton (SLW) rose 0.7%.
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Deval L. Patrick, Governor
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The public higher education system in Massachusetts is a critical asset and contributor to the Commonwealth's Innovation Economy, and the 15 community colleges are an essential component of a vibrant postsecondary educational and workforce development system. Therefore, the Patrick-Murray Administration is maintaining its strong commitment to these campuses, by providing significant new investments in community colleges in the FY 2014 budget. The Commonwealth's 15 community colleges provide a wide variety of affordable and highly effective educational and career programs to prepare students of all ages for both the job market and future academic study.
Our community colleges currently serve as the linchpin of three central goals of the Patrick-Murray Administration:
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2. Reducing unemployment across the state; and
3. Closing the achievement gap.
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The Patrick-Murray Administration will continue its efforts to reform the community college system by increasing accountability and strengthening collaboration to improve both academic and workforce training outcomes. The Department of Higher Education (DHE) and the community colleges have worked to collaborate both internally with the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) and the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development (EOHED), as well as externally with local employers, to ensure that workforce initiatives at the campuses meet the needs the students and the local economy. The FY 2014 budget includes new investments of $2.3 M that will build on the following elements of the FY 2013 budget, including:
The FY 2014 budget will continue to advance these efforts through an investment of $6.1 M, including $2.3 M in new funding at DHE that consolidates the FY 2013 initiatives of in-demand scholarships, Rapid Response Grants and the Community College Workforce Grant Advisory committee. This consolidation of funding will allow DHE greater flexibility in meeting the workforce development needs of the community colleges, and the students and employers served by the community colleges.
Investing in Community Colleges
The opportunity, value, and life advancement offered by the community colleges has been recognized by the residents of Massachusetts, as full-time equivalent enrollment increased 32 percent from 2006 to 2011. The Administration will invest an additional $20 M in new funding for Community Colleges, or 9 percent more than FY 2013 funding levels. This new investment will be allocated to the campuses through a new formula that serves to accomplish the goals established by the Administration and ensure that all campuses will receive at least the same levels of funding as in FY 2013.
The Commissioner of Higher Education was charged with recommending a new formula for allocating state-appropriated dollars to the community colleges that would successfully address the following factors:
The new formula was developed in consultation with the presidents of the community colleges, the leadership of the Massachusetts Community College Council, Massachusetts Teachers Association, and the Secretaries of the Executive Office of Education (EOE), EOLWD, and EOHED. The new formula includes the following elements:
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The first season of Comedy Central's hilarious and highly rated series, created by Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla ("The Man Show") and David Letterman producer Daniel Kellison, is full of irreverence and completely uncensored. The show features puppets and some of the entertainment industry's funniest comedians getting laughs using the simplest prank: making crank calls. Included is a behind-the-scenes documentary.
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My year at Clarion was really the first wired year of the workshop. Nearly everyone had a computer -- those who didn't bring their own got brand-new loaner 486s from the college -- the sole exception being Nathan Ballingrud, who insisted on his beloved manual typewriter. I remember how expressive his manuscripts were, dark vivid keystrokes where he was on a roll, tentative, faint characters where he'd slowed down, faint hand-written corrections on the photocopies. We critiqued three or four stories a day, five days a week, for two to six hours, and I wrote a story every week. Our instructors varied from wonderful to ineffectual to out-and-out abusive. I had a modem and I spent a fair bit of time dialed up to GEnie, a primitive online service, keeping online track of what was going on at the workshop.
There was a fair bit of handwringing from the instructors over the idea that students were "wasting time online," gossiping and spilling the beans about the politics at the workshop. This theme continued in subsequent years as students continued to keep online Clarion journals, sometimes quite intimate ones that were critical of or wounded at the instructors. An interesting feedback loop developed one year, when instructor Lucius Shepard read a student's online journal and commented on it in person, prompting another journal entry and another conversation, which prompted another journal entry, and so on.
This year, a Clarion student has formalized the online journal process, putting up a portal with links to all the student journals. They're in their third week now, half way through, and the journal entries fill me with nostalgia. Taken as a body, the journal entries comprise a fascinating window into the hothouse of the legendary "sf writers' boot-camp." Six weeks at Clarion can change you forever. It took five years for me to overcome the writers' block that resulted from the amount of information I needed to assimilate after my year; Octavia Butler reports the same experience.
This year's instructor line-up is fantastic: Terry Bisson, Karen Joy Fowler, Tim Powers, Geoff Ryman, Leslie What, Patricia C. Wrede and Patrick Nielsen Hayden. I'd love to teach Clarion some year myself, though God knows where I'd find the time.
A word of advice to this year's students: The MSU library has all of the previous Clarion students' stories on file. If you're ever feeling down about your work and worried that you'll never make it, swing by the library and have a peek at some of the work that has preceded you. Check out Bruce Sterling's submission story, or Lucius Shepard's, or hell, check out mine. Everyone starts somewhere.
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Recently, the department announced it will again accept applications for an additional $700 million for the Urban Areas Security Initiative grant program. NACo encourages all counties with large metropolitan cities within their boundaries to apply directly to DHS for funding.
Streamlining applications for First Responder grants
Various grant programs dealing with homeland security were absorbed by the new department and many require a lot of the same information on their grant application forms. This issue has become a major concern to many counties and other local government officials across the nation. Citing these complaints by state, local and other first responder organizations, the Senate has urged DHS to streamline the various grant applications for state and local governments, and consolidate some of the existing plans that various federal agencies require from state and local government prior to receiving any funding for homeland security.
Ridge has said, "the department is working to eliminate duplicative requests for security plans," but stressed " the government needs those strategies to hold states and localities accountable for how they spend federal money." Ridge has also announced that the department is trying to make progress in building an Internet portal for grant applications and that he supports moving the Office of Domestic Preparedness into the department's State and Local Coordination Office.
NACo has encouraged DHS and Congress to distribute an equitable share of funding to both small and large local governments for their homeland security activities. "Counties across the nation have spent a great deal of funding to support ongoing counter terrorism activities in their community, and Congress must provide additional resources to support all local governments, not just large metropolitan areas " said Larry Naake, NACo executive director.
