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The origins of "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah's humor can be found in "Born a Crime," his compelling memoir about growing up in South Africa as the son of a largely absent white father and a fearless black mother who raised him.
The book makes clear that Noah's mining of social, cultural and political absurdity for laughs isn't a defense mechanism. It's a deceivingly potent weapon aimed at disarming those with power derived from irrational, institutionalized hate and stupidity.
But Noah ditched the humor Wednesday night as he showed the disturbing dashcam video of Minnesota cop Jeronimo Yanez fatally shooting motorist Philando Castile during a 2016 traffic stop gone horribly wrong.
The footage, released after Yanez' acquittal last week on manslaughter charges, "broke me," Noah said.
Noah's far from the first late night comedy host to turn solemn in an era when tragedy all too often brings satire to a pause, however brief.
But his searing, personal take on the verdict and the video marked an extraordinary moment for his career and for comedy. It also underscored the role he's assumed in an otherwise all-white late night TV landscape.
Noah's bold decision to broadcast the footage came a day after a "Daily Show" Internet-only monologue in which he revealed he's been stopped by police eight to 10 times since moving to the U.S. six years ago.
"I don't know what silent crime you think I'm on my way to commit, but I've been stopped in a Tesla," Noah said, going for the laugh, one of several he earned during the segment.
But he didn't joke once when he played the video on national television Wednesday. The jury verdict, he said, proved that "in America, it is officially reasonable to be afraid of a person just because they are black."
When Noah took over the "Daily Show" in September 2015, he initially came off as an amiable, if somewhat detached observer – especially when compared to his vaunted predecessor, Jon Stewart, whose exasperation at the state of the world grew with time.
But Noah, beginning with the presidential election season, delivered increasingly pointed barbs, tapping his feet-in-multiple-worlds perspective to occasionally liken Donald Trump to an African dictator.
This week, the man whose birth was a crime under South African apartheid conveyed the perspective of being a black person in the United States. A shooting that seemingly defies logic and human decency spurred Trevor Noah, who built a career on smart mockery of the illogical and inhumane, to get deadly serious.
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San Diegans bought 28 percent more new cars and light trucks this January than they did in the same month last year.
A recent report released by the New Car Dealers Association of San Diego County shows that San Diegans bought 11,222 new cars and light trucksin January, which was 2,470 more than they did in the first month of 2012.
It's continuing an accelerating trend. Overall in 2012, new-car sales surpassed 100,000 for the first time since 2008, as the unemployment rate dropped, interest rates remained low and people unloaded their older cars.
Still, the dealers association predicted a slower 2013 due to budget cuts and more economic uncertainty. That's not the case so far. Car sales rose in January despite a couple of tax increases. As 2013 began, sales tax in California increased by a quarter cent due to the November passage of Proposition 30. And the payroll tax holiday ended, restoring the Social Security tax at 6.2 percent after two years at 4.2 percent.
"The economy is better now than it was a year ago," said Alan Gin, economist at the University of San Diego. "We have more jobs, so as a result car sales are going to be up."
But Gin said the key to figuring out whether the tax increases would affect car sales would come from examining the difference in the change between December 2011 and January 2012, versus the difference between December 2012 and January 2013.
In January 2013, the month-to-month drop in sales of new cars and light trucks was 1,028. That number was 1,033 in January 2012. That's a difference of five cars.
"The conclusion that you can draw right now is that so far, at least in January, the tax increase didn't have any sort of impact," Gin said.
Lance Roberts, a spokesman for the auto dealers association, noted a 20 percent increase in sales of light trucks in January as a sign of more construction activity.

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Greetings from Family Research Council!
We wanted to share the following information with you from our friends at Illinois Family Institute. If you have previously received this message, please simply disregard this second contact. We did, however, want to make certain that you, your friends, and your neighbors would be aware of this very critical information.
We encourage you to join Illinois Family Institute in making your voice heard today!
DEFEND MARRIAGE Lobby Day
Click HERE for a PDF version of the lobby day instructions.
When: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Where: Illinois State Capitol
Address: 401 S. 2nd Street, Springfield, IL 62701
Time: 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Rally: At the Lincoln statue in front of the Capitol (10:30 AM)
...IFI is urging two groups of Illinoisans to ask some hard questions of any lawmaker who will be or may be voting in favor of the legalization of "same-sex marriage":
1. Those who will be going to Springfield should ask these questions when they meet with their representatives on Wednesday.
2. Those who are unable to go to Springfield should schedule appointments with their representatives in their local offices. Try to bring as many constituents as possible to these meetings, including local clergy.
Here are the questions to which lawmakers must respond:
- What is marriage? What are the inherent, fundamental constituent features of marriage?
- Supporters of this bill claim that marriage has no inherent connection to gender, sexual complementarity, or reproductive potential. If marriage has no inherent connection to gender, sexual complementarity or reproductive potential, why are you limiting it to two people?
- Marriage revisionists claim that the sole defining feature of marriage is love. They claim that marriage is solely about "who loves whom." If that's so, why is the government involved? Does the government have a vested interest in affirming the love of those in an inherently non-reproductive type of relationship? If the government has a vested interest in legally recognizing and affirming love, then why doesn't it recognize other loving relationships, like close platonic friendships?
- Do children have an inherent right to a mother and a father?
- Since many claim that access to marriage is a "civil right," could you tell me what civil rights are? Is access to civil rights guaranteed to couples or to individuals?...
Compel your lawmaker to defend his or her vote with actual reasons rather than superficial sound bites. Ask, and ask, and ask until they answer. Don't settle for evasion and obfuscation. Your lawmakers work for you. They are your public servants. Write their answers down and send them to us and to your local press in letters to the editor. If you forget to print this list of questions, it will be available at the IFI desk in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday.
...If we say and do nothing as homosexuals and their ideological allies vigorously push to legalize what should be inconceivable, we bear significant responsibility for the presence of pernicious, fallacious ideas in elementary schools.
If we say and do nothing while the government becomes complicit in the destruction of marriage, we bequeath to our children and grandchildren a country of diminished rights and greater oppression, which will follow as surely as night follows day.
If we say and do nothing, we get what we deserve.
Please join us in Springfield on Feb. 20 and inspire others around the country like Illinois homeschoolers and the people of France have inspired us! And for those who cannot make it, please schedule meetings with your representatives in their local offices.
