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Professor Sid Watkins, the driving force behind the improvement in medical care at race tracks across the world, announced his retirement after 26 years as the FIA's medical delegate. He oversaw massive improvements in trackside facilities and safety, and proved a huge favourite in the paddock. A great friend of Senna's, he considered retiring after the fatal accident at Imola in 1994. Roland Ratzenberger had been killed in practice the previous day and Watkins advised the distraught Senna that he should quit racing there and then, on the eve of his own death. "He was silent," Watkins said. "I went on, 'I don't think the risk is worth continuing; pack it in.' He gave me a very steady look and, now calm, said, 'Sid, there are certain things over which we have no control. I cannot quit. I have to go on.' Those were the last words he ever said to me." Watkins passed away in 2012, with Jackie Stewart remarking at his memorial service: "'Unfortunately I've been to far too many memorial services. But I would have been to many more were it not for the Prof".
Ayrton Senna escaped injury after his Williams-Renault span off during a practice session in Portugal. "I braked and the wheels locked," Senna said. "The car spun round and I stopped against the wall of safety tyres. These things happen in Formula One. I wasn't hurt at all."
Norberto Fontana was born in Arrecifes, Argentina. He drove for Sauber for four races in 1997, standing in for the injured Gianni Morbidelli. He moved to the Argentinian touring car championship where he continued to enjoy success and he also took part in the Dakar rally.
Giorgio Bassi was born in Milan; he raced in the Italian Grand Prix in 1965. His engine expired after eight laps, along with his F1 career.


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Ever since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, benefits brokers and agents have had to make major adjustments to their business to account for lost health insurance commissions and renewals. Some called PPACA the death knell of the profession. Others rolled up their sleeves and vowed to soldier on.
But in Arkansas, brokers and agents discover there's money to be made in health insurance again, thanks to a pioneering program between the federal government and the state that's come to be known as the "private option."
"If I was in another state, I would be standing in line with my legislators saying, 'we need to do this — yesterday,'" says John Tjarks, president and owner of A-OK Insurance in Pea Ridge, Ark.
Instead of funneling federal dollars into the state's Medicaid program and expanding it in the traditional sense, Arkansas state officials asked the federal government if they could take the money and build a program that allows people to buy private health insurance. In 2014, Arkansas received about $915 million for its private option.
The subsidy is available to applicants with incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty line — about $16,000 for a single person and twice that for a family of four. Arkansas officials had to assure federal officials that people buying health insurance under the private option received the same benefits and shared the same costs as if they had signed up for Medicaid. The feds also told Arkansas officials that they had to use the same amount of money it would have received to expand Medicaid.
"This is such a deviation from the original plan that this was a real surprise to the policy people in Washington," Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford says. "So this is an innovative approach and the feds saw that. As it unfolded, they saw that this is a real possibility to deliver these services to people in some of the states."
So far, around 105,000 people in Arkansas have elected to buy health insurance through the private option. Estimates by the Arkansas Insurance Commission say that up to 250,000 people qualify for plans under the private option — a big pool of new customers for brokers and agents across the Natural State.
"They get an agent, and we still have the same function as before," Tjarks says of the program. "We help with enrollment and problems just like we did before. From an agent point of view, this is best thing since sliced bread. It's manna from heaven. We're expanding our business. We can't keep up with what's coming through the door. We're looking to move into a bigger building and hire agents. We have people who are coming up to our desk [at the hospital] and enrolling right there."
Tjarks says signing up for the program requires visiting two websites, and only takes a short while. The program also allows agents and brokers to serve customers much as they did before Obamacare became law.
"[Brokers and agents] are an integral part of the program," Tjarks says. "When someone comes into my office, I know I'm going to be able to sell them something. In another state, when someone who is under 138 percent of the federal poverty line, the agents are not going to be able to sell them anything."
Arkansas' private option was designed by state Republicans as a way to privatize one of the more politically contentious parts of PPACA — the expansion of Medicaid — and passed with bipartisan support, including the state's Democratic governor, Mike Beebe. State officials kicked off the program in 2013 and received authorization from the federal government to continue it through 2014. However, some state legislators held up the program in the Arkansas House of Representatives through the budgeting process. After a lengthy battle in this year's legislative session that spanned four votes, the program was renewed.
Several other states — including Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Utah, Tennessee and Florida — are looking at the Arkansas program while Iowa passed its own version late last year.
"At first, the typical reaction from agents and brokers was concern," says Bradford, a former agent-broker who owned First Arkansas Insurance in Pine Bluff, Ark., before taking over as commissioner. "But once we proposed putting it in the private realm, over 1,500 agents got licenses and are out there producing. It's another 100,000 people paying commissions at this point. A good, aggressive agent is a partner, and they're central to marketing to consumers. The ones who've figured it out are doing very well."


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You know what singing group has been making lots of Japanese news fairly recently? I'll give you a hint (cue the candy, J-pop music) "I want you…I need you…I love you…" Still don't know? Okay so maybe not everyone reading this may not be familiar with the group, but it's AKB48, and there has been a just a bit of "controversy" surrounding the group lately.
AKB48 is easily Japan's premier girl, J-Pop band. Although there are other imitation groups that have had been relatively successful (NMB48 & SKE 48), AKB is hands down the most popular of these Japanese girl bands. This band is featured on everything from cell phone train ads, to television ads, to clothing, to commercials for fruits & vegetables (huh?), to a cafe chain. Odds are if you're in Japan, you'll see them…somewhere…it's kind of hard not to.
Being as much of a phenomenon as they are, and being very much a part of popular Japanese culture as they are, it's a wonder that their influence doesn't have a greater international reach. Then again, it's always been amazing to me how groups can have such a huge following in one country and be completely unknown to other parts of the world.
In the US, as well as quite a few bands in the UK, it seems like once you've hit it big there, the international crossover appeal is nearly a given.
I probably mentioned it before, but I'm not the biggest AKB fan. However you can't deny the facts: AKB makes enough money from record sales, and everything in between, to create their own bank. I don't know what current sales figures are, but just to give you an idea of numbers, in 2011 AKB48 made $200 million dollars in JUST record sales alone (those may be gross figures, but still!).
Whether you enjoy the young, sexy school girl, candy-style J-pop or not, if we base success solely on money and sales, this is a VERY successful group! They also happen to have a HUGE, ravenous fan base!
Despite their financial success, I have been a little suspicious about some of the recent AKB news.
At first you're like "Wow, Tomomi Chan!" Then you're like "Wait, is that a little kid???" It really does mess with your brain a bit when you see it, at least it does for me. However, I know quite a few guys just kinda blocked the kid outta their minds. I know the first thing I saw wasn't the little kid, just being honest.
The second story was controversial in a different way, but just as weird if you ask me. Another member, Minami Minegishi, shaved her head for "dishonoring the group" when she was photographed leaving her 19 year-old boyfriend's home.
Huh? Isn't she 20 years old? I don't understand what the problem was, but perhaps she broke some cardinal, AKB dating contract rule. I can't really say for sure, but she tearfully apologized for potentially damaging the image of group.
In her YouTube apology she begs to stay in group and from what I understand will be placed one of the lesser known "AKB Teams." I heard there's like an A squad and a B squad; something along those lines. That's why there are more than 48 members (I think it's 80+ members in total, right?). I have really given up trying to understand cogs of the AKB machine.
Does anyone else find it weird that all this stuff is happened just before the latest AKB Album release? Controversy fuels exposure. In entertainment, controversy fuels sales, plain and simple. Add a little controversy to a sales spark and you get a huge, roaring fire.
The thing about these stories is that they gained national media coverage. I even saw that the AKB48 (Minami's apology) made it onto The Young Turks news reel (on a smaller scale), and even CNN! That's HUGE, seeing as how I haven't seen AKB receiving very much American news story coverage in recent years:
The timing seems also seems just a bit too perfect. Two huge, controversial events happens within about a month of each other, and when I'm getting on the train to go for a job interview I see this large poster promoting the February 20th release of the new AKB48 Album "So Long." The minute I saw it, I had an "Ah-ha" moment:
Though I could be wrong, I can't help but think that is what this whole media circus was. It honestly seems to me like a 3-month PR plan that will end with the album release. If it was planned, AKB48 has a brilliant PR team behind them.
So when you go to Tower Records or any other CD stores in Tokyo and see lines snaked around corners to get the latest AKB album, you might start to wonder, too.
What's your take on either of the controversial stories? Are they real? Are they PR ploys?
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Hello I was happy to see a Christmas card where the letters were made by Japanese school children out of folded origami paper.
A photo of the card (heavily photoshopped) was the basis for my own Christmas card.
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Amrit Manthan 5th April 2013 Written Update
Amrit Manthan 5th April 2013 Written Episode
episode starts with amrit driving the car without caring for any body , the fellows also follow her car , amrit made a trick to get them hit by tree and she succeeded , son she took bani at her school bani said thanks to amrit and said if you will be a mom u will be a good mom . and she took out a pencil from her box and said this is my lucky pencil and you keep it with u . bani went inside her school .
Amrit was not feeling well , she called yug .
Nimrit was scolding chanda and the driver for leaving bani with any one else , so the driver said that may be bani knows that woman , so bani entered and said i went with bad aunty , nimrit hug her , and said with whom did you went ? she said i went with bad aunty and you know bad aunty dropped me at the right time to school .. nimrit said now i have to meet this bad aunty .
amrit is sitting with doctor , soon her reports come , doctor look a little tempored , amrit said what happened doctor so she said you can never be a mom , amrit was in a big shock she remembered the sayings of bani to her .she was walkign yug come and asked her what has happened he read her reports and got a little bit shock both went home …
yug ws trying to make amrit happy , but sh went inside her room , yug said to himself that why is she said about it , though she hates kids , ..
yug comes in amrit's room and said i don't know why are you worried about it ? you always said to me that kids are a big trouble , clean their nose and uh … amrit said no , i know this but whn the kids give a good with love hug all the problem of a mother goes off and these feelings i got with bani , and i don't know why god do this with me ? if i had marrried agam 10 yrs before so bani may be my kid .
Nimrit and bani were in the room having a cute conversation , yug called bani and said that ur bad aunty is very sad and if u had time so come and meet her , nimrit and bani decided tomeet bad aunty .
Nimrit knocks amrit's door and said see bani had come to see you , amrit was very worried about nimrit been in home . nimrit got a call and she had to go .. she went out … bani tricked amrit by making a painful sound amrit comes out and she saw bani laughing and sitting she winks amrit and said sorry i have to do this drama , bani made amrit happy and then amrit said to bani that what i want i cannot get it . bani said what we want we can get it but we have to keep our eyes and ear open and then we can get that thing . amrit said u r right ,
Precap : amrit said to yug bani my best friend now will be my daughter , i want bani


