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You could eventually have a signaling system with biosensors coupled with the drug delivery component, said Daniel Schmidt, a graduate student in chemical engineering and one of the lead authors of the paper.
Other lead authors are recent MIT PhD recipients Kris Wood, now a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Nicole Zacharia, now a postdoctoral associate at the University of Toronto.
Because the films are built layer by layer, it is easy to control their composition. They can be coated onto a surface of any size or shape, which offers more design flexibility than other drug-delivery devices that have to be microfabricated.
The drawback to microfabricated devices is that it's hard to coat the drug over a large surface area or over an area that is not planar, said Wood.
Another advantage to the films is that they are easy to mass-produce using a variety of techniques, said Hammond. These thin-film systems can be directly applied or patterned onto 3D surfaces such as medical implants.
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STUDENT-ATHLETE'S FORMS, PHYSICAL EXAM (Dated August 1st or after), UNIFORM SIZING, ETC. WILL BE COMPLETED PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF PRACTICE
– Obtain all intercollegiate forms and paperwork from athletic department
– All student-athletes must have their physical exams completed prior to August 15th
– Form 1 must be completed by August 15th
– Form C (players who live outside of the colleges recruiting area "Alameda County")
– Tracer form must be completed for those student-athletes transferring from another college
– Must be enrolled in ATHL 71 (intercollegiate volleyball) – Fall semester
– Must be enrolled in KIN 58 or 60 (strength and fitness training) – Fall semester
– Must have all paperwork completed
– Must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 academic units (enrolled in classes between 8:00am-12:00noon) – Fall semester
– Any questions, please contact Coach Thompson at (510) 388-6185
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Returning, transferring, and incoming high school players should weight train during the off season in order to be physically fit prior to volleyball practice season which begins on August 15th.
Recommend players enrolled in KIN 120 (volleyball course) and KIN 58/60 (strength and conditioning) during the Spring semester and Summer session.
Spring Non-Traditional Volleyball Season (Spring Semester):
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The NASP Model for Comprehensive and Integrated School Psychological Services, also known as the NASP Practice Model, represents NASP's official policy regarding the delivery of school psychological services. It delineates what services can reasonably be expected from school psychologists across 10 domains of practice, and the general framework within which services should be provided. The recommended ratio for schools implementing this comprehensive Model is one school psychologist to 500–700 students.
Domain 1: Data-Based Decision Making and AccountabilitySchool psychologists have knowledge of varied models and methods of assessment and data collection for identifying strengths and needs, developing effective services and programs, and measuring progress and outcomes.
Domain 2: Consultation and Collaboration School psychologists have knowledge of varied models and strategies of consultation, collaboration, and communication applicable to individuals, families, groups, and systems and methods to promote effective implementation of services.
Domain 3: Interventions and Instructional Support to Develop Academic Skills School psychologists have knowledge of biological, cultural, and social influences on academic skills; human learning, cognitive, and developmental processes; and evidence-based curricula and instructional strategies.
Domain 4: Interventions and Mental Health Services to Develop Social and Life Skills School psychologists have knowledge of biological, cultural, developmental, and social influences on behavior and mental health, behavioral and emotional impacts on learning and life skills, and evidence-based strategies to promote social–emotional functioning and mental health.
Domain 5: School-Wide Practices to Promote LearningSchool psychologists have knowledge of school and systems structure, organization, and theory; general and special education; technology resources; and evidence-based school practices that promote learning and mental health.
Domain 6: Preventive and Responsive Services School psychologists have knowledge of principles and research related to resilience and risk factors in learning and mental health, services in schools and communities to support multitiered prevention, and evidence-based strategies for effective crisis response.
Domain 7: Family–School Collaboration Services School psychologists have knowledge of principles and research related to family systems, strengths, needs, and culture; evidence-based strategies to support family influences on children's learning and mental health; and strategies to develop collaboration between families and schools.
Domain 8: Diversity in Development and Learning School psychologists have knowledge of individual differences, abilities, disabilities, and other diverse student characteristics; principles and research related to diversity factors for children, families, and schools, including factors related to culture, context, and individual and role difference; and evidence-based strategies to enhance services and address potential influences related to diversity.
Domain 9: Research and Program Evaluation School psychologists have knowledge of research design, statistics, measurement, varied data collection and analysis techniques, and program evaluation sufficient for understanding research and interpreting data in applied settings.
Domain 10: Legal, Ethical, and Professional Practice School psychologists have knowledge of the history and foundations of school psychology; multiple service models and methods; ethical, legal, and professional standards; and other factors related to professional identity and effective practice as school psychologists.
The NASP practice model is framed on six organizational principles that reflect and link to the broader organizational principles of effective schools. These principles are summarized below.
Principle 1. Services are coordinated and delivered in a comprehensive and seamless continuum that considers the needs of consumers and utilizes an evidence-based program evaluation model.
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In 1994 Roger Salquist, then Calgene's CEO, complained that delays in printing his FDA approval in the Federal Register had forced him to plow under several fields of his genetically engineered Flavr Savr tomatoes. Well, the Federal Register is now on-line. The result: dramatic reduction in publication times, from months down to just two or three days. But now there are logjams of up to six weeks in the federal agencies where the approvals must be typed before they are forwarded to the register's revved-up publishers. "We're no longer waiting for the printing presses," says D.C. lawyer Paul Hyman. "Now we're waiting for the typing pool."
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Rio trustees call for investigation into alleged corruption
Two Rio trustees have accused the rest of their board of political corruption, bribery and conflict of interest and have asked law enforcement, the District Attorney's Office and the county Grand Jury to investigate.
Board members Tim Blaylock and Mike Barber sent a letter to District Attorney Greg Totten, Oxnard Police Chief Jeri Williams, Sheriff Geoff Dean and the Grand Jury to request an investigation into trustees Henrietta Macias, Ramon Rodriguez and board President Eleanor Torres.
"From our review of the campaign finance reports filed by these three board members and other information provided to us, we suspected there were irregularities and possible illegal acts committed on the part of these three board members. We now believe our suspicions were correct," Blaylock and Barber's letter says.
"Mike and I would really like to see an investigation happen. We feel like there's some things that need to be looked into," Blaylock said. "We've done a lot of homework and we want to bring this to the forefront."
Their board colleagues, however, say the allegations are meritless.
