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WASHINGTON - Accusations about voter fraud seemed to fly from every direction in Missouri before last fall's elections. State and national Republicans leaders fretted that dead people might vote or that some live people might vote more than once.The threat to the integrity of the election was seen as so grave that Bradley Schlozman, the acting chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and later the U.S. attorney in Kansas City, twice wielded the power of the federal government to try to protect the balloting. The Republican-controlled Missouri General Assembly also stepped into action.
Now, six months after freshman Missouri Sen. Jim Talent's defeat handed Democrats control of the U.S. Senate, disclosures in the wake of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys show that that Republican campaign to protect the balloting was not as it appeared. No significant voter fraud was ever proved.
The preoccupation with ballot fraud in Missouri was part of a wider national effort that critics charge was aimed at protecting the Republican majority in Congress by dampening Democratic turnout. That effort included stiffer voter-identification requirements, wholesale purges of names from lists of registered voters and tight policing of liberal get-out-the-vote drives.
Bush administration officials deny those claims. But they've gotten traction in recent weeks because three of the U.S. attorneys ousted by the Justice Department charge that they lost their jobs because they failed to prove Republican allegations of voter fraud. They say their inquiries found little evidence to support the claims.
Few have endorsed the strategy of pursuing allegations of voter fraud with more enthusiasm than White House political guru Karl Rove. And nowhere has the plan been more apparent than in Missouri.
Before last fall's election:
-Schlozman, while he was acting civil rights chief, authorized a suit accusing the state of failing to eliminate legions of ineligible people from lists of registered voters. A federal judge tossed out the suit this April 13, saying Democratic Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan couldn't police local registration rolls and noting that the government had produced no evidence of fraud.
-The Missouri General Assembly - with the White House's help - narrowly passed a law requiring voters to show photo identification cards, which Carnahan estimated would disenfranchise 200,000 voters. The state Supreme Court voided the law as unconstitutional before the election.
-Two weeks before the election, the St. Louis Board of Elections sent letters threatening to disqualify 5,000 newly registered minority voters if they failed to verify their identities promptly, a move - instigated by a Republican appointee - that may have violated federal law. After an outcry, the board rescinded the threat.
-Five days before the election, Schlozman, then interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, announced indictments of four voter-registration workers for a Democratic-leaning group on charges of submitting phony applications, despite a Justice Department policy discouraging such action close to an election.
-In an interview with conservative talk-show host Hugh Hewitt a couple of days before the election, Rove said he'd just visited Missouri and had met with Republican strategists who "are well aware of" the threat of voter fraud. He said the party had "a large number of lawyers that are standing by, trained and ready to intervene" to keep the election clean.
Missouri Republicans have railed about alleged voter fraud ever since President Bush narrowly won the White House in the chaotic 2000 election and Missouri Republican Sen. John Ashcroft lost to a dead man, the late Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, whose name stayed on the ballot weeks after he died in a plane crash.
Joining the push to contain "voter fraud" were Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., who charged that votes by dogs and dead people had defeated Ashcroft, Missouri Republican Gov. Matt Blunt, whose stinging allegations of fraud were later debunked, and St. Louis lawyer Mark "Thor" Hearne, national counsel to Bush's 2004 re-election campaign, who set up a nonprofit group to publicize allegations of voter fraud.
Many Democrats contend that the efforts amount to a voter-suppression campaign.
"The real problem has never been vote fraud," said Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo. "It's access to the polls. In the last 50 years, no one in Missouri has been prosecuted for impersonating someone else at the polls. But thousands of eligible voters have been denied their constitutional rights. . . . It's sickening."
However, Jessica Robinson, a spokeswoman for Blunt, said a report he'd authored in 2001 as secretary of state "documented credible instances of fraud." She said Blunt wanted the legislature to take another shot at passing a photo ID bill as "a reasonable step . . . to help stamp out" such abuse.
The Republican-dominated legislature is considering the bill again this year, along with a resolution asking voters to pass a constitutional amendment so the measure can withstand court challenges.
In a separate assessment of alleged voter fraud in Missouri, Lorraine Minnite, a Barnard College professor, found scant evidence of it. The study was undertaken for the nonpartisan policy-research group Demos, which despite its name isn't affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Minnite, who's writing a book on the issue of voter fraud, said successful drives to register poor people and minorities in recent years had threatened to "tip the balance of power" to Democrats, so it was understandable that the Republican Party would seek restrictions that "disproportionately hinder the opposition."
It's difficult to capture the emotional debate over the issue of voter fraud in Missouri without considering the Election Day tumult in St. Louis on Nov. 7, 2000. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of voters were turned away because their names weren't on official lists, and many of them converged on the city's election board seeking assistance.
Responding to the bedlam, Democrats won an emergency court order that kept some polls open beyond their scheduled 7 p.m. closings. That outraged Republicans, and Hearne, the Bush campaign lawyer, in turn won an emergency appeals-court ruling that shut the polls within an hour.
In the ensuing days, Bond blamed Ashcroft's defeat on "a criminal enterprise."
The following summer, then-Secretary of State Blunt alleged in a 47-page investigative report that the use of affidavits to allow more than 1,000 "improper ballots . . . compels the conclusion that there was in St. Louis an organized and successful effort to generate improper votes in large numbers."
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But an investigation by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, launched before Ashcroft settled in as U.S. attorney general in 2001, found the reverse. In a 2002 court settlement with the department's Voting Rights Section, St. Louis election officials acknowledged that they'd improperly purged some 50,000 names from voter lists before the 2000 elections and had failed as required by federal law to notify those people properly that they'd been placed on inactive status. No one knows how many eligible voters were denied their right to cast ballots.
Missouri's Rep. Clay charged in a recent interview that Blunt's report was an attempt "to violate the voting rights of certain Missourians."
Things didn't heat up again until 2005, when Schlozman authorized a Justice Department suit naming the newly elected Missouri secretary of state - the daughter of the late governor - as the defendant. It alleged that her office had failed to make a "reasonable effort" to remove ineligible people from local voter-registration rolls.
A federal judge dismissed the suit last month, saying the government had provided no evidence of fraud.
Speaking on behalf of Schlozman, who's now with the Justice Department's Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, agency spokesman Dean Boyd said: "We are disappointed with the court ruling."
Separately, Hearne helped establish the nonprofit Center for American Voting Rights in February 2005, which issued lengthy reports alleging voter fraud in states across the country, including Missouri. One director of the supposedly nonpartisan group was Brian Lunde, a former executive director of the Democratic National Committee who switched his allegiance in 2000 and headed Democrats for Bush in 2004.
Barnard's Minnite said the center's summary on Missouri consisted of "a litany of overblown allegations of fraud appearing in newspapers, most of which turn out to be minor problems or no problem at all."
Republican state Sen. Delbert Scott of Lowry, Mo., chief sponsor of the photo-ID bill last year, said Hearne had helped draft it and served as a key adviser.
Hearne didn't respond to several requests for comment. His organization closed down its Internet site in March and has disappeared from view.
Last fall, with Missouri's new voter-ID law thrown out by the court, allegations of fraud arose over registration drives among Democratic-leaning minorities in St. Louis and Kansas City by the Democratic-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN).
Brian Mellor, a Boston lawyer for ACORN, said many of the accusations surrounded the submission of duplicate or multiple registration forms for the same voters. Such duplication would be caught by election officials and wouldn't enable anyone to vote twice, he said.
But officials at St. Louis' Board of Elections took the unusual step of alerting the FBI to those and other irregularities, Mellor said, and he wound up turning over copies of 40,000 St. Louis-area registration forms to bureau agents.
Facing the FBI scrutiny, Mellor said, ACORN reviewed its forms in Kansas City and found several with similar handwriting, suggesting that they were bogus. He said the group turned over evidence involving four workers to a county prosecutor in mid-October.
That same month, at the initiative of a Republican appointee, the St. Louis Board of Elections sent letters warning 5,000 people who'd registered through ACORN that their voting status was in question. They were given one week to return signed copies of the letter and confirm personal identifying information or they'd lose their registration status.
ACORN attorneys charged that the notice "appears to be an unlawful attempt to suppress and intimidate voters of color." The board sent another mailing withdrawing the threat.
Meanwhile, the evidence against the four ACORN workers ended up with the FBI.
Five days before the election, U.S. Attorney Schlozman got another voter-fraud headline, announcing the indictments of the four workers. The indictments charged that six applications that ACORN had submitted were fraudulent.
"ACORN abhors fraud," Mellor said. He said the timing of the indictments seemed to be aimed at hurting Democrats.
Justice Department spokesman Boyd said the policy that prosecutors "refrain from any conduct which has the possibility of affecting the election" didn't bar pre-election indictments and was intended to ensure that investigators didn't intimidate voters during an election. Boyd said officials in the department's Public Integrity Section approved the indictments.
But Joseph Rich, who headed the department's Voting Rights Section from 1999 to 2005, said the timing of the indictments "flies in the face of long-standing policy. . . . There was no need to bring cases on the eve of the election."
McClatchy Newspapers correspondent Margaret Talev contributed to this report.
McClatchy Newspapers correspondent Margaret Talev contributed to this report.
© 2007 McClatchy Washington Bureau and wire service sources.


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eHealth Infrastructure
Ensure smooth network integration
The eHealth standards-compliant IHE networking infrastructure provides the basis for the exchange of health-related data.
The infrastructure consists of:
eHealth Master Patient Index (MPI)
Creating a cross-institutional MPI
eHealth Solutions allow several institutions with different clinical information systems or large healthcare enterprises with multiple patient identity sources to set up a shared Master Patient Index – fully based on IHE profiles and supporting HL7 v2 and v3. The generated Master Patient ID unifies identification and patient demographics.
Benefits at a glance:
- Centralized access to healthcare data, produced in a heterogeneous healthcare environment with multiple sources for patient identification (Multi-HIS environment)
- One index for all patient information, manage and monitor from a modern, web-based administration console
- Opportunity to lower costs for clearing patient identification and demographics using intelligent and flexible matching algorithms
eHealth Electronic Health Record (EHR)
One electronic patient record across institutions
With the EHR, several healthcare providers in a region or within a clinical enterprise can gain save access to the existing health data of a patient. It offers:
- A fine-grained access control system to define user-dependent access rights for highest possible data security
- Support of distributed data repositories and central index services such as MPI or document registry
- Adaptors for easy connection based on HL7, DICOM, web service or IHE
Benefits at a glance:
- Access to medical data of a patient, independent from the institution of treatment
- Working in own primary system, which is connected with the network
- Audit trail about transactions, which are transporting sensitive information
- One channel for communication with other institutions
- Very high security measures, interfaces fully follow IHE standards
- One data exchange platform for several purposes of data exchange, extendable by cooperative care applications
eHealth Adaptor Set
A highly flexible health network
eHealth Solutions offer an out-of-the-box product for usually difficult interfacing tasks: Easily connect heterogeneous health systems to standardized and IHE-based EHR systems using different interface adaptors.
Benefits at a glance:
- Seamless integration of own IT tools (like CIS, RIS, PACS, etc.) with cross-enterprise EHR systems.
- Keep working in own system and access documents or images from other systems/care providers
- Quick and simple connection to EHR systems even of different IHE vendors
- Translation of interfaces (in and out), i.e. from HL7 v2 to v3, data validations, semantic standardizations of meta data, patient identifier handling
eHealth Enterprise Logging Service (ELS)
Audit trail data in one place
With EAR, eHealth Solutions support collecting audit tail messages from different IT systems (e.g. HIS, EMR, PACS, RIS, LIS) in one Audit Repository for data security and reporting purposes. It offers:
- Full compliance with IHE ATNA Audit Repository and "Secure Node" requirements
- Performant search mechanisms for user- or patient-based audit trails
- A web-based analysis and reporting tool
- Archiving of log entries, and more
Benefits at a glance:
- Transparency, simple evidence, and proof in case of data security issues
- Easy reporting on accesses over different IT systems in a hospital
- Traceability of user- and patient-related actions
- Increased awareness for data security in enterprise
- Fulfill legal requirements

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Popular Wedding Traditions
Marriage Traditions that are Enduring
Today's popular wedding traditions have evolved over hundreds, even thousands of years of people joining together in some form of matrimony. Some wedding traditions that have endured are based on blessing the couple with good luck; others are a means for the couple to convey their feelings for one another. Regardless of the wedding tradition itself, all wedding traditions share the same essential symbols of unity, happiness and prosperity; messages that stand the test of time.
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue
The saying, "Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue" is a popular rhyme that has been used since Victorian times. The "something old" represents the bond to the bride's family and her old life; "something new" represents the couple's new life together and their future hope for happiness, prosperity and success; "something borrowed" from a happily married woman is meant to impart similar happiness to the bride; and "something blue" represents fidelity and constancy.
White Bridal Dresses
Wearing white also dates back to Victorian times when Queen Victoria abandoned the usual royal tradition of wearing a silver gown, instead choosing to wear white. Before that time brides simply wore their best gown, rather than a special wedding dress . The popularity of white can also be attributed to it symbolizing purity and virginity. White was also thought to ward off evil spirits.
Throwing Rice
Showering the couple with rice is an ancient tradition. As rice is considered a "life giving" seed it is thought that by throwing in on the couple they will be bestowed with fertility and have many children. Many churches now forbid it on their property but there are some safe alternatives to throwing rice .
Sharing the first piece of wedding cake is a wedding tradition with Roman roots. The Romans believed that by eating the wedding cake together a special bond was created between the couple. The wheat used to bake the cake was symbolic of fertility and a "fruitful union", while the cake's sweetness was thought to bring sweetness to all areas of the couple's new life.
The ceremonial kiss that concludes the wedding ceremony is said to represent the couple sharing and joining their souls. In Roman times the kiss "sealed" the couple's agreement to join in a life-long commitment.
The wedding tradition of the groom wearing a boutonniere originates in medieval times when a knight wore his lady's colors (through flowers) as a statement of his love. Flowers and bouquets have long been used in weddings. In addition to adorning the bride with flowers to promote good luck and good health flower meanings allow the bride to express her feelings for the groom. Orange blossoms signify purity, daisies loyalty, violets modesty and red roses signify true love.
Placing the wedding ring on the third finger of the left hand has two possible origins; ancient Egypt or 17th century Europe. The Egyptians believed the "vein of love" ran directly from the ring finger to the heart, therefore the ring was placed there to denote eternal love. During a 17th century wedding ceremony the groom would slide the wedding ring part way up the bride's thumb, index finger and middle finger as the priest said "In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit". As the ring finger was the first free finger, the ring was placed there.


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Rihanna says going into the studio just weeks after being assaulted on February 8, 2009 by then-boyfriend Chris Brown was cathartic.
"Making this album was a lot of fun I have to say, it was really good for me," the pop superstar recently told Australia's The Daily Telegraph.
Rihanna says her emotions run deep on her latest album, "Rated R," which was released late last year.
"The vocal performances definitely were influenced by the emotion, the feeling. I wasn't just singing lines," she explained. "I was singing every word and every word meant something because it was my story. It was a lot more personal, a lot more real… I was venting."
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, when it comes to new relationships, Rihanna is looking ahead and looking for love.
During an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," last month, the 21-year-old said she hopes to be in love in the next 10 years.
"I hope I am [in love by then]. 31 is a decade away," Rihanna said. "I better be in love by then."
And despite being recently photographed on vacation in Mexico with baseball player Matt Kemp, the singing sensation says she is currently single.
In related Chris Brown news, the singer is due in court on Thursday for a progress report on his probation related to the February 8 incident. The singer is required to appear before a judge. Chris was sentenced to five years probation and during that time he is not allowed to contact Rihanna.
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Head coach Beryl Piper has announced the addition of three student-athletes to the Central Connecticut women's basketball program for the 2013-14 academic year. Lauren Wolosik, Chayla Lewis and Giocelis Reynoso will join the Blue Devils next season as freshmen.
Wolosik is a 5-10 guard from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's North Catholic High School. Woloski was a second-team all-state selection, a Pittsburgh Post Gazette North "Fab-Five" and Class A "Fab-Five" selection. She also earned player of the week honors from the paper. The Pittsburgh Tribune Review named Wolosik to the Terrific Ten All-Section Team. In the classroom Wolosik, was the top ranked student in her class and a member of the National Honor Society.
Piper's Take: "Lauren is a steady player that can play multiple positions. She has great fundamental skills, which allow her to make great decisions on the court. She is the ultimate team player that can shoot it off the dribble or hit the three."
Wolosik on CCSU: "I chose CCSU because I knew I would get a quality education while being able to play for an excellent basketball program. I'm excited to further my career at CCSU and be a part of the Blue Devil family."
Lewis is 5-10 and can play guard or forward. She played basketball for head coach Carroll Holmes at Friendly High School in Fort Washington, MD. She also played on the Maryland Pride Nile Elite AAU team for coach Tony Gorham. Lewis was named to The Washington Post All-Girls League Team and to The Gazette All-County Team. She also earned Rookie of the Year honors in 2009 and helped her high school volleyball team to a pair of division championships. In the classroom, Lewis is a member of the National Honor Society and a member of the National Society of High School Scholars.
Piper's Take: "She is a powerful player who can shoot the perimeter shot and gets to the rim. She has a good understanding for the game and will dominate the boards."
Lewis on CCSU: "I chose CCSU because of their commitment to excellence, hard work, dedication and determination. Most importantly, CCSU demonstrated a welcoming environment; it had the feeling of family that was a critical factor for me."
Reynoso is a 6-2 center from the Bronx and played her high school basketball at the Bronx Preparatory Charter School for head coach Danielle Moseley. Reynoso was named Bronx Prep's Most Outstanding Player following the 2011-12 season. She also plays for the CAS Panthers AAU team and coach Marvin Stevens. While playing with the Panthers at the Blue Chip Preseason Challenege, Reynoso was named a Class of 2013 "standout" for her performance in the event.
Piper's Take: "Super active defender with a long reach. She will block shots and cause havoc on defense. Her best basketball is ahead of her."
Reynoso on CCSU: "I chose CCSU because I loved the team and loved the atmosphere of the school itself. I also liked the way the coaching staff at CCSU has developed their big men over the last couple years. This basketball program is a fast growing program, gaining strength every year and I wanted to be a part of that."
The Blue Devils will continue the 2012-13 season tonight at Holy Cross. The Blue Devils and Crusaders will tip-off at 7 p.m.


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Kent State Signs Agreement with the National Park Service
Kent State University has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Park Service, providing for enhanced collaboration in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The new agreement calls for collaborative projects and joint research primarily focused on geology, biology, hydrology and educational programs, according to Todd Diacon, Kent State's senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.
"There have been informal discussions between scientists at the park and Kent State faculty for a long time, but over the past two years, we really started to strengthen the relationship and deepen the ties to the park," Diacon said.
A Natural Connection
The theme of the collaboration is "The River We Share," aptly named because the Cuyahoga River flows through both the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and through Kent, creating a physical connection between both areas.
"We are pleased to join Kent State University in announcing this partnership," said Stan Austin, superintendent of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. "The collaboration between the park and the university will provide students and the park research and technical services through hands-on education and service-learning opportunities. This association has the potential to develop future land stewards while enriching the experience for park visitors."
The five-year pact allows both parties to revisit and revise the agreement at the end of that period.
"This particular national park is unique, as it encompasses urban environments to fairly pristine areas – plus it's heavily used because of the large population surrounding it," said James Blank, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor and chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Kent State.
"At Kent State, we have real interest in urban ecology and hydrology, that is, what's going on with water as it moves throughout these environments," Blank said. "Our faculty is energized and interested in addressing the complex issues regarding sustainability and the use of our precious resources."
Internship Opportunities Expanded
The new agreement will mean expanded internship opportunities for Kent State students.
"We have a number of programs across different departments where students want to look for careers related to the environment, everything from working for the park service or the EPA to environmental consulting," Blank said. "The explosion of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Ohio is just one example of an industry that is fueling the demand for trained workers in environmental fields. This agreement will yield enormous benefits for our students."
Past collaborations between Kent State and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park have involved the university's Department of Biology, the Wick Poetry Center and the School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences.
Last year, Kent State's Wick Poetry Center, in collaboration with the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the National Park Service, hosted two workshops for the university's College of Nursing. Forty-five faculty and staff members attended the writing and nature retreat at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park's Environmental Education Center, participating in poetry and creative writing workshops, as well as hiking and bird watching.
"The experience was rejuvenating," said Laura Dzurec, dean of Kent State's College of Nursing. "The poetry really opened doors for us, allowing for intergenerational communication and building camaraderie in the college."
A Growing Relationship
Future programs will be centered on enhanced joint research opportunities, learning opportunities for faculty, staff and students from both organizations, and potential employment experiences for Kent State students and faculty.
"I can see this relationship growing in ways we don't even realize yet," Blank added. "National parks are precious resources, and the ones we have are important to understand and study."
For more information about the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, visit www.nps.gov/cuva.
For more information about Kent State's College of Arts and Sciences, visit www.kent.edu/cas.


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eMediaWorld.com Reports Markets drift after mixed US retail sales data
LONDON — A mixed set of U.S. retail sales data did little to alter the cautious mood in markets Friday as investors geared up for next week's crucial meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Ongoing uncertainty over Syria also kept a lid on sentiment.
Though retail sales in August rose by a monthly 0.2 percent, half the rate anticipated in the markets, the previous month's gain was doubled to 0.4 percent. Retail sales are considered an important measure by investors as they account for around 70 percent of the U.S. economy.
Though the gains are hardly spectacular, analysts said it still remains likely that the Fed will start reducing its stimulus at the end of its two-day policy meeting on Wednesday. Currently, most analysts expect the Fed to begin "tapering" its stimulus by $10 billion a month. The Fed has been buying $85 billion in financial assets every month in an attempt to keep a lid on borrowing rates and boost lending. Most economic indicators have suggested that the U.S. economy, the world's largest, is healing.
"Today's retail report is unlikely to tell the Federal Reserve anything new regarding the health of the economy," said Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co. "The momentum towards full recovery remains intact and is unlikely to stall the Fed's desire to scale back its level of bond purchases."
Given that the highly anticipated figures were largely in line with expectations, the reaction among investors was muted and stocks were trading in fairly narrow ranges. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed down 0.1 percent at 6,583.80 while Germany's DAX rose 0.2 percent to 8,509.42. The CAC-40 in France also ended 0.2 percent higher at 4,114.50.
In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.4 percent at 15,368 while the broader S&P 500 index rose 0.3 percent to 1,688. As well as focusing on the future of Fed policy, investors continued to monitor any developments concerning Syria. Russia proposed Monday that Syria avoid a U.S. military strike by surrendering control over its chemical weapons. Damascus quickly jumped at the offer. Top U.S. and Russian diplomats are holding talks in Geneva to discuss the specifics.
The cautious tone was also clearly evident earlier in Asia, with Japan's Nikkei rising 0.1 percent to 14,404.67. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index lost 0.2 percent to 22,915.28, while South Korea's Kospi was down 0.5 percent at 1,994.32.
Foreign exchange markets were also caught up in the tepid mood, with the euro down 0.1 percent at $1.3280 and the dollar 0.2 percent lower at 99.32 yen. Oil prices drifted back after couple days of modest gains. The benchmark New York rate was down 75 cents at $107.85 a barrel.


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Newswise — First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack laid out new restrictions on Tuesday, limiting junk food and sugary drink marketing in schools.
The new rules prohibit advertisements for unhealthy foods on school campuses. Also included are bans on sugary drinks ads, the bulk of what is marketed to students.
Advertising will be allowed to phase out, so scoreboards and billboards on campuses will not have to be replaced overnight.
Obama said that schools should be healthy places where kids are not bombarded with ads for junk foods. She said that despite seeing many ads for unhealthy foods, kids see only one advertisement per week for healthy foods and beverages.
Schools are already limiting advertising of prohibited foods, said Vilsack. Thirty-eight percent already prohibit advertising and 28 percent are recommending it.
Advertising will be limited for products that aren't allowed to be sold in schools, under the USDA Smart Snacks in School Guidelines that were announced in June. These apply to snacks and drinks served in school buildings, including vending machines, school stores, snack carts and a la carte items.
"If you can't sell it, you ought not to be able to market it," Vilsack said.
The White House and the Department of Agriculture also announced a plan to expand the federally funded free breakfast and lunch program, which could help ensure that 9 million kids in 22,000 schools will be served breakfast.
"Too many are hungry and too many are obese or at risk of being obese," Vilsack said.
Millions of children in the country are showing up to school hungry every day. Some don't eat free breakfast at school because there's a social stigma with participating in it, Obama said. Expanding the program will allow schools with a high percentage of students qualifying for free breakfast and lunch to provide the meals free to all their students.
Children who eat breakfast learn more easily and have fewer discipline problems, Obama said.- See more at: http://blog.heart.org/first-lady-calls-for-limiting-junk-food-marketing-expanding-free-school-meals/#sthash.DQVRT8tw.dpuf


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DBIx::Class::MigratiDBUserCContributedtPerl:Socume:tation:delete_table_rows(3) NAME DBIx::Class::Migration::Script::Help::delete_table_rows - trunate existing tables SYNOPSIS dbic-migration delete_table_rows --schema_class MyApp::Schema DESCRIPTION does a "delete" on each table in the database, which clears out all your data but preserves tables. For Real! You might want this if you need to load and unload fixture sets during testing, or perhaps to get rid of data that accumulated in the database while running an app in development, before dumping fixtures. If your table has a lot of rows, this command could take a long time to run depending on your database type. Skips the table "dbix_class_deploymenthandler_versions", so you don't lose deployment info (this is different from "drop_tables" which does delete it.) This command is intended to be a developer convenience function. It is not intended to be used as a general purpose administration tool. OPTIONS This command accepts the following options. You may learn more about each option by typing "dbic-migration help OPTION". The following is a summary. includes (I,lib,libs,include) Optional. Adds the listed paths to @INC. Handy during development when you want to use a development schema class. schema_class (S) Accepts Str. Required. This is the schema we use as the basis for creating, managing and running your deployments. This should be the full package namespace defining your subclass of DBIx::Class::Schema. For example "MyApp::Schema". If the "schema_class" cannot be loaded, a hard exception will be thrown. target_dir (D) Optional. When using a "sandbox_class" for generating developer level database sandboxes, you may wish to place the sandbox in a directory other than the default (which is under the "share" directory off the project root). sandbox_class Aliases: T, sb Accepts: String (default: SqliteSandbox) The class we use to create a developer level database sandbox. You can change this to either 'PostgresqlSandbox' or 'MySQLSandbox', which will create a sandbox using either DBIx::Class::Migration::MySQLSandbox or DBIx::Class::Migration::PostgresqlSandbox. user Aliases: U password Aliases: P dsn Connection information to an already created and running instance of a database. If you don't specify this, we will assume you want a developer level sandbox ( See "sandbox"). SEE ALSO DBIx::Class::Migration, DBIx::Class::Migration::Script, DBIx::Class::Migration::Features, DBIx::Class::Migration::Tutorial AUTHOR See DBIx::Class::Migration for author information COPYRIGHT & LICENSE See DBIx::Class::Migration for copyright and license information perl v5.24.1 DBIx::Class::Migration::Script::Help::delete_table_rows(3)
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I've mentioned before that Jeff likes rye bread, so I knew I had to make these Molasses-Rye Snaps and see what he thought. What also piqued my interest about these cookies was the use of only spelt and rye flour - no all-purpose or whole wheat. These cookies may not be for everyone as they are quite spicy - I don't mean "hot" when I say that though. Besides cinnamon and allspice, there is a double shot of ginger in the recipe. Along with ground ginger, sweet crystallized ginger brings an addicting bite. You don't want big chunky pieces though, so instead of dealing with the sticky factor of trying to mince it, a food processor easily took care of the job.
Now, if you tried to process the crystallized ginger alone, it would probably get quite gummy - to prevent that, we added half of the spelt flour to it before processing. It kept everything separate and the processor had no problem getting the ginger very fine. In these dark cookies, just two tablespoons of molasses really brought out the hearty rye flavor with out any bitterness. I enjoyed the flavor, but the texture is what sold me - the outer ring of the cookie is crisp, but if you tried to bend them, they wouldn't break. They have just enough give to them which adds a wicked, almost on the verge of sticky, chew to them. These are not puny either - with only about 50 calories per cookie, I can't wait to pair them with a scoop of plain vanilla bean ice cream to make a more adult ice cream sandwich.
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Re: midi local control on/off optionDSI Mopho = yesNovation Ultranova = YesMg Phatty = YesMicroKorg = YesMake sense to anyone?
As for you fobbing me off, telling me to contact sales. Why don't you do it? You seem to be forgetting that I just spent about $550 on a synth that doesn't do one of things I bought it for. Pardon me If you think I'm giving YOU are hard time.
I can give you another way to use the Minibrute as a master keyboard without local on/off : Instead of turning down the main volume, unplug the cable that goes from your Brute to your Soundcard/mixer/whatever, and plug it straight into your ass. Now the minibrute is a perfect master keyboard, just as you wanted it.
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Q&A with Adobe MAX Speaker karlssonwilker
Fearless and wildly creative design duo Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker—also known as karlssonwilker—are an independent and internationally-recognized creative force. When we met them, we were so charmed that we immediately wanted to introduce them to you, so we asked them to speak at Adobe MAX this year! Karlsson and Wilker's topic, "Creativity, Technology, and karlssonwilker" speaks to their commitment, passion and creativity, as well as the equal importance they place on technology and play in their work.
Attend MAX. Attend their session. You'll leave inspired. In the meantime, enjoy this candid Q&A (and their reinterpretation of the MAX logo) from these imaginative designers.
Adobe: You and Hjalti founded karlssonwilker in 2000, after working for Stefan Sagmeister, what was his advice to you when you told him you were opening your own studio?
karlssonwilker: There was no particular parting advice, although we surely asked him for advise many times, and still do from time to time. Back then it felt like a very natural transition. Stefan went on his sabbatical and so the two of us started, or were forced to start, our own "thing." I remember the two of us showing Stefan the office space we were thinking about renting, and him saying it's a great deal and that we should definitely take it. (We still are in the same space today.) The biggest thing, for me personally, was that he showed us—and everyone else—that a studio small in size could make hugely influential and relevant work, something quite uncommon back then.
As if opening a new studio during a recession wasn't enough, you decided to write a book (tellmewhy: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company) about those first two years in business. Why did you take that on at that time?
One part was frustration about our unpreparedness regarding the business side of our new enterprise. The other was the need we felt, at the time, for more honesty in the arena of shiny design monographs. The simple story of the humble beginnings of a studio should be told, not the idealized and romanticized look back on 20 years of a successful design career, where everyone seemed to be born a genius. That's what we did and to this day we still get emails from around the world thanking us for doing this candid book and helping designers around the world not feel they are alone in being ill-prepared to properly run a studio right from the start. And of course Princeton Architectural Press deserves huge credit of course for working on it with us, as does Clare Jacobson for writing it so fantastically.
Your book offers a not-always-glamorous view of owning a design studio; do you think it's important for students and young designers to know that the path to success is not always rosy?
Yes, of course. Its important to make clear that failing is part of the "fun" and an important part of the learning. Somehow this book led by example: if Hjalti and I can do it, anyone can. And that seemed to be empowering to many.
If tomorrow, you could no longer be a designer, what would you choose to do?
I would be a shoemaker. Hjalti would run a little store, or be "in real estate."
Has Adobe's Creative Cloud changed/altered your work and your process?
Adobe products have always had a huge influence on us and there are many examples in our work. One of our design approaches is rooted in play and experimentation; very early on we used Illustrator's tools and filters to explore dense vector drawings, by spending lots of time with it to see where it would lead us (projects like Hattler, Skirl and, later, Mini/BMW). Also, the MAX key art we created for this year's conference comes from formal experimentation with three or four different programs.
What do you most hope to be able to say about your work and your partnership 20 years from now?
Jan: That we constantly evolved, enjoyed life, and produced relevant work that inspired some to push harder.
Hjalti: That I'm still very proud of the work we did, that Jan and I are still on speaking terms and, who knows, that the company is still going strong in 20 years, with the two of us working two days a week and an army of people doing all the work.
You and Hjalti have both been design judges… Do you feel that the work submitted to design competitions encapsulates what's going on in the industry at the time?
For me, that's a clear no. It might have been that way many years ago, but nowadays competitions are indicators of who wants to appeal to the commercial mainstream. The design world is more colorful now, and only a small fraction wants or needs to be represented in design annuals. We ourselves stopped sending things in about eight years ago.
For your eleventh anniversary party you created a poster acknowledging all of the karlsssonwilker interns you've had over the years. How many were mentioned? And how many have been inspired, by working with you, to open their own studios?
We mentioned every single one of them—almost 40 interns have come through our little studio. About fifteen of them started their own studios more or less right after their time with us (I'm not sure that we inspired them to do that, I think they already came to us with that plan in mind).
Talent? Passion? Or education? Which is most important? Why?
Passion. For sure. A genuine interest in what you do is really all that matters.
We just saw your version of the new MAX logo on the MAX website. Was executing a logo redesign easier or harder than beginning from scratch?
We didn't see it as logo redesign, but as a demonstration of "creativity," with the MAX logo incorporated into it.
Be sure to come see karlssonwilker at Adobe MAX this year! Register at MAX.Adobe.com with promo code MXSM13 and save $300!


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Atrial fibrillation (say "AY-tree-uhl fih-bruh-LAY-shun") is a type of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) in which the heart's upper chambers quiver, or fibrillate. This increases the risk of blood clots, which can cause a stroke or other problems. The lower chambers beat without a regular rhythm and may beat too fast. This can cause symptoms like lightheadedness or chest pain.
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Ludum Dare
Ludum Dare is a pretty popular programming competition that's held every once in awhile- basically, a theme is announced on Friday, and you have only a single weekend to create a game around that theme. The next one starts tomorrow!
Is anybody participating? I might, if I don't have anything else to do. I know JavaPF is always looking for ways to promote the site, and this might be an opportunity for that?
Anyway, just thought I'd let people around here know about it, since it's a pretty cool event. Of course you're allowed to use Java in the competition!
Full disclosure- I am in no way affiliated with the competition or the people running it, and I've actually never entered it. I've just seen the results of past competitions, and it's almost scary what people can come up with in 48 hours.


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Aretz, K and Pope, P F (2013) Common factors in default risk across countries and industries. European Financial Management, 19 (1). pp. 108-152. ISSN 1354-7798
Aretz, Kevin and Peel, David (2013) An example of an optimal forecast exhibiting decreasing bias with increasing forecast horizon. Bulletin of Economic Research, 65 (4). pp. 362-371. ISSN 0307-3378
Baik, Bok and Chae, Joon and Choi, Sunhwa and Farber, David (2013) Changes in operational efficiency and firm performance:a frontier analysis approach. Contemporary Accounting Research, 30 (3). pp. 996-1026. ISSN 0823-9150
Banerjee, Shantanu and Gucbilmez, Ufuk and Pawlina, Grzegorz (2013) IPO waves and hot markets in the UK. In: Handbook of research on IPOs. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 9781781955369
Barakat, Ahmed and Hussainey, Khaled (2013) Bank governance, regulation, supervision, and risk reporting:evidence from operational risk disclosures in European banks. International Review of Financial Analysis, 30. pp. 254-273.
Bassemir, Moritz and Novotny-Farkas, Zoltan and Pachta, Julian (2013) The effect of conference calls on analysts' forecasts:German evidence. European Accounting Review, 22 (1). pp. 151-183. ISSN 0963-8180
Beattie, Vivien and Fearnley, Stella and Hines, Tony (2013) Perceptions of factors affecting audit quality in the post-SOX UK regulatory environment. Accounting and Business Research, 43 (1). pp. 56-81. ISSN 0001-4788
Beattie, Vivien and Smith, Sarah-Jane (2013) Value creation and business models:refocusing the intellectual capital debate. British Accounting Review, 45 (4). pp. 243-254. ISSN 0890-8389
Berger, Allen N. and Kick, Thomas and Koetter, Michael and Schaeck, Klaus (2013) Does it pay to have friends? Social ties and executive appointments in banking. Journal of Banking and Finance, 37 (6). pp. 2087-2105. ISSN 0378-4266
Bilinski, Pawel and Strong, Norman (2013) Managers' private information, investor underreaction and long-run SEO performance. European Financial Management, 19 (5). pp. 956-990. ISSN 1354-7798
Byun, Hae-Young and Choi, Sunhwa and Hwang, Lee-Seok and Kim, Robert (2013) Business group affiliation, ownership structure, and the cost of debt. Journal of Corporate Finance, 23. pp. 311-331. ISSN 0929-1199
Cen, Ling and Chan, Kalok and Dasgupta, Sudipto and Gao, Ning (2013) When the tail wags the dog:industry leaders, limited attention,and spurious cross-industry information diffusion. Management Science, 59 (11). 2566–2585. ISSN 0025-1909
Chalamandaris, G. and Tsekrekos, Andrianos (2013) Explanatory factors and causality in the dynamics of volatility surfaces implied from OTC Asian–Pacific currency options. Computational Economics, 41 (3). pp. 327-358. ISSN 0927-7099
Choi, Jong-Hag and Choi, Sunhwa and Hogan, Chris and Lee, Joonil (2013) The effect of human resource investment in internal control on the disclosure of internal control weaknesses. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 32 (4). pp. 169-199. ISSN 0278-0380
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8 secret acupoints to cure travel ills
After stowing the passport and whipping out the phone, it's straight to the pharmacy bins at the airport market for some long-haul fliers, who slam all sorts of pills, tonics and remedies to alleviate aches and ills.
But there's another choice -- acupressure.
Acupressure is the practice of pressing or massaging certain points on the body said to stimulate self-curative abilities.
For each of the points described below, you may need to press or rub the point in 20- to 30-second intervals for up to 10 minutes before the effect is felt.
You may also need to use it repeatedly throughout the day.
Play around to find what works best.
Note: The author of this story is not a medical doctor. For serious medical issues, always consult a qualified physician.
1. Motion sickness and nausea: anti-vomiting point
Ever seen those wrist bands people wear for boat or car trips? Those are designed to press on this point to relieve motion sickness and nausea.
This is also the first point I talk about with fellow travelers.
Locate: Inside the forearm, two thumb-widths above the wrist crease, between the two tendons. The point is actually located below surface level, so pushing deep is most effective.
2. Neck and back pain: back-movement point
Long days traveling, cheap hotel pillows and dragging around a mammoth suitcase can cause neck, shoulder or lumbar pain.
Rubbing this point eases these complaints.
For a stiff neck, rub in small circles while slowly turning the head one direction and then the other.
Locate: Make a loose fist and, looking at the pinky side, find the last crease (just below the biggest knuckle). The point is found along that line at the intersection of the two slightly different shades of skin.
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3. Sore throat and lightheadedness: cold-relief point
Overnight flights, sudden climatic changes and air pollution can all increase a traveler's susceptibility to the common cold.
Rubbing or pressing this point relieves symptoms associated with colds, including sore throat, cough, sneezing and body aches, plus lightheadedness.
Locate: Loosely interlock your thumbs at the webbing -- both palms facing down, keeping your wrists straight, extend your index finger to the skinny edge of your wrist.
Under the pad of your index finger in the prominent bone you'll find a small depression -- that's the point. Reverse the top position of the hands to find the point on the other side.
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4. Headache, constipation and fever: release point
Whether you feel a headache coming on from dehydration, too much drinking or just the pains of traveling, press this point to relieve headaches and general pain.
When unfamiliar food or the poor diet of travel leaves you constipated, massage here. This point is also used to reduce fever.
Caution: this point can induce labor, so don't use on pregnant women.
Locate: Spread your index finger and thumb, then place the joint of your opposite thumb along the webbing and bend the thumb over. The point is just in front of the tip of your thumb -- search around until you find the sore spot.
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5. Digestive issues: stomach-solution point
Exotic food, unfamiliar environments and less-than-sanitary conditions can wreak havoc on normal digestion.
Use this point for abdominal pain, bloating, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, as well as accompanying fatigue and weakness.
A harder massage may be required, but it should feel tender when you've found the right point.
Locate: The point is on the outer shin, just below the knee. Relax the leg straight, place your four fingers on your knee with the index finger against the knee cap.
Mark the horizontal level under the pinky finger. At that level, using the middle section of your middle finger, place the knuckle on the shin bone, where the second knuckle lands (going toward the outside of the leg) in a vertical line.
The point is found at the intersection.
6. Insomnia and disturbed dreams: peaceful-sleep point
When jet lag or new surroundings leave you unable to sleep, light pressure on this point can help ease you into a restful slumber and reduce excessive dreaming.
Locate: Find the styloid process muscle on the side of the neck, follow that up to where it meets the skull. There it forms an A-like depression with the skull going toward the back of the head -- that's the point.
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7. Anxiety and over-thinking: spirit-calming point
Perhaps you're stressed about business or worried about general travel plans. If your mind is racing, use this point to relieve anxiety and calm down.
Lightly rubbing or pressing the point reduces stress and aids sleep (combine with peaceful-sleep point).
Locate: Look on the underside of your wrist and find the last tendon on the pinky side. The point is just inside that tendon on the wrist crease next to the palm.
8. Overall wellness: supplementary point
Acupoints are often used in combination for greater effect. This point can aid the success of the points listed above for dry or sore throat and dizziness, headache and constipation, lower back pain, insomnia, fatigue.
This point may also provide some comfort when you're stuck on a bus with no bathroom breaks.
Locate: On the inside of the ankle, in the depression located halfway between the Achilles and the most prominent point of the ankle bone, rub or press here.
For best results
Putting pressure on acupoints, known as acupressure, encourages "qi" or energy flow, straightens out imbalances in the body, activates the immune system and aids proper circulation.
When finding acupoints, follow the instructions provided, but always seek to find the sore or tender point, usually next to a bone or tendon, as that will be most effective.
Points are symmetrical on both sides of the body, but applying pressure to one side may work better than the other. Some points and conditions respond better to massage while others to pressing.
Sometimes lighter pressing works well, other times harder is better.
Originally published November 2011. Updated September 2, 2013.
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Spread from southern Mesopotamia to Egypt in the 3rd millennium BCE in the form of cuneiform (wedge-shaped) signs; this was largely replaced by an alphabetical system in Palestine early in the 2nd millennium BCE, based on consonants (vowels borrowed from the Phoenicians were added by the Greeks at some time before the 8th cent. BCE). Inscriptions, to be permanent, were incised in stone, as (it is recorded) on the tables of the Law brought by Moses from Sinai (Exod. 31: 18). But a prayer scroll (pre-exilic) has been discovered in Jerusalem, and one of the Qumran scrolls has the writing on sheets of copper. For everyday use leather and papyrus were available as writing material, and both took ink made from soot and applied with a brush or pen.
The OT records exchanges of written communications. Letters were frequently sent and received at the royal courts of Israel and Judah, from David's time (2 Sam. 11: 14) and in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chron. 30: 1), and also to and from the Persian court (Ezra 4: 7).
It was not uncommon for people in Israel to be able to read—even for children (Isa. 10: 19) though it was not in general a literate society; and when Baruch wrote down the words of Jeremiah, and the king required them to be read to him by an official (Jer. 36: 21), it may well have been that the king could not himself read. According to the NT, Paul dictated letters (Rom. 16: 22), but it is likely that he could read both Hebrew and Greek. Certainly he signed his letters with his own hand (Col. 4: 18). The letters of Paul were read aloud in the Church meetings, and sent on to other Churches (Col. 4: 16). When Philemon received his private letter, he would have read it aloud, since silent reading was generally unknown in antiquity.


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Friday, July 25, 2008
If You Say it Right, You Hear it Right
By Richard Firsten
Retired ESOL Teacher, Teacher-Trainer, Columnist, Author
This week I'd like to touch on a subject near and dear to me, teaching pronunciation. I've never been a fanatic about trying to have every single student of mine learn to pronounce English perfectly. It almost never happens anyway. And the thing is, it doesn't have to happen. In fact, it shouldn't even be an ESOL teacher's goal.
There's nothing wrong with a person having a foreign accent in English ― so long as that accent doesn't interfere with communication or draw unwanted attention to itself. You might even know somebody who goes "gah-gah" when he or she hears somebody speaking English with, let's say, a French accent ― or even a British accent, if that person you know happens to be American. The point being that there's nothing wrong with having a foreign accent in English.
By the way, when we say somebody has "a foreign accent," what we're talking about is when that person uses sounds from his L1 in the L2 (e.g., if he doesn't aspirate the p when he says pear) or uses recognizable sounds in the wrong environment (e.g., if he says "seen" when he means sin).
When accent reduction is called for, many people overlook perhaps the most important reason to reduce an ELL's foreign pronunciation in English. It's not so much to get that student to sound better; it's to get that student to understand the spoken language better. Yep, that's right: to understand the spoken language better. I came to the realization many years ago that when you learn another language, if you don't pronounce correctly, you won't hear what people say to you correctly. I believe that's because your mispronunciation of a word sets up how you think that word should sound, so when somebody doesn't pronounce it the way you expect it to be pronounced, you just don't understand what's being said. It's as simple as that. If I'm Pedro from Honduras, and I always say [dok-tor], when I hear a native English speaker say [dak-tәr], there's a good chance I won't recognize what that person has said. If somebody always says [aIs-land] when he means to say [aI-lәnd], well, you can figure out the rest. Not only will he confuse a listener, but he'll also end up confusing himself when somebody says [aI-lәnd] and he doesn't recognize the word. Not to mention, of course, the added confusion if the native speaker says [aIs-lәnd], the name of the country, but Pedro thinks that person's talking about some island!
I've noticed over the years that there are some mispronunciations that seem to stick out more than others and that tend to be more universal than others. And I found that I could very effectively reduce my students' accents by modifying only a few of those sounds that stick out the most. I've already pointed out [o] vs. [a] as in [dok-tor] and [dak-tәr]. Along the same lines we've got [do-lar] instead of [da-lәr] and [pro-blem] instead of [pra-blәm]. It's really amazing how often we (in American English, at least) pronounce the letter o more or less like [a]. If you consistently make sure your students don't get away with pronouncing that o incorrectly, you'll already have gone a long way to reducing their "foreign accent."
Here are some other gems that I've found tend to be pretty universal and that, when corrected and practiced a lot, go a very long way to reducing a student's foreign accent:
*[tr] instead of [čr] in words like tree, retry, trouble
*[dr] instead of [jr] in words like dry, withdraw, dream
[tu] instead of [ču] in words like situation, actually, ritual
[du] instead of [ju] in a word like educate
[t] instead of voicless th in words like third (a real doozey when mispronounced!), bathroom, breath
And then there's the ever popular [va-ke-šәn] instead of [ve-ke-šәn] for vacation.
We also have what I call avoidance substitutions, e.g., using [s] or [f] instead of voiceless th in words like think ([siŋk]) and with ([wIf]).
Last, but not least, we have hypercorrections. My favorite, especially because I'm from Florida, is [hyu-rI-ken] instead of [hәr-I-ken]!
So take it from me, by just focusing on the few sounds I've mentioned here, you can go a long way to reducing your students' foreign accents in English. The closer they come to pronouncing a word correctly, the more they'll understand the spoken word. In addition, the less attention is called to how they say such words, the more fluent they'll sound in their L2.
*While it's true that there are native English speakers who pronounce the t in the combination [tr] as a [t], a great many speakers modify that sound and pronounce it [č]. The same holds true for the d in the [dr] combination, with some native speakers pronouncing that consonant as [d] instead of modifying it to [č].


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Killer Chimps and Funny Feet: Report from the AAPA Conference
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Steve: Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on April 27th, 2012. I am Steve Mirsky. On this episode:
Wong: Feet were definitely a hot topic at this meeting.
Steve: That's Scientific American editor Kate Wong. She recently attended the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Portland, Oregon. We spoke about feet and other foundational subjects at the Scientific American offices.
Steve: Fascinating conference. Tell us about it.
Wong: There were several really, really interesting stories that came out of that meeting. The first one was a big study looking at the question of why chimpanzees kill other chimpanzees in the wild. And there was a presentation given by Michael Wilson of the University of Minnesota along with a whole bunch of coauthors—sort of l like a who's who of Chimpanzee researchers. Basically the study looked at 17 communities of chimpanzees that have been studied by scientists for quite some time, and they looked at 86 killings in those communities and tried to figure out what it is that triggers chimpanzees to kill one another. And what they found was, well basically there have been two theories, for why this happens. One was that it's just an evolved strategy for reducing competition for resources, and the second idea was that it might be triggered by human disturbance; so things like deforestation or in some cases, situations where people have been feeding the chimpanzees, things like that. So, when they looked at these 86 killings across these 17 communities in Central Africa, East Africa, West Africa, what they found was that the killings occurred in most groups of chimpanzees, not just a couple of them, where the killings have been kind of higher profile. They also found that the killings were conducted mostly by groups of males and the victims were mostly infants and adult males outside the social group, the killers' social group. So when they looked at all this data, they determined that human disturbance was not actually a factor in the killings, and in fact, the higher the number of males in the group, the higher the number of kills. Now it wasn't the sex ratio, the ratio of males to females, in a particular group that was the factor in the number of kills, it was just the number of males in the group.
Steve: The absolute number.
Wong: The absolute number. Chimpanzees are mostly peaceful animals. They're not spending a lot of time killing each other, but when they do kill, apparently it's the number of males in the group that is a factor. And you know, the reasons for this appear to be that, you know, they're reducing the competition for mates and they are, you know, chimpanzees are territorial, so the males are defending their territories; and you know, more work remains to be done on this, but when I spoke with Michael Wilson about his team's findings, he suggested that it may be a situation in which it's the balance of power between neighboring communities of chimpanzees. So, if you have one community that has a lot of males that can, kind of, gang up together, and the neighboring community has fewer males, then the community with the larger number of males is in a better position to go on the attack and not suffer consequences for it.
Steve: It's really interesting. And people are exposed to chimpanzees in media, they usually see baby chimps. They may forget what a full-sized adult male chimp looks like and has the power to do physically.
Wong: Yeah, male chimpanzees are really strong, and you probably wouldn't win in a fight against one.
Steve: Oh, you definitely wouldn't; I mean, there might be some professional athletes who're gigantic, who might stand a chance I guess, but I don't think I would stand a chance.
Wong: And neither would I, absolutely not.
Steve: There clearly a different species, they have a whole different social structure, but there's so many things about them that just appear to be so similar to us. I mean, it would seem just as an observation, a truism that if you want trouble, you know, in a human society, just stock it full of guys.
Wong: (laughs) You know, I talked a little bit with Michael Wilson about whether there are, sort of, implications for understanding human behavior that come out of this study. And his response was that, you know, we don't know if the chimpanzee and human capacity for lethal aggression is something we inherited from a common ancestor, but you know, the fact that it appears to be an issue of the balance of power in neighboring societies, communities that's striking; certainly that would ring a bell with many humans.
Steve: So, there was this interesting thing that went on at the conference with casts of fossils, and talk a little bit about the, sort of, sociology of anthropology and how people don't really share their fossils with each other a lot and how there was this, sort of, virtual fossil sharing.
Wong: You know, paleoanthropology has a reputation for being a very secretive science. So, paleontologists go out into the field, they work under really hard conditions to recover these remains of our ancient ancestors, and they understandably want time after they've unearthed these fossils, to put them together to study them to make their pronouncements, their evaluations of, you know, what these creatures were like. And unfortunately there has been a, sort of, trend in the field to among some researchers to, kind of, keep them to themselves and not allow other researchers access to the material. And it's something that we've been critical in Scientific American, and I was really interested to see this year that the plenary session at this conference, which was organized by John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin, was instead of just a long talk given by an individual, what Hawks did was to send a word out to researchers in the community that he was going to be devoting the session to inviting people to bring in casts of fossils that they had found or had to access to and putting them all out on a whole bunch of tables and inviting the association members to come and just look at them. So, for a lot of people, particularly students, this was their first opportunity to see replicas of fossils that they've only had the chance to read about. So, there were things there like there was a copy of the famous Turkana Boy skeleton, for example, from Kenya, it's an early example of Homo erectus, a very complete and famous specimen. And then there was even this recently analyzed little pinky bone from the site of Denisova in Siberia and this was the specimen that recently geneticists were able to obtain an entire nuclear genome from this little—I mean it's so tiny it looks like, we were laughing about it, like fingernail clippings—and yet through this amazing technology, an entire ancient genome was recovered from it; and that was probably the least seen specimen in the whole group, and people, pretty excited to see it. It didn't look like much, but it was just incredible to see how much information could be gleaned from such a tiny little scrap.
Steve: So, you think there will be more resource sharing in the future based on this or this is a one shot?
Wong: Yeah, it will be really interesting to see; it's maybe a little bit too soon to say. But you know, the fact that, for example, the recently discovered Australopithecus sediba species from South Africa—that's a discovery made by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and his colleagues—that team has made a point of making their project into an open access project, so they have really committed to that and invited researchers from all over the world to come and see the specimens. And you know, if they're willing to share a discovery that major, then it's going to put the pressure on other researchers to also, you know, to share their materials. And on governments, it's not just researchers, I mean, there are government policies sometimes make it difficult for outside researchers to look at fossils. So, you know, hopefully it will be setting a great example for other researchers in other parts of the world and everybody can look at all the fossils and do real science.
Steve: Speaking of fossils, so some possible insights into bipedalism at the conference.
Wong: Yeah, feet were definitely a hot topic at this meeting. There were a couple of specimens in particular that people were talking about. One was this recently discovered foot—a 3.4 million year old foot from the site of Burtele in Ethiopia. And this is a really weird foot, in that, you know, at around the same time we have Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, and that species basically walked upright like us and had a foot, you know, pretty much like ours. Now this foot is from the same time period but it has this big toe that sticks out to the side—it's very, kind of, ape-like in that regard—you know, it looks like a foot that is adapted to climbing in the trees. Now this is interesting because researchers thought that, basically, once hominids, the early human ancestors, evolved, the ability to walk upright, it was kind of like there was one way to do that. And with discoveries like the Burtele foot with its divergent big toe and then also Australopithecus sediba from South Africa which I just mentioned, and that's roughly a two-million-year-old species that has a really weird foot too in a totally different way. You know, one of the most startling aspects of it is it has a heel bone that looks just like an ancient ape's heel bone and then an ankle bone that looks like a modern human's ankle bone. And the way that that's been interpreted—and Jeremy DeSilva of Boston University gave a presentation on this foot at the meeting—he suggested that Australopithecus sediba, when it walked upright was probably hyperpronating, so, when it's walking the foot is rolling inward. And it would have been a pretty awkward way of getting around and yet that's what it appears to have done. So, there were multiple flavors, if you will, of walking around on two legs and that was just something that in the past we never really thought happened. So it's just yet another sort of signal that there was more diversity among early hominids than many researchers ever would have expected to see.
Steve: That's it for this episode. Get your science news at our Web site, http://www.ScientificAmerican.com, where you can also read an excerpt from Charles Duhiggs''s new book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. And follow us on Twitter, where you'll get a tweet every time a new article hits the web site. Our Twitter name is @sciam. S—C—I—A—M. For Scientific American's Science Talk, I'm Steve Mirsky, thanks for clicking on us.