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The toll in human suffering and health costs from diet-related disease is stark. Addressing the digital marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to youth is a key step toward easing this toll and ensuring a healthy future. This report from the Public Health Advocacy Institute, Berkeley Media Studies Group and Center for Digital Democracy describes state legal approaches available to stem the harmful tide of digital food marketing targeted at children and teens.
With young people's growing use of digital devices, food and beverage companies are now able to target them in more ways than ever, often with deceptive content that makes it harder for youth to recognize as marketing. Some legal protections have yet to catch up with advances in digital marketing, but existing prohibitions on unfair and deceptive practices can be used to protect kids.
Digital games are a popular tactic that food and beverage companies use to market unhealthy products to kids and teens. Research shows there is a connection between gaming and obesity, and advergames can have a harmful effect on kids' eating habits. However, the sheer volume of gaming platforms and apps makes state regulation a challenge.
The explosion of digital culture in recent years has changed how fast food and soda companies market to children and teenagers. Today, powerful and intense promotions are completely, seamlessly integrated into young people's social relationships and minute-by-minute interactions. This report explores some of marketers' latest techniques, explains why they should concern public health advocates, and offers resources for taking action.
Four consumer advocacy groups file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to investigate the ethics of PepsiCo and Frito-Lays' digital marketing practices. The complaint highlights PepsiCo's "Snack Strong Productions" campaigns, emphasizing how the company has created "immersive" experiences to target and mislead teens into becoming Frito-Lay consumers. A collection of appendices includes videos, interviews, Frito-Lay online content and other evidence to support the complaint.
With technology's increased presence in our daily lives has come new ways for advertisers to digitally market to kids and teens. This report exposes some of the new — and often deceptive — tactics that food and beverage companies are using reach young audiences and makes recommendations for policy changes to better protect youth online.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are questioning actor Michael Jace after his wife was found dead in their home.
The Los Angeles Times reports police arrived at the couple's home Monday night and April Jace was found dead inside.
The 50-year-old actor plays a police officer in the TV series "The Shield."
The couple were married nine years and have children.
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Waldo Lake in the Fall
Life has been really busy since I last wrote an entry for the blog. I got married and have been busy with other things life threw my way. Sorry I haven't written in a while.
One of my favorite places to ride in the Fall is Waldo Lake.
Waldo Lake is one of the clearest lakes in the world. Waldo is an amazing place to view from its shores or campgrounds, but to mountain bike around Waldo adds a whole new experience. The ride is longer than you would think. The ride is about 22 miles with a fair amount of short roller climbs. The trail's elevation is at around 6,000 feet. Many people think they can whip around Waldo in an hour or two, which is not true for the average rider. I think the fastest people I know can knock out Waldo in around 2 ½ hours. The fastest I have done it was 4 hours, but then again I still like to ride Waldo and enjoy the views too. Most times I ride Waldo it takes 5-6 hours, which includes snack breaks and sightseeing stops.
There are many reasons to wait until Fall to ride Waldo:
1. Less bugs. If you ride Waldo before mid-August, be ready for the bugs.
2. Less people. After school starts the amount of people drops dramatically. It picks up again a little when hunting season starts.
3. The weather. I personally think our summer in Oregon is July-September.
4. The leaf colors. The colors are amazing mixed in with the lake, mountains and forest.
5. Trail conditions. While it is nice most of the time, rain combined with the morning dew cuts the dust down greatly.
Waldo Lake can be ridden clockwise starting/finishing at Shadow Bay, or as I prefer you can ride it counter-clockwise. I prefer to start at Shadow Bay and ride the trail between Shadow Bay and North Waldo Bay campgrounds. I find this to be the least exciting part of the trail, because you don't see much of the lake; half the time I just take the road so I can hurry up and get to the burn section. Not too far out of North Waldo Bay you enter the burn section (the fire happened in 1996), but not much new growth has occurred because the forest service has chosen to let the trees return naturally. Most of the few trees that are starting to grow are only a couple feet tall, but the area is really interesting in the fact that it gives you a feel of what fire can do to a forest and how slowly forests recover with out man's help.
After about 4 miles you leave the burn and get back into the trees, after a while you will come to a bridge; before crossing the bridge head south along the creek and you'll see a pump house. Keep going and follow this trail even if it is a little overgrown, and it will put you out by the lake. I really enjoy the view, and I have never seen anyone else in this spot. It is only a couple hundred yards off the main trail, but you feel a lot farther away.
Back on the Waldo Lake Trail, from the bridge on make sure you stay of the main trail. There are a number of trails that leave off the right of the Waldo Lake Trail and they all lead to wilderness, which mountain bikers are not allowed to ride in. The trails to the left are short and just lead to the lake.
The good part about living in the Oakridge/Westfir area is we have so many great trails to ride anyway, but I feel sorry for people that live in area's where most of the forest is wilderness and they have to drive a long way just for a ride after work.
Anyway back to the trail. There are many great viewpoints along the trail of the lake. One of my favorite spots is about ½ way around the lake right after the shale rock section. As far has I know this area doesn't have a name, but you can tell a lot of people stop there, if you climb up on the rocks it is a great view of the lake and mountains around the lake. Plus there is a really cool view of trees underwater right there. After that point the trail heads away from the lake for a while and you lose site of the lake mostly for miles. There are some pretty small ponds on the side of the trail in this area.
About 2/3 of the way around the lake there is an unmarked trail that leads down to an interesting bit of history. There is a big sign down there explaining everything. I won't give anything away so you can see it for yourself.
About 80% into your trip there is a log cabin type shelter by the lake that was set up for cross county skiers. It is a great stopping point to view the lake. About 95% into the ride you can break off and head towards Bobby, Betty, Gold and other small lakes. If you are into a longer ride, you can also break off here and head to Willamette Pass Resort for lunch or dinners on Friday's-Sundays mid June-Labor Day. This will add about 15-25 miles to your ride depending on which route you take.
