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DR-SFA - This form is for persons that may or may not cross the $1000 financial threshold but want to use a committee name on their advertising before they cross the threshold that requires filing reports. See "paid for by" attribution information.
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Eastern Neurosurgical and Spine Associates, established in 1968, has joined the medical school. Its physicians are full-time clinical faculty of the new division of neurosurgery within the Department of Surgery at Brody. Through this appointment, they have also joined ECU Physicians, the group medical practice of the medical school.
They will continue to see patients at their practice site at the corner of Arlington Boulevard and Stantonsburg Road, which will be called the ECU Neurosurgical & Spine Center. The merger was completed Nov. 1.
"This merger of a successful and unique service in the community with the academic family is the culmination of a strategic thought process and plan," said Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of the medical school. "The value of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, when combined with the talent and expertise of a dedicated group of physicians, will allow the future development of programs that will enhance the mission of the school."
According to representatives on both sides, ECU and Eastern Neurosurgical talked for years about a more formal alliance. They believe the time is right to combine their clinical programs and begin to develop multidisciplinary centers that will ultimately join other research and academic programs in the neurosciences at ECU to form an institute.
"We look forward to the merger as it will allow us to further develop our efforts to expand neurosurgical services for this area, hopefully adding some services in the very near future," said Dr. F. Douglas Jones of ENSA. Possible new subspecialties include neuro-oncology and endovascular surgery.
He added that joining the medical school and developing an institute will help recruit neurosurgeons.
"The neuroscience resources available at Brody School of Medicine will be critical in the development of a neuroscience institute," Jones said. "We wish to explore starting a training program for neurosurgeons here in eastern North Carolina and could not do that without this merger."
Jones, Dr. K. Stuart Lee, Dr. Keith Tucci, Dr. Barbara Lazio and Dr. Michael C. Sharts are now faculty members at the Brody School of Medicine. ENSA staff members were offered permanent positions at ECU.
Dr. Michael Rotondo, chair of surgery at ECU, said the neurosurgery practice and the medical school have enjoyed a strong relationship for many years, have similar goals and have considered merging for a while.
"Bringing neurosurgery to ECU Physicians is a tremendous step toward growing and diversifying the services we offer to eastern North Carolina," Rotondo said. "It will also add greatly to our educational and research programs. We're very excited about the possibilities."
ENSA physicians already teach third- and fourth-year medical students as well as physician assistant students. Joining the medical school full-time will increase their teaching opportunities, Jones said.
The neurosurgery practice treats patients with brain and spinal tumors, pituitary tumors, spinal disorders such as cervical, lumbar disc and degenerative disease, certain strokes and more. It also treats children with neurosurgical problems and provides 24-hour coverage for neurosurgical emergencies at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
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UPDATE: CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A police officer is accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend in her home, where furniture was found overturned, bleach spilled on the floor, and her 2-year-old son was left alone, a sheriff's complaint said.
Jessie Davis' body was found Saturday in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, still carrying her dead, nearly full-term fetus, a girl she planned to name Chloe.
Davis' boyfriend, Canton Police Officer Bobby Cutts Jr., the father of her son, was charged with two counts of murder and due in court Monday. Davis' relatives have said they believed Cutts also was the father of her fetus.
Ohio law allows a murder charge against someone accused of killing a fetus that would be able to live outside the womb.
The Stark County Sheriff's Department said in an affidavit filed Sunday that Cutts is accused of killing Davis and the fetus June 14 at Davis' home in nearby Lake Township. The document does not say how they were killed.
Davis' mother last spoke to her by phone a day before.
Davis, 26, of Lake Township near Canton, was reported missing after her mother found her grandson home alone, with bedroom furniture toppled and bleach spilled on the floor. The boy, Blake, gave investigators some of their first clues, saying: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in rug."
Messages left Monday for Davis' family and Cutts' attorney were not returned.
One of Cutts' former high school classmates, Myisha Ferrell, was jailed for allegedly hindering the investigation and also due in court Monday. She is accused of giving false statements to investigators, according to an inmate biography form.
Ferrell, 29, was arrested and jailed Sunday, but authorities declined to release other information, including whether she had a lawyer.
Also Monday, Davis' father, Ned Davis, thanked the thousands of volunteers who helped search for his daughter and said he was overwhelmed with grief.
"It's been, at best, it's been very, very difficult," Ned Davis said on NBC's "Today" show. "I don't believe I can really quantify what our family's feeling."
"The loss of Jessie has been overwhelming. There are no words," he said.
Sheriff's deputies and FBI agents with a search warrant broke down the door of Ferrell's apartment Saturday night, agent Scott Wilson said. She was not home during the search.
Justin Lindstrom, 27, an upstairs neighbor of Ferrell's, said officers spent two hours searching the woman's apartment Saturday night before leaving with several full, brown paper bags and bottles of bleach from the basement. Authorities would not describe what the deputies seized.
Ferrell worked at a Denny's restaurant until quitting her job Friday, Lindstrom said. A manager at Denny's confirmed that Ferrell had worked there as a dishwasher.
