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Smalblaar Ridge (F), Du Toits Peak
M. P. Mamacos 1952 (MCSA Journal 1952)
To the east of and overlooking the Forestry Non-European camp site between Molenaarsberg and Du Toit's Peak rises a ridge which has probably been looked on as a prospective by most rock climbers who have passed that way, and who realize that ridges like that of the Klein Winterhoek do not sprout from every peak. From some angles the ridge appears to culminate in a very sharp knife edge, while from others it appears to be merely the left hand end of a series of white turrets which in themselves seem to offer ample scope for rock climbing.
We parked the car about half a mile beyond the camp site and made our way up to the lower part of the ridge which includes a certain amount of rock scrambling and since their is no obvious line of ascent, a description of of the one followed would be of little interest. Suffice it to say that we eventually arrived at the foot of a gendarme which was the last obstacle between us and the final steep rock; and having reached this point, we stopped to survey the impossibilities ahead. The ridge was indeed a knife edge and a well honed one at that. Near the bottom was a smooth grey slab about 80ft high containing two very vertical cracks the left hand of which looked perhaps wide enough to admit a piton but hopelessly inadequate for hands and feet. Some 200 feet higher, our only hope was a bottomless crack which would have to be approached from below via a smooth slab on which it seemed, one would hardly be able to gain a hold, let alone lean out in order to pull oneself into the crack - which did not seem wide enough anyway. The prospect looked so hopeless that we were all but unanimous that we should turn back while there was yet time to spend the rest of the day wallowing in the pools below. However we skirted the gendarme to the left and climbed up to the neck between it and the knife edge, at which arbitrary point we started roping. Some mild climbing brought us to the bottom of the grey slab. The crack was about 6 inches wide and easily climbable, the main difficulty of the pitch being near the top where the crack peters out. The next pitch, although easy, was most spectacular; an 800ft sheer drop was to be noticed under the right arm and one of 1200ft under the left. There was a stance at the foot of the bottomless crack and although very exposed, the crack was sufficiently wide to accommodate the average body comfortably. At this point there exists an excellent chock stone belay, but a piton was driven in lightly to hold the packs. Unfortunately, the efforts of the last man to extricate it were even lighter and the piton remains to supplement our beacons. There was little further hindrance to our upward progress and and we arrived at the top of the ridge about 3.5 hours after leaving the gendarme, the standard of rockwork having nowhere exceeded mild F with leader belays everywhere. A stone pushed gently outward from our last stance could be seen to fall freely for fully 1200ft.
It was now apparent that the easiest approach to the foot of the knife edge is up the ravine on the Worcester side of the ridge, which would be a pure slog and therefore probably much less interesting.
We descended the backs of the ridges in the direction of Worcester and covering easy ground fairly quickly, arrived at the nearest farm 1.5 hours later. A short walk to the National Road and a diligent plying of thumbs soon had us back at the car.
Detailed description of the climb from the neck behind the gendarme
1st Pitch, E, 70ft: Up the prominent fault to the left of the crest.
2nd Pitch, F, 80ft: A grey face with two prominent vertical cracks. Up the left hand crack.
3rd Pitch, D, 50ft: Up the crest of rib.
4th Pitch, E, 40ft: Up to overhang, straddle around rib to left and continue to foot of bottomless crack.
5th Pitch, F, 40ft: Up bottomless crack to stance at foot of chimney.
6th Pitch, E, 80ft: Up chimney past a large chockstone and scramble to stance at top of climb.


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This short-termism is exactly the same attitude that Wall Street took during the bubble years. Many traders and firms were just focused on short-term profit, and had little incentive to think about the long-term risks. That led to serious problems that undermine the structural integrity of balance sheets and our financial system. So why does the president continue to have a short-term focused attitude. He says:
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If, in 2009, we'd focused on policies that would have created long-term stability we might not be in this mess today. Or it wouldn't be as bad. President Obama says the American people can't afford 13 months of politics (until the next election), so maybe he should stop thinking about policies in a re-election perspective and focus on the steps that would promote a recovery in the long-term and fix the many structural problems in our own economic policy framework.