Your ride ends back at beautiful Shadow Bay, where you can go for a swim or lay on the dock after your ride.
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I was always very thin but then gain excessive weight on my stomach after my 2 nd pregnancy 2 years ago. after dieting and millions of sit ups i still could not get rid of it. So I decided to get lipo.
My lower belly still looks the same 5 days after lipo.
I had Tumescent Liposuction on my upper and lower abdomen 5 days ago, is the pulling pain in my lower ab normal when i stand the first few minutes?
I also feel that my lower belly still looks the same. My upper abs look way flatter, could it be swelling? It looked perfect immediately after the procedure and it swelled for 2 days and on day 3 it looked flat, but now I am concern because it is poofy and jiggly.


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Special registration arrangements have been made for Jewish university students and school pupils in major Canadian cities because of a conflict between registration dates and the Jewish High Holy Days, the Canadian Jewish Congress reported here today.
Students at Sir George Williams University in Montreal who must register on the second day of Rosh Hashanah will be permitted to exchange their original appointments for later ones after nightfall on that day or early the following morning, according to Rabbi Samuel Cass, director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation in Montreal.
At McGill University in Montreal, registration in the Faculty of Law is scheduled for the second day of Rosh Hashanah, and in the upper years of the Faculties of Arts on Yom Kippur and the following three days. There arrangements have been made for all Jewish students who so request to be allotted registration appointments on any of the days other than Yom Kippur.


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The mine foreman shall notify, in writing, the operator or superintendent of the mine, and the director, of his inability to comply with any of the requirements of this law, and it shall then become the duty of such operator or superintendent promptly to attend to the matter complained of by the mine foreman so as to enable him to comply with the provisions hereof. Every operator of a mine shall furnish all supplies necessary for the mine foreman to comply with the requirements of this law after being requested to do so in writing by the mine foreman.


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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 854. Sunday, 28 November 1993.
Date: Saturday, 27 Nov 93 17:40:17 EST
Subject: 4.0838 Acting Time and Cutting Scripts
Comment: Re: SHK 4.0838 Acting Time and Cutting Scripts
Well, how about a jaunty, maybe good maybe not so good, essay about acting time
and short-quarto scripts? "Back to Basics: Thinking about the HAMLET First
Quarto," in Thomas Clayton, ed. THE HAMLET FIRST PUBLISHED (Q1 1603): ORIGINS,
FORMS, INTERTEXTUALITIES (Newark: U of Delaware Press). Turns out that Peter
Alexander and Alfred Hart and those guys were blowing smoke. And in the same
Clayton volume, Scott McMillan shows how plays would have been made longer, not
shorter, to make them ready for touring with a smaller cast of actors.
Happy thanksgiving, and other autumnal holiday greetings to those around the
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Cooking with kids: Jammy granola clusters and six ways to eat them
These sweet, golden and slightly chewy clusters are handy little things to have lying around. They are delicious over yogurt for breakfast, by the handful for morning tea, crumbled over ice cream and/or poached fruit for dessert or stirred through a breakfast muffin. Plus, they only take five minutes to make and the whole process, except for the oven bits, can be done by the kids.
Below are a few more ideas and recipe links that would just love to use these sweet little clusters. I mostly make these for pre-school morning tea bags, which is why this version is nut free. Alice loves chewing on them and dipping them into her pot of yogurt. If making them for home I'd usually throw in some chopped almonds or walnuts.
Jammy Granola Clusters
1 cup toasted buckwheat flour (or wholemeal flour or plain)
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
125g butter, melted
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup raspberry jam
Preheat the oven to 150C. Mix all ingredients together and spread out on a lined baking tray. Cook for about 15 minutes, or until the mixture is golden.
Variations: Add a handful of your favourite nuts before cooking, stir through a few chocolate chips too.
Notes: This mixture is sticky so definitely line the baking tray. Do check every five minutes or so during the cooking and toss mixture around with a spatula to ensure the bottom isn't burning.
Now you've made your beautiful jammy granola clusters what to do with them?
- Use as a crumble topping
- Make into a muesli bar by mixing 2 cups of this mixture with 1 cup apple sauce and one cup of extra rolled oats. Press into a lined lamington tin and bake at 180 for about 20 minutes.
- Stir a handful of these clusters through your favourite banana bread recipe, mine is this one by Bill Granger.
- Make a yummy breakfast triffle by layering natural yogurt with a little crumble mix and fresh berries or seasonal fruit.
- Take Martha's advice and bake a batch of Pear and Granola muffins
- Make granola cups. This recipe would work well made into little granola cups like these ones. I would just line the tin with muffin cases as I'm pretty sure they would all stick otherwise.
A note on jam
I have been cooking a lot with jam recently. I love making jam and so we have plenty on hand and as we are smack bang in the middle of winter here in Orange, there's not a huge variety of fresh fruit available locally. This is the time to put preserves into action and to that end I am launching a little series today over on my blog called Raising the Jar. Pop over and check it out if you like! I'm also collecting jammy recipes over on my pinterest page, please let me know if you come across any great ideas I can add there!


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Goodreads Gets Angel Funding
Los Angeles-based Goodreads has raised an angel round of funding, the firm said Monday. Amount of the round was not announced. The funding came from James Currier of Ooga Labs, Michael Birch of Bebo.com, Chris Michel of Military.com, Mike Jones of Userplane, along with True Ventures and Stand Chudnovsky, also of Ooga Labs. Goodreads operates an online social networking web site focused on sharing information about books.
