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If I was ever asked to epitomize fall in a handful of smells, I would say it smells like wood crackling in a fireplace, damp leaves after a recent rain, and a hearty bowl of beef stew that warms you to the bone. To me, there isn't anything better than fall, or anything better than those smells.
Fall has always been special to me, not only because my October birthday is smack-dab in the middle of it, but because where I grew up, pumpkins would grow bigger than beach balls, the cute farm boy would always putt-putt by on his tractor, and the smell of a simmering stew were some of the happiest memories of my childhood.
All it took was a quick Google search to find this recipe, but though I'm sure my mom has an old, dog-eared stew recipe of her own, I figured it was about time to make some fall memories of my own and try something new. I can already tell this one will be a longtime favorite.
In this recipe are all the typical ingredients you'd find in beef stew: tomatoes, onions, rosemary and red wine. But, while the directions are minimal the simmer time is a tomato-softening, meat-tenderizing two hours. So, while it's not a weekday meal, it will give you a reason to stay in on a Saturday, watch re-runs and let the delicious smell saturate your walls.
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Tuscan Beef Stew with Honey Cornbread
Yield: Beef Stew serves 6 / Cornbread serves 9
3 tbsp. honey
1/2 cup melted butter
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 cup buttermilk (for buttermilk substitute, see "Tips & Tricks" section)
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2008-2009 (Sophomore): Played in 30 games and started the first 13 games of the season. …Posted a team season-high and a career-high eight assists vs. Tennessee State (11/29). …Second on the team in assists with 70, 2.3 per game. …Fifth on the team in minutes played (19.4). …Played a season-high 31 minutes at North Florida (12/4). …Hit 7-of-8 free throw attempts. …Posted a season-high six rebounds at North Florida (12/4). …Made a season-high three steals at Mercer (2/19). …Member of Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
2007-2008 (Freshman): Started the first 17 games of the season at point guard. …Season-high six points against Belmont (1/12/08). …Season-high seven assists against Fisk (11/13/07). …Season-high four rebounds twice; at Campbell (1/7/08) and against ETSU (1/19/08). …Season-high four steals at Hawaii (11/23/07). …Played in every game this season. …Member of Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
High School: Served as team captain for 2006-2007. ... All-District pick in 2003-2004.
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A jet right into the City of London – that's not a problem for the Embraer ERJ 190. It can operate on short runways and is licensed for the steep approach into London City Airport
Business travelers are big fans of London City Airport located in the former docklands area immediately to the east of the City. Lufthansa CityLine uses its fleet of Embraer ERJ 190 aircraft on its Frankfurt-London (City) route. 36.2 meters long, this short-haul jet is the longest aircraft holding a license for London City.
London City is a rather unusual airport. Very strict noise abatement regulations require approaching aircraft to fly a steep 5.5-degree glide path instead of the normal descent angle of around 3 degrees. Plus, the 1500-meter runway is too short for most of the larger planes now flying.
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Jingyuan Luo of Chandler, Ariz. was named the U.S. winner of the 2007 Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP) during a ceremony this afternoon at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. The Water Environment Federation (WEF) sponsors the U.S. SJWP with support from ITT Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company and Delta Air Lines, Inc.
The student's work, "Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of Nanomaterials in Aquatic Species," sought to learn more about the toxicity of nanoparticles, since so little is known about the potential negative effects when using such particles in consumer products, medical treatments and environmental remediation techniques. Luo's experiments sought to understand nanotoxicity by testing small carbon particles (fullerenes) and nano-zinc oxide particles on two different aquatic species (green algae and water fleas).
The winning project was selected from more than 40 state SJWP winners at the national competition held in Phoenix, June 21-23.
"Ms. Luo's project dealt with an emerging technology and associated issues that were clearly state-of-the-art science," said Mohamed Dahab, president of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), primary organizer of the competition. "The winning project was indicative of the entire group with a very carefully designed experimental project, well-executed research plan and remarkably well-written report."
The Hamilton High School student was awarded $3,000 and an all-expense paid trip to Stockholm, Sweden, where she will compete against national winners from more than 30 countries for the international honor during World Water Week, August 12-17, 2007. HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden will present the international award - a $5,000 scholarship and crystal sculpture - during a royal ceremony held in conjunction with the Stockholm Water Symposium.
In addition, the student's school will receive a $1,000 grant toward enhancing water science education and Luo will present her research to more than 16,000 water quality professionals at WEFTEC.07 - the Water Environment Federation's 80th annual technical exhibition and conference - this October in San Diego.
Three U.S. finalists, Jordyn Wolfland of Bethesda, Md., Keely Goodgame of Logan, N.M., Yupeng Liu of Charleston, S.C. and Kelydra Welcker of Parkersburg, W.Va., also received a $1,000 award.
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Responsible for some of the most elegant and age-worthy wines in the world, Nebbiolo, named for the ubiquitous autumnal fog (called nebbia in Italian), is the star variety of northern Italy's Piedmont region. Grown throughout the area as well as in the neighboring Valle d'Aosta and Valtellina, it reaches its highest potential in the Piemontese villages of Barolo and Barbaresco. This finicky grape needs a very particular soil type and climate in order to thrive. Outside of Italy, growers are still very much in the experimentation stage but some success has been achieved in parts of California. Tiny amounts are produced in Washington, Virginia, Mexico and Australia.
In the Glass
Nebbiolo at its best is an elegant variety with velveteen tannins, mouthwatering acidity and a captivating perfume. Common characteristcs of a well-made Nebbiolo can include roses, violets, licorice, sandalwood, spicebox, smoke, potpourri, black plum, red cherry and orange peel. Light brick in color, Nebbiolo is a more powerful wine than one might expect, and its firm tannins typically need time to mellow.
Perfect Pairings
Nebbiolo's love affair with food starts in Piedmont, which is home to the Slow Food movement and some of Italy's best cuisine. The region is famous for its white truffles, wild boar ragu and tajarin pasta, all perfect companions to Nebbiolo.
Sommelier Secret
If you can't afford to drink Barolo and Barbaresco every night, try the more wallet-friendly, earlier-drinking Langhe Nebbiolo or Nebbiolo d'Alba. Also search out the fine offerings of the nearby Roero region. North of the Langhe and Roero, find earthy and rustic versions of the variety (known here as "Spanna") in Ghemme and Gattinara.
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The Significance of Ron Paul
by Bruce Ramsey | Posted May 16, 2011
Rep. Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, is once again running for president.
No member of the House of Representatives has run for president and won since James A. Garfield in 1880 (and Garfield had been elected to the Senate just before his election as president). No one as old as Paul has been elected president. He would be 77 when he took the oath of office. Ronald Reagan was 69.
Most of all, no one as radical as Paul has been elected president during the modern era.
There are hopes that this time around, Paul will break through to mainstream America because his argument against foreign war, for a sound currency, and for large cuts in spending will catch fire. It will with some voters, but political ideas acceptable to the American public don't change that fast.
I said this two weeks ago in a talk to my state's conservative activists — an audience that included Paul supporters. I said I agreed with Paul on some important things, but that he could not win. One came up to me afterward and said, "You know, every time you say that, you hurt his movement. He got as far as he did last time because thousands of people thought he could win."
And they were mistaken. But he changed some minds. He made arguments that nobody else would have made — and some of those arguments look better four years later.
In 2007, no Republican candidates were arguing against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan except Paul. Now the Politico website reports a rise of war weariness and even "isolationism" among the Republicans in Congress. They are far from a majority, but they are a faction. And there is another libertarian candidate in the race, former governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico, who also calls for getting out of the foreign wars immediately.
Four years ago, no Republican candidates other than Paul were talking about protecting the value of the dollar. I still haven't heard them doing it — but gold is above $1,500 an ounce, and the US dollar is below the Canadian and Australian dollars. The topic ripens.
Four years ago, there was no quasi-libertarian Tea Party movement, and Ron Paul's quasi-libertarian son Rand Paul was not in the US Senate.
The ground has changed.
Still, it has not changed enough to elect Ron Paul as president. There is no point collecting dandelion seeds, such as the CNN/Opinion Research poll last week, which showed Paul running stronger against President Obama than any other Republican candidate. I have heard that poll cited several times, never mentioning that the split was Obama, 52%, Paul, 45%. Anyway, it was a poll taken 15 months before the election, which means it was a poll of a public not paying attention. Paul, in particular, had not been seriously attacked.
A few days later, he was. Conservative columnist Michael Gerson of the Washington Post ripped into him for his answer to a reporter's question. The question was whether Paul favored the legalization of heroin.
There is a purpose in questions like that. It is to see whether the reporter can catch the candidate saying something crazy — not crazy, maybe, to a social scientist or a philosopher, but crazy to a political operative, or Joe Sixpack.
The role of the radical candidate is to take the taboo stands, fight valiantly, lose, and change the political ground.
In his answer, Paul compared freedom to use drugs to freedom of religion. Here is how Gerson paraphrased it: "If you tolerate Zoroastrianism, you must be able to buy heroin at the quickie mart." This, Gerson sneered, is the essence of libertarianism.
But Paul had said more than that. Wrote Gerson: "Paul concluded his answer by doing a jeering rendition of an addict's voice: 'Oh yeah, I need the government to take care of me. I don't want to use heroin, so I need these laws.' Paul is not content to condemn a portion of his fellow citizens to self-destruction; he must mock them in their decline."
Gerson concluded that any candidate who supports "the legalization of heroin while mocking addicts" is marginal and unserious. His column was a way of looking at the Republican list and scratching out the name of Ron Paul.
Libertarians can rail against Gerson as biased, which of course he is. He is an opinion columnist. Bias is part of his job description. But if your candidate is taken seriously, which Paul was not in 2008, this is the kind of attention he is going to get — and here it is attention from a conservative. If Paul became the Republican frontrunner, the pundits of the Left would go after him with machetes and crowbars.
They haven't, because they delight in schism on the Right. But if he becomes the frontrunner, they will. And Paul has said plenty of things they can use to make a bogeyman out of him. Legalize heroin. Imagine what they could do with that.
Here is the reality. Certain political stands are safe, others are daring, and some are taboo. The role of the radical candidate is to take the taboo stands, fight valiantly, lose, and change the political ground. It is a valuable role to play: it is changing the field so that other good candidates, later on, can win.
What other candidate? Maybe Rand Paul in 2016 or 2020. Maybe Gary Johnson. One can imagine a Mitch Daniels-Gary Johnson ticket in 2012, with Johnson running in the top position later. Once a libertarian faction has been established in the Republican Party and is built into a substantial faction, room is made for other candidates, ones aiming more directly at winning, to have a go.
On the day that Paul announced, I had lunch with his 2008 campaign manager, Lew Moore. The timing was accidental; I had met Moore among the conservative activists two weeks before, and I hadn't seen him in years. I asked him: when Paul ran in 2008, did the congressman seriously think he could win, or was it mostly to change the debate?
Without denying that Paul had had some chance of winning, Moore said the campaign was mostly about changing the debate. He said, "That is what his whole life has been about."
And, at 75, Paul is not done. You have to admire the man. A lone congressman from Texas, never enjoying the support of his party's establishment, has changed the political ground within the Republican Party.
And maybe he will change it some more.
Bruce Ramsey is a retired Seattle newspaperman and author of Unsanctioned Voice: Garet Garrett, Journalist of the Old Right (Caxton, 2008) and The Panic of 1893: The Untold Story of Washington State's first Depression (Caxton, 2018). His web page is bruceramsey.net.
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Why does anyone think that Republicans, or Democrats for that matter, will advance libertarianism?
Ron Paul may be the "most" libertarian of a bad bunch, but even his partial libertarian ideas are overwhelmingly rejected by the Republicans, and Democrats.
The truth is... voters, both Republican and Democrat, want government to steal money from their neighbor and give it to them, without having their own money stolen. Tricky effect there.
To change this you have to get new voters. Not convert the same old voters. And running in the Republican primary will not get you to these people. You are just trying to convert people who are perfectly satisfied with "saving" social security, medicare, being the world's police force, etc.
As a side note, I doubt Ron Paul would endorse a LP candidate. Ron Paul is much more interested in Ron Paul than advancing libertarianism. And what good would his endorsement do anyway?
Thu, 2012-03-01 01:53
scott hutchinson
Give me one reason to believe your statement that Paul is interested in himself over libertarian ideals. I'll give you just two off the top of my head that suggest the opposite is true.
He never signed up for his congressional pension, and has voted for only one or two spending bills in his entire career. Ya don't get to be "Dr. No" by advocating for the theft of people's money, and as evidenced by Dr. No himself, ya don't get popular by advocating against it. That hasn't changed his stance, therefore he obviously has less interest in himself than in his cause.
Tue, 2012-03-27 12:51
Dr. Paul has put billions and billions of dollars of spending into bills that he knew would pass. Eventhough, he voted "no" that was just a fraud. He knew perfectly well that the spending of taxpayer dollars would happen even with his no vote. That spending would never happen without his having them put in the bills.
Also, how does he explain his anti-immigration views. Which are obviously unlibertarian? How's he going to pay for his 700 mile fence?
There's a couple reasons why Paul is out for himself, at the expense of libertarian ideals. Would you like some more? I have them.
Fri, 2012-03-30 19:29
Willy Star Marshall
Earmarks do not increase the amount of spending in a bill. They only direct that X amount of it be spent in his district. Ron Paul was right to stick as many earmarks in pork-barrel bills as possible, and then vote against the bill. It's just too bad he wasn't able to get ALL of the money in a bill to be spent in his district to the exclusion of all other districts. Then maybe the other congressmen would see that the program really isn't worthwhile at all.
John McCain perhaps is more to your liking. Posing as a conservative, he made a big deal about opposing earmarks, but he certainly never opposed big spending in general. How "mavericky" of him!
Mon, 2012-10-08 02:45
Bill Cole
The idea that he put "billions and billions of dollars of spending into bills that he knew would pass." is false. He earmarked funding built into the bill for his district, but that is a responsibility of congress. Funding not earmarked is directed at the discretion of the executive branch. By earmarking money already budgeted, Paul saved money for his local district. This is not advocacy of spending, just that of constitutional oversight and responsibility.
Thu, 2012-06-07 13:02
Serge Issakov
To anyone reading this who likes Ron Paul except on foreign policy, this video was made for you.
Wed, 2011-12-14 03:39
Most Republicans look upon Paul as insane. I actually heard him called that yesterday by one of the "conservative" radio hosts.
Republicans are too enthralled with being everyone else's daddy to except someone who believes in a little liberty.
Thus begs the question, is this advancing the cause of liberty? Imo, not more so than the LP candidite that will receive 1% in the general election. The US voting population really, really likes big brother, they just disagree a very little on where the money is spent and where the money comes from.
Tue, 2011-12-20 12:04
Serge Issakov
"Most Republicans look upon Paul as insane."
Most? Really?
"I actually heard him called that yesterday by one of the 'conservative' radio hosts."
So Limbaugh or Hannity, I presume? Okay, that's one. Or two. How do you get to "most" from that?
"not more so than the LP candidite that will receive 1% in the general election. "
But Ron Paul is favored to WIN in Iowa and get SECOND in New Hampshire. How can you compare that to the impact of receiving 1%?
"The US voting population really, really likes big brother..."
If nothing else, Ron Paul has introduced thousands of young people to libertarian thinking. He has introduced them to the writing of Hayek, Mises, Bastiat and others.
Check out what they are saying.
All these liberty-minded folks are available for growing the LP, and yet many are already turned off by the negativity expressed towards Ron Paul, as is demonstrated by you here.
A not so unlikely outcome here is that Ron Paul does well, but does not get the nomination, and then endorses Gary Johnson on the LP ticket, producing the best results for an LP candidate in history.
Fri, 2011-12-23 19:49
"But Ron Paul is favored to win in Iowa, finish second in New Hampshire....."
2 extremely small states, one with a caucas, with very low voter turn out compared to likely voters in a general election. These states had 1% of eligable voters vote in the Republican primaries. Paul is introducing libertarian ideals to very, very few.
At the end of the day, compare his vote totals to that of the LP candidate. They will be very similar.
I'd like to be pollyannic about libertians' chances in the 2012 election. But based on 20 years expierence in the LP I see this election as no different as the other 10 major election cycles. Primarily because americans do not like libertarianism. It may not always be thus, but for the immediate this is an absolute fact.
Tue, 2012-02-28 13:42
Serge Issakov
Bruce Ramsey, do you still stand by this article?
Even the intrade.com prediction market is giving Ron Paul a 7.5% chance of winning the nomination. That's better than all the other GOP candidates, except for Newt and Mitt.
Of course 7.5% is a low probability, but it's still giving him a much better chance than your words from May 2011 did in this article.
Surely you must concede that Ron Paul is doing much better than you expected, with an actual win in Iowa not at all out of the question. And if anything can happen is not the theme of this election, I don't know what is.
If he does win Iowa, or even places second (which he is favored to do), that should get his poll numbers up, as well as his chances of winning into the double digits, perhaps well into the double digits, especially if he also has a strong finish in New Hampshire (also well with the realm of possibility).
I just think we have to wait and see. I agree with you that political ideas don't change that fast, but for the core Republicans who are generally concerned about the economy, government spending, and the size of the government, their ideas don't have to change to favor Paul - just their priorities do. If they lower the priority of foreign policy issues, as more and more Iowans seem willing to do, while raising the priorities of the issues that they do agree with Paul about, he comes out the best choice compared to the candidates.
I suggest that right now we cannot accurately predict the percentage of GOP voters to whom this calculus will apply. Thus, we must wait and see, and in the mean time, throw him as much support as we can.
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Before the results were published, a cousin contacted me. She is my mother's second cousin. Our common ancestors were John D Preston (1859-1928) and Bridget Sheehey (1856-1916). Her grandfather, George Preston, was a brother to my great grandmother, Anna Preston. Previously, through DNA testing at 23andMe, I made contact with a descendant of another sibling, Hannah.
|1900 federal census: Independence, Warren County, New Jersey USA
Household of John D Preston
I am descended from Anna Preston. Last year, we met descendants of Hannah Preston.
In this post, we meet a descendant of George Preston.
My AncestryDNA closest matches are predicted to be 3rd to 4th cousins.
I don't know how the first person is related to me. He has no genealogy information under his profile. When my father's results are available, I will check if this cousin matches my father. If not, the match is likely through my mother.
The second match is my Preston cousin. We both attached family trees to our profiles. Ancestry tagged her tree with a little leaf to let me know that Ancestry has a suggestion as to which ancestor in our trees may be the common ancestor.
John D Preston is indeed our common ancestor. Bridget Sheehey, our other common ancestor, was left out of this suggestion.
This newly discovered cousin provided me with information on her branch of the Preston tree. I followed them through the census and retrieved some of their vital records from the Archives in Trenton. As a coincidence, in the 1920 census in Newark, New Jersey, we have George Preston and his wife, Margaret [Fallon], living a few houses away from my paternal great grandfather, Howard Lutter, and my great great grandmother, Clara Uhl.
|1920 federal census: Newark, Essex County, New Jersey USA
South Ninth Street
The Prestons were living at 164 South Ninth Street. The Lutters were at 158.
Finding George Preston's birth certificate provides me with a narrower time frame for when the family relocated from Dutchess County, New York to Warren County, New Jersey. George's birth certificate for November 12, 1886 is the first found in New Jersey for the couple John Preston and Bridget Sheehey. Strangely, the next two children, Hannah and Anna, had no certificates. But Henry, born 1897, and Walter, born 1899, were issued birth certificates. If the child count is correct, I am still missing some children.
The branches lost contact, but through the internet, we reconnected. My grandmother's notes reveal that she continued receiving news about the family. She wrote that George (her maternal uncle) had one son.
Now I have tested my autosomal DNA at the three major companies: 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA, and AncestryDNA. I have close and distant relations at all three. Unlike 23andMe and FamilyTree DNA, AncestryDNA does not reveal which pieces, or segments, of my DNA that I have in common with my matches. This information is necessary to figure out the connection to more distant relations.


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The struggle between humans and insects began with the dawn of time - and will continue as long as humans and insects want the same thing (for instance, your Evansville, IN lawn!) at the same time.
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Expectations for new capacity in 2014 are deceptively low, beneath even the 511MW that went online in 2013, which in turn was down on the 741MW installed in 2012.
"But, naturally, with reform on the table, investment has been holding back to see which way the cookie crumbles," says Ramon Fiestas, Latin American chair of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). Fiestas is confident that it has crumbled the right way. "Maybe not in time for much of a pick-up this year, but that will come."
End of state monopoly
Most notably, the reformed law ends the formal monopoly on power generation held by state utility and system operator CFE. "The exact shape of a liberalised power market mechanism is now under discussion," says Fiestas.
Through a loophole under the old law, CFE "delegated" wind development and operation through calls for wind power offers known as "open seasons" - all in Oaxaca, Mexico's windiest state. The process issued power purchase agreements (PPAs) to winning contenders, mostly Spanish companies. CFE and the developers carried out necessary grid improvements.
Another loophole permitted self-supply, whereby large industries supply their own power through partnerships and PPAs with wind developers. That fast growing strand of development indicated the desire for free enterprise mechanisms.
Now, the liberalisation reform "has already sparked an influx of requests from abroad for membership to the Mexican Wind Energy Association (Amdee)", says Mauricio Velasco, Amdee's research coordinator.
"The specific regulations are now under negotiation," he says. They include talks on how CFE can deploy grid improvements across the country as wind applications surge outside Oaxaca state. Already last year, the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Jalisco and Chiapas comissioned wind capacity, breaking Oaxaca and Baja California's exclusivity as wind power states.
Following local opposition holding up hundreds of megawatts in Oaxaca - including the 396MW Marena project - "developers have learned the need for exhaustive negotiations and clear settlements", says Velasco. "Take off is on its way," says Fiestas.
Current political backdrop Since its electoral victory in July 2012, the federal PRI party government has consolidated its commitment to wind and other renewables, which form a central part of December 2013's energy reform
High point of 2013 Energy reform bill passed in December
Low point Commissioning deadline passes on 396MW Marena project without a single turbine going up due to blockades from indigenous opponents
Key influencer Federal state energy secretary Joaquin Coldwell, staunch supporter of wind power and key architect of the energy reform


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July 18, 2013 11:16 AM | Examiner.com
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect the health care of every American in some form as it continues to be implemented. The law's intended effects are particularly targeted on certain groups. For example, the ACA creates a new Office of Minority Health to address disease prevention, health promotion, risk reduction, healthier lifestyle choices, use of health care services and barriers to health care. Some of the largest minority groups in America include African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
The problem of health disparities
Before the ACA was passed, minorities tended to suffer from what is commonly called "health disparities," which is simply one way of saying that minorities tended to suffer more from health issues than the majority population. For example, the 2010 Census Bureau report found that minorities tend to have lower infant mortality rates, and also have lower life expectancy than Whites.
More specifically, look at the following 2010 statistics from the Office of Minority Health for the 43.8 million African Americans (14 percent of the overall population) living in the United States:
- 44 percent of African Americans in comparison to 62 percent of non-Hispanic Whites used employer-sponsored health insurance.
- 28 percent of African Americans in comparison to 11 percent of non-Hispanic Whites relied on Medicaid, public health insurance.
- 20.8 percent of African Americans in comparison to 11.7 percent of non-Hispanic Whites were uninsured.
- In 2009, the death rate for African Americans was higher than Whites for heart diseases, stroke, cancer, asthma, influenza and pneumonia, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and homicide.
The statistics are also glaring for the 52 million Hispanics (approximately 16.7 percent of the population) who live in the United States:
- Hispanics have the lowest insured rates of any racial or ethnic group; just 39.6 percent of Mexicans are insured, 51.6 percent of Puerto Ricans, 51.6 percent of Cubans and 46.4 percent of other Hispanic and Latino groups.
- In 2010, 30.7 percent of the Hispanic population was not covered by health insurance, as compared to 11.7 percent of the non-Hispanic White population.
- Hispanics have higher rates of obesity than non-Hispanic Whites.
- The rate of low birth weight infants is lower for the total Hispanic population in comparison to non-Hispanic Whites.
- Puerto Ricans have a low birth weight rate that is 60 percent higher than the rate for non-Hispanic Whites.
- Also Puerto Ricans also suffer disproportionately from asthma, HIV/AIDS and infant mortality.
- Mexican-Americans suffer disproportionately from diabetes.
According to the Office of Minority Health, these health disparities are caused by a number of factors, with economics being one of the leading factors. For example, 26.6 percent of Hispanics, in comparison to 14.9 percent of non-Hispanic Whites, work within service occupations, and those occupations tend to not provide health benefits. The unemployment rate for African Americans was twice as high as the unemployment rate for Non-Hispanic Whites, according to the 2010 Census Bureau report.
The ACA attempts to address these health disparities in a number of ways.
Before the problem can appropriately be solved it must first be fully understood. To that end, Congress funded the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities with $831 million for scientific research on how to improve minority health and eliminate health disparities.
Expansion of Medicaid
Since many minority groups tend to suffer from higher levels of poverty, they also tend to rely more on programs such as Medicaid. Medicaid covers nearly 40 percent of African-American and Latino children. The ACA expands coverage in 2014 up to 133 percent above the poverty level. Nearly half of the current group of uninsured people would qualify for Medicaid under this new criteria.
Community health centers
The ACA provides $11 billion in funding to double the number of patients that are provided primary and preventative services by community health centers. In 2009, 34 percent of health center patients were Hispanic or Latino and 28 percent were African American.
Employer mandate
In addition, the ACA will attempt to expand employer-provided health insurance coverage to many minorities who work in lower-paying jobs. Under the law, employers with more than 50 employees will have to pay a fine if any of their employees receive a premium credit for purchasing their own insurance because they were not offered insurance from their employer.
Minorities have historically suffered from worst health outcomes in the United States due to a number of factors. The ACA attempts to expand health insurance coverage for minorities and improve overall health through research, public programs and mandated private insurance.
[1] http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=1&lvlID=7
[2] http://www.ncsl.org/documents/health/HDandACA.pdf
[3] http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/8016-02.pdf
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Adding a Back Door to your Windows Computer via File Sharing
A few times a year I run into situations where an application, a driver, or something effectively locks me out of my computer. After trying various remedies I am ultimately forced to do a hard power down of the computer. I cringe every time I am forced to take that action, praying I don't end up with corrupted files.
Today I had enough. I went to shutdown my laptop and head out the door to go get a working lunch only to have my computer log me out and show me Acronis True Image's dreaded, "Operations are in progress. Please wait. The machine will be turned off automatically after the operations are complete." That is Acronis True Image's way of saying, "We're not going to shut down until a backup or backup verification finishes." The problem is those operations can take hours, and nine times out of ten the message is bogus, indicating not something in progress but a job that's hung. Today's case was one such example that would have left me waiting forever; the backup drive was disconnected, so Acronis True Image could not have been doing anything at all. When this message is displayed there's no normal way to force a shutdown other than forcing a power off with the power button. There is no ability to log in locally, no ability to log in remotely via RDP, no ability to use System Internal's remote tools (I am not sure if the reasons relate to permissions or not, I've not adequately investigated). So, today I decided to put in a back door which will save me in such situations.
Schedule a Task to Periodically Run a Remotely Editable Batch File
In all the cases where these sorts of things have happened I've noticed that I can still remotely access the computer's file system just fine. This got me to thinking I could use that as a vector for forcing Windows to execute some code to force the shutdown. To that end I created a shared folder on the laptop called "backdoor", made sure permissions allow only myself the privilege of editing its files, and created a single batch file inside it called backdoor.bat. I then set up a task in Windows Task Scheduler to execute that batch file as administrator (UAC) every 5 minutes from now until forever. When not needed the batch file is effectively empty, just a couple of commented out batch commands. If I find myself locked out I can populate the file with whatever executable commands might be appropriate to force the shutdown (e.g., System Internals' pslist, pskill, psshutdown).
Follow up
Since setting this up a month ago I've already had two occasions where this method saved me and allowed me to shutdown my computer gracefully!
For anyone curious, the commands I put in the backdoor.bat file are:
C:\systeminternals\pslist -accepteula > pslist.txt
C:\systeminternals\pskill -accepteula trueimagehomeservice
C:\systeminternals\pskill -accepteula trueimagehomenotify
Those lines are commented out until and unless I need them. The first line lets me grab a snapshot of the running processes and put them in a text file I can read, very useful if the system still doesn't shut down. Since my task will only run every 5 minutes if the first attempt doesn't shut things down I've got several minutes to review the process list and find other processes to try and kill. The last two lines kill the processes that are typically hanging my shutdowns (I haven't bothered to check which of the two processes is the problem, so I just list both.)
Initially I tried to just use a more generic approach and force a shutdown ("psshutdown -accepteula -r -f -t 60") but I could never get this method to work, it didn't ever seem to kill the jobs that were hanging things up.
Since setting this up I've needed to use it a dozen times or more, saving me almost as many hard resets. The most frequent situation in which I need to use it has been when Stardock's Multiplicity prevents my keyboard and mouse from being used and when Acronis' True Image prevents shutdown (see above).
Multiplicity is a fantastic app that lets your mouse and keyboard seamlessly switch between different computers as though they were just extra monitors on the one computer. It is brilliant software, but has had a hugely serious bug in it for all the years as I've used it. If Multiplicity gave focus to another computer and that computer went offline (network outage, sleep/shutdown, software crash) it won't let you regain the use of your primary computer. Whatever timeout logic should restore your ability to use your primary computer fails the vast majority of the time and you are locked out of your own computer, unable to send commands to it. My backdoor trick lets me kill off Multiplicity and regain access.
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Celebrities including writer Ian McEwan and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins have signed a petition calling for a posthumous government apology to computing pioneer and wartime code-breaker Alan Turing.
A Downing Street petition calling for an apology for the "prosecution of Alan Turing that led to his untimely death" has attracted more than 17,000 signatures.
Turing was denied clearance to work on classified work for GCHQ after he admitted a homosexual relationship and was convicted of gross indecency in 1952. Forced to take an experimental chemical castration treatment to avoid prison, Turing spiralled into depression and committed suicide two years later in 1954, aged just 41.
After leading a team of code-breakers at Bletchley Park during WWII, helping to create the Bombe that automated the process of decrypting messages encoded using the German Enigma machines, Turing went on to lay the foundations for modern computer science. For example, he helped design the Manchester Mark 1, one of the first computers.
John Graham-Cumming, the British computer scientist who started the campaign, has also asked the Queen to give Turing a posthumous knighthood. Turing has no surviving family.
Graham-Cumming admits that a government apology is "unlikely", but said that anything that contributes to greater public recognition of Turing's work and that highlights the injustice he faced is worthwhile.
"The most important thing to me is that people hear about Alan Turing and realise his incredible impact on the modern world, and how terrible the impact of prejudice was on him," Graham-Cumming told the BBC.
British scientists such as Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton appear on the back of Bank of England notes, and we can't help thinking that Turing's contribution to defeating the Nazis and computing might be more properly marked by having his portrait appear on the back of a note next time they are redesigned. Such a move would also recognise the contribution of all at Bletchley Park to the war effort. ®
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Superstorm Sandy pummeled Maryland's Eastern Shore
Storm causes tens of millions of dollars in damage, 11 die in Md.
One year ago, a monstrous Superstorm Sandy killed more than 180 people and became the second most costly storm in U.S. history, leaving behind $65 billion in damage.
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In Maryland, most of the destruction occurred on the Eastern Shore, but there was also flooding and power outages throughout the Baltimore region. Flood-prone areas like Fells Point, Bowley's Quarters and Middle River were spared the worst of the storm.
The mountains of western Maryland even saw a freak snowstorm that brought more than 30 inches of snow.
To say that most of Maryland dodged a bullet in Superstorm Sandy is an understatement after looking at the mass devastation suffered in parts of New York and New Jersey.
There was a lot of uncertainty as the late October storm made its way through Maryland, which, at one point, was forecasted to pass right over the Chesapeake Bay.
Ultimately, there was a wide array of damage around the state. In Ocean City, part of the fishing pier was washed out, sand was pushed up onto the boardwalk and debris could be seen everywhere.
In Baltimore City, a number of trees fell on homes, cars and power lines as winds easily pushed them over because of the saturated ground statewide. At one point, almost 400,000 people did not have power but it was quickly restored.
Perhaps the hardest hit area in the state was in the quiet crabbing town of Crisfield.
"We evacuated 550 people most from low-lying areas," said Crisfield Mayor Percy Purnell.
Following the storm, Pernell toured the wreckage with Gov. Martin O'Malley, seeing homes flooded and the town's fishing dock severely damaged.
While President Barack Obama did declare a state of emergency in Maryland, residents in Crisfield were originally denied individual relief. Hearings took place on Capitol Hill and it was eventually changed.
"If you live in Crisfield, Maryland, you are suffering as badly as any part or any community in this storm," said U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland.
Ultimately, Somerset County had more than $40 million worth of damage and 11 Marylanders died as a result of the storm.
Maryland emergency officials learn lessons from Sandy
For the most part, operations at the Maryland Emergency Management Agency went smoothly during the storm but there were some lessons learned as well.
Mobile users tap here to watch Lowell Melser's report on MEMA
There was much uncertainty as the late October storm made its way through Maryland, which, at one point, was forecasted to pass right over the Chesapeake Bay. MEMA's executive director, Ken Mallette, remembers it all too well.
"We were actually preparing in this room and talking to the governor that we were anticipating a direct hit," Mallette said.
A year later, Mallette said he remembers the intense preparations just days before the storm.
"We had a pre-declaration of disaster by the president. We had brought in resources from as far away as Texas to come and assist us," Mallette said.
Mallette said MEMA learned much from the storm, including improving private-sector relationships, better use of social media and, above all, engaging with communities, especially those in harm's way.
"The public heeded those warnings, stayed off streets, allowed emergency responders to do what they had to do," Mallette said.
It was announced Monday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded $19 million to the hardest hit areas in Maryland.


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Workers are putting the finishing touches on a new statue of the late Pope John Paul II that its backer is calling the tallest one of the pontiff in the world.
The 13.8-meter (45.3-foot) white fiberglass figure will tower over the southern Polish city of Czestochowa, home to the predominantly Catholic country's most important pilgrimage site, the Jasna Gora monastery.
Funded by a private investor and put up on his land, the statue of the Polish-born pontiff shows him smiling and stretching his arms to the world. On Tuesday, workers were joining the pieces together and painting them before the official unveiling of the statue Saturday, to be attended by church and city authorities.
Leszek Lyson, who is funding the project, called the pope "a great and good man who has done a lot for the world: ended communism and opened borders in Europe, reached out to people in his pilgrimages around the world."
He said the statue "should make everyone stop and think about life."
Its construction comes as the traditionally respected church is facing criticism for its conservative views on the family and ethics, and its opposition to abortion, in-vitro fertilization and gay marriage.
Poland has long been predominantly Roman Catholic, but church statistics show attendance shrinking from some 50 percent of parish members in the 1980s; to 45 percent in 2005, the year the pope died; to 41 percent in 2010.
Born Karol Wojtyla in Wadowice, southern Poland, John Paul was elected pope in 1978, a surprise choice from communist-controlled eastern Europe.
In Poland, he is credited with inspiring the Solidarity movement that helped end communism in 1989. His death was a time of national mourning.
Lyson told The Associated Press that he wants the new statue to remind future generations of the Polish pope.
However, 22-year-old Ewelina Gozdek, who was watching the preparations with her friends, was skeptical. "It is an attraction now in a city where nothing ever happens, but will be forgotten soon enough," she said.
The unveiling ceremony will mark three years since Lyson saved his son from drowning and is a sign of thanks.
He is also trying to get the statue into Guinness Book of Records as the world's tallest one of John Paul.
That will generate comparisons with two John Paul statues in other countries.
Last year, an adapted version of a controversial 5.5-meter (18-feet) bronze sculpture of Pope John Paul II went on display in Rome. The original had irked many Romans who said it was ugly and didn't adequately capture the likeness of their beloved pope.
In Santiago, Chile, a small statue of the pope was inaugurated on San Cristobal Hill in 2011, after a proposal to build a 13-meter (43-foot) one was rejected as too big.
Poland already boasts that it has the world's tallest statue of Jesus, unveiled in 2010 in the western town of Swiebodzin.


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Wijeya Newspapers Selects New Goss Press for Better Quality and Efficiency in Sri Lankan Weekend Editions
By: Press Release | Goss
February 13th, 2013 – Leading Sri Lankan newspaper group, Wijeya Newspapers (WNL) will install a new six-tower Goss Magnum press to improve color capacity in weekend titles and meet a growing demand for Sunday newspapers. The Goss press will be installed in April at one of the publishers' two print facilities in Sri Lanka's commercial capital of Colombo.
As a new customer to Goss International, WNL chose to invest in advanced technology as well as greater production capacity.
Totaling 24 units configured as six four-high towers, six zero-speed reelstands and a 1:3:3 half-page jaw folder, the new 2×1 (single-width, single-circumference) Magnum press will feature a 546mm cut-off and operate at speeds up to 45,000 copies per hour. It will also incorporate shaftless drive technology, as well as motorized ink keys and advanced spraybar dampening and blanket washer technology for improved quality and production versatility.
Production director at Wijeya Newspapers, Mr P.S. Wijewardene, says the Goss Magnum press is expected to increase capacity by thirty percent at the plant. "In addition to an increased demand for Sunday newspapers, our customers are becoming more quality conscious, so we were looking to upgrade our capabilities with advanced technology from Goss," he explains. "Choosing the Goss Magnum press gives us the confidence that we can meet growing demands and improve quality of reproduction and color capacity in our weekend products."
According to P.S. Wijewardene, the investment is part of a company-wide quality improvement program, representing a real opportunity for the publisher: "With political developments in the country, new reader regions have opened up to us in the last few years, meaning that run lengths have increased and brought with them significant growth potential," he concludes. "As readers continue to become more discerning, the ability to maximize this potential in coming years will require versatile, multipurpose production systems incorporating a variety of progressive technologies. For this reason, we have decided the time is right to take a step up in capabilities with this latest press investment."
Established in 1979 by Chairman R.S. Wijewardene, Wijeya Newspapers claims the title of foremost newspaper group in Sri Lanka with the highest recorded turnover. The company's portfolio of publications consists of many national independent newspapers, including the leading title, Daily Lankadeepa, a Sinhalese newspaper.
WNL's Sunday Lankadeepa is described as the "crown jewels" of the Wijeya Group, having achieved the highest number of copies sold of any Sri Lankan publication on record. Other daily titles include Daily Mirror, Daily FT and the Sunday Times, as well as Adha, a national Sinhalese daily paper, targeted at young people to encourage new readers. Weeklies and glossy magazines are also published in the three main languages of Sinhala, Tamil and English. WNL has achieved many national awards for editorial content, design, photo journalism and production across its many titles.


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The wait is finally over, this Sunday "Mad Men" returns to AMC for its fifth season. Does Don actually get married? Will Peggy find a husband? Will Roger find out he's a father? Burning questions we all want answered. One of the series' most memorable characters, Salvatore Romano, may have been fired from the agency, but for actor Bryan Batt, the show was just one stop in his notable career. From Broadway and film to opening his own home accessories shop Hazelnut, Bryan brings his unique style everywhere he goes. We caught up with the New Orleans native to talk about his new book "Big, Easy Style," how to properly stock a bar, and of course "Mad Men."
OH: I must say I'm a huge fan of yours. I love "Mad Men," I'm a big fan of the show but also of your character in particular.
Bryan: Thank you. Everywhere I go people are coming up to me and saying how much they love Salvatore and how much they love the show. It's really reassuring.
OH: In your new book "Big Easy Style," you start off talking about color and you write, "don't be afraid of color." As a New Orleans native, did New Orleans and the colors of New Orleans influence your aesthetic?
Bryan: Yes. New Orleans is a very vibrant city, a very eclectic city. It's like New York in a way because it's a great mix and great melting pot. I like to call it a big bowl of gumbo because there's a lot of cultural influences here and there's a lot of color everywhere you look. Mardi Gras is just an explosion of color and with all the different festivals down here—it's a very lush and tropical climate, so it lends itself to this Caribbean influence. There's some Haitian influence. There's a lot of French, a lot of Spanish, African Influences--it's just a great mix.
OH: And your book is filled with images of amazing interiors and the use of color appears in the floors, the ceilings--bright colors that you might not think go together. Do you have any tips for our viewers and readers about color and how they can use it?
Bryan: You should never paint any room in your house a color that you do not look good in. Your home is also your backdrop and your set, so you want to look good in it. Color is such a personal choice. When I fall in love with a color and go with a color, I want to go full throttle. So if you like a color, go with it. And, I cant stress it enough--get the little samples and paint a nice size swatch on the wall. Look at it in all different kinds of light because it is going to change with daylight, with incandescent light, with candlelight, it's going to change. Definitely do the color test.
OH: Your book is a little different than maybe your average design book. You have a list of stores that you love, drink recipes, and favorite colors. Who are you writing to?
Bryan: It's for people who love design, but are maybe a little timid or intimidated by designing their home. I am all for hiring a great designer, but for many people that's not an option. I wanted to give people the "go ahead " and the confidence to decorate their home and enjoy it, because I don't care what your budget is or how big your home is--everyone deserves a beautiful surrounding to live in. Whether it's a tiny, tiny budget or a great big lavish, extravagant budget, you have to make do.
OH: Perfect, so a lot of people know you from "Mad Men" and a lot of people have followed your Broadway career and you have a boutique "Hazelnut." How did you make that transition?
Bryan: When I started putting up drapes in my tree house, I knew I liked designing. I was in seventh grade and my parents were building their dream home, and I fell in love with it. I would accompany them on all the meetings, buying trips and interviews with designers. I would go to antique stores for fun. I think it was just a natural identity. I also fell in love with acting. As my acting took off and I was just about to start some classes in New York, I got my first Broadway show. I was trying to do both, but acting just took off. I always had my fingers and toes in designing apartments with friends on the side, but with my schedule, it was very hard to make it work.
Hazelnut was something my partner Tom and I wanted to do for years. He had managed some beautiful boutiques on Madison Avenue, and with the encouragement of his "then" bosses—and, I had these months when I had no job lined up--this window of opportunity opened up and we decided to open the store. We found the perfect location and we really wanted to do it in New Orleans mainly because New York is so wonderfully saturated with great shopping and great boutiques. We wanted to go somewhere that wasn't really represented.
OH: So in your book you say that you love and worship adult libation stations, I'm with you on that one! What are the essentials to stock a home bar?
Bryan: Well, you definitely need basic alcohol; you need to have good vodka, good scotch, rum, bourbon, gin and a muddler. Everyone needs a great set of martini glasses or cocktail or Manhattan glasses. You also need a double old-fashioned, a rock glass, and definitely some great wine glasses. It can be as grand as you want or a place to have a little sense of humor and a little hitch factor. And some crazy bottles can really reflect you personality or what you're into. It can be sleek, a great deco bar you might find in Cary Grant's apartment. Or, it can be some fun over-the-top fifties, retro look, kind of a "Mad Men" bar--you can do anything you want.
OH: I have to ask with the premier of "Mad Men" this weekend, can we expect anything from Salvatore on the show?
Bryan: I have no idea! They've only told me that I'm not dead--that's all I know. It's crazy… everywhere I go people ask me when I'm coming back or if I'm coming back. I have no information. I wish I did.
OH: Yeah, absolutely. Well Bryan, congratulations on the book, and with the continued success of "Mad Men" and your Broadway career. Thank you for taking the time to talk to us.
Bryan: No problem. Thank you too!
Q&A: "Mad Men's" Bryan Batt Gives Design Tips and Reveals Bar Secrets
The wait is finally over, this Sunday "Mad Men" returns to AMC for its fifth season. Does Don actually get married? Will Peggy find a husband? Will Roger find out he's a father? Burning questions we all want answered. One of the series' most memorable characters, Salvatore Romano, may have been fired from the agency, but for actor Bryan Batt, the show was just one stop in his notable career. From Broadway and film to opening his own home accessories shop Hazelnut, Bryan brings his unique style everywhere he goes. We caught up with the New Orleans native to talk about his new book "Big, Easy Style," how to properly stock a bar, and of course "Mad Men."


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Weekly travel rail, with a look at transit expectations in Washington for the inauguration, a look at more presidential libraries, offroading tips and more.
If you're planning to go to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration festivities in January, be prepared to wait. Officials are expecting record turnouts on mass transit, and while they're taking steps to accommodate the influx of visitors, they're also taking steps to advice people to be patient. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said the city is expecting 3 million to 5 million people on Inauguration Day and that buses and the Metrorail system will be swamped. If you're going, plan ahead and plan for plenty of extra time.
American Tourist
Looking to learn more about the presidents and travel at the same time? You might want to check out some presidential libraries. Here's the fifth in American Tourist's series on presidential libraries:
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
Where: 200 S.E. 4th Street, Abilene, Kan.
Hours: 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. every day except Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
7 and younger: free
8-15 years old: $1
Adults (16-61): $8
Seniors (62 and older): $6
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Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Where: 500 W. US Hwy. 24, Independence, Mo.
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.; closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
Adults: $8
Seniors (65 and older): $7
Children 6 to 15: $3
Children 5 and younger: Free
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Good to Know
Travelers of U.S.-based DayJet and the Danish carrier Sterling Airlines are out of luck – both airlines recently went belly up. DayJet filed for bankruptcy and announced it was shutting down and not honoring nor refunding tickets already purchased. Low-cost carrier Sterling said the same thing.
Fun Fact
São Francisco de Assis Church in Belo Horizonte, Brazil has such out-of-the-ordinary architecture that the Catholic Church refused to consecrate it for a time. (Wikitravel.org)
Travel Tip
Planning to go offroading? Here are some tips from Wikitravel.org:
- Always wear a safety belt, even if driving at low speeds.
- Make it a habit to never brace yourself against a "roll bar" -- in the event you overturn, you could crush or lose fingers.
- Make sure your safety helmet has face protection. (Broken jaws are common.)
- Do not fight against the vehicle. Let the steering wheel slip through your fingers a bit and gently guide it the way you want.
- Never grip the steering wheel with your thumbs on the inside. Hitting a boulder or pothole at speed will cause the steering to turn fast and hard, resulting in a bruised, dislocated or broken thumb.
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Sir Ian Wilmut, OBE (born 7 July 1944) is an English embryologist and is currently Director of the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly. He was granted an OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development. In December 2007 it was announced that he would be knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.
Wilmut was born in Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, England. Wilmut's father, Leonard Wilmut, was a mathematics teacher who suffered from diabetes for fifty years eventually causing blindness. He was a student of the former Boys' High School, in Scarborough, where his father taught. Wilmut's early desire was to embark on a naval career, but he was unable to do so due to his colour blindness. As a school boy, Wilmut worked as a farm hand on weekends, which inspired him to study Agriculture at the University of Nottingham.
During the summer of 1966 Wilmut spent 8 weeks working in the laboratory of Christopher Polge, who is credited with developing the technique of cryopreservation in 1949. The following year, Wilmut joined Polge's laboratory to undertake a research PhD, from which he graduated in 1971. Wilmut has since been involved in research focusing on gametes and embryogenesis including working at the Roslin Institute. In 1998 he received the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award.


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Last month, in striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the 5-4 majority in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, declared that federal oversight of the electoral process in mostly southern states, including various counties in Florida, no longer was necessary because "things have changed dramatically." The Chief Justice mentioned how in the Freedom Summer of 1964, three civil rights workers had been murdered attempting to register African American voters, and how the following year, police beat black marchers in Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday . His decision implied that in today's United States, with a black President and black elected officials, we are largely, if not entirely, colorblind.
My mind jumped back to the Chief Justice's majority opinion in Shelby County when I heard late Saturday night that a nearly all white jury (one juror was Hispanic) had acquitted George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin homicide. How could Zimmerman not be guilty when the police specifically told him to get back in his car? And why was he following Trayvon Martin in the first place? If Trayvon Martin had been white, would anyone have questioned his presence in a gated community? Are we still killing black men—and their supporters?
Yes things may have changed, but how much? Do we really live in an idyllic colorblind society, as five Supreme Court justices seem to think? Are we really at a point in time when we can discard the hallmark piece of civil rights legislation? Not long after the Supreme Court's decision, Southern states rushed to enact legislation making it more difficult for the poor and minorities to vote.
Disappointed though I was by the Trayvon Martin verdict, perturbed as I was by the Supreme Court's decision, this week I was inspired by a couple of songs that reminded me of the hope and fellowship that came with the civil rights movement and the marches I and so many others participated in. At a blues festival in Rockland this weekend, I listened to the great soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples sing "Freedom Highway," about the march on Selma. Check out the video on YouTube; I guarantee you'll find it uplifting. And in Boston I heard Paul McCartney sing "Blackbird," which I never had realized he had written about the Civil Rights movement. So like McCartney's blackbird, this is our moment once again to arise; the courts are not our only bulwark to defend liberty. Like those on the Freedom Highway, it is time for us to shake off our complacency and march. Only then can we ensure the words of the prophet Amos that justice will flow like a mighty river.
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A lawyer says the physician being investigated in Michael Jackson's death will appear for a Nov. 16 child support hearing in Las Vegas.
Attorney Christopher Aaron and a spokeswoman for Clark County District Attorney David Roger said Wednesday that no warrant will be issued for Dr. Conrad Murray pending his Family Court hearing.
Roger filed a document Tuesday urging a judge to deny Aaron's request to let Murray make only minimal payments on more than $14,000 that Roger says Murray owes a California woman and her son.
Aaron says Murray had to close his medical practice and move due to threats following Jackson's death June 25.
Los Angeles police are focusing a homicide investigation on Murray. He told investigators he gave Jackson a powerful anesthetic before he died.
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Nashville, Tenn. – During halftime of Big Blue's first game against Bethune-Cookman on Sept. 1, the Tennessee State Athletic Department will retire legendary TSU football player Richard Dent's No. 95 jersey.
Dent will be the honoree of the 15th annual John Merritt Classic and his jersey will become the first one retired in program history. The only other retired jersey by TSU is former men's basketball player Richard "Skull" Barnett's No. 35.
Dent, a native of Atlanta Ga., became the first former TSU player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011. He played with the TSU tigers from 1979-82 and was drafted to the Chicago Bears soon after completing his last season with the Tigers.
Throughout his time at TSU, Dent was a three time All-American and is currently third in the school's all-time sack list. While helping to lead the Tigers to three Black college National Champions, Dent finished his career with 39 sacks.
After playing Football at Tennessee State University, Dent was drafted to the Chicago Bears in the eighth round of the 1983 NFL Draft. In 1986, Dent won a NFL championship with the Bears and was named Super Bowl XX MVP. He is also the Only TSU tiger alum to be named game MVP.
Beyond the Bears, Dent spent one year with the 49ers before eventually returning to Chicago in 1995. While under contract with the 49ers in 1994, Richard Dent won yet another Super Bowl ring. In 1996 Dent played for the Indianapolis Colts and the Philadelphia Eagles in 1997 as a designated pass rusher for them both. Not long after his 1997 season, Dent retired and ended his lifetime career with 137.5 sacks and 8 interceptions, which put him Third in NFL history behind Reggie white and Bruce Smith at the time of his retirement.
Dent was selected for enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio on Feb. 5, 2011. He was also inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame on February 15, 2008.
In addition, the city of Nashville will award Dent a medallion for his outstanding accomplishments.
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It was right down to the wire Saturday with Arendell Parrott Academy trailing Greene Central High School, when Parrott suddenly took the lead and held it.
It was right down to the wire Saturday with Arendell Parrott Academy trailing Greene Central High School, when Parrott suddenly took the lead and held it.
It was Quiz Bowl 2013, sponsored by the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library.
Seven teams competed at the 32nd annual event.
Greene Central, which hasn�t competed for a number of years, was in the lead throughout most of the last game.
Then Greene Central missed the question, �Who gave his name to the sequence beginning 11235?� Parrott answered �Fibinocci� correctly and gained half-credit, or 15 points.
The next question followed for Parrott, �Which two goddesses did the Greeks blame for the Trojan War because Paris, in selecting the fairest of the goddesses, did not find them as beautiful as Aphrodite?�
Parrott jumped ahead to 135 points with the answer �Hera and Athena.�
Neither team answered the final question correctly, and Parrott won by 15 points.
It came down to the last question, so it got kind of difficult,� Forrest Kriss of Parrott said.
The Parrott team met twice a week until a couple of weeks before the event, then three times a week, to practice.
�We just drill questions,� said Captain Lee Jenkins.
Agnes Ho, the library system�s executive director, said the students work hard to compete.
�I think it�s a really good promotion for people, for students,� she said. �We have done this for 36 years.�
The two teams faced 10-, 20- and 30-point questions by moderator, David Sawyer, chief meteorologist with WNCT in Greenville.
Some of the earlier questions during the competition included �What is the slope of the line y =-3x + 6?� (negative 3), �What weekly current events magazine is available only in an online version?� (Newsweek) and �Who built the Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina?� (James Vanderbuilt).
Parrott will compete at the Eastern North Carolina Regional Quiz Bowl. There will be no state competition this year, Ho said.
The Friends of the Kinston-Lenoir Public Library sponsored the event.
Members of the Parrott team each receive a $50 Visa gift card, while the members of the runner up team, Greene Central, each receive a $25 Visa gift card.
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ArendellParrottAcademyteam members:
Lee Jenkins, Captain
Thomas Grady
Forrest Kriss
Conor Whitlark
GreeneCentralHigh Schoolteam members:
Harrison Welch, Captain
Kristen Bubak
Jeffrey Bubak
P.T. Harrison
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INDIA and Pakistan have announced a new visa regime that will make cross-border travel easier as part of a thaw in their long-hostile ties.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Saturday tensions between the nuclear-powered rivals had eased a great deal since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in which 10 Pakistani militants killed 166 people.
The journey toward peace "is progressing very well because of growing interaction between the two governments," said Malik, after talks with Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in the Indian capital.
Condemning the Mumbai attacks, Malik told reporters that non-state actors, a reference to extremist groups, were playing "havoc with both countries".
Shinde said Pakistan's promises in the past to punish those responsible for the Mumbai attacks had not been fulfilled. India claims the terrorists had ties to Pakistani intelligence officials, which Islamabad denies.
"I am thankful to you (Malik) for assuring India that you will cooperate in handing over the perpetrators to India," Shinde told reporters Friday.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two of them over control of Kashmir, since they won independence from Britain in 1947. Kashmir is divided between the two countries.
The new visa system will allow members of divided families, businesspeople, tourists and religious pilgrims to obtain visas quickly instead of waiting for months.
It will come into force in two phases on January 15 and March 15, the two ministers said in a joint statement.
Visas on arrival will be given to people over 65. Both countries say they aim to give visas to younger people within 45 days.
The issue of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed is also expected to dominate Malik's talks in New Delhi.
India accuses the Pakistani militant leader, for whom the US offered a $10 million reward this year, of being the mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.
Asked about India's demand for Saeed's arrest and trial by a court, Malik said India had not provided credible evidence against him.
"There has been a lot of propaganda and pressure on us. I have received dossiers (from India) with only information," he said.
New Delhi says Saeed has been using Pakistan to campaign against India through public speeches.
Pakistani authorities arrested Saeed three times, but the courts found him innocent and freed him each time.
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Mark Ballas Autographed CD Giveaway – Courtesy of Mohegan Sun & PureDWTS!!!
Thought that might get you guys' attention 😉 Yes, friends, the rumors are true: we have in our possession a copy of Mark Ballas' album HurtLoveBox that is signed by none other than Mark himself! And we know there's several of you out there that are probably just DYING to get your hands on it…
…so how can you win this fabulous prize? Well, we're gonna make you guys work a little harder for it this time. In order to enter, you've got to play "Impossible DWTS Trivia" – the questions will all be about Mark & DWTS, and you will be able to find all the answers somewhere on PureDWTS.com. But you will have to do a little bit of digging 😉 Each correct answer will count as one entry into the contest, and the winner will be chosen randomly from all the entries – so the more questions you can answer correctly, the better your chances of winning. No good at trivia? NO WORRIES! There are other ways to enter, too.
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There's a lot to love about the Lamborghini Reventon, including its exotic good looks and blistering 3 second sprint from zero to 60 mph. However, its $1.6 million price tag and exclusivity puts it well out of the reach of anyone who's not an obscenely wealthy Saudi prince or Batman.
Fortunately, one man has set out to create a Reventon that's a little more affordable for the rest of us. PC modder Paul Tan has unveiled this new computer case that takes it's design cues from the uber-Lambo.
As Damn Geeky reports, Tan started with a Silverstone Raven RV01 and worked from there, creating a design in Adobe Photoshop which incorporated the angles from the Reventon, headlights and taillights, and Lamborghini logos.
Click on over to Damn Geeky to see more photos and video of the Lambo-PC in action. Tell us — what do you think of it? (Hat tip to yashkoosa!)
Photos credit Paul Tan via Damn Geeky