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SAN FRANCISCO -- It's a scavenger hunt for cash through the most modern of means: social media.
An anonymous, wealthy California man is hiding up to $100 or so in public places in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and then posting clues to the money's whereabouts through his Twitter page, appropriately dubbed Hidden Cash.
The $100 bills or envelopes containing several $20 bills are amounting to $1,000-a-day philanthropy in what the Twitter account calls "an anonymous social experiment for good."
The results have been a feel-good sensation in California: The Twitter page features selfies of joyous people who found the money -- flashing smiles and cash -- with testimonials of what they're going to do next. The cash hunts ventured into a third city, San Jose, on Wednesday.
The anonymous donor and owner of the Twitter page is a real estate investor who's had the good fortune of joining the wealthiest 1% of American society, especially in the past few years, he said.
When he recently closed a deal with a six-figure profit, the philanthropist decided to "give some of it back" through random acts of kindness, he said.
"This is not a set-up charity, but I wanted to do something fun and creative," he said. "We were thinking of something like the 'Survivor' TV show or something of that nature that was a scavenger hunt. They were basically too involved. So what we did was hide cash in different places. I thought it would be fun, but it's also something simple to execute. All you're doing is leaving money and putting clues on Twitter."
The man said he's between ages 35 and 45 -- and would give no more information. He maintains anonymity because he wants the attention on his pay-it-forward activities, not himself. "There's some crazy people out there in the world," he added.
This week, he will expand his hunt-for-cash giveaway to Los Angeles and possibly other cities across the country, if he can secure helpers, he said. He's been giving away about a grand daily since Friday, he said.
For example, his Twitter page offered this clue Tuesday with a photograph of San Francisco's waterfront and the Golden Gate Bridge: "New drop: come for the cash, stay for the views."
New drop: This is the view from behind the blue railing. Also look for something white and folded. pic.twitter.com/k7ALKx5enc
— Hidden Cash (@HiddenCash) May 27, 2014
The @HiddenCash page even taunted his followers -- which had grown to 70,000 by Tuesday afternoon -- by stating: "Surprising with almost 70k followers, but the $$$ I just left the water is still there 15+ minutes later. And that was an easy one!"
Surprising with almost 70K followers, but the $$$ I just left by the water is still there 15+ minutes later. And that was an easy one!
— Hidden Cash (@HiddenCash) May 27, 2014
Izzy Miller, a San Francisco college student, was the lucky hunter who found the $100 bill in an envelope. Miller posted a photograph of himself and the folded $100 bill, joined by a reporter, who found Miller just after Miller found the Benjamin Franklin.
Miller learned of the clue after his phone alerted him about a new tweet posted by Hidden Cash. Miller rolled out of bed and dashed to the waterfront. There, he found the ka-ching in an envelope taped to a tourist information box.
"I think it's awesome," Miller said. "It's a totally fun thing to do, and the fact that he's doing it in a philanthropic and charitable mindset makes it even cooler." Miller said he would buy climbing shoes with the money.
The anonymous donor is emotionally moved by the words and photos that successful searchers post on Twitter, he said.
"There's absolutely no political agenda; there's no religious agenda; there's no business agenda," the man said of his unconventional philanthropy. "The whole agenda is random acts of kindness and pay it forward and to put a smile on people's face.
"When I see people retweet the photos and say, 'I could have really used this money' or 'my autistic stepson found it' or 'we shared it with people that were with us at the beach' or 'I bought lunch for my coworkers' or 'just giving it charities,' there's a lot of heartwarming stories for people," he said.
The anonymous man plans to continue the cash giveaways for the indefinite future.
Money is no object for him. It's only the time it takes to set up the hunts.
"I'm running around leaving money in different places, and there's only one me," he said, adding that a friend is helping.
He would like other wealthy people across the country to follow his lead: "I'd like for this to become a movement," establishing a chain reaction of charitable giving. "If you can give back, it's at least as rewarding as making good investments and getting big checks and making a lot of money."
He urges people not to look to him -- or lotteries -- as a godsend. There are plenty of job and business opportunities if people look hard enough, he asserted.
"I want to say to the people that are struggling, please realize it's a game. It's pay it forward. Don't look to this or to the lottery to be your financial salvation," he said.
Still, solicitations flood his inbox: He's now overwhelmed by e-mails (his address is on the Twitter page) from people seeking money for a down payment, mortgage payment, child's college tuition or even dental work.
"That's more than I really bargained for," the man said.
Still, he has no plans to stop the small-treasure hunts.
"I'm having a great time," he declared.
The only people who have figured out his identity are his friends, who identified his voice from his audio-only interviews with northern California broadcast outlets.


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The European Space Agency is preparing for the future through a range of activities and programmes, which work together for efficient results. They can be divided into activities allowing for development of new activities and programmes in the short- to medium-terms as well as others which will not be complete until farther into the future.
Advanced Concepts Team (ACT)
Preparing for the future in the long term is the Advanced Concepts Team. This team is a channel for the study of technologies and ideas that are of strategic importance in the long term planning of the Agency. Some of the topics investigated by this team include advanced materials, artificial intelligence, bio-engineering, biomimetics, computational science, earth system science, energy systems, fundamental physics, informatics, mission analysis or propulsion.
Discovery & Preparation
Discovery & Preparation has existed since the foundation of ESA to plan for the short to medium term. The initiative interacts in different ways with all of the ESA programmes, but its main role is to lay the groundwork for the Agency's future activities.
The objectives of Discovery & Preparation are to:
- Contribute to the formulation of the overall ESA strategy
- Study feasibility for selection of new mission concepts
- Prepare/demonstrate the case for approval and funding of new optional projects/programmes
- Support the evolution of ESA by analysing and testing new working methodologies
Space for Earth
The "Space for Earth" initiative aims to ensure coordination across ESA of themes that are important to help to solve global challenges on Earth, and are dealt with by several individual programmes at ESA.
Space for Earth aims to:
- Promote the internal and external knowledge of those activities
- Illustrate the benefit of internal synergies
- Inform potential users
- Help with the identification of needs that can be covered by space systems
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He regularly teaches Reasoning, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, a FYP (with Tina Tao) entitled "Sherlock Holmes and the Art and Science of Reasoning," and a FYS entitled "Birth, Life, and Death: The Philosophy of Your Life."
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NYU-Poly - 1, Farmingdale State - 0 F/PK's
Staten Island, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's soccer team fell to NYU-Poly on penalty kicks in the Skyline Conference Quarterfinal round of the playoffs at the College of Staten Island.
With the Rams (8-10-1) and Fighting Blue Jays (10-10) tied three apiece in penalty kicks, Farmingdale State junior goalkeeper Angelo Viteritti (Northport, N.Y.) came out of net and gave his team a 4-3 advantage. Sophomore forward Andres Torres (Weston, Fla.) scored on his attempt as NYU-Poly forced a 4-4 tie through five rounds of penalty kicks. After a Rams miss wide right, senior midfielder Omar Guerrero (Austin, Tex.) netted the game-winner for the Fighting Blue Jays.
In a defensive game, Farmingdale State outshot NYU-Poly 16-12 but the Fighting Blue Jays held a 5-2 corner kick advantage.
Viteritti had four saves, while sophomore goalie Brendan Finn (New Canaan, Conn.) made seven saves in the victory.