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Hi, While testing the tproxy (transparent proxying) patch for linux-2.4 (http://www.balabit.com/downloads/tproxy/linux-2.4), Stas Grabois has found a quite strange aspect of Linux 2.4 TCP. Imagine the following scenario: you create a new socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM), bind it to local port 0, and try to connect() to a closed port. Of course, the peer sends back an RST, indicating no one is listening on that port. However, if your application does not care about the return value of connect(), and calls send() on the not connected socket, inet_autobind() is called and a new local port is allocated for the socket. So, besides returning an error, there is also a side effect of the send(). The same thing happens with an established TCP session if the peer sends an RST between two send() calls, the second call will autobind the socket, and then return error. Is this behaviour intentional? Isn't rebinding a TCP socket to a new local port a bug? I mean, possibly inet_sendmsg() should check if thesocket is SOCK_STREAM before calling inet_autobind() if sk->num is zero. The attached patch adds this check to inet_sendmsg(). We've been using it for a while, and it looks it did not break anything.
-- Regards, Krisztian KOVACS
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I was chatting with everyone's favourite Gus last night when she mentioned how much she loves this song. In typical Gus fashion, she confused the band that actually sang this song. Contrary to her first suggestion, the song is BEFORE my time. I actually first heard this song when a French male skater did a routine to it. I immediately loved the song, at which point the unhusband informed of how old it was, thereby showing his age hahaha. At any rate, I still think this is a good one to dance to.
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PREMIER Ted Baillieu has set the scene for an expansion of Chinese investment in Victoria, saying he wouldn't blink if China was to fund, build and operate major projects such as an east-west tunnel and a metro rail link.
Mr Baillieu told The Age concerns about overseas businesses in Australia had historically been overstated, arguing the rules governing foreign investment should be as straightforward as possible.
''There is enormous investment here, there is an enormous Chinese population here, both born in China and with one parent born in China,'' he said.
''In my terms, it makes sense, it fits; this state's been built on foreign investment and gold. Gold was ours, foreign investment did the rest.''
The comments effectively bring Mr Baillieu into a heated debate raging within the federal Coalition. In his first trip to China as Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott last month appeared to advocate tougher controls on Chinese state-owned enterprises buying existing Australian businesses.
''It would rarely be in Australia's national interest to allow a foreign government or its agencies to control an Australian business,'' Mr Abbott said.
Opposition regional development spokesman Barnaby Joyce also recently voiced concerns after Treasurer Wayne Swan approved the sale of Cubbie Station, Australia's largest cot ton grower, to a Chinese-led consortium.
Such concerns are being closely scrutinised in China, which has previously demanded that its state-owned enterprises be treated like any private firm.
Mr Baillieu, who will next week lead Australia's largest-ever trade mission to China, said he would welcome Chinese funding and construction expertise to help deliver major infrastructure projects, including a road link connecting the Eastern Freeway and Western Ring Road and a new metro rail link between South Kensington and South Yarra.
Both have been placed on a priority list of major projects, although it remains unclear how they will be financed or when they will be built.
Provided Chinese companies passed the national interest test applied by the Foreign Investment Review Board, Mr Baillieu said he would welcome their money and expertise.
''They [Chinese investors] could have finance, they could have equity, they could have operations, they could have tendering, they could have management, they could have delivery,'' he said.
Next week's trade mission will involve more than 600 delegates representing 400 Victorian organisations. Mr Baillieu said it would help Victorian businesses capitalise on a shifting pattern of demand in China from resources to quality goods and services linked to the rise of the middle class.
He said applications by overseas investors should be assessed ''as quickly as possible'' by the Foreign Investment Review Board.
''We welcome the investment that comes through and the more straightforward that process can be … for everyone, the better,'' he said. ''So long as it's not drawn out and confusing.''
Shadow treasurer Tim Holding said Labor had been strongly supportive of such trade missions. He said the Coalition had acted like ''feral animals'' every time a minister from the Bracks and Brumby governments had ''gone near an airport''.


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It's now possible to watch YouTube videos from inside Google search results. Universal Search embeds videos into the SERPs if they match the search term well enough.
What happens if YouTube deletes the video? Do you think Google would adjust the SERPs or just leave the embedded video there?
This is a search result for Oban Star Races Sul and it contains two videos. (Which is a pretty impressive result for such a niche search, I think).
The big black square? That's what you get when you try and watch one of the videos. That black square persists for nearly 10 seconds (in tests so far) before the "this video has been removed" message appears over a still from the video.
In the old days of search - before Google - there was the constant annoyance of finding lots of dead / removed / deleted pages high up in the search results. It's a really bad user experience.
One of the reasons Google maintains the public cache link is to protect the user experience. If you find a web page in Google for a niche term that interests you and for whatever reason that page is gone or changed - you can look at the cache to see what was on the page when Google matched it to your search.
Right now Google's not able to protect my experience of the search in the same way with video. It is really frustrating when you find a video that matches your search, you click, wait, wait, wait some more and then get told "sorry, this video is gone".
Google can't simply cache these videos either - they've been deleted due to copyright concerns.
The solution is to quickly remove the video embeds from the SERPs.


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Is Katy Perry's 'Part of Me' Video Marine Propaganda?
Katy Perry joins the Marines following a bitter breakup in her 'Part of Me' video. While on the surface it just seems like a cool concept, critics are asking if Perry's motives run deeper: Is this propaganda to join the Marines? And if so, was she paid for it?
Are Rihanna + Ashton Kutcher Hooking Up?
This could be an interesting coupling! Spies spotted Rihanna leaving Ashton Kutcher's bachelor pad (the same one Justin Bieber was eyeing!) at the wee hours of the morning.
Karmin Tell True Story of Love in 'Brokenhearted' Video
For those unaware, Karmin is comprised of real-life lovebirds Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan. The duo are currently engaged, and the cute couple tell the story of how they met and began dating in their new video for 'Brokenhearted' — but there's a twist.
Whitney Houston Official Cause of Death is Accidental Drowning, Cocaine Found in System at Time of Death
The official cause of the untimely and tragic death of Whitney Houston has been revealed.
Hilary Duff Gives Birth to Baby Boy
Congrats to Hilary Duff and hubby Mike Comrie! The 'So Yesterday' singer gave birth to a healthy, happy baby boy on Tuesday. So what's the tyke's name?
Taylor Swift 'Eyes Open' Preview Hits the Web
Taylor Swift wrote and recorded another song for 'The Hunger Games' soundtrack. 'Eyes Open,' a power ballad that touched upon similar dark subject matter but with a slightly more hopeful outlook, hit the Internet in a the form of a one-minute snippet today.
