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2006 Liquid Force Watson 138
When asked about his flippin sweet new pro-model, Watson excitedly replied, Its the best board Ive ever ridden. Wanting something to complement and accentuate his smooth style, he suggested shocks and pegs. With that in mind the spiral v bottom was shaped and combined with a double concave to break up the impact. Lifted variable edges were also shaped for catch free spins and release. Watson wanted a rocker line that pops and hits you like a sledgehammer so we tweaked the aggressive 3-stage rocker line so you can take it off sweet jumps. With all that excitement, he needed the crisp molded fins to hold his line. We finished it off with our unique QVC tip for even more lift. We complied. Luckyyy!
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Reviewer: Marty B
08/03/2007 12:00am
I did have the year for almost a year and I really loved it but exactly the same that happened to the bindinings happenend with the board: It broke ysterday!!! I am really sad, because I thought that I found the right board. If you never go on sliders and kickers it probably last longer - go and buy it. I will get a Hyperlite now!!!
Reviewer: Curt Bernstein
02/06/2007 12:00am
I love this board.. it really stood out after my first ride on it because i was so impressed with how easy spins were. the board is really light and super easy to control in the air. all around great ride.
Reviewer: Blake Kindig
11/11/2006 12:00am
best board i've ever ridden- my old board was the first premier and the difference is definately noticable. my first time out i could easily tell the difference- it pops harder, its not as loose as the premier but nonetheless easy to break loose, night and day with speed and weight compared to the premier. i have it set up with the watson boots and couldn't be happier. the only thing i am worried about is the fact that i have broken lf boards before (good warranty but i had to wait half a year)and this board might suffer the same end, especially when i get my rail set up. otherwise i would definately would recommend to anyone with a premier looking for something more aggressive.
Reviewer: Robert Harp
10/04/2006 12:00am
This is the easiest to ride of the LF 2006 pro line. It has a 'spine' along the bottom which pushes the water out the sides on the landings, which really softens the landings when you land out in the flats. It has a subtle three stage rocker that generates GREAT 'pop' off the wake without the bucking snap of the Shane. Almost no swing weight. It is a fast board, but the PS3 is faster by a little. Very happy with my decision. Slap some 06 Transits on this thing and you're copying me.
Reviewer: TJ Jackson
09/27/2006 12:00am
Overall, this board is excellent. Everything the sales rep claimed was true. Pillow soft landings, Off center landings are stuck (it is freakin' uncanny!), super speedy into the wake, and excellent pop. It also spins much easier than my old Wake Tech Byerly. It took me a little to get used to compared to my ancient Byerly, but once I did, my riding started to improve. This board kicks so much ass and makes me want to ride even more. Definitely worth the extra money over the Substance I was considering.
Reviewer: John smith
09/21/2006 12:00am
Reviewer: Jim Hellman
09/02/2006 12:00am
This board is amazing. Tracks good, has plenty of speed, completely boots you off the wake, and the landings are as soft as they get. Has to be the best board on the market this year.
Reviewer: tyler fontenot
07/07/2006 12:00am
......wow, this board is sooooo amazing, once you put it on your feet it feels so good, right when you get up it feels like the easiest thing in the world. see, im a hyperlite guy, but after hearing so many good things about this board, i had to look into it. once i rode it i was hooked, its most definatly the most overall best board ive riden, AND I HAVE IT. ive been wakeboarding on this board for over a week straight now and today i didnt get to go. i was very depressed, its almost like crack or something, you have to ride it. go out right now if you dont have one and GET THIS BOARD!!!!!!
Reviewer: Luke Johnson
07/06/2006 12:00am
Best Board Ever! Coming from a 138 Parks and a 137 PS3, this board blows them both out of the water. Pops as hard as the parks, but more consistent. It's not as fast ast the PS3, but it is by no means slow on the water. Ride it finless, It's super controllable, but slide with little to no effort. Softest landings of any board, I've been riding with a fractured leg and still didn't feel it. It's so light, and it has all the pop and speed you need to land in the flats at 85 feet of line
Reviewer: Gustaf Lart�n
07/03/2006 12:00am
Nice board...
Reviewer: Keelen Patrick
07/02/2006 12:00am
This board is the best board that I have been on! It pops like my Parks but is looser. I face plant way less with this board. Landing are super soft. I love it! LF keep up the good work!
Reviewer: Eric Anderson
05/28/2006 12:00am
Similar ride to the new shane but i liked this better, more consistant pop, smoother landings, still loose when you want it but a smooth edge unlike shanes aggressive edge (both are good but a matter of preference), releases a little tail heavy but thats what makes the pop controllable
Reviewer: Chris K
05/26/2006 12:00am
This Board is amazing, I rode a Subjekt 137, this board is overall a much better preformer than the subjekt, Great board
Reviewer: Nick Joseph
05/22/2006 12:00am
While it may not be the fastest board, the watson has unbelieveable pop. It is definately the ultimate board for a long line and W2W tricks, but it can easliy be taken out into the flats as well. Great board.
Reviewer: Kyle T
05/21/2006 12:00am
I am 6'2" 160# Went from a trip 143 to this, requires a hard edge into and up the wake, but the pop is up, I am having to relearn my edging technique. but am able to have a much higher/longer hang time when I do it properly. the boat has to go faster compared to the trip. I ride with the fins taken off, with them on, it is locked to the water. too much for me. the downside is that toeside landings are sketchy if you dont land on your toes it slides out easily. with the fins on, it turns and burns on command.
Reviewer: chris s
05/15/2006 12:00am
I rode the Premier last year and this board ride pretty similar. More pop and a little more forgiving. This board is very fun and will make you a better rider.
Reviewer: Johnny Pressley
05/08/2006 12:00am
Didn't think it could get better than the substance but Redmon did it! This deck's looser, faster, got WAY more pop, it just feels so natural how it reacts to weight changes and laying in a carve. If you transition from snowboarding to wakeboarding this is the obvious choice.
Reviewer: john wolicki
04/23/2006 12:00am
this board is so fast and skatey, and with huge pop its not for the faint hearted.takes a lot of work to keep it under control.my last board was the substance ,LF have done well to improve what i thought the best board out there .treat this board with respect. john UK.
Reviewer: Sam Levin
03/27/2006 12:00am
this board is so amazing!!I've never been thrown up in the air so high ever. It kicked my butt all over the lake. its very explosive, and i luv it, but it takes sum gettin used to
Reviewer: Jaryd Magnuson
02/27/2006 12:00am
this board rocks it has awsome pop a lot better than my substance everything about it is great n it looks sweet 2
Reviewer: Joshua burnside
02/21/2006 12:00am
Sweet ride.
Reviewer: Sam Rodgers
12/05/2005 12:00am
Awesome ride. Very similar to the substance. Accelerates into the wake with greate edge hold. Rides a little higher in the water and therefore faster the substance. Big pop, and nice and skatey finless... best board i have riden.
Reviewer: Cody Farmer
10/15/2005 12:00am
Really fast board, too fast for my tastes. Once it locks on edge, I felt it easily went off edge. Huge pop, more than my Substance. Most people liked it, just wish it wasn't as fast.