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Boring Blog Post Substitutions
Blogs tend to entertain us and give us information on any topic we want to search about. It's another way to share your insights and feelings toward certain issues that spark the interest of people. This form of social media is for the patient ones and for the book worms. Blog posts help you build creditability you shouldn't post just for the sake of posting – you need to be very informative and engaging.
We all know that too much of anything is never good. The same goes for blogs with nothing but words and letters. Who would want to keep their eyes busy just by looking at monochrome letters with paragraphs that are longer than your patience? Maybe a few do like this but this doesn't apply to most blog viewers.
Humans are visual creatures which means, we are attracted to anything that stimulates our sense of vision. Depriving that sense can easily bore anyone and even lose interest in the process.
Here are different ways on how to substitute that boring content with something unconventional. These are not the usual blog ideas that you could use but it will sure tickle everybody's cerebral cortex. Let us find out what some of them are and it could even let you hatch an egg, of more ideas that is.
- Picture Gallery – Nothing sparks more interest in the human mind than seeing a picture before their eyes. Making a photo gallery of your pictures that serve as a connection to your blog and yourself. It shows more of your personal experiences with situations but keep in mind that your gallery needs to be relevant to the topic of your blog post. Example, if you travelled to a country and would like to share your experience to your blog viewers, you can take pictures of the local places, tourist spots and other things which represent the culture of the country you're visiting. This makes your blog more interesting.
- Collection of Quotes – If you love sharing quotes then this is for you. Making a quote collection can flock viewers to your blog. People love a good quote to make their day and fulfill their request. Example, if your forte or interest is about art or drawing, you can start building your collection by researching or making it yourself. Doing this can help somebody go through their day without knowing it.
- Videos – Videos make life more fun and your perception towards anything changes instantly. Creating a video series related to your topic is a bit effortless for you don't need to type a lot of words. You just need to say in front of the camera and tell everybody what you want to say. It's that easy.
- Podcasts – If you hate writing but love sharing ideas and information, then making podcasts are one of these ways. The advantage of podcasting is that if you reached a high level of success, your podcast can be featured on websites and the iTunes top list. This leads to more blog views.
These are some of the best things to substitute for letters and words in blogs. If monochromatic characters give you a bore, try any of these suggestions. It will surely make your blog something to look out for.


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"We've been gone from home for too long for our roots to remain and this leaves us anchorless. We've taken to making music to feel a sense of belonging in a world where we don't really belong anywhere. In a sense that is what All We Are is about, a surrogate family born from music."
- All We Are, 2017
Remember pop that wasn't just background music? That didn't just dream of the past but fearlessly faces down the present and the future? Music that helps?
Liverpool-based three-piece All We Are do. In Sunny Hills they have created an irresistibly danceable, uplifting album about what it means to be alive right now, how it feels to be alive right now, and the power of friendship and togetherness in a world intent on driving us apart. It's telling that hearing an album that's both timeless and timely seems such a rarity - All We Are themselves are stunned that any band could not feel compelled to respond to the times we're in.
"For us it's hard to understand how an artist can't be influenced and talk about what's going on, sometimes you hear music coming out that seems to come from a completely different world", explain the group. "It's important to try and raise our heads up and draw attention to the everyday intolerable things that somehow become background noise. The need for us to have an outlet for this was very influential in writing this album."
Coming together as students at Liverpool's Institute for Performing Arts in 2011, the trio are made up of Guro Gikling (Norway), Luis Santos from Brazil (guitars) and Richard O'Flynn from Ireland (drums). Years of playing and developing their multifaceted music meant that their debut album for Double Six/Domino got major plaudits from critics and fans in 2015, but Sunny Hills is a serious step up that reflects their increasing cohesiveness as a unit, as well as the times All We Are, and all of us, find ourselves in. Emblematic of a diversity and dissidence criminally lacking in music at the moment the heterogeneity of All We Are's make up is both their launch pad and their onward spur - especially in times where that kind of diversity is being marginalised and attacked.
"We're even more determined to say, through our music, that it's ok not to belong", say the band. "Everyone on this planet is in a sense isolated in some way; it's the human condition, but there is a sense of unity in that loneliness. We want to say that it's ok to feel different; it's ok to feel alone and just do what you can to be loved and loving."
After spending much of 2015 touring and honing their sound further the band started to write new material with a new sense of urgency and power, songs that documented the emotional rollercoaster the trio have been on in the past two years. Where All We Are was funky, liquid, seamless, Sunny Hills has a wobble to it, a human heartbeat and a grit that reflects the energy of the band's thrilling live shows. The aforementioned idea of displacement as well as notions of personal struggle, despair and hope started pouring out in the writing process and the result is an album shot through with struggle but pulsing with a spirit of resistance and joy. Inevitably, the city ofLiverpool itself affected the album.
Or as the group put it: "All We Are is aLiverpoolband. We have been formed by and have absorbed the spirit of the city.Liverpoolis an immigrant city and has a proud history of welcoming everyone, drawing from the culture of the people who choose to live here and making that part of its own unique vibe."
Liverpool is also a singularly radical and resistant city and the band see a parallel between today's climate of alienation and fear and that of the era when Margaret Thatcher, the city's most despised political figure ever, was presiding over a government that seriously considered evacuating the entire city after the Toxteth Riots in 1981. That was also the time that gave birth to post punk, a movement largely incubated in the north westof England, and it's this bristling, dissident sprit that provides the foundation of Sunny Hills.
The record's message burns through largely because the painstaking care and attention paid to the sound is also reflected in every aspect of the album's design – from the music itself, to the sequencing and the album's hugely symbolic artwork. All We Are at all times want to create a total experience with Sunny Hills, the kind of record you can lose yourself, and find yourself, in.
"The artwork shows an old house sandwiched between two large buildings under industrial development", say the band. "The woman who owned the house refused to sell to a number of developers including Donald Trump. She resisted for years while the developers even bought the space above the house. She finally won the case and stayed there for a decade more until her death. Before that moment she watched Donald Trump's casino fail and finally close its doors. There is a feeling of powerful resistance in this story that we relate to along with a real sense of defiance and eventual victory against a bigger power."
What makes Sunny Hills so rewarding is that it isn't just a recalibration and reaffirmation of All We Are's spirit, it's musically a simultaneous refinement and loosening of what made the debut so compelling. Tracks like the startling opener 'Burn It All Out', and blistering battering ram 'Human' suggest psychedelia, avant-rock, krautrock and the aforementioned post-punk were all heavy influences on the band's sound but also that the band are finally surpassing those wide influences, truly becoming magically more than their parts. Sunny Hills doesn't sound like an amalgam or a stitch up - it sounds fluid, cohesive, and holistic. The band are now making All We Are music, nothing else.
A big factor in the band arriving at their visceral new creative destination was the formation of a new working relationship with Kwesi Sey, better known as the Warp Recording artist and producer Kwes (Solange, Loyle Carner, Kano). "We started working with Kwes as an A&R through his role at the label", they explain. "But the more we planned the forthcoming album it became clear he really got the music and us, as people and so eventually he put himself up for the job. It's more of an old-school approach, the A&R/producer and that was quite attractive to us. He's incredibly versatile and really got stuck in personally and emotionally in a way which helped us realise the vision we had for these songs."
"With this record we don't want to hold back and more than anything we want people to relate and hopefully end up taking something important from it", says the group. "Directness and humanity were, we felt, the best way to do that. All the imperfections and wobbles are what make this album human. We never really tried to make them happen consciously but when they did, we were really careful to honour that feeling. Not just in the writing and recording process but also in the mix and master. In that way it's different to the debut as we are far more confident in letting that happen. There is a beauty in the imperfections this time around."
For the band Sunny Hills was healing music. "Sunny Hills is the positive outcome, the end result, the catharsis. It was very important to us to start the record with 'Burn It All Out'. 'Burn It All Out' sets the tone, it kind of says get ready to be re-born, to re-skin, as the rest of the songs punch themselves out of the darkness towards the light. The titles reflect us emerging from a dark place to some form of redemption."
"There is a sort of 'self –immolation' in the record, a voluntary death in the darkness and a rebirth from surrendering to that", offer the band, "we would love people to take this message and translate it to their world on a personal level and on a more macro level. There is always a way out of even the worst place. Human beings are resilient and capable of the most incredible things and there's always a light at the end of the tunnel."
Political, poetic, danceable and affirming - for all the proud citizens of nowhere, All We Are give you Sunny Hills.