Preview Tracks from Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection'
Katy Perry is treating fans to a performance at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, and now she's treating them to a preview of 'Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection.' Snippets of two new tracks and a megamix hit the web!
Madonna Takes Shots at Ex Guy Richie in New Songs
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They may be in puppy love, but Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber are making a very adult move — literally. The pop power couple are reportedly moving in together in a $10.8 million Los Angeles mansion!
Katy Perry Insists 'Part Of Me' Is Not About Russell Brand
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The 39-year-old has retired from playing cricket with Essex to take up the England job.
He will join up with Moores as England prepare for the first Test against West Indies, at Lord's on 17 May.
Moores said Flower was his number one choice adding: "I feel he will have a significant impact in the future."
It is Moores' first change in the backroom staff since succeeding Duncan Fletcher on 1 May.
He added: "Andy will be joining up with the team for preparation for the first npower Test Match at Lord's next week and I am grateful to ECB and Essex CCC for moving so rapidly and enabling the back room team to be confirmed in time for my first match in charge of the England team."
Flower had been working with Moores and the England Academy over the winter as a batting coach and used that time to qualify as a Level Four coach.
He has not played for Essex this season because of a hip injury but told the club's website he had been looking to return to the team before his new role with England altered his ambitions.
"I would have been available for Monday's game against Kent," he said. "I spent a week in Munich having treatment and then had an injection so I would have been fit enough.
"I was planning to play for a couple of years at least."
Looking ahead to England he said: "I hold Peter Moores in the highest regard...and believe that his selection as England head coach was an inspired choice and reflected well on his work and that of Rod Marsh prior to Peter in setting up the National Academy.
"From my time working with Peter at the National Academy, I know that we shall work very well together and I am excited about entering into this new challenge of coaching an international team."
Flower retires having played 63 Test matches, averaging 51.54 with the bat, and scoring 16,379 first-class runs at an average of 54.05. He was also a wicket-keeper.
He added: "I would like to express my gratitude to Essex County Cricket Club who provided me with the opportunity to play county cricket and supported me so well in my development as a coach."
Maynard had been assistant coach since May 2005 but he and the England and Wales Cricket Board mutually agreed it was time for him to move on.
He said: "It has been a great privilege and invaluable experience for me to work so closely with Duncan Fletcher, the rest of the management team and all the England players at the outset of my coaching career."


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LOS ANGELES (Ivanhoe Newswire) – At least 40 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders each year. Another 20-million experience occasional sleeping problems. Some disorders can disrupt your sleep and your life.
As hair icons for companies like L'Oreal and Paul Mitchell, John and Suzanne Chadwick have traveled the world together.
"It's been quite a journey," Suzanne told Ivanhoe.
However, their biggest adventures happened at night, while John slept. For years, he acted out his dreams by punching, kicking, and even biting.
"One night, he bit me, and that, the bite mark lasted for two days," Suzanne explained.
It got so bad that he would tie himself to the bed with this contraption.
"You think, 'what in the hell's going to happen to me?'", John told Ivanhoe. "What have I got?"
John had REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD. It causes violent episodes and puts patients at risk for other problems. Within 10 years, up to 80 percent may develop Parkinson's and dementia.
"It's kind of a window into an evolving neurodegenerative disease," Alon Avidan, MD, MPH,
Professor of Neurology, UCLA Sleep Disorders Center Director, told Ivanhoe.
Another condition is sleep eating. It affects up to 1 million adults. People with the disorder prepare and consume meals while they are sleeping.
"We've heard of patients preparing a cat food sandwich or eating directly out of a jar of mayonnaise," Dr. Avidan explained.
For RBD and sleep eating, the drug clonazepam and melatonin can help.
John's meds have helped. He went from five extreme episodes a week to one mild event a month. Now, nothing holds him back day or night.
Some antidepressants can trigger r-b-d. Caffeine and alcohol consumption can also worsen the condition.
Dr. Avidan said even just one violent episode of RBD is cause for concern.
Another condition, restless legs syndrome, affects up to 10 percent of people.
(Source: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/understanding_sleep.htm)
BACKGROUND: Until the 1950s, most people thought of sleep as a passive, dormant part of our lives. We now know that our brains are very active during sleep. Moreover, sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health in many ways that we are just starting to understand. Nerve-signaling chemicals called neurotransmitters control if we are asleep or awake by acting on different groups of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain. Neurons in the brainstem, which connects the brain with the spinal cord, produce neurotransmitters such as serotonin and norepinephrine that keep some parts of the brain active while we are awake. Other neurons at the base of the brain begin signaling when we fall asleep. These neurons appear to "switch off" the signals that keep us awake. Research also suggests that a chemical called adenosine builds up in our blood while we are awake and causes drowsiness. This chemical gradually breaks down while we sleep. (Source: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/understanding_sleep.htm)
SLEEP DISORDERS: At least 40 million Americans suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders each year, and an additional 20 million experience occasional sleeping problems.
• REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Normal sleep has 2 states: non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. During REM sleep, rapid eye movements occur, breathing becomes irregular, blood pressure rises, and there is a loss of muscle tone (paralysis). However, the brain is highly active. REM sleep is usually associated with dreaming. REM sleep accounts for 20%-25% of the sleep period. In a person with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), the paralysis that normally occurs during REM sleep is incomplete, allowing the person to "act out" his or her dreams. RBD is characterized by the acting out of dreams that are vivid, intense, and violent.
• Sleep Eating: Sleep-related eating disorder is characterized by abnormal eating patterns during the night. People with this disorder eat while asleep. They often walk into the kitchen and prepare food without a recollection for having done so.
