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Corpus Christi Caller Times. Aug. 7, 2012.
Farenthold finds an Olympic-size subterfuge
Thanks to Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform for pointing out helpfully that a U.S. Olympic athlete could pay, worst-case scenario, $8,986 in income tax for winning a gold medal. That's based on $25,000 in prize money and an estimated $675 for the value of the medal (which fluctuates with metal prices) taxed in the 35-percent bracket.
Absent any deep thought, this would seem a clear-cut example of what supposedly is wrong with our tax system. It is calculated to induce outrage — or at least some demonstrative theatrical depictions of outrage. In this election year at this time in the history of this land of opportunity, two opportunistic politicians sprang into action like heavily muscled sprinters.
The winners of this heat were U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and our own U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi. Both proposed bills to exempt Olympic medalists' winnings from income tax. If a sole winner must be declared, the edge goes to Farenthold because his bill, Tax Exemptions for American Medalists, spells out the nifty acronym TEAM.
In fairness to both Republicans, President Barack Obama established himself as election-year panderer-in-chief Monday when he, of all Norquist targets, declared his support of the legislation.
Finding fault with this proposal may sound unpatriotic on face value. But we think it much more un-American to single out this already special, highly celebrated group of individuals for special tax treatment when single parents in fields such as nursing and oil field roughnecking work their overtime hours thanklessly, without special tax breaks. Many work hard and long enough to work themselves into that 35 percent bracket. So, while Farenthold and Rubio work feverishly to give Olympians the support of their country, working parents who get too far ahead earn themselves the honor of supporting their country all the more.
The problem with taxes is that they kill incentive — isn't that what Farenthold and his political brethren preach? Frankly, we don't disagree.
Yet there is no supporting evidence that the exemption proposed by Farenthold and Rubio will result in more Olympic medals for the United States. Nor are there examples of Olympic-caliber athletes deciding to forgo the Olympics because taxes on their winnings are so high. Instead, the athletes keep pushing themselves through their excruciating workouts, rehabbing their injuries, eating their unappetizing special diets, leading their monkish social lives and waiting four years for the next opportunity. Oppressive taxation doesn't seem to have scared them off.
Strangely, none of the outrage seems to be coming from the Olympians.
Also, why would Farenthold and Rubio further complicate the already complicated tax code? Why aren't they expending more effort to simplify it and delete loopholes?
"I could swear that I once heard Farenthold say he wanted to simplify the tax code," certified public accountant Jim Whitworth wrote in a Letter to the Editor published Saturday. "Just empty talk, I guess."
Meanwhile, the terms "do-nothing" and "Congress" go together like "Olympic" and "gold." Farenthold and Rubio are members of this do-nothing Congress and this is an example of how they add to the problem. The effort expended by these two on this highly specialized special-interest loophole is effort not being expended on bigger problems.
Houston Chronicle. Aug. 9, 2012.
Free beer: Let's loosen up on craft brewers
Here in Texas we often take pride in having a limited, pro-business state government. But sometimes that self-definition gets called into question. For the most recent example, look to Texas' brewers.
Texas has undeniably had a booming craft brewing industry over the past several years. In fact, between 2007 and 2011, the number of craft breweries and brewpub restaurants in Texas more than doubled. What makes this more impressive is that it happened under strict, and seemingly unnecessary, state regulation.
The current state alcohol code prevents breweries that sell their product through wholesalers from selling their beer directly to consumers. And brewpub restaurants that make their own beer on site cannot package their product for sale at off-site locations. Either they can sell it where they make it, or sell it in restaurants and stores, but not both.
This regulation locks aspiring brewery entrepreneurs into a rigid structure from the very beginning, rather than let them just sell beer to consumers wherever they may be.
It makes sense to let brewers start as a brewpub, and then sell elsewhere as they scale up. But the current rules prevent that.
In fact, these regulations don't- seem to have any legitimate justification except that they are supported by major wholesaler groups and Anheuser-Busch, which have been lobbying representatives in Austin to keep the rules in place. But changes to the alcohol code would liberate craft brewers and, according to an industry study, add 52,000 jobs and build a $5.6 billion craft brewing industry by 2020. While this may be an overly optimistic estimation, it is hard to deny that politicians in Austin are holding back Texas industry and Texas jobs.
But while Texas is keeping tight rein on our craft brewers, other states have distinctly more friendly regulations, and it shows. While Texas craft brewers make just 0.7 percent of all beer consumed in Texas, craft brewers in California and Oregon, which don't have regulations like Texas, produce 13 percent and 16 percent of all beer consumed in their respective states. And New York recently passed legislation to support local breweries with tax breaks and special licenses to help small brewers.
When California, Oregon and New York are more business-friendly than Texas, something is wrong.
It is time for politicians in Austin to stop messing with Texas beer.
San Antonio Express-News. Aug. 7, 2012.
Closing Gaps stats showing improvement
Texas colleges and universities continue to make progress toward meeting the goals laid out in the state's higher education plan adopted in 2000 despite continuous roadblocks cast in their path by state lawmakers.
More than half a million more students are enrolled in Texas colleges and universities today than there were 12 years ago. While much room remains for improvement on completion rates, students are graduating in larger numbers. Some 186,961 certificates, bachelor's and associate degrees were awarded in 2011, an increase of more than 60 percent since 2000.
When the Closing the Gaps education master plan was crafted by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the goal was to close the education gaps between Texas and other leading states by the year 2015. There was a lot of buy-in for the program back then. Who wouldn't support having the state leading the country in terms of college enrollment, success, excellence and research?