Thank you for standing with us and Illinois Family Institute to protect and defend Faith, Family, and Freedom!


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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual, perennial herb, shrub, unarmed
Leaves generally odd-1-pinnate (sometimes ± palmately compound, rarely some or most simple); stipules conspicuous or not; leaflets 3many, often irregularly arranged
Inflorescence: umbel or 12-flowered, axillary, generally peduncled, often bracted
Flower: corolla generally yellow (sometimes white or pink), fading darker; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit dehiscent or not, exserted from calyx or not, ovoid to oblong, ± beaked
Seeds 1several
Etymology: (Greek: derivation unclear)
Reference: [Isely 1981 Mem New York Bot Garden 25:128206]
Spp. generally variable; intermediates may be hybrids. Key below separates natural groups.
Perennial (or flowering first year and appearing annual), finely strigose
Stem prostrate or ascending
Leaf small; stipules gland-like; leaflets 35, 510 mm, oblanceolate to obovate; axis sometimes flat, blade-like
Inflorescence 28-flowered; peduncle 125 mm; bract present or 0
Flower: calyx 35 mm, lobes < tube, triangular, straight; corolla 68 mm, yellow
Fruit indehiscent, oblong-tapered; beak recurved
Seeds 12
Ecology: Coastal sand, chaparral, disturbed areas, sometimes on serpentine
Elevation: < 500 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, Outer North Coast Ranges, Central Coast, Outer South Coast Ranges.
Stem decumbent or ascending, generally stout
Inflorescence: peduncle 15 mm
Fruit: body slightly exserted
Ecology: Chaparral, sometimes on serpentine
Elevation: < 500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Central Coast, Outer South Coast Ranges.


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It's still difficult to tell to what extent Manti Te'o was duped by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo and any co-conspirators, but if he did begin the relationship in good faith, he'd join at least one other athlete that has been taken in—if briefly—by online an suitors pretending to be someone she wasn't. It's a good group.
More than a week ago, Colts punter Pat McAfee told this story through his Twitter, and he re-uploaded it as the Te'o narrative was unfolding. He was tipped off to his own looming ensnarement, he says, partly by the fact that he was a shitty punter:
He goes on to explain how his experience puts him firmly in the Te'o-was-duped camp ("People can be anybody they want to be on the interweb"). Whether or not he's right, he's admirably forthright about his own experience.
McAfee, known for being a live wire, is now probably famous enough to be effectively catfished. Start your engines, whoever does that!
h/t Brandon


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From all of us to you !!!
From all of us to you !!!
Clinton Bemrose
just South of Lansing Michigan
Beekeeping since 1964
To you and everyone else too!!!!
Plant Hardiness Zone 6B, 5300 ft., Bee Zone A/B, Proverbs 24:13
id like too take a moment too wish everyone one bee source a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS ...HOPING THIS NEXT YEAR WILL HAVE MORE RAIN ...THIS IS WHAT I HAVE ASKED SANTA TOO BRING ME
MERRY CHRISTMAS and Have a safe and Happy New Year From the Williams Family
Here's wishing peace, kindness and joy to all for the holiday season and the new year. (Hey Santa - about that Maxant extractor...)
USDA Zone 6b/7a
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Merry Christmas to all and many blessings for the New Year!
~ Bee Bliss
Merry Christmas from a newbie that loves this site and is learning a lot! Santa brought me YOU!
What a difference a day can make. A person can become unexpectedly homeless overnight as we all know.
Our son and his two roommates became homeless this morning due to a small, but potentially dangerous, fire in the basement of the home they rent. It could have been much worse. One of the roommates got up and used the bathroom at 7:30 a.m. and noticed that not only was the floor extremely warm, but also he heard gushing water. The water heater in the basement below was spewing flames by the valve(?). The basement appeared to be a hot sauna due to water squirting out of melted pipes (not metal) above the water heater, hitting the flames and turning into steam. We believe the water pipes melting actually was a blessing in disguise. The house now has no heat or hot water and is unlivable until that is restored.
By the time we heard of the fire a few hours later, they already were put up in a hotel by the Red Cross. Events like this can really turn a person's world upside down.
We are grateful to the Red Cross for the help they give those in need in the surrounding communities.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, to you and all of our Beesource friends.
Bee Bliss,
I'm sorry to hear about your son's misfortune. I know it's a horrible thing to have to deal with over the holiday season, but thank God it was not worse. Had his roommate not gotten up, they may not be around today. I hope things work out for them and they get settled somewhere quickly.
To everything there is a season....
Merry CHRISTmas to all!!!!!
Bee Bliss, those melted water pipes apparently were some *very* nice Christmas gifts!!!
hoping that all may 'bee blessed' through the holiday season and beyond.......


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Ginkgo extract, from the
leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree, has been used for
thousands of years in traditional Chinese medicine. It also is the most
commonly used herbal medicine in Europe. Although the benefits of ginkgo are
not entirely understood, it is known that ginkgo has properties that may help
treat certain conditions. Ginkgo may:
In the United States, ginkgo is considered a dietary
People have used ginkgo to
treat a variety of health conditions. There is some evidence that ginkgo may be
helpful in the treatment of:
Many people take ginkgo hoping to improve and preserve
memory. But some studies show that there is no convincing evidence that it can
help improve memory and prevent dementia.1, 2, 3
Ginkgo is widely used
throughout Europe to treat age-related dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
Ginkgo appears to be safe and has
few side effects. Direct contact with the pulp of the ginkgo tree may cause a
skin reaction similar to
poison ivy, but this is not a problem with ginkgo that
is taken by mouth (oral supplements). Experts don't know whether ginkgo is safe
for women who are pregnant or breast-feeding, so these women should consult a
doctor before taking ginkgo.
Bleeding problems are the only major
complication that has been linked to use of ginkgo, and the risk seems to be
very low. Ginkgo is not recommended for people who are taking medicines that
thin the blood (anticoagulants), such as warfarin (Coumadin), aspirin,
NSAIDs. This is because ginkgo may reduce the blood's
ability to clot. The combined effect of ginkgo and these medicines may be
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not
regulate dietary supplements in the same way it regulates medicines. A dietary
supplement can be sold with limited or no research on how well it works or on
its safety.
