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Kelly Clark and Ryo Aono win Halfpipe World Cup opener in New Zealand
Kelly Clark (USA) and Ryo Aono (JPN) have won the first halfpipe event of the 2013 FIS Snowboard World Cup season.
Both joint favorites for victory earned the top spot in a high class final held at Cardrona Alpine Ski Resort, New Zealand, due to extremely high executed runs.
2002 Olympic Champion Clark clinched the women's final with the score of 83 out of a maximum of 100 points and thus just edged off Sophie Rodriguez (FRA, 81.75) to the runner-up position. Queralt Castellet (ESP, 71.75) rounded out the podium as third.
Aono well above the rest
On the men's side, high flyer Ryo Aono rode in a league of his own thus crowning himself to the undisputed king of the 22ft superpipe at Cardrona. 95.25 points equalled World Cup win #9.
His fellow countryman Shuhei Sato (JPN, 88.50) and Yiwei Zhang (CHN, 84) secured the Asian podium sweep finishing second and third respectively.
However, none of the two young guns was able to really threaten Aono's triumph. The 22-years-old's air time was just incredible and above all others.
Aono, who was already leading the pack after run of the finals (92.75) just raised the bar again in the second run nailing an air to fakie tail to cab 1080 lien, frontside 900, backside 1260 and a frontside 1080 nose.
He thus also stomping the backside 1260 for the first time in a competition run. "I'm very happy about that. I didn't grab so so there is still something to improve," said Aono.
Winning at Cardrona for the second time after 2007 mad him also pretty happy.
"That's cool and a perfect start into the season."
Brilliant start to Olympic qualifier period
On the women's side, Kelly Clark was also enjoying a perfect start.
"I'm really happy with my result here today. We are here to earn spots for our country in the Olympic qualifier period. The good finishes of Hannah (Teter, fourth) and me gave us a good start to the season.
I'm glad that the weather held off and stayed on my feet."
However, the halfpipe veteran from the US who had been on top of the world over the past years and just keeps o writing women's snowboarding history had to get it together after – untypically for her – falling in her first run.
"Falling in the first run is never ideal but I tried to look at it as an opportunity. That's exactly what can happen in major events. So it's good to get used to it and this kind of pressure," stated Clark.
The 29-years-old was able to deal with the pressure, pulled it all together and threw in a frontside 720 indy to cab 720 mute, frontside air and backside 540 mute while finishing things off with a frontside 540 japan.
Rodriguez happy with second
She thus just edged off French rider Rodrigues to second who had kind off anticipated Clark's attack on the top spot.
Dropping in right before the US girl, Rodriguez tried to step it up and better her score with a frontside 900 but couldn't land the rick.
"It's a pity that I didn't land it as it might have been good for first place."
But nevertheless, the 25-years-old was definitely pleased with the result.
"I'm so happy. It's a very good way to start the season. I didn't expect to be that good. The level was very high. When I saw the start list, I was hoping for the semi-finals so the result is perfect."


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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica's state-owned bus company is putting the brakes on lay ministers preaching to weary commuters.
Transit company director Hardley Lewin has told his drivers to politely ask religious people to stop evangelizing to captive audiences on buses.
He says customers have complained that they feel harassed by preachers who sometimes loudly evangelize on buses in the overwhelmingly Christian island of about 2.8 million people.
Prominent evangelical pastor Bishop Herro Blair says lay ministers should have first sought the company's permission to preach on buses.

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Chipotle Mexican Grill, 123 Perimeter Center West, Atlanta, GA, United States
Location: Chipotle Mexican Grill, 123 Perimeter Center West, Atlanta, GA, United States
Report Type: Food Poisoning
Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea
Details: Chicken burrito bowl , I had a Chicken Burrito bowl with beans, brown rice, pico, sour cream, cheese, Corn and lettuce. Five hours later I was feeling fatigue, nauseous, body aches and chills. I spent the next day in bed sleeping, completely exhausted. The diarrhea kicked in 27 hours after my meal and I've been on the toilet throughout the night. Still feeling the original symptoms as well.
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Sep 24 4:43am
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, MD, USA
Symptoms: Diarrhea Fever Nausea Vomiting
Sep 23 8:21pm
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Roswell Road, Atlanta, GA, USA
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My foster son and I both feel sick today after eating chipotle last night. Read More
Sep 14 3:40pm
Chipotle Mexican Grill, 21001 North Tatum Boulevard, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Symptoms: Fever Nausea Vomiting
The food taste delicious great. Service ok. I shared my bowl (rice. Guac. Lettuce. Mild salsa) with my 7 yr old son. We at at 8p. We all went to bed at 830p. Me and son Woke at 6am with severe Cramps and headache. That progressed to loose stools and fever. Which progressed to vomiting after about 2 hrs of being awake. We eat at our chipolte in pgh pa with no issues. Here visiting for a week and got poisoned. Read More
Sep 13 11:51am
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY, USA
Symptoms: Diarrhea Fever Nausea
My wife and I bought 2 bowls for dinner. Hers was Barbacoa and mine was Sofritas. Both had white rice, 2x corn, tomatoes, Lettuce and cheese. After we ate, my wife said she is not feeling well and had to lay down. Sever stomach pains and fever followed. Then I felt similar symptoms with severe diarrhea. After 3 days of mostly drinking water we feel better but not yet 100%. This is definitely the last time we eat at Chipotle. The convenience of having a restaurant across the street does not outweigh the risk of food poisoning. Read More
Sep 12 2:20pm
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA, USA
Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea Vomiting
My husband and I had barbacoa bowls last night both been extremely sick since then throwing up etc i am so disgusted Read More
Sep 11 9:05pm
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Oxford Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA, USA
Symptoms: Nausea Vomiting
Sep 10 11:21am
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Illinois 50, Bourbonnais, IL, USA
Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea Vomiting
I have eaten there often, as this location is near my job. Well yesterday me and a coworker grabbed bowls to go. She got Steak I got chicken. After just an hour of ingesting the food we both have been sick with stomach pains, diarrhea and vomiting. I will no longer be loyal after this, this is unacceptable. Read More
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Chipotle Mexican Grill, Kingery Highway, Willowbrook, IL, USA
Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea Vomiting
We got 2 Veggie Burrito bowl's and we were both sick. I had stomach pain, but my wife was badly affected. She vomited 3 times and was bed ridden. She has severe stomach pain. We might have to go to immediate care We really loved Chipotle, but this was our last meal. We will never eat at any Chipotle again. I've had some minor issues before, but the consistency with which Chipotle food is always causing food poisoning, it seems that the CDC and Chipotle never got to finding the root cause of the problem Read More
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Chipotle Mexican Grill, Prince William Parkway, Woodbridge, VA, USA
Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea Vomiting
I picked up a chipotle Burrito bowl around 8:30, I live right down the street so I was home in a couple minutes . My boyfriend and I ate our food. Around 12am my stomach starts burning, it was hurting so. Bad so I ran to the bathroom nonstop vomiting and diarrhea. Woke up this morning my boyfriend was nonstop vomiting and throwing up. We are both feeling too sick to go to work Read More


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Left-hander Chris Sale's move from the starting rotation to the bullpen may only be temporary, he and pitching coach Don Cooper said Tuesday.
Sale, who was named the White Sox' closer Friday because he had been experiencing discomfort in his left elbow — raising concerns about the rigors of starting on his arm — still wants badly to start.
And he might get another shot this season, even though manager Robin Ventura had said his move to the bullpen would be for the rest of the season.
"Never say never,'' Cooper told the Sun-Times when asked if Sale's move to the pen is permanent this season. "For this moment, right now, he's in the bullpen.'' …
… Sale said his arm feels great and that the subject of starting again is on the burner.
"No, absolutely not,'' Sale said when asked if he had ruled out starting this season. "Starting is something I hope I can get back into. We've been kind of talking back and forth. There's a possibility of it. Not ruling it out is the best way to say it.''
It was thought that Cooper and former manager Ozzie Guillen were against making Sale a starter when plans for this season were discussed last year. Cooper said that wasn't true in his case.
"No, no, I was never adamantly against it,'' Cooper said. "All I knew is we had one of the best lefty relievers right there. And like I said from the beginning, as an organization, we decided to do this undertaking. And I was all in. I was looking forward to getting him over the hump and making him a starter, and we were proceeding accordingly. I want what my guys want. He wants to start. I want him to start.''
As of now, Sale is being "held back,'' Cooper said. "We're going to continue to watch it. Who knows what we may do? Right now, we just kind of backed off him a little bit. In effect, we've missed a start. He's feeling great right now.'' …
… Cooper dismissed the notion that Sale's mechanics aren't suited for the rigors of starting.
"No, no, no, there were no concerns about that,'' Cooper said.
"If you don't have a good delivery, you can't throw strikes. And Chris Sale is a strike-throwing machine. He has a good delivery.'' …
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PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors are set to shelve an inquiry into accusations of group rape by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends after a crucial witness retracted her allegations, according to an unsourced report by newspaper Le Figaro.
The inquiry was opened in May as part of an investigation into Strauss-Kahn's ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille. It focused on allegations by a prostitute, denied by Strauss-Kahn, that the former IMF chief and friends forced her to have sex in a group in Washington in December 2010.
According to a report posted on Le Figaro's website on Saturday, the woman has since retracted her deposition in a letter sent to judicial police, saying that in fact the sex was consensual and that the group was playing "sexual games".
"The investigators, who believe they have gone as far as they can with their inquiries, have sent the file back to the prosecutors and a shelving of the inquiry will follow," the report said.
Court officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Strauss-Kahn, once tipped to win power in France's 2012 presidential race, quit the International Monetary Fund after he was arrested in New York in May 2011, accused of attempting to rape hotel maid.
He has always insisted the encounter was consensual, and the charges were later dropped amid doubts over his accuser's credibility, but his career and marriage failed to recover.
(Reporting by Lionel Laurent and Pierre Savary; Editing by Catherine Bremer and Pravin Char)


