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Sheryl Grossman saunters into the Blue Moose Cafe in Morgantown, W.Va., amid the crowd of regulars. She walks past a yellow "moose crossing" sign and up to the cashier, ordering her usual: a hot chocolate in a disposable cup, with a straw.
Today is no different from yesterday. Today she hopes to blend in, but knows she will not. Today, like yesterday, she can't help but stand out. At 4 feet 3 inches, she's often confused for a little kid. And at 46 pounds, she has the weight of a typical 5-year-old. Yet she's 36, with a master's degree from Washington University.
The barista, perhaps taken aback by her elfin appearance, returns twice to ask what she ordered.
For Grossman, today is just another day living life as a poster child for one of the rarest diseases on Earth. Historical estimates put the number of people ever recorded to have this disease at fewer than 400. Most of them die before the age of 50. Grossman knows of only three people who have it and are older than she is. But she brushes it off. Statistics lie and, besides, she's never been one for numbers.
Today, like yesterday and the day before, she is treated differently from everyone else. She feels people staring at her. But at this point in her life, she has more important things to worry about. She's had cancer five times. Today, like yesterday, she has one simple goal: to live to become the oldest person ever with Bloom's Syndrome.
New York dermatologist David Bloom was the first to describe the disease back in 1954. He found a genetic hiccup that causes short stature, immune system deficiencies leading to respiratory and bronchial infections, patchy skin discolorations, diabetes, sterility, and — perhaps in a cruel cosmic case of adding insult to injury — an extraordinarily high risk of developing cancer.
According to 2009 data from the Bloom's Syndrome Registry at Cornell University, there are currently just 265 known cases in the world.
Grossman's parents waited until she was 14 to tell her about her Bloom's diagnosis. "In retrospect, that was not a good time to tell me," she admits. "I was a rebellious teen who was already angry with the world."
Perhaps not surprisingly, Grossman was taunted in high school. She remembers being thrown in the trash can and tossed over a volleyball net. And yet, somehow, she enjoyed school. Hey, she thought, at least the cool kids were paying attention to her. "I loved the illusion that was I with the 'in' crowd," she recalls. Listing the humiliations she suffered, she adds with a smile: "Yes, you can bench press me."
But in college, with the help of an inspirational professor, she reframed her life's mission. She channeled her snarky attitude and boundless energy into something more productive — she wanted to be a positive force and stand up for the rights of the disabled. She received a master's in social work. She started looking into advocacy work and never turned back. "I no longer wanted to wallow in self pity." She once felt she had a death sentence, but now she felt born again.
This newfound sense of purpose led her to find more people like her, more people belonging to the exclusive club of people with Bloom's. Of the first one she met: "It was a weird experience, like finding a twin you never knew you had."
But meeting just one of her fellow Bloomies (as she calls them) was not enough. She wanted to find all of them. So through dint of hard work, she founded Blooms Connect, an organization that has become the go-to international source for all things related to this rare disease. In between stays at hospitals to treat her worsening medical condition, Grossman hops around the country speaking about the disease that is robbing her of life. "My mouth is my largest organ," she wryly notes, "and I'm never afraid to use it."
In 2005, she organized a first-of-its-kind Bloom's conference in Chicago for affected individuals, as well as their family and friends. Five countries and four different languages were represented at the two-day event.
Most doctors have never treated anyone with Bloom's and Grossman finds it her duty to educate them about the inner workings of the disease. "I don't want to die with this knowledge. I want future generations to benefit from this. I need to do what I can do so that they have chances that I never had."
Despite a full-time job during the week as a workplace disability advocate for a national nonprofit and a part-time job on weekends as a religious school teacher, she manages to cobble another 15 hours a week to work on Bloom's Connect — often staying up late on the phone helping families of Bloom's patients. She's raising funds for her organization, educating doctors, and is now attempting to launch a monthly webcast for Bloomies to connect with each other.
"I value my life. I try to better it everyday. I do more than just survive — I live," she says, her bony hands nursing the cup of hot chocolate as it eases the pain from her hypersensitivity to cold. It's nearly 90 degrees outside, so the cafe's air conditioning forces her to cover exposed skin (she's accustomed to wearing sweaters). Without missing a beat, she instinctively props herself up on her tote bag to better reach the table. Life could be more manageable — she's eligible for a service animal, but in an odd twist of fate is allergic to dogs.
"I don't want to waste my days," she says. To that end, she doesn't have a TV. She spends spare time in her backyard garden, a zen escape from the beeping cacophony of hospital-room noises she's so used to.
As the crowd at the Blue Moose grows thinner, Grossman reveals that it's tough living in West Virginia. For her, time is short. She's looking to meet a nice guy and get married. And even, through the miracle of science, have children. A labyrinth of paperwork and bureaucracy has stalled the process for months — time Grossman simply doesn't have. "It bothers the heck out of me."
Plus, she feels the pollution from nearby drilling activities doesn't help with her persistent lung issues. When talking to Grossman, her trademark hacking cough — which sounds like she constantly has the flu — is ever-present. Among the litany of doctors she frequents, she now adds a physical therapist to help her cope with her breathing problems.
"I try to live my life in two ways. I have to make the most of today because I don't know how many todays I have left." She pauses, only for a moment, and then adds: "I also have to plan for the future. I can't party today and have no money tomorrow. I plan on being the longest-living person with Bloom's."
And that is how Sheryl Grossman functions, how she puts one foot in front of the other. How she wakes up and fights a disease that is constantly at war with her body. When death comes knocking — again and again — she simply opens up the door and says, "Sorry, I'm busy. Not today."
She hops into her car, a 2006 Toyota Scion. You'd think it would be tricked out with special features to deal with her disabilities. Instead, there's a pile of old pillows on the driver's seat that lets her see over the steering wheel. She's off to Silver Spring, Md., to stay at a friend's place. She'll wake up and drive to Baltimore for yet another consultation with a doctor at Johns Hopkins. The next day, she'll drive back to West Virginia, back to work at a nonprofit across the street from the Blue Moose Cafe.
And live for another day.
Related story on MNN: Rare condition explains why some people don't have fingerprints


