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Eric Abetz's breast cancer-abortion link sparks fierce backlash
Seantor Eric Abetz has denied linking abortion with breast cancer despite lecturing a Channel 10 reporter over "differing opinions" on the issue. Courtesy: Channel 10
SENATOR Eric Abetz's comments linking abortion with breast cancer are an insult to all women, says acting Greens Leader Adam Bandt.
Senator Abetz appeared on Channel 10 program The Project last night and was asked if he believed the "factually incorrect" statement that abortion leads to breast cancer.
"I think the studies, and I think they date back from the 1950s, assert that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer," he said.
The senator then said there were organisations, other than the Australian Medical Association (AMA), that had differing opinions.
Mr Bandt has demanded Senator Abetz apologise for his comments and not attend the upcoming World Congress of Families conference.
"Eric Abetz's comments are an insult, not just to any woman who has suffered breast cancer or who has had an abortion, but to all women," the MP said.
"The minister should not scare young women by peddling his dark, anti-choice ideology on national television.
"This is a Government of old men who do not share modern Australian values."
Mr Bandt said the Minister should commit to not attending the World Congress of Families Conference, if he "accepts the science on this issue as he now claims".
"If Tony Abbott accepts the science and respects women's freedom, he should censure Minister Abetz and ensure that his ministers do not attend this conference either."
Senator Abetz has denied linking abortion with breast cancer, despite lecturing a Channel 10 reporter over "differing opinions" on the issue.
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This morning, Senator Abetz issued a statment saying it was "incorrect" that he had drawn, or believes there is, a link between abortion and breast cancer.
"In my interview last night on The Project I studiously avoided doing so, and was cut off before being able to acknowledge that Dr Angela Lanfranchi's views on this topic were not the accepted medical view," he said in a statement.
AMA President Associate Professor Brian Owler appeared to hear things differently.
Last night he told media the senator had "cherrypicked" old information skewed toward an anti-abortion ideology.
Massive longitudinal Danish data linkage study shows no association btw induced abortion & breast cancer #abetz http://t.co/MO2LfudsX9— Simon Chapman (@SimonChapman6) August 7, 2014
He said the comments were not based on current or conventional medical evidence.
"I just don't understand why a senior member of government would want to try to take on this issue and put himself out in the media using articles I'm told are from the 1950s as the basis of his discussion," Professor Owler told AAP.
The professor said he respected freedom of speech but Senator Abetz's comments came with significant responsibility towards the truth because of his senior government role.
"This is a serious issue and it should be discussed on the basis of current medical evidence.
"There is no evidence to say breast cancer and abortion are linked.
"Let's not use false evidence or try and link abortion with other things such as breast cancer, I don't think it's fair and it's certainly not fair to people who may have experienced breast cancer," he said.
I've just spoken to Eric Abetz. He rejects suggestions he made a link between abortion & breast cancer. (cont...)— Simon Cullen (@Simon_Cullen) August 7, 2014
The AMA is also concerned about the involvement of senior members of government, including Senator Abetz, with the World Congress of Families event to be held in Melbourne later this month, Professor Owler said
In his statement this morning, Senator Abetz again defended the cancer-abortion link.
"As I pointed out, I am associating myself with the Families Conference - the broad aims of which I support. This does not mean that I endorse the views of every single speaker.
"Notwithstanding this, Dr Lanfranchi is a breast cancer surgeon and a clinical assistant professor of surgery.
This Senator just undermined millions of breast cancer sufferers around the world. #mmia #auspol http://t.co/dd2mF9ZvVR— Shauna Anderson (@shaunaand) August 7, 2014
"She is the surgical co-director of the Sanofi-Aventis Breast Care Centre and the Steeplechase Cancer Centre in New Jersey.
"She has spoken at hospitals and universities around the world and she has the right to free speech in Australia.
"I accept the AMA has a right to disagree with Dr Lanfranchi's views."
I respect yr right to think abortion is wrong @SenatorAbetz but won't tolerate peddling myths that frighten women unnecessarily #nolink— Dr Sally Cockburn (@DrSallyCockburn) August 7, 2014


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In case there was any doubt in your mind that EA's SimCity Social has it out for Zynga's pretender to the city building social game throne, CityVille, this rousing rendition of "More City, Less 'Ville" should put it to rest.
While hardcore gamers are busy looking at trailers for this fall's mildly exciting game lineup there's a war brewing on Facebook. A war of epic proportions. A war in which entire virtual cities will be burnt to the ground, replaced with slightly different virtual cities. Which side will your friends be on? They might straddle the line between EA and Zynga for a while, but sooner or later one of their tiny cities will be reduced to ashes. Perhaps a Modest Mouse song would have been a better choice here.
This is an outright attack, a shot fired into the heart of Zynga's metropolitan empire. It's a rather catchy one as well. Hopefully the CityVille people will respond in kind. I can think of more terrible things that folk song warfare.

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AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Former Ohio Democratic Congressman Charlie Wilson has died from complications from a stroke he suffered during a vacation in Florida in February, the Ohio Democratic party said on Monday.
Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said Wilson died on Sunday in Florida.
"An outspoken advocate for working people, Charlie never wavered in his service to his constituents or his lifelong pursuit to help improve the lives of others, Redfern said in a statement.
Wilson, born 1943 in Dillonvale, Ohio, was a member of the Ohio Legislature for 10 years in both the state house of representatives (from 1997 to 2004) and the state senate (from 2005 to 2007). He represented the 6th district, a coal-heavy swath of land spanning the southeast border of the state consisting of many small once-industrial towns.
Wilson won a historic write-in campaign for Congress in 2006. After falling short of the necessary number of signatures to appear on the Democratic primary ballot he launched a massive write-in campaign that won him more than 66 percent of the Democratic primary vote. He went on to defeat Republican Chuck Blasdell and replaced Rep. Ted Strickland (D) who ran for governor and won that year. He lost two races to Republicans in 2010 and 2012.
According to a family statement, Wilson, 70 suffered a fatal hemorrhage while he was in recovery at the Cornell Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine in Florida. The statement also said his family was at his side at the time of his death.
Wilson worked as a small businessman and as a member of the United Auto Workers union on the assembly line at the Ford Automotive auto plant in Lorain, Ohio while attending Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Wilson is survived by four sons and nine grandchildren.
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Half of all Fortune 500 companies still contain computers infected with the DNSChanger Trojan, weeks after a FBI-led takedown operations targeting the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure.
DNSChanger changed an infected system's domain name system (DNS) resolution settings to point towards rogue servers that redirected legitimate searches and URLs to malicious websites, earning cybercrooks kickbacks from click-fraud scams and scareware distribution rackets in the process. The FBI stepped in and dismantled the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure in November.
The takedown operation – codenamed Operation Ghost Click – led to the arrest of six Estonian nationals, accused of manipulating millions of infected computers via DNSChanger. At its peak as many as four million machines were hijacked by the malware.
Rogue DNS servers were temporarily replaced by legitimate servers but nothing was done to disinfect pox-ridden PCs. That left organisations at a heightened risk of attack, not least because DNSChanger disables anti-virus software and security updates on infected machines.
A study by IID (Internet Identity), published on Thursday, found at least 250 of all Fortune 500 companies and 27 out of 55 major government entities had at least one computer or router on their network still infected with DNSChanger. The stats come data from IID's ActiveKnowledge Signals system as well as information from other leading security and Internet infrastructure outfits.
Darkness will fall
Barring further court actions, legitimate servers that were set up to replace rogue DNS servers will be deactivated on 8 March, 120 days after the initial takedown operation. Unless infected machines are fixed they will not be able to browse the web or send emails as normal after 8 March, once the plug is pulled on the replacement domain-name-to-IP-address-resolution servers upon which they currently rely.
Fortunately help is at hand through the ad-hoc DNSChanger Working Group and security firms such as Avira.
Avira has published a tool designed to allow users to see if their machines are infected with DNSChanger malware. The German firm, best known for its freebie security scanner software, has also released a free DNS-Repair tool so users can revert to the default settings of Windows with only a few clicks.
Sorin Mustaca of Avira explained the importance of taking action now, rather than waiting for possible problems to appear next month.
"If your computer was infected at some point in time and it was using one of the DNS servers which are now controlled by the FBI, after March 8, it will no longer be able to make any DNS requests through these servers," he said. "In layman's terms, you will no longer be able to browse the web, read emails and do everything you usually do on internet. So, it is mandatory that the DNS settings of the computer are restored to their original state." More information on how to clean up infected machines before time runs out can be found at the DNS Changer Working Group website. ®