But lofty goals are not easily met. They require time and financial investment, and the path is not always smooth. Along the way, lawmakers' interest in Closing the Gaps faded — not because higher education was no longer a priority but because other issues became more important.
The new focus was balancing the budget, which resulted in higher education funding cuts and allowing the deregulation of tuition. As the state's financial obligations were decreased, the state allotment for need-based financial aid for students also decreased.
It is encouraging to see the state-supported colleges' and universities' successes despite the reduced financial support from the state.
This summer's annual progress report on Closing the Gaps indicates enrollment in Texas colleges and universities is well above the level needed to reach the 2015 goals of 1.65 million students. Currently, 533,000 more students are enrolled in higher education than there were in 2000.
The state recorded an increase of 47,000 higher education students in fall 2011, and while that is admirable, it's considerably less than the increases of 122,000 students in 2009 and 84,000 students in 2010.
State lawmakers need to consider the Closing the Gaps numbers as they head into their next session. Higher education cannot absorb additional budget reductions if the goals are to be met.
At its summer meeting, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board voted to ask lawmakers to allocate $580.8 million for Texas Grants, the state's main financial aid program.
The request is $21.2 million more than the current funding level, but it's far less than will meet the need in Texas. Under the current funding level, only about half of eligible incoming freshmen receive a grant.
The lack of financial aid has dire consequences. Students who cannot afford to finance a college education often end up working longer hours, borrowing money or taking fewer classes. Delayed graduation is a no-win situation for the universities and the students.
The success of the Texas economy is contingent on an educated and trained workforce. Reaching our potential will take a continued commitment toward closing the education achievement gaps.
Austin American-Statesman. Aug. 10, 2012.
Remove abortion advice 'gag order'
Talk about coming between patients and their doctors.
At least that's the view of the Texas Medical Association and other physician groups that expressed concern about a proposed rule for the state's Women's Health Program that prohibits abortion counseling. The rule amounts to a "gag order" on doctors, the groups say.
Texas doctors are right to be concerned about this proposed intrusion into the doctor-patient relationship. The language is too broad, too open to careless interpretation and should be rewritten.
The Texas Women's Health Program provides low-income women 18 to 45 with screening for breast and cervical cancers, sexually transmitted diseases, diabetes and high blood pressure. The program also provides birth control and family planning counseling. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has estimated that the program's contraceptive services save taxpayers $57 million a year by reducing the number of pregnancies that would be covered by Medicaid.
About $30 million of the program's $33 million budget is funded by the federal government. Starting Nov. 1, however, the state will be paying for the program by itself.
The 2011 Legislature barred Planned Parenthood, which serves more than 50,000 of the 130,000 women in the indispensable and successful program, from participating in the program because some Planned Parenthood clinics perform abortions. It didn't matter to Gov. Rick Perry and Republican legislators that the Planned Parenthood clinics that participate in the Women's Health Program are separate from the clinics that perform abortions, or that federal law prohibits taxpayer money from being used to pay for abortions.
Planned Parenthood sued the state over its exclusion. A hearing on the lawsuit is set for Oct. 19.
The Obama administration said Texas' exclusion of Planned Parenthood violated federal law and announced it would stop funding the Women's Health Program. Perry said Texas would continue the program on its own, with its own money and under its own rules. Questions remain about how the state plans to pay for the program, but the state health department has been drafting new rules.
One proposed rule deeply concerns Texas physicians. In a nine-page letter sent to the Department of State Health Services, the Texas Medical Association, along with four other groups representing Texas gynecologists, obstetricians, pediatricians and family doctors, calls a rule prohibiting abortion counseling a "gag order" that applies not only to doctors in the program but also to those who are not.
The Women's Health Program, as the state plans to run it, will depend on doctors in private practice to take the place of Planned Parenthood. Any rule that threatens to decrease the number of doctors willing to participate in the program threatens the program with failure.
"Countless Texas physicians will be unwilling to participate in the program because it will force them to choose between practicing medicine in accordance with the standard of care and medical ethics, or in accordance with a rule created to serve a political ideology," the letter says.
The state wants to bar doctors affiliated with abortion providers from participating in the program and doesn't want doctors referring patients to an abortion clinic, counseling a woman about an abortion or handing out information about abortions. The physician groups say the proposed rule — hinging on the word "promote" — extends its prohibitions beyond women in the program to include all patients.
One doctor's participation in the Women's Health Program could place all doctors in a practice under the program's rules, the groups say. Or the rule could potentially banish a doctor from the program if another doctor in a practice performs elective abortions.
Doctors must be free to be direct with their patients, and conversations between doctors and patients must be protected. As the letter says, these discussions "are the foundation of the patient-physician relationship" and their content "must remain outside the bounds of government interference."
Any rule that causes a doctor to be less than frank with a patient violates a doctor's ethical obligations, jeopardizes a patient's trust in her doctor, infringes on a doctor's First Amendment rights and could invite a malpractice lawsuit.
In their letter, the physician groups suggest sensible changes and edits that give the proposed rule greater specificity and clarity. The state health department says it is reviewing the physicians' suggestions. We trust the agency will listen carefully to what the doctors have to say and will rewrite the rules to satisfy their objections.
The Dallas Morning News. Aug. 11, 2012.
Boys lag in graduation rates
The overall trends in Texas high school graduation rates are encouraging, as noted in an editorial last week. But deficiencies exist, especially in the gap between male and female students.