"I'm really just saddened by Barber and Blaylock that they want to continue to find something negative about the three of us," Torres said. "We're not here to fight each other. We're here to try to make this district go forward."
Blaylock said the letter was sent to the agencies last week, including copies to state Attorney General Kamala Harris, the state Fair Political Practices Commission and others. A copy also was sent to The Star.
The DA's office said it has received the letter but declined further comment. In the sheriff's office, the letter was assigned to the investigative bureau to determine any next steps, officials said.
The letter says a resident came forward after the three board members voted to terminate Superintendent Sherianne Cotterell's contract. The resident, apparently a Rio school board candidate who lost to the three in November, saidthe board decision fulfilled a promise made to get financial support for the three trustees' campaigns, according to the letter.
At a special meeting March 2, Macias, Torres and Rodriguez voted to start the process of terminating Cotterell's contract without cause. The move came three months after four new trustees were sworn in after being elected to the five-member board.Now finally, a member of the community had the courage to contact me and come forward.
Blaylock, the only remaining member of the former board, voted against the move. Barber, who also supported Cotterell, was absent that night.
The board's decision came amid criticism of Cotterell's misdemeanor conviction on shoplifting charges last year and a long-strained relationship between the teachers union and school district administration.
Torres, Macias and Rodriguez were supported by several groups during the fall campaign, including employee labor unions and a political action committee called Macias, Rodriguez, Torres & Sevilla for Rio School Board 2010.
Records show the committee was funded by two $10,000 donations from FTR International Inc., a construction company involved in a long-standing lawsuit against the district.
The committee spent thousands of dollars on candidates Macias, Rodriguez, Torres and Mayra Sevilla. Much of the money was reported as independent expenditures, such as fliers and signs made outside the candidates' control.
Blaylock and Barber's letter says they believe the committee donations were bribery. "The committee offered a bribe to candidates who then acted on that bribe as well as voting on a matter which, given the quid pro quo behind it, violated California's laws against public officials' conflict of interest," their letter states.
Committee representatives disputed that. There never was any quid pro quo, said Jim Pearson, the committee's assistant treasurer and husband of a Rio teacher. And political action committees typically focus on specific issues and support candidates who share their positions.
Blaylock and Barber's letter does not say if FTR wanted Cotterell gone.
"FTR contributed to the Reform Rio Committee for one and only one reason," FTR Vice President John Saliba said in an email Thursday. "We wanted to support the committee's goal of keeping our publicly elected officials accountable to the communities that they serve."Torres, Rodriguez and Macias all said they made no promises in return for financial support. Macias said she was the only one of the three who maintained throughout the campaign that Cotterell should be fired.
"Whenever I spoke, ... I said it wasn't my job to come in and fire somebody. It was my job to come in and help the kids," Rodriguez said. "Never did I say that I was going to come out and fire her."
Rodriguez didn't accept any direct donations from the committee and wasn't initially supported by it. He also refused to hand out fliers with other candidates' names on them, he said. "I said there was no way I was going to do that because I don't know who these other people are."
Later, the committee did endorse him. Rodriguez said he didn't know about FTR and its connection to the committee until contacted by a news reporter before the election.
In addition to the independent expenditures, Torres got a $500 loan from the committee but said she paid it back and asked to dissolve her relationship with the group as soon as she learned it was funded by FTR.
When the group originally asked her if she wanted its endorsement, "I thought, 'Sure, because the more exposure I got out there, the better,' " she said.
Macias, who received $950 in contributions along with the independent expenditures, said she doesn't see a problem with it. There were never any promises made in return for the funding, she said.
While Barber and Blaylock didn't name the resident who came forward in their letter, they attached a statement from Ray Amaro, one of the unsuccessful Rio candidates in November.
Amaro also received a donation from the committee, of $500, but was not included in the slate of candidates on the signs and mailers. He initially was supported by the committee but later was dropped.
He said he thinks it was because he stuck to his position of wanting to investigate whether the superintendent should stay or not, instead of preparing to fire her.
Committee members never told him that directly, he said in an interview. Members told him he was dropped because he sounded "militant" in speeches. But conversations with the committee focused on Cotterell and how she had to go, Amaro said.
Amaro said he came forward after trustees voted to terminate Cotterell's contract, and he later agreed to meet with Cotterell and Barber.
Cotterell said she has tried for five years "to stand up to and expose the corruption and dishonesty of a small group of people that for many years has dominated business in Rio."
"Now finally, a member of the community had the courage to contact me and come forward," she wrote in an email.
Torres said she welcomes an investigation. "I want it to happen so that we can finally put this to sleep," she said.
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Oct. 16, 2006 | One of the biggest stumbling blocks to the success of text mining remains the firewall that surrounds full-text archives. "It is the restricted access to the full text of papers and to citation information, rather than the technology, that is currently the greatest limitation, despite some encouraging open-access initiatives," EMBL bioinformaticist Peer Bork and colleagues wrote in Nature Reviews Genetics earlier this year.
Access to the full text often requires exorbitant subscriptions to publishing powerhouses such as Elsevier, Wiley, and others. The open-access movement, which fueled the launch of the Public Library of Science in 2002, has persuaded some publishers to partially open their archives - but most new papers remain off limits to non-subscribers.
Some of QUOSA's customers have done benchmarking, including one whom MacKenzie says compared full-text versus abstract text mining for protein-protein and protein-drug reactions, and retrieved 25-100 times more useful factoids out of full-text sources. Would more publishers going the open-access route reduce the need for QUOSA? "Open access is just another silo through which you get journal access," says MacKenzie. "The better access there is to full articles, the more people can take advantage of what we do."
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) recently announced an interesting experiment - an effort to enhance machine access to full text literature by proposing a standard content annotation called the Open Text Mining Interface (OTMI), which was first presented by NPG web publishing director Timo Hannay at Bio-IT World's 2006 annual conference.
The XML format of OTMI reorders each paper's sentences alphabetically, rendering the product unreadable to humans while allowing full-text searching of intact sentences. It's what Hannay calls "a potential compromise between business needs and open access." Hannay says he hopes all publishers will adopt OTMI or a similar standard to open up the entire literature for text mining.