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Last week we received a press release about rape and sexual assault statistics, but statistics are too impersonal and sterile to adequately reflect reality. A study in 2011 found that nearly one out of every five women in the United States has been the victim of rape or attempted rape. Do you know five or more women? If so, you probably know someone who has been raped. Are you related to five or more women? If so, you probably have a family member who has been raped.
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"She shouldn't have been out so late alone."
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"She shouldn't have worn such provocative clothing."
All of those are excuses. They excuse the actions of rapists because victims should have expected to be raped. Getting drunk isn't a terrible crime. Wearing revealing clothing isn't a terrible crime. Rape is a terrible crime, but people make excuses for it all the time.
As dark as the realization that all of us almost certainly have friends and relatives who have been raped is, realizing that means we all probably know rapists is even more upsetting. Men — and honestly, the large majority of rapes are committed by men — aren't unthinking animals that can't control themselves. The sight of some skin doesn't make us forget the difference between right and wrong.
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We also have to stop blaming and stigmatizing victims. If we can stop making victims feel ashamed, rape reporting would understandably go up, which would allow society to better show that we are serious about not tolerating rape.
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If Kormac keeps going on about my barbarian's "noble spirit burning within him" I *swear* he's going to pop the question.
@Achloryn He wants some of that spirit burning within HIM, if you know what I mean.
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@Achloryn Hey, you brought up the proposal. I just took it straight to the wedding night.
@Achloryn @ILikeBubbles Oh God no, no Diablo slash please :o
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@PixelExecution @Achloryn Then I get just lesbian ammo…
@Achloryn @ILikeBubbles Plus, I know how companies do companion dialogue. At least my Templar got all bothered by the enchantress.
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I started a second druid–same server, same faction, don't ask–and have specced her as feral, because tank queues are amazing. As soon as she hit 15, I had bear form and despite my woeful lack of buttons, I said ALRIGHT. LETS TANK US SOME DEADMINES.
It took me all of about 15 seconds to regret it.
The problem with baby bear tanks is that…they're rage based. Rage based, with very few buttons, and at level 15 everyone seems to think that letting the tank hit things first is completely optional. This means you spend most of your time chasing around mobs that are chasing around DPS, and there is dick all you can do about it.
You want to know why some lowbie druids tank in cat form? THAT'S WHY. I tried asking the group to let me snag stuff first, but "lol it's deadmines" was the only response to that.
Well then.
I sucked it up and waited 10 minutes to instance as DPS until I was a high enough level to get swipe. I love you, swipe. I also abuse the talent where I get rage for shifting, and bounce in and our of bear form before pulls so that I can, you know, hit things.
Rage is just a lousy mechanic when you're a lowbie tank.
Why is it hard to let the tank hit things first, people? C'mon. Please remove your asshat when entertain an instance…
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Here are six screenings that can help you stay healthy:
Nearly half of all Americans older than age 20 have chronic high blood pressure—130/80 mmHg or greater. Not eating salty foods, maintaining a healthy weight, and using medicine, if needed, can reduce your risk for stroke and heart disease. Men ages 40 and older should get their blood pressure checked every year.
This simple blood test—after an overnight fast—measures levels of HDL, or "good," cholesterol and LDL, or "bad," cholesterol, as well as triglycerides. These fats in your blood can affect your risk for heart disease and stroke.
This simple blood test helps detect type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, which can increase the risk for heart disease and other complications. It's recommended for adults ages 40 to 70 who are overweight.
During this test, the doctor will examine your colon, looking for signs of cancer and small growths that can become cancerous over time. These can be removed during the test. Experts recommend getting a colonoscopy starting at age 50.
After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer among U.S. men. Starting at age 50 or 55, men should discuss the advantages and limitations of prostate cancer screening with their doctor.
Compared with men who have never smoked, smokers are 23 times more likely to develop lung cancer. Men who are ages 55 to 80 and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years should ask their doctors if they're a candidate for a low-dose CT test screening.
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Campus Construction Update for Week of Aug. 26-Sept. 1
These are among the construction activities scheduled Aug. 26-Sept. 1 at the University of Wyoming.
Traffic Alert -- With the start of a new semester, the UW Police Department reminds everyone that the speed limit around campus is 20 mph.
Shift Changes -- Custodial work schedules will be adjusted slightly beginning Tuesday, Sept. 4, to allow for increased daytime cleaning, improve operational efficiencies and conserve energy consumption outside of business hours. Day shift zones will begin work at 5 a.m. instead of 4 a.m. and work until 1:30 p.m. instead of 12:30 p.m. Evening shift zones will begin work at 2:30 p.m. instead of 4 p.m. and work until 11 p.m. instead of 12:30 a.m.
The UW Facilities Planning Office reports the following activities for the week.
More parking spaces -- All of the Ivinson parking lot is now open, adding 67 additional new parking spaces including ADA (Americans with Disability Act) spaces and four metered spaces. Access is from both 10th and 11th streets. Landscaping is scheduled to be complete this week.
Museum Closed -- The UW Geological Museum is closed for renovation and is scheduled to reopen in the fall semester.
Berry Center Green Roof Reconstruction -- Replacement of the planting soils will begin Aug. 27. Access to the south entry and the east sidewalk will be restricted during this process. Transplanting of the existing plants will begin Sept. 3.
UW Office Annex (21st Street and Garfield, scheduled completion Sept. 30) -- The project involves partial renovation of the lower level of the west wing for improvements to offices and other adjacent multi-use spaces. Installation of mechanical equipment and ductwork is under way and will be completed in two to three weeks. Conference rooms and adjacent spaces will be closed until the end of September.
University of Wyoming/Casper College Student Union (UW/CC Student Union, scheduled completion November 2013) -- Construction has started with site preparation and foundation systems. Structural steel frame is completed, and roof decking will be installed this month. Installation of mechanical ductwork has begun on the first floor.
Landscape Projects -- Construction work continues toward late September completion on Sullivan Plaza, Public Edge Practice Field, Public Edge Southwest Campus Entry Marker and Bureau of Mines landscape.
Sullivan Plaza -- Access to the south entrances of the Education Building and surrounding pedestrian pathways will reopen Aug. 27, with some temporary limitations imposed to accommodate continuing construction. Access to the Education Building will remain limited to the north entrance through approximately Sept. 15. Plaza landscaping and construction of the amphitheater and site amenities to follow will continue through Sept. 28. Caution should be exercised within the area of continuing construction. The project staging area in the parking area north of Wyoming Hall will remain through Sept. 15.
