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Come, help us transform medicine.
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Ready to take your career to the next level?
Here is some useful advice to help you do yourself justice in the application process and if you're subsequently invited for interview.
You can search by job type, location, areas of interest, or even by keyword. You can also create your personal account on the job search page. This will enable you to add or edit your details, view your application status, create and view saved job searches, receive email alerts, store and edit your cover letter, CV and supporting documents.
What should my CV include?
Carefully consider the role you are applying for and tailor your CV accordingly. It's important to clearly present all your relevant skills, experience and training.
Find the right balance of information you wish to provide on your application. A single page might not tell us enough about you, but try not to exceed three pages.
Do I need a cover letter?
It's always a good idea to include a cover letter. It complements your CV and makes your application more specific to the role. The letter should describe specifically how you meet the competencies and requirements for the role. It's a real opportunity to show why you feel the role would suit you. The information that you have provided in both your CV and cover letter will be used to review your application.
When you submit your application, we'll let you know by an on-screen message that it has safely arrived. If you give us your email address, you'll receive a further acknowledgement email when your application arrives in the recruiter's inbox. You can log in to your account at any time to check the status of your application.
CV review/phone interview
We will review your application, and check how well your CV and cover letter match the requirements of the job.
If we'd like more information, we might contact you over the phone to discuss. This enables us to assess whether you should be brought in for an interview.
If your application is suitable for the job, we will invite you for a formal phone or face-to-face interview.
On-site interview/assessment process
During your interview, we'll ask you competency-based questions which focus on how you've used your skills, knowledge and experience on specific tasks in past roles. It's not a question of getting the answers right or wrong, but providing relevant examples of your work experience which demonstrate your ability to do the job you've applied for.
Depending on the role we may ask you to complete some additional assessment exercises. These may be case studies, a presentation or exercises. All will be relevant for assessing your skills in the role you have applied for. Our assessment approach will be clearly outlined in your invitation to assessment.
How can I prepare for an interview?
If you're invited to interview, we'll usually contact you by phone or email first to check your availability. We'll also send you full details by letter or email.
Interview success lies in preparation. On the day, you need to be able to talk comfortably about your career and demonstrate your areas of expertise with live examples. So you might want to prepare a mental list of your key achievements, challenges and successes to date.
In addition – especially if you are new to the healthcare sector – you might want to find out as much as you can about us or the business area you want to join. Go to the Life at GSK page to find out more about us. Alternatively, look out for us in the news and look us up on other online resources.What will happen at the interview?
The interview is to help us understand:
- what makes you the ideal candidate for the job
- what is it about the role that interests you
- why do you want to work for us
The interview is a chance for us to get to know each other. We'll assess your abilities, but it's really a two-way process. We want you to understand our values and what it's like working here. So, on the day, we will welcome all your questions – have a few of them ready to ask.
We'll ask you about your skills and experiences. It's best to use real-life examples of roles and responsibilities, but your answers don't all have to be work-related. We'll also review with you the key performance behaviours relevant to the role. Remember to keep your answers concise and relevant. If you're struggling with a question, don't feel you have to answer immediately. Take your time, think about your response or ask for clarification.
Interviews can be a bit nerve-wracking and we'll do our best to make you feel comfortable. Remember there are no right or wrong answers. We value honesty, transparency and a positive attitude. So be confident and above all, be yourself.
What happens next?
Your interviewers will get together to decide who is the most suitable candidate for the job. We take hiring very seriously so please be patient while we make our decision. You can also contact us at any time but rest assured that we will keep in touch with you when feedback has been received and decisions made.
If you are selected, we will contact you to make a verbal offer. This will be followed up by a written offer letter, in which we'll explain the next steps including our pre-employment screening process.
Following your successful pre-employment screening, we'll finalize your start date and induction details.


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AHDC offers test that identifies reproductive status
The Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University now offers a non-invasive diagnostic test that readily distinguishes spayed from intact dogs and cats. This is an especially important consideration for shelters that require female pets to be spayed before adoption. Veterinary practices are often faced with uncertainties about the spay status of privately owned pets as well.
The test, known as anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), looks for the presence or absence of AMH in a small serum sample. The ovaries are the sole source of AMH, and a negative test indicates that the ovaries have been removed. A positive test indicates that the animal is intact, or possibly that an ovarian remnant remains in an animal that was previously spayed. An animal with a piece of ovary that remains after the spay procedure may go into heat and display the undesirable behaviors that are associated with that condition. An AMH test can help determine if surgical exploration is warranted to find and remove an ovarian remnant.
"Before this test was developed, veterinarians had few good options to help them distinguish spayed from intact females," said Dr. Ned Place, Director of the Endocrinology Laboratory at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center. "Surgical scars were once good indicators of spay, but now that dogs and cats are spayed at ever younger ages, the presence of scarring has become unreliable. Exploratory laparotomy is an option, but potentially unwarranted surgery is costly and poses medical risks. This diagnostic test, run on serum from a relatively small blood sample, is convenient, cost effective, and a benefit to dogs and cats, because AMH is found in the circulation whether or not an animal is in heat, and it requires no stimulatory hormones to elicit a response in intact females."
For more information about the test, contact the Endocrinology Laboratory at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at 607.253.3673.

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17.11: Revolutions in Human Population
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Where on the graph are the major population changes?
Let's look at this graph again. It shows human population from 10,000 BC through 2000 AD. Where are the big changes in slope of the line? Can you identify them? In this concept, we'll learn what causes them.
What Causes Human Populations to Grow?
Look at the graph above. Human population increased dramatically at certain times. The graph begins 10,000 BC, although you can't really see the line. Population starts to rise perceptibly at around 1800 BC. The numbers begin to rise dramatically about 200 years ago. What causes these changes?
Agricultural Revolution
Farming was developed about 10,000 years ago. Farming meant a steady supply of food. People could settle in villages. The rise at around 1800 BC is due to increased farming and the rise of cities and towns. After 1800 AD, population shoots up dramatically. Really dramatically. What happened?
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is what happened. The Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s in Europe, North America, and a few other places. Before the Industrial Revolution, most labor was done by people. The Industrial Revolution changed the source of power from humans to fossil fuels. This allowed more work to be done and more food to be grown. People began to move into cities.
Where the Industrial Revolution was taking place, the human population started to grow really fast. The birth rate was always high. What changed was the death rate. The population grew because more people stayed alive. The death rate fell for several reasons:
- New farm machines were invented. They increased the amount of food that could be produced. With more food, people were healthier and could live longer.
- Steam engines and railroads were built. These machines could quickly carry food long distances. This made food shortages less likely.
- Sanitation was improved. Sewers were dug to carry away human wastes (Figure below). This helped reduce the spread of disease.
Digging a London sewer (1840s). Before 1800, human wastes were thrown into the streets of cities such as London. In the early 1800s, sewers were dug to carry away the wastes.
With better food and less chance of disease, the death rate fell. More children lived long enough to reach adulthood and have children of their own. As the death rate fell, the birth rate stayed high for awhile. This caused rapid population growth.
The Green Revolution
The most recent increase in the slope of the population line is because of another advance in agriculture. The Green Revolution began in the mid-1900s. The Green Revolution has allowed billions of people to be added to the population in the past few decades. New methods and products increased how much food could be grown. These advances include:
- Improving crops by selecting for certain genetic traits. The desired traits promote productivity. Recently, genetically engineered crops have been introduced.
- Increasing the use of artificial fertilizers and chemical pesticides.
- Increasing the use of agricultural machinery: plowing, tilling, fertilizing, picking, and transporting. These machines are powered by fossil fuels, rather than humans.
- Increasing access to water. Many rivers have been dammed. Wells tap into many groundwater aquifers.
The Green Revolution has increased the productivity of farms immensely. A century ago, a single farmer produced enough food for 2.5 people, but now a farmer can feed more than 130 people. The Green Revolution is credited for feeding 1 billion people that would not otherwise have been able to live.
The Health Revolution
Health care has been improving over the most recent centuries. Vaccines were developed that could prevent many diseases (Figure below). Antibiotics were discovered that could cure most infections caused by bacteria. Together, these two advances saved countless lives.
This child is getting a polio vaccine. She will never get sick with polio, which could save her life or keep her from becoming crippled.
- Farming allowed people to have a steady food source and settle down. The Green Revolution has dramatically increased agricultural productivity.
- The Industrial Revolution brought new machinery, increased the food supply, and improved sanitation.
- Vaccinations and antibiotics have greatly improved human health.
- With a dramatically lower death rate, human populations have grown.
- What caused the first rise in human population?
- Why has the Industrial Revolution altered human population numbers?
- How has the Green Revolution increased agricultural productivity?
- If the birth rate doesn't change but the death rate goes down, what happens to population?
Explore More
Use the resources below to answer the questions that follow.