Lindstrom said Ferrell lived in the apartment downstairs with her 11-year-old daughter. He said she had parties every night.
Cutts also has a 9-year-old daughter with another woman, Nikki Giavasis, who now lives in Los Angeles. The two lived together for awhile, but when she began seeing another man in 1998, Cutts was accused of breaking into her home while she was inside with former NBA player Shawn Kemp of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Cutts pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and was sentenced to three years' probation. Giavasis told police she feared for her safety. The pair are involved in a custody dispute.
Giavasis told The Associated Press they were together about four months, and confrontations began after she broke off their relationship. Giavasis said the two had several physical confrontations.
Over the weekend, people placed flowers and red and yellow ribbons just below a sign identifying Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Just down the road from where the expectant mother's body was found, someone posted a sign saying, "God bless you Jessie and Chloe, forever in our hearts."
Davis' body was found in an area with a dirt road, a small dirt parking area and a couple of benches overlooking a grassy field.
"Somebody found her and for that, I'm very appreciative," her father said.


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Seeking to challenge himself and viewers by continually reinventing his approach to painting, Kristopher Benedict combines abstraction and figuration, and mixes a wide range of techniques and styles, in his energetic, colorful compositions. As he explains: "I see the perpetual building up and breaking down of images and painting structures as an apt analogy for the continued reinvention of my own painting practice." The concept of transformation—of real life into painted images; ideas and emotions into color; narrative into shapes and forms; and of his own style of work—pervades and fuels his practice. Though Benedict's output is diverse, themes of representation, belief, community, and isolation recur throughout his works. In Retreat (2008) and Aura (2005), he painted semi-abstract figures holding yoga poses—an apt visual metaphor for his own, ongoing artistic transformations.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Dak Prescott threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores and Mississippi State trounced Rice 44-7 on Tuesday in the most one-sided Liberty Bowl victory in the game's 55-year history.
Mississippi State (7-6) wrapped up its fourth straight winning season and prevented Rice (10-4) from winning bowl games in back-to-back years for the first time. By accounting for five touchdowns, Prescott set a Liberty Bowl record.
After falling behind 7-0, the Bulldogs scored touchdowns on four consecutive possessions.
Mississippi State's Jameon Lewis caught nine passes for 220 yards to break the Liberty Bowl receiving record held by Houston's Vincent Marshall, who had 201 yards in a 44-36 loss to South Carolina in 2006. Lewis also set the school single-game record.
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The U.S. Supreme Court considered appeals by Comcast Corp and Amgen Inc that could help determine what kind of evidence must be presented before companies may be the subject of class-action lawsuits.
Monday's complex arguments gave the court a new opportunity to further limit class actions, which can let large groups of plaintiffs seek larger recoveries at lower cost.
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Most recently, in June 2011 the court decertified a class of as many as 1.5 million Wal-Mart Stores Inc female workers who accused the world's largest retailer of bias in pay and promotions, saying they raised too many different claims.
In the Comcast case, subscribers led by Caroline Behrend had accused the largest U.S. cable TV company, which is also majority owner of NBC Universal, of overcharges that resulted from Comcast's effort to monopolize the market in the Philadelphia area.
The $875 million lawsuit was brought on behalf of a potential 2 million customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Comcast said the subscribers were too different to sue as a class, but in August 2011 the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said a trial judge could decide whether they had a common methodology to justify awarding damages to a class.
Miguel Estrada, a lawyer arguing for Comcast, called the subscribers' model for determining damages "bunk," adding that the certified class covered subscribers in 649 franchise areas facing different competitive conditions.
"If you drop a stone in the water, you're going to have ripples all the way out," he said. "That doesn't mean all the ripples are the same."
Justice Anthony Kennedy appeared sympathetic to Comcast. "The judge has to make a determination that in his view the class can be certified," he said. "And that includes some factual inquiries as to the damages alleged."
But the main issue, as framed by the justices ahead of oral arguments, had been whether the trial judge could rely on testimony from an expert witness for the subscribers before certifying a class.
The subscribers' lawyer Barry Barnett and some justices on Monday suggested that Philadelphia-based Comcast could not press that issue because it had not done so in the lower courts, and that perhaps the Supreme Court should not rule on the company's appeal.
"Usually we decide cases based on disagreements about law, and here I can't find one," Justice Elena Kagan said.
Chief Justice John Roberts suggested differently. "One option for the court, since we did reformulate the question, is to answer the question," and then ask a lower court to decide whether Comcast had waived its right to address it.
In the Amgen case, shareholders accused the Thousand Oaks California-based biotechnology company of fraudulently inflating its stock price between April 2004 and May 2007 by exaggerating the safety of its anti-anemia drugs Aranesp and Epogen.
Shareholders led by the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds sought class certification based on the "fraud on the market" theory endorsed by the Supreme Court in a 1988 case.
This assumes that the price of a stock in an efficient market reflects all public information, and that a purchaser is presumed to have relied on the truthfulness of that information.
Amgen said the shareholders should have been forced at the class certification stage, rather than at trial, to prove that alleged misstatements materially inflated the company's stock price. But last November, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, let the class action proceed.