Public Edge Practice Field (Tailgate Park) -- Work is substantially complete. Remaining minor and accessory work may continue through Sept. 28.
Public Edge Southwest Campus Entry Marker -- Adjacent portions of Ninth Street and Grand Avenue pedestrian sidewalks may be temporarily closed by construction through Sept. 28. Earthwork and entry marker construction continues, with landscaping to follow.
Bureau of Mines Landscape -- The vehicular access and pedestrian corridor between the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center and the Health Sciences Center will reopen Aug. 27 with some temporary limitations imposed to accommodate continuing construction through Sept. 28. General landscaping work is under way.
Counselor Education Training Clinic (Education Building, scheduled completion Oct. 22) -- Renovation construction work in the northeast portion of the basement of the Education Building continues. Limited access for students, faculty and staff via the northeast building entry will be reopened Aug. 27. Construction activities and staging will continue, requiring appropriate caution to be exercised in the area. Construction staging will continue to occupy a portion of the pedestrian walkway and accessible parking area northeast of the Education Building. Temporary substitute accessible parking has been designated with temporary signage.
Energy Innovation Center (formerly ERC, at 1020 Lewis St., scheduled completion October 2012) -- Access to main campus will be between or through Earth Sciences and the Berry Center. Lewis Street will remain closed during construction. Parking will be limited in areas around construction, including the drive along the west side of Engineering. The access from main campus, along the west side of Engineering to Lewis Street, will be closed during this phase of construction. The west end of the ramp, behind the Engineering Building, will be closed. Handicapped parking has been relocated to the northwest corner of Lewis and 10th streets, with access through the Berry Center or Earth Sciences Building to main campus.
Interior spaces are being finished throughout. Door and hardware installation is under way. Installation of lab equipment and casework is nearing completion on the first and second floors. Work continues on the south retaining walls to prepare for landscaping. Concrete paving/curb and gutter will be under way on the east and south of the building. Interior painting is under way with preparation for floor finish. Expect congestion from delivery trucks, and take extreme care when walking around trucks waiting in the street.
Student Apartments Bison Run Village (Scheduled completion this month) -- Apartments are now being occupied by students, with the community center open Mondays through Fridays. The new apartments are in the three-block area south of Willett Drive, between Crane and Landmark Village. Residence Life and Dining Services maintenance staff members are located in the community center's maintenance area. All of the apartment buildings are now complete, with a few remaining punch-list items being worked on. There are a total of 15 apartment buildings (332 beds) with the community center and maintenance building.
White Hall Renovations -- Renovation and abatement work is ongoing. Abatement is proceeding from top floors to bottom floors, and is 95 percent complete. Electrical and renovation demolition continues on the third through eighth floors, with new installations on the 10th through 12th floors. Excavation for new transformer vault will begin this week on the east side of White Hall. Fencing will be placed around the area with heavy truck traffic between White and Downey halls. The west parking lot will be closed until summer 2013.
The UW Physical Plant reports the following activities for the week. Please direct questions to the service desk, 766-6225.
Campus -- Classroom/conference room projector installations are complete and ready for start of classes Monday. Work continues in the Education auditorium to integrate new equipment with the existing system.
Corbett P.E. Building -- The pool is closed for annual maintenance through Sept. 10.
Fire Extinguishers -- The Physical Plant has successfully completed its first year of bar coding more than 3,000 fire extinguishers on campus. If you are aware of a fire extinguisher that does not have a bar code or yellow Trident Electric tag, email the building and room number to email@example.com so the equipment can be entered into the system.
Concrete Repairs -- Work is scheduled at the east side of Fieldhouse North.
Beta House -- Renovations to the first and second floors are under way. Completion of the project is scheduled for October.
Berry Center -- Work continues on the east garden plaza roof. Use caution in the area.
Honors Center (10th and Ivinson streets) -- The classroom will be open for classes Aug 27. Sidewalks are reopened. The remainder of the house is still being renovated. Please use caution in these areas.
Aven Nelson Building -- Gutter repair and roof paver replacement is ongoing. Project staging is in the parking lot west of the building. A lift will be used to hoist new materials onto the roof. The west building entrance and sidewalk will not be accessible during lift operations (approximately two hours). Please use caution in this area.
Asphalt Repairs -- Crews will replace damaged asphalt in the following areas: Little League baseball field parking lot. Please be aware of heavy equipment in these areas.
Prexy's Pasture, Geology and Engineering -- Excavation work has begun at the northwest corner of Prexy's Pasture and will continue through Aug 24. Please use caution around equipment in the area.
Rochelle Athletic Center -- Construction is under way on the hydrotherapy pool room renovation in the football locker room. Demolition of interior partitions is scheduled for the week. Concrete cutting in the project area will cause additional noise at times. The staging area will be at the southeast corner of the building. Access to the area will be limited to authorized personnel.
Multipurpose Gym -- Crews are preparing the building for painting. Work is scheduled to be complete by the end of August. Please use caution around equipment in the area.
Sod Replacement -- New sod is being placed at various locations around campus. Sprinklers will apply additional water to ensure successful transplant of new turf.
Knight Hall -- Lighting replacement is ongoing in second-floor offices. Electricians will coordinate schedules with building occupants. This project will help UW in its continued effort to be more energy efficient. The work is funded, in part, by energy rebates from Rocky Mountain Power. Please use caution around work areas. Painting operations are complete. Installation of new steam valves is complete.
Central Energy Plant -- The fenced construction area will remain through Aug. 30. The sidewalk adjacent to 19th Street remains closed to pedestrian traffic. Please use the sidewalk on the east side of 19th Street.
Prexy's Pasture -- Exterior lights may be off around Prexy's Pasture due to construction of the Sullivan Plaza in front of the Education Building and an underground bore in the area of Cheney Plaza.
Jacoby Golf Course -- Construction continues on the east campus drainage project at Jacoby Golf Course. Inlet work will continue and traffic on Grays Gable will be routed accordingly. Installation of sod at Pond #1 will necessitate the frequent application of additional water. Excavation of Pond #4 has begun. Sod is being installed on the Grays Gable Berm. Signs are posted at the affected holes and in the clubhouse. Affected holes will be off limits during construction hours (7 a.m.-5 p.m.) for the remainder of the construction period. Please use caution in the work areas.
College of Law Building -- Lighting replacements are ongoing in the Law Library. This project will help UW in its continued effort to be more energy efficient. The work is funded, in part, by energy rebates from Rocky Mountain Power. Please use caution around the work area.
McWhinnie Hall -- This project is complete.
Foundation House -- Work is complete.
Fine Arts (Crane Dance Studio) -- Repairs to the floor are complete.