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Leipheimer, Abbott, win Gila opener
Levi Leipheimer opened up his defense of his SRAM Tour of the Gila title the same way he took his first red jersey in the race a year - with a solo win on the mountain-top finish Mogollon stage.
Levi Leipheimer opened up a defense of his SRAM Tour of the Gila title the same way he took his first red leader's jersey in the race a year ago — with a solo win on the mountain-top finish Mogollon stage.
In the women's race, 2007 Gila winner Mara Abbot (Peanut Butter & Co-Twenty12) sprung away from the field on the final climb and opened a 2 1/2 minute lead over second place.
Leipheimer, racing for the ad hoc Mellow Johnny's team with his RadioShack teammates Lance Armstrong and Jason McCartney, attacked a select group of about five riders with a mile to go on the steep winding ascent to the Mogollon ghost town.
Tom Danielson, racing for the ad hoc DZ Nuts team with his Garmin-Transitions teammates David Zabriskie and Tom Peterson, was second, passing a strong Cesar Grajales (OUCH-Bahati) in the final 200 meters. Fly V's Phil Zajicek was fourth. The most watched man in the race, Armstrong, finished 22nd at 1:46 behind his teammate.
Early break, low winds
The miles of windswept rollers preceding the difficult climb to nearly 7,000 feet elevation means early breakaways are almost always doomed on the Mogollon stage.
Nevertheless, in the men's race, attacks began as soon as the neutral zone ended outside Silver City, and with 5k a group of ten was off the front, trading pulls and expanding its lead rapidly. The group included two Trek-Livestrong riders and one Holowesko Partners rider. Since Trek-Livestrong is closely allied with the Mellow Johnny's team, and the Holowesko team is associated with DZ Nuts, the six ProTour riders in the peloton were content to let the group go. Bissell, Fly V and Rubicon-Orbea also were represented, so chase duties, in the first half of the race, were left to UnitedHealthcare, Spidertech and Jamis-Sutter Home.
The break:
Frank Pipp (Bissell)
Darren Rolfe ( Fly V)
Walker Savidge (Holowesko)
Jason Allen (Rubicon-ORBEA)
Jonathan Garcia (Team Rio Grande)
Alex Dowsett (Trek-Livestrong)
Ben King (Trek-Livestrong)
Andrew Dahlheim (Metro Volkswagen)
Victor Riquelme (Trisports Cycling)
Marsh Cooper (Trek Red Truck)
Carson Miller (unattached)
Forecast strong winds materialized as medium-strength breezes that were sometimes tailwinds, and not a major issue. The break quickly established a large gap that grew to more than 9 minutes as the race began two mid-race loops through the towns of Gila and Cliff.
With considerable climbing talent and GC ambition in the field, the breakaway would likely have to reach the bottom of the 6.7-mile Mogollon climb with a gap of at least three minutes for any of its members to dream of a stage win. However, soon after the loops (which included two passes through a feedzone), the peloton got down to business.
Mellow Johnny's McCartney began taking some monster pulls, as did some of the DZ Nuts and Holowesko riders. Although race radios were banned, the break got frequent updates on the gap from the official time board moto. And the news was not good, as the gap tumbled to five, three and two minutes, and then to just 1:20 as the race hit Pleasanton, 14 miles from the finish.
Dowsett, the British U23 time trial champion, snagged the sprints jersey by winning one of the intermediate sprints and coming second in the other. As the break hit the first steep climbing out of Glenwood, it quickly lost half its riders. Before the very steepest climbing the course crosses a wind-swept plateau, Whitewater Mesa. Here, Dowsett, who does not have a climber's build, bravely attacked the remnants of the break, putting 12 seconds on them.
Looking down on the mesa from mid-way up the narrowing finish climb, the results of the increased pace in the main field were evident: as Dowsett pulled away from the break, a group of about 25, including most of the favorites, was visibly traveling faster toward them. Behind the 25, riders in ones and twos chased. The starting field of 177 was nearly decimated before the leaders even crossed the mesa.
Zabriskie put in an attack, and Jamis Sutter Home's Luis Amaran countered and got a gap, but was soon reeled in as the pack caught in past the last of the breakaway remnants. With a mile to go, the group was whittled down to a half-dozen, who were testing each other with attacks. Just after the 1 mile marker, Leipheimer countered a move by Grajales and began pulling away, while Danielson kept a steady pace.
Besides the steepness, all of the top riders were acutely aware of the altitude.
"It was just really painful. There's nothing like altitude," Leipheimer told VeloNews. "By the time we got to the last k, it was every man for himself, just go the speed you can go. It was harder than last year because last year I had a little gap and I could back off a little bit. Here I continually had to push and push all the way to the finish just to maintain what gap I had and get the stage win."
Danielson also was feeling the effects. "I tried to ride my own speed, because it's important at altitude to save your bullets, and (Leipheimer) started to come back, which was good the see," he said. Grajales, who was unfamiliar with the climb, did not time his attack as well and Danielson was able to roll by him in the last 200 meters.
The time gaps between the top 20 were considerably smaller than last year, when Leipheimer crossed the line 49 seconds ahead of Peter Stetina. This year the top ten riders were all within 50 seconds of Leipheimer.
"(Mogollon) is a real short climb; it's a good indication on who is going well, but it's not the race," Danielson said. "I think the time trial and the final stage is the key. Today it's important to not lose too much time and stay close."
Among the riders who stayed close were fourth-placed Zajicek and fifth-placed Andrew Talensky (California Giant/Specialized), who now leads the young rider competition. Three-time Gila overall winner Burke Swindlehurst, Zabriskie and yes, Armstrong, all were close enough to remain in contention, as well.
Top Ten Men
- 1. Levi Leipheimer Team Mellow Johnny's in 3:48:18
- 2. Tom Danielson Dz Nuts at 0:00:10
- 3. Cesar Grajales Ouch-Bahati Foundation Pro at 0:00:16
- 4. Phillip Zajicek Fly V Australia at 0:00:16
- 5. Andrew Talansky U25 at 0:00:38
- 6. David Zabriskie Dz Nuts at 0:00:41
- 7. Luis Amaran Jamis Sutter Home P/b Colavita at 0:00:41
- 8. Alex Hagman Ouch-Bahati Foundation Pro at 0:00:41
- 9. Chris Baldwin Unitedhealthcare Professional at 0:00:47
- 10. Jai Crawford Fly V Australia at 0:00:50
Women's race: Samplonius' long ride
In the women's race Anne Samplonius (Vera Bradley Foundation) attacked soon after the feed zone and set out on a solo break, winding up a nearly 9-minute lead at one point. Much as in the men's race, however, after the halfway point the peloton began the chase, with Peanut Butter & Co. putting four riders on the front, hoping to deliver Abbott to the base of the climb with no one ahead of her.
"We knew that Mara Abbott could outclimb anyone here, but we wanted to make her work for it and force her team to chase," said Samplonius. "I was hoping some others would come with me, but I guess they thought it was too early."
And, much like the men's break a little later in the day, Samplonius was finally reeled in on the first ramps of the Mogollon climb (For her efforts, Samplonius took the first points jersey). Just before the catch, a crash took down several riders, including Just before the final climb began, a crash occurred, which took down a large group of riders, including Colavita's Carmen Small and TIBCO's Meredith Miller and Amanda Miller. After the crash Peanut Butter's Catherine Carroll and Alisha Welsh drove the group into the climb before Abbott sprung away.
Abbott quickly opened a huge gap and Cheatley, Alison Powers (Vera Bradley), Mattis and Colavita's Andrea Dvorak traded blows behind. Mattis fell back on the early steeps but found her rhythm late in the climb and caught and passed Powers and Welsh to take third.
While Mattis called Abbott's ride "brilliant" she said no one is conceding the race this early. This Gila boasts its strongest field ever, and three or four teams have leaders capable of challenging for the win.
"There are a lot of teams with depth here," Mattis said. "It's going to be four more days of great racing."
Top Ten Women
- 1. Mara Abbott in 3:24:55. Peanut Butter & Co.
- 2. Catherine Cheatley Colavita/baci P/b Cooking in 3:27:22.
- 3. Katheryn Mattis Webcor Builders in 3:27:54.
- 4. Alisha Welsh Peanut Butter & in 3:28:19.
- 5. Alison Powers Team Vera Bradley Foundation in 3:28:23.
- 6. Robin Farina Team Vera Bradley Foundation in 3:28:31.
- 7. Erinne Willock Webcor Builders in 3:28:37.
- 8. Meredith Miller Team Tibco in 3:28:46.
- 9. Andrea Dvorak Colavita/baci P/b Cooking in 3:28:52.
- 10. Kathryn Donovan Specialized D4w/bicycle Haus in 3:28:54