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As Director of Sustainability at Selfridges, Daniella Vega created the high-end department-store chain's sustainability strategy, Buying Better, Inspiring Change, and continues to head its implementation.
Under Vega's leadership, Selfridges became the first department store to be awarded the Carbon Trust Triple Standard for reducing energy and water use and for improving waste management. She led the award-winning initiative Project Ocean, which saw Selfridges ban the sale of single-use plastic water bottles in an effort to tackle marine plastic pollution, and in 2016, Selfridges were awarded the 'World's best sustainability campaign by a department store', an award voted on by over 7,000 industry peers.
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This novel starts off typically enough with a grad student crush on a charismatic professor. Regina Gottlieb, like a leaf in the wind, enrolls in two of Nicholas Brodeur's classes, not because she's interested in the subject he's teaching, but because she's heard he's hot and wants to see what the fuss is about. He selects her as one of his teaching assistants, and the story takes a turn when she's invited to a dinner at his house, where she meets and falls in lust with his wife, Martha, who's at home caring for their newborn son Joachim.
Maybe I'm too far from the age group in question to remember what all-consuming lust is like, but the self-indulgence of these two characters made me lose all sympathy for them. Although Regina, despite her foibles, seemed like a realistic character to me for the first part of the book, once the love affair began, she lost me. I wanted her to grow a spine and remove herself from a relationship for which she shelved her own education as well as every last bit of ambition or self-determination. As for Martha, I couldn't shake the feeling that she was a selfish jerk who was old enough to know better. I kept reading, hoping someone — anyone — would get smarter, or kinder. As it turned out Regina eventually does (at least temporarily), but we aren't let in on how or why. The last third of the book, which occurs much later than the affair, manages to partially salvage the character, but not entirely, especially since we're not let in on how she pulled herself out of the hole she was in; we just meet her after most everything has been resolved, and she seems relatively content.
I loved other work by Choi, and she's been a Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner nominee, both for American Woman, which I haven't read. Her A Person of Interest was excellent, so I would read her again in the future.
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Anyone out there own or try the H-bomb Rip Curl wetsuit? It has a power supplied heating system, Im guessing its for people who surf up in Labrador Canada? F bombs are around 475 so this thing must be twice that .
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Yea i used a demo last winter. Those things are pretty SICK! I did find a problem though. The heat it put off really brewed up a gnarly duece. I had to go running for the dunes. But the suit just isn't for me. I really don't need a suit like that for the winters around here. I mean i can skim in a 3/2 all year. Now thats being a man.
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i would suggest the ripurl. i have one thats two years old its a 5/4/3 ive worn it 33 degree water for two hours and when i took it off it was steaming the thing retains some heat and is mad freakin flexible. and i go from that straight to my spring suit.
hey I just picked up a hooded psycho 2 last night for $190. It's in really good condition. It was only used one season a handfull of times then it sat for the past two years. Does anyone have one of these? I know they sell for like $400 new but did I get a pretty good deal? The guy who sold it said it was a 5/4/3. The sleeve has something that looks like the top of a 5 but the bottom of a 6 with a 4 next to it.
My question is, is it a 6/5/4 or a 6/4 or a 5/4/3 or a 5/4? What versions did O'neill make a couple years back? Does anyone own an older model psycho 2 (3 years old)? I'm pretty "psyched", I tried it on and it seems like the kind of suit that you can go out in the middle of february and barely get wet. Double liquid welded seams and all.
Anyone know anything about these suits?
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I've heard nothing but good things about the psychos.
i got last years 4/3 for 260 at wrv about aweek ago. if yours is thicker and cheaper than it was a good deal.


