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Pre-natal testing opens a range of opportunities to parents. It allows them to see not only the gender of their unborn baby and its developing fingers and toes but also its disabilities and potential genetic diseases. Such information allows parents the chance to prepare for life with their new child- whether that means decorating with blue instead of pink or researching the effects of Down Syndrome. But coupled with another medical option, it also allows them to make a choice. Parents can determine whether or not they want to raise a boy or a girl, a perfectly healthy child or one suffering from a disability.
The number of people with disabilities and genetic diseases is slowly fading in the United States, including such ones as cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs. We are gradually progressing towards the possibility of eliminating some genetic strains, as the carriers of these diseases become increasingly cautious of procreating. It would be wonderful if we could achieve a society devoid of disabilities, such as spina bifida, or disorders dormant in our genes that flare up and compromise the health of future generations. We would carelessly worry about just passing on to our children "daddy's nose" or "mommy's feet" instead of Down Syndrome or Sickle Cell. But at what cost does such a society come, and what do the means of our pursuit in this matter reveal about us?
The sizeable decrease of those born with disease and disorders, often exemplified in the instance of Down Syndrome, is not due to a new antidote or treatment, but, rather, abortion. Due to technology, parents can determine not only the sex of their baby but also if it is or might be disabled. When faced with the realization that their babies will not have the perfect body or mind, many parents opt to terminate their pregnancies and spare the children and themselves from having to cope with the more challenging lifestyle. According to the "Prenatal Diagnosis," the percentage of Down Syndrome pregnancies terminated has been placed at over ninety percent.
What message does our society send, especially to those living with disabilities, when we are willing to abort disabled children? It is better to be dead than disabled. It becomes a fast-forwarded, modern survival-of-the-fittest. Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin and the creator of the term "eugenics," argued that "what nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly and kindly." We destroy the weakest and most vulnerable of our kind, in order to refine humanity to its superior, healthiest form. This should sound familiar. It was part of Hitler's agenda with the Aryan race. Indeed, some of the first people he ordered eliminated were the disabled; to him, they were subtractions from society.
Today, we do it quickly. Quietly. Cleanly. Today, we couch it in terms of mercy and compassion: we're sparing the disabled from a difficult life, a life in which the negatives outweigh the positives. We don't worry about the world being worthy of them but of them being worthy of the world. We tell them their lives aren't worth living, and we never give them the chance to prove us wrong. But let us consider those who survive and, in many instances thrive, with these disabilities. What are we saying to them by our actions? After all, we don't want to birth the imperfect children already conceived but would prefer to wait for the perfect babies- the ones that deserve to live. If we are willing to terminate fetuses based on their defects and disabilities, how long until we become a society that views all disabled people as an unnecessary burden and calmly eradicates them? How long until we coldly calculate and quantify the value of each human life– plugging in the variables and solving for the opportunity to emerge alive from the womb or breathe another breath? Perhaps, we are doing that already.
This is not to ignore that living with a disability poses challenges– both to the ones it affects directly and those around them whom it affects indirectly. One woman was diagnosed at a few years of age with severe rheumatoid arthritis. The diagnosis put her life expectancy at early twenties. As she grew, her body twisted to the point that she was confined to a wheelchair with limited mobility, a tiny distorted person in purple. She struggled with the deterioration of her physical abilities, even contemplating suicide at one point. But she did not die. She commissioned a specialty van and learned to drive from her wheelchair with a system of knobs and mirrors; she saw her thirtieth birthday; she married and then was widowed; she saw her fortieth birthday; she lived alone with her cats; she married my uncle. A large portion of her life she navigated with her trusty wheelchair, a no-nonsense attitude, and a dry sense of humor. Around her fiftieth birthday, she passed away from complications of severe rheumatoid arthritis-having doubled her projected lifespan and changed my uncle's life. No one who knew my aunt would say she had an easy life by any means– but neither would they say it was not a life worth living.
How many people, whether from the fear of dealing with the difficulty or from the pursuit of perfection, have missed the enrichment that their disabled children might have offered them? And, how many parents of disabled children would wish that they had never been born? In fact, according to a New York Times article by Amy Harmon in 2007, over the last several years, the parents of those with Down Syndrome have been speaking out and have had their children do the same. They want potential parents of children with Down Syndrome to know the rich lives the children are capable of leading and how their own lives are affected and enhanced by them. They are afraid knowing that there are some who see the lives of the disabled, of those who would grow up like their own children, as not worth the inconvenience of tending, and so abort their fetuses. Harmon writes that some parents "see themselves as society's first line of defense against a use of genetic technology that can border on eugenics."
These are children not aborted because the mother has been raped or because the family situation is rife with poverty and abuse. These are children that by-and-large would have been born. But, prenatal testing showed them as damaged goods, and so they were discarded.
What is truly terrifying is that worth today is not only determined by physical imperfection but also gender. Sexism, something our modern society seeks to eliminate, is alive and well in the abortion industry. The idea of a sort of made-to-order baby means determining both its health and its sex. In places such as China, with its child restrictions, sex-selective abortion, or "gendercide," is perhaps most prevalent as parents strive to get their pregnancy the way they want. Many times, the parents want a boy, not a girl. This is sexism in the purest sense of the word– a determination of the value of a person on the basis of gender. It has been estimated that millions of girls have been aborted in sex-selective abortions, drastically skewing the gender balance in places, such as India and other parts of Asia.
While many view sex-selective abortion as an over-seas phenomenon, it is unfortunately not foreign to the United States. According to polling, most Americans are against sex-selective abortion. Currently, there are a handful of states that have created laws against sex-selective abortion. However, as determined by the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, women may abort for any reason, and discrimination based on gender is legally acceptable. Based on this ruling, it appears that the states' bans on sex-selective abortion are unconstitutional.
An operation that was supposed to assist in the liberation and empowerment of women has been twisted around and has begun to bring them down. Not only does sex-selective abortion impact women more, but it also declares that in the world today, women are not placed at equal value to men. In a society dedicated to equality and opportunity, let us examine whether we are failing not only ourselves and the victims of sex-selective abortion, but future generations as well, by this precedent. The message that has been voiced, enacted, and protected, is that, yes, worth can be dependent on whether you are male or female.
The combination of the rise of abortions based on health and gender indicates that the worth of an unborn child is determined by want. That is, depending on the desires of the parents, the baby is either valuable or worthless. When approaching abortions based on the pre-natal screening, it is essential to ask: is a person's potential and significance determined by the feelings and wishes of others? If it is not, should we allow people to terminate pregnancies- these buds of potential-because they have found out their children are not formed according to their preconceptions?

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It's finally the day television stars across the US have been waiting for - the announcement of the Primetime Emmy Awards nominations! Yes, before long we'll be finding out who's in the running for one of those prized statuettes, and who's been cruelly snubbed.
The lucky stars reading out the nods are Mike & Molly's Melissa McCarthy and Fringe's Joshua Jackson, and here at Digital Spy we'll be bringing you all the info as it happens...
> Mad Men, Modern Family lead Emmy nominations
8.00am PT You can now read our first reaction to the nominations here.
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6.06am PT Because we're so good to you, we'll bring you some news about the 'Miniseries or Movie' acting categories. The 'Lead Actor' shortlist is made up of Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper, Edgar Ramirez, William Hurt, Idris Elba (two nominations for the Brit!) and Laurence Fishburne. The nominated actresses are Kate Winslet, Elizabeth McGovern, Diane Lane, Taraji P. Henson and Jean Marsh.
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6.02am PT Well, we're feeling a little underwhelmed here about some of the categories. How about to perk us up we bring you a bit of news from the reality side of television? In the Reality-Competition category, the nominees are So You Think You Can Dance, The Amazing Race, Project Runway, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars and Top Chef.
6.01am PT The male comedy guest stars getting nods are Idris Elba (The Big C), Zach Galifianiakis (Saturday Night Live), Matt Damon and Will Arnett (both 30 Rock), Nathan Lane (Modern Family) and Justin Timberlake (again, Saturday Night Live).
5.59am PT Now the comedy guest stars. We'll go for the women first - Kristin Chenoweth, Dot-Marie Jones and Gwyneth Paltrow (all Glee), Cloris Leachman (Raising Hope), Elizabeth Banks (30 Rock) and Tina Fey (Saturday Night Live).
5.55am PT We'll make sure to bring you a big list of nominees later, but for now we'll just fill you in on the guest stars. Drama first, again - the top men according to the Academy are Robert Morse (Mad Men), Bruce Dern (Big Love), Jeremy Davies (Justified), Beau Bridges (Brothers & Sisters), Paul McCrane (Harry's Law) and Michael J Fox (The Good Wife). The lucky women are Alfre Woodard (True Blood), Randee Heller and Cara Buono (both Mad Men), Joan Cusack (Shameless), Julia Stiles (Dexter), Mary McDonnell (The Closer) and Loretta Devine (Grey's Anatomy).
5.53am PT Now we'll do the supporting categories for Comedy. The women are Jane Lynch, Betty White, Julie Bowen, Kristen Wiig, Jane Krakowski and Sofia Vergara. Over on the male side of things, funny guys Jon Cryer, Chris Colfer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ed O'Neill, Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell (that's a lot of Modern Family) were the ones picking up nods.
5.51am PT Fancy finding out about the Supporting Actor and Actress nominations? Drama first - Kelly Macdonald, Christina Hendricks, Michelle Forbes, Archie Panjabi, Margo Martindale and Christine Baranski are doing it for the women, while the lucky men are John Slattery, Andre Braugher, Walton Goggins, Peter Dinklage, Josh Charles and Alan Cumming (hasn't The Good Wife done well?)
5.50am PT I tell you what, there are some very dissatisfied people here at Digital Spy. What's your reaction to the nominations? Are you happy? Devastated?
5.49am PT If you're wondering about the Outstanding Comedy Series, Glee, Parks and Recreation, The Office, Modern Family, 30 Rock and The Big Bang Theory are the lucky shows.
5.48am PT For Leading Actor in a Comedy, the lucky ones are Matt LeBlanc, Jim Parsons, Steve Carell, Johnny Galecki, Louis CK and Alec Baldwin.
5.47am PT Don't worry, we'll bring you all the nominees eventually. Melissa McCarthy was very cute when she found out about her nomination.
5.46am PT Forgive us - we lost our feed for a while! We can tell you that the Leading Comedy nominees are Edie Falco, Tina Fey, Laura Linney, Melissa McCarthy, Martha Plimpton and Amy Poehler.
5.44am PT Leading actor in a drama - Steve Buscemi, Kyle Chandler, Michael C Hall, Jon Hamm, Hugh Laurie, Timothy Olyphant. And best miniseries or movie is Cinema Verite, The Kennedys, Downton Abbey, Mildred Pierce, Pillars of the Earth and Too Big To Fail.
5.41am PT Best Drama is up first. Boardwalk Empire, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife and Mad Men. Then it's Leading Actress - Kathy Bates for Harry's Law, Connie Britton for Friday Night Lights, Mireille Enos for The Killing, Julianna Margulies for The Good Wife and Elisabeth Moss for Mad Men.
5.40am PT Here we go - for real this time! It's the 63rd Primetime Emmy Award nomination announcements. Apparently the members have worked "extra hard" to select the nominees. I would have had a hard time picking - would you? Melissa and Joshua have now arrived on the stage!
5.38am PT Now the official Emmy Twitter feed is telling us that the nominations will begin in two minutes. Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! While I'm getting flustered, remember that if you're a Twitter fan you can follow all the action on the move over on @tubetalk.
5.35am PT There are over 16,000 members in the Academy. Wow! And now it's just about time for the announcements... Yes, we are getting impatient.
5.33am PT While we're sitting through the housekeeping announcements, why don't you let us know who you're backing in the comments below?
5.31am PT We're getting an introduction from the boss of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He just made an, um, interesting joke about plastic surgery. Now he's introducing Melissa and Joshua.
5.30am PT Here we go! It's time to get started!
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- Southern Annular Mode Influence on Wintertime Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Detected in Atmospheric O-2 and CO2 Measurements. Geophysical Research Letters. 2020
- Global Carbon Budget 2019. Earth System Science Data. 1783-1838. 2019
- Enhanced oceanic CO2 uptake along the rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula. Nature Climate Change. 678-+. 2019
- The Observed Seasonal Cycle of Macronutrients in Drake Passage: Relationship to Fronts and Utility as a Model Metric. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 4763-4783. 2019
- Global Carbon Budget 2018. Earth System Science Data. 2141-2194. 2018
- Net Community Production in the Southern Ocean: Insights From Comparing Atmospheric Potential Oxygen to Satellite Ocean Color Algorithms and Ocean Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 10549-10559. 2018
- Utilizing the Drake Passage Time-series to understand variability and change in subpolar Southern Ocean pCO(2). Biogeosciences. 3841-3855. 2018
- The Variable and Changing Southern Ocean Silicate Front: Insights From the CESM Large Ensemble. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 752-768. 2018
- Global Carbon Budget 2017. Earth System Science Data. 405-448. 2018
- Biological and physical controls on O-2/Ar, Ar and pCO(2) variability at the Western Antarctic Peninsula and in the Drake Passage. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 77-88. 2017
- Anthropogenic CO2 accumulation and uptake rates in the Pacific Ocean based on changes in the C-13/C-12 of dissolved inorganic carbon. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 59-80. 2017
- Global Carbon Budget 2016. Earth System Science Data. 605-649. 2016
- A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO(2) data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT). Earth System Science Data. 383-413. 2016
- Mesoscale modulation of air-sea CO2 flux in Drake Passage. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 6635-6649. 2016
- Recent evidence for a strengthening CO2 sink in the Southern Ocean from carbonate system measurements in the Drake Passage (2002-2015). Geophysical Research Letters. 7623-7630. 2015
- Estimates of net community production in the Southern Ocean determined from time series observations (2002-2011) of nutrients, dissolved inorganic carbon, and surface ocean pCO(2) in Drake Passage. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 49-63. 2015
- Global Carbon Budget 2015. Earth System Science Data. 349-396. 2015
- Climatological distributions of pH, pCO(2), total CO2, alkalinity, and CaCO3 saturation in the global surface ocean, and temporal changes at selected locations. Marine Chemistry. 95-125. 2014
- Biological production rates off the Southern California coast estimated from triple O-2 isotopes and O-2 : Ar gas ratios. Limnology and Oceanography. 1312-1328. 2013
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Invention and Innovation
In this lesson, students focus on the Research and Brainstorming step of the Engineer Design Process to help develop a better understanding of the difference between an Invention and an Innovation, as well as understanding that due to our ability to evolve our wants and needs change and different products have to be invented or innovated so that these needs are met.
Students are introduced to a digital presentation program known as Prezi which allows them to create creative and more entertained presentations.
Students are also introduced to the program Microsoft Publisher. A program where one can create business cards, greeting cards, party invites, brochures and much more. Students use this program, Google Sketch-up and Paint to innovate any product that wish too, and into something more productive or easier to use.
Designing a Space Craft Subsystem
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Students will review all the steps of the Engineer Design Process and really focus on the last step, Evaluation. Students will discover all the different fields in engineering and develop and test a Rubber Band Powered Vehicle. Students will be able to analyze how their vehicles performs, make modifications and calculate their results.
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Rube Goldberg was a famous cartoonist back in the early 1900s, who created sketches of complex contraptions that would perform a simple task. Later, he began to actually construct some of these devices and later lead to many doing the same for entertainment or completion. Students during this lesson will learn who Rube Goldberg was, learn about the six simple machines and how they work, and lastly construct and test their own device that will perform whatever task the Rube Goldberg Completion is doing that year.


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In a win for democracy, freedom and sanity, the Texas Supreme Court has soundly rebuked Houston's lesbian (and liberal) mayor Annise Parker in a recent decision against a city ordinance.
In May of 2014 the city of Houston passed the so-called "Equal Rights Ordinance" that proponents said banned business owners from discriminating against gay or transgender customers. However, opponents of the ordinance argued that it was a dangerous and thoughtless rule that would lead to men using women's restrooms with the excuse that they "identify" as women. At the time the ordinance was passed, its opponents argued that it should be put to a general vote by Houston's citizens, an idea that should hardly be revolutionary, but Mayor Parker chose instead to keep it off the ballot and force it through with her own power.
(You can read about this controversy in Houston here.)
Making matters worse, after forcing the ordinance through against public outcry, Parker then attempted to intimidate local church leaders by subpoenaing the sermons and other communications from Houston's pastors.
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Now the Supreme Court of Texas is telling Parker she's gone too far, demanding that the mayor put the city ordinance to a vote. The Court told Mayor Parker that she must allow the citizens of Houston to vote on the matter and that she had until August 24th to either repeal the measure or allow the people to vote on repeal. "We agree with the Relators that the City Secretary certified their petition and thereby invoked the City Council's ministerial duty to reconsider and repeal the ordinance or submit it to popular vote. The legislative power reserved to the people of Houston is not being honored," the court said in its decision.
Harris County Republican Party chief Jared Woodfill, called the ruling "a huge victory for the people of the city of Houston." He called on Parker, the first openly gay leader of a major American city, to apologize to the public.
"This is all about the mayor and her personal agenda," Woodfill said. "The actions she took were unlawful, and now the court has said the people are going to have an opportunity to vote, and that's all we've asked for from day one. I think this mayor owes an apology to the people of the city of Houston."
An attorney from the Alliance Defending Freedom added, "Public officials should not be allowed to run roughshod over the right of the people to decide these types of issues, especially when the citizens of Houston clearly met all the qualifications for having their voice heard. The subpoenas we successfully fought were only one element of this disgraceful abuse of power. The scandal began when the city arbitrarily threw out the valid signatures of thousands of voters. The city did this all because it was bent on pushing through its deeply unpopular ordinance at any cost. The Texas Supreme Court has rightly rectified this wrong."
Hopefully the people of Houston move forward with putting an end to the lie that Houston needs this ordinance to protect the rights of gays in their city. The truth is that Houstonians already respect everyone's rights, and this bill is simply another way to contravene and undermine conservative cultural values.
The views expressed in this opinion article are solely those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by EagleRising.com


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Watching Friday's CNET Update can earn you a trophy:
It's likely that Sony will show off a new PlayStation at its event on Feb. 20, and CNET's Jeff Bakalar takes a look at what to expect -- and what the PS4 needs. There is also a report of a new PS4 controller, with images obtained by Destructoid.
Also in today's tech news roundup:
- Skype has a new feature that lets users leave a video message for a friend when they are offline or on another call.
- Facebook is filtering Graph Search results when it comes to the age and location of minors.
- Twitter is adding metadata that judges how much value is in a tweet.
- The Bump app has been updated with the ability to transfer files between smartphones and computers, and vice versa.
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Now that Donald Sterling has been banned from National Basketball Association games for life, fined $2.5 million, and institutions such as the University of California at Los Angeles are returning his gifts, the question arises about the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers: Who is he, really, and are the racist comments said to be by him on a cellphone recording the true measure of the man?
If the allegations are true, it seems curious that the longest-tenured owner in NBA history should be able to deceive so many for so long. Then again, some note, these are not the first allegations.
In 2009, he paid $2.7 million to settle a Department of Justice lawsuit charging discrimination against blacks, Hispanics, and families with children. In 2005, he paid some $5 million in attorney's fees – in addition to an undisclosed sum – to settle a suit charging he tried to drive Korean residents out of apartments he owned in L.A.'s Koreatown. And in 2008, Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor sued Mr. Sterling and the Clippers organization, claiming he was forced out of his job as team general manager due to age and race bias.
"There are many people suggesting that the NBA did not act fast enough, because Sterling's true colors have been known for a long time," says Warren Packard, CEO of Thuuz, an online sports platform.
Indeed, some say the current outrage over the comments, in which Sterling allegedly berated a mistress for going to events with black people, verges on hypocrisy. Many people in positions of influence were well aware of Sterling's past and did nothing until now, says Timothy Joyce, a contributing columnist for RealClearSports.
"While no one disagrees that Sterling's comments were vile and have no place in sports – or anywhere in society – and were assuredly worthy of significant punishment, the sanctimonious utterances from the league and countless commentators is nearly just as heinous," he says via e-mail. "While many may think that this is a teachable moment, it's nothing of the sort; the league did nothing before this audiotape was discovered even though they knew of prior discrimination lawsuits and claims of racial bias against Sterling for years."
Sterling's official biography would point to him being a champion of the underdog. Born Donald Tokowitz to Jewish immigrant parents who fled persecution in Eastern Europe, he adopted the name "Sterling" as an adult while studying at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
"You have to name yourself after something that's really good, that people have confidence in. People want to know that you're the best," he said, according to a 1999 Los Angeles Magazine profile.
Sterling practiced law but eventually expanded into buying real estate, notably apartment buildings in then-developing Beverly Hills and Santa Monica.
After purchasing the then-San Diego Clippers in 1981, he moved them to Los Angeles in 1984, promptly incurring fines from the NBA, which did not want a second franchise in the city. But Sterling threatened to sue, the fine was reduced, and he was able to remain. Forbes ranks him No. 328 on its list of 931 billionaires, with an estimated $1.9 billion fortune.
Most of that wealth is concentrated in real estate, with thousands of apartments in Los Angeles. He purchased the Clippers for $12 million and today, Forbes values the team at $430 million.
The seeming contradictions during his decades of team ownership are as much a reflection of who he is as the media climate now swirling around him, says Derek Arnold, a communication professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia.
"Is he the man who spent money on big contracts over the past 10 years to players like Elton Brand ($82 million in 2003, highest in franchise history at the time) and Blake Griffin (a $94 million contract this past year), or the one who refused to pay for surgery for prostate cancer of an assistant coach (four players later paid the $70,000 cost)," he asks in an e-mail.
Is Sterling the man who, according to a Department of Justice deposition, said he didn't like how black people "smell," adding that they're "not clean"? Or the man who was given a lifetime humanitarian award from the NAACP in 2009?
"Donald Sterling is all of those men," Professor Arnold says.
As a successful self-starter, first in law, then in real estate, Sterling has adopted the mentality of gaining success through his own beliefs and then trying to apply them to everything around him, Arnold says. "He grew up in the Depression in East Los Angeles, driving himself to succeed through gaining an education from high school, where he was class president, on through law school."
Sterling made his seed money in law, then proceeded to buy up distressed properties, beginning what Arnold calls his lifelong practice of rarely selling anything. "I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime," Sterling told Los Angeles Magazine.
As a successful businessman, says Arnold, "It probably stood to reason for him that he could extend his beliefs to other parts of his life."
For instance, says Arnold, he could act toward women with callousness. In testimony from a lawsuit with a former mistress, he said: "When you pay a woman for sex, you are not together with her … you are paying her for a few moments to use her body for sex."
Through all of this, Sterling has long understood the power of self-promotion. Indeed, he paid for a large ad in this past Sunday's Los Angeles Times touting his gift for kidney research to UCLA – the pledge that the university is now declining.
The influence of viral media today is so swift and pervasive that single incidents can amplify a mistake into a career-destroying moment, says Montana Miller, assistant professor of popular culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Can Sterling come back from these revelations about his private attitudes? Perhaps, says Professor Miller, because we live in a culture of the redemptive comeback even after terrible offenses. She points to radio shock-jock Don Imus, who insulted black female athletes and lost his job.
"The big difference between Imus and Sterling is that Imus had a fan base," she says. "I'm not sure Sterling does."


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For a chief executive who is about to tell the City that his company will make less profit from its sales in the future, Philip Clarke is in a confident mood.
According to the Tesco boss, the retailer's new drive to reverse a slide in UK sales – which will be unveiled on Tuesday – is an "acceleration" of what it is already doing.
"We will be explaining that the strategy is the right strategy," Clarke says at Tesco's headquarters in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. "Now is the time to accelerate."
Two years ago, Tesco issued its first profits warning in a generation and Clarke lowered the profit margin to 5.2pc so he could invest in improving the company's stores and food.
However, last month Britain's biggest retailer reported another 2.4pc drop in like-for-like sales during the vital Christmas period and is still underperforming its closest rivals Sainsbury's and Asda. Tesco is also losing market share to Waitrose at the top end of the market and the discounters Aldi and Lidi at the other.
On Tuesday, Clarke is expected to tell the City that Tesco is now scrapping that 5.2pc profit margin. Instead, the retailer will say that its margin will move with the market and the customer.
Although Clarke would not be drawn on the details of his plan, in a presentation called "Winning in a new era of retail", he is likely to tell the City that Tesco will significantly accelerate its programme of store revamp and cut the prices of key products.
But, despite his confidence, is Clarke effectively accepting that he did not go far enough with his turnaround plan two years ago?
"There was an awful lot to do," he explains. "Two years ago was the time to take some heat out of the business and see how much we needed to do and should do.
"I think it's all back to customers. You look out to the horizon and you imagine how it might be, but you don't operate in a vacuum. I think people were saying the UK would come out of its contraction earlier, it came out later. Inflation would ease, it didn't. Utility bills wouldn't keep going up, they kept going up.
"But my job is never to look back and work on what we should have done. My job is to look forward and decide what it is that we should do."
According to Clarke, the work that Tesco has done over the past two years, which has included a relaunch of its Tesco Finest food range and more staff hired in shops, has left the retailer with "stronger foundations".
"It takes a while to do that in a business like ours – 3,000 stores and more than 300,000 people," he added. "The pace of change [in the industry] has never been greater. There has been a prolonged period where consumers have found their incomes decreasing not increasing in real terms. That's forced them to seek value and shop more often than they ever did."
Clarke's confidence in the future of Tesco is based on the strength of its digital business. Tesco controls roughly 45pc of the online grocery market in the UK and already has 1,700 click-and-collect points for general merchandise and 200 for food.
Robin Terrell, multichannel director at Tesco, said: "We have got an unrivalled store estate, we have got a delivery network that visits every household in the country earlier in the morning to late at night, we have got a Clubcard with 17m members in the UK, 43m worldwide. These are core elements of building blocks for the future.
"My job is to bring all that together. We build it around the customer. We put the customer at the heart of the offer and we give them that one seamless joined up relationship."
However, despite the potential of Tesco's digital operations "the elephant in the room", as Clarke refers to it, is that the company's like-for-like sales are still falling.
"When you peel back the layers of that, it's large stores. Large stores everywhere. One of the things we are going to do is accelerate the refresh programme of our large stores. But we have also got to make sure that they are even more attractive to go to. It will only really work if the core of the offer is right – price, quality, range and service. In 40 years it has never really changed."
Much of what Clarke reveals on Tuesday – particularly the collection of price cuts – will be seen as a response to the rise of the discounters Aldi and Lidl.
"You can't ignore them," Clarke said. "No retailer can. You have got to have sharper prices and better quality.
"But you can't just be them, because you are not them. They have a couple of thousand SKUs [products], don't have an online business, and [only] do a little bit of general merchandise.
"We have 25,000 products in an average big store, a couple of hundred thousand online. This is all about creating a differentiated strategy. We know we have to get the right blend of price, quality, range and service in the right environment."
Despite the fact that Tesco's sales are still falling in the UK, Clarke insists the business is making progress.
"Today we are better than we were five years ago, two years ago, and one year ago. Our effort must now be to make sure that our reality improves every year and that we are seen by customers who shop with us to be doing more of the right things for them."


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Bipasha Basu talks about the three important Fs in her life
Films and fashion go hand in hand. So, it did not come as a surprise when Bollywood's dusky beauty Bipasha Basu recently came up with her accessory brand. CS chats up with the actress on her style quotient
Accessories matter
All of us know that accessories are so precious for girls. No girl feels complete without that one earring or matching footwear. Amongst the stuff that will come under this label are shoes, belts, bracelets and all things that find a fascination with women. It's interesting how different accessories can make a single outfit look completely different and striking. Trinkets, bracelets, anklets and belts give a finishing touch to a dress.
Who: Bipasha Basu,actor
What: Talking about fashion
Fashion sense
I wear a lot of maxi dresses. I complement them with a lot of long chains. Also, what goes with it beautifully are bracelets which I call as chin chins (laughs). They can be of different materials like beads, stones and chain bracelets too.
Following dreams
In my life, there are three important Fs--fitness, fashion and food. I have already ventured in the fitness genre with my fitness DVD. I wanted to venture into fashion which is finally happening with my accessory brand. Since I was a model earlier, I have a bank of fashion knowledge. Also, I have a lot of designer friends who add to my fashion sense. In this regard, I would say that online shopping is a big boon for people who want to look great but don't have the time to shop. With this launch, I am taking a step ahead in realising my dream of venturing into the fashion arena. As for the food industry, that is one dream that I plan to fulfill in the near future. I am contemplating opening a restaurant.
Fashion tips
There are some simple tips that needs to be kept in mind while dressing. A heavy dress should be accessorised with minimal and simple accessories. Otherwise, it would be inviting trouble because the end result would be an over-the-top ensemble. In contrast, a simple outfit should be accessorised with a heavy statement piece that will give the outfit a character and make heads turn in the bargain.
Competition review
Most of my contempories are extremely well turned out. But if I had to gift an accessory from my label to someone, it would definitely be Priyanka Chopra and Sonam Kapoor. Not only are they close friends but also because they are style icons and I would like to get their opinion on my collection. They wear the most trendy stuff and carry it off with so much style and attitude. Young girls following fashion and the latest in style can get a tip or two from them.
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Today, beauty has become a term with a limitless meaning..
There is always space for new things, new products and yes.. new tools. It seems like people are ready to go beyond skincare and do whatever it takes in search of the fountain of youth. We all strive for a healthy, glowing and younger looking skin and if something as simple as a facial roller can make your skin look better why not try it.. right?
Ironically enough, facial massage rollers are far from being an innovation, the history of facial rollers dates from centuries ago, but with the Asian influence in skincare in the recent years, this tradition has resurface full force becoming into a very popular skin trend.
Massage helps to increase blood circulation
Activates lymphatic drainage reducing inflammation and eliminating toxins
Stimulates facial muscles
Oxygenates tissues
Increases skin tone and elasticity
Reduces puffiness and redness
BONUS: Increasing blood flow encourages production of collagen and gives the skin a healthy and natural glow.
Massage gently, the lymph is found at a very superficial level in the skin, so if you press too hard you will you be going into the muscle tissues and miss the benefits of a good lymphatic drainage.
Do it in upward and outward movements to create a lifting effect, never pushing downwards
A few minutes a day is more than enough for the face.
Massaging right before and after the application of a skincare product will benefit the absorption of the product.
Can facial massage affect the distribution of fat (adipose tissue) on your face?
Many people claim to see a slimming effect when they use a facial massage roller regularly. More likely, that effect is due to a drainage of the lymph which helps to eliminate fluids and inflammation. The effect is temporary.
The adipose tissue is located in the hypodermis the skin layer found deeper to the dermis (the second layer of the skin). You would have to massage with a lot of pressure to access the hypodermis and massage regularly and for a much longer period of time to experience changes in the adipocytes (fat cells). When someone uses massage for body contouring of the treatment of cellulite, it mainly happens from increase in oxygen causing a raise in body temperature which activates the metabolism to promote fat burning, but again, it requires a much longer time than just 45 -60 seconds, the time recommended for the use of most facial massage rollers. Nevertheless, as I mentioned before applying very light pressure is key when using this method to achieve the best benefits.
I have been using the Nurse Jamie UPLIFT massaging roller for a few weeks.
I like it, so far what I have seen is a subtle lifting effect right after a do the movements with the tool. I find it specially good in the morning if I wake up with puffiness under my eyes. From the increase in oxygen, I do notice a nice glow in my skin. Now, the effect is temporary, it lasts only a few hours.
I find this tool to be particularly good for those times when you need a quick pick me up. It does the trick. Another thing that I like about it is that is easy to carry around and it needs no batteries or charging.
The price point is on the high end. It costs $69
It is a well-made tool that rotates smoothly, contains 24 massaging stones with tourmaline quartz and has an hexagon shape which helps to prevent pinching or pulling the skin.
"The Nurse Jamie UpLift™ Massaging Beauty Roller is an innovative beauty tool for the face and body with a unique hexagon shape that holds 24 massaging stones to temporarily energize, enhance, revive and uplift your skin. The UpLift™ is a Celebrity favorite for it's ease of use, portability and instant results! The Uplift Beauty Tool utilizes a unique rhythmic rolling action, replicating the techniques used in my signature facials at our exclusive spas to help improve the appearance of skin tone for a more renewed, youthful-looking you!"
- 24 Massaging Stones
- Helps Improve Skin Tone
- Suitable for Most Skin Types
- Portable, Easy-To-Use
- No Batteries Required
As a professional I know the incredible benefits of massage. These tools will never replace the amazing results that some skillful hands can provide; however, they are great tools for at home treatments and for a quick lifting effect that although not permanent.. hey, who wouldn't like that!