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Will cotton prices rebound in 2008? Or will it be 2009 before the market moves high enough to bring more acres back to the U.S. crop?
That's a question that has been weighing on the minds of ginners, consultants and, yes, longtime cotton producers this winter as they follow rocketing corn, soybean and wheat prices. (August beans were trading at $13.23 per bushel at this writing.)
For now, the consensus seems to be U.S. growers will plant fewer acres of cotton in 2008 unless December cotton futures can get past 80 cents per pound, something which hasn't happened since October 2003.
"Forecasting 2008 U.S. planted acreage is extremely difficult with most analysts now in the 9-million to 10-million-acre range," says USDA Fibers Analyst Carol Skelly. "The reason for the difficulty is the shifting relationships between the price of cotton and alternative crops, especially corn, soybeans and wheat."
U.S. cotton acreage fell 29 percent after the demand for ethanol drove corn prices above $4 per bushel during the winter of 2006-2007. Plantings were down across the Cotton Belt, but the brunt of the reduction occurred in the Mid-South and Southeast.
With corn prices scooting past $5 a bushel and soybeans finally in the teens in mid-January, cotton continues to face a tough row to hoe to get acres back, according to Skelly and other speakers at the National Cotton Council's Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Nashville.
Gunnison, Miss., producer Kenneth Hood, former chairman of the NCC and former president of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, said he wouldn't be surprised to see the U.S. acreage drop to 9.5 million in 2008.
"A lot of the Delta's acreage was planted to wheat last fall and most of that land will be double-cropped with soybeans," he told an Associated Press reporter after he spoke at a Beltwide session on new harvest technology. "That ground won't see cotton until next year, if then."
Carl Anderson, professor emeritus with Texas A&M University, stirred some excitement by telling participants at the Beltwide's Cotton Outlook Economic Symposium that, "under the right conditions," cotton prices could reach 98 cents per pound in 2009.
"December 2008 has the support to continue increasing 5 to 10 cents per pound above the 76 cents posted the first week in January," he said. "And, if prices for wheat, corn and soybeans remain relatively strong for another season, it is feasible for December 2009 futures to rally to 95 cents or higher next year."
(Anderson made another observation that would have to give growers in the Mid-South and Southeast pause: Texas will plant more than half of the cotton acreage in the United States in 2008-2009.)
As Anderson noted, cotton prices were significantly higher at 76 cents per pound basis December in mid-January 2008 than they were last spring. The problem is grain prices have risen even more.
"When compared with corn, cotton prices have risen slightly more, which suggests corn may be a less attractive alternative than it was a year ago," said Skelly. (December corn jumped to $5.30 a bushel two days after she spoke, indicating how volatile grain prices have become.)
"On the other hand, soybeans and wheat prices have risen more than cotton prices and double-cropping of wheat with soybeans was especially attractive at fall planting time. There is no question a significant number of traditional cotton acres in the Southeast and Delta will be planted to alternative crops in 2008. The question is which ones?"
If U.S. cotton acres drop to 9.5 million this spring, that would be the smallest planted acreage in this country since the payment-in-kind program cut acres to 7.9 million in 1983. Planted acreage of 9.5 million bales would be down from 10.85 million in 2007 and 15.27 million in 2006, a decline of 38 percent.
The problem for U.S. producers is that although acreage has been falling, U.S. ending stocks have continued to rise due to better than average production years and a slowdown in Chinese imports of U.S. cotton. Ending stocks, which had remained around 5 million bales for several years, jumped to 9.5 million at the end of the 2006-2007 marketing year (last July 31) and are expected to only decline to 7.7 million for 2007-2008.
Reminding her audience that no survey-based forecasts will be available until the National Cotton Council releases its estimates in February and USDA its planting intention report at the end of March, Skelly said USDA has been working from a number of 10 million acres since last fall.
"Using this figure as a starting point, with abandonment rising to more normal levels, and yields approximately equal to those of the current season, the United States could produce 16.6 million bales, a reduction of 2.4 million bales from 2007," she said.
"However, it is also important to recognize the downside risk for both area and yield. At planted area of 9.0 million acres, and a five-year average yield, U.S. production would fall below 14.5 million bales, or another 2.5 million, for a total annual reduction of nearly 5.0 million."
The idea the United States could produce a much smaller crop than that which resulted from 2007's record national average yield of 859 pounds of lint per harvested acre is not that far-fetched.
"When you go back to this time last year, the Lubbock, Texas, area had the best soil moisture it had in many years," said O.A. Cleveland, retired marketing specialist with Mississippi State University. "They had great weather during the growing season - Lubbock did not record a day over 100 degrees in 2007.
"Now that soil moisture has been largely depleted. They may get some much-needed rains over the next few weeks, but this year is not shaping up to be the kind of year they had in 2007 when so many growers harvested nearly three bales per acre of dryland cotton."
Anderson agrees that vagaries of the weather in Texas could hold a lot more sway in the cotton market in 2008.
"With about two-thirds of the acreage dryland, the cotton crop size is highly dependent on timely rainfall," he noted. "Production in 2005 was 8.4 million bales, in 2006, 5.8 million; and in 2007, 8.1 million. In 2006, 2.3 million acres were abandoned due to drought. The U.S. crop can vary by at least 2 million bales, depending on good or bad growing conditions across Texas."
Aside from the supply situation, the U.S. market will continue to be driven by exports, according to the analysts. The slowdown in exports to China in the last two marketing years kept U.S. cotton prices far from being competitive with U.S. grain prices.
That may not change much near-term. "Current purchases by the Chinese in the world market, especially purchases from the United States, indicate China's imports will remain fairly weak through the first half of the season," said Skelly.
"However, the China supply-demand balance sheet for 2007-2008 shows that, with production about even with last season and consumption rising, China's imports will likely rise to 14.5 million bales. Thus, we anticipate China's imports will be concentrated in the second half of the season (February-July), as they were in 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. But the lag in activity casts uncertainty on the final outcome."
Michael Whitehead, vice president with Rabobank International's Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory team, says China's cotton imports are forecast to rise about 50 percent to 17.5 million bales in 2007-2008 as a result of higher textile production and stable crop production.
"Imports across the rest of the world are expected to fall by around 6 percent in the 2007-2008 year to 24.8 million bales. Despite this, a question mark over the levels of Chinese stocks continues to provide uncertainty in import estimates."