According to new Texas Education Agency data, a greater percentage of females graduated on time than did their male peers in the 2010-2011 school year.
The gap is neither new, as the accompanying information shows, nor is the divide unique to Texas. So what should policymakers, educators and families do to remedy this problem?
Part of the challenge is cultural, and something that policymakers may not be able to address easily — or at all. One principal we interviewed recently lamented that he sees more boys living without a father. The absence of a dad, he said, is a bigger burden for boys, who would benefit from an adult role model supervising them.
Whatever their situation, all fathers owe it to their kids to remain a part of their lives. Any possible mentoring that might prolong a boy's successful school years is more than worth the effort. For one thing, young men with only a high school degree suffer more economically. As one indicator, they have higher unemployment rates than men with an associate's or bachelor's degree. Just imagine how much worse it is for those who don't even complete high school.
Another cultural aspect is the number of young males with attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Even if not all these diagnoses are valid, schools and families are contending with numerous boys with attention issues.
One way that schools and families can help attention-challenged boys is to get them to read for pleasure. Dr. Leonard Sax reports in Boys Adrift that girls read for pleasure more than boys. That's not because girls are reading more, he says, but because boys are reading less.
Teachers and parents can't suddenly change that reading pattern. But patiently helping young boys find any material or genre they like to read, and encouraging them to do so daily, can stave off later reading deficiencies that lead to frustration in school and an early exit.
One policy response gaining traction is creating boys-only schools for the middle to upper grades, just as some districts have started such schools for girls. The data doesn't show this approach always will work. But we're excited to see the Dallas school district experiment with this approach in its highly ranked Irma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School and its new Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy. These schools create a chance to tailor a curriculum and learning environment for their students.
The TEA data for 2011 shows that most male dropouts left in ninth grade. So part of Austin's response must include providing enough money for districts to hire interventionists and specialists to work with ninth-grade boys.
This gap was long in the making, so its resolution will require patient tenacity. Policymakers, educators and parents must all reckon with it. Let's celebrate the progress of girls but not leave boys behind.


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At work we use a Cisco VPN concentrator and use the Cisco VPN client on my
laptop. Havent had any problems connecting via VPN to work from home until
yesterday. Odd thing is that only 2 of us at work have started having the
problem. They said there were no changes on the concentrator that would
cause our issues. The other person is behind a linksys router and I'm
behind my m0n0wall 1.2 box.
If we bypass our routers we can connect fine. Another guy from work has
the exact same model Linksys router my coworker has and he can connect to
VPN from behind it.
Anyway, I noticed in my m0n0wall logs that when I try to connect I see the
WAN interface blocking UDP from the concentrator IP address to the nat IP
of my machine the client is running on.
I tried adding a firewall rule on the WAN interface to allow UPD from the
concentrator address but the firewall logs still showing that being
blocked. The source IP and destination IP dont specify a specific port.
Any Ideas why thats still being blocked even though I've put in a rule to
allow UDP from that IP on the WAN interface?

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This interview with SoCal's Dylan Covey officially completes my transition to PinstripesPlus, a move that I'm extremely excited about and one that I expect to allow me to take the best coverage of MLB draftees to even greater heights. The 2010 draft has a great pool of eligible players that I look forward to helping you, the fans, get to know a bit better. My predraft goal remains what it has always been: to bring you full-length, in-depth interviews with the best draft prospects in the nation, and this first interview goes right to the top. As in years past, you can friend me on Facebook to get notice of when the newest interviews are put up as well as contact me with any questions or comments.
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Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Just to start things off – are you still 6'2", 200 lbs?
Dylan Covey: Yeah, I'm still around there, roughly.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: You've got a big senior year coming up, when does your season start?
Dylan Covey: Our first game is March 6th. I just threw my first bullpen yesterday after taking a break from throwing all together for a while.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Tell me a little bit about you and sports – we know you play baseball, but are there any others?
Dylan Covey: I used to play football, but I quit after my sophomore year mainly because of baseball, but I also had a couple of concussions. I played safety and backup quarterback.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: When was it that you knew that you were pretty good at baseball?
Dylan Covey: Well, I think I was good in Little League, but I never REALLY stood out. Then when I was a freshman in high school I was good, but my record was 2-6, so I wasn't great obviously. Sophomore year I started throwing a lot harder, towards the end of the year I hit 94 MPH, and that's when everything started happening. I went to Jupiter, Florida then, and that's probably when all the national attention started coming.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Do you remember the first time you hit 90 MPH?
Dylan Covey: Yes. It was in between freshman and sophomore year during the summer in Arizona when I was out there for Junior Olympics. It was pretty exciting, you know, "throwing hard," but it wasn't a really big deal because you can throw hard, but you can get hit hard, too. You have to still throw strikes and pitch.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: What is it specifically that led you to commit to the University of San Diego?
Dylan Covey: They went after me pretty early - I committed before my junior year started, so they had showed a lot of interest. When I went down there to visit I took my brother with me, and he's been there through my whole baseball career so far. We talked about it and he said "I think this is the right thing," and I thought "if someone else offered me the same thing, would I regret being committed to San Diego?" The answer was no. I love the coaches, I love the atmosphere, the campus is amazing, and they have the best weather in the world, so it seemed like the perfect fit.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: What other schools were you considering?
Dylan Covey: I was really interested in USC, UCLA, you know, most of the area D-1 schools here in California.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Your dad flirted with professional baseball, is that correct?