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Charges that the Ebinger Baking Company is contributing funds in support of Nazi activity in this country and abroad, were branded as false by the American Jewish Congress yesterday.
A statement absolving the organization was issued following an investigation by the boycott committee of the organization, of which Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum is chairman, substantiating the denials of the Ebinger Company. The probe was intimated after the offices of the American Jewish Congress had received numerous complaints declaring the Ebinger Company was friendly to the Nazis and discriminating against the employment of Jews. In a communication received from George Ebinger, vice president of the concern, and confirmed by investigation, these charges are disproved.
Mr. Ebinger states further that his organization does not import any German goods. The investigation of the American Jewish Congress has established that Jewish girls are employed as supervisors in several of the Ebinger shops in Brooklyn.
Ebinger's communication declared: "of course the rumors are untrue. They could only be conceived by some irresponsible persons seeking to make trouble. Neither the Ebinger Baking Company, nor any of its officers have ever sent funds to Germany or subscribed to the Nazi cause.
"This firm in its employment policy has never discriminated as to race, creed or color; and further we do not import any German goods."
The American Jewish Congress states it has substantiated that the ingredients and other materials used for baking by the Ebinger Company are domestic, and that there are Jewish supervisors at three Brooklyn branches of the firm.

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Advani hails Pranab, slams Rahul over ordinance
BJP leader LK Advani on Friday credited President Pranab Mukherjee for the withdrawal of the ordinance on convicted lawmakers and slammed Rahul Gandhi for "rubbing off the authority" of the prime minister and the UPA.delhi Updated: Oct 04, 2013 23:10 IST
BJP patriarch LK Advani praised President Pranab Mukherjee for the withdrawal of the ordinance on convicted lawmakers in a blog post on Friday, denying Congress leader Rahul Gandhi credit for the same.
In fact, Advani claimed part of the credit for a BJP delegation requesting the President not to sign it, adding that once the President got into the act, Sonia Gandhi decided to use Rahul to control the damage.
"We got the clear impression that he was convinced that the situation merited his intervention," Advani said about his meet with the President.
The BJP patriarch however insisted that Rahul's intervention had only ended up "rubbing off" the UPA and the PM's authority.
"The victory that has come to the country by withdrawal of this illegal and immoral ordinance has thus been thanks only to the Rashtrapati," Advani said.
Referring to the President's summoning of home minister Sushil Shinde, law minister Kapil Sibal and parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath, Advani said, "It seems these ministers were told that the President had reservations about signing the Ordinance. This must have alarmed the Ministers. "
He added: "It is then perhaps that Soniaji may have thought of doing some damage control using Rahul for the purpose".
Advani criticised Rahul for his strong words against the Ordinance: "The nonsense slur hurled at the Cabinet approved ordinance cannot apply only to the PM and his Ministers. Soniaji must also share responsibility."


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Broadhead Tuning
After going through the paper tuning you can check your broadhead flight. Keep in mind that it is not uncommon for the impact point of a broadhead to be different than that of a field point. With the proper bow weight, arrow and tip weight combination you should be fairly close.
Set a suitable broadhead target 20 to 30 yards away. Using the same field point tipped arrow that you paper tuned with, pick your aiming spot and shoot. This arrow should be on target and give you a solid reference. If it is not, make adjustments to your sight.
Remove your field point and install your broadhead. Using the same aiming point, shoot the broadhead. If the broadhead impacts close to your field point, shoot the same arrow a few more times. Mark the target and be sure that you are within a respectable group size for your ability.
The shot group is key. If you are shooting respectable groups but the impact is off from your aiming point, simply make adjustments to your sight. Or if you wish, continue.
If you are not grouping well, there are a few adjustments you can make to your bow. If you followed the paper tune, these adjustments will be very slight and have an insignificant effect on your field points. The following will only work if your arrows are properly spined or slightly overspined. If your arrow is underspined, broadheads become extremely difficult, if not impossible, to tune.
- If the broadhead hits below the field point, move the string nock down.
- If the broadhead hits above the field point, move the string nock up.
- If the broadhead hits left of the field point, move your rest right, or soften the cushion button spring tension.
- If the broad head hits right of the field point, move your rest left, or stiffen the cushion button spring tension.
- The minor adjustments you make for broadhead tuning will have very little effect on field point flight.
You may have a perfectly tuned bow and perfect arrow flight. However, perfect equipment can never replace practice. If you are having problems, get the assistance of your local archery pro shop. They will be happy to help.Check:
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Mod World
This case mod, from Russ Caslis, is based on a Shuttle computer case and the pivotal scene in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, in which Han Solo is encased in carbonite. Control panels surrounding the case feature red and orange blinking lights and multicolored LEDs. The rear exhaust fan is also lit in red to suggest an evil glow from the back of the unit. Inside are a 2.4-GHz P4 processor, 256MB of memory, a 24x CD-ROM drive, and more. All components, from the Han Solo in carbonite to the control panels to the case itself, were painted a matching silver and clear-coated to shine. Caslis says he will personally deliver the case to Jabba the Hutt to avoid a price being put on his head!


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AN outraged Marlow resident says not enough is being done to curb the behaviour of out-of-control teens - leading to continued disruption and vandalism in the area.
A trial dispersal zone ran from March to November around Gunthorpe Road to deter yobs, giving police powers to ban troublemakers from certain streets or face arrest.
But this has now ended. A 34-year-old woman, who wished to be unnamed for fear of reprisals, claims householders' lives are still badly blighted by the problems.
The Gunthorpe Road resident said: "It is very common for the children to take the mickey out of the officers and, even when we had the dispersal order in place, all they did was to run away and group in another area.
"The kids keep getting arrested for various offences around the area, but they never go to court and they now think they can get away with anything."
She said the group of youths causing chaos in the area is made of around 15 teenagers.
Most recently one of them has in fact used a picture of himself and others surrounding an officer on the street and showing him the finger as his Facebook profile picture.
"It is not uncommon to see them behaving like that and most parents are not bothered and probably prefer to have them out on the street," said the resident.
"The problem is that the little ones look up to the older ones and want to copy them."
Inspector Ray Wilks reassured residents that officers were still focusing their efforts on the issue.
He said: "The dispersal order cannot be given again under the law, but we are still concentrated in this problem and doing something about it.
"Facebook pictures can manipulated and I would not generalise this behaviour.
"If they break the law, they are arrested and we have plans in place.
"We cannot arrested them for being disrespectful to a police officer, but we can arrest them for anti-social behaviour.
"Several cases have been dealt with and where there is evidence there to use we do."
Inspector Wilks added that everybody over ten years old can be charged for their crimes.


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Passion Lip Balm
Yummmmmmy. Strawberry, blueberry, and apple lip balm is just what I need. I love a little fruity flavor, it adds some zest to my otherwise pale lips. These come in the cutest clear containers and can travel with you to the beach, back yard and bar. Get some passion into your life. Have a special message imprinted on them!


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WEYMOUTH will see a new town centre strategy created.
Members of the borough council's management committee agreed to the initiation of a new town centre strategy plan for Weymouth. The process will now progress with consultations, data collection, engagement with interested parties and the creation of a draft masterplan for the town centre.
The new plan will be created prior to the local plan adoption and the aim is to set out the vision for the development of the town centre over the next ten to fifteen years.
A report presented to the management committee said: "A masterplan for the town centre will help to clarify the nature and direction of future growth needed, taking into account the changes that are likely to happen within the area over the coming years.
"The masterplan will help provide greater certainty on the level of housing growth that this area can accommodate and may potentially be taken forward as a supplementary planning document."
David Evans, director of environment, said: "There are significant opportunities in the town to provide more homes and jobs."
He added there were opportunities to improve the income from borough council owned assets. He said the project had a draft target of Christmas, to be taken through early in the New Year.
Cllr Mike Byatt, chairman of the management committee, said: "It's an important strategy which we need to make sure we are doing everything we can to achieve deliverability on."
He added that he believed the process should be member led with support from council officers.
Ray Nowak said that the important message that should come from the meeting was that councillors wanted to engage with the business community and other community groups about how to use the assets.
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DEEP OSCILLATION® Personal AESTHETICS was designed for individual, mobile use. Battery operation and a handy size guarantee flexible use, both on the road and at home. A generous graphic display, together with the single button operation, guarantee very easy program selection and a good overview.
The AESTHETICS therapy card provides pre-programmed treatments for all relevant applications in aesthetic medicine as well as informative therapy notes and graphics for treatment.
For the treatment, the patient holds a titanium contact electrode loosely between the fingers. The pleasant therapy effect of DEEP OSCILLATION® is created beneath the hand applicator or special gloves, which are moved in a circular motion above the tissue.
Individual therapy parameters pre-programmed with DEEP OSCILLATION® Evident can be called up with DEEP OSCILLATION® Personal. This enables individualized, mobile therapy on the ward using DEEP OSCILLATION® Personal.
The patient can also continue treatment according to your specifications while treating himself at home. This way you can guarantee the sustainability of your treatments until the next appointment in your clinic or treatment room.