Seth Waxman, a former U.S. solicitor general arguing for Amgen, told the court the shareholders cannot raise the fraud on the market theory without showing material misstatements.
"Absent materiality, the market price cannot be presumed to reflect the statement in question," he said.
But Justice Antonin Scalia told the shareholders' lawyer David Frederick there is "good reason" to decide the question of materiality before a class is certified.
"The reason is the enormous pressure to settle once the class is certified," he said. "In most cases, that's the end of the lawsuit."
But Frederick noted that when Congress adopted a 1995 law to limit class-action lawsuits, it decided not to address the matter.
"It's not really for this court's province to be imposing policy judgments about what additional requirements ought to be put on," he said. "Congress made that judgment."
Comcast and Amgen were supported in their appeals by various business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as well as former commissioners and officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Decisions are expected by the end of June 2013.
The cases are Comcast Corp et al v. Behrend et al, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 11-864; and Amgen Inc et al v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 11-1085. (Reporting By Jonathan Stempel in Washington, D.C.; editing by Carol Bishopric)


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Yamaha receivers have the ability to run on two separate sets of IR commands, ID1 (Default Setting.) and ID2. This would be beneficial if you were running two receivers in one area where there is a chance of one IR remote command reaching both of the receivers. Or if a custom home integration system is being used and there are discrete applications needed. Changing the receiver remote ID is a straight forward process. It needs to be done on the actual receiver through the Advanced Setup Menu and the receiver Remote Control.
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The Cherokee Nation is mourning the loss of its Secretary of State Charles Head.
Head, 63, died Wednesday in a car accident.
"Words cannot express how saddened we are at the passing of Secretary of State Charles Head. Charles has been a dear friend of mine for many, many years. My heart goes out to his family and many loved ones, including his wife Frances, his children and grandchildren" said Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker. "Charles was a Cherokee statesman and ambassador for all of Indian Country. He was devoted to serving and working for the betterment of Native people, first through a long career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and most recently as our Secretary of State. He was an invaluable part of my administration, and will be greatly missed by all who knew him."
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Where do marijuana and coffee meet? For Rob Cantrell, it's green tea.
Cantrell, best known at Tahoe for two performances of "The Marijuana-Logues" at the Crystal Bay Casino with Tony Camin and Dan Gabriel, is a contributing High Times writer and was a recent host of the Cannabis Cup, a tasting and potency competition in Los Angeles. And while "Coffee and Weed" is one of his most popular videos, Cantrell was abstemiously drinking green tea when we spoke last week.
It's not easy being a ganja god.
"I like to blaze a lot, then I don't," Cantrell said. "You have to treat it with respect. … It can help the analytical side (of your brain) and your creative side, but it can also burn you out. You've got to watch it a little bit. I tell people the less pot you smoke, the higher you are going to get."
Cantrell headlines Tahoe Comedy North on Tuesday, then will join Camin and Gabriel in Reno March 2-3 for performances of "Marijuana-Logues," a smoky spoof of the "Vagina Monologues."
A standup performance by Cantrell might begin with 20 minutes of furiously delivered punchlines followed by stories with unexpected twists and turns, which makes listeners dizzy regardless of their mental condition. A lot of Cantrell's content is about coffee, weed, women, music – hip-hop is his bent – and living in Brooklyn. His commanding delivery belies his off-stage persona.
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"I'm very shy," he said. "(Standup) is an opportunity for an introvert to let it all out."
A former elementary school teacher, Cantrell was able to pursue his lifelong dream after a top-10 finish on "Last Comic Standing," where he made the observation that surfing is the only sport where participants might be eaten alive.
"(Comedy) is a complete thrill," he said. "It's very similar to skiing and surfing. It's like you are riding a wave. A wave is dangerous. You've got to respect it but once you start to learn it, you become a seaman. That came out weird. Back up.
"You can just read the crowd and read the temperature of the room and you learn from your mistakes and then your brain makes adjustments. It's an exciting life but it's really, really hard. For me, I get a huge sense of enjoyment from just stepping on stage."
While he is busy appearing solo and with "Marijuana-Logues," Cantrell might be at his funniest as a video producer. He said a couple potential television projects also are in the works.
"We Nice" is the title of Cantrell's next video. It spoofs egotistical rappers.
"It's very braggadocio about how nice we are," he said. "We give blood three times last week, fly kites with homeless kids, get sound guy laid. We are taking the arrogance and being positive with it."
Cantrell's pot show partner Camin performed last week at South Shore's Improv at Harveys Resort and Casino.
"The Marijuana-Logues" was written in 2004 by Camin, Arj Barker and Doug Benson. Cantrell first filled in for Barker in 2007. Tommy Chong also is an alumnus of the show. He quit because fans threw joints on the stage, which he feared would be considered a probation violation.


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Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
by Mark W. Moffett. University of California Press, 2010
Join biologist and photographer Mark W. Moffet of the Smithsonian Institution—who has been called the "Indiana Jones of entomology"—as he journeys to the Amazon, Nigeria, Borneo and beyond to uncover the secret lives of ants.
