text: Michigan State University Stateside: International students continue to attend Michigan universities By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Nov 20, 2012 larrysphatpage / flickr Listen Listening... / 11:22 Peter Briggs of MSU's Office of International Students and Scholars and Jing Cui, an undergrad student at MSU talk with Cynthia Canty. An increasing amount of Chinese students are enrolling in American universities. Because more Chinese students are now graduating from high school than ever before, there exists the demand for collegiate opportunities. "It's a strong reflection of the Chinese middle class. There is also a liberalization of U.S. visas to allow Chinese students to come here," said Peter Briggs. Briggs directs Michigan State University's Office of International Students and Scholars. Sharing her story was study abroad was Jing Cui. An undergrad student at MSU, Jing Cui considered America upon attending a Chinese university for a year. MSU creating Global Center for Food Systems Innovation By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Nov 14, 2012 Michigan State University is creating a Global Center for Food Systems Innovation thanks to a 25 million dollar award.The award comes from US AID, the federal agency overseeing foreign assistance to developing countries. MSU will fund research targeting improved agriculture production and cost effective, sustainable solutions for developing areas of the world. The Fiscal Cliff & MSU's FRIB project By Steve Carmody • Oct 29, 2012 Congress is expected to tackle the 'fiscal cliff' after next month's election. The "fiscal cliff's" combination of programmed tax increases and spending cuts have many people concerned, including officials at Michigan State University. The federal government is supposed to pick up most of the cost of MSU's new nuclear physics research lab known as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. FRIB is expected to cost more than 600 million dollars. Politicians learn their lines By Kyle Norris • Oct 26, 2012 Bob Kolt is using a wildly popular video clip to teach future politicians the importance of knowing their lines. It's an excerpt from the 2007 Miss Teen USA competition. In the video, Miss South Carolina is asked why she thinks 1/5 of Americans can't find the United States on a map. Genetics could determine how much pressure women feel to be thin By Kate Wells • Oct 5, 2012 Every woman sees those skinny, photo-shopped models in magazines, and it probably makes us all little crazy. But some women internalize that pressure more than others - and your genes could be the reason. A growing number of studies are linking eating disorders to genetics, but a new study from Michigan State University is the first to find that an early indicator of eating disorders - namely, how much of the "thin-ideal" a woman buys into - could also have a genetic component. Stateside: Michigan State University's Dairy Store By Emily Fox • Oct 4, 2012 The local food movement is not a new thing for Michigan State University's Dairy Store. It has been selling local dairy products such as cheese and ice cream since 1913. The milk is bought from Michigan Milk Producers, less than 30 miles away. It's then taken to MSU where it is processed and distributed. A lot of the ice cream flavors have MSU or Big Ten themes. Stateside's Emily Fox, visited the store and chatted with customers, workers and manager, John Engstrom. You can listen to the audio postcard above. Update: investigation dropped into alleged hate crime By Kate Wells • Sep 27, 2012 Natalie Kolb / Image used with permission of The State News Update: September 27, 2012 1:15 pm The Ingham county prosecutor won't press any charges in the alleged assault and hate crime involving MSU student Zachary Tennen - and Tennen's family supports that call. EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — No charges will be brought following an investigation into an assault on a Michigan State University student who claimed he was punched and had his jaw broken because he's Jewish, a prosecutor said Thursday. MSU study suggests unsuspected source of potential cyber attacks By Steve Carmody • Sep 10, 2012 Michigan State University researchers are developing a profile of individuals who carry out 'cyber-attacks' on government websites. The results may help law enforcement identify who might be behind future attacks. MSU criminal justice professor Thomas Holt asked hundreds of American and international college students about their feelings about being hypothetical 'civilian cyber-warriors', individuals who use the internet to attack or disable government computers. MSU program gives political newbies a head start By Jennifer White & Mercedes Mejia • Aug 8, 2012 kelbycarr/flickr When a person decides to enter politics, they may be a little lost about how get their foot in the door. They might not know what holding office really requires. The Michigan Political Leadership Program at Michigan State University works to help up-and-comers get a handle on the world of politics. Michigan Supreme Court rules MSU ordinance violates free speech By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jul 27, 2012 user Jeffness / Wikimedia Commons The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a Michigan State University ordinance is unconstitutional today. Back in 2008, MSU law student Jared Rapp received a parking ticket on campus. Rapp reportedly yelled at the parking attendant, took his photo and demanded his name. MSU study uses video game to help lung cancer patients recover from surgery By Steve Carmody • Jul 21, 2012 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio Michigan State University researchers say a popular video game is helping patients recover from lung cancer surgery. After surgery, it's important for lung cancer patients to aid their recovery with exercise. Exercise helps patients with fatigue and avoid common complications, like pneumonia. But the prospect of exercise can be daunting for many patients. MSU President Simon expects F-RIB strategy in 2-3 weeks By Mark Bashore • Jul 4, 2012 Courtesy of MSU Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon says she expects to announce a strategy for the shool's much anticipated F-RIB project in two to three weeks. The comment comes on the heels of an encouraging federal review of critical aspects of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. Simon stresses the importance of ongoing support from Michigan legislators in Washington. Michigan State University study finds Americans don't like to haggle online By Steve Carmody • Jul 1, 2012 More than a million Michiganders will be traveling during the Fourth of July holiday period. Many of them made hotel reservations online. A Michigan State University professor says making online hotel reservations is an unsatisfactory experience for many people. Michigan State University drops health insurance mandate for students By The Associated Press • Jun 23, 2012 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan State University has dropped mandatory health insurance for students after opposition from lawmakers. Officials said Friday that insurance available through the school will be voluntary, but they'll still ask if students have coverage this fall. Only 320 students were automatically signed up last year. But one of them was the son of a state lawmaker, Rep. Jeff Farrington, R-Utica, who got a bill. It turned out that Farrington's son had insurance. Michigan State University hikes tuition 3.5% By Steve Carmody • Jun 22, 2012 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio It's going to cost the average Michigan State University student $210 more to attend the fall semester. The MSU Trustees today approved a 3.5 percent tuition increase for next year. The increase will be slightly higher for out-of-state students. Lou Anna Simon is president of MSU. She says no one wants to raise college tuition. "There are stories about students who are definitely in debt at a higher level than they should be," Simon told the MSU Board of Trustees before the vote. Other Michigan public colleges and universities also approved tuition hikes this week, including the University of Michigan and Michigan Tech. MSU study finds anxiety makes some women's brains literally work harder By Steve Carmody • Jun 5, 2012 (Photo by G.L. Kohuth) A new Michigan State University study finds the brains of "anxious" womens work much harder, but no better than others. The study's authors say their findings could help diagnose and treat women with "anxiety disorders." Michigan residents more upbeat about Gov. and economy By Michigan Radio Newsroom • May 16, 2012 Michiganders are becoming more optimistic about the economy and that positive thinking is adding a bit of extra shine to Gov. Rick Snyder's image. That's according to new results out today from Michigan State University's State of the State Survey. An MSU press release says state residents haven't been this positive about the economy since 2005, with 54 percent of survey participants characterizing their financial situation as "good" or "excellent" and 61 percent expecting things to get even better in the year to come. More from MSU: "The Michigan economy has added 150,000 jobs since the job market bottomed out at the end of 2009," said Charles Ballard, MSU economics professor and director of the State of the State Survey. "The improvement in the economy is reflected in the brighter mood in our latest survey." The findings are based on the latest quarterly phone survey conducted from Feb. 14 to April 15. A total of 963 Michigan adults were questioned in the survey which has an error rating of +3.16 percent. In the fall 2011 survey, conducted from mid-September through early November, only 46.2 percent of those answering the survey called their financial situation "excellent" or "good." Gov. Snyder's approval ratings also improved amongst those surveyed, rising to 33 percent compared with 19.3 percent last fall. - John Klein Wilson, Michigan Radio Newsroom MSU study finds 16 year olds at peak risk for abusing prescription drugs By Steve Carmody • May 12, 2012 (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio) A new Michigan State University study finds the peak of teen misuse