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Marty Raines� typical meal includes a lot of raw or steamed vegetables and grass-fed meats. She doesn�t eat beans, potatoes or bread, and she usually doesn�t garnish a meal with salt or pepper.
When she eats a grilled chicken salad, she pours straight vinegar and oil over it as a dressing.
�I don�t buy any dressings off the shelf,� she said. �And if I can�t pronounce an ingredient on the label, that generally means I shouldn�t be eating it.�
For dessert, she enjoys a few apple slices, drizzled with butter and cinnamon. She washes everything down with water.
Raines, a nurse practitioner, is following the Paleolithic or �caveman� diet. She bases what she eats on whether or not it could be found, dug up or killed 10,000 years ago. If it wasn�t around back then, she simply doesn�t indulge.
�It�s a different way of eating, but I enjoy my steamed vegetables and I feel better since starting this diet,� she said. �I don�t feel as sluggish in the middle of the day. You need to think about food as fuel for your body. As opposed to a big bag of Doritos, I eat a big plate of vegetables.�
On a recent Thursday, she discussed her dinner plans for that night: A bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, minus the bread.
�They didn�t have bread back then,� she said. �But they did have pigs.�
Jessica Griffin, a licensed dietician, said the Paleolithic diet has been around for about two years but has recently grown in popularity, especially among those who do Crossfit training, a high-energy, intense workout routine, which Raines and her husband are actively involved in.
�One guy in our gym lost 40 pounds by switching over to Paleo ,� Raines said. �I would recommend anyone give the diet a try.�
Tal Young, owner of Crossfit Spartanburg, said they push the diet because it helps people recover between workouts.
�It�s a diet that is easy for your body to process,� he said. �Sometimes when you get those sugars and glutens and bad carbs in there, it just creates a lot of inflammation throughout the body. It�s also really, really good as far as weight loss.�
But Paleolithic dieters don�t follow a specific diet plan because there is such a wide variety of foods they can eat.
�We just tell people to go with foods that they like,� Young said.
Griffin said Paleolithic dieters believe the reason we have such high rates of obesity and diabetes and heart disease is because we are putting foods into our bodies that they can�t handle and are not genetically programmed to handle.
�There are good points (to the diet),� she said. �It�s absolutely better than the typical American diet.�
The problem with the typical American diet, Griffin said, is that it consists of too many calories and too many carbohydrates.
But Griffin said she has a few concerns about the �caveman� diet.
�There are certain things your body needs that this diet doesn�t include, such as whole grains and beans, which are good for you,� she said. � There�s benefits to eating raw and cooked vegetables, but cooking does break down some of the nutrients. There are other nutrients and antioxidants that are brought out by cooking. That combination of cooked and uncooked vegetables is important.�
If you�re interested in starting the Paleolithic diet, or any other new diet, Griffin encourages you to talk to your doctor first.
�Always get a doctor�s approval, then make a sustainable plan and stick with it,� she said. �Be reasonable.�
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Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada to Carry NASA's Commercial Crew Initiative Forward
NASA will back Boeing, SpaceX andSierra Nevada with $1.1 billion during a third round of commercial crew space transportation development, top space agency officials announced on Friday.
Started in 2008, the NASA-private sector partnership is intended to establish a commercially competitive U. S. human space launch capability by 2017, though the three companies hope to accelerate the date by as much as two years.
NASA has relied on three passenger Russian Soyuz capsules for crew missions to the International Space Station since the U S. space shuttle fleet was retired in mid-2011.
Boeing's CST-100, the SpaceX Dragon and Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser would carry up to seven passengers to and from the six-person space station. As the services matured, the commercial activities would expand to tourism and transportation to and from private space stations.
The commercial push will permit NASA to turn its human exploration focus to the Space Launch System and the Orion/Multipurpose Crew Vehicle, a large rocket and capsule suited for missions of human deep space exploration. President Obama has directed NASA to start with a human mission to a near Earth asteroid by 2025 and exploration of the Martian environs by the mid-2030s.
"Today, we are announcing another critical step toward launching our astronauts fromU.S.soil on space systems built by American companies," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability management office is located. . "We have selected three companies that will help keep us on track to end the outsourcing of human spaceflight and create high-paying jobs in Florida and elsewhere across the country."
Subject to Congressional approval, $460 million would flow to Boeing Co., of Houston; $440 million to SpaceX of Hawthorne, Calif.; and $212.5 million to Sierra Nevada, of Louisville, Colo., for development activities through May 2014, or the critical design review phase. The work will be guided by NASA Space Act Agreements.
Flight testing would follow.
Boeing and Sierra Nevada are looking to a human rated United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 to launch their spacecraft into orbit. SpaceX's Dragon would launch on the company's Falcon 9. The SpaceX combination, with a cargo version of the Dragon, carried out the first U. S. commercial re-supply mission to the six-person International Space Station in May.
"We look forward to providing a complete end-to-end transportation service to support NASA crew transportation to and from the International Space Station (ISS), and fostering a growing market for commercial transportation to other low Earth orbit destinations," said John Mulholland, vice president and program manager of Boeing Commercial Programs
"This is a decisive milestone in human spaceflight and sets an exciting course for the next phase of American space exploration," said SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk. "SpaceX, along with our partners at NASA, will continue to push the boundaries of space technology to develop the safest, most advanced crew vehicle ever flown."
"This award will allow our program to continue to make great strides in the development of the Dream Chaser Space System," said Mark Sirangelo, Sierra Nevada's corporate vice president.


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As I browse the aisles of Uncle Fun, the cashier speaks into a plastic megaphone, reminding the handful of customers pulling open old library card catalogue drawers that the store carries voice-changing megaphones along the far back wall. In case you didn't get the hint from the colorful brick exterior and creepy smiling carnival-like cartoon man sign, Uncle Fun is not your typical Toys R' Us. It's a gag gift utopia filled with nostalgic trinkets that kids, and the kid in all of us, can enjoy.
The store is small and the aisles are cramped, which is probably a good thing. You could end up spending the entire day here. There's so much to see — a toaster that imprints Jesus's face on each slice of bread ($30), Cat and the Hat plush finger puppets ($1), pencils disguised as cigarettes ($1), a Wrigley Field oversized pop-up book ($10). Its zany merchandise and huge selection aside, Uncle Fun is made even more appealing by its prices. You can easily fill up a small basket with plastic chattering teeth charms, Jessica Simpson stickers, name stamps, and Elvis postcards for five bucks.
After a half-hour of browsing the tiny store, I forced myself to the register where the cashier and a customer are talking about the Insane Clown Posse. The cashier mentioned that Uncle Fun has a drawer of magnets tagged with the lyrics, "Magnets: how do they work?" A kid reaches up on to the counter and grabs a cow keychain. He squeezes it and asks his Dad why there's brown gunk coming out of the cow's butt.
I spent $13 and left with a vintage cardboard ice cream box filled with gag gifts for a friends upcoming birthday—a Scary Spice action figure, fake vomit, a plastic silver dollar ring, a kitten themed birthday card, a phony scratch lottery ticket, and a blue tiara. As I headed outside, I wondered why I didn't make it a point to stop at Uncle Fun more often.
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THE city's largest park will host the second Oxford Festival of Nature this weekend.
Families can expect pop-up wildlife gardens made of recycled rubbish, birds of prey and nature walks that delve into the science behind wild habitats.
Organiser Andy Gunn said it would give residents a chance to explore Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park, where the two-day festival will take place, in greater depth.
He said: "Most people who visit are playing on the sports pitches, walking their dogs or looking after their children on the playgrounds.
"But when they come along this weekend they can explore the hedgerows, ponds, woods and grassland to discover the small animals, butterflies, birds and beautiful insects like dragonflies."
A team of experts will also be on hand to teach people about the things that they find, said Mr Gunn.
The free festival opens tomorrow evening with walks and talks starting at Cutteslowe Community centre, in Wren Road.
That will include discussions about "how hedgehogs can save the world" at 6pm, by Hugh Warwick, and also a feature on the bats of Cutteslowe at 8.30pm. At 10pm a walk to search for moths and other nocturnal creatures in the park will take place.
On Saturday, early risers can listen to the Dawn Chorus at 5am, in Cutteslowe Park, and then from 8.30am to 4.30pm activities continue throughout the day, including a "wild fair" from 12pm. That will include guided nature trails and talks on subjects like crayfish traps and bee population decline.
On Sunday, BBC Radio Oxford is recording a special Gardeners' Question Time.
Hundreds of people are expected to attend the event, which will be hosted by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust and charity Science Oxford. Ecologists will also spend the weekend recording species as part of the research going into Oxford City Council's Biodiversity Action Plan for Cutteslowe Park.
Wildlife Trust employee Mark Bradfield said: "We're very grateful to Oxford City Council for giving us so much support.
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Folha de S.Paulo, known simply as Folha (Portuguese pronunciation: , Sheet), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded and continuously published in São Paulo since February 19, 1921. Owned by the Frias de Oliveira family since 1962, it has Brazil's largest circulation since 1986. Alongside O Globo and O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha is considered one of the most influential newspapers in the country.
The newspaper is considered to have played a major role during the military dictatorship. With the return of press freedom, it became an important channel for public expression. Folha also had an important role during the impeachment of President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992. It has a partnership with Wikileaks to publish the United States diplomatic cables in the country, alongside O Globo.
Nevertheless, Folha's circulation has been on a sharp decline since the past decade. On December 1998, it led the circulation of Brazilian newspapers with an estimated 513,000 copies printed daily. Ten years later, its circulation was estimated at 299,000 copies, which represents a decrease of 41%, although it stills leads the newspaper market, which has been facing a decline as a whole.


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WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE; Britain: Man Sentenced For Letter Bomb Campaign
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: September 29, 2007
Miles Cooper, a school janitor who attacked offices in London and other parts of Britain with a letter bomb campaign in January and February in which eight people were wounded, was sentenced to a prison term of at least five years. His legal team said he had sent the devices, made out of party poppers and nails or broken glass, to offices that dealt with traffic violations and monitoring to protest an ''over-intrusive surveillance-obsessed society.'' He was convicted Thursday of 11 charges relating to explosive devices. Passing the sentence, the judge at Oxford Crown Court branded Mr. Cooper, 27, a ''terrorist.''