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
by Spencer Wells. Random House, 2010
Around 10,000 years ago humans invented agriculture, shedding the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for one in which they created their own food. This innovation, argues anthropologist and geneticist Spencer Wells, set into motion a chain of events that would ultimately lead to our present era of overpopulation, infectious disease and anxiety—a mismatch between culture and biology. Below he describes modern-day stresses and their impact on our still fundamentally hunter-gatherer minds.
"Cars rush by outside your window, a horn blaring occasionally. The refrigerator hums in the corner of the kitchen, and the heat coming out of a duct over your head whooshes softly. Bills sit stacked on the counter, insistently waiting to be opened. A television—perhaps one of several in the house—blares advertisements from the next room, and Internet pop-up ads interrupt your attempts to check on your retirement investments. The cacophony reaches a crescendo when your spouse's cell phone rings, vibrating along the tabletop like some sort of angry digital dervish. The blare of the outside world goes on all around us, even while we attempt to focus on our 'real' lives.
"We are constantly surrounded by surreptitious stimuli—so much so that we take it all for granted. We are used to the notion that advertisements saturate our lives—exposure estimates for the average American range from several hundred to several thousand every day—as promoters try to sell us everything from life insurance to an enhanced sex life. Data flows at us from every direction. Information is ubiquitous and, with the rise of the Internet and broadband connectivity, more easily accessible than ever. But even things we might not think of as intrusive bombard our subconsciousnesses with stimuli. Inadvertently, the machines we have created to improve our lives may actually be causing some degree of psychological harm....
"Our lives are now lived in a state that could be called 'stream of subconsciousness,' as we subliminally lurch from one unrelated (and usually unwanted) stimulus to the next like floating dust particles buffeted by the random forces of air currents. Some people seem to thrive on constant overstimulation ... but most of us react rather badly to it."
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
by Paul Bloom. W. W. Norton, 2010
The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck: What Everyday Things Tell Us about the Universe
by Marcus Chown. Faber and Faber, 2010
The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry
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Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus rex
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Busch To Start Sixth at Talladega After Rain on Saturday
November 1, 2009
"We certainly got our big wish here overnight," Busch said after returning to the garage this morning from a Dodge autograph session. "We were looking at the weather forecast before and after practice yesterday and thought it'd be really great if we had some productive practice sessions in race trim and then have the rain come and wash out qualifying.
"We almost never qualify well here, but we seem to always be strong in the races," said Busch, whose sixth-place start in this race will be only his fourth top-10 start in 18 career races here. "We were pretty strong yesterday - fifth-fastest on the speed chart in the final practice - and we were so pleased with our Miller Lite Dodge that we parked our car early and called it a day."
Although winless in his 17 career starts here on this mammoth 2.66-mile track, Busch has recorded six top?five finishes and 12 top?10 finishes. He finished third in his very first visit here back in April 2001 and has added three additional third-place finishes since. Busch's 12.1 average finish here is the best of all drivers.
"We feel good about our chances and we'll also get a good pit selection that'll go with the sixth-place starting spot," said Busch. "We've been so close to winning one of these things (restrictor-plate races) and maybe we can finally pull it off here on Sunday." (Crew Chief Pat Tryson selected pit spot No. 28 for Sunday's race. There is an opening behind that pit box and the John Andretti team will be pitting in front.)
With the rain prevailing, the starting field was set by the NASCAR rule book. That will see points-leader Jimmie Johnson starting from the Coors Light Pole Position, with Mark Martin starting on the outside of the front row. Jeff Gordon will start third, with Tony Stewart fourth and Juan Pablo Montoya fifth. Busch, Ryan Newman, Greg Biffle, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, Kasey Kahne and Brian Vickers round out the top-12 starters.
Busch's Penske Racing teammates Sam Hornish, Jr., and David Stremme will start 27th and 30th, respectively.
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Ramsey's Indicted In JonBenet's Murder In 1999- DA Alex Hunter Refused To Prosecute
According to a new report exclusive by the Daily Camera- Both John and Patsy Ramsey were indicted by a grand jury in 1999 for child abuse leading to her death- but prosecutor Alex Hunter refused to sign the indictment because he did not feel there was sufficient evidence to secure a prosecution against either parent.
The report lays to the rest years of lingering rumors that although the grand jury which was suspended more than once while hearing the Ramsey case was never polled.
In July 2008 then Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy, publicly exonerated the Ramsey's in an open letter after Touch DNA testing proved the suspect in Jon Benet's assault and murder was an unrelated male whose profile matched DNA in a blood stain within the child's underwear.
… The match of Male DNA on two separate items of clothing worn by the victim at the time of the murder makes it clear to us that an unknown male handled these items. There is no innocent explanation for its incriminating presence at three sites on these two different items of clothing that JonBenét was wearing at the time of her murder. … To the extent that we may have contributed in any way to the public perception that you might have been involved in this crime, I am deeply sorry. No innocent person should have to endure such an extensive trial in the court of public opinion, especially when public officials have not had sufficient evidence to initiate a trial in a court of law. … We intend in the future to treat you as the victims of this crime, with the sympathy due you because of the horrific loss you suffered. …
In 2001 John and Patsy Ramsey also passed a polygraph examination given by Dr. Ed Gelb and corroborated via quality control analysis Cleve Baxter.