Dylan Covey: Yeah, he was drafted in 1968 by the Mets, but he didn't sign.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: How has that played into how you are approaching your draft experience?
Dylan Covey: Back then it was a lot different because they could draft you and then ask you to finish college. He kind of regrets not signing and didn't really pursue it. He didn't really have a relationship with his father, so because of that he has made sure to keep a really good relationship with me. He's strict with me about making sure I do things right, and he wants to see me succeed where he didn't. He's definitely been the main factor in everything I've accomplished.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Have you thought about the draft?
Dylan Covey: Yeah, but right now it's all surreal, so until it actually happens I don't think I'm going to understand it. At this point I just feel like I'm a normal kid.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: If you are drafted, would you consider signing?
Dylan Covey: Yeah, I would have no problem passing up college, but it would definitely have to be the right opportunity.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Have you retained an advisor?
Dylan Covey: Yeah, his name is Lenny Strelitz, and he's with Wasserman Media Group.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: When you think about professional baseball, what do you picture?
Dylan Covey: Well, I know it's going to be tough, that I'll be starting in rookie ball, and that it will be a grind – you don't make that much money starting out. But I'm willing to take that leap to try and get to the top because my goal is to play professional baseball. No matter what, you have to through all of the steps, so I'm looking forward to it. I think it's going to be exciting.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Have you heard from all 30 teams at this point?
Dylan Covey: No, I've heard from about 20 right now.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Have you had any contact from the Yankees?
Dylan Covey: Yes, I have.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: What was it like being selected as an Aflac All-American and then getting to not only pitch at Petco, but to pitch a clean inning?
Dylan Covey: Leading up to the game I had been having shoulder problems throughout the summer because at the end of the season I kind of pitched a lot. I had actually only thrown one bullpen leading up to Aflac, and my arm felt good, so I was just hoping I could throw strikes. So I went in, and I don't know what happened, but my arm just felt amazing, and since then my arm just didn't hurt. It was a great experience because they had called me and said they were thinking about putting me on the Aflac team, but they knew I was banged up, and they wanted to know if I would be able to pitch. I said I couldn't tell them for sure, I didn't know, and they told me they'd call me back and let me know. When they called back they told me they thought I deserved it and they would put me on the team whether I could throw or not. It was an honor and a relief because I saw that they thought about it and actually cared about my arm and not just putting together an all-star team. It was good experience because everything panned out well.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: What was Petco like? Was that the first MLB park you'd thrown at?
Dylan Covey: I've thrown at the Angels' stadium a couple of times for the scout-ball team, but Petco was pretty nice.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: As a pitcher tell me about your arsenal.
Dylan Covey: I throw from very straight over the top which gives my fastball a downward plane. I throw a 4-seam fastball that is starting to sit around 92-94 MPH, my 2-seam fastball is about the same but with some more arm-side run. Curve ball is a straight, 12 to 6, up-and-down drop, and it is anywhere from 78 mph to 85 mph. My slider is pretty much the opposite of my curveball, moves side-to-side, and I've hit 90 MPH with it, but it's usually in the high 80s. I'm developing a changeup right now, it's not great, but it's not terrible.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: What kind of change are you throwing?
Dylan Covey: It's actually really weird. It's like a split finger, but I slide all three fingers on one side. My pointer and middle fingers are split, but then I have my pinky and ring finger on the side for stability. I actually saw someone throwing it and I figured I'd try it out and it's working out pretty good.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: What is your out-pitch?
Dylan Covey: I feel comfortable with my slider, curveball, and fastball for an out, I guess it depends on the count.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: What is your mindset both on and off the mound?
Dylan Covey: Off the mound I'm just a really quiet person – I like to watch people instead of being the center of attention. On the mound I kind of have that quiet demeanor, but inside I'm more…my dad calls it tenacious. It's a below-the-surface kind of thing. I'm really aggressive, but I don't show a lot of emotion.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Speaking of the pros, being from the Los Angeles area, who did your root for growing up?
Dylan Covey: Growing up I was a bandwagon fan, I really didn't have a team, but in the last couple of years I've been a fan of the Dodgers.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Who are the players that you look up to in terms of their skills or the way they play?
Dylan Covey: I really like the way Tim Lincecum plays. I like Josh Beckett a lot, his demeanor and the way he pitches.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: If you could have any pitcher's stuff for a day, whose would you take?
Dylan Covey: Probably Roy Halladay. I think he keeps hitters off-balance more, and better, than anyone in the game.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: If you could steal any pitch from someone in your draft class, whose would it be?
Dylan Covey: I'd probably steal Deandre Smelter's split finger. I like the feel of an old-school type pitch arsenal, and a split would be really fun to throw.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Have you heard scouts say that you remind them of another pitcher?
Dylan Covey: Yeah. I've only had that happen a few times, and the one I do remember is Joba Chamberlain, but I don't remember any others.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: I was actually going to ask you that because I think you guys had similar tall and stocky builds. Are you all about using your legs on the mound?
Dylan Covey: Yeah, mainly legs, and I've got a good-sized butt, so I generate a lot of power from my lower body. (laughs)
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: What's the biggest thing you want to focus on going into this season, both for your team and as an individual?
Dylan Covey: As a team we didn't lose that many seniors last year, but the one we did lose had a lot of leadership qualities, so we're going to have to find people to be our sparkplugs. Individually I'm mainly looking to find command of all my pitches and focus on throwing strikes this year.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Do you have any superstitions?