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Around The Scouting Campfire #18stevejb68 on September 26, 2010 in ATSC, Leadership
This episode of Around The Scouting Campfire is dedicated to a special individual of Boy Scout Troop 68, Eymard, our assistant scoutmaster. Eymard is 83 years old and has been with the troop for 23 years. Buttons and Steve thought it was about time to recognize Eymard on the podcast.
In addition to Steve's story about Eymard and Buttons interview with him we also get to hear the Buckskin staff of Many Point Scout Camp as they lead the campers in the Bear Hunt song. Steve has a scoutmaster conference about being clean. Buttons shares some feedback on past shows, including one comment he does not like very well.
Steve and Buttons thank PTC Media (http://www.ptcmedia.net) for allowing this program to be a part of the family of Scouting related podcasts. We also thank the Boy Scout Store (http://boyscoutstore.com) for sponsoring the show. Be sure to take a moment to check out their website. Finally, we would like to thank you, our listeners, for downloading Around The Scouting Campfire.


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HORSHOLM, Denmark, March 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S (OMX: VELO) today announced that John Weinberg, M.D., currently chief commercial officer of Veloxis, has been promoted to chief operating officer.
- Dr. Weinberg, who is currently responsible for the commercial launch of Envarsus® in the U.S., if approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will expand his role at the company to include additional operational responsibilities.
- Dr. Weinberg joined Veloxis in 2010. Prior to joining Veloxis, Dr. Weinberg was Business Franchise Head at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in the transplant and infectious disease business unit. In this capacity, he successfully managed and grew the U.S. transplant business.
Dr. Weinberg said, "We are now developing our commercial plans for launching Envarsus® in the U.S. market. As chief operating officer, I look forward to ensuring a successful introduction of Envarsus® to transplant recipients, not only in the U.S, but worldwide."
Bill Polvino, M.D., chief executive officer of Veloxis said, "The U.S. launch of Envarsus® is of great significance to the company as it is our first product for which we will manage its commercialization. John's experience in the organ transplant field will provide us the expertise to position us for success in the U.S. and worldwide. I want to personally congratulate John on his promotion."
For more information, please contact:
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S
John Weinberg, M.D.
EVP & Chief Operating Officer
Phone: +1 732 321 3208
Email: [email protected]
About Envarsus® (formerly LCP-Tacro) and tacrolimus
Tacrolimus is a leading immunosuppression drug used for the prevention of transplant allograft rejection after organ transplantation. Envarsus® is an investigational drug that is being developed as a once daily tablet version of tacrolimus, with improved bioavailability, consistent pharmacokinetic performance and reduced peak to trough variability when compared to currently approved tacrolimus products. Transplant patients need to maintain a minimum blood level of tacrolimus for the prevention of transplant allograft rejection, but excessive levels may increase the risk of serious side effects such as nephrotoxicity, tremor, diabetes, high blood pressure, and opportunistic infections. Therefore, tacrolimus levels need to be managed carefully, and transplant patients are typically obliged to make frequent visits to the hospital for monitoring and dose adjustments after receiving a new organ.
About Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
Based in Horsholm, Denmark, with an office in New Jersey, Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S, or Veloxis, is a specialty pharmaceutical company. The company's lead product candidate is Envarsus® for immunosuppression, specifically organ transplantation. Veloxis' unique, patented delivery technology, MeltDose®, can improve absorption and bioavailability at low scale up costs. Veloxis has a lipid lowering product, Fenoglide®, currently on the U.S. market that is commercialized through partner Santarus, Inc. Veloxis is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen under the trading symbol OMX: VELO.
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By RICH FOLEY
Sometimes I get tired of hearing people talk about "Googling" themselves or another person. Whenever I try to spy on myself, I usually end up with a bunch of references to previous columns. Other people with my name, however, seem to be rather interesting.
Once I got past all the mentions of my namesake in Pennsylvania with the photography business, others with better stories began popping up. Like, for instance, Captain Rich Foley of the Nashville police.
Captain Foley was trying to track down an interesting thief. The suspect had stolen a tour bus owned by country singer Crystal Gayle, then drove it to a Florida racetrack, where he told track personnel he was supposed to pick up NASCAR star Tony Stewart.
When his scruffy appearance caused suspicions, "He stated he was leaving the racetrack to go to McDonald's to get a hamburger, and he has yet to be seen," Captain Foley said.
The suspect, who had a history of truck and heavy equipment thefts, was being moved from Texas to Georgia when he escaped from a prisoner transport van in South Carolina. He stole a pickup, then a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer filled with merchandise, then Ms. Gayle's tour bus.
Captain Foley was still hot on the trail of the bus at the time the article was written. At least Tony Stewart was safe.
My next namesake turned out to be on the other side of the law, maybe in more ways than one. I found this article under the title, "Rich Foley's DeSoto."
After American troops began searching Sadaam Hussein's properties in Baghdad during the Iraq war, an odd discovery was made in one of his garages. A dusty old Oregon license plate turned up, thousands of miles from home.
An extensive search through ancient written records revealed the plate had been attached to a 1960 DeSoto owned by Mr. Foley, but the registration expired in December of 1983.
Foley had informed the Oregon DMV in 1987 that he had sold the car prior to 1985. Other research showed Foley's driver's license expired in 1997.
A Portland radio personality found Rick Foley, Rich's son, who said his father was serving time in a Minnesota prison. If anyone really wanted to know how his old DeSoto's license plate made it to Iraq, long after the registration expired, a road trip to Duluth was probably the next step. I'll leave that to someone else.
I found another weird reference to Rich Foley that actually was about me, but was worded in such a way I almost didn't recognize myself. A website named sportallworld.com rewrote an article from a nearby daily regarding the Michigan Press Association's 2011 Better Newspaper Contest. It used English words, but arranged to seem like a foreign language.
For instance, it said that "Rich Foley won initial place in sports mainstay essay." Back here on Earth, that means I won first place in sports column writing.
It also said, in plain English, that I won third place in the local columnist category. Others in the story won third-place "endowments." That's not fair. Where's my endowment?
One lucky writer won a "third-place endowment in headlines craving stating." Bet you'd never guess they really meant "news enterprise reporting." It's a good thing I had the original article to refer to, otherwise I'd still be scratching my head.
And if I needed a reminder to keep me humble, there was the appraisal of my Twitter account. I didn't realize that there were companies out there putting prices on the worth of individual accounts, but my Google search helped reduce the size of what little ego I had left.
I admit that I don't do much on Twitter. I basically signed up for an account just to reserve my name before someone else grabbed it. I don't have many "followers", and none are personal friends. But one of the few is a bit of a celebrity, or at least related to one.
Chrissy Pistone is the daughter of old-time race driver "Tiger Tom" Pistone, who won two NASCAR Cup races and finished sixth in season points way back in 1959. At age 83, Tom still owns a race car and parts business. How Chrissy ever discovered my "tweets" is a mystery to me.
Even with the Pistone connection, the appraisal firm has established the retail market value of my Twitter account at a whopping $11.33. No matter how you look at it, that's not much of an endowment. I'd better get back to work.