Patsy Ramsey died in 2006 after over a decade of battling ovarian cancer.
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A new online experiment for HCN, or the last best place for a nuclear waste dump ... you decide. We've got our own blog now, where Paolo Bacigalupi, our Web editor, comments daily about what's happening in the West. Check it out at http://blog.hcn.org/goat and send comments, tips and suggestions to [email protected]
You know you are going to have a lively event when people start showing up a half-hour early. That's what happened Jan. 28 at our reader potluck held at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. More than 100 readers came and shared a bounty of food, conversation and story ideas with board and staff members.
Many thanks to Nancy Laney, the director of the botanical gardens, for making Tucson's green oasis available for a wonderful event.
The evening capped off a daylong board meeting that focused largely on HCN's intern program, which each year brings six aspiring journalists to Paonia, Colo. Our interns don't just answer the phones and open the mail; they are integral members of the editorial team, and their work appears in almost every issue of the news magazine, including this one.
The board discussed ways to provide more financial support for the intern program, and to make it more attractive to ethnic minorities. Increasing the diversity of the interns is a natural way to diversify High Country News as a whole, because the interns tend to stay connected with the organization. Three board members — Florence Williams, Mark Harvey and president Caroline Byrd — are former interns, as are the executive director, five of the editors, and at least a half-dozen active freelancers.
With this in mind, the board appointed a board/staff committee to come up with a fund-raising campaign that incorporates a plan for widening the net HCN casts for interns. It also made diversity the main topic of discussion for the next meeting, which will be held here in Paonia in May.
Finally, we'd like to extend a big thank you to new board member Luther Propst and fiancée Elizabeth Storer for hosting a delicious dinner for board, staff and guests on Friday night.
Our recent cover story about Yellowstone's buffalo called them "the world's last free-ranging herd of bison" (HCN, 2/6/06: The Killing Fields). One reader said that a herd that is subject to slaughter when it ranges outside of Yellowstone National Park can hardly be called "free-ranging." Several others pointed out that there are also free-ranging bison in Utah's Henry Mountains and in Teton County, Wyo., as well as in Alaska and Canada.
George Armstrong Custer, mentioned in our recent essay "Living with the ghosts of the Indian Wars," attained the rank of brevet major general during the Civil War and is typically referred to as a general (HCN, 2/6/06: Living with the ghosts of the Indian Wars). At the time of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, though, his rank was officially lieutenant colonel.


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and a consequential rise in global mean sea level of 15-95 cm by the year
2100. Results from observational data show that temperatures have been increasing
by as much as 0.1°C per decade and sea levels by approximately 2 mm yr-1
in the regions where most of the small island states are locatednamely,
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global increase. Based on data from 34 stations in the Pacific from about 160°E
and mostly south of the equator, surface air temperatures have increased by
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zone southwest of the SPCZ. This is well in excess of global rates of warming.
Further recent work undertaken by the New Zealand Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research (NIWA) shows a noticeable change in aspects of the South Pacific climate
since the mid-1970s. For instance, western Kiribati, the northern Cook Islands,
Tokelau, and northern French Polynesia have become wetter, whereas New Caledonia,
Fiji, and Tonga have become drier. Meanwhile, Samoa, eastern Kiribati, Tokelau,
and northeast French Polynesia have become cloudier, with warmer nighttime temperatures;
New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, the southern Cook islands, and southwest French
Polynesia and Tuvalu have become warmer and sunnier (Salinger et al.,
1995). It also might be noted that in the Pacific generally, observed changes
in temperature and cloudiness appear to be closely influenced by the pattern
of ENSO events (Salinger, 1999).
The records also indicate that rainfall has increased in the northeast Pacific
but has decreased in the southwest Pacific region. Interannual variations in
temperature and rainfall are strongly associated with ENSO, resulting in water
shortages and drought in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, the Federated
States of Micronesia, American Samoa, Samoa, and Fiji. Although a causal link
has yet to be established, all of the foregoing changes have coincided with
an eastward shift of the SPCZ since 1970. Research now suggests that some of
the foregoing changes (including the shift in the SPCZ) may be closely correlated
with interdecadal patterns of variabilityfor example, the Pacific Decadal
Oscillation (PDO) (Salinger and Mullen, 1999). It should be noted, nevertheless,
that the changes observed in the 20th century are considered to be consistent
with patterns related to anthropogenic GHG-induced climate change (Salinger
et al., 1995; Hay, 2000).
The most significant and more immediate consequences for small island states
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by the ENSO phenomenon. Vulnerability assessment studies undertaken in some
small islands suggest that climate change will impose diverse and significant
impacts on small island states (Leatherman, 1997). In most small islands (including
the high islands), the majority of the population, socioeconomic activities,
and infrastructure are located within a few hundred meters of the coast; therefore,
they are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and sea-level rise
(Hay et al., 1995; Bijlsma, 1996; Nurse et al., 1998; Burns, 2000).
