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Washington - The House overwhelmingly approved a comprehensive defense policy bill Thursday that aims to stem the epidemic of sexual assaults in the military, cover the cost of combat pay for the nation's war-fighters, and fund new aircraft and ships.
The strong bipartisan vote was 350-69, and puts pressure on the Senate to act before it adjourns next week.
Reflecting the drawdown in Afghanistan and reduced defense spending, the bill would authorize $552.1 billion for the regular budget plus $80.7 billion for conflicts overseas in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. It represents a compromise worked out by the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate Armed Services committees after a similar bill stalled in the Senate just before Thanksgiving.
In appealing for support, Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services panel, said the measure provides "badly needed reforms to help alleviate the crisis of sexual assault in the military."
The panel's senior Democrat, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, said the legislation was critical. "To not pass this is to jeopardize our national security and not support our troops," Smith said.
Congress has passed the National Defense Authorization Act every year since the Kennedy administration. However, more than a 51-year streak is at stake.
The comprehensive bill would provide a 1 percent salary increase for military personnel, keep construction going on bases and an aircraft carrier in Virginia, and pay for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria.
The National Defense Authorization Act supports building two Virginia-class submarines a year by authorizing $5.4 billion for two submarines in 2014 and for buying parts for the 2015 submarines; provides more than $1 billion to continue developing a new class of ballistic-missile submarines to replace the Ohio-class boats; and rejects the Pentagon's request for a new round of base closings in 2015.
The Naval Submarine Base in Groton was nearly closed during the 2005 round of base closings. Electric Boat in Groton and its shipbuilding teammate Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia build the attack submarines.
EB is designing the new ballistic-missile submarines. EB is also developing a module to add more missile tubes to Virginia-class submarines, a project that is supported by the bill.
"This bipartisan bill makes a robust investment in the production and development of one of the most critical elements of our nation's defense - our undersea capabilities and the industrial base that sustain them," U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, said in a statement.
The bill, Courtney added, "is a strong statement of support for the outstanding work of the men and women at Electric Boat, even at a time of fiscal constraint in Washington."
In the Senate, Republicans are furious with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's tactics, accusing him of tyranny for changing the rules to reduce their power over nominations last month and denying them the opportunity to offer amendments on the defense bill.
Over President Barack Obama's objections, several lawmakers want to add to the legislation a new batch of tough sanctions on Iran. The administration argues that the penalties would scuttle last month's deal on Iran's nuclear program, standing as a sign of bad faith to U.S. negotiating partners and possibly providing Tehran with an excuse to abandon the negotiations.
Senate Republicans face a difficult decision with far-reaching political implications. They could block the defense bill just days before Christmas, challenging the notion of rushing through a massive bill without any amendments. Defense represents more than half the government's discretionary budget.
That explanation would be a tough sell with voters in states with large military installations such as Texas, Kentucky and South Carolina, where GOP Sens. John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham also face primary election opponents.
Senior military leaders, including Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have written to congressional leaders, pleading with them to approve the bill.
The legislation includes nearly two dozen provisions addressing the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. The Pentagon has estimated that 26,000 members of the military may have been sexually assaulted last year, though thousands were afraid to come forward for fear of inaction or retribution.
The bill would strip military commanders of their ability to overturn jury convictions, require a civilian review if a commander declines to prosecute a case and require that any individual convicted of sexual assault face a dishonorable discharge or dismissal. The bill also would provide victims with legal counsel, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts-martial in rape and sexual assault cases, and criminalize retaliation against victims who report a sexual assault.
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Tsongas said the latest changes were only one step, as each year Congress discovers another shortcoming in the rules.
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The curious minds who made our science Australian
Peter Macinnis from Sydney is the author of a book titled Curious Minds - The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists. In this book he looks at the long line of naturalists who have traversed Australia in search of new plants and animals.
Robyn Williams: Peter Macinnis has been on Ockham's Razor many times. He has also, you may be aware, written many books, for young and old, all with some kind of scientific theme. He can't stop. And that's good. Because they're all fun. And full of yarns.
Peter Macinnis: A new chapter in my life started when I noticed how many explorers went out into "trackless wastes". I knew that even in the wilderness, animal pads are everywhere—and the early explorers all spoke of following "native roads". So I wrote a book about the hidden people involved in exploring. That included Aborigines who went along or helped along the way, convicts, teenage boys, women, one or two teenage girls, and quite a few scientists. People liked it.
Because I also write for children, the National Library of Australia asked me to be involved in a similar book for younger readers, and I agreed, thinking I'd be one of a team, but no, it was just me, though they offered to provide some practical activities as well.
As an old science teacher, I preferred doing my own, and biased Australian Backyard Explorer towards natural history. People liked that as well, and the Library asked me for a sequel, to be called Australian Backyard Naturalist. That came out last May, and it's packed with science activities.
Books published by an institution should reflect the institution's collections. While sifting through historical material that didn't quite fit the naturalist book, I saw room for a study of the naturalists and natural history painters who described our flora and fauna. I mentioned this, and before I could blink, I had done an outline and had a contract.
I'm a story teller, not an historian, and I've long used the throw-away line that my enemies and friends all agree, with different intonations, that I have a curious mind. My subjects all had curious minds, but that wasn't a story line. I did what I always do: I gathered data, comments and quotes, threw them into a spreadsheet, and sorted and worked the data over.
Soon, a theme emerged. We progressed from collecting and science done on the fly by Europeans with no commitment to Australia, to science done by native or adoptive Australians collecting for Australians. Later, I found that some unlikely people had been pushing a nationalistic barrow, but let's begin at the beginning.
William Dampier explored a section of (to his eyes) unattractive coast twice in the late 1600s. He found the head and bones of a hippo, he said, in the belly of a shark, and he mistook a shingleback lizard for a guano, by which he meant an iguana. Dampier might have collected specimens, but he was hopeless at natural history.
Between Dampier's two voyages, Willem de Vlamingh visited a river which he named the Swan, after the black swans he found there. He saw quokkas on Rottnest which he took to be rats, so there wasn't a lot of informed opinion around. Not yet.
This changed in 1770, when Daniel Solander and Joseph Banks showed that Australia offered many wonders. In 1791, d'Entrecasteaux' expedition brought French scientists to the coast of Western Australia, where Claude Riche became lost in the bush and examined the faeces of Aborigines to find seeds and learn which plants the locals had been eating.
He may have known that some of Vlamingh's crew had been poisoned by eating the wrong seeds. Tough science reached Australia when Riche went through the motions, but his colleague Jacques La Billardière was tough as well. Wanting the flowers and fruits of the very tall Tasmanian bluegum, Eucalyptus globulus, he chopped one down, leaving just a stump.
Other visiting scientists left no mark at all. In 1836, Charles Darwin entered and left Sydney almost unnoticed, even though every literate Sydneysider knew the name Darwin through his grandfather Erasmus. His name wasn't even attached to our coasts until several years later, when the Beagle returned to our shores.
Others left their names on the map, but had them wiped off during World War I because their names were of "enemy origin". Ferdinand Bauer, an exquisite painter of our flowers, was born Austrian, so Cape Bauer disappeared in 1916, as did a few places named after Doktor Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, KCMG, but I'll say more of him and Leichhardt, whose name stayed on the map, later.
Local naturalists had no way of being trained. They could learn a bit from books, but most naturalists trained in medicine to learn medical botany and later applied their anatomical skills to animals. We got our early naturalists from overseas.