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This lesson will focus on the arguments either for or against the addition of a Bill of Rights between 1787 and 1789. By examining the views of prominent Americans in original documents, students will see that the issue at the heart of the debate was whether a Bill of Rights was necessary to secure and fulfill the objects of the American Revolution and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Students will also gain an understanding of the origins of the Bill of Rights and how it came to be part of what Thomas Jefferson called "the American mind," as well as a greater awareness of the difficulties that proponents had to overcome in order to add the first ten Amendments to the Constitution.
This interactive map of the first 13 states highlights the ratification process in each state.
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On October 14, 1898, John Murray was born in Bonar Bridge, Scotland. Educated at Princeton Theological Seminary, Murray joined the faculty at Westminster Seminary in 1929 where he taught systematic theology until his retirement in 1967. Far from the ivory tower theologian, Murray was a remarkably active Orthodox Presbyterian churchman. In 1966, The 33rd General Assembly recognized Murray's labors with a testimonial scroll which read:
To our esteemed brother, father in the faith, teacher of the Word of God, fellow presbyter and undershepherd of Jesus Christ in the labors of the gospel, to Professor John Murray:
We, the commissioners of the Thirty-third General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, meeting in Oostburg, Wisconsin, April 28, 1966, affix our names on the following tribute:
You have been a warm friend and counselor to us, one and all, giving individual counsel whenever we sought always out of a rich wealth of knowledge and inspiring reverence for the written Word.
You have been a faithful presbyter, spending untold days in the service of our beloved church, both in its assembly services and as a member of many of its committees.
You have been a gracious reprover, a hearty encourager, and an un-bitter dissenter in our deliberations.
To many of us you have been a patient teacher and more, for you have taught us exactness in the study of Holy Scripture, and a deep reverence for its high doctrine.
We honor you in our hearts. We respect you for your scholarship and wisdom. We are grateful to our God for you, Professor Murray. But we are compelled to say more: we love you dearly, and it is with deep sorrow that it appears that we may not see your face or hear your voice in future assemblies. We pray God that He may lay His hand on you for a most useful and happy ministry during your retirement years in your native land. We "thank God on every remembrance of you."
Upon his retirement, Murray married Valerie Knowlton and returned to his native Scotland. They had two children, Logan and Ann-Margaret. Murray died on May 8, 1975, in the same town in which he was born. Ann-Margaret died in 1976. In 1981, Valerie and Logan moved to Augusta, Maine and became members of Merrymeeting Bay OPC in Brunswick. Mrs. Murray died on August 8, 2014.
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DETROIT (AP) — Superstar pianist Lang Lang will join the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on its home stage, and he has agreed to share the musical collaboration live with the world.
The orchestra announced Friday that the Sept. 28 concert at Orchestra Hall marks Lang's first live webcast with a U.S. orchestra. The one-night performance featuring Sergei Prokofiev's "Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major" can be viewed on the orchestra's website and its free "DSO to Go" mobile app as part of its "Live From Orchestra Hall" webcast series.
The performance will be Lang's sixth return to Detroit. He first came to Philadelphia in 1997 as a 15-year-old prodigy from provincial China to attend the Curtis Institute of Music and has since performed across the globe.
Six days earlier, the Detroit ensemble will perform in New York at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall for a program titled "Songs of the Earth: The Symphonic Landscapes of Xiaogang Ye." Orchestra officials say that appearance will mark other milestones: the U.S. premiere of the complete work and the first time a major American orchestra has played a full stateside concert of music by a single composer of Chinese descent.
The performances are part of a three-week series of Chinese-related programming by the orchestra. The group kicks off its classical season Oct. 4 with world premiere of a violin concerto by Bright Sheng, a Chinese composer and University of Michigan faculty member, and the following weekend, Chinese-American pianist Conrad Tao will perform Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No. 1."
The series grew out of relationships the orchestra's management and members have cultivated with the performers, composers and China's Central Conservatory of Music, of which Xiaogang Ye is vice president, according to Erik Ronmark, the Detroit ensemble's artistic administrator.
Christopher Stager, a marketing consultant for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Central Conservatory's Beijing Modern Music Festival, said Detroit isn't alone among orchestras showcasing Chinese artists and composers, but it has few peers in terms of the extent of its embrace.
Stager cites "a greater sense of adventure in American orchestras," which are seeking out diverse programming as volume of works grow and the rapid rise of the Internet makes the music of Asia and elsewhere more accessible to U.S. audiences.
He also credits the efforts of the orchestra's music director, Leonard Slatkin.
"The DSO is really reaching out," Stager said. "What Slatkin brings to the Detroit Symphony is an insatiable quest for what's new, interesting and different, alongside what we know and love."
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Samsung's SGH-E900 comes with an elegant black design with innovative touch key for quick and easy control. This slide-up handset has been designed for simplicity and convenience. The SGH-E900's intuitive dual interface, which automatically distinguishes music mode from talking mode, illuminates only the necessary buttons for simple navigation and limits accidental button-pushing. This tri-band handset with EDGE multimedia technology features a 2 megapixel camera with 4x flash for still photos, video recording and video messaging.
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Weight: 93 g
Dimensions: 93 x 45 x 16.5 mm
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: 'New Moon' Kiss!
Robert Pattinson goes shirtless while shooting a steamy kissing scene with co-star Kristen Stewart on the set of The Twilight Saga: New Moon in Montepulciano, Italy on Wednesday afternoon (May 27).
The on-screen couple swapped spit as they shot their kissing scene multiple times to get it right. Anyone know why Rob has black dots all over him? Is it for the 'dazzle' special effects???
Kristen, Robert and costar Taylor Lautner will be presenting an exclusive New Moon clip at the MTV Movie Awards THIS Sunday (May 31).


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Pentagon Will "Catapult the Propaganda" Via U.S. Media
Military, government indoctrination wing formally declares psychological warfare on the American people
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 31 2006
The Pentagon has formally declared psychological warfare on the American people by announcing it will engage in propaganda and indoctrination by using the Internet and media to "set the record straight" on the war on terror. Recent history clearly indicates this is just the latest outreach of an insipid brainwashing agenda that is totally unlawful and anathema to the U.S. Constitution.
In the past, the military or the government did not announce that they were planting surreptitious propaganda to target U.S. audiences, they did it secretly and for a very good reason - because it was and still is illegal.
But since George W. Bush, backed by his renegade legal advisors, officially announced the end of the Republic and the birth of the "decidership," he can arbitrarily create out of thin air, ignore, or amend any law he likes and to all intents and purposes is above the Constitution and has ascribed to himself total dictator power. The only thing that remains is, in his own words, to " catapult the propaganda ," in an attempt to legitimize his absolute rule and assure the blind obedience of the American people to his junta's future desecrations of foreign lands and the bill of rights at home.
The new program is simply another wing of the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence , publicly announced after 9/11 but simply the latest incarnation of a PR brainwashing scam that spans back decades. The OSI exploited legal loopholes by planting its propaganda in foreign newspapers that would later be picked up by U.S. newswires. In today's environment even that seems quaint, with the Pentagon openly and proudly shouting from the rooftops that they will knowingly violate the law to indoctrinate the American people.
Perhaps the most alarming case of the military's information tentacles burrowing their influence deep into media circles in recent years was in February 2000, when another branch of the same Pentagon propaganda bureau, Psychological Operations Command (PSYOPS), had placed their operatives "in the news division at CNN's Atlanta headquarters as part of an internship program starting in the final days of the Kosovo War."
FAIR speculated that the purpose was twofold, one to directly propagandize the American people via CNN and also potentially to allow the "military to conduct an intelligence-gathering mission against the network itself," because the "military needed to find ways to "gain control" over commercial news satellites to help bring down an "informational cone of silence" over regions where special operations were taking place."
With the knowledge that government propagandists were utilizing U.S. news network hubs at CNN to run what was described as a "vast psychological warfare operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in enemy territory," and that this took place over six years ago - just imagine how infested today's networks and newsrooms are with paid agent provocateur propagandists whose sole job specification is to orchestrate methods of mind control over the population of the United States.
In October 2005 Government Accountability Office investigators concluded that the Bush administration's secret policy to pay off influential journalists to plant fake news and positive spin on Bush's policies was illegal and that the "administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban."
The consequences were not the drafting of new legislation that would clearly outlaw such actions in future, nor any form of criminal proceedings against the protagonists. The upshot of it all was a slap on the wrist for Armstrong Williams and a request that he pay back part of the money that the government had given him - not even all of it.
"Armstrong Williams is going to pay back $34,000 to the government for work he failed to deliver, but who's going to pay the taxpayers for the rest of the quarter million dollars Williams was paid for his propaganda services to the administration?," asked Congressman George Miller, as the Justice Department hurried a settlement and swept the whole sordid affair under the rug.
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Impromptu mass e mail circulations and talking points spread around messageboards and social networking websites that triumph the moral virtues of the war on terror have been rife for years and are clearly part of a gargantuan propaganda campaign that has been insipid for years but is only just being announced now.
Here are a couple you'll probably remember from the past few months.
A recent diatribe that was forwarded more times than an annoying "meet the love of your life" chain letter concerned a visit to the White House by a man who was overwhelmed by the intensely warm and gracious personality of George W. Bush, and astounded by the negative media stereotype of his nature. The man just felt the need to share his tear-jerking story of how the President shook him by the hand, looked in his eyes and made him feel like the most important person in the room - and by a miracle it just happened to bypass our spam guards and end up in tens of millions of Americans' inboxes.
Another example that similarly wormed its way through MySpace bulletin boards was an attempt at bolstering the credibility of the flagging war on terror and countering the progress of the 9/11 truth movement by simply listing terror attacks over the last three decades and their alleged perpetrators. A modified version of this was used in a speech by Bush propaganda architect Karl Rove just a week ago where he referenced terror attacks that had occurred before the invasion of Iraq, therefore attempting to absolve charges that the Iraq invasion provoked an increase in terrorism. So under that twisted logic, drug dealers shouldn't worry about creating more addicts by selling drugs because there were always drug addicts before them!
In both cases, as soon as you read the first paragraph of these screeds, the big fat stinking rat of covert government propaganda scuttled across the computer screen.
Now the modern day gang of Goebbels wannabees seek to sink their teeth even further into the last outpost of free speech - the Internet - and impose a blackout on any dissent under the auspices of "disseminating enemy propaganda."
The White House has made it perfectly clear that it will target American citizens for propagating information harmful to the interests of the U.S. government and classify them as enemy combatants. This is codified in sub-section 27 of section 950v. of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Bush's own strategy document for "winning the war on terror" identifies "conspiracy theorists," meaning anyone who exposes government corruption and its lies about major domestic and world events, as "terrorists recruiters," and vows to eliminate their influence in society.
In a speech given last Monday, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills."
Chertoff has pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.
A program on behalf of CENTCOM is also underway to infiltrate blogs and message boards to ensure people, "have the opportunity to read positive stories,"presumably about how Iraq is a wonderful liberated democracy and the war on terror really is about protecting Americans from Al-CIAda.
The eminently hypocritical tenet of the Pentagon's justification for the propaganda program - that they need to correct "inaccurate statements" and "set the record straight" is borne out by the fact that they participated in the dissemination of the most lurid and damaging propaganda since Hitler's final speech - a deliberately fomented lie about weapons of mass destruction that killed 655,000 Iraqis and thousands of American soldiers.
How dare this gaggle of criminals lecture us about how the insurgents control the media while equating anyone who even mildly criticizes their bloodlust with being a terrorist?
They are the liars, they are the crooks, they are the propagandists and it is we the alternative media - the fifth estate - that should mobilize like never before to counter their spurious deception.
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Singing Dog Vanilla. Or, you can scrape the seeds from a vanilla bean. Moi? I added a heaping teaspoon of the vanilla bean paste. You can actually see vanilla bean seeds. Very cool! While the milk/cream mixture begins to heat, to scalding over a medium-low heat--
I almost forgot! Add about 1 cup of the strawberry puree, and some more vanilla. Give it a good stir and now chill the whole ice cream custard mixture.
Twitter and my Facebook Fan Page, is that I posed this very question to my wonderful readers. I was encouraged to go for it. I pulsed 5 graham crackers in my food processor, then added 3 Tablespoons of melted butter and 3 Tablespoons of white sugar. I pressed the mixture into 1/4 baking sheet and baked it at 350F for 10 minutes.
I had set aside the remaining 1/2 pint of strawberries and I chopped them. They tasted a wee bit tart, so I sprinkled a little bit of powdered sugar on top.
As always, a printable recipe card is at the bottom of this post. Now, go make ice cream and conquer!