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Are you ready to get your applications into the private cloud? If you understand the difference between virtualising something and making it part of a broader environment, then you are on your way.
If you have explored the business value of each application to see if it makes sense, you are further still. But now comes the heavy lifting.
How do you get your applications from their current home into your new private cloud?
Count the ways
One of the simplest ways to move an app is simply to forklift the whole thing over to the private cloud infrastructure, knowing that you will sacrifice some functionality in the process.
This makes sense for some software, especially groups of applications that are heavily dependent on each other. It reduces risk and effort because you won't leave anything on dedicated hardware, and you will require few changes to your binaries.
You could also choose to pick out specific applications within a group, while leaving others in place. Sometimes, groups of apps naturally separate themselves this way.
A group of batch processing apps supporting a web-based enterprise app might be perfectly happy sitting on their own hardware while the web app moves across. On the other hand, you may not get the full elasticity of the cloud after the move.
Different applications need different transformation strategies. Consider the application's architecture, what it is currently running on, how many other applications it depends upon and how tight those interdependencies are.
Bring Cloud on - Yeah, Baby!
Untie the knots
The smart company will document not only its application base but also the process flow that the applications support. Dependency mapping is an important part of this process.
Applications supporting the business workflow are dependent on each other in different ways. They require each other's output and various steps during business processes, and these inputs and outputs should all be understood and recorded.
When mapping dependencies, don't forget security. Your evaluation of an application should include its security risk and an analysis of what data it stores and where.
Is it acceptable for data accessed by an application to be stored on hardware accessed by other applications? Will migrating an application to a private cloud violate trust relationships between different physical domains?
These parameters play a vital part, not only during the design of the private cloud architecture but also during the scheduling of the migration process, which may take place over several iterations.
Draw some profiles
Applications must be profiled so that the design team can allocate the proper resources during the migration.
When profiling the application, allow enough time to watch for fluctuations in data. You should be able to see whether the application is used more at some times than others and how volatile those changes are.
Explore the application's latency requirements. How quickly does it expect a response? Can such a response be guaranteed in a cloud computing environment, and does the deployment team have the tools and expertise to ensure that the application meets service level agreements for latency?
This latency issue also determines which applications move together. Applications that rely on low-latency connections with each other should probably be moved together.
Make sure you evaluate an application's available needs too. This is a particular issue for fault-tolerant legacy applications. Can the cloud migration team ensure that the application will meet service level agreements for guaranteed uptime?
Studying architecture
Analysts will invariably uncover a range of different application types, including multi-tiered, batch processing, high-performance and standalone desktop models.
Multi-tiered software consists of a server back end, a client interface and a layer of application logic in the middle.
These are often designed with a high level of interactivity. They are often compute-intensive and may use component-based messaging via standard interfaces such as SOAP or other XML-based protocols. Often, multi-tiered software is written atop a portable software framework, such as Java or .Net.
Batch processing systems are designed with minimal interactivity. They offer simple batch file input mechanisms and return basic result sets. Expect high throughput levels.
Many batch applications may be legacy based, produced as native executables designed to run on specific hardware.
Standalone desktop applications may be the hardest to transport to the cloud. They are highly interactive, but aside from a few specialist applications such as graphics-intensive software, they are not computationally demanding.
Unlike multi-tiered applications, there is a tight bond between back-end processing and the user interface. They are not designed to be accessed by many users at once, and specialist multi-user software frameworks may be required to make them functional in the cloud.
High-performance computing applications are less common. They are naturally compute-intensive, generally batch-based and tend to focus on relatively few applications. Business analytics applications may edge on high-performance computing.
The design team must compensate by throwing more resource at the problem
When considering high-performance computing and analytics applications for private cloud migration, look at their architecture. They generally fall into one of two camps: scale up or scale out.
Scale-up software depends on a single, monolithic architecture for execution. Scale-out applications uses large volumes of parallel nodes, requiring communication over high-performance buses. Each requires a different approach to migration.
Cloud migration carries particular challenges for some high-performance computing applications that require low-latency communication across networks (hence the high-performance interconnects).
One of the biggest challenges for virtualised infrastructures is network I/O, meaning that the design team must compensate by throwing more resource at the problem.
The prevailing application types in your portfolio determines the cloud models that you choose. For example, multi-tiered applications could be relatively easy to migrate because each tier can be taken separately.
The web services messaging mechanisms used by many such applications make it possible to create loosely coupled architectures to support the software. The data management tier could be virtualised independently of the business logic tier, and may even be scheduled separately as part of a staggered rollout.
Legacy batch processing applications can be among the most challenging to migrate to cloud-based architectures, as they may not support older hardware platforms and operating systems. Nevertheless, there are some available options.
The most revolutionary, but possibly the most effective in the long run, is simply to migrate the old application to a new, open hardware and software architecture. This involves re-writing software and entails the biggest investment.
An alternative is to wrap the hardware in a virtual machine, if one can be found to sit atop a virtualised infrastructure.
Learn to share
Finally, consider leaving legacy software as it is and simply accessing it via a service interface from a cloud-based system. Some battles are best avoided altogether, especially if the risk involved in migrating a particular application is too great.
Organisations also have different options when migrating client-based applications. Virtual desktop integration entails providing each user with a single virtualised PC, hosted on the server. This can be computationally expensive.
Session virtualisation shares a single desktop environment among many users who share access to the desktop and the applications. This can reduce management headaches while making software licensing and capital expenditure on server hardware less expensive.
If done correctly, due diligence helps deployment teams to tackle a challenging process and achieve a migration that results in lower costs, increased agility and a more efficient environment for enterprise applications. ®


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The Industrial Economy Forum Activity at Taicang Branch Meeting Place in 2017 Suzhou Venture Week for International Elites was held in Powerlong Hotel on July 11, 2017, more than 150 foreign and domestic elites who were active in fields of high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials, bio-medicine and so on and came from United States, Germany, France and other places, fund venture capital institutions as well as the news media that cared about the industrial development in Taicang came to Taicang together to seek innovative and entrepreneurial common developments. Municipal party secretary Shen Mi delivered the speech, vice party secretary and mayor Wang Jianguo presided over the activities and city committee chairman Qiu Zhende attended the opening ceremony.
Basic information, regional advantages and industrial distribution conditions of Taicang were introduced by Shen Mi. Shen Mi said that, "Recently, Taicang has centered on goals of "Make Innovation, Enrich People and Build a High-Level Well-Off Society in an All-Round Way", kept in step with requirements of "Obtain the Good Ideas, Measures, Atmosphere and Effects of Innovation Through Ask Questions", organized the implementation of "522" elites engineering, "Loudong Elites" engineering and introduced, cultivated the high-end, innovational and enterprising elites seriously. Besides, Taicang possesses 30 persons belonging to the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, 4 groups belonging to Innovational and Enterprising Group of Jiangsu, 50 persons belonging to the Innovational and Enterprising Elites and 69 persons belonging to leading personnel of Suzhou." Theme of the Venture Week in Taicang was determined as "Elites, Industry and Finance" this year, which aimed to build a communication platform for the profound integration of elites and industry, finance as well as assist the wide cooperation between foreign and domestic elites and financial venture capital institutions.
All distinguished guests and friends were invited at the industrial economy forum and project cooperation meeting to discuss the new ideas and new measures of the development of elites, industry and finance. Meanwhile, the activity were taken as an opportunity in Taicang to further improve the financial venture capital service system, and speed up the construction of innovation and entrepreneurship carrier platform as well as create a more high-quality venture capital environment industriously so as to provide the first-class development stage to all types of talents, especially the high-level leading talents. Taicang sincerely hoped that the more and better scientific and technological resources and innovative results could be brought to Taicang by elites, and welcomed numerous talents to realize innovation and entrepreneurship, and seek the common development in Taicang.
This year, Policy Suggestions on the Promotion of Innovation and Transition and Consolidation of Talent Supports was issued by Taicang to strengthen the support level to talents, among them, 20 Articles of Talents New Policies has great support levels. The talent cooperation organizations was the bridge and bond to introduce the overseas high-level talents, and the city has further expanded overseas channels to attract talents, recruited and increased a group of "Direct Stations for Talents Introduction" in public, which will certainly play a positive and promoting role in introduction of more overseas high-level talents.
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Powell's African AIDS advice missing the boat
Republican Legislators Reward Radical Right-Wing with Blow to Women's Health Care & Right to Choose
Under the proposed legislation called The Federal Refusal Clause, HMOs and insurance companies could refuse to provide any abortion services, information or referrals to abortion services
Study Shows Steep Rise in Elective C-Sections
What's going on here?
While all the articles on this study seemed to avoid mentioning the issue of doctors persuading female patients to have cesarean deliveries, not to mention the yuckiness that the general practices and enviornment of hospital births tend to be, one has to scratch one's collective head.
Labiaplasty, my Asty.
Gender key in addressing AIDS epidemic
New safety warnings added to "abortion pill"
"New warnings will be added to an abortion pill implicated in the death of an 18-year-old California woman last fall, linking Mifeprex to the risk of serious bacterial infection. Holly Patterson died Sept. 17, 2003, of septic shock caused by inflammation of the uterus. She died weeks after taking Mifeprex to terminate an unplanned pregnancy.
Mifeprex is the brand name of mifepristone, also called RU-486, sold in the United States.
An international team of researchers has brought millions of vulnerable women closer to a potentially powerful weapon against HIV
Stop Discriminating Against Gay and Lesbian Public Servants!
Last April, Scott Bloch, appointed by President Bush after serving as associate director of the Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, ordered the removal of sexual orientation as a protected category on the office's website as well as its removal from all training materials from his office. He announced that he was initiating a review of the legal underpinnings of the long standing policy while calling on his staff to catch up on the large backlog of other discrimination complaints not yet investigated by his office.
US births to those aged 10 - 14 reaches lowest level since 1946
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the number of births among girls in this age group dropped 38 percent from 1994 to 2002 alone, even though the number of girls 10 to 14 climbed 16 percent during the same
Pharmacist refuses to fill birth control prescription
A pharmacist who refused to refill or transfer a college student's prescription for birth control pills violated standards of care by not releasing the prescription or telling her about other ways she could get her pills, a former director of the state Pharmacy Internship Board testified Tuesday. Noesen, 30, could lose his license for not helping Amanda Phiede get her birth control pills.