Dylan Covey: Yeah, during the playoffs our whole team would go to this sandwich shack pretty close to our school, and we'd all eat there before every playoff game. That was our team ritual.
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Did it work?
Dylan Covey: Yeah, we won the championship, so we're going to do it again this year!
Kevin Levine-Flandrup: Finally, what's this whole process like for you, being 18 years old yet having such amazing opportunities so close?
Dylan Covey: It's nice. Talking with people at school, some of them don't even know they're going to do next year, but I kind of have it all laid out. At the very least I'm going to San Diego and playing baseball, and if I get drafted that's great. It's just been really nice having these options pretty much on a platter for me.
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In past years, trees have been found in various locations across the state, including the far reaches of the Upper Peninsula and as close to Lansing as Grand Ledge. Last year's tree came from Iron River.
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We like the debate about inequality and policy solutions like the buffett Tax.
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KPMG, a global network of professional firms providing audit, tax, and advisory services, released a report on Cross-Border Investigations: Effectively Meeting the Challenge.
KPMG, along with the research firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates Inc. approached multinational businesses in diverse industries around the world, and asked those charged with the responsibility for cross-border investigations within those companies how they responded to their current challenges. As the trade barriers fall and international commerce expands, and as the speed of conducting business and remitting funds increases, companies that conduct business across international boundaries are recognizing the corresponding increase in the risk of fraud and misconduct. They thus face several challenges such as taking the appropriate first steps, cultural and legal differences, investigation resources, and the availability and
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A call for abstracts has been issued for ITU, ISO and IEC's now regular event focusing on information and communication technologies (ICT) in motor vehicles.
For the third year running The Fully Networked Car is being organized by ITU, ISO and IEC, working together as the World Standards Cooperation (WSC). Taking place at one of the world's leading automotive events, the Geneva International Motor Show, the event will comprise a workshop with demonstrations and will take place between 5 and 7 March 2008.
Authors wishing to present papers should submit a half-page abstract, including the title of the paper and the author's full name, short biography, address, telephone and e-mail, to email@example.com by Friday, 16 November 2007. A new topic area for 2008 is ICT and the environment, suggestions for other topics can be found on the event's webpage.
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Gluten-free banana bread that is moist and just as delicious as regular. No crazy ingredients needed.
Besides my tight shorts, another symptom of my less than stellar gym attendance is an abundance of browning bananas in my kitchen. They are the pre-workout snack of choice in our apartment and when they don't get eaten it means Matt and I are slacking.
Let's just say that this recipe and that pie are not the last banana recipes you will see for a while. Oops.
I claimed to have made this gluten-free treat for my sister, but after eating slice after slice of this surprisingly moist and flavorful banana bread, I'll call myself out. It may be made with almond meal, but you will not miss the flour at all. The texture is almost spot-on and the blueberries and chocolate more than make up for anything you could possibly be missing.
Again, I chose the recipe because it is no-fuss gluten-free baking. Some other almond-meal based desserts I've made include Chewy Ginger Cookies and Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
Blueberry Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread {Gluten-Free}
Serves 8-12
120 grams / 4 1/4 ounces (~1 1/2 cups) almond meal
100 grams (2 whole) eggs + 90 grams (3) egg whites, lightly whisked
2 fluid ounces / 1/4 cup canola oil
170 grams / 6 ounces (~3/4 cup, tightly packed) light brown sugar
200 grams / 7 ounces (~1 cup or 2 medium) mashed ripe bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup blueberries, rinsed and dried
1/2 cup dark chocolate chunks
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 5×10 loaf pan with butter or non-stick cooking spray; set aside
In a large bowl, whisk together all ingredients except for blueberries and chocolate chunks; whisk just until combined
Gently fold in blueberries and chocolate chunks
Pour batter into prepared baking pan; bake for 45-55 minutes or until top is no longer wet and a knife comes out clean from center
Allow to cool before removing from pan and slicing
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Doug is just a cranky old man. He moved to S. America and has always been very negative. Just stay in your little backwater country Casey and STFU already.Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24265501
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The "greatest generation" handed us a gift and we fumbled it away by allowing government to run wild.
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The religion of submission cannot survive an open and honest discussion of its convoluted and foolish scriptures, its sexually perverted terrorist prophet, or its deceitful and demented god. When Western leaders become unified and resolute in their hostility to Islam's violent and ungodly beginnings, Muslims will flee the religion because they will be horrified by its endorsement of terrorism, mass murder, slave trading, plunder, kidnapping, and rape.
If Muslims & their apologists really want to cure "Islamophobia," here is an easy way. Focus their indignation on Muslims committing violent acts in the name of Islam, not on non-Muslims reporting on those acts.
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Ecclesiastes 10:2 "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
We are all born ignorant, but it takes a lot of work to keep looking the other way to remain stupid.
Islam is not a race - the racism rant is lame, used by the intellectually lazy to derail the debate.
Democrats do and always have loved poor people. . . they continue to make so many of them.
"Evil is." And being a useful idiot enabling it is no excuse.
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YOUNGSTOWN (AP) -- Local officials say a half-dozen very old gravestones were broken or flattened when a driver suffering a medical problem lost control and crashed into part of a northeast Ohio cemetery with graves dating to the early 1800s.
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The brand new photo from the action sci-fi exposes the two characters standing with their backs against each other.
New promotional photo from "The Last Airbender" has been released by Paramount Pictures. While the previously released posters highlight Noah Ringer's Aang and Dev Patel's Zuko, the fresh image gives a look at two other major characters, Jackson Rathbone's Sokka and Nicola Peltz's Katara.