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I am seeing a horrible battery life with Fedora 15 (lovelock) with Gnome Shell 3 on my laptop. I keep the screen brightness, back light pretty low. I still get about 1 hr 50 minutes battery life out of it after a full charge while just browsing. I also got a brand new battery from lenovo but no luck.
I tried the workaround mentioned here — booting with
pcie_aspm=force — but that did not help any.
It is a Lenovo T420s with a 6 cell battery. The kernel version is 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 and CPU is Intel® Core™ i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz. Kernel config can be found here.
Is this pretty much what everyone else is seeing? Is it something with Fedora 15? Should I downgrade to Fedora 14? Are there any specific packages I can remove to make the battery life better?
I think I should be able to get around 3 to 4 hours with a 6 cell battery - less than 2 hours sounds very low.
Here are paste bin links to power top wakeup stats and tunables stats.
FYI - I found this link to be an excellent source for tips on reducing power usage. I am going to follow some of the advices posted there.


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Anthony "Tony Black" Spoleto is a Capo in the Ancelotti crime family.
He manages the affairs between the Ancelotti family and their hired Albanian muscle. He was likely the most favored captain in the Ancelotti Family.
Events of GTA IV
Anthony Spoleto is killed by Niko Bellic after a meeting with the Albanians on orders from Gerald McReary in the mission Actions Speak Louder than Words. The hit is designed to sour relations between the Ancelotti family and the Albanian Mob. Niko makes Spoleto's death seem as though it was caused by the Albanians, as he planted a bomb underneath Spoleto's car as he was in a meeting with multiple Albanian mobsters. By doing this, it would cause the Ancelottis to cut ties with the Albanian Mob, thus making themselves weaker.
LCPD Database record
Mission Appearances
- Actions Speak Louder than Words (Killed)
- Spoleto bears the same character model as a certain type of mafia member that can be found in Little Italy and Westdyke. It is that of an overweight, middle-aged man with black hair and a randomized outfit that will always consist of a suit in either beige, gray or black and a tie in either blue, red or yellow.
- It is possible that his nickname is based on that of former Bonanno Familly caporegime "Sonny Black" Napolitano.
- It is also possible that his birth name is based on that of Anthony Spilotro, a one time soldier within the Chicago Outfit.


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Ian Thomas (born 23 July 1950, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a singer, songwriter, actor and author. He is younger brother to famed comedian and actor Dave Thomas.
Thomas was a successful rock and roll musician in Canada during the 1970s, with his most memorable hit being 1973's "Painted Ladies". Success in the American market, however, has proven to be elusive with the possible exception of "Painted Ladies", which remains his only U.S. Top 40 hit, and the song "Runner" which was recorded by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. He has also done musical composition for about a dozen films and television shows. Before breaking through with "Painted Ladies", he was a producer at the CBC. Before that, he was part of the folk music group Tranquillity Base.
In 1974 he won a Juno Award for "Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year".


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I was curious, for those of you who have worked as a systems administrator, what you liked about your job. I've declared myself a cis major, and I feel that I would enjoy a job position as an administrator.
I'm looking for a job that offers reasonable hours, where I can interact with others in an office enviroment, and use my problem solving skills. Does a systems administrator position sound like a good fit? And what have been your likes/dislikes working as an administrator?


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Liberty Church to begin services Sunday
TELL CITY – The Liberty Church an-nounces its first service in the newly remodeled chapel, located at 435 Main St., in Tell City.
The service will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Entrance and parking will be in the rear of the building. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sundays.
Everyone is welcome and invited to help share in the service. Elder Ray Batie is the pastor.
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The W.A. HSV Owners Club has started to make license plates again after the first run back in 2003.
I'm not sure on the length of time this will be running for. Good if you're after some snazzy plates to match a build # etc.. Or even if you have the original and they are looking shagged out and want a fresh set..
Call the president on 0418 438 478
You have to be a club member to place an order obviously.
$250 a set.
More info here: https://www.hsvownersclubofwa.com.au...licence-plates


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Washington, D.C. (September 11, 2013) — The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) announced today the recipients of the 2013 Research & Hope Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in vaccines research and immunization by individuals and research teams in the biopharmaceutical sector, academic/public research and health care provider communities.
"Over the last century, vaccines have transformed the public health landscape in the United States and around the world, preventing disease and improving the quality of life for multiple generations," said PhRMA President and CEO John J. Castellani. "PhRMA is proud to honor the recipients of this year's Research & Hope Awards. These inspiring collaborators within the biopharmaceutical ecosystem have helped drive the latest advances in vaccines and immunization to the benefit of patients everywhere."
Vaccines are one of the most profound achievements of biomedical science and public health, resulting in the eradication of smallpox, near elimination of polio, rubella and measles, and the prevention of diseases like hepatitis A and B, pneumonia and some cancers caused by viruses. Innovative vaccines and immunization practices have protected countless children and families from needless illness. Building on this illustrious history, advances in scientific areas such as genomics are enabling researchers to develop not only new preventative vaccines, but also therapeutic vaccines for many types of cancer, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and autoimmune disorders.
"Vaccines have made a profound impact on public health and have played a pivotal role in improving patient longevity in the U.S. and abroad," said Bob Hugin, PhRMA Chairman and Chairman and CEO of Celgene Corp. "The incredible value that medicines and vaccines provide to society as a whole is truly astounding and would be impossible without the collaborative nature of the medical innovation ecosystem. The recipients of the 2013 Research & Hope Awards should be very proud of their achievements and the remarkable progress that is yet to come."
Recipients of the PhRMA 2013 Research & Hope Awards are:
The PhRMA Research & Hope Award for Biopharmaceutical Industry Research in Vaccine Development
- GlaxoSmithKline Malaria Vaccine Team
The GlaxoSmithKline Malaria Vaccine Team, led by Dr. Sophie Biernaux, is receiving the 2013 PhRMA Research & Hope Award for Biopharmaceutical Industry Research for its ongoing development of a vaccine against malaria targeted to children in Sub-Saharan Africa. For more information on the team's work, now in the final stages of a large, multi-center Phase III clinical trial, see the video and team bio.
The PhRMA Research & Hope Award for Academic or Public Research in Vaccine Development
- Douglas R. Lowy, MD
National Cancer Institute
- John T. Schiller, PhD
National Cancer Institute
Drs. Lowy and Schiller are receiving the 2013 PhRMA Research & Hope Award for Academic or Public Research for the discovery of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer. For more information on their pivotal work, see the video and bios.
The PhRMA Research & Hope Award for Patient and Community Health
- Linda Yu-Sing Fu, M.D., M.Sc.
Children's National Medical Center (CNMC)
Dr. Fu, on behalf of her team at CNMC, is receiving the 2013 PhRMA Research & Hope Award for Patient and Community Health for their efforts to increase awareness of the importance of childhood immunization and raise the quality of immunization delivery to an at-risk population in the District of Columbia. For more information, see the video and bio.
Recipients of the Biopharmaceutical Industry Research and Academic or Public Research Awards were selected by the Scientific Advisory Board of the PhRMA Foundation following an open nominations process. The recipient of the Patient and Community Health Award was chosen by an inter-departmental committee of representatives from PhRMA.
PhRMA is joined by five health advocacy partners in recognizing the 2013 Research & Hope Awards honorees: the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), American Nurses Association, American Osteopathic Association, Malaria No More and National Association of School Nurses. Media partners for this year's program are: WUSA-9, BioCentury Publications, "The Pink Sheet," Pharmaceutical Executive, pharmaphorum and SCRIP Intelligence.
For more information on the 2013 Research & Hope Awards, including honoree biographies and videos of the honorees, visit http://www.phrma.org/awards.
For more information on the history and public health impact of vaccines, download PhRMA's new 2013 Vaccines Fact Book.
To learn about the nearly 300 vaccines in development for both preventative and therapeutic uses, see PhRMA's new Vaccines in Development report.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading innovative biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Since 2000, PhRMA member companies have invested approximately $550 billion in the search for new treatments and cures, including an estimated $48.5 billion in 2012 alone.
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Please…No…Kate Gosselin on DWTS Season 10
Dear lord. You know, I reported on this one a long time ago – Kate Gosselin on Jay Leno wanting to be on DWTS – but this is an actual source with some credibility. I HATE that. 🙂 The Washington Post:
Kate the hoofer?
ABC will announce Monday that TLC reality star Kate Gosselin will be one of the hoofers on the next round of "Dancing With the Stars," according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
At press time, the deal was virtually done for the now-divorced mother of eight to become one of the celebrities vying for the cheesetastic Mirrored Disco Ball.
This will be the fulfillment of a dream for Gosselin who, on Jay Leno's ill-fated prime-time show, said she'd like to be on "Stars" because she can't dance. "I want to laugh at myself," Gosselin told Leno. "I so cannot dance."
I saw this coming up on twitter again and I kept ignoring it. So, I looked today on a whim and found a "credible" (it's all relative) source!! She's way too tall for Derek, right? RIGHT?!?! 🙂 So, thus far the possible women are Kate and Pam Anderson?? Throw in LaToya and some other scary possibility and this season has train wreck potential, bit time. Fun stuff to watch, anyway. 🙂