of prescription drugs comes earlier than previously believed. MSU researchers say teen misuse of prescription drugs peaks at age 16, not the later teens as previously believed. Many children start using pain killers and other prescription drugs to get high in their tweens. The MSU study shows about 1 in 60 young people between 12 and 21 years old starts abusing prescription pain relievers each year. That ratio rises to roughly 1 in 30 at age 16. Jim Anthony is a professor of Epidemiology at MSU. He says the study shows it's important to get the public health message against misusing prescription drugs to children when they are in middle school. "We don't want to delay public health programs…until the high school years or college years," says Anthony, "We want to begin to think about them as early as 12 and 13." Anthony says it may also be a good idea for doctors to write some pain killer prescriptions for just a few day supply instead of the more common one or two week supply. He says that might reduce the number of prescription drugs that sit unused in the family medicine cabinet. Anthony says parents need to pay close attention to their teenager and their medicine cabinet and properly dispose of unneeded painkillers and other prescription drugs. The MSU study appears in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Invasive species success story: Purple Loosestrife By Lindsey Smith • May 3, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Purple Loosestrife is a widespread invasive plant. It's taken over wetlands in every state in the US except Florida. But now, scientists consider Purple Loostrife an invasive species success story. Purple Loosestrife are the tall bright purple flowering plants you see mixed in with cattails lining the edge of many lakes and wetlands. A long road before success Michigan State University study claims stun guns cause more injuries By Steve Carmody • May 1, 2012 (courtesy of Guyism.com) There's a new study from Michigan State University that finds stun guns, when used by police officers, are more likely to cause injuries to civilians than previously believed. Its becoming more common for police officers to carry stun guns. The weapons deliver a high voltage electric charge subduing combative individuals. The weapons are marketed as being 'non-harmful'. But MSU criminologist Bill Terrill disagrees. "It's clearly not the case in our studies," says Terrill, "In fact, they have significant greater percentage of injuries when officers use a Taser as opposed to using other types of force." Steve Tuttle is a spokesman for Taser, the largest manufacturer of stun guns. Pointing to other studies, he says the MSU study's numbers are inflated. Tuttle says the type of minor puncture wounds and burns caused by most stun guns are hardly significant injuries. "We would be seeing challenges in court if there were significant injuries from these and we're not," says Tuttle. MSU researchers also found police officers who use a stun gun to subdue an individual are half as likely to be injured as an officer who uses a different non-lethal method. New anti-bullying book By The Associated Press • Apr 29, 2012 Students at Michigan State University have published a book about bullying in the age of social media. The book is a project of an advanced undergraduate journalism course on the East Lansing campus. Michigan State University physics project gets a boost By The Associated Press • Apr 24, 2012 (courtesy of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow say a Senate subcommittee has significantly increased the recommended annual funding for a planned $600 million physics research facility at Michigan State University. The Michigan Democrats said Tuesday that the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water has budgeted $30 million in the 2013 fiscal year for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. That's up from $22 million that President Barack Obama recommended Feb. 13 in his budget proposal. About $55 million in funding was stipulated by the original agreement. Michigan State won a national competition to land the project in December 2008, and design work is under way. Levin and Stabenow say construction of the facility will create about 5,000 construction jobs, with 400 permanent jobs after completion. Michigan State University commits to green energy (but not enough for some) By Steve Carmody • Apr 13, 2012 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has approved a plan that will increase the East Lansing campus' reliance on renewable energy sources. The plan approved this morning will require MSU to get 40 percent of its electricity from wind, solar and other alternative energy sources by 2030. Renewables account for about two percent of MSU's power right now. Michigan State University Trustees expected to vote on energy plan By Steve Carmody • Apr 12, 2012 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio Michigan State University is in the midst of a debate over how much the school can rely on alternative energy sources to power its East Lansing campus. The university's Board of Trustees meets Friday to vote on an energy plan for MSU. Earlier this week, MSU students used a giant inflatable inhaler to dramatize their concerns about the university's large coal fired power plant located just south of campus. The students want MSU to commit to turning completely to wind, solar and other alternative energy sources for the university's electricity needs. MSU report shows agriculture contributed $91.4 billion to Michigan economy By Lindsey Smith • Apr 11, 2012 dailyinvention / Creative Commons A new Michigan State University study shows Michigan's agriculture industry has grown dramatically throughout the recession. Agriculture contributed a little more than $91.4 billion to Michigan's economy in 2010. The economic impact of farming, food processing and the supply chain is twice as much as it was in 2004. Michigan Supreme Court hears arguments in MSU Free Speech case By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Apr 4, 2012 (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio) The Michigan Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a case that questions the constitutionality of a Michigan State University ordinance. In 2008, MSU law student Jared Rapp received a parking ticket on campus. Rapp reportedly yelled at the parking attendant, took his photo and demanded his name. The question arises as to whether MSU's ordinance prohibiting anyone from disrupting a university employee's official business is too broad, and whether it infringed upon Rapp's right of free speech. Couch, garbage fires reported after MSU's loss By The Associated Press • Mar 23, 2012 EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Some couch and garbage fires were reported near Michigan State University after its men's basketball team lost to Louisville in the West Regional semifinals. Authorities say a crowd in the hundreds that gathered Thursday night at the Cedar Village apartment complex near the East Lansing campus was mostly peaceful after the Cardinals beat the Spartans 57-44 in Phoenix. The area has been the site of past disturbances following Michigan State sports events. No injuries were reported. Police say one arrest related to a fire was reported. The crowd thinned by late Thursday. Finding full federal funding for FRIB By Steve Carmody • Mar 13, 2012 (coutresy of the MSU-Facility for Rare Isotope Beams project) Michigan State University officials are stepping up their efforts to convince Congress to fully fund a major scientific project on the East Lansing campus. MSU was expecting the federal government to provide 52 million dollars for the next construction phase of the 'Facility for Rare Isotope Beams', or 'FRIB' for short. But the Obama administration is only budgeting $22 million. Mark Burnham is an MSU vice president for government affairs. He says university officials are talking with influential members of Michigan's congressional delegation , including the chairman of committee that control federal spending on technology. "We have other members who are key important members of Congress, in both the House and the Senate, and so we want to make sure we're working through the entire delegation," says Burnham. Today, a state senate committee passed a resolution encouraging Congress to fully fund the FRIB project. MSU to offer class on how to survive a zombie pandemic By Jennifer Guerra • Mar 5, 2012 user: camrynb / morgueFile Michigan State University is taking the zombie movie craze one step farther with a class that asks: What would you do if zombies actually attacked? MSU's seven-week, online summer class looks at how people behave in times of catastrophe...real or otherwise. MSU edits public copy of lawmaker's traffic stop By Rick Pluta • Mar 2, 2012 Photo courtesy of Rep. Genetski's office Michigan State University has cut portions of a videotape and police report on the arrest of a state lawmaker who is a key decision-maker on higher education spending. State Representative Bob Genetski was stopped last month on the MSU campus and arrested for drunk driving. The news service M-Live requested the police report and video after the full versions were used in a public hearing. MSU at first refused, but later provided versions that redacted Genetski's responses to field sobriety tests such as reciting the alphabet, counting, and standing on one leg. Michael MacLaren is the executive director of the Michigan Press Association. He says MSU's action undermines the public's trust in open government. "It's very troubling. And I worry about the pattern of behavior that would ensue from this. It just doesn't smell right." 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"Who the hell are these people?"
"I don't know. I used to say they were the same ones we've always had to deal with. Same ones my granddaddy had to deal with. Back then they was russlin' cattle. Now they're running dope. I ain't sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I don't know what to do about 'em even. If you killed 'em all they'd have to build an annex on to hell."
Sheriff Bell ponders the bloody handiwork of a high-echelon criminal syndicate in Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men.