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I woke up yesterday morning to news that my Grandpa passed away. He's been very sick and unable to care for himself, so his death comes as a blessing.
I'm not really sad about his passing as I believe in the hope of Heaven, but I do feel very far from my family right now.
I wish I could be there to talk to my mom and hear happy stories about her childhood; to celebrate his life with whole family.
It may sound ridiculous, but one thing that brought comfort yesterday morning was my breakfast. The flavors in these pancakes remind me of my mom's pumpkin chocolate chip muffins.
Although I might not have been sitting in my mom's kitchen yesterday morning, I brought her here to join me through pumpkins and warm, comforting memories.
Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
- 1½ cups flour
- 3 Tablespoons white sugar
- ½ teaspoons salt
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 Tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 2 whole eggs beaten
- 1 cup almond milk
- 2 ½ Tablespoons maple syrup
- ¼ cup melted butter
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla
- 150 grams roasted pumpkin (or puree)
- Whisk the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Combine the wet ingredients in a small bowl until well blended. The color will be a fantastic bright orange.
- Whisk the wet ingredients into the dry until combined.
- Heat a lightly oiled skillet over medium heat. Pour about 1/4 cup batter onto the prepared skillet. Flip when bubbles begin to rise and the bottom of the pancakes are golden brown.
- Serve with maple butter icing.
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Should You Grab That Buyout?
As companies downsize, one way of reducing head counts is the retirement buyout package. These proposals offer financial incentives to encourage longtime employees to retire two to three years before the company's earliest retirement age, usually 55, or a few years before the typical retirement age of 65 or older.
The decision whether to take the offer is not an easy one. Pass it up, and you run the risk of being laid off later--without the sweeteners. Moreover, you'll have 30 to 90 days to give your response. "Assessing these proposals is a complicated and time-consuming process," says Frank Marzano, a certified public accountant and financial adviser with American Express Financial Advisors in Port Washington, N.Y. "A lot of money can be left on the table if the proposal is not properly analyzed."
Indeed, a number of issues must be considered before making the decision. But first you'll need to decide if you want to get another job and what salary you can command. You'll also need to understand how your pension is calculated. One common formula figures your benefit based on a percentage of the average of your last five years' base salary, and the percentage is usually 1% to 1.5% times the years of service. So if you worked 25 years, and your company allows 1% a year, your benefit would be 25% of the average of your last five years' salary. If you would otherwise retire in 10 years when you have 35 years' tenure, that formula would help you estimate what you might receive if you stay at the same company.
Now, consider the buyout. Say you're 52, three years away from the company's earliest retirement age of 55, and you earn $120,000 a year. The company is offering you a $250,000 incentive bonus--roughly two years of salary. It's also throwing three extra years into your pension, so your ultimate benefit would be calculated assuming you work until 55. Then let's say you can land a $60,000-a-year job.
First, estimate three years of your salary after taxes (table). Then take the present value of that sum, using a discount rate of 5%--roughly speaking, the interest rate on a high-grade municipal bond. (Present value is a future sum expressed in today's dollars.) That comes to $208,000. Then you repeat the calculation considering the retirement bonus and the $60,000 job you think you can get after you leave the company. That comes to $253,000. "Based on these facts alone, the early retirement package appears attractive," says Marzano. Now suppose you had 10,000 stock options, worth just $300,000 now, but possibly a whole lot more a few years hence. If you have to forfeit these options, you have lost much more than you were offered in the retirement package. Your strategy would be to negotiate with the company to hold on to as many options for as long as possible.
There are, however, a number of things "companies can do to work the tax code to your advantage, and that is worth something," says Jim Marple, a New York-based retirement specialist at benefits consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide. For example, rather than pay your incentive bonus out of payroll, which would be taxed as ordinary income, the company may be able to pay it out as a retirement benefit that you can roll into an individual retirement account, letting you escape taxes for now. Another sweetener might be the ability to take your pension in a lump sum, which you can transfer to an IRA, rather than collecting it on a monthly basis.
Receiving a buyout offer would certainly propel me to consult a financial adviser and possibly a lawyer just to review the legal aspects of the proposal. In fact, most companies will request that you sign a release so you don't come back and sue for age discrimination, says Marple. Consulting an adviser today can save you heartache later on. And at least you'll walk away from the table knowing you got yourself the best package possible.
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PLAYA VISTA, Calif. -- On the day after their landmark season came to an end with a four-game sweep at the hands of the San Antonio Spurs, the Los Angeles Clippers were in no mood to talk about the future of their coach.
The Clippers have a team option on Vinny Del Negro for next season and must decide by June 1 whether or not to exercise it. General manager Neil Olshey, who's also working without a contract, said Monday that he would not address Del Negro's job status publicly.
"That's not what we're here to talk about," Olshey said Monday. "Coaching contracts, GM contracts, trainer contracts, that's not today. ... All that stuff will sort itself out."
"I think Vinny did a great job, and that's as far as I'm going to go today," Olshey added.
Del Negro refused to discuss his future when asked if he expected to be brought back for the 2012-2013 season.
"I'm not gonna get into all my contract stuff," Del Negro said. "It's a waste of energy and whatever I say, you're not gonna listen anyway, so it doesn't matter."
Del Negro has spent two seasons as Clippers coach. Hired in July 2010, he's compiled a regular-season record of 72-76 and a playoff record of 4-7. He spent the previous two years as coach of the Chicago Bulls and finished 81-81 there, getting bounced in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs both times.
Del Negro came under fire in March after the Clippers lost home games to Golden State and Phoenix, then went on the road and lost to Indiana, Oklahoma City and New Orleans.
He maintained at that time that he wouldn't let any perceived threats to his job security affect the way he approached his job. He said similar things Monday, denying he'd be uncomfortable over the next 10 days by preparing for next season without the certainty he'll be re-signed.
"It's not, because I'm not worried about it," Del Negro said. "I'll let that stuff work itself out."
Clippers guard Chris Paul said for the second straight day that he thought Del Negro did a "great" job managing the different personalities the team assembled progressively throughout the season.
Paul also revealed that he phoned Olshey around midnight Monday to discuss the future of the franchise and apologized for his subpar play in the Clippers' second-round series against the Spurs.
"I told him that I hated how it ended," Paul said. "I don't think we should have been swept, and stuff like that. I told him I'll get better and this won't happen again."


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This is for a cute Santa Claus Doll.He measures about 14" tall and is wearing a Pink plush Santa Claus Outfit with a White Belt and White Plastic Boots.He has a full beard,rosy red cheeks and a stiff stuffed body.I don't see any manufacturers name or marking but I was told that these Pink Santa Claus Dolls were Mary Kay Cosmetics Promos from 1974 but I don't know that for certain.He is in good condition with some normal signs age and handeling.His one boot has a broken heel (see picture) but he can stand freely without support on a level surface.T is a small light blue smear mark on his left mitten.Also his beard isn't as white as the white on the Santa suit but I think it was made that way to look real as the white on the suit is still bright but again I am no expert and do not know for sure.Other than that he seems to be in good condition with no other stains,breaks,rips,etc.
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Marlboro High School, home of the Mustangs, is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, operating as part of the Freehold Regional High School District (FRHSD). The school serves students from portions of Marlboro Township. In addition, Marlboro High School hosts the Business Administration Learning Center within FRHSD, so there are students...
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A part of the Freehold Regional High School District, Marlboro High School offers a full academic curriculum, advanced placement classes and extracurricular activities, including sports and its marching band. It has also made available to students its business administration program for the last 20 years. For class times and other information about the school, visit its Web site.


