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Collins: People Don't Die from Prostate, Breast Cancers Anymore (UPDATED)
On June 24th, The Batavian published an interview with Republican nominee Chris Collins (R-Spaulding Lake). Among the topics discussed was Obamacare, which Collins, "clearly dislikes".
The healthcare reforms Collins said he would push would be tort reform and open up competition in insurance by allowing policies across state lines.
Collins also argued that modern healthcare is expensive for a reason.
"People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things," Collins said. "The fact of the matter is, our healthcare today is so much better, we're living so much longer, because of innovations in drug development, surgical procedures, stents, implantable cardiac defibrillators, neural stimulators — they didn't exist 10 years ago. The increase in cost is not because doctors are making a lot more money. It's what you can get for healthcare, extending your life and curing diseases." [Emphasis added].
So, if you know someone who has recently died from prostate or breast cancer, that's a lie. Put away your pink ribbons, Komen! No need to raise awareness of the importance of PSA screenings, fellas! People just don't die from these anymore, says a purportedly serious person with no medical training whatsoever, who is running for federal office!
Also, the implantable cardiac defibrillator and neural stimulators, or TENS devices, were both invented and patented in the late 60s or early 70s; therefore, they existed "10 years ago".
GLOW-area Democratic activist Adama Brown already did the research, so I'll quote his results:
National Cancer Institute figures show a very different story: Breast cancer kills about 40,000 women a year in the US. Prostate cancer kills about 30,000 men. Five year mortality rates are 23% for breast cancer, 26% for prostate cancer. Only colorectal cancer and lung cancer kill more Americans.
That means that if you get one of these two cancers, even with complete modern medical treatment, drugs, therapies, etcetera, your average odds of being dead within five years after diagnosis are about one in four.
That's a higher chance of death than you would have with an average gunshot wound–only 22% of gunshot wounds are fatal. And a gunshot can't come out of remission and kill you years later even if you survive the first time.
Asserting that the 70,000 people per year who die from breast and prostate cancers, "now don't die" isn't the only blatantly misinformed lie that Collins passed off as "fact".
What Obamacare does is produce $500 billion in savings over 10 years, and slowing spending is something Republicans are supposed to favor. Collins is lying because he thinks you're stupid. He's lying because he's parroting talking points from right-wing lobbyist groups with whom he hopes to do business.
He said Obama wants to cut $500 billion from Medicare, which, he said, would decimate Medicare Advantage.
Also, he said, Obama would trim $350 million from reimbursements to doctors, which Collins believes will encourage doctors to stop seeing Medicare patients.
"They don't have to take Medicare patients. So in the supply-and-demand world, if you're busy what do you do? You usually elminate your least profitable customer," Collins said. "So the thought that the federal government can set the reimbursement rates for doctors and cut 30 percent out their income and nothing's going to change is just nonsense. Right there and then you've got to get rid of Obamacare."
First of all, Obamacare doesn't "cut $500 billion from Medicare", an assertion Politifact has called, "mostly false". What Obamacare does is slow the growth of Medicare spending by $500 billion over 10 years – Medicare spending will continue to grow during that period. It also closes the "donut hole" for prescription medication coverage, and places a greater emphasis on proactive preventative treatment. The rest of it is just Heritage Foundation fearmongering, most of which has already been judged "pants on fire", designed to scare seniors into supporting Collins and the Republican plan to voucherize Medicare.
Collins wants a flat tax, so that he pays the same rate on millions in income as you do on thousands. It should be noted that Collins hasn't released his tax returns, and it's widely speculated that the reason for his reluctance to do so is that he probably makes much of his money through investments, which are taxed at around a 15% rate.
On trade, Collions wants the U.S. to stand up to China.
"The key words there are China cheats," Collins said. "They cheat by manipulating their currency, which gives them, I believe, a 30-percent cost advantage over the American manufacturer. They steal our intellectual property. And they don't open their own markets to our manufacturers."
The response, Collins said, is tarriffs until China capitulates and trades as an equal partner with the U.S.
"I believe China needs us more than we need them," Collins said. "They need our consumers. Quite frankly, we don't need them."
Remember that story about Collins ripping off a bunch of local investors in a neighbor's invention, and how he illegally held the meeting telling them to go ahead and sue him in the County Executive's office? They make the Balance Buddy in China.
So many lies, all concentrated into one interview in one article. I don't know how this was overlooked prior to the Republican primary on the 26th, but you can bet it's going to come up a lot during the general election campaign. A tip of the hat to Batavia political activist Dan Jones for drawing attention to it.
UPDATED: See the press release issued today by Erie County Health Commissioner, Dr. Gale Burstein,
Also, Kathy Hochul responds:
"Chris Collins has demonstrated a stunning lack of sensitivity by saying, 'people now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and some of the other things.' Tragically, nearly 70,000 people will die this year from these two types of cancer alone. We can disagree about public policy without making these kinds of outrageous and offensive statements."


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Fr. Jean-Claude Colin, founder of the Marist Fathers
The Marists had been in Coolock since they established Chanel College in 1954,but in 1993 they were invited by the Archbishop to run the parish. They brought a spirit of renewal, which can be seen in their ambitious building programme. Their first task was to re-roof the church, which although only twenty years old was suffering from damp. As part of the project, a beautiful baptistery was added which incorporated stained glass from the old church (see this illustrated at the top of chapter 8).
