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As the Democratic Party continues its slide into disrepute, there doesn't seem to be any bottom in sight. Here is the latest smear from the Dems: candidate Coleen Rowley has published a despicable slander of my own Congressman and friend, John Kline, depicting him as a Nazi. Click to enlarge:
In a sane world, the pathetic Ms. Rowley would be forced to resign from the race in humiliation. That won't happen, however, as this kind of ridiculous smear is exactly what the Democratic Party is looking for in its candidates. The more outrageous, the better.
Here is Congressman Kline's response to Rowley's smear:
Dear Mrs. Rowley,
It has come to my attention that you have placed on your campaign website a doctored photo of me in which my military uniform has been replaced by a Nazi uniform. I demand that you immediately remove from your website that outrageous and disgusting insult to me, my family, and every man and woman who has ever worn a military uniform in defense of our country.
No one knows better than I the rough-and-tumble of a political campaign, but we owe it to the voters not to cross the line of civility, respect and common decency. With regard to each of these, you have clearly crossed the line by portraying me as a Nazi.
I demand a personal apology from you, as well as an apology to every veteran.
Your attempts to smear my good name and 25 years of honorable service in the United States Marine Corps by equating me to a Nazi shows a lack of perspective, a lack of seriousness, and a lack of good judgment. You should be ashamed of yourself.
John Kline
Member of Congress – Minnesota's 2nd District.
Don't hold your breath. Far from being ashamed, my guess is that Rowley's Nazi slur will increase her fundraising from the Democratic faithful.
UPDATE: Rowley now says that she intends to apologize to Congressman Kline for depicting him as a Nazi on her campaign website. Interestingly, Rowley admits that she personally approved the use of the photoshopped picture of Kline. She says that "This was a Nazi uniform and I didn't grasp that impact," which is a little hard to fathom. If Rowley really doesn't understand the impact of depicting a Congressman and 25-year Marine Corps veteran in a Nazi uniform, she is not ready for prime time, to put it mildly. Rowley now says the photoshopped image was "in bad taste," but on her official site, rather than distancing herself from the outrageous photo, she writes: "I support this excellent blog written by one of our best volunteers!"
THE LAST WORD: Ms. Rowley has now apologized on her web site. Most of the comments are not very forgiving.


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Changes in the Sheep Industry in the United States: Making the Transition from Tradition (2008)Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
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The United States sheep industry is rooted in history and tradition and is one of the most complex industries in animal agriculture. Sheep provide lamb and mutton meat for consumption, wool and pelts for textiles, and milk from the emerging dairy sheep industry. Despite the sheep industry\u0092s long history and versatility, it has faced a steady decline in the number of sheep and lambs over the last 60 years, which has been attributed to a confluence of forces. In response to a Congressional request in the Agricultural Appropriation bill and with support from the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Research Council assembled a committee of experts to review the development and current status of the sheep industry. The report finds that although a continued decline can be expected in some segments, various components of the sheep industry have made adjustments, expanded into new markets, invested in new technology, and improved efficiency.
Key Messages
- Although continuing declines can be expected in some areas of the U.S. sheep industry, the changes currently taking place offer ground for optimism.
- Expanding alternative and emerging markets will create considerable challenges to the industry and to policy makers.
- The emergence of new and alternative markets for sheep products signifies that the industry may be on the brink of a transition from traditional practices and marketing channels to new markets, new technologies, new products, and a new consumer base.

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During a Pentagon news conference, Little explained the roles that DOD and other U.S. agencies are taking in humanitarian aid and disaster assistance in the Philippines.
"As soon as we received reports of the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan, [Defense] Secretary [Chuck] Hagel immediately ordered all available U.S. forces to move to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the Philippines," he said.
"The Philippines is a treaty ally, and the United States stands by its friends and allies in times of crisis," Little added.
Super Typhoon Haiyan has affected more than 4.2 million people across 36 provinces in the Philippines, according to the Philippine government's national disaster risk reduction and management council. More details about casualties and damage are expected in the coming days as transportation and communications systems are repaired.
Little said more than 250 U.S. service members from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade are on the ground operating from Philippine air bases Clark and Villamor.
"They are supported by five KC-130 transport aircraft and four MV-22 Ospreys, with additional transport aircraft expected in the next few days," he said. "As of last night, the Marines reported that they had delivered 107,000 pounds of relief supplies to the government of the Philippines."The priorities for aid are potable water, food, shelter, hygiene products and medical supplies, Little said.
"Yesterday, Secretary Hagel ordered the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and other U.S. Navy ships home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan, to make best possible speed for the Philippines," he said, noting they are expected to arrive in the area tomorrow.
Numerous U.S. military vessels and aircraft are headed toward the devastated region, the press secretary told reporters.
"The George Washington was in Hong Kong on a port visit," Little said. "Embarked on George Washington is Carrier Air Wing 5, with more than 80 aircraft, including 11 helicopters. The George Washington can produce more than 400,000 gallons of fresh water per day."
Additionally, he said, the cruisers USS Antietam, USS Cowpens, and the destroyers, USS Mustin, USS McCampbell and USS Lassen will join the supply ship USNS Charles Drew, which already is underway.
Little reminded reporters this isn't the first time DOD has provided humanitarian assistance in the Pacific region.
"A U.S. Navy carrier, the USS Lincoln, supported tsunami relief operations in 2004 in the Pacific, providing much needed capabilities to operations ashore," he said.
Pentagon officials are continuing to work closely with the State Department and the Philippine government to determine whether additional assets may be required, Little said.
The press secretary said the speed with which U.S. forces have been able to respond to Typhoon Haiyan highlights the importance of the humanitarian relief and disaster relief exercises carried out regularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
"We constantly train for just these types of contingencies, including the annual Balikatan HAD exercise with the Philippines," Little said. "Coincidentally, personnel from China's People's Liberation Army are in Hawaii now conducting a HRDR-focused exchange with our forces."
Little noted that assisting the Philippine government and its people isn't solely a Defense Department effort.
"I want to emphasize that the support we are providing to the Philippines is a whole-of-U.S.-government response, not just DOD," he said. "Relief supplies are on their way to the Philippines from the U.S. Agency for International Development's warehouse in Dubai."
There are enough emergency shelter materials and basic hygiene supplies in this shipment to help 10,000 families, he said.
"We are committed, as a department and as a government, to supporting [humanitarian and disaster-relief] efforts in the Asia-Pacific region and around the world," Little said. "This has been a key priority."
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Grumblatt stars as Memorial wins openerBy JOE DUBALL
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 08. 2017 11:11PM
MANCHESTER — One game won't tell fortunes for a whole season but the Manchester Memorial girls' basketball team has to like where it is after Friday's season opener.
The Crusaders had everything working to their favor in a 63-40 win over Londonderry at Bronstein Gymnasium. The rout was fueled by 10 3-pointers for Memorial, which put 10 players on the scorer's sheet and offered stifling defense during key scoring runs.
"I told these girls that if we balanced the floor like we did, then we're going to be successful," second-year Memorial coach Greg Cotreau said. The Crusaders fell to the Lancers by eight to open last season. "Haleigh (Shea) had kind of a tough night with the ball, getting hounded by two or three people when she had it. That's probably how things are going to go until we can get others consistently scoring the ball."
Shea, arguably Memorial's top player, registered just three points for the Crusaders but her teammates indeed came to the rescue as Cotreau hoped. Mollie Simpson scored all 11 of her points in the first half to help Memorial get out to a 39-17 lead at the break. Lyric Grumblatt held Memorial's lead in double digits throughout the second half as she erupted for 14 of her game-high 17 points. Grumblatt, a sophomore, did all her damage coming off the bench.
"I sent her a text this morning telling her I had a strong feeling about her having a good game. She said 'I hope so,'" said Cotreau of Grumblatt. "She's put in a lot of work in the offseason to try to get better at everything. She is the complete package and it's something I will have to continue to work on and rely on knowing I'm going to graduate eight seniors after this season."
Memorial settled the game by halftime due to offensive bursts. A 9-0 run to start the game set a good tone before the Crusaders outscored the Lancers 25-10 in the second quarter. The second quarter was highlighted by Jennessa Brunette's three-point play to give Memorial its first and only double-digit edge before Simpson and Mel Presseau hit back-to-back 3-pointers to bump the lead to 17 a minute later.
"They don't know how to deal with a run yet and don't have the confidence to execute yet," said Londonderry coach Nick Theos. "Memorial is long and poses a lot of different problems for a short team like us, We've got holes we're going to have to dig ourselves out from even before the game starts."
Courtney Shay offered a team-high 12 points for the Lancers, who got to within 11 points in the second half before Memorial again inflated the lead. Absent-minded plays on offense didn't help Londonderry's effort, but neither did defensive breakdowns that opened up lanes and outside shots, including Memorial's 10 treys.
"We played Pelham in a scrimmage on Tuesday and handled them well without hitting one 3-pointer," Cotreau said. "We have girls that can finish down low and some that aren't afraid to drive. All in all, the three-ball is important for us but we can't solely rely on it with the expected down nights. We will have to score in other ways."