An English surgeon, George Bennett pursued egg-laying mammals for half a century before a young Scot came in and whipped the prize from under his nose. Bennett was an excellent naturalist but exported as much Australian material to Britain as he could, sending Sir Richard Owen the best fossils and specimens, leaving little of value in Australia.
Banks and his collectors sent everything to Kew Gardens. La Billardière's botanical collections ended up in Florence, and Lesueur and Péron's collections ended up in Le Havre, in a museum that was badly damaged by bombs and fire in 1944. Any Australian curious mind wanting to see this material must travel, but it may not be easy.
Le Havre on a wet, windy spring day is a bad place to be, as shopkeepers scrape off the winter's supply of seagull droppings, sending a shower of fishy-smelling limey rain down on the passers-by, but this is nothing to the travails of some of the naturalists who came to Australia.
Botanist Alan Cunningham died of consumption, perhaps made worse by years of hard bush travel. His brother Richard wandered away from Sir Thomas Mitchell's expedition and died a lonely death, perhaps killed by Aborigines, but maybe not.
Amalie Dietrich sent all of her collections overseas because she was paid by a German shipping magnate to collect specimens along the Queensland coast. She sent Aboriginal bones to the magnate's private museum in Hamburg, but there is also a persistent legend that she attempted to procure the murder of an Aborigine, so she could send his body back for study.
I find this improbable. She got on well with the local Aborigines, who had saved her from drowning. She was, in any case, an excellent shot, and might have taken her own specimens, had she wished. Still, the yarn is popular with young-earth creationists, who like to confuse Darwinism with demonic tendencies, and the lady was apparently an early Australian evolutionist.
She didn't really share the Darwinian doctrine around much, because she lived in an isolated bush camp where she collected large crocodiles, the first taipan, and many spiders, but had few scientists to talk to.
In the Margaret River area, Georgiana Molloy was also isolated. She and her husband failed to clear karri forest near Augusta, and later settled near Vasse. She had no servants, but a large number of children. The complications of childbirth, probably compounded by poor care, brought her an agonising and early death.
Yet between births, she collected seeds and pressed plants to send back to Britain, making the British more aware of the beauties of Australian wildflowers. Her recipients thought her meticulous, and given a fair life span, she would surely be gracing one of our bank notes today.
William Sharp Macleay was well-known in England. He even chaired a meeting in London in 1837, when a nobody called John Gould presented some ground-finches that a little-known youngster called Darwin had collected in the Galapagos. Darwin had asked Gould, as a bird expert, to study them, and it was Gould who first recognised them as finches. Not long after, Macleay came to Sydney, where his uncle was Colonial Secretary. He settled down to a life of genteel science.
Macleay however was far from gentle. He was at his most scathing when the bunyip fad of the mid-1840s was fuelled by the discovery of an alleged bunyip cranium. With precise anatomical skill, he applied his incisive intellect and tongue and dismissed the skull as that of a malformed fetal horse.
The Macleays' collections (including the famous 'bunyip' skull) are in the Macleay Museum of the University of Sydney, but the famous John and Elizabeth Gould and their collectors sent everything back to Britain. On the suffering theme, three of Gould's collectors including John Gilbert (who was with Leichhardt), died in the field.
Some of our best and most Australian scientists were German, and Leichhardt was perhaps the greatest of them all. When he sent some plant specimens to Paris for study, he said bluntly " Unique specimens you should of course send back."
He hoped for a herbarium in Sydney so Australian type specimens could stay where they belonged. He wanted it to be at Sydney's Australian Museum, but he died and it never happened.
A few years later another redoubtable German-Australian, Gerard Krefft, arrived there. There are stories I need to skip here, like the feud between Krefft and the larrikin William Blandowski, and Krefft's wrongful dismissal from the Australian Museum.
Before that shameful event, Krefft was a bastion of Australian science. When Sir Richard Owen demanded fossils, Krefft sent casts or photos or 'seconds'. He wouldn't send Australia's best to appease the greedy dragon who sat in South Kensington, amassing more and more treasures.
Krefft always felt that he was battling an anti-Darwin establishment. Owen was the arch-enemy of Darwin in London, and all sorts of conspiracy theories can be woven, but after Krefft was dismissed, an anti-Darwin friend of Owen, George Bennett, resigned from the museum trust in protest. Things are never as clear-cut in real life as they are in conspiracy theories.
Australian science gained when Ferdinand von Mueller established Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, so new Australian plants might be described in Australia. Kew tried to lure him to London, but he declined. Unlike the imperial servants who came before, the German Australians stood their ground.
The nation was changing, and I am inclined to think that we give too little credit to our Germans. Equally, we fail to credit the women who painted and wrote about wildflowers and wildlife. Take Louisa Atkinson, who affronted the good folk of Kurrajong, probably by going about the bush in trousers, and whose writing reminds me of a young Henry Lawson.
She wrote excellent natural history in the Sydney Morning Herald and later married James Calvert, who survived the attack on Leichhardt's camp in which John Gilbert died. Sadly, like Georgiana Molloy, she died in childbirth, but she set a high standard. Among those mourning her passing was Ferdinand von Mueller, who probably liked the Australianness of her writing.
The Scott sisters of Newcastle painted brilliantly, but few can match Ellis Rowan who painted flowers well enough to arouse the spiteful jealousy of male artists. She was discovered by von Mueller, and she was no botanist, but her works were so reliable that even today, an ordinary botanist can spot her frequent errors of identification. Until he died, von Mueller corrected her mistakes, but her later works are often wrongly labelled.
Burke's Colonial Gentry says Rowan had the wrong-side-of-the-blanket royal blood, and she visited once with Queen Victoria, but she was very much an Australian naturalist. She wrote a ground-breaking children's story about a pet bilby that must have won hearts and minds. Before her, Louisa Anne Meredith had written of a pet wombat in Tasmania. Later Dorothy Wall would write Blinky Bill, and works like that shaped Australian children's minds.
The last blast of imperial science came when William Hay Caldwell arrived from Cambridge on a scholarship to see if monotremes laid eggs; how the marsupials reproduce; and to unravel the mysteries of the Queensland lungfish which Gerard Krefft had revealed to the world, some fifteen years earlier.
It sounds like a tall order, but Caldwell pulled it off. He did it by slaughtering and dissecting hordes of monotremes, and quite a few kangaroos.
The response was interesting. Increasingly egalitarian Australia sagely agreed that monotremes laid eggs, basically saying "Yairsss, mate, we've been saying that fer years, yer dingbat!", but men of the bush swore that baby kangaroos formed as a bud on the teat.
There followed a hilarious correspondence, mainly in the pages of The Argus, before Caldwell left with 1300 pickled echidnas in barrels. He returned to Sydney to marry an heiress, then settled in Scotland, living the life of a gentleman, though not quite as stated in his 1941 obituary in Nature.
After that, Australian science was done more and more by Australian academics. Over two centuries, we've progressed from ignorant tourists to informed foreigners to informed Australians who in turn have made us proudly aware of the marvels of Australia's biology. We owe a great deal to the curious minds who devoted their lives to poking around in the bush.
Robyn Williams: Peter Macinnis. His new book is Australian Backyard Naturalist. And, by the way, there's also another book on our natural history just our from Prof John Hickie, a biography of George Bennett mentioned just now by Peter.
- Peter Macinnis
- Author and Teacher
- Title
- Curious Minds - The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists
- Author
- Peter Macinnis
- Publisher
- National Library of Australia
- 97806422777541
- Presenter
- Robyn Williams
- Producer
- Brigitte Seega

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The nationally-ranked No. 3 MIT men's basketball team will once again hit the road for the NCAA Division III tournament, traveling to Hartwick College for opening round play this weekend. The Engineers will face Skidmore College (19-8) in the first round on Friday, March 2 at 5:30 p.m. Host Hartwick (23-3) will play Farmingdale State (22-5) in the other first round matchup, with the winners advancing to round two on Saturday. Saturday's game will begin at 7:00 p.m.