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I once heard about a new mom expressing milk in her office cubicle, pulling a little curtain across a string on the "door," hanging a sign that explained, and (I imagine) sitting there red-faced as the pump whirred away. I was shocked that having a more private space to pump isn't guaranteed by law.
Well, in better-late-than-never news, now it is. As part of the new health care legislation, moms are now guaranteed "a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from co-workers and the public." For moms with office jobs, taking breaks to express breast milk for a baby at home is usually a doable (if awkward) reality, but what about employees of restaurants, retail stores or other non-office professions? "Reasonable break time" to pump for up to a year is also the law of the land now too.
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PLYMOUTH, NH - Freshman goalie Erin Bonner (East Stroudsburg, PA) made 19 saves through regulation play and two overtimes Saturday to lead #4 seed Keene State College to a victory over top seeded Plymouth State in the semi-finals of the ECAC Division III New England Field Hockey Tournament at Arold Field.
The final score of the PSC-KSC game goes down as a 1-0 verdict, with Keene State advancing in the tournament on the penalty strokes. Keene scored once in its penalty stroke attempts, while PSC came up empty in five tries.
Keene State, advances to the championship game Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at Arold Field. The Owls will face second-seeded Middlebury College, who knocked off Tufts, 2-0, in the other semi-final.
The win also gives Keene State a 3-2 lead in the Presidents' Trophy standings between the two schools. The Presidents' Trophy will be awarded to the school that wins the most head-to-head meetings between PSC and KSC. The Owls also defeated PSC in field hockey during the regular season on Oct. 19th, which marked the last time the Panthers lost prior to Saturday.
With a crowd of over 500 fans watching the penalty strokes, Keene State outlasted the Panthers. Bonner continued her outstanding play, stopping three of PSC's attempts. PSC keeper Chris Perruzzi (So. Portland, ME) also played a strong game, making 10 saves, including three spectacular stops in the second overtime.
The Panthers, who were making their fifth consecutive post-season appearance, wrap up an outstanding campaign at 16-5 under sixth-year head coach Wynn Hohlt.
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WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval on Monday to legislation to avert a pay cut for doctors who participate in the Medicare insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
By a vote of 64-35, the Democratic-led Senate sent the measure, approved last week by the Republican-led House of Representatives, to President Barack Obama to sign into law.
The bill would give doctors a one-year reprieve from a 24 percent cut set to kick in this week under the Medicare payment formula, known as the Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR.
It marked the 17th time Congress had agreed to a temporary "doc fix" rather than agreeing to a permanent bipartisan replacement of the 1997 funding formula.
The payments affect doctors treating patients under Medicare, which pays for healthcare for nearly 51 million people in the United States who are 65 and older or disabled.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers approved the "doc fix," knowing that failure to do so would risk prompting doctors to drop out of the program, leaving patients without care.
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Police: Woman returns home to find burglar
Police: Woman returns home to find burglar
LOUISVILLE, Ky —
Police say they believe they have caught a man responsible for burglary around the Louisville area.
A woman says she returned to her home only to find her back door open with someone inside.
The suspect, Justin Burger, 30, entered the victims home and took the jewelry with a total value of $15,000, according to the arrest warrant.
The victim says she saw Burger exit her home, get in a black VW Jetta and leave the scene.
That is when she contacted Louisville Metro Police.
After further investigation, LMPD says Burger has been involved in a similar incident on Hubbards Lane in the same vehicle.
Rogers admitted to entering the home by force.
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What do football stadiums and motorways have in common? First, they are some of the UK's most massive construction projects. Second, one of the UK's largest quarrying companies and building materials suppliers has been a part of both.
The company provides products and services related to the materials it quarries, such as sand, hard rock, and gravel. It uses these minerals to produce products like ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, cement, and lime.
In addition to the UK's largest construction projects, the company's products also help meet the need for infrastructure like roads, schools, hospitals, homes, and offices, as well as consumables used in steel, pharmaceuticals, food, clean water, and sewage treatment.
Throughout the production of these products, Siemens weighing technology plays an important role for this prominent company.
Weighing Large Loads on the Move
The point at which England's Thames River spills into the North Sea is termed the Thames Mouth, or estuary. The company's machinery dredges sand and gravel from the estuary, and boats deliver the materials directly to processing sites.
Each dredging boat has cargo of approximately 5100 tons, and the site unloads 25 to 30 boats per month at a rate of 1800 tn/hr. The processing site handles the dredged sand and gravel, breaking them into sized aggregate by washing and screening.
After processing, the company loads up to three trains per day, each with 16 to 20 railcars full of aggregate at Murphy's Wharf in Greenwich, London. Each railcar can hold anywhere from 67 to 75 tons. This application is called custody transfer, and requires a scale approved by the Measuring Instruments Directive (MID).
The European Union created the MID to ensure that measuring devices throughout the EU are all part of a common market. For example, belt scales approved by the MID are suitable for use in all corners of the EU – from the UK to Romania to Finland, and in any member country in between.
Out with the Old, in with the New for Increased Accuracy
To keep operations running smoothly and to stay in line with MID regulations, the company needed to replace an old belt scale that was no longer reliable or accurate. It selected Siemens Milltronics MMI belt scales and Milltronics BW500 integrator, which are approved by the MID for use in custody transfer applications.
The company installed the Milltronics MMI dual idler belt scale on a conveyor that transports 500 tn/hr of sand at 1.56 in./sec). Aggregate fed from large product bins via vibratory feeders move onto a belt conveyor. The belt conveyor then moves material onto an inclined 35-inc.-wide belt on which the Milltronics MMI is installed. This conveyor then feeds onto a longer belt conveyor that loads the train cars.
The Milltronics MMI was approved Class 1 OIML/MID, and features triple beam parallelogram stainless steel load cells, which have been proven in thousands of applications around the world. The direct loading of the material onto the scale without the use of pivots, bearings, or counter balances ensures the quickest response time for high-speed continuous weighing.
The Milltronics BW500 integrator features individual load cell inputs for all four load cells on the belt scale so that off-center belt loading does not affect accuracy. Sitrans WS300 speed sensor completes the belt scale solution and offers four different resolutions for any belt speed.
Improving the Bottom Line during Custody Transfer
The company selected Siemens belt scale weighing system based on its competitive price, as well as its ease of installation and maintenance. The new belt scale has greatly decreased maintenance requirements.
As well, the local support from Siemens Process Instruments Technology Partner, Support Instrumentation Ltd (SIL), is a definite benefit for this company, since it ensures that this critical field instrument can be kept in good working order.
High accuracy has also benefited the company, as the scale is producing at ±0.25% of the nominal flow rate for the system.
The company states it has had a positive experience with Siemens belt scales, saying they provide operators with the high precision and reliability needed for custody transfers.
Siemens weighing solutions are ideal for even the most demanding applications. They are easy to use, calibrate, and maintain. Custody transfer applications put customers' bottom lines on the table and Siemens is there to meet these high demands.
For more information on Siemens, visit www.siemens.com/weighing.
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After another bouncer kills, pols hold club accountable
By Albert Amateau
The arrest of a bouncer for the May 23 shooting outside a Chelsea nightclub that ended in the death of one man, left another paralyzed and two injured, has prompted City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and State Senator Tom Duane to propose legislation to close down clubs whose bouncers carry unlicensed guns.
In a joint statement in response to the shooting outside Opus 22 at the corner of 11th Ave. and W. 22nd St. and the subsequent arrest of the bouncer, Stephen Sakai, 30, for the shooting with an unlicensed gun, Quinn and Duane declared, Unlawful behavior by individuals and businesses in this district will not be tolerated.
Quinn said she would introduce a bill to amend the citys Nuisance Abatement Law to allow a club to be shut down if a security guard has not been properly licensed or is found with an unlicensed or illegal weapon.
Quinn also will propose an amendment to the citys Cabaret Law to require that clubs perform periodic checks to confirm that security personnel are not carrying illegal weapons. A cabaret license required to allow patron dancing would be revocable if a club were shown to violate the requirement for periodic illegal gun checks.
Duane said he was exploring similar legislation on the state level. He said he would fight to provide the State Liquor Authority with the enforcement power and staff level needed to hold clubs to the highest public safety standards or face serious criminal and civil penalties.
Quinn and Duane said they would ask the S.L.A. to revoke the Opus 22 liquor license under the provision that calls for revocation when there is a pattern of misconduct or disorder that adversely affects the health and safety of the neighborhood.
Sakai was charged with pulling an unlicensed handgun during a dispute with four intoxicated patrons who refused to leave a private party at Opus 22. The shots killed Gustavo Cuadros, 25, of Red Bank, N. J., who died at the scene, left his brother, Andres Julian Cuadros, in critical condition and paralyzed with a gunshot to the neck and two other men less seriously hurt.
City Councilmember Alan J. Gerson had introduced his Nightlife Security Initiative on April 11 in connection with the murder of Imette St. Guillen for which Darryl Littlejohn, a bouncer at The Falls, a bar on Lafayette St. in Soho, is charged.
Gersons initiative would require all bar security personnel to provide employers with legal certified documents showing no criminal convictions in the previous five years. Bar owners would be responsible for determining that the documents are valid.
Gerson and Councilmember David Yassky would allow bars to qualify to hire off-duty uniformed police officers in certain neighborhoods from 10 p.m. to a half-hour after closing.
Gerson would also call on the S.L.A. to require bars to cooperate fully with law enforcement investigations or lose their licenses. The initiative includes an appeal to police to change the current 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. tour of duty to a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. tour to deal with the high activity during the clubs closing time.
Robert Bookman, attorney for the New York Nightlife Association, accused Gerson of grandstanding. He noted that existing state legislation already requires all bouncers to be certified, mandating they take an eight-hour course, be fingerprinted and have background checks done. Yet, Bookman said, the state should be doing more to help nightclub owners insure this training is done, since club owners must either pay for the training themselves or hire guards from high-priced security firms, which do certify their guards and offer the training course.
Yet Gerson said his bill would close loopholes and make sure that anyone working a door under any job title at a club has their backgrounds checked and that the operators would have to witness proof that the bouncers arent convicted felons. The current situation, he said, is one of self-certification in which bouncers themselves vouch to owners that they are not felons.
Said Gerson, I would not expect Bookman to say anything differently, because he is trying to preserve existing loopholes. If our bill wasnt meaningful or didnt have any teeth to it, he wouldnt be objecting to it.
With reporting by Lincoln Anderson
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STOCKTON - Two armed men robbed a Stockton business and stole personal belongings from customers Saturday morning, authorities said.
STOCKTON - Two armed men robbed a Stockton business and stole personal belongings from customers Saturday morning, authorities said.
The men entered the lobby of the business about 10:15 a.m., one armed with a gun and the other armed with a six-inch knife, police said. The man with the gun jumped over the counter and took money from the register and the safe, officers said. The other man robbed customers in the lobby, taking cash, wallets, cellphones and identifications, authorities said.
The men then fled on foot. Both were described as Latino men, 25 to 30 years old. One was about 5 feet 6 inches tall and 150 pounds with a white T-shirt, jean shorts and a knife, officers said. The other was described as 6 feet tall and 160 pounds with a black hooded sweatshirt, a white baseball cap, pink gloves, a black bandana covering his face and a black handgun, police said.
STOCKTON - Classes are expected to be held as usual Monday at Tully C. Knoles School after a fire that damaged a classroom Friday evening, school officials said.
The Stockton Fire Department put out a fire in an electrical closet in a classroom about 7:40 p.m., fire officials said. The fire originated in a closet containing bundled electrical wires and a computer server, fire officials said. Firefighters moved computers to the multipurpose room and used a dry-chemical extinguisher instead of water to put out the fire without destroying equipment, Operator Matt Harris said.