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Kolkata, Nov 12 (IANS) With Bangladesh handing over the outlawed ULFA's fugitive leader Anup Chetia, India is all set to return the favour with the extradition of Nur Hossain – wanted for seven murder cases in his country.
Hossain, along with 34 others, has been indicted by the Bangladesh police for the sensational Narayanganj murder case in 2014 in which seven people, including Narayanganj City Corporation councillor Nazrul Islam were killed and their bodies dumped in a river. Earlier in October, a West Bengal court had ordered the repatriation of Hossain who was caught by the state police in June 2014 for illegally entering the country.
"We have sent the documents for his extradition to the central government which will decide the date of his extradition. The formalities are nearly complete and as and when the centre decides the date we will act accordingly," a top police officer told IANS.
Currently lodged in Dum Dum correctional home, the charges pressed by the state police against Hossain were withdrawn by the court. Informing that Hossain will be extradited at the earliest, Bangladesh Minister State for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal described the extraditions of Chetia and Hossain as a reflection of the highly cordial mutual ties of the two countries.
"Bangladesh and India have always shared very cordial relations. The Indian government's keenness on sending back Hossain is just a reflection of that relationship. We have been told that Hossain will be extradited very soon," Kamal told IANS over phone from Dhaka. According to a top state jail officer, Bangladesh government had been seeking Hossain's extradition for quite some time.
"The Narayanganj murder case has been a big political issue in Bangladesh and they have been making efforts to get him back for almost a year now. With the extradition of Chetia, the ball for Hossain extradition has now been set in motion and according to information, his is likely to be handed back in December," the officer told IANS.
Once the central government fixes the date of extradition, the police will hand over Hossain to the Border Security Force (BSF) who in turn will hand him over to its Bangladeshi counterpart- Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
"We have been informed about Hossain's extradition process but we are yet to be intimated about the date. Once the government fixes the date, a flag meeting will be organised and we will hand him over to the BGB," said a BSF officer.