One fan is Tim O'Reilly, who says, "It immediately struck me as 'slap your forehead brilliantly obvious...' I love the cleverness of this approach, which lets machines make use of the content in ways that human readers can't. I like it. You might consider it a "copyright hack.' "
Hannay says there's been considerable early interest from other publishers and text-mining researchers. This fall, NPG will roll out OTMI files for much of the Nature archives and encourage people to play with it. NPG is also launching a collaborative website to open up development of the specification and share tools. "Ideally, we want OTMI to become a de facto community standard (and perhaps in time a more formal standard). NPG has no desire to 'own' it," says Hannay. -- K.D.
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ANDERSON - Tina Brown was awakened by the sounds of shattering glass and her daughter's shrieks.
She realized that someone was shooting at her home on Riley Street south of Anderson when two more bullets went through the living room.
"I put my son on the floor and sent my daughter into the closet to call the police," Brown said Thursday.
A total of four shots hit her house around 5 a.m. on Feb. 29, according to a report from the Anderson County Sheriff's Office. Two .38-caliber bullets struck the bedroom where Brown was sleeping with 4-year-old Tyler and 16-year-old Jenna. One round missed Jenna by a few inches. The other wound up in the bathtub.
"It was God that kept my family alive," Brown said.
Brown, a 37-year-old local restaurant manager, said she has no clue why anyone would shoot at her home.
Investigators think that Brown's house may have been made a target by mistake, sheriff's spokesman Chad McBride said Thursday.
McBride said Anderson Area Crime Stoppers is offering reward for information regarding the case. People can contact Crime Stoppers by calling (888) CRIME-SC (274-6372) or visiting www.andersonareacrimestoppers.com.
The shooting scared Brown. Now she won't let her children sit near windows and they have stuffed blankets and a cutting board between the bedroom wall and her bed's headboard.
"That sense of not being able to protect my family — that is the most horrifying feeling," she said.
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Over the past year there has been a proliferation of running events in Carbon County. "Seems like everyone wants to hold a run to benefit their cause," said Recreation Director Steve Christensen.
Carbon County and Price City are implementing a policy to control these events. "I'm personally thrilled people are interested in events that promote physical fitness," said Christensen. However, there have been so many events some are getting in the way of others. In three instances this year there has been more than one event on a single day.
In an attempt to make sure all events have a reasonable chance of being successful, Carbon Rec is implementing a running calendar. The calendar for 2014 will be established on Nov. 19 in a 10 a.m. meeting at the Carbon Rec office. "We are asking everyone who wants to hold a running event next year to come to the meeting and get on the calendar," Christensen said. There will be some new requirements for holding an event. Those will be explained at the Nov. 19 meeting.
Events that have been held in previous years will be given priority to get on the calendar first. First-time events will need to find a date that does not conflict with scheduled events. No event may be scheduled within 10 days of a previously scheduled event.
While this is being implemented by Carbon County and Price City, other areas in the county and even Emery County are being asked to participate. "No one is telling anyone you can't have a event," said Christensen. "We just want everyone to have a reasonable chance of being successful."
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Forgotten Hope 2 is an award-winning World War II modification for Battlefield 2TM and is based on the original Forgotten Hope, a modification for Battlefield 1942TM, one of the most popular multiplayer games ever. Battlefield 1942TM featured land, sea and air combat in a way never before seen. It was the goal of the development team to maximize the game experience by adding both a realistic and enjoyable gameplay to FH and now to FH2.
A render of the M1910 Maxim watercooled machinegun, and news on a server patch.
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Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.
Today we have details of a server patch, as well as a render of an important Soviet weapon: the M1910 Maxim machine gun!
The first Maxim gun had been demonstrated in 1884 by inventor Hiram Maxim, and would go on to serve in many European armies in various colonial conquests. The Imperial Russian army adopted a modified version in 1910, chambered in the standard 7.62x54mmR rifle cartridge. This design would go on to serve with the Red Army well into the 1960s. In that time, a few improvements were made, such as adding the ability to feed from metal belts as well as the older cloth belts, as well as the distinctive larger water filling port copied from Finnish Maxims that allowed the shroud to be filled with snow.
The M1910 was mounted on either the Vladimorov mount designed in 1939 or like our example: a 1910 designed Sokolov mount. The wheels allowed the gun to be easily manoeuvred despite its heavy weight, and the mount also had legs that could be extended to make it taller (although these were later deleted to save construction time). Each gun was also issued with a gun shield, though in the field these were often abandoned to save weight. The M1910 Maxim was made by Pointblank
Now for information concerning our server patch. For those curios as to what has changed, they can see a short changelog here.
Remember that if you do not administer a server, you do not need to download this. The files can be found here.
Our winners for this week's screenshot competition is McCloskey. You can view the winning submission here.
We are now accepting entries for the week of September 24th. If you think you have the best FH2 screenshot, post them here.
That's all for this week, but be sure to come back next time for another update. Until then, feel free to visit our IRC channel, our public forums, and/or our Twitter and Facebook pages to discuss this update and other news.