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Interview on our vulnerable wetlands
Earth's wetlands are vital to the water cycle and havens for wildlife, but they are under threat. In recent years, satellite observations have been providing unique information to support the conservation and management of wetlands.
ESA, in collaboration with the Ramsar Convention, has launched its GlobWetland II project to contribute to the setting up of a system to observe global wetlands in accordance with Ramsar's 2009–15 plan.
The project recently held its first user workshop at ESA's Earth observation centre, ESRIN, in Frascati, Italy. Participants from Algeria, Morocco, Libya and the Palestinian Authority attended the meeting.
During the event, ESA had a chance to speak with Nick Davidson, Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention, and ESA's Marc Paganini, in charge of the GlobWetland II project, to find out more about these threatened ecosystems and how the project is helping.


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Arab Oil Importers Under Strain, A Commentary by Masood Ahmed, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, International Monetary Fund
May 24, 2012A Commentary by Masood Ahmed, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, International Monetary Fund
Published in International Economic Bulletin, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 24, 2012
The Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is facing extraordinary challenges in the wake of the Arab Spring. The Arab countries in transition (mostly oil importers) are straining to manage political change, urgent social demands, and an adverse external environment—factors that have combined to increase the near-term risks to macroeconomic stability. These risks were also present in 2011, but now many governments have narrower margins for policy maneuver, having drawn down their foreign exchange and fiscal buffers over the past year. To manage the risks, countries in transition will need to rely on support from the international community.
Middle East oil exporters, meanwhile, are benefiting from high oil prices; it is estimated that they grew twice as fast as the region's oil importers last year. Still, many of them face fiscal sustainability and structural challenges, including the need to create jobs for their growing working-age populations, further diversify their economies, and develop their financial markets to better support economic growth.
Oil Importers Burdened by Multiple Pressures
The region's oil-importing countries had a difficult time in 2011.1 Unparalleled domestic pressures and a challenging external environment—notably, the slowdown in global growth and higher oil prices—weighed on economic performance. Growth faltered, unemployment—already chronically high across the region—continued to rise, and government budgets stretched further. Although remittances and exports helped hold up income in many countries, foreign investment and tourism declined sharply. In addition, adverse movements in fundamentals and investor sentiment contributed to a decline in stock market indices, wider sovereign spreads, credit rating downgrades, and capital outflows from some countries.
As a result, growth for the region's oil importers, excluding Syria, fell by nearly half from 4.3 percent in 2010 to 2.2 percent in 2011. The forecast for 2012 is only a modest recovery to 2.7 percent (see Table 1).
Syria faces exceptional circumstances—the worsening political and military conflict, apart from its tragic human costs, is likely to result in a very large decline in economic activity in 2012. Outside of the Arab countries in transition, drought in Afghanistan and floods in Pakistan played a role in those countries' downturns.
Table 1
The months ahead will be equally challenging. That is especially true because many countries now have smaller policy buffers than they did in 2011. Last year's policy response increased spending, which pushed up fiscal deficits and diminished external inflows. Accompanied by large current account deficits, the policies led to reserve losses (see Chart 1). And as political transitions play out, private investors will likely remain in wait-and-see mode; it will take some time for investment, tourists, and capital to return.
Moreover, the international environment remains difficult. The European Union—an important economic partner for many MENA oil importers—is projected to post near-zero growth in 2012; oil prices are expected to remain high; and spillovers from Syria could affect a number of countries in the region.
Oil Exporters Fare Well
The economies of MENA oil exporters,2 meanwhile, continue to post solid growth. While growth for the group as a whole fell from 5 percent in 2010 to about 4 percent last year (mainly due to the conflict in Libya), it reached 8 percent for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).3 Oil production in GCC states increased, particularly in Saudi Arabia, to compensate for declines elsewhere (primarily in Libya). On the back of higher oil prices, the oil exporters' combined current account surpluses approached $400 billion in 2011—almost double the amount in 2010—which helped lift their reserve position above the $1 trillion mark, support a further increase in other foreign assets, and enable stepped-up government spending.
Oil exporters' growth in 2012 is expected to strengthen to 4.8 percent and to be more evenly spread between the GCC countries and other oil exporters, as oil prices are expected to average about $115 per barrel. In the GCC, oil and gas production is expected to remain broadly flat: Qatar's recent rapid hydrocarbon growth is likely to tail off, pending a moratorium on capacity expansion. Saudi Arabia's role as a swing producer, moreover, will likely entail a smaller oil production increase than was required in 2011 to keep global energy demand and supply in balance. And government spending in the GCC will continue to support growth in the non-oil sector.
Despite an overall positive outlook for oil exporters, fiscal sustainability will be an issue—even with high oil prices—for those countries already running deficits, many of which are expected to increase this year. In non-GCC countries, government spending rose by one-third in dollar terms, leading to an average fiscal deficit of 1 percent of GDP, though average oil prices exceeded $100 a barrel in 2011. GCC fiscal expenditure also rose but only by about one-fifth in dollar terms, and the twin effects of higher oil prices and large export volumes allowed GCC fiscal balances to improve. Still, overall, oil exporters' fiscal vulnerability has increased, as the fiscal breakeven price—that is, the oil price at which a country's fiscal accounts are in balance for a given level of spending and revenues from oil—has generally been rising over time (see Chart 2).
In addition, a number of factors could pose risks to the oil exporters' growth scenario. The most immediate risk would be a euro-area-induced global slowdown, which would reduce global oil demand and possibly lead to a sustained drop in oil prices. This would make countries with fiscal deficits especially vulnerable.
Policy Implications
For the region's oil-importing countries, maintaining macroeconomic stability in the current environment will be challenging. Corrective measures are needed to lessen vulnerabilities, and some steps can be taken quickly. Governments must control spending on untargeted subsidies, which predominantly benefit the wealthy, and begin putting in place more effective social safety nets to protect the poor. Central banks need to maintain external stability, which may require greater exchange rate flexibility.
Ensuring adequate financing is also a key priority. The oil importers' external financing need will be an estimated $50 billion in 2012. Given that capital markets will not meet all of that demand, it will be important to scale up the international response.
The IMF is doing its part. It has upgraded its lending toolkit in part to address the needs of the region, approved a loan for Yemen in April, is in discussions with Egypt on a possible IMF-supported program, and is in early talks with a few other countries on financing needs and possible support. The IMF is also providing technical assistance to many countries in the region—in Egypt, for example, on tax reform to improve tax equity; in Jordan on fuel subsidy reform; in Tunisia and Morocco on measures to strengthen the financial sector; and in Yemen on improving customs administration.
But IMF support will not be enough. International and regional donors and institutions will need to provide additional funds and expertise. Improved international market access for MENA exports would also help counter the downturn in the region.
Looking further ahead, beyond macroeconomic stabilization, Arab countries in transition will need to build their own paths toward economic transformation to generate higher and more inclusive growth. Focusing on short-term macroeconomic challenges is vital. For the region's oil-exporting countries, though there are no immediate inflationary pressures, a key short-term priority is to watch for signs of overheating in light of growing domestic demand. The quality of spending also needs to be monitored to ensure value for money in rapidly expanding public-spending programs. Reforming universal fuel price subsidies, in particular, would help contain growing domestic energy consumption. Even with high oil prices, fiscal sustainability is an issue that also needs immediate attention, especially for those countries already running deficits.
But it is equally important not to lose sight of the medium-term challenges of modernizing and diversifying the economies of the region, creating jobs outside the public sector, and providing fair and equitable opportunities for all.
Masood Ahmed is the director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department.
This article is adapted from the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia April 2012 Regional Economic Outlook Update and has been published with permission.
1 Oil importers include Afghanistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria, and Tunisia. The IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department includes Afghanistan and Pakistan in its analysis.
2 Oil exporters include Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
3 The GCC includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
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Proposed airport generating controversy
Critics say project unnecessary
There's a battle brewing over a proposed regional airport in Mahaska County.
City and county leaders say the project will be good for businesses, but critics worry whether the plan will take off.
Three potential sites have been selected for the airport, all of them between Pella and Oskaloosa along Highway 163. The ambitious plan has caused a fight over flight.
"The voters actually have no say this time," said Tim Van Maanen, who is against the proposal.
Jim Hansen of the South Central Regional Airport Agency said the airport is coming, it's just a matter of where it will be built.
"I think it will create -- begin to create -- a corridor between Oskaloosa and Pella for economic development," he said.
"About five years ago, this was brought up to a public vote, and the public voted it down pretty heavily," Van Maanen said.
He said he is worried about the money involved in the project.
"Nobody really knows, for one, how much this airport is going to cost," Van Maanen said. "And No. 2, if it's going to make enough money to support itself."
"Ninety percent of this will be paid for by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), and the balance will be paid for by the cities of Oskaloosa and Pella," said Hansen, who added that the project is badly needed, especially for businesses flying jets to and from Pella.
"Pella airport is currently operating on a permit from the FAA to allow larger planes to land there -- it wasn't built for that," Hansen said.
The current airport doesn't meet federal category C safety zone requirements.
"Where it is unsafe is Pella's airport. It doesn't have a long enough runway to handle a class C jet," Van Maanen said. "The other 99 percent of traffic in and out of Pella airport --100 percent safe, they love it, it's a great airport. So really, that's not a valid reason we need to be looking at a new airport."
Critics point to other regional airports in the area, including Newton and Ottumwa. They say building another one doesn't make sense financially or geographically.
The airport plans to select two sites for consideration, and both will be studied from an environmental standpoint before a master plan is created. The FAA must approve the project, and it could take two years for the go-ahead.