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Did you know Ecola beach was initially 'discovered' because of a beached whale? According to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, in 1806 Capt. William Clark and his twelve team members climbed over rocky headlands and blazed a trail through thick shrubs and trees to get to the whale in what is now Ecola State Park. Today, a paved road from Cannon Beach makes accessing the park much easier! Traveling under the shade of towering Sitka spruce, you suddenly emerge upon a breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean. Be sure to have your camera ready!A map of all the beaches along the coastline near Cannon Beach. See Ecola State Park at the top.
Ecola State Park offers year-round recreation for adventurers and more casual visitors as well. There are picnic benches so you can enjoy a meal or a hot thermos of coffee with an ocean view. Along with stunning vistas, Ecola State Park has many miles of trails. One of the newest trails, the Clatsop Loop trail, is an interpretive trail you that gives you the chance to walk in the footsteps of Native Americans and Capt. Clark's men.
The Clatsop Loop trail is the same route that native Americans used during the winter months, when canoe travel up and down the coastline was too dangerous.
The trail actually begins north of Ecola State Park at Indian Beach, although hiking trails connect one beach to the next. The Clatsop loop is 2.5 miles and it leads you to the hiker's camp just inland from Tillamook Rock Lighthouse Viewpoint. The way down is an old gravel road. You return via a narrow hiking path.
While this is just one new trail along our coastline, we know many beautiful routes and would love to share them with you. Hopefully, we can find just the right trail for you – whether you need something not too steep, something with ocean views or a more challenging hike that would take you most of the day, we probably know the place. Customized and committed service – another perk of staying at a Cannon Beach bed and breakfast!


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The British Embassy in Kiev sassily tweeted out a helpful guide on Wednesday to help the Russians identify their tanks in Ukraine, which they claim aren't actually there.
#Putin still denying #Russia's troops & hardware are in #Ukraine. Here's a guide to help the #Kremlin spot its tanks: pic.twitter.com/RYPeeK0Paf— UK in Ukraine (@UKinUkraine) November 19, 2014
The image includes a graphic showing some of the features of a T-72BM tank, as well as photos of them reportedly spotted in the area in the past few months.
At the G20 summit this past week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Russian President Vladimir Putin to "get out of the Ukraine."
Putin's response: "That's impossible because we are not there."


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Well, after lots of thinking and agonizing I have finally decided to stop posting here on Goose and Binky.
I haven't posted regularly in at least a year.
And I really want to focus on my second blog, Crochet Crowe.
I am sad but I am looking forward to a new chapter in
our lives. We are still homeschooling, but after this coming school year,
Goose will be going to high school and Binky will be in the 7th grade.
The kids are busier than ever and this school year will be our busiest yet!
I have loved every minute of blogging here and will continue to follow all of my favorite blogs. I am so grateful to have met some wonderful people!!
Thank you for following along!


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Council leaders have agreed on a controversial devolution plan which would see West Yorkshire team up with four neighbours to take greater control over its own affairs.
Leaders from Wakefield, Kirklees, Leeds, Calderdale and Bradford councils will submit a devolution bid to the government by Friday's deadline, based on a "Leeds City Region geography".
The plan replaces an earlier proposal to form a "Greater Yorkshire" bid bringing together West Yorkshire, the whole of North Yorkshire, the East Riding and Hull to take powers from Whitehall.
The new plan also covers the North Yorkshire districts of Craven, Harrogate, Selby and the City of York.
The bid was confirmed following a meeting on Wednesday with Treasury Minister Lord O'Neill.
Wakefield Council leader Peter Box said: "We had a constructive meeting with leaders of neighbouring councils and Lord O'Neill ahead of us submitting to government an ambitious devolution proposal that will mean better infrastructure, jobs and housing.
"I firmly believe that devolution based on the Leeds City Region is the best way forward for our district because it is already a functional economic area – in the way that businesses operate and people travel to work.
"A devolution deal covering the City Region geography would build on over a decade of economic collaboration and partnership between local councils and businesses.
"We have already created significant growth and jobs – bringing a boost to our local district and the city region as a whole."
Councillors say the Leeds City Region represents the "functional economic area" – the way that businesses operate and people travel to work.
The deal is likely to see an elected "metro-mayor" who would represent the whole district.
Voters in Wakefield rejected city mayors in 2012 - but the government has said that another election is a condition of granting devolved powers.
The combined Leeds region represents the UK's largest city region economy outside London, with a population of 2.8 million.