The Marists also rebuilt the priests house: it is now not only a comfortable presbytery, but it includes an oratory and a number of meeting rooms. More ambitious still was the decision to convert the old church into a parish centre. A 'Hall Committee' was formed and with the help of imaginative architects (Paul Arnold) the cold and damp disused church was converted into a facility of which the parishioners are justifiably very proud. It contains not only meeting rooms and offices, but a magnificent assembly room/hall, which is used for a variety of parish and community activities.

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The danger of premature graduation to seat belts for young children." Pediatrics. 2000;105(6):1179-83."
Non-fatal and fatal crash injury risk for children in minivans compared with children in sport utility vehicles." Inj. Prev.. 2009;15(1):8-12."
Rear seating and risk of injury to child occupants by vehicle type." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2001;45:51-60."
Trends in booster seat use among young children in crashes." Pediatrics. 2001;108(6):E109."
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Has 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' star NeNe Leakes become a villain?
Remember NeNe during the first season of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta"? She was the homegirl you wanted to hang out with the most -- unpretentious (unlike the other wives), silly and unapologetic. She had money just like the rest of them, but she was on the outskirts of the group because she didn't put on airs. And when on-again, off-again friend Sheree didn't invite her to the big party, those were real feelings being hurt.
But then the show blew up and became a big fat hit for Bravo. "Atlanta" is the highest-rated of the network's "Housewives" series, surpassing viewership for the ladies of Orange County, New York and New Jersey. NeNe blew up too. Her feud with Kim -- similar to the Lauren Conrad-Heidi Montag "she said, she said" war on "The Hills" -- made the pair stars, and in Season 2, NeNe couldn't stop basking in her newfound spotlight.
She understood how she became famous, and so, very blatantly, she took every opportunity to stir up trouble in the show's second season. She arranged a get-together just days after Sheree had yanked off Kim's wig on the street. She acted the diva during the alter-ego photo shoot. She got up in newcomer Kandi's face repeatedly, and for no good reason. (Picking on Kandi? The most grounded and sympathetic of the "Housewives"? Not smart.) And just watch what happens during tonight's season finale.
I had lunch with all of the "Atlanta" women -- minus Kim -- not too long ago in Westwood, and it was pretty clear that being in close confines wasn't how they prefer to be. "We're cordial," Lisa kept saying. "Cordial" being separate and apart from "friends." After one too many questions about Kim, NeNe went off: "I'm not gonna sit here and eat my lunch and talk about Kim. You want to ask me about something about myself, I'd be glad to talk to you about it. I have a book. I'm doing a lot of things. I'm not interviewing about Kim."
Well, not until she felt like it.
A few minutes after she smacked me down, she decided to let me in on a moment that didn't air on the show -- and didn't make the print version of my feature on her. "Kim was tongue-kissing a man. Tongue-kissing. And he wasn't Big Poppa," she said. It happened the night that Sheree puller her wig off, moments after that incident. Sheree jumped in: "I was telling the cameraman, 'You need to focus the camera over there where Kim is making out with that guy!' " NeNe just kept saying "Tongue-kissing."
So Kim made out with a random stranger, minutes after their quarrel? NeNe and Sheree said "Yes!" It triggered an entire discussion -- that I was left out of -- of how Kim does nothing but lie. One can only hope that footage and that story make the upcoming reunion episode, slated to air in two parts, on Oct. 29 and Nov. 5.
Read more about NeNe's transformation and why, for better or worse, making money drives all her decisions now in today's feature, "Queen bee of 'Real Housewives of Atlanta.' "
-- Denise Martin
Photo: Dwight, NeNe Leakes and Lisa Wu Hartwell during the taping of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" reunion episode. Credit: Bravo


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What's happened in the business of video games this past week ...
QUOTE | "You've decided that some breasts deserve a prime spot."—Rachel Weber, GamesIndustry International journalist, commenting about Future's CVG site posting a gallery of E3 booth babes and sadly asking readers to "get their scorecards out."
QUOTE | "There are people who love the stuff I've worked on ... but there are probably an equal number of people who just think I'm an asshole."–David Jaffe, veteran game designer, talking about his next project and why he's not sure Kickstarter would work for him.
STAT | 45,700—Number of attendees at E3 2012, which may move away from Los Angeles next year.
QUOTE | "Wow, these guys are really terrified of an Apple TV."—Rob Fahey, veteran game journalist, commenting on Microsoft's SmartGlass presentation at E3.
QUOTE | "Its ideas are too scattered, its selling point too hard to grasp. Perhaps that's also true of Wii U itself."—Eurogamer journalist Oli Welch talking about NintendoLand, along with other journalists dissing Nintendo's E3 showing.
QUOTE | "It's the right time to come with a new machine, the industry is waiting for new machines, new types of games."—Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, talking about the Wii U and why Ubisoft is developing 8 games for it.
QUOTE | "I personally don't care what the next gen of consoles are because I'm not excited about consoles anymore."—John Romero, co-founder of id Software and designer of Doom, talking about the future of game development.
STAT | $70 billion—Amount of revenue the game industry will take in globally in 2017, according to the latest prediction from research firm DFC Intelligence, with 39% from PC games.
QUOTE | "We're building a PC-targeted game right now and I love that."—Mike Capps, head of Epic Games, talking about Unreal Engine 4 and the resurgence of the PC as a gaming machine.
QUOTE | "You can buy an expensive cup of coffee for more than what it would take for you to access a library of 12 games."—Jack Buser, head of digital products for Sony, talking about the new games that PlayStation Plus provides starting now.