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Corey Carrillo, senior global search manager at Intel Corp., focuses primarily on paid search campaigns on behalf of the semiconductor chipmaker. But within the past few months he's helped lead a complete reorganization of the Intel search function to take advantage of synergies with social media, website development, mobile, content marketing and organic search.
BtoB: What was the impetus behind the reorganization of these teams and the integration of these various channels?
Corey Carrillo: All these things reinforce each other and, because of that, we had to improve our own strategies. The common thread here is content, touching people organically. But search is the glue that holds it all together. Search crosses all channels, including social media. There is the obvious strategic part, in connecting the dots and working with the same systems and tools, to share information and insights internally and also with our "Intel Inside" partners.
BtoB: What changes in the marketplace prompted the reorganization?
Carrillo: We started looking at the future of search and what it means for our audience's data consumption. This naturally touches on the cellphone; but as search evolves, it also includes new products that have the potential to be Internet-connected, such as cars, the items you wear, TVs or even refrigerators. Search opens up other avenues for us and new ways to reach people.
BtoB: How does content marketing fit into your approach to search?
Carrillo: Things become more content-driven when you're trying to reach IT decision-makers. IT isn't interested in information about computers; they know about that. And they know that Intel servers are the crux of a lot of the Internet and the data ecosystem. Instead, we have to reach the IT decision-maker about what all this means for their businesses. Thus, we provide messages about cloud computing, interconnectivity and data. Those are some of our stories, and search is the avenue for decision-makers to find that content.
BtoB: What kinds of obstacles have you faced in this process?
Carrillo: Our search agency, Covario Inc., found a lot of challenges for us, especially in understanding the search environment we play in internationally. Everyone focuses on the U.S. and Google, but the Chinese search engine Baidu plays with a different set of rules. We need a good view of the world, and Covario helped us realize what areas are ready for investments and where we might reapply our resources. Baidu is the major play in China, but we're also trialing other Chinese search engines, including Soso and Sogou. In Russia, we're very deep in Yandex; in Korea we're using Daum and Naver, and Yahoo is rich in Japan. We try to use them all. But without a doubt, it's still a Google play. And their way to go to market winds up being copied by others.
BtoB: How does the future of search look to you?
Carrillo: It's left to be written by Google. When you see what they're doing with product development, in particular with the Android mobile operating system, you're seeing the way they can get into everyone's lives. It's about knowing where you are, seeing what you have in your datebook, where you're consuming information and how you're spending, and using that information to make better recommendations to you. The day will come when they connect the dots and are able reach people in the critical moment with a paid search ad.


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A Spartanburg man has been charged with indecent exposure after deputies say he walked into a Boiling Springs home, exposed himself to a woman who lives there, as well as several others near Boiling Springs High School.
A Spartanburg man has been charged with indecent exposure after deputies say he walked into a Boiling Springs home, exposed himself to a woman who lives there, as well as several others near Boiling Springs High School.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office has charged Jeffery Samuel Price, 23, of 811 Magness Dr., with second-degree burglary and seven counts of indecent exposure.
Several deputies responded near Brianna Drive at 1:45 p.m. Friday.
According to a written statement from the sheriff's office, Price walked into an unlocked door of a home and exposed his penis to the female resident. The woman shouted for her husband, who chased Price out of their home with a broom, according to the statement.
Others also complained that Price exposed himself to them.
Several people flagged down a deputy on Old Furnace Road and said a white male, later identified as Price, was exposing himself to drivers at the intersection of Old Furnace Road and Brianna Drive.
The deputy saw a white male in the woods adjacent to Boiling Springs High School while speaking with witnesses, according to an incident report. The suspect was ordered to walk toward the deputy, but turned and ran through the woods. The deputy requested assistance, began setting up a perimeter and had Boiling Springs High School officers notified.
The suspect later ran from the woods naked and crossed Old Furnace Road before deputies soon captured him, the report states.
"Due to his strange behavior and admission of ingesting narcotics, Price was transported to the hospital, where he began masturbating in the examination room, and he also confessed to killing his girlfriend," according to the written statement from the sheriff's office.
His girlfriend was later found "alive and well."
The sheriff's office formerly arrested Price, along with a female, for kidnapping and armed robbery. He was in jail 1 year and 55 days until those charges were adjudicated three days ago, according to the statement.