Johnny Gaskins of Raleigh, North Carolina faces a 30-year prison term – an effective life sentence – for the supposed crime of depositing $450,000 in his own bank account. The corporate leaders of Wachovia Bank, a criminal syndicate once headquartered in the same state, won't face prosecution despite admissions that they laundered hundreds of billions of dollars on behalf of Mexican narcotics cartels.
Wachovia was deemed "too big to fail," and thus too important to prosecute. In our system, mercy is reserved exclusively for the powerful and corrupt, and Johnny Gaskins – a criminal defense attorney – was neither.
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In his divorce papers, the 'Baby, I Love Your Way' singer asks for the physical custody of their daughter to go to and for the attorney fees to be shared with estranged wife Christina Elfers.
Classic rocker Peter Frampton has filed for divorce from his wife of 15 years, Christina Elfers. The "Baby, I Love You Way" singer filed the papers in Los Angeles Superior Court last Tuesday, June 21, and cited the usual irreconcilable differences as the reason for the separation.
Having one minor child together with Christina, the 61-year-old musician asked that the physical custody of 15-year-old daughter, Mia Frampton, go to his estranged wife. Still, he sought visitation rights with the teen, who currently stars as Becca Keeler on ABC Family's "Make It or Break It". According to the divorce papers, he also asked that the attorney fees be shared with Christina.
Peter married Christina in 1996. The couple split on New Year's Eve 2010. It will be Peter's third divorce. The singer, who is also known for such '70s hits as "Show Me the Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do", ended his first marriage to Mary Lovett in 1973 and broke off his second marriage to Barbara Gold in 1993.


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Saturday, May 30, 2015
MY Superman Returns.
Also, during Convergence, DC ran a bunch of mini series featuring the older versions of the DC heroes and though sales figures are still coming in, it appears that some of these sold better than current DC titles.
The best part? DC says that all these heroes can be used now for new stories and the hell with continuity. I'm all for that. It was great to see MY versions of Superman, The Justice Society, Shazam, Plastic Man, The legion of Super Heroes, etc, back in action. And now it looks like we may get to see them some more. Thanks for the ray of hope, DC. You were always my favorite comics company and it's nice to be able to say good things about you again.
PS. If you've been missing the REAL Superman, be sure and get the two issue Convergence Superman mini series, and watch the Man of Steel wade through the other super beings just like he's supposed to and still be the nicest guy on Earth. Just the way the Kents raised him.
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Saturday, May 23, 2015
Together Again For the First Time
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Happy Birthday Manly Wade Wellman!
Today is Manly Wade Wellman's Birthday. If you've read my horror fiction or just spent much time at my blog of my Facebook page then you know what a big influence Wellman has been on my writing. I was very proud to moderate a panel about Wellman and Karl Edward Wagner at this year's World Horror Con, and I was very pleased to see that Wellman is still well remembered and admired by many readers and writers. So Happy Birthday to Manly Wade Wellman. The voice of the mountain still calls to all with an ear to listen.
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Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Repairman Jack is Back in FIX
Kindle Worlds is an interesting idea. Basically Amazon will pay for fan fiction. There are various worlds based on comic books, TV series, and books, and you can write for any of them, publish on Amazon and split the money with Amazon. So say, if you wanted to write a story featuring THE ETERNAL WARRIOR or ARCHER AND ARMSTRONG from Valiant Comics, then have at it.
Not surprisingly, J.A. Konrath, the guru of self publishing, has set up his own Kindle Worlds, one featuring his signature character Jack Daniels, and a new one featuring Codename: Chandler, a female spy/hit person he created with Ann Voss Peterson. However in Konrath's worlds there's a difference. With other Kindle worlds, you lose the rights to the characters you create to Amazon. They become part of the Kindle World. Not so in Konrath's world. If you team one of your characters with Jack Daniels or Chandler, that character still belongs to you.
Which brings us to FIX, a brand new story by Konrath, Ann Voss Peterson, and F.Paul Wilson, which teams Chandler with Repairman Jack, hero of a whole series of novels by Wilson. I downloaded this last night, sat down to read the first couple of chapters and of course, gleefully tore through the entire story.
Chandler works for one of those 'off the books' government organizations that thriller writers are so fond of. She's been sent to New York to find a terrorist who is planning on selling a canister of extremely deadly toxin. Chandler's job? Get the toxin and eliminate the terrorist with extreme prejudice.
Meanwhile, Jack, who works as a freelance urban mercenary, is hired by an aide to New York's Mayor to retrieve a sex tape featuring the Mayor's daughter. Through various circumstances, Jack and Chandler cross paths and in true comic book fashion, try to beat up each other before teaming up to face a common foe.
If you're a fan of F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series, you know that it has now officially ended. No more adventures for Jack after the events of NIGHT WORLD. This story, however, takes us back to the early days of Jack's career, before he met Gia, the Love of his life. Thus Jack is open to romance with Chandler.
Of course a romance between someone who kills when he has to and someone who kills for a living can take some interesting turns. Fans of Jack will see the usual faces and places, but the book is considerably sexier than the average Repairman Jack novel. According to the book's afterword, that's the fault of Konrath and Peterson. It works though.
This is a fast moving, action packed novella, which barely slows to catch its breath. If you're a fan of the Repairman Jack series, this is a must have, and if you're like me, you'll leave the tale wanting to read more about Codename: Chandler as well. Heck, I might even write a story for one of Konrath's Kindle Worlds myself.
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Saturday, May 02, 2015
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Urinary Disorders
Urinary Problems (Low Urine Output)
I am 37 years male, and a) I have low urine output (slightly more than 500ml per day). b)The color of my urine is yellow and sometimes light green. c)I do NOT have the urge to urinate, and my abdomen becomes unusually heavy, when I go to urinate d) It all started about 2 years back, with a severe pulling pain in my abdomen such that something was tearing out from my kidneys and trying to push forcibly out of my navel (belly button). e) My stomach seems to be bulged out, which I can see from the holes in the belt that I wear. f) I consulted several urologists and each of them gives me different results. One of them says that I have Hydernephrosis and the other says I have Necrosis. I don`t know what to do? I have spent lot of money and NO cure.
I am at a loss to explain your symptoms with the information that you have provided. Low urine output is an understatement- generally > 1500 ml per day is in the adult normal range and low output as you have described would typically lead to renal failure. The diagnosis of hydronephrosis would typically prompt studies to determine the cause and what treatments would be indicated.
You need to question your urologist(s) more closely and determine from your primary care physician what blood tests have shown regarding your kidney function. Necrosis is synonymous with tissue death while hydronephrosis suggests kidney outflow blockage- these are distinguishable on CT scan.
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Dive deep into Minimalism! For a second time, the LA Phil is the only major orchestra to take stock of this radical new approach to composing, performing, and listening to music. If you only go to one MJ concert, this is the one to hear. Three Steve Reich pieces (1982, 1988, 2012), two world premieres (Missy Mazzoli, Mark Grey), and much more add up to hours and hours of music from across a wide Minimalist spectrum, enabling a completely immersive experience. Come and go as you please for this one-of-a-kind marathon.
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In order to create the text for his own indie rock song cycle, Pulitzer Prize-winning David Lang combed through Schubert lyrics for moments where personified death sends a message to the living. Death also haunts Steve Reich's Grammy-winning Different Trains, which includes the taped voices of Holocaust survivors.