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Years ago, before Sept. 11, when I first started traveling in South Asia, a Pakistani diplomat gave me a quick tutorial about how his people, Pashtuns, were not so very different from my own people, Texans.
We both follow conservative religions, although not so closely as we like others to believe, said the diplomat, delicately cutting into a plate of enchiladas at a Tex-Mex joint in Washington. Like Texans, we love our guns. We have very traditional beliefs about marriage and the role of women in society. We love barbecued meat. We distrust government, and hate paying taxes. We're not as different as you might think.
As intriguing as this Pashtuns-are-Texans theory is, it is clear that the differences between the United States (which includes Texas, for the time being) and Pakistan (which includes many ethnic Pashtuns, for the time being) have become vast. US military airstrikes, aimed at Islamist militants but also killing civilians and even Pakistani soldiers, have turned many Pakistanis against what they see as a "great Satan." Pakistani tolerance of, and even support for, Islamist militant groups on Pakistani soil has pushed many US military commanders to conclude that Pakistan is, in effect, more an enemy than an ally. According to Christine Fair in this week's Foreign Policy magazine, some are contemplating a new approach: either containment, or benign neglect.
At present, Pakistan no longer allows the US military or the NATO alliance to use its ports or roads to resupply NATO troops based in Afghanistan. And with US elections approaching, and Pakistan's government increasingly fragile, it is hard to see how the two countries can bridge the gap.
Pakistani public opinion has turned sharply against the United States, with a recent Pew Research poll showing that 74 percent regard America to be an enemy, up from 69 percent in 2011, and 64 percent three years ago.
Recent headlines indicate that things are not getting better, but rather worse.
* In her Foreign Policy piece, Ms. Fair suggests that US military are close to giving up on its tactical alliance with Pakistan. As Fair writes, Pakistan is in such a state of crisis, it couldn't change course even if it wanted to do so.
Pakistan is in crisis. Its courts act on whim rather than jurisprudence. Its political parties are vast pools of corrupt patronage networks that aggregate elite interests while disregarding the interests of Pakistan's struggling masses. Neither elected politicians nor military rulers have had the political courage to right the nation's fiscal woes by enforcing income tax or imposing industrial and agricultural taxes on the ruling elites and their networks of influence. While the army has retrenched from a direct role in politics, it has done so likely because it has no other option: Pakistan's military suffered a mighty humiliation after the bin Laden raid, which left many citizens wondering whether their country is a failed state, a rogue state, or both.
* Adding pressure from within, the militant Maulana Fazlullah, who briefly took control of the Swat region and ran it along Taliban lines before being pushed out by a Pakistani Army operation, has returned to the Pakistani-Afghan border region. He released a video showing the severed heads of 17 Pakistani soldiers, together with their identification cards, almost taunting the army to come and get him.
* Indian investigators say that an Indian militant, allegedly linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba attacks on Mumbai on Nov. 26, 2008, has reportedly admitted under interrogation that Pakistani intelligence officers were with him in Lashkar's "control room" in Karachi as the attacks were being carried out. Pakistan has claimed it had no involvement in the attacks, which killed more than 166 people, and wounded more than 300.
* And in Islamabad, Pakistan's government moved ever closer to paralysis, as Pakistan's Supreme Court pushed newly appointed Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to reopen corruption cases against President Ali Asif Zardari. Mr. Ashraf was elected prime minister last week to replace Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, who was banned by the Supreme Court from holding office after he refused to reopen the case against Zardari.
So let's review: US and Pakistani relations are at a low point, with both countries increasingly regarding and treating each other like an enemy. Pakistan's military may have been implicated in terrorist attacks against India, and it now has an armed militia leader apparently planning to carve out a part of the country to rule as a Taliban-like state. And amid all this trouble, Pakistan's Supreme Court and its executive branch appear to be facing off in a fight to determine who gets to run the country.
Which brings me back to my Pakistani diplomat friend; if Pakistanis and Americans are more alike than they admit, could the same host of problems affecting Pakistan now – rising religious extremism, military adventurism, constitutional fights, and separatism – happen in the US too? Perish the thought.


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John Martorano: Winter Hill Gang Member Killed After Botched Armed Robbery Attempt
James Sousa, a low-level Winter Hill gang member, along with two other low-level members panicked following a failed armed robbery attempt in 1974, former White Hill hit man John Martorano said.
According to Martorano, Sousa and two others planned to sell fake gold to Boston-based dentist John Jennings and then rob him. The plan went awry, however, when Jennings pulled out a shotgun. Panicked, Sousa grabbed Jennings' son and was arrested.
Concerned Sousa would talk to the police in exchange for a reduced sentence, James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi believed he was a threat.
According to Martarno's confession and testimony, Flemmi lured Sousa to a garage in Somerville and Martarano, acting under orders from Bulger, shot Sousa in the head, killing him immediately.