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Members of the 1st Lewiston Militia, an 1812 re-enactor group, were present at the Lewiston Art Festival Sunday to promote the forthcoming Battle of Queenston Heights commemoration and re-enactment, which will be held in the village Oct. 12 to 14.
Standing left to right are Sgt. at Arms Thomas Sharpe, Capt. John Stewart, John Wilson and Jacob Wilson - all from Niagara Falls.
Art Festival patrons who joined them for the photo are (sitting left to right) Kate Rodriquez, Victor and Michael Untulis, and Al Untulis of Sanborn.
The militia unit is open to new volunteer members. Those interested can contact John Stewart at 716-990-9565.


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Why do dogs and cats eat grass?
Clients commonly ask questions about plant eating in their pets: Do animals eat grass to induce vomiting because they're sick? Do they eat plants because they have a dietary deficiency? In a recent study by Dr. Karen Sueda, Dr. Kelly Cliff, and myself, three surveys of pet owners were conducted to find answers to these and other questions about plant eating in dogs.7
Our surveys were designed to test the hypothesis that most plant eating in dogs is associated with illness or a dietary deficiency and that ingestion of plant material is usually followed within a few minutes by vomiting.
First, we surveyed veterinary students who had pet dogs (n=25) about the frequency of grass eating in their own dogs and whether the students observed signs of sickness before grass consumption or vomiting afterward. All of the students reported that their dogs ate grass. None reported observing signs of illness before their dogs ate grass, and only 8% said that their dogs regularly vomit afterward.
Next, we surveyed a group of dog owners (n=47) who had brought their dogs to our teaching hospital for outpatient care. We asked these owners for their observations on their pets' consumption of plants and the animals' behavior before and afterward. Of this group, 79% had observed their dogs eating plants (grass was the plant most frequently consumed). Thirty-three owners answered questions about their dogs' behavior before and after eating plants. Of these owners' dogs, signs of illness were infrequent (four dogs), and vomiting afterward was only occasional (six dogs).7
Faced with the prospect of a null hypothesis—that plant eating is not particularly related to illness or vomiting—we conducted a large Web-based survey targeting owners of plant-eating dogs. More than 3,000 owners responded to our survey. We asked these owners questions about their dogs' plant-eating habits and diet, and we gathered data on the dogs' sex, gonadal status, breed, and age. After applying inclusion criteria (e.g. excluding responses from owners who spent less than six hours a day with their dogs, and excluding dogs that appeared to only chew but not ingest plants), we narrowed the usable surveys to 1,571. Our findings included the following:
Our study revealed that a few dogs do appear to be ill before eating plants and that vomiting does sometimes follow plant eating. While we attempted to exclude dogs with known medical problems, it is possible that subclinical gastric or intestinal distress occasionally evokes grass eating, which may facilitate vomiting. In fact, we found from our large study that if dogs showed signs of illness before eating plants, they were more likely to vomit afterward than were dogs that did not show signs of illness beforehand.


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The end of Hostess Brands Inc. is a lesson for us all.
Hostess, maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, was trying to emerge from its second bankruptcy in three years, when a bakery workers' strike effectively signed the company's death warrant. When the strikers refused to return to work, the company shut its doors, putting 18,500 people out of work.
The bankruptcy judge made one final attempt at mediation, but the union president didn't attend, sending another union officer in his place. When the sides couldn't agree, Hostess officials said they would proceed with plans to liquidate the company's assets.
The Teamsters union had accepted a pared down contract for the company's delivery drivers and urged bakery workers to do the same. But Frank Hurt, the 20-year president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, exhorted his members to reject further concessions.
As a result, everyone lost their jobs.
Hurt has been criticized by Teamsters' members and others for pushing the strike despite the company's economic woes. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain said there are "serious questions as to the logic behind the decision to strike."
But Hurt refused to take the blame, instead blasting Wall Street "vulture capitalists." A statement on the union's website said: "The Wall Street investors who took over the company after the last bankruptcy attempted to resolve the mess by attacking the company's most valuable asset — its workers."
The Hostess strike reminds me of a similar standoff with the Anaconda Copper Company in Butte, Montana 30 years ago — right down to the Twinkies.
When I was growing up in Butte, three things were certain: taxes, death and miners' strikes. You could tell when the miners' strikes were coming to an end because the Hostess delivery man started stocking the grocery stores with Twinkies and cupcakes — staples in the miners' lunch buckets.
Historically, the miners' union would strike one of the big three mining companies to win wages and benefits that would serve as the model for contract talks with the rest of the industry.
But when miners in Butte threatened to strike Anaconda again in 1983, it was the last straw. The company had reached its tipping point.
Over the decades, the once-giant Anaconda Copper Company had become weakened by fierce global competition, lower copper prices and environmental costs. In 1977, it was sold to Atlantic Richfield (ARCO). But the union didn't believe it when company owners said there was no money for higher wages and benefits.
Implementing a strategy that had always worked before, the miners' union called for a strike. In response, Anaconda suspended all mining and smelting operations, flooded its underground mines and demolished its smelters at Anaconda and Great Falls.
In today's tough global economy, the old rules no longer apply. The head of the bakery workers' union didn't understand that. His strategy had always worked before; surely it would work again. But he was wrong. Regardless of what caused the company's weakened financial condition, the result was the same: there was no more money.
It is a lesson for us all. Voters want to keep all the programs, entitlements and services we've grown accustomed to, but we don't want to pay higher taxes. As a result, the federal government borrows $3.87 billion each day to provide these goodies, in the process ruining America's once-great credit rating and shackling our children and grandchildren with generations of debt.
At some point, we need to understand that there isn't enough money to have everything we want. And stubbornly refusing to acknowledge this new economic reality isn't the solution.
Just ask the folks who used to work for Hostess.
About the Author
Don Brunell is the president of the Association of Washington Business. Formed in 1904, the Association of Washington Business is Washington's oldest and largest statewide business association, and includes more than 8,000 members representing 700,000 employees. AWB serves as both the state's chamber of commerce and the manufacturing and technology association. While its membership includes major employers like Boeing, Microsoft and Weyerhaeuser, 90 percent of AWB members employ fewer than 100 people. More than half of AWB's members employ fewer than 10. For more about AWB, visit www.awb.org.