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New app "One Memento" is a fascinating social-photo experiment from London-based Robot Corp. It looks like part Instagram, part plastic disposable camera, part countdown clock.
The concept is simple. Download the app to your phone, snap just one photo (or choose one from your phone), filter it Instagram-style, and upload it. And that's it. Hope you liked that photo, because it's the only one you get to upload (though you do have a couple hours to edit your submission).
Once uploaded, the photo goes into One Memento's gallery, which caps at 250,000 photos. According to the app's site, only 463 have been uploaded so far. You still have time.
The gallery should be like a time capsule of the Internet life, circa 2012. If you have just one photo to take, what would you snap? A building, a favorite person, a dog, a latte? We'll find out soon what everybody does with only one photo.


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In a no-tell motel on Isla Mujeres, eight off the coast of Cancún, Yasiel Puig's escape had come to a halt. Confined to a corner room at the end of a shabby horseshoe-shaped courtyard, he could only wait and hope, for his value to be appraised, his freedom to be bought. There was nothing personal about it, no loved one vowing to pay any price, only the calculus of a crude business. What was this gladiator-size man, with the Popeye forearms and the XXL chest, actually worth—to the people bankrolling his defection from Cuba, to the smugglers now holding him in Mexico, to the agents and scouts who would determine the U.S. market for his talents, to the baseball team that might ultimately write the check?
For close to a year Puig had been trying to force an answer, to extract himself from Fidel Castro's state-run sports machine, which paid him $17 a month, and sneak across the tropics to a mythical north, where even benchwarmers lived like kings. Two, three, four times, maybe more, he had risked everything and fled, only to be detained by the Cuban authorities or intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard—each failure making the next attempt more urgent. Finally, in June 2012, the 21-year-old outfielder left his home in Cienfuegos, on Cuba's southern shore, and set off by car for the northern province of Matanzas, just 90 miles from Florida. He was traveling with three companions: a boxer, a pinup girl, and a Santeria priest, the latter of whom blessed their expedition with a splash of rum and a sprinkle of chicken blood.
They were met at the water's edge by a cigarette boat, long and narrow and fast, which instead of racing straight to Miami took them west and then south, following a 350-mile arc to the Yucatán Peninsula. Under Major League Baseball's byzantine rules and the U.S. Treasury Department's outdated restrictions, the only way for a Cuban ballplayer to become a free agent—and score a fat contract—is to first establish residency in a third country. That detour is a fiction, winked at from all sides, and one that gives traffickers command over the middle crossing. The five men piloting Puig's vessel, mostly Cuban Americans, belonged to a smuggling ring whose interests ranged from human cargo to bootleg yachts to bricks of cocaine. At least two were fugitives—one, on the run from a federal indictment in Miami, was alleged to have extorted Cubans traveling this very route. They were all in the pocket of Los Zetas, the murderous Mexican drug cartel, which charged the smugglers a "right of passage" to use Isla Mujeres as a base.
Once the speedboat navigated the reefs that shield the three-square-mile island and puttered into the docks at Laguna Makáx, the last of Puig's obstacles should have been cleared. Free of the Cuban security apparatus, free of the American embargo, he could begin shopping for an agent and showing off for scouts. In baseball terms, Mexico was practically the United States. But almost as soon as Puig had showered off the grime of his trek—after his group had toasted their arrival with an unfamiliar beer, its label stamped with two Xs, and tuned the TV to a Mexican sitcom—the celebration came to an end. The smugglers were anxious to get on with things. The job was done. Where was the money?
Puig's journey, according to claims made in court documents and detailed in interviews, had been underwritten by a small-time crook in Miami named Raul Pacheco, an air-conditioning repairman and recycler who was on probation for attempted burglary and possession of a fake ID. Pacheco had allegedly agreed to pay the smugglers $250,000 to get Puig out of Cuba; Puig, after signing a contract, would owe 20 percent of his future earnings to Pacheco. They were not the first to employ this scheme, a version of which has catapulted many of baseball's new Cuban millionaires to American shores. It is usurious and expedient, illicit and tolerated. Even if you are as freakishly gifted as Yasiel Puig, there is no humanitarian boat lift delivering you to Chavez Ravine.
Every time the smugglers picked up their satellite phone to call Miami, though, Pacheco seemed unable or unwilling to meet their demands. It was unclear whether he was stiffing the smugglers or whether the smugglers were gouging him. For every day of nonpayment, they upped Puig's price by $15,000 or $20,000. The calls between Mexico and Florida grew furious. The days turned to weeks. Holed up in that dump of a motel, all four migrants in the same dank room, Puig was so close to the prize—now was not the time to lose faith—and yet having just been liberated, his fate was never more out of his hands. The defector had become a captive.
"I don't know if you could call it a kidnapping, because we had gone there voluntarily, but we also weren't free to leave," said the boxer, Yunior Despaigne, who had known Puig from Cuba's youth sports academies. "If they didn't receive the money, they were saying that at any moment they might give him a machetazo"—a whack with a machete—"chop off an arm, a finger, whatever, and he would never play baseball again, not for anyone."
Ever since his debut last June, rescuing the Dodgers from a desultory season and electrifying a city with his fearless, joyful, occasionally head-scratching play, Yasiel Puig has been the biggest story in baseball. He is emotional in a straight-faced game, unpredictable in a sport that glorifies routine, reticent in a town of professional image makers, and enigmatic in the eyes of the largely non-Spanish-speaking reporters who cover him—L.A.'s "International Man of Mystery," as theNew York Post put it. Add to that a pair of arrests, for driving at getaway speeds, and the questions about what planet the 2013 National League Rookie of the Year runner-up is from have only grown more persistent. Puig has never publicly discussed his odyssey to the big leagues or even much of his life before that. Now embarking on his first full season—a test that already this spring has generated headlines about everything from his temperament to his waistline—he approaches the past as if it began the moment he took his spot in right field, as if one day, midstream, he was immaculately reborn a Dodger.
But the gamble of getting here, the perils and compromises of leaving Cuba to perform for American fans, did not end when Puigmania began. It has followed him, as similar crossings have haunted other Cuban defectors, exposing the pipeline that both exploits and indulges MLB's appetite for new talent. "Viva Cuba!" the understated Vin Scully was inspired to exhort last year. "Viva Puig!" Yes, long that he may.
Deep in the dense, sweltering fields of Cuba's rural interior, 150 miles southeast of Havana, the tiny mill town of Elpidio Gómez (population 3,000) has been harvesting, mashing, and extracting sugar from cane since 1873. Slave labor helped erect the factory during colonial times; it was later nationalized, becoming an arm of the state economy. "Revolution is the sense of a historic moment," says the quote from Fidel Castro that looms over the cavernous shed of wringers and vats.