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My husband and I tithe to our church, meaning we give 10 percent of our income. We also donate money to various charities.
My husband and I tithe to our church, meaning we give 10 percent of our income. We also donate money to various charities.
Our giving results in a tax break because we itemize on our tax return.
Would we give less if we didn't have the tax deduction? I'm confident we wouldn't. We give because we believe it's the right thing to do for folks who are fortunate enough to have money to give.
But having said this, many people are motivated by tax breaks. And some do give more because of the charitable deduction.
Our country is deeply in debt, and our leaders are struggling to find ways to get the federal budget in balance. We are facing a "fiscal cliff" - the expiration of the Bush tax cuts along with spending cuts - that could trigger another recession. One strategy that has been proposed to avoid the cliff is to reduce or eliminate the deduction for charitable donations.
In his 2013 budget, President Barack Obama proposed capping the deduction for taxpayers earning more than $250,000 at 28 percent - even if they are in the 33 or 35 percent tax brackets. The president argues that most taxpayers don't get the benefit of the deduction because they don't itemize. And the tax break tends to benefit the wealthiest citizens the most.
The charitable deduction is a lucrative target, because "among the many tax expenditures that are in the federal tax code, the tax deduction for charitable contributions is among the largest in terms of its estimated revenue impact," according to a research paper by Joseph J. Cordes, an economics professor at George Washington University.
"The Joint Committee on Taxation (2011) has estimated the five-year revenue cost (from 2010-14) at just under $246.1 billion, and the charitable deduction has routinely been among the top 10 to 15 federal tax expenditures in terms of its revenue cost."
Regardless of household income, education, age, race or gender, people overwhelmingly support the deduction, according to a survey by Dunham+Company, a consulting firm for charitable organizations.
The company also found that 33 percent of donors said they would reduce their giving if the charitable deduction didn't exist. The figure climbed among key giving groups, with 40 percent of donors ages 40 to 59 saying they would reduce their giving.
I find that statistic shameful. You should give with no expectation of a reward if it's truly a selfless act.
Still, we can't take the chance that much-needed funds going to worthwhile nonprofit organizations serving our communities would be reduced if the deduction is capped.
Charitable donations help take up the slack from reduced government services and financial aid to people in need. That's an economic benefit we can't afford to mess with.
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Although the absence of mediocre Phillies game stories and notebooks in the Daily News probably gave it away, I have been off the beat for the last week. Given the opportunity to watch meaningless baseball games or work on a story for the debut edition of SportsWeek, I chose the latter.
Anyway, I arrived at Gate C18 this morning and realized I had no idea what was going on with the team. When I left, the only definites were Antonio Bastardo in the eighth inning and a team-record victory total, and I'm assuming that the prospects of both of those remain unchanged.
So I turned my attention to the Phillies' opponent for the National League Division Series, which begins on Saturday at Citizens Bank Park. Because that is where the real intrigue lies. Think about it: last year, we were in Atlanta for the last series of the regular season, and the Giants were fighting for their postseason life. The Giants beat the Padres on the last day of the regular season to clinch a berth. Does anybody think the Phillies would not have advanced to the World Series if they had faced either the Braves or the Padres in the NLCS? Then we would have had the opportunity to watch Cliff Lee face this line-up, and if you think the city is about to explode after the Eagles' loss to the Giants yesterady, what do you think would have happened had Lee tossed a couple of shutouts against the Phils and led the Rangers to a World Series victory? Hell, maybe Lee would have re-signed with the Rangers, which means maybe the best thing that could have happened to the Phillies was the Giants (San Francisco) beating the Padres and then beating them in the NLCS.
Trippy, I know.
Anyway, we're back in Atlanta, and we're back to having zero clue as to who the Phillies will be facing this weekend.
But here are the options:
1) Arizona
Currently: 93-66, clinched NL West
Remaing: Mon. vs. Dodgers - RHP Daniel Hudson (16-11, 3.43) vs. RHP Dana Eveland (2-2, 3.75); Tue. vs. Dodgers - RHP Parker (0-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Hiroki Kuroda (13-16, 3.17); Wed. vs. Dodgers - LHP Joe Saunders (12-12, 3.58) vs. TBA
Scenario: The Diamondbacks are one game behind the Brewers, but they also own a tiebreaker over Milwaukee. So they just need to finish with one more victory than the Brewers in their last series to overtake the Beermakers for home field advantage in the first round. If things stay as they are now, the Phillies will face the Diamondbacks.
Projected NLDS rotation: The Diamondbacks are set up to have Ian Kennedy pitch Game 1 of the NLDS on six days rest and Daniel Hudson to pitch Game 2 on five days rest. It looks like they would then go with lefty Joe Saunders and righty Josh Collmenter. Kennedy has given the Phillies trouble this year. But you have to like this match-up much better than the ones the Cardinals would provide. . .
2) St. Louis
Currently: 88-71, one game behind Atlanta in the Wild Card
Remaining: Mon. at Houston - LHP Jaime Garcia (13-7, 3.45) vs. LHP Wandy Rodriguez (11-11, 3.51); Tue. at Houston - RHP Jake Westbrook (12-9, 4.48) at Sosa (3-5, 4.68); Wed. at Houston - RHP Chris Carpenter (10-9, 3.59) at RHP Brett Myers (7-13, 4.31)
Scenario: Left for dead a few weeks ago, the Cardinals are just one game behind the Braves. If the two teams finish tied for the Wild Card, they would have a one-game playoff on Thursday. According to my projection, Kyle Lohse would be the man starting that game.
Projected Roation: This is where it is dicey for the Phillies. Garcia has given them problems in the past, and the lefty will be in line to start Game 1 on normal rest if the Cardinals make it that far. That would leave either Lohse or righthander Edwin Jackson in Game 2, depending on whether there is a playoff or not. Ace righty Chris Carpenter would not be able to start until Game 3, but the Phillies are probably more concerned about Garcia anyway. At this point, it would likely go Garcia-Lohse-Carpenter-Jackson or Garcia-Jackson-Carpenter-Lohse.
3) Milwaukee
Currently: 94-64, one game ahead of Arizona in the race for homefield in the first round
Remaining: Mon. vs. Pirates - RHP Shaun Marcum (13-7, 3.36) vs. RHP Charlie Morton (10-10, 3.67); Tue. vs. Pirates - LHP Randy Wolf (13-10, 3.61) vs. RHP Ross Ohlendorf (1-3, 8.29); Wed. vs. Pirates - RHP Yovani Gallardo (17-10, 3.52) vs. TBA
Scenario: Brew crew needs any combination of three victories or Diamondbacks losses to clinch the second-best record behind the Phillies. It's hard to imagine them failing to do that. Clearly, the Brewers are a far tougher matchup than the Diamondbacks because of their pitching.
Projected rotation: The Brewers, like the D-Backs, are set up right where they want to be. Zack Greinke will be starting Game 1, following by Shaun Marcum in Game 2 and Wolf and Gallardo in Games 3 or 4, with their exact order to be determined. They have the best upside of any rotation in the NL outside of the Phillies, after you factor in the Braves' recent injury troubles. They'd be a tough draw in the first round.
Anyway, those are all of your options. The Braves are an absolute mess right now. They'd love to get this thing taken care of tonight and tomorrow so they can avoid starting Tim Hudson on the final game of the season, thereby sidelining him until Game 3 of the NLDS (if they do in fact make it). But the Phillies also want to get some offensive rhythm heading into the postseason, so I don't think you'll see them throwing games. Shoot, they could have tried to throw the last series of last season and they still would have had a tough time losing.
Anyway, that's your breakdown for the time being.
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text: District of Columbia Raises NAMI Flag for Lieutenant Governors; Part of National Campaign to Raise Awareness on Mental Health Issues Feb 12 2003 WHAT: Special Flag-Raising Ceremony WHEN: Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 11:30 A.M. WHERE: Front of the Old District Building 14th Street N.W. and Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. WHO: Mary & Kristy Worthen, Little Rock, Arkansas Carolyn Graham, Deputy Mayor, District of Columbia The National Lieutenant Governor's Association (NLGA) The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill The event offers DC News Bureaus an opportunity for background and visual footage for upcoming stories in March and April about President Bush's "New Freedom" Commission, deepening state budget crises in mental healthcare, and parity legislation still pending in Congress. From a national perspective, the NLGA flag project also presents an attractive feature story about hope and recovery. As President Bush's "New Freedom" Commission on Mental Health moves toward release of its final report in April 2003, the NLGA is seeking to rally public awareness of the need to improve the lives of people with mental illnesses. Their vehicle is "the NAMI flag project" launched by Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, in honor of a flag hand-painted by Kristy Worthen, age 24, whose story is the subject of Journey Not Chosen…Destination Not Known: Living with Bipolar Disorder (Little Rock: August House Publishers 2001). Bearing the symbol of a beacon from a lighthouse and the slogan "Shine A Light on Mental Health Issues," the flag has flown to date over statehouses in Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana and Idaho. It will move on to other states following this week's NLGA meeting in Washington. The NGLA Website, includes President Bush's promise: "We must work for a welcoming and compassionate society where no American is forgotten. We must give all Americans who suffer from mental illness the treatment and the respect they deserve." For more information about the Commission, see www.mhcirl.ie.