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Academic Capitalism
Richard Münch
Academic capitalism is a unique hybrid that unites the scientific search for truth and the economic maximization of profits. It turns universities into enterprises competing for capital accumulation and businesses into knowledge producers looking for new findings that can be turned into patents and profitable commodities. In order to understand what this new institutional setting means for science and the evolution of scientific knowledge, science as a field in a Bourdieusian perspective, which operates in the tension field between autonomy and heteronomy, is explored. On this basis, crucial features of academic capitalism and their impact on science as well as the evolution of scientific knowledge are described. Academic capitalism is located in the zone of the intersection of scientific research, economic profit maximization, and innovation policy. The institutional conflicts of interest involved in the corporate funding of academic research are addressed. The logic of academic capital accumulation is spelled out by describing the entrepreneurial university. Field effects of academic capital accumulation on science, namely over-investment at the top and under-investment among the rank and file, are examined, along with the organizational effects of academic capital accumulation in terms of managerial quality assurance on diversity and creativity as crucial prerequisites of advancing scientific knowledge. The main results of the analysis are summarized and some guidelines for future research are presented.
Accountability and Responsibility
Robert Gregory
Accountability and responsibility are related ideas that are central to political, constitutional, and institutional arrangements in Western liberal democracies. However, political elites in non-democratic systems are generally not held accountable by citizens through such arrangements, and accountability is primarily a means of securing the compliance of state functionaries to the will of these elites. In liberal democracies the terms "accountability" and "responsibility" are often used in common discourse as if they were synonyms, but they are not. The former is a concept that embodies a number of different types, with a common theme of answerability by an accountor to an accountee, usually—but not necessarily—in a hierarchical relationship designed to ensure compliance and control. Responsibility, on the other hand, speaks of the associated but different domain of individual moral choice, where often conflicting duties of obligation are experienced by those in official positions. Beginning in the 1980s, the so-called new public management movement, which brought major changes to many Western systems of public administration, sought to enhance the accountability of public bureaucrats, especially their answerability to their elected political superiors. The effects have been mixed and uncertain, often with unintended consequences, such as the reinforcement of risk aversion and blame shifting and gaming behavior. The quest for accountability is inherently a political process, in which "holding to account" may often depend much less on any forensic determination of specific culpability and much more on evidential and political disputation, where the search for the "truth" is highly—and increasingly—contestable.
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
Paúl Cisneros
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins Smith introduced the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in the late 1980s, to refine the theoretical and methodological tools available for the study of the policy process. In the past two decades, the framework has grown in use outside the United States, and it is now applied to study a broad range of policy arenas in all continents. ACF scholars have created a core community that regularly synthetizes findings from applications of the framework, giving the ACF the form of a true research program.
The ACF has three principal theoretical domains: advocacy coalitions, policy subsystems, and policy change. Expectations about the interactions between and within these domains are contained in 15 main hypotheses. The ACF posits that advocacy coalitions and policy subsystems are the most efficient way to organize actors interested in the policy process for empirical research. The policy subsystem is the main unit of analysis in the ACF, and there are four paths leading to policy change. The aspect that has received more attention in existing applications is the effect that external events have on policy change, and some areas in need of refinement include: policy-oriented learning, interactions across subsystems, the theoretical foundations to identification of belief systems, and how the interactions between beliefs and interests affect coalition behavior.
Advocacy Coalitions in Foreign Policy
Jonathan Pierce and Katherine Hicks
The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) was developed to explain policy processes where contentious coalitions of actors seek to translate competing belief systems into public policy. Advocacy coalitions may include interest groups, members of the media, scientists and academics, and government officials that share beliefs about a public issue and coordinate their behavior. These advocacy coalitions engage in various strategies using resources to influence policy change or stasis. As part of this process, advocacy coalition members may learn within and/or across coalitions.
This framework is one of the most prominent and widely applied approaches to explain public policy. While it has been applied hundreds of times, in over 50 different countries, the vast majority of ACF applications have sought to explain domestic policy processes. A reason for the paucity of applications to foreign policy is that some ACF assumptions may not seem congruent to foreign policy issues. For example, the ACF uses a policy subsystem as the unit of analysis that may include a territorial dimension. Yet, the purpose of the territorial dimension is to limit the scope of the study. Therefore, this dimension can be substituted for a government body that has the authority or potential authority to make and implement foreign policy. In addition, the ACF assumes a central role for technical and scientific information in the policy process. Such information makes learning across coalitions more conducive, but the ACF can and should also be applied to normative issues, such as those more common among foreign policy research.
This article introduces the ACF; provides an overview of the framework, including assumptions, key concepts and theories, and transferability of the ACF to foreign policy analysis; and discusses four exemplary applications. In addition, it proposes future research that scholars should explore as part of the nexus of the ACF and foreign policy analysis. In the final analysis, the authors suggest the ACF can and should be applied to foreign policy analysis to better understand the development of advocacy coalitions and how they influence changes and stasis in foreign policy.
The Aftermaths of Civil Conflicts
Jaclyn M. Johnson and Clayton L. Thyne
The devastating Syrian civil war that began after the Arab Spring in 2011 has reminded the international community of the many consequences of civil war. However, this conflict is simply one of many ongoing conflicts around the globe. Civil war has a number of effects on individual lives, the country experiencing the conflict, as well as the international system more broadly.
The humanitarian costs of civil war are steep. Individuals are negatively impacted by civil war in a myriad of ways. Three main areas of research are of interest: mortality, physical and mental trauma, and education. Several factors increase the number of deaths in a civil war, including a lack of democracy, economic downturns, and foreign assistance to combatants. Even if civilians survive conflict, they are likely to endure trauma that affects both mental and physical health. Strong evidence indicates that civil war spreads infectious diseases and severely diminishes life expectancy. Mental health is also likely to suffer in the face of conflict, as individuals often must overcome debilitating trauma. Finally, children are particularly susceptible in civil war settings. Children are often unable to continue their education as a consequence of civil war because combatants often target schools strategically or the state is unable to fund education as a result of funneling resources to the conflict.
Civil wars also pose a number of threats to the state itself. First, a state that has experienced a civil war is much more likely to have another civil war in its future. Conflict recurrence has been explained through the type of settlement that concludes the initial civil war, institutions that may prevent recurrence like proportional representation, and the role of third parties in providing peace-ensuring security guarantees. Beyond recurrence of war, scholars have looked at the impact that civil wars have on state-level institutions, including democratization. While most state-level effects of civil war seem to be deleterious, there may also be positive effects, specifically in terms of female representation. Civil war in sub-Saharan Africa has been shown to increase the number of female representatives, perhaps providing an avenue for gender equality.
Civil wars have ripple effects that impact neighboring countries and the international system more broadly. Proximate states are often challenged with an influx of refugees that may burden social programs or facilitate the spread of diseases and illicit arms. However, positive consequences of hosting refugees may include trading opportunities or economic growth from remittances. Moving beyond proximate states, civil wars have consequences for the entire globe. For example, civil wars have been demonstrated to spur international terrorism. The civil war literature has explored the various effects of conflict at the individual, state, and interstate level.
Agency and Structure in Foreign Policy Analysis
Jarrod Hayes
For much of the history of the study of international relations, and of foreign policy as a distinctive subfield, scholars have debated the relative weight of agency and structure in shaping the course of international events. Often, the significance of agency versus structure depends on the scope of inquiry. Efforts to identify broad patterns of social interaction tend to play up the significance of structure, while studies of specific events bring agency to the fore. International relations theory is typically associated with the former, and foreign policy analysis (FPA) is more closely linked to the latter. That association suggests that the question of agency versus structure in international outcomes is settled in FPA in favor of agency. An assessment of the literature in FPA shows such a suggestion to be wide of the mark. Not only does FPA struggle with the question of agency versus structure that pervades the study of international relations generally, but also it wrestles with how to reconcile agency and structure in the context of psychological constraints on human cognition. Thus, rather than resolving the debate between agency and structure, the literature on FPA shows that it extends down to the level of individual policymakers. The debate over the role of agency and structure occupies two axes. The first is the engagement of FPA with broader debates over agency and structure in international relations scholarship. The second is the tension between agency and structure in FPA that emerges once psychology is incorporated into the analytical matrix. In both cases, the significance of structure in the actual analysis of foreign policy is far greater than common conception recognizes. This reality means that FPA represents the cutting edge for theoretical and analytical efforts to understand the relationship between structure and agency in international outcomes.
Agenda Setting and Case Selection on the U.S. Supreme Court
Elizabeth A. Lane and Ryan C. Black
The Supreme Court's docket consists of thousands of cases each term, with petitioners hoping at least four justices will be compelled to grant review to their case. The decision to move a case from their docket to their calendar for oral arguments and all intermediate steps is what is known as the agenda-setting process. This is a fundamental step in the judicial process, as the Supreme Court cannot establish precedent and affect policy change without first deciding to review.
Agenda Setting and the Policy Process: Focusing Events
Thomas A. Birkland
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Agenda setting is a crucial aspect of the public policy process. Sudden, rare, and harmful events known as focusing events can be important influences on the policy process. Such events can reveal current and potential future harms, mobilize people and groups to address the policy failures that may be revealed by such events, and open the "window of opportunity" for intensive policy discussion and potential policy change. But focusing events operate differently at different times and in different policy domains. While the idea of focusing events is firmly rooted in Kingdon's "streams approach" to the policy process, focusing events are an important element of most contemporary theories of the policy process. But not every event works as a focusing event. The process by which a focusing event can yield policy change is complex and involves attention to the problems revealed by the event, as well as evidence of learning from the event on the part of policy makers. While focusing events are important, in many ways the concept remains underdeveloped, with few researchers seeking to understand the dynamics of these important events.
Agent-Based Computational Modeling and International Relations Theory: Quo Vadis?
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Agent-based computational modeling (ABM, for short) is a formal and supplementary methodological approach used in international relations (IR) theory and research, based on the general ABM paradigm and computational methodology as applied to IR phenomena. ABM of such phenomena varies according to three fundamental dimensions: scale of organization—spanning foreign policy, international relations, regional systems, and global politics—as well as by geospatial and temporal scales. ABM is part of the broader complexity science paradigm, although ABMs can also be applied without complexity concepts. There have been scores of peer-reviewed publications using ABM to develop IR theory in recent years, based on earlier pioneering work in computational IR that originated in the 1960s that was pre-agent based. Main areas of theory and research using ABM in IR theory include dynamics of polity formation (politogenesis), foreign policy decision making, conflict dynamics, transnational terrorism, and environment impacts such as climate change. Enduring challenges for ABM in IR theory include learning the applicable ABM methodology itself, publishing sufficiently complete models, accumulation of knowledge, evolving new standards and methodology, and the special demands of interdisciplinary research, among others. Besides further development of main themes identified thus far, future research directions include ABM applied to IR in political interaction domains of space and cyber; new integrated models of IR dynamics across domains of land, sea, air, space, and cyber; and world order and long-range models.
The Age-Structural Theory of State Behavior
Richard Cincotta
Over the past three decades, economic and political demographers, using various measures, have discerned that increased age-structural maturity makes significant statistical contributions to levels of per capita income, to educational attainment, to declines in the frequency of onsets of intrastate conflict, and to the likelihood of achieving and maintaining liberal democracy. Some of the stronger statistical relationships have been used in forecasts. For example, using the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) demographic projections, political demographers have relied on the strong statistical association between age structure and stable liberal democracy to forecast the rise of democracy in North Africa more than two years in advance (in 2008)—at a time when regional experts believed that forecast to be absurd.
Whereas critics remain skeptical of the murky causal connections of age-structural theory, its proponents counter that causality in the development of state capacity is complex and is less important than the theory's positive qualities (namely, that it is forward-looking, its statistical findings are easily repeated, its forecasts have outcompeted regional experts, and its predictive products can be readily adapted to the needs of intelligence foresight, defense planning, and foreign policy analysis). Perhaps most important, the age-structural theory of state behavior has yielded a surprising number of "novel facts"—new knowledge concerning the observed pace and timing of state political, social, and economic behaviors.


