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text: [...subscription required so copied in full...] This Recovery Feels Like Recession: Economy Expands, Payrolls Shrink By JON E. HILSENRATH Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Economist Robert Hall has been puzzling over a thorny question for nearly a year: What do you call an economy that has started expanding again but keeps destroying jobs? ^^^^^^ CB: Answer: Part of the dynamic that creates the communist class. ^^^^^ Mr. Hall heads a committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an academic group in Cambridge, Mass., that declares when U.S. recessions begin and end. In May of last year, Mr. Hall and his colleagues believed the latest recession might be over. Consumers were spending more and economic output was rising. All that the committee members needed to see was a few months of uninterrupted job growth to announce the end of the recession. "It seemed like the timing was imminent," he says. But Mr. Hall is still waiting. Instead of expanding employment, companies are continuing to shed jobs at a furious pace -- 525,000 nonfarm payroll positions in the past three months alone. Since March 2001, when the recession began, the U.S. economy has lost 2.1 million jobs. The total number of people unemployed -- including discouraged workers who would prefer to work but have stopped looking -- is about 9.2 million. And the number of people who are working part time because they can't find full-time work is 4.8 million, up 46% since 2001, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In short, the U.S. is experiencing the most protracted job-market downturn since the Great Depression. It has left behind a remarkably broad swath of workers -- from young to old, and from high-school dropouts to the highly educated -- even as the economy has started growing again. Why is this happening? The labor market is in the midst of structural change, with numerous industries, from manufacturers to brokerage firms and airlines to hotels, adjusting to a new economic order after the boom of the late 1990s. Intensifying competition from abroad, slow growth at home and a relentless push for productivity are driving this change. What has surprised economists is not so much how harsh the adjustment has been -- after all, the unemployment rate remains relatively low at 6% -- but how long it is taking to play out and how broadbased it has become. Erica Groshen, a labor economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recently studied employment trends in 70 industries over the past 30 years. She found that the structural change is vast. "Before in a recession you had a lot of companies giving people temporary layoffs, saying, 'We'll call you back when we need you,' " she says. "That is not what firms do anymore." During recessions in the 1970s and 1980s, about half of all jobs were in industries that tended to go through cyclical swings, Ms. Groshen says -- meaning laid-off workers would be called back. The other half experienced structural changes -- meaning jobs that were eliminated were never meant to come back. Ms. Groshen says this started to change in the 1990 recession and has intensified in this downturn. Today, she says, 75% of jobs are in industries going through structural change. Payrolls in the electronics sector, and for producers of industrial equipment, have declined for 28 straight months. In communications, payrolls have fallen for 24 months. In the securities and airline industries, they have fallen in 16 of the past 24 months. In some ways, this is the downside of a productivity boom that created much optimism about the economy during the 1990s. Productivity growth means that companies are squeezing more output from existing workers. Over the long run, most economists agree productivity growth is good for workers, because it tends to lead to higher wages. But in the short run, it is creating a problem. Worker productivity has been growing faster than the overall economy. That has allowed corporate executives to meet small increases in demand while still eliminating jobs. "You end up with a jobless recovery," says Jared Bernstein, a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington. "It is indistinguishable from recession for many working families." A common definition for a recession is two consecutive quarters of contracting gross domestic product. The nation's GDP -- the broadest measure of economic output -- has expanded at an average annual rate of 2.7% since the fourth quarter of 2001. During the same period, the productivity of the nation's work force -- which is defined as its output per hour of work -- has expanded at a much faster rate of 4.2%. While worker productivity often increases in the early stages of a recovery, this time the mismatch between productivity and overall economic growth is unprecedented. At the beginning of eight recoveries between 1948 and 1982, GDP grew faster than productivity. In those cases, companies had to add workers to meet demand for their goods and services. During the recovery of 1991, productivity grew slightly faster than output in the early stages, but the difference wasn't as stark as it is now. "If you want people to have jobs, your demand-side growth has to be much stronger," says Harry Holzer, a labor economist at Georgetown University. The nation would need a 3.5% growth rate in GDP for the unemployment rate not to get worse, he says, but "3.5% is looking optimistic for this year. This might be quite a protracted downturn." Permanent job losses are also the result of the competition created by globalization, which has forced companies to cut positions in the U.S. and move them to places such as Mexico, China or India, where labor is much cheaper. "Before the 1991 recession, most people got their old jobs back," says Robert Reich, former Labor Department Secretary and now a professor of economic and social issues at Brandeis University. "After 1991, most people didn't get their old jobs back. Those jobs went abroad, or they were automated out of existence." On April 15, A.O. Smith Corp., a Milwaukee-based producer of electric motors, announced that its net earnings rose 13% in the first three months of the year from a year earlier, to $13.7 million. A sign of economic recovery? Maybe. But five days earlier, the company told employees at its plant in McMinnville, Tenn., that it was eliminating 300 jobs there and moving production of motors for air-conditioning and ventilation systems to Juarez, Mexico. "The reason we're doing this is to improve our cost position," said Ed O'Connor, vice president of public affairs. "We have got to continue to be competitive." These changes help to create a remarkable degree of dynamism in the economy, as workers find their way out of shrinking industries and into ones where jobs are available. Terri Brooks, 42 years old, and her daughter, Michelle Stauffer, 23, are making just such a shift. Both are production workers at a Maytag Corp. refrigeration plant in Galesberg, Ill. Stung by competition from China and Korea, Maytag is shutting the plant and moving its operations to Mexico. Ms. Stauffer, who works the night shift, will lose her job in July; Ms. Brooks will lose hers next year. So mother and daughter are taking classes part time at nearby Carl Sandberg College, where Ms. Brooks is training to be a medical secretary and her daughter is signed up to become a dental hygienist. "I figure there will always be a job in the medical field," says Ms. Brooks. In addition to being protracted, this downturn has also become an equal opportunity recession. In the past, recessions tended to have the greatest ferocity for less-educated workers and younger workers. But this downturn -- because it has been spread out across so many industries -- has created a broader class of job-market casualties. Age is no longer an important distinction. And well-educated workers, used to being sheltered in a slump, have been hit hard. In the last three years, the unemployment rate for college graduates over 25, who enjoyed the lion's share of the economy's gains during the 1980s and 1990s, has risen by 1.6 percentage points, not much less than the 2.1-percentage-point increase for high-school dropouts. Many educated workers were concentrated in industries hit hardest by the downturn, such as technology and finance. The unemployment rate for computer scientists and mathematicians rose from 0.7% in February 1998 to about 6% at the end of 2002, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. Educated workers seem especially prone to bouts of long-term unemployment in this downturn. Of the 1.9 million workers who have been unemployed for six months or more, one in five is a former executive, professional or manager, according to a study by the National Employment Law Project, a nonprofit advocacy group for the unemployed. Because these workers have specific, often technical, skills it sometimes takes them longer to find a job that matches those skills. On the surface, the job market might not look all that bad. At 6%, the unemployment rate is only a little above its average of 5.6% during the past 55 years. In 1982, in contrast, it reached 10.8%. In 1992, it reached 7.8%. But for the 8.4 million Americans who are now unemployed, the protracted nature of this downturn means it has been excruciatingly difficult to get work again. For some, job searches are dragging on long after their unemployment benefits have expired and they have plowed through their savings. In the last year, nearly 2.8 million people have exhausted unemployment benefits. Many others are scrambling in ways that don't get picked up in unemployment statistics. They're taking lower-paying jobs, going back to school to get new skills, or becoming independent consultants and picking up small projects when they can. "A lot of people are losing ground economically," says Mr. Reich. One of