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ROME (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that Italy's central bank did a good job in its oversight of crisis-hit Monte dei Paschi di Siena, in a boost for ECB chief Mario Draghi, who led the Bank of Italy as Monte Paschi ran into trouble.
An IMF team was in Italy until last week to conduct the first part of an assessment of Italy's financial system and Reuters has been told that Monte Paschi was among the issues it discussed with the BoI.
"The IMF team's preliminary view is that the Bank of Italy (BoI) took timely and appropriate action - within the limits of the legal framework - to address problems at MPS," the IMF's chief spokesman Gerry Rice told Reuters.
"Oversight was close and supervisory action escalated appropriately as MPS's problems became acute," Rice said in a written statement.
The central bank has been widely criticized over its oversight of Monte Paschi (BMPS.MI), which is set to tap 3.9 billion euros of state loans and whose former management is under investigation for fraud and other financial crimes.
The IMF's backing will be particularly welcomed by Draghi, who was BoI governor between 2006 and 2011 when the opaque derivatives trades Monte Paschi officials allegedly set up to massage its accounts were conducted and came to light.
He has not yet commented on the case, but can expect to be questioned on it by reporters at the ECB's monthly news conference on Thursday.
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Miley got all up in Santa's crotch at a Jingle ball or something and people were talking. To be honest, at this point I barely noticed. I'm more interested in her new hair. Here she is at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas on Saturday in LA. As you can see, she's bobbed now.
Is it a wig?
She's growing it out and it doesn't look like a terribly thick wig if it is one. That would account for the shaving underneath. Whatever it is, I'm into it. Time for a change anyway. A year ago right now, would you have believed that Miley would own 2013? No matter how you feel about her, you can't deny that she successfully moved into the next stage of her career. Even if you hate what her career is, it's a proper transition. She's a pop star now. We're running Best & Worst of 2013 starting next week. Let me guess – would she be a Worst for you?
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Major Lazer is a work in progress.
Diplo's part-time project, with a new album "Free the Universe" out this week, is ever-evolving as the producer and his cohorts tinker with a sound they think might provide a clue to the future of electronic dance music.
"Everything's changing now. EDM's shifting," Diplo said. "The house music thing exploded two years and now people are looking for something different. ... What we do as Major Lazer, we just incorporate everything. We're just DJs at heart and selectors. We love all kinds of music."
That's reflected in the Caribbean-flavored "Free the Universe" with its reggae and dancehall influences, but the group that also includes Chris Leacock, the producer known as Jillionaire, and Walshy Fire (Leighton Walsh) pushes the envelope much farther on the follow-up to 2009's "Guns Don't Kill People ... Lazers Do."
Bruno Mars, Tyga and Mystic guest on the hip-hop-influenced "Bubble Butt." At the other end of the spectrum is the mellow and melancholy "Get Free," featuring Amber Coffman of The Dirty Projectors.
Diplo, whose real name is Wes Pentz, and the group spoke about the new album on a stopover in Nashville early on their latest tour, which will soon move to Europe for the summer.
They're constantly looking for ways to reinvent themselves in the how-have-you-impressed-me-lately world they inhabit. Diplo has created some of the most memorable moments in the movement and pop music in general, but he's keenly aware of the tradewinds that can carry you away from the hot molten core of EDM. It's easy to get complacent when you spend your days and nights in front of a computer programming beats.
"I think you have to reinvent yourself, that's just music," Pentz said. "The thing with rock bands, I miss the idea of personalities. You don't have that with dance music, and I miss the Eddie Vedders, Jon Bon Jovis or the Neil Youngs."
An hour later Pentz, Leacock and Walsh take the stage. Flanked by a pair of dancers, Walsh paces the front of the stage as the hype man. Leacock holds court behind the decks on the DJ platform while Diplo acts as trickster and cheerleader, firing confetti cannons into the crowd, inviting girls on stage and generally trying to keep the energy as high as possible.
Leacock says the group is blending influences like soca pop music from Trinidad & Tobago and reggae dancehall music from Jamaica with hip-hop dynamics and a DJ's light show.
"There's so much saturation right now in the market," Leacock said. "So you have to put a package out there that makes them say, 'Oh, (expletive) that really blew my mind.'"
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TOKYO (AP) — Panasonic Corp.'s president says the company will get out of unprofitable businesses but stopped short of ditching the Japanese manufacturer's money-losing TV operations, as had been widely speculated.
Company president Kazuhiro Tsuga promised Thursday to improve profitability over the next two years while announcing a midterm business plan and strategy for the fiscal year that begins next month.
Panasonic said Fumio Ohtsubo will step down as chairman in June ahead of schedule to take responsibility for the recent struggling results.
Osaka-based Panasonic is expecting to rack up a 765 billion yen ($8.1 billion) annual loss for the fiscal year ending this month.
That's close to the record red ink it marked for the previous fiscal year at 772 billion yen — among the biggest in Japan Inc. history.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — This week, with the opening of the historical romance "Hyde Park on Hudson," I finally get to do a Five Most list I've been thinking about for a while now: my favorite Bill Murray performances.
His take on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt may not be some of his best work, but it's an unexpected bit of casting, and it provides a great opportunity to reflect on the fantastically eclectic career he's put together over the past three-plus decades.
So here are my picks in chronological order. Honorable mention goes to his supporting turn as trash-talking bowling champ Ernie McCracken in the underappreciated Farrelly brothers comedy "Kingpin" (1996), for the sweet hairpiece, if nothing else.
— "Caddyshack" (1980): Murray was at the height of his "Saturday Night Live" cult stardom when he gave his enduring portrayal of oddball golf course greenskeeper Carl Spackler in this all-time-great raunchy '80s comedy. The character is a little grungy and a little dangerous and more than a little off, but also strangely sweet and the source of endlessly quotable lines. Murray has said that people shout Carl dialogue to him all the time as he's playing golf in real life — "It's in the hole!" — hoping he'll recite the words back. That's how much this movie and this character still matter in our crowded pop-culture universe.
— "Stripes" (1981): Murray is at his subversively charming best here in an early starring role as John Winger, a loser who decides to join the Army to be all he can be. He's silly and sarcastic, confident and quick-witted, so naturally he has a little trouble respecting the authority of Warren Oates' Sgt. Hulka, the platoon's "big toe." But he earns a loyal following, becomes an inadvertent leader and even gets the girl in the end. Murray plays beautifully off old friend Harold Ramis as his straight man, and the whole anarchic vibe from Ivan Reitman, directing one of his best films, is an excellent fit for the comic's persona during this period.
— "Rushmore" (1998): The beginning of a shift in Murray's screen presence toward melancholy, introspective characters. The humor is still there but it comes from a different place: one of loss, regret and self-destruction. Wes Anderson's sweet and cleverly meticulous comedy is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Murray just broke my heart in it. He's wealthy but he has nothing. He has a family but he constantly feels alone. In Jason Schwartzman's precocious high schooler Max Fischer, he finds an unlikely soul mate. And in Olivia Williams' first-grade teacher Miss Cross, he finds unexpected romance.
— "Lost in Translation" (2003): Murray earned an Oscar nomination for best actor for his portrayal of Bob Harris, an aging American actor who has schlepped to Tokyo to shoot a whiskey commercial that will pay him $2 million. He strikes a beautiful balance between lighthearted sarcasm and self-loathing as he forms an undefinable friendship with Scarlett Johansson, playing the bored, young wife of a celebrity photographer. To this day, I can't listen to "More Than This" by Roxy Music without thinking of Murray's delicate karaoke rendition in this lovely Sofia Coppola film.
— "Broken Flowers" (2005): He'd already appeared with deadpan hilarity in perhaps the best segment of Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes." Here, Murray stars for Jarmusch as a middle-aged lothario on a half-hearted quest to visit old lovers in hopes of finding the teenage son he never knew he had. We learn about him — and he learns about himself — through his varied and unpredictable reunions with various ex-girlfriends. It's yet another world-weary performance from Murray, but each incarnation of this persona reveals richness and shadings; his dramatic work in the later years of his career is just as strong in its own way as the wild comedy was in the beginning.
What's your favorite Bill Murray performance? Share it with AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire through Twitter: http://twitter.com/christylemire


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The Flyers will apparently have to restructure the five-year, $9 million contract they gave to free-agent forward Max Talbot on Friday.
According to TSN, the Flyers violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement by reducing Talbot's salary by more than 50 percent between the third and fourth years -- from $2.25 million to $1 million.
There is a slight chance the Flyers will be fined for the oversight.