• Restless legs syndrome: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological disorder characterized by throbbing, pulling, creeping, or other unpleasant sensations in the legs and an uncontrollable, and sometimes overwhelming, urge to move them. Symptoms occur primarily at night when a person is relaxing or at rest and can increase in severity during the night. Moving the legs relieves the discomfort. (Source: webmd.com and clevelandlcinic.org and www.ninds.nih.gov)


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Lindsay Lohan: Incriminating Photos and Videos Stolen
As we reported this weekend, another robbery occured at Lindsay Lohan's Los Angeles home, and things could get serious.
According to the Chicago Sun Times, among the things stolen from LiLo's home are "very incriminating videos and photos" along with legal docs that "could cause embarrassment" if leaked to the press.
What do you think Lindsay had stolen? Speculate away!


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Sometimes this speaking of another language is a literal thing. It's fine for us to talk about learning objectives and taxonomy as if these are everyday things, but for an IT person these don't mean anything - in the same way they may talk about cleansing your data or an issue with protocols fully expecting you to grasp the fundamentals of this. Then we speak to senior leadership teams and we talk about the great affect something will have on the learning or the improvement in caching on the system and we've missed their language too. Sometimes it's a wonder large organisations manage to communicate internally at all. Of course, small businesses experience the same frustrations, they don't have internal teams so they go externally and meet the same kind of barriers when talking with external teams providing services.
Another real issues arise when the gulf between languages exist because we want them too, and you'd be amazed just how often this happens and at times we are all guilty of it. Most of us would probably accept readily that in the IT world they seem to enjoy the fact that they can speak a language that most common folk can't. It's like they're able to communicate with each other right in front of us, or better still if we ask a difficult question they can answer it with something we can't grasp so it's an easy out. Truth is this definitely happens, but IT aren't alone in this. Have you ever been asked to provide explanation on a training event that didn't go very well - maybe the facilitator was awful? It seems that often the easiest explanation is to make sure it's one that most people will feel they don't get. So sure talk about your level 1 and 2 feedback and trending analysis if you will, but don't expect the answer to improve communication.
So how do we find common ground and remove barriers around language?
- Plain Speak. Never underestimate the power of speaking in the simplest language you can. Have you ever spoken to people with great vocabularies whose sole purpose in life seems to be to show off how many long word they know? Think about how that makes you feel and put things into simple language when talking about your passionate subject.
- Drop the acronyms. I'm ex-military so if anyone knows about TLAs it's me (three letter abbreviations if you were wondering). But if you start talking LOs or ADDIE or PCE to anyone outside of your area you just add complexity where it doesn't need to be.
- Use relativity. No, not the Einstein stuff, but make what your saying relative to your audience - heck as trainers this should be something we're used to. I'm a huge fan of using analogies to put something new or foreign to people into a scenario they understand.
- Do ask questions. One of the reason language barriers exist is that we often just gloss over what we don't understand for fear of looking stupid. There's been a number of times I've asked 'what does that mean' or 'put that in layman's terms for me' or even (shock horror) what is that short for. I remember one time a couple of years back asking what SoMe was on a Twitter post. When I found out it was short for social media I was amused at myself and the irony, but next time I used the term social media I used the term social media (knowing that if I didn't know SoMe at that point others wouldn't). In fact I actually went on and blogged on it to explain the phrase so that others wouldn't feel as daft as me :)
- Don't use language to create separation. Easily done and the damage can be devastating. Sure it can get you out of a few awkward questions sometimes, but using language to deliberately confuse can have a massive affect on future relationships.
- Learn and Evolve. Don't simply accept the language of your profession and shy from others. Feel free to learn and try to understand a little more about others. About why in senior leadership it seems to be about return on investment (ROI) and linking everything we do to strategic direction and why in IT databases queries are the way they are.
- Don't drop in stuff you don't understand. Here's one of the biggest pitfalls. I knew someone who would always hear the latest acronym in IT and try to drop it in anytime they were talking with people from IT. The results were often quite funny, but not in a good way. If you don't understand a word or acronym you really shouldn't use it as if you do - it's leading the other party astray and ultimately stops your learning and evolving.
- Paraphrase in layman's terms and allow yourself to be corrected. I find this a really effective technique. Did I mention I'm a big fan of analogies? I tend to try to say something I've been told into a language that not only myself but everyone else will understand and then get the other party to either agree or correct me on that. Often you'll find that they come back with a totally different analogy to yours, but it really helps you to understand and them when explaining in future. The second part of 8 is perhaps the most important when learning new elements of language - if you take offence when you're corrected then you're more worried about your pride than learning.
If all else fails, then find yourself a really good translator. If you are engaging a consultant make sure it's someone who can talk to people around and outside your business without leaving them scratching their heads. Actually a really good consultant will help you to increase your understanding and often bring you closer to your teams by their involvement.
Happy translating!


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There has been a lot of hype about this polish in the beauty community…
This polish if from Essie's new spring collection. I also picked up Coat Azure which I wore and reviewed here.
I think there has been a lot of hype surrounding this shade because its such an opaque nude. Many times nude polish can be on the thinner side and tend to apply streaky.
This polish does have a nice consistency, but on my skin tone it doesn't do anything for me. It matches my skin so perfectly that it looks like I'm not even wearing polish. I need a nude that's either a shade lighter or darker than this.
This color would look best on darker skin tones.
This is two coats.
Do you own it/like it? What is your favorite nude polish??


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Doesn't take a genius to back Chelsea for title
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The last time Chelsea won the league title, Bill Haley and his Comets were rocking around the clock, a pint of beer cost one shilling and threepence (15c) and the world lost Albert Einstein. Now, under Jose Mourinho, Chelsea enter 2005 on the brink of their first championship for 50 years.
Mourinho is a student of statistics, but even the confident, intelligent Portuguese will struggle to determine whether there are any signs, at the end of the year, that Chelsea can finally win a competition they have chased for half a century.
Several factors suggest Mourinho should be cautious; only in four of the previous 12 Premier League campaigns has the team which finished the year top gone on to win the title.
Chelsea are five points clear of champions Arsenal and nine points ahead of Manchester United and Everton, with 54 points for which still to play.