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|Introduction to Telecommunications Cost Management
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|How to Reduce Telecom Expenses (The "Cliff Notes" Version)
|p. 2
|Why Telecom Costs Are So Difficult to Manage
|p. 3
|Delivers for Customer Demands
|p. 4
|Carries Challenges
|p. 6
|p. 8
|p. 9
|Develop a Cost Management Vision
|p. 9
|How Do Organizations "Make It Happen"?
|p. 10
|Looking for the Quick Fix
|p. 11
|Special Needs and Groups within the Organization
|p. 12
|Incidental Revenue
|p. 13
|Preliminary Information Gathering
|p. 13
|Getting the Numbers--First Cut
|p. 15
|Sample Reports and Forms
|p. 18
|p. 20
|Telecommunications Auditing
|p. 27
|Reasons for Telecom Bill Discrepancies
|p. 28
|Telecom Service Providers
|p. 28
|Overly Aggressive Competitors
|p. 28
|Business Customers
|p. 29
|The Telecom Service Ordering Life Cycle
|p. 32
|Two Approaches to Paying Bills
|p. 33
|Components of a Telephone Bill
|p. 34
|Secures of Billing Information
|p. 37
|Getting Down to the Details: Audit Steps
|p. 37
|Review Contracts
|p. 38
|Obtain Raw and Summarized Data
|p. 39
|Findings Analysis
|p. 41
|p. 55
|Wide Area Networking
|p. 59
|Wide Area Network Technology Options
|p. 59
|Frame Relay
|p. 59
|Voice Communications Networking
|p. 62
|Virtual Private Network (VPN)
|p. 63
|Wireless Options
|p. 66
|Wide Area Network Review Methodology
|p. 72
|Organize and Plan
|p. 73
|Gather Information
|p. 75
|Assess the Quality of Data
|p. 77
|Categorize and Prioritize Circuits
|p. 81
|Manage Scope of Work Changes and Issues
|p. 81
|Consolidate Billing and Circuit Data
|p. 82
|Initiate a Circuit Utilization Analysis
|p. 84
|Realize Savings
|p. 90
|Reconcile and "Baseline" Circuit Inventory
|p. 95
|Assess Processes
|p. 99
|Maintain the Gains
|p. 101
|p. 104
|Architecture and Local Access Strategies
|p. 105
|Voice-over-IP: Premises Equipment
|p. 105
|The Centrex Alternative
|p. 109
|Small Offices and SOHO Markets: Key Systems versus PBX
|p. 110
|The Dreadnoughts: Enterprise Class PBXs
|p. 112
|Local Access Strategies
|p. 113
|Maximizing Traditional Access Circuits
|p. 113
|Miscellaneous Technical Solutions
|p. 113
|Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
|p. 114
|Cable Modems
|p. 117
|Other Technology Cost Savings
|p. 118
|p. 120
|Satellite Communications: Large Savings for the Right Applications
|p. 121
|Basic Satellite Technology
|p. 122
|Risk Areas for Satellite Communications
|p. 124
|Controls to Improve Resiliency, Reliability, and Security
|p. 125
|Other Concerns
|p. 128
|The Future for Satellite Technology
|p. 129
|p. 130
|Telecommunications Security
|p. 131
|Voice and Telephony Security
|p. 131
|Toll Fraud
|p. 132
|Business Loss Due to Disclosure of Confidential Information
|p. 137
|Malicious Pranks
|p. 138
|Using Security Tools to Offer More Services
|p. 139
|PBX Firewall
|p. 140
|Savings Potential Using PBX Firewall
|p. 141
|VoIP (Voice-over-IP) Security
|p. 142
|p. 143
|Telecommunications Tax Minimization Strategies
|p. 145
|The Telecom Federal Excise Tax Refund Opportunity
|p. 146
|Ancient History
|p. 146
|Details of the Opportunity
|p. 146
|How the Refund Works in Practice
|p. 147
|p. 148
|RFPs, Contract Optimization, and Outsourcing
|p. 151
|Throwing It over the Fence: Outsourcing
|p. 152
|The Telecom Procurement/Contract Review
|p. 152
|The Request for Proposal/Request for Quotation
|p. 156
|Creating the RFP/RFQ
|p. 156
|Evaluating Vendor Proposals
|p. 157
|Scoring Model for Vendor Proposals
|p. 157
|p. 160
|p. 161
|The Future
|p. 163
|Regulatory Changes
|p. 163
|A World Lit Only by Packets
|p. 164
|Keynes Was Right
|p. 165
|Storage Virtualization
|p. 165
|General Trends
|p. 166
|p. 167
|Telecommunications Cost Management Checklist
|p. 169
|White Papers from QuantumShift
|p. 175
|Summary of Communications Tax Regulations, United States Internal Revenue Service
|p. 189
|Web Sites of Interest
|p. 195
|Sample RFP Template
|p. 205
|Sample Contract Terms and Conditions for a Complex Telecommunications Development Program
|p. 217
|Billing-Related Telecom Concepts and Telecom Glossary
|p. 235
|Audit Program for Telecom Cost Management Field Work
|p. 257
|About the Authors
|p. 321
|p. 323
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Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying gay people have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "adjust to smaller things".
Some commentators are now suggesting that Walesa, the leading figure in Poland's successful democracy struggle against communism, has irreparably harmed his legacy.
Walesa said in a television interview on Friday he believes gays have no right to sit on the front benches in parliament and, if represented at all, should sit in the back, "and even behind a wall".
"They have to know that they are a minority and must adjust to smaller things. And not rise to the greatest heights, the greatest hours, the greatest provocations, spoiling things for the others and taking (what they want) from the majority," he told the private broadcaster TVN during a discussion of gay rights. "I don't agree to this and I will never agree to it.
"A minority should not impose itself on the majority," Walesa said.
The words have enraged many.
"From a human point of view his language was appalling. It was the statement of a troglodyte," said Jerzy Wenderlich, a deputy speaker of parliament with the Democratic Left Alliance.
A national committee devoted to fighting hate speech and other crimes filed a complaint with prosecutors in Gdansk, Walesa's home city, accusing him of promoting "propaganda of hate against a sexual minority".
Walesa is no longer active in Polish political life, though he is often interviewed and asked his opinion on current affairs. Much of his time is spent giving lectures internationally on his role in fighting communism and on issues of peace and democracy.
"Now nobody in their right mind will invite Lech Walesa as a moral authority, knowing what he said," Wenderlich said.
Monika Olejnik, a leading television journalist, said Walesa "disgraced the Nobel prize".


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Environment and Water Minister
Mr Burke yesterday released legal advice from the Australian Government Solicitor, which found that the legislation requires the plan for future water use in the river system to "optimise economic, social and environmental outcomes".
The government intervention came as 150 representatives of farmers, communities, banks and unions gathered in Sydney to plot a collective response to the reform proposals, which will shift water from farming to the environment.
Mr Burke yesterday repeatedly refused to express confidence in the chairman of the Authority, Mike Taylor, who has told community meetings in recent weeks that the legislation dictates that there be a strong focus on the environment, with only secondary consideration of community costs.
"If they want to make the environment more important as an independent authority, they can do that in their recommendations to me, but they have to do that as an active decision," Mr Burke told The Australian Financial Review.
"They certainly can't hide behind the Act and pretend it doesn't allow for a triple bottom-line approach."
Mr Burke, who must eventually approve the basin plan and present it to parliament late next year, said there had been "confusing" signals from the authority.
In a statement to parliament, he also pledged the government would invest in irrigation infrastructure, rather than just relying on licence buybacks to recover water.
Until yesterday, Mr Burke had said he would not tell the independent authority how to perform its duties, despite mounting pressure from irrigators for the government to overrule its call for reductions in water for farming averaging 27 per cent to 37 per cent across the basin.
Authority representatives were yesterday in Adelaide for community consultations.Mr Taylor was unavailable for comment last night.
The Water Act was passed with bipartisan support under the previous Coalition government.
Because the states would not refer their powers to the commonwealth, the Act was based on international environmental agreements and relied on the external affairs power in the constitution.
The legal analysis said that these international agreements – and the Act itself – do allow for and require consideration of economic and social factors. "Where a discretionary choice must be made between a number of options, the decision-maker should, having considered the economic, social and environmental impacts, choose the option which optimises these outcomes," it said.
This supports the view outlined last week by former Coalition water minister
But it is at odds with the view presented at community meetings by Mr Taylor and in an interview in January with the AFR when he said the authority was required by law to prioritise the environment.