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Mozilla's security chief this week attacked as 'low-level' the Firefox bugs we revealed this week as low-level threats. Hours later Mozilla's chief security officer Window Snyder changed her mind and said that when used together, they could pose a greater risk.
Full story here: Critical bugs found in Firefox and IE
Michal Zalewski, who regularly publishes browser flaw findings, this week posted details on the Full-disclosure mailing list about four browser vulnerabilities, including two affecting Firefox. He categorized one as a "major" threat, and he saw the other as only a "medium" threat.
Syder initially said the more serious of the two bugs found by Zalewski was no more than a spoofing vulnerability and deserved only a "low" rating.
"This is unsafe because it could be used to lure a user to enter content into the spoofed frame, but does not result in code execution," said Snyder. "[For example], this might be used with phishing attacks."
But Zalewski's said that the flaw could be used to stick malicious code onto the victimised computer. "By my book, [this is] more serious than just spoofing, so I marked it as 'major,' whereas Mozilla still considers it to be a typical case of spoofing ('low')," said Zalewski in an email interview yesterday.
"But it would be inaccurate to say that Window's assessment contradicts my analysis."
Snyder later updated her blog, saying that upon further review, "these two bugs may be used together to allow an attacker to access any file the user has access to on the system. If this is the case, that may change the severity rating to 'medium'".


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Furnishings And Fashion Intertwine At Fall Furniture Fashion Week
In the spring and summer, neon hues and color blocking were prominent themes and trends in the fashion world. Patterns, mixing prints, and even adding lace for a touch of vintage were popular, too; but these trends weren't limited to the clothing tucked into fashionistas' closets. They trickled into the furniture and interior design world,… Read More →
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AZNow.Biz sat down with Robert Black, who co-owns the vintage couture boutique Fashion by Robert Black, located in downtown Scottsdale, Ariz. Robert Black and co-owner Doreen Picerne traveled and shopped around the world, handpicking clothing and accessories for the store — items you won't find anywhere else in Scottsdale, including vintage red carpet couture, special… Read More →
Vintage Boutiques Around the Valley
Vintage Boutiques – For those looking to avoid the larger department stores and malls, give those smaller, locally-run boutiques a try. The Valley has many vintage boutiques where you'll find affordable '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s attire as well as high-end upscale vintage clothing — to give your look a fun, funky twist. For those… Read More →


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Shares of Jos. A. Bank Clothiers (JOSB) fell Thursday after the menswear retailer said it would consider upping its bid for rival Men's Wearhouse (MW) if a larger-sized offer would provide it with access to non-public financial information.
Shares of Jos. A. Bank declined 3.8% to close at $47.95 while Men's Wearhouse fell 3.1% to finish regular trading at $42.30.
Jos. A. Bank is willing to raise its acquisition price if it was "given the opportunity to conduct limited due diligence in order to determine that such an increase would be justified," the company said in a statement. The proposal will be terminated on Nov. 14 if the Men's Wearhouse board of directors does not engage in discussions with Jos. A. Bank.
Earlier this month Men's Wearhouse rejected a $2.3 billion cash takeover offer by Jos. A. Bank, saying that the bid "significantly undervalues" the company and "is not in the best interests of Men's Wearhouse or its shareholders."
The deal proposed a takeout offer of $48 a share -- a premium of approximately 42% to Men's Wearhouse stock's closing price the day before the offer was sent on Sept. 18, 2013.
"Our evaluation of Men's Wearhouse was necessarily based solely on publicly available information," Jos. A. Bank Chairman Robert Wildrick said in a letter to Men's Wearhouse CEO Doug Ewert, dated Oct. 31. "We believe that if we were provided with access to a limited amount of non-public information we could promptly determine whether we could increase our proposed acquisition price. We are, of course, prepared to execute a mutually acceptable non-disclosure agreement to provide Men's Wearhouse with the assurance that any information provided will be kept confidential."


text: Education 21 June 2010 Will Michael Gove's school reforms push up standards? The evidence from Sweden ain't great. Sign up to the Staggers Morning Call email * Print HTML My column in this week's magazine addresses -- and criticises -- the Education Secretary Michael Gove's plan to expand the previous government's academies programme. I didn't have time or space to scrutinise the other key (and controversial) plank of his proposed reforms to the education sector: the introduction of Swedish-style "free schools". But the Institute of Education's Rebecca Allen has, in an article in the latest issue of Research in Public Policy (published by the Centre for Market and Public Organisation), and the overall results don't make great reading for Gove and his allies. From the press release: Research on Sweden's "free school" reforms suggests that the entry of new schools had a positive effect on pupils' academic achievements. But according to a survey of the evidence by Rebecca Allen, the benefits are small, they are predominantly focused on children from highly educated families and they do not persist: scores are no higher in the end-of-school exams. Allen concludes that the experience of Sweden is helpful, but necessarily limited, in the extent to which it can help predict the impact of school reforms in England. One reason for this is that the schools also underwent a radical decentralisation of the education system, which would seem to be critical for promoting diversity and productivity gains through experimentation in free schools. Sweden also has fewer reasons to be concerned that a free school system will produce greater school stratification since the country's lower levels of income and skill inequalities mean there is far less need for parents to choose schools based on social composition. It is also possible that Sweden's stronger tradition of non-standard schooling -- such as Steiner and Montessori schools -- is leading to a greater diversity of provision than parents in England would ever demand. › Budget 2010: Live Chat Mehdi Hasan is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader. He was the New Statesman's senior editor (politics) from 2009-12. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles 'Peak' everything? The push for fairer access to elite universities shouldn't just focus on Oxford and Cambridge "Generation Z naturally collaborate": games legend Ian Livingstone on opening a school Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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We're up before the West Coast dawn this morning to monitor the hearings in the U.S. House Judiciary's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties featuring John "Minorities Die First" Tanner. His recent objectionable comments were originally video-taped and reported by The BRAD BLOG several weeks ago.
The most objectionable of those comments including his contention that it was a "shame" that elderly voters might be disenfranchised by a 2005 Georgia Photo ID poll restriction that he approved on behalf of DoJ and against the advice of four out of five of his career staffers, minorities would somehow benefit from it. His twisted reasoning was that "because our society is such that minorities don't become elderly. The way white people do. They die first."
Tanner, incredibly, is still the Chief of the Voting Section in the DoJ's Civil Rights Division.
It's being carried live and webcast on C-Span 3, as well as via the Judiciary Committee's own webcast.
Major points in our story so far...
- 10/8/07: BRAD BLOG video exclusive of objectionable comments made on 10/5/07 (thereafter picked up far and wide in the media).
- 10/9/07: Tanner's former colleagues say comments "false", "ludicrous", "cherry-picked".
- 10/12/07: Conyers pissed off about comments, and Tanner's earlier whitewashed "investigation" of Ohio 2004 election.
- 10/19/07: Obama writes Acting AG to demand Tanner be fired.
- 10/19/07: DoJ defends Tanner to AP. Says comments "grossly misconstrued".
- 10:24/07: Rep. Nadler says "obviously, he should be fired"
- 10:26/07: Kennedy writes Mukasey, asking if he'll review Tanner's record to consider firing if he's confirmed.
- 10/29/07: DNC calls for "immediate firing" of Tanner.
- 10/29/07: Tanner apologizes (sort of) for comments.
Beyond that, Progress Report has an excellent round up of Tanner's "Erosion of Voter Rights" during his tenure.
The hearings have now ended, but our notes from our Live-Blogging of today's hearings are below, along with video clips of the key, and most pointed exchanges...