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In the fall of 1924, five bodies from New Jersey were delivered to the New York City Medical Examiner's Office. You might not expect that to cause the chief medical examiner to worry about the dirt blowing in city streets. But it did.
To understand why you need to know the story of those five dead men, or at least the story of their exposure to a then mysterious industrial poison.
The five men worked at the Standard Oil Refinery in Bayway, New Jersey. All of them spent their days in what plant employees nicknamed "the loony gas building", a tidy brick structure where workers seemed to sicken as they handled a new gasoline additive. The additive's technical name was tetraethyl lead or, in industrial shorthand, TEL. It was developed by researchers at General Motors as an anti-knock formula.
But, as I wrote in a previous post, men working at the plant quickly gave it the "loony gas" tag because anyone who spent much time inside showed signs of mental deterioration, from stumbling memory loss to sudden twitchy bursts of rage. In October of 1924, workers in the TEL building began collapsing, going into convulsions, babbling deliriously. By the end of September, 32 of the 49 TEL workers were in the hospital; five of them died.
The problem, at that point, was that no one knew exactly why. Oh, they knew – or should have known – that tetraethyl lead was dangerous. As Charles Norris, chief medical examiner for New York City pointed out, the compound had been banned in Europe for years due to its toxic nature. But while U.S. corporations hurried TEL into production in the 1920s, they did not hurry to understand its medical or environmental effects.
Two years earlier, the U.S. Public Health Service had asked Thomas Midgley, Jr. – the developer of the leaded gasoline process – all research into the health consequences of tetraethyl lead (TEL).
Midgley, a scientist at General Motors, replied then that no such research existed. Two years later, he could gave the same answer. Although GM and Standard Oil had formed a joint company to manufacture leaded gasoline – the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation – its research had focused solely on improving the TEL formulas. The companies preferred to avoid the lead issue. They'd deliberately left the word out of their new company name to avoid its negative image.
In response to the worker health crisis at the Bayway plant, Standard Oil suggested that the problem might simply be overwork. Unimpressed, the state of New Jersey ordered a halt to TEL production. And then the compound was so poorly understood, state health officials asked the New York City Medical Examiner's Office to find out what had happened.
In 1924, New York had the best forensic toxicology department in the country; in fact, it had one of the few such programs period. The chief chemist was a dark, cigar-smoking, perfectionist named Alexander Gettler, a famously dogged researcher who would sit up late at night designing both experiments and apparatus as needed.
It took Gettler three obsessively focused weeks to figure out how much tetraethyl lead the Standard Oil workers had absorbed before they became ill, or crazy, or dead. "This is one of the most difficult of many difficult investigations of the kind which have been carried on at this laboratory," Norris said, when releasing the results. "This was the first work of its kind, as far as I know. Dr. Gettler had not only to do the work but to invent a considerable part of the method of doing it."
Working with the first four bodies, then checking his results against the body of the last worker killed, who had died screaming in a straitjacket, Gettler discovered that TEL and its lead byproducts formed a recognizable distribution, concentrated in the lungs, the brain, and the bones. The highest levels were in the lungs suggesting that most of the poison had been inhaled; later tests showed that the types of masks used by Standard Oil did not filter out the lead in TEL vapors.
Rubber gloves did protect the hands but if TEL splattered and made any direct with skin, it absorbed alarmingly quickly. The result was intense poisoning with lead, a potent neurotoxin. The loony gas symptoms were, in fact, classic heavy lead toxicity.
After Norris released his office's report on tetraethyl lead, New York City banned its sale, and the sale of "any preparation containing lead or other deleterious substances" as an additive to gasoline. So did New Jersey. So did the city of Philadelphia.
Afraid that the trend would accelerate, that they would be forced to find another anti-knock compound, as well as losing considerable money, the manufacturing companies demanded that the federal government take over the investigation and develop its own regulations.
The manufacturers agreed to suspend TEL production and distribution until a federal investigation was completed. In May 1925, the U.S. Surgeon General called a national tetraethyl lead conference, to be followed by the formation of an investigative task force to study the problem. That same year, Midgley published his first health analysis of TEL, which acknowledged just a minor health risk: "compared with other chemical industries it is neither grave nor inescapable."
It was obvious in advance that the federal task force was going to reach that same conclusion. The panel only included selected industry scientists like Midgely. It had no place for Alexander Gettler or Charles Norris or, in fact, anyone from any city where sales of the gas had been banned, or any agency involved in the producing that first critical analysis of tetraethyl lead.
In January 1926, the public health service released its report which concluded that there was "no danger" posed by adding the compound to gasoline…"no reason to prohibit the sale of leaded gasoline" as long as workers were well protected during the manufacturing process.
The task force focused on the risks associated with every day exposure by drivers, automobile attendants, gas station operators, and found that it was minimal. It was true that lead had turned up in dusty corners of garages and that all the drivers tested showed trace amounts of lead in their blood. But a low level of lead could be tolerated, the scientists concluded. After all, none of the test subjects showed the extreme behaviors and breakdowns associated with places like the looney gas building. And the worker problem could be handled with some protective gear.
There were critics, even then, insisting that this was a biased panel, too deliberately underestimating the risks, too willing to introduce lead into the environment. There was one cautionary note, though. The federal panel warned that exposure levels would probably rise as more people took to the roads. Perhaps, at a later point, the scientists suggested, the research should be taken up again. It was always possible that leaded gasoline might "constitute a menace to the general public after prolonged use or other conditions not foreseen at this time."
But, of course, that would be another generation's problem. In 1926, citing evidence from the TEL report, the federal government revoked all bans on production and sale of leaded gasoline. The reaction of industry was jubilant; one Standard Oil spokesman likened the compound to a "gift of God," so great was its potential to improve automobile performance.
In New York City, at least, Charles Norris decided to prepare for the health and environmental problems to come. He suggested that the department scientists do a base-line measurement of lead levels in the dirt and debris blowing across city streets. People died, he pointed out to his staff; and everyone knew that heavy metals like lead tended to accumulate. The resulting comparison of street dirt in 1924 and 1934 found a 50 percent increase in lead levels – a warning, an indicator of damage to come, if anyone had been paying attention.
It was some fifty years later – in 1986 – that the United States formally banned lead as a gasoline additive. By that time, according to some estimates, so much lead had been deposited into soils, streets, building surfaces, that an estimated 68 million children would register toxic levels of lead absorption and some 5,000 American adults would die annually of lead-induced heart disease. As lead affects cognitive function, some neuroscientists also suggested that chronic lead exposure resulted in a measurable drop in IQ scores during the leaded gas era.
Or, if you prefer, our long – and preventable – loony gas era.
The second of a two part blog series on the early history of leaded gasoline. I discovered this while researching The Poisoner's Handbook and this post derives from that book. I've always considered it a fascinating and troubling part of our forgotten chemical history.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Really funny.. haha! Look at David!
First I was like cool meme bro.
But then I was like THE GAME FFFFUUUU.
lol at the 6'7 thing...I'd be in the exact same situation.
LOL Taeshi's true height.
ya git. i havent lost im more then a week..
but very funny. ahh three stooges good times good times
you sir, are quite clever. you and your making me lose the game and such....
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Yoon, 27, has gone 73-59 with a 3.19 ERA (1129.0IP, 400ER) in nine seasons with the KIA Tigers of the Korean Baseball Organization after being selected in the 2nd round of the 2005 draft out of high school. A three-time KBO All-Star (2008, '09 and '11), Yoon was named the KBO MVP while also winning the Pitching Triple Crown in 2011 (17 wins, 2.45 ERA and 178 strikeouts in 27 games).
He has finished in the top-10 in KBO in several categories multiple times in his career: ERA (three times; led KBO in 2008 and '11), strikeouts (four times; KBO leader in 2011), wins (twice; KBO leader in 2011), saves (twice), innings pitched (three times), complete games (five times; KBO leader in 2011) and shutouts (three times; KBO leader in 2011 and '12).
As a member of the Korean National Team, Yoon pitched in the Asian Games (2006 & '10), Olympic Games (2008) and World Baseball Classic (2009 & '13). In 2008, he helped pitch Korea to their first Olympic gold medal in baseball during the Beijing games, going 2-0 with a 2.34 ERA (7.2IP, 2ER) in five appearances. Yoon has made five total appearances in the World Baseball Classic, first going 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA (16.0IP, 2ER, BB, 13K) in four games for the silver medal winning squad in 2009, before making one start in 2013.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
I Hate Facebook
Okay, so obviously I'm not the only one who hates Facebook. I am not unique. Who doesn't hate Facebook, actually? Does such a species exist?
I hate Facebook for many reasons.
I hate Facebook because I am never more than an hour or two removed from the shackles of the newsfeed and, Facebook, don't we need a little space?
I hate Facebook because I get the shakes whenever I am more than an hour or two removed from the previously mentioned newsfeed. I am missing so many pictures of babies and rants about traffic!
I hate Facebook because it appeals to all of my lowest personality traits and habits. Stalking and obsessing, clearly. And it's so easy.
I hate Facebook because: unflattering pictures. I am vain.
I hate Facebook because it connects me with people who I no longer want to be connected to (see: Bridezilla, the not-even-my-friend girl whose wedding I was in a few years ago) except that I don't want to be not-connected to them via Facebook. If that makes any sense.
I hate Facebook because it makes it way, way, way too easy to compare my life with everyone else's life.
I hate Facebook because I can't use it like a normal person who updates her status and posts an article or two on occasion and updates their profile picture more than once every two years: I just post pictures and they're really only pictures of fun things (the Derby or cute babies or heavy drinking while baking) (who takes pictures of not fun things?) (I guess a lot of people post pictures of their car after an accident or their shoe after their dog destroyed it.) and so probably people think that my life is way better than it really is, too, and therefore I'm just as misleading as every high school classmate out there.
I hate Facebook because my friend Ashley who used to be a good friend and who moved away and got a boyfriend and doesn't call anymore (which makes me sad) updated her profile picture to one of her and the boyfriend who I hardly know a thing about and it just reminded me that she used to be one of my best friends and she isn't anymore and that made me more sad than it does regularly.
I hate Facebook because I care enough about Facebook and I think enough about Facebook to hate it.
5 comments:
- Fabulously Always said...
I did a Facebook detox for a few weeks this year, 4 weeks or so and wow, amazing how FEW people noticed that I went from posting A LOT to almost nothing. Was sobering. Also told me a lot about who the people are who actually give a shit. Now I check FB every couple of days or so but am not as involved. It really sobered me up a bit.
Also: There are a TON of people, probably 99% who only post the funny awesome stuff on FB. So, you know, I wouldn't worry about that;)
- Unknown said...
you should just join/use instagram if you're only posting pics on FB. I say it's like FB but with pics only. Now I only check FB once a day (and this is coming from a serious FB addict). :)
- Readyandfading said...
I quit it almost 2 years ago and it was the BEST thing I ever did for myself. My real friends make a real effort and everyone else that didn't want to be a part of my life, fell to the wayside and cleared up any confusion about what they felt for me anyway.....Maybe take a little break. If something isn't fun anymore, then maybe it shouldn't be something you partake in?
- Danielle said...
I generally abstain from Facebook, or just check it then close that browser tab. Except its always there for me when I'm really bored at work, so that's why I don't really want to delete it. Oh well.
I would take a week break or maybe only check it one day a week? I like Instagram a lot more, even if FB owns it.
- Sabrina said...
You said it so very well about why I hate Facebook but also why I can't just quit it (major major Fear Of Missing Out).
One thing that has made FB more palatable is unsubscribing from people so I can't see them in my newsfeed.
Also, there's a program out there that goes through your newsfeed and replaces pictures of babies with kittens!