The authority released its initial recommendations in its Guide to the Proposed Basin Planon October 8, triggering a backlash from regional communities.
In the week following its release, the government announced that a parliamentary committee would inquire into the human costs of the reforms and the authority said it would commission further research.
Irrigators welcomed the release of the legal advice but the Australian Conservation Foundation said the authority was under pressure from farmers to overplay the socio-economic costs and that itwould be highly irresponsible if it did not consider returning even more water to the rivers.
Coalition frontbencher
At the meeting in Sydney, a steering group was set up to discuss strategy and fund raising for a campaign to highlight the costs to communities of the proposed reforms.
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The Ice Man
The Ice Man – V.K. Raina
An account of how a retired geologist took apart the alarmist climate claims of a Nobel Prize winning organisation.
April 2010
By Ashish K. Mishra
"Vijay Kumar Raina is amused. The 76-year old retired geologist who lives in Sector 17, Panchkula in Haryana has been blitzkrieged by the media, government, world scientist community and the average citizen since December 2009.
Why? Because he blew the lid off the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC), headed by the charismatic R.K. Pachauri, claims that the Himalayan glaciers will be extinct by 2035.
Raina's life has taken a complete turnaround in the last six months. Like most retirees, Raina had followed a routine: Early morning walks, discussing politics, attending to his plants and working religiously on his book devoted to 'tracing the work done on Indian glaciers'.
He was on the receiving end of jibes from Pachauri who dismissed his claims as school-boy science. Now Pachauri has been keeping a low profile, his reputation at stake. However, neighbours call on Raina non-stop. There is no time to work on his book. But Raina laughs off the publicity. "The last one month has been absolutely maddening. Morning to evening, I am either talking to the press or answering questions on email and I haven't been able to even touch my book. [But] so far I am concerned, the case is closed," he says.
What case? In its 4th Assessment Report released in 2007, the IPCC said, 'the Himalayan glaciers were receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if it continued, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high.' This was the same year that the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
Now it has emerged that none of it was true. IPCC, which employs top scientists in the world didn't do its homework and made unsubstantiated, alarmist claims. The organisation is on the defensive and its credibility is diminishing by the day.
How It Unravelled
The whole chain of events started on another ordinary day in Raina's life when he received a phone call.
Raina, along with his wife Mohini, 73, was driving to a bakery shop specialising in Kashmiri sweets in Sector 23, Chandigarh when his mobile phone rang. "I get this call from some gentleman by the name of Dr. Subramaniam from the Ministry of Environment who says that 'the honourable minister wants you to attend a meeting on Himalayan glaciers'. I hung up saying that I am driving and will talk to you later," says Raina. Once back home, he called the number. "I told him that I am a retired man and I don't know where I come into the picture," adds Raina.
He wasn't sure he would go. But after much coaxing by his wife and the promise of the trip being sponsored by the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), he finally agreed.
On July 10, 2009, Raina went to the Paryavaran Bhawan, headquarters of the MoEF in Delhi. He wasn't alone. There were around forty other scientists at the meeting. The Space Application Centre (SAC) had prepared a report on a few Himalayan glaciers based on satellite imagery which had been funded by the MoEF.
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh wanted to know the view of all the scientists gathered in the room on the findings of SAC. "There was an open discussion where everybody was given the opportunity to air their views and most of the people didn't agree with their findings," says Raina.
The dissenting lot believes that while the Survey of India has prepared accurate maps for the rest of the country, its maps for Himalayan glaciers are incorrect. Raina recalls the time he was the director general of the glaciology division at Geological Survey of India (GSI) in the 1980s. The maps were based on aerial photography done in November because of clear skies. Now measurements are taken during September but because of monsoon clouds aerial photography is not possible R.K. Pachauri become a celebrity after IPCC won a Nobel, but is now facing a credibility crisis.
However simple this may sound, it makes a lot of difference to the authenticity of the data collected. By November, the first snowfall has already taken place because of which it is very difficult to identify the outline of the glaciers. That's why many glaciers outlined in the maps show much larger outlines than actually present. So, when the SAC compared the current size of glaciers using satellite imagery with the 1962 maps they obviously found a lot of shrinkage. "We told the minister that we do not agree what SAC says. At least that is our experience of the glaciers we have gone to," adds Raina.
Ramesh took notice and asked Raina if he would prepare a 'white paper on the status of work done on Himalayan glaciers'. He was given a window of three weeks to complete the white paper. Raina claims he had no idea what a white paper meant. But he checked. "I found that a white paper means truthful expression of facts," he says.
On August 4, 2009, Raina submitted his report. It contained 150 years of data collected by the GSI of 25 Indian glaciers. It said that the Himalayan glaciers and glaciers in the rest of the world have retreated and advanced irregularly with no direct link to warming or cooling of the earth's climate. "This is one of the many issues of climate change science that we do not fully understand," says Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar, a scientist based out of Canada who has been an expert reviewer of the 2007 IPCC report.
On November 9, 2009, Jairam Ramesh released the Himalayan glacier document at a press conference in New Delhi. "There is no conclusive scientific evidence to link global warming with what is happening with the Himalayan glaciers," he said.
Hell Breaks Loose
Raina vividly remembers the day the report was released. "It is surprising that even on the day when this document was released by the minister, a lot of press asked me questions but nobody bothered to put them in the papers because probably at that time they thought this fellow knows nothing… yeh to mantriji ne kar diya," he says. He was partially correct. Not many took the statement too seriously in the beginning, except for some stray critics writing in the media. But the one man who took immediate note of it and reacted bitterly was R. K. Pachauri, chairman of IPCC.
Pachauri came down strongly on the report. The following day, in an interview with The Guardian newspaper, he questioned the minister's intentions behind releasing such a report terming it as 'an extremely arrogant statement'. And he didn't refrain from taking pot shots at Raina either. "With the greatest of respect, this guy retired years ago and I find it totally baffling that he comes out and throws out everything that has been established years ago." He went on to say that such claims were those of "climate change deniers and school boy science." Scientists across the world and six of them who shared their perspective on this issue with Forbes India say that Pachauri's comments were out of order because they were very personal.
In December, 2009, however, Dr. Murari Lal, a scientist and one of the authors of the chapter on glaciers in the IPCC 4th Assessment Report spilled the beans at a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) conference held in New Delhi at the headquarters of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). He said that he had cited the 'Himalayan glaciers to disappear by 2035' claim from a 2005 World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report.
The implication of this "confession" was serious. Lal was saying his data was from a secondary source. The events quickly unravelled. WWF quickly responded and said it had, in turn, take the information from a quote in the New Science Journal given by Dr. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, who was then at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and who later became the head of glaciology at TERI. Hasnain, on his part, denied making any such statement. The source of the claim in IPCC's report thus entered a blackhole.
The moment this story made headlines, scientists and policy makers across the world started questioning IPCC's credibility. Dr. Vincent Gray, a scientist based out of New Zealand who has been an expert reviewer on all IPCC reports ,puts IPCC's current state of affairs in perspective. "This Himalayan story is so obviously fraudulent that it is surprising that people have only just noticed it. I blame myself that I should have noticed it long ago," says Gray. But, quite a few people including the IPCC believe that the 'error' is not such a big deal. Mark Kenber, Policy Director at The Climate Group, is one such person. "The IPCC does not claim anything with 100 percent certainty. Clearly there hasn't been sufficient scrutiny of all work covered, but that only two pieces out of tens of thousands have slipped through is remarkable," says Kenber.
However, others like Bjorn Lomborg, author of the book The Skeptical Environmentalist believe that over the years IPCC had assumed the status of almost a god-like organisation. "People thought that if it is in the IPCC, it is true. The guys were very sure about themselves. All three reports of the IPCC would do a lot of good with more transparency," says Lomborg.