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HONOLULU - Graduate programs at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in law and business are once again recognized among the nation's best, according to U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools 2008." Also, for the first time this year, the John A. Burns School of Medicine joins the list of outstanding schools. Graduate school rankings will appear in the magazine on newsstands Monday, April 2.
"I'm very proud that we're gaining national recognition for what we've known for many years — that the UH Mānoa campus is one of the best places in the world to study, teach and do research," said Interim Chancellor Denise Eby Konan.
The William S. Richardson School of Law moved up in national rankings, placing in the top 20 law schools in the country for environmental law, diversity, and low faculty/student ratio. It is also the smallest law school within the top 100 law schools, and in the top 40 for first-time bar passage rate and for lowest student debt.
Dean Aviam Soifer said, "We are very proud of our Law School all the time, and we tend not to pay much attention to rankings such as these, skewed as they are against small schools like ours. But it is nice to move up and to be noticed for some of our important strengths, such as being the kind of diverse law school in which faculty and students can really get to know one another and to learn together."
Graduate programs in international business in the Shidler College of Business maintains its 21st ranking — standing among the elite schools in business that include Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, and Berkeley. The ranking is based on ratings by business school deans and directors of accredited master's programs from the list of schools surveyed who were asked to nominate up to 10 programs for excellence in specialty areas.
"We are pleased that we remain in the top 25 international business rankings. With Jay Shidler's transformational $25 million gift, as well as approximately $6 million raised from other donors over the past two years, we expect our rankings to rise in the future as we are able to make strategic investments in our international business programs," said Dean Vance Roley.
The geriatric medicine program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine ranks 12th in the nation. "This recognition is a tribute to the outstanding leadership of its chairwoman, Dr. Patricia Blanchette," says Interim Dean Gary Ostrander. "The Department works actively with senior retirement facilities and in spearheading research — particularly significant in a state that has a rapidly growing aging population and the longest life expectancy in the nation," said Dr. Ostrander.
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In a profile of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Creigh Deeds, the Washington Post tells us about the grandfather from whom he got his unusual first name — and his interest in political power:
Creigh Tyree mattered. While serving as chairman of the Bath County Democrats, during the Depression, Tyree's house was the first private home in the county to receive electricity from the federal Rural Electrification Act, proof of the power of government, he told his grandson.
Or at least proof of the practice of government. And that is in fact the lesson that young Creigh learned:
Watching the elderly man work the circuit of county shops and farms, the boy saw the power of political maneuvering, the influence it brought a man, the way it enabled the well‐connected to pick up a phone and get something previously ungettable. Young Deeds started telling elementary school teachers that he wanted to be, would be, governor someday, and then president.
Using political connections to get things other people can't get — that's the lesson young Creigh Deeds learned from his granddad's experience with the New Deal.
In a story earlier this week, the Post made it clear that that's still the way politics works:
Sen. Thad Cochran's most recent reelection campaign collected more than $10,000 from University of Southern Mississippi professors and staff members, including three who work at the school's center for research on polymers. To a defense spending bill slated to be on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Mississippi Republican has added $10.8 million in military grants earmarked for the school's polymer research.
Cochran, the ranking Republican on the Appropriations subcommittee on defense, also added $12 million in earmarked spending for Raytheon Corp., whose officials have contributed $10,000 to his campaign since 2007. He earmarked nearly $6 million in military funding for Circadence Corp., whose officers — including a former Cochran campaign aide — contributed $10,000 in the same period.
In total, the spending bill for 2010 includes $132 million for Cochran's campaign donors, helping to make him the sponsor of more earmarked military spending than any other senator this year, according to an analysis by the nonprofit group Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Cochran says his proposals are based only on "national security interests," not campaign cash. But in providing money for projects that the Defense Department says it did not request and does not want, he has joined a host of other senators on both sides of the aisle. The proposed $636 billion Senate bill includes $2.65 billion in earmarks.…
The bill, however, would add $1.7 billion for an extra destroyer the Defense Department did not request and $2.5 billion for 10 C-17 cargo planes it did not want, at the behest of lawmakers representing the states where those items would be built. Although the White House said the administration "strongly objects" to the extra C‐17s and to the Senate's proposed shift of more than $3 billion from operations and maintenance accounts to projects the Pentagon did not request, no veto was threatened over those provisions.…
Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D‐Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, ran a close second to Cochran's $212 million in earmarks this year, having added 37 earmarks of his own worth $208 million, according to the tally by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Almost all of Inouye's earmarks are for programs in his home state, and 18 of the provisions — totaling $68 million — are for entities that have donated $340,000 to his campaign since 2007. His earmarks included $24 million for a Hawaiian health‐care network, $20 million for Boeing's operation of the Maui Space Surveillance System and $20 million for a civic education center named after the late senator Edward M. Kennedy.…
In Cochran's case, the proposed earmarks would benefit at least two entities that hired his former aides.
Folks, this is the way government works. If you think the programs of the New Deal or the stimulus bill or federal highway programs are necessary, fine — and certainly a defense bill is necessary — but understand that all such government programs involve taking money by force from people who didn't offer it up voluntarily and then distributing it to others, in many cases to people with more political clout. People in the reality‐based community should recognize this reality.
For more on this, see chapter 9 of Libertarianism: A Primer, "What Big Government Is All About."


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"Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down. These were not the scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic, but rather the scenes just over a week ago in Boston as the United States got a taste of martial law," wrote Ron Paul, the former congressman from Texas and presidential candidate, in an April 29 column for LewRockwell.com.
"The ostensible reason for the military-style takeover of parts of Boston was that the accused perpetrator of a horrific crime was on the loose. The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself," Paul said.
Ron Paul points out that "the suspect was not discovered by the paramilitary troops terrorizing the public. He was discovered by a private citizen, who then placed a call to the police. And he was identified not by government surveillance cameras, but by private citizens who willingly shared their photographs with the police."
Others, however, see the Boston bombing as an excuse to ratchet up the police-state measures: fewer restrictions on domestic intelligence, more warrantless searches, more surveillance cameras, etc. Richard Falkenrath, Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), in an April 25 interview with Jonathan Masters on the CFR website, claimed the failure of the FBI to apprehend the Tsaraev brothers, the alleged perpetrators, before the attack, is evidence of "system" failure.
"The problem is inherent in our system of government, which does not have a domestic intelligence service," said Falkenrath, adding that "so long as you want to have a system in which the activities of your domestic law enforcement agencies are tightly circumscribed by law and jurisprudence, you will have these sorts of mistakes and tensions." He sees the so-called Patriot Act of 2001 as a good start, but would like to further "liberalize" our laws to allow more invasive monitoring of all citizens. He is also a big advocate of vastly expanding the deployment of surveillance cameras.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (CFR), meanwhile, said the country's interpretation of the Constitution will "have to change" to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks.