In a recent interview with Los Angeles Times, director M. Night Shyamalan talked about the Buddhist philosophy that underlies "Airbender" and draws himself to make the film adaptation. "Aang himself needs to find balance to be the Avatar and to master each of these elements," he said. "We get to see the process of someone mastering themselves through the three seasons to get to peace."
Set in a world where human civilization is divided into four nations: Water, Earth, Air and Fire, "The Last Airbender" follows Aang. Teaming up with Waterbender named Katara and her brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. This live-action movie is slated for July 2 release in the U.S.


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UBS has kept its "buy" on
Retail Food Group has entered conditional agreement to acquire The Coffee Guy Group for around $NZ5.5 million in cash, implying an enterprise value/earnings before interest and tax ratio of 5.5 times – broadly in line with previous coffee acquisitions.
UBS says the purchase is consistent with the company's strategy to diversify away from shopping centres and frutehr leverage off its existing wholesale coffee operations. The Coffee Guy Group's founder will join Retail Food Group and lead the rollout of the portable coffee concept in Australia.
"We continue to life Retail Food Group for its 1) defensiveness from a diverse portfolio, 2) capital-light and scalable franchise model, and 3) growth from capturing the gourmet pizza segment. Retail Food Group's plans under project evolution to expand the trading scope of its existing mature brands will see the first drive-through Esquires and Donut King sites opening by December 12 and March 13. Post The Coffee Guy Group acquisition, we estimate around $40 million of debt headroom remains for further bolt-on acquisitions."
UBS is forecasting earnings per share of 18¢ in 2013, 24¢ in 2014 and 25¢ in 2015. Retail Food Group reported EPS of 26¢ in 2012.
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From: "Dennis Wright" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] STR mutation rates
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:27:13 +1000
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Hi Tim,
First, I hadn't realised that 444 and 446 were quoted twice in Leo's work ... I wonder why he did this?
Second, Leo has two charts where the values of markers 38-67 differ markedly.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geneticgenealogy/MR.htm and
Perhaps John Chandler may like to suggest which set are the most relevant.
Dennis W
Dear Dennis,
Yes, I noted this earlier this evening and thus posted a revised
list that included changes for 445 and 452. I didn't need to revise the
mutation rates for 444 and 446 since I had used John's calculated rates for
those markers.
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[mailto:] On Behalf Of Dennis Wright
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] STR mutation rates
Please be aware of an earlier post by John Chandler that some of the 68-78
markers were incorrectly transposed by Leo Little from
the SMGF 2004 poster.
These are the corrected figures for the 4 markers in question.
Ref:- http://www.smgf.org/resources/papers/ASHG2004-4.pdf
444 medium 0.00296
445 slow 0.00095
446 medium 0.00314
452 medium 0.00174
Note:- while the values may have changed, only 445 has changed type from
medium to slow
Dennis W
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The four-ball game with two players is preferred by many, though lacking the sociality which is one of the charms of croquet.
It was because he had a task there; sociality was not the business of the hour.
sociality, because it cannot exist under such conditions save amongst rats and reptiles, ceased some time ago.
Its sociality could not be pent within the bounds of the actual.
The "sociality" of Herr Duehring is very distinct from the "cloudy ideas" of the earlier socialists.
In private life, Dr. Duncan was eminently distinguished for his sociality, and the desire to benefit all mankind.
They are not less remarkable for strong feeling of sociality and attachment to one another.
It is supposed that there can be no sociality, no comfort, no enjoyment, without intoxicating drinks.
He delighted in sociality and conviviality, but recoiled from aught savouring of licence or excess.
The development of all the manifestations of "sociality" is then the measure of progress of human societies.
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In the beginning, just liniment could speed recovery for an athlete with a nagging muscle pull. That and, of course, rest.
Then came the fitness boom, and with it a thriving rehabilitation industry that caters to sore runners and cyclists determined to heal swiftly. Injured athletes today can select from a variety of options, including pricey coaches who specialize in hurry-up recuperation and physical therapists who offer muscle-healing gadgets.
But is there evidence that they are better than rest? Not much.
''Any time you have multiple different treatment strategies, it tells you that any kind of scientific evidence is really lacking,'' said Dr. Gordon O. Matheson, a professor who is chief of the sports medicine division at the Stanford School of Medicine.
Three of the most common injuries that slow athletes are hamstring tears, shinsplints and plantar fasciitis. They seem to strike without warning and linger.
A hamstring tear is a break in the muscle fibers along the back of the thigh, usually where they attach to the tendon. Shinsplints is the general term for muscle problems in the lower leg. Plantar fasciitis is inflammation of the tissues that wrap the foot.Continue reading the main story
Hamstring tears strike joggers who try to sprint, said Jim Wharton, an exercise physiologist. Runners rely on an intimate choreography of muscles, one set contracting while the opposing set stretches. When the rhythm is broken, fibers can tear.
The extent of the tear, whether one slim fiber or several, determines the length of recuperation. That explains why some runners with hamstring injuries are back on the track after a few days and others are still hobbling after two months.
Although all therapists have recipes for hamstring recovery, the methods all amount to the same thing. First, reduce pain and swelling. Second, restore motion. Third, regain strength. The consensus is that a day or two of ice packs helps, because they constrict blood vessels and reduce swelling, said Dr. Peter Jokl, a professor of orthopedic surgery and chief of sports medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. But extending the icing period probably does not add any benefit.