Raina wants to demolish a few other myths about glaciers, but the immediate priority is his book
It is the IPCC's motivation and hand-in-glove nature with policy makers that have come into question. "It is not a scientific body and it has become a political body, dedicated to distorting evidence to support the view that human emissions are dangerous," says Gray. Kenber, on the other hand, believes that it is inevitable that a scientific body so closely aligned with a political process will come under intense scrutiny.
In reply to an email quesionnaire from Forbes India, IPCC said "there was regrettably a poor application of the IPCC Rules and Procedures" in drafting the paragraph on Himalayan Glaciers. "We reaffirm our strong commitment to ensuring that the author teams apply the IPCC procedures at every stage of the writing and review process in order to fulfil the IPCC mandate," it said.
The Aftermath
In early 2010, Pachauri dismissed Raina's report as 'voodoo science'. But Pachauri himself is no scientist. In his earlier avatars, Pachauri indulged in more prosaic activities like overseeing operations at Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi and imparting lessons in economics to management students.
This in no way undermines the man's achievement though. He had done a very good job building TERI.
Ever since the IPCC won the Nobel, Pachauri has
acquired a celebrity status of sorts in the global warming scientific community. He is always on the move; either making speeches, attending conferences, presiding IPCC meetings or meeting policy makers. "The Nobel had its spillover. Earlier, he used to keep to himself but now he's become more outspoken and sees himself more globally," says another source who is a member of a TERI committee.
As for Raina, he is unhappy that the work of so many scientists was trashed. "There are people working from Geological Survey, people working from Jammu University, people working from Jawaharlal Nehru University, IITs who had been working on this subject and this is the remark. That's the tragedy," he says.
He knows what it is to be a field scientist. A Kashmiri Pandit by birth, Raina has spent more than 35 years studying Himalayan glaciers. And life as a glaciologist hasn't been easy. He's walked on foot for months to reach inaccessible glaciers, spent more than three months at a stretch living on glaciers surviving on 'potatoes and onions', led two expeditions to Antarctica, broken his leg when he fell into a crevice while coming down from the 'Gara' glacier in Himachal Pradesh with the nearest hospital available after five days march. He retired in 1991 with a last-month salary of Rs. 9,000. Ask his wife about how he feels about the whole thing and Mrs. Raina does. "He says that I just gave the facts of science; and I didn't mean to confront anybody. Many people wrote to us saying that this is not right. Let him (Pachauri) say what he likes but after all I know what my capabilities are…Waise bhi jo bechara gir gaya hai, use laat kyon maarni," she adds.
The debate isn't over but Raina is done with it. He still has plans to demolish a few myths. One of them is that the Gangotri Glacier in Uttarakhand gets affected by pilgrims taking bath in the Ganges or by army vehicles passing through. However, his next big thing is his book.
Pachauri has been resisting calls for stepping down from the IPCC chair. For the rest of us who don't want to confuse 'science' with 'kazoombaa', Gray has some advice, "There's one (scientific study) born every minute. If somebody tells you what is going to happen in 100 years' time I suggest kicking him out of the door."


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1/3: War On The Weak
Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis is continuing last night's examination of 1913 and 2013. What else was Woodrow Wilson up to? Well, like most New World Order minions he was pushing eugenics directives under the guise of 'health care' solutions. And again we ask: Sound familiar? The insults added to our injuries are the new 21st century technological 'advancements': The databases, the drones, the microchips and more are all coming together to form this new medical surveillance state. This is the 'Flavor Of The Weak: The War On The Sick'!


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This seems to be a big year for fall webworms, the insects or caterpillars that make their webs at the end of branches on trees such as pecan, hickory, persimmon, sycamore, black cherry, sweet gum, river birch and Chinese elm.
They particularly like pecan trees. I have seen some covered by webs like never before.
As always, the number of these pests fluctuates. This is mainly from the populations of predators that feed on them, and winter temperatures. We certainly didn't have much of a winter.
Some people mistakenly call these tent caterpillars, but tent caterpillars build webs in the fork of a tree and occur in spring or early summer. Webworms come later in the summer and are at the ends of the branches.
The adult stage of a webworm is a white moth about 11/4-inches long. Sometimes the forewing is marked with blackish dots. Moths of the first generation emerge from May to July and the second generation comes in July and August. This explains why they last so long. The adult female lays 400-500 eggs in white, cottony patches on the underside of leaves and plants.
After the eggs are laid, they hatch in about a week. The larvae form a web and begin to skeletonize the leaves by feeding in rows. As the larvae grow, they expand the web to cover the colony. They eat only the leaves inside the web.
When the larvae are ready to pupate, they crawl or drop to the ground and form a brownish cocoon in the duff around the tree, where they overwinter.
I have been asked before if treating the ground will stop them for the next year. Most likely not, because unless everybody who lives near you also does it, the moths will just fly back over into your trees. But webworms do have natural enemies to help keep them under control.
Webworm damage is mainly cosmetic, but many people want to control them. Control measures depend on a few circumstances. If your tree is large and the webs are high up, it makes spraying with an insecticide practically impossible. If you can reach the webs with a high-pressure nozzle to just blast water, you can knock many of the caterpillars out of the tree. The blast also breaks up the web, allowing birds to eat the webworms. Wasps also prey on the caterpillars.
If you can reach the webs with a hose end sprayer, any insecticide will kill them. Good choices are carbaryl (Sevin), malathion, acephate, Bt. Products (organic), bifenthrin, lamda-cyhalothrin or cyfluthrin. Make sure you penetrate the web when spraying.
The good news is that trees will not die from the webworms. They just look unsightly. Don't worry, when the webworms leave the web to pupate in the ground, they are not looking for anything else to eat in your landscape.
Your e-mails
As you can imagine, I get a lot of e-mail questions about problems.
When writing to me, try to include as much information as you can. Pictures are a tremendous help. Many questions I get are so vague I have to try and guess what people are talking about.
For example, if you have insect problems, try to be specific as to what they look like and what plants they are feeding on.
Another example of being vague is when someone asks, "What is a good hedge to plant?" Specifics that would help include what type of exposure (sun/shade) and the size you would like. There is a big difference between a 6-foot hedge and a 15-foot hedge.
I also get asked about certain things I write about that might apply only to our area. Since many of my articles are found on the Web, I get questions from all over the country – even from outside the U.S.
Identify where you're from because some of what I write about might not be applicable to where you live.
Someone from outside the Augusta area may write and ask me where to buy something I mentioned.
For example, a few years ago I wrote about the new TifGrand bermudagrass. I got numerous e-mails from people in the Atlanta area asking me where they could buy it near where they live. I am sorry, but I just don't know. I usually tell them to contact the extension agent in their county.
One of my favorites questions is when people say, "I enjoyed reading your column on …" Then they proceed to ask me a question that was answered in the column. What I would like to say back is, "Well if you truly read it, you wouldn't be asking me that!"
On a side note: In spite of showing my name Sid Mullis by my picture and listing my e-mail as firstname.lastname@example.com, many times the salutation is "Dear Mr. Mullins!"
Keep 'em coming!


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Tokai Pharmaceuticals
Initiates ARMOR Clinical Development Program for TOK-001; First Ever Multi-Target Investigational Drug for Prostate Cancer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tokai Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new treatments for prostate cancer, today announced the initiation of a Phase 1/2 clinical trial of its lead candidate TOK-001 for the treatment of patients with castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). TOK-001 is the only compound in development that combines three distinct mechanisms of action for the treatment of CRPC. CRPC is an advanced, difficult-to-treat form of prostate cancer that does not respond to prostate cancer therapies. Nearly all men initially diagnosed with prostate cancer eventually advance to CRPC. Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among men in the U.S.


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Loudoun County, Virginia
May-June 2017
MarketWatch, authored by David Howell, is published on a bi-monthly basis by McEnearney Associates, Inc. It provides useful and insightful summaries of current housing market trends. MarketWatch statistics include housing sales from all companies serving our Virginia - Washington DC - Maryland Metropolitan area.