MIT (25-1) earned the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference's (NEWMAC) automatic berth after defeating Springfield College, 65-60, in yesterday's NEWMAC championship game. The Cardinal and Gray has now captured three NEWMAC titles in the past four years, including two in a row. At 25-1, Tech has already surpassed the previous program record for wins in a season.
Senior Noel Hollingsworth (Salt Lake City, Utah) leads the way in scoring (17.0 points per game) and is one of five Tech players averaging double figures. Junior Mitchell Kates (Colts Neck, N.J.) leads the team in assists with 5.0 a game and is second in scoring (13.2 ppg). Kates was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NEWMAC tournament, after averaging 21.5 points, 4.5 assists and 3.5 rebounds in a pair of games.
Skidmore sports a balanced attack, with four players averaging 10+ points, led by senior Terron Victoria (Albany, N.Y.) at 11.8 per game. The Thoroughbreds upset top-seeded Hobart to win their second straight Liberty League title and earn the automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. Skidmore has won six straight entering the postseason and its 19 wins are the program's highest total since the program began Division III play in 1985.
Live stats and video will be available for all three games this weekend. Links can be found below and on the men's basketball schedule page.
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They found the time and date on the Internet. A congressman Mark and Jackie Barden had never read or heard about was hosting a town hall meeting about an hour from where they were staying with relatives in DeLand.
They found the time and date on the Internet.
A congressman Mark and Jackie Barden had never read or heard about was hosting a town hall meeting about an hour from where they were staying with relatives in DeLand.
The night before they would take their two children to Disney World, they had their first face-to-face meeting with a Washington, D.C., legislator.
They wanted to introduce themselves last Tuesday night to U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Ponte Vedra. They haven't liked the direction the national gun debate has been going and they wanted to get involved.
Their 7-year-old son, Daniel, was one of 20 students killed during the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. In an interview Friday in DeLand, the Bardens talked about the shattering journey they've been through and where they hope to go from here.
Mark and Jackie were too emotionally destroyed in the days after their son's murder to go to the interfaith vigil attended by President Obama. They couldn't drive for weeks afterward. They were assisted around the clock by state troopers, family and friends.
By the time they read the announcement of DeSantis' town hall meeting in Palm Coast, they had reached the point of readiness to go public.
The usually apolitical couple didn't realize how bold of a choice they were making until after they arrived. The congressman was speaking to a room of 300 people. Based on the applause DeSantis was getting and the questions he was hearing, Mark and Jackie realized it was a tea party room. They didn't care whether the politician was Republican, Democrat or independent.
"It should be a non-polarized debate," Mark said of the issue of responsible gun ownership. He refuses to use the term "gun control" because it's too harsh and it doesn't accurately reflect what he wants to see take place in the future. He said he wants sensible gun laws — including disallowing the sale of high-capacity magazines and requiring background checks at gun shows.
After almost an hour of questions and answers, the microphone was finally passed to Mark. He stood up and read the notes he made on his iPad.
The gun debate wasn't "academic" to him, he told the congressman. It was personal. He told the Congressman of his son's death.
Mark spoke for a few more minutes and took his seat. DeSantis talked about violent video games and mental health. Earlier during the town hall, he said he wouldn't favor a ban on any kind of magazine for rifles or handguns.
Mark, 48, and Jackie, 46, said they have waited for a good explanation as to why 30-round magazines, which were used by their son's killer, are still so widely available and legal. They didn't hear one from DeSantis and they haven't heard one yet.
"I think gun responsibility and gun safety need a new discussion," Mark said Friday.
"I think being responsible would be an advantage for gun owners because it's good for their public image," he continued.
Tuesday was their very first town hall meeting. It won't be their last. They promised next time they would finish any prepared statements with a direct question. Mark didn't feel he did that. Throughout the night, neither Mark nor Jackie thought DeSantis was being direct enough with his audience. He was playing it safe, they said.
A few in the audience spoke to the family during the tail end of the town hall. They thanked them for coming and for speaking.
"I was very anxious," said Mark, who is a musician and used to performing in front of large crowds.
"I didn't feel that same level of comfort I usually feel," he said. "I wasn't performing in front of people who necessarily wanted to hear me."�
On Dec. 14, the parents of the 20 slain students at Sandy Hook Elementary School heard misinformation all morning about the shootings. The rumblings they were hearing were not nearly as horrifying as the reality.
Six adults also were killed during the rampage by shooter Adam Lanza, 20, who turned a gun on himself before police entered the school. He had fatally shot his own mother before heading to Sandy Hook.
The distorted facts swirling across the community in the wake of the shootings contributed to Mark Barden's lack of preparedness for what was to come. Daniel was alive, he thought, but the ordeal would be hard for him to handle. That's as far as Mark's thought process would take him.
"I was still thinking about formulating how I was going to talk to Daniel about this," he said.
A parent who lives on the Barden's block had been reunited with her child. She told Mark she was staying with him until he was with Daniel. Mark told her she should go home to be with her family, but she wouldn't leave his side.
Mark's unusual work hours means he's usually at home most days. Seconds after learning there had been a shooting, he drove his car to Sandy Hook, which is about four miles from his house. Jackie, an elementary schoolteacher, was at work that morning in Pawling, N.Y. She got three text messages that morning about her children's schools being locked down.
Mark had called her and told her there had been a shooting at Daniel's campus. That's when leaving her job to go to Newtown no longer was a question.
She was advised not to drive the 34 miles from her job to Newtown, Conn. A co-worker took her there. She walked into the fire station conference room where her husband and other parents of victims had been waiting.
"I'm not sure how I can announce this," said Col. Danny R. Stebbins of the Connecticut State Police.
By that time, Mark's emotions were catching up to him.
"Twenty children are dead," Stebbins continued.
Mark buried his head into his neighbor's shoulder.
Jackie's knees buckled.
Neither recalls much more about those moments or the hours that followed, but they both remember at one point being on the floor sobbing.�
Jackie's cousin started a Facebook page and named it "WWDD: What Would Daniel Do?" The goal of the site is not only to inform people of the way Daniel lived, but to encourage more people to live they way he did — "Be kind and compassionate to all living things and be helpful and thoughtful of others."
Whenever he saw a student sitting alone, Daniel would ask his teacher whether he could sit with him or her, Jackie said.
Daniel always held the door for someone. It didn't matter how far that person had to walk. Sometimes, the man or woman he was holding the door for would still be in the checkout line at the store, Mark said.
Jackie recalled one conversation she had with a Sandy Hook teacher. She has quoted the teacher more than once, but it still causes her to cry each time she says it.
"�'Daniel should have come with a ribbon because he was a gift to his teachers,'�" Jackie said.
The couple pass around a pair of green-and-white bracelets with the name of the Facebook page on it. They passed around about a half-dozen the night they attended DeSantis' town hall meeting.
Mark and Jackie want people to know about Daniel. They have been on a nationally syndicated talk show. They have been interviewed for an episode of "Frontline." They say the biggest reason for wanting to be in the media spotlight is so that more people will know how Daniel lived.
Daniel was sensitive and compassionate, but "he was all boy," his mother said.
He loved to wrestle with his older brother, James. He loved playing soccer. One day he was running around in the yard with James before stopping in his tracks. With a funny expression on his face, he sprinted toward his dad. He spit out a tooth that had been loose for a few days and then resumed playing.