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Braille Book Fair/Flea Market:
Donate your gently used but no longer needed Braille books to the 2011 Braille Book Fair/Flea Market sponsored by the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children and the National Association to Promote the Use of Braille. Books should be in good condition. Cookbooks, books about sports, children's print-Braille picture books, and all books suitable for children and youth are especially needed. Children are so hungry for their very own books that every year, despite generous donations, most of our books for young children are gone in less than an hour. So begin your search through the boxes in your basement and spare room and get those books shipped to Braille Book Fair, UPS/ Attention: Bessie Graham, 8901 Atlantic Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32824.
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New Books and Free Books from Seedlings Braille Books for Children:
Seedlings Braille Books for Children is pleased to announce that we have recently added thirty-three new books to our catalog, bringing our total number of low-cost titles available in Braille to 1,125. These books range from Print-Braille-&-Picture Books for toddlers and preschoolers like Curious George at the Park and Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, to short chapter books like American Girls: Changes for Kirsten and Magic Tree House #35: Night of the New Magicians, to larger novels for teens and tweens like How to Train Your Dragon: Book 1 and Newbery Award winner The Graveyard Book.
We have also added an inspiring nonfiction book called Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again, which is being made into a movie. To view a list of all the new books, please go to <http://www.seedlings.org/whatsnew.php>. To read about all 1,125 titles, go to <www.seedlings.org> and click on "Order Our Books & Gifts."
If you would like to receive a print copy of the 2011 Seedlings catalog by mail, send your name and address to <[email protected]> or call (800) 777-8552, or download the text file version right now from our Website: <www.seedlings.org>. Also don't forget to register for Seedlings' 2011 Book Angel Program, which is open to visually-impaired children who live in the US and Canada. Through this program each child can receive two free Seedlings books each year (list four books from our catalog, and we will send two of them.) If you haven't registered yet in 2011, just fill out the online form right now by going to <http://www.seedlings.org/special.php> and clicking on "Book Angel Program."
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Register your VI child to receive two free books. Seedlings' Book Angel Program is back again this year thanks to the generosity of our supporters, people who understand the importance and power of reading and who want to share the gift of reading with blind children. This program has been a huge success, bringing much joy to young Braille readers. The children love receiving two free books that they can read and re-read to their hearts' content. It is also a great way to introduce Braille to VI toddlers and preschoolers who may become Braille readers. Just sign them up for some of our print-and-Braille books, and they will be able to enjoy reading time with their sighted parents and siblings while picking up important pre-reading skills.
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Prodigy Diabetes Care, LLC: Listening to Patient Needs So They Can Hear:
When major players in the medical industry failed to acknowledge the needs of blind and low-vision diabetics, Prodigy Diabetes Care, LLC, a high tech engineering and design company located in Charlotte, North Carolina, stepped up to give the blind diabetic a voice. Prodigy® has developed an innovative line of accessible blood glucose monitoring systems and, at the request of the National Federation of the Blind, reintroduced a simple method to fill insulin syringes. These devices are not only affordable, but provide total independence and accessibility for all diabetics, especially those with low vision or vision loss.
Prodigy's vision originates from the company's president and top executives, who themselves or members of their families suffer from diabetes and diabetic retinopathy. They understand the needs and concerns of those affected by the disease and have set out to address those needs in collaboration with and at the request of the NFB.
Diabetic retinopathy has been recognized as the leading cause of new blindness in Americans under the age of seventy-four. In addition, diabetes is associated with several other visual impairments such as cataracts, glaucoma, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, retinal vascular occlusive disease, and age-related macular degeneration. In collaboration with the NFB, Prodigy created the first stand-alone, talking, no coding meter on the market providing accessibility for any diabetic who suffers from low vision or vision loss. With these conditions in mind and a focus on the needs of the blind and low vision diabetic, Prodigy developed the Prodigy Autocode®, Prodigy Voice®, and Prodigy Count-a-dose®.
The Prodigy Autocode is an audible, multilingual meter that requires no coding. The Prodigy Voice, designed with feedback from NFB staff members, is fully audible from set-up to testing, has raised imprinted buttons for easy navigation, features a repeat button to replay last message or test result, and requires no coding. The Prodigy Count-a-dose provides an easy and accurate method of filling insulin syringes by measuring one unit of insulin at a time, allowing better control of insulin therapy. Each increment measured is indicated by a distinct click.
Not only does Prodigy develop medical devices that offer the blind diabetic the same conveniences and features available to other diabetics, but the Prodigy Voice instruction manual, packaging, company Website (prodigymeter.com), and even customer support are accessible to the low-vision and blind market. The instruction manual is available on an audio CD, in Braille, or on the Website. The Website has been awarded Gold-Level National Federation of the Blind Nonvisual Accessibility Web Certification for being compatible with the screen-reading software used by blind people to make the words of the Website audible. The meter's packaging features Braille labels, and the colors and fonts are designed to be clearly visible to those with vision impairments.
As the growing diabetic community continues to suffer from related diabetic complications, Prodigy's innovative devices enable all patients freedom and accessibility in their diabetes management. The Prodigy Voice is the only meter to be awarded Access Plus (A+) Honors from the NFB, making the Prodigy Voice the clear choice in blood glucose meters. The Prodigy Voice allows total independence for all blind and low-vision diabetics. To receive additional information on Prodigy Diabetes Care, LLC, and its products, visit <www.prodigymeter.com> or call (800) 243-2636.
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Clofarabine and High-Dose Melphalan Followed by Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, or Myelodysplastic Syndromes
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RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy, such as clofarabine and melphalan, before a donor stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer or abnormal cells. It also helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from a donor are infused into the patient, they may help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil after the transplant may stop this from happening.
PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of clofarabine when given together with high-dose melphalan followed by a donor stem cell transplant in treating patients with acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, or myelodysplastic syndromes.
|Leukemia Myelodysplastic Syndromes
|Drug: clofarabine Drug: melphalan Genetic: gene expression analysis Genetic: reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction Other: flow cytometry Other: laboratory biomarker analysis Procedure: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Study of Clofarabine Plus High Dose Melphalan as a Conditioning Regimen for Allogeneic Transplantation
- Maximum tolerated dose [ Time Frame: 4 weeks from the start of treatment ]
- Dose-limiting toxicity as assessed by NCI CTCAE v3.0 and the Modified Bearman scale [ Time Frame: 4 weeks from the start of treatment ]
- Graft failure or rejection [ Time Frame: 35 days post-transplant ]
- Efficacy [ Time Frame: One year post-transplant ]
- Correlative laboratory studies of engraftment, immune reconstitution, and therapeutic outcomes [ Time Frame: One year post-transplant ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Drug: clofarabine
- To determine the maximum tolerated dose and toxicities of clofarabine when administered with high-dose melphalan as a conditioning regimen in patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, or myelodysplastic syndromes.
- To assess the efficacy of this regimen in facilitating engraftment in these patients.
- To perform correlative laboratory studies of engraftment, immune reconstitution, and therapeutic outcomes.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of clofarabine. Patients are stratified according to age (< 18 years vs ≥ 18 years).
- Reduced-intensity conditioning regimen: Patients receive clofarabine IV over 30 minutes on days -9 to -5 and high-dose melphalan IV over 30 minutes on day -4.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of clofarabine until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. At least 6 patients are treated at the MTD.
- Allogeneic stem cell transplantation: Patients undergo allogeneic stem cell transplantation on day 0.
- Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 10 hours or orally twice daily beginning on day -1 and continuing until day 90-100, followed by a taper in the absence of GVHD. Patients also receive mycophenolate mofetil IV or orally twice daily beginning on day 0 and continuing until day 28, followed by a taper in the absence of GVHD.
Patients undergo blood and/or bone marrow sample collection periodically for correlative laboratory studies. Samples are examined for markers of immune reconstitution (i.e., CD8+ T lymphocytes, CD4+ T lymphocytes, NK cells, B cells, and monocytes) by flow cytometry and for diversity of the reconstituted T-cell repertoire by PCR-based T-cell receptor repertoire analysis. Samples are also examined for gene expression of hRRM2 and markers of apoptosis (i.e., Bcl-2, Bid, NFkB2, and Bcl-3) by real-time RT-PCR and for markers of ribonucleotide reductase inhibition (i.e., dCTP levels in circulating peripheral blood mononuclear cells).
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed periodically for up to 5 years.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|1 Year and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Diagnosis of one of the following:
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
Disease meets 1 of the following criteria:
- In first complete remission (CR)
- In second CR
- In relapse
- No more than 50% blasts in bone marrow
- Not deemed eligible for standard transplantation regimens by the attending physician, or at high risk for relapse
- No suspected or proven CNS leukemia
- HLA-matched (6/6) sibling donor available
- Karnofsky performance status 50-100%
- Glomerular filtration rate (pediatric patients) or creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min OR serum creatinine < 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Serum bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- LVEF ≥ 50% by ECHO or MUGA scan
- DLCO or FEV_1 ≥ 40% predicted
- Not pregnant
- Negative pregnancy test
No concurrent uncontrolled illness including, but not limited to, any of the following:
- Ongoing, active, or poorly controlled infection
- Symptomatic congestive heart failure
- Unstable angina pectoris
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Poorly controlled pulmonary disease
- Psychiatric illness/social situation that would limit compliance with study requirement
- No active cytomegalovirus (CMV) or fungal disease
- HIV negative
- Recovered from prior intensive chemotherapy (pediatric patients)
- At least 100 days since prior autologous stem cell transplantation
- At least 100 days since prior radiotherapy administered as part of a transplantation conditioning regimen
- At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy
- At least 24 hours since prior hydroxyurea for blast count control
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00641030
|United States, California
|City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Duarte, California, United States, 91010-3000
|Principal Investigator:
|Anthony Stein, MD
|City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|City of Hope Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00641030 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P30CA033572 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
CDR0000589304 ( Registry Identifier: NCI PDQ )
|Study First Received:
|March 20, 2008
|Last Updated:
|July 16, 2012
Keywords provided by City of Hope Medical Center:
de novo myelodysplastic syndromes
previously treated myelodysplastic syndromes
secondary myelodysplastic syndromes
adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission
adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities
adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22)
adult acute myeloid leukemia in remission
recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia
childhood acute myeloid leukemia in remission
recurrent childhood acute myeloid leukemia
secondary acute myeloid leukemia
childhood myelodysplastic syndromes
recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
recurrent childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Pathologic Processes
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Myeloablative Agonists
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