In this regard, an increase in the frequency and magnitude of tropical cyclones
would be a major concern for small island states. This would increase the risk
of flooding, accelerate existing rates of beach erosion, and cause displacement
of settlements and infrastructure.
The key questions, therefore, are how will the impacts manifest themselves,
and what are the most appropriate responses for avoiding, minimizing, or adapting
to these impacts? Because small island states traditionally experience some
of the greatest interannual variations in climatic and oceanic conditions, many
of their natural systems are well adapted to the stresses that result. Thus,
many strategies that small island states might employ to adapt to climate change
usually are the same as those that constitute sound environmental management,
wise use of resources, and appropriate responses to present-day climate variability.
Although the full extent of climate change impacts in the small island states
is far from certain, mostly adverse consequences are projected for several systems.
The combined effect of GHG-induced climate change and sea-level rise can contribute
to coastal erosion and land loss, flooding, soil salinization, and intrusion
of saltwater into groundwater aquifers. The quantity and quality of available
water supplies can affect agricultural production and human health. Similarly,
changes in SST, ocean circulation, and upwelling could affect marine organisms
such as corals, seagrasses, and fish stocks. Tourismwhich is a very important
economic activity in many island statescould be affected through beach
erosion, loss of land, and degraded reef ecosystems, as well as changes in seasonal
patterns of rainfall.
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Discussion Guide: America: The Remix
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The election of Obama signaled to the world that the U.S. has made great strides forward on race, but it's clear we're not done reckoning with racism and inequity. In the last year, we've seen racially charged rhetoric dominate political and media discussions. Meanwhile, communities of color are still faring worse than white Americans and having a harder time recovering from the economic downturn and waves of job losses.
Still, there are promising signs that the political energy ignited during Obama's campaign can have momentum. Across the country, communities are crossing racial lines to unite on issues like green jobs, political organizing, and social justice. It's time to bond together across former class and racial boundaries and demand a fair world for everyone. In Issue 53, "America: The Remix: Can Our Diversity Be Our Strength?" YES! Magazine brings you stories about the inner and outer work we'll need to do to bridge cultural and racial divisions and to work together to bring about change.
This discussion guide focuses on the following articles:
- Panel moderated by Sarah van Gelder, "Our Future as a Multiracial Society"
- Carlos Jimenez, "United by Hard Times"
- Faith Adiele, "My Life in Black and White"
- Robert Jensen, "What White People Fear"
- Interview with Pramila Jayapal, "What Do You Say to This"
Our Future as a Multiracial Society
YES! executive editor Sarah van Gelder asks a panel of visionaries to offer their perspectives on race in America. What would it mean to change our country's self-image and truly accept that we're a multiracial nation? Organizer Biko Baker and journalist Robert Jensen say we need to recognize that white dominance is a sham sociological construct that doesn't reflect the diversity of our society.
Carl Anthony believes change will require Americans to take responsibility for our own society, rather than blaming our political leadership. According to activists Adrienne Maree Brown and Carlos Jimenez, we'll need to embrace the true interrelatedness of our work across issues and racial lines.
- Experts predict that by 2042, whites will be in the minority in the United States. America's culture and history have long been influenced by its diverse cultural and racial heritage, but many Americans still feel that they're living in a white-dominated society. What would it take to change our cultural self-image to include all races? How would embracing this idea change your own perceptions of political or personal issues?
- What strengths do different generations bring to our understanding of race? How can each generation benefit from the other?
- Do you believe our political system is Eurocentric or white-dominated? Jensen says it will be hard to change that system and make it more inclusive. Carl Anthony disagrees. What do you believe?
United by Hard Times
Americans are not yet living in a "post-racial" world, Carlos Jimenez writes. But our tough times offer us an opportunity to connect and learn about one another. Efforts like the union Unite Here's "Hotels Workers Rising" Campaign—where hotel workers organize together for employment rights—are helping communities of different races find common ground and unite to bring about political change.
- Jimenez writes that racial divisions have often kept communities from working together, even when they have common interests. Think about the political and economic issues you are concerned about. How do they affect your community? How might you share common ground with communities who have different racial or socioeconomic makeup than your own? How might you work together on common concerns?
- What are the stories that divide us along racial, economic, and cultural lines? How could we change those stories in personal interactions, in political work, in the media?
My Life in Black and White
Faith Adiele candidly shares her experience as a multiracial author and educator. She explores the parallels between teaching creative writing and social justice advocacy and describes how writing your own story gives you the chance to redefine our collective history as Americans.
- What is your experience of race? How might telling that story free you to become a more vocal participant in your community or in social or political issues?
- Adiele asks her students to imagine what it would be like to belong to a different racial, cultural, or gender group than your own. Try this exercise yourself. How would your life change? How does this "imagining" change your understanding of the experience of other communities, or of your own?
What White People Fear
Both conservative and liberal circles. Such biases, he says, stem from fear: White people fear losing their "white-centric world," in which diversity and multiculturalism are welcomed as long as white authority still wins out. Such conversations are the first step to changing power hierarchies, Jensen says, but they aren't enough. To truly overcome racism, white Americans will need to let go of "white centrality"—where white values and experiences are the norm.