Two years ago, Arsenal led Chelsea and United by five points. By May 2003, United had turned that deficit into a five-point lead to claim the title. That time, United finished the season with 14 wins and three draws - 45 points from a possible 51 - for an improbable success.
And United know from personal experience that an even bigger points difference can be overtaken. In 1997, United led the Premier League by five points going into the new year. By the end of the season, Arsenal had risen from sixth place to top, overcoming a massive 12-point deficit to clinch the title, with 14 wins and two draws.
If Chelsea are to be caught, with three teams in a realistic position to challenge, then a similar run will be required.
Traditionally, United are stronger in the second half of the season and, if they were to win all their remaining 18 games, which includes a visit from Chelsea in April, they could take their ninth Premier League title.
However, Chelsea know they will never have a better chance to end their wilderness years and allow Mourinho to build a Stamford Bridge empire.
The title could well be determined in April. In successive Premier League games, Chelsea face United at Old Trafford, then entertain Arsenal in the space of five days.
United have dropped only four points from a possible 24 and, if Ruud van Nistelrooy and Louis Saha can return from injury in 2005, they could be best placed to challenge Chelsea.
As for Everton, they may stand a good chance of qualifying for the Champions League, but surely they cannot steal the title. Perhaps not, but older Evertonians will remind their rivals at Chelsea that, since that 1955 success, Everton have won the title four times.
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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 63,
November 2011 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Chicago, Illinois November 4-9, 2011.
RNAi Mediated Silencing of the Autoantigen hnRNP-A2 Dcreases Inflammatory Arthritis by Inhibiting Activation of Cells of the Mononuclear Phagocytic System.
Herman1, Sonja, Presumey2, Jessy, Pfatschbacher1, Juergen, Vandenberg3, Wim B., Apparailley2, Florence, Steiner1, Gunter
Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Hôpital Saint Eloi, Montpellier, France
Radboud University Nijmegen Med Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
HnRNP-A2 belongs to a heterogenous family of nuclear proteins importantly involved in mRNA trafficking, transcriptional and translational processes. Recent evidence let suggest that hnRNPs posttranscriptionally modulate expression of inflammatory mediators such as COX-2, TNF-a, IL-1b and iNOS by affecting mRNA stability and translation. Strong upregulation of hnRNP-A2 at sites of inflammation and the generation of antibodies and autoreactive T-cells against hnRNP-A2 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and various arthritis models points towards a potential involvement of this protein in the pathogenesis of inflammatory arthritis.
Expression of hnRNP-A2 in tissues and cells was analysed by flow cytometry and immunoblotting. In-vitro silencing of hnRNP-A2 was studied in J77.4 cells. Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in DBA1 mice and K/BxN serum transfer arthritis in BL/6 mice were used as arthritis models. For silencing of hnRNP-A2 expression, siRNA containing lipoplexes were used, which were injected intravenously once a week. Control animals were treated with unspecifc siRNA/lipoplexes or PBS. Silencing efficiency was analyzed by immunobloting and real-time PCR. Arthritis was measured by an established clinical scoring system, inflammation and bone erosions were analyzed by histomorphometry.
HnRNP-A2 was highly expressed in lymphoid organs such as lymph-nodes, spleen and thymus. Among cells of the immune system monocytes/macrophages showed the strongest expression of hnRNP-A2. Silencing of hnRNP-A2 in a monocytic cell line diminished the proliferative capacity of transfected cells.
Silencing of hnRNP-A2 in vivo revealed a 60%70% silencing efficiency in lymph nodes and spleen of injected mice. Remarkably, incidence of arthritis in those mice, which were injected with hnRNP-A2 specific siRNA-lipoplexes, was only 20% as compared to 70 and 80%, respectively, in the control groups. Moreover, arthritis scores and weight loss differed significantly from control animals. Histological analysis of paws confirmed that both inflammation and bone erosion were significantly reduced in animals treated with hnRNP-A2 specific siRNA. Serum levels of cytokines typically produced by cells of the mononuclear phagocytic system such as TNF-a, IL-23 and IL-1 were strongly reduced. The effects observed were similar in both arthritis models indicating that hnRNP-A2 is crucially involved in the effector arm of autoimmune arthritis.
In-vivo silencing of hnRNP-A2 largely prevents induction of arthritis development by inhibiting activation of the mononuclear phagocyte system thereby diminishing the inflammatory immune response.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Herman, Sonja, Presumey, Jessy, Pfatschbacher, Juergen, Vandenberg, Wim B., Apparailley, Florence, Steiner, Gunter; RNAi Mediated Silencing of the Autoantigen hnRNP-A2 Dcreases Inflammatory Arthritis by Inhibiting Activation of Cells of the Mononuclear Phagocytic System. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2011;63 Suppl 10 :2428


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Organic vegan farming a part of climate justice - 5 Dec 2011
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Organic vegan farming a part of climate justice.
On Saturday, December 3, thousands of activists from around the world joined in a peaceful rally through the streets of Durban, South Africa, calling for decisive action from the United Nations Climate Change Conference as participants enter their second and final week of discussion. Supreme Master Television's correspondent explores one promising solution for all stakeholders.
Correspondent (F):
Greetings. Here in the African continent, the time-honored traditions of agriculture have been built on consistent rainfall patterns. However, farmers are now finding that, due to climate change, they can no longer count on the weather the way that previous generations had.
Paul Okongo – farmer, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (M):
We farmers who are outside there, we are the feelers, we are the detectors of this. There is climate change, and something must be done, and it should be done now.
Correspondent (F):
Feeling the threat of global warming to food security, growers from across Africa are here at COP 17 calling for what they say is climate justice, which includes commitments to greenhouse gas mitigation measures as well as adaptation support. Both farmers and governments in Africa support organic farming as important for a greener future.
Edna Molewa – Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, South Africa (F):
Ways and means that can help us get organic farming into larger scales, I think, will actually respond to the current challenges that we have.
Paul Okongo – farmer (M):
If you put a lot of organic matter in the soil, then the produce is safe from these chemicals, metallic things and all these, all free from sewages. So we advocate safe food – mainly organic farming.