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of an event taking place in the future, based on available data.
Statistical forecasting concentrates on using the past
to predict the future by identifying trends, patterns and business drives
within the data to develop a forecast. This forecast is referred to as
a statistical forecast because it uses mathematical formulas to identify
the patterns and trends while testing the results for mathematical reasonableness
and confidence.
Here below are information on topics related
to the field of forecasting and statistics. You will also find topics
related to forecasting in business.
Topic for the Day:
To determine what statistical data analysis is, one
must first define statistics. Statistics is a set of
techniques that are used in collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting
data. Statistical
methods are used in a wide variety of occupations and help people identify,
study, and solve many complex problems. Statistics is also widely used
in the business and economic world. Statistics makes complex data more
understandable to decision makers and managers, who are then able to
make better informed decisions.
There is a lot of information available
in today's environment because of continual improvements
in computer technology. To compete successfully and on a global scale,
managers and decision makers need to be able to understand the information
collected and use it effectively. Statistical data analysis provides
hands on experience to promote the use of statistical thinking and techniques
to apply in order to make educated decisions in the business world.
Computers play a very important role in statistical
data analysis. Studying a problem through the use of statistical data
analysis usually involves four basic steps.
1. Defining the problem
2. Collecting the data
3. Analyzing the data
4. Reporting the results
Defining the Problem
An exact definition of the problem is imperative in order
to obtain accurate data about it. It is extremely difficult to gather
data without a clear definition of the problem.
Collecting the Data
We live and work at a time when data collection and statistical
computations have become easy almost to the point of triviality. Paradoxically,
the design of data collection, never sufficiently emphasized in the statistical
data analysis textbook, have been weakened by an apparent belief that
extensive computation can make up for any deficiencies in the design of
data collection. One must start with an emphasis on the importance of
defining the population about which we are seeking to make inferences,
all the requirements of sampling and experimental design must be met.
Designing ways to collect data is an important job in
statistical data analysis. Two important aspects of a statistical study
Population - a set of all the elements of interest in
a study
Sample - a subset of the population
Statistical inference is refer to extending your knowledge
obtain from a random sample from a population to the whole population.
This is known in mathematics as an Inductive Reasoning. That is, knowledge
of whole from a particular. Its main application is in hypotheses testing
about a given population.
The purpose of statistical inference is to obtain information
about a population form information contained in a sample. It is just
not feasible to test the entire population, so a sample is the only realistic
way to obtain data because of the time and cost constraints. Data can
be either quantitative or qualitative. Qualitative data are labels or
names used to identify an attribute of each element. Quantitative data
are always numeric and indicate either how much or how many.
For the purpose of statistical data analysis, distinguishing
between cross-sectional and time series data is important. Cross-sectional
data re data collected at the same or approximately the same point in
time. Time series data are data collected over several time periods.
Data can be collected from existing sources or obtained
through observation and experimental studies designed to obtain new data.
In an experimental study, the variable of interest is identified. Then
one or more factors in the study are controlled so that data can be obtained
about how the factors influence the variables. In observational studies,
no attempt is made to control or influence the variables of interest.
A survey is perhaps the most common type of observational study.
Analyzing the Data
Statistical data analysis divides the methods for analyzing
data into two categories: exploratory methods and confirmatory methods.
Exploratory methods are used to discover what the data seems to be saying
by using simple arithmetic and easy-to-draw pictures to summarize data.
Confirmatory methods use ideas from probability theory in the attempt
to answer specific questions. Probability is important in decision making
because it provides a mechanism for measuring, expressing, and analyzing
the uncertainties associated with future events. The majority of the topics
addressed in this course fall under this heading.
Reporting the Results
Through inferences, an estimate or test claims about
the characteristics of a population can be obtained from a sample. The
results may be reported in the form of a table, a graph or a set of percentages.
Because only a small collection (sample) has been examined and not an
entire population, the reported results must reflect the uncertainty through
the use of probability statements and intervals of values.
To conclude, a critical aspect of managing any organization
is planning for the future. Good judgment, intuition, and an awareness
of the state of the economy may give a manager a rough idea or "feeling"
of what is likely to happen in the future. However, converting that feeling
into a number that can be used effectively is difficult. Statistical data
analysis helps managers forecast and predict future aspects of a business
operation. The most successful managers and decision makers are the ones
who can understand the information and use it effectively.


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Connecticut couple charged in rash of storage unit break-ins
BRIDGEPORT >> A Weston couple is accused of breaking into storage facilities in Weston and Bridgeport and police say they are suspects in the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods in burglaries across southwestern Connecticut.
Thirty-three year old Kathleen Falcone and 38-year-old Joshua Bammen face charges of larceny, burglary and criminal mischief after their arrests earlier this week.
Police tell the Connecticut Post the pair was spotted on surveillance video after a pair of break-ins at the U-Haul Moving and Storage in Bridgeport.
Police say the couple also are suspects in break-ins Fairfield, Easton, Westport, Redding, Wilton and Weston.
Police say the items taken in Bridgeport included eight guns, three Japanese swords, and numerous antiques.
Balcone and Bammen each are being held on $300,000 bonds.


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Toni Jennings has a message for GOP leaders who have been spending someone else's money on their luxury lifestyles: Stop it.
Stop doing it. Stop trying to justify it.
In general, stop tarnishing the reputation of a party she and other worked hard to build.
"Disappointment … that's the most polite word I can use," said the former state Senate president who helped wrest power from the Democrats in the 1990s. "We said we were going to be different. And there are days when I can't tell the difference. And that's a huge disappointment."
Jennings is not alone in her frustration. A growing number of respected Republicans say they are embarrassed by this new generation of leaders who seem to play fast and loose with other people's money.
"It makes people sick about politics," said Florida's Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux.
A new Rasmussen poll of Florida Republicans backs that up, with many in state the GOP thinking the Justice Department should investigate.
Back when Jennings was in office, she said that she paid for most of her own meals and even membership fees to social clubs where she did party business. "The only card I had had
my name
on it," she said. "The bills came to
office. And
paid them."
Compare that with $458,000 in charges racked up by former House speaker Marco Rubio, indicted former speaker Ray Sansom and incoming speaker Dean Cannon.
There were charter planes, luxury hotel rooms, shopping sprees and limousines — most all of it underwritten by special interests who wanted these same men to craft legislation in their favor.
The spending boggles the mind of former state Rep. Allen Trovillion.
"When I would take a trip, I'd get my son to help," the Winter Park Republican said of his son, who worked for an airline. "When I went to Houston's, I went on my own account."
Compare that with Cannon, who used the GOP AmEx to pay for 58 visits to the trendy Winter Park restaurant just a couple of miles from his home.
Neither Jennings nor Trovillion tried to play the part of martyr. They spent party money when they needed to.
But, as Jennings said: "You should be just as judicious as if it were coming out of your own pocket — even more so."
The biggest problem about all this, though, is that it
coming from these guys' pockets. Much of it came from special interests.
And to show you how wickedly wrong that is, consider this: Florida rules prohibit legislators from accepting free lunch from a lobbyist. But, thanks to the credit cards, these same legislators can charter a plane, rent a limo or book a $500-a-night hotel — and then get that same lobbyist to help pay the bill.
It's wrong on many levels. Anyone who argues otherwise is trying to con you.
This needs a thorough investigation — not some whitewash by Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum, whose campaign would benefit by all of this mess simply disappearing.
And it requires more than tough talk, internal audits and bogus bravado from GOP Chairman John Thrasher, who seems to want to blame everything on party staffers.
Nice try. But most Floridians don't care about those guys.
It's the
officials who need to be thoroughly investigated — the
servants crafting
policy. The ones having their trips underwritten by business interests that wanted legislative favors.
Jennings suggested the current leaders come clean — and then clean up.
They should admit the mistakes, cut up the cards and develop a more credible system for reimbursing legitimate expenses.
In short, they should remember all the small donors who really believe in fiscal conservatism — and get back to the principles that helped them take over the majority in the first place.
Scott Maxwell can be reached at
or 407-420-6141.