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No dry dock in Britain was safe from marauding German bombers so it was across the Atlantic without escort, nothing new to a Queen Mary capable of a speed of 35 knots to thwart hungry U-boats.
We passengers, a few hundred sailors on our way to man warships being built for the Royal Navy in far away Oregon plus a handful of civilians, were lost in the vastness of the now de-glamorised cruise ship that once entertained the famous andnot-so-famous who danced away the night to the popping of champagne corks and who knows what else?
Back now to 1940 and a glorious September afternoon in Chigwell with panoramic views across London. I was helping my boss build an air-raid shelter in his garden. Wave after wave of fighter planes rose from nearby North Weald airfield to engage German bombers taking part in their biggest daylight attack. It was also the last daylight raid of its kind. The Germans lost 247 planes and Herman Goering had had enough. That's what we saw from our commanding heights: The Battle of Britain.
Forward to 1942 and Britain with its back to the wall. I was on leave in Ilford (Essex) "The bombers will be back tonight" was the cheerful greeting I got. By this time the planes attacked in ones and twos, circling round and round before dropping their bombs haphazardly on hapless Londoners beneath. The family ignored them and went on playing cards regardless, diving under the huge table when a stick of bombs fell close. Such was the spirit of people living on weekly rations you could comfortably eat in a day, and not feel full.
How different in 1944. The Terror of the buzz-bomb, or VI was in full swing. You could hear one coming. It seized you up inside. You waited for the motor to stop. It concentrated the mind, "please, please, keep going" you said (to yourself, of course). And then it would stop. We all looked at each other. Where would it land? And then the wonderful relief as it crunched onto some poor people. Night after night the people of London, Surrey and Kent endured this agony. And they say V2 was worse!
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As the big banks prepared to raise their interest rates above a likely increase in the official cash rate by the Reserve Bank of Australia last week, Treasurer
"There is absolutely no justification whatsoever for the banks to move over and above any decision taken by the Reserve Bank on the official cash rate. Their profits are very healthy," Swan told ABC Radio's AM.
"We've put in place tough new consumer laws, particularly laws which can ban unfair mortgage exit fees, and we remain ready to take on board other measures should they be necessary to ensure greater competition in the banking sector."
The official rate rise never eventuated, and without that cover the banks held fire.
But Swan might ultimately be creating a rod for his own back. One day soon, probably as early as next month, he will find himself under intense scrutiny to follow through on his threat to act.
As Westpac Banking Corporation chief executive
"Over time rates are going to go up," Kelly said yesterday with Prime Minister Julia Gillard within earshot.
"We can look into our costs of funding and we can look into our profile of the costs over the next 18 months and we can see that . . . those costs of money for the next 18 months are going up."
The comments come as the high Australian dollar makes it even harder for banks to raise cheap funds overseas.
Privately, both Swan and senior officials from the federal Treasury Department express concern that competition in the lending market is not recovering quickly. Since the global financial crisis, the big four banks have grabbed more than 80 per cent of new home loans, up from 60 per cent in mid-2007.
But the problem for Treasury is that some of its policy options are difficult to implement or politically unpalatable.
However, expectation created by the Treasurer's comments is building pressure on him for action from smaller lenders such as regional banks and non-bank lenders.
The incoming government brief prepared by Treasury and released under freedom of information laws advises the government that "oligopolistic" markets in key sectors including financial services should be "monitored to ensure that competition is robust and cost increases are appropriate".
Key sections of the Red Book are blanked out in areas discussing banks' reliance on offshore funding and highly indebted households.
Former senior Treasury official Peter Downes, now director of Outlook Economics, says the blanked out sections of the Red Book probably canvass issues about financial institutions or financial stability.
"When Treasury is holding things back it is either because of political sensitivity (where release would effect the candour of advice), or national security or market sensitivity," Downes says. "For example, there might be some discussion of the state of competition in the financial market with the big four dominating following the GFC [global financial crisis] or something like that."
So far, the government's main weapons have been the allocation of $16 billion to purchase residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and new consumer laws to deal with unfair mortgage exit fees.
But the agency allocated the $16 billion to purchase RMBS (the main source of wholesale funding for regional banks and non-bank lenders) is burning through it.
And there is significant uncertainty around the impact of the new consumer laws with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission expected to shortly finalise a regulatory guide about their operation.
If the government were to take further steps to ensure competition in the lending market it could ban exit and deferred establishment fees.
While such a move has support from a number of players, others argue this could adversely affect all institutions, not just the big banks, which may be why the government moved only against "unfair" and "unconscionable" fees.
Another option is to introduce account portability, removing the disincentive to loan switching created by the problem of moving linked offset accounts. The threat of such a measure is taken seriously by the banks and is seen as the "big stick" to keep them in line.
While this option has been actively considered by the federal government, the technical complexity and costs of facilitating such portability has tempered enthusiasm.
There is also the proposal championed by Credit Union Australia to change the way financial institutions are labelled by regulators, replacing "authorised deposit-taking institution" with "authorised banking institution". According to CUA chief executive officer Chris Whitehead this would dispel the incorrect public perception that mutuals are not as safe as banks.
But such changes are likely to make a difference only around the edges, while a key source of wholesale funding for smaller lending institutions – the securitisation market – remains on life support.
The government's main initiative to prop up the securitisation market was the allocation of $16 billion to the Australian Office of Financial Management to purchase RMBS. Initially, the AOFM was allocated two tranches of $4 billion as part of the stimulus package in 2008, but this sum was doubled a year later when it became clear the securitisation market was not recovering.
The AOFM has now spent $11.3 billion of the $16 billion to support the issue of about $24 billion of notes.
In the past three months alone, AOFM invested in 13 deals to buy $2 billion of RMBS after the securitisation market again dried up as a result of renewed global financial uncertainty. This is a third of all the deals by the AOFM since October 2008.
In particular, it has been buying longer-dated tranches of RMBS, which are now out of favour, at rates well below the market in an attempt to anchor the issuance of shorter-dated tranches to private buyers. The investments stand to return the AOFM a tidy return of around 1.5 per cent or $150 million a year on average.
Despite this aggressive buying by AOFM and tentative signs of a recovery in recent weeks, the securitisation market cannot yet be taken off life support; it is still much more expensive for non-bank lenders to attract wholesale funding than major banks.
There are also concerns that removal of the government deposit guarantee next year could result in a flight of money to big banks making it even harder for smaller banks to fund their loan books.
"There is no significant competition out there at the moment," Aussie Home Loans executive chairman
"The $16 billion will barely touch the sides. It is a couple of weeks lending in Australia."
As a result, while there is lobbying to top up the fund and allow the AOFM to invest in lower grade notes, there is also a growing push to replicate the Canadian government's mortgage-bond scheme in Australia.
The Canadian scheme is similar to the purchase of RMBS by the AOFM – a government trust buys eligible mortgages from approved sellers and then issues mortgage bonds. But unlike in Australia, the Canadian government also acts as a mortgage insurer.
A note issued by Citigroup last Friday says such a scheme may be "the most logical solution", improving access to mortgage finance for more Australian families as well as assisting the competitive landscape.
"Commonwealth [Bank of Australia] and Westpac would have significantly less pressure to raise money in term wholesale markets," the note says.
Symond says the Canadian scheme enabled the sale of mortgage bonds into the money market with a good return to investors.
"Unless Australia does something significant like this for the next few years the big banks will not have any competition," Symond says.
The push for a scheme in Australia was strengthened by the new Basel III capital and liquidity requirements and is backed by the Australian Bankers Association.
ABA chief executive Steven Münchenberg says the issue of government mortgage bonds will assist lending institutions meet the new liquidity requirements, given the small existing commonwealth bond market.
Another option could be to eliminate withholding tax on foreign-raised deposits, which will assist foreign banks with Australian subsidiaries, he says.
A number of his members have been in discussion in recent months with Treasury about additional measures to create further competition in the lending market.
The recent buying of longer-dated tranches of RMBS by the AOFM has prompted speculation the government may be disposed to a more permanent mortgage scheme.
However, it is understood the Canadian mortgage scheme has little support in Treasury. There are also indications the securitisation market is again recovering.
Such a scheme could be politically problematic as it has overtones of the US government's discredited involvement in the mortgage market.
But the Citigroup note argues the scheme isn't a drain on coffers, even in 2009, its net income in Canada was $C931 million.
Whitehead says while AOFM is trying to support the securitisation market, a recent ruling by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority on capital requirements for lower-grade notes is creating problems.
And the withdrawal of the government guarantee on retail deposits may cause problems for smaller lenders, he adds.
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Golda Meir's Milwaukee Childhood
According to her autobiography, My Life, Golda's first eight years were not happy ones. Born Golda Mabowehz in 1898, she lived with her father, mother and two sisters in Kiev, Russia, in part of the Pale of Settlement, a ghetto-like area first established at the end of the 18th century to discourage Jews from mixing freely with Christians. Being a Jew in Russia meant always being on guard against pogroms. Supporting a family during that time and place became nearly impossible, so Golda's father, like so many of his countrymen, journeyed to the United States to earn money. Three years later, in 1906, Golda and the rest of her family followed him to Milwaukee, where he had found work as a carpenter in the Milwaukee Road shops.
The Mabowehz family lived in an apartment on Walnut Street within a neighborhood dominated by Jewish immigrants. Golda's mother augmented the family income by operating a dairy store, where Golda would man the counter when her mother went to the market. According to Golda Meir: Portrait of a Prime Minister by Eliyahu Agress, Golda managed to master the rudiments of the English language so that by the time she entered Fourth Street School (now Golda Meir School) in 1906, she could understand what was being spoken.
Golda's interest in public service was evident even when she was a girl. In fourth grade, concerned that her classmates were too poor to buy schoolbooks, she organized the American Young Sisters Society to raise money to pay for them.
By 14, Golda was absolutely committed to her education. Her parents, on the other hand, wanted her to marry. She ran away to Denver to live with her older married sister, Sheyna Korngold. Sheyna and her husband regularly hosted freewheeling parlor discussions where Golda was exposed to debates on Socialism, Zionism, women's suffrage and more. A year and a half later, her parents reconciled with their daughter's fervent drive to keep studying, and she returned to Milwaukee to attend North Division High School.
In 1916, Golda attended the Milwaukee State Normal School for Teachers (one of the predecessors of UW-Milwaukee). Her first job was teaching in a Yiddish-speaking Folks Shule, which was steeped in labor Zionism. It was then that Golda joined the Poale Zion (Labor Zionist) Party.
According to Agress, Golda said, "When I joined it, there was no doubt about my aliyah (immigration) at the very first opportunity." In 1917, Golda married Morris Meyerson, a Socialist she met at her sister's home in Denver, with one condition: Their marriage would take place only if he agreed to go to Palestine and live in a kvutzah (an agricultural community). Golda gave up teaching and devoted herself to party activities until the young couple saved enough money to leave Milwaukee for the Promised Land in 1921.