- What is your experience with race and diversity dialogues and trainings? Do you agree with Jensen that such dialogues have shortcomings? How might you move beyond talk to create situations that truly challenge racial hierarchy and political power?
- Do you believe that white people fear the loss of their "centrality?" How would our political system look different if white values and experiences were not the norm? How would that change our media and culture? How might it affect your life and values?
- Jensen says "I can rest comfortably in the privileges that come with being white, or I can struggle to be fully human." Do you believe that it's necessary to let go of privilege to be fully human? How might your feelings about race be interfering with the full expression of your humanity?
What Do You Say to This?
Pramila Jayapal, founder and director of the national immigrant-advocacy group OneAmerica, goes on live broadcast to confront conservative talk-radio hosts about their political views and values. She's learned how to remain composed and find common ground with them, all for the chance of reaching a few viewers or listeners. She shares her tips on interacting with pundits and on having open dialogues about race with others.
- What experience do you have with "shock" radio or television? How do you think such media outlets influence conversation, on both a personal and political level? How should the progressive movement engage with these outlets?
- What do you believe is the appropriate way to confront racist rhetoric on television and on radio? What about in personal conversations?
- Discuss your experience talking with others who disagree with your values and viewpoints. What has made you uncomfortable in those settings? How might you find common ground and have respectful conversations with those you disagree with?
- Have you ever felt reluctant to talk to your family about racism? Your friends? Why or why not? How might you overcome that reluctance?
Please share your stories and suggestions with us at [email protected] with "Discussion Guide" as the subject.
YES! is published by the Positive Futures Network, an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to support people's active engagement in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world.


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Celebrating Grandmas and Their Cuisine From Around the World
In honor of Mother's Day, share a photo on Twitter or Instagram of your grandmother or her signature dish using the hashtag #grandmacooks. Check out our submissions here.
If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like "You need to eat!"
Photographer Gabriele Galimberti's grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.
"In that occasion I said to my grandma 'You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks," Galimberti wrote via email. "I'm going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don't have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!' This is the way my project was born!"
The project, "Delicatessen With Love", took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.
Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people's houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.
"This families always became the way to get in touch with grandmothers, children and all the people that I needed for my other projects like 'Delicatessen With Love' and "Toy Stories," Galimberti wrote.
Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him. "I always do the arrangements by myself," he explained. "Actually, I don't remember why I took the first photo like this. I like geometry. My photos are always geometric so it comes natural for me to make order. I like the idea of showing all the single ingredients in the first photo in a way that everybody can recognize and in the second photo I show the result of the recipes where all the ingredients are mixed together!"
Galimberti elaborated:
"I like to photograph people and I always like to tell their stories. Every single of my portrait goes together with a story. I always try to put in the photo some elements with a connection with the story that I will write. So, to do this, I need to stage the portrait. I always need hours to make a portrait because I'm a slow photographer. I always talk a lot with my subjects; I need to know something about their life and I need to get some inspiration from them."
The final images in the series also include the recipes for the dishes so the series doubles as an international cookbook, one that has universal appeal.
"It seems like everybody loves this project," Galimberti explained. "I think it's because it's a simple project. Something that everybody can understand and read. It doesn't talk about photography, it talks about normal people, simple things, food, travel ... so, people doesn't need to have any king of specific knowledge to understand it. I think this is why I had success with it."
And to make sure his grandmother didn't worry too much about what her grandson ate during his adventures, Galimberti insisted he didn't starve while working on the series.
"And yes, I always [sat] at the table with the grandmas and I always tried their food!"
In honor of Mother's Day, share a photo on Twitter or Instagram of your grandmother or her signature dish using the hashtag #grandmacooks. Check out our submissions here.


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SOURCE: STMicroelectronics
February 18, 2013 09:29 ET
GENEVA--(Marketwire - Feb 18, 2013) - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the world's leading MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) manufacturer[1], and Netatmo, a designer and manufacturer of elegant lifestyle-enhancing products, today revealed ST's contributions to the award-winning[2] Netatmo Urban Weather Station. The Weather Station is the world's first personal weather station designed for users to monitor indoor and outdoor environments using a free app running on an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or an Android mobile device.
The stylishly unique Weather Station uses an ST pressure sensor, 2 STM32 microcontrollers, and an ST MEMS microphone to accurately monitor environmental conditions, including temperature, air pressure, and even ambient noise levels. Monitoring the environment can help users improve their indoor wellness and adapt their outdoor activities to current air quality.
ST, the one-stop MEMS supplier of choice[3], has its MEMS sensors enabling motion-activated user interfaces in many popular consumer devices, with leadership in all major mobile operating systems. Replicating the huge success in motion sensors, ST shipped more than 60 million MEMS microphones in 2012 and these devices are finding increased use in new applications, such as Netatmo's Weather Station and mobile communications.