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A hang-gliding pilot who allegedly ate a memory card from a video camera has been charged with obstructing the course of justice by a Canadian court and has been held in custody until it re-emerges.
William Jonathan Orders is accused of swallowing the card from a video camera mounted on his glider in an attempt to derail an investigation into the death of one of his hang-gliding customers on Saturday.
X-ray examinations by the police have confirmed that an object similar to the card is still in the 50-year-old's body.
Police Corporal Tammy Hollingsworth told Canadian outlet CTVBC that they have yet to obtain the card: "There's been a series of X-rays taken, they have confirmed, so we are in the waiting stages right now."
According to reports, 27-year-old Lenami Godinez-Avila became detached from the tandem glider seconds after take-off and clutched onto the pilot before falling 300 metres to the ground. It took seven hours for search crews to locate her body.
A paraglider who was present before the tragic accident has accused Orders of not performing a crucial safety check - the "hang test" - before take-off.
Orders has 16 years' experience as a glider, and is the owner-operator of Vancouver Hang Gliding. ®
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June 9 through Sept. 29, 2007
During their collaboration from 1985 to 1995, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler produced conceptual art projects, ranging from important public projects and site-specific installations to drawings and mixed media sculptures. Ericson and Ziegler, both alumni of the Kansas City Art Institute, redefined public art in a way that was welcoming to a diverse set of communities. They devised projects that altered sites subtly, using poetic language and wit to illuminate mainstream American contexts and highlight individual community issues.
This first retrospective exhibition of Ericson and Ziegler's career, the show provided a critical analysis of the artists' position in the history of 20th century art. The exhibition includes sculpture, installations, models and video documents of site-specific works.
The exhibition is a joint-project of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, and is organized by Bill Arning and Ian Berry, in collaboration with Mel Ziegler. The exhibition and catalogue are sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; Peter Norton Family Foundation; The Judith Rothschild Foundation; and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
May 29 through June 4, 2007
Featuring work by members of the Surface Design Association, this installation was designed to showcase innovative uses of textiles. Included in the exhibition are 202 pieces which collectively illustrate surface design, weaving, quilting, knitting, stitching, three-dimensional work, non-traditional materials and many other techniques and processes.
April 21 through May 19, 2007
This exhibition included work by B.F.A. candidates from all departments at KCAI including: animation, art history, ceramics, creative writing, fiber, graphic design, illustration, interdisciplinary arts, painting, photography and new media, printmaking, and sculpture. The exhibition is organized by Heather Lustfeldt, assistant curator, and the Artspace.
March 3 through 31, 2007
Curated by Craig Subler
The exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council. Kansas City will host the council's annual conference from March 21 through 25. The conference will welcome thousands of visitors to Kansas City and include the participation and support of many local and regional institutions through a variety of exhibitions, public art presentations and workshops. Laura Berman, assistant professor of printmaking at KCAI, is the conference director.
Jan. 20 through Feb. 17, 2007
"It's Only Natural" featured work by 25 faculty members at KCAI from the departments of ceramics, fiber, foundation, graphic design, interdisciplinary arts, painting, photography/new media and printmaking. (Pictured: "Self-Portrait with Kenny," in-progress, Jessie Fisher, 2006, oil on linen, 28 inches by 32 inches.)
Oct. 28 through Dec. 20, 2006
Curated by Mark Bessire and Raechell Smith and organized by the Artspace and the Bates College Museum of Art, the exhibition featured work by Rachel Berwick, Sarina Brewer, Walmor Correa, Mark Dion, Sean Foley, Joan Fontcuberta and Jean Formiguera, Ellen Lesperance and Jeanine Oleson, Robert Marbury, Jill Miller, Vik Muniz, Rosamond Purcell, Alexis Rockman, Marc Swanson, Jeffrey Vallance and Jamie Wyeth, along with Loren Coleman's Future Museum of Cryptozoology.
Sept. 9 through Oct.14, 2006
This exhibition showcased the work of the 2006 Charlotte Street Foundation individual artist grant award winners. Organized by guest curator Maria Buszek, assistant professor of art history at KCAI, the show featured new work by Anthony Baab, Deanna Dikeman, Justin Gainan, Elijah Gowin and Aaron Wrinkle.
The Kansas City Art Institute's viewbook provides an overview of KCAI's academic programs, students, faculty, alumni and campus. Download the viewbook here (PDF)


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Ram Truck used Martin Luther King Jr.'s voice to sell trucks and Twitter is not happy about it.
The Super Bowl ad played emotional images of a fireman rescuing a child, a pregnant woman receiving a sonogram, and a service member reuniting with a family member as the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. played in the background.
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Twitter users expressed their displeasure with the ad, as many recalled his life and death. April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of King's assassination.
@JeffRichards232 tweeted: "I feel personally attacked by the @Dodge ram commercial"
King's speech on greatness and service used in the ad was given by King on Feb. 4, 1968. The ad began with King saying, "If you want to be important, wonderful. If you want to be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant...."
The ad ends with the Ram Truck logo and "built to serve."
One Twitter user asked King's daughter Bernice if the family had given permission for King's voice to be used.
She tweeted in reply: "No."
A spokesperson from Ram Truck's parent company, FCA US, responded to an email inquiry and stated that Ram Truck was given permission to use King's voice by his estate.
"It is 50 years to the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave such a tremendous speech about the value of service. Ram was honored to have the privilege of working with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to celebrate those words during the largest TV viewing event annually," the FCA statement read.
"We worked closely with the representatives of the Martin Luther King Jr. estate to receive the necessary approvals and estate representatives were a very important part of the creative process every step of the way."


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Here we are.
The final day of 2011 — a year full of planning, more friends and family time than a girl could ask for, THE best day of my life when I married my best friend, and enough head tilting laughter to carry me into 2012.
What are your plans for today?
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Did I tell you my husband is one of ten children? It makes for a big partay any time we decide to hang with the fam — we're talking 40ish people (with the 21 nieces and nephews) for the holidays. A family that size lends itself to one heck of a New Years Eve shindig. That's where we're headed tonight, to fill our bellies with gluten-free goodness: 3 different soups, appetizers galore, leftover Christmas cookies and these garlic cheddar biscuits.
My Google Reader is jam packed with fellow bloggers getting in their last posts of the year . Some with recipes for tonight, others with their resolutions for 2012, and one sharing what she learned this year. Love the idea, so I'm stealing it from Kelle Hampton's blog.
What I learned in 2011:
1. Old school recipes are in. Sometimes I try to be so creative and struggle to come up with new ideas for the blog, but then I realized I have some of my all time favorites in my recipe box, from my family.
You know my Grandma G's Monster Cookies are at the top of my list. (and others' lists too — get the request for them often) But that's just the tip of the family recipes iceberg, definitely more to come in 2012.
2. There needs to be more time for reading. I didn't put it on my "List for 2012" because I do make time to read, but not nearly enough time. And I'm not saying it has to be a book either, not everyone loves to cozy up on the chaise lounge with a cup o' java and read the day away.
What I did put on my list was to open up all those cookbooks I've been gifted, some of which haven't had their pages turned yet. Some are filled with the most amazing stories, not just recipes. I want to dig into those this year, and I will. (it's on my list, so it will happen) And I want to share them with you — something new for the blog in 2012.
So whether it's your monthly copy of Real Simple, catching up on your Google Reader, (you should really subscribe to Celiac in the City too, don't miss a post!) or your own stack of "to read" books — make time for reading.
These two sure do.
3. Every single day is a gift.
I know, it's semi-cliche. But oh-so-true. For the most part, our year was full of life, love and light — but there was also loss for several family and friends. So as we start our new life together, and a family of our own in the near future, it's a good reminder to start and end each day with gratitude. A friend once told me, after her little guy last his battle with cancer, that when the little things in life start to bug us to embrace it, it means LIFE. To be thankful for each day we have on this earth… we only have one go at this, so let's make it worthwhile. A wise soul.
4. Sunday afternoons were made for cooking.
Sometimes simple meals for the game, like these venison-bratwurst patties.
Or this "15 minute stew" we whipped up before Mark's surgery to stock the fridge.
We stick to the recipes sometimes too — like this Moroccan Chili from our America's Test Kitchen Slow Cooker Revolution book.
The list could go on, (I also learned: Norwegian, that I'm not very good at yoga, how to sew an actual project, that running is hard) but I want to keep you here long enough to tell you about my new list for 2012. Last year I admitted that I had never really stuck to resolutions — or even put pen to paper and wrote them down. Then we got all crafty about it, and a new tradition was born.
This year, my theme was BE.
As in:
In 2012 Sarah will…
- Be creative – learn how to use the freakin' cool camera we got
- Be in touch – send snail mail at least once a week (continued from last year, our favorite carry over item)
- Be a teacher – teach a gluten-free class in Milwaukee
- Be a crackerjack organizer – stop with the piles of stuff everywhere, reduce, donate, no more clutter
- Be well – to start things off, a detox — the 10 Day Food Challenge starting January 3rd, also use that rockin' Wii Zumba game, workout at least 3x/week and run another 5k
- Be a chef – open those cookbooks, share recipes with y'all
- Be ready – (for starting a family) read up, make my body a more baby safe place (hence Be well)
Care to share your plans for the upcoming year? Tell me about them in the comments below!
Here's to 2012 — a year of whole hearted living and head tilting laughs.
happy, happy new year my friends!