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Aziz Sancar, elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Spring, 2005
The UTD Department of Molecular and Cell Biology is proud to announce that one of our former students, Aziz Sancar, has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Aziz completed his Ph.D. on the photoreactivating enzyme of E. coli in 1977 in the lab of Dr. C. Stan Rupert, now Professor Emeritus.
Aziz is presently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He is married to another of our Ph.D. students, Gwen Boles Sancar, who graduated the same year and who is now also on the faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Skip to comments.Rick Perry: A Candidate For Whom 'UnPresidential' Is A Virtu
Posted on 08/19/2011 6:16:09 PM PDT by Steelfish
Rick Perry: A Candidate For Whom 'UnPresidential' Is A Virtue Texas governor's stance on economy and global warming may play well with the US right, but it turns off independents
Chris McGreal 19 August 2011
Rick Perry, seen here campaigning in New Hampshire, has drawn criticism over his boasts about new jobs in Texas. There are not many contenders to be president of the United States who consider it an asset to be called unpresidential.
But then Rick Perry is not looking for the support of those seeking a president like any other. At least not for now.
The Texas governor entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination less than a week ago and he has already drawn stinging criticism for calling the head of the US central bank a traitor, for describing evolution as "a theory that's out there" and for once again questioning the existence of global warming.
His views have drawn a barrage of derision and condemnation, and raised questions as to whether he has blown his shot as a likely Republican frontrunner before his candidacy has even got off the ground.
Perry, who portrays the government in Washington as an anti-American conspiracy and has promised to make it mostly "inconsequential" to people's lives, even drew criticism from within his own party after he suggested that Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was a traitor for flooding the economy with trillions of dollars in stimulus money.
Karl Rove, the Republican strategist who set Perry on his path to the Texas governor's office and who put George Bush in the White House, derided the comments as "not a presidential statement".
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
"Perry, who portrays the government in Washington as an anti-American conspiracy and has promised to make it mostly "inconsequential" to people's lives"
Rick Perry wants to make fedzilla inconsequential. I like that.
It is too bad he shares the public's ignorance on what a Scientific Theory is (AGW is not, by the way).
But we can't insist on perfect. Ron Reagan isn't coming back and so long as he is fiscally conservative and calls a rose a rose, such as calling a traitor a traitor, he is looking pretty good to Conservatives.
I am not jumping ship (although my hopes for Cain are flagging after the debate), but I have to say that Gov. Perry's entry into the race is certainly proving the old adage "if you are getting flak it means you are over the target."
And (picture a screw here) you Guardian UK.
Amazing how no one on the left...not a single media outlet, hack, pundit or host even dares to think that the most unpresidential of people is in the white house right now. Bowing to others, giving idiotic gifts not even paying attention to protocol in foreign nations....Bumbling Rookie, thy name is Obama.
Being derided by Karl Rove is a plus for Perry to me.
I like Herman Cain also. The man is on the right track...a man who whose decisions will be based on simple easy organized solutions and stop making everything so complicated and especially, corrupt. He has a presence that is strong, he's able to convince just by being who he is. And what's more he has a good sense of self in that he doesn't make bragadocious claims of being the be all and end all. He seems to know there has to be consensus, but knows the decisions are his. And has a good sense of humor.
It's a shame the many will discount his business success because he has no record of governance. And of course no name recognition. The media is never going to be his friend and give him a chance to get his name out there. Basically he will only be seen at debates and the controllers, even Fox, didn't give him equal time.
I almost hate Ron Paul for what he did implicating Cain is tied to the Federal Reserve System. Not many know that the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas is just a cash pass thru bank and doesn't have influence on the manipulation of our currency at the Federal Reserve System. And Ron Paul knew that Cain supported his audit of the federal reserve. The whole thing was a big lie.
Perry is not perfect. Nobody is. But he is genuine. I know my governor well and I know the issues well. And we're going to have to stop toting the democatic bucket of manure and propaganda against him for the democrats.
At last. A genuine politician.
Waaaay too moderate for me.
Waaaay too moderate for me.
Truly, not much of a contest.
What we need is a statesman.
calm,Capable, and Conservative. Darned few of thosde left anymore.
I have had it up to my eyeballs with metrosexual PC geek types running for office, promising to bring more civility to washington and promising to "work with" the opposition party to fix things.
I want someone who will DESTROY the liberals, kick em when they are down, and keep kicking them till they are destroyed utterly and completely forever as a party and a movement.
ha ha what does the Guardian know about American independents? It is really entertaining to watch these liberals flail about trying to find something - anything - they can throw at Perry.
I think you just spoke for all of us! Bravo!
Take no prisoners!
I like the way you think!
Make that virtue "UnObama".
I notice, Perry is not observing RAMADAN.
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Ex-treasurer of Plaistow Fish & Game Club sentenced to year in jailBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
March 08. 2013 3:12PM
BRENTWOOD – A former treasurer of the Plaistow Fish & Game Club offered no apologies before a judge sentenced him to serve 12 months in the county jail for stealing more than $104,270 from the nonprofit club.
Alan Colby, 52, was taken into custody on Friday afternoon after his lawyer made a last-minute bid to have the ex-treasurer and local businessman free on bail pending appeal.
Judge Kenneth McHugh amended Colby's bail so he would have to post $50,000 cash or surety to be free on bail pending an appeal.
McHugh specified that Colby not be allowed work release to serve as a punishment for violating the trust of his friends and fellow club members.
"It's too bad, because this gentleman is not a career criminal," McHugh said. "But a lot of people in today's economy are suffering and they don't commit crimes."
A jury convicted Colby on Jan. 8 of six counts of theft by unauthorized taking for withdrawing roughly $200,000 from the club's coffers.
Colby began taking the funds in July 2008. He returned about $96,000 before club members realized in July 2010 that money from their bank accounts was missing.
Assistant County Attorney Stephanie Johnson argued that Colby should spend at least two to seven years in state prison, despite his lack of a criminal record prior to the theft.
Johnson said Colby took the money to shore up his construction business, Senter Brothers Inc., but created a new series of financial woes for the game club in the process.
"There were accounts, bills they were not able to pay," she said. "Electricity had to be shut off for some time."
Members of club came to watch the sentencing on Friday, but did not speak at the hearing.
Public defender Anthony Naro argued asked McHugh to sentence Colby to 12 months in county jail with the possibility of work release so he could begin paying back $104,270 in restitution.
"This was a desperate act by a desperate man who was foolish and proud," Naro said. "He ended up hurting people as a result… Alan Colby is a person who always wanted to help people."
Roughly $40,000 of the court-ordered restitution will go to an insurance company, the remainder will go to the club, prosecutors said.
Colby will also have to pay a 17-percent penalty assessment to the state.
"Seventeen percent tax on $104,000 is no small number," Naro said. "He will be paying it for the rest of his life."
McHugh said he received 8 to 10 letters in support of Colby that he read prior to Friday's sentencing, but recognized that close, trusted friends who were members of the club feel betrayed.
"That's a horrible, personal anger issue that's hard to let go. I understand it," McHugh said.
Naro said he plans to appeal the verdict.


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Flexible, Printed Electronics – At the Tipping Point
By Heidi Hoffman, senior director, FlexTech Alliance
SEMI members are the infrastructure upon which the modern microelectronics (IC) industry is built. Over the past 50 years the IC revolution led to unprecedented growth in information technology and information services. By deploying IC technology in commercial and defense applications, new technologies emerged, employment grew, and wealth creation flourished. Historically, ICs have been fabricated on silicon wafers, while other electronic devices, such as flat panel displays (FPDs), are built on increasingly larger glass substrates. Are stretchable, conformable electronics in the industry's future? Has this nascent technology reached a tipping point?
As background, flexible electronics are incorporated into textiles, building materials and other surfaces, creating ubiquitous, human-scale environmental intelligence – for example, smart buildings that adjust their own environments for optimal energy consumption or clothing that adapts to the wearer's needs and which monitors physiology. Printed electronics uses existing graphics publishing industry manufacturing capacity to produce literally square miles of circuitry at high speeds and vastly reduced costs. Electronics can be printed with nearly any method, including screen, offset, gravure, flexo or ink jet printing, with feature sizes in the 10-20 micron range – the same as or better than microprocessors of 20 years ago. Combined together, a new industry emerges: flexible, printed electronics (FPE).
This vibrant new industry, which combines the breadth of the printing industry with the technical sophistication of smart electronics, provides a compelling, yet unproven, market opportunity. Indeed, industry analysts differ greatly in their estimate of the size of the FPE market. IDTechEx gauges a multi-billion dollar printed electronics (PE) market in 2013 (not all printed and predicated on an emerging OLED display market), while Yole sees PE reaching ~$1 Billion in 2020. A reasonable estimate is from NanoMarkets, which forecasts a $1.15B PE market in 2014 growing to $16.7B in 2019, a CAGR of 58 percent (see adjacent chart).
While disagreeing in market size, all analysts acknowledge that emerging FPE applications are in sensors, power, communications, and lighting. In a recent report IDTechEx wrote that "stretchable electronics, logic and memory, and thin film sensors are much smaller segments but with huge growth potential as they emerge from R&D."
Hybrid devices, long known and utilized in the IC industry, fall in between "all silicon devices" and fully printed ones, and are natural bridge between the two sectors. At SEMICON West 2013 in San Francisco, companies such as Jabil and MC10 reported on progress in hybrid devices, materials and processing technologies for flexible, conformable electronics. They described near-to-market applications including wearable biomedical sensors and imagers, displays, consumer packaging, and toxic and structural sensors.
In the same session, American Semiconductor described an exciting new approach with flexible CMOS devices and presented information about the industry's first flexible high performance logic IC (pictured at right).
FPE potentially opens the gateway to smart packaging and embedded electronics. Electronic supply chain companies are eagerly testing this with, for example, PET and PEN substrate films from DuPont Teijin Films in Richmond, Virginia. Flexible Willow Glass from Corning's facility in Harrodsburg, Kentucky is also a contender. Just as the FPD industry adapted IC processing tools for its use, similar conversions are underway in FPE, especially in metrology and inspection. These tools and materials enable new aspects of the flexible signage, lighting, photovoltaic, and displays markets.
SEMI members have a special chance to learn more about FPE at the 2014 Flexible Electronics and Displays Conference, scheduled for February 3-6, 2014 in Phoenix, Ariz. Sponsored by FlexTech Alliance, a SEMI partner organization, 2014Flex features 90+ presentations in 21 distinct sessions including displays, sensors, printed devices, manufacturing, inspection, and systems and circuits. End users such as LG Display, Samsung and E Ink will describe new products based on flexible electronics, while established and entrepreneurial equipment and materials companies will present on manufacturing.
FlexTech is extending discount pricing to SEMI members for both exhibit booths and conference registration. The Flex Conference, now in its 13th year, regularly attract 500+ registrants drawn from company management, business development, R&D, and manufacturing (see chart at right).
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Imagine the moment when your kid finally graduates from high school. His name is called and all you want to do is squeal with excitement. Now, imagine that after you let out a cheer you're escorted out of the ceremony in handcuffs. Sound crazy? Believe it or not, that's exactly what happened to South Carolina mother Shannon Cooper on her daughter's graduation day.
"I am still living in shock," Cooper told MSNBC.com. "It all seems like a bad dream, a nightmare of what was to be one of the happiest days of our lives. I cheered for my baby and I got the cuffs."
PLUS: Pregnant Woman Tased Three Times for Speeding
This proud mom along with other audience members had been warned to behave during commencement ceremonies by prior school announcements and letters. If they failed to do so, they would be escorted out. Commenters on WPDE's local news coverage of the incident explained that the principal also began the ceremony by explaining that the senior class had requested that the audience remain quiet until the names of all graduating students had been read. While apparently not the only audience member to disregard the request, Cooper was not only escorted out, but also arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. She was booked for several hours in Florence County Detention Center until posting a $225 bond.
Cooper's daughter had no idea what happened to her mother during the ceremony; her friends ended up telling her that police had taken her mother away. When the 18-year-old finally located her mom, she found her handcuffed in a police van. They were unable to speak to one another; all the new graduate could do was look on and cry.
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Cooper says she fully cooperated with police, but couldn't help thinking to herself, "Are you all serious? You for real?' She was in complete shock that authorities went so far. Cooper and her daughter claim that there were many people cheering for their kids and that Cooper's yelps were no different than any of the others.
Florence Police Chief Anson Shells reported that two others were arrested during the commencement service. "They were disruptive enough that officers felt they had to be removed and that they had violated the law."
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Sunnyside Community Hospital has a zero percent infection rate when it comes to using central lines and ventilators.
This information and much more is now available to Washington residents, who can now compare and research infection rates for hospitals in Washington state thanks to a new website offered by the Washington State Department of Health.
According to the website, staff at Sunnyside Community Hospital had to use ventilators 10 times on patients in the hospital's ICU and used central lines a total of 30 times. No numbers were available for infection rates in surgeries performed at the hospital, however.
According to the Department of Health, infections that develop during or soon after care in a hospital are known as health care associated infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says these types of infections are one of the top 10 leading causes of death nationwide and many of them are preventable.
The new website gives consumers a chance to use infection rates to help make health care decisions.
"Patient safety is our priority and effective infection control is a key," said Secretary of Health Mary Selecky. "People now have easy access to information about infection rates in hospitals that they didn't have before.
"Our website allows everyone to take better control of their health and feel confident about health care choices they make for their families."
The website tracks infections cases among three areas. They are central lines, ventilators and surgery.
Centrals lines are long tubes inserted in the neck, chest, arm or leg that end near the heart. They are used to give fluids or drugs, take blood samples or monitor pressure inside arteries of the heart. They can become infected if enough germs move through connections in these lines.
Ventilators are complex machines attached to patients who cannot breathe by themselves. Tubing that connects a ventilator directly to a patient's lungs bypasses parts of the throat which prevent gagging. Pneumonia, an infection, can occur if enough germs enter the air stream or leak around the tubing.
Surgery creates a risk of infection that depends on how sick a patient is, how skillful a surgeon is and how many germs enter a wound during or immediately after an operation.
The website can be accessed by going to www.doh.wa.gov/. Scroll down and click on the link healthcare associated infection rates available to the public.
Prosser Memorial Hospital is not listed on the website. According to Megan Ransom, assistant community relations manager at Prosser Memorial Hospital, the infections reported are from hospitals' intensive care units. Since Prosser doesn't have an ICU there are no infections to report.
The hospital, like Sunnyside, does have a surgical unit and will begin reporting those statistics with everyone else beginning in January.
Along with general infection control practice, such as scrubbing up and washing hands, Ransom said the Prosser surgery center uses a surgical safety checklist to keep patients safe.
Project development for the website began in 2007 when the legislature directed the state department of health to establish the Healthcare Associated Infections program. The agency worked with the Washington State Hospital Association to create this new source.
"Washington's hospitals are enthusiastic participants in providing this new information about hospital infection rates," said Carol Wagner, vice president for patient safety at the Washington State Hospital Association. "We believe that public reporting offers information that helps hospitals improve, assists consumers in making good decisions about hospital care and creates the opportunity for collaboration between hospitals and quality experts."
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At 3:38 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18, Grand Island Fire Co. rescue personnel responded to a two-car motor vehicle accident on Baseline Road near the intersection of Bedell Road.
Fire Chief Kevin Koch states that although this head-on collision caused considerable front end damage to a pickup truck and passenger van, the occupants claimed no injuries, during evaluation by GIFC medics. Islander Mary Westlake-Douds, age 36, and her 1-year-old son, who was safely secured in a child car seat, both escaped injury. The other driver, 34-year-old Jacob Kolb of Buffalo, also claimed no injuries.
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Dittmeyer murder case sentencing todayBy LARISSA MULKERN
Special to the Union Leader
February 26. 2013 8:55PM
OSSIPEE - The third and final person convicted in the 2011 kidnapping and murder of 20-year-old Krista Dittmeyer will be sentenced in Carroll County Superior Court Wednesday afternoon, according to the N.H. Attorney General's Office.
Michael Petelis, 29, of Ossipee, is expected to enter a plea and be sentenced at 1 p.m. Petelis was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit robbery.
He was one of the three men arrested and charged with the kidnapping and murder of Dittmeyer on April 23, 2011. Anthony Papile, 29, of Ossipee, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is serving a 50-year jail term. Trevor Ferguson is serving a six-year sentence after pleading guilty in 2012 to two felony charges, conspiracy to commit robbery and hindering apprehension or prosecution.
The case began when Dittmeyer was found missing near a snowmaking pond in North Conway. Conway police found her 14-month-old daughter, Aliyah, safe and sleeping in the back of the car, but Dittmeyer was missing. Several days later, Dittmeyer's body was found in the pond. She had been struck in the back of the head, bound, gagged and dumped in the water, prosecutors said.
According to Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young, the murder was the result of a drug deal gone wrong.
According to Young, Petelis was a friend of the father of Dittmeyer's daughter. That man was serving a jail sentence in Maine.
"He had a relationship with the victim," said Young. "He was her protector and he set up her final demise."
Young said Petelis conspired with Papile and Ferguson.
The Attorney General's Office did not release details of the plea agreement.