QUOTE | "I just think it cheapens your intellectual property."—David DeMartini, head of EA's Origin digital distribution service, talking about Steam's practice of deep-discounting games for brief periods of time.
QUOTE | "Think about the message it sends out about your confidence in the talent of a development team when ... you farm out the trailer to a separate CGI studio."—Johnny Minkley, veteran gaming journalist, talking about game trailers being made without using in-game material.
STAT | 49 percent—Amount of US households that have at least one game console, according to the Entertainment Software Association; the average is two per household.
This Week in the Business courtesy of GamesIndustry International
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I have become the face of fear: BipashaFeb 11, 2013 IANS
Mumbai, Feb 11 (IANS) Bipasha Basu seems to have become the common face of horror films. After "Raaz 3", she will be seen next in Suparn Verma's "Aatma".
"I have become the face of fear. I don't mind being a trend setter. Horror is a genre of entertainment and if it has the producers and the audience, then why not," she said at the launch of the first look of the film held here Monday evening.
Talking about the horror films which she has been a part of, the actress clarified that all of them had been different in their own way.
"Each and everyone of them has had very different roles," the actress said.
Basu added that it was the script and screenplay of the film which attracted her to take it up.
"While I was listening to the narration, I thought the film would be fabulous. The script and screenplay attracted me," she said.
Talking about the genre of horror, Basu feels that it is at its nascent stage at the moment and has a lot of potential.
"I feel that horror is at the nascent stage at the moment. We can do so many different things with horror as a genre," she said.
Directed by Suparn Verma, the film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui opposite Bipasha Basu.
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"She's more beautiful than anyone woman I've met/ and she fucking knows it", roars Amazing Snakeheads' Dale Barclay on 'I'm A Vampire', and you can picture him immediately. You can picture his red face, his bulging eyes, a vein throbbing in his temple, you can hear the spittle flying from the corners of his mouth. The none-more-Glaswegian growl is completely terrifying, bracing, violent, uncompromising, aggressive and howlingly funny and that's just one line. It's also Amphetamine Ballads in miniature. The quite, quite astonishing debut from the Scottish trio is all of those things and a couple more. It grooves, pounces, kills, spits, prowls, tears, gouges, slinks, seduces, and scares. In a weird way it even charms. This is, in every sense, the debut of the year - compelling from the bashed gong that introduces the urgent 'I'm a Vampire' to the slinking, deconstructed blues of 'Tiger by the Tail' that sees the album over the finishing line. Musically it's an open wound of a record, an album slashed from red-raw skin, that draws blood and drips pus. It's kind of revolting, but you can't look away because there's something fascinating and beautiful in the detail.
If this seems hyperbolic - and it should, because it damn well IS - then that's because Amazing Snakeheads are the kind of band that inspires hyperbole. They make the sort of music that makes you want to smash your head through something, or run and run and run until you collapse shuddering to the ground, probably just around the point the album goes appropriately dark and slow. There's a glorious melting pot of influences here: the Birthday Party certainly, in their pitch black, barmy intensity, but also Jon Spencer, Fugazi, Big Black, The Velvet Underground, Joy Division and PiL. It's all rolling bass and steady rhythms fronted by a howling lunatic. It's a cult waiting to happen - one that will probably end in messy mass suicide and gun battles. If it doesn't, it could certainly soundtrack a film that does.
Want examples? Okay. Let's go to Exhibit A, current single 'Here It Comes Again', anchored by a completely straightforward, urgent two note bassline, allowing Barclay's guitar to sketch spiky stabs across the verses, then burst in with the riff across the chorus, pushing everything over the red line. The lyrics are the four words of the title repeated over and over again which, oddly, you don't even notice on a first listen because they makes so much sense. It's an exercise in economy, tension and release and it's unstoppably brilliant. Exhibit B follows straight on. 'Flatlining' again hangs from a bone-solid bass part that does much of the work traditionally occupied by guitar on something this mid-tempo and riffy, meaning Barclay can play about 17 different guitar styles, from wah-heavy soloing to skeletal art-school harmonics and big grungy riffs, as if no-one ever told him that's not how you're meant to do things. There's a honking sax part that adds further atmosphere. Unlike most rock guitarists, Barclay knows when not to play, and his absences are the trio's secret weapon, giving them a tension and sense for dynamics rarely seen in punk bands. When you get to 'Every Guy Wants To Be Her Baby', with its blueprint jazz/blues atmosphere and spooky horn parts and Sixties garage-rock wig-out you could weep at how brilliant this is.
Perfection, of course, is dull. Amphetamine Ballads isn't perfect - once we're into the last third it's already blown its load in terms of ideas, and the deranged energy can't quite be sustained across the whole album. That's good though. Debut albums shouldn't be perfect, they should be a bit messy, they should leave room for improvement - which is what Amazing Snakeheads do. Whatever comes next can be a belter, or maybe fail gloriously, either way it will never be boring. In its imperfections Amphetamine Ballads occupies an especially human place. Saviours of rock n'roll? Nah. It doesn't really need saving, and anyway this lot are far more about destruction. A modern classic? Just maybe.
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461 acres added to Government Canyon
Government Canyon now has 461 more acres and includes the second-highest point in Bexar County.
On Friday, Chris Holm, superintendant of the state natural area on the western edge of San Antonio, said the paperwork for the $8.6 million deal was complete.