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I love coming across DIY projects that are pretty simple but look so nice! This modern cinder block planter idea is perfect, with supplies that are easy to come by and putting it together is just as simple. They are filled with easy to grow beautiful succulents - the inspiration comes from Annette at {Pot-ted}, a nursery and patioscaping company. Here's how she did it:
- The wall was built with 12" cinder blocks
- Liquid nails were used to hold them together so there wouldn't be grout lines and would also allow for flexibility.
- The planting is new and as it fills in and starts trailing, it is going to look even better.
- The use of cinder blocks allows for many different iterations you could make depending on how much space you have.
- They are also really cheap and can be painted if you want to match them to your decor.
The coolest part is that they have a chair in their patio like the one I {found} at {The Gardener} in Berkeley!


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John Gay
"HA-HAA! His name is GAY!"
"Wanton strumpet!"
Jonathan Julian Sparticus Valyrie Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was a fabulous English playwright from the 17th century who wrote amusing plays such as The Beggar's Opera, which depicted the vile treatment of women at the hands of diabolical villains and corrupt law-enforcers and how they took refuge in the arms of noble, honourable, heroic thieves, in other words, smooth-talking, pre-ASBO generation pimps.
He is a friend of Albus Dumbledore and is said to have written the script of Harry Potter the Musical ("Look at me, I'm Harry. P, little mister sorcery, won't get in bed till I'm legally wed, I can't, I'm Harry. PEEEEEEEEE!!") and reputedly co-wrote the first script of High School Musical with Septimus Pretorius.
Early life[edit]
Gay was born in England to a cobbler who wanted John to grow up to be one too. When he pretended to be going for cobbling lessons (whatever cobbling is), John was in fact going to sewing classes. He grew up in Yorkshire. At the age of eighteen he met his "lifelong friend", Alexander Pope who worked in London and was on a visit to Yorkshire to visit his sick mother. At least that's what he said he was doing, a man similar to him was seen running away from a bank carrying a large sack at one point during the week. Alexander befriended Gay whilst giving a lecture at one of his sewing classes.
After Alexander returned to London, John moved to the capital to pursue his fortune, soon after admitting his sexuality to his parents ("I'm a gay man, mammy") and getting "booted".
In London, Gay got a job writing short stories for a newspaper. Gay's pastorals were found amusing on their own account but the accompanying pictures of the English country lads and the things they used to get up to with each-other, also received wide acclaim.
Later, Gay wrote a play entitled What d'ye Call It?, a comedy which the public could make neither head nor tail of but which turned out to a precursor to Saw. Given the public's confusion, Gay wrote a companion book entitled "A Key to What d'ye Call It". He considered calling it "Saw For Dummies" but was concerned that this title would cause it to get mixed up with one of R.L. Stine's books which would be ignominious for any writer so he changed the name.
Gay's Big Break[edit]
At some unidentified point in the future, Gay wrote The Beggar's Opera which upset the PM but garnered critical acclaim. "TBO" was credited to have made "the rich gay and Gay rich". There was no account of the aristocracy ever engaging in sodomy at the time of the play's release however.
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Gay also wrote a play entitled The Rocky Horror Picture Show which was deemed vulgar and indecent without even being funny, rather like Billy Conolly these days. It was turned into a musical years later however in which Gay's descendant, Tim Curry, starred in the lead role, previously played by Gay's best mate, Alexander Pope. The modern audience appreciated it much more. Gay co-wrote the play with two other obscure people who denied all claim of ever having co-written it and left Gay to take the rap. Bastards.
Gay later wrote a sequel to The Beggar's Opera entitled The Beggar's Opera 2: Polly's Revenge. A half-written script for a third follow on to The Beggar's Opera called The Beggar's Opera 3: Beg Hard was found in Gay's abode soon after his death.
"The Gay Residence, master of the house speaking. SHERIDAN!"
Gay retired from writing in the summer of 18 something and moved to a mansion near some village where his family used to live but now they were all dead meaning that Gay was quite literally "the only Gay in the village."
"John Gay's dead? DANG!"
Gay died in the later 18th century. His tombstone was erected by his immortal life-long friend, Alexander Frank. N Pope. The gravestone bears Gay's mocking couplet
"Life is a jest and all things show it, I thought so once and now I know it."


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Hofstra University's Department of Drama and Dance presents Caryl Churchill's two-act comedy Cloud 9, called by British journalist Benedict Nightingale "a milestone in the portrayal of sexual liberation and feminism." With Act I set in 1879 British Colonial Africa and Act II set in a London park 1979, the play focuses on themes of power and authority and how they have affected sex and relationships through the ages. Act I uses the stereotypes of the Victorian Era to appeal to our sense of fun, while magnifying the misogyny and racism of the period. Act II takes place a century later, but for the characters, only twenty-five years have passed as they continue their struggle toward self-awareness and sexual independence.
The play will also feature live music by the punk rock band, Bad Mary.
Cloud 9 will be performed November 8-17, 2013, at Hofstra's Black Box Theater, New Academic Building, South Campus. Show times are:
Friday, November 8 and 15, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 9 and 16, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 10 and 17, at 2 p.m.
Thursday, November 14, at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $10, $8 senior citizen (over 65) or non-Hofstra student with ID. Members of the Hofstra community may receive up to two free tickets upon presentation of a current HofstraCard. Tickets may be purchased online at www.Tickets.com. Tickets are also available at the John Cranford Adams Box Office at (516) 463-6644, Monday through Friday, 11:15 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Available tickets will also be sold at the Black Box Theater, starting 90 minutes before each performance.