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Police investigate fatal McKees Rocks shooting
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a McKees Rocks man early Tuesday.
Quinton Dupree White, 24, died at the intersection of Churchill Street and Front Alley shortly after midnight, McKees Rocks police Chief Robert Cifrulak said. It appears White was shot once in the head at close range, Cifrulak said.
Neighbors told police they heard a single gunshot, and a passerby found White's body while walking to a convenience store, Cifrulak said.
Investigators have not determined a motive in the shooting, he said. White may have been talking on a cell phone when he was approached and shot, Cifrulak said. Borough police and Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating.


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THE SETTING SUN blazes orange on the hills of southern Colorado's high desert as Paul Polechla sloshes along the banks of the San Juan River. The biologist has spent more than 12 hours crossing wide mud flats, whacking through willow thickets and wading tricky currents to search for tracks and scat. He has found the prints of coyotes, mule deer, wild horses, raccoons and beavers—but he is not searching for these creatures. He is looking for the lost river otters of the desert Southwest.
Some believe that trappers eradicated the Southwestern river otter during the last century. There have been no confirmed sightings of this river otter subspecies in more than 30 years. But Polechla (poe-LECK-la) refuses to consign Lontra canadensis sonora, which once ruled the region's roaring waterways, to the dustbin of extinction.
"The million-dollar question is this," Polechla says after darkness ends his search for the day. "Are there any surviving pockets of Southwestern river otters out there? I believe there could be. We still have a lot of wild country in the Southwest."
For inspiration, Polechla need look no farther than a display case beside his desk at the University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology. There, stuffed and mounted, is one of only three known specimens of the Southwestern, or Sonoran, river otter. A state wildlife officer caught this one—whose skeleton is in the Smithsonian—on the Gila River in 1953. It is the last documented Southwestern river otter caught in New Mexico.
That's not to say there are no otters in the Southwest. Beginning in the 1970s, various states in the region began releasing otters trapped in other parts of the country, and some of these reintroduced otters have established local populations. This makes the search for native otters more complex, for it would be nearly impossible to differentiate these newcomers from original Sonoran otters by their tracks or even on sight. Even more confounding is the possibility that reintroduced otters could have mated with any remaining indigenous otters, diluting the original genetic line. All of this has caused Polechla to urge a moratorium on any more otter relocations in the Southwest, including one being considered for the Grand Canyon, until all the region's rivers are surveyed.
"Southwestern river otters represent genetic diversity, and that diversity should be preserved at all costs," says Polechla. "It's a make-it-or-break-it situation for these guys, and we ought to proceed carefully."
Photo: © ART WOLFE
OTTER KIND: The Southwestern, or Sonoran, is one of seven North American river otter subspecies. Other subspecies are common in many places, such as the Skagit River in Washington, where these animals peer out from a log.
Southwestern otters were among the largest of the seven generally recognized subspecies of North American river otters, Lontra canadensis. The species once thrived in lakes, rivers and marshes across the continent. While estimates on its numbers before the arrival of Europeans are difficult to come by, the river otter probably inhabited every river drainage from Maine to California.
River otters weigh about 20 pounds and can measure four feet in length including their long tails, which are used for steering and propulsion. Unlike their cousins the sea otters, which spend most of their time in water, river otters spend half their time on land and use rivers to hunt and travel. On land, otters are clumsy, but in the water they move with the grace of dancers. Long whiskers help them find prey in murky water, and river otters can hold their breath for five minutes. They often live near beavers and inhabit abandoned beaver lodges. After river otters mate, a fertilized egg remains in the female's uterus for 10 months before gestation begins. In the spring, females give birth to as many as five "kits" or "pups," which are taught by their mother to fish and swim before going their own way at age one.
But it is the otters' humorous antics—sliding down muddy or snowy riverbanks, for example—that makes them most memorable. "Once you've seen river otters in the wild, you never forget it," says Carol Peterson of the River Otter Alliance, a conservation group in Englewood, Colorado. "They are the clowns of the animal world, and they are incredibly bright."
American Indians revered these animals and European settlers marveled at river otters' abundance, naming several places after the creatures—from Otter Mountain in Colorado to Bayou de Loutre (French for otter) in Louisiana. But trappers keen for the animal's lush fur systematically wiped out otter populations as the frontier moved west. Habitat loss and water pollution pushed river otters closer to the brink. Nowhere was the decimation of river otters more complete than in the arid Southwest, with its scarce wetlands and harsh environment. By the middle of the last century, river otters were believed eliminated from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
In the 1970s, many states declared otters threatened or endangered and outlawed trapping, which allowed some populations to return. And several states began reintroducing the species to its former habitats. In 1976, Colorado became the first state to release relocated river otters. Minnesota, Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and 15 other states followed, and to date more than 4,000 river otters have been released.
When the first reintroductions were conducted, states often obtained otters from places with thriving populations, such as Alaska, Louisiana and Canada. But some reintroductions were carried out before rivers were checked for remaining native populations. Northern Arizona University researcher Joseph Shannon says this may have been the case on the Verde River in Arizona, where out-of-state otters were released in the 1980s. After the "reintroduction," reports began trickling in that otters had inhabited the Verde all along.
Colorado has been a leader in the effort to restore otter populations since its first reintroduction along the South Platte River in 1976. Although that effort failed, the state followed up with four more releases from the late 1970s through 1991, using otters from across the continent. A reintroduction in Rocky Mountain National Park at the headwaters of the Colorado River has been particularly successful, as annual otter counts have documented a stable population. In addition, reintroduced otters have gained a foothold on the Dolores, Gunnison and Green Rivers. In the spring of 2002, Colorado hired Polechla to survey the San Juan, Piedra and Los Pinos Rivers, in the southwestern part of the state, to see if otters reintroduced to the Piedra had established a breeding population.
Polechla is a lumbering man with wide eyes and a sincere manner. He signs off e-mails, "I otter be going." Asked what intrigues him about river otters, he replies: "Their curiosity. They are investigators. They turn over rocks and swim under log piles. They have to explore for their food, then they have to hunt it, subdue it and eat it, and that's dangerous work, on top of being frustrating. Their curiosity brings out my curiosity."
Like a sleuth searching for clues, Polechla's curiosity is on full display as he works his way along the San Juan River. Wearing fishing waders and a backpack filled with equipment, he scours the ground with his eyes, paying extra attention at oxbows, islands and beaver dens—likely otter hangouts.
Photo: © ALAN AND SANDY CAREY
DOWN TIME: Otters use rivers to travel and search for food, but they spend half their time on land. One of their favorite terrestrial pastimes is sliding down muddy or snowy embankments, like this otter in Montana. The animals' thick fur—3,000 hairs per square inch—keeps them warm while sledding or swimming in chilly conditions. But their lush coats also made them prime targets for trappers, and helped lead to the decimation of Sonoran otters.
After finding no otter sign the first day, Polechla searches farther upstream the second day. While lower stretches of the river were muddy and turgid, the upper San Juan rages over boulders and through deep canyons of Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. Suddenly, something catches Polechla's eye, and he climbs down the 10-foot embankment to a strip of silt at river's edge. There, below an inch of water, is a tiny footprint. An untrained observer would have walked past, oblivious, but to Polechla the otter sign is as obvious as a billboard.
A juvenile otter passed by recently—perhaps to eat its prey on the riverbank— and stepped in the mud with its right front foot. Polechla measures, sketches and photographs the track and writes its location. A quick search of the riverbank nearby reveals several scat piles of crayfish shells and fish bones—"probably carp or sucker," he says. Otters feast on these slow-moving bottom-feeders.
Since Colorado released no otters into the San Juan, Polechla speculates this juvenile journeyed upstream from the Piedra. He bags some of the scat for testing. (If he can get funding, Polechla plans to compare the DNA of the scat with a sample taken from the mounted specimen in his office.) The print and scat were the only otter sign he would find during the course of three days on the San Juan.
While they remain scarce in the Southwest, otters have rebounded in other parts of the country such as the Northeast, where sightings and road kills have become more frequent. "They are coming back," says New York biologist Dennis Money, who calls the species' return "a tremendous success.''
Money oversaw a recent reintroduction of 279 river otters from the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains to the Finger Lakes region of New York. Rochester Gas and Electric, for whom Money works, funded much of the project. Public schools also chipped in, including a kindergarten class that donated $35 in pennies. The relocated otters appear to be faring well, based on the number of public sightings.
Thanks in part to reintroductions such as this, river otters now inhabit nearly 90 percent of their historical range. Although there are no accurate nationwide counts, otter populations appear to be highest around the Gulf of Mexico, along the Atlantic coast, the Great Lakes and the Pacific coast. Ohio recently removed otters from its endangered species list. The animals are thought to live in every state except New Mexico, and 28 states now have trapping seasons.
But otters are still absent from many rivers in the Southwest, leading to proposals for more reintroductions. The highest-profile initiative involves the Grand Canyon, where the creatures have not been seen since the 1950s. Leading the charge to bring otters back to this national landmark is David Wegner, a consultant who previously worked in the canyon for the Interior Department.
"While the canyon would survive without river otters," Wegner says, otters are part of its "natural ecological heritage." Shannon of Northern Arizona University notes that fish populations are booming in parts of the Grand Canyon, and reintroducing otters would be a natural way to return a predator-prey balance.
While any reintroduction into the Grand Canyon is years away, Polechla nevertheless feels it is crucial to first survey more of the Southwest. If any Sonoran otters are found, they could be protected and perhaps reintroduced to rivers across the region. But Wegner and Shannon say that even if there are surviving Sonoran otters, their numbers are so low that finding enough to relocate would be unlikely.
Whatever the outcome of the Grand Canyon plan, Polechla plans to continue investigating riverbanks across the Southwest for years to come. As this article was going to press, Polechla was seeking funding for a search of New Mexico's rivers, and participating in a survey of the upper Rio Grande River—an area that he believes could hold some Sonorans. "Otters are secretive, and unless you actively search you stand no chance of finding them," he says.
Asked why he holds out hope of finding Southwestern otters when most others believe they are gone, Polechla's voice rises. "Scientists hypothesized that the black-footed ferret was extinct. Then a dog brought a freshly killed one to a ranch in Wyoming in 1981. Scientists said the jaguar was extirpated north of the Mexico border; then one was treed in the 1990s on the Arizona-New Mexico border. Scientists said the hairy-nosed otter was extinct until it was found at several sites in Southeast Asia in the 1990s."
"My point," he adds, "is that scientists were wrong in all these cases."
With that, Polechla marches around a bend in the San Juan, a man on a mission to answer the million-dollar question of the wild Southwest.
Colorado journalist Paul Tolme spent several days on the San Juan River with Paul Polechla last summer. To learn more about river otters, see


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All I know is, the more I think of another four years of George W. Bush (and this insane war in Iraq . . . for starters), the more dread gathers in the pit of my stomach.
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A professional career in psychology doesn't necessarily need to involve a decade of education and a doctoral degree. Earning your bachelor's degree in psychology can give you skills and insights that apply to a number of career paths—some of them obviously related to psychology, and some of them not so obvious. This article outlines a few of the career paths available to those with a bachelor's in psychology.
- Corrections – Psychology degree holders with an interest in rehabilitating offenders can find plenty of opportunities in the field of corrections. Specific opportunities might include parole or probation work and community service or career skills preparation for those leaving incarceration. If this sounds interesting to you, make sure you take some elective courses in criminal psychology and sociology.
- Ministry – Those with a spiritual calling can put a psychology education to work on behalf of a higher power. The courses you take in psychology can prepare you to understand why people behave as they do, how to resolve conflicts, and how to provide counseling effectively. These skills, combined with scriptural knowledge and a deep sense of mission, can help you serve in the ministry.
- Substance Abuse Counseling – Millions of Americans struggle with addiction and substance dependency. Your psychology skills can be put to work helping them gain control of their lives. While some states will require additional training to qualify for roles in this position, very often entry-level jobs working in this field only require a bachelor's degree.
- Sales – Here is one of those not-so-obvious jobs: all of the time you've spent studying human behavior and learning how to listen and persuade people can be channeled into a great sales pitch. If you're very outgoing and competitive, consider looking for work in sales after earning your psychology degree.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided launch trailer released
Gets mostly positive reviews
Square Enix has released the launch trailer for its upcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided game which is coming on August 23rd.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to lack DirectX 12 support at launch
Coming in September
It appears that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided from Square Enix will not have DirectX 12 support at launch as the developer needs more work on optimization.
Square Enix's Hitman to have DirectX 12 support at launch
Asynchronous Compute part of it
According to a leaked presentation, Square Enix's upcoming Hitman game is also on the list of titles that will have support for DirectX 12 API.
Hitman gets a new trailer for the upcoming beta
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Square Enix has launched a new trailer for its upcoming Hitman game in order to announce the upcoming beta phase as well as revealed system hardware requirements for the game.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided gets first trailer
Part of AMD Gaming Evolved program
Square Enix has officially released the announcement trailer for the upcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided game that will be coming to PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One as well as be a part of AMD Gaming Evolved program, which means it will have support for DirectX 12 and AMD TressFX 3.0.
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IO Interactive will reveal more details later
IO Interactive the developers of the Hitman franchise and publisher Square Enix apparently are planning the release of a new Hitman title later this year as confirmed on the Hitman Twitter feed.
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Sleeping Dogs to get a sequel
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Square Enix titles miss sales targets
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BRADENTON - A Bradenton man died Thursday afternoon following a collision with an SUV on Cortez Road.
It happened around 5:15pm near the intersection with 30th Street West.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the 21-year-old motorcyclist, identified as Adrian Cuebero, was eastbound on Cortez Road when a westbound SUV made a left turn directly into the path of the motorcycle.
Cuebero, who was wearing a helmet, was taken to Blake Medical Center in Bradenton, where he was later pronounced dead.
The driver of the SUV, 27-year-old Gilbert Burgos of Bradenton, was not injured in the crash. He has been charged with Violation of Right of Way.


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AN old favourite returns to The Lowry on August 3 when the theatres stages The Sooty Show, direct from CITV.
The nation's favourite bear will be joined on stage by his faithful friends Sweep and Soo and performances take place at 11am and 2.30pm.
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PURTON captain Elliot Hill will look for his side to maintain their recent good run of form when they entertain Marshfield in the Wiltshire Division.
After last Saturday's 133-run success over Nationwide House, which saw Tom Bowler hit a century and claim 6-23, Hill is keen for his fourth placed side to keep climbing the table.
"We have put in some good performances over the last fortnight against sides in the lower half of the table," Hill said.
"But now we face a Marshfield side who have made a pretty solid start to the season and hopefully we can continue with what we have been doing.
"We are a relatively new group of players and we are all coming together quite nicely now."
Hill was also full of praise for his in-form all-rounder Bowler, who's Nationwide House match winning efforts came hot on the heels of his 6-25 and unbeaten 43 in the eight wicket win over Calne the previous week.
"He's not doing to bad at the moment is he?" Hill said. "He has got over 200 runs in the league so far and 19 wickets - he is a pleasure to have in the side and hopefully he can continue doing what he is doing."
Goatacre will look to put their National Village Cup exit behind when they face Keynsham in Premier Two.
After their 19-run loss at Dorset League side Parley last Sunday, Brad Dawson's men face a tough test against a team sitting in third place.
Goatacre, who's game last Saturday was rained off, have only won two of the four games they have played in the league so far.
Keynsham, meanwhile, have won three of their five matches including last weekend's five-wicket success over Thornbury.
Nationwide House will be aiming to secure their first win of the campaign in Wiltshire Division when they visit mid-table outfit Trowbridge.
The loss to Purton last Saturday was the fourth of the campaign and they are 19 points adrift at the bottom.
Trowbridge come into the game following last week's six wicket loss against Calne.


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