The new land will not be open to the public until it can be incorporated into the park's master plan. Once done, Holm said access would most likely be via primitive trails that would include a path up to a ridge that reaches 1,530 feet.
The property was bought with $7 million from San Antonio's Edwards Aquifer Protection Program, $1.6 million from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and $300,000 from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
The land is over the recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer and protects endangered species and San Antonio's water supply.
The deal was made possible in large part because the landowner, Stephen Lowder, agreed to sell the property at 25 percent below its appraised value.
Government Canyon is now 9,082 acres. Holm said San Antonio has another 3,000 acres that will eventually be added to the natural area.
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"On February 18, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next possible chapters for Apple's Magic Mouse," Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
"Apple introduced the world's first Multi-Touch Mouse this past October. The Magic Mouse features a seamless touch-sensitive enclosure that allows it to be a single or multi-button mouse with advanced gesture support," Purcher reports. "Using intuitive gestures, users can easily scroll through long documents, pan across large images or swipe to move forward or backward through a collection of web pages or photos."
"In January of this year, we were able to see the first installation of technologies related to advancing the Magic Mouse and today, Apple sheds more light on the advances that they're considering," Purcher reports. "Today's patent focuses on introducing a 'rotatable mouse' using new sensors and a triple-axes gyroscope that detects the roll, pitch, and yaw of the mouse."
Purcher reports, "That translates in allowing the user to tilt the mouse one way to cause a horizontal scroll and another way to cause a vertical scroll and yet another to tilt a graphic as shown above. The other change that you'll notice in the graphic above is that the bottom of the mouse is described in terms of it having a convex bottom design so as to make it easier to cause scrolling and other events by simply rocking or rolling the mouse. It's so simple, that it's brilliant."
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I have very general , "introductory" questions (It is quite hard for me to seek for specific things in the algebraic topology literature).
I guess that connective spectra have a model structure. So do simplicial abelian groups. Are these Quillen equivalent?
Secondly, I think of a simplicial abelian group as a space with strictly associative and commutative operation, while I think of a connective spectrum as a space with an operation which is associative and commutative up to all higher coherences (i.e. some words like $E_{\infty}$). So these are similar. How do I see what extra richness is encoded in a spectrum? For example, what mental pictures do I lose when I think of a connective spectrum as a right-bounded chain complex?
I think that the last is the most important for me, to have some small mental picture which I should have for spectra but not for simplicial abelian groups / chain complexes.
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Washington (CNN) -- Noisy protests at military funerals, immigration reform and violent video games were among the issues on the Supreme Court's docket as the high court began its new term Monday.
The term also marks the debut of Justice Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court and the first time three women are serving on the nine-justice panel.
Roughly 52 appeals are currently on the high court's schedule. About another two dozen are expected to be added in coming months.
But Kagan, 50, will recuse herself from at least 24 cases already on the docket. That means she will not sit in oral arguments or vote on the outcomes.
As the former Solicitor General in the Justice Department, it was Kagan's job to supervise all pending appeals at the high court, and she has withdrawn from those cases in which she was involved or which might present a conflict of interest.
The caseload for the term is usually settled by February.
Other controversial appeals that might get added to the high court's docket cover issues related to same-sex marriage, terrorism and health care reform, among other things.
Here are some key cases the Supreme Court is scheduled to tackle in its 2010-2011 term:
MILITARY FUNERALS - Snyder v. Phelps (arguments on Wednesday, October 6)
AT ISSUE: A balancing test between the privacy rights of grieving families and the free speech/assembly rights of demonstrators, however disturbing and provocative their message.
THE CASE: A small Kansas church has gained national attention for protesting loudly at funerals of U.S. service members, promoting their anti-homosexual message.
Albert Snyder, the father of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq sued after members of the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church conducted an angry demonstration at his son's burial service. The family of the Marine won a $5 million judgment from the protesters. The ruling, however, was later overturned by a federal appeals court, which said the protest did not directly refer to the lance corporal, and therefore was protected speech on an issue of national debate.
THE ARGUMENTS: The church, led by pastor Fred Phelps, believes God is punishing the United States for "the sin of homosexuality" through events including soldiers' deaths. The marchers say they obey local rules over where they can gather to protest. The Snyder family says their son was not gay, and the emotional wounds from the protest have yet to heal. They have the support of a number of members of Congress, 48 states and the District of Columbia.
THE IMPACT: The court's ruling could set new guidelines on a broad range of speech-related events, including protests. Several states have attempted to impose specific limits on when and where the church can protest. The justices may be asked to address how far states and private entities like cemeteries and churches can go to justify policies meant to silence or restrict demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights in a funeral setting.
DEATH PENALTY- Skinner v. Switzer (09-9000) (arguments Wednesday, October 13)
AT ISSUE: A Texas death row inmate claiming innocence is demanding authorities conduct more thorough DNA testing of evidence gathered at the crime scene.
THE CASE: Henry "Hank" Skinner, 47, was convicted of the New Year's Eve 1993 killings of his live-in girlfriend and her two adult sons. The justices issued a stay less than 30 minutes before his scheduled March 24 execution.
THE ARGUMENTS: In a recent death row interview, Skinner told CNN that if he loses this appeal, an innocent man will be put to death. He claims that new analysis of certain untested DNA samples would clear him and determine the real killer. The state says he is not entitled to testing of evidence that was not analyzed before his 1995 trial. It also claims the wealth of forensic evidence available -- evidence reviewed repeatedly by various state and federal courts -- points to his undeniable guilt.