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Offal Specialist Takashi Serves an All-Beef Late-Night Ramen
I visited New York City once 15 years ago before I moved here. My brother was living in the East Village and I drove down to stay a weekend. We both collect records and he wanted to play me a Freddie Hubbard album he had just bought. There were two problems though. His turntable was broke and it was 1 o'clock in the morning. So I was confused when he walked to the door and started to lace his shoes.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"We're going to fix my turntable."
"It's 1 a.m.," I reminded him.
"I know. But it's 1 a.m. in New York," he said, "and you can get anything anytime."
We walked to a strange 24-hour electronics store near Union Square that's no longer there. Clutter and small packages were everywhere; my brother dug through it all until he found what he needed and we walked back to 6th Street as if we hadn't just gone shopping for electronics at 1 in the morning.
That was the flashback that hit me recently in the West Village. It was 1 a.m. again, but this time I was at a restaurant—Takashi—and my face was engulfed in fragrant steam that rose from a deeply flavored bowl of ramen.
Takashi opened on Hudson Street in 2010 and quickly established itself as one of the city's best yakiniku (Japanese barbecue) restaurants. Takashi Inoue, the restaurant's chef, was born in Osaka, Japan to third generation Korean immigrants. The restaurant is rooted in this duality and thrives on the chef's commitment to quality, which, until the launch of late-night ramen a few weeks ago, was exercised only through barbecue.
"I've been developing this ramen for more than a year," Takashi told me. "I almost launched our late-night ramen in October, but I wasn't happy with a couple of things, including the bowls," he said. "I asked my family in Osaka to send me bowls and spoons that I like better than the ones I could find here." Now 40 diners a night can see what he came up with.
Takashi's Original Ramen ($16) and Grandma's Spicy Ramen ($17) are available Friday and Saturday nights starting around midnight and by reservation only (email [email protected]). Both are 100% beef broth, which synchs with the beef-centric menu, and makes Takashi the only place in town to get all-beef broth ramen. "I wanted to focus on one animal," Takashi said of the menu's inspiration, "and there are so many delicious, unappreciated cuts of beef that it seemed like a good choice."
Those unappreciated cuts come in two guises. Kobe beef belly spends hours braising and does all but melt into the broth when it's placed there. Crispy small intestines (called "kasu" in Osaka) fortify the ramen's uniqueness. They simmer at low temperature until they render most of their liquid and tighten up to a delicate crunch that's softened so slightly by the piping-hot broth, which can't be more than ten degrees from boiling, a.k.a., righteous ramen temperature. For that stock, beef bones simmer with garlic, ginger, and a bounty of herbs for 24 hours. There's a whisper of bone marrow, but natural collagen is added as a thickener and it takes the broth from lipsmacking to opulent.
Like most of the city's best ramen shops, Takashi uses custom-made noodles from Sun Noodle; they're especially thin to entwine the soup's toppings. The ubiquitous soft-boiled egg in Takashi's ramen is tender and delicate, floating alongside a handful of scallions. Grandma's red paste (Takashi's grandma's recipe, a thick amalgam of chilies, spices, and shrimp paste) is what gives the spicy ramen its kick and soulful, brick-red sheen.
I looked around the small room and wondered who the 20 lucky diners were around me slurping beef ramen just after 1 a.m.. The need for reservations allows the restaurant control, but also invites ambitious eaters willing to win a late meal via electronic mail. "A good amount of customers who have come in for ramen have also dined with us at least once during regular service," Reece Barakat told me. Barakat, Takashi's manager, has been with the restaurant since May 2010. "We have also seen a lot of faces, most of whom seem to be diehard ramen fans that love to compare their most recent bowls while eating ours."
Despite the quickly growing demand for Takashi's late-night ramen, don't expect it a la carte anytime soon. "We have limited space in the restaurant," Takashi says, "and we have to transform the front and back kitchens into a ramen operation on Friday and Saturday nights. So we have to be entirely dedicated to ramen to make it happen."
The dedication shows. So much so I had to bring up the "E" word. "In Japan," Takashi began, "it's considered wise to wait at least three years after you open a business to then expand. I think it's a sustainable approach, and since Takashi has been open a little longer than that, I am hoping to expand," he said. I don't know when that will happen and I also don't know when I'll flashback to Takashi's ramen. But I look forward to both.
About the Author: Craig Cavallo is a writer with an addiction to New York City's food and drink. Learn more about his problem at digestny.com.
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A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well. Henny Youngman
Ok, I am full blown sick now! I made it through the gig last night, barley. My voice started to go in set 3. But, I made it. Now I have been in and out of bed 3 times today and have been sucking down Alka Seltzer Cold Plus, yickkie! I have big plans today for a pizza, some hot coffee, a hot shower and then retiring to bed with a good movie after a nice hot shower. Tomorrow my week is going to be slam danced between my writing schedule, with 4 new accounts on my desk, Mom's 2 doctor's appointments, 2 rehearsals and a gig on Saturday at Fisher's Bar in Homedale…..watch me go now! With that I leave you with Etta James….


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Our Future: How we can help drought-affected areas
Australians are now more aware of the mental health impacts of droughts, but that doesn't mean we are well equipped to handle them. So as the drought worsens across our nation's eastern board, how will our regional communities and farmers mentally prepare for what's to come?
Maintaining good health and well-being is extremely difficult as extended droughts perpetuate relentless mental angst. Meanwhile, physical symptoms rise to the surface, but are too often ignored. Focus is on the bigger problem, not the self.
The problem is particularly acute for multi-generational farmers harbouring the knowledge that their forebears survived previous droughts. Losing the farm on your watch undoes the efforts of previous generations. You fail yourself, and you fail them.
Being responsible for the state of the land, the health of crops, trees, waterways and stock is a core challenge of farming and intertwined with a sense of identity. Emotional stress releases surges in cortisol and when this occurs on a protracted timescale, physical symptoms eventually ensue. The list of potential consequences includes heart attacks, strokes, cancers, even diabetes.
Both mental and physical health conditions can continue well beyond the end of the drought.
Financially, many never recover, putting relationships at risk and affecting younger generations. Interruptions to schooling of farming children can divert their life course onto a dramatically different pathway.
This drought is not an isolated incident, it is just one of an increasing pattern of climate disruption. As climate change continues to amplify extreme weather events, the well-being of communities will suffer time and time again.
But there are ways we can help our regional towns overcome hardship. Australia's leading health groups – such as the Climate and Health Alliance – are on the frontline caring for those suffering from the drought.
They have developed a framework for a national strategy on climate, health and well-being for Australia and urge political uptake on the strategies outlined.
Individuals can help by visiting affected towns, buying locally-grown farm products and most importantly, doing your bit to reduce carbon emissions. The consequences of not acting on climate change are too great to be ignored and without urgency, droughts like this may become the new norm.
We must all do our bit to help regional communities in times of crisis. After all, the nation's health and well-being is at stake.
Liz Hanna is the former president of the Climate and Health Alliance.