Away Game: A parched diamond amid sugarcane fields hosted Puig's earliest games. Photograph by Jesse Katz
To assure workers a break, to keep their children fit and entertained, the factory grounds give way to a baseball diamond: a scorched patch of earth, the grass reduced to straw. The bleacher is a rusted skeleton, half the benches missing from the frame. The bases are frayed swatches of burlap, salvaged from old flour bags. When Puig speaks of his purpose in life—"I was born to play baseball," he told me with an earnest nod, before I embarked on a journey that was the reverse of his, from California to Arizona to Florida to Cuba—it was here, under a smokestack belching molasses clouds, that he took his baby steps. A home run ball would have landed almost at his front door. Just beyond the scoreboard, a two-story concrete bunker of cramped apartments, laundry flapping from the balconies, rises from the brush. Puig's mother headed one of Elpidio Gómez's subsidiaries; his father, an agronomist, specialized in sugarcane, too.
To visit Cuba is to revel in its 1950s retro qualities—the vintage Chevys, the daiquiris and Cohibas—but the scrap of country Puig hails from is even more of a time capsule. Horse-drawn carts shuttle farmhands, in knee-high rubber boots, a few miles east to the municipal seat of Palmira, where a man can walk through the plaza with a machete and not turn heads. Street vendors sell braids of garlic, draped around their necks like Mardi Gras beads. Everything is priced in local pesos, a fraction of Cuba's official tourist currency; a pint of guarapo, fresh-pressed sugarcane juice, goes for eight cents.
The one-room Municipal Museum is devoted to Palmira's long relationship with Santeria, the Afro-Catholic religious tradition. According to one source, the Spaniard who founded the sugar mill had lugged to the New World a figurine of Saint Barbara, the patron of artillerymen; one of his slaves saw in the fierce young woman the image of Changó, the god of fire and drums. "Everyone in Cuba says that when the drums are beaten in Palmira, the saints come out not to celebrate but to make war," said a museum docent, inviting me to return on December 4, Saint Barbara's feast day, to see Palmira erupt into a cathartic jamboree.
By the time he was of Little League age, Puig had graduated to the sturdier Palmira ballpark, with its shaded concrete bleacher and yet more revolutionary slogans: "Sports," says the hand-painted mural on the outfield fence, "has to do with the life of the country, with the future of the country, with the survival of the country!" Rather than leave something so vital to the whims of children, Cuba culls and grooms young athletes like Puig, funneling them into Schools for Sports Initiation, known as EIDEs, then on to High Schools of Athletic Perfection, known as ESPAs. (Puig's younger sister, Yaima, followed this path in the shot put and javelin.) When he was 17, Puig made the junior national team. "He was like a hurricane," recalled Jesus Valmaña, a Cubavisión Internacional reporter who has covered Puig's career. "So strong, so fast."
Until the 1959 revolution, Cuba was practically an extension of MLB's farm leagues. It is easy to forget that a young Tommy Lasorda pitched four seasons in Havana. After declaring Cuba a socialist state, though, Castro abolished professional ball—he detested a system that bought and sold players like merchandise—and instead launched the National Series, a 16-team amateur league. "This is the triumph of free baseball over slave baseball," he famously said. Because every player must represent his home province, Puig debuted with the Elefantes of Cienfuegos, a city of 140,000 about a dozen miles from his birthplace. As an 18-year-old rookie, measured against the Elefantes' greats, Puig was still raw, even reckless.
"He was half-crazy," a former schoolmate told me. "A little crazy," said a friend of his father's. "We called him cabeza loca"—crazy head—"crazy, crazy until the end," said Michel Hernandez, a former bartender who would join Puig after games at El Rápido, a 24-hour, open-air joint on Cienfuegos's boardwalk. This is less a critique than an affirmation: of the carefree, carnivalesque vigor that Cubans embrace as a cultural virtue. "He was just such a jodedor"—a screw-around—"not in a bad sense but like a joker," said Hernandez. "Beer and girls, beer and girls, always a party!"
It has been reported that injuries preempted Puig's second season with the Elefantes, but his indisciplina, which included some unexplained no-shows, was probably to blame. "I watched the next season from the bench for having behaved 'good' in practice," Puig told the Cienfuegos newspaper, Cinco de Septiembre. He returned in his third season to post breakout numbers, which earned him a trip to the World Port Tournament in the Netherlands. Several future big leaguers have used the tournament as an opportunity to defect, and some reports have suggested that Puig earned a rebuke for attempting to do the same.
But Peter Bjarkman, the coauthor of Smoke: The Romance and Lore of Cuban Baseball, believes that the likelier explanation was more mundane: shoplifting tennis shoes from a Dutch mall. "It's kind of a sad situation," said Bjarkman, who heard rumblings from sources on Puig's team. "They buy what they can, but players have different amounts of money. They're allowed to bring cigars to sell. Some try to sell their uniforms. But some guys don't have much of anything."
Back in Cuba, when rosters for the 2011-12 season were announced, Puig's name was missing. His coach is said to have pleaded with government officials to give Puig another chance—the problem child, whatever his transgression, was still the Elefantes' spark plug—and after weeks of speculation, he was reinstated as a reserve, eligible to be activated after 25 games. Having done his penance, however, Puig never resurfaced. In March 2012, Cuba's National Baseball Commission finally explained: Puig was "NOT educated and a bad example for the rest of the players." There was now, for Puig, nothing to lose.
Given the riches that await in el exterior, it is remarkable not that so many Cuban athletes leave but that so many more stay. Nobody needs to remind them that the decision to flee is irrevocable, a one-way journey from privation to overload. "You're afraid to leave your family, you're afraid that maybe you won't triumph, you're afraid of…I don't know, it's just a very difficult step," rookie infielder and Cuban defector Alexander Guerrero, in the first year of a $28 million deal, told me at the Dodgers' spring training camp in Arizona. It took Guerrero years to build up the gumption to flee, then three attempts to succeed. "Once you board one of those boats," he added, "you don't know who is who and how those people are going to react, or what's going to happen out in the sea."
An elaborate underground of couriers and bagmen is forever shadowing Cuba's best ballplayers. So is a state-sponsored network of secret police and paid informants. When you are being lured and monitored at every turn, caught between ambition and duty, survival sometimes means playing both sides. During Puig's lost second season, in 2010, he was approached by a young couple at Coppelia, the beloved Cuban ice cream chain. The Cienfuegos shop sits on the Prado, a bustling pedestrian strip, and displays a huge billboard across its rooftop with another of Castro's incantations: "Never will we renounce our principles." The couple asked Puig to step outside to a waiting car; there another man explained that someone else, a foreigner, was prepared to pay $30,000 or maybe $30 million—Puig would purport to be confused—if he would commit to playing in America.
Puig alerted the sports ministry, which notified state security. "They said that the man from outside the country has money and everything was easy," Puig said in a sworn statement to the Cuban authorities. Puig's mother, in a separate declaration, added that her son was "very scared, given that he is a young man of 19 years and without wickedness, for which he can be tricked."