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Five years ago this week, the Padres selected Matt Bush with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2004 draft.
The anniversary will be unofficially commemorated Tuesday when the former Mission Bay High standout enters a guilty plea in San Diego Superior Court to four misdemeanor counts of battery.
It's part of a plea deal reached with the San Diego District Attorney's office stemming from his alleged drunken assault on Granite Hills High lacrosse players Feb. 4. In exchange for the plea, Bush's attorney, Gregory Daniels, said Bush will not receive jail time but will receive at least three years of probation and must pay a fine to be determined, plus serve 30 days of community service and a stint in alcohol rehab.
"He fully intends to get his act together and do whatever is required of him by the court," Daniels said. "They could tell him to attend alcohol rehab on the moon, and he'd agree to it."
The Padres designated Bush for assignment a day after the incident, effectively breaking ties with a player considered to be one of the worst draft disappointments of all time. Alcohol-related incidents involving Bush date to at least two months before the Padres drafted him, when he was cited for underage alcohol possession. Less than two weeks after the Padres drafted him, he was arrested after an altercation at a nightclub near the Padres' spring-training compound in Peoria, Ariz.
Daniels said Bush is planning a comeback as soon as he completes his legal requirements. The Florida state attorney has been reviewing a case against him after a 23-year-old female accused the pitcher of throwing a baseball past her head and banging on her car window to scare her in late March. She said he appeared intoxicated. The Toronto Blue Jays released him the next day.
Bush, 23, is not expected to be present Tuesday as the plea is entered on his behalf. As part of the deal, the charges were changed from battery on school grounds to straight battery, Daniels said. This reduces the amount of fine that can be imposed and potential jail time.
Meanwhile, the Padres will get another try at a high draft pick Tuesday. They hold the No. 3 spot in Tuesday's first-year player draft.
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Mattila-Haataja engagement
Bria Mattila and Dave Haataja, both of Menahga, announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage.
Parents of the couple are Shawn and Roxanne Mattila and Steve and Patricia Haataja, all of Menahga.
The bride-to-be is a graduate of Menahga High School and is employed at Heartland Homes in Park Rapids.
Her fiancé, a Menahga High School graduate, is self-employed, Dave Haataja Concrete, Menahga
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Johannesburg - Insurer Sanlam [JSE:SLM] reported a 30% rise
in first-half earnings on Thursday, and said it would pay $265m for a stake in
the financial services arm of its Indian partner, Shriram Group.
South Africa's second-largest insurer and one of the
country's largest fund managers said diluted headline earnings per share
totalled 109.6 cents in the six months to end-June, compared with 84.1c a year
Sanlam said it was helped by an 11% increase in new business
volumes, particularly life insurance, and a rise in net fund inflows to its
asset management unit.
Sanlam, which already had stakes in Shriram Group's
insurance businesses, said it would pay 1.9bn in cash for a 26% stake in unit
Shriram Capital, to gain more exposure to India's financial services industry.
Shriram Capital's activities include commercial and retail
financing, stockbroking and the distribution of wealth products, Sanlam said.
It said it was also investigating a number of opportunities
for expansion into Africa, with Mozambique likely to be added in 2011.
Sanlam shares have fallen more than 3% so far this year,
compared with a 5% decline in South Africa's Top 40 - (Tradeable) [JSE:J200]
So why do I not see a 30% increase in the value of my annuities at SANLAM?
Because it is an annuity, duh......
To Standard Bank (and Liberty/Stanlib) execs, EAT YOUR HEART OUT!? An 11% rise in New Business (in these times), compared to Liberty's poor results, just shows how employing execs WITH INSURANCE experience can make a difference!!?? Bruce Hemphill must resign; he is not adding shareholder (and Policyholder) value to Liberty or Stanlib
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Undertaker - Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler)
|Simply because I'm a huge fan of the kooky types who just love to laugh like the lunatics they are... throw in something coffin-related with a top hat and long silver hair... the Undertaker was one of my favourites to cosplay! Nothing to complicated, but the overall effect is just great fun!
Not much sewing involved, this was made from a load of components I happened to have in my dressing up box and threw together. The wig was found on ebay.
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Theft of copper wire is probed
State police at Lehighton continue to investigate a theft incident in which copper wire was stolen from a vehicle in Monroe County.
The incident occurred sometime between 11 p.m. April 30 to 12 a.m. May 2 when the copper wire was stolen from the work truck of Arnold Wykoff, 39, of 655a1 Lobach Lane, Eldred Township.
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A fire that broke out at a town house community in Pike Creek has caused about $300,000 in damages to several homes.
WATCH: Bitter, Dangerous Cold Hits the Area
The Delaware State Fire Marshal's office says the fire started early Sunday morning in the 3200 block of Champions Drive in the Fairway Falls community. Fire investigators say it was accidental.
It took nearly two hours to bring the fire under control.
Chief Deputy Fire Marshal Robert Fox says investigators determined the fire started on a rear deck and was caused by charcoal from a grill. The fire burned on the outside of the building into the roof area. It damaged several attached townhouses.
Fox says high winds fueled the blaze.
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NEW YORK - Your faithful candy bar now comes in Mocha Cappuccino flavor. That peppermint patty is in the shape of a pumpkin. And Hershey's Kisses? They've got candy corn stripes.
Shoppers trawling the candy aisle as Halloween approaches might be excused for feeling overwhelmed, as candy makers are producing more size, shape, and flavor varieties for well-known brands than ever before.
Consumers are expected to spend about $2.18 billion on candy for Halloween this year, according to the National Confectioners Association, and candy makers are betting that variety and more variety will spark their interest.
This year for Halloween for example, Mars Inc. is selling a new "Minis Mix" of Twix, 3 Musketeers, Snickers and Milky Way, in addition to its slightly larger fun-size bags of each of the candy bars. And it will introduce a 3 Musketeers "Minis Mix" with different flavors of the bar including Strawberry, French Vanilla and Mocha Cappuccino.
Hershey Co., meanwhile, which started the candy downsizing trend with Hershey's Miniatures in 1939, is introducing York Peppermint Patties in pumpkin shapes, Kissables in Halloween colors and a limited edition of Kisses in distinctive white, orange and yellow candy-corn colors. William Wrigley Jr. Co. is offering new variety bags for its Life Savers Gummies.
"People like variety, especially at Halloween, when you're trick or treating," said Ryan Bowling, a spokesman for Mars US. "We found through popular feedback that mixes have become very valuable and affordable. It's just making more variety available for the consumer."
Kirk Saville, a spokesman for Hershey, also said brand extensions allow consumers "new, fun ways to enjoy Halloween treats."
But when a consumer mulling buying Kit Kats for Halloween can choose between Hershey's Kit Kat minis, snack-size Kit Kats or standard-size Kit Kats with "ghoulish" designs such as vampires on the front - not to mention different Kit Kat flavors - how much variety is too much?
"I think the candy situation is a bit out of control," said Margarita Miranda-Abate, a Westfield, N.J., mother of a two-and-a-half-year old. "There are so many options to buy that at the end of the day, I just take a bag of what has the most and I keep it simple."
Barry Schwartz, a psychologist at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice, says consumers find variety appealing, but studies have shown that in terms of actual satisfaction, they prefer tried-and-true favorites.
"Consumers think they like variety," he said. "But they would actually rather eat the same candy over and over again. They predict they'll get tired of Snickers and go with Snickers, Three Musketeer and Kit Kats. But actually, they'd be happier with three Snickers."
"Everyone thinks variety is good and overestimates the satisfaction that comes with variety."
Selling more candy isn't the only goal: The new sizes and limited-edition flavors are in part a way to test out new products, said Joyce Weinberg, confectionary expert and president of food company Confection Zone Inc. in New York.
And as consumers grow more health conscious, smaller sizes offer smaller portions - at least for those with a bit of self-restraint.
Susan Fussell, senior director of communications for the National Confectioners Association, said parents can use smaller snacks to talk to their kids about healthier eating.
"For parents concerned about portion, bite-size candies make it really easy to portion out candy," she said. "Halloween, or other times of the year where there's food coming into the house that isn't typically there, are a really great launching pad to talking to kids about diet and nutrition."
If consumers know exactly what they want, Schwartz said, then a store stocked with many varieties of candy is good, because it makes it more likely it will have exactly what consumers want.
However, "how often do people know exactly what they want?" he said. "My sense is almost never."
"If you give them too many options, people are paralyzed and end up walking out with nothing."
Lisbeth Echeandia, a consultant to candy trade magazine Confectioners Magazine, said there is a limit to how many different sizes candy makers can offer.
"It has to make sense money-wise. At a certain point you start to cannibalize your own product," Echeandia said. "But right now (the variety of sizes) is probably about right."
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VERDE CREEK (Medina County). Verde Creek rises in three branches eight miles north of Hondo in Medina County (at 29°32' N, 99°05' W). Intermittent in its upper reaches, it runs southeast for 20½ miles to its mouth on Hondo Creek, four miles west of Hondo (at 29°21' N, 99°03' W). The branches, East Verde, Middle Verde, and West Verde creeks, all rise in south central Bandera County and run southeast, through Bandera and Medina counties. The West branch joins Middle Verde Creek twelve miles north of Hondo, and four miles downriver they are joined by the East branch to form Verde Creek. The branches cross limestone hills of the Edwards Plateau and steep slopes and limestone benches. Vegetation on the plateau is generally open stands of live oak and Ashe juniper on shallow clay loam soils. From the confluence of its two major sources Verde Creek runs through generally flat terrain with localized dissections; soils are generally shallow and stony. Further downstream, near Vandenberg, the terrain becomes gently rolling with moderately deep clay and sandy loam soils. Open stands of oak and Ashe juniper predominate over most of the stream's route, though cropland is more prevalent near the Hondo Creek junction.
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The latest cover of National Geographic features the story of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota. Alexandra Fuller's well-written piece of long form journalism plus Aaron Huey's series of striking photographs is standard fare in the magazine by now, but this cover story included a new form of storytelling. Huey, who has spent the past seven years documenting and befriending the Lakota teamed up with Jonathan Harris, creator of Cowbird, to launch the Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project. Cowbird is a storytelling platform focused on personal narratives rather than quick status updates, and the collaboration is an attempt to give the people of Pine Ridge a chance to tell their own stories. Users can use photos, audio and text on one seamless platform that attempts to build a library of human experiences.
Huey talked to 10,000 Words about the collaboration, which was made possible in part by the Knight Journalism Fellowship and the John and James L. Knight Foundation. He first started covering the community when he was doing a larger survey on poverty—Pine Ridge was one of the poorest counties in the nation. Though he didn't know much about the history of the reservation at the time, he quickly became drawn into its story and evolution, eventually becoming an advocate for the community.
MZ: Why did you and Jonathan Harris decide to collaborate on this story? Did you feel that the traditional modes of journalism weren't sufficient?
AH: I was lucky enough to spend last year at Stanford University as a Knight Journalism Fellow, which allowed me to step way back from my daily life as a photographer to look at bigger trends and possibilities in journalism, and where I wanted to be in that picture. I have been dissatisfied for quite some time with the limitations of traditional journalism in both how Pine Ridge could be covered, but also in what I knew to be the flaw of all journalism in the eyes of the journalistic "subject"—that it's someone else telling YOUR story. I had been interviewed enough times for various projects and adventures to know that what I saw printed rarely resembled how I felt or what I wanted people to hear. There is great value in having an outsider tell the story of a people or community, and put the pieces they find into a beautiful, objective narrative. But returning for many years to Pine Ridge meant that I had to look back into the eyes of the same people again and again after they had seen themselves on websites or in the pages of magazines, and they all wanted to know why I couldn't tell more of the story. They wanted to know why it all had to be about poverty and violence and alcohol. They wanted to know why it couldn't be about success stories and good students and sober families. The truth is that I knew that those stories would not only fail to fit in the shrinking page counts of magazines, but would also not appeal to editors. Knowing that they didn't make strong narratives for our publications didn't stop me from wanting to share them.
Jonathan and I were fast friends; he is an amazing artist who I usually refer to in conversation as a "web super-genius." I found Jonathan while at Stanford after attempting, and failing, to design my own way for communities to tell stories that could be attached to traditional features. When I saw Cowbird, I dropped everything and knew it was the perfect partnership. I didn't need to spend all year making a poorer version of what Jonathan had already built over many years of effort. That was one of the most important things I learned at Stanford; that we don't have to work alone when a collaboration can accelerate and expand a project into existence so quickly. Jonathan had created an incredible tool that fit most of my needs and I was determined to work with him to help people on Pine Ridge tell their stories, even if I couldn't get National Geographic on board. Luckily, National Geographic agreed and I think the result is about as inclusive of a community story as I have ever seen, and growing larger every day.
MZ: Cowbird is a personal medium focused on more subjective storytelling. How do you think journalists/news organizations can benefit from such a platform?
AH: I know that the stories in the collection are not objective; they are not journalism. They are stories, songs, blessings, rants and monologues meant to supplement a great piece of journalism. Nothing can touch the quality of Alexandra Fuller's writing; she's as good as they get. But adding more layers to her story with this completely raw, online collection does so many things to fill in the gaps. There are gaps because it is not our story to tell, it is theirs. There are only so many pages we can have and so many words that can be edited and fact checked in a story with finite edges, it takes a lot of money to verify those words and pictures and give them the approval stamp. Those parts that are neatly contained become the factual journalistic stories we read every day in our periodicals. But adding a living story component like this embedded collection means that we can stop editing and just let the stories be stories, let the songs be songs and let them sing for the people. This community-generated portrait of Reservation life is such a rich and textured thing that I find myself wanting to compare it to songs or poetry more than to journalism.
That said I think there are quite concrete reasons for publications/organizations to add this digital sidecar to feature stories that focus on communities. The story collection grows over time and will draw readers back to the site when they would have normally moved on. More clicks usually means more money in the new world order of value calculated by CPMs. Beyond return visits to a website for the magazine, it is also just the right thing to do.
A transformed relationship between those formerly known as "subjects" and the publications that shape our worldview will open a new transparency and enable real dialogue. Through this living interface, the stories will grow over time, bringing insight to the community and sustained traffic to the media site. Instead of a feature having two or three people's stories represented, it will host hundreds of stories and offer a deep-dive into that community. More points of view, more pageviews, more discussion and hopefully more understanding. Everyone wins.
MZ: Such a personal approach also mirrors your own evolution in covering Pine Ridge. Can you tell me about the point when you decided to become an advocate? Why did you make this decision when you did?
AH: There were many points along this road where I questioned myself and where this was all headed. One big moment was after the NYT Lensblog published my work three years ago. Two events happened in the year after that story. One was that I received two large manila envelopes full of letters from high school students. Many asked me why I couldn't show families like theirs—sober, normal and mostly ok. One of these letters from a young woman named Charlie Cuny opens the National Geographic Community Storytelling project page.
As a photojournalist, I'd always struggled with how to share the incredibly complex story of this community. I've never been able to tell all the stories that I want to tell on Pine Ridge, and I've come to realize that even if I could, I can't tell them the way the people want them told.
That same year, a woman named Ramona White Plume stopped me and told me she was "disappointed in me." She had seen my photos on the NYT website and wanted to know what the point of all this was. I had to stop and ask myself the same thing. I think those voices started to accumulate in my mind and the more I researched the history the more I started to see the bigger picture of what had created the darkness I was documenting. I was covering a Prisoner of War camp. I was documenting the last chapters of a genocide.
Until I walked on stage to do my TED talk, I had not taken on any kind of role as an advocate. But when I was preparing my talk for that stage, when I saw the history of the Lakota laid out so clearly, it was obvious to me that the only way the talk could end was with the words: "The Black Hills are not for sale, it's not your business what they do with them."
I had been hearing about the treaties and the treaty violations for years and never fully absorbed the importance of it all. Once I did there was no turning back. I started to see the contemporary resistance movements and I started to see the spirit of Crazy Horse alive in the people and it completely changed my vision. I started to see things completely differently.
I also realized that I could develop projects outside the pages of magazines that would help them share the message they really wanted the world to hear, the message was: "Honor the Treaties." I gave them the tools they needed through my TED talk and a street art campaign that I later started with Shepard Fairey. Our most recent work for the Sioux just went public last week. We will be working with Daryl Hannah to get thousands of these posters pasted across the country and into the hands of groups fighting for Treaty rights.
Pine Ridge is a rare situation for me because I oscillate between journalist and advocate. When I am working for National Geographic I am purely a journalist, and I have had to document situations that do not make my friends on Pine Ridge happy. My job on assignments like that is to be objective, and I have had to battle through some tough times with the families who appear in those darker images. In telling the bigger story, some individuals end up being singled out as the example of oppression.
MZ: Has this project changed your relationship with the people of Pine Ridge? What about the publication-subject relationship?
AH: I think the publication-subject relationship has taken a huge leap into the future with this project. What National Geographic did was incredibly brave. Allowing me to co-launch this stream of unedited content with a cover story on their website is an unprecedented step for a publication on this scale. The people of Pine Ridge have been incredibly appreciative in phone calls and messages to me. For the first time I think they really feel heard. I think this starts to make up for all the superficial "drive by" journalism that has been happening on the Reservation, it's good for all of journalism when a publication does the right thing and listens to the community.
Aaron Huey is a photojournalist who works primarily for the National Geographic magazines, for which he has shot over 20 features. Aaron is widely known for his 3,349-mile solo walk across America (with his dog Cosmo) in 2002, which lasted 154 days. Huey is also a Contributing Editor at Harper's Magazine, a 2012 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and a lecturer at TED.com. Find more of his work at: www.aaronhuey.com
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Connor Evans - Kanye Glasses
Whether or not you've been feeling Kanye West's recent work (or his self-aggrandizing rants), you've got to admire the man's vision and self-confidence at least a little bit. Connor Evans certainly does, and on his latest single (the first off his next album), he channels a little of Yeezus's bravado, as well as his trademark sound. Though the Redlands representative kicks the cut off by announcing, "This take me back to '08 like white girls and Kanye Glasses," his and BHB's soulful beat is less 808s & Heartbreak than The College Dropout, with a little Graduation tossed in for good measure. His casual braggadocio, likewise, harks back to West's pre-'08 work. If this infectious jam's left you craving more, then watch our pages for more fresh singles leading up to the 2014 release of Evans' So Cal Soul LP. In the meantime, July's The Road to Coachella tape is still available for free streaming and download right here in the Booth.