those people is Wanda Whitson, a 47-year-old college graduate. In December 2001, she lost her job as a public-relations manager with Key3Media Group Inc., which produces technology trade shows. Ms. Whitson earned $65,000 and traveled around the country. Eighteen months later, she hasn't been able to find full-time work. To make ends meet, she's working as a salesperson at a Crate & Barrel store in Boston, earning about $7 an hour. She has also been doing temp work, ranging from checking coats at a local book fair to working as an administrative assistant for a finance company. But it isn't enough to cover all of her expenses. "It's a little scary. I'm down to the point where in three or four months, if something doesn't come along, I don't know what I'm going to do," she says. Economists have a term for the wrenching adjustments to today's economy: "creative destruction." The term was coined by an Austrian-American economist named Joseph Schumpeter after the Great Depression ended. In a capitalist economy, Mr. Schumpeter argued, weak industries and companies had to be destroyed in order for thriving ones to take root. He called it a "perennial gale of creative destruction." While manufacturing has shed 1.7 million jobs in the last two years, the health-care sector has added 522,000. The education field has added another 190,000. Mr. Reich, the former Labor Secretary, says this kind of growth leaves him feeling that the trends in the job market will ultimately prove to be positive events. "The labor market is extremely flexible," he says. "People are adapting." But the shifts put many workers on an especially difficult journey. One problem with today's long bouts of unemployment is that the longer an individual stays out of work, the more likely he or she is to take a new job at a much lower salary. Another big concern is finding a job that provides health insurance. Federal law requires employers to allow dismissed workers to stay on their health plans for about 18 months. But for many people, long-term unemployment means that coverage is running out. These trends have implications for policy makers, too. Workers typically receive 26 weeks of state unemployment benefits after they are laid off. The system was set up as part of the Social Security Act in 1935. Now, workers can also receive an additional 13 weeks of federal aid. But because many people are experiencing exceptionally long spells looking for work, millions are running through all of their unemployment insurance before they find a new job. According to Labor Department statistics, 43% of those who sign up for insurance exhaust their 26-week benefits, the highest rate in at least 30 years. One solution would be to offer unemployment insurance for a longer period of time. But economists are reluctant to propose that because they fear it would reduce the incentive for unemployed people to search for work. Germany, for instance, offers unemployment insurance for 12 to 32 months and other assistance can continue indefinitely; its unemployment rate is 10.7%. At the National Bureau for Economic Research, the enduring job-market weakness has sparked a debate about some very basic economic questions. Like this one: How do you know when a recession ends? Some members, including Robert Gordon, a Northwestern University professor and an expert on productivity trends, believe the recession actually ended a long time ago, because overall output, as measured by indicators such as gross domestic product and national income, have been rising since late 2001. "There clearly was a trough," says Mr. Gordon. But Mr. Hall, a Stanford University professor, isn't so sure. "I don't want to say that a recession is over if more and more people are unemployed and job growth is negative," he says. For now, he says, he prefers to wait a little longer. Originally at http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB105415483048293700,00.html

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The itch that riles Frontera author Denise Chavez
Year after year, artists and authors, wrestlers and dancers, mariachis and chefs and people of all ethnicities have gathered in the tiny town of Mesilla, N.M., for the Border Book Festival, an unusual celebration of Frontera art and literature. The festival, which attracts internationally known writers and publishers to this impoverished region, features Latino-centric craft workshops, poetry readings, parades and literary talks. It's all orchestrated by one woman: Denise Chavez, a novelist, playwright, poet and actress.
Chavez, who won the American Book Award in 1995 for her novel, Face of an Angel, as well as the 2003 Hispanic Heritage Award for literature, runs a cultural center and independent bookstore in Mesilla, a town just south of Las Cruces, historically known as the place where the Gadsden Purchase was signed. She's taught creative writing at the University of New Mexico and is now digging deeper into the art of healing, which she's exploring as a topic in this year's April 19 – 22 festival, whose theme is "The Shamanic Journey/La Jornada Chamánica."
In a recent interview, she shared what it means to experience life through art. She talks about her new novel, The King and Queen of Comezón, which she recently completed. And she discusses why she loves La Frontera -- the complex, occasionally explosive world of the U.S./Mexico border.
HCN: So, an easy one. Your 2006 memoir, Taco Testimony, shares memories of your mother while you were growing up. What did your mother teach you about growing up in the Southwest?
Chavez: My mother was actually a Texan from far West Texas, so I grew up between Texas and New Mexico. She was born in a little village called El Polvo, Texas – "The Dust," Texas. That was a wonderful experience because we went back and forth between worlds. And in a way, that was a preparation for all of my work as an artist, a writer, a human being – to navigate landscape, navigate boundaries – and to feel comfortable and functional, because here, when I was in Las Cruces, my father's family mostly spoke English. My mother was a Spanish teacher when we got to Tejas. Most of the people spoke Spanish all the time, so I grew up in a very wonderful bilingual environment full of stories, culture, history. My mother taught me flexibility, endurance, the ability to get along with anyone.
HCN: A lot of your work has focused on dispelling the fear that embroils cultural wars. You once said that, "People are afraid of differences in language, food, customs and ways of living." Is the Southwest too complex to overcome these fears?
Chavez: No, no, the more complex the better. My husband is French and Russian. He speaks Italian. He's learning Spanish. His Spanish is pretty good. I think that the more complexity we have, the richer we are. We're like a gemstone. You turn the gemstone around, and one aspect comes into the light. You turn it around, and you see something that you didn't see before. Nothing can ever be too complex. Just recently I went out to eat at a Mediterranean restaurant here in Las Cruces. It was very interesting to see our Anglo waitress confounded and troubled by the fact that she couldn't communicate fully with certain people at the table. There was a discomfort. But that's what's so exciting about traveling in Europe or to Mexico, being in New York City, is that you're able to attune yourself – interact with language, sound, music, color, difference. We're all one family. If you grew up in a family that didn't embrace culture and difference, than truly I do think that it's a sadness.
HCN: And so what do you think that art and literature can do to alleviate those fears and sadness?
Chavez: Well, it's more than alleviating. I think it can enlighten, empower. When you read a book, you embrace a world. When you see a dance, you understand what it is to move. One year, I had a Country-Western singer that came to our festival. I will never forget him. He was an Afro-American cowboy who said that he had written 300 ballads on horseback, and I thought, "Wow, this is fabulous." The more interesting, the more colorful, the more enthusiastic and joyous I feel as an artist.


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Uighurs: Adorable
Remember the Uighurs, the Chinese Muslims we picked up in Afghanistan and locked up in Guantanamo for years despite not having done anything? They are totally loving Bermuda!
We are going to pretend that certain soulless assholes have not weighed in on this story, and just focus on what looks, so far, like a delightful happy ending to the miserable tale of America's post-9/11 desperation to look like it was doing something.
"I went swimming in the ocean for the first time ever yesterday, and it was the happiest day of my life," said Salahidin Abdulahat, 32.
They even say they don't have any hard feelings against the US! Despite our, you know, locking them up in solitary confinement and interrogating them for the crime of being Muslims in a Muslim country!
Now they can play in the waters. Khaleel Mamut, 31, said he went fishing on a boat on Saturday and caught his first fish ever. "I was so excited," he said. "You just drop the hook in the water and you get a fish."
Hooray for the Uighurs!


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Warrant lists Pa. gunman's weapons, beliefs
A man who killed three people in a tiny central Pennsylvania village before being fatally shot by troopers in a gun battle last month owned several more guns and ammunition and was concerned with the end of the world, according to a police search warrant filed with the courts.
Jeffrey Lee Michael, 44, "was warning people that the end of the world was coming" the day before the shooting, the 19-year-old son of the man's live-in girlfriend told police, according to the warrant. The teenager told police he was scared of Michael, who asked him "if he reads the Bible and asked him if he was saved."