VOICE: To ensure the most effective solution overall, experts have also pointed out the need to address the adverse climate effects of livestock raising. A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that animal agriculture accounts for at least 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions, with more recent research by the World Watch Institute finding that the livestock industry alone is responsible for more than 51%
of global emissions.
Dr. Patrick Bond (M):
Meat is the main disastrous force for climate change, because of the methane that's coming from cows, but also the transport. And the ways in which we treat animals are terrible and uncivilized. If you believe in climate justice, then you should become a vegetarian.
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To raise awareness of the organic vegan farming and diet solution to climate change, the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association held a gala dinner for delegates featuring an urgent video message by Supreme Master Ching Hai and respected guest speakers.
Members have meanwhile been speaking daily with hundreds of people at two booths and offering free vegan food samples. Some 10,000 informative flyers have also been given out over the last several days in various parts of Durban, with people showing their eagerness to find out more about the state of the planet and the healthy, emissions-reducing vegan diet.
Romica Milupi – Zambian activist (F):
I want to support to be vegetarian. No more meat. I want just to go on vegetables, so that I can keep the environment.
Edna Molewa (F):
We need to push hard and push ourselves to save this planet. We need to really save this planet.
Correspondent (F):
Reporting for Supreme Master Television from Durban, South Africa.
VOICE: We thank all climate summit delegates, concerned scientists and citizens who are helping advance us toward sustainable actions. May we move swiftly to develop the most humane and health-promoting agriculture and lifestyles to save our planet.
In an interview during the December 2010 climate change talks in Cancún, Mexico, Supreme Master Ching Hai expressed her urgent wish for leaders to adopt the organic vegan solution.
Supreme Master Ching Hai :
If I were in the United Nations, I would advise all the countries, immediately start organic vegan. And all the subsidies that they use for the meat industry, the extra money that the governments give, just give them to turn to vegan, organic. Yes, it's very easy.
I don't know why they delay like this. Because the United Nationseven themselves know that the methane gas and nitrous oxide gas, and other gases from animal industry are warming the climate more than all the transportation together.
So why not eliminate that cost, you see? (MBC(m): All right. Yes.)
It's so easy. And then they use the subsidies before, tell the farmers to change to organic. (MBC(m): Yes.) Yes.
Of course it's cheaper, and healthier for everybody and healthier for the planet. I told you 51% is from the animals, gases, to warm the climate, it's 51% from animal industry, (Q(m): Yes, of course.) so if we take out the animals, then we have less, 51% less, you see? (Q(m): I see.)
And then if we plant organic from the face of the Earth, all tillable land, then we absorb another 40%. Then, we have 51%, 40%, gone. The leftover, the trees can take care, the oceans can again take care – everything, no problem. I can't believe they still say, "We'll talk again next year." – if we're still alive! Yes? (MBC(m): Yes.)
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Coinciding with the Nov 28, 2011 opening day of the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol stated at current energy consumption rates, the Earth will warm by 6 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100, making it a dangerous place to live.
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Guido: Local venues score needed facelifts
While the focus at this time of year is outdoor sports such as baseball and soccer and preparation for football season, indoor work is continuing on two venerable facilities dating to the 1960s.
Burrell High School's gym, built in 1964, is getting a facelift.
Moret Construction is in charge of ongoing work to make cosmetic improvements such as painting in gym floor, walls and the ceiling.
New banking boards will be installed, and electrical work will be done.
Most of important of all, a new sound system will be installed.
Since the facility opened during the 1964-65 school year when Burrell consisted of only juniors and sophomores, the terrible acoustics have been a trademark of the gym.
Some improvement was done several years back when square pads were installed on the walls to absorb some of the din.
It was hard to carry on a conversation with a person in the next row of bleachers because of the acoustical problems, and coaches have always had a tough time communicating with athletes during a game.
When Hall of Fame basketball coach Tom Myers took over the Burrell job in the 2005-06 season, after the first home game he commented how he had forgotten how hard it was to holler instructions.
When legendary coach Hank Kuzma brought his Plum teams to Burrell in the late 1970s, he would use flash cards from the bench to call plays.
The school district is spending $156,000 on the improvements.
The Alle-Kiski Valley's oldest hockey arena, Belmont Complex in East Franklin Township, is getting $1.38 million of work this summer.
The facility, built in 1967 and owned by Armstrong County, is getting work done on its aging locker rooms and the front entrance is being renovated.
Various contractors are removing existing tile and flooring, while plumbing and electrical work is also on the roster of improvements.
Armstrong County commissioner David Battaglia said 75 percent of the funding is from state and federal grants.
Something else vital to the hockey operation at Belmont was also fixed during the summer: the Zamboni.
The 16-year-old vehicle has had problems, including fluid leakage and mechanical problems that caused about a 30-minute delay to last season's PIHL game between Freeport and Mars.
Two students from Lenape Technical School did the mechanical work and received classroom credits for their efforts.
Officials said the students repaired the oil leakage, replaced the ice conditioner and its loose springs, replaced the fuel hose and tuned up the engine.
The county bought the repair materials for around $2,000 and the students doing the repairs saved the county at least $4,000.
The Belmont is used for home games involving Freeport, the new Armstrong merger between Ford City and Kittanning, along with the newly reborn Highlands hockey team.
Cheering orange and blue
Speaking of the new Armstrong high school hockey team, it was announced the squad will be wearing orange and blue uniforms this winter, the color scheme of the still-unnamed high school due to be completed in 2015.
It will be the first time a local scholastic sports team will wear orange and blue uniforms since Arnold High School played its final baseball game in May 1967.
The new Armstrong duds will be a brighter orange and blue combo, similar to the University of Florida.
In Arnold's era, the Lions wore more of a burnt orange and darker blue.
The new Armstrong school will be the only one in Western Pennsylvania to sport orange and blue.
In fact, Hershey High School might be the closest place where orange and blue is worn.
George Guido is a Valley News Dispatch scholastic sports correspondent. His column appears Wednesdays.