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GENEVA -- Swiss private bank Julius Baer says it plans to cut about 1,000 jobs from Merrill Lynch's wealth management operations outside the United States following a deal to buy the unit from Bank Of America.
The Julius Baer Group based in Zurich said in a statement Tuesday its target for reducing staff is "by 15 percent to 18 percent" from approximately 5,700 in 50 locations worldwide _ anywhere from 855 to 1,026 jobs.
The Swiss private banking group has agreed to pay 860 million francs ($879 million) to buy those operations from BofA. The bank says the deal, which is expected to close by early 2013, will boost its assets by about 40 percent, adding around 81 billion francs to the assets it manages.


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The New York Times is certainly not treating Barack Obama's statement on 60 Minutes that the death of four Americans in Libya, including Libyan ambassador Christopher Stevens, as one of a few "bumps in the road," as a callous and politically damaging gaffe. Reporter Ashley Parker reluctantly covered Romney delivering "talking points" to the media on the matter, in "Republican Team Attacks Obama on Foreign Policy," but her story opened by highlighting Romney's "tough" time, including yet another mention of Romney's "47 percent" comment at a private fundraiser.
In an interview that aired Sunday, Obama was asked by CBS's Steve Kroft whether "the recent events in the Middle East given you any pause about your support for the governments that have come to power following the Arab Spring?"
Obama responded in part: "But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because, you know, in a lot of these places, the one organizing principle has been Islam."
Parker began with Romney's bad news cycles:
Mitt Romney's campaign is trying yet again to find solid footing, shifting its line of attack toward a subject President Obama has widely been thought to hold the advantage: foreign policy.
Coming off two weeks of tough news cycles for his candidacy -- criticism that he had mishandled the death of four Americans in Libya; a leaked video from a fund-raiser in which Mr. Romney said he believed that 47 percent of Americans consider themselves "victims" dependent on the government; and polls suggesting disturbing trends for Mr. Romney -- the candidate moved to restart his struggling campaign by going on the offensive against Mr. Obama on his handling of overseas crises. And he was joined by his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, who likened the current turmoil in the Middle East to the 1979 Iranian revolution.
In a round of interviews with ABC News, CBS News and NBC News on Monday morning in Denver, Mr. Romney attacked Mr. Obama for remarks he made Sunday night on "60 Minutes," in which the president called recent developments in the Middle East "bumps in the road." Mr. Romney reiterated his criticism again at an outdoor campaign rally here in Pueblo, where he called the president's comments "very surprising."
"Bumps in the road?" Mr. Romney asked, as a grumbling murmur rippled through the crowd. "We had an ambassador assassinated. We had a Muslim Brotherhood elect a member, elected to the presidency of Egypt. Twenty thousand people have been killed in Syria. We have tumult in Pakistan, and of course Iran is that much closer to having the capacity to build a nuclear weapon."
Speaking to the three networks in separate interviews, Mr. Romney stuck to his talking points.
Mr. Obama, meanwhile, flew to New York for the United Nations session, but his first order of business was to tape a session on ABC's "The View," where he joked with the assembled quintet of female co-hosts that he was there as "eye candy."
Parker made no hint that President Obama was mis-prioritizing hisduties, an idea at least hinted at in Tuesday's Page 4 story by Helene Cooper and Peter Baker, "While U.N. Beckons Clinton, Obama Takes In 'The View.'"
On Sunday, Parker and colleague Michael Barbaro got overzealous in naming and shaming prominent Romney supporters in "Behind Closed Doors With Donors, a More Candid Romney Emerges."
When Mr. Romney is with contributors, he at times embraces politically controversial figures. During an event at the Southampton, N.Y., estate of David H. Koch, the billionaire industrialist and political activist, a protester's plane flew overheard with a sign that read "Romney has a Koch problem."
"I don't look at it as a problem," Mr. Romney told the guests. "I look at it as an asset."
During a fund-raiser at Mr. Cheney's ranch, Mr. Romney called the former vice president "a great American leader," even though he rarely mentions the Bush administration in speeches.
And during a fund-raiser here at the Red Rock casino and hotel on Friday, Mr. Romney singled out Sheldon Adelson, the polarizing casino magnate and outspoken Zionist who has pledged at least $40 million to groups trying to defeat Mr. Obama. "I don't know how it is that Sheldon Adelson got the front row," Mr. Romney said teasingly.


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This is Uber Entertainment's Aung Zaw Oo an animator and man of... other talents. Great, yet another game developer who eats potato chips. Oh, and he can juggle. And sit in a chair. But look at how he does it!
You may remember Aung Zaw Oo, who goes by AZO, from April, when he posted his real-life take on Mirror's Edge
The Kirkland, Washington-based Uber Entertainment where AZO works is developing unannounced video game projects. Consider me officially curious.


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The north westbound lane of Old Cheney Road has been closed from 53rd Street to Queens St. due to the collapse of a retaining wall near the Lincoln Racquet Club. Motorists are urged to avoid the area if possible, and to expect delays along the two block segment of Old Cheney.
The Old Cheney bike trail just north of Old Cheney Road has also been closed as a precautionary measure. It is unknown how long the roadway lane and bike trail will remain closed.


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It all began with a dream: a cerebral lubrication station worthy of our fine hackerspace, serving as focal point to transform the lounge from a seldom used area into PS:One's central communal nexus. From there, a collaborative project was born. PS:One member Greg Daneau built the first incarnation of our bar. He built the bar top from an unfinished door, an open frame supported it, and it had a foot rail made of pipe. The result was impressive, even if it was but a small shadow of the glory that the bar ultimately became. Thus began an asynchronous collaborative project, with hacker inspiring hacker to hack the bar to higher pinnacles of zymurgical greatness. And it arguably served as an "altar" for the budding Beer Church.
Seeing the bar in all its inebriating glory inspired member Ryan Pierce to build a draft system and kegerator from a donated refrigerator. It can hold up to six 5-gallon Cornelius kegs (used frequently by homebrewers) or a single 15.5-gallon beer keg. A fan forces cold air through an insulated hose carrying the beverage lines to the draft tower. The draft tower itself was built from PVC pipe, fittings, and drain flanges. An insulated return hose carries the air back to the refrigerator. This air loop keeps the beverage lines and taps cold, which reduces the tendency of beer to foam in the line. Jeremy used our TIG welder to weld a drain pipe to a stainless steel drip tray, directing any spills into a bucket.
The existence of the bar and draft system steered the focus of Beer Church towards kegging. Cornelius kegs can hold finished beer and can be used for natural carbonation (caused by additional secondary fermentation from priming sugar) or forced carbonation supplied directly from a CO2 tank.