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In my opinion, the PTRS-41 doesn't look that awesome (I mean, in real life, not in game), but I'm sure it will be quite usefull when facing German tanks :-D


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A substantial number of older adults in long-term care have cognitive impairment, mood disturbances, movement disorders, or a combination of these. A 2006 study of nearly 200 elderly residents of assisted living facilities in Maryland, for example, found that 68% met criteria for dementia and 24% for depression.1 Cognitive, mood, and movement disorders often coexist in older adults in both institutional and community settings. Whether these disorders share an underlying biological basis was the subject of a recent conference initiated by the American Geriatrics Society and funded by grants from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the John A. Hartford Foundation. The two-and-a-half-day conference "Thinking, Moving, and Feeling: Common Underlying Mechanisms?" was the first in a new series of AGS/NIA "Bedside to Bench" research conferences. The conferences focus on important but poorly understood problems of aging that have been identified by clinicians "at bedside." "Older adults have coexisting problems with thinking, moving, and mood more often than is recognized, and this triad of problems can have greater impact on disability and survival than any of them alone," says Joe Verghese, MD, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a member of the AGS and the committee that planned the September conference on thought, affect, and movement disorders. "While not yet well understood, the simultaneous occurrence of these problems could be due to shared underlying mechanisms which may interact." Potential underlying contributors include disorders of nutrient and energy metabolism, anemia, inflammation, hormonal effects, problems with circulation or nerve cell growth and repair, or altered sleep patterns, according to the researchers attending the September conference. "These underlying factors may even interact to cause injury to distinct parts of the brain and the rest of the aging body that contribute to this triad of problems," says Stephanie Studenski, MD, who is heading the new three-session "Bedside to Bench" series. Past chair of the AGS Research Committee, Dr. Studenski is a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Treating hypertension may help prevent the onset of all three disorders, and exercises or activities, particularly those with an element of social interaction, may also be helpful, researchers at the conference noted. Other possible interventions include treatments to address low-level inflammation, and new interventions aimed at stimulating nerve cell communication and repair. Greater awareness of the co-occurrence of cognitive, affect, and movement disorders—not only among researchers and clinicians but also among older adults and their family members—is critical to progress with the recognition, treatment, and prevention of this triad, says Dr. Studenski. In addition, all clinical and basic scientists who study conditions and disorders related to the triad should investigate aspects of all three disorders, those at the conference agreed. Better animal models must also be developed to facilitate study of the underlying biology of these disorders, and clinical trials of potential preventive and therapeutic interventions should assess all three. A conference report on "Thinking, Moving, and Feeling" will be published on the AGS website, at www.americangeriatrics.org, with a shorter summary of the proceedings submitted to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Conference findings will also be presented during AGS' 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, DC. The May session on the findings is slated for 12:30-2:00 pm. (More information about the Annual Scientific Meeting is available at www.americangeriatrics.org/news/meeting/2008/index.shtml.) The second in the new series of "Bedside to Bench" conferences, "Idiopathic Fatigue of Aging: Definitions, Epidemiology and Potential Mechanisms: Implications for Prevention and Treatment," is scheduled for Fall 2008. The third, "Inflammation and Nutrient Metabolism," is planned for the Fall 2009. The initial series of three annual "Bedside to Bench" conferences began in 2004 and ended last year. The AGS Research Committee, under the leadership of Drs. Douglas Kiel, Mark Supiano, and Linda Fried, conceived and initiated the conferences. Regards, ‹ Previous articleNext article ›


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The eurozone should move to a banking union and consider directly recapitalizing banks from its permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, says the European Commission.
Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told a news conference that tighter eurozone integration could include a banking union, a joint bank deposit guarantee scheme and euro-area financial supervision, saying the mood had changed since member states only months ago unanimously rejected a joint deposit guarantee fund.
The call for a banking union was made in the commission's annual economic recommendations, outlining the economic strategy for the eurozone and particularly addressing the burning issue with Spanish debt, has sent stocks and the euro higher.
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The cell adhesion process and cellular interactions with extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins were quantitatively evaluated using a thickness shear mode (TSM) sensor. The sensor can sensitively detect changes in mechanical properties on the sensor surface, which is contributed to the progression of cell adhesion. For understanding cell-surface interactions, specific effects of receptor-mediated adhesion, the glycocalyx, and surface charge on initial cell-surface attachment and steady state adhesion of bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAECs) were investigated. The strong correlation between resistance changes (∆R) and the development of cell adhesion strength by comparing the sensor readings with independently assessed cell adhesion was demonstrated. The result showed that integrin binding determines the kinetics of initial cell attachment while heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) modulates steady state adhesion strength. Coating the sensor surface with the positively charged poly-D-lysine (PDL) enhanced the initial interaction with substratum. In order to relate sensor data to the adhesion of the cells, we performed independent measures of cell spreading and adhesion strength. The adhesive interactions of human mammary epithelial cells, MCF-10A, with a fibronectin coated sensor were altered by overexpressing Her2/Neu oncogene and by blocking integrin function with soluble GRGDS. Correlation of ΔR with cell spreading and adhesion measurements revealed three phases: adhesion, spreading and structural reorganization. In the initial adhesion phase, ΔR increases rapidly as the cells bind to the substratum and began to flatten. The rate of change of ΔR in this phase is proportional to the adhesion strength as determined by a spinning disk assay. As the cells spread beyond their initial projected area, ΔR increased in proportion to the change in area. In the final phase, as the cells approach their final spread area, further increases in ΔR reflect structural changes, possibly indicating maturation of cytoskeleton and focal adhesion formation. In order to see the effect of cell deformability on the initial adhesion, the elastic modulus of spherical cells were evaluated. Normal and oncogene expressing cells were compressed with the flat surface of the hemisphere which was attached to the AFM cantilever. The calculation of Young�s moduli showed that oncogene expressing cells were more compliant than normal cells (1.09kPa�0.36 vs. 2.95kPa�0.34), which were reflected to the initial increase of ∆R. The real time monitoring capability of this technique with high temporal resolution provides more detailed information on the kinetics of the different stages of the adhesion process. The analysis of adhesion properties of normal versus transformed mammary epithelia correlates with changes in integrin expression, demonstrating the usefulness of TSM sensor measurement system for understanding adhesion characteristics in real time as it relates to phenotypic variations.
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While Americans' number one source of antioxidants is from coffee, Dr. Oz says there are better hot beverages out there, like green tea. Another great tea option is white tea. "It's not new—it's very old—and [has] been used for centuries for healing purposes."
White tea is from the same plant as green tea, but it's produced in a different way. While green tea is made of leaves dried to the point where the tea will be dark in color, white tea is made from an immature plant bud that isn't dried at all. Instead of steeping the leaves, white tea is steamed. Dr. Oz says the potential for medicinal benefits of white tea—beyond a very small amount of caffeine as compared with other kinds of tea and coffee—comes from this lack of drying.
Dr. Oz says you should drink about four cups of green or white tea a day.
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St. Louis Restaurants: Reviews & Recommendations
Posted 01 September 2005 - 05:54 AM
1. Where can I find the best gooey buttercakes?
2. I remember someone talking about a cheap sandwich that could be gotten in Chinese restaurants throughout St Louis. Whoever mentioned it said it was peculiar to St Louis. does anyone know what this is?
Posted 02 November 2005 - 04:35 PM
Favorite Chinese: Royal Chinese BBQ
Favorite Italian: Trattoria Marcella
Favorite Tapas: Modesto Tapas Bar
Favorite Mexican: Arcelia's (I've heard that there are some great restaurants on Cherokee, but don't know which)
Favorite Korean: Seoul Garden in St. Ann
Favorite Vietnamese: Bahn mi so (their special sandwich with pate, along with spring rolls are the best...)