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The new head of the FSB (successor to the KGB) will be Vladimir Putin, a former spy in Germany who now serves in Yeltsin's presidential administration. "At 45, Putin is much closer in thinking and age to the new 30-something men who now rule Russia," says Meier. "It reveals the desire of the new generation in power to push the grayhairs from the controls of the security forces" -- and make sure the troops remain loyal and battle-ready for the tough times ahead.
Yeltsin Braces for Trouble at Home
MOSCOW: Russia's new $18 billion IMF deal comes loaded with a raft of economic strictures, and Boris Yeltsin knows that the Russian people are in for a long autumn of discontent. Time for a new top cop. TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier says Yeltsin's sacking Sunday of his domestic security chief means the Russian president is intent on keeping his government young, strong and in firm control of the populace.


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Now here is a survival tip we can give to Survivorman and Bear Giles; to catch food while you are lost in the wild, all you need is a flashlight and a pan to make lots of noise.
These crazy night fishermen almost get to the point of being attacked, or caught, by these fish as they get bombarded with flying fish. And all they did was shine a flashlight in the water and bang their hands on the side of the boat.
To me, this is almost like a horror movie. Except this time, instead of being called Birds, this new film should be called Flying Fish.
This has definitely got to be some form of redneck fishing, but I wouldn't want to go on this ride. I'll stick to buying my fish at the store, thank you very much.
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text: Not really with this... The open case (as in OO) seems to be more like the Haskell class construct, i.e. if new types declare themselves to be members of a class then they must satisfy certain constaints....I can then specify "equals" with the class and leave the onus on the implementor to implement it....the data construct seems more analogous to a OO class definition...which is closed in the same way. The approach is deliberate...but I accept may be harder than it needs to be...I'm interested in Haskell because of the alleged power/formality of it's type system against the relatively weakness of OO ones...the irony at the moment is that they do not really seem to correspond directly....and OO type system seems to (loosely) correlate to Haskell type class system, and an OO class system (loosely) to Haskels type system, though in OOP's they are unpleasantly tangled. -----Original Message----- From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of apfelmus Sent: 17 December 2007 12:34 To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Re: OOP'er with (hopefully) trivial questions..... Nicholls, Mark wrote: > > data Shape = Circle Int > | Rectangle Int Int > | Square Int > > Isn't this now "closed"...i.e. the statement is effectively defining > that shape is this and only ever this....i.e. can I in another module > add new "types" of Shape? Yes, but in most cases, this is actually a good thing. For instance, you can now define equality of two shapes: equal :: Shape -> Shape -> Bool equal (Circle x) (Circle y) = x == y equal (Rectangle x1 x2) (Rectangle y1 y2) = x1 == x2 && y1 == y2 equal (Square x) (Square y) = x == y In general, the "open" approach is limited to functions of the form Shape -> ... -> Shape / Int / something else with no Shape occurring in the other ... arguments. > I'm trying to teach myself Haskell....I've spent a few hours going > through a few tutorials....and I sort of get the basics... > [...] > After many years of OOP though my brain is wired up to construct > software in that 'pattern'....a problem for me at the moment is I cannot > see how to construct programs in an OO style in Haskell....I know this > is probably not the way to approach it...but I feel I need to master the > syntax before the paradigm. This approach is probably harder than it could be, you'll have a much easier time learning it from a paper-textbook like http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/publications/books/functional/ http://haskell.org/soe/ After all, it's like learning programming anew. Regards, apfelmus _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe


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September 30, 2010 -- The US-China Program (USCP) of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) and the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) are proud to release the inaugural US-China Quarterly Market Review. The October 2010 Quarterly Market Review is the first issue of a quarterly look at the most important trends in renewable energy markets, finance, and policy in the United States and China.
The October 2010 Quarterly Market Review specifically examines:
- The outlook for wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and biofuel markets in the U.S. and China;
- Important state policies and federal tax incentives that are driving the U.S. renewable energy markets;
- The varying success of U.S. and Chinese firms in the financial markets amid cautious investor sentiment;
- Chinese and U.S. firms that are overcoming market complexities and political sensitivities to achieve success in the U.S. and Chinese markets respectively;
- The progress of official US-China renewable energy collaborative efforts announced by President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao in November 2009; and
- Developments in private sector US-China renewable energy cooperation.
Contributors to the report consist of experts from leading organizations in the U.S. and China including Navigant Consulting, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Covington & Burling, and the Energy Research Institute (ERI) of the National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC).
The Quarterly Market Review also benefited from inputs from the USCP partner companies - DuPont, GCL Poly-Energy, Orrick, and Applied Materials - as well as the inputs of the USCP strategic advisors.