As millennials are entering their prime as homebuyers, they are feeling the pinch between very low inventory for entry-level priced homes and rising interest rates in the metro DC market.
Contrary to much of the conversation these days, the overall inventory of homes is not at a record low. At the end of April 2014, there were almost 5% fewer fully available homes than there are right now. However, a huge shift of the price range of homes on the market has occurred.
In April 2014, 45% of all homes on the market were priced less than $500,000, and homes in this price category constituted 67% of all sales. Today, just 33% of homes are priced less than $500,000, and the percentage of total sales has dropped to 62% of the market.
No question – inventory is down significantly from this time last year, but the decreases have not been evenly distributed. While overall inventory is down 15%, the number of homes priced less than $500,000 is down 26%. But there are 3% more homes available priced more than $1,000,000.
In the suburban markets, the differences are even starker. In Northern Virginia and Loudoun County, there are 32% fewer homes priced less than $500K than last year, and Montgomery County is down 23%.
It isn't just the scarcity of inventory facing millennials – or any other first-time buyer – that makes this a challenging market. Mortgage interest rates are about a half point more than they were in November, making homes slightly less affordable. And ironically, those higher rates are contributing to the relative paucity of new listings coming on the market. In our robust sellers' market, one might expect there would be a significant jump in the number of sellers taking advantage of very favorable market conditions.
However, new listings are up only 2% in the metro area year-to-date compared to the same time last year. Plenty of homeowners who purchased or refinanced in the last few years and locked in sub-4% mortgages are in no hurry to sell their homes. The prospect of giving up those very favorable rates, only to face the prospect of buying a home in a tight market at higher rates, is keeping people in their homes longer.
Another factor preventing many millennials from buying homes is student loan debt, and that's certainly not unique to the Washington area. In their "Student Loan Debt and Housing Report – 2016," the National Associations of REALTORS® found that, among those who are current in their debt repayments, 71% of non-homeowners cite student loan debt as the factor delaying them from buying a home. The level of debt impacts both their ability to save for a down payment, as well as their debt-to-income ratios to qualify for a mortgage. The delay in buying a home among non-homeowners and homeowners alike is five years.
So, buyers of entry-level homes are truly feeling the pinch of low inventory and higher interest rates. Nonetheless, perspective and patience are both virtues. Mortgage rates are still extraordinarily low from a historical perspective, and markets seek balance over time. Millennials and anyone else can be successful buyers with planning and persistence.
- The available inventory for April 2017 was down 22.7% from April 2016.
- There were decreases for homes priced less than $1 million, with significant drops for homes priced less than $749,000.
- 27.7% of all homes on the market have had at least one price reduction since coming on the market.
- In April 2016, 28.6% of all homes on the market had at least one price reduction.
- The number of new contracts ratified in April 2017 was down 10.2% from the number of contracts ratified in April 2016.
- Two price categories had increases in contract activity, and the lower two had significant decreases.
- As noted on page 3, contract activity year-to-date is up just 0.4%.
- 20.0% of all homes going under contract in April 2017 had at least one price reduction before going under contract.
- The overall supply of homes on the market at the end of April was 1.9 months, down from 2.2 months at the end of April 2016.
- This is the 24th month in a row with a decrease in months' supply after twenty consecutive months with increases.
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Today, Culture Box returns to highlighting some of Guyana's poems. This one was performed at Upscale's Poetry Night this month. It pretty much sums up everything. Apart from being beautifully written, it is the most hilarious poem I have ever heard. Here it is:
An Angry Man by Randolph Critchlow
After much introspection, conscious reflection, and deep meditation,
I thought that I found myself an angry man,
And I was unwilling to accept this negative reality
But the deeper I dug the more I saw, I was not becoming an angry man but damn I was an angry man,
You see I had to be because we live in this cruel, uneven, lopsided thing of a society.
Yes I had to be angry.
Because I live in a country where showing up at 5 for a 4 o'clock event has become customary
And our mindless acceptance of this crap is bewildering. We act like its just fine
"You know it's 4 o'clock Guyanese time." Foolishness!
I gat to be angry
Because I live in a country where I pay taxes for everything
They tax you for earning, tax you when buying, tax you for selling, tax you for consuming.
I pay tax on my electricity, tax on my gas, tax on the tissue to wipe my arse, tax on the butter for bread
I even pay tax on the weave for my girlfriend's head
And when I turn my pipe on the damn water red?
That's why I must be angry.
I live in a country where it is cheaper to visit another country than many places in my own
Where people ask you for a call because there is no credit in their $40,000 phones, really?
Where there is a dance for everything and a show for everyone
There is no lack of investment, for entertainment,
I wonder when we start investing in our children's level of attainment.
See that why I am angry
I supposed to be angry
Because I live in a country, where our leaders argue daily about how much pension the ex-president should get
And between themselves they can't figure out how to properly educate you youths as yet
I live in a country where politicians are rich and the masses poor
And they tell our students to go buy textbook in the store,
Because, they not allowed to pirate it anymore.
Where when you talk you are a racist
When you act, you are a terrorist, well I will accept that label, because damn we living in a crisis,
A crisis created by all of you, by our willingness to accept the status quo,
By us sticking our heads in the sand, and pretending like we don't know.
Yes I am angry, but I am angry at me and you at all of us for allowing it to get to this point
I guess I am angry because it seems as if nobody else is.
A taste of Guyanese Christmas
'Christmas With Us' Vol 2 by Various Artistes, touts itself in its inner pocket as being "a taste of Guyanese Christmas" and that is exactly what it offers, perhaps too much of a taste.
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As we rush to Christmas and the close of the year—yes this is the last Saturday in November—the predictable and unpredictable is happening in the world of entertainment.
"Hello… It's me," Adele sings and the world responds with tears, joy, memes, gifs and over a million downloads in the shortest time possible.
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Out of the blue last Thursday, which was October 29, the media were informed that the Miss Guyana Universe Pageant contestants were going to be introduced to the media and the public on Sunday evening, November 1, at the Princess Hotel.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British band Take That will perform at MTV's Europe Music Awards in Liverpool next month, 14 years after they appeared at the first edition of the annual show when it was held at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
The band will join the likes of Beyonce, P!nk, Duffy, The Killers and Kid Rock on stage at the awards ceremony on November 6, following their comeback in 2006 and sellout tour in 2007.
"After having performed at the first ever MTV Europe Music Awards in 1994 and having such fond memories of the event in Berlin, it is a great honor to be asked back 14 years later," Take That said in a statement.
The former boy band first burst on to the scene in the early 1990s, when the five members regularly topped the charts. The group broke up in 1996 but reformed 10 years later without Robbie Williams.
The MTV event will be used by the band to help launch its new album "The Circus," which is due to be released on December 1.
Ahead of the awards ceremony, Coldplay and Welsh soul singer Duffy lead the nominations with three apiece, followed by Britney Spears who was shortlisted in the best album and best act categories.
Coldplay, who topped the charts with their album "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," were named in the Album of the Year, Act of 2008 and Most Addictive Track categories for their single "Viva La Vida." Duffy is also in contention for best album ("Rockferry") and addictive track ("Mercy") as well as Best New Act.
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Driver Crashes Into Several Vehicles In East Columbus
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Investigators were working to determine what caused a driver to crash into multiple vehicles in east Columbus.
This happened on East Livingston and Fairwood Avenue around 3 Thursday morning.
Police said a driver lost control and hit other vehicles on the street.
When police arrived, officers found one vehicle pushed up into a yard.
It appeared a driver was traveling at a higher rate of speed when the car lost control.
Police said it wasn't immediately clear who was responsible for the crash.
Authorities were talking with neighbors and a person of interest.
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Would you let your spouse grab drinks with a co-worker of the opposite sex? Is the use of a coupon acceptable on a first date? Hosts Finesse Mitchell and Claudia Jordan will explore a range of relationship topics on Centric's newest original series, According To Him & Her.