Posted 02 November 2005 - 06:10 PM
Not terribly exciting, but good, in my neighborhood, 'cross the street from Left Bank Books and a favorite of long time St. Louis residents who also came from different places. I think it was also a favorite of the locals, the ones who ask what high school you went to after shaking hands.
Also, I remember a very good Chinese restaurant in a small strip mall off a highway where they made an amazing fried rice with shrimp and barbecued pork. (There were quite a few very good Chinese places introduced to me by a Chinese friend who had moved to St. Louis as a child.) I think there was an Indian restaurant in the strip mall on the other side of the street. How's that for precision?
Now, are you counting fresh peach concrete?
The potatoes hiss." --Sylvia Plath
Posted 03 November 2005 - 05:53 PM
Where do you go for a peach concrete? Ted Drewes? That sounds fantastic. Speaking of frozen treats, an official gelateria opened a month or two ago. It's on Manchester off McKnight, called Gelato di Riso. Their gelato machines and flavorings are shipped directly from Italy, so it's the real stuff. The pistachio flavor is out of this world, and if you're more of a fruit fan, their green apple tastes like the real thing.
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Posted 06 November 2005 - 11:14 AM
I've lived in St. Louis for the past 3+ years,
Where can one get a good fried brain sandwich? (supposedly a STL favorite)
Posted 06 November 2005 - 02:00 PM
Also like Riddles Penultimate on the DelMar Loop but haven't been there in a long time. Perhaps a local can tell me if it's still reliable?
Lastly, Zeemanb posted a rave review of Iron Barley a few weeks ago.
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Posted 06 November 2005 - 05:10 PM
And, yes, thanks, I could not remember Drewes, but during my short time living in St. Louis, I was told that I could not go through a summer in town without a visit. I loved it.
The gelato sounds like the kind we have where I live now (D.C.). While the texture is great and I feel nostalgic eating it, I have to say the fact that all the flavors are imported is a problem rather than an asset.
In Italy, the good gelaterie--whether the neighborhood one or the most famous--all brag that the product is "produzione nostra," i.e., produced in house with the expectation (not always fulfilled) that the peach in July and August is going to taste uniquely different than the peach across town and fresh from the tree versus the bottle, jar or box.
Never did the brains...nor the deep-fried ravioli.
The potatoes hiss." --Sylvia Plath
Posted 08 February 2006 - 08:30 PM
What I'm hoping for are recommendations for A) a good Irish pub or restaurant near the DT or Soulard area for a group (of about 8) for SPD night, B) fun restaurants and bars in the Laclede's Landing area that aren't too pretentious or too gimmicky, and C) a good place for brunch or lunch (maybe on the Hill) Sunday morning before we all leave.
As a group, we are all 25 (or about to turn it), and recent college grads or grad school students, and so not really rolling in it. We'll have 3-4 people driving, so it' wouldn't be a problem to drive out, but we want to try to keep the driving distance within 10 mins. of the hotel. Some of us tried a pub called McGurk's in Soulard last year and we generally liked it, but we're looking for more suggestions as a backup.
I hope this isn't repeating a thread. I checked out the other St. Louis boards, but didn't find newish stuff about the specific city areas I was looking floor.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
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Posted 01 March 2006 - 08:02 PM
An ice cream place that was sort of in a fancy restaurant in a house, where they did tableside desserts...
An Indian restaurant near the Botanical Gardens?
I was a Hostess at Boomer's in Laclede's Landing near the Arch, when there was a Salad bar there and Steely Dan type music. I was also a Hostess somewhere else around the corner, can't remember the name.
A coffee shop/folk music venue in Webster Groves.
A boat with melodrama and food, similar to something we had in Denver.
Posted 05 March 2006 - 05:05 PM
The ice cream place... Is this the place that was under the big Amoco sign? Mrs. Waspy-Sounding-Surname?
When there was a Salad bar there and Steely Dan type music.
I remember the first salad bar that I ever saw in STL was at a place called People's in the very early eighties or very late seventies. The whole family got horribly sick afterwards (we suspected the mayonnaise-based dressing). That was pretty much the beginning and end of salad bar dining for my family.
The boat with melodrama--Goldenrod Showboat?
The hippie spot in Webster... Ah, I drove by this every day on the way to school for four years.... What was the name of that place? Ah, fuzzy memories...
Posted 09 March 2006 - 09:21 PM
I have 6 people hungrily looking forward to your recommendations!
Posted 09 March 2006 - 10:12 PM
Laclede is goiing to be packed anywhere you go on Patties day but this is a link to SAuce magazine and if you look at 2005 best picks it cna give you an idea at least what people in the area voted for as good palces. Some of the picks I agree with but some of the places I personally would go to might either be pricy or out of the way. You can use their cool search engine and narrow down what you want to at least. ( by cuisine, location, ect ect..) If you don't mind puting the cash down i have heard eleven eleven is a good place to eat and the Red Moon Cafe. Not Downtown area tho. In fact alot of the good palces are closer to Central West end. or Clayton.
but you can if you must eat downtown try the Ole spaghetti factory, or drink at the morgan street brewery or Hannegans. My friend likes Giovannis on the Hill and I have heard good things about Trattoria Marcella.
Posted 10 March 2006 - 07:35 PM
Posted 11 March 2006 - 10:54 AM
(Great greasy spoon, but maybe not exactly what you're looking for. And, since my command of St. Louis geography was never good, I can't remember where it even is.)
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Posted 19 May 2006 - 02:50 PM
Seamus' is a particularly good place to get an early start, as the "Parade" (really just a bunch of Irish people walking down the street) goes through Dogtown around noon. McGurks is a bit of a zoo but is ground zero for St. Patrick's day in St. Louis.
As for the Landing it has been too long since I wasted a good portion of my youth drunk at Harpo's and Sundecker's to give any useful advice.
Posted 19 June 2006 - 07:57 PM
I am looking for recommendations for places to eat in St Louis. Somewhere either within walking distance or easy public transit from the Convention Center would be ideal. I like ALL food, and am interested in the best St. Louis has to offer.
Posted 19 June 2006 - 08:05 PM
Posted 19 June 2006 - 08:38 PM
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 09:28 AM
Ditto. I'm leaving tonight. Looking for some varied places. Something fine dining and something hole-in-the-wall, but to die for. And of course something that is essential STL.