Officials say Michael fatally shot two neighbors and a woman decorating a nearby church hall before slamming his truck into a police cruiser and dying in an exchange of gunfire with state police on Dec. 21 in Frankstown Township, about 70 miles west of Harrisburg. Hours later, troopers got the warrant to search Michael's vehicles and home. The Altoona Mirror (http://bit.ly/RI0qZZ ) first reported the contents of the warrant Thursday, which was filed two days earlier with the Blair County prothonotary.
According to the warrant, police found a Mossburg shotgun, a Carl Gustafs rifle and a .22-caliber Marlin long rifle, a Glock pistol and dozens of live rounds along with a stun gun, and four folding knives.
State police Cpl. Ken Butler said an internal state police investigation and a separate review by District Attorney Richard Consiglio have determined the police shooting was justified, and the only remaining question is how Michael got the weapons.
Michael was separated from his wife and living with Brenda Shultz, 51, and her son, Lance, but had been under a protection from abuse order obtained by his wife in February 2010. If he obtained the guns while under the court order -- or otherwise illegally -- those who supplied the weapons could be charged criminally, Butler told the AP on Thursday. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was helping trace the weapons, Butler said.
The warrant also details the day's deadly chain of events. It began when Rose Lynn called 911 to report her husband, 60-year-old Kenneth Lynn, had been shot at their residence, a few doors down from Michael's. Michael then drove to the Juniata Valley Gospel Church and fatally shot 58-year-old church volunteer Kimberly Scott, who was decorating a social hall for a children's Christmas party.
As he drove away, Michael crashed his truck into an oncoming pickup driven by Kenneth Lynn's son-in-law, William Rhodes Jr., 38, before fatally shooting him.
A short time later, Michael fired at Troopers David Nazaruk and Timothy Strohmyer as they passed his truck. They then chased Michael's truck before it slammed into a cruiser driven by Cpl. Kevin Campbell.
Police haven't detailed the ensuing gun battle, but Consiglio said Campbell didn't fire shots because he was trapped in his car and injured. Michael had gotten out of his vehicle and fired at the other two troopers who were chasing him and was within "point-blank" distance of shooting Campbell when the other troopers fired, Consiglio said.
Campbell has recovered from his crash injuries and the other troopers -- one of whom was shot in the wrist -- have also returned to work, Butler said.
Despite his fixation on the apocalypse, Butler said there's no evidence Michael targeted specific victims or planned the killings. Michael was acquainted with Lynn and Rhodes but didn't know Scott, Butler said.
"There was nobody that he indicated to -- not even the closest of people -- he never told anybody about a desire to harm someone," Butler said.
Other friends have previously said Michael's end-times obsession appeared to get worse after a woman reportedly stepped in front of his tractor-trailer in an apparent suicide in 2009, and another fatal wreck involving his truck in March.
Shultz told police Michael "was having a hard time dealing with" the second fatality, in particular, the warrant said.
Although Michael couched his comments with Biblical references, Butler said the gunman hadn't been known to attend church for years.
"It seems like from interviews (with family and friends) that he kind of mixed a little bit of different type of views together, anti-government, or whatever, on the one hand, and religious," Butler said. "If he had been an entirely religious man, he wouldn't have taken the stance on the end times that he did."
Shultz and her son didn't immediately return a call Thursday.


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Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 500 Albums of All Time
When I saw Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 500 Albums of All Time, I was shocked to find that a mere five of the top 100 were female artists. Female musicians have struggled to gain credibility in a largely male dominated field since the dawn of rock 'n' roll.
Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks sneak onto the list with 26, "Rumours", a Fleetwood Mac album. Joni Mitchell's "Blue" places at 30 while Carole King's "Tapestry" enters the list at 36. Patti Smith's "Horses" is ranked as 40. Women of color are virtually forgotten until Aretha Franklin's "Lady Soul" is listed as 84.
I am left wondering where Carly Simon, Diana Ross and Madonna were on Rolling Stone's list? Where were Cyndi Lauper and Joan Baez? Where was Cher?
A Few Things Forgotten:
"Give it Up or Let Me Go," Bonnie Raitt
Although pop music may remember Bonnie Raitt for her '90s pop hits, she enjoyed a long career as a blues and rock 'n' roll queen in the '70s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, Raitt was famous for her ragtime infused tunes and deep, soulful pipes. Raitt has recorded with rock and roll legends such as John Lee Hooker, Jackson Browne and John Prine.
Raitt's second album, "Give it Up or Let Me Go" was released in 1972. The album features classic blues, Dixieland, folk and rock 'n' roll. After one spin, you will likely be belting Bonnie's ballads in the shower.
"Parallel Lines," Blondie
It is an undisputed fact: Debbie Harry is a rock and roll genius. Harry is famous for her punk roots and new-wave style. Harry penned many of Blondie's chart toppers herself, proving she was more than her peroxide.
1978's "Parallel Lines" covered all the bases- even disco! "Heart of Glass" was the first Blondie hit to reach number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100. "Parallel Lines" launched Blondie into a commercial pop music icon. Give this one a spin when you have the urge to dance around your bedroom in your underwear.
"Pearl," Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin was known for her free spirited attitude and her tongue in cheek lyrics. Many modern day female artists cite Joplin as an influence and inspiration. Joplin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
"Pearl" was released in 1971, four months after she died from a heroin overdose. Aside from a happy birthday message to John Lennon, "Mercedes-Benz" was her last recording. The song appears acappella on the album because she died before finishing the accompaniment. Many argue the song is hauntingly stronger in this format. Pull this one out when you want to unwind.
Modern Musical Mavens
Female artists often struggle to be taken seriously beyond appearance. Female musicians are often judged on their sexuality and not the music they create. For years, radio stations refused to play two female artists in a row for fear listeners would change the station.
Lately, I have witnessed many females flourish in the music world. Although she may not be my bag, I have to applaud Taylor Swift for writing her own music and positioning herself as a positive role model for young girls.
Female-fronted acts like She & Him, Jenny & Johnny and Best Coast renew my faith in modern day music. These are women are involved in the music from the first strum all the way to the studio. These are women who command attention based on tunes, not tits.
Who do you think Rolling Stone forgot? Let me know in the comments.
Oh yeah, and Lady Gaga is ruining rock 'n' roll.
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Alleged photo of Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi. It's unclear who the man on the right is.
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Exclusive: Congressional Source Contradicts ICE Account, Says Lawmakers in Possession of File on Saudi National That Called for Visa Revocation
Documents have been presented to Congress confirming that plans were made to revoke the visa of Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, a Saudi national once considered a "person of interest" in the Boston bombings, a congressional source told TheBlaze on Thursday.
Other sources, including one at the FBI, previously informed TheBlaze that there have been discussions about deporting Alharbi on "security and related grounds." He has been living in the Boston area and in the U.S. on a student visa. An FBI source said the agency is against deporting Alharbi because of his status as a material witness.
The congressional source told TheBlaze it was unclear as to why representatives from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would be unaware of this information. Earlier on Thursday, an official with ICE said it was "categorically false" that Alharbi had ever been considered for deportation.
The congressional source, however, said the information sent to Congress showed that a file was created on "Abdul Rahman Ali Al Harby" at 4 p.m. on Tuesday by an official with the National Targeting Center, a counterterrorism sub-agency of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security. The file stated that the individual is "linked to the Boston bombing" and was to be processed for revocation of his visa based on national security grounds, the congressional source revealed.
The source confirmed seeing the information sent to members of Congress but could not provide copies of any documents to TheBlaze.
The source could not reveal if Alharbi knew or has ever been in contact with the two suspects in the Boston bombings identified by the FBI on Thursday.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had a fiery exchange with Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) during a House hearing Thursday morning over reports that Al Alharbi is being considered for deportation.
Napolitano refused to entertain a question regarding if it would be "negligence" to deport someone who just days ago was a person of interest. Watch her response and read her other fiery comments in our full write-up here.