Although there is no definitive scientific evidence, some specialists say a deep massage breaks scar tissue and improves muscle mobility.
HIGH-TECH DEVICES -- Although therapeutic ultrasound -- sound waves for healing rather than diagnosis -- and electric stimulation have been around for years, many experts are skeptical about them. Ultrasound as therapy is used as a steady stream of energy to heat the injury or as pulses of sound waves to push fluid away from the tear.
Dr. Mark Merrick, an athletic trainer at Ohio State University, said his basic science studies suggested that thermal ultrasound hastened recovery by increasing the metabolic rate. But, he added, clinical studies had not confirmed his findings.
Eight of 10 random controlled trials of therapeutic ultrasound suggest that it has no effect on healing muscle injuries, according to a review article in Physical Therapy in July. Electric stimulation sends electricity to nerves in the muscle, causing them to jitter. Doctors agree that forcing muscles to move with machines is crucial for patients who cannot do that on their own. But electric stimulation is not critical for those who are up and about, and nearly everyone with hamstring injuries can still walk.
After a tear, myoblasts, or muscle cells, and fibroblasts, which make connective tissue, proliferate. Some athletes never feel completely healed, because fibroblasts flourish, more so than muscle cells. The upshot is a scar, a hogdepodge of fibers across the muscle.
An ideal treatment for a hamstring tear would include some medicine to speed myoblast growth and slow fibroblasts. Research on such a drug has led to many false starts. A study of mice with torn muscles suggests that high doses of decorin, an experimental drug, heals muscles by slowing fibroblasts. The study, published in the July-August issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine, was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
''Other scientists have tried to enhance muscle repair,'' said Dr. Johnny Huard, one of the investigators, who is an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. ''We took the other approach and tried to block fibrosis and found that ultimately the muscle healed completely.''
MILEAGE AND STRESS -- Then there are shinsplints, a nonspecific catchall term for some injuries that strike the lower leg, primarily because of too much mileage.
Ignored, a shinsplint can progress to a stress fracture.
''If you are flat-footed, shinsplints are in your future,'' Dr. Merrick said. ''The muscles that pass behind the foot help hold up the arch. So if you don't have these helpers, your muscles will have to work overtime.''
Unfortunately, all the physical therapy devices in the world will not mend a shinsplint. Ice and rest make up the slow road to recovery.
THE PAIN IN THE MORNING -- Runners routinely ignore pain and train through injuries, until they progress to chronic problems.
Not so if the injury is plantar fasciitis, because it causes such excruciating pain that it stops even the most fanatic. The tough band of tissue that wraps the foot rips away from its connection to the heel bone and, sometimes, compresses nerves.
No one knows what causes plantar fasciitis. People with the problem typically have stiff calves. But no one knows whether the leg tightness sets off the foot injury or vice versa.
Pain peaks in the morning after the tissue contracts during the night's sleep. A few tricks may relieve the pain. Night splints keep the toes flexed and the tissue stretched, relieving morning aches. Dr. Jokl of Yale recommends rolling a golf ball or soda bottle on the bottom of the foot, to stretch the fascia. He said arch inserts for shoes sometimes helped.
Specialists agree that most athletes with these common injuries will heal with time, sometimes despite treatment.
''My philosophy is that the body speaks to us very loudly,'' said Dr. Pat Fehling, an associate professor of exercise physiology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ''Rest is an important part of training and rehabilitation. Our bodies will recover by themselves if you allow time.
The problem is that with runners, they often ignore their symptoms, because you are dealing with a group of people who need their daily fix.''Continue reading the main story


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It is up to the viewer to respond to who they are and, perhaps, to imagine why they are dressed to the nines.
Like the other speakers, Adams recalled a dedicated friend, and one who was always dressed to the nines.
He was clean-shaven, sweet-smelling, and dressed to the nines.
By 5:30 p.m., the band members emerge—dressed to the nines—and assume their position.
Quadrille-cards will not do for whist, for all the eights, nines, and tens are thrown out.
Gordon nodded, and she threw her hand upon the table; it held four nines.
Say, Star, the girl in the boat was—tough; she was painted up to the nines, and of course it all came out in the wash.
I said, "All these nines clearly point to your living to ninety-nine."
Or were they merely lower-caste people, to be ranked with the nines and Tens?
It is but three nines or three knaves, or a mixture of them.
in phrase to the nines "to perfection" (1787) first attested in Burns, apparently preserves the ancient notion of the perfection of the number as three times three (e.g. the nine Muses, etc.
[T]he Book of St. Albans, in the sections on blasonry, lays great stress on the nines in which all perfect things (orders of angels, virtues, articles of chivalry, differences of coat armour, etc.) occur. [Weekley]No one seems to consider that it might be a corruption and misdivision of to then anes, literally "for the one (purpose or occasion)," a similar construction to the one that yielded nonce (q.v.).
Old English nigen, from Proto-Germanic *niwun (cf. Old Saxon nigun, Old Frisian niugun, Old Norse niu, Swedish nio, Middle Dutch neghen, Dutch negen, Old High German niun, German neun, Gothic niun "nine"), from PIE newn "nine" (cf. Sanskrit nava, Avestan nava, Greek ennea, Albanian nende, Latin novem (with change of -n- to -m- by analogy of septem, decem), Lithuanian devnyi, Old Church Slavonic deveti (the Balto-Slavic forms by dissimilation of -n- to -d-), Old Irish noin, Welsh naw).