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INDIANAPOLIS � Paired together on road trips, Quinn Cook often has walked into hotel rooms and found Seth Curry lying down, either watching basketball on television or checking his cell phone for updates to Duke�s injury treatment schedule.
Always off his feet. Always stockpiling as much rest as possible.
Back in Durham, whether the guards are hanging around campus or heading to eat at Subway, Cook has been preconditioned to expect that Curry will be clunking along, with the lower half of his hurting right leg strapped into what has become a familiar protective walking boot.
Always committed. Always focused on the never-ending cycle of pain management.
�When he doesn�t have the LeBrons on, he has the boot on,� Cook said Thursday at Lucas Oil Stadium, referring to Curry�s game shoes. �Anywhere he goes, anything he does, he�s doing whatever our trainers have planned for him to do.�
For Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon � another intimate witness to these season-long processes � the juxtaposition of the behind-the-scenes, hobbled Curry with the on-the-court, highly productive Curry has been beyond impressive to behold.
�To do what he does on a night-in and night-out basis, it�s just tremendous,� Sulaimon said. �It�s almost something that�s written out of a movie.�
If Duke is to defeat Michigan State tonight and advance to the Midwest Region final, within a game of the Final Four, a central role figures to be required of Curry.
Despite aches and swelling that have limited his quickness and explosiveness, the quiet, soft-shooting senior paces the Blue Devils in scoring (17.3 points per game) and 3-pointers (87) on the season.
And he has supplied averages of 21 points, five rebounds and two steals in Duke�s two NCAA Tournament victories thus far � a smooth 26-point performance on Albany, followed by 13 second-half points to overcome some struggles and finish with 17 points against Creighton.
�He�s not the most talkative person in the world, but the plays he makes are the plays leaders make,� Duke forward Ryan Kelly said. �Anytime we need a bucket or anytime we need something on the offensive end, he�s there. He�s been great all year, and he�s playing great at the right time.�
All this, of course, while dealing with a shin injury so initially serious that coach Mike Krzyzewski has said surgery was a serious consideration in September, before preseason practice began.
�When I found out, I didn�t know if I was going to be able to play this year, if I was going to have surgery,� Curry said Thursday. �I wanted to play. But certain doctors told me I shouldn�t and things of that nature.
�I just had a lot of different opinions coming my way, so I had to figure out which one I wanted to go with. Luckily we were able to find out a plan for me to be able to play.�
Which meant completely entrusting trainers Jose Fonseca and Nick Potter throughout a comprehensive regimen that has included underwater treadmill work, countless elastic-band leg stretches and miles of stationary bike riding.
The no-nonsense, determined approach Curry has exhibited in the rehab has become an additional source of inspiration for the Blue Devils.
�It�s really remarkable,� Cook said. �He�s having no excuses. He could easily take games off or say, �My leg hurts,� but he�s never showing signs of weakness. It just shows how strong his character is.�
Curry has played and started in 33 of Duke�s 34 games this season. He has logged 31.9 minutes per game, the third-most on the team.
And there have been handfuls of tense moments � like January�s awkward slip on the court at North Carolina State or last weekend�s crash to the floor at Wells Fargo Center � when Curry has been left limping and wincing, sending Sulaimon�s anxiety spiking.
�You kind of lose all your breath for a quick second, just hoping he�s OK,� Sulaimon said. �But he always finds a way to put on a strong face.�
NCAA Tournament
Tip-off � Midwest Region semifinal
Who:No. 2 seed Duke (29-5) vs. No. 3 Michigan State (27-8)
When:9:45 Friday (TBS)
Where:Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis
Series:Duke leads 7-2. These teams� last meeting, in November 2011, resulted in Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski�s NCAA-record breaking 903rd career victory.
The winner:Advances to the region finals to meet the winner of tonight�s game between No. 1 seed Louisville (31-5) and No. 12 seed Oregon (28-8).


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CRIME in CHICAGOLAND (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Shootings Reach 2,539 in 2016 – 131 this week . . . Someone Shot Every 75 Minutes! Crushing 2015's January Totals! Crushing 2015's February Totals! Record March Madness! Record April Fools! Tremendous May CARNAGE!! June Record Mayhem! July Shooting Spree Breaks Last Year! Summer is Here! Good Hunting! WooooHooo!
3,862 in 2016 (projected)
2,988 in all of 2015
2,587 in 2014
They got a "Cop Problem" in Chicago? LOL!
The map below shows where people were shot in Chicago, broken down by community area. Darker shades of blue indicate greater numbers of victims in those community areas.
The "Community" that Barack Obama Organized . . .
2015 – A Record Map of Murder & Mayhem:
Not only are the people heavily regulated in Chicago, but guns are also heavily regulated. Any long gun with a grip protruding from the stock or a firearm with a telescoping stock is prohibited and classified as an "assault weapon."
Magazines are limited to a 12-round capacity.
Even a spring-powered pellet gun with a muzzle velocity of 700 feet-per-second is classified as a "firearm," although it does not use gun powder, the component that puts the "fire" in "firearm."
A stun-gun — a non-lethal device with no projectile — is considered a deadly weapon and cannot be carried for self-defense.
Chicago, for all intents and purposes, is a "gun-free zone."
But all the state and city regulations associated with firearms in Chicago have failed to produce a safe city, and these are the policies that President Obama and Secretary Clinton wish to extend to the rest of the country.
While saying that "criminals go out-of-state to places where it is easier to obtain guns" is often used to push gun control, it illustrates that criminals ignore gun laws in every state and that onerous access to Second Amendment rights on law abiding citizens doesn't stop crime.
Clinton's campaign platform includes a call for federal legislation mandating background checks on all private firearms transfers and sales. Clinton also wants to repeal the "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act." That law protects firearm manufacturers from lawsuits for negligent use of firearms.
President Obama, through is spokesman Josh Earnest, has announced, "The president has frequently pushed his team to consider a range of executive actions that could more effectively keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others who shouldn't have access to them. That's something that is ongoing here."
Per the president's policy, Chicago has taken every action "that could more effectively keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others who shouldn't have access to them."
Yet the shootings continue to rise.