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A hexagon on the ringed planet
Something has put the hex on Saturn. NASA scientists are puzzled by a giant, hexagon-shaped feature that hovers above Saturn's entire north pole. The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft first spotted the hexagon more than 2 decades ago. New infrared images taken by the Cassini spacecraft show that the feature has persisted and that a second, darker hexagon surrounds the brighter, previously recorded one.


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Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz confirmed on Friday that two search warrants were served at the Dairy Mart on Pine Street in Zanesville and at a residence in Roseville in connection to food stamp fraud.
Sheriff Lutz explained, "That was a joint investigation. Obviously of our drug unit in the city were the ones heading that up and working with some state officials on that investigation with food stamp fraud. So we're putting that together as we speak."
Lutz says the owner of the Dairy Mart is, "a person of interest," and says the investigation is still in the early stages. No other information was released.


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For more than nine months now, Nanticoke Memorial Hospital's Mother and Baby Care Unit has been working on a Hispanic outreach program to benefit expecting mothers. Through a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield BluePrints for the Community, Marisela Serna, RN has been working through LaRed Health Services in Georgetown to support patients identified with Gestational Diabetes.
Gestational Diabetes occurs in women who are pregnant. When a woman is pregnant, hormonal changes can cause the cells in a woman's body to be less responsive to insulin. Insulin is the hormone produced that helps the cells in the body absorb sugars or glucose. According to the American Diabetes Association, pregnant women are more at risk of developing gestational diabetes if they are obese, have had gestational diabetes during a previous pregnancy, or have a strong family history of diabetes.
If a woman's blood sugar becomes too high, sugar can appear in the baby's blood causing the baby to produce more insulin. All the extra sugar and insulin can cause the baby to put on weight. This leads to complications for the mother and the baby during delivery. Overall, about 2 to 10% of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes. Nanticoke Health Services' Mother and Baby Care Unit however found it was seeing a number of patients from the Hispanic community with gestational diabetes causing complications for mothers and newborns.
Since the implementation of the Hispanic Outreach Program more than nine months ago, Nanticoke is pleased to report that Marisela is supporting nearly 40 women identified with gestational diabetes. Those with gestational diabetes are followed to be sure they are receiving health care and education to help them get control of their diabetes during pregnancy. Additionally nearly 140 women have received education and support related to nutrition and physical activity to improve the health for them and their families.
"It is so important that Hispanic women receive health care and education during pregnancy. A baby should not have complications or die because a mother didn't understand how to help her unborn child through diet, exercise and proper health care," said Ms. Serna, RN Nurse Educator and Outreach Program Coordinator. "These children are too important to their families and to our community."
For more information about this program, call Marisela Serna, RN, (302) 245-1899.
Nanticoke Health Services features an award winning, full-service community hospital. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital is ranked number one in Delaware and among America's Best 100 Hospitals for Critical Care, among the top 5% in the nation for Emergency Medicine for 2012 by HealthGrades, Inc. Nanticoke has been named one of the Best 100 Places to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Hospital Review for the second year in a row. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital holds a Level III trauma status and includes an expanding interventional cardiology program. Nanticoke is nationally accredited by the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center and is a Gold Plus Award performer according to the American Heart/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines®. Nanticoke's medical staff includes over 120 active staff physicians practicing in 40 different specialties.


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Check this: Forlorn Path is a blackened death/doom metal outfit from New Jersey. Now, as far as I know, New Jersey SUCKS, so that's probably what inspired them to get into the darker end of music. The guys seem to know what they're doing, though, which is always a plus in my book. Their 2013 release, "Man's Last Portrait", is a solid mix of death metal instrumentation, doom metal pacing, and a blackened touch to the vocals. The album actually opens up with a tense, melodic instrumental track called "The Coming of Winter", and things turn from tense to intense real quick when "Empire of Decadence" (the next track) erupts into this fantastic mix. I can say with absolute certainty that "Man's Last Portrait" is one of the better offerings of 2013 that I've heard thus far - and it's self-released, too!
While these guys definitely have an assortment of influences to speak of, the vocals of "Man's Last Portrait" are almost entirely composed of a delicious black metal scream and a spectacular death metal growl. Bassist and vocalist Dave Imbriaco knows his stuff when it comes to unleashing hell from his vocal cords, and the power behind his voice is quite formidable. You know when you've got quality vocals when every utterance of every syllable is pretty much a perfect showcase of the vocalist's potential, and that's what we have here on this record. I especially dig the slower moments of the album - using the tail end of "Words Only Wind Can Speak" as a prime example - where Dave's vocals are said in such a manner that they resonate through the rest of the mix, leaving a sonic implant in your brain matter as they do so. I don't know when this fucker picked up a microphone, but it was probably one of the best decisions he made in his entire life. And his basswork isn't half bad, either!
The guitars wear a few faces throughout "Man's Last Portrait", but each face is adorned with all the bedazzling ornaments and makeup that make me want to sleep with someone, so that's A-okay! The most common inclusion of Yuriy Garnaev's and Ivan Chernikov's guitarwork is a fast-paced wall of death metal grooves and black metal riffs, but there are a few estranged solos in the mix here and there, and other times the guitarwork simply leads the mix in the songwriting. You might not pay all that much attention to it, but the guitarwork is well-executed and well-planned, and plenty of it was enjoyable to my ears. There's also plenty of melodic passages scattered throughout the album, and some acoustic-sounding pieces that open up a few of the slower songs. Everything you hear will sound great, but even so, you have to give them props for the variety. I think that's what really boosts this album above the rank and file of its contemporaries: Forlorn Path, as a band, simply aren't holding themselves to a single genre. They can execute that variety damn well, too, which is the only reason it works anywhere near as well as it does.
Now I'm about to slam you with some shocking news: "Man's Last Portrait" is Forlorn Path's debut album. Yeah, seriously, these guys have that much talent. I'd also like to point out that the band doesn't have a drummer, but some guy named James Applegate (the only American name on the entire roster, and it's SUPER AMERICAN) tracked drums for this album. He did a respectable job, too, as it fits the instrumentation of the music just fine for my liking. Surely it could have been better - I feel that during the slower points of the album, James does a lot of nothing - but during the buildup into the blisteringly-fast moments, he's phenomenal, doing just what he needs to turn that shit up a notch. Faults and all, "Man's Last Portrait" is a fantastic record that anyone who enjoys extreme forms of metal will enjoy. Don't take my word for it, though - buy the damn thing and enjoy yourself! It's got my seal of approval. Quality guaranteed. You know, the whole shebang. Seriously, go get it. Dummy.


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Whitney Houston's Will Revealed; Bobby Brown Gets Nothing
March 8, 2012 – Whitney Houston's Will Revealed; Bobby Brown Gets Nothing
The 19-page document titled "Last Will and Testament Of Whitney E Houston" has been released in Atlanta, GA where it was initially filed. www.naijagists.com
According to Whitney Houston's will, her daughter, Bobbi Kristina is to get everything she owns.
Everything except the money will be placed in a trust until Bobbi (19) turns 21.
The 19-page document was released on Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia where it was filed, and here are the details: Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina gets
She gets more money when she turns 25 and the rest when she is 30. Houston's beloved mom Cissy is the executor; her brother and sister-in-law are the trustees. Houston first drafted the Will in 1993 and amended the will in April 2000 when she was still married to Bobby Brown. Brown is mentioned in the Will but get's nothing. The will also states if Bobbi Kristina had died before Whitney, her ex, Bobby Brown, her mother Cissy and other relatives would share the assets.
I see potential dates running Bobbi's way soon. With all that inheritance, she is one lucky gal! Hope she makes the best use of it when the time comes.