I am looking for recommendations for places to eat in St Louis. ... I like ALL food, and am interested in the best St. Louis has to offer.
Last I read he was sous chef at Jean-Georges Restaurant in the Trump Tower.
Chef Joshua Roland is the best chef in St. Louis hands down. I'm not sure if he has opened his own place yet, but you would do well to look it up.
Hey Ronnie, I think your link is broken. Do you have the topic ID's?
You may also want to check out these threads -- some relatively current -- about St. Louis dining.
Posted 22 June 2006 - 09:53 AM
St. Louis threads
I've also gone go back and repaired the link I provided above.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 10:01 AM
Posted 22 June 2006 - 10:23 AM
I'm tricky that way.
I didn't realize you were just linking to search results for threads with the term "Louis" in the title. Thanks though, a little bit better results then I was getting from my searches.
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Posted 25 June 2006 - 05:30 PM
Going over the archives reveals a small sampling of passionate St. Louis entries, but with no focus on neighborhoods. We have, basically, an afternoon, a dinner, post-dinner and breakfast. We are passionate wine lovers, so a wine bar would be great, with knowledgable servers, a list that goes beyond Kendall Jackson, etc. We love good breakfasts, fine pastries, good coffee. Where should we go?
Posted 26 June 2006 - 09:07 AM
Central West End or Delmar Loop (U City) would provide you with most of that in a walkable format.
I'll be going to St. Louis for not much more than 36 hours. We'll be visiting the Botanic Garden, and staying at a hotel just south of Forest Park. I know St. Louis, or knew it as a youngster, but am not sure where I want to "hang out" as an adult. I'd prefer the free time we have to be spent at the best bakery in the area, the best coffee shop, the best bookstore, the nicest neighborhood breakfast place, etc. A walkable hood.
Going over the archives reveals a small sampling of passionate St. Louis entries, but with no focus on neighborhoods. We have, basically, an afternoon, a dinner, post-dinner and breakfast. We are passionate wine lovers, so a wine bar would be great, with knowledgable servers, a list that goes beyond Kendall Jackson, etc. We love good breakfasts, fine pastries, good coffee. Where should we go?
Edited to add: consider Riddle's Penultimate for a meal (lunch or dinner); wine-friendly, good food.
Edited by moosnsqrl, 26 June 2006 - 09:08 AM.
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Posted 28 June 2006 - 07:23 AM
Then you have the coveted Grand street, where all the cool asian rest are on one street. Sushi, Thai, Vietnameese, Cambodian, Chineese...ect.ect
Posted 03 July 2006 - 11:55 AM
Posted 03 July 2006 - 12:13 PM
Nadoz Cafe
Baileys' Chocolate Bar
You might, however, have better luck. Sauce magazine just released their 2006 reader's choice list.
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I WON'T criticize Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama for reducing the promised annual financial assistance to senior citizens to P6,000 from as high as P12,000. That's his prerogative.
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But I criticize him for toying with the sensibility of the city's elders. That promise to give the seniors an annual financial aid of P12,000 was made with the votes in last May's elections in mind. And it probably helped him win a second term against former mayor Tomas Osmeña, who also promised increased benefits for senior citizens if he wins.
I would even expand that criticism to the mayor's penchant for using public funds to advance political goals. It does seem like he learned much from Osmeña, his former mentor, who could not lose an election as an incumbent because of his wise use of his position as mayor to defeat all candidates who dared to run against him.
I would even say Osmeña was the original. It was during his term that City Hall started giving financial assistance not only to senior citizens but to other sectors as well. He probably was the inspiration of City Councilor Gerardo Carillo, one of his protégés, who recently proposed the giving of financial assistance to single parents.
What Rama did was continue what Osmeña conceived, after which he raised the stakes even higher.
During his first term, he distributed brand new vehicles to selected barangay captains (or selected barangay councilors if the village chief was not an ally) even if the Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK)-dominated city council had started slashing his budgetary proposals.
That jacked up the city's MOOE (maintenance and other operating expenses). Soon, the city was hard put in allocating money for the purchase of fuel.
Apparently, the city's residents gave Rama the benefit of the doubt regarding his obvious politicking with public funds as he was also able to implement worthwhile projects that his predecessor overlooked because of his obsession with the South Road Properties (SRP).
He attended to the city's potholed roads and concreted others, especially in the mountain barangays. He delivered on other basis services that, again, his predecessor neglected. The perception was that, in terms of governance, he wasn't bad.
That is probably the reason why he defeated Osmeña last May.
But in this his second term, he can no longer gloss over the weaknesses of his governance. Osmeña obviously saw one of these weaknesses: his lack of fiscal savvy.
The former mayor peddled to whoever would listen to him the claim that the city's finances are in disarray and that the city is bankrupt, or about to go under. At the same time, BOPK councilors slashed the mayor's budgetary proposals using his administration's shoddy revenue generation efforts as scapegoat.
That forced Rama to finally face reality. If he wants to survive politically, he needs to show that he is a capable fiscal manager. That is actually the challenge that Osmeña and the BOPK councilors have hurled at him for several months already.
With the "meager" budget that the BOPK-dominated city council handed to him, the mayor needs to be clear about his priorities. That is why he needs to reassess the practice of giving financial assistance to selected sectors in relation to his priority projects and programs.
The slashing of the assistance to senior citizens can be an admission that the amount originally promised could drain the city's finances and weaken its ability to run the bureaucracy and address the more important concerns of its constituents.
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TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the transportation law, the executive law and the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing innovative infrastructure development
PURPOSE: To provide flexibility to state agencies in the development of transportation infrastructure projects.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section one adds a new article to the Transportation Law to provide the Department of Transportation greater flexibility in delivery and financing of transportation infrastructure projects.
Section two amends the Executive Law to create an Innovative Infrastructure Development Board (board) to oversee the development of transportation infrastructure projects.
Section three amends the public authorities law to provide the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) greater flexibility in delivery and financing of transportation infrastructure projects.
Section four amends the public authorities law to provide the Bridge Authority greater flexibility in delivery and financing of transportation infrastructure projects.
JUSTIFICATION: New York State's transportation infrastructure is at crossroads. The New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) has estimated that, excluding the New York State Thruway Authority, the New York State Bridge Authority and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the State would need to invest $175 billion over twenty years to bring the system to a state of good repair.