- Where did most people work in the late 1700s? Who did they work for?
- What did the new machines do?
- What became more affordable?
- Why did families move? Where did they move from and to?
- Who were the workers? Who did they work for?
- What problems did industrialization cause?
- Where were the worst conditions?
- Why were unions formed?


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The choice of desserts from the case at Beyond Bread is beyond abundant. The selections are so varied that it makes decisions difficult. There are artistic looking 4-inch fruit tarts and huge, scrumptious cookies, including chocolate-chip and ginger-snap varieties. In addition, cakes, lemon bars and two types of crème brulee are available. On a recent visit, it was the magic bar that grabbed our attention. A mixture of coconut, nuts and chocolate bits in a creamy layer swimming atop a graham-cracker crust, the bar reminded us of a cookie variation of a dessert that was popular back in 1984, or maybe even before. Magically wonderful, it certainly was.
Come to a place where the desserts themselves actually look better than the pictures on the menu! At Something Sweet, you will find a simple atmosphere where one can relax and savor desserts seemingly from heaven. Huge cakes, pies, cheesecakes and more—with or without ice cream—await you there. Delightful beverages—including a full menu page of teas, with no fewer than six varieties of green tea—complement the treat. Hang out and savor with free Wi-Fi, computers if you forget yours, and board games. They're open late, too: from 5 p.m. to midnight on weekdays, with extended hours on weekends. We always wanted to skip the appetizer and main course, and go straight to dessert. Here, we can!
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NFL 2011 Season – Week 15 Preview
Five division titles are yet to be determined as the 2011 NFL schedule enters its final weeks. Three AFC teams have an opportunity to join the Houston Texans by clinching a playoff spot with a victory this week. Meanwhile, the Green Bay Packers can clinch home-field advantage through the NFC title game with a win. Here's a preview of all of this week's remaining games:
Saturday, Dec. 17
Dallas Cowboys at Tampa Bay Buccaneers – 8:20 PM
Dallas (7-6) has lost its last two games in the closing seconds because of failed field goals. The Cowboys also lost rookie running back DeMarco Murray for the year after he suffered a broken ankle in the Sunday night loss to the Giants last week. Original starting RB Felix Jones will replace Murray. With the sixth-best offense in the NFL, Dallas should be able to score often on the Buccaneers, who give up an average of 28.5 points per game, next-to-worst in the league. Tampa Bay (4-9) must be better on offense than it was in committing seven turnovers in last week's 41-14 drubbing at the hands of Jacksonville. Tampa quarterback Josh Freeman will have opportunities to throw against a weak Dallas secondary that is ranked 24th against the pass.
Carolina Panthers at Houston Texans – 1:00 PM
Having clinched its first playoff berth in franchise history, Houston (10-3) now looks to win out in an attempt to secure a first-round bye. Texans' rookie quarterback T.J. Yates guides the NFL's fifth-highest scoring offense against a Panthers defense which allows an average of 27.4 points per game, 29th in the league. Carolina (4-9) rookie quarterback Cam Newton, who has 13 rushing touchdowns, needs to find a way to score on the NFL's top-ranked defense. He'll look to Steve Smith, ranked second in the league with 1,217 receiving yards, for help.
Washington Redskins at New York Giants – 1:00 PM
After breaking a four-game losing streak with a win over Dallas, New York (7-6) hopes to take another step toward the playoffs this week. Giants receiver Victor Cruz has played at near All-Pro level. His 1,150 receiving yards are third-best in the NFL. The Redskins defense must get pressure on New York quarterback Eli Manning, like they did in a 28-14 victory over the Giants in the opening week of the season. Washington (4-9) would like rookie running back Roy Helu to continue his three-game streak of 100-yard rushing games. If the Redskins have to pass often, the New York defensive line, led by Jason Pierre-Paul, could create havoc for Washington's patchwork offensive line.
Miami Dolphins at Buffalo Bills – 1:00 PM
After firing head coach Tony Sparano, Miami (4-9) will be directed by assistant coach Todd Bowles on an interim basis. Bowles may not have quarterback Matt Moore, who missed the end of last week's loss to Philadelphia with a concussion. J.P. Losman will start if Moore can't play. Count on him to use running back Reggie Bush against a Bills defense that surrenders 26.2 points per game, 26th in the NFL. Buffalo (5-8) must play better on offense than it did in a 35-8 loss to Miami in week 11. Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has passed for six touchdowns and nine interceptions during Buffalo's six-game losing skid. The Dolphins have the third-best run defense in the league, giving up an average of just 89.9 rushing yards per game. Miami should be able to contain Buffalo running back C.J. Spiller.
Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears – 1:00 PM
Seattle (6-7) tries to keep its slim playoff hopes alive by turning running back Marshawn Lynch loose against the Bears defense. Lynch is the NFL's seventh-leading rusher, running for more than 100 yards in five of his last six games. Chicago (7-6) has lost three games in a row since losing quarterback Jay Cutler to a broken thumb. Backup quarterback Caleb Hanie has thrown six interceptions in his three starts, while being sacked 15 times. The Seahawks defense is tied for fifth in interceptions with 17. Bears running back Matt Forte is still out with a knee injury and his replacement, Marion Barber, will try to bounce back after a mistake-filled game last week in the loss to Denver.
New Orleans Saints at Minnesota Vikings – 1:00 PM
New Orleans (10-3) hopes to take a step closer to an NFC South title and a first-round playoff bye while exposing the Vikings terrible secondary. Saints quarterback Drew Brees leads the NFL with 4,368 passing yards. He'll guide the NFL's top-ranked offense against a Vikings defense that gives up an average of 28 points per game, 30th in the league. Minnesota (2-11) will start rookie quarterback Christian Ponder, who was pulled for his back-up, Joe Webb, after committing four turnovers against Detroit last week. Running back Adrian Peterson may return from a sprained ankle for Minnesota. The Vikings need a strong running game to control the clock and keep Brees off the field.
Cincinnati Bengals at St. Louis Rams – 1:00 PM
Cincinnati (7-6) has lost four of its last five games. If the Bengals want to keep their playoff hopes alive, they need to win every week. Running back Cedric Benson should see plenty of carries against a Rams defense that gives up 156.8 yards per game, the worst average in the league. St. Louis (2-11) may be without quarterback Sam Bradford, who is bothered by a high ankle sprain. Kellen Clemens will start, if Bradford isn't ready. The Rams have allowed 46 sacks on their quarterbacks. Their offense averages a league-worst 11.8 points per game. That doesn't bode well for them against a Bengals' defense ranked seventh in the NFL.
Tennessee Titans at Indianapolis Colts – 1:00 PM
After Houston clinched the AFC South last week, Tennessee (7-6) can only hope for a wild-card playoff spot. The Titans may be without quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who left last week's loss to the Saints with a calf injury. If Hasselbeck hasn't recovered, rookie Jake Locker will start against a Colts defense that gives up 29.4 points per game, most in the league. Indianapolis (0-13) starts Dan Orlovsky at quarterback. He has been sacked eight times in his two starts. If the Colts can't keep the Titans defense off-balance with a running game, they will look to target Orlovsky and disrupt drives.
Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs – 1:00 PM
Green Bay (13-0) aims to wrap up home-field advantage through the NFC playoffs with a win. Averaging an NFL-best 35.8 points per game, the Packers will rely on quarterback Aaron Rodgers to continue his near-perfect performance this season. Green Bay receiver Greg Jennings and leading rusher James Starks are both injured and may not play against the Chiefs. Romeo Crennel takes over as head coach for Kansas City (5-8), which fired Todd Haley earlier this week. If former Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton is healthy, he'll get his first start as a Chief this week. Orton has already faced the Packers this year, a 49-23 loss to them in week 4 while he was with Denver. He threw three interceptions then and can't afford to do the same this Sunday.
Detroit Lions at Oakland Raiders – 4:05 PM
Currently in position for an NFC wild-card spot, Detroit (8-5) wants to keep control of its own destiny. The Lions face a Raiders defense that gives up 27.2 points per game, 28th in the league. Detroit quarterback Matthew Stafford will look to use the running game to set up his downfield passes. Oakland (7-6) needs to win and get help from other teams to make the playoffs. The Raiders have to get better play from quarterback Carson Palmer, who has thrown 13 interceptions in six and one-half games with the team. A more potent running game could help keep the aggressive Lions pass rush from taking advantage of the less-than mobile Palmer.
New England Patriots at Denver Broncos – 4:15 PM
New England (10-3) can clinch the AFC East title with a win. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will look to sustain long, efficient drives for touchdowns against a defense that has given up 14 or fewer points in four of its last five games. Brady must also avoid the Broncos pass rush, which is tied for fourth in the NFL with 37 sacks. Denver (8-5) is 7-1 with Tim Tebow starting at quarterback. Tebow averages 5.5 yards per carry, but his arm may be counted on for a big game this week against a Patriots defense that gives up an NFL-worst 308.7 passing yards per game. New England must close out the game if it has a late lead and not give Tebow the chance to rally.
New York Jets at Philadelphia Eagles – 4:15 PM
New York (8-5) looks to keep itself in the AFC playoff picture and continue its three-game win streak. Averaging just under 100 yards rushing per game during the streak, Jets running back Shonn Greene will look to exploit the Eagles' inconsistent run defense. New York quarterback Mark Sanchez faces a defense that has recorded an NFC-best 42 sacks. Philadelphia (5-8) is still alive in the NFC East race, but needs to win all of its games and get help. Eagles quarterback Michael Vick will be challenged by the Jets' veteran cornerbacks and the league's sixth-best pass defense. NFL touchdown leader, and second-leading rusher, LeSean McCoy can help take attention off Vick and his receivers.
Cleveland Browns at Arizona Cardinals – 4:15 PM
Cleveland (4-9) may be without quarterback Colt McCoy, who suffered a concussion in last week's loss to Pittsburgh. If McCoy doesn't recover in time, Seneca Wallace will start. Browns running backs Peyton Hillis and Montario Hardesty are both finally healthy and will carry the ball often to control the clock. Arizona (6-7) quarterback Kevin Kolb is also dealing with a concussion he suffered last week. John Skelton would replace Kolb. Expect the Cardinals to use running back Beanie Wells to move the ball on the ground, since the Browns have the league's second-ranked pass defense.
Baltimore Ravens at San Diego Chargers – 8:20 PM
Baltimore (10-3) can clinch a playoff spot with a win. Expect the Ravens to use running back Ray Rice often against the Chargers 24th-ranked run defense. Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco must continue to limit his mistakes. San Diego (6-7) has won two games in a row, but neither against a defense as fierce as Baltimore's, which is ranked third in the NFL. Chargers running back Ryan Mathews may be key to the game plan. If Mathews can keep the Ravens linebackers occupied, they won't be as focused on rushing at San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers or punishing his receivers.
Pittsburgh Steelers at San Francisco 49ers – 8:30 PM
Pittsburgh (10-3) can secure a playoff berth with a victory. The Steelers will be well rested after last playing on Dec. 8. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger should play, but the left ankle injury he suffered in his last game may make him less mobile. Charlie Batch and Dennis Dixon are ready to back up Roethlisberger, if necessary. The Steelers may have to run more often against a 49ers defense that holds opponents to 70.5 rushing yards and 14 points per game, both NFL-bests. San Francisco (10-3) wants to use running back Frank Gore, the league's fourth-leading rusher, against a Steelers run defense that's ranked sixth in the NFL. Pittsburgh hopes to pressure 49ers quarterback Alex Smith and force turnovers. They will be without linebacker James Harrison, who is serving a one-game suspension for a helmet-to-helmet hit against Colt McCoy of Cleveland last week.


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Sibel Edmonds's Secrets
Sibel Edmonds is no stranger to longtime TAC readers. I wrote an article exploring some of her claims back in January 2008, a blog item in August 2009, and Kara Hopkins and I did an interview with her for the November 2009 issue of the magazine. It was featured on the cover as "Who's Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?"
Edmonds has recently written a book entitled Classified Woman detailing her journey from FBI translator to whistleblower, finally emerging as an outspoken advocate of free speech and transparency in government through her founding of the National Security Whistleblowers' Coalition and her always informative Boiling Frogs Post website.
As Edmonds ruefully notes, her tale of high level mendacity has always found a better reception in the European and Asian media than in the United States, though her odyssey has included an appearance on "60 Minutes" in October 2002 and a feature article in Vanity Fair called "An Inconvenient Patriot" in September 2005. Two senators, Chuck Grassley and Patrick Leahy, became interested in her case early on and found her a credible witness, as did a U.S. Department of Justice IG's report. She speculates that that her ostracism by the Fourth Estate, and also by congressmen who were ostensibly engaged in elevating government ethics, is due to the fact that both Republicans and Democrats were parties to the criminal behavior that she describes. In one particularly delicious account of high level shenanigans she recounts how an interview with Congressman Henry Waxman's House Oversight and Government Reform staff was stopped abruptly when a staffer asked her if any Democrats were involved. "We have to stop here and not go any further. We don't want to know," he intoned after she confirmed that the malfeasance was not strictly GOP.
I will not even try to reconstruct all the twists and turns that Edmonds describes in her 341 pages, but rest assured that she has the ability to surprise one with new revelations, even for readers like myself who have been following her case. Edmonds's tale is basically about high level incompetence at the FBI both before and after 9/11, including hiring translators who could not speak the language they were translating or who were former employees of the organizations being investigated, leading to deliberately falsified translations. The translators and their supervisors would engage in go-slows, sabotage of work already done, and padding of accounts within the department to create a backlog of work and red ink, thus encouraging budget increases and more resources to rectify the shortfalls. Laptops and files containing classified information regularly disappeared. Attempts to report security problems were routinely ignored as all levels within the bureau because no one wanted to make anyone look bad. One Edmonds supervisor described the translation department as "drowned in corruption, incompetence, nepotism, you name it…" but then proceeded to do nothing about it. Bear in mind that this was after 9/11, when the government was on high alert and allegedly fully focused on security issues.
Perhaps more disturbing, Edmonds describes a number of failures to appreciate significant intelligence that might have enabled the government to foil 9/11, all part and parcel of a pervasive underlying narrative of espionage and corruption by high level government officials, both appointed and elected. She names names at the bureau, in Congress, and also at the State Department and Pentagon, including Congressmen Dennis Hastert, Dan Burton, Roy Blunt, Bob Livingston, Stephen Solarz, and Tom Lantos. She also fingers Douglas Feith, who headed the Office of Special Plans at the Pentagon, and Marc Grossman, who was the third ranking official at the State Department. Per Edmonds, all were part of the vast criminal enterprise that stole U.S. defense secrets, diverted weapons sales through false end-user certificates, participated in drug trafficking, and engaged in money laundering and bribery. The epicenter of the activity was Turkey and its major affiliates in the U.S., the American Turkish Council and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, which were two of the targets that Edmonds worked on, but she also learned that there was a parallel organization in Israel which cooperated with the Turks, most particularly on illegal weapons sales and technology transfers. Chicago was a focal point for the Turkish efforts, apparently due to good access to then House Speaker Hastert. The Israelis and Turks between them operated a number of front companies and had agents reporting to them who provided information from inside top secret nuclear weapons labs. Most of the buyers for the technology and weapons were governments in Asia, though there was at least one non-state player that might have had connections with terrorist groups.
The government's response to Edmonds's claims has been to gag her through exercise of the State Secrets Privilege, which is designed to prevent the release of classified information, but which has been abused by both the Bush and Obama administrations to stop troublesome judicial proceedings without having to show cause. The first State Secrets Privilege invocation against her was followed up by a second order making the gag retroactive and extending it to any conversations or documents that Edmonds had shared with individual congressmen. And not only has she been forbidden to speak of what she learned at the FBI, her identity is also classified. She cannot tell anyone where she was born or when, what languages she speaks, where she was educated, or where she has worked. Today's national security environment in which First Amendment rights are vanishing reaches its culmination in Sibel Edmonds, whose entire life has been apparently placed off limits.
Edmonds reports how the translation of a telephone intercept that she was reviewing for accuracy apparently referred to 9/11, though its importance had not been noted by her predecessor. The conversation took place in Pakistan in July 2001 involving two men talking about obtaining blueprints for buildings and bridges, clearly part of the planning for the actual attacks. One day after 9/11 the same men congratulated each other and started to plan for the next series of attacks "using young women between the ages of 18 and 24…" Edmonds's attempts to get FBI to follow up and possibly identify some of the perpetrators after the fact failed to gain any traction as her superiors in the translations bureau felt they would look bad owing to their failure to correctly interpret the conversations first time around.
And then there was the case of an Iranian source who reported in the spring and summer of 2001 very specific information that Osama bin Laden was planning a major terrorist attack against the United States using planes. As the summer waned, he reported that the attack was imminent and asked, "Are they going to do something about it?" They didn't, and then covered it up to conceal the failure. There were also French intelligence sources providing names of the terrorists preparing to stage the attacks and other reports that the Pakistani intelligence service, ISI, was somehow either involved or had knowledge of what was about to occur. There was no follow-up anywhere due to sheer incompetence, and subsequent attempts by Edmonds and some knowledgeable FBI officers to have the issues addressed by the 9/11 commission for inclusion in its report were rebuffed, meaning that the report that finally surfaced was a predictable more-or-less uncritical government review of what the government had or had not done, ascribing the failure to anticipate 9/11 to poor communications rather than to the egregious mishandling of available intelligence. A commission that had been established to establish accountability consequently did everything it could to avoid punishing anyone.
The increasingly kleptocratic attempts by the government to silence Edmonds were sometimes Kafkaesque. Instructed by a supervisor to secretly prepare a memo at home so no one might access it on her office computer she was later threatened by the same supervisor with possible criminal charges for doing classified work on an unsecured machine, which was subsequently confiscated. When Edmonds finally went to trial in a challenge to her gag order, the panel of three federal judges required her and her lawyers to leave the room while the government presented its case "due to the sensitivity and secrecy involved." Not surprisingly, the court upheld the State Secrets Privilege and to this day Edmonds has never been informed of the actual charges against her.
Classified Woman relies on reconstructed conversations to tell its story, and one should accept that at least some of the dialogue might be based on recollections that could well be challenged due to the passage of time. But there should be little doubt that Sibel Edmond's central thesis, that government incompetence and corruption are issues that politicians and state bureaucracies would rather discuss than do anything about, has been around for a while and is with us still.
Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is executive director of the Council for the National Interest.


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Correction of DPA article in respect to WikiLeaks and Steve Jobs HIV test
From WikiLeaks
April 20, 2009
An initial story released about the WikiLeaks project by German press agency DPA, contained an inaccuracy. The DPA has subsequently corrected its statement. Last year WikiLeaks, having developed unique expertise in the verification of leaks, released an analysis of two photographs of a HIV test for Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs. The photographs had been circulated by CNN's iReport, stock forums and other internet sites. The WikiLeaks analysis concluded with:
- "Due to the contradictory dates, possible evidence of forgery, strong motivations for fabrication, and few motivations for a legitimate revelation, the images should not be taken at face value."
The release was to make the public and media aware of the nature of these photographs, which had been circulated widely, possibly in an effort to spawn rumor over Steve Jobs health status in order to manipulate the Apple stock value.
Initially the DPA article falsely claimed that the publication was an indication for the carefulness journalists and the public need to exercise when dealing with WikiLeaks material.
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The Little Dog is, as usual, very chill. He becomes more trusting as he gets older.
One bright Sunday last month we visited the Brooklyn flea market and looked over the river to Manhattan.
I spent two days in the hospital having a stent removed from my gall bladder. Yes, I did.
I had dinner with Fern Mallis… who, as you know, invented fashion week.
After dinner we decided to attend the Giorgio Armani One Night Only event.
When we arrived we were whisked off to meet Armani who refuses to speak english but spoke english to Fern… because Fern is a legend.
On Sunday we went to the doggy Halloween parade in Tompkins Square Park but we couldn't be bothered to wait in line.
In Woodstock we met a man wearing a lovely sweater.
I met a friend of Wendy Asher's.
Lady Rizo and I went to a party in a penthouse on Gramercy Park.
The hedge fund billionaire who owned the apartment also owned a perfect Nakashima coffee table.
The following week we sat with Courtney Love in the Baby Grand, a new lounge at the back of the TriBeCa Grand with Paul Sevigny for a Roger Vivier event.
The lounge is perfectly beautiful and looks like the Beverly Hills Hotel interior on Acid.
For Halloween proper we hung with Cynthia Rowley who looked like this and loved my Asprey tie.
This is my Halloween costume:
It is a paper napkin with two slits torn into it.
The following day I went back to Woodstock to look at a lake house I want to buy.
This is me and The Little Dog in the view taken by Angelo:
Today we watched the NYC marathon. This morning at 7am we ate breakfast bagels in Crown Heights. We ate two further brunches later on in Williamsburg. After my haircut.
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MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota man accused of helping to recruit and finance U.S. fighters for an overseas terror group heads to trial Monday in a case that's expected to show how some young Somali expatriates in Minneapolis were persuaded to risk their lives for insurgents back home.
Mahamud Said Omar, 46, faces five terror-related counts as part of a much broader investigation into recruiting by al-Shabab, a U.S.-designated terror group at the center of much of the violence in Somalia.
Since 2007, more than 20 young men are believed to have left Minnesota for the East African nation, presumably to take up arms with al-Shabab. The departures shook the Somali community in Minnesota -- the largest in the United States.
While prosecutors don't consider Omar a mastermind in the Minneapolis pipeline, they allege that he was far more than a bit player: They say he encouraged young men to fight, helped some get tickets for travel to Somalia and helped pay for weapons.
"We believe it's a very important case because it will be the government's only opportunity, to date, to explain to the public what has been going on in the Somali community, and how these recruiters have been going after these young men," said U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman Jeanne Cooney. "I think it will go a long way in explaining how these cases tie together."
Omar, who came to the U.S. in 1993 and is a permanent resident, insists he is innocent of the charges, which include conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. He could face life in prison if convicted.
"He maintains that he has never lifted a hand or spoken a word against the interests of the United States, and that's what the evidence will show," said Jon Hopeman, one of Omar's attorneys. "He also has a great respect for the country that took him in."
Eighteen men have been charged in the Minnesota case, but Omar is the first to go to trial. Seven men pleaded guilty, while others are presumed to be out of the country or dead.
A congressional investigation last year put the number of al-Shabab supporters higher, finding that more than 40 people left the U.S. to join the terror group.
Prosecutors say Omar gave money to men who traveled to Somalia in 2007 and went there himself in early 2008. In their account, Omar stayed at a safe house in the city of Marka with other Minnesotans -- including Shirwa Ahmed, who the FBI said was "radicalized" in Minneapolis and would later become the first known U.S. citizen to carry out a suicide bombing.
At the safe house, prosecutors allege, Omar gave provisions to men and discussed training and fighting for al-Shabab. He also is accused of giving hundreds of dollars to fighters so they could buy AK-47 assault rifles.
Omar returned to the U.S. in April 2008 and, prosecutors say, continued to help al-Shabab. He accompanied two travelers to the Minneapolis airport in August 2008.
That November -- days after Ahmed's suicide bombing -- Omar followed the directions of a man in Somalia and helped a group of six men buy airline tickets, accompanied them to the travel agency and gave one traveler money, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say he also told another man how to get a visa and ticket to Africa and which route was best, according to court documents and transcripts of calls recorded by the FBI.
His brothers, Mohamed Osman and Abdullahi Said Omar, have described their brother as shy and easily led, lacking the brains to be a terrorist and the money to buy weapons.
They say his trip to Somalia in early 2008 was to get married and that he went overseas in November of that year to make the Hajj pilgrimage.
They declined to be interviewed again prior to the trial.
At least initially, many of the Minnesota men appeared to have been motivated by patriotism. In late 2006, Ethiopian soldiers were brought into Somalia by its weak U.N.-backed government, and many Somalis saw that as an invasion. By fall 2007, some were holding secret meetings at Minneapolis mosques and homes, plotting ways to fight the Ethiopians, court documents said.
Prosecutors allege Omar was part of the "secretive plan" to recruit young men to wage jihad against Ethiopians.
Authorities have said early plays on patriotic feelings were eventually supplemented with more radical appeals.
Prosecutors declined to talk about the case as the trial approached, but documents show they plan to call about 25 witnesses, including experts on al-Shabab's methods of recruiting and activities in Somalia, such as five coordinated bombings on a single day in 2008.
Prosecutors also intend to play recordings of phone calls, in which Omar is accused of talking about an "uproar" in Minneapolis, plans for some men to leave the city and the fighting overseas.
At least two men who traveled to Somalia and spent time with al-Shabab are also expected to testify.
Omar's attorneys would not talk about defense strategies. They've ruled out mental disease or insanity as a defense but may ask witnesses to talk about Omar's state of mind. Omar has a history of seizures and nightmares, and told the court he sees ghosts.
One pretrial filing hints that defense attorneys could present evidence about the anti-Ethiopian sentiment among the Somali diaspora, suggesting someone other than Omar might have provided the travelers with money. The defense plans to call Omar's three brothers as witnesses. A decision on whether Omar will testify will be made later.
Abdirizak Bihi, a member of Minnesota's Somali community whose 17-year-old nephew, Burhan Hassan, traveled to Somalia and died there, said the trial is important because it shows "justice is slow, but it's coming."
Prosecutors say Hassan was among the travelers Omar helped.
"Everyone wants to see the details, how (recruiters) do it," Bihi said. "A lot of families are afraid and they want to know what happened so they can be educated in the future and watch out for the young ones."
E.K. Wilson, the FBI supervisory special agent who is heading up the Minneapolis investigation, said Omar's trial is just one piece of a complex, ongoing case.
"It is definitely not the end of the road or the end of the investigation, by any stretch," Wilson said.


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Yoichi Masuzoe has just been elected Governor of Tokyo after being the front runner more or less since the election race began. Predictably, the Western media is already finding the most superficially controversial angle to present him to the world: as far as I can tell, the usual offenders are parroting talking points that started out on the blog of former Socialist leader Mizuho Fukushima — more precisely, this post just over a week ago, where she dug up a 1989 article that quoted him as saying that women are not fit to lead government because they focus on single issues and have menstrual cycles. (She also cited a slightly more recent interview, in which he criticized local NIMBY types who sought to block nuclear plants, as evidence that he is a nuclear supporter.)
I will not defend Masuzoe's statements about women, which are pretty heinous, but some context is necessary. 1989 was twenty-five years ago and Japan was still stuck in the "Mad Men" era when it came to gender relations. It was ten years before Masuzoe ran for political office and he was not that well known yet. I am pretty sure that he got over whatever strain of foot-in-mouth syndrome he may have had at the time, because Masuzoe's detractors were hard-pressed to come up with a single damning quote from him since about 1995. Characterizing Masuzoe based on what he said about women back then is unfair — and also unnecessary given that there are more real issues with his governorship.
One concern I have comes from Masuzoe's official resume. Summarized in one paragraph, Masuzoe started out as an academic studying French politics at Tokyo, Paris and Geneva, gradually gained notoriety as an author and TV commentator, and made a pretty decent showing against Shintaro Ishihara and Kunio Hatoyama in the 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election. He won an LDP seat in the House of Councillors the next year. Despite his being critical of pretty much everyone else in the Diet, he was put in charge of the LDP's constitutional reform commission and then became Health and Welfare Minister under Abe, Aso and Fukuda, during which time he came out as a quasi-hero in two major scandals. By 2009, he was the most popular politician in Japan. He bailed from the LDP as it fell from grace under Taro Aso, starting a new "Shinto Kaikaku" party amid hopes from the likes of Tobias Harris (link) that it would be the kind of force that would tank the LDP for good. It proceeded to do absolutely nothing, the LDP returned to power under Abe 2.0, Masuzoe declined to stand for re-election in 2013 and begged the LDP for forgiveness in order to run for governor under their quasi-endorsement. Summarized in one sentence, Masuzoe is a showhorse and not a workhorse, an Obama type of guy who can give a good press conference but who is not likely to actually do anything in a political context without seriously cocking it up, and that is not enough to run one of the largest subnational governments in the world.
Then there is the unofficial resume from the tabloids. Taking all of the tabloid stories I have seen at face value, Masuzoe supposedly met a Japanese woman while in France and they had a lovely wedding, but somehow didn't actually get married. His first de jure marriage was to a French woman, but they were divorced for undisclosed reasons. (My wife recalls Masuzoe saying on a TV show that this first wife made rice pudding for dessert at one point, and he was enraged at the concept of rice being a sweet dessert.) After returning to Tokyo, he married his second wife, Satsuki Katayama, a promising young Ministry of Finance bureaucrat. The marriage lasted in earnest for only a few months, as Katayama discovered that Masuzoe had a short temper, and kept a collection of about twenty kinds of knives. They separated in short order and were officially divorced in 1989, but before the divorce was final, Masuzoe found a mistress and fathered his first child. He had two more children, at least one of whom was with a different mistress, and at some point married his secretary, who had two more of his children, for a total of five kids with three women. In the nineties he got serious about his horse racing hobby and started buying horses; two of them won the Japan Derby, in 1997 and 1998, but he got out of this business just before going into politics. At some point, he put his wife in charge of his "research institute" shell company, and transferred most of his valuable assets into it, including a 300 million yen house in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward and two vacation houses in Yugawara and Kawaguchiko. He reported a total of 360 million yen in assets when he was in the Aso cabinet, but insiders reckoned he was worth more like 1 billion and hiding most of it under his wife's shell company. After leaving the Diet in 2013, he petitioned a court to reduce his child support payments to his first child (who is disabled) because his monthly income had fallen to just 100,000 yen; Katayama was quoted in the Mainichi Shimbun as being reluctant to support Masuzoe because of this. One tabloid speculated that he may have lost a ton of money betting on horses and needed to adjust his obligations for that reason.
I am doubtful that Masuzoe will last for four years. He has what appears to be a fairly weak electoral mandate, with less than 50% of the vote in an election that appears to have had relatively low turnout (the snowstorm in Tokyo yesterday likely kept many undecided voters from going to the polls today). Like his predecessor Inose, Masuzoe does not have a record of coalition or consensus building, but rather a record of being outspoken and confrontational, which will not serve him well given that the Tokyo legislature is not the single-party paradise that the National Diet has become. I also suspect that, given all that the tabloids have already dug up, Masuzoe must have some more skeletons in his closet that could take him down if a political foe were willing to utilize them. So don't worry, reporters, this guy has plenty of potential to be interesting without sticking his foot in his mouth.


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Technology website The Register called it. With the search called off, we must presume that Evi Nemeth is no longer with us. Their obit, "Godmother of Unix admins Evi Nemeth presumed lost at sea", gives an excellent overview of her life and influence.
In the coming months there will be many memorials and articles written about Evi, most by people that knew Evi better than I. That said, I'd like to share something that most people don't know.
Evi saved "sudo".
Sudo has joined popular culture (or at least popular geek culture) thanks to the famous XKCD cartoon: sudo make me a sandwich. This has lead to other sudo references, even a company cafeteria (see picture).
I think most people understand sudo as "a Unix/Linux command that forces something to happen, or forces a computer to do something" which is pretty close. What it really does and the historical impact it made needs to be known.
The Unix operating system (and Linux, which is its clone) permits many users to log in to a computer at the same time. Each user is prevented from mucking with other people's stuff. However there is one user called "root" which is the "super user" and can meddle with all files, unrestricted. This is the "janitorial" account used by system administrators to fix things, install and uninstall software, reboot, and so on. Think of it as cardkey at a hotel that opens all the doors.
The "root" account has a password just like all accounts. Before sudo (1985) was popular (1995?), the system administrators would memorize their own password and also the "root" account password. When they needed to do maintenance they would log into the root account. There is even a command called "su" (super user) which makes it easy to temporarily switch to the "root" account for this reason. "su" requires you to enter the password for the account you will become. Therefore to become root you had to know the root account password.
"su" works just fine when you have one big Unix machine for the entire company, department or campus. It is easy to share the password among just the people that should have such heightened privilege.
That's fine for the 1980s where there may be 1 or 2 big computers for a department shared by hundreds of users. The users themselves do not have "root access" just as the customers of a hotel do not get the "master passkey". However with the workstation and PC revolution it was common to have hundreds or thousands of Unix computers in an organization. Typically they would have the same password for "root" on all of them. Again, this was fine because there may be 3-4 system administrators trusted with the password. But what if someone requires to do something as root on their own machine? With computers now owned by individuals, not departments, this caused a problem. You couldn't tell the owner of a machine the root password because then they'd know the root password for every machine in the network!
A number of terrible solutions were created. One was to set a different "root" password on each workstation so the owner could know the password, but then the sysadmins would have to memorize hundreds of passwords, store them somewhere (which is insecure), or just give up control of all the workstations that they were hired to control.
Another solution, popular at Rutgers, was called "slide". If your account had access to the "slide" command, you could "slide into root" without being prompted for a password. This was bad for many reasons but I recall two that were most important: first, since it didn't ask for a password it basically made your account as powerful as "root", which defeats the purpose of having users "compartmentalized" from each other. It also meant that if you walked away from your computer, someone could easily slide into root without permission. (nobody locked their screen back then)
Then there was this brilliant command: "sudo". It permitted fine-grained delegation of power with centralized control. It was like "su" but instead of asking for the root's password it asked for your password. It then decided if you were allowed to "become root" based on an authorization matrix created by the system administrators. No need to tell additional people the root password or create additional root passwords. It was "fine grained" meaning that the sysadmins that configured sudo could specify if a particular user could run a specific command as root (like, maybe just give people permission to eject CD-ROMs... something that only root was allowed to do for reasons that are too long to explain here) or full access to everything. It had "centralized control" in that the system administrators could configure sudo in a way that was maintainable and wouldn't get sloppy.
In the move from big, central, serveres to a world of workstations, sudo was a miracle.
It was so radical, in fact, that I didn't quite get why anyone would use it. I was in an environment that was treating 120 workstations the way we used to treat big centralized computers: three sysadmins that all knew the root password and none of our users did, nor could they do "root things" on their own machines. [You may be wondering... After being asked to eject a CD-ROM from their computer for the millionth time, we made a special command that enabled self-service ejects. If I had sudo I could have changed the authorization matrix, not spent a week writing code to make that command.]
So how does Evi play into this?
Sudo was first conceived and implemented around 1980 at SUNY/Buffalo. Sudo wasn't released publicly until about 1985. Between 1985 and 1991 Colorado University at Boulder and others kept improving it. There were many versions floating around, each with slightly different features, compatibility (or lack there of) with different Unix variants, and security problems. There was an "official" version but, for lack of a better term, was abandoned and went years without a new release.
Eventually the Colorado University at Boulder variant became the official version thanks to their leadership role, setting up a website and so on. This was the work of Todd C. Miller. Todd had been contributing to the project since 1992.
Todd recently told me in email that Evi "really had a major impact" on his life. Evi encouraged him to modify sudo "and was a major factor in its acceptance due to the inclusion of sudo in her System Administrator's Handbook."
Evi also advocated the use of sudo at the Usenix LISA tutorials. Every year at Usenix LISA she would teach a tutorial called "Hot Topics in System Administration". Before the internet, this was the best way to find out what the new tools in Unix system administration were. People would come to LISA just to see what new stuff was going to be revealed. This is where I first heard about amd (the automount replacement), sudo, RRDtool, ISC DHCP, and many other technologies that were new then, but soon became "standard" for any Unix/Linux system.
In that way, Evi saved sudo. She had the foresight to see that the future of Unix/Linux was distributed workstations and that sudo was an important step to making that vision a reality. She advocated that people use sudo via her books, articles, and training thereby giving it the momentum that was required to break through the cacophony of lessor solutions.
sudo is now a part of the "base install" of nearly ever Unix/Linux system available today. It is the standard way to run things as root. As a result managing systems is much easier and more secure.
We can thank Evi for that.
On a more personal note: when I think of Evi the picture in my mind is from the first time I met her. I was a wide-eyed young sysadmin in a class she taught at LISA. She was standing at the front of the packed classroom. A grey haired, diminutive woman passionately educating the first large generation of Unix/Linux system administrators about how to create the future by staying on top of the latest tools and techniques. Thank you, Evi!


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WASHINGTON (AP) - Partisan politics are coloring governors' decisions about whether to expand Medicaid in their states, affecting billions of dollars and thousands of low-income people.
The question of whether they receive Medicaid coverage may have little to do with need, and much to do with the way their states vote in governors' races, including primaries.
Every Democratic governor has called for accepting larger-than-usual federal subsidies to expand Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor. The only three who failed were blocked by Republican state legislators.
Most of the 30 Republican governors have turned down Medicaid expansion, and the federal dollars that would come with it. Some who face potential tea party challengers in next year's GOP primaries have rejected advice to broaden the program, which they call a costly federal overreach.
But a few Republican governors dismiss those arguments. They have accepted billions in federal money to cover more people with Medicaid. It would shortchange their constituents to do otherwise, they say, noting that workers everywhere pay the federal taxes now up for redistribution.
Of the eight Republican governors who will expand Medicaid, six are from states carried by President Barack Obama. One is New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez.
"My job is not to play party politics, but to implement this law in a way that best serves New Mexico," Martinez told state legislators.
In a similar vein, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval told a newspaper editorial board, "I couldn't sit here and defend to any of you $16 million that just went away because of `principle.'"
At least 20 Republican governors have turned down the federal money and declined to expand Medicaid, although a few are considering other options. Many say government is too big already, and they suggest Congress will break the promise to keep paying a huge share of the cost.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says his state's residents should pass up federal aid even if other states take it. "Our refusal to expand Medicaid," he says, "does in fact help to reduce the growth in federal spending."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a 2012 GOP presidential candidate who may try again, called Medicaid expansion a brazen intrusion into state sovereignty. "I will not be party to socializing health care and bankrupting my state," he said.
But North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, a Republican who agreed to expand Medicaid, told reporters: "We try to leave the politics out in the hallway when we make these decisions. ... Are you going to allow your people to have additional Medicaid money that comes at no cost to us, or aren't you?"
Unlike many governors, Daylrymple won't face voters next year, but in 2016 instead.
The other Republican governor to expand Medicaid in a state Obama lost, Jan Brewer of Arizona, is barred from running again.
A different political dynamic applies to Virginia and Wisconsin, which declined to expand Medicaid although Obama carried them twice. Both states are led by GOP governors who were, or still are, considering presidential campaigns and their conservative-dominated primaries.
Virginia's new Democratic governor may seek changes when he takes office next month.
States that decline to expand Medicaid "are forgoing billions of dollars in federal funds, while residents in their states are contributing to the cost of the expansions in other states," said a study financed by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation.
The report estimated the net losses, by 2022, at $9.2 billion for Texas, $5 billion for Florida and $2.6 billion for North Carolina. All are Republican-led states not expanding Medicaid.
Medicaid now covers 62 million people, one-fifth of all Americans.
The option to expand the program, as part of the president's health care law, could cover millions more by extending eligibility to households earning up to 138 percent of the poverty level. That's about $32,500 for a family of four.
The government will pay the full expansion cost for the first three years, and gradually reduce the subsidy to 90 percent. The traditional federal match for Medicaid averages 57 percent.
Some Republican governors say even a 10 percent share of expanded coverage would burden future state budgets. But others say a 9-to-1 leverage is hard to beat, and they reject the idea that the federal government won't keep its 90 percent funding promise.
Partisan politics surfaced in several state debates. In Idaho, Republican Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's advisory panel unanimously recommended expanding Medicaid, and Republican leaders in the GOP-controlled Legislature backed the idea. But Otter said in January there was no hurry, and Idaho should address the entire "broken" Medicaid program over time.
Disappointed Idahoans note that Otter faces a tea party-backed challenger in next year's GOP primary.
"The argument that's going to carry the day in Idaho is politics," said Democratic state Rep. John Rusche, a retired pediatrician. "The governor has to run in the Republican primary."
"The state is missing out significantly," Rusche said, and its taxpayers are subsidizing states that expand Medicaid.
Otter spokesman Jon Hanian said the governor is acting in Idaho's best interest.
Medicaid expansion could emerge in the 2016 GOP presidential primaries.
Govs. John Kasich of Ohio and Chris Christie of New Jersey agreed to expand Medicaid. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin declined. All are possible candidates in 2016, but Kasich and Walker first face re-election next year.
Kasich had to do an end-run around Republican legislators to tap federal money to cover an extra 275,000 Ohioans under Medicaid.
"It's just the right thing to do," Kasich said.
In New Orleans, the Times-Picayune urged Jindal to "be sensible" and "take the Medicaid money."
"The additional Medicaid money would dwarf the $902 million the state is projected to get in federal transportation funds that year," the editorial said, referring to a popular type of subsidy from Washington.
But Jindal said he would not let Obama "bully Louisiana into accepting an expansion of Obamacare."
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Animal Wildlife | Yellow-Eyed Penguin | The yellow-eyed penguin or Hoiho is one of the few penguin species found north of the Antarctic Ocean, and as it's name suggests, this species of penguin is easily idenitfied by it's yellow coloured eyes and bright yellow band that runs from it's eyes round the back of the yellow-eyed penguin's head. The yellow-eyed penguin is found off the coast of the south island of New Zealand where this species gathers in colonies along the beaches and boulder fields. The yellow-eyed penguin is also found on a few of the islands of the main island including Stewart, Auckland and the Campbell Islands.
The yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) generally searches for food up 10 miles offshore, and travels (on average) around 15 miles away from the colonies nesting site. The yellow-eyed penguin leaves the colony at dawn and returns the same evening during chick rearing, although may spend 2 or 3 days at sea at other times. The yellow-eyed penguin is one of the larger species of penguin with adult individuals reaching 75cm in height, with the males generally being slightly larger than the female yellow-eyed penguins. The yellow-eyed penguin was thought to have been closely related to the tiny little penguin found in a similar area, although recent research suggests that the two are actually fairly genetically different.
The yellow-eyed penguin is a carnivorous animal, that like all other penguin species, survives on a diet that is only comprised of marine animals. Krill and small crustaceans make up the bulk of the yellow-eyed penguin's diet along with larger organisms including squid and various species of fish. The yellow-eyed penguin is usually found nesting in the forests and scrub that line the New Zealand coast and although historically undisturbed, the yellow-eyed penguin now has a number of land-dwelling predators including cats, dogs and foxes along with rats and weasels that hunt their eggs.
On average, the yellow-eyed penguin breeds once a year, forming pairs that usually remain faithful to one another. The female yellow-eyed penguin lays two eggs in her nest in the forest which are incubated by both parents for up to a couple of months, when only one of the eggs will usually hatch. The yellow-eyed penguin chicks are fed and kept warm by their parents and remain with them until the chicks are nearly a year old. Today, the yellow-eyed penguin listed as an endangered animal with an estimated wild population of less than 4,000 individuals. It is now the rarest penguin in the world due to deforestation and the introduction of mammalian predators. - ANIMAL WILDLIFE
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- 1teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 1/2teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 12ounces mozzarella cheese, sliced
- Preheat oven to 300F. Coat a 13 x 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
- Melt butter in skillet, add chicken and sauté until browned, about 8 minutes. Turn and cook other side, about 4 minutes. Remove from pan. Sauté mushrooms, olives, green onions, garlic and rosemary in same pan.
- Place chicken in baking dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour olive mixture over chicken. Place a cheese slice over each breast. Cover with foil. Bake 40 minutes, or until chicken is done.
— Recipe by Barbara Schindler, Napoleon, Ohio


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SEJournal Online is the digital news magazine of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Learn more about SEJournal Online, including submission, subscription and advertising information.
The Society of Environmental Journalists has urged the Obama administration to end the practice of requiring permission from the press office at federal agencies before reporters can talk to federal employees — and requiring Saddam-style PIO "minders" to sit in on interviews.
SEJ wrote White House Communication Director Dan Pfeiffer on the matter February 24, 2010 — joining over a dozen other journalism groups who have complained about the practice to the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies. SEJ takes positions on freedom-of-information issues, working through its Freedom of Information Task Force.
During the Bush administration, the White House and agencies used these practices to suppress science that did not conform to their policies.
"Science quickly loses its credibility when it is moderated by political and policy appointees," SEJ wrote, "and that, in our experience, has been standard procedure at a growing number of federal agencies in recent years. These practices hinder reporters' ability to learn the truth by inhibiting and sometimes barring employees from providing essential information."
- Text of SEJ Letter of February 24, 2010: Word document (original format, on SEJ letterhead) or plain text file.
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Spring 2014 Nail Trend – Cobalt Blue Nail Polish
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Radiant Orchid may be the color of the year but when it comes to Spring 2014 color trends, Cobalt Blue dominated the runways. Now, you know I love my greens but nothing can pull me out of a winter funk like an electrifying, bold blue. I pulled some of my fave cobalt hues to inspire you to take on the trend.
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Out Of The Blue – A Multi-Colored Ombre Manicure
This weekend I'm headed to Sandusky, Ohio, home of the world's greatest amusement park, Cedar Point. And I'm not just saying that because I worked there and it's in my home state. The park has been awarded that title nine times in a row. With 17 roller coasters, it's a thrill seeker's nirvana.
The reason for my trip, a mini-reunion with some of my friends I used to work with back in the day. Seriously, if you know any college students looking for a summer job, this is the place. It's so much fun. They recruit from all over the world and provide housing. It's like college without all the books and classes. Anywho, I wanted to do something fun with my nails and ever since I first tried an Ombre Multi-Colored Manicure, I've been meaning to do it again. Only this time, instead of mixing my colors, I chose to use five existing shades to create the effect. |
New Nail Paints from Barry M
You know what I love about Barry M's Nail Paints? The names! I LU-ove the simplicity of their naming system. Tangerine, Racing Green, Red Wine, Orchid, etc. Don't get me wrong; fun, tongue-in-cheek names are great too but when I have to rack my brain to remember what the actual polish color is because the cutesy name has nothing to do with the color, it's frustrating. There's nothing hard in remembering Coral.
So recently Barry M released some new Nail Paint shades; Mint Green, Bright Purple, Fuchsia, Block Orange, Acid Yellow. After hearing about Mint Green being a dupe for one of the season's must-have but sold out shades, MAC Peppermint Patti, I had to see for myself. Check it out, along with Bright Purple and Cyan Blue, after the jump! |
As I said the last time I reviewed Barry M, the formula is thick with pigment but it flows evenly on the nail. Mint Green did need a third coat but the others were perfect in two.
Mint Green isn't a dead on MAC P.P. dupe but it's close enough that you'd have be looking for the differences to notice. For me, it's actually better than P.P. because of the formula. Mint Green applies like a dream which makes it the winner in my book.
Cyan Blue is exactly as the name implies, it's the shade on the outside of the cyan printer refill box. I went looking for an existing polish that's even remotely close and came up empty handed. If you took China Glaze Aqua baby and added a bit of white and a drop or two of blue, like OPI Just Groovy, you may come close. To make a long story short, I LOVE IT!
Bright Purple is a vivid, Barney-esque hue, only without the annoying songs and children following it around. It's uber glossy, perfect for summer toes and a great addition to my collection.
Nail Paints by Barry M retail for £2.95 and can be purchased online directly from BarryM.com. The £8 US Shipping charge is a bit prohibitive but get a group order going or save up for a major haul and it's worth it. Trust!
Have any of you tried Barry M since I first reviewed them? What do you think?
Barry M Nail Paints
I'm always on the hunt for new polish brands to try and I love getting rec's from readers and friends. So when my girl K from Pumps and Gloss recommended I check out Nail Paint by Barry M, I got to it.
Barry M is a UK based cosmetic brand with a diverse lineup of lacquers that were voted Best Inexpensive Nail Polish Range by InStyle UK. Check out my thoughts and swatches, after the jump! |
I was impressed so see that the cremes lacquers spread out evenly on the nail. You know how sometimes you put on a thick creme and you see like ridges from your brush strokes. Not necessarily streaks but just general unevenness? Well you'll have none of that here.
Also, the three lacquers I tested were all nicely pigmented requiring only two coats. And they dry to a high gloss shine making a top coat practically unnecessary. I put Cobalt Blue through the five day wear test and it held up very well. No chipping. Just average tip wear when worn with CND Stickey and Seche Vite.
Note: I remember someone asking if I had abandoned Poshe for Seche Vite. I haven't, I just have so many bottles of Seche Vite in the house, I can't justify running out to replace my used up Poshe. It's still a winner in my book.
Spring Green reminds me a lot of Pop Beauty Grass that I showed you a few weeks back. Only Spring Green isn't neon. It's vibrant but not loud.
Grey is the color of dark wet cement. Unlike some other grays I own that have a lot of brown or blue in their base, this one looks to be pretty pure. Me likey!
Cobalt Blue is just wow. Like seriously WOW!! It puts all my other royal/cobalt cremes to shame. It's so vivid yet it's dark enough to not be all in your face about it. I wasn't as excited when I saw it in the bottle but on the nail… HOT DAMN! Can you tell I like? Just a bit.
Nail Paints by Barry M retail for £2.95 and can be purchased online directly from BarryM.com. I'm not gonna lie, shipping to the US isn't cheap, £8, but if you plan to purchase a number of polishes it's worth it.
So what are we thinking? Have you tried Barry M? What colors are your must haves?


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29 JUNE 2013 - BATTAMBANG, CAMBODIA: A man puts gas into the tank on his Bamboo Train in the terminal station near Battambang. The bamboo train, called a norry (nori) in Khmer is a 3m-long wood frame, covered lengthwise with slats made of ultra-light bamboo, that rests on two barbell-like bogies, the aft one connected by fan belts to a 6HP gasoline engine. The train runs on tracks originally laid by the French when Cambodia was a French colony. Years of war and neglect have made the tracks unsafe for regular trains. Cambodians put 10 or 15 people on each one or up to three tonnes of rice and supplies. They cruise at about 15km/h. The Bamboo Train is very popular with tourists and now most of the trains around Battambang will only take tourists, who will pay a lot more than Cambodians can, to ride the train. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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Reader [Mikey Sklar] told us about a review he wrote covering 3 different models of pocket multimeters. We're sure that you've had the same experiences we have being the go-to-guy or got-to-gal for all things electrical. For our sort, having a multimeter on hand at all times has become an expectation.
[Mikey] looks at a model from ebay, Harbor Freight, and Radio Shack. Not surprisingly, the ebay offering doesn't rate too well but does get the job done. We were surprised to read that he picked up the Cen-Tech model for about $10 at Harbor Freight. Although it may no longer be sold there (we haven't checked) [Mikey] seems pretty happy with it so we'll be on the lookout during our next tool-buying trip. We're unfamiliar with the tiny Radio Shack 22-820 but we've always been happy with our larger 22-811. The 22-820 allows the probes to be folded up inside of the case cover for a truly pocketable package.
You can never have too many meters at your disposal and we'll have to keep this article in mind the next time we're shopping for another. Never used a multimeter before? Take a look at the tutorial [Mikey] linked to over at ladyada.


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Lorraine Pascale's Fast, Fresh and Easy Food
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Number One Sunday Times Best Seller. The nation's favourite TV chef and cookery author Lorraine Pascale returns with 100 brand new mouth-watering recipes that are wonderfully quick and easy to make and bursting with fresh ingredients. Lorraine's third beautiful cookery book is packed with delicious and inspiring meals, each with its own photograph and many having their own individual complementary side dish. The book will be released to coincide with Lorraine's BBC2 prime time 6-part cookery series. So whether you want to just grab a spoon and dive in solo to a decadent dessert like Chocolate Mousse with Raspberries, or whether you're putting together a crowd-pleasing menu of French Onion and Sage Soup with Big Fat Gruyère and Mustard Croutons followed by Moroccan Pesto Fish with Caramelised Onion and Haricot Beans with Minty Pine Nut Couscous for a fun and relaxed evening in with friends without the fuss, Lorraine demonstrates how to effortlessly pull off scrumptious food that is a pleasure to eat. Make melt-in-the-mouth fish, fragrant curries and hearty soups infused with herbs and spices, whip up naughty desserts, vibrant salads and quick pasta dishes in minutes and create gorgeous juicy steaks with 2012's queen of cookery.
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages: 256
- Weight: 1230g
- Dimensions: 252 x 195 x 24 mm


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Lindsay Lohan's Parents -- Persona Non Grata on OWN Show
Lindsay Lohan's Parents Persona Non Grata on OWN Show
Lindsay Lohan's OWN reality show producers want nothing to do with her parents, and TMZ has learned ... an executive decision was made to ban them from the show.
Michael and Dina Lohan will NOT film a single scene for the upcoming series. No one will even refer to DiLo's DWI arrest earlier this month -- according to production sources.
We're told producers were struggling a few weeks back with the show's direction ... and after intense debate decided to not include the "Lohan family circus."
We're told cameras did capture Michael and Lindsay together on 3 days -- but it's unclear whether that footage will make the final cut ... and there won't be any further shooting with daddy dearest.
Our sources say the show will stick to its original focus -- Lindsay's "comeback and recovery" ... which is what she agreed to from the get go.
Thank you O ... for keeping Michael and Dina off our TVs.


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Status Quo
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Status Quo (or, as they are known in the United States of America, Status Who?) are a popular beat combo from England, known for their easy-access music, fanatical followers and inability to play more than one song. Despite this seeming handicap, they have managed the remarkable feat of achieving every UK chart number one since records began. [1] Founding member, Francis Rossi, states that "We picked the name Status Quo because we were determined never to change the song we played, no matter how long our career turned out to last."
Early History
The origins of "The Quo", to use the vernacular popularised by their more rabid acolytes, can be found in the London suburb of Catford. Founding members Francisco Rossini (son of the Third Duke of Sicily) and Alain Yorkshire attended the same school and were members of many of the same half-arsed teenage bands, convinced they were going to "make it big". Having convinced themselves that a failure to complete Burt Wheedon's guitar course was no bar to rock superstardom, they formed yet another band called The Cockroaches.
However, this band was different in that they actually managed to host a gig (12 October 1967, at the University of London Nelson Mandela Halls of Residence in Southwark) and it was attended by real people (17 students who were unable to leave the building due to an outbreak of diphtheria). This event was recognised in 1989 when a Blue Plaque was attached to a building on the site of the venue, much to the annoyance of the local residents who were all Daily Mail readers.[2]
Signing with the little-known Euston Records label, a simple misunderstanding that they should "just keep your name the same as it was before" resulted in the highly-educated Rossini renaming the band as The Status Quo, a name which was shortened during 1973, in solidarity with the early 70's Definite Article Miners' Strikes[3].
The first release single, Pictures of Matchstick Men, went straight to number one. This was somewhat of a surprise, since the charts had only just been conceived, but the sales of over 10 copies were seen as a benchmark for popular music. Controversially, reviews of the single were perhaps unfavourable, with Alan "Fluff" Freeman describing the song as "shit".[4]
Middle History
Despite the 1970s being characterised by disco and punk, The Quo were able to hold their own. Indeed, they managed to attract three new members to enhance their sound: Parfitt Rack on ukulele; John "Cough" Chokelan on drums; and Ron "Tony" Edwards on bass guitar. With increasing confidence in the line-up and abilities, fans described the sound as moving from blues-themed three-bar snippets to a richer and more complex rock character, despite there being no difference between individual singles other than the titles.
As the number ones rolled in, critical reception remained noncommittal:
"Their sound is, perhaps, not as richly rewarding as Beethoven's Third."
"I have certainly heard more concordant musical structure."
"Total shit."
That said, the popular appeal of The Quo could not be denied as sell-out crowds of up to 26,000 people crammed into every live gig and crazed fans paid well over the odds to ticket touts[5]. International tours cemented their overseas appeal with most of the world, with the notable exception of the United States of America, who appeared to prefer the whimsical stylings of 1960s crooners and being lied to about nuclear weapons. Despite this gruelling tour schedule, The Quo continued to release the same single and go straight to number one on every occasion.
In total, The Quo managed 86 number ones during the decade, all identical and each one remaining number one for exactly six weeks until the following single was issued. Although most singles dropped straight out of the charts, as sales were cannibalised by their successor, there was a brief period during 1976 where every single in the top 40 was by The Quo.
Of particular note was the annual Quo-Fest, a week-long series of gigs in the well-known music capital of Bridlington. Indeed, for a brief period in the late 1970s, Quo-Fest was more popular than the Glastonbury, Isle of Wight and Glyndebourne Festivals combined.[6]
Recent History
The 1980s were a tough time for The Quo, with the unexpected departure of Alain Yorkshire following an argument about trying a new song.[7] He was quickly replaced by "Brown" Andy Anderson, despite the now-departed Yorkshire having played a completely different instrument. This did not, however, alter the sound one bit.
Worryingly, single sales started to drop off, signifying a certain weariness from the record-buying public.[8] The only saving grace was that their fellow musicians were similarly afflicted with a lack of popularity; this was subsequently diagnosed as the fault of Thatcherite economics forcing people to spend their time wearing red braces and drinking champagne rather than pay their dues to The Quo.
Nonetheless, this was met with typical Quovian aplomb, by continuing to release the same song as a single every six weeks. This was combined with an even more gruelling tour schedule. Rossini, commenting on this time in his autobiography "Quo Vadis?", states that the only thing to keep him going was large amounts of tortellini, bucatini, spaghettini or any other type of pasta that rhymes with his name.[9]
As they progressed into the 1990s, The Quo continued working at the coal-face of rock music and churned out the same hit, over and over again. Despite being well past their best, compositionally speaking, their appeal to the music-buying public never really wavered. Indeed, such was their appeal that a 1994 tribute double-album, Quo Around the Clock, featured such music luminaries as John Otway, Phil Collins and Tanita Tikaram contributing covers of their favourite Quo song. Despite more than 40 million copies being pressed, this album can attract bids of up to £900 on eBay.[10]
Future History
Although The Quo continue to rack up repeated versions of the same song, bathing in the adulation of their worshipful masses, they show no signs of tiring. During a recent interview with Q magazine, Chokelan revealed plans for 86 single releases over the next ten years and a tour through 325 venues. Despite the assumed fashionable stance of the publication, the remainder of the finished article consisted of the sentence "OMFG! I love you! I'm gonna buy all your albums, ever! The Quo RULES!"[11]
Controversially, their most recent album - In Search of the Second Chord - featured what may be described as a quiet revolution in terms of musical construction. Many aficionados claim that there are slight but noticeable differences in the final track on the album, although Fourier Analysis of the song has failed to give a definitive answer.[12]
It has also been noted by industry analysts that, in the not-too-distant future, membership of The Official Status Quo Fan Club could be used as a prototype for the proposed United Kingdom Identity Card.[13] This has been justified by reference to the logistics of managing a user population of approximately 75 million individuals, as well as the problem-solving that has been conducted to ensure that each member has willingly submitted 38 different pieces of personal information to ensure their continued membership.
Indeed, some futurologists have forecasted that The Quo could provide a model for a utopian future, where the human race accepts leadership from isolated figure-heads and shows conformity with its fellow man through the adoption of shapeless Status Quo t-shirts as an ersatz uniform.[14] But that's just crazy talk.
- ↑ Source: The Official Charts Company (correct as at 29 February 2008).
- ↑ Hailington-Smyth, P. 1990. The English Heritage Guide to Really Cool Places with Blue Plaques. Macmillan. pp38.
- ↑ Source: Socialist Grammaticist, May 1973, pp35.
- ↑ Freeman, A. 1998. Not 'Arf! A Recollection. Penguin. pp103-6.
- ↑ Source: International Ticket Tout Review 1978.
- ↑ Source: Meaningless Comparison Manual (Uncyclopedia Edition) 2008.
- ↑ Yorkshire, A. 1991. Whatever You Want: A Retrospective. Raleigh Books. pp12-14.
- ↑ Source: Man Down The Pub Monthly, August 1982.
- ↑ Rossini, F. 1993. Quo Vadis? W Heinneman & Sons. pp475-478.
- ↑ Chan, A. 2007. The Bumper Book of eBay References for Lazy Journalists. Microsoft Press. pp872.
- ↑ Source: Q magazine, September 2007, pp28.
- ↑ Phoenix, R. Feldman, C. Harris, NP. Fourier Analysis As Applied to the Oeuvre of Status Quo. Journal of Musical Analysis. 28 (3). pp27-42.
- ↑ Source: Proposal for a UK Identity Card - The Government's Case. pp723-9.
- ↑ Orwell, G. 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg. pp18.
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