Sen. Rand Paul reacted to TheBlaze's report during a radio interview with Glenn Beck by saying he will be "looking into" the report. Read the full report here.
The original report by TheBlaze about Alharbi's possible deportation is available here.
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2. TheBlaze.com / Politics
Janet Napolitano Responds to Report of Deportation for Former 'Person of Interest': 'Not Worthy of an Answer'
Update: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to TheBlaze that a Saudi Arabian national in custody is a different person and "in no way" affiliated with the Boston Marathon attack.
Original story below:
A visibly irritated Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to answer a Republican congressman's questions about the possible deportation of the Saudi Arabian national questioned as a witness in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Napolitano called South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan's question "so full of misstatements and misapprehension that it's just not worthy of an answer."
"We have someone who's being deported due to national security concerns," Duncan had said during a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday. "We've got this guy who was there, we know he was there…and yet we're going to deport him? We're going to remove him from the scene?"
"If I might, I am unaware of anyone who is being deported for national security concerns at all related to Boston," Napolitano said.
"He is being deported," Duncan said.
Napolitano said as she understood it, the man was not technically a person of interest or a suspect, and "this is is an example of why it is so important to let law enforcement do its job."
"I want them to do their job," Duncan said. "Wouldn't you agree with me that it's negligent for us as an American administration to deport someone who was reportedly at the scene of the bombing and we're going to deport him, not to be able to question him anymore?"
"I am not going to answer that question it is so full of misstatements and misapprehension that it's just not worthy of an answer…there's been so much reported on this that's been wrong I can't even begin to tell you, congressman," Napolitano replied. "We will provide you with accurate information as it becomes available."
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3. TheBlaze.com / Government
UPDATED: Rand Paul on Saudi National Reports: 'We'll Definitely Look Into It'
Sen. Rand Paul in a radio interview with Glenn Beck on Thursday said he'd "definitely look into" reports that a Saudi national briefly labeled a "person of interest" has been cleared for deportation despite claims that he may be somehow connected to the Boston bombings.
"I hope that this won't be someone involved with a student visa. I don't have any special details on the current situation," he said.
"But I'm concerned in general that students from various countries that are dead set on harming Americans, that we have to be more careful and should have more scrutiny on these students when they arrive," he added.
He went on to explain his concerns over the student visa program as it currently stands.
"From a general perspective, we need to have more scrutiny on student visas," the Kentucky Republican said. "We need to know where the students are. Are they attending school? We need to do extensive background checks on people coming to visit us."
"Because the 19 hijackers on 9/11," he continued, "several of them were here on … student visas, and were not obeying even the rules of the student visa program."
"Had we been paying attention we may well have sent some of these students back home because they weren't attending school," he added.
Watch the interview here [Saudi comments come at the 04:24 mark]:
The U.S. should "get a handle on where people are," Paul said, adding that we should "have more scrutiny on these students when they arrive."
"We'll definitely look into it," he said of the Saudi national reports.
ORIGINAL Article
4. TheBlaze.com / US
Exclusive: Saudi National Once Considered 'Person of Interest' May Be Deported on 'Security' Grounds — And How It's Supposed to Be Framed
Editor's note: Please see the Editors' UPDATES we will be placing in order of most-recent below. TheBlaze's Jonathon M. Seidl contributed to this report.
Key points:
- On Sean Hannity's Fox News program Wednesday night, terror expert Steve Emerson cited sources saying Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the Saudi national who was briefly named a "person of interest" in the Boston Marathon bombings, is being deported on Tuesday.
- Thursday morning, Glenn Beck revealed on radio that TheBlaze was informed by sources that the Saudi national's visa had been revoked and he was, in fact, going to be deported on "security and related grounds."
- Among other things, sources told TheBlaze that the Saudi national had ties to a well-connected Saudi family and that his deportation was set to be framed as a "voluntary" departure to be with his family.
- A file, called an "event," was started on him three days ago.
- While discussing the issue on radio, TheBlaze's Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood revealed that the government is now considering not deporting Ali Alharbi.
UPDATE VII (4:10 pm ET) — Immigrations and Customs Enforcement responded to TheBlaze's report on Al Alharbi, calling our source's claims "categorically false. Read the update here.
UPDATE VI (12:50 pm ET):
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had a fiery exchange with Rep. Jeff Duncan during a House hearing Thursday morning over reports that Al Alharbi is being considered for deportation.
Napolitano refused to entertain a question regarding if it would be "negligence" to deport someone who just days ago was a person of interest.
"I'm not going to answer that question," she shot back after being pressed by Duncan and denying any knowledge of such a plan. "That question is so full with misstatements and misapprehensions that it is not worthy of an answer."
Watch her response and read her other fiery comments in our full write-up here.
UPDATE V (12:13 pm ET):
Sen. Rand Paul reacted to TheBlaze's report during a radio interview with Glenn Beck by saying he will be "looking into" the report. He also added that in general the United States needs to "have more scrutiny on these students when they arrive."
Read the full report here.
You can watch Glenn Beck break the news on radio below:
UPDATE III (10:50 am ET):
TheBlaze Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood reported on "The Glenn Beck Program" Thursday morning that TheBlaze has been informed that the government is now considering not deporting Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi.
"Just got a note from one of our investigative reporters that she has been told that there is now discussion that they may not allow this man to be deported," Cheatwood said.
The blog Shoebat.com, run by anti-Islamist Walid Shoebat, has posted two pictures allegedly of Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi smiling in the hospital:
At least one of the photos appears to either have originated from, or is at least included in, an Arabic language report here.
Sources tell TheBlaze that the Saudi national is set to be deported on "security and related grounds." His visa also has been revoked. Below is some of the information that has been communicated to us:
1. One source at the FBI and another at the Saudi Embassy referred to the student as connected to an important Saudi family. 2. An "event" was created on this guy three days ago. An event is a file. The file contains his deportation record and the reason he is being deported. According to ICE the reason is under section 212 3B — "Security and related grounds" — "Terrorist activities" 3. His visa has been revoked. 4. The FBI said a file was started "just in case he was found to be connected to the crime," however, the file shows he was scheduled to be deported. This was not a precaution, it was in "orders." 5. One source said they believe a "voluntary" departure has been signed — that means the Saudi Student could be out of the country as early as today. 6. The file was immediately classified. We believe the deportation order will be classified as well — requiring a FOIA to get it. 7. The story was going to be "he wanted to go home," however he was actually being deported. 8. Our source said the FBI believes the Saudi student is tied to 2 to 3 more people. 9. Our source said this "looks like they were trying to make this a 'lone wolf' crime so, the Saudi government would be spared embarrassment and the U.S. would avoid explaining how a terror cell was active when we had AQ on the run."
Appearing on "Hannity" Wednesday night, the Investigative Project on Terrorism's Steve Emerson reported that Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the Saudi national who was briefly named a "person of interest" in the Boston Marathon bombings, is being deported on Tuesday. He based his information on a number of his confidential sources.
"I just learned from my own sources that he is now going to be deported on national security grounds next Tuesday," Emerson said.
Host Sean Hannity referenced a report by Reuters that revealed President Barack Obama met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal at the White House Wednesday. They reportedly discussed the conflict in Syria.
"The meeting was not on Obama's public schedule," the report adds.
Watch below via Fox News:
Emerson's claims have not been verified.


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New efficient turbine blades could help businesses in the renewables sector to exploit the immense untapped tidal energy potential of the oceans.
With its bottom-up approach, EUREKA supports the development of rapidly marketable innovative products, processes and services that help improve the daily life of everyday people. The commercialisation of the innovative products, processes and services from hundreds of successfully completed projects have added billions of euro to national economies.
Here is a selection of our best innovative R&D projects.
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gregoryderek necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 9 diseños de 2 diseñadores freelance.