This legislation proposes to provide the State's principal transportation agencies increased flexibility in contracting for and financing of transportation infrastructure projects. In so doing, this bill allows a far broader array of arrangements with the private sector than are currently available under law. Through a more agile project delivery process, the state will be able to better utilize economies of scale, life-cycle efficiencies, allocation of risk and other factors in order to generate long and short-terms savings for the state; savings which can be re-invested in New York's deficient infrastructure.
To protect public monies and assets, this legislation creates the Innovative Infrastructure Development Board. In its oversight role,
the board is the responsible for assuring that in every step along the way in project development, the state gets the best value for its dollar. In its development role, the board is tasked with maximizing the efficiency of the state's transportation infrastructure while at all times protecting the state's interest in those vital assets and assuring that the highest standards of service are maintained.
With current funding streams woefully inadequate to address the state's current and future transportation infrastructure funding needs, new and innovative solutions are necessary to assure that people and goods can continue to move throughout the state and continue to energize New York's economy.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2011-12: Finance Committee (S.5445/A.8487)
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: This bill is intended to create both long and short-term cost savings to the state.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediate.
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 740 2011-2012 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (PREFILED) January 5, 2011 ___________Introduced by Sens. SQUADRON, DUANE, KRUEGER, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to finger imaging for food stamps recipients THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 139-a of the social services law is amended by adding a new paragraph (n) to read as follows: (N) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, APPLI- CANTS OR RECIPIENTS OF FOOD STAMPS WHO ARE NOT ALSO APPLICANTS FOR, OR RECIPIENTS OF, FAMILY OR SAFETY NET ASSISTANCE SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO THE FINGER IMAGING MATCHING IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM. S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03868-01-1
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MADISON An anticipated increased incidence of climate-related extreme rainfall events in the Great Lakes region may raise the public health risk for the 40 million people who depend on the lakes for their drinking water, according to a new study.
In a report published today (Oct. 7, 2008) in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a team of Wisconsin researchers reports that a trend toward extreme weather such as the monsoon-like rainfall events that occurred in many parts of the region this past spring is likely to aggravate the risk for outbreaks of waterborne disease in the Great Lakes region.
"If weather extremes do intensify, as these findings suggest, our health will be at greater risk," according to Jonathan Patz, a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health professor of population health and an expert on the health effects of climate change.
A primary threat to human health, says Patz, are the extreme precipitation events that overwhelm the combined urban storm water and sewage systems such as those in Milwaukee and Chicago, resulting in millions of gallons of raw sewage being diverted to Lake Michigan. Adding to the risk throughout the region, Patz notes, is the growing concentration of livestock operations where heavy rainfall can wash large amounts of animal waste into the rivers and streams that drain into the Great Lakes, the world's greatest concentration of fresh surface water.
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Admixtures vary widely in chemical composition, and many perform more than one function. Two basic types of admixtures are available: chemical and mineral. All admixtures to be used in concrete construction should meet specifications; tests should be made to evaluate how the admixture will affect the properties of the concrete to be made with the specified job materials, under the anticipated ambient conditions, and by the anticipated construction procedures.
Mineral admixtures (fly ash, silica fume [SF], and slags) are usually added to concrete in larger amounts to enhance the workability of fresh concrete; to improve resistance of concrete to thermal cracking, alkali-aggregate expansion, and sulfate attack; and to enable a reduction in cement content.
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During the week-end of the 6th and 7th August, a group from Thomas' School, Clapham and C4C will be tackling the endurance testing, '3 Peaks Challenge'.
In just one 24hr period, they will climb and travel between the tallest mountains in Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scafell Pike) and Wales (Snowdon). The distance walked will be around 25 miles; the height climbed around 10,000 feet.
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With only a few days remaining until the 2012 presidential election, the candidates are sprinting around the country to secure support from voters. Behind the distractions of their legitimate policy differences, however, lie quietly critical issues that truly test their dedication to upholding the laws of the land and preserving the protections of We the People. While the national economy dominated discussion during the 2012 presidential debates, this year's election also affords an opportunity to scrutinize the candidates' perspectives on civil liberties.
Obama vs. Romney
On many civil liberties issues, neither Obama nor Romney have taken positions consistent with American values, choosing instead to support authoritarian measures adopted in the name of security. According to BORDC's Shahid Buttar:
While the 2012 presidential debate has involved many issues of legitimate national concern, those with the most enduring legacy have been excluded entirely from the debate -- and with good reason: There is no meaningful daylight between the candidates. Despite an increasingly vicious electoral contest between the presidential campaigns, and wide-ranging conflict between the two major political parties in Congress and the state legislatures, with respect to national security and human rights (and to be fair, a range of other equally ignored issues), America is a one party state.
On the one hand, Romney may bring back into the White House the discredited coterie of advisers that dragged our country into a constitutional abyss under the Bush administration. On the other hand, President Obama has made policy choices in counterterrorism, immigration enforcement, surveillance, and police accountability that outflank the Bush-Cheney administration's worst abuses.
Noting the Obama administration's support for domestic surveillance, government secrecy, a national biometric ID scheme, prosecuting whistleblowers, and executive accountability for torture, Buttar notes that:
Despite campaigning to restore liberty in the face of Bush & Cheney's blind pursuit of a brutish (and ultimately foolish) vision of security, President Obama has not only continued their constitutional abuses but even pioneered new ones. Two looming, especially large, ones are the powers to militarily detain -- or even kill -- anyone (even American citizens, and their children) with neither evidence nor any judicial review.
The 2012 presidential debates also gave rise to a discussion on the candidates' immigration policies. President Obama and Governor Romney both consider America a "nation of immigrants", and both advocate a "streamline" approach to acquiring citizenship. The candidates also share ambitions to remove non-resident criminals and encourage an influx of educated immigrants . Although the President and former Governor both support reforming the 'legal' immigration system, their respective programs differ significantly.
One aspect of President Obama's immigration agenda entails some constuctive reforms. The President has promised that his administration will "go after folks who are criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they're trying to figure out how to feed their families."
Though President Obama's rhetoric is laudable, its execution seems at odds with his words. Enforcement protocols such as Secure Communities, which purports to identify and eject immigrants who commit serious crimes, tend to victimize immigrant communities and essentially turn local police stations into extensions of federal immigration agencies. In the name of immigration reform, the administration has essentially terrorized productive members of American communities.