Always tell your doctor if you are using a dietary
supplement or if you are thinking about combining a dietary supplement with
your conventional medical treatment. It may not be safe to forgo your
conventional medical treatment and rely only on a dietary supplement. This is
especially important for women who are pregnant or breast-feeding.
When using dietary supplements, keep in mind the following:
CitationsBirks J, Grimley Evans J (2009). Ginkgo biloba for
cognitive impairment and dementia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1). DeKosky ST, et al. (2008). Ginkgo biloba for
prevention of dementia. JAMA, 300(19):
2253–2262.Solomon PR, et al. (2002). Ginkgo for memory
enhancement. JAMA, 288: 835–840.
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Perennial, bulbed, cormed, or rhizomed
Stem generally erect
Leaves generally basal (a few cauline), 2-ranked, ± linear, generally grass-like, generally sharply folded along midrib; bases overlapping, sheathing
Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, ± terminal, or flowers solitary; bracts ± like leaf bases, sheathing
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial; hypanthium fused to ovary; perianth parts generally fused into tube above ovary, generally petal-like, in 2 series of 3, outer (sepals) generally ± like inner (petals); stamens 3, generally attached to sepals, filaments fused below into a tube or not; ovary inferior, 3-chambered, placentas generally axile, style 1, each of 3 branches entire or 2-branched or -lobed, petal-like or not, with stigma on under surface instead of at tip
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal
Seeds fewmany
Genera in family: 80 genera, ± 1500 species: worldwide, especially Africa; many cultivated (e.g., Iris, Gladiolus, Crocus, Freesia ).
Perennial; rhizome creeping or ± tuber-like
Inflorescence: flowers 1many
Flower: perianth parts clawed, sepals (wider, spreading or reflexed) unlike petals (generally narrower, erect); style branches ± petal-like, arching over stamens, each with flat, scale-like stigma on surface facing stamen, just below generally 2-lobed tip (crest)
Seeds compressed, pitted
Species in genus: Perhaps 150 species: generally n temp
Etymology: (Greek: rainbow, from flower colors)
Reference: [Lenz 1958 Aliso 4:172; Clarkson 1959 Madroño 15:115122]
Hybrids are common, especially in I. tenax alliance; some authors lump taxa recognized here.
Horticultural information: Pacific Iris hybrids; CVS.
Rhizome < 10 mm diam
Leaf < 6 mm wide
Inflorescence: flowers 2; lowest 2 bracts opposite, outermost 3.510 cm, 510 mm wide
Flower: perianth tube 3058 mm, throat distinct, sepals 4.77.5 cm, 1118 mm wide; style branches 2030 mm, crests 923 mm, stigmas triangular to rounded or tongue-shaped
Ecology: Common. Dry, open woodlands
Elevation: 1002000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Cascade Range, n High Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley.


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Newt Gingrich leads Mitt Romney among Republicans, but he is the weakest of the Republican candidates tested against President Obama, according to an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday evening.
Gingrich leads Romney 37 percent to 28 percent nationally among registered Republicans likely to vote in the primaries; Rick Santorum is in third with 18 percent, and Ron Paul is fourth with 12 percent.
Gingrich has built its advantage by consolidating the heart and soul of the Republican Party: very conservative voters, the South and the Tea Party.
Though Gingrich is the preferred candidate of GOP primary voters, he performs the worst of all Republican candidates tested against Obama, including Santorum.
"Gingrich is Goldwater," said Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. "In the general election, Gingrich not only takes down his ship, he takes down the whole flotilla."
Read the full poll results here (.pdf)
The GOP race
Gingrich leads Romney in a four-way matchup, including Santorum and Paul, with "very conservatives" (47 percent to 17 percent), Tea Party supporters (46 percent to 21 percent), and in the South (45 percent to 21 percent). Those numbers gets even bigger in a two-way matchup. For example, in the South, one-on-one with Romney, Gingrich leads 65 percent to 28 percent.
Romney leads in the Northeast (38 percent to 32 percent), and is statistically tied with Gingrich in all other regions: in the Midwest (Gingrich leads 32-29 percent) and West (Gingrich 33-32 percent).
In December, the last time the poll was conducted, Gingrich also led (40 percent to 23 percent), but much has changed since then, including two fourth place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire for Gingrich, and his decisive victory in South Carolina. The poll, conducted Sunday through Tuesday, went into the field the day after Gingrich's victory there.
Gingrich is also viewed as the most electable candidate by GOP primary voters. He leads Romney 2-to-1 among those who picked electability as mattering most to them in a candidate. He holds a narrow lead, 46-44 percent, among those say views on issues matter most.
By a nine-point margin, Republicans said a candidate who "comes closest to your views on issues" is preferable to a candidate who has the best chance to beat President Obama.
Gingrich weakest against Obama
Romney fares best against the president, trailing Obama by six points among registered voters, 49 percent to 43 percent. That's a four-point improvement for the president from a month ago.
Obama, however, beats Gingrich by a whopping 18 points, 55-37 percent, expanding the president's 11-point lead a month ago.
Santorum also loses to Obama, but by a narrower margin, 53-38 percent, than Gingrich.
"More than his mojo, he's getting back the middle of the electorate," Hart said. But Hart warns, whether it's the Republican race or the uptick in Obama's ratings and standing, "I look at these results, and they have all the permanence of skywriting -- looks bold, but disappears in seconds."
Obama, however, is still below 40 percent approval with white voters, and McInturff points out that number and the direction of the country still would indicate "The incumbent president is going to have a difficult re-election. Many of these are still problematic numbers -- as improved as they are."
Gingrich's problems – women, independents, 'personal standards'
Gingrich particularly struggles with women and independents. Women say they would vote for Obama over Gingrich by a wide 60-31 percent gap, far wider than the 54-38 percent difference by which Obama beats Romney.
With independents, Gingrich gets just 28 percent against Obama, who wins with 52 percent. By contrast, Obama narrowly edges Romney with independents, 44 percent to 36 percent.
Asked if the candidate has "high personal standards that set the proper tone for the country," Romney gets a 67 percent positive score, Gingrich checks in at 32 percent.
Issues of character for Gingrich haven't "been put to rest," Hart said. "It may have been a great debate point last week, but there is still uncertainty among all voters."