ST's STM32 microcontrollers are based on the industry-standard ARM Cortex™-M processor. The STM32 family covers 32-bit processing across the range to offer, at the high-end, digital signal processing and industry-leading performance, to higher value, more cost-effective replacements for 8-bit microcontrollers. All STM32 devices deliver outstanding real-time capabilities and low-power, low-voltage operation, along with a complete ecosystem that assures ease of development alongside hardware and software compatibility.
"Working with ST as our supplier of both microcontrollers and sensors has allowed us to control the design with precision, focus on style and elegance and deliver to our customers a truly useful and elegant Weather Station," said Fred Potter, CEO, Netatmo. "The outstanding features of their MEMS and Micros make them a winning combination and our weather station not only accurate but a fun and easy way to monitor environment conditions for indoor and outdoor activities."
"With ST's strong market leadership and technology in both sensors and 32-bit microcontrollers, it makes sense to insure compatibility and simplify the design by using the same supplier for both," said Benedetto Vigna, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group, STMicroelectronics. "From sensors to secure communications, from power management to display driving and projection, ST solutions are enabling wave after wave of innovation in the wireless world that is changing the lives of people everywhere."
About Netatmo
Netatmo manufactures the world's first personal weather station for iPhone, iPad, and Android Phones.
Netatmo was established in 2011 by Frederic Potter and Jean-Pierre Dumolard, both highly successful and experienced entrepreneurs in the technology space with companies such as WITHINGs or CIRPACK. Netatmo strives to bring consumers a better way of life through using connected devices technology for environment monitoring while maintaining a commitment to elegant design. Visit www.netatmo.com for more information.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2012, the Company's net revenues were $8.49 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com
[1] IHS: MEMS Competitive Analysis 2012
[2] Netatmo, creator of the world's first personal weather station with air-quality sensors, has been named CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Award Honoree in three categories: "Tech For A Better World," "Health & Fitness" and "Home Appliances."
[3] ST offers a comprehensive portfolio of micro-machined accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure sensors, magnetic sensors, and microphones and has the capability to integrate these in multi-sensor combos with on-board signal processing, control functions, sensor-fusion algorithms, and wireless connectivity.
ST Enables Netatmo Weather Station: http://hugin.info/152740/R/1679000/548154.pdf
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RALEIGH, NC — The federal prosecution of five former employees of the private security firm Blackwater has crumbled after the defendants said they were acting at the behest of the CIA in giving an assault rifle, a shotgun and three pistols to King Abdullah II of Jordan.
Federal prosecutors indicted former Blackwater president Gary Jackson and four others on a long list of felony firearms violations in 2010. Charges against three of the defendants were dropped Thursday.
Jackson and former Blackwater vice president William Matthews pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges related to record keeping violations, resulting in $5,000 fines and no jail time.
The government's case unraveled after defense lawyers produced two retired CIA officials who said they knew about the weapons presented to Abdullah during a 2005 visit to Blackwater's compound.


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TOKYO (AP) — Japan recorded a trade deficit of 777.5 billion yen ($8.1 billion) in February despite the weaker yen as exports of cars and auto parts slipped while energy-related imports surged nearly 12 percent.
It was the eighth consecutive monthly deficit following a record monthly deficit of 1.63 trillion yen in January.
Exports in February totaled 5.28 trillion yen ($55.1 billion) while imports surged to 6.06 trillion yen ($63.2 billion), the Finance Ministry reported Thursday.
Over recent months, the yen's weakening by about 20 percent against the U.S. dollar has helped export manufacturers but also boosted the cost of purchases of LNG and crude oil to make up for electricity shortfalls as all but two of Japan's nuclear power plants are operating following the March 2011 Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant disaster.
Japan's trade deficit rose to a record 6.93 trillion yen ($78.3 billion) in 2012 as fuel imports surged and a bitter territorial dispute with China provoked anti-Japanese riots, hammering exports to the world's No. 2 economy.
The value of natural gas imports rose nearly 10 percent in February from a year earlier, while imports of crude oil jumped 20 percent, the ministry said.
Japan's exports to China plunged 15.8 percent to 842.3 billion yen ($8.8 billion) due partly to the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday. Imports from China jumped 22 percent to 1.12 trillion yen ($11.7 billion).
Exports to crisis-stricken Europe fell 9.6 percent to 535 billion yen ($5.6 billion) while imports jumped 11 percent to 560 billion yen ($5.8 billion).
Shipments to the U.S. rose 5.7 percent to 1 trillion yen ($10.4 billion) as imports edged up by 0.6 percent, to 479.2 billion yen ($5 billion).
The U.S. dollar was trading at nearly 96 yen at midday Thursday compared with upper 70s levels last fall. The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe favors a weaker currency to help make Japan's exports more competitive in overseas markets, and market expectations of monetary easing have pulled the yen lower against the dollar and other major currencies.
Abe has pledged to boost Japan's competitiveness and push ahead with difficult reforms needed to sustain growth in the longer run, while at the same time stimulating demand at home through higher public works spending.
Recent data suggest the economy may already have emerged from recession, but resource-scarce Japan's need to import almost all the energy it uses, and many other commodities, have eaten into its perennial trade surpluses.


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