Daniel woke up more than an hour earlier than normal on Dec. 14. Father-and-son time got extended.
Daniel made sure to hug his older brother goodbye before he boarded the school bus. It was the first time he had done that since James, 12, started middle school. His 11-year-old sister, Natalie, also boarded her bus earlier in the morning. He also made sure to give her an affectionate goodbye. Daniel still had an hour before his bus would show.
He sat on the sofa with his dad and watched the sunrise. Daniel said he liked the way the sun reflected off the ornaments on the Christmas tree and his father took a photo.
Mark ate breakfast with his son and helped him practice playing "Jingle Bells" on the piano. They played a game of foosball.
On the way to the bus stop, Daniel tried to goad his dad into a game of tag because that's what he loved to do each morning before school. On this particular day, Mark told Daniel, "We always play tag. How about this time we just hold hands?"
On Daniel's last day, he got to walk down the sidewalk and up the street that morning hand-in-hand with his father.
Mark can recite every minute of it.�


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Congratulations On Your First Pregnancy, Ali Larter!
After a few weeks of speculation, it's finally confirmed — Ali has her very own little hero on the way!
There's a new mom in Hollywood! We've had our eye on Heroes star Ali Larter's growing bump, and now the mom-to-be finally announced that she's expecting! The Obsessed star and her hubby of just about a year, Hayes MacArthur, announced their news to People yesterday. A representative for the couple said, "Ali and Hayes are thrilled to be expecting their first child,' who is due later this year.
Congratulations Ali and Hayes on your new bundle-of-joy to be!


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What happens if I damage an item?
Contact your library as soon as possible to report the damaged item. (If your item was overdue, this will stop any additional late fees from being charged to your card.) If your library is closed now, you can use the Report Damaged Items form. Your library will probably need to look at the item to determine what charges, if any, you will need to pay. Charges for damaged library materials are determined on a case-by-case basis. Fees range from $1 to the item's full replacement cost.


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Through a rigorous selection process, the artist singer Camel Thunderstorms will named her as 'Queen of Boxing Professional' version of the Professional Boxing Commission of Indonesia (KTPI) led by the famous lawyer Ruhut Sitompul, Sunday (24/07) in Studio 5 TVRI Senayan, Jakarta.
Dangdut singer with the original name Camelia Panduwinata Lubis, setting aside its competitors namely Yunni artist Shara, Manohara and Agnes Monica.
Choice fell on the Camel Lightning due consideration for three years, is familiar with the community of professional boxing in the country.
Camel Lightning socializing artist who will be crowned as' Queen of Professional Boxing ", added Yance, a positive response from Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo and Kadisorda Ratiyono, Saturday (07/23). "The two officials had agreed, the era of performance-related momentum Indonesia," he explained.
Meanwhile, the artist born in Medan October 27, 1986, Camel Lightning, expressed its readiness to hold the title as 'Queen of Professional Boxing'. "I am also ready if you have to do a road show to a few areas, mainly to introduce more professional boxing in order to attract the younger generation," he said.
The singer who among them ever bringing forth album dangdut house 'Ya Iyalah', 'Godain Gwe Donk', 'Aku Sudah Tau, Say', agrees with the vision, mission, and commitment from KTPI.


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YES! For Yaoi-Con 2010, DMP is proud to announce that their guest will be the prolific and talented Hinako Takanaga, creator of Little Butterfly, and the soon to be released, The Tyrant Falls In Love! We're very excited to have Takanaga-sensei as a guest! Read the full PR after the jump!
Gardena, CA (May 19. 2010)- Digital Manga Publishing is excited to announce their special guest for Yaoi-Con 2010, the prolific and fan-favorite yaoi mangaka-Hinako Takanaga! The creator of numerous manga, including Little Butterfly, The Devil's Secret, Challengers, Croquis, Love Round!!, Liberty Liberty, and the soon to be released The Tyrant Falls In Love, Hinako Takanaga has been one of the most popular yaoi mangaka in the US, and will be making her second appearance at Yaoi-Con!
So come up to San Francisco in October, and meet the immensely talented Hinako Takanaga in person, and hear her answer questions about her process and her work!
Yaoi-Con takes place over the Halloween weekend, October 29-October 31, and at a brand new location in Burlingame, CA! For more information on Yaoi-Con, including location, hotels, and registration, please visit their site at: www.yaoicon.com
THE TYRANT FALLS IN LOVE, VOL. 1, Rated M+ (for ages 18+), MSRP: $12.95, Available: August 18, 2010, B6 Size, June' Imprint
University study Tetsuhiro Morinaga has been in love with his homophobic, violent and tyrannical sempai Souichi Tatsumi for more than four years now. Even though he's told Tatsumi how he feels and even managed to steal a kiss, expecting anything more seems like nothing more than the stuff of dreams… That is until the long-oppressed Morinaga gets his biggest chance ever. Might his unendingly unrequited love finally be returned?
About Digital Manga Publishing
Located in Gardena, CA, Digital Manga Publishing is one of the industry's most unconventional and innovative companies, specializing in building corporate and cultural bridges from Japan to the Western Hemisphere – specifically through the licensing, importation and preparation of anime (Japanese animation), manga (Japanese comic books) and related merchandise for the North American mainstream and subculture markets. In this capacity, DMI serves as a catalyst for the expansion of Japanese pop culture institutions into global arenas. The company's imprint line includes DMP: its mainstream imprint, DMP PLATINUM: its classic manga imprint, JUNE´: its boys love imprint, 801 MEDIA: its adult boys love imprint, and DokiDoki: its exclusive co-publishing imprint with Shinshokan Publishing.
For more information about Digital Manga Publishing, visit www.digitalmanga.com


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Learn how MacUpdate Desktop can install apps on MacUpdate with the simple click of the icon. Plus, keep all your apps updated.
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Some of you might not be very familiar with Dragonette's music catalog, but you've most likely heard lead singer Martina Sorbara's voice. She provides the vocals on Martin Solveig's hit "Hello," which reached No. 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was featured in ads for Trident Vitality gum.
If you didn't know who was singing on the dance club hit — whose music video has earned over 47 million page views but doesn't show Sorbara — don't worry. Most people didn't know.
"When we play the song live people will say, 'I didn't know that was you,'" Sorbara said Monday. "A lot of the (club) audience are passive music listeners. They will like the song but are not going to buy it and check out the artwork. Of all the genres, that's the most detached — club music. Not all of them are flippant, but a lot of the time they don't know what the artists look like or what their album covers looks like."
Fortunately for the members of Dragonette, the Canadian electro pop trio that will perform Saturday at the Congress Theater with Major Lazer and Chicago rapper Rockie Fresh, they weren't relying on the song to help them survive in the music business. The band features Sorbara, her husband and guitarist Dan Kurtz and drummer Joel Stouffer. It has been around since 2005, when it released its self-titled EP. Since then, Dragonette has released three studio albums, including 2012's "Bodyparts."
(Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton paid the band a high compliment when he tweeted in November that "Bodyparts" "is the album [No Doubt] should have made but didn't!")
Sorbara admits there were times she questioned whether the band would make it, but she said it was a performance at Lollapalooza in 2010 that eased some of those fears and helped make her feel like Dragonette belonged.
"Lollapalooza was surprising," Sorbara said. "We weren't used to having tons of people in our audience. Sometimes we would go to a city we'd never been to and not a lot of people would be there. We were prepared to have 40 people at (our stage). It was really nice. I remember feeling like, 'Wow. This is what we do.' I think it re-eneregized us for the rest of the tour. I think that tour, we felt like we're not just a Canadian band."
Because the band features a husband and wife, you would think there'd be a boudary separating their work life from their personal lives. As the saying goes, never take your work home with you. Sorbara and Kurtz, however, not only talk about work at home, they also recorded the band's last album there.
"That's how it's been since day one," Sorbara said. "It's not even blurred lines. There are no lines. It's intense. It makes stepping out of work difficult. But we haven't had to make any hard rules like 'No talking business.' There have been times where I've said 'It's 11 p.m. I don't want to talk about this right now.' That's the only kind of way we control it.
"Maybe we would be more successful if we took (an occasional) break from each other, but we're not good at that. We like being around each other. When we do take a break and go somewhere, we're still emailing each other and talking about business."
The band members are too busy to take time off. Their tour will take them everywhere from Cleveland and Royal Oak, Mich., to Barcelona, Spain, and Zurich in the next two months.
"This is a pretty fickle business," Sorbara said. "It's hard to feel a permanent sense of security. I still have my doubts. I don't ever feel like Dragonette has made it and will be a sure thing forever. I just feel lucky that people have been paying attention to us."
Dragonette, Major Lazer and Rockie Fresh
When: 7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Tickets: $24.99 at congresschicago.com


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The Kaituna Track
The Kaituna Track in the Kahurangi National park and 15kms south of Collingwood links the Aorere Valley with the West Coast of Golden Bay.
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The track begins at the popular bush café, The Naked Possum which is a welcomed stop after your walk.
The most popular part of the track is an easy 2 hour return walk to the Kaituna Forks following the original pack horse track to the Kaituna goldfields where you see old gold mining workings .The native forest is beautiful and lush with magnificent specimens of Southern Rata, Rimu and Pukatea with a understory of ferns, palms and beech.
The gradient of the track is gentle and there are lovely views of the river valley and forest as you go.
At the forks if the day is warm there is a great spot to jump in and cool off ! For the more adventurous and experienced the track then climbs steeply and you follow a 'route' for another 7-8 hours to come out at Knuckle Hill , Westhaven Inlet. It's a great short walk for all ages, and immediately you feel like you're in the middle of dense NZ native forest without going very far.
Access to the river is also easy at a couple of places. Its especially vibrant in late December when the southern rata is in bloom.


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[THIS WEEK] This trio of triple-filtered mediations sheds some light on architecture and editing, writes James Pallister
Well, what have we here? A book review, perhaps? A sketch of a lecture attended? Nothing so straightforward, I'm afraid. This week a trio of triple-filtered mediations, architecture as played out in words and pictures, and some books and a website which reconsiders and represents that process. If your gag reflex is a little less attuned than say, the average social sciences student's, perhaps best to get out now.
20:20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse is a book in which 20 editors from international architecture magazines write about their approaches to editing and 'shaping architectural discourse'. Still with me?
It's actually quite good, even if you aren't familiar with the slightly outré selection of titles they pick, with some of the more well-known titles including Harvard Design Magazine, AA Files, Log, OASE and Mark. Prompted by a Bucky-style '20 questions', each magazine's editor has written a short essay explaining how their magazine is put together, and how they see their responsibilities to their readers and the greater discipline of architecture.
Beatriz Colomina's travelling exhibition Clip/Stamp/Fold explored the 'Little Magazines', including AD, which helped shape architecture in the 1960s and 70s. Now the book is out. And what a whopper it is, with tipped-in pages, colour inserts and other print production gimmicks that'll have the most sophisticated print lover's pulse racing. It is available from Actar. You can flick through here
A new project from Elias Redstone in partnership with Folch Studio shows that such Little Magazines are not a spent force. Archizines.com showcases photographs and short descriptions of 50 plus zines from around the world.
Its nostalgia is more close-ranging than Colomina's exhibition, featuring zines from the 2000s to the present day, including many hyper-local offerings, one with the simple but brilliant name, 'Preston Bus Station'.
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Texas Man's Pregnant Wife Never Wanted to Have a Gun in the House – But Now She's Sure Glad He Insisted
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THEBLAZE.COM – A Texas man's pregnant wife made it clear she was against having a firearm in their house. However, the husband insisted she learn how to use a gun to protect herself just in case. In fact, it was just a few months ago that he took her out to teach her the basics.
On Saturday, she was extremely thankful to have the protection of a gun on her side.
The pregnant woman, identified only as "Alex," told KGBT-TV that she was startled by the sound of a man banging loudly on her front door while another man walked around to the back of her Palmview, Texas, home. Her husband had just left 20 minutes before.
"I'm a young woman, I'm pregnant, I'm home alone. I'm not going to answer the door – I mean, I know better," she recalled.
Sensing something was very wrong, the pregnant woman retrieved her husband's handgun for protection. With one hand on the firearm and the other dialing 911, one of the men broke into the house.
"Oh my gosh, he broke in!" the woman told the operator.
She remembered what her husband told her while practicing shooting just months before: "When you're in a situation like that- you're not going to think twice."
He was right.
When the two men realized the woman was armed, they took off towards their truck. Alex's "adrenaline kicked in" and she shot once at the vehicle. She said she was not aiming to shoot the men, but rather at the truck to both scare the burglars and provide police an identifying marker that might help them track it down.
Unsurprisingly, Alex is very thankful her husband insisted that they not only keep a firearm in the house, but that she learn how to use it.
"I was against him buying a gun maybe 7-8 months ago, but I told him, 'I don't know if I told you, thank you for doing that' because it changed the situation completely," she told KGBT-TV.
Palmview Police and SWAT eventually tracked down the suspects, brothers Lucas and Jesus Ortiz, who had barricaded themselves inside a different home. Authorities blocked off the area and negotiated with the two men, ultimately arresting them.
"Palmview Police say Lucas and Jesus Ortiz were high on unknown drugs at the time of the burglary and that they are still not being cooperative with the investigation," KGBT-TV reports.
Featured image, carousel image via shutterstock.com
Read More: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/13/texas-mans-pregnant-wife-never-wanted-to-have-a-gun-in-the-house-but-now-shes-sure-glad-he-insisted/
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As a dozen national studies show, including a study by the National Institute of Justice and two studies commissioned by gun-prohibition organization, GUNS DO PROTECT US! GUNS ARE USED DEFENSIVELY BY GOOD PEOPLE 1 GO 2.4 MILLION TIMES PER YEAR, far exceeding all reliable estimates of criminal misuse. Using a gun to resist a crime or assault is safer than not resisting at all or resisting with means other than firearms. Guns not only repel crime, guns deter crime as is shown by numerous surveys of criminals. The studies proving the ineffectiveness and the dangers of gun prohibition are met with "if it saves only one life…" The most loving person, however, must admit that A GOOD PERSON'S LIFE LOST BECAUSE A GUN WAS ABSENT IS AT LEAST AS VALUABLE AS A LIFE LOST BECAUSE A GUN WAS PRESENT. Since 50 to 75 lives are saved by a gun for every life lost to a gun, we must see deceitful images that pluck at our heartstrings for the lies they are — not a basis for public policy — even when a doctor, a policeman, or a medical journal is telling the lie!
Source – Read More: http://www.gunsandcrime.org/suter-fa.html
Calvin's Commentary: The following story and video is about a young 18-year old teenager, Sadie Jensen, with a debilitating, life-threatening, incurable, life-long illness and a service dog named Bailey. Bailey has been trained to detect and warn Sadie when her blood sugar drops so low she could die.
This is really good news! Sadie can lead a nearly normal life with the aid of her service dog.
Stories like this are wonderful to read. They uplift my spirit in this darker season of national trials.
We are in the midst of a devastating recession with high unemployment. Even yet today, President Obama is seriously considering getting the USA involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East country of Syria to intervene in their civil war that may subject our bravest and best young men and women in harm's way to fight for either groups of insurrectionists or an evil leader, Bashar al Assad, all of whom hate the western way of life and who have no good thoughts for the USA. For all the blunders made by Obama and his administration in the mishandling of the Syrian crises, President Putin of Russia has taken to writing op-eds in the New York Times denigrating America. Putin has outright called Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry a liar. As much as I hate to say it, Putin is not wrong to say that about Kerry, but that's a whole 'nother story.
To add to our national woes, today, emboldened by the last five years of uncertainty and weakness shown by Obama and his administration, Muslim Taliban terrorists attacked our U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan, one year following another attack on a U.S. Consulate in Lybia where U.S. Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans were murdered and dragged through the streets.
Certainly, these are not the best of times for the USA. In fact, to say it more correctly, it would be better stated to write, these are perilous times for America.
I know I need to hear some good news, as I'm sure you do.
Thus I am posting the following good news story about Sadie and Bailey.
May you be blessed in the Name of Jesus Christ! For it is written that whatever is good comes down from heaven by God the Father through His Holy Spirit.
Concerning the good news story below, I have no idea if Bailey's trainer, Melissa Dolinsky, is a Christian or not. I don't know if Sadie Jensen is either.
Nevertheless, I know that all wisdom comes from the LORD of The Holy Bible.
There is no better place to gain wisdom than the Holy King James Bible, both the Old and New Testaments.
I know The Word of the LORD contains nothing but Truth and Wisdom – and that one needs both in life to make it through good and bad times successfully. I offer proof positive from the Holy Bible itself shown below and then comes the wonderful story to make your day.
The LORD JESUS CHRIST is good and He willingly gives wisdom to all who come to Him seeking to do righteousness. May you be granted all His Blessings!
I thank God for giving us the Holy Bible and all the blessings it grants to its readers.
▬ Donna Calvin ▬ Friday, September 13, 2013
[2 Timothy 3:1-2] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
[2 Timothy 3:16-17] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: [17] That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
[James 1:17] Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
[Proverbs 2:1-15] My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; [2] So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; [3] Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; [4] If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; [5] Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. [6] For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. [7] He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. [8] He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. [9] Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. [10] When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; [11] Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: [12] To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; [13] Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; [14] Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; [15] Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
I pray The Word of God has blessed you!
▬ Donna Calvin ▬ Friday, September 13, 2013
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Story By: Wendie Donica/CBS12 News
Friday, September 13 2013, 06:47 PM EDT
WEST PALM BEACH, FLa — Service dog helps teen with diabetes 18-year-old Sadie Jensen does not live like most teenagers.
" I can't leave my house. I wasn't able to leave my house unless I had a parent, friend, or sibling with me, Sadie Jensen said.
The reason — Sadie is living with Hypoglycemia Unawareness Diabetes, which means, with no warning her blood sugar could drop to dangerous levels.
"Bailey's going to help her have an independent life." Said, Trainer Melissa Dolinsky.
Thanks to her new service dog, Bailey and his trainer Melissa, Sadie will get the life saving warning she needs when her blood sugar levels are low. How is this possible?
"With blood sugar low service dogs can do it by scent", Said Melissa Dolinsky.
Sadie and Bailey have only been together for a few days but already they share a special bond and the opportunity to live a normal life.
Read More and See Video: http://cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/service-dog-helps-teen-diabetes-10089.shtml?wap=0
9-11-TRIBUTE-2013 ~ 2 Million Bikers Rally To Washington DC vs Million Muslim Demonstration where 20-25 Showed up for ill-timed "No Fear" Protest
Millions of bikers from around the country roared into the D.C. area on Wednesday in a show of support for Sept. 11 victims and in solidarity against a controversial Muslim rally on the Mall.
(Video #1 – A Million+ Harley's are LOUD!!! Turn your speakers on low!)
The 2 Million Bikers to DC ride might have fallen short of 2 million strong, but the numbers were impressive. A line of shining chrome and steel bikes stretched about a third of a mile from the starting point at the Harley Davidson of Washington store just outside the District in Prince George's County.
The bikers began departing from the store at about 10:30 in staggered groups of 50, stopped for traffic lights and taking an hour or so to get on the road.
The ride was complicated by the fact that federal and local authorities denied a permit that would have offered the riders a police escort through traffic — a sore spot with organizers who thought the denial was for political purposes.
"We're here for 9-11," said national ride coordinator Belinda Bee. "We are going to have a peaceful ride. … But there are people who are sick and tired of their rights and liberties being taken away."
The National Park Service has denied any political motivation for refusing the permit, which ride organizers sought last month. The Park Service earlier this year granted a permit to a Muslim group planning a rally Wednesday to call attention to social justice issues.
The American Muslim Political Action Committee has scheduled a rally to draw attention to what they call unfair fear of Muslims after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Move coverage – Video #2 of Millions of Bikers – Remember to turn your speakers LOW.
And here's the Million Muslim Demonstration (sorry couldn't find any video)
'Million Muslim March' Shaping Up To Be More Like A Few Hundred People Walking Down The Street
HUFFINGTON POST UPDATE: Turns out it was more like 20 people. The "2 Million Bikers" event, on the other hand, had a much larger turnout than initially expected. …
Read Whole Story at The Huffington Post
Video 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWMksT4_GOI – Million Biker Ride
Video 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wrW_YJGjNo – Million Biker Ride


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Among a handful of successful women fashion designers, Diane von Furstenberg (born 1946) made a name for herself when she devised a simple jersey wrap dress. She became internationally acclaimed for her no-nonsense, affordable clothing that acknowledged the modern woman as both beautiful and career-minded.
Diane von Furstenberg was born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin on December 31, 1946, in Brussels, Belgium. Her well-to-do Jewish parents, Leon, an electronics executive, and Liliane Nahmias Halfin, provided von Furstenberg with a comfortable childhood. Her mother, a Nazi concentration camp survivor, imbued her with the self-confidence and drive that helped her become one of the world's most successful fashion designers.
Von Furstenberg attended finishing schools in Switzerland, Spain, and England, and in 1965 entered the University of Madrid. Transferring a year later to the University of Geneva, she selected economics as a major. She then worked briefly at Investors Overseas Ltd., a mutual fund company in Geneva.
The Princess Designer
While attending the University of Geneva, Diane Halfin met Prince Eduard Egon von Furstenberg, heir to the Fiat automobile fortune. The two were married in Paris on July 16, 1969. At her wedding von Furstenberg, now Princess von Furstenberg, wore a white piqué dress of her own design made by the fashion house of Dior.
That same year she apprenticed with Italian textile manufacturer Angelo Ferretti and was soon designing simple dresses using his silk jersey prints. The von Furstenbergs moved to New York City in late 1969, where her husband went to work on Wall Street. In New York Diane attempted to interest garment manufacturers in her sample designs. In her early months of designing and promoting, she worked out of the dining room of her Park Avenue apartment.
Encouraged by designers Bill Blass and Kenny Lane and by Diana Vreeland, editor of the influential Vogue magazine, Diane von Furstenberg put together a collection of her dress designs. In April 1970 von Furstenberg revealed her first collection at the Gotham Hotel in New York City. The price range was moderate, from $25 to $100.
The Wrap Dress
Although her designs were a commercial hit, her marriage failed. Von Furstenberg aimed even more at making herself financially independent and stable. Because she had little experience in producing clothes on a large scale, von Furstenberg at first worked with major women's clothing manufacturers, but in April 1972 she established her own manufacturing business. With the help of friend and entrepreneur Richard Conrad, and with a $30,000 loan from her father, Diane von Furstenberg opened a Seventh Avenue showroom. Although her designs were variations on items in her initial collection, she produced a new, very popular sweater dress named "Angela," after the black activist Angela Davis. Next came von Furstenberg's enormously popular wrap dress. "Fed up with the bell-bottom jeans and sexless pantsuits of the day, she devised a slinky, moderately priced wrap dress that turned millions of mall mothers and working women into saucy sirens virtually overnight," noted J.D. Polosky in People. After only a few months of business, her wholesale sales topped $1 million.
In 1973 von Furstenberg bought an old farmhouse in Connecticut, where she retreated from her frenetic business life. In 1975 she separated from the prince, and in 1983 divorced him, retaining custody of their two children, Alexandre and Tatiana.
Expanding Business
With a good grasp of both design and economics, von Furstenberg augmented her fashion line several years after opening her showroom. She added jewelry, furs, shoes, scarves, and sunglasses to the articles bearing her signature. Later she conceived of a cosmetic line, including a fragrance named for her daughter, Tatiana. She branched into housewares: sheets, bath towels, and home accessories. Soon her trademark began appearing on fashions for children.
Her dynamic career and elegant looks kept her in the public eye. Diane von Furstenberg, the princess-turned-designer, was featured often in magazine articles and interviews. In 1977 she published Diane von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty. She appealed to working women because her practical designs acknowledged the growing number of career women. In 1984 von Furstenberg opened a Fifth Avenue boutique catering to women who desired a more luxurious type of women's apparel.
Von Furstenberg proved herself a financial genius and fashion wizard whose achievement was based on creativity, imagination, and hard work. Her line eventually included eyeglasses and even nurse's uniforms and brought sales of more than $1 billion in the 1980s. "I lived the American dream," she told People. "I made money, I made children, I became famous, and I dressed everybody in America."
New Horizons
In 1985, she moved to Paris, and lived with French novelist Alain Elkann. She founded a publishing house. She broke up with Elkann in 1989 and returned to the United States, living at a farm in Connecticut.
Her 1991 book Beds displayed the bedrooms of celebrities and royalty. She followed by making a comeback to the dress designing world, releasing a 1990s version of her signature wrap dress. In 1993, another book, The Bath, offered a brief history of bathing and a look into celebrity bathrooms.
Seeing new possibilities for commercial success, von Furstenberg, in the mid-1990s, began marketing her dresses, home furnishings and other items on a cable television home shopping network. During her first segment, she sold $1.2 million worth of clothes in two hours. "She's smart and warm, glamorous and earthy, and she know how to seduce her customers," Jane Shapiro explained in a January 1994 article in Lear's. Asked to explain why middle-class customers always were her mainstay, von Furstenberg answered: "Because I think women are all the same. And I think that women are wonderful, strong, and beautiful, and if you get two women in the room, they're gonna start winking at each other."
Further Reading on Diane von Furstenberg
Numerous articles and interviews describing Diane von Furstenberg throughout her career appeared in popular magazines. One of the most informative is J.D. Polosky, "Not Lying on Her Laurels," People, December 9, 1991. Diane von Furstenberg's books include Diane von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty (1977), Beds (1991), and The Bath (1993).


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Florida lawmakers aren�t the only ones itching to raise taxes on people who buy things online. The U.S. Senate voted 69-27 last week to approve a bill that enables states to make out-of-state retailers collect sales taxes when they sell products over the Internet. The tax revenue from each purchase would be sent to the state where the buyer lives.
But don�t take the word �revenue� too seriously. Many politicians and other supporters of an Internet sales tax don�t see it as a revenue-builder. They see it as enforcing fairness. Shoppers would have to pay sales taxes on online goods just as they do when buying goods from a neighborhood store.
�It�s about leveling the playing field between the brick-and-mortar and online companies �,� said Sen. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican and the Senate bill�s main sponsor. �It�s not about raising taxes.�
Under current law, a state can require a retailer to collect sales taxes only if the retailer has a physical presence in the state. The logic is sound. Sales taxes help pay for infrastructure such as roads and water systems. A retailer with stores in Florida, for instance, would benefit from sales taxes levied in Florida. An online retailer with no physical presence in the state � no stores, no distribution center � would receive no direct benefit from a sales tax.
And consider this, as noted by The Associated Press: �Opponents worry the bill would give states too much power to reach across state lines to enforce their tax laws. States could audit out-of-state businesses, impose liens on their property and, ultimately, sue them in state court.�
This is starting to sound less like a �fairness� bill and more like a government empowerment bill.
The Internet tax plan is expected to face stiffer opposition in the House of Representatives. The Heritage Foundation and anti-tax guru Grover Norquist oppose it. Good for them.


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U.S. feed grain supplies for 2012/13 are virtually unchanged as adjustments to 2011/12 balance sheets are largely offsetting and projected 2012/13 production and use are unchanged on the month. Projected 2012/13 season average price ranges for corn, sorghum, barley, and oats are all unchanged.
Adjustments to corn usage for 2011/12 reflect the latest ethanol production and trade data. Corn used to produce ethanol in 2011/12 is projected 50 million bushels higher. Weekly ethanol production has increased since mid-April after gradually declining from the record levels of late December. The higher corn use projection assumes slightly lower ethanol production during the June-August quarter as compared with the same period last year.
Corn exports are projected 50 million bushels lower as shipments and sales continue to fall off of the pace needed to reach last month's projection. Tight domestic supplies and increased competition, especially from Brazil, are also expected to reduce U.S. export prospects during the summer months. Projected corn ending stocks for 2011/12 are unchanged, as is the 2011/12 season average farm price which remains at $5.95 to $6.25 per bushel.
Changes to the 2011/12 balance sheets for sorghum, barley, and oats are driven by the latest trade data and also mostly offsetting. Sorghum exports for 2011/12 are projected 10 million bushels lower, but offset by a 10-million-bushel increase in expected feed and residual use. Projected barley imports are raised 4 million bushels and exports are lowered 3 million bushels boosting ending stocks 7 million bushels. Oats ending stocks are projected 10 million bushels lower with projected imports lowered 15 million bushels and feed and residual use reduced 5 million bushels. Projected 2011/12 farm prices for all three feed grains are unchanged.
Global coarse grain supplies for 2012/13 are projected 4.8 million tons higher with increases in corn beginning stocks and production. Global corn beginning stocks are increased 1.6 million tons mostly reflecting higher 2011/12 production for Brazil and China. Brazil corn production is raised 2 million bushels for 2011/12. Despite lower reported area for the main season crop, the rapid expansion in area and nearly ideal weather for the second season (safrinha) crop is boosting Brazil's corn production prospects to a record 69 million tons.
Much of the expansion in safrinha corn has been in the Central West region, where corn is planted in January and a pronounced dry season typically begins by early May. This year's rainy season extended through early June providing an additional 4 to 6 inches of beneficial rainfall for filling corn. China's 2011/12 corn production is raised 1.0 million tons in line with recent revisions to official government estimates.
World corn production for 2012/13 is increased 4.2 million tons this month with increases in China, EU-27, and FSU-12. China production for 2012/13 is raised 2.0 million tons based on higher reported corn area as land planted to soybeans declines. EU-27 corn production is increased 1.1 million tons mostly on higher area and yields for Hungary.
Production is up 0.8 million tons for Russia and 0.3 million tons for Belarus both on higher reported area. World barley production is lowered, however, with a 0.5-million-ton reduction for Turkey and 0.2-million-ton reduction for Syria.
Global 2012/13 coarse grain trade is projected higher this month on increased imports and exports of corn. Corn imports are raised for EU-27 and Indonesia. Corn exports are increased for Russia and Belarus, both reflecting higher expected production and supplies. Higher imports and production support increased corn feeding in EU-27.
Higher beginning stocks and production in China boost prospects for feeding, but a partly offsetting reduction in industrial use limits the increase in corn consumption. Russia corn feeding is lowered 0.3 million tons reflecting slower expected year-to-year growth in feed grain consumption with rising feeding efficiencies in pork and poultry production. Global corn consumption is increased 2.4 million tons. Global corn ending stocks are projected 3.4 million tons higher. Of the increase, 2.0 million tons are for China and 1.0 million tons are for Brazil.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States government reported a budget surplus for the final month of the 2012 fiscal year, but the tiny bump in revenues did not prevent the country's deficit from exceeding $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row.
The 2012 budget gap was $1.089 trillion, narrower than last year's deficit of $1.297 trillion because of higher corporate income tax receipts and less spending, the Treasury Department said on Friday.
The deficit equaled 7.0 percent of U.S. economic output, down from 8.7 percent last year, the department said. Economists generally consider deficits exceeding 3.0 percent of gross domestic product to be unsustainable in the long term.
The year-end budget report comes in the final weeks of the presidential election campaign, where the massive budget gap and President Barack Obama's economic policies have dominated the debate.
After the budget data was released, Obama's Republican challenger Mitt Romney reiterated criticisms that the Democratic administration's reckless spending has racked up the deficit and pushed the national debt over $16 trillion.
Obama and his Democrats have said spending was necessary to pull the economy out of the recession they inherited from the previous Republican administration.
The Obama administration spent $3.538 trillion in the 2012 fiscal year, 1.7 percent less than last year due to the expiration of stimulus provisions, a stronger economy, the end of military operations in Iraq and the continued drawdown in Afghanistan, the Treasury said.
Payments for the Obama administration's troubled housing foreclosure prevention programs fell as well as payments to the government-controlled mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The administration's stock sale of bailed-out insurer AIG also helped reduce overall outlays.
Strong tax collections from Americans and businesses pushed receipts up to $2.449 trillion in 2012, up 6.4 percent from last year, according to the Treasury Department.
"We are seeing the stimulus spending fading and we are seeing some of the effects of the investment incentives," said Lou Crandall, chief economist with Wrightson ICAP.
The government posted a September budget surplus of $75 billion mostly because monthly benefit payments were made in August due to a holiday weekend. That surplus topped analyst expectations for a surplus of $42 billion and marked only the second month in the fiscal year ended September 30 that the country was in the black.
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LAS VEGAS– Is exercise good for the mind? A session at the American College of Sports Medicine's 17th annual Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition identifies exercise as a brain healthy activity "What's good for the body is good for the brain," said Terry Eckmann, Ph.D., FACSM. "There are many brain boosters that foster brain health and enhance learning through the lifespan." Dr. Eckmann, a professor of teacher education and human performance at Minot State University, will present the session "Research to Practice: Brain Boosters for all Ages and Stages of Life."
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The UK's regulator of premium rate services (PRS) will pass on details of copyright infringing websites to service providers under a new "proactive" arrangement with police and music industry representatives, it has announced.
PhonepayPlus said that PRS providers notified of copyright infringing sites could be charged under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) if they then subsequently made "arrangements" with operators of the illicit sites to help users pay for the pirated music.
"It is important to note that, if any provider has been put on notice that a service is illegal and either continues to provide, or subsequently provides, payment services to, or for, the site(s) in question, the provider may be criminally liable under Section 328 of the Proceeds of Crime Act," the regulator said in a notice to PRS providers. Under POCA a person is generally guilty of an offence if they enter into or become concerned in arrangements they know or suspect "facilitate (by whatever means) the acquisition, retention, use or control of criminal property by or on behalf of another person".
Under the new notification scheme the City of London Police (CoLP) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) will inform PhonepayPlus of "any promotional material, including but not limited to websites" that is suspected of offering illegally copied music to be downloaded through "premium rate means", the regulator said. The information will then be passed on to individual PRS providers "to ensure they are aware of the potential risks of contracting with clients associated with such promotional material," it said.
To date PhonepayPlus has received notice of 24 infringing websites and police are currently investigating 38 other "unlicensed services", the regulator said.
PhonepayPlus said it was taking the "proactive" step to notify providers of potential infringers because of the "risk" that copyright infringers would try to sell pirated music through PRS. It said Visa, Mastercard and PayPal were already working with CoLP and IFPI to prevent the sale of illegal content through their services.
"Until relatively recently, pirated music downloads were almost exclusively paid for by consumers using credit cards," PhonepayPlus said.
"However, following discussions between IFPI and CoLP and providers of credit card services, credit card companies have begun to identify and exclude merchants offering pirated music. There is therefore a risk that those who still intend to offer pirated music may now turn to PRS as a quick and easily accessible form of payment. While there is little evidence at present of pirated music being offered using PRS, PhonepayPlus has agreed to work proactively with the IFPI and the CoLP in order to prevent potentially criminal activity damaging the ongoing reputation of the overall PRS market," the regulator said.
Claire Smith, copyright law expert at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that owners of copyrighted music could also sue some companies involved in operating PRS if those firms do not prevent customers paying for copyright-infringing content that they have been notified about under the UK's E-Commerce Regulations.
Under the Regulations a service provider is generally not liable for any copyright-infringing material accessed by users of its service if it "acts as a mere conduit, caches the material, or hosts the material".


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It's late July, and many gardens are now overflowing with excess zucchini. The joke is often heard that one should not leave windows down when going to church or into town for fear that someone will leave a sack of zucchini in the car.
For the first time, the Spencer County Library had an adult summer reading program in addition to the one hosted for children.
Anna Lee Stokley made the switch from traditional gardening to raised beds three years ago – and so far, this year has produced a bumper crop.
Last summer, I took part in a workshop in Taylorsville geared toward people interested in sustainability and self-sufficiency. Known as a Chicken Dinner Workshop, it is taught by Tom Scanlan and Sarah Fauber at RiverSong Farm. While my parents grew most of the food I ate as a child, they rarely raised their own meat.
Connie Young started making Red, White and Blue Salad for Independence Day parties about 30 years ago.
I first made this Irish cream based ice cream two years ago for a cookout at my house. I love eating ice cream, and I love making it even more. Ice cream is a favorite summer treat, and it's perfect for a Fourth of July cookout. This flavor is even more perfect for the holiday since it celebrates one aspect of American heritage.
A healthy diet is often mistaken for one that is devoid of desirable foods. But just because a diet is healthy doesn't mean it can't be delicious as well. A few easy modifications to your favorite recipes can make a diet healthier without sacrificing taste.
Father's Day is the perfect time to try out a new dessert. Gooey butter cake can be made the day before, and is actually better on the second day. That makes it perfect for a Father's Day picnic or family gathering. It is also adaptable to flavors that dads enjoy by adding extracts or other embellishments.
Gooey butter cake was invented in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1930s. It has been popular ever since.
Curt Barnett first heard mention of worm composting in the movie "Dumb and Dumber." After noticing a couple other references, Barnett's interest was piqued.
My husband and I are working on increasing the number of healthy, nutritious and tasty meals that we serve in our home.
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