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Djokovic, Federer into semis; Dimitrov ousts Murray at Wimbledon
London, England (SportsNetwork.com) - Top seed Novak Djokovic needed all five sets to win his quarterfinal match, while seven-time champion Roger Federer advanced in four and defending titlist Andy Murray was sent packing by rising Bulgarian star Grigor Dimitrov in straights Wednesday at Wimbledon.
The former champion and 2013 runner-up Djokovic trailed two-sets-to-one against 26th-seeded Croat Marin Cilic before turning things around for a 6-1, 3-6, 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 6-2 decision on the No. 1 Court.
The French Open runner-up Djokovic will meet Dimitrov in Friday's semifinals at the All England Club. It will mark the Serbian star's sixth final-four appearance at Wimbledon, where he titled in 2011 and lost to Murray in last year's final.
Djokovic snuck past Cilic in 3 hours, 38 minutes with the help seven service breaks and six double faults by his Croatian counterpart. The Serb moved on despite striking 10 fewer winners (42-32) than Cilic, who had 16 more unforced errors (48-32) on Day 9.
"I played a very bad game, with a couple of bad errors in the second set and the momentum changed for him to get back into the match," Djokovic said. "He found his rhythm on serve, but I allowed him to step in. It was frustrating for me."
The 6-foot-6 Cilic played in his fourth career major quarterfinal (1-3) and his first one since the 2012 U.S. Open.
The 27-year-old Djokovic is a six-time Grand Slam champion who has appeared in 11 of the last 15 major finals. He would replace Rafael Nadal atop the men's rankings with a title this weekend.
Meanwhile, the 11th-seeded Dimitrov leveled the third-seeded Murray 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 and the fourth-seeded former No. 1 great Federer overcame Australian Open champ and fifth-seeded fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, 6-4 on the famed Centre Court.
Dimitrov's serve was just too tough to deal with on Day 9, as the Bulgarian popped 10 aces and was broken only once en route to a convincing victory over Murray. The gifted star used plenty of variety, with topspin, volleys and a beautiful one-handed backhand to advance.
The 27-year-old two-time Grand Slam winner Murray succumbed in 1 hour, 40 minutes by tallying five double faults and striking 19 more unforced errors (37-18) than his Bulgarian counterpart.
"He played better tennis than me for the entire match," Murray said.
Murray had won his last 17 matches at the All England Club, as he captured an Olympic gold medal here in 2012 and gave Britain its first male Wimbledon singles champion in 77 years last year. He was also a Wimbledon runner-up in 2012 and had reached at least the semis here the previous five years.
The 23-year-old Dimitrov, once nicknamed "Baby Fed," will now appear in his first-ever Grand Slam semifinal. He was a quarterfinalist at this year's Aussie Open.
"I'm excited and happy I went through in straight sets," Dimitrov said. "It's never easy to play Andy, especially in front of his home crowd. I was pretty fortunate today.
"As soon as we started warming up, I sensed his game wasn't at his highest level and I was pretty confident and playing good tennis. The first set helped me get into a good rhythm. The second set tiebreak was a key moment for me. Coming into the third set, I knew I had a lot of things under control.
"I was pretty steady during the whole match and came out the winner. I have two more matches to play hopefully. I'm trying to stay on course and prepare for the next one."
Dimitrov captured his first-ever grass-court title at London's Queen's Club three weeks ago and is an unblemished 9-0 on grass this year.
Federer, meanwhile, improved to 14-2 lifetime against his good friend Wawrinka after dropping the first set on Wednesday. The mighty Federer righted the ship by winning the second-set tiebreak and would assume control from there.
The Swiss icon moved on in 2 hours, 33 minutes with 10 aces and two breaks against Wawrinka, who settled for only one break against the all-time great.
Wawrinka was playing in his first-ever Wimbledon quarterfinal and slowed by some physical issues over the last three sets.
The 17-time Grand Slam king Federer is now 72-8 at Wimbledon, which includes a 2008 runner-up finish in addition to his seven championships. He'll now appear in his ninth Wimbledon semifinal and 35th career major semi.
The 32-year-old Federer's next opponent will be 6-foot-5 eighth-seeded Canadian slugger Milos Raonic, who came from behind to best fellow young gun, 19-year-old Aussie Nick Kyrgios, 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).
Raonic advanced with a resounding ace on his fourth match point after 2 hours, 22 minutes of big-hitting tennis. The Canadian swatted 38 aces, while Kyrgios settled for 15, and Raonic broke four times, compared to only one break for the promising Aussie.
"It's great to have that kind of a win," Raonic said.
The upstart wild card Kyrgios stunned the French Open king Nadal here on Tuesday.
The 23-year-old Montenegro-born Raonic will now appear in his first-ever Grand Slam semi in his 15th major appearance. He reached the quarters at the French Open last month.
Prior to this year, Raonic lost in the second round three straight years at the AEC. He's now the first Canadian to reach the Wimbledon semis since Robert Powell in 1908.


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Blake's book is a supernatural tale about a man named Cas who travels the world killing the dead — he's a ghost hunter, essentially — but runs up against a vexing case in the ghost of Anna, a woman who was brutally murdered in 1958 and who continues to haunt a small-town home.
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This is the the second book that is loosely in this genre that Stephenie's company has optioned. The other is the Lois Duncan classic, Down a Dark Hall.


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