Challenges for Romney, too
Romney's strength as a candidate is thought to be his business experience, as it relates to the economy. But GOP primary voters call it a "draw" between Gingrich and Romney when it comes to economic expertise, Hart said.
Sixty-one percent of GOP primary voters rate Romney's ability to deal with the economy positively, surpassed slightly by Gingrich, whom 63 percent of Republicans believe is well-equipped to handle the economy.
"If that's the ace card for Romney," Hart said, "it hasn't materialized at the moment."
Gingrich beats Romney on sharing your position on the issues by a wide margin, 56 percent to 43 percent.
But on the issue of whether Republican voters would be "comfortable" with Romney as their candidate, he gets a higher score than Gingrich – 75 percent say they would be comfortable with him versus 61 percent who say the same of Gingrich.
GOP brand problem
There's also evidence in the poll of a Republican brand problem.
All of the GOP candidates are a net-negative in favorability ratings, with Santorum getting the best marks -- 26 percent positive, 27 percent negative.
Gingrich gets the worst -- 26-48.
Romney scores 31-36, and it's worth noting that Bob Dole, John McCain, and George W. Bush were all net-positives at the same time in their fights for the nomination. The exception of a recent major party nominee being a net-negative at this point -- John Kerry, who was 22-26 in January 2004.
"Romney's numbers are net-negative, which is unusual," McInturff said.
Hart added, "It's hard to make the case that anything but injury has come off the Republican brand off Congress and electorate."
The congressional approval rating is near record lows of 13 percent, and more people say the GOP has brought the wrong kind of change (31 percent) in Congress than the right kind (12 percent). That represents a drop for the Republicans from a year ago, right after they took control of the House as a result of the sweeping 2010 elections. In January 2011, 25 percent thought Republicans would bring the right kind of change versus 20 percent who thought they would bring the wrong kind.
Those attitudes are also far worse than right after Democrats took control of the House in 2006 (42-15 percent) and Republicans regained a majority in 1994 (37-11 percent).
Additionally, Democrats lead in who people prefer to control Congress, the so-called congressional ballot, 47-41 percent. It's the fourth consecutive month Democrats have led on the question and it has expanded from their two-point lead a month ago.
McInturff points out there is a "pretty significant gap" between the optimism primary voters -- 80 percent of whom believe a Republican will defeat President Obama -- and reality.
Republicans are "not going to win by simply being the option against the president," McInturff said, adding, "The entire national environment isn't going to do the entire job for the party."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post misreported the margin President Obama wins women against Newt Gingrich as 69-21. It is 60-31, as noted above.


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Online giants and small start-ups alike are drawn to Seattle. The city is rapidly becoming the new Silicon Valley – without forfeiting its coolness factor or counterculture music and art scene.
When Mohit Bhende is asked to explain why he launched his start-up in Seattle of all places, Mo – as everyone here calls him, in keeping with the American love of abbreviating everything – opts for a gesture: With arms outstretched, palms facing up, he shrugs, as if to say: "Where else?"
Three years ago, Mo set up Karat, a company that conducts job interviews and use algorithms to then match the best candidates with the best positions. A team of 45 people now program, manage and interview for the enterprise. "We're a start-up success story," says Mo. Shoulder-length dark hair swept back, an untucked polo shirt, sneakers: There's little to distinguish the 39-year-old from his employees. In the office, long rows of screens perch on long wooden tables, operated by young men and women, many with Indian or Asian backgrounds, most wearing baseball caps and jeans. The soundtrack is the rhythmic tapping of keyboards, while on the screens, symbols converge to form mathematical formulas.
It's unlikely that Mo's success is down to the vibe of the office alone. Rooms that turn into video conference rooms on demand, sofas, machines dispensing organic coffee, ping pong tables and wire baskets with yoga mats are all basic start-up amenities, as is an optimistic "We will change the world" poster. What has truly boosted Mo's operation is its location.
For the past 20 years, says Mo, the city has been attracting start-ups and Internet enterprises; its StartUpSeattle program is aimed at digital businesses, and its low tax rates do the rest. Currently, there are over 1300 start-ups in the city, their staff populating the co-working areas, offices and cafés: WiFi and caffeine, what more do you need? Over the past five years, the city high up on the north Pacific coast of the U.S. has been evolving into the new – and according to Mo, better – Silicon Valley. "The area around San Francisco has gotten crazy; the tech scene has bulldozered everything else out of the way by putting up prices," he says. He compares it to a club. "If you're in, then everything's fine." The problem is that the boys want to keep to themselves. The competition is bitter and remorseless, and there's a lack of diversity. "Many folk in the Valley have forgotten just how important friendliness and communication are," says Mo. In contrast, Seattle is more open. And it's also much hipper. Seattle isn't just populated by small enterprises hoping to become the next big thing with virtual reality, artificial intelligence or blockchain (the digital datasets that make up online currencies, such as Bitcoin). The big players, the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, are also here in the city, profiting from the creative minds, but also changing the unique vibe and rhythm of the city.
Mo picked a spot far from the glossy downtown high-rises; his company resides in the University District, close to the former law library of the University of Washington. The 1980s building bears a passing resemblance to a command bridge in a Star Trek movie: Sunlight streams through a sloping window onto tall, white supporting columns; a gallery runs around the cantilevered hall with its exposed concrete and dark floors. Karat is a part of the university's CoMotionLabs, an incubator with 95 innovative young tech enterprises. One uses virtual reality glasses to digitally dissect the human body; another employs a real swing, a fan, and VR glasses to recreate the sensation of paragliding over imaginary islands and waterfalls. New worlds, as far as the eye can see!
CoMotionLabs not only provides space, infrastructure and a global network, but also gives its data and computer science graduates direct access to big business. The university offers regular management classes; companies like Amazon, Nintendo and Facebook work with some of the CoMotion start-ups and sponsor projects with up to 100 000 U.S. dollars. "Washington has one of the best tech universities in the country," says Mo, "many really good software engineers graduate here." Sitting at the source, he and his company benefit from this fresh expertise.
You're unlikely to find the next Facebook or Twitter in Seattle, where the focus is more on business-to-business, which is start-ups like Karat mainly design solutions for other businesses. Just like Silicon Valley, Seattle also offers thousands of techies good jobs. There's really no good reason to leave.
Asked to explain why there are more start-ups in Seattle than elsewhere, Samuel "Sam" Assefa, 60, also thinks first before motioning a reply. He leans back and smiles broadly, as if to say: "Why not?" For the past two years he's headed the department of Planning and Urban Development, which is on the fifth floor of the City Council building. From his office window, you can watch the cars pushing their way along the streets like so many beetles. For Assefa, the past few years have been like a gold rush with tax income high, unemployment low at less than three percent, and more new working citizens flocking to the city every year and filling the tax coffers. Currently, Seattle has a population of over 720 000, almost 10 percent more than in 2010: few other cities in the U.S. are growing as fast.
One company here harnessed the power of data and algorithms to become a global force. Since Amazon's Jeff Bezos, said to be the world's richest man, decided to base his headquarters in South Lake Union at the heart of the city, the online retailer has changed the face of entire districts. Shiny office towers with names like "Day 1", "Doppler" and "Rufus" reach skyward. Amazon's nearly 50 000 employees occupy more than 40 complexes and extra buildings are rented if more space is needed. The Amazon Campus is one million square meters in area. Amazon operates its own TV channel, music streaming service, supermarkets and an online data-storage cloud. Freshly asphalted cycle tracks seam the district's roads like a network of black carpets. Jeff Bezos also commissioned a landmark project to stand between the two main Amazon buildings: the Amazon Spheres. These giant domed conservatories look like three super-sized bubbles tethered to the ground by intricate steel latticework. The Spheres are a greenhouse-cum-conference and work space with over 40 000 plants and designed to promote the creativity and health of the Amazon staff. They soon became a tourist attraction: Hip youngsters with hair dyed white and skinny jeans take perpetual selfies and then pose with biodegradable shopping bags from the shiny, new Amazon Go supermarket while their parents admire the city from above in the restaurant on the top floor of the futuristic Space Needle, the city's official landmark. For Generation Z, the Amazon Campus is the place to be.
For Assefa, the brave new world in Seattle is the result of successful urban planning. For many years, nobody wanted to live downtown, he says, and anyone who could, fled to the safe, green suburbs. In the center, buildings became empty, rents fell. Now, the hum of many major construction sites floats across the four-lane highways, and hoses for liquid concrete protrude from the top floors of new buildings. "The city changed the rules," says Assefa, "new buildings can now be higher and narrower; new parks and recreation areas were created, and quality of life increased." When the company announced it was building its headquarters in South Lake Union, formerly a gray expanse of concrete with workshops and warehouses, Amazon was integrated in the plans. "We didn't want the employees to stay in their offices; we wanted them to go out onto the streets." The company cafeterias intentionally only cater for around a third of the workforce. Unlike Silicon Valley, where the employees' every need is met in an insulated environment, the programmers and developers here spend their lunch breaks in the local restaurants and cafés. People no longer stick with just one employer forever, and not everyone wants to move to the quiet suburbs. Instead, many want a lively place with cinemas, bars and culture. "The younger generation is returning to the city, it's a sea change," says Assefa.
He mentions the economist Richard Florida, who teaches at the University of Toronto and is hailed as the pioneer of modern urban planning. Florida's theory, set out in his 2002 bestseller, The Rise of the Creative Class, is as clear as it is simple: The old economy will be replaced by the new creative economy. Seattle is a prime example of this. In hip districts, like Capitol Hill and Ballard, artists found studios, bands, rehearsal rooms, and the sizeable LGBT scene, its spaces. Here, the zebra crossings are painted in the colors of the rainbow, and signs at the entrances to bars and restaurants clearly state: "No space for hate and racism." The city, which became world-famous for its lively art scene and subculture, represented by bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden, has retained its cool image. Seattle is young and liberal – this image attracts young creative minds.
Mo is a good example. He didn't just come here from Pittsburgh to program at the Microsoft headquarters outside the city, earn well and later start up his own business. He also came here because "Emerald City", as Seattle is called for its green lakes and urban woodlands, is supremely attractive: "Great quality of life, fantastic art scene; I bump into architects and artists in the evening; and the city still has small bou tiques instead of identikit stores; and plus, in only an hour's drive I can be in the mountains, snowboarding or hiking."
But the boom also has its downsides: congested streets, crowded buses, ballooning rents and spiraling property prices. More and more new luxury apartment blocks are springing up, entire districts are changing, becoming more expensive, displacing their original communities. Many are forced to seek new accommodation outside of the city, 11 000 have ended up on the streets, homeless, and now live in the ubiquitous tent cities. Under highways, in parks and cemeteries – there are tents everywhere in Seattle, with neat lines of shoes, suitcases and even kids' bikes outside. Mo says, "A lot of money has come to the city, and many of its original inhabitants simply can't keep up; that creates tension."
That may also be the reason that the Seattlelites have elected a socialist to the city council for the first time in 100 years, Kshama Sawant. She has already pushed through a new minimum hourly wage of 15 dollars and wants to raise taxes for Amazon and other big businesses, and use the money to subsidize affordable housing. "The tech industry is great for us," says Assefa. He hopes Seattle will stay a city where all sorts of people can live side by side: entrepreneurs, techies, musicians and regular families. A serious yet determined expression crosses his face: "That's what we're working to achieve."
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text: Dave Waugh: Work in Progress (By Hunter Spanks) By Hunter Spanks When Crash asked me to write for the TAM Blog I said, "Yes, of course." Then it hit me; "Now I have to think of what to write about?" Well, I am happy to say that with a little patience it has fallen into my lap. Elizabeth, (Lizzy) who works the counter at Have Fun Be Lucky where I currently tattoo, announced she was going to get her back tattooed by Dave Waugh… –jealousy came to mind. More so, the opportunity to see a back piece done from start-to-finish by an artist that I have looked up to and consider to be one of the best in the industry, and has been an inspiration since I was doing some of my first tattoos, was something I could not pass up. So in mid-March we came down to Jinx Proof to look at the sketches and Lizzy gave the go-ahead. I met Dave and actually did a trade with him. A painting for a page of the '92 set of flash from him… -it was a total score. A week or so later Dave sent Lizzy a final drawing for her back. It was an epic piece involving a naked girl lying under a unicorn with a mystical background including cities in the clouds, planets and rainbows. Something you might see on any great album cover from the 70s. Now to have Lizzy ask Dave if I might cover the process from beginning-to-end, including sketches, stenciling and just a general insight into how an artist goes through the process of undertaking large-scale work. If I'm lucky I might even get to pick his brain on reference, machines and needle groupings used in the process. He kindly agreed. So it is now April 6, 2011 and we are here for Lizzy's first session. Everyone is in great spirits. Dave joking around about being nervous and needing more caffeine to help the shakes. I can relate, and it is a bit comforting. I get really anxious and shake like hell when I tattoo. Dave dissects the drawing into roughly five pieces to make up the stencil. Puzzling it together, as I call it. He tapes three of the pieces together, which are mainly the girl, the unicorn and part of the background. Two other pieces make up the sides, which are mainly background plants and grass. The stencil goes on smooth only requiring minor refining with a sharpie. Things seem to be on schedule and the tattoo gets underway around 2 p.m. and at about 30-minutes into it the girl is outlined, and I must say I am impressed at how smooth and quick he makes progress on such a refined tattoo. It always amazes me the conversations that take place in shops between client and artist during sessions and how they are even more X-Rated when there is a long friendship involved between the two, as Lizzy and Dave have known each other for quite some time now. Let's just say the banter is all over the place ranging from drug addiction to herpes in the ass. All the while major progress has been made in just an hour. The girl and unicorn are almost completely outlined and it might be time to adjust Lizzy from sitting to lying down. Spirits are still high as noted by the funny banter going on. As Clutch plays on the radio it is time for a stretch and an adjustment. So it is now 3:30 p.m. and it is back to work. Dave starts with sketching a bit more, again refining areas of the stencil –mostly areas of the background. Sketching is once again done and time to do some outlining on the side areas of the tattoo. The machine is buzzing as Dave quickly gets back to work. So as another half-hour goes by, the left side of the background is now outlined and time for another adjustment to work on the right side of the background. Again starting with some sketching to refine some of the background. Two hours down and it looks like the outline is about half done. As another half-hour goes by the background on the right side is almost complete, and I still sit in awe of how quickly Dave moves and how clean the work looks. Rounding two-and-half hours in and the shop gets bit hectic for a minute, which rattles a few nerves but I think Lizzy and Dave have made it through the commotion. Time again for a small break and a seating adjustment. Now it looks as if they are about 75 percent of the way through the outline, all seems well and the shop is quiet again, except for the sounds of Superfly. As we move into just under hour three, the outlining continues, working on the city in the clouds and the shop seems peaceful. Lizzy is now sitting up and it seems as if it is just the upper shoulder areas that are left to be done. Although, I must say some of these areas seem to have the majority of the tattoo's detail. Progress still seems steady and on schedule. Just over three hours and close to completion. At this point Lizzy's endurance is fading and that is understandable after having your whole back outlined. It is good for her that the first session is about over and everything considered, everyone's spirits are still high… –now outlining the rainbow and few sprucely spaced planets. Back to finish a few small spaces at the bottom around the girl involving background. Now for a brief break to make a few more stencils of some stars and planets and at just over three hours everything that was initially stenciled has been outlined. The stenciling resumes with a few random stars and planets above the rainbow and it seems that the first session will be over. Stencils on and now back to work. Now at 5:30 p.m. this is the last little bit to be outlined. As Dave starts the countdown on the last line 10… 9… 8… –the first session is complete. Lizzy and Dave seem to be happy with the session and I am impressed with her stamina and his efficiency as a tattooer. I cannot thank Dave enough for this opportunity to document and pick his brain a bit about working on such and epic back piece. Until session two… we are done here for today. (Hunter Spanks is a contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine and was previously in TAM Issue #11. He currently works in Baltimore, MD at Have Fun Be Lucky Tattoo.)


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Providers in large metros are less likely to have implemented EMRs than those in smaller metro areas and rural areas, according to a study written up by Healthcare Informatics.
The study, which appeared in Health Services Research, set out to determine whether EMR adoption was lower in traditionally underserved areas. To look at this issue, in 2011 researchers gathered data from 261,973 ambulatory healthcare sites with 716,160 providers, covering 50 states and the District of Columbia. Provider sites ranged from one-physician practices to large multi-physician groups, Healthcare Informatics reports.
Researchers found that areas with high concentrations of minority and low income populations, as well as those in large metropolitan areas were more likely to be in the lowest quartile of EMR adoption nationally, as compared with rural areas. The study also found that 43 percent of providers working in ambulatory healthcare sites had EMRs with e-prescribing capabilities, Healthcare Informatics reports.
Clearly, if researchers were expecting to find a lack of EMR adoption in these metro practices, they hit the nail on the head. I'd like to know, however, why things fell out this way.
Are metro practices lacking the resources to adopt EMRs in a more pronounced way than rural practices? Is there some phenomenon in the works in which underserved populations aren't expecting EMRs, and therefore aren't pressuring providers to implement them?
It's worth noting that according to HIMSS data for Q1 2013, about 50 percent of ambulatory providers were still paper-based, and that nearly half of remaining practices were still stuck at Level 3 of adoption (CDR, access to results from outside facilities) or lower.
I'd argue that the gap between practices with mature implementations and those who are barely crawling is of equal importance and worth a study of its own. In the meantime, it is worth considering what can be done — beyond Meaningful Use incentives, clearly, or the gap wouldn't exist — to be sure that EMR uptake doesn't hit a snag with metro providers.


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A Modern Chase Algorithm
Pursuit and evasion tends to be incorporated in human nature from a very long time with a very huge range of activities. Here, we are going to create an intelligent chase algorithm, which uses two basic approaches. After which we will use the newly created equations to simulate both approaches and provide graphical results. This analysis is based upon the fact that in modern days we can estimate the speed of a moving object and then chase it down depending upon its speed. We will also be taking the accuracy of such estimation in picture and depending upon a certain accuracy and other inputs the simulation will provide the result and performance of both the approaches.
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YAACT: A genetic algorithm tool for code coverage analysis
Testing is both technically and economically an important part of high quality software production. It has been estimated that testing accounts for half of the expenses in software production. Much of the testing is done manually or using other labor-intensive methods. It is thus vital for the software industry to develop efficient, cost effective, and automatic means and tools for software testing. Researchers have proposed several methods over years to generate automatically solution which have different drawbacks. This study examines automatic software testing optimization by using genetic algorithm approaches. This study will cover two approaches: a) obtain the sequence of regression tests that cover the greatest amount of code and b) once it is achieved another genetic algorithm will eliminate tests cases that cover the same section of code on the basis of still get the maximum code coverage. The overall aim of this research is to reduce the number of test cases that need to be run with the greatest amount of code covered.
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Global Coalition of Animal Protection Organizations Denounce Decision to Resume Ivory Trade
Santiago, Chile -- The Species Survival Network (SSN), a global coalition of 65 environmental, conservation and animal protection organizations denounced as deplorable an historic move today by the U.S. delegation to the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) that reversed its unconditional commitment to the ban on the international ivory trade.
The move came as the Parties voted on proposals from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to reopen the international trade in ivory. The inexplicable move by the United States to support proposals from Namibia and South Africa, if approved by the full CITES conference on Thursday and Friday of this week, effectively signs a death warrant for Africa's elephants and is certain to increase the illegal poaching in that region as well as other elephant range states in both Africa and Asia.
"The only consistent thing about the United States position on elephant conservation and the global ivory trade today is the inconsistency with which the U.S. delegation engaged in the debate," said Susie Watts, Chair of the SSN's Elephant Working Group.
The U.S. voted in favor of allowing the international commercial trade in stockpiled ivory from Namibia and South Africa today, while voting against an identically worded proposal by Botswana. The U.S. claimed its opposition to the Botswana proposal stemmed from Botswana's rejection of U.S. amendment language. "The way the US voted, against the Botswana proposal, was right" noted Watts, "but their reasoning seems bizarre. Botswana's proposal was passed despite the U.S. "no" vote.
The message that CITES sends the world, with the full support of the United States delegation, is not in the best interest of elephant conservation. "When the word goes out that proposals from Botswana, Namibia and South Africa were accepted, the headlines will read, "Ivory Trade Approved," noted Will Travers, President of the Born Free Foundation and Chairman of the Species Survival Network. "Poachers, smugglers, and profiteers are not interested in the fine print that outlines the conditions attached to future ivory sales, nor the 18-month delay before any sale can take place. These unscrupulous individuals will take today's votes as the green light to ply their deadly trade. I fear greatly for the future of elephants in Africa and Asia," Travers said.
Meanwhile, though every elephant proposal was voted on by secret ballot, the United States announced its voting pattern in a show of transparency. However, such transparency came much too late for the elephants. "We've been asking the U.S. delegation for its position on the ivory trade proposals for weeks but the U.S. was more tight-lipped and secretive than ever, totally taking itself out of the equation and marginalizing itself throughout the discourse over the previous week," declared a dismayed Adam Roberts, Senior Research Associate for the Animal Welfare Institute. Roberts continued: "The United States portrays itself as a 'global conservation leader' yet, in my view, the delegation clearly acted irresponsibly during this CITES meeting.
They offered amendments that had not been vetted with ivory trade proponent countries, they did not consult on this issue with major players such as the fifteen-strong European Union, and they did not speak out forcefully enough against the global commercial trade in ivory. The American public should be outraged by America's impotence and the U.S. delegation should be ashamed that they did not do more at this meeting for the long-term conservation of the African elephant."
Added Mr. Travers: "I understand that the United States has about one million dollars in an African Elephant fund to be used for global elephant conservation projects each year. Yet every cent of this money could be depleted solely helping under-funded African wildlife law enforcement agencies fight a rising tide of poaching as a result of today's decision. The money would be better spent sustaining elephant populations and their habitats and assisting communities living alongside elephants."
Information on the Species Survival Network and on issues under consideration at COP12 is available on the Internet at http://www.ssn.org.


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EXCLUSIVE! Vocal Coach Dorian Holley Says Season 9 Idol Hopefuls Are The Best Contestants Ever!
What sets this season of American Idol apart from the rest? Find out at HollywoodLife.com!
As one of the official vocal coaches of American Idol, Dorian Holley's seen some incredible talent come and go throughout the years, but is adamant that this season of contestants are the best yet.
"The thing that stands out for me this year is that I think consistently there are more people who are really good," Dorian — who has performed with Michael Jackson and Rob Stewart — told HollywoodLife.com exclusively at FremantleMedia and Samsung's American Idol Top 24 event in West Hollywood Feb. 18.
"More people are on the same level. Usually you have six, maybe five, who are all really good. Then you you've got a couple who are ehhhh," Dorian said, adding, "This year, everyone is really, really good."
Dorian hasn't worked with all of the contestants individually yet, so he couldn't predict any early favorites, but he does promise you'll see a stellar show come Feb. 23 when the live performances begin. "The girls I worked with this morning already knew what they wanted to sing. Good cuts. They knew how they wanted to present them. I was excited," he raved. "I was like, 'These girls are impressing me. I hope the boys are half this impressive.'"
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On Wednesday, workers in Rhode Island will be among the few in the nation able to, by law, take several weeks of paid leave to care for a newborn, adopted or foster child, or to care for a seriously ill relative.
On Wednesday, workers in Rhode Island will be among the few in the nation able to, by law, take several weeks of paid leave to care for a newborn, adopted or foster child, or to care for a seriously ill relative.
Rhode Island, where paid family leave was approved by wide margins in the state House and Senate in just one session in July, joins California and New Jersey as the only states to offer workers family leave that is paid not by taxpayers or employers but, like Social Security, out of a pool of employee paycheck contributions.
Washington state has yet to implement a similar law that lawmakers passed in 2008. New York and Massachusetts have paid-leave bills pending. Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire have formed task forces to study the issue. Several states, including North Carolina, Colorado and Oregon, have considered it and may move bills again.
The moves on the state level, advocates say, are a sign that people are tired of waiting for Congress to act to bring workplace laws dating to the 1930s, when a majority of mothers were at home, in line with a modern workforce, in which a majority of mothers work.
"It's about time we did this. We need laws that recognize the way we work and live has changed," said Gayle Goldin, the Rhode Island Democratic senator who successfully championed the paid-leave law there. "Internationally, we stick out like a sore thumb."
Now, lawmakers in Congress are attempting to pass paid family leave as a federal law.
"We're seeing that some of the best Fortune 500 companies already offer paid leave � Ernst & Young, Google, Deloitte," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who recently introduced the Family Medical Insurance Leave Act, or Family Act.
Under the 20-year-old Family Medical Leave Act, or FMLA, eligible workers are entitled to 12 weeks of job-protected unpaid family leave every year to care for an infant or sick relative. The United States, alone among all advanced economies and many developed nations, has no national policy allowing paid family leave. Other countries give families as much as one year of paid leave, which is divided between mothers and fathers.
The FMLA covers employees who have worked full time for at least one year at a company with more than 50 employees. A Labor Department survey released in February found that 40 percent of the U.S. workforce is not eligible. And many of those who are, the survey noted, cannot afford to take it.
Some business groups and lawmakers, worried about the sluggish economy and weak job growth, say that paid-leave laws could hurt businesses.
"At a time when there are soaring deficits and many businesses are still struggling, paid leave becomes yet another entitlement program," said Lisa Horn, a senior government relations adviser for the Society for Human Resource Management, a business group that, along with local chambers of commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business, has fought paid family leave. "That's a difficult pill for the business community to swallow."
Doreen Costa, a Rhode Island Republican lawmaker who voted against paid family leave this summer, said she thinks that it will hurt small businesses in her district.
"It's bad here. Businesses in my district aren't just hurting, they're closing," she said. "I'm very concerned about what will happen in January."
In Rhode Island, workers pay 1.2 percent of the first $61,400 in earnings into the state's Temporary Disability Insurance to cover off-the-job injury and illness. The new law opens that fund to workers who need to care for a new child or sick family member, and gives them up to four weeks of job-protected leave paid at about 60 percent of their salary, up to a cap of about $750 a week.
The California and New Jersey paid family leave programs work much the same way, although the leaves, which are up to six weeks long in both states, are not job-protected.
A majority of nearly 300 California businesses surveyed by a D.C. nonpartisan research center reported in 2011 a positive or neutral effect of paid leave on profits, turnover and productivity. Ninety-nine percent said it boosted employee morale. And 91 percent found no abuse of the system, which has been a major sticking point for many opponents in the business community. Those that did said it was "rare."
The California paid-leave law passed in one session in 2002, despite fierce lobbying against it by nearly 1,000 businesses. The push for it included not just working mothers but a vocal group of fathers and "sandwich generation" workers, responsible for caring for aging parents.
In New Jersey, a coalition of business owners including Herb Greenberg, chief executive of a recruiting company, joined the fight for paid family leave, saying that retaining "top talent" by providing flexibility to handle work and family demands was a "no-brainer."
It is support from businesses that has given the growing grass-roots movement steam, advocates say. A recent poll for the Small Business Majority found that two-thirds have formal or informal leave programs and a plurality support employee-funded paid family leave.
"There's a real convergence around these issues now," said Ellen Bravo, head of Family Values @ Work, a coalition pushing for family-friendly workplace policies.
Gillibrand said family-friendly policies "not only make for a healthier work environment and more productive employees, but more loyal employees, because they have the flexibility they need to take care of their families."
But the federal Family Act faces steep hurdles in Congress. The FMLA took nearly a decade of often bitter debate before it passed Congress and was signed into law in 1993. Smaller attempts to pass paid leave for federal workers have failed repeatedly in recent years. And opponents in the business community warn against saddling strapped businesses with another government mandate.
"We're all about the voluntary approach," the SHRM's Horn said.
A March survey by the Labor Department found that voluntary paid leave policies cover about 12 percent of the U.S. workforce.
The survey also found that about half of all new mothers take no leave and return immediately to work. And the main reason people don't use the leave when they need it is because they can't afford to.
Tom Nides, a former deputy secretary of state under Hillary Rodham Clinton and current vice chairman of Morgan Stanley, is one of several business leaders, along with the Main Street Alliance, the American Sustainable Business Council and others, who have thrown their support behind the federal proposal for paid family leave.
Although Nides's wife works and his firm offers four weeks of paid parental leave, he said it was during his tenure at the State Department that he first became aware of how much new parents struggle to take time off and to pay for it.
"I was flabbergasted," he said. "Shame on me, but I had no idea how they were borrowing vacation days from friends and co-workers, four days here, five days there, to be able to afford time with their new babies. I thought, 'This is insane. How can we operate as a country like this?' [Paid leave] is just the right thing to do."


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Fast Lad Performance necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 502 diseños de 89 diseñadores freelance.
Fast Lad Performance
Fast Lad Performance - http://www.fast-lad.co.uk is one of the worlds fastest growing Radio Control Helicopter business's. In three years flat we have grown from nothing to the largest Dedicated Radio Control helicopter business in Europe. Recently we had a logo contest for our new company in the USA - Experience Rc, http://www.experiencerc.com and I was delighted with the results, so I am back again to re-design our initial company.
Our business is about 80% on the internet and about 20% through our walk in shop... Our customer are all ages and come from all walks of life. Our product range caters for entry level people just starting right through to high end competition pilots. The Majority of our business is in the UK and hence we have a US division now to take care of US and Asia Sales. We are looking for something that is fresh and modern to replace our now tired logo :-)
Ok here's the tough part... We need to keep the core brand the same , that is to say the head logo we have (looks a bit like sonic the hedgehog) needs to say and a chequered flag in some form is also desirable. They can be re-designed stylised but they are part of our brand so we need them.
The yellow background however can go its old and worn out so we are completely open there. But if you choose a coloured background then it needs to be able to pass on throughout the rest of our site... Again a good example of this is here at http://www.experiencerc.com. . The design needs to look professional so no cartoon graphics or childrens drawings.. The design does not need to incorporate a helicopter, but we are not against it if it works. The design should not include any real photos.
The logo needs to be a scalable vector as it will be used later for banner and t shirt work as well. A layered PSP file is also required . Current image is 420 x 100 pixels approx to give you some idea of the aspect ratio.
If we come up with an exceptional desigh this could also lead to some private work for the winning designer... As we will also be looking for business cards and header cards for our goods at a later stage.
Here's a link to a pdf that our logo was designed around. We own the rights to use this. http://www.fast-lad.co.uk/fastlad_head.pdf
Also I am not adversed to a bit of flash in the logo if it makes the design come alive and dosent get to crazy with the animation..
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