IMPACT: What if an executed prisoner is later found to be innocent? Other inmates have recently pushed "actual innocence claims," prompted by growing use of DNA testing on old evidence. A court ruling could make such claims easier or harder to pursue in the future.
VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES - Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants (08-1448) (arguments on Tuesday, November 2)
AT ISSUE: A free speech dispute over a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children.
THE CASE: A 2005 state law -- designed to strengthen the current industry-controlled rating system -- would have placed an outright ban on the sale or rental of games deemed excessively "violent" to those under 18.
As defined by California, such interactive games are those in which the player is given the choice of "killing, maiming, dismembering or sexually assaulting an image of a human being" in offensive ways. Retailers could be fined up to $1,000 for any violation. The law is in limbo pending the high court's ruling.
THE ARGUMENTS: Video game makers said the ban goes too far against their free speech rights, and the existing industry-imposed, nationwide voluntary ratings system is an adequate screen for parents to judge the appropriateness of computer games. The state says it has a legal obligation to protect children when the industry has failed to do so.
THE IMPACT: The motion picture industry has its own self-monitoring ratings system, imposed decades ago after complaints that some films were too explicit for the general audience in what was seen and heard. A high court ruling allowing greater government control over the evaluation of expressive content could be applied to other media.
The Supreme Court in recent years has thwarted repeated congressional attempts to protect children from pornography, saying such legislation went too far in limiting adult access to lawful but explicit sexual content on the internet. The court has also said in various contexts that minors enjoy a variety of free-expression rights.
SCHOOLS-RELIGION- Arizona Christian School Tuition Org. v. Winn (09-987); Garriott v. Winn (09-991) (arguments Wednesday, November 3)
AT ISSUE: A lawsuit challenging Arizona's tax breaks for donations to private school scholarships.
THE CASE: The 13-year-old program provides dollar-for-dollar income tax writeoffs for donations to organizations providing aid covering school tuition. Some Arizona taxpayers have challenged the program as unconstitutional, because religious organizations award most of the scholarships and require children to enroll in religious schools.
THE ARGUMENTS: The suit says the program amounts to an unconstitutional state endorsement of religion. But in 2002, the Supreme Court upheld school voucher programs, and supporters of the Arizona measure say it is no different from a Cleveland, Ohio, program permitted eight years ago. In both cases, the government does not direct any money to religious schools.
THE IMPACT: Taken separately, disputes over education and religion are among the most contentious issues the high court faces. This case has become a hotly contested political and legal fight. The program's supporters call it "private charity," saying it has been a boon to school choice; contributions have risen to the tens of millions of dollars. Opponents call it a government spending program, and claim that private schools serve as willing state surrogates.
IMMIGRATION REFORM - Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting (09-115) (arguments Wednesday, December 8)
AT ISSUE: Do federal immigration laws trump state efforts to crack down on businesses that hire illegal aliens?
THE CASE: In 2007, Arizona passed the Legal Arizona Workers Act, allowing the state to suspend the licenses of businesses that "intentionally or knowingly" violate work-eligibility verification requirements. Companies would be required under that law to use E-Verify, a federal database to check the documentation of current and prospective employees.
THE ARGUMENTS: In its lawsuit, the Chamber of Commerce argues federal law prohibits Arizona and other states from making E-Verify use mandatory. The state argues its broad licensing authority gives it the right to monitor businesses within its jurisdiction. The Obama administration recommended review.
IMPACT: This case could serve as a bellwether to a larger, more controversial state immigration law from Arizona. That statute was tossed out by a federal judge in August and is currently pending at a federal appeals court. It would, among other things, give police authority to check a person's immigration status if officers have a "reasonable suspicion" that individual is in the country illegally.
Kagan has withdrawn from the E-Verify case after her earlier involvement in the appeal process while serving as the solicitor general in the Obama administration.
Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) proposed legislation that would allow a retired Supreme Court justice to sit on the high court if an existing justice recuses himself or herself from a case.
"Under the proposed bill, the active justices of the Supreme Court would be permitted to vote to designate a retired Supreme Court justice," a statement on Leahy's website says.
"The proposed legislation would also allow the Court to preempt potential 4-4 split decisions, in which the decision of a lower court stands."
CNN's Kate Bolduan contributed to this report.


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ESEA Deal Opens (Trap?) Door for Use of Noncognitive Measures in Accountability
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By Evie Blad
Boosters of school climate, student engagement, and social-emotional learning should be closely watching the debate over replacing the federal No Child Left Behind law with a shiny, new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
That's because a late-stage draft for the proposed bill, which is due up soon for votes in both chambers of Congress, calls for states to incorporate factors beyond standardized test scores into their accountability systems.
But is that putting the noncognitive cart before the horse? In the past, big-name researchers of traits like grit, persistence, and growth mindsets have all said such factors should not be measured for accountability purposes, at least until more sophisticated measures can be developed. It's an issue worthy of further exploration.
The proposed ESEA bill would give states big discretion on accountability.
If you haven't been reading the amazing, comprehensive coverage of my colleagues at Education Week's Politics K-12, I recommend you check it out (as soon as you finish reading this post, that is). Politics K-12 posted a great cheat sheet this morning, breaking down what we know about the proposed new ESEA.