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You will need a basic understanding of MASM. Source is attached.
Somewhere in your startup code, create two fonts, one normal, and one underlined (Could be any attribute really, bold, big, small. One is for the normal static text, and the other is used for the mouse hover)
In your main Window proc, create your static control with SS_NOTIFY and save the returned handle.
;##### Email Hyperlink invoke CreateWindowEx, NULL, offset szWndClsStatic, offset szEmailText, WS_CHILD or WS_VISIBLE or SS_NOTIFY, 88, 20, 117, 17, hWin, 0, hInst, 0 mov hEmail, eax
The control is created with text saying: Send Gunner Mail but where is the URL going to be? All windows 4 bytes of space for us to use, so we are going to save a pointer to the URL there. Makes it easier to subclass a few controls and use the same proc.
;##### URL is dif than text, save URL invoke SetWindowLong, eax, GWL_USERDATA, offset szEmailURLeax is the handle of the static control just created
Next, we will subclass the control:
;##### Subclass control invoke SetWindowLong, hEmail, GWL_WNDPROC, UrlProc mov lpOrgStaticProc, eax
It is very important to save the address of the original static class proc. In the code attached, I create 2 controls and they will both use lpOrgStaticProc.
Almost done with the Main window proc, next we have to set and change the font colors and background and we do that by handling the msg WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC.
.elseif eax==WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC mov ecx, hEmail mov edx, hWeb .if ecx == lParam || edx == lParam .if bMouseOver mov eax, Red .else mov eax, Yellow .endif invoke SetTextColor, wParam, eax invoke SetBkMode, wParam, TRANSPARENT mov eax, hBrush .endif ret
What we are doing here is, if lParam equals our controls handles then we change the font color. Mouse over our control, we change the color to red, otherwise the color is yellow. For this example I used red and yellow, but to expand on this you can get the colors Explorer and IE uses for Links and Hover from the registry and use those.
Now, for our subclass proc:
UrlProc proc hWin:HWND,uMsg:UINT,wParam:WPARAM,lParam:LPARAM local rect:RECT mov eax,uMsg .if eax == WM_MOUSEMOVE invoke GetClientRect, hWin, addr rect invoke GetCapture ;##### Make sure the mouse is in our control .if eax != hWin mov bMouseOver, TRUE invoke SetCapture, hWin invoke SendMessage, hWin, WM_SETFONT, hFontUl, TRUE .endif mov edx,lParam movzx eax,dx shr edx,16 .if eax > rect.right || edx > rect.bottom ;##### moved out of control mov bMouseOver, FALSE invoke ReleaseCapture invoke SendMessage, hWin, WM_SETFONT, hFont, TRUE .endif .elseif eax == WM_LBUTTONUP mov bMouseOver, FALSE invoke ReleaseCapture invoke SendMessage, hWin, WM_SETFONT, hFont, TRUE ;##### Get URL we stored with the control invoke GetWindowLong, hWin, GWL_USERDATA invoke ShellExecute, hMain, offset szShelOpen, eax, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL .elseif eax==WM_SETCURSOR invoke LoadCursor, NULL, IDC_HAND invoke SetCursor, eax .else invoke CallWindowProc, lpOrgStaticProc, hWin, uMsg, wParam, lParam ret .endif xor eax,eax ret UrlProc endp
Basically, if the mouse is over our control, we change the font to underline and when the mouse is out of our control or after a click we change it back to normal.
Once we click on the "link" we have to get the address of the url we saved earlier, we do that with GetWindowLong and pass the returned address to ShellExecute.
We change the cursor to a hand (any cursor you want really) in WM_SETCURSOR
An important call in the subclass is to pass on the messages we are not handling to back to the OS with CallWindowProc.
All fairly simple.. play with the attached code (RadASM project file included) and have fun as I do with Assembly!
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As usual at the press office of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, the phone keeps ringing ; it is an afternoon in late spring 2013. Deputy to the Spokesperson in charge of European Affairs, busy drafting a text on the budget of the EU, I am surprised to receive a call from Washington D.C., forgetting for an instant that I am leaving soon for the U.S. capital to assume a new position. The powerful voice on the phone congratulates me on being selected as a TDF. I have no idea what this actually means…
However, I soon realize that the TDF program, or Transatlantic Diplomatic Fellowship, is a golden opportunity : established in 1995, this exchange program, formerly known as the Fellowship of Hope, was a diplomatic answer to then President Clinton's wish to strengthen the partnership between the United States and a Europe emerging from the divisions of the Cold War. Before joining the French Embassy in D.C. in the summer of 2014, I am spending a year inside the famous Department of State to familiarize myself with the way my American colleagues do things.
And I am not the only one : every year, a few Foreign Service Officers cross the Atlantic Ocean, also known as "the pond" because of the proximity between Europe and the United States, and spend a few months working at partner Ministries of Foreign Affairs, while the European fellows, including myself, travel the other way to Washington, D.C. A few interviews over the phone later and I find out that I will join the Bureau of Public Affairs. Hard to imagine something more exciting for the young public affairs specialist that I am !
I land at Dulles International Airport on a very sunny day of August. The Customs and Border Patrol officer does not ask too many questions in spite of the multiple visas in my passport. Three visits suffice to find a nice apartment — and I don't need to worry about furniture as my stuff is on a boat somewhere on the ocean for another few months ! My new team is very welcoming and easy to work with, passionate as I am about news and international affairs.
It is fortunate, because September is busy : the United States — with France's help — leads an international effort to dismantle the chemical weapons of the Syrian regime and engages in a public dialogue with Iran during the UN General Assembly. Here I am in the Department of State as my team organizes a discussion between Secretary Kerry and the New York Times' Nick Kristof on Syria and then takes part in the exchange between the White House, the Department of State, and the Iranian president. When President Rouhani re-tweets the Department of State's account, I understand how a small gesture can have a big impact.
Five months pass, and the news cycle pursues its endless and crazy course. In the middle of it, I almost do not realize how easy my integration has been. There have obviously been a few misunderstandings. No one shares my passion for the qualification of the French soccer team for the next World Cup, even though each morning meeting in our office starts with a few minutes of discussion on football...American football ! A sport played with helmet and pads is not really football (European style) if you ask me, but I am trying to adapt. On February 2, I spend my Sunday watching the Super Bowl with a few American friends, explaining everything.
As you have guessed by now, I am enjoying every moment of this exchange. It allows me to better understand how the gigantic machine that is American foreign policy works, including in Public Affairs : I knew all about the quality and efficiency of the spokesperson's office, because of my previous job, but I had no idea of the many other public activities of the U.S. Department of State. Among these, I am thrilled to be able to take a part in the Department's digital engagement on social networks, a future-oriented task for diplomacy and a real pleasure for the geek that I am.
Hopefully, there will be other occasions for me to tell you more about this, and my transatlantic activities in general, because what better place to speak about digital diplomacy than online ?


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Federal officials on Wednesday blamed unsafe working conditions and poor training for the death of a young Veterans Affairs medical center researcher in San Francisco who died after handling bacteria that causes meningitis.
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration found three serious violations at the lab that exposed Richard Din, 25, to the bacteria and led to his death on the way to the hospital April 28.
In particular, OSHA chided the lab for allowing Din to work with the bacteria in the open rather than in a so-called biosafety cabinet, which isolates germs behind a protective screen and provides ventilation.
"Richard Din died because the VA failed to supervise and protect these workers adequately," said Ken Atha, OSHA's regional administrator in San Francisco. "Research hospitals and medical centers have the responsibility as employers to protect workers from exposure to recognized on-the-job hazards such as this."
OSHA also said that lab workers, including Din, should have received meningitis vaccines and training on recognizing symptoms of the disease. Din wasn't vaccinated and complained of headache, fever and chills after he left work on a Friday but did not seek medical help until his condition worsened the next day.
VA spokeswoman Kellie Mendonca said the lab has been closed since Din's death and "no further work with viable bacteria has been allowed." Mendonca said the medical center adopted all of OSHA orders before it received notice of the violations. She also said that Din was working with a vaccine-resistant strain of the bacterium.
OSHA spokeswoman Deanne Amaden said "the serious violation is because the VA did not provide vaccines to workers for other strains where there are vaccines available - based on the work they were doing."
OSHA's notice of violations requires the VA to vaccinate its lab workers against any dangerous germs they are working with, provide better training to recognize symptoms of illness, and mandate that work with disease be conducted in safety cabinets.
OSHA can't fine other federal agencies as it can private companies.
Meanwhile, a vaccine for the meningitis strain that killed Din may soon be available in the United States. Novartis AG won approval to sell its vaccine in Europe this year while it's negotiating with U.S. regulators to do the same here. Other companies are also developing vaccines.
A 2005 paper published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology - the most recent study of its kind - said 16 cases of probable laboratory-acquired meningitis occurred worldwide between 1985 and 2001, and eight were fatal.
Bacterial meningitis causes an estimated 170,000 deaths worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization.