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This interview took place at the XVII International AIDS Conference in August 2008.
Hi. I'm Kevin Mallinson. I'm a nursing professor from Georgetown University. I've been working in HIV for about 25 years as a nurse.
My project, which is called Nurses SOAR!, is a nurse capacity-building project in Africa. My belief and philosophy when I started this project was that if you're going to build capacity in nurses, that starts with keeping them healthy -- whether they have HIV or not. That means being able to deal with your grief and loss.
R. Kevin Mallinson, Ph.D., RN
I have an intervention, which is what my poster looks at. It's an overnight retreat on loss and grief for nurses in Swaziland, South Africa and Lesotho. The nurses come at about four in the afternoon and we meet and talk about loss and grief into the evening hours, in the dark, which helps people talk about their loss and grief.
The retreat has been adapted for each of the three countries so that it fits their cultural beliefs around loss and death and grief well. The idea is to get the nurses talking about the effects of the deaths on them.
I found that there were three areas that really distress the nurses. One is that they say they have stopped caring for their patients. They do their work -- they give patients their meds, they wash them up, they change their bandages -- but they have lost their sense of compassion, because they have seen so many people come in.
And if you're familiar with these hospitals and clinics [in resource-poor areas of the world], they're a nightmare. There are people dying in waiting lines.
The nurses have found that the workshop has really helped them to renew why they are nurses: Because they want to care for people in the context of their family, and get that back again.
The second thing that the nurses have talked a lot about is that because so many people die in a year, particularly in families, they can't do all the rituals that, for example, a Zulu might want to do: Doing rituals is expensive, it's time consuming and they can't take that much time away from work. And, they are exhausted. So they have begun to truncate or shorten their rituals, or eliminate them altogether.
One of the nurses was highly distressed because, when her father died, [according to ritual] she should have slaughtered a cow. She didn't, because it's expensive to buy a cow, and the year before she had lost her brother and her sister in the same year. So now her father dies and she couldn't slaughter a cow. To her, that's a spiritual distress that she has to live with.
The nurses talked about that -- in the different cultures, what it is that they are no longer able to do to get through the rituals, and how it hurts them, because the ancestors know what you do and don't do.
Then the last piece is communalty. Communalty means that we all work together as a communal group. The Zulu, the Xhosa, the Basotho, the Swazis are all communal cultures, where they care for one another. Communal cultures are where the idea that "it takes a village to raise a child" came from, because that's exactly what it would be like. It's like a huge family.
But as more and more people die, the stresses get higher and higher. The nurses have said that everyone's pulling away from everyone else and only taking care of their own household and their own children and their own husband. And to a Zulu or a Swazi that is really wrong. It's just plain wrong.
One of the nurses in one of the workshops said, "One of the most painful things I do every day when I walk out of my house and down to get the transport is that I walk by this group of bushes." She said, "I know that there's a group of children living in those bushes." She started to cry, and she said, "As a Zulu, I am supposed to take them home."
She has seven children at home, five that she adopted because her brother and sister died. She said, "I really cannot take more children. I and my neighbors all know that they are living in these bushes, and we've learned to turn away." That distress is not going to go away; it's only going to worsen.
What I wanted to say in the poster is that you can do interventions for grief and loss. In the United States, I started this intervention because virtually all of my friends have died. I learned as a nurse that I couldn't work on an AIDS unit and come home and take care of my partner and my best friend and survive -- unless I took care of my loss and grief.
Interventions work. They work in sub-Saharan Africa. These nurses are thrilled -- they said, "Can we do this again?" Three of the different groups of nurses have gone back to their hospitals and started support groups on their own. They have said, "We need to keep talking to each other and supporting each other." I think that's the most exciting thing.
They do have a lot of burden. About a third of the nurses that have come to these workshops have been HIV positive themselves. They find that, in the workshop, they are getting support from the other nurses. The stigma just goes out the window and they support them. When they leave the workshop, no one has broken their confidentiality. It's because they have all experienced something together.
That's the other piece, I think, that's unusual about this intervention: It's an experiential, interactive thing, which is rarely done in sub-Saharan Africa. Almost everything is done with this awful, boring lecture training kind of approach.
This is an intervention that is really for them to be able to share their stories and make meaning out of this whole epidemic.
Loss and grief are things we keep putting at the very bottom of the list [of priorities in dealing with HIV]. And we shouldn't. I will say that one natural thing that is coming out of this is we're now developing interventions for children and their caregivers, to teach the caregivers: How do you take care of yourself and then communicate with your children so that they will actually be able to manage this loss, and not just keep suppressing it and burying it underneath all the trauma?
How did you come to be working in these countries? Do you come with other people from the U.S., or from other parts of the world? Is it just you developing these interventions? What's the group that's working on this?
This all started in Africa about five or six years ago when a colleague of mine, a midwife, asked me, "Hey, Kevin, would you come to Tanzania with me and work with nurses?"
I said, "Absolutely." I'd never been to Africa. I'd been to Brazil and other kinds of places, doing things. When I went, we were working on nursing school curricula in HIV/AIDS. But clearly, the grief and loss was overwhelming.
I've also been a clinician for 25 years, so I have taken care of people. The U.S. government, through HRSA -- the Health Resources and Services Administration -- put out a call saying, "We want to build nursing capacity in three African countries." It was a call for applications.
I'm at Georgetown University as a professor. I wrote an application and said, "From what I know of African nurses: They want leadership; they want more knowledge and skills around HIV/AIDS care; and they want care for the caregiver." I developed a program and applied, and got the award. It's funded by PEPFAR [U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief]. It's a three-year project.
My team is very large, actually. Besides a number of other professors who are nurse practitioners and specialists in pediatrics and critical care and other areas where people with AIDS are going to need to be taken care of, we also partnered with the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. Part of my project, Nurses SOAR!, is that Nurses in AIDS Care members volunteer to spend three or four weeks away from their jobs and go to either South Africa, Lesotho or Swaziland. What they do when they're there is they work on the wards alongside the other nurses every day.
They don't take a nursing job. They work alongside the nurses that are working, and they problem-solve and improve communications and documentation. The nurses will say, "I've got a real ethical problem about what we're doing here." Our mentors will say, "Tell me about that. What bothers you?" They help them to work through ethical and legal problems.
The nurses, with this kind of mentoring, have gone off and started their own policy development in the hospitals. They have policies now for health care workers' safety, for nondiscrimination for nurses and doctors with HIV.
In Lesotho and Swaziland they have been working with the wellness centers that the International Council of Nurses has set up.
They are actually taking on, in a sense, more work. You're thinking, "Wow; I thought they were burdened already." But what happens is, they get energized -- empowered is what we would say in this country. They have potential that gets ignored. What this project has been able to do is bring people in that stay there for three to four weeks, get to really know the nurses, build the trust, and get them to think, "How could you solve this problem?"
What's different about our project is, we don't give them American answers. We give them a sounding board and they come up with South African answers, or Swazi answers, because, frankly, they know what they need; they just don't know how to get it.
We help them build the skills, build the leadership, and, at the same time, they're learning about TB [tuberculosis] and cryptococcal meningitis and all those other things that they need to really understand to be able to provide care. But they need to care for themselves and advocate for themselves.
Nurses in AIDS Care has been a fabulous partner in this whole project. Of course, when we're in the countries, we partner with the local agencies, NGOs [non-governmental organizations] and sometimes government projects. Because it's a PEPFAR-funded project, the government's a little bit friendly and says, "Maybe you want to use that money over here in the government hospital. Let's do that!"
We do everything from people coming in for an outpatient clinic, pregnant women coming in for PMTCT [prevention of mother-to-child transmission] and care, all the way to end-of-life care.
There's a very large palliative care center outside of Durban, South Africa, and our mentors have been there, working for weeks on end. When a group of mentors comes back, another group goes. They pick up where the other mentors left off, so it's not like reinventing the wheel all the time.
For example, if one mentor was working with Zukiswa and helping her to develop a policy in the HIV clinic on how to do something, and that mentor goes home to the United States, the next mentor who comes meets Zukiswa and says, "Now, I understand you've gotten to this point; now let's move you further along."
It's been wildly successful, which I'm just thrilled for. And nurses, I just have to say, are extraordinary. They really are extraordinary.
Do you have a Web site for the program, in case people want to come and volunteer; or is it a process that you do through the University?
No -- it's almost there! You'll soon be able to Google "Nurses SOAR!" and actually get our Web site, because it's almost done. [For now, visit the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care's page on Nurses SOAR! for more information.]
Thank you for your amazing work, and for describing it so beautifully.
Thank you. I'm quite passionate about it. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
- Mallinson RK, Relf MV, Norton C, Liddle A, Jillson I, Pines E. AIDS-related multiple losses: a threat to care, culture and communalty. In: Program and abstracts of the XVII International AIDS Conference; August 3-8, 2008; Mexico City, Mexico. Abstract THPE0625.
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The energy problem is humanity's greatest challenge. Here's how information technology can provide some answers.
At the peak of the technology bubble in March of 2000, spending on Internet infrastructure had exploded, Cisco Systems had a market cap of $578 billion, and venture capitalists were pumping millions into anything that ended in ".com." Over the next three years, 655 telecom companies would go bankrupt, and $5 trillion in market cap would vanish from stock exchanges.
A disaster, right? It felt like one at the time. Raising money for an Internet startup became nearly impossible on Silicon Valley's Sand Hill Road. Yet all that investment in the infrastructure of the Internet—the switches, the routers, and the fiber optic cable—drastically reduced the costs of bandwidth and made possible the applications layer, the things we love about the Internet—Twitter, streaming movies, cloud computing. Today we use information technology to do things we didn't imagine circa 2000, like buying shoes without trying them on first. All this was accomplished with software and clever ideas for better using the available infrastructure.
We see in this story important analogies with clean energy. Advanced biofuels, electric cars, and solar power are living through their own boom and bust times. The cost of solar panels has fallen from over $4.00 per watt to less than $1.00 in just four years. That's bad for solar investors, and panel makers are struggling to survive. Some have gone out of business. But at the same time, infrastructure is being built. Spending on solar, wind, and other forms of renewable energy has exploded, reaching $250 billion per year.
Raising venture capital for capital-intensive clean tech, especially for early-stage companies involved in new types of energy production, has become increasingly difficult. That has investors like us thinking about new ways to apply our dollars to the energy problem. We believe the next opportunity is what we call the "cleanweb"—a form of clean tech that takes advantage of the Internet, social media, and mobile communications to alter how we consume resources, relate to the world, interact with each other, and pursue economic growth.
We think that IT and fast-growing Web business models can expand the use of renewable energy. These days the challenges that industries like solar, wind, and biofuels face are often not about fundamental science. Many of the big breakthroughs have already taken place, and in some circumstances, electricity from wind and solar is already cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels. What hampers these industries now is poor sales channels, complex financing and incentives, and a failure to communicate with consumers.
That makes them ripe for disruption by the application of information technologies, which will drive the next phase of cost reduction and implementation, especially for solar. The price of a rooftop solar installation has dropped by half in the last few years, but the reductions in panel prices can't continue. Now more than half the price of a home solar array is made up of soft costs like site evaluation, customer acquisition, and financing. On average, solar companies spend $2,500 to acquire each new customer. Imagine the frustration when after sending a truck out to a home, an installer discovers that a tree shading the roof makes the project uneconomical or that the customer doesn't qualify for financing. That's a significant waste of time and money.
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District administrators have scheduled two public forums to give parents an opportunity to look at these two curricula and offer their thoughts:
Jan. 26, Ferris High School, 6-7 p.m.
The two meetings are open to the public, and I hope you'll attend. Please also pass on the message to other parents. Whatever your interest in K-12 math instruction, this is your opportunity to tell the school district what you want.
Both Holt and Prentice Hall are "traditional" in their presentation of the subject matter, each offering high school material in 3 separate texts: algebra I, geometry, and algebra II. (For many years, Spokane administrators have depended on math programs that use an "integrated" approach where the subjects are mixed together.)
Although a "traditional" presentation of content does not guarantee"traditional" content, both Holt and Prentice Hall are more traditional in content. In these two curricula, proofs, theorems and algorithms are presented in a clear, concise manner, and students are not expected to discover these on their own. The texts do contain some opportunities for discovery. (For many years, Spokane administrators have forced the use of extreme "reform" texts that deemphasized or removed standard algorithms and arithmetic skills, and that emphasized excessive calculator work, excessive group work, and almost constant student "discovery" of mathematical concepts).
Despite the abject failure of reform/discovery curricula in Spokane and across the entire nation, there still is stiff resistance here to adopting anything remotely "traditional." It's my belief, therefore, that Holt and Prentice Hall are as close as the district will get at this time to more "traditional" content. However, it is not certain that the district will adopt either of these curricula. Spokane administrators have left the door open to adopting neither. If the district rejects both, what will be the high school math program next fall? Perhaps it will be what we have now, the truly execrable Core-Plus Mathematics Project and the current long parade of (expensive, yet ultimately unsuccessful) supplementary materials.
Spokane is at a critical juncture – this high school adoption will set the template for future adoptions in middle school and elementary school. If you seek a more traditional approach to K-12 math instruction in Spokane, your feedback is desperately needed.
College students: High school graduates, college students, and college graduates could come to the forums and reflect back on their high school mathematics classes. Did they get the math they needed for a successful college experience? Did they require remediation in mathematics during K-12 or after they graduated? Would they have preferred a different approach to math instruction? Do they think either Holt or Prentice Hall would have given them the skills they needed? These reflections would help inform the selection process.
Parents and students: Parents can come to the forums and offer their thoughts on what they want from a high school mathematics curriculum and how they prefer this material be presented and taught. Does Holt or Prentice Hall meet those needs? Parents are welcome to bring their middle school and high school students, whom no doubt have experiences and preferences they would like to share with the committee.
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The sun – as seen from Earth – passes in front of the constellation Aries the Ram from about April 19 to May 14 every year. Of course, a Northern Hemisphere spring or Southern Hemisphere autumn presents the wrong time of year for viewing the constellation Aries because then the mighty Ram is lost in the sun's glare. November and December are especially good months for viewing Aries.
Follow the links below to learn more about how to see Aries in the night sky, and about this constellation in the history of astronomy and in mythology.
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Best time for seeing Aries the Ram. The best time to behold the Mighty Ram is at the opposite end of the year, when the Earth is on the other side of the sun. In late October, this constellation rises in the east at sunset, reaches its highest point in the sky at midnight and sets in the west at sunrise.
November and December are especially good months for viewing Aries the Ram in all his starlit majesty, for this constellation shines above the eastern horizon at nightfall and stays out for most of the night. Aries culminates – reaches its highest point in the sky – at about 10 p.m. local time (the time in all time zones) in late November, 8 p.m. local time in late December and 6 p.m. local time in late January.
Aries is not a particularly prominent constellation, so a dark country sky absent of moonlight is most desirable for viewing the Ram at its finest. The three stars depicting the Ram's bust – Hamal, Sheratan and Mesartim – suddenly brighten in a dark sky, as if someone had turned up the dimmer switch. By the way, a small telescope reveals that Mesartim is a double star.
Fortunately, the head of the Ram is fairly easy to locate. You'll find it midway between these two signposts: the Pleiades star cluster to the east and the Square of Pegasus to the west. The Ram's head is actually turned backward, as if admiring the Pleiades – or perhaps his own golden fleece.
You can also star-hop to Aries by drawing an imaginary line from Polaris, the North Star, and through a certain star in the constellation Cassiopeia: Segin (Epsilon Cassiopeiae). You're seeking for the star at the east end of the famed starlit W or M, as shown on the sky chart at right. It's a very long hop, more than twice the Polairs/Segin distance. Jump until you land between the Pleiades cluster and the Square of Pegasus.
What is the First Point of Aries? The First Point of Aries marks the sun's position in front of the constellations of the Zodiac on the Northern Hemisphere's spring equinox or Southern Hemisphere's autumnal equinox. This equinox happens yearly on or near March 20, as the sun crosses the celestial equator, going from south to north.
The First Point of Aries, which is actually in the constellation Pisces nowadays, defines the coordinate system on the celestial sphere. The First Point of Aries always coincides with 0o right ascension and 0o declination. Right ascension is the equivalent of longitude here on Earth. Declination on the sky's dome is the equivalent of latitude.
The First Point of Aries is one of two places on the celestial sphere where the ecliptic and celestial equator intersect. The First Point of Libra resides 180o east of the First Point of Aries, marking the September equinox point on the celestial sphere.
Because the Earth's rotational axis wobbles full circle relative to the backdrop stars in about 26,000 years, Polaris doesn't remain the North Star forever and the equinox points don't remain fixed relative to the stars of the Zodiac. The March equinox point drifts westward (along the ecliptic) through the constellations of the Zodiac at about one degree (two sun diameters) in 72 years or 30o in 2160 years.
Hence, the March equinox point passed out of the constellation Aries and into the constellation Pisces in 68 B.C. Even so, we still call this equinox point the First Point of Aries.
Aries the Ram in star lore. In Greek mythology, Aries represents the supernatural Ram that was sent by Zeus to rescue the children of Athamus, the King of Thebes, from political intrigue. Phrixus and his sister Helle were about to meet their demise, but the flying Ram, which could both speak and reason, took them away in the nick of time.
The children held on tight as the Ram flew them away for the safety of Colchis, an ancient kingdom bordering the eastern shore of the Black Sea. Unfortunately, Helle fell into the sea and drowned before reaching their destination. Hellespont – the ancient name for the Dardanelles straight near Istanbul, Turkey – marks the place of her death and was named in her honor.
Phrixus survived the long trip to Colchis. He gave thanks by sacrificing the Ram to Zeus, hanging it in a sacred grove where the fleece turned to gold. Later on, Jason and the Argonauts recovered the Golden Fleece.
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Bottom line: How to see the constellation Aries the Ram, plus info about this constellation in the history of astronomy, and in mythology.
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These days, many producers are still using fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and carbon-based fuels during production. They use immense amounts of water and ferment their wines in plastic bins. Don't even get me started on the glass, corks, boxes, Styrofoam, and gas used to ship wines worldwide.
In celebration of Earth Day, let's make a point to purchase and consume a wine that is not consuming our environment. From dry-farmed wines to those made using natural practices free of chemicals and additives, there are so many to choose. Here are five:
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This peachy, unoaked chardonnay is among the first to be stored in a very light glass as part of the winery's commitment to sustainability. The glass is 10 percent lighter than the winery's previous bottle, which means a reduction of about half a ton of weight per container of wine exported. $12.
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If you can recall, Harry Morton, the genius behind Fukuburger in Hollywood, well he's gearing up to start a new food venture called Pink Taco located on W. Sunset Blvd where Miyagi's used to be located. The Mexican restaurant will showcase a large bar and a small taqueria, along with two oversized doors that leads guest right onto the enormous ground floor patio. Also, a dining area filled with tons of booths, several private rooms and two bars on the second level.
Initially, Dodd Mitchell, the designer was ready to design another Asian concept similar to Miyagi's called Ming & Mi, but lucky for Morton the deal fell through. For now, Morton has since opted to completely strip down the property and renovate from the floor up. Speaking of up, Morton may possibly be planning to create a secret bar on the top floor, but the deal has not yet been confirmed.
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NATIONWIDE – The spring semester has ended, but several colleges and universities are still hard at work planning, constructing or adding to their student recreation centers.
At the University of Kansas, the student recreation and fitness center is undergoing the first phase of an expansion, which will provide two basketball courts and two synthetic surface courts that will allow for students to play indoor hockey or soccer. The expansion, funded by the sale of seats in KU's Allen Fieldhouse by the athletics department, also includes an extension to the indoor track, making it a quarter-mile around, according to The University Daily Kansan. There will be two new racquetball courts and an expanded free weight area along with a new martial arts studio and a virtual golf course.
The board of regents at Texas State University recently approved a $31 million construction project on an expanded student recreation center. Work is scheduled to begin this month on the 94,000-square-foot expansion, according to the Austin Business Journal, and is expected to be completed by the fall of 2008. The expanded center will include an eight-lane lap pool and swimming pool; a rock climbing facility; an expanded workout area; additional basketball and volleyball courts and an indoor soccer court; a golf simulator; a computer lab; and a snack bar and lounge area.
Construction is already under way on a new 89,000-square-foot recreation center at the University of Maine. The $25 million center, designed as an energy efficient and environmentally friendly facility, is scheduled to be completed by September, according to the Bangor Daily News. The center will include three basketball-volleyball courts; a 14,000-square-foot fitness center with free weights, selecterizor weights and aerobic equipment; two multipurpose rooms for aerobics and yoga; an elevated indoor track; a multiple activity court; a leisure pool and spa; and men's, women's and family locker rooms.
University of Vermont officials are pushing forward with plans for a $50-60 million athletic and recreational complex, according to the Burlington Free Press. Vermont was recently ranked in the nation's top 10 schools for fitness by Men's Fitness magazine. But the 8,000-square-foot Gucciardi Fitness & Recreation Center is often overcrowded. Kyle Ashton, a elementary education student at Vermont, recalled a long line at the front door of the center after Christmas break. "There was so many people that the fitness center would have been past fire code," Ashton told the Free Press. "We had to wait outside. When one person walked out, one person could walk in."
Indiana State University President Lloyd Benjamin has donated $25,000 toward a new student recreation center, which is slated for groundbreaking this summer, according to the Terre Haute Tribune-Star. In April 2006, the board of trustees granted Benjamin a $25,000 raise, raising eyebrows at the time because school employees were told there was not enough money to give them raises. Benjamin made his pledge during last year's trustees' meeting, according to the Tribune-Star, but hadn't donated the funds until last month.


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It sounds like he has decided that Google is to blame for the spam in his mailbox. So every time the lawyer tried to tell him that Google doesn't sell its customers email address, it was INPUT ERROR DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Probably what Google's lawyer should have told him (not that I blame the lawyer for failing to figure out on the spot how to break through such impenetrable stupidity) was, "Look! If we sold advertisers our customers' email addresses, then the advertisers wouldn't need us any more--they could just cut out the middleman and send their ads directly to our customers without paying us. So we'd be cutting our own throats if we did what you think we're doing."
Sorry, but this doesn't make much sense. How, specifically, were the TSA agents expected to know whether the child actually had brittle bone disease without relying on possibly false assertions by the child's parents? Try to break a bone and see if it snaps? From the point of view of statistics, random screenings make a lot of sense. If there is any category of person that terrorists could be sure would never be screened, chances are they would figure out how to sneak a terrorist on board in that guise. Moreover, having some fraction of individuals screened randomly produces statistical "noise" that disguises the criteria used for targeted screening, making it harder for terrorists to figure out what those criteria might be in order to evade them.
The judge did not order Apple to post an apology, just a notification that Samsung had been found not to infringing. I doubt if he was surprised that Apple's lawyers expressed it in a way that was favorable as possible to Apple's interest.
Neither my cable company nor the humble bundle forces me to buy anything. It is my decision. But there is a difference. The cable company offers a bundle of channels for a fixed price, take it or leave it. If the channels that I like are not valuable enough to me to justify the price of the whole bundle, then I have to leave it. But with the Humble Bundle, if I only want a few of the books (and in fact, I already have one of them), I can reduce the price I pay accordingly. I don't lose anything by getting books I don't want, because I'm not paying anything extra for them, and I can simply delete the files, no harm done. The only exception is the bonus books--clearly, if the non-bonus books are worth less to me than the difference between the average price and the price that I would otherwise pay, then I won't get them.
We've had strong patent protection throughout the period when the US achieved preeminence in technology, so we mess with that successful formula at our peril. On the time scale of technological development, the lifetime of a patent is fairly modest; indeed, most people have forgotten the fact that development of such things as telephony, electric power, automotive and aviation technology were accompanied by pitched patent battles. So there is a period of a couple of decades after a new patented innovation whens there is a strong economic incentive for development of alternate methods to achieve the same thing, which helps to prevent a single approach from being so widely copied that it becomes prematurely "locked in" before other, possibly superior, strategies are fully explored--and then it passes into the public domain for all to use.
Regardless, inventors at Cornell's campus have to work within the current legal framework, not an imaginary utopia of communal rights over all inventions. Failing to patent your own invention promptly exposes you to the risk that somebody else will patent it, and cut you out of the rights that are essential to attract capital investment to bring that idea to practical fruition.
I like physical books, but in practice, e-books are worth more to me. I'm willing to pay less for a hardback than a paperback, and less for a paperback than an e-book. With a physical book, I have to find space on my shelf, I have to keep my bookshelves organized, and (since I mostly read on the go) I must carry its weight around with me. On more than one occasion, I've bought e-book copies of books I already own, because I wanted to re-read the book, and I didn't want to carry it around. Yes, there are disadvantages: they are not as loanable (although I have a "loaner" e-reader), they cannot be resold, and the e-dealer might abruptly go out of business and take my library (or at least the part that I don't have backed up) with it (but then, physical books can burn). But on balance, e-books have greater value to me.
This seems to be one of those things that enrages some geeks, but means zilch to the typical user. After all, how often do you buy additional Dropbox space? It's easy enough to navigate to Dropbox yourself on Safari and buy more space, and Apple is perfectly OK with that. And if you really need to go to Dropbox a lot, you can click the button to add a link to your home screen. So a direct link from an app is at most a very minor convenience to the user.
So one's propensity to support the proposition that video game induced violence is a serious problem is correlated with one's number of publications in the area--which probably also correlates with the amount of one's funding predicated on the proposition that violence in video games is a serious problem justifying continued investment in such research. That doesn't prove that they are wrong, but it sure doesn't prove that they are right.
The real problem, of course, is that video game sales have increased, particularly to the young male demographic that is statistically most associated with violent behavior, and as video games have become more realistically violent, the incidence of violent crime has steadily decreased. That does not, of course, disprove the notion that there is a "pro-violence" influence of video games. What it does prove is that any such effect (if it exists at all) must be so small as to be swamped by other social and demographic factors influencing violent behavior.
One can't help wondering if the pimps are paying off politicians to support these bills. Can't have the girls going into business for themselves. They might decide to save their money, get an education, and go into a better line of work.
The speed limit advises the driver of a safe speed. The enforcement threshold is normally set a bit above this, which allows for errors in speedometers and radar guns, the fact that drivers cannot and should not stare constantly at the speedometer, etc., such that drivers who are honestly attempting to observe the speed limit will not be penalized. So yes, you can get away with driving a bit faster than the speed limit, but you are reducing your margin for error, and increasing your risk of getting ticketed. Is this really news to anybody.
It has been hard to monetize app-like programs in the past because the lack of a good distribution and payment system led people to ask outrageous prices. An app doesn't have to do very much to be worth a buck or two to me. That's about the value of the time it would take me to search something out on the web if I didn't have the convenience of one-stop shopping via the App Store. And when I'm only paying a buck or two, I don't really much care about whether I could run the same app on a phone that I don't have.


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We are headed for default. Boner's statements on CBS this evening suggest they think the result of default will be either a negotiated reduction in government spending - read social safety net contraction while the surveillance industrial complex remains fully funded - or it will result in forced, Greek style austerity measures.
The Koch whores, their bankers, and the fossil fuel industry they all invest in, ensure they will weather any financial storm just fine, so long as fossil fuels remain king. A government in perpetual crisis and chaos cannot support any new innovation or alternatives.
Into this chaos pipelines will parade, tar sands will flow, and geo-engineering will be the investment bet of the future - bet or wager being the operative word. There is no certainty that either geo-engineering will provide any solution, or that the human species will survive. Yet if we default, and if default is the route to the Keystone XL, then we will certainly be left with no alternative. Geo-engineering will simply have to work, and that is by no means certain.
The President appeared less certain this evening than he has in recent days; as if he had just recently been assured that default was a probability, that the teabag faction saw no downside to such an event. Reelection funding is assured, think tank propaganda all lined up and ready, all courtesy of the Kochs and their whores. With polls consistently trending negatively for repelicans, they may think they have nothing to loose with default, and hold out hope of dragging their opponents down with them.
The only solution is a continued display of confidence, acceptance, and a carefully designed campaign of facts and reality. It falls to the President to tell these fools:
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Polaroid Scarves + NEWS on Polaroid Film09:12
Loving these limited edition silk Polaroid Scarves. They're a collaboration project between Philippe Roucou and M. Cherie. You can v...
PS. It's finally here, the first lot of Polaroid film from The IMPOSSIBLE Project. Going on sale on Thursday 25th March, eeek!! $22US for an 8 pack of black and white, with colour do be due out soon.
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This is actually a really nice idea. You could personalise your own scarf with your very own phoot, but I'll probably agree with you on the price front. We can still dream! xxxReplyDelete
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So exciting! I wish I kept my pink and purple polaroid camera from when I was little :(ReplyDelete
Those scarves are brilliant, but as you say - a bit on the pricey side ;)ReplyDelete
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Awesome + polaroid FILM ACCESS = YAYReplyDelete
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this's the only one reason that why i didn't sell my polaroid camera out like friends :)ReplyDelete
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Hi Girls
As some of you know our miracle finally arrived on 24 June 2005.......thankfully DH managed 5 weeks off!
I just wandered if I could pick anyones brains.........??
Our darling daughter will not sleep. She does have reflux which obviously does not help but for example
12.00am Feed then put her down at 1.00am (have to hold upright for a while because of reflux)
1.00am - 3.30am sleep in moses
3.30am Feed........won't go down in moses.....coughing sounds then crying
4.30am sleeps on my chest in our bed until 6.00am
7.00am Feed
7.00am - now (6.22pm) awake and crying all day..........no sleep!
This is a fairly typical pattern everyday. I literally can't put her down, even when I am holding her she is kicking and crying etc. I have been to a paediatrician who has her on all the usual reflux things and none seem to be having an effect which makes me wander is that all it is or I am just being crap about having 2-4 hours sleep per day??
I am on my own now as DH can't help midweek as he works long hours and I am absolutely screwed!
Has anyone experienced this?? Any solutions??
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Mr. Carlo Rivetti, the CEO and creative director of Stone Island, isn't exaggerating when he says that the philosophy of his brand is innovation. Since this Italian label was created in 1982, then an offshoot of C.P. Company, it has created more than 40,000 different garments. The first Stone Island jackets were cut from extremely durable truck tarpaulin that had been washed for hours with pumice stones in order to soften it. This new fabric was named Tela Stella, and set the tone for Stone Island's industry-leading research and development, which has seen the introduction of unique materials and fabrications including the Ice Jacket, which changes colour in response to temperature variation; the Raso Gommato fabric, a cotton-satin with a durable polyurethane coating; the Silver Jacket, which is cut from 100% stainless steel bonded to a fabric base; the NOC 1 rubber hood that is made in a vacuum mould; and jackets incorporating Kevlar, a material more commonly found in body armour.
Experimentation is not the only pillar of Stone Island, though. Each garment that the firm produces is also highly functional, in terms of cut, performance and details. The study of military uniforms and workwear is integral to the design process, explaining elements such as the numerous utility pockets found on the outerwear. Specialised high-temperature, high-pressure dyeing methods enable the company to produce pieces in vibrant colours not normally associated with technical performance fabrics, while the modish Italian style which infuses the collection hardly needs explaining. Messrs Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Peter Hook of Joy Division and Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys are all fans of Stone Island, and the brand enjoys a cult following almost unprecedented in menswear. Watch the video to find out more.


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Weekly Middle School Ministry Youth Group Programs at Cross Loft!
"Quest" Middle School Youth Group, 6th-8th grades: Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00
Our program includes dinner & fellowship for youth and adult leaders, followed by music & Bible study (group lesson, then a small group, "break-out" discussion) - part of our "Quest" (Middle School Youth Group) to better know and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and to make an "Impact" (High School Youth Group) on our community and world.
We're also developing a small group ministry program that will be age and gender specific. Each group will be led and shepherded by two adult leaders. Each group will study God's Word and support one another in their daily lives (and plan fun events, too). We'll keep you posted as plans progress!
In addition, the overall Youth Ministry will include fellowship events such as movie nights & bowling, as well as student conference weekends, along with summer mission trips - opportunities to serve the Lord and to share the Gospel and to grow in our relationships with Jesus Christ and one another.
Please feel free to contact me anytime! My cell number is (843) 505-7467. Texts and email are great, too.
Thank you for your prayers as we join hands on the path ahead! Let us rejoice in the Lord; Psalm 100
In Him,
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What are some of the most elegant/complex/sophisticated physics experiments one could perform in his garage, if he has enough spare time and technical/theoretical know-how, but a relatively limited budget? Say, a retired emeritus physics professor?
These could be either novel or reproductions of known experiments, either qualitative or quantitative demonstrations.


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Hollande says France 'ready to punish' Syria over gas attack
PARIS – French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that his country is prepared to take action against those responsible for gassing people in Syria.
"France is ready to punish those who took the heinous decision to gas innocents" in Syria last week, Hollande said at a conference with France's ambassadors. He did not elaborate.
"I have decided to increase our military support to the National Syrian Coalition," the main Syrian opposition group in exile, he also said.
France, one of Europe's biggest military powers, has not specified what preparation it is taking for any possible international action against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
But on Monday Hollande said time is running out for the Syrian regime and airstrikes are a possibility. "Everything will come into play this week," he told Le Parisien newspaper. "There are several options on the table, ranging from strengthening international sanctions to airstrikes to arming the rebels.
Hollande spoke with President Barack Obama on Sunday and told him France, like Britain, would support him in a targeted military intervention, according to the paper.


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Needing reliever, struggling Nava sent to Minors
BOSTON -- Daniel Nava's slow start has resulted in a trip back to the Minor Leagues.
With Shane Victorino likely to be activated from the disabled list on Thursday and Boston's bullpen in need of an extra pitcher for Wednesday's game against the Yankees, Nava's roster spot was utilized.View Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- Daniel Nava's slow start has resulted in a trip back to the Minor Leagues.
With Shane Victorino likely to be activated from the disabled list on Thursday and Boston's bullpen in need of an extra pitcher for Wednesday's game against the Yankees, Nava's roster spot was utilized.View Full Game Coverage
"Given the number of innings by our bullpen in the last few days, we needed to add another arm out there. We also felt like we needed to get Daniel Nava going again," said manager John Farrell.
Right-hander Alex Wilson, who spent time with the Red Sox last year before suffering arm problems, was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket.
"We felt like a two-inning reliever is what we needed, which Alex has done. He has a familiarity with the role and that is why he is here," said Farrell.
The Red Sox will likely send Wilson back to the Minors on Thursday to open up a spot for Victorino, who has been sidelined with a right hamstring strain.
With Nava out of the mix, Boston's starting outfield against right-handed pitchers will likely have Grady Sizemore in left, Jackie Bradley Jr. in center and Victorino in right.
Jonny Gomes will continue to play against left-handers while Mike Carp will make some spot starts against righties.
This was a downturn for Nava after being one of the feel-good stories of last season, when he hit .303 with 12 homers, 66 RBIs and an .831 OPS in a career-high 134 games. In his first 67 at-bats of 2014, Nava was hitting .149 with two homers, three RBIs, a .240 on-base percentage and 17 strikeouts.
"His struggles at the plate are evident. We need to get him back to the player we have seen in the past," Farrell said.
"He needs to have a more consistent two-strike approach. I felt like at times he tried to hit with a little too much power instead of a hitter of average who will occasionally hit home runs. He needs to get some work on the right side of the plate as well."
Nava had some memorable hits in Boston's World Series championship season, including game-winning homers in both the home opener and the first game back at Fenway Park after the Boston Marathon bombings. He also belted a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth on Aug. 1 to cap a comeback against the Mariners in a game in which Boston trailed 7-1.
"He was disappointed. It wasn't disbelief, but it was a disappointing message to deliver given his contribution last year," Farrell said. "However, it is the combination with the need for another reliever. While he may not have agreed with it, it was a necessity."
An independent-league player the Red Sox purchased for $1 from the Chico Outlaws prior to the 2008 season, few had even heard of Nava when he made his first trip to the Major Leagues on June 12, 2010.
In an almost surreal story, Nava hit the first pitch he saw in his debut that day at Fenway over the wall in right for a grand slam against the Phillies' Joe Blanton.
However, Nava fell out of favor after a difficult season in the Minors in 2011 and was taken off Boston's 40-man roster by the start of Spring Training in '12.
After Boston sustained a barrage of injuries in the outfield in 2012, Nava resurfaced, hitting .243 with a .352 on-base percentage in 88 games.
"Those aren't messages that you like to deliver, but what our team needs takes precedent over what we do and you try and explain it in a way by giving tangible reasons to warrant our decision and give a plan of action that he can attach to," Farrell said. "If he can accomplish those things, he is putting in his mind the ability to get back here."
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Under and by virtue of the Power of Sale contained in a Security Deed given by Janie Fletcher and James O. Fletcher to Travelers Bank & Trust, FSB, dated January 20, 1999, recorded on January 26, 1999 in Deed Book 321, Page 558, Appling County, Georgia Records, said Security Deed having been last sold, assigned, transferred and conveyed to CitiMortgage, Inc., the secured creditor, by Assignment conveying the after-described property to secure a Note in the original principal amount of Twenty-Six Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-Six and 20/100 DOLLARS ($26,756.20), with interest thereon as set forth therein, the holder thereof pursuant to said Deed and Note thereby secured has declared the entire amount of said indebtedness due and payable and, pursuant to the power of sale contained in said Deed, will on July 2, 2013 during the legal hours of sale, before the Courthouse door in said County, sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, the property described in said Deed, to-wit:
All that parcel of land in Second Land District, Appling County, State of Georgia, as more fully described in Deed Book 202, pages 717-718, ID#3-12, consisting of One (1) acre of Lot of Land No. 370 and being bound now or formerly as follows:
North by a Graded Road; East and South by lands of Clara Fletcher; and West by Lands of Pauline Phillips, said lands being more accurately described according to a survey and plat thereof by Olin J. Baxley, County Surveyor, dated January 5, 1959, said Plat being of record in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court, Appling County, Georgia, in Plat Book 3, page 370, reference being made to said Plat for all purposes.
By Fee Simple Deed from Franklin Discount Company, a Georgia Corporation as set forth in Deed Book 202, pages 717-718 dated 03/09/1983 and recorded 03/16/1983, Appling County Records, State of Georgia.
Less and Except therefrom that portion of property in Deed Book 310, page 767, being more particularly described as follows:
That tract of land, lying and being in the 456th G.M. District of said County, along and on either side of the center line of a Rural Post Road which has been surveyed and laid out by the Department of Transportation as a Rural Post Road, known as Project No. PR-50 (001), Fletcher Road, and of sufficient width for a right of way of 80 feet, said road being more particularly described on a map and drawing of said road in the Office of the Department of Transportation, District Office, Jesup, Georgia.
Said property is known as 1312 Fletcher Road, Baxley, GA 31513, together with all fixtures and personal property attached to and constituting a part of said property, if any.
Said property will be sold as the property of Janie Fletcher and Estate of James O. Fletcher, the property, to the best information, knowledge and belief of the undersigned, being presently in the possession of Janie Fletcher and Estate of James O. Fletcher or a tenant or tenants. Said property will be sold subject to any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, but not yet due and payable), the right of redemption of any taxing authority, any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above. The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the security deed.
Pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 9-13-172.1, which allows for certain procedures regarding the rescission of judicial and non-judicial sales in the State of Georgia, the Deed Under Power and other foreclosure documents may not be provided until final confirmation of the audit of the status of the loan as provided immediately above.
The debt secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in Security Deed and by law, including, without limitation, attorneys' fees. Notice has been given of intention to collect attorneys' fees and other charges in accordance with the terms of the Note secured by said Deed. The balance, if any, will be distributed as provided by law.
Pursuant to O.C.G.A. 44-14-162.2, the name, address and telephone number of the individual or entity who shall have the full authority to negotiate, amend, or modify all terms of the above-described mortgage on behalf of the secured creditor, CitiMortgage, Inc., is as follows: CitiMortgage, Inc., 1000 Technology Drive, O`Fallon, MO 63304, 1-800-422-1498. The foregoing notwithstanding, nothing in O.G.C.A. 44-14-162.2 shall require the secured creditor to negotiate, amend or modify the terms of the mortgage instrument.
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Dorothy Rindt
Dorothy Rindt, 82, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, at Wesley Medical Center. She was born April 5, 1931, to William and Grace (Nienstedt) Richmond.
Survivors include a sister, Doris Winkler (Gene); and brother-in-law, Kenny Rindt (Bonnie), and numerous nieces and nephews and close family friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbert; and son, Mark; a sister, Darlene Gutsch; and a brother, Donald Richmond.
Dorothy spent many years in Marion working as a nurse for Dr. T.C. Ensey and later moved to Wichita and worked for several doctors. She was also a longtime employee of Shepler's.
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For years the U.S. has been secretly releasing high-level insurgents from a military prison in Afghanistan in an attempt to suppress violence in restive regions, as reported by Kevin Sieff of the Washington Post.
Militants released under the "strategic release program" must promise to give up violence under the threat that they will be detained again, but do not have to sever ties with insurgent groups and often maintain those connections so that they can work as peacemakers in places where NATO is withdrawing or simply unable to ensure security.
From The Washington Post:
"Everyone agrees they are guilty of what they have done and should remain in detention. Everyone agrees that these are bad guys. But the benefits outweigh the risks," said one U.S. official who, like others, discussed the issue on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the program.
The releases from the Parwan detention center (which is the only American military prison in Afghanistan) can be done in secret as they circumvent the prison's judicial review board — most of the high-level insurgents would not be freed under the normal Afghan legal system for military prisoners — and do not require congressional approval.
They are directly approved by the top U.S. commander and top military lawyer in Afghanistan, according to The Washington Post.
The presumed benefits of the program are that it provides certain tactical gains in volatile areas — like useful intelligence on the whereabouts of Taliban fighters — as well as a live diplomatic channel with the insurgency at a time when peace negotiations have been unsuccessful.
The obvious risks are that the released detainees return to attacking U.S., NATO and Afghan forces. U.S. officials would not say how many militants have been released under the program or if any have returned to fighting allied forces, according to The Washington Post.
The Obama administration has tried to end the decade-long war through negotiations, but insurgent leaders have demanded the release of five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay as a precondition to any peace talks.


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James Rick Mitchell, 67, is free on bond until he surrenders by Feb. 7 in the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Janis Sammartino.
Mitchell worked for the San Diego Unified School District for 34 years from 1969 until his retirement in 2003. He worked as a math teacher and track coach at Point Loma High School and University City High School, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
His most recent work included 24 years at University City High. He also worked at Einstein Junior High School as a physical-education teacher.
There are no allegations of molestation. The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service and he was identified as purchasing videos and images of minors engaging in sexual activity. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Mitchell was in possession of 4,751 videos of child porn and many more images.
Sammartino told Mitchell he had cast a "pallor" on his career as an educator. She said child pornography causes "acute harm" to children depicted in the images. The U.S. Attorney Office calculated that Mitchell paid about $4,300 to purchase the images and videos.
— Neal Putnam Hearing for La Jolla shootings delayed — The preliminary hearing for Hans Antone Petersen involving the Sept. 18 shootings in two La Jolla homes in which two men were wounded was delayed Dec. 5 to Jan. 13.
Petersen, 49, of University City, is charged with attempting to kill Steven and Lisa Dowdy and Ron Fletcher all on the same night. He is also accused of shooting at an inhabited structure and burglary of Fletcher's home.
Deputy District Attorney Amy Maund said Petersen, a biotech executive, fired multiple shots through the master bedroom window of Steven Dowdy, 53, a University of California cancer researcher. Dowdy was shot in the back, but his wife was not hurt in the 3 a.m. shootings.
Petersen was to appear Dec. 18, the original preliminary hearing date, for a status conference before San Diego Superior Court Judge Leo Valentine, Jr., and return to his courtroom for a preliminary hearing that may take one day of testimony.
Petersen remains in custody on $5 million bail and has pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted murder, firing into an occupied dwelling and burglary. Petersen has no prior record and previously served as CEO of several firms.
Maund said Petersen was angry with Steven Dowdy over a failed business deal. Around 6:40 a.m., Petersen allegedly broke into the Cottontail Lane home of Fletcher, 50, his estranged brother-in-law, and shot him in the stomach. Fletcher was able to overpower Petersen by hitting him with his own gun.
— Neal Putnam Motorcyclist pleads guilty to felony evading — A motorcyclist described as the organizer of a group of other motorcyclists who rode at high speeds in La Jolla pleaded guilty Dec. 11 to evading police with reckless driving.
Shadrach Daniel Farmer, 31, of Lakeside, will be sentenced Jan. 13 and is expected to get 180 days in jail, according to court records. He remains in jail after a judge found he was in violation of probation terms in an unrelated domestic violence case.
There were complaints from La Jolla residents about motorcyclists who were riding at high speeds in the area late at night. Farmer pleaded guilty before San Diego Superior Court Judge Eugenia Eyherabide.
At his preliminary hearing Oct. 29, a police officer testified he used a radar device to clock Farmer going 77 mph in a 45 mph zone at 10:15 p.m. on Torrey Pines Road. The officer said he tried to pull him over, but Farmer sped up, and a police helicopter was used to locate him.
Farmer was arrested on Prospect Place and was driving on a suspended license with no insurance. Farmer had posted $50,000 bond, but was jailed Oct. 29 for failing to enroll in a 52-week domestic batterer course as part of his probation. Farmer also had not performed five days of public work service.
— Neal Putnam Man gets 34 years in Midway, Torrey Pines robberies — A prison term of 34 years and four months was handed down Dec. 16 for an armed robber of three 7-Eleven stores on Midway Drive and in Torrey Pines and 13 other stores elsewhere.
The attorney for Luis Alonso Cruz, 25, asked for the sentence he received while the prosecutor sought an 89-year prison term before San Diego Superior Court Judge Eugenia Eyherabide.
Deputy District Attorney Martin Doyle said Cruz pulled a gun on 13 people in small businesses in a robbery spree in 2012 and asked for consecutive terms. Three other victims were robbed without a gun pointed at them.
Eyherabide fined Cruz more than $11,000. She specifically ordered Cruz to pay $132 to the 7-Eleven store at 13835 Mango Drive in Torrey Pines and $170 and $100 each to the 7-Eleven stores on Midway Drive that were robbed in August 2012. She ordered Cruz to pay nearly $3,000 to the other stores that were held up.
Cruz' attorney, Monique Carter, said her client will have to serve 85 percent of the 34-year term before he can be paroled. She said Cruz will be "close to an elder" when he is paroled, and she added that he does have remorse.
Cruz, who said nothing in court, has a residential burglary conviction from 2010. His mother, sister and niece watched the sentencing. He received jail credits of 506 days.
Cruz pleaded guilty Aug. 27 to 16 counts of robbery and felon in possession of a firearm.
A co-defendant, Alex Sanchez, 24, was sentenced Sept. 10 to 25 years in prison for 13 of the same robberies. The only gunfire was by Sanchez who shot into a wall in one 7-Eleven store in Clairemont.
The other stores held up were located in North Park, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Carlsbad, Linda Vista, Mira Mesa and Mission Valley.
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Stumbled on this in Google+ from Benjamin Wilkoff about the consensus process being used at Occupy Wall Street.
This has potential for so many questions and discussion topics with students.
- What is actual democracy?
- Is the current government of the United States a democracy?
- Whose voice is most important in an democracy?
- For PBL it is a great example of how student groups should function.
- What are the weaknesses of this form of government?
- Does this scale to a national level and what would that look like?
- How can we make sure more opinions are heard and given a true seat at the table before decisions are made?
- How can we implement the consensus model in schools?
- How could the consensus model be used in your classroom?
- How could the consensus model be used with students in curriculum planning and design?


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Why You Need a Power of Attorney and Medical Directive
The following story, albeit a difficult one, highlights the importance of a medical directive and a durable power of attorney. Without these documents in place, you and your family could face personal and financial disaster at the same time.
It's late at night and you're waiting for your husband to arrive home from a business trip. Suddenly the phone rings and the voice on the other end informs you that your husband was in a terrible car accident and has been rushed to the hospital. You arrive to find several doctors awaiting permission to operate on your unconscious husband. They ask if he has a medical directive that authorizes someone, preferably you, to make health-care decisions on your husband's behalf.
A few days pass and your husband survives the accident, but he's going to be laid up for several weeks or months. Household bills need to be paid, but the primary source of income is your husband's business and you're not named on any of the business bank accounts. The bank representative asks whether your husband has a durable power of attorney naming you as his agent for financial matters.
What is a durable power of attorney?
A durable power of attorney (DPOA) can help protect your property in the event you become physically unable or mentally incompetent to handle financial matters. If no one is ready to look after your financial affairs, your property may be wasted, abused, or lost. A DPOA allows you to authorize someone else to act on your behalf, so he or she can do things like pay everyday expenses, collect benefits, watch over your investments, and file taxes.
A DPOA may be effective immediately (this may be appropriate if you face a serious operation or illness), or it may only become effective upon the occurrence of an event, such as your incapacity (sometimes referred to as a springing power of attorney). Caution: A springing power of attorney is not permitted in some states, so you'll want to check with an attorney for its availability in your state.
What is a medical directive?
A medical directive lets others know what medical treatment you would want, and allows someone to make medical decisions for you, in the event you can't express your wishes yourself. There are two basic types of advanced medical directives–a durable power of attorney for health care and a living will–which generally vary by state. So be sure your documents comply with the laws of your state of residence.
A durable power of attorney for health care (known as a health-care proxy in some states) allows you to appoint a representative (health-care agent) to make medical decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself. You can appoint almost anyone as your agent (as long as they are of legal age, usually age 18 or older). You decide how much power your representative will or won't have.
A living will allows you to approve or decline certain types of medical care, even if you will die as a result of that choice. In most states, living wills take effect only under certain circumstances, such as terminal injury or illness. Typically, a living will can be used to decline medical treatment that "serves only to postpone the moment of death." In those states that do not authorize living wills, you may still want to have one to serve as an expression of your wishes.
Additional things to consider
When creating either a DPOA or medical directive such as a durable power of attorney for health care (HPOA), it is important that you choose an appropriate agent. While you may select the same person to serve as agent in both documents, you are not compelled to do so. And be sure the person you select as agent is aware of that fact. Also, let them know where you keep these documents (you may want to give a copy of your HPOA to your agent). As you read above, laws change from state to state which makes it important to work with an attorney specializing in estate matters. Once you have these documents, review them periodically with your estate attorney to be sure they still accomplish what you intend them to do.


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Ms. Harrison�s letter of Sept. 13 is more Democrat propaganda. First, she said Democrats believe in democracy and the right of every citizen to cast one ballot. She probably believes in the tooth fairy too. Does that include votes from beyond the grave and felons?
Ms. Harrison�s letter of Sept. 13 is more Democrat propaganda. First, she said Democrats believe in democracy and the right of every citizen to cast one ballot. She probably believes in the tooth fairy too. Does that include votes from beyond the grave and felons?
The person who wrote the letter stating that 47 percent of the voters will vote for the president is right on. That is roughly the percentage of people who are on some sort of government dole. Does she think for one minute these people are going to bite the hand that feeds them? For example, 95 percent of the black vote went to Obama, and 74 percent of the Hispanic vote went to Obama add in the other minorities, and whites who are on the dole and it is not hard to come up with 47 percent.
Obama�s record for the first four years did not warrant reelection. The minorities and a number of whites were never going to vote for Romney regardless of what he said. Unfortunately the candidate who promises the most �stuff� will win. It is no coincidence that food stamp recipients have skyrocketed under his administration. It is called buying votes. Outlined below are two examples where the one person one vote didn�t work.
In the 2004 Washington State gubernatorial election Democrat Christine Gregoire lost the election by 261 votes. After two recounts she still lost, but won on a dubious third count by 113 votes. There were 3,559 more votes tallied than voters. There were 1,300 felon votes that were counted illegally, but the Republicans lost the election after the unions and Moveon.org got involved in the recount.
In the 2008 Minnesota senatorial election where despicable Democrat Al Franken was trailing incumbent Republican Norm Coleman by 298 votes until a dubious recount gave Franken the victory. There were 1,099 votes by felons that were counted, also a number of votes cast from beyond the grave. The State Attorney General who was in charge of the recount was an Acorn and union endorsed Attorney General.
Both of the foregoing elections are classic cases of voter fraud disenfranchising the voters. I am sure there were a number of other cases over the years, but these two were the most notorious. In the case of the loss by Allen West; voter fraud apparently was a contributing factor.
Ms. Harrison has been an ardent supporter of the Democrat mantra that voter ID is disenfranchisement. How does she account for the people of Philadelphia �The City of Brotherly Corruption� who are required to show photo ID and proof of residency (unnecessary hoops to use her terminology) to sign up for food stamps while not requiring voter ID? How can it be disenfranchisement in one situation and not the other? The Dems never had a logical argument against voter ID, but the Philadelphia situation shows how hypocritical they are.
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Josh Sommer, Executive Director, The Chordoma Foundation
Keynote speaker Josh Sommer was recently named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Life Sciences and Healthcare. He discusses his rare cancer diagnosis while in college and his subsequent journey to become the Executive Director of The Chordoma Foundation. He also explains his search for information, insight and connections at the 2013 BIO International Convention.


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Scholars use -q- alone to transliterate Semitic koph (as in Quran, Qatar, Iraq ). In Christian theology, Q has been used since 1901 to signify the hypothetical source of passages shared by Matthew and Luke, but not in Mark; in this sense probably it is an abbreviation of German Quelle "source."
The marygulde or dasy doith excell.
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The drought will knock the U.S. from its top position in the world soybean market, according to USDA estimates.
A government forecast indicates Brazil will replace the U.S. as the top producer of soybeans in the world during the 2012-13 harvest seasons.
"This is first year that we're forecasting that Brazil alone will out-produce the U.S. in soybeans," says Gerald Bange, the USDA official responsible for keeping the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. Speaking at the Future Farm World Americas conference in San Francisco this week, Bange presented a post-drought update on the world agricultural situation.
The agency's latest report estimates that Brazil will produce 81 million tons of soybeans during this harvest year, compared to 77.8 million tons for the U.S. The U.S. probably would have retained its lead were it not for this year's severe drought.
Soybean production in the U.S. is expected to drop 7.5% from last year, by USDA estimates, while production in Brazil will increase 21.8% thanks in part to strides there in developing land suitable for growing soybeans.
Bange notes that final data on world soybean production won't be available for a while "because they've just planted in the Southern Hemisphere. But the crop that was just planted in Brazil looks good. The same with Argentina. These countries had trouble last year."
U.S. Holds Title for Corn Production
The U.S. remains the world's biggest corn producer at 272 million metric tons, but other countries, particularly China, are coming on strong. China will produce 200 million metric tons of corn in 2012-2013, up 4% over the previous year. Brazil is on a course to generate 70 million metric tons of corn.
Bange told the crowd that the current situation in the corn market—high prices and short supply —would be much worse if the rest of the world weren't producing more corn. World corn production will be down 4.4% during this harvest year.
The fall-off in U.S. corn production comes as foreign consumption is rising, particularly in Asia. U.S. producers this year moved to meet that demand, planting 96.9 million acres of corn. That was one of the biggest numbers in decades, but not in history: U.S. farmers actually planted more corn in 1937, Bange says.
Back then, they could expect yields of only 30 bushels per acre. Now, yields of approximately 150 bushels per acre are normal. "If you do the math, at today's prices, you find that 10.7 billion bushels is more valuable to farmers than the 14 billion that was expected."
This year's drought is roughly equivalent to that of 1988, Bange said. But it has had a far bigger impact on prices. "Back then, we had 4 billion bushels in inventory, back stock, going into the situation," Bange says. "This year, we have 1 billion."
Higher corn prices led to speculation that the livestock industry would liquidate. "There is not a massive liquidation underway," says Bange, noting that it takes several years to rebuild a herd. "All these industries are trying to weather the storm.
"Dairy showed early signs of liquidation, but they've stopped," he says, adding that the industry is hoping that South American feed production will pick up the slack.
Bange also contends that the use of corn for ethanol has plateaued. Worldwide, he says, only 2.2% of world grain goes into ethanol. That number is higher in the U.S. "Worldwide, it's not a big number," he says.
Global Drought Zaps Wheat
The U.S. wasn't the only country to feel the impact of hot weather on agricultural production.
"There was a similar drought in Europe that few people talked about," says Bange, noting that Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, big producers of wheat, got hit pretty hard. Drought conditions also brought down wheat production in the southern part of Australia.
The bottom line is that worldwide wheat production will be down significantly, 6.1% in 2012-13, compared to the previous year. Even so, Bange doesn't think there are any major problems in the worldwide wheat market because large wheat stocks are on hand. The U.S. produces less than 10% of world wheat.
That said, wheat prices have risen sharply in the last two years. "When corn prices go up, wheat can go up right along with it," says Bange, noting that wheat's use for feed is up almost 100%.
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