That post includes a link to draft language of the bill, which says state accountability systems would be required to include "not less than one indicator of school quality or student success that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance and is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide, which may include measures of - (I) Student engagement; (II) Educator engagement; (III) Student access to and completion of advanced coursework; (IV) Postsecondary readiness; (V) School climate and safety; and (VI) any other indicator the state chooses that meets the requirements of this clause."
That seems pretty broad. And it's not unreasonable to assume that states could use the "any other indicator" language to support inclusion of students' social and emotional skills, grit, or growth mindsets in their accountability models. Under a unique local-level waiver from the current version of No Child Left Behind, a group of California districts is developing a system that does just that.
This is a big win for 'whole child' advocates, right?
It's easy to see why some would frame it that way. Some education leaders and policy folks have argued for years that test scores provide too narrow a view of school success and ignore all of the hard work teachers must do to nurture the non-academic traits students need to succeed in school and in life outside of the classroom. Recently, some philanthropy groups have funded work to develop new measures for these traits, arguing that, in education, what's not counted doesn't count.
But some may also argue that the proposed new federal education bill may encourage states to judge schools with flawed measures.
That's because researchers who've popularized this work have consistently warned that current measures of student traits are imprecise, imperfect, and subject to all kinds of biases. Or, as researchers Angela Duckworth and David Yeager put it in a May essay "perfectly unbiased, unfakeable, and error-free measures are an ideal, not a reality."
Duckworth, a University of Pennsylvania associate professor of psychology known for her research on grit, and Yeager, an assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Texas at Austin who focuses on growth mindsets, detailed an array of biases that can affect current measures of student traits and skills, making them less accurate.
In surveys, a common tool for measuring student growth in these areas, the comparative examples respondents use to gauge personal growth in some areas may lead to different results from similar respondents, an effect called reference bias, the researchers wrote.
"Current data and theory suggest schools that promote personal qualities most—and raise the standards by which students and teachers at that school make comparative judgments—may show the lowest scores and be punished, whereas schools that are least effective may receive the highest scores and be rewarded for ineffectiveness," they wrote.
And Carol Dweck, the Stanford professor whose work on growth mindsets has caused many schools to rethink their approach to student engagement, told me earlier this month that she believes using mindset measures in accountability will lead to the use of shallow interventions that don't really help students.
Double yikes.
Education leaders and researchers seem more comfortable using measures of school climate in accountability, or at least as a tool to compare the strengths and weaknesses of various schools. After all, when it comes to ensuring if a student feels safe and supported, perception is reality. That's why districts like Cleveland use data from "conditions of learning" surveys to track their school climate and social-emotional learning efforts. But those efforts don't include penalties or additional requirements for schools that don't perform well.
And there are climate and culture-related data that schools already measure consistently that could be used to trace these factors for accountability purposes: suspension rates, reports of bullying, and chronic absenteeism to name a few.
The big question seems to be what factors states will use in this big, ambiguous category, how they will choose to measure those traits, and what criteria will be used to determine if those measures are "valid, reliable, and comparable."
What do you think? Is the inclusion of "other indicators" in the draft bill language a good thing? Or is it too much too soon?
Related reading on school climate, student engagement, and social-emotional learning:
- Study Measures Which Teaching Traits Boost Student Agency, Mindsets
- Walton Family Foundation Invests in Research on Measuring Grit, Character
- Carol Dweck Revisits the 'Growth Mindset'
- 'Nation's Report Card' to Gather Data on Grit, Mindset
- Urban Districts Embrace Social-Emotional Learning
- What Do Students Need to Succeed? Guide Helps Educators Navigate the Research
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Everything moved faster for Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears offense Tuesday at minicamp practice — including the new coach.
Everything moved faster for Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears offense Tuesday at minicamp practice — including the new coach.
The new, up-tempo offense came complete with Marc Trestman running all over the field, up and down the sidelines, to get his point across to players in a high-energy style the Bears aren't used to seeing from their head coach.
"That's just how I have been doing it," said Trestman, who came to the Bears from the CFL's Montreal Alouettes after the firing of Lovie Smith. "I like football and like moving around and making sure people are running to the ball and that is kind of how I have done it."
Cutler liked the new approach.
"It was faster," he said. "We were in and out of the huddle. I think we wanted to try to create as game-like an atmosphere as possible. A lot of plays, in and out."
The changes included shorter drops by Cutler to throw, the ball getting out quicker and less complicated pass routes. It's just the opposite of the passing game the Bears used the last three years, and Cutler seemed to like it. It could mean fewer sacks for a quarterback among the most harried in the NFL the last three seasons.
"We're going to protect the quarterback and get rid of the ball as fast as we can," Cutler said. "We want to get the ball to the play makers. That's where we're going to make our money, getting them the ball fast and letting them make plays for us."
Cutler has the difficult task of learning a new offense in a contract year. He admitted he's been watching with interest the other deals for QBs around the league, including Joe Flacco's six-year, $120 million contract with Baltimore.
"It doesn't make me mad," Cutler said. "You know, there's some big numbers being thrown out there. You can't get ahead of yourself. We've got to win games to sign those contracts. I'm in my last year obviously. I'm sure everybody knows that. We'll play it out and see how it goes."
The Bears were without wide receiver Brandon Marshall as he recovers from a minor hip surgery, and kicker Robbie Gould missed practice after spending the final three games last season sidelined with a calf injury. Devin Hester, the NFL's all-time touchdown return leader who has doubled as a receiver for six seasons, stood on the sidelines watching the offense and participated only when special teams required him to return punts or kicks.