With over twenty years experience in video filming and broadcast technology, the founder of this new venture has years of appropriate experience on a global scale. The business model will provide free video production editing and uploading, in return for a simple payment structure based solely on views only.
Concentrating on film clips for any business which currently doesn't have video on their website, audience will be via video websites and associated client bases of the videos we choose to shoot. Example. Legal issues. People interested in legal subjects will be steered to view etc.
The design of the web page must reflect the logo, (which has just been designed), and must be driven by film or video styled graphics. A comprehensive but simple message must be put across on the web page, possibly with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 as headers? The process of working with P1VIDEO should be put across very simply - as it's a simple proposal - and driven home with strong and bold statements of fact - which we have (please ask for content). Colours in the web page should reflect the logo design. There needs to be a space on the page for a video to play. We have the web page text so please request that, along with the logo prior to starting.


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This global event seeks to highlight the latest research in the pre-clinical, clinical, and biotechnology sectors of herbal medicine and their applications toward the future of sustainable healthcare. Specific subjects to be covered include metabolomics, nanotechnology, and the ethnopharmacology of herbal plants. More information.
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Does the GOP Recognize Socialized Medicine When They See It?
Rumor has it that Republicans in the House and Senate will soon decide whether their alternative to the Democrats' health care reforms will include an "individual mandate" — a legal requirement that all Americans obtain health insurance.
A recent Consensus Group statement shows that the entire free‐market health policy community — including scholars from the Heritage Foundation — opposes such a move.
The Cato Institute has published one study arguing against an individual mandate in itself, and two studies critical of its use in Massachusetts. Cato will soon publish additional studies showing how an individual mandate has — as predicted — led to exploding costs and government rationing efforts in Massachusetts, and arguing against its use at the federal level.
Worse, as I explain in this study, an individual mandate is in fact a large leap toward socialized medicine — regardless of the fact that health insurance would remain nominally "private." Republicans may oppose creating a new government health insurance program. Yet if they are willing to force Americans to purchase insurance, they will effectively nationalize the health insurance industry.
Finally, as I explain in this op‐ed, an individual mandate is always accompanied by taxpayer subsidies to people who may (or may not) need aid to comply. The more people who rely on government aid for their health care, the harder life will become for the party of tax cuts. Bill Clinton showed that the best way to defeat tax cuts is to paint them as a threat to YOUR health care. Just in case doing the right thing isn't reason enough to reject this horrid idea, Republicans should know that by supporting an individual mandate, they will be slitting their own throats.
All for an idea that doesn't even command support from a majority of the public.


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CHICAGO (February 21, 2012) – Many people prefer the option of virtual learning, especially busy healthcare professionals, interested consumers, faculty and students who want to better understand health informatics, but need a flexible and on-demand environment easily adaptable to their own schedules.
Now, the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform – known as TIGER – introduces its Virtual Learning Environment. The TIGER Initiative Foundation's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) provides an interactive web-based learning opportunity with resources and information about health IT and related topics for health professionals and consumers.
Online learners can find out more about topics in an interactive environment with ongoing updates and resources. Topics covered include:
- electronic health records,
- usability,
- clinical decision support,
- health information exchange,
- care coordination,
- meaningful use,
- standards and interoperability,
- consumer health information,
- mobile health,
- privacy and security,
- health IT and nursing practice, and
- other related topics.
This convenient format provides real-time accessibility to online content through a variety of formats, including webinars by industry experts, in-depth education sessions, fact sheets, white papers, and other educational materials. All materials can be accessed on the VLE site and downloaded into a virtual briefcase.
"The TIGER Initiative Foundation brings together interested professionals to develop a shared vision, strategies and specific actions for improving nursing practice, education, and the delivery of patient care through the use of health IT. Through a collaborative effort, this group studied both the benefits and challenges of a virtual learning environment, a process that resulted in the introduction of this new educational platform," says Sally E Schlak, RN, MBA, Senior Director, TIGER Initiative Foundation.
Go to http://www.thetigerinitiative.org/ to learn more and access the TIGER Virtual Learning Environment.
About TIGER
TIGER was formed in 2004 to bring together stakeholders to develop a shared vision, strategies and specific actions for improving nursing practice, education, and the delivery of patient care through the use of health information technology (HIT). With support from over 70 contributing organizations and a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2006, TIGER Phase II emerged with over 1,500 volunteers in many collaborative working groups. In July 2011 the TIGER Initiative Foundation was formed as a 501(c) (3) organization operating for charitable, educational and scientific purposes.


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Matt Nathanson Shares His Top Songs for Your Headphones Playlist [EXCLUSIVE]by Thomas Chau
Singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson knows the power of listening to music on your headphones all too well.
In his latest single, 'Headphones' (featuring LOLO), Matt writes about getting lost in your own world when you have a wonderful song playing on your headphones, and everything around you seemingly disappears.
Matt sings in the chorus of his feel good song, "Everybody wants to be with me / I got all I need / I feel invincible / My headphones on."
In an interview with USA Today, Matt talked about the inspiration for 'Headphones.' "When I started writing the song, I attached it to this character and this idea of, when we're full of dread and the world is heavy and too much, you put your headphones on and music saves your life," he said.
Matt assembled a list of songs he prefers listening to on his headphones, and we have it for you here exclusively, via our Beats Music account.
So grab your mobile device, plug in those headphones, and get lost in Matt Nathanson's favorite songs to listen to in the privacy of your own company, which you can hear right here.
Matt Nathanson's Playlist:
1. Public Enemy, 'Welcome to the Terrordome'
2. Sia, 'Chandelier'
3. Laura Marling, 'Master Hunter'
4. Phosphorescent, 'Song for Zula'
5. The Rolling Stones, 'Honky Tonk Women'
6. Sleater-Kinney, 'One More Hour'
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 'Maps'
8. Peace, 'Lovesick'
9. Kanye West, 'Monster' (feat. Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross)
10. Drivin' N' Cryin', 'Ain't Waitin' on Tomorrow'
11. Sylvan Esso, 'Coffee'
12. Martin Sexton, 'Glory Bound'
13. New York Dolls, 'Trash'
14. Royal Blood, 'Out of the Black'
15. System of a Down, 'Chop Suey!'
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Two companies have the necessary qualifications to build a facility in Palo Alto that would help the city realize its lofty zero-waste goals, according to a new report from the Public Works Department.
Harvest Power and We Generation Inc. were both deemed responsive to the city's request for proposals from firms to construct and operate an "energy/compost facility" at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant and possibly a portion of Byxbee Park set aside by voters in 2011.
The request for proposals was sparked by a desire to process biosolids (treated sewage sludge), yard trimmings and food scraps locally.
A third company, Synagro, also made the cut, but its proposal calls for shipping all three of the waste streams to facilities up to 100 miles away from Palo Alto, according to the report.
On Monday, the city council is scheduled to hold a study session on the proposals, as well as a "biosolids facility plan" that involves retiring the Regional Water Quality Control Plant's 42-year-old incinerators.
The city currently incinerates its biosolids and ships yard trimmings and commercial food scraps to Z-Best in Gilroy to be composted. Residential food scraps are sent to a landfill outside of Palo Alto.
Just one of the proposals would require a slice of Byxbee Park. Harvest Power of Waltham, Mass., would use 3.8 acres to compost yard trimmings. Following a campaign that pitted local environmentalists against one another, voters resoundingly agreed in November 2011 to "undedicate" 10 acres of the landfill-turned-park for a possible energy/compost facility.
The proposal also calls for wet anaerobic digestion to turn food scraps into biogas, which can then be combusted to create energy, and thermal drying to make biosolids suitable for agricultural use.
Houston-based We Generation would use thermal hydrolysis and wet anaerobic digestion to turn food scraps and biosolids into biogas. But yard trimmings would be trucked to Newby Island in Milpitas for composting. The proposal would result in the greatest amount of biogas, according to the report.
The proposal submitted by Synagro calls for shipping biosolids to a composting facility 100 miles away in Merced County and yard trimmings and food scraps to Z-Best. Although superior to the current practice of incinerating biosolids, the Baltimore-based company's proposal would have an overall negative greenhouse gas impact, the report notes.
A financial analysis of the three proposals, as well as a final recommendation from city staff, is expected this spring.
The report indicated that city staff will actually push a fourth option — one that involves the city building its own facility at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant to turn biosolids and food scraps into biogas. The goal would be to have the digesters up and running by 2019.
Yard trimmings would continue to be sent to Z-Best because of cost efficiencies, but the "proposed organics facilities plan" would leave open the option to process them locally if and when better technology emerges.
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WHAT: The Palo Alto City Council is scheduled to hold a study session on a potential "energy/compost facility" at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant and possibly part of Byxbee Park.
WHEN: Monday, 6 p.m.
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In the order, the National Defense Resources Preparedness Order, the President granted to himself the authority to approve the dispensing of all domestic energy, production, transportation, food, and water supplies as he deems necessary to protect national security.
Despite the national defense hurdle that ostensibly must be jumped in order for the order to take effect, the text of the document itself does not limit implementation to a time of war. In fact, the specific sections of the order make it clear that the President may take complete command and control of the country's natural resources in peacetime, as well.
In fact, the President may invoke the powers of this order to "meet national defense requirements" in "the full spectrum of emergencies." The relevant sections read:
Section 101. Purpose. This order delegates authorities and addresses national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (the "Act").
Sec. 102. Policy. The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency. The domestic industrial and technological base is the foundation for national defense preparedness. The authorities provided in the Act shall be used to strengthen this base and to ensure it is capable of responding to the national defense needs of the United States.
Sec. 103. General Functions. Executive departments and agencies (agencies) responsible for plans and programs relating to national defense (as defined in section 801(j) of this order), or for resources and services needed to support such plans and programs, shall:
(a) identify requirements for the full spectrum of emergencies, including essential military and civilian demand;
(b) assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel;
The underlying legal authority for the execution of such a radical order is found in the Defense Production Act of 1950, the President claims. That law combined with the rights vested in him as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces supposedly empowers the President to endow himself with these expansive powers.
Just how expansive are the claimed powers and what resources are included in their scope? Livestock? Yes. All food "resources" and "resource facilities?" Yes. Veterinary clinics? Yes. All forms of energy? Yes. Will the President control the water supply? Yes.
Read on:
Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities.
(a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, is delegated to the following agency heads:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;
(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and
(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.
(b) The Secretary of each agency delegated authority under subsection (a) of this section (resource departments) shall plan for and issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources and establish standards and procedures by which the authority shall be used to promote the national defense, under both emergency and non-emergency conditions. Each Secretary shall authorize the heads of other agencies, as appropriate, to place priority ratings on contracts and orders for materials, services, and facilities needed in support of programs approved under section 202 of this order.
(c) Each resource department shall act, as necessary and appropriate, upon requests for special priorities assistance, as defined by section 801(l) of this order, in a time frame consistent with the urgency of the need at hand. In situations where there are competing program requirements for limited resources, the resource department shall consult with the Secretary who made the required determination under section 202 of this order. Such Secretary shall coordinate with and identify for the resource department which program requirements to prioritize on the basis of operational urgency. In situations involving more than one Secretary making such a required determination under section 202 of this order, the Secretaries shall coordinate with and identify for the resource department which program requirements should receive priority on the basis of operational urgency.
(d) If agreement cannot be reached between two such Secretaries, then the issue shall be referred to the President through the Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor and the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
(e) The Secretary of each resource department, when necessary, shall make the finding required under section 101(b) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071(b). This finding shall be submitted for the President's approval through the Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor and the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Upon such approval, the Secretary of the resource department that made the finding may use the authority of section 101(a) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071(a), to control the general distribution of any material (including applicable services) in the civilian market.
That's right. The last line of the quoted material gives the President of the United Staes the power to "control the general distribution of any material (including services) in the civilian market." This seems to be no less than the nationalization of all food, energy, water, and healthcare pipelines and providers in the country. And to help him keep tabs on all this responsibility, he assigns a cabinet member to each category of control.
Presidents have issued similar orders in the name of national defense. For example, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln famously (infamously) suspended habeas corpus and the right to an impartial trial as protected by the Sixth Amendment.
Then, during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson, frustrated with Congress's reluctance to grant him a full panoply of power over natural resources, invoked the powers given him under an executive order to assume absolute and unilateral authority over the same range of resources as are included in President Obama's latest fiat.
As any student of history can testify, when government begins to interfere with the free flow of goods and commodities (especially life-giving resources such as food and water), then it may manipulate the availability of these items, as well as the prices thereof. Typically, such fluctuations result in civil disturbances and a demand for greater security from those unwilling to abide by the new "laws." And, in exchange for greater security, those clamoring for it are often willing to give up their fundamental freedoms.
The White House has issued no statement regarding the purpose for the signing of this Executive Order. There is no accompanying explanation of why this power should be placed before the President at this time — or at any time for that matter. Is it in place to prepare for expansion of the hostilities in the Middle East, or is it something to do with his vaunted algae initiative?
Perhaps the President is taking the first few steps necessary to cloak himself in the powers required to "legally" (albeit unconstitutionally) step outside the boundaries of his constitutional authority and ascend to a level of supervision witnessed in all the former republics of history just before their devolution into mobocracy and mayhem.
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Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (12th-Grade Survey), 2003 (ICPSR 4019)
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Lloyd D. Johnston, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; Jerald G. Bachman, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; Patrick M. O'Malley, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center; John E. Schulenberg, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center
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This is the 29th annual survey in this series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Students are randomly assigned to complete one of six questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions, but all containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are about 1,400 variables across the questionnaires. Drugs covered by this survey include tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, hashish, LSD, hallucinogens, amphetamines (stimulants), Ritalin (methylphenidate), Quaaludes (methaqualone), barbiturates (tranquilizers), cocaine, crack cocaine, GHB (gamma hydroxy butyrate), and heroin. Other items include attitudes toward religion, changing roles for women, educational aspirations, self-esteem, exposure to drug education, and violence and crime (both in and out of school).
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To protect the privacy of respondents, all variables that could be used to identify individuals have been collapsed or recoded in the public use files. These modifications should not affect analytic uses of the public use files.
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A user guide is provided with the study documentation. It contains a year-to-year cross-time question index for the MTF 12th-grade surveys that is sorted by subject area, item reference number, and questionnaire form.MTF does not release detailed geography codes in its public use files because of the disclosure risk it would cause. The MTF sample is drawn to generate representative samples of the four Census Bureau regions of the country (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West), but it does not generate representative samples of smaller geographic areas such as states, counties, or cities. For additional information about data that is withheld from the public use files please contact MTF directly at email@example.com.
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Multistage area probability sample design involving three selection stages: (1) geographic areas or primary sampling units (PSUs), (2) schools (or linked groups of schools) within PSUs, and (3) students within sampled schools. Of the 72 PSUs, 8 were selected with certainty, 10 were selected with a probability of .50, and the remainder were selected with probability proportionate to the size of the senior class. In schools with more than 350 seniors, a random sample of seniors or classes was drawn. In schools with less than 350 seniors, all seniors were asked to participate. Each school was asked to participate for two years so that each year one-half of the sample is replaced. Schools refusing participation were replaced with similar schools in terms of geographic location, size, and type of school (e.g., public, private/Catholic, private/non-Catholic). The total sample was divided into six subsamples consisting of an average of 2,300 respondents, and each subsample was administered a different form of the questionnaire, although all respondents answered the "core" drug and demographic questions. The participation rate among schools has been between 66 and 85 percent since the inception of the study.
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High school seniors in the contiguous United States.
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- Johnston, Lloyd D., Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, and John E. Schulenberg. Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (12th-Grade Survey), 2003. ICPSR04019-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-05-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04019.v1
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2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
2004-10-29 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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The Sunshine Castle is an award winning museum, attraction and function venue. Much in the tradition of Castles all around the world the Sunshine Castle captures the imagination of old and young alike. A stand out landmark in this location this Norman style Castle, with medieval additions, complete with moat, turrets, towers and drawbridge is completely unique in Australia.
The Castle offers a plethora of highlights on a self walk tour. Wander over the drawbridge into another time and feast with Kings in the Great Hall or squalor in shame in the dungeon. The Castle keep a 24 metre look out tower offers stunning views from Coast to Hinterland.
Children are sent on a Treasure Hunt and are able to choose a treat from the Kings treasure. A new history shields tour offers detailed information on the medieval elements of the Castle and history.
The fully licensed Castle Cafe offers delectable treats including some gluten free options as well as their classic German sausages.
The Castle also offers functions/weddings and children's birthdays.
The Castle is also home to Absolut Toys, a toy shop offering quality toys at affordable prices.
Open every day during Queensland school holidays. Otherwise closed on Mondays.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.
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At Bertoni in Kongensgade at the Odense pedestrian street our employees are not afraid to get challenged. If you consider to add a little color to the wardrobe, but could use some tips on what fits together? Are you going on a date and need to look your best? Or maybe you want to outshine the boys and be the coolest in a suit at poker night? As we said, our team in Odense are ready to be challenged. Drop by!
Kongensgade in Odense is part of the pedestrian street, where it's possible to have a nice shopping trip. Make sure to stop by Bertoni the next time you're going on a shopping spree in Odense.
Visit the Bertoni shop in Kongensgade, Odense, or order your items online from the Bertoni webshop and get free shipping to the shop. It's always possible to get free shipping on your online orders, if you pick it up at the Bertoni shop.
Does the clothes not fit? Then exchange it to the right size quick and easy in the shop. No hidden fees - exchange it to something new!
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Train delays in the winter can be exasperating. Annoyance ranging from long waits in under-heated stations to travels in overcrowded wagons. Not to mention the...
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Almond Almanac and Industry Stats
Almond Almanac
Annual State of the Industry
The Almond Board of California's annual Almond Almanac is a compilation of industry statistics, including production, shipment and consumption numbers. Published on a crop-year basis (August 1 to July 31), the Almond Almanac provides a complete overview of trends in the almond industry, and highlights marketing, research, communications, and other programmes conducted by the Almond Board of California.
Below are past Almond Almanacs for historical reference:
Industry Statistics
Position Reports
Each month, the Almond Board of California publishes position reports, which contain the most recent almond trade statistics. Growers and industry members can reference these reports to understand the trends impacting the almond industry.
Please note the scheduled release date for each monthly position report.
Additional almond industry statistics can be found by accessing the crop reports page, with official reports from National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).


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This beautiful silver tone, adjustable bangle bracelet has 4 charms to inspire you. It is perfect to wear alone or stack it with more charm bracelets for a fashionable cuff look. Here are the details about this bracelet:
Charm #1: Cheer Pennant
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All of our items are high quality and come with one of our own Exclusive "Spirit Cards" that your cheerleader can use for motivation any time. They can place them on a bathroom mirror, by their bed, on their vision board or in a scrapbook for inspiration.
These are also perfect GIFTS for your teammates!
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Slightly off-topic, and yet, highly relevant today considering the hotly debated Arizona immigration laws.
I spend a fair amount of time traveling. This past week, I hopped a Southwest flight to Orlando. The problem with flying to me is I can't stand to be bored, and flights are boredom. Admittedly, being on a flight full of families bound for Disney World for summer vacation via Southwest is somewhat less boring than a red-eyed Delta full of IT execs (at least the pilots and flight attendants are cheery and entertaining), but still…I have to sit still and the only thing entertaining me is the hope that the person next to me doesn't elbow me while I sip a cup of coffee. Yup. I prefer roadtrips, but don't tell my employer that. (I spent a year one month on a roadtrip to New Jersey for work.)
While in-flight, I read the July 2010 issue of Spirit, Southwest's magazine. There were two highly relevant and appropriate articles for anyone wanting to understand more about citizenship, immigration, and the push-pull reasons for immigration. (To me, immigration is a blade with two sharp and equally important sides for those to decide to leave their homeland. The first side is what I refer to as the "push"–what drives an immigrant away from his homeland. The second side is what I refer to as the "pull"–what attracts the immigrant to the country of his choice.)
The first article, "The New Americans" profiled newly naturalized American citizens and their backgrounds and reasons for immigrating to the States. While my family research focuses mainly on immigrants of Polish and German ancestry from the Prussian and Russian partitions of Poland, many of these profiles struck a chord with me. Many Catholics from the German-dominated Prussia of the 1870s and 1880s left in droves, sometimes nearly entire villages at a time, because Bismark began deporting Jesuit priests from the country and arrested those in the pulpits or within lay religious communities who discussed political topics or dared remark against the current political climate. Poles from the Russian partitions of Poland often came and left the US a number of times before settling permanently in the US. The economy of Russian-dominated Poland was harsh and extreme during the early 1900s through the cold war, and many farmlands were confiscated by the government and men were forcibly conscripted into the Russian army. In order to provide for their families, many Polish men during this period would come to the states and work manual labor or menial jobs. During this period, the work available to these men was usually extremely dangerous (I've found quite a bit of evidence of industrial accidents in my research–a great-uncle died at 29 due to an accidental amputation) or physically demanding (coal-mining). The men would then bring their families to the States or return to Poland for a time before settling in the States permanently and becoming naturalized citizen. Families were often split once a group of siblings decided to permanently settle in the US, so that may be a reason men would travel back and forth between America and Europe.
While the ethnic backgrounds in the profiles provided in The New Americans were very different than my ancestors, many commonalities still ring true for immigrants from any country.
Kassegn Befekadu immigrated here from Ethiopia in 2006. Born deaf in Addis Ababa, Kassegn faced large challenges in his life in Ethiopia. Through a sign interpreter, Kassegan told the reporter that "There are no rights there for people like me. Life was very, very hard." After his immigration, he told the reporter, that he found the US provided much tolerance and the support he needed. "I have so many opportunities here. I can get an education. I can drive and work."
Narek Bznouni is a teenager living in California. His family is of Armenian ethnicity and they emigrated here when Narek was a year old. His parents fled Armenia in 1992, leaving behind oppressive living conditions but also professional careers. Narek's father was the CEO of a business. After arriving in the US, his parents delivered newspapers and then took jobs in local casinos. Narek mentioned that this fall from white-collar to blue-collar status was always in the back of his father's mind, but that he made peace with it. The entire Bznouni family sans Narek's father was naturalized this past May. Narek's father passed away in 2003. They celebrated with an American-style barbecue.
Roya Dur Mohammad was born in Afghanistan and grew up in Islamabad, Pakistan. As a child, she recalled her life as good, "when my father was with us." But in 2000, Roya and her mother, brother, and sister were granted refugee status in the States and settled in Las Vegas. What drove them here was the fact her father left the family. When he left, the family was very poor. Roya enrolled in school in the US and found adjustment difficult: language barriers while completing high school and driving. Women don't drive in Pakistan. When asked what she loved about American life, she stated it was her Honda Civic and her liberty. "After 5 o'clock [in Pakistan], you cannot go outside because it's dangerous. Here, 24/7, I go when I want to go."
Do these push-pull reasons for immigration really change over time? Political climates change, economic climates change, and places that people leave change and the places they immigrate to change. (The US isn't the only country many immigrants decide to settle!) Have you found anything in common with today's immigrants to the US with your ancestors who immigrated here? Has that weighed in on your views regarding the Arizona immigration laws? Has that made you consider different aspects to the "Constitutionality" of this law?
I'll keep my thoughts on the Arizona law to myself. However, immigration has occurred throughout the history of civilization. Immigration changes the face, flavor, and culture of every nation. Culture is fluid, it is never static. To me, the basic push for immigration is personal freedom, the right for self-expression, and the fundamental need for human beings to remove or leave behind physical, economic, and intellectual restraints. The pull in an immigrant's mind is the country he decides to move to shows a lack of physical, economic, and intellectual restraints and the immigrant has a desire for personal growth and well being. Does the Arizona law aim to restrict the pull that the United States has for immigrants or does it ignore the push that drives immigrants here?
Spirit also publisihed an article entitled "Citizenship in Five Parts" that discusses the hardest part of being a citizen in a democracy–the fact we have to share the democracy. More on that later…


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Detroit City Council OKs contract with law firm Miller Canfield
Financial Advisory Board says city could be days away from emergency financial manager
DETROIT – The Detroit City Council on Tuesday passed a contentious law firm contract to help get funding from the state as the city continues to reel in a cash crisis.
By a vote of 5-4, the City Council agreed to go ahead with the $300,000 deal with firm Miller Canfield. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing had hired the firm for advice on city legal issues.
The contract was one of the milestones the city had agreed to with the state in order to get $30 million in escrow fund money.
Read: Milestone agreement between Detroit, state
Council had previously struck down the contract 8-1.
Both Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon had been working to get City Council to OK the contract.
Their decision comes one day after the Financial Advisory Board unanimously voted to support starting the clock on whether an emergency financial manager is needed in the city.
The city's deficit is expected to be $326 million by the end of the year and it is expected to balloon to $376 million in 2013.
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text: By Food Category Beef When you want to feature beef in your entrée, try one of these healthy dishes that include just the right amount of meat for flavor. Fish & Seafood Take your pick from these healthy choices: shrimp, salmon, crab, catfish, trout. Grill them, broil them, or slide them into the microwave. Desserts From fresh fruit tarts and crisps to brownie kisses and chocolate oat bars, find just what you need to satisfy your sweet tooth. Pork & Veal Choose a summer dish like grilled pork marinated in a ginger sauce or a hearty winter dish like pork chops simmered with apples. Poultry Have you tried the barbecued chicken pizza? How about the Cornish hens stuffed with gingered plums? Sandwiches For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, learn the many ways you can build a sandwich or wrap for a delicious meal. Soups & Salads Chicken soup is a classic, but have you tried it by adding brown rice, barley, and split peas? Tuna salad is another favorite—but for a change, make it in a ring mold. Vegetarian Sauces, salads, entrées, sides—it's a cornucopia of meatless recipes with your health and good nutrition in mind.


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Choreography by: Christopher Wheeldon
Music by: Arvo Pärt
Full of heartfelt emotion, this simple yet stirring pas de deux leaves audiences in silent awe.
Christopher Wheeldon's After the Rain premiered in 2005 at NYCB's annual New Combinations Evening, which honors the anniversary of George Balanchine's birth with world premiere ballets. A ballet in two parts, the first section is set to Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa, and features three couples. For the second section, only one couple returns, and performs a haunting pas de deux set to Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel. Originally performed by Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto, this was the last ballet Wheeldon created for Soto, before Soto retired from dancing in June of 2005.


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Favorites is a great way to quickly navigate a catalog, but it can also be confusing: Say I have a particular folder stored or a label as a favorite. Clicking that favorite instantaneously shows me all images from that folder or from that label, but the catalog view on the left remains "stale", it does not get refreshed. The result for example is: on the left it says "Catalog - Catalog by state - Out of sync", whereas the photos being displayed are actually in-sync but those assigned to a particular label or folder, which I just called via favorites.
Maybe the performance hit is too big, but if not, it would make a lot of sense, if the catalog tree also refreshes.
favorites does not refresh catalog tree, by design?
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WEDNESDAY, July 18, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Inactivity is a major cause of death worldwide, with new research suggesting that a sedentary lifestyle is on par with both smoking and obesity when it comes to raising the risk for disease and mortality.
In four research papers published online July 18 in a special physical activity-themed series in The Lancet, a number of investigating teams peg the number of inactivity-related deaths at 5.3 million worldwide as recently as 2008.
This figure attributed to an inactivity-related risk for major killers such as breast and colon cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease amounts to roughly one out of every 10 deaths globally, a tally more or less equivalent to the number of people who die as a result of smoking.
Although the report cites the inactivity-mortality association as most critical in low- and middle-income nations, researchers depict the situation as a problem with global dimensions.
One-third of all adults -- globally amounting to about 1.5 billion people -- face a 20 percent to 30 percent greater risk for disease due to failing to engage in the kind of routine physical activity (150 minutes of moderate exercise per week) typically recommended by public health authorities.
That figure rises dramatically among adolescents, among whom four in five engage in a risky sedentary lifestyle.
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston noted that, globally, about 6 percent of coronary heart disease cases stem from a lack of adequate exercise, which they also linked to an average of about 7 percent of type 2 diabetes cases. Physical inactivity also accounts for an average of about 10 percent of breast and colon cancer cases worldwide, they added.
Not all parts of the world are affected equally, however, as inactivity patterns vary widely region-by-region.
For example, while about 43 percent of North Americans are deemed to be inactive, that figure is just 17 percent among southeast Asians. In Europe, inactivity figures run the gamut, ranging from a high of roughly 70 percent in Malta and Serbia to a low of 17 percent to 18 percent in Estonia and the Netherlands.
Accordingly, inactivity-related disease incidence differs by region as well. Heart disease deaths brought on by a sedentary lifestyle appears to be most problematic in Europe, the researchers noted, where 121,000 fatalities were linked to inactivity in 2008. By comparison, there were 60,000 such deaths in North America and 44,000 in the eastern Mediterranean area.
Yet, amidst a generally pessimistic overview, the research team strikes a hopeful note, suggesting that if physical inactivity rates were to be cut by as little as 10 percent globally, as many as 533,000 lives could be saved. That figure would rise to as high as 1.3 million if inactivity were to be sliced by as much as 25 percent.
A group of researchers from the University of Tennessee point to a number of public health measures that could be taken to do just that.
"Because even moderate physical activity such as walking and cycling can have substantial health benefits, understanding strategies that can increase these behaviors in different regions and cultures has become a public health priority," Gregory Heath, of the University of Tennessee, said in a journal news release.
Heath and his colleagues highlight the potential benefits of mass media campaigns designed to promote activity, alongside the promotion of social support networks in the form of activity clubs and free community-based exercise classes. Efforts to create safe public spaces for biking and walking are also touted as helpful in the effort to get people moving.
Meanwhile, a team led by Michael Pratt of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed to the promise of cellphones, and in particular text-messaging, as a way to deliver a pro-exercise message to the general public.
"With the high prevalence of both physical inactivity and the rapid growth of the mobile phone sector in low-income and middle-income countries, there is the potential for population-level effects that could truly affect global health," Pratt noted in the news release.
More information
For more on physical activity recommendations, visit the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.


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I have the WordPress app on my iPod touch. I noticed I had a lot of views for one day, which is unusual because I have not posted anything in a while (due to some personal struggles). The app makes it great to see everyone who it creating and posting. Its exciting and inspiring..
Apparently, I accidentally touched "Reblog" on Santa Monica Family Portraits in the Park- {Santa Monica Photographer}I just wanted to apologize. I hope it was clear to all that it was a re-blog and I was not trying to take credit or make it look like my artwork.