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14 & 15 Coys
14th and 15th Company
14th Company
All Grenadiers serving at the Infantry Training Centre are known collectively as 14th Company, Grenadier Guards, and have their own 14th Company Colour.
15th Company
15th Company comprises the Regimental Band and all staff at Regimental Headquarters. The Regimental Adjutant is the Company Commander of 15th Company.


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Light Ride
Sizes: 20"
Weight: medium
Volume: low to medium loud
Stick Sound: pearly, somewhat washy
Intensity: lively
Sustain: medium long
Bell Character: fairly integrated
Sound Character: Fairly bright, gentle, airy, sparkling. Fairly narrow range, clean mix. Quite soft feel. Warm, articulate, unintrusive bell sound. Full, strong crash sound. Agile, dynamic ride for acoustic music or applications in moderate situations. Also well suited for crash/ride patterns in rather loud styles.
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Debate Over Newborn Blood SamplesNovember 7, 2012
–Bioethicists call on the research community to advocate for policies supporting responsible use of residual dried blood samples from newborn screening
The tremendous potential public health benefits of research with blood samples left over after routine newborn screening must not be lost amidst controversy and litigation, say medical and bioethics experts in a commentary published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
"The potential value to biomedical research for improving both public health and individual health must be part of the public discussion about what should happen to residual dried blood samples from newborn screening," says Michelle Huckaby Lewis, MD, JD, lead author of the commentary and Research Scholar at the Genetics and Public Policy Center of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. "The research community must advocate for policies that support the retention of these samples and their use in biomedical research."
Almost all of the 4 million babies born each year in the United States undergo mandatory screening that uses a small sample of blood to screen for certain medical conditions before the onset of symptoms, in many cases preventing needless suffering and death. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have hailed newborn screening as one of the most successful public health programs of the 21st century. Residual blood left over after the screenings is used for quality assurance purposes for state screening programs, but they also have been used for biomedical research.
Lewis notes that much of our current understanding about the genetic modifications that cause certain diseases – for example, some types of childhood leukemia – are a result of research using residual dried blood samples (DBS) leftover from newborn screening.
Lewis and her colleagues write, "We should be the generation that recognizes the potential value of these samples and commits to developing them as a resource to promote public and individual health. The scientific community has a responsibility to the nation and its citizens to use these resources ethically, but also to the fullest extent possible to improve the health of our citizenry."
Some parents in Minnesota and Texas objected to the state's use of DBS without parental permission and sued the states' Departments of Health, claiming that the state had violated their constitutional right to privacy. In 2011, a settlement of the Texas litigation resulted in the destruction of 5.3 million archived blood samples. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that written informed consent was required to retain DBS and use them for research, and in January 2012 the Minnesota Department of Health announced plans to begin destroying the left over samples as soon as newborn screening is completed.
The destruction of these samples may be detrimental to the highly effective state newborn screening programs but could also prevent important medical breakthroughs by making the research impossible, according to Lewis and her co-authors, Amy McGuire, JD, PhD, and Michael E. Scheurer, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine, and Robert Green, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
"In the future, newborn screening blood samples could be a major contributor to a better scientific understanding of how our genes impact our health over the course of our lifetime, for diseases ranging from heart disease to cancer," Lewis says. "But the research cannot be done if the samples are destroyed."
The authors agree that the privacy concerns of parents are valid. The larger issue standing in the way of DBS research, the authors write, "is the erosion of trust in the research enterprise caused by violation of the basic ethical principle of respect for persons, as perceived by the parents."
Education should be a cornerstone of polices related to the retention and use of DBS, the authors write, "so that the public can learn about and better understand the potential benefit of research" using these important samples. "In this way, the loss of a valuable resource can be prevented and the public trust in the research enterprise can be restored."
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Knowledge of pregnant women on transmission of HIV infection through breast feeding
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Although breast-feeding is nature s way of providing nutrition to the baby, in HIV positive mothers this has been identified as one of the means through which HIV infection is transmitted from the mother to the child. In Africa where children under the age of 5 are killed by preventable diseases like diarrhoea, the issue of HIV transmission through breast feeding poses an added huge problem. Research has, however shown that exclusive infant feeding, be it breast or formula, reduces the risk substantially. It is imperative that mothers be informed about safer methods of infant feeding so that HIV infection is kept to a minimum.
The objective of the study was to explore and describe the knowledge that pregnant women had about mother to child transmission of HIV infection through breast-feeding. A non-experimental quantitative exploratory and descriptive research design was used to explore the knowledge women had on mother to child transmission of HIV infection through breast-feeding.
From the data collected, it showed that although women were aware of the susceptibility of children to HIV infection if fed on breast and formula feeds simultaneously by HIV positive mothers, exclusive feeding was a problem as people associated the practise with a positive HIV status. Women who had not disclosed their HIV status and were HIV positive, found it difficult to comply with the requirement to exclusively feed their infants. These either continued with complementary feeds or did not collect the free formula milk supply preferring instead to buy the formula feeds privately.
In this study it was recommended that information on transmission of HIV infection from mother to child through breast -feeding including the benefits of exclusive infant feeding, be it breast or formula, for the first three to six months be provided to the community so that relatives can support the mother on infant feeding method of choice.
Keywords: HIV transmission, exclusive infant feeding exclusive breast-feeding, exclusive formula teecung, knowledge
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St. Vincent's to eliminate 100 jobs
Bridgeport: Reduction in state aid, sequestration blamed for hospital layoffs
BRIDGEPORT -- St. Vincent's Medical Center has eliminated 100 positions and laid off nearly 50 employees this week, including some nurses and doctors. The cuts are expected to save the hospital about $10 million.
The job cuts come at time of major shifts in the health care climate, such as increased competition, a decrease in state aid and the effects of the federal sequester.
"This is a case of trying to look forward and protecting the direction and mission of our organization as the ground shifts beneath us," said Dianne Auger, vice president of St. Vincent's Health Services, of which the hospital is a part.
Few employees would comment on the job cuts Tuesday afternoon, though one woman on her way in for the afternoon shift slammed the hospital as a "deceitful and dishonorable" place to work. She declined to give her name.
Layoffs began Monday and continued Tuesday. The cuts were across all levels of the hospital, and included some nurse and doctor positions, though Auger said those positions made up only a small percentage of the layoffs. Of the positions cut, 48 were filled and resulted in layoffs.
The final number of those laid off, however, could be less, Auger said, as some of those whose jobs were eliminated have been offered other positions. The layoffs were effective immediately, she said, and those who have lost jobs were offered severance packages, as well as outplacement and transition counseling.
Auger said the company was trying to make the impact on patient care as small as possible.
"This is a painful thing to go through," she said.
The hospital employs about 3,500 people. This marks the first major round of layoffs in about 10 years.
More InformationSt. Vincent's layoffs by the numbers
Number of jobs cut: 100 -- 48 filled positions, 52 vacant
Amount of money saved from cuts: About $10 million
Number of employees at St. Vincent's: 3,500
The layoffs were first announced last month, when Auger and other officials said they were responding to an expected loss of state and federal funding. Under the state budget passed last week, hospitals stand to lose $550 million in state aid over two years. Auger said this will mean a loss of about $30 million for St. Vincent's.
"A state budget that cuts hospitals by $550 million will result in job loss and the loss of programs and services," said Michele Sharp, director of communications and public affairs for the Connecticut Hospital Association. "It is unfortunate that the budget that was passed retained these cuts. This is one of the inevitable consequences we will be seeing as a result."
State officials have balked at the hospitals characterizing the reduction in aid in the budget as a cut, when it is actually flat funding. The state's hospitals received $1.7 billion last year, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget held that funding level. But this year, the state is not providing additional funding for uncompensated care -- those who don't have insurance and cannot pay -- contending that federal funds from the Affordable Health Care Act will cover those cases. The hospitals see that as a loss.
The hospital also will lose about $5 million in fiscal year 2014 because of the federal sequestration. Officials have also said that, due to the Affordable Care Act, fewer people are seeking care at hospitals and are instead turning to lower-cost providers.
Still, Sharp said the loss of the expected money will hit hospitals hard and St. Vincent's likely won't be the only one to cut staff.
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ESPN at the French Open: Live Morning Matches Start Sunday, May 26
50+ Hours on ESPN2, ESPN3 with 330 Hours; Most View Nadal (despite ranking), S.Williams the Favorites
Live morning matches on ESPN2 and day-long coverage via ESPN3 will bring French Open action to fans starting Sunday, May 26. ESPN2's schedule of more than 50 hours - starting live at 5 a.m. ET most days - continues weekdays through Thursday, June 6, culminating with the women's semifinals. ESPN3 will provide up to seven screens of action on the days ESPN2 is on the air, totaling 330 hours.