He won't be a receiver in this offense
"Devin is going to focus on being our returner," Trestman said. "He's got to be the returner for him to be here (with the team) and once that is locked into place, which we expect that it will, then we'll see where it goes from there. But we made a collective decision organizationally. I talked with the guys who have been here. (GM) Phil (Emery) and I had a long conversation about it."
Trestman called it letting Hester "get back to doing what he does best first."
Among the other changes players are getting used to: Brian Urlacher will not be with the team after 13 years.
"I'm very appreciative of the effort and attitude they've had since we've been back," Emery said. "Guys like Lance Briggs have stepped up ... said some very good things. Tim Jennings. That's all been very positive with the players. At the end of the day, all NFL players know that there's a ceiling to how long they can play, and they grab every day, and I know that these guys want to win championships and that's what's important to them."
Also Tuesday, the Bears have signed guard-tackle Eben Britton to a one-year contract. The 6-foot-6, 308-pound Britton started 30 of 38 games in four seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Last season, Britton started five of 11 games with Jacksonville, all at left guard.


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About three dozen participants in this weekend's Pittsburgh Marathon will be runners who weren't able to finish last month's Boston Marathon due to the bombings.
Marathon spokeswoman Kelsey Jackson said race sponsor Dick's Sporting Goods is paying transportation and lodging costs to help the 37 runners participate Sunday.
"A lot of them are raising money for charities in Boston," Jackson said. "They wanted to stick with their commitment and are coming to Pittsburgh to finish the race."
Most of the runners, who are from as far away as Alaska, are taking part in the full marathon although a few are running the half-marathon.
Jackson said some were within the final mile when the course was closed due to the bombings.
"To not be able to finish, we understand how disappointing that was," Dave Natale of Dick's Sporting Goods told KDKA-TV. "We felt it was really important for us to step up."
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A moment of silence is planned at the start line before the race begins Sunday morning. About 26,000 runners are expected to take part in the marathon, half-marathon and relay race.
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$8,600 for a pair and a full one year warranty.
I wish them good luck with them but at that price point contractors will look at more modern, smaller and lighter designs. Too bad. We can all come back in a year and see if they are still in the Altec line. At $8600 a pair and only a year warranty, nostalgia alone won't guarantee it's success.
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I am sure that their market is not professional sound contractors. I am not sure who is their market. Collectors want originals, and the audiophiles who like the A-7 sound are a very small number who either already have originals or don't have room for them anyway. I really can't imagine that they sell more than a handful worldwide.
In 1995 Schwinn reproduced their 1955 Black Phantom bicycle. They did a fantastic job making some of the parts here with the remainder being made to original specifications using original drawings or actual tooling in Asia.
The retail price was $3000. While it seemed high, it was commensurate with production cost. They sold a few at that price and eventually had to discount the rest.
I will be shocked if Altec doesn't discover the same thing.
for $8600 they better get stereophile mag to tout it as the BEST speaker ever made! They wont have many customers, pro or consumer, at this pricepoint!
Then again, maybe they will. who knows what will sell.
Last edited by scott fitlin; 05-24-2003 at 03:33 PM.
Have so much Altec equipment including five A5-7 cabs. It's better than money in the bank.
I guess used cabinets just became a bargain!
I have two A-7,s in storage.
I use four 816,s, two 815,s and two 817A,s.
In theory im sitting on Ft Knox!
They are claiming this system to be HIGH efficiency! Its rated at 97db sensitivity.
I just went through the heritage,s library and the A5X was rated at 104db measured 4` on axis.
The AX7 was 101db measured 4` on axis!
The afforementioned systems ALL utilize 515 series woofers.
Depending on which vintage systems specs you come up with a difference in sensitivity of either 4db or a WHOPPING 7db more than the NEW $8600 A7 from Altec Pro!
Why? I dont consider 97db to be high efficiency, rather medium efficiency!
It seems to me a very HUGE difference.
I would have to hear these first. I dont mean to party poop, but I went through ALL the VOTT and driver literature located right here in AH,s amazing library, and all the drivers and cabinet combinations seem to be rated for considerably higher sensitivity.
In the 1989 catalog the 515-8G is rated for 103-107db depending on what cabinet they are in. In earlier catalogs 515B, 515E, and 515LFE are rated for 99db sensitivity! So once loaded into a proper horn enclosure this should give even higher acoustic sensitivity. So, how does an A7 with a 515-8G and a 902 driver w/ 511 mid/high top horn only make acoustic sensitivity of ONLY 97db?
Is everything I ever learned about audio completely incorrect these days? And is the literature provided in OUR library incorrect? I know years ago the beauty of Altec was the fact they were the MOST efficient speakers and driver components on this planet. This NEWER stuff doesnt seem to be as efficient. Just my opinions. Lets hear from the rest of you, I want to hear other peoples point of veiw.
And, just to say so, they also make mention of being able to use low powered Vacuum tube amps to drive the new A7,s! Well, lets say you ARE using a flea powered SET amp. That 4-7db difference makes all the difference in the world. You tell me.
I aint sold!
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I noticed the rated efficiency difference too. It could be a difference in measurement technique, or perhaps they have lowered the midrange output.
The A7-500 is rated at 45-20KHz
This A-7 is 35-22KHz
The driver compliment is also different than the A7-500 in my mid 70's catalog.