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Michele Rolland's 2003 Clos de los Siete Mendoza created something of a sensation (not to mention a feeding frenzy) when it was released; Putnam Weekley sang its praises loudly, Alan Kerr had some positive remarks and I found it to be pretty impressive myself – at least for the first couple of times I tasted it. When the '04 was released, I dragged my feet for a long time before finally bringing one home to try; I'd gotten a brief sample at work, was duly impressed and purchased accordingly for the department, but not for the home. When I finally caved in, I opened an '03 AND an '04 to taste side-by-side, and found that comparison most interesting.
2004 Clos de los Siete Mendoza, 50% Malbec, 30% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Syrah, 15% alc.: Deep dark garnet in color, with dusty cocoa over dark plums and berries on the nose, following through on the palate with the ripe fruit showing itself more and more with air. Good structure here, with at least a few years of improvement; smooth textured, sleeker, less in-your-face, not quite as plump as the '03, and the fruit's not quite as intense either. Is that a bad thing? Depends on your perspective, I suppose, but I like this one better than the '03; it seems more balanced, if still a bit manipulated. Every time I taste these wines, I have this perverse vision of Michele Rolland with a cell phone to his ear, barking, "Spoofalate!"
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December 15, 2009
By Justin Tang
LOS ANGELES -- John Fogelman ('92), with entertainment firm William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, spoke recently at a UCLA Anderson gathering about the great opportunities that await UCLA Anderson students who want to work in the entertainment business. Fogelman, who is the co-head of the company's Motion Pictures Worldwide department, has worked in the entertainment industry for many years and currently represents such artists as J.J. Abrams, Michael Bay and Danny Boyle.
There is a prevailing sentiment that copyright piracy has reduced profitability in the entertainment industry. But Fogelman disagreed citing the variety of venues for media product today, including cable TV, DVDs, cell phones, computers, broadband and game consoles. He said that a recent study reported that teenagers can watch over eight minutes of media content in just over six minutes because of the efficiency of multi-tasking. He called the situation, "chaos, but chaos which you can find revenue in. It's an incredible opportunity right now and you're at the right place for it at Anderson."
Fogelman also spoke about his time at UCLA Anderson and the value of his education. "The main experience I got from Anderson was failure. Be comfortable with it, because what it gives you is immeasurable. I wouldn't have the confidence I have today without it," he urged the students.
Fogelman closed the evening by passing on a few important principles. He told the students to attain a point of view and be dogmatic with it, and he encouraged students to maintain a laser-like focus on goals, without getting bogged down by numerous commitments. Lastly, he said, "The cost of indecision is greater than the cost of decision. Don't miss out on failure."
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, UCLA-NUS Global Executive MBA, Master of Financial Engineering, and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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The response to Democratic advisor Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney has been swift and damning.
Already, we've seen Twitter erupt with some harsh 140-character messages about Rosen, and Democratic higher-ups have blasted the advisor calling her out of line.
But they're not alone. Mothers have gotten in on the action, taking to UrbanBaby.com, an online forum for mothers, to sound off about Rosen's statement.
Here's some of what they have been saying under a thread titled "do you think Obama was wrong for lashing out at Ann Romney?"
Note: dh stands for "darling husband" and sahm stands for "stay at home mom."
"So, if someone stays at home then they aren't intelligent enough to understand the economy? I think that is ridiculous. I stay at home and my dh is ceo of a fortune 500 company and after years of talking to him about work, I feel as if I am knowledgeable on the economy."
"There is a major difference in being educated on something by proxy and actually being responsible for something. Being a cancer patient makes you educated about cancer, but it doesn't make you an MD."
"And as a sahm, do you worry about putting food on the table everyday? Ann Romney doesn't have the same problem as I do. Actually, she never has the same problems as most women have.
"I would call it an accurate point, but not really a "great" one. Who gives a crap about any of these candidates' wives' work experience? It's entirely irrelevant."
" To be fair, it is only irrelevant if it is the wife of the candidate YOU like. Like it was irrelevant that McCain's wife was caught stealing pain killers for herself from the foundation she funded/ran with her daddy's money but we had to answer for every client the Rose Law firm ever represented. Even after Hillary left."


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