In both the women's and men's draws, contenders hope to break the stranglehold the top players have had on recent major championships.
· On the men's side, injuries - both current and Nadal's in 2012 - leave the seeding up in the air. Novak Djokovic is ranked No. 1 and won the year's first major in Australia while No. 2 Andy Murray, who finally won his first Grand Slam title at the 2012 US Open is likely to withdraw because of injury. No. 3 Roger Federer - who has reached the quarterfinals of 35 consecutive majors, winning a record 17 - heads to Roland Garros without a title in the current year for the first time since 2000. Defending champ Rafael Nadal is ranked No. 4, thanks to his long layoff the latter half of 2012, but leads the 2013 points race with six victories (five on clay) and few would be surprised if he were to bring home his eighth trophy from Paris. The contenders after Nadal - David Ferrer, Tomas Berdych, Juan Martin Del Potro (who may be forced to withdraw) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - have have all shown the ability to defeat a member of the Big Four but a major title would be a huge break through.
· At 31, Serena Williams' recent play certainly befits the top-ranked player in the world: 36-2 this year, riding career-best win streak of 24 matches and five titles. Winner of two of the last three majors and 15 overall, she is looking to avenge her stunning first-round defeat a year ago in Paris and win back the crown she has won just once (2002). No. 2 Maria Sharapova is the defending champion and 30-4 in 2013 but three of those losses came to Williams in finals. No. 3 Victoria Azarenka is 22-2 year to date with two titles including her second straight Australian Open. She fell to Williams 6-1, 6-3 Sunday on clay in the Rome final. At No. 4 and No. 5, Agnieszka Radwanska and Sara Errani are at a career-best ranking but each has only reached one Grand Slam final (Wimbledon, 2012; French Open, 2012, respectively) while No. 6 Li Na took the trophy in Paris in 2011 and reached the final of this year's Australian Open. American Sloane Stephens, 20 - who emerged as a threat with an upset of Williams in Australia - is ranked No. 17 while Varvara Lepchenko of Allentown, Pa., is No. 29 but reached the fourth round at Roland Garros 12 months ago.
TV Coverage
After the opening day, ESPN2's schedule will continue with an all-live telecast starting at 5 a.m. each day through Friday, May 31, and again on Monday, June 3. The network will air live quarterfinal action Tuesday, June 4, at 1 p.m. and Wednesday, June 5, at 8 a.m. ESPN2 will air the women's semifinals live Thursday, June 6, at 9 a.m. All the action on ESPN2 is also available through WatchESPN online at WatchESPN.com and on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app.
Chris Fowler and Chris McKendry will again share host duties on ESPN2, with Fowler also calling matches. They will be joined by Evert, along with returnees Darren Cahill, Cliff Drysdale, Mary Joe Fernandez, Brad Gilbert, Patrick McEnroe and Pam Shriver.
ESPN networks present all four Grand Slam events and have televised the French Open 1986 - 1993 and since 2002. ESPN3 delivers an unmatched multi-screen presentation of the sport's four majors, all ATP 1000 and 500 tournaments, WTA Premier Events and season-ending championships for both tours.
For the seventh consecutive year, ESPN2 is working with Tennis Channel to bring viewers an almost around-the-clock tournament experience, with each channel cross-promoting the other's schedule. Tennis Channel will produce all coverage for both channels, with each making use of its own on-air team.
ESPN3's French Open schedule totals 330 hours with a multi-screen offering of up to seven courts and ESPN2's coverage and is available on the days the network is televising. ESPN3 will begin each day early in the morning with the first ball in the air and continue to the last shot of the day. Matches will also be available after they take place via replay. Additionally, ESPNPlay in Latin America and the Caribbean will provide customers with extensive live coverage with multiple windows totaling over 500 hours in both English and Spanish on broadband platforms in addition to televised coverage throughout the regions.
Other ESPN Platforms
Fans will have a variety of ways to follow the French Open with live action and updates on an array of ESPN platforms wherever they are and regardless of whether there is live television offered.
ESPN.com will provide comprehensive coverage before, during and after the French Open, highlighted by CourtCast, which will feature all the live action from ESPN3. As always, it will also include real-time scoring from all courts, plus continuous live polling with results revealed immediately in ESPN2's telecasts. CourtCast will also provide an augmented social media feed (Twitter and Facebook) from the players, analysts and writers. And, of course, ESPN.com will have the latest news, analysis, schedules and more. Fans can watch Digital Serve daily with ESPN2 commentators discussing the latest action and previewing key matches. Other highlights include:
· The Latest Dirt - a daily notebook roundup of all the day's action;
· Center Court - a tennis video show featured each week on all the major news from Roland Garros;
· espnW.com - Comprehensive daily coverage of the women's draw by senior writer Jim Caple;
· What We Learned - ESPN.com senior writer Greg Garber and others will highlight the day's news and notes with quick video snippets on the overlooked storylines.
The WatchESPN App - for fans who receive ESPN's linear networks as part of their video subscription via Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Verizon FiOS TV, Comcast Xfinity TV, Midcontinent Communications, Cablevision, Cox, Charter or AT&T U-verse - will provide access to for ESPN2's live coverage online at WatchESPN.com and through the WatchESPN app on smartphones and tablets, in addition to ESPN3's multi-screen offering.
ESPN Mobile TV will have 46 hours of live coverage, simulcasting ESPN2's live programming, highlighted by the women's semifinals Thursday, June 7.
ESPN Interactive TV, exclusive to DIRECTV, will present the French Open showing ESPN2 or Tennis Channel's live coverage along with five other courts available with commentary. Other features include interactive data, the tournament draw, up-to-date scores, and daily order of play.
ESPN International will present over 100 hours of live French Open coverage to more than 50 countries in Spanish-speaking Latin America and the Caribbean on its pan-regional and regional networks. Matches will be chosen based on local interest, and commentary will be offered in English and Spanish, with expert analysis provided by two Spanish-speaking announce teams: Luis Alvarez & Javier Frana and Eduardo Varela & Jose Luis Clerc In addition to both SD and HD television telecasts, ESPN International's broadband service, ESPN Play, will stream over 500 hours of live French Open matches, including the men's and women's finals.
ESPN - All Four Slams, All In One Place
Tennis has been part of ESPN since its first week on the air and provided many memorable moments, but it has never been as important as today, with the US Open joining the lineup in 2009, giving ESPN all four Grand Slam events, something no other U.S. network has ever done, let alone in one year. ESPN has presented the Australian Open since 1984, the French Open since 2002 (plus 1986 - 1993), and Wimbledon since 2003, with exclusivity for live television with all other rights extended in a 12-year agreement starting in 2012.
ESPN debuted September 7, 1979, and the first tennis telecast was exactly one week later, September 14, a Davis Cup tie, Argentina at U.S. from Memphis with Cliff Drysdale on the call and John McEnroe playing.
ESPN3, now in 85 million homes, carries every major global tennis event on the men's and women's circuit, including all four Grand Slam tournaments, every ATP World Tour 500 and ATP Masters 1000 event and WTA Premier events featuring all the top-seeded players. Also, ESPN Classic shows great matches from the past and the sport receives extensive coverage on SportsCenter, ESPNEWS, Spanish-language ESPN Deportes, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. ESPN 3D aired its first tennis at Wimbledon in 2011.
2013 French Open on ESPN2 & ESPN2 HD
Date Time (ET) Event
Sun, May 26 -
Fri, May 31 5 - 10 a.m. Early Round Action Live
Mon, June 3 5 - 10 a.m. Round of 16 Live
Tue, June 4 1 - 7 p.m. Quarterfinals Live & Same-day action
Wed, June 5 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Quarterfinals Live
Thur, June 6 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Women's Semifinals Live
2013 French Open on ESPN3
Sun, May 26 -
Fri, May 31 5 a.m. - 3 p.m. Early Round Action Live
Mon, June 3 5 a.m. - 3 p.m. Round of 16 Live
Tue, June 4 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Quarterfinals Live
Wed, June 5 5 a.m. - 1 p.m. Quarterfinals Live
Thur, June 6 5 a.m. - 1 p.m. Men's Doubles Semis
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Larson won't have a second thought about getting back in a race car following his frightening crash at Daytona International Speedway.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Larson won't have a second thought about getting back in a race car following his frightening crash at Daytona International Speedway.
More than two dozen fans were injured Saturday when Larson's car sailed into the fence on the final lap of the Nationwide Series race and debris — including a tire — flew into the grandstands. Larson was uninjured, but many fans wondered if the severity of the accident would shake the nerves of the 20-year-old NASCAR rookie.
Not a chance.
"I've been in some really bad wrecks, I'm sure I'll have more throughout my career," Larson said Tuesday. "I know crashing is part of the risk we take being race car drivers. It happens. I'm not emotionally (upset), that wreck doesn't make me nervous."
Larson, a development driver for Chip Ganassi Racing who has been praised as the next big superstar by the likes of Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne, will be back in the Nationwide car this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. He is also scheduled to run a USAC race Friday night at Canyon Speedway Park.
After pulling out of a non-winged race Saturday night in Ocala, Fla., after the wreck at Daytona — "I wanted to be respectful to the fans who were still in the hospital. I didn't think it would be right to go have fun while they were hurting," he said — Larson is eager to get back in the car.
The Daytona wreck, after all, wasn't even the worst of his career. Although it looked awful, and the front-end of Larson's car was sheared off, his engine was wedged in a hole in the fence — Larson believes his accident in a midget car at Eldora Speedway last September was worse — his car flipped after hitting the wall and was hit broadside by another car.
"Off the top of my head, that wreck at Eldora hurt more and was just as scary. I almost had a car come in my cockpit," Larson said.
Still, last Saturday's wreck, in Larson's debut Nationwide Series race, was the first time his car has ripped a fence and disintegrated so badly. He said he only thought his car had gone upside down, and he wasn't aware he'd hit the fence until he saw the wreckage.
"It happened so fast, I kind of thought I'd gone upside down so I was not expecting to see half my car gone," Larson said. "I wasn't expecting to see my engine caught up in the fence. So I was definitely in some shock when I got out of the car and saw it torn apart. I've never had an accident like that where I'd got caught up in the fence, so that was a little different. Kind of a freak deal."


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After looking over my photos of gardens that I visited in 2016 as well as my own, I am feeling the need to review some design choices I have made in the last few years. When you're inside on a 25-degree day in Seattle, sunny though it may be, there's no better time to start thinking ahead. The garden show season, garden tours and nursery hopping will be upon all of us hort-nerds soon enough and I want to have at least a minor plan of attack.
Maybe you need more bold colors of foliage in your spring and summer garden like the energetic heuchera above that provides a wonderful color echo to the elegant Japanese maple in the background.
Or for the late summer and early fall, maybe you need to consider the color echo that this incredible hydrangea and maple duo bring in deep plum tones!
OR if you are a flower person in your heart of hearts but you are here with Team Fine Foliage because you need a leafy nudge to balance your impulses, then maybe adding more repetition is in order. The floriferous notes in any garden stand out better when you pick one color and texture in a foliage plant and use it to its fullest with repetition. This could just as easily have been boxwood and have a very traditional look, but the use of the silver foliage of this Senecio is much more interesting!
Maybe you are craving more interesting details in your landscape such as fascinating bark, berries, rock or art. Well, Team Fine Foliage certainly will have you covered there for 2017 when "Gardening with Foliage First" becomes available SOON!!!
Our tendency as trapped winter garden designers is to load up the landscape with all things spring when we're first let out of the house and released into the wilds of the garden center. But, it's so important to make sure that you're also thinking about the important and colorful transformation of color that happens in late summer and early fall. So, keep that in mind when you're planning!
Here is a snippet from one of my favorite little sections in my own garden that I am considering revamping a tad this year. I welcome your thoughts about what you might do. It's jammed packed I know, but that my style and that likely won't change, but other than that, bring it on. Give me some ideas designers!
Let us know what YOUR leafy goals are for your landscape in 2017. Post a comment, we would love to hear from all of you in this upcoming and exciting year of the "Foliage First" garden!


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Letter, George Washington Brown to his mother
Author: Brown, George W (George Washington), 1820-1915
Date: May 13, 1856
George Washington Brown, editor of the Herald of Freedom newspaper, was one of seven free state leaders arrested on May 14, 1856 on charges of high treason and held prisoner by federal troops near Lecompton. Writing to his mother on the day before his arrest, Brown expressed concern that his life could be in danger. He instructed his mother to use his estate to provide support for the Herald of Freedom.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: George Washington Brown Collection, #297, Box 1, Folder 1
Item Number: 100199 Number of images: 2
Keywords: Brown, George W. (George Washington), 1820-1915; Free state cause; Herald of Freedom; Journalism; Kansas City, Missouri; Missouri; Newspapers; Prisoners
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text: Jeannie C. Riley (born Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson, October 19, 1945) is an American country music singer. She is best known for her 1968 country and pop hit "Harper Valley PTA" (written by Tom T. Hall). She became the first woman to have a single become a Billboard Country and Pop number one hit at the same time. She had moderate success with… Read More


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Ah, that makes sense. Thanks. I still say we ought to try out the continuousBeam modification, and see how it effects gameplay. As others have pointed out, lancer weapons presently look very odd, and, in terms of balance, they're essentially less useful energy counterparts to howitzers due to their lack of WMD without anything that makes up for it.
I don't see the reasoning here. We've already taken a great deal of liberties with scaling and the laws of physics. Plenty of sci - fi series feature 'pulse' and 'beam' lasers coexisting, and are more interesting for it IMO.I must say that hitscan weapons are incredibly unrealistic even considering that this game is already very unrealistic, and adding them to Part 1 would cross the line.
It's hard to say whether that's the case without testing, but given the recent ticket regarding realistic turret rotation, I think that won't be as much of a problem as you fear. That said, there are plenty of cool mechanics that can be explored to improve things in this area if necessary - plenty of games with hitscan beams have a non - damaging 'ghost beam' appear a few seconds before the dangerous one shows up. Requiring a visible charge time that compensates for the instant travel would be one way of balancing hitscan weapons.EDIT: Furthermore, hitscan weapons are also at the very extreme end of the projectile speed scale, given that they move at near-instantaneous speed. It seems difficult to prevent them from frequently being either overpowered (i.e. too long) or underpowered (i.e. too weak) in various situations.


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State of the Union, State of the Arts - (January 26, 2010)
League Meets with Top Administration Officials
Washington, D.C. - This week, President Obama will address the nation with a speech centered on jobs. As Congress and the White House craft national policies to strengthen the economy, it is essential that orchestras describe their impact on strengthening local communities. The League has recently represented orchestras in:
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Gerardo de Barros (Chavantes, 1923 — São Paulo, 1998) studied painting and draw, but due to his restless nature, he played with all the artistic paths. However, he gained his recognition as a photographer, being one of pioneers of the experimental photography in Brazil, becoming one of the main exponents of the Concretism and abstract movements in the Brazilian Avant-garde. As a restless artist, he did important creations for the design world. In 1954 with a Dominican Priest found the Cooperativa Unilabor for the production of furniture, combining the social scene with the design, democratizing patterns for all the social classes. De Barros, designed furniture based on his constructive references related to Concrete Art, being from 1954 to 1961 one of the main furniture designs in São Paulo.


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Homeschooling and Dual Enrollment, Part One....or "I wanna be a textbook publisher!"
This fall marked a brand new era of education for our family as our oldest son is now 16, the minimum age you must be in North Carolina to participate in a dual enrollment program at your local community college. He had been practically counting the days through the whole of last year until he could take part in what he views as a true "rite of passage." Something about taking courses with college students at a real live institution of higher learning has been big on DS's bucket list for some time now.
I think it's kind of cute actually. I mean, this kid who has been homeschooled from the beginning (except for a not-completely-successful year of private school during middle school) is truly pumped about the whole textbook/scheduled classes/papers/exams thing. Go figure.
But the process has not been without disappointment. The two classes he originally wanted to sign up for were full. (Dual enrollees must wait until all college-level students have registered before they can be slotted in.) So it was a hoot looking through the available course list with him and hearing him give me the rundown of why he would or wouldn't want to take everything from air conditioning maintenance to advanced poetry. He finally settled on "Introduction to Marketing" as his inaugural intro to college, and I was quite relieved, actually, because as a marketing minor in college, this might be something I can actually help him with (as opposed to the two computer programming courses he originally had his heart set on).
So with dual enrollment, the courses are paid for, but the textbooks...now THAT'S another story altogether. Although I had heard the term "sticker shock" in a vague, idiomatic way, I can now say without a doubt that I have experienced the phenomenon for myself. When we surveyed the lines of textbooks in the bookstore, I was feeling quite thrilled to see that a used version of his text was available...until I saw the sticker price. A-hundred-and-freakin'-thirty dollars????!!!! For a USED paperback textbook??!!! Are they serious???!!! PLEASE someone tell me where all that excess money is going (and for gods sake lie to me and tell me it is going to benefit some orphanage in Russia)!!!
The only alleviation of the severe hand tremors caused by swiping my credit card in that store, was watching ds grow two full inches as he carried his first-ever textbook under his arm out the door, as if he already blended in with the other students on the sidewalk. Having never really had that "first day of kindergarten" experience with him, I was pretty sure I was getting the gist of it - - just a few years late.
Class starts Monday and I'll admit I'm devilishly eager to see if his enthusiasm lasts past the first 2-hour lecture and the sight of the semester's syllabus. I'm thinking my longtime homeschooler might be experiencing his own version of "sticker shock" right about then......


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RTC Conference Primers: #5 – Southeastern ConferencePosted by Brian Goodman on November 2nd, 2010
Jared Quillen of BigBlueCats.com is the RTC correspondent for the Southeastern Conference.
Predicted Order of Finish
SEC East
- T1. Florida (11-5)
- T1. Kentucky (11-5)
- T1. Georgia (11-5)
- 2. Tennessee (10-6)
- 3. Vanderbilt (7-9)
- 4. South Carolina (4-12)
SEC West
- 1. Mississippi State (12-4)
- 2. Mississippi (9-7)
- T3. Alabama (7-9)
- T3. Arkansas (7-9)
- 5. Auburn (3-13)
All-Conference Team
- G Brandon Knight – Kentucky
- G Chris Warren – Mississippi
- G Kenny Boynton – Florida
- F Enes Kanter* – Kentucky (if eligible)
- F Trey Thompkins – Georgia
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Travis Leslie – Georgia
Impact Newcomers
- G Brandon Knight – Kentucky
- G Gerald Robinson – Georgia
- F Patric Young – Florida
- F Tobias Harris – Tennessee
- C Renardo Sidney – Mississippi State
What You Need To Know
- There are a few things that the casual observer of the SEC may not be aware of but should consider: Mississippi State in November is not the same Mississippi State that you will see in December, nor the one that you will see in January. The Bulldogs will play their first nine games without Renardo Sidney, who will have waited out a lengthy suspension by the time he plays his first game. Then, after five more games, Dee Bost will return to the lineup. You recall that he declared for the NBA Draft, failed to pull out by the NCAA's deadline, lost his eligibility, went undrafted, and subsequently was reinstated with a 14-game suspension. Don't be surprised if the Bulldogs drop a game or two early in the season to a team they should beat. It means nothing. This will be a very good team that will be fun to watch as the season progresses.
- Florida brings back a lot of experience. That would be all five of Florida's starters, to be exact, plus they add the very talented McDonalds All-American Patric Young. Young will provide the size inside that Florida lacked last year. That said, count me as one who is still a little skeptical of Florida's chances at winning the league. Lest we forget, Florida was not one but two Chandler Parsons prayers from missing the NCAA Tournament for a third straight year. Furthermore, Florida lost in the first round to a good but not great BYU team that played a good but not great game. Will Florida be good? Definitely. Great? Well, that remains to be seen.
- For those expecting Kentucky to repeat what they did last year because they replaced four freshmen stars with four new freshmen stars — think again. This team is even younger than last year's and noticeably smaller. Look for the Wildcats to play much faster than last year and shoot better. But DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson, Eric Bledsoe, and John Wall are hard to replace. If Enes Kanter becomes eligible (as most believe he will) by conference play, then they will challenge for the league title; if not, they fight for second or third in the SEC East. It all comes down to Kanter.
- The SEC East is going to be very good this year. Mississippi State gets the nod as champion simply because the East teams are going to beat up on each other like no other group of six teams in America. I could see any one of Florida, Kentucky, Georgia or Tennessee winning the East. I hate predicting only seven conference wins for a talented Vanderbilt squad, but I just don't know where to place them when they have to play eaach of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky twice, plus Mississippi State.
Predicted Champion
Mississippi State (NCAA #2-Seed) – Mississippi State is the favorite by default as the East is going to be a bloodbath and the Bulldogs only play each Eastern division team once. Playing in the weaker West division is certainly going to benefit Mississippi State as they won't have to play Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky and even Vanderbilt but once. Renardo Sidney is going to be a force, especially in a conference light on dominant big men this year. Add Dee Bost and Ravern Johnson in the back court to an improving Kodi Augustus and that's a team that easily wins the West. If the Bulldogs manage to win half of their games against the East, they probably win the overall league crown.


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Alex Jones Cleans House
Alex Jones will be closely monitoring how this situation unfolds in the coming hours and days and will take action with regards to the accusations being thrown at him accordingly.
Following unsubstantiated claims by the Associated Press Tuesday, the mainstream media jumped on Infowars and Alex Jones like a pack of wild dogs, suggesting that the suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a fan of the Austin, Texas based radio host.
In its article, concerned with Tamerlan becoming "radicalized", AP quotes Elmirza Khozhugov, the ex-husband of Tamerlan's sister, Ailina, who claims that the suspected bomber "began opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq" and "turned to websites and literature claiming that the CIA was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Jews controlled the world."
Within the same article, the AP says Khozhugov claims that "Tamerlan took an interest in Infowars, a conspiracy theory website."
Within the same paragraph, the AP then states that "Tamerlan was interested in finding a copy of the book 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' the classic anti-Semitic hoax, first published in Russia in 1903, that claims a Jewish plot to take over the world."
The AP then quotes Khozhugov as saying that "He never said he hated America or he hated the Jews… But he was fairly aggressive toward the policies of the U.S. toward countries with Muslim populations. He disliked the wars."
The insinuations and accusations here are manifest; that Infowars propagates anti-semitic and anti-American material that appeals to extremists and terrorists.
Regardless of the fact that Infowars has NEVER disseminated anything even approaching such material, and is for the most part a news aggregator, like The Drudge Report, and despite the fact that Alex Jones is routinely attacked for refusing to overtly criticize Israel and/or the Jewish faith, beyond expressing disdain for the state's military aggressiveness, the fix was in for the mainstream media repeaters.
Salon, the publication that in the hours after the attack was willing and praying the bomber to turn out to be a white American, published a smear piece simply entitled "Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan".
Within the piece by Alex Seitz-Wald, who routinely attacks Infowars presumably just so someone will actually read his work, suggests that the information "underscores how dangerous and seductive conspiracy theories can be," adding that "Even the extermination campaigns of the Third Reich were essentially built on a conspiracy theory."
Again, the same subtle accusation against Infowars is bandied around without a shred of evidence to back it up.
It's the same classic smear-by-association attempt that Infowars has become accustomed to whenever we provide ahead of the curve information on an event, and all eyes become focused on the website.
In April 2009, several media outlets were forced to issue retractions following claims they made attempting to assign blame to Alex Jones for being an influence in the tragic shooting of three Pittsburgh police officers by one Richard Poplawski.
Even the New York Times parroted the claims, before it emerged that Poplawski had openly criticized Jones' anti-racist political viewpoint.
Is it possible that Tamerlan Tsarnaev read stories on Infowars? Yes. Infowars receives millions of visitors per day. At the height of the bombing news coverage, the website was receiving over 100,000 individual visitors per minute and at one point over seven million people were on Infowars.com.
Combined with the millions that tune in to Jones' daily radio show, Infowars completely dwarves many mainstream media news outlets on a global scale.
Does this mean there are millions of terrorists intent on killing innocent people with pressure cooker bombs? No. Does this mean that there are millions of people who are interested in reading "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"? No. Why the hell would it?
The leap of logic here is patently ridiculous. It is akin to claiming that Warner Brothers are responsible for internment camps in North Korea, because former leader Kim Jong Il was a fan of the Daffy Duck cartoon.
The information that Infowars continues to publish regarding the incident in Boston is the reason why millions of people are returning to the website.
Aside from the mountains of information that the mainstream media will not touch, such as the reported simultaneous drills at the bombing scene, the unidentified security personnel at the scene, and the voluminous discrepancies in the accounts of how the gunfight with police unfolded, there are serious questions to be asked about the FBI's knowledge of, and prior contact with, the suspects.
The fact that Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were told yesterday that Russian authorities warned the FBI about the potential threat Tamerlan Tsarneav posed not once but "multiple times" and "at least once since October 2011."
Given the FBI's admission that it interviewed Tamerlan in 2011, and the continued claims of the suspects' parents that the FBI had regular contact with the suspects for five years, and even BEYOND the bombings, why isn't the mainstream media asking serious questions about this?
Infowars has also published information relating to the shady Saudi links to the Boston incident, that the mainstream media, other than The Blaze, has uniformly FAILED to cover in any depth. The federal government played dumb over the fact that a known potential terrorist was apprehended at the scene of the bombing, and then immediately, without any explanation, scheduled him for deportation on a terrorist designation. Now, following intense pressure from Americans who have contacted their elected representatives, the DHS has had to finally address the case of the Saudi person of interest. Where are the mainstream media on this?
This information is not incidental, it is at the very heart of the bombing that killed Americans and led to a police state style 24 hour lockdown in a major city, with people being ripped from their homes by SWAT teams.
We now have Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss claiming that a law enforcement agency may have had information in advance of the Boston bombings that wasn't properly shared. Yet only a handful of local news stations are reporting this. Why?
Is it a coincidence that, without a shred of evidence, the only media organisation asking these weighty questions is now being linked with the suspects?
Infowars is one of the only media sources that in the wake of this event has presented concise evidence that the FBI engages in provocateuring patsy terrorists ALL THE TIME. EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES COVERS THIS. When there have been over 20 attempted major terrorist attacks since 9/11, and the vast majority of them have turned out to be operations directly run by the FBI, why should we suddenly stop questioning the FBI's involvement when an attack is pulled off? ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT THE FBI HAS ATTEMPTED TO PLAY DUMB ON ITS PREVIOUS CONNECTIONS WITH THE SUSPECTS!
We have documented that throughout the history of humans on this planet, false flag is a favored form of statecraft for governments and rulers. What has changed? Are we suddenly supposed to ignore history?
Alex Jones will be closely monitoring how this situation unfolds in the coming hours and days and will take action with regards to the accusations being thrown at him accordingly.
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