Good luck to them.
correct me if Im wrong but the 416 woofer was considered to be the medium efficiency woofer in their theatre and pro line, and ITS sensitivity is 97db!
The 515 went from 99-104 depending on which model 515. But NONE of the 515,s were lower than 99db!
Now the 421 MI series. Well, these were just the MOST efficient ever. Watt for watt they produced more SPL than everything! It had a distinct, though not accurate sound.
What Im getting at is that THIS aint NO REAL A7. Looks like it, but aint gonna sound like it! Not at 97db acoustic output 1w at 1m!
For $8600 I WANT HIGH EFFICIENCY!
Matter of fact, how about we get high efficiency back because it happens to sound really good.
I said it before, and Ill say it again. The NEW A7 is nowhere near as efficient as their ancestors were.
Last edited by scott fitlin; 05-24-2003 at 11:02 PM.
They rate the NEW A7 as 97db 1w ( 2.83v ) @ 1m. 1m is 3.3ft as compared to the old way of measuring at a distance of 4`.
But 1w @ 1m is the standard these days and Im saying that 97db rating dont get it!
I dunno, convince me!!!!!!!!!
the ratings for the 828H cabinet loaded with a 515-8G comes in at 103db!
In the NEW A7 do they have the woofer padded down electrically in the xover? usually they do that with the horn, but not the woofer.
Anyway the 828 is the same cab as the A7 and both use 515-8G,s! Why is there a 6db difference in acoustic output? This only translates into the 828 putting out 4 times as much spl for a given input as the NEW A7!
I am not buying into this. I must say that this is beginning to remind me of TODAYS practices of making claims of products performance.
I DO NOT BUY INTO 97DB 1w@1m being high efficiency!
Hey Scott, maybe 97dB is a typo! It seems unlikely that the new 515 woofer would be so inefficient that with the gain of the bass horn it would still only be 97dB.
Just a thought.
Lets see what they have to say about it! I will call them Tuesday and get the info Im looking for! they are here in Pa. so Ill call em!
But what if it isnt a typo?
I have heard people tell me that 97db IS high efficiency. I will find out for sure though what the deal on the NEW A7 is!
And that $8600 price tag is way out of line ( IMO ) to really sell many of them!
"And that $8600 price tag is way out of line ( IMO ) to really sell many of them!"
Looking at the photos of the new A-7 I understand why the price is so high. It is expensive to cast those horns and the drivers look well made too. The cabinets are not cheap to construct either. All in all I think they have done what looks like a fantastic job recreating a legend.
Unfortunately I doubt that there are many who are willing to pay the bill. If one is willing to wait you can find perfectly fine examples of A-7s for under $1000 a pair. That will be hard to compete with.
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In 1994, a federal law was passed to help increase the number of black children being adopted — by making it easier for them to be placed with white parents. But a new report, released today found that despite the Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA), black children still disproportionately end up in temporary foster homes. Child welfare groups are arguing that the "colorblind" approach in the 1994 law has not helped black children in foster care. "Color consciousness - not 'color blindness' - should help to shape policy development," the report states. The problem is that the law prevents race from being taken into consideration during adoption decisions. For instance: White parents who would like to adopt a black child cannot be required to undergo race-oriented training because it would be "special" treatment, different from training that all prospective adoptive parents receive.
Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute in New York, which commissioned the study, has issues with this thinking. "If you're white and you're adopting a black kid, maybe you could use a little coaching on that issue as you help your kid grow up," he argues. "The law says you can't be trained to do that. Are we giving parents the optimal tools to succeed in bringing up their families?" In a word: No. But there are challenges to so-called "transracial" adoption. Before the MEPA law was passed, black children ended up staying in "temporary" foster care an average of nine months longer that white children. Social workers often attempted "race-matching," teaming white children with white families and black with black. But what is more important, the report stresses, is that white parents are prepared for life with a black child. A 2006 study found that when dark-complexioned children were adopted into white homes, "For many children… a white skin color was so desirable that they rubbed themselves with white body lotion, cream or white chalk, or, alternatively, tried to wipe off the brown color." Adopted black children in white homes may also have identity, self-esteem and discrimination issues that their new parents are not equipped to handle.
On the other hand, recruitment of black families as adoptive parents has not been very successful. "Black people are significantly poorer than white people and less likely to be in a position to come forward," says Elizabeth Bartholet, director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School. "Recruitment efforts bump up against that fact."
But since 32% of 510,000 children in foster care were black in 2006 (and only 15% of all U.S. children are black), how can we solve the problem of the disproportionate number of black kids in foster care? And should white parents who would like to adopt a black child be "trained" to care for one? Do we not trust the parents to get on-the-job training? (Angelina Jolie recently said, "A thing very important to us in the house is culture, is culture for our kids, even the color of the children in the cartoons. There's still not a Disney princess who's African, and it's very difficult because our daughter's getting into princesses right now . . . these are things we're very conscious of.") Is it hard for us to face the truth: That when it comes to adoption, love may not be enough? As Adam Pertman of the Donaldson Institute says: "The view that we can be colorblind is a wonderful, idealistic perspective, but we don't live there. If we want to do the best for the kids, we have to look at their realities."
Major Changes Urged In Transracial Adoption [AP, via MSNBC]
Study of '94 Adoption Law Finds Little Benefit To Blacks [Washington Post]
Related: Adoption Study Tackles Race [Chicago Tribune]
Jolie Takes Her Twins To The Movies [The Gazette]


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