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School health programs improve physical fitness levels
Investing in a broad school health program could lead to in-school and at-home benefits for students, a new Canadian study hints.
Children increased their daily physical activity on both school days and weekends in the years after schools hired a full-time health facilitator and set healthy living goals, researchers found.
"It shows that if you deliver a school program well, kids not only will be active more during the school hours when they are in the hands of the teachers but they're also being trained and understand that it's important to be physically active at other times," Paul J. Veugelers said.
He worked on the study at the University of Alberta's School of Public Health in Edmonton.
School programs aimed at improving fitness and reducing obesity have produced mixed results. No program had been proven to meaningfully affect how much children exercise outside of school hours, the researchers noted.
They organized an intervention targeted toward elementary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Edmonton. The program was implemented in 10 schools in the beginning of 2008 and continued through the 2010-2011 school year.
The researchers assessed the needs of each school and designed activities to get kids moving based on those needs. Some schools had activity groups designed especially for girls, for instance, and others hosted yoga or dance classes to get less-competitive students exercising. Each school also had a full-time health facilitator to teach classes and organize activities.
To see how much kids at those schools were actually exercising, Veugelers and his colleagues asked approximately 200 fifth-graders to wear a pedometer for one week in 2009 and another 200 to begin wearing the device in 2011, further into the program.
For comparison, they also had fifth-graders at 20 schools where the program wasn't implemented wear pedometers at the same time. Children at those schools generally came from wealthier families and fewer of them were overweight.
Students from both groups of schools upped their physical activity during the two-year period. But gains were bigger at schools that had implemented the health program. Children's average daily steps during a typical week increased by 21 percent - from about 10,700 to 13,000 steps - at those schools.
At comparison schools, children increased their physical activity by 7 percent - from 12,300 to 13,100 steps per day.
Improvements were seen on both weekdays and weekends, the researchers wrote Monday in Pediatrics.
"One of the big strengths of this study is they objectively measured how much physical activity improved," Dr. Kevin C. Harris said. A pediatric cardiologist at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, Harris has studied school physical activity programs but wasn't involved in the new research.
"It's very encouraging that this actually increased the level of physical activity," he told Reuters Health.
"The success of the program comes really from connecting everybody," including school staff, teachers, parents and students, Veugelers said.
One downside of the intervention, he said, is that it's "not an inexpensive program." The upside is that it seems to work even in poorer, more challenging schools.
"These were not the easiest schools," Veugelers told Reuters Health. "If we can deliver it in those schools, I think we can deliver it in other schools."


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I was delighted to read Liana Aghajanian's recent article informing your readers of the English-as-a-second language class offered through Glendale Community College's non-credit Continuing Education division ("It's never too late to tackle English," Dec. 13). After all, a common language binds us together as a community and a nation.
The Glendale Public Library has had a literacy program since 1988. Last year, some 4,755 hours of instruction by trained volunteers was given to English learners. The program also offers classes to prepare students for General Educational Development testing.
You can learn more about the program by contacting them via e-mail at email@example.com.
Stanley L. Block, MD
Editor's note: The writer is a member of the Board of the Friends of the Glendale Public Library.


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Thanks Josh. I'll try that later today. I used a GPX editing program to delete portions of the route that were not part of the trail system. That program may have converted the GPX file as you described.
I wonder if I can just do a Find and Replace with a text editor to change "rtept" to "trkpt", or if there is something more to it than that?


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Dr. Warm is a college, medical school, and residency graduate of the University of Cincinnati. He joined the faculty of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine after completing his chief residency year in 1997. He is currently associate clerkship director for third year students, and associate program director of the residency program in Internal Medicine. He is a member of the faculty of a Robert Wood Johnson Project to improve end-of-life care teaching among residency programs. In addition to his medical practice, he is actively involved in teaching, especially regarding ethical and end-of-life care issues.


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I pump and store my excess milk in the back of our refrigerator's freezer at the end of the workday. I store it in the Lasinoh breast milk storage bags.
When I would thaw a bag out, the milk had a funny "freezer" smell. So I tried putting my bags of milk in a gallon size ziplock and then putting that ziplock in another gallon size bag (essentially tripple-bagging it). This didn't help. The milk has a weird taste like baby spit-up and my toddler won't drink it. I only keep the milk in the freezer for about 3 months at a time.
My husband thinks because plastic is porous the milk might be oxidizing which would be causing it to taste bad. I don't wanna have to throw it out. I like to keep a stash for emergencies.
Is the milk spoiling? Am I storing incorrectly? Has anyone else had this issue?


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- Lead Psychologist, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Department
- University Chair, Department of Psychology, Virginia
- Psychologist, Tennessee Department of Corrections
- Staff Psychologist, Child Guidance Clinic, California
- Threat Assessment, Visa Corporate, Worldwide
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Abigail Sessions, Ph.D., Class of 2010, Fresno Campus
Dr. Abigail Sessions holds a position with the FBI in the Cybercrime Division as an intelligence analyst. She works in the Innocent Images Intelligence Unit. Dr. Sessions will be providing direct, psychoanalytic investigatory research and support to the unit, whose mission is to reduce the vulnerability of children to the act of online sexual exploitation and abuse.


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Connecting a modern western school to an underprivileged one,
with video link and shared activities, could personalize charity.
Rather than charity, it would simply be helping out your friends.
The westerners could support development of their paired school
and share the difference it makes to the children they now know.
Is this something that OLPC could be involved in?
Where should it be discussed?


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VIDEO: Fan Night crew breaks down the Westbrook/Beverley battle
OKLAHOMA CITY — Loud City vented on the Rockets' alley cat of a point guard Patrick Beverley, who returned to the scene of the crime for the first time Tuesday night bearing no remorse, no regrets and certainly no apologies.
He did come looking to scrap and claw and needle his nemesis Russell Westbrook, and it took only 44 seconds into it for the lid to pop off with the first of three intense entanglements between the two before this wild and woolly game throughout, won by the Oklahoma City Thunder, 106-98, was barely seven minutes old.
With six minutes to go in the opening quarter, Beverley solidified his role as No. 1 villain in these parts with a bold, deja vu move, running up on Westbrook as the Thunder point guard dribbled toward the OKC bench to call a timeout, just as he had done in that fateful Game 2 of the first round of the 2013 playoffs. Instead of Beverley going low as he did last April, a move that tore the meniscus in Westbrook's right knee and landed him on the operating table — and then back there twice more — and OKC's championship dreams on life support, Beverley went high, practically body bumping Westbrook and planting both his palms on Westbrook's chest.
Westbrook bowed up, Beverley didn't back down and tempers revved on both sides. The officials huddled and emerged with a technical foul on Beverley.
VIDEO: Patrick Beverley and Russell Westbrook get into a scuffle in the first quarter
Was the ballsy play a message from Beverley?
"No, no messages," the 6-foot-1, 185-pounder said. "That's how I play against everybody. No personal battles out there today, just try to go out there and fight and do what I do to try to help my team win a basketball game today."
That didn't happen. Beverley had a forgettable night, finishing with as many fouls (five) as points and assists combined. Westbrook dominated this round with 24 points, seven assists and four rebounds. He got to the free throw line 14 times, six on two bad fouls by Beverley behind the arc.
When Westbrook checked back into a 34-28 game in favor of OKC with 7:42 to go in the half, Brooks kept calling Westbrook's number. He attacked the smaller Beverley, beating him off the dribble and launching to the basket. He scored nine consecutive points and 11 of 15 that put OKC ahead 56-41 at the half, a lead the Thunder would have to work to protect, and Kevin Durant made sure they did with a spectacular second half, scoring 25 of his 42 points and four of his five 3-pointers.
"He took advantage of every opportunity," Durant said of Westbrook. "Posting little guys up, getting to the cup, getting to the free throw line, so he was great."
It was Westbrook's night, facing Beverley again, staying cool when the Houston guard tried to stir it up and producing a mostly composed effort that included no turnovers in 15:31 of action in the second half. Before and after the game, Westbrook was short on words, saying he held no grudges, that he's only out to win. His coach, Scott Brooks, had more to say.
"You guys know I love Russell, and this is why I really love him — he doesn't like the 58 point guards that he plays against," Brooks said. "He's not out there to make friends, he's not out there to be anybody's buddy and he competes with everything he has in his body. He's about playing the right way, about playing a game that we as a coaching staff, as fans, as an organization can be proud of. And that's what he does every single night. I will never ever think anything else that he does, he just plays the way it's supposed to be played."
What did Brooks think about Beverley lunging at Westbrook near the sideline again?
"You saw the same thing I saw," Brooks said. "There's really not much to talk about. We played a good basketball game and I'll just leave it at that. I'm not worried about what they do and don't do. I'm worried about what we do."
What OKC did was end an ugly slide that was making the natives restless, and cool off a Rockets team that had won five in a row and 15 of 17. The Thunder had lost two in a row — allowing 242 points to the Suns and Lakers — and five of eight coming out of the All-Star break. Never mind that Westbrook was playing in just his ninth game and still on a minutes restriction since a near-two-month recovery from a third surgery related to the initial injury. Plus perimeter defensive stopper Thabo Sefolosha and heavyweight center Kendrick Perkins are both out with injuries.
It made this third consecutive win over the Rockets this season all the more impressive. Dwight Howard, up against rookie Steven Adams and Serge Ibaka, had just nine points and 10 boards. Ibaka had 12 points and 16 rebounds. Newly signed Caron Butler, who has quickly supplanted youngster Jeremy Lamb, brought spurts of tenacious defense plus 11 points and five rebounds in 29 minutes.
"We went in there soft tonight," Rockets coach Kevin McHale said.
Former Thunder sixth man James Harden started slowly and couldn't quite bring his team back despite 28 points, nine assists and eight rebounds. He acknowledged that the high emotion delivered early, and arguably recklessly, by Beverley threw off the Rockets.
There was no doubt Beverley came in bearing fangs, but Westbrook ultimately provided the much bigger bite.
VIDEO: Durant, Westbrook lead the Thunder past the Rockets


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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Though the series has had its ups and down, I still love the Drakes and all of their friends. I'll be sad when the series wraps up with Blood Prophecy by Alyxandra Harvey
In stores January 2013
In the thrilling conclusion of the Drake Chronicles, love and loyalties will be tested … and proven once and for all.
Can Solange find her way back home again? And can she do it in time to save everyone she loves from the vampire civil war, hunter attack, and each other?
Because not everyone can survive the prophecy… maybe not even her.
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Florence, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, is a magical city in which to immerse yourself in the culture, scenery and history of the beautiful Italian region of Tuscany. The importance of Florence in the history of Europe dates back to the first century B.C. Over the years Florence has played a large part in the development of European architecture, language and opera. Florence has been classed as one of the most beautiful cities in the world so staying in a lovely old town apartment really is a first choice for people visiting the city. You might prefer to stay in accommodation along the River Arno which runs through the very heart of the city or escape to a Tuscan villa overlooking the city. If you prefer to stay in an apartment in the city center, there are many things to see and do just on your doorstep. Visit the impressive 'Duomo' Cathedral which dominates the skyline with its Brunelleschi dome or wander the medieval cobbled streets to find the many museums, palaces and churches housing some of the most impressive art work in the world.
Your Own Apartment in FlorenceThe historic center of Florence, which became an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, attracts millions of tourists a year so renting your own apartment in the old town is a great way to live like a local. Florence is a compact city where most tourist attractions are located in the old town area . Therefore it is certainly better to get accommodation in the center. Whether you prefer a cozy studio next to the Ponte Vecchio, an authentic Florentine flat in Oltr'Arno or a modern luxury apartment in the Santa Croce area, you can find a great selection of accommodation in Florence. Shopping lovers can rent an apartment or bed and breakfast near the superb shopping streets of Via Tornabuoni and Via del Parione where the top designer brands have stores. If you prefer more of a rural experience, renting villas in the Florentine hills is a great way to get the best of both worlds. You can easily get to the main tourists attractions in the city but also escape to the tranquility of the beautiful Italian countryside. A short distance from the city, you can take a walk up to the 11th century church of San Miniato al Monte for a breath-taking panoramic view of Florence then return to your villa to watch the sun set over the city.
Fun Facts
- Julius Caesar founded Florence as a retreat for his troops in 59 BC
- In 1339 Florence became the first European city with paved streets.
- Florence Nightingale, was born here and was therefore named after the city.
- Dante Aligheri, a native Florentine, is credited with creating the standard Italian language that the entire country uses to this day.


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Doppy Open Golf Tourney September 26th
The 32nd annual Doppy Open Golf Tournament will be held Sat., Sept. 26 at the Cherry Creek Golf Course in Riverhead beginning at 12:30 p.m. followed by a cocktail hour and dinner. Theevent is sponsored by the Tobay lifeguards and is named in honor of the late George Doherty, who was affectionately known as Doppy.
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