Considering immigration from the perspective of economic reconstruction, Governor Romney's agenda entails identifying 'illegal' hires and imposing penalties on employers who knowingly hire 'illegal' workers. Romney also suggested that even if the breadwinners of a family face deportation, their children may enlist for military service as a pathway to citizenship. But a state that accepts immigrants into its armed forces while rejecting them from its workforce defies the ideals of justice and equality that America once signified.
Romney's vision for the future of immigration policy also contemplates a self-deportation system. He explains:
[W]e're not going to round up 12 million people, undocumented illegals, and take them out of the nation. Instead let people make their own choice. And if they -- if they find that -- that they can't get the benefits here that they want and they can't -- and they can't find the job they want, then they'll make a decision to go a place where -- where they have better opportunities.
While seemingly humane, this soft description of self-deportation policies conflicts with Romney's own stated immigration objectives. Though he determines to penalize employers who hire 'illegal' workers, he neglects to reveal possible repercussions for individuals found ineligible to work.
Without a clear path to citizenship or opportunity to work, Romney will not have to "round up [and remove]12 million...undocumented illegals," because a lack of livelihood will force them to leave. Ultimately, Romney's immigrant agenda represents a selective exclusion process with the potential to deport the very individuals it ought to protect; people who simply want to work hard to provide for their families. He proposes a return to policies of exclusion that unfortunately taint our nation's history.
Though President Obama's immigration agenda seems more benevolent than Governor Romney's, both major party candidates support potentially prejudicial policies and further fortifying the border industrial complex. True immigration reform cannot exist with vulnerable communities under state surveillance and families facing separation because of an inefficient system.
Third Party Candidates on Civil Liberties
While neither Obama nor Romney can plausibly claim to defend the Constitution, many third-party presidential candidates have expressed profound opposition to national security policies that abuse civil rights and civil liberties. On October 23, four candidates on the ballot in enough states to win the presidency (Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Libertarian Party candidate Gov. Gary Johnson, Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode, and Justice Party candidate Rocky Anderson) gathered at the Chicago Hilton to debate each other, drawing attention to many policies on which neither Romney nor Obama have promised real leadership.
Domestic indefinite military detention under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA), for instance, drew fire from several of the minor party candidates. Rocky Anderson, former Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah and previous recipient of BORDC's Patriot Award for outstanding public service and grassroots advocacy, denounced the NDAA as the most "anti-American Act in our history." Jill Stein, as well as former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, also voiced antagonism towards the NDAA. Their transpartisan solidarity to defend our Constitution against its erosion by the major parties offers hope, even if the top two candidates support a police state.
The minority candidates also condemned the government's surveillance of American citizens under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA), which effectively reversed the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 enacted to protect Americans from unwarranted domestic surveillance. The 2008 amendments not only authorize the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct dragnet warrantless wiretapping, but also granted retroactive criminal immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the illegal surveillance.
In response to these secret, yet widespread injustices, the Obama administration denies government accountability for illicit exploits, persecutes its own agents who advance transparency, and continues to contest its citizens' right to recourse. In sharp contrast, Jill Stein exhorted Americans to oppose our government's infringements, inviting supports, "Let's take back our liberty." Rocky Anderson has also spoken forcefully against the NSA's domestic spying under FISA, arguing that:
[President Obama] promised us before he received the Democratic nomination that he would join the filibuster in opposition to Congress providing retroactive immunity for the telecom companies for their illegal participation in the Bush [FISA] surveillance program....But in the classic American way, the corrupt way that has developed in our system of government, three telecom companies spend some twelve million dollars on lobbyists during the course of three months...Congress passed legislation providing for the retroactive immunity and among those voting for the immunity, now after he received the Democratic nomination, (sic) was then-Senator Obama, completely betraying those that he had promised to join the filibuster.
A Step Back to Look Forward
Ultimately, the 2012 presidential debates demonstrates the diversity of our American political spectrum. Disturbingly, however, the disparities in debate topics between the top-two candidates and their minority party counterparts suggests that critical civil liberties issues remain entirely absent from the mainstream national discourse. Presidential not-so-hopefuls from minor political parties might espouse justice and transparency, and renounce extrajudicial killing and totalitarianism, but they lack equal access to the electoral arena, and our rights suffer as a result.
Today, when national security interests routinely override the Constitution and social apprehensions justify retrogressive policies, we need leaders who will not only unify Americans, but also provide solutions to preserve our rights. Unfortunately, the 2012 election offers slim prospects, given the alignment of our two leading candidates with the national security state of which President (and previously General) Eisenhower warned us.
After the dust from the election clears, our freedoms as Americans will continue to erode until we, as a united people, take action.
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Board votes unanimously against fees at Naples parking garages
A proposal to start charging parking fees at both Fifth Avenue South garages in Naples is dead in the water.
The five present members of the city's Community Redevelopment Agency advisory board voted unanimously against recommending the city charge a fee Monday, citing concern from business owners and those who use the garages.
"We would have found some place else to park," said Mary Coy, 59, a vacationer from Birmingham, Michigan, whose home city charges for downtown parking. "We're thrilled there's no charge (in Naples.)"
Assistant City Manager Roger Reinke said there are no other commercial shopping districts in the city that charge for parking. In addition, the Fifth Avenue South Business Improvement District did not approve of the possible fee, Reinke said.
Naples City Council voted this month to install gates at each of the two garages to indicate whether the garages are full. The project will cost $50,000, using money that was appropriated from the agency's trust fund to its capital fund.Residents talked about solving congestion and lack of parking downtown by charging or installing parking meters during a March town hall meeting. The city first considered parking meters on Fifth Avenue South in 2009 when a consultant said it would improve turnover, but nothing was changed.The City Council asked the CRA to explore charging to park at the garages.
Advisory board member Alan Ryker said Monday he has friends both in and outside the city who come downtown to shop and eat.
"They're attracted to other venues outside Fifth Avenue South and Third Street South, none of whom have pay for parking," he said. "It's discouraging for them to come to our area to have to pay for parking when they know full well they can go to other locations to wine, dine and see movies."
Chairman Willie Anthony said an argument could be made for either side.
"There is a need for revenue," he said. "I don't disagree it is a deterrent or could be to customers. Nobody wants to pay to park."
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