Thank you so much for being here,
Until next time,
Dora Salazar
Med. Aesthetician/ Cosmetologist/ Massage Therapist/ Med. Electrologist C.M.E.
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Physician Assistant - A Scope of PracticeJune 20, 2015
If you are trying to decide if working as a physician assistant is the right career for you, it is helpful to understand a PA's scope of practice. Although the American Academy of Physician Assistants developed guidelines and regulations for PA's, they also allow individual states to regulate a physician assistant's practice. It is also important to understand the PA profession is always evolving, and their scope of practice may change in the future. Below are answers to some common questions involving physician assistants.
Can PA's practice independently?
Physician assistants cannot run their own practice. They have to work under the supervision of a physician. Many states allow physicians to determine exactly what constitutes supervision. Supervision may involve co-signing orders. In other cases, doctors have developed written protocols, which dictate procedures to follow.
What type of procedures can PA's perform?
According to the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 35 states allow the practising physician supervising the PA to determine scope of practice. The theory is the doctor working with the physician assistant knows their skill level and can decide what the PA can do and not do.
The type of procedures a physician assistant can do also varies by the type of practice they work in. For example, PA's who work with a pulmonologist may perform intubations, which involves inserting a breathing tube in a patient's airway. Physician assistants working in the emergency room may perform emergency procedures, such as inserting chest tubes.
Do doctors have to be onsite with a PA?
The majority of states allow a physician assistant to work without a doctor on site. The PA still works under the direction and supervision of a doctor, but the physician may be off site. For instance, a PA who works in an urgent care clinic may not have a doctor onsite, but may have access to a doctor if needed.
Are physician assistants allowed to do surgery?
If the doctor the PA is working with determined a physician assistant can perform certain surgical procedures, the PA is allowed.to. In general, physician assistants may take on more of an assistant role during surgery. In general, surgeons will perform complex procedures. PA'a will perform preoperative care and care for the patient after the procedure while they are recovering.
Do PA's have to go through a residency similar to a doctor?
There are PA residencies, which are optional after completing a physician assistant program. A residency can provide a PA with additional training in the specialty they plan to pursue. While a PA residency can be beneficial it is not required.
Is additional training required if a PA changes specialties?
A physician assistant is not required to go for additional training if they want to work in a different specialty. For example, a PA who works in the emergency room is not required to obtain additional training if they want to work in family practice.
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Art Roundup from the UA Dept. of Art and Art History: today is Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Artists are talking about their work, performing with musicians and generally busting out all over! Everybody, please send us your West Alabama visual arts events – we want to know what you are up to!
APR 13 (TODAY) ARTIST LECTURE: Artist Phoebe Beasley: Connecting Textured Roots and Routes, Paul Jones Lecture Series, DWCAC, 5:30 pm
APR 14 ARTIST LECTURE: William Downs, 203 Garland Hall, UA
APR 14-MAY 13 William Downs drawing installation, Fuel & Lumber Company, Tuscaloosa
APR 16 Sipsey Arts Alliance Spring Art Market, Fayette Civic Center, 10 am-4 pm
APR 16 Montevallo Arts Festival, Montevallo, Ala., 10 am-5 pm
NOW-APR 16 Intersections: Josh Whidden MFA Thesis Exhibition, Harrison Galleries
ONGOING & UPCOMING (in order of ending date)
APR 19 Reception, UA Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (APR 19-MAY 27), 6-8 pm
APR 21 Film screening, 3 Short Films Selected by Maaike Gouwenberg, Ferguson Center Theater, 4-5:30 pm
APR 21 Reception, Passage: Celestia Morgan MA Exhibition | Turner Williams MFA Exhibition, Sella-Granata, 5-8 pm, with a special performance at 7:30 pm
APR 22 Reception, 2016 Annual BFA Juried Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm
APR 22 Max Eilbacher and Turner Williams, Jr. (quad electronics & shahi baaja), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 7 pm
APR 23 Magicicada & Dux (electronics & cello), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 6 pm
APR 24 William T. Dooley (strings), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 6 pm
APR 25 Holland Hopson (electronics & banjo), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 6 pm
APR 26 Shea Stevenson (homemade instruments and devices), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 6 pm
APR 27 Jasper Lee (hammer dulcimer), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 6 pm
APR 28 Rodger Stella (theremin & synthesizer), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 7 pm
APR 30 Andrew Dewar & Brad Davis (reeds & electronics), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 7:30 pm
MAY 1 LaDonna Smith (viola), Davey Williams (guitar), Gerard Assayag (laptop) and Andrew Dewar (reeds), Sella-Granata Art Gallery, UA, 7:30 pm
NOW-APR 29 (Re)Pair: Heather Whidden MFA Thesis Exhibition, UA Gallery, DWCAC, Tuscaloosa
NOW-APR 29 Black is Beautiful, Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art, Tuscaloosa
APR 18-30 2016 Annual BFA Juried Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, Tuscaloosa (Reception APR 22)
NOW-APR 30 New Paintings – Lorrie Lane, Gallery at Canterbury Chapel, Tuscaloosa
APR 30 Hog Wild for Art Festival, Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, Camden, Alabama
NOW-APR 30 For the Love of Mardi Gras Exhibition, Daniel Day Gallery, Birmingham
APR 18-MAY 3 Passage: Celestia Morgan MA Exhibition | Turner Williams MFA Exhibition, Sella-Granata Art Gallery
MAY 6 Reception, Sarah Austin MFA Thesis Exhibition, Harrison Galleries, 6-9 pm (First Friday)
MAY 6 Reception, The B Side Group Exhibition, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 5-8 pm (First Friday)
MAY 7 Art in the Park 2016, Jasper
NOW-MAY 7 Karina Salazar Senior Art Exhibition, Wynn Center Art Gallery, Stillman College
MAY 14 Early Bird Deadline, 45th Kentuck Festival
NOW-MAY 15 Haitian Flags from the Cargo Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art
MAY 20 Reception, Flora and Fauna Exhibition, Daniel Day Gallery, Birmingham
MAY 21 Reception, Intimate Spaces, Union Grove Gallery, UAH, 6-9 pm
APR 19-MAY 27 UA Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
MAY 6-MAY 27 The B Side Group Exhibition, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
JUN 1 DEADLINE: Final Application Deadline, 45th Kentuck Festival
MAY 21-JUL 2 Intimate Spaces, Union Grove Gallery, UAH
AUG 5-SEP 30 UAB/UA Faculty Exhibition, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa
SEP 2 Reception, UAB/UA Faculty Exhibition, DWCAC, 5:00-8:00, First Friday
ANYTIME: Stroll between galleries through our Woods Quad Sculpture Garden with five outdoor sculptures, plus other sculptures in adjoining campus lawns.
https://art.ua.edu/category/roundup/ Always the latest Roundup!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/361599977234696/ (Alabama Art Post)
http://alwca.weebly.com/ (Alabama Women's Caucus for Art)
http://cac.tuscarts.org/cacgallery.php (Arts Council Gallery, DWCAC)
http://tuscarts.org/gallery-juniorleague.php (Bama Theatre galleries)
http://cac.tuscarts.org/uagallery.php (University of Alabama Gallery, DWCAC)
http://www.chiltoncountyartscouncil.com/ (Chilton County Arts Council)
http://events.ua.edu/category/8/ (Arts events at UA)
https://www.facebook.com/HookedOnArtsFestival (Wilcox County Arts Council)
http://www.chiltoncountyartscouncil.com/rose-gallery.html (Rose Gallery, Clanton)
http://scfac.uwa.edu/default.htm (Sumter County Fine Arts Council)
http://www.tuscwawa.com/ (West Alabama Woodworking Assn.)
http://www.waqg.com/ (West Alabama Quilters Guild meets 2nd Saturdays)
Look for this e-list each week from the UA Department of Art and Art History. We hope to provide a more or less comprehensive list of exhibits and visual arts events in West Alabama (and sometimes a wider net, esp. if West Alabama folks are showing), with hyperlinks. Follow the links to get more information. To send your exhibition info, unsubscribe to this email, or to change or add an email address, please email: email@example.com. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
Thank you for supporting ALL of the arts all over west Alabama!
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Alameda à la carte
A gracious old house on the island got a make-over, preserving the character of the original while modernizing the interior.
The owner and designer collaborated closely together on this project – selecting colors, finishes, and furnishings to complement the construction work – what a great place to live in!
Photography: Christopher Stark
MN Management: Rich Robb, Daniel Sanchez


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Winterizing Your Solar System
Nobody wants the RV season to end. But when it does, properly winterizing your solar system will ensure everything is in the best possible condition when spring rolls around. It can also save you money — RV batteries are expensive, and proper storage will preserve their performance and extend their lifespan.
Here are the top 'to-dos' for winterizing your RV solar system:
In Cold Climates
- Cover your solar panels with a protective material that does not allow light to pass through
- Label your solar panel wires 'positive' and 'negative'
- Unhook your solar panels from your solar controller
- Fix wire nuts on the positive and negative leads from the solar panels
- Disconnect your batteries and store them inside in a warm, dry place
- Check the batteries monthly and charge them if necessary
In Warm Climates
There is no need to 'store' your RV solar system in warm climates unless your RV is parked indoors or in very low sunlight. If that's the case, simply follow the cold climate storage directions above.
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Clue: Mother of Jupiter
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This year has been dubbed the retail apocalypse by many analysts and observers owing to record numbers of store and mall closings and retail bankruptcies. Yet this doesn't appear to be a sign of cyclical weakness, rather it is a reflection of transformative changes in how and where consumer goods are made and priced, and how consumers shop and what they shop for. These changes are happening at lightning speed leaving retailers scrambling to adjust. These changes are also disrupting the cyclical economic models we have come to rely on. In this blog we document some of the underpinnings of these changes. In the next blog we will look at what this means for the landscape of retail real estate.
The health of the US economy is largely driven by its consumers as consumer spending accounts for 69% of US GDP. Consumers are also at the heart of the business cycle and are therefore closely watched as a barometer of where the economy is heading. Many things consumers spend the bulk of their money on are relatively fixed and follow stable trends, including housing, education and medical care. The ebbs and flows in consumer spending across business cycle are concentrated in discretionary spending (Exhibit 1). In this blog we will refer to core retail spending, which includes most items consumers can freely choose to spend money on, or not. What we will refer to as core retail spending is a category called retail control group by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. It includes electronics, sporting goods, clothing, furniture and restaurant meals. While it excludes groceries and motor vehicles, it does include some other basic, less discretionary items such as prescription drugs, cleaning supplies, and personal care products.
Since consumers make active choices on core retail spending, it is an industry subject to intense competitive pressures as retailers vie to win the hearts and dollars of fickle consumers. The retail industry has been subject to several major structural changes in recent decades that have intensified of late leading many industry observers and analysts to dub 2017 the "retail apocalypse". As Exhibit 1 illustrates, it is not the case that consumers are pulling back on retail spending, rather changes in global competition, technology and consumer preferences have evolved faster than many retailers' ability to change their business models leading to thousands of announced store closures, dozens of mall closures and at least nine major retail bankruptcies in 2017 alone. In a following blog we will focus on the impact of the retail apocalypse on the retail real estate. In this blog we examine what is at the root of changes in how consumers are spending their money.
Globalization and Getting More for Less
The share of the consumer budget dedicated to core retail spending has declined from 40% to 26% over the past 50 years (Exhibit 2). Offsetting this trend has been a rise in spending on healthcare which has risen from 7.5% on consumer budgets to 21%. Prices have a lot to do with the changing budget shares as the globalization of manufacturing allowed the prices of goods to decline as rising health care costs meant consumers had to spend more to get the same services.
The rise in the share of consumer goods coming from abroad increased steadily from the late 1960s through the years just prior to the Great Recession (Exhibit 3). Since 2007 the share of imported goods has been relatively steady around 18%, although that share understates import content since many consumer goods feature imported parts that are then assembled domestically.
The rise in the imported share of consumer goods was fairly steady over several decades. However, the entry of China into the World Tarde organization in 2001 opened up a sizable frontier of lower cost production. Exhibit 4 shows the annual pace of price increases on all core retail spending. In recent decades falling prices for many consumer goods has been the norm, including prices for clothing, electronics, sporting goods and furniture as cheaper international production allowed consumers to enjoy more for less. Prices of clothing are 2% lower than they were in 2001 even as consumer prices excluding food and energy are nearly 70% higher. Consumers own more televisions, computers, and cellphones per household even as the share of their budget devoted to spending on these items has declined. While the falling prices associated with globalization of production has allowed consumers to consume more for less for decades, Exhibit 2 highlights that the share of the consumer wallet going to core retail spending has been pretty steady for a decade. The current retail apocalypse has more to do with how consumers spend their retail dollars.
The Digital Revolution
The globalization of production is one mega trend that has affected where consumer goods are produced and how they are priced. Another trend that has occurred nearly simultaneously is technology and computerization, which has facilitated a significant degree of automation in production as well as the optimization of communication and production processes.[1] Even as the process of the globalization of production to lower cost producers has slowed as we close in on reaching the full potential benefits, the impact of technology has accelerated of late and has begun to transform not only how we produce goods, but how we shop for them.
Exhibit 5 shows how the share of online shopping in core retail sales has risen over time, and there is no indication that this transformation in how consumers obtain the goods they want is slowing. The penetration of smartphones not only allows consumers to purchase the items they want online, but they can easily comparison shop and seek the best deal so that technology is yet another force taking away pricing power from retailers and allowing consumers to get more for less. Retailers have struggled to adapt by beefing up their online presence or making the in-store experience more enjoyable for consumers, but many have struggled to keep up leading to the acceleration in bankruptcies and store closures this year. These types of events in the past would be taken as a sign of cyclical weakness in the economy, yet Exhibit 1 highlights that consumer spending remains robust suggesting that this is instead a structural transformation in consumer preferences facilitated by technological change.
The weakness in retail pricing has also posed a conundrum for central bankers. Typically as the labor market heats up and wages start to rise, albeit very gradually in the current cycle, the pricing power of producers would improve leading the Fed to raise rates to head off inflationary pressures. Yet Exhibit 6 illustrates that core inflation has surprised the Fed by falling back to just a 1.3% annual pace through August, and the diffusion index showing the net of prices rising versus falling indicates an absence of broad based price increases.
Fed Chair Yellen puzzled over surprisingly low inflation in a recent speech. Yellen noted that "the growing importance of online shopping, by increasing the competitiveness of the U.S. retail sector, may have reduced price margins and restrained the ability of firms to raise prices in response to rising demand." However Yellen also confronted another conundrum, namely that "the economy overall appears to have become more concentrated and less dynamic in recent years, which may tend to increase firms' pricing power." By many estimates Amazon accounts for roughly half of all online sales, yet there is no evidence this is leading to greater purchasing power. For now, the Fed seems poised to raise rates again in December, but is watching inflation developments to try and gauge how far interest rates need to rise. The buzz work in the technology world is "disruptive technologies", by disrupting how people buy things and how producers price them, technology is disrupting the very economic models policy makers look to in making their decisions.
The Disruptive Generation
Technology isn't the only factor disrupting the retail sector, the tastes and preferences of the millennial generation appear to be different from prior generations. Retail analysts frequently discuss the preferences of millennials for experiences over things in contrast to the consumerism of the baby boom generation. A recent poll found that more than 3 in 4 millennials (78%) would choose to spend money on a desirable experience or event over buying something desirable. Exhibit 7 documents this shift by charting the share of core retail spending going to restaurants and hotels, both of which are on strong upward trends and are at, or close to all-time highs even as the share of retail spending on clothing has hit an all-time low this year. The fact that there is an observable shift to experience spending in the aggregate suggests the shift may not be unique to millennials. This shift has left retailers scrambling to figure out and deliver what the millennial generation wants as they enter their maximum consumption years. Will millennials revert to more traditional spending patterns as they marry, buy homes and have kids, or will this phase of life be a new frontier of preferences that continue to challenge retail business models?
With major shift in where and how consumer goods are made and priced, and in the way consumers consume, the retail sector is scrambling to reinvent itself. In the next blog we will examine what this means for retail real estate.
[1] A recent extensive international project has produced a variety of papers and analysis looking at the effects of the rise of China on the economy and society. Researchers led by David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson have looked at the separate and joint impacts of technology and globalization on production and labor markets.


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It was shocking to hear the interview with a woman who was seeking the candidate's opinion on mandatory insurance coverage for mammograms, which is a tool in diagnosing breast cancer. Mr. Christie was dismissive in saying that the cancer surgery the woman had when she was in her 20s was "an exception." These situations are not exceptions as Mr. Christie may think, and the numbers prove it.
Medical professionals and patients agree that preventive care needs to be a priority as it saves lives and money in the longterm. Patients need confidence that their insurance providers will not find exclusions for coverage such as preexisting conditions, family history or some arbitrary notion that the patient is young and therefore considered "an exception." We cannot undermine the need for access to screening techniques, whether mammograms, sonograms or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests, which are all available with today's technology.
It is frightening to learn that Christie would give insurance companies free rein to drop coverage for critical procedures like mammograms. The woman from Rider is not "an exception" and a mandate is not an "extravagant benefit" for "young, single consumers," as Mr. Christie stated on his Web site as of September 27, 2009.
Governor Jon Corzine, along with Senator Loretta Weinberg and other legislators have fought hard to assure that insurance companies provide adequate coverage for women's health needs. In 1991, mandates were established for women over 40 years of age to be covered for annual mammograms. It has only been five years since insurance company mandates have been expanded to cover mammograms for women under 40 if they have a family history.
According to the National Cancer Institute 2005 and 2006 Fact Book, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in young women ages 15-54. For 25 years we have recognized this month of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month which promotes awareness, education and empowerment.
This movement has been stressing "early detection saves lives". Many children are being raised by their mothers as a result of early detection. We cannot turn back the clock and allow any wiggle room for insurance companies to drop coverage for mammograms or other vital diagnostic tests. We need to continue advocating for staying healthy. It is the pillar of a strong society. Our future depends upon it. To that, there can be no exception.
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The new First Lady was at the Department of Education yesterday saying stupid things like these:
"So many of you have been here struggling and pushing for decades and Barack and I want to say 'thank you' for what you've done and 'thank you' for what you will continue to do," she told 350 employees who filled a department auditorium to capacity. "But we also know that there are new faces coming into this work and we want to welcome you and thank you for the hard work that you're going to put in."
"There's a lot of work to do and we're going to need you," Mrs. Obama said. "The children of this country are counting on all of us."
In thanking the workers, she told them: "I am a product of your work."
"I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the public schools that nurtured me and helped me along," said Mrs. Obama, a Chicago native who attended its public schools as a child. Her two daughters attend private school in Washington, as they did in Chicago.
Emphasis mine. Would anybody who believes that the Federal Department of Education is doing a good job raise their hands? [chirping crickets] I thought so. If the Department of Education is doing such a good job, and if public education is so wonderful why doesn't The First Lady entrust the education of her daughters to its tender mercies?
Because she knows that the public education system has deteriorated into a psycho-babble jungle of feel-goodism that gives children lots of self-esteem and very little actual knowledge. And that is at the best it can do today. At its worst its just a voluntary incarceration system for inner-city thugs who need time to sleep in between robbing and raping their fellow students.
The Department of Education is peopled by lots of academics who spent their entire lives at university getting degrees in circular logic and fatuousness (Education Degrees) who then glom onto the public teat even harder at the Federal Government level. Do any of these people actually give two hoots about educating children? Oh sure, but that comes after bitching about how much more money governments at every level should throw at them and their fellow teachers unions, backstabbing any Republican initiative, complaining about how difficult it is to give tests to students (which would show the failure of the education system), and increasing their benefits and pensions.
But we do believe you when you say this Mrs. Obama:
But truthfully, my task here is to say thank you and roll up your sleeves, because we have a lot of work to do.
Indoctrinating a new generation of illiterate community organizers is the real job here, isn't it?


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