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Artists: Kelly Morris
What year did you start tattooing: 2010
Do you have any special training: Trained & worked as Graphic Designer. Self taught tattooist.
Tell us about the style of your work: Mostly black & grey photo realistic. Lots of fine detail.
Conventions usually worked: None to date
Where did you apprentice?: Self taught
What tattoo artist do you most admire: Jeff Gogue
Before someone gets a tattoo what advice do you give them?: We would strongly recommend that you do your homework and think serously about how you will feel about the tattoo in years to come. We would usually try to discourage partner/spouse names as all too often circumstances change but as an alternative you might consider something pictoral that represents that person, ie. their favourite flower. Try not to follow a trend. What is fashionable this year may look dated soon after but a carefully considered design that is unique to you should never date. Just remember that whatever you choose will last forever and laser removal is a painful solution. An important part of our job is to work with you to create a design that you will be happy with so bring all of the ideas and reference material you have to us and we'll create a unique piece of art that you can wear with pride. Prior to commencing the tattoo we would also discuss medical history and aftercare.
How did you get into tattooing: I have trained as a Graphic Designer although my real passion has always been drawing, particularly portraits. I was very lucky to be surrounded by supportive and encouraging family and friends. At first they would ask me to design tattoos but very soon they began badgering me to train as a tattooist myself. I was reluctant at first as I'm not one to do anything half heartedly but soon I began to look for apprenticeships in the area. With three young children this was no easy task as it wasn't possible to work the daytime hours required in a studio, but not one to back down from a challenge I worked through the nights instead, reading, drawing and gleaming all the information I could. We built a studio at home, trained in the relevant hygiene practices and registered with the local council and then I began practicing on pig skin. I was fortunate to have a string of people wanting me to tattoo them so the rest snowballed from there!
What inspires you to be an artist: EVERYTHING! Music, nature, architecture, it's endless.
What kind of tattoos do you look forward to doing: Intricate, detailed portraits. Something that pushes me and gives me the opportunity to show people how realistic tattoos can be.
Is there a tattoo that you haven't done yet that you are dying to do: Iconic portraits with a twist and portraits of my own children but always too busy tattooing someone else to get the time for my own!


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What a tangled mesh we weave
But does it fit the bill for muni Wi-Fi?
While the promise of free-for-all municipal Wi-Fi networks remains on the horizon for most – and a Googly mess for others – mesh wireless, the technology that utopians fancy will float us away on a cloud of education, is making practical progress.
Ironically, the technology came out of a 1980s DARPA research project at SRI International, which separated from Stanford University in the 1970s amidst administrative concerns that the university was becoming an organ of the decidely anti-utopian Department of Defense.
Unlike the standard Wi-Fi model, where each device on the network communicates via the central hub, mesh network devices communicate through other devices, whether they are active participants in the communication or not. This means that data packets can hop long distances from device to device in parallel fashion, forging redundancy and stability by default. All this with no more security vulnerability than vanilla Wi-Fi, says leading mesh networking brain Dr Ambatipudi Sastry.
This makes it ideal for ad hoc networking - in natural disaster areas, for example. A better prepared Hurricane Katrina rescue-effort could have cobbled together a stable, high bandwidth mesh network double quick; it's easy then to imagine a spotter helicopter relaying the locations of survivors to rescue boats over video with GPS data.
Bay Area spin-out Packethop is working exactly that type of pitch for mesh wireless. Since emerging from SRI in 2003 in the hands of Sastry and CEO Michael Howse, the firm has concentrated on developing saleable applications for mesh networking, and has bagged contracts with several US cities. Also the company has performed a valuable public service of taking dozens of out-of-work actors off LA's streets - a recent counter-terrorism training exercise by 28 agencies in Long Beach demonstrated fast deployment of a mesh, and use of Packethop's GPS, whiteboarding and multiple video channel applications.
Spectrum analysis
The mesh wireless play is made somewhat easier Stateside by the 4.9GHz spectrum band, which is reserved for public safety applications. In Europe the spectrum carve-up makes it a tougher sell, although Packethop's top marketeer Kevin Payne reckons there could be a chance for its product in the UK, and he was over here recently to scout for partners.
Those monsters of tech Intel, Motorola, Cisco and IBM have their own mesh wireless efforts underway.(You can get a flavour of Big Blue's thinking on mesh from this executive tech report.) But the issue of available bandwidth has been a sticking point for the business case for such large firms; the market Packethop is currently playing to measures in millions of dollars, only.
Indeed, the consumer section of Packethop's website is noticeably thin, steering clear of making an actual pitch for wireless mesh in homes in favour of quasi-philosophical musings on the human compulsion to communicate. Which, to be fair, we can't blame them for.
Sastry is upbeat about the mesh-for-all possibilities down the line, but he reckons the biggest problem with rolling out a city-wide genuine mesh network are social, not technical. "You would have problems of people not wanting to share their internet access point. It's a way off," he said. ®


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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 13, 2010 – SEMI today announced that
Ms. Jackie Ferrell and the team of Mutaz Haddadin and Shoji Komatsu are the recipients of the 2010 Karel Urbanek Award for outstanding contributions to the development of standards for the semiconductor and related industries. The awards were bestowed during a reception held on the opening day of SEMICON West 2010.
The Karel Urbanek Memorial Award, the highest Standards honor bestowed by SEMI, is awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to the SEMI International Standards program and to the development of semiconductor and FPD industry standards. It is named in honor of the late Karel Urbanek, co-founder of Tencor Instruments, former member of the SEMI Board of Directors, and an instrumental leader of the SEMI Standards program.
As the recipient of the individual award, Ms. Ferrell was nominated for her significant contributions to the globalization of the SEMI Standards Program. Since 1997, she has served in many roles in the Information and Control Committee and Factory Integration Division, and as a Co-Chair of the North American Regional Standards Committee (NARSC). In addition, she has served as a member of the International Standards Committee since 2006.
"We are pleased to recognize Ms. Ferrell's many years of work toward bridging cultural differences in the various International Standards groups," said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. "Her superb coordination and mediation skills, combined with her technical expertise, resulted in the I300I/J300 framework, which played a key role in motivating suppliers to participate in standardization."
Mutaz Haddadin and Shoji Komatsu has been nominated for their work in chairing the Physical Interfaces and Carriers (PIC) Committee's International 450 mm Task Force, and introducing the first standards for wafer carriers and load ports to publication. Mutaz is a senior mechanical engineer at Intel and co-chair of the NA PIC Committee. Shoji is CEO of Acteon Corporation and co-chair of the Japan PIC Committee. Both have been active contributors to PIC for over six years.
"As the recipients of the team award for 2010, Mr. Haddadin and Mr. Komatsu have been instrumental in driving the 450 mm project and developing consensus with more than 100 task force members," said Stanley T. Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. "On behalf of SEMI and its membership, I wish to extend warm congratulations to these two men for their tenacity and for their contributions to the group and the industry."
Karel Urbanek Award recipients are selected by the International Standards Committee, which is the governing board for the SEMI Standards program. Nominations for other standards awards are made by the SEMI North America Standards staff and standards committee leaders, with the winners selected by a vote of the standards program members.
The SEMI Standards Program, established in 1973, covers all aspects of semiconductor process equipment and materials, from wafer manufacturing to test, assembly and packaging, in addition to the manufacture of flat panel displays and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). About 3,000 volunteers worldwide participate in the program, which is made up of 21 global technical committees. Visit www.semi.org/standards for further details about SEMI Standards.
SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries. SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Bengaluru, Berlin, Brussels, Grenoble, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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AAOS 2018 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award
Dr. Andarawis-Puri has been selected to receive the 2018 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award. The award will be presented in New Orleans, March 6-10, during the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). The awards are bestowed for outstanding manuscripts that focus on basic and/or clinical research related to the musculoskeletal system. The title of her manuscript was 'Promoting Effective Tendon Healing and Remodeling'.
The Young Investigator Award is dedicated to the future of musculoskeletal health. The first annual award, a single stipend of $1,000, was made available to the Academy in 1949 and presented at the annual meeting in 1950. At present the annual award of $20,000 is given.
Nelly Andarawis-Puri's faculty Bio: http://www.mae.cornell.edu/mae/people/profile.cfm?netid=na424
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Newsroom.aaos.org for bone and joint health news, stats, facts, images and interview requests.
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