Each week, our cast of commentators will give their two cents on various subject matters that include dating, relationships, marriage and sex before we get a final word from the experts. Kenny Latimore, Essence Atkins, Elise Neal, Luke James, Marques Houston, Toccara and many other celebs will also stop by to weigh in on the hot topics.
Season regulars will feature comedians such as Rip Michaels, Jimmy Martinez, Jennia Fredrique, Von Decarlo, Tiffany Haddish, Gary "G Thang" Johnson and more as they dish from a male and female perspective.
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MILWAUKEE Catcher Ryan Doumit was benched by manager John Russell in the fifth inning of Friday's 8-6 loss against the Brewers.
Doumit was replaced by Jason Jaramillo to start the bottom of the fifth inning.
"It's between Ryan and myself," Russell said tersely. "He's not hurt."
Russell refused to say whether Doumit will play tonight. Doumit declined to speak with reporters.
After the game, Russell had a brief, closed-door meeting with general manager Neal Huntington.
Doumit went 0 for 3, including grounding into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the first inning. He bounced into a fielder's choice in the third and flew out to center in the fifth before being replaced.


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Being a girl that was stuck in a 6 hours flight, bored with nothing else to do because I obviously wasn't prepared for a flight. I looked through the SkyShop catalogue in the Cosmetics section (who knew? hahaha) and found this!!! SUPERLUSTROUS LIP CUBE!!! 😮 I've never tried the Super Lustrous Lipsticks.
It comes with 9 lip sticks. The swatches on my hand will be at the bottom 🙂
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613 Just Enough Buff
467 Plum Baby
619 Rose & Shine
610 Goldpearl Plum
487 Cherry Blossom
616 Wink For Pink
103 Caramel Glace
205 Champagne On Ice
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These are not the whole line of Super Lustrous Lipsticks. There are so many shades and that is a plus in my book!
To me, the formula is nothing special. Just typical lipstick, not very moisturizing, but a big variety of shades. SO YAY! I love the colours that come in this Super Lustrous Lip Cube 🙂
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The ruling and opposition parties plan to submit two bills to the Diet that will enable police to conduct autopsies without having to obtain the consent of relatives when it is uncertain whether a person died naturally or was the victim of foul play, according to lawmakers.
If enacted, they will be the first laws to articulate the system of identifying the cause of death. Concern about the nation's low autopsy rate has been growing over the years as police-conducted postmortems are few and thus crimes are not investigated or prosecuted. In 2011, autopsies were performed on only 11 percent of bodies handled by police.
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito plan to submit to the current Diet session the bills sponsored by member lawmakers that will oblige police to probe causes of death to ensure criminal acts do not go undetected, lawmakers said Thursday.
Under the new system, police will have the authority to conduct autopsies without getting the approval of the deceased's family if they find such an examination is necessary to clarify the cause of death after hearing the opinions of forensic doctors and other experts.
Police will also be required to explain to relatives, unless their whereabouts is unknown, why an autopsy is needed.
When police make a decision not to perform autopsies, they can still request that doctors conduct tests on urine and blood samples and examine bodies by computer tomography.
The bills stipulate that a new certification system will be introduced for forensic scientists at universities who are commissioned by police to perform autopsies. Eventually, the legislation proposes the central government set up special institutions across the country to perform official autopsies.
When the cause of death is found to be an infectious disease, police will alert local public health authorities. The envisioned new system will not cover deaths resulting from possible medical malpractice. That is expected to be covered by separate legislation.
The government aims to raise the ratio of corpses handled by police on which autopsies are performed to 20 percent over the next five years.
In 2007, police did not conduct an autopsy on a sumo wrestler who died from a severe beating, reportedly because they did not suspect foul play, despite the victims blunt-force external wounds. The victim's family then asked a university to examine the body, which led to the conviction of his stablemaster and fellow grapplers.


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PARIS, May 31 (Reuters) - After overcoming fifth seed Petra Kvitova in a claycourt street fight on Saturday, Svetlana Kuznetsova considered whether the cycles of life meant this was her year to win the French Open again.
The Russian won at Roland Garros in 2009, five years after claiming the U.S. Open title, so maybe it is her time to win again in 2014.
"Everybody talks about it, but it's still too far, still only third round. I prefer to leave it out there," she said with a smile after reaching the last 16 at Roland Garros.
Her three-hour match with Kvitova left both players exhausted after a series of long, full-blooded rallies. The Czech former Wimbledon champion took two timeouts to have her right thigh treated and ended the tussle with it heavily bandaged.
"I left out there everything I could," said Kuznetsova. "The match turned around many times and I just hung in there and did my best.
"I feel really good, I feel really excited. I really feel almost like Rafa (Nadal) out there."
Kvitova was the fourth of the top five seeds to exit the tournament, opening it up to a younger generation of players and also to those, like Kuznetsova, who have experience on their side.
"When I was a bit younger, I came here and I was feeling 'Oh, I'm in such good shape, I have a plan, I have a chance', and I would lose in the quarters or even earlier.
"So as the years go by, I feel I don't have to start the tournament on the high notes. It's important just to go match by match. Thinking about how the tournament will go - it's not worth it. I try not to think."
Kuznetsova is aware that in another five years, her career may be over like that of the woman she beat in the 2009 final, Dinara Safina. Safina, a former world number one who never won a grand slam title, retired this year due to a long-term back injury.
"Sometimes life is like this, so that's why you have to live every moment the best you can on the court or anywhere in your life," said the 28-year-old Kuznetsova, .
"We are not machines. But here I am, I have won two slams, I have been No.2 but I have not been No.1.
"I could have been better, I could have been worse. You never know where it goes." (Reporting by Robert Woodward, editing by Pritha Sarkar)


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The Scot has already won in San Jose and finished runner-up in Doha this season, either side of reaching the fourth round at the Australian Open.
And McEnroe told BBC Five Live: "You don't see many guys with this natural ability to make it look so easy.
"I'll be surprised if he's not in the top five in the world by Wimbledon."
"I'm not surprised because he's grown and I figured when he physically rounded out (he would improve)," he said.
"The way he can just change the pace of the ball, he's learning now."
However, McEnroe did have a word of warning for Murray, with the clay-court season looming ahead of the French Open in May.
Murray struggled badly on the surface last year and McEnroe believes he will have to work hard to avoid coming unstuck once again.
He added: "It's not going to be easy for him on the clay - that's where guys are going to come after him."


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Having just decorated the arrangement of Christmas cacti with ornaments that are much older than I am (and have the wear and tear to prove it), I've decided its time to scope out a few new ones. Heres one that I like from Anthropologie. Its hard to see, but trust me when I say its cute. Its got peacocks on it. Check out the website for a closer look.


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A VETERANS charity and councillors are teaming up in a bid to kickstart a 'homes for heroes' scheme in the heart of Burnley.
Tony Hayes, chief executive of Veterans Association UK (VAUK), has been in discussions with Trinity ward councillors Howard Baker and Tony Martin over establishing the first half-dozen properties for the ambitious initiative in their ward. The councillors are approaching private landlords over a number of vacant properties in Albion Street, Grange Street and Pritchard Street about a link-up with VAUK.
Mr Hayes said: "We are hoping to start with a couple of veterans, who will live in the same house on a buddy system, and then go on from there."
The charity recently moved from Kelbrook to International House, Springfield Road, Burnley.
And the organisation, which provides support for veterans of all ages coming out of the services, is looking to hit the ground running in its new base.
Plans are being advanced to create a distance learning centre at their new offices, which formerly housed Burnley College's design school.
Coun Baker is also the council's executive member for housing and regeneration.
Coun Martin said: "Hopefully this way the landlords will receive some income for these two-up two-down properties and the veterans can be rehomed."
Ex-services people interested in finding out more about VAUK, or who would like to volunteer, call the new office 01282 219391.


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