Nine to five "the average workday" is attested from 1935. Nine days has been proverbial since 14c. for the time which a wonder or novelty holds attention.
A nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol: There was a fight. I saw a man running with a nine/ People seeking guns for personal combat want reliable stopping power, revolvers or semiautomatic pistols known as ''nines'' (1990s+)
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NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory scientists and colleagues from the
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raindrops and snowflakes. This first-ever observatory combines NOAA's
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It has been hypothesized in the peer reviewed literature, albeit somewhat controversially, that the amount of surface rainfall and snowpack in the California Sierra Nevada has decreased by 10 to 20 percent over the past few decades due to increased air pollution. Coordinated meteorological and aerosol measurements are needed to better isolate the impact of pollution (aerosols) on the precipitation processes from the naturally occurring meteorological processes. CalWater will address the question: Does anthropogenic (human-caused) pollution reduce wintertime precipitation in the Sierra Nevada, thereby causing a negative impact on California's annual water supply?
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Focus on Scimone's $30,000 woes
Clockwise from left, Beth Morgan at the hearing yesterday; Michael Kollaras; Glenn Tabak; Gerald Carroll; Ray Younan.
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THE former Wollongong council officer and ALP powerbroker Joe Scimone was fooled into believing his "problems" at Wollongong council could be made to disappear if he paid $30,000 to two men claiming to be corrupt Independent Commission Against Corruption officials, a public inquiry was told yesterday.
Exactly what those problems were was a subject for interrogation yesterday at the commission inquiry into alleged corrupt behaviour at the council, with questions being asked about Mr Scimone's role assessing development applications, and bribes he allegedly paid to pervert the inquiry.
The commission yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of one of the men, Ray Younan, a criminal alleged to have solicited bribes from Mr Scimone and others named in the inquiry. Younan is believed to be in Lebanon with health problems.
#The hearing, which began on Monday, also heard more about how the imposters tried to bribe Wollongong council staff and local developers in what increasingly looks like an unsophisticated sting involving cloak-and-dagger meetings and mysterious phone calls.
Allegations of more inappropriate sexual relations between a former council town planner, Beth Morgan - portrayed in evidence as having been on a possible "mission for sex" - and developers were also aired, some of them detailed in emails between various people mentioned in the hearings.
Mr Scimone - a close ally of the Minister for Ports and Waterways, Joe Tripodi, and a friend for 30 years of the former Wollongong lord mayor and present Police Minister, David Campbell - stood down from his job with NSW Maritime on Wednesday pending the outcome of the inquiry.
The commission has said Mr Scimone's conduct at the council requires scrutiny in respect of his relationships with developers, particularly his friend Glen Tabak, from whom he bought a unit in a development approved by council, and his "apparent payment of cash intended to pervert the course of this investigation" to the convicted criminals and imposters Younan and Gerald Carroll.
Mr Tabak said Mr Scimone had been under great stress because he had lost his job at the council, could not get another one, and had been accused of sexually harassing a female colleague at the council.
Mr Tabak yesterday told the commission Younan had demanded another $20,000 on top of $30,000 Mr Scimone had already paid "because he didn't want any more hassles in his life".
"He said that after going through all the things that he had gone through in the last 12 months, that was, his job in council and [not being] able to get another job and all the stress and he was crying and he said he was scared," Mr Tabak said.
"Sorry, he told you that he'd pay the money rather than go through what?" asked the commissioner, Jerrold Cripps, QC. "Was he saying that Ray Younan could ensure that he would have no more hassles?" "I don't know," Mr Tabak replied.
Counsel assisting the commission, Noel Hemmings, QC, had earlier quizzed Mr Tabak on his friendship with the council staff member and whether that had affected the way Mr Scimone assessed Mr Tabak's development applications.
Mr Tabak said he was surprised when Ms Morgan began to appear at "Table of Knowledge" meetings at a Northbeach kebab shop that involved developers, businessmen and council executives.
He said he believed Ms Morgan "wanted to be surrounded by successful people". "It is possible she was on a mission for sex," he said.
Mr Tabak said he did not know if his friend thought paying the bribe would solve problems that may have been related to the way he carried out his council work.
Mr Tabak also met Younan when Ms Morgan invited him to an isolated cafe in Appin. She had agreed to pay the two men $50,000 but refused to have sex with Carroll as payment to have her ICAC file cleaned, the commission has heard.
Mr Tabak was not so easily taken in. "He didn't look like an ICAC officer to me," he said of the heavyset 55-year-old who favours white shirts and gold chains.
Mr Tabak and Mr Scimone told the bribery story to another local developer, Michael Kollaras, who yesterday claimed he made Mr Scimone ring the commission and reveal the whole thing.
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Credit Suisse has decreased its target price on general and life insurer
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Liberty to Host NCAA Selection Show Celebrations
The Flames Club will host NCAA Selection Show Celebration events in the third-floor Club Pavilion at Williams Stadium for both the Liberty men's and women's basketball teams. The men's event will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday and the women's event will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday.
Chicken fingers, BBQ meat balls, chicken quesadillas, assorted fruits & vegetables, cheese & crackers and cookies will be served. The cost to attend is $5 for Flames Club members and $10 for non-members, with kids ages 5 & under admitted free. Please note that doors will not open before the posted times above.
The men's selection show will be televised on CBS, beginning Sunday at 6 p.m. Meanwhile, the women's selection show will air